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Los Angeles, Calif. – September 16, 2008—SOA Software, the leading Integrated SOA Governance vendor, and Compuware, one of the world's largest independent software and services companies announced today they are partnering to accelerate the adoption of mainframe SOA. This partnership will help mainframe users adopt SOA quickly and safely by leveraging the technology and expertise of two leaders in this field.
Compuware brings extensive mainframe expertise to the table, with a large SOA practice focusing on enabling Systems by leveraging Service-Oriented Architecture principles.
Compuware and SOA Software help companies modernize and leverage their mainframe environments by allowing business-critical mainframe applications to become first class participants in a Service-Oriented Architecture. This joint solution leverages Compuware's centers of excellence, technology and best practices to assist clients in realizing the benefits of modernizing their extensive investments in legacy architecture. Using SOA Software's acclaimed SOLA integration solution, Compuware assists clients by discovering, building, optimizing, testing and deploying enterprise mainframe applications as web services.
Compuware offers a set of products and a comprehensive list of professional services that can be tailored to specific business needs, for both mainframe and distributed environments.
"SOA Software is pleased to partner with Compuware, a leader in mainframe technology and integration services," said Roberto Medrano, executive vice president of SOA Software. "The mainframe forms a critical piece of most large companies' technology infrastructure, and we are excited about the opportunity this partnership provides to help companies leverage their mainframe systems as part of modern applications."
SOA Software's SOLA is the most complete mainframe Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solution in the industry. SOLA solves today's most critical problem, making mainframe applications part of a SOA in a cost effective manner. SOLA provides customers with a fast and easy process to expose mainframe applications as secure Web Services, and allows mainframe applications to consume Web Services. Using SOLA, customers can leverage billions of dollars of existing mainframe investments when building an enterprise SOA. The SOLA runtime environment runs entirely on the mainframe, eliminating the need for expensive, unreliable and unnecessary middleware. This, coupled with SOLA's Development Studio, vastly increases developer productivity, providing faster time to market and lower application development cost. The combination of a highly optimized runtime, no middleware and improved productivity provide the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) in the industry.
"Over the last 35 years Compuware has focused on delivering measurable business value to 90% of the Fortune and Global Fortune 100 companies. We are excited about bringing the SOA organization's products as an accelerator within Compuware's (SOA) Service Oriented Architecture strategy," comments Vice President of Professional Services, Pat Greenwood. "Our clients look to us to leverage their existing environment for enterprise-wide application sharing, the SOLA product aligns within our go-to-market strategy in that it enables us to expose our client's assets in an accelerated delivery model. This partnership fits within Compuware's strategic approach of developing end-to-end enterprise solutions which leverage our clients' investments in their mainframe environments."
The first deliverable from this relationship is a joint seminar series starting on Thursday October 16th in Montreal, Canada. The seminar series will examine the role of the mainframe in enterprise SOA, and will describe the value and benefit of the joint Compuware/SOA Software solutions. If you wish to attend, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Whelping is broken down into two stages—
Stage 1. Occurs during the 6-12 hours of labor when the dog exhibits nesting behavior and there is a subsequent drop in her body temperature. Contractions may be present but these are not yet as discernable. At this stage, the dog may be restless and panting.
Stage 2. The bulldog puppies will now begin moving through the birth canal and you will find your dog straining. There is the subsequent contraction of its abdominal muscles.
Dog owners should be quick to ask for veterinary assistance whenever any of the following situations arises—
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•When Stage 1 has been going on for 24 hours and a pup has not been produced
•The dog has been continuously having strong contractions for over an hour without delivering a pup
•The resting phase stretches for over 4 hours and there are still more puppies inside the uterus of the mother
•There is a foul-smelling discharge from the dog's vagina
•The dog is suffering from excessive vomiting and extremely exhausted
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•uterine inertia which is characterized by the failure of the uterus to contract and propel the puppies through the birth canal. This condition is usually attributed to uterine exhaustion
2. Puppy Causes
•Too large puppies won't fit in the birth canal
•Puppies are abnormally positioned. Normally, puppies are born with either the rear legs or head first.
•Puppies with birth defects particularly those that result in abnormally large body parts
Your dog should receive immediate veterinary attention in order to determine the cause and the appropriate line of treatment for the Dystocia. Your veterinarian will conduct a thorough physical exam including an x-ray test in order to assess the size and number of puppies. A vaginal exam will help determine whether the birth canal is large enough for the puppies to pass through.
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Israeli missiles continued to fall on Gaza; meanwhile, a bus was blown up in Tel Aviv. But by the end of Wednesday, a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, and brokered by Egypt and the US, was signed. However, there is a big difference between a truce that is an interlude between rounds of fighting and one that presages a promising political process. It might take a willingness to learn from Northern Ireland, of all places, to tip the scales towards the latter.
Decades of violence – "the troubles" – set the backdrop to negotiations. Success had its roots in British policy. London's objective was to end the terrorism and bring about a political settlement. Doing so required persuading the Provisional IRA that it would never be able to shoot or bomb its way into power and that there was a political path open to it that would satisfy some of its goals and many of its supporters, if it would act responsibly.
The government of Israel has internalised the first but not the second part of Britain's strategy. Israel has carried out massive air strikes that have reportedly destroyed the bulk of Hamas's Iran-supplied, longer-range missiles and killed dozens of Palestinians, including Hamas's military chief.
But military force has limits. Israel cannot bludgeon the Palestinians into submission. Nor should it want to reoccupy Gaza: there is no reason to believe the results would be any better this time round.
Israel needs a Palestinian partner if it is ever to enjoy peace and be the secure, prosperous, democratic, Jewish state it deserves to be. But such a partner will not just emerge; Israel, as the stronger party, actually needs to help the process along.
Right now Israel has two potential but deeply flawed partners. The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank has an apparent desire to make peace but is too weak to make meaningful concessions. Hamas is easily strong enough but is unwilling to reject violence and accept Israel.
So Israel has a choice: it can work to strengthen the secular leadership on the West Bank or it can work to moderate Hamas. The former argues for dropping sanctions put in place to weaken and humiliate the PA. The latter means not just frustrating Hamas militarily but demonstrating that negotiation is likely to yield better results.
It is not clear whether Hamas is open to compromise. Even less clear, though, is what it has accomplished with this latest round of fighting. Hamas has again demonstrated its willingness to take the fight to Israel but also its inability to get results.
What has made the Hamas action singularly counterproductive was that it came on the heels of a visit to Gaza by Qatar's prime minister and an infusion of financial support. Hamas had essentially weaned itself from dependence on Iran and Syria only to squander the opportunity.
Hamas is in competition with the PA that rules over the West Bank for who represents all Palestinians. Hamas enjoys an advantage, though: its agenda of political Islam much better captures the zeitgeist in Egypt and throughout the region, whereas those ruling the West Bank, including many former associates of Yassir Arafat, are widely seen as in the image of Arab strongmen who have been removed from power.
But Hamas only benefits from this comparison if it fully embraces political Islam as a means and not just an end. Distancing itself from armed aggression will not deliver a viable Palestinian state.
Israel needs to put Hamas to the test. It can do this by putting forward the outlines of a fair and comprehensive settlement and a reasonable path for getting there. The US should work closely with Israel in framing this proposal. Hillary Clinton, secretary of state, should use the rest of her time in the region to urge this course. Her goal should be to stimulate a debate in the Arab and Palestinian worlds that would press Hamas to change its ways or risk being caught between those who are even more radical and those prepared to compromise.
This was the dynamic created in Belfast. In the end, Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness – the leaders of Northern Ireland's Hamas equivalent – met the British challenge. They put down their arms, entered the political process and reached agreement with those they had fought for decades. Leaders of both communities deserve credit – but no more than the British, Irish and US governments that created a context for diplomacy.
It is up to Israel, the US and Arab governments to do the same now. No one can be certain the effort will pay off; what is sure, though, is that the choices and options will only become worse with the passage of time.
The writer is the president of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was the US envoy to the Northern Ireland peace process from 2001-03.
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Description ADULT Has white head, neck, and underparts (including underwing coverts), and otherwise blackish plumage. At close range, note the red eye. In flight, from below, blackish flight feathers and tail contrast with otherwise white plumage. JUVENILE Similar to adult, but tail is shorter and eye is brown.
Dimensions Length: 22-24" (56-61 cm); Wngspn: 4' 2" (1.3 m)
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Today, we bring you YouTube's response. YouTube's response points out, much like we did yesterday, that the McCain-Palin campaign's proposed solution (human review of DMCA takedown notices targeting videos posted by political candidates and campaigns) favors speech from one particular class of users. YouTube says that it "tri[es] to be careful not to favor one category of content on [its] site over others, and to treat all of [its] users fairly, regardless of whether they are an individual, a large corporation, or a candidate for public office."
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Over a period of twelve hours, between this Thursday night and Friday morning, American Rights Counsel LLC sent out over 4000 DMCA takedown notices to YouTube, all making copyright infringement claims against videos with content critical of the Church of Scientology. Clips included footage of Australian and German news reports about Scientology, A Message to Anonymous/Scientology , and footage from a Clearwater City Commission meeting. Many accounts were suspended by YouTube in response to multiple allegations of copyright infringement.
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This is one of my absolute favourites of last season, but... I was also really disappointed in it, in some ways. This is based off of having not read the light novels after which this anime was based, so please keep that in mind. Story: This is the part that I felt the most let down in. The story itself isn't particularly unique: ~girl with magical powers meets a boy who changes her world~ so basically your standard anime formula, only sometimes it's the other way around. Still, it manages to be a fun take on it, with the heroine being clumsy (but only for the first few episodes; consistancy isn't... See full review
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It is terribly difficult not to compare this anime to Code Geass and Neon Gensis Evangelion, so in an effort to make this review completely neutral, I will only mention the above two animes right here, before I actually start breaking down my review scores: If Code Geass and Neon Genesis Evangelion had a love child, it would essentially be Guilty Crown. Now that I've said that I will attempt to act as though I haven't seen those anime, and will keep this review strictly focused on Guilty Crown as it's own anime. Also, this review has a few very minor spoilers, but large plot details will not be... See full review
To be quite honest, despite it only being a one-episode OVA, I'm surprised I managed to get through it. My numbers may seem high based on that sentence, but I am trying to be fair and consider each aspect individually... It's going to be hard. This was really a waste of time, to be honest, but I'll try to be fair and unbiased in my review. Story: The story had the potential to be very interesting, since the concept of using songs to grant powers isn't all that common. Unfortunately, it really wasn't done well. At all. I know that this OVA isn't really so much related to the game, and so I hope the game is... See full review
It's going to be hard for me to remember that this is a review for the ANIME, and it's gonna be even harder for me not to compare it too much to the manga. In fact, I'll probably go write a seperate review for the manga right after this, where this series will undoubtably recieve better scores- not because the anime is bad, the manga is just better. So, let's start by breaking it down: Story: The story is interesting and puts quite the unique twist on the whole "demon and contractor" story- the "contractor" in question is one Rosette Christopher, a nun. Yes, a nun. This unique... See full review
Since Rickoon took the perspective of someone who HAS played the original game, allow me to begin by saying that I have not. Though, as someone who has played other games in the Tales franchise, I am used to the anime being somewhat of a disappointment, which is why I was so surprised that I enjoyed this anime as much as I did. As for my scores, allow me to explain each: Story: The story, while fundamentally your basic "group of heros saves the world" plot, had quite a unique spin to it that I found refreshing. Both the heros and the villans were acting in a way that they thought was right, and... See full review


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I thought it would be best to break the statement down into its constituent parts.
"I regret that one email was quoted incorrectly ..."
If you didn't know the backstory here you would think Karl was referring to some sort of editing error. What seems to have happened is that a Republican source gave him what they said was a direct quote from an email but which turned out to be inaccurate. The fact that it was wrong in a way that appeared damaging to the White House (the opponents of the Republican sources in this case) suggests it may not have been an innocent mistake. But whether they were playing games or just sloppy is secondary to the fact that the quote was wrong.
"... and I regret that it's become a distraction from the story, which still entirely stands."
This is simply false. Folks on either side can disagree over how much it changed the story. But you can't have a major part of the story be false and have the story 'entirely stand'. Here Karl is doubling down on his original claim that the fact that his quotes were wrong didn't change the story. Not so. A central point of his story was White House involvement and White House involvement on behalf of the State Department. The alleged quotes were key evidence for that claim but the quotes were wrong. Ergo, the story cannot 'entirely stand.' Calling this error a 'distraction' from the story is incorrect because the error undermines the story itself.
Indeed, even within the normally collegial norms of elite reporters, CNN's Jake Tapper and CBS's Major Garrett have both said the bogus quotes change the story significantly or undermine it entirely.
"I should have been clearer about the attribution."
Here's where you see that this very short statement is like a tightly-bound set of interlocking misdirections. Karl repeatedly said that he reviewed the actual emails. But he didn't. And that's not a minor point because the impact of his story was based on his having reviewed them himself rather than relying on a second hand account -- having gotten some summary of them from a tendentious source -- a Republican staffer. The fact that Karl put the non-quotes within quotation marks makes it pretty clear that he was led to believe that he was being given verbatim transcriptions. You never put summaries in quotes.
To see what difference this makes, imagine rewriting the article as "I've reviewed notes taken by a source who was allowed to read but not make copies of the emails ..." If he'd written it that way, the credibility of his source would have immediately become central to the story -- and since investigators or Hill staffers are the kind of people who get allowed to review but not make copies of documents it would have been fairly clear that he'd gotten them from Republican staffers.
(We seem to know definitely that the sources were Republicans since CBS's Major Garrett said that. He must know either because Karl told him or because Garrett too was offered the same notes from the same source.)
Again, see how the parts interlock: Falsely claiming to have reviewed the actual emails made the source's credibility irrelevant since Karl had seen the actual emails. Had Karl not said that, this all would have been on the source who passed him inaccurate quotes. Had the quotes been accurate, none of this would have surfaced. The fact that they were inaccurate made Karl's claim untenable.
"We updated our story immediately when new information became available."
One of the most comical parts of the Dan Rather/Bush National Guard records fiasco came when Rather tried to shift gears after it was finally definitively clear that the records were bogus. Rather did one segment after this became clear where he basically said, 'Yep, the fact that these were forgeries is a dramatic new turn in the story. And we're on it!' Note the single quotes; I'm paraphrasing.
When your story ends up being based on bogus information, that's not a new development in the story. It means your story was wrong. And you need to say you made a mistake.
Here's a better way Karl could have addressed the problem. "I regret that quotes contained in my original article turned out to be wrong. I also should have been more clear that I'd been given notes taken by someone who'd read the emails rather than the emails themselves. I regret the error and we've revised the article in light of the new information."


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the move has absolutely nothing to do with relocation. AEG is a product that would be too good to pass up for him to own. It's a company that has helped save several sports franchises around the world.
the move has absolutely nothing to do with relocation. AEG is a product that would be too good to pass up for him to own. It's a company that has helped save several sports franchises around the world.
I dont see why this has anything to do with moving the Dolphins to LA. Sounds like a legitimate business move to me.
The major assets owned by AEG are the Staples Center in LA, the Cal State stadium, and the Millennium Dome in London. AEG also owns stakes in Major League Soccer teams (DC, Chicago, NYC, and San Jose), and the hockey team the LA Kings. It sounds like a good buy to me.
AEG was in talks to develop a new stadium in Los Angeles, not take ownership of a team - and Ross is in the commerical real estate development business. Owning a stadium and owning a team are not the same things. Even if Ross wanted to move the team, whats he going to do with an empty stadium in south FL? That would be a huge money pit. Nobody is buying that stadium without a pro sports team's with a long term stadium lease.
You all are paranoid.
For perspective, MSG (Madison Square Garden Group, chaired by Knicks/Cablevision owner Jim Dolan) is also bidding for AEG.
So does that mean the Knicks are moving to LA?
My browser doesn't work well on Finheaven, for some reason. I can't see anything until I switch to "printable view." That means I'm spared sigs and avatars and other nonsense but it also means it's not as convenient, and often my stays are short here, and I don't visit as many forums or revisit threads. My number of thanks is certainly lower than it should be, although I've tried to improve that lately.
I wouldn't mind setting up my account to automatically thank TheWalrus for every post, regardless of content. I'd take my chances.
I'd like to share what all AEG owns. This isn't everything, but it helps paint a picture
f he gets AEG at a bargain, which looks likely as The Anschutz Corporation is desperate to sell, Ross will have a share in quite a few profitable companies in the sports world...
Part Owner of the Lakers and Sparks
LA Galaxy
Home Depot Center
Half owner of the Stanley Cup Champion Kings
Part Owner of the Houston Dynamo
3 of the post popular junior hockey teams in Canada
Hammarby IF; one of the most popular soccer teams in Sweeden
A Couple popular hockey teams in Europe
Part owner of Golden Boy Promotions
He'd also gain charge of 12 different music festivals (including RockNESS, The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festive, and Rockfest) and 2 Film companies, one of which is Walden Media.
Ross would be nuts NOT to look into the purchase. That would significantly add to his net worth, and let us not forget last year Ross looked into buying Everton of the EPL, and AEG themselves tried to by Rangers, one of the most popular clubs in the world.
And that's not even all. Check out their website and see what all Ross would gain
Ross probably sees dollar signs above all else. I doubt the LA Dolphins even slipped into his mind
No its the fans fault we should pay for half of a stadium for a billionaire that proposes to do nothing for the community in return
this whole thing sucks.
the marlin money should have gone to the Dolphins. tell the marlins to go F themselves and move if they wanted. this isn't a baseball town anyway.


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Family: Muridae, Mice and Rats view all from this family
Description Similar to S. borealis, but with dark brown above and pale gray on underside. Also has six mammae instead of eight, as in S. borealis.
Dimensions 94-154mm, 13-24mm, 21-50g
Habitat Forests & woodlands, Meadows & fields, Swamps, marshes & bogs
Range Plains, Great Lakes, New England, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Eastern Canada
Discussion Active throughout the year, mostly at dawn and dusk, but forages throughout the night and less during the day in the hotter months. They make runways similar to other voles in grassy habitats. Occurs in a wide variety of habitats including clearings in woodlands, grasslands, mixed deciduous/coniferous woodlands, spruce-fir forests, and freshwater wetlands.


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Dorothy Jean McCormick
Madison: Jean McCormick, age 88, died Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at Agrace HospiceCare, peacefully, with her family at her side.
Born to William Alvin and Dorothy (Main) Ricks in Kalispell, Montana on August 30, 1924, she spent most of her childhood in Rexburg, Idaho. While attending the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho, she met her future husband, Patrick McCormick. She graduated in 1946. Jean and Patrick married in Boise, Idaho in 1947, and moved to Madison.
Jean spent many years making a wonderful home for Patrick and her children, Shelley and Joe. She served as a volunteer, often as an officer, for several organizations, including the Wisconsin Council of Catholic Women, The Madison Art Center, and the Maple Bluff Garden Club, among many others.
Jean taught English at Central High School for a brief period of time. For about ten years, Jean and three of her friends had a great time owning and operating Guenevere's, a gift store. Jean was an accomplished artist; first with watercolors, and then with pastels.
When she was 78, she was very proud to become a member of the Madison Art Guild. Jean and Patrick had a wonderful life together, traveling extensively and entertaining their many friends in their home. They were very fond of putting on 'Door County style' Fish Boils in their backyard. Jean and Patrick were married for 61 years until Patrick died November 10, 2008.
Jean is survived by her children, Shelly Okey and Joe McCormick; her grandchildren, Nathaniel Okey, Virginia Okey, Hirschey (Josh) Georgia McCormick, Genna McCormick, Savannah McCormick and her sister, Nancy (Dick) Ioset.
The family wishes to thank the caring staff at Agrace HospiceCare, Capitol Lakes, and her caregivers, Daniella and Laticia for making her last years so comfortable.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be conducted at 11 a.m. on Saturday, January 26, 2013 at ST. PATRICK'S CATHOLIC CHURCH, 404 E. Main Street, with Msgr. Kevin Holmes presiding.
Visitation will be at the church on Saturday from 10 a.m. until the time of Mass.
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Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 3:46 PM GMT on December 17, 2009
The globe recorded its fourth warmest November since record keeping began in 1880, according to NOAA's National Climatic Data Center. NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies rated November 2009 as the warmest November on record, beating the 2001 record by 0.02°C. NOAA classified the year-to-date period, January - November 2009, as the fifth warmest such period on record. The November satellite-measured temperatures for the lowest 8 km of the atmosphere were the warmest on record according to the University of Alabama Huntsville data set, or fifth warmest, according to the RSS data set.
Figure 1. Departure of temperature from average for November 2009. Image credit: National Climatic Data Center.
Warmest November on record for Southern Hemisphere land areas
Southern Hemisphere land areas had their warmest November on record including Australia, according to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. November was 1.87°C (3.4°F) above average in Australia, and several statewide records were broken, with New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania, surpassing the previous largest maximum temperature anomaly recorded for an Australian state. The highest minimum temperature record for the continent was also broken, with an anomaly of 1.61°C (2.90°F) above average.
Third warmest November on record for the U.S.
For the contiguous U.S., the average November temperature was 4.0°F above average, making it the 3rd warmest November in the 115-year record, according to the National Climatic Data Center. That's a pretty remarkable swing from October, which was the third coldest October on record. Delaware experienced its warmest November on record, Wisconsin and New Jersey their second warmest, and five states had their third warmest November (Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Iowa, and North Dakota). Eighteen other states had an average temperature that ranked in the top ten. No states had below normal temperatures for the month.
Unusually low tornado activity in November
November was a quiet month for tornadoes in the U.S., with only 4 preliminary reports. November 2009 was the slowest November since 1980, which had 3 tornadoes, and tied for 3rd quietest since extensive records began in 1950. The autumn as a whole was also calm with only 80 tornadoes reported in the U.S., compared to the 2006-2008 year average of 164.
U.S. drought
At the end of November, 9% of the contiguous United States was in moderate-to-exceptional drought. This is the smallest November drought footprint since 2005. Drought expanded across Arizona, southern California, and southern Nevada, but improved over drought-stricken Texas. For the first time in many years, the U.S. Drought Monitor shows no areas in the highest classification of drought--exceptional drought. The second highest category of drought, extreme drought, covers only a small region of northeast Arizona.
U.S. fire activity
November, like September and October, saw below-normal U.S. fire activity in all respects.
Strong El Niño conditions continue
Strong El Niño conditions continue over the tropical Eastern Pacific. Ocean temperatures in the area 5°N - 5°S, 120°W - 170°W, also called the "Niña 3.4 region", were at 1.6°C above average on December 15, just above the 1.5°C threshold for a strong El Niño, according to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. The strength of El Niño was roughly constant for the 5 weeks ending December 15. NOAA's Climate Prediction Center is maintaining an El Niño Advisory. Current conditions and model forecasts favor continued El Niño conditions lasting through the Northern Hemisphere spring of 2010.
November sea ice extent in the Arctic 3rd lowest on record
November 2009 Northern Hemisphere sea ice extent was the 3rd lowest since satellite measurements began in 1979, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). Only 2006 and 2007 saw lower arctic sea ice extent. During 10-day period in the first half of November, arctic ice extent decreased below the 2007 record minimum, but rose above record minimum levels by the middle of the month.
Ricky Rood in Copenhagen
Our Climate Change expert, Dr. Ricky Rood, is in Copenhagen for the COP15 climate change treaty negotiations. His latest post, called Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? makes for very interesting reading on how the U.S. is "wasting its intellect and time on disruptions designed to play to people at home".
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By Dimitra DeFotis
The market had plenty to digest Wednesday, but ended in the green.
With an earlier close in honor of the red, white and blue, the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 56.14 points, or 0.38%, to 14988.55. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up 1.33 points, or 0.08%, to 1615.41. Each has been up five of the past seven trading days. The Nasdaq Composite rose 10.27 points, or 0.30%, to 3443.67.
U.S. oil prices continued to climb above $100 per barrel to a new 52-week high of $101.24, with Egypt's unrest putting a focus on the stability of oil infrastructure and transport in the Middle East, even if Egypt isn't a major crude producer. Natural gas futures gained nearly 4 cents to $3.69 per million British thermal units.
Among the largest energy names in the S&P, international oil-and-gas exploration company Marathon Oil (MRO) was up 1.65%. Refiner Marathon Petroleum (MPC) was up 2% and refiner Phillips 66 (PSX) rose 1%. The losers in largecap S&P energy included Apache (APA) and natural gas-and-coal producer Consol Energy (CNX), which each fell more than 2%. Coal giant Peabody Energy (BTU) declined 1.4% and oil-and-gas driller Nabors Industries (NBR) fell 1.25%.
Meanwhile the Obama administration postponed the employer healthcare coverage mandate until 2015, giving businesses some relief. Temporary staffing companies lost value, and hospital operators sank, with HCA Holdings (HCA) down 3.85% and Tenet Healthcare (THC) down 4.34%. Insurers gained: United Health Group (UNH) rose 0.41%, while Cigna (CI) rose more than 1%.


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CARTER FOSTER: This is an important sheet because it's close to the painting, but it's not. . . It's the space that he was interested in, drawn in a very complete way, but it's not the space of the painting.
NARRATOR: In the final painting Hopper adds a poetic, ghostly image on the movie screen—and uses it to illuminate a few spectators. He emphasizes the strangely projecting ceiling lights. The big difference in the painting is the presence of the usherette. But subtle changes to the space that she occupies also have an important expressive effect.
CARTER FOSTER: What's different is the spatial compression, the side aisle becomes smaller. The staircase becomes collapsed into an arched opening with a heavy curtain in front of it, as opposed to being much more open in the drawing. And the overall sense of space is much tighter in the painting, which affects the way you perceive this usherette. It's not that she's trapped, but she's wearing this uniform that's sort of militaristic and she's got a specific role she's playing within this ornate palace of escapism. That compression of space is something that is an important part of the painting's overall effect. And it's not something you get in the drawing.


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I had the honor tonight on behalf of Pam Ingham of presenting this gorgeous oil painting of K9 Officer Benny (now retired) to Deputy Boyles at the QAC FOP meeting. Deputy Boyles was so surprised when he was called up to receive the painting. He just kept remarking about how much the painting looked like Benny, including the small scar below his right eye! Benny is now retired, loving life and being trained to herd sheep! Anyone that knows anything about Malinois knows that they "need" a job and, so far, Benny is enjoying his new "job".
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By Emily Wagster Pettus/The Associated Press
JACKSON — Mississippi lawmakers prayed, listened to patriotic music and exchanged plenty of hugs and handshakes on the opening day of their 2013 session. Bills were just starting to appear on a newly revamped legislative website and most members did little actual work.
There will be plenty of time during the three-month gathering to pick apart proposals that would affect education, health care and other issues.
Both sides are preparing for protracted debates about whether to allow development of charter schools, which would be free of many state regulations. Charters would receive public money but could be run by nonprofit corporations or boards. Gov. Phil Bryant and other Republican leaders consider charters a priority, but many Democrats say they're firmly opposed because they believe public schools are receiving too little state financial support.
"You can feel the tension about it already," said Rep. David Myers, D-McComb.
Myers said he opposes charter schools because he sees them as a hybrid between public and private education and he believes they'd drain money from existing public schools that are already underfunded. Bryant and other supporters say charters would allow for academic innovation.
Legislators are expected to consider putting extra emphasis on teaching reading skills in the early elementary grades, but they've released few details about how they might approach the issue.
Health advocates want lawmakers to expand Medicaid to cover hundreds of thousands more people, but Bryant and other Republican leaders say the state can't afford to do it. Starting in January 2014, the expansion is allowed — but not required — under the federal health care law President Barack Obama signed in 2010. The governor says he doesn't want to do anything to encourage the use of the federal law.
Sen. Hob Bryan, D-Amory, said Mississippi should expand Medicaid because doing so would help people who can't afford private coverage. He said billions of federal dollars also would provide an economic boost.
"The question is: Are the benefits of the health care law going to come to Mississippi, or are we going to pay for health care for people in other states?" Bryan said.
In 2012, legislators debated a bill that would have allowed law enforcement officers to check people's immigration status during traffic stops or other encounters. The bill passed the House but died in the Senate after business groups and local government officials said they worried about the cost.
Sen. Chris McDaniel, R-Ellisville, said he's filing immigration enforcement bills this year that are more narrowly focused. One would require state workers to check a federal database for the immigration status of people who apply for public assistance.
"I don't see us passing one huge package this year," McDaniel said of immigration proposals.
This is the second year of a four-year term for lawmakers. One new House member took his oath of office Tuesday. Republican Bill Kinkade of Byhalia won a special election in late November to succeed longtime Rep. Tommy Woods, R-Byhalia, who resigned in District 52 in parts of DeSoto and Marshall counties.
There are some vacancies in the Legislature, for now.
House Speaker Philip Gunn announced during the opening of the session that Rep. David Gibbs, a 76-year-old Democrat from West Point, had resigned immediately because of poor health. Gibbs had been in the House since 1993. The governor will set a special election House District 36 in parts of Clay, Lowndes and Monroe counties.
A special election was being held Tuesday in House District 59 in northern Rankin County. Second-term Republican Kevin McGee resigned in November to settle a state ethics case.
Two Senate seats are open because Democrats Bennie Turner of West Point and Alice Harden of Jackson died late last year.
The election in Turner's District 16 is Jan. 15 in parts of Clay, Lowndes, Noxubee and Oktibbeha counties.
A Feb. 5 election is set in Harden's District 28 in parts of Hinds County, and nine candidate signed up to run.
Runoffs, if needed, are three weeks after the first election.
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Fan has had season ticket since the 1950s
GREEN BAY, Wis. - A Sheboygan man who has had Green Bay Packers season tickets since the 1950s is the latest inductee into the Packers' Fan Hall of Fame.
Ninety-year-old Edward Fritsch was introduced as the 15th inductee Tuesday. He's a World War II veteran and retired mail carrier.
The Packers said although cold weather usually prevents Fritsch from attending late-season games, he did attend a game on New Year's Eve in 2011.
WLUK-TV reported Fritsch will receive four club seats to a 2013 Packers home game, a $500 Packers Pro Shop gift certificate, a trip to a 2013 Packers away game and a one-year subscription to "Packers Plus."
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Australia 1927 – Australia 1982
England 1951-56
Christopher Underhill
oil on composition board
signed u.r., corner, oil "Fred Williams" Not dated.
117.4 (h) x 67.0 (w) cm
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Purchased 1971
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
© estate of Fred Williams
Among Williams's friends in London was fellow Australian painter Anthony Underhill. In the evenings, after his daytime work at the picture framers, Williams often looked after Underhill's young son Christopher. As he recalled: 'I was the baby-sitter at the time for the Underhills – Christopher is now grown up. The particular time that I painted the picture was mid-summer in England … Christopher helped me to paint the background of the picture … I think he chose the colour. I had a sock. I didn't go much for brushes in those days. He stroked most of it on. I always had the impression that he was a rather sickly child which is the way I painted him … But he has grown up to be a very strapping lad.'


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A friend over MDL just informed me today that another bulletproof hoster called GR-VERTICAL-AS Group Vertical Ltd (AS49365) has gone offline this night. Back in october 2009 I wrote a blog post about this ISP (see Source of badness: Group Vertical Ltd (AS49365)) and described how bad this ISP is. A few days later, Groupe Vertical has been disconnected from the internet. Unfortunately, the bad guys just managed to get online again.
Now it seems that this night their upstream provider VLineTelecom LLC Moscow (AS39150) just cut their peering with Group Vertical:
NOT Announced
This AS is not currently used to announce prefixes in the global routing table, nor is it used as a visible transit AS.
Prefixes added and withdrawn by this origin AS in the past 7 days.
– 126.96.36.199/24 Withdrawn
As of yesterday, this ISP has hosted 20 ZeuS C&C servers in their subnet:
Due to the fact that Group Vertical is offline again, the number of active ZeuS C&C server will just drop again today! But there is even more work left to do:
- AS49544 (INTERACTIVE3D-AS Interactive3D)
- AS29371 (GAZTRANZITSTROYINFO-AS LLC _Gaztransitstroyinfo_)
- AS34305 (EUROACCESS Euroaccess Global Autonomous System)
Let's see how long these ISPs will stay online….


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IDC blames smartphones and tablets for sharp PC decline
Research firm IDC has posted the numbers for worldwide PC shipments in Q1 of 2013, and they show the steepest decline ever in a single quarter since the company has been monitoring the industry. Global PC shipments during Q1 of 2013 totaled 76.3 million units. That number represents a decline of 13.9% compared to the same quarter in 2011.
The posted decline in Q1 of 2013 was nearly twice the expected decline of 7.7% according to IDC. IDC also notes that the poor showing in Q1 marks the fourth consecutive quarter of year-over-year shipment declines for the industry. Computer shipments in the U.S. declined by 12.7% year-over-year and declined 18.3% compared to Q4 2012.
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across all regions compared to the same quarter of 2012.
Declining mini notebook shipments took a big chunk out of the low-end market with tablets and smartphones also contributing to divert significant spending from the computer industry. IDC also reports that
weak reception for Windows 8
has hurt the industry and computer makers continue to struggle to differentiate themselves from others on the market.
"At this point, unfortunately, it seems clear that the Windows 8 launch not only failed to provide a positive boost to the PC market, but appears to have slowed the market," said Bob O'Donnell, IDC Program Vice President, Clients and Displays. "While some consumers appreciate the new form factors and touch capabilities of Windows 8, the radical changes to the UI, removal of the familiar Start button, and the costs associated with touch have made PCs a less attractive alternative to dedicated tablets and other competitive devices. Microsoft will have to make some very tough decisions moving forward if it wants to help reinvigorate the PC market."
HP is still the top computer vendor but its worldwide shipments fell more than 23% year-over-year. Lenovo remained in second place and came close to closing the gap between it and HP. Lenovo posted double-digit, year-over-year growth in the U.S.
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Pennsylvania judge strikes down state's voter ID lawJanuary 17, 2014 11:44 PM
HARRISBURG -- A Commonwealth Court judge on Friday ruled the Pennsylvania voter ID law violates the state constitution by imposing an unreasonable burden on voters, dealing the controversial requirement its most serious blow in nearly two years of litigation.
The top attorney to Gov. Tom Corbett, one of many Republicans who support the law, said the administration has yet to determine whether it will appeal to the state Supreme Court, although observers and the law's challengers expect it will.
The Supreme Court worked quickly when it addressed voter ID in the run-up to the 2012 election, so it remains unknown whether voters will be required to show photo identification in the May primary.
For now, however, the law is invalid after Judge Bernard McGinley of Commonwealth Court found that it "unreasonably burdens the right to vote" and threatens a fundamental right of hundreds of thousands of qualified voters.
"Voting laws are designed to assure a free and fair election; the Voter ID Law does not further this goal," the decision states.
The Republican-controlled Legislature in March 2012 passed the law, one of the strictest in the nation, over objections from Democrats, who, along with other critics, said the measure would suppress voting by poor people, minorities and elderly residents.
The law requires all Pennsylvania voters to show one of certain forms of photo identification -- a driver's license or passport, but not welfare cards or the many college IDs that lack expiration dates.
Pennsylvania is one of several states that in recent years have approved laws requiring voters to show identification, and the state's law received national attention ahead of the 2012 presidential election.
The legal challenge on behalf of the NAACP, the League of Women Voters, the Homeless Advocacy Project and a number of voters was met with an initial Commonwealth Court ruling declining to stop the law for the 2012 election and then a state Supreme Court order that the lower court reconsider. The law's full requirements have been blocked at each election since its passage.
In a 50-page determination (with another 50 pages of appendices) issued Friday morning, Judge McGinley found that a lack of compelling governmental interest in imposing the requirement -- the state acknowledged at the start that it knew of no cases of in-person voting fraud, the kind addressed by voter ID -- could not justify the law in the face of "overwhelming evidence" that hundreds of thousands of qualified voters lack acceptable documentation.
"Certainly a vague concern about voter fraud does not rise to a level that justifies the burdens constructed here," the decision states.
Judge McGinley concluded the law unnecessarily restricts the types of acceptable identification, leaving out welfare cards, school district employee cards, gun permits and Pennsylvania college IDs that lack expiration dates. Noting that military retiree IDs and most student IDs lack expiration dates, he went so far as to conclude: "The voter ID law as written suggests a legislative disconnect from reality."
Other states with voter ID policies, he wrote, provide greater safeguards against disenfranchisement. And while defenders of the law spent much of a hearing last summer citing a new form of state identification, issued free and without supporting documents, the judge found that problems with the Department of State ID, including its availability at only 71 PennDOT licensing centers, leaves a significant barrier for voters.
Republican legislative leaders suggested Friday's ruling runs afoul of a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding a voter ID law in Indiana. That law was considered among the nation's strictest, and supporters of voter ID have cited the ruling as a defense of the policy elsewhere.
"We think it's wrong," said Steve Miskin, a spokesman for House Speaker Sam Smith, R-Jefferson. "It runs counter to the United States Supreme Court decision. It's basically saying that people who apply for a passport, a hiking or fishing license, a driver's license, go to their kid's school, have an undue burden, because photo identification is required for each of those actions."
But the Pennsylvania case was brought primarily under the state constitution, which Commonwealth Court interpreted to have especially strong protections of the right to vote, said Ken Gormley, dean of Duquesne University School of Law.
"Given the long and arduous path this case has followed up till now, and in light of this very detailed fact-finding, I would be surprised if the Pennsylvania Supreme Court reversed this decision," Mr. Gormley said. "Now the bigger question in my mind is whether a different form of a voter ID law that corrects these problems identified in the opinion can and will be enacted by the Legislature. That seems to me to be where the new battleground will be."
While an appeal is expected, James Schultz, Mr. Corbett's general counsel, said Friday evening that administration attorneys need to review the decision and decide how to proceed. The administration will likely decide early next week if it will file post-trial motions with the Commonwealth Court, he said.
"Following that, any ruling we would get from that court, then we would potentially take the matter up to the Supreme Court," he said.
The office of state Attorney General Kathleen Kane, whose attorneys represented the state alongside administration lawyers, said it awaits instruction from the governor.
House Minority Leader Frank Dermody of Oakmont said the Corbett administration should let the ruling stand.
"It vindicates what we've been saying all along, that it was unconstitutional, that it was a solution in search of a problem," he said.
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Acronyms/Abbreviations
Acquisition Services
Activities related to obtaining library materials by purchase, exchange, or gift, including preorder bibliographic searching, ordering and receiving materials, processing invoices and the maintenance of the necessary records related to acquisitions.
A volume of maps, plates, engravings, tables, etc., with or without descriptive text. It may be an independent publication or it may have been issued as accompanying material.
The person or corporate body chiefly responsible for the intellectual or artistic content of a work, whose name is included in the author file.
Batch Processing
Processing of data after it has been accumulated over a period of time, as opposed to processing it immediately or online.
Bibliographic Data
All the pertinent information that defines a specific item, including author, title, edition or volume, publisher, publication date and ISBN.
Bibliographic Item
A document or set of documents in any physical form, published, issued or treated as an entity, and as such forming the basis for a single bibliographic description.
Bibliographic Record
A record of a bibliographic item that comprises all data contained in or accommodated by a bibliographic format, such as MARC.
Bibliographic Reference
A set of bibliographic elements essential to the identification of a work, document, or bibliographic item to which a reference is made.
Situation whereby a library solicits from all available vendors and offers all or most of its business to the vendor that offers the highest discounts.
Billing Price (or Billed Price)
The cost of the book after it has been discounted or has had a surcharge added to the price; the invoice price.
Blanket Order
A plan by which a publisher or wholesaler agrees to supply a library one copy of all publications, as issued, within the specified limits of the plan, generally without return privileges.
A person whose business is selling books, especially the owner of a bookstore.
A list of library materials contained in a collection, a library, or a group of libraries, arranged according to some definite plan. In a wider sense, a list of materials prepared for a particular purpose (e.g., an exhibition catalog, a sales catalog).
Those activities performed in the preparation of bibliographic records for a catalog.
Cataloging-in-Publication (CIP)
A prepublication cataloging program through which publishers provide bibliographic data to the national library or other cataloging agency where a bibliographic record is prepared and returned to the publisher; this information is usually printed on the verso of the title leaf.
Notice sent to a vendor asking why an ordered item has not been provided.
Three or more independent works or parts of works by one author published together. Or, two or more independent works or parts of works by more than one author published together and not written for the same occasion or for the publication in hand.
A statement at the end of an item giving information about one or more of the following: the title, author(s), publisher, printer, and date of publication or printing. It may include other information.
See Subscription.
Copy Cataloging
The cataloging of a bibliographic item by using an existent bibliographic record and altering it as needed to fit the item in hand and to conform to local cataloging practices.
Copyright Date
The year as it appears in the copyright notice.
Data Base
The entire collection of files maintained in the computer system.
An individual or company who buys and sells books or other materials acquired by libraries.
An agent or agency that has exclusive or shared marketing rights for a publication.
Drop Ship
Mechanism whereby a library orders items from a vendor, the vendor orders from a producer, and the producer ships the items to the library, the producer bills the vendor, and the vendor bills the library.
EOM (End of the Month) Discount
An incentive offered by vendors to get customers to pay their bill early; usually a 1 or 2 percent additional discount may be deducted by the customer if bill is paid by the end of the month.
All copies produced from essentially the same type image (whether by direct contact or by photographic or other methods) and issued by the same entity.
Electronic Ordering
Using a computer, a modem, and certain software, the customer transmits an order via a dedicated telephone line directly into the vendor's database. The order may also be transmitted via the Internet. Also known as online ordering.
To set aside or commit money to pay for materials ordered; moneys can only be unencumbered when materials are paid for or when orders not received are canceled.
Mistakes or errors. Generally encountered in the term "errata slip," a small sheet of paper laid into a book by a publisher who has discovered errors prior to publication.
Items sent from one library to another library in exchange for publications, which that library sends in return.
Folded leaf
A wide leaf bound in at one edge and folded one or more times to fit within the fore-edge.
Folded Plate
An oversize plate bound in by one edge and folded to fit the book.
Introductory remarks preceding the text of a book, written by someone other than the author of the work. Often used interchangeably with preface.
First Edition
Generally used by book dealers and collectors to mean the first appearance of a work in book or pamphlet form, in its first printing.
Freight Pass Through (FPT)
Mechanism designed by publishers for retail booksellers; the price charged to the bookseller (or library) is usually fifty cents less than book cover price indicates, to cover shipping costs for the bookseller/library.
An allocation of money and/or other assets set aside for a specified purpose in the budget, constituting a separate accounting entity.
Fund Accounting
In terms of acquisitions, the process whereby departmental or branch accounts within the library are charged for what they have purchased.
Gathering Plan
See Blanket Order.
Items donated to be included in a library's collection.
Half Title
The page carrying nothing but the title of the book, usually preceding the title page.
Adorned by hand with richly colored ornamental initial letters, decorative designs or illustrations. Illumination flourished with books intended for up market customers, especially during the late medieval period.
This term indicates that an item contains illustrations.
A photograph, drawing, map, table or other reproduction or systematic arrangement of data designed to elucidate or decorate the contents of a publication. Narrowly defined, an illustration appears within the text, or on a leaf with the text on the reverse side.
The part of the front matter of a book which states the subject and discusses the treatment of the subject in the book.
All copies of an item printed at one time from one setting of type. There may be several impressions, presumably unaltered, of one edition.
A systematic guide to the contents of a file, document, or group of documents, consisting of an ordered arrangement of terms or other symbols representing the contents and references, code numbers, page numbers, etc., for accessing the contents.
In Print
Books still available from the publisher; not yet declared out of print.
Independent Distributor (ID)
Vendor who distributes items to retailers within a given territory.
The university, library, or other corporate entity empowered to enter into a contract or to otherwise be responsible for ensuring compliance with that contract.
A document supplied by a vendor indicating the character, quantity, price, terms, and nature of delivery of goods sold or services rendered.
Invoice Symbol
In the book trade, information supplied by a vendor to explain why materials were not shipped; for example, NYP-not yet published; OP-out of print; OS-out of stock; NOP-not our publication.
The process of ensuring that an order, item received, and invoice is correct, creating a payment invoice for the approval of payment, and then forwarding the item to cataloging.
ISBN (International Standard Book Number)
A unique, ten-digit number assigned to every title, edition, and format published in most countries of the world. Essential for precise identification in searching and online ordering.
ISSN (International Standard Serial Number)
Unique, eight-digit number assigned to each serial published in most countries of the world.
Any physical piece of the library's holdings, including books, serials, maps, manuscripts, scores, sound recordings, audiovisuals, and computer data files.
Item Description
The description of, and related local and other bibliographic information for, an item.
See Wholesaler.
publisher's entire inventory of books still in print. May also refer to projected inventory, for example, the 2000 fall list includes those books that will be published in the fall of 2000.
List Price
The price at which a publication is made available to the public. It customarily is established by the publisher in is exclusive of any discount.
A representation, normally to scale and on a flat medium, of a selection of material or abstract features on, or in relation to, the surface of the earth or of another celestial body.
Physical entities of any substance that serve as carriers of information, e.g., books, graphics, audio recordings, or machine-readable data files.
A sheet of film bearing a number of micro images in a two-dimensional array.
A length of film bearing a number of micro images in a linear array.
A generic term for any medium, transparent or opaque, bearing micro images.
A book that is complete in itself, that is, not a serial.
Net Price
The price charged for an item, less discount
On Approval
Books provided to libraries by vendors for examination in light of possible purchase.
Online Ordering
See electronic ordering.
On Order
An acquisitions descriptor denoting the processing of bibliographic items from the time they are ordered until cataloging and physical processing have been completed.
Order Card
A 3x5 card that contains the bibliographic information, expected list price, authorization and three-letter department code of an item requested for order. Card colors indicate the library and the type of item; Cook: white-monographic, blue-media, ivory-music, green-serial; Cox: yellow: monographic.
Ordering/Placing an Order
The process of transmitting an item's bibliographic data as a purchase order to a selected vendor.
Out of Print (OP)
No longer available from the publisher.
Out of Stock (OS)
Not available from publisher or wholesaler, but not yet declared out of print.
Out of Stock Indefinitely (OSI)
Quaint euphemism used by publishers to denote a title that for some reason they do not wish to declare out of print but are unlikely to ever reprint. One step away from OP.
Refers to a library handing one or more of its functions over to be performed by a vendor.
The fixed cost of running a business. The entire general costs other than costs for materials and production: salaries and benefits, rent, office supplies, telephones, office equipment, and so on.
An independent publication consisting of a few leaves of printed matter stitched together but not bound, usually enclosed in paper covers.
A publication issued in successive parts at stated or regular intervals and intended to be continued indefinitely. Usually it has a distinctive title, each issue contains articles by different contributors, and there are two or more issues per year. Newspapers and society proceedings are generally not considered periodicals, but usage of the term varies from library to library. See also Serial.
A not preceding the text of a book, which states the origin, purpose, and scope of an item contained in the item and sometimes includes acknowledgements of assistance. When written by someone other than the author, it is more properly called a foreword. To be distinguished from the Introduction, which deals with the subject of the item.
Physical Processing
The activities carried out by a library to prepare items for use, including affixing labels or due-date slips, stamping ownership marks, etc.
Plant Cost
The fixed cost of producing a book includes composition, typesetting, design, color separations. It is a fixed cost because these things need to be done only once in the production process.
A leaf containing illustrative matter, with or without explanatory text, that does not form part of either the preliminary or the main sequence of pages or leaves.
A container for holding loose materials (e.g., paintings, drawings, papers, unbound sections of a book, and similar materials) consisting of two covers joined together at the back.
Author's introductory statement.
Publication Date
The year in which an item is published, in distinction from its copyright date.
Firm or other corporate body or the person responsible for the manufacture and distribution of an item to the public.
Purchase Order
The library's official order form for materials to be provided by the vendor.
A line of items waiting to be processed in a system.
The process that involves checking the elements of a received item's bibliographic data against the order; if the item received is indeed the item originally requested, then the item can be invoiced for payment purposes.
A collection of related items of data treated as a unit. The author, title and call number fields may constitute the item record in a circulation system.
The right-hand page of a book, usually bearing an odd page number. Also, the side of a printed sheet intended to be read first.
Remainder Dealer
One who specializes in buying publishers' overstock and then reselling to retailers and libraries at bargain prices.
Unsold copies of a book that the publisher chooses to sell to a remainder dealer; once remainders are thus sold, books are considered out of print.
A new impression of an edition. A new edition from a new setting of type, for which an impression of a previous edition has been used as a copy.
Books returned to the publisher for full or partial credit within a certain time period.
The process of searching the library catalog, all on-order and in-process files, and serial records to ensure that an item requested is not already in the library's collection, or that an additional copy is, in fact, desired.
The process of choosing which titles should go into a library's collection.
A publication in any medium issued in successive parts bearing numeric or chronological designations and intended to be continued indefinitiely. Serials include periodicals; newspapers; annuals (reports, yearbooks, etc.); the journals, memoirs, proceedings, transactions, etc., of societies and numbered monographic series.
Series Title Page
An added title page bearing the series title proper and usually, though not necessarily, other information about the series (e.g., statement of responsibility, numeric designation, data relating to publication, title of the item within the series).
Books to be sent later because they were not in the dealer's stock when the order was received.
Short Discount
Discount that is less than the standard trade discount.
Small Press Publishing
Publishing by nontraditional publishers other than trade, university press, religious publishers. Often referred to as alternative or independent publishing.
Standing Order
An order for all works in a series, all volumes of a set or all editions of a work.
An order for a title that appears over a long period of time; this includes titles with a specified number of volumes not all published simultaneously, as well as series titles.
Technical Services
The area of library operations that includes acquisitions of materials, the organization and bibliographic control of materials, physical processing, and collection maintenance.
The distinguishing name of a work or a subdivision of it, such as a chapter of the book.
Title Page
The title page, near the beginning of the book, lists the title and subtitle of the book, the authors, editors, and/or contributors, the publisher or printer, and sometimes the place and date of publication. The title page information, not the half-title page or covers, should be used for cataloguing.
Title Page Index
Used in describing periodicals, to indicate that the title page and index are present. Without a title page and index, the volume is incomplete.
Trade Book
Book intended for the general reader and sold to wholesalers, retail booksellers and libraries.
Trade Discount
The usual discount on trade books; most likely higher than discounts on most other categories of books.
Trade Publisher
One who produces trade books.
Uniform Title
The particular title by which a work is to be identified for cataloging purposes.
University Press Publishing
Books published under the aegis of a university. Usually intended for the scholarly community, although recent trends indicate that more university presses are publishing books for the general reader.
To modify a file with current information.
One who sells materials to a library; may be a publisher, wholesaler, or retailer.
The process of determining that a requested bibliographic item has actually been published and that the supplied bibliographic data are correct and adequate for use as order information.
The second, or rear, side of a leaf in a book; in other words, the left-hand page of an opened book. Also called the reverse.
In the bibliographic sense, a major division of a work, regardless of its designation by the publisher, distinguished from other major divisions of the same work by having its own inclusive title page, half title, cover title or portfolio title, and usually independent pagination, foliation or signatures. This major bibliographic unit may include various title pages and/or paginations. In the material sense, all that is contained in one binding, portfolio, etc., whether as originally issued or as bound after issue. The volume as a material unit may not coincide with the volume as a bibliographic unit.


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The last 2 tests we've had in the area since the new rule came in; have had 1 or 2 marks skirting the distance barrier, seems like if you throw out a new rule people feel the need to use it. The only concern for me is handling a dog at such a distance, can cause problems, it's hard for a dog to pick out a handler who's in dark colors or camo, on a dark background, with a gallery of similar dressed people sitting watching. In FT where longer marks are the normal you can wear white, white is a No in HT. Seems unfair to grade handle on a dog that can't pick out it's handler.
You guys are right on the vote, the vote I'm thinking of was a distance change in HRC grand, I get them all confused
Side note everyone in HRC has a range finder, try to go beyond their distances and 4-5 people in the gallery will call you on it, and have the test thrown out as illegal, might hang the judge before the hunt-test committee gets there thou


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Family: Apiaceae, Carrot view all from this family
Description Native herbaceous perennial.
Habit: erect; stems green to white, roughly hairy; tuberous root.
Height: 3-6 ft.
Leaf: divided into several segments which bear widely-spaced leaflets. The leaflets may be intricately divided into small segments.
Flower: loose umbel, to 4 in wide, of tiny white to purple spherical flowers, on stalks up to 2.5 in long.
Fruit: triangular.
Flower July to August.
Habitat Moist habitats such as creeksides and meadows, in yellow pine forest and subalpine forest; in the Sierra Nevada, San Jacinto, and San Bernadino mountains.
Range Western North America from Idaho through Nevada and California into Baja California; at 3000-10,000 ft (915-3050 m).
Discussion Also known as: woollyhead parsnip, swamp whiteheads.