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These rules describe monograph cataloging procedures unique to the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection. For general catalogign practices, refer to AACR2 or USM Libraries' guidelines for general edit cataloging.
Check the catalog to see if the library already has a record for the title. If a record is found, scrutinize it to see if it matches the book in hand. Remember that for de Grummond books, unlike those for other collections, different printing dates cannot be represented on the same record. If the record in the catalog matches the book in hand in all respects except for printing date, export a new record for the book in hand. If the printing date is the same, the book in hand will be an added copy, even if the printing number is different. Nevertheless, if a significant change was made to a book between printing numbers made in the same year, then you must make separate records for each printing.
If you find a matching record and the de Grummond Collection has one copy, treat the book in hand as an added copy. If the de Grummond Collection already has two copies, do not process the book. Write "Copy 3 for de Grummond" on a slip of paper, place it in the book, and return the book to the truck.
If you find a matching record for a book in a collection other than de Grummond, treat the book in hand as an added volume for that collection.
Log on to OCLC to find a matching record for your book. Remember the requirements for different printing dates (see above). If the records you find do not match the printing date of the book in hand, create a new record for your book.
Once you have selected an OCLC record, saved it to the local save file, and are ready to edit it, see if it has a recommended LC call number in an 050 or 090 field. Reformat an 090 call number to 050 _4.
If the record lacks an LC call number, assign one in the 050 _4 field. If the library already has a cataloged copy of another edition of the same book and you are creating a call number for a different edition or printing, model your new call number on the number given to the previously cataloged title unless it was seriously misclassified.
Once you have assigned an LC call number, lock and replace the record with the new call number in OCLC before editing any other fields in the record. Follow these steps to lock and replace records in Connexion.
After locking/replacing the record, edit the other fields.
If the record already has a recommended LC call number in either 050 or 090 field, no matter how poorly conceived it is, begin editing the record without locking and replacing it, even if you later choose to alter the call number. Never perform lock and replace procedures on original cataloging.
Edit the fixed and variable fields in Connexion. Below are the most common fixed field values used for de Grummond books. Refer to OCLC Bibliographic Formats and Standards for complete lists of fixed field codes. For variable fields, check each field for completeness and accuracy of information. For pre-AACR2 records, add ISBD punctuation and spacing. Special materials will require the use of other fixed field values and variable fields not covered here.
Fixed Fields
Variable Fields010 LC Control Number: If the record has an LC control number, but no such number appears in the printed book in hand, just leave it in the record and assume that the creator of the record knew something you don't know. If the LC control number in the book in hand does not match the number in the record, leave the latter number alone and add the book's LC control number in |z. For advance reading copies, place the LC control number that refers properly to the published book in |z.040 Cataloging Source Code: For original records, MUS |c MUS. The |d MUS is added to existing records automatically when holdings are updated.015 National Bibliography Number: It's foreign; delete it.016 National Bibliographic Agency Control Number: It's Canadian; delete it.019 Superseded OCLC Numbers: Retain for serial records; delete for all others.020 ISBN: If the book has ISBNs for different bindings, delete the one(s) not matching the book in hand, if it is clear which of the numbers applies to your book. If you cannot tell which number is correct, leave both on the record, with parenthetical qualifiers giving the medium.020 1234567890 (lib. bdg.)020 1234567890 (trade)For advance reading copies and folded and gathered galleys, place any ISBNs that refer properly to the published book in |z.029 Other System Control Number: It's Canadian; delete it.041 Language Code: Use this field if a book is multilingual or, more likely, a translation. For example, a Spanish translation of Curious George Takes a Job (Lang: spa) would appear as 041 1_ spa |h eng042 Authentication Codes: Leave them be. 043 Geographic Area Code: Use this field if a 650 or 651 subject heading refers to a geographic area in any way.050 LC Call Number: You may add the year to an LC call number in the 050 field, but if you change it in any other way, then you must move it to a 090 field. If you add the year to the LC call number, be sure it matches the most recent year in the 260 field and the Dates fixed field.If you encounter any of the obsolete classification numbers listed below, delete them and create a new call number in a 090 field.
055 Call Number Assigned in Canada: It's Canadian; delete it.082 Dewey Decimal Call Number: We don't use Dewey; delete it. 090 Locally-Assigned LC Call Number: Use this field whenever you create a call number from scratch or modify an LC call number in a 050 field in any way beyond just adding the year.When editing a recommended call number that came with the record, remove any X that might be present at the end of a Cutter number. For example, QA76.23 .F55x 1985 would become QA76.23 .F55 1985.Before assigning a brand new call number or accepting a recommended one, use the catalog to browse the call numbers in McCain, Cook and Gulf Coast libraries for the range of numbers you expect your proposed number to fall within to avoid duplication. For example, if creating a call number for an animal story by Margaret S. Johnson, browse the call numbers in PZ 10.3 until you find her author Cutter (.J67), then adjust your proposed call number to fit the book in alphabetical order among her other books. Similarly, you may have to devise a new, suitable author Cutter when cataloging the first book of a writer new to the collection.A few classification numbers to remember when creating a new number for a work of English-language juvenile literature are
When assigning a call number to a book with an uncertain date, use zeros to fill in unknown numbers of the year and follow the date with a lowercase z. For example, if 260 |c [187-?], then end the call number with 1870z. Similarly, a book published sometime in the twentieth century should have a call number ending in 1900z.When assigning a call number to a book published or printed the same year as the first edition of the same title, copy the call number of the original book and add a lowercase b to the year. For example, the call number for the original Random House edition of River Circus by West Lathrop is PZ7.L3696 Ri 1953 . The call number for the Junior Literary Guild's version published the same year is PZ7.L3696 Ri 1953b. For advance reading copies, add a lower case r to the date in the call number. For folded and gathered galleys, add a lower case g.
When assigning a call number to a translation, use the following translation table only when the main entry is a personal author or title and a uniform title plus language(s) is provided. Do not use the table for autobiographies, correspondence, or entries with a corporate or conference heading. In some cases, these numbers are based on numbers previously used in cataloging translations for the De Grummond Collection.
Distinguish translations from the original work by applying an appropriate number from the table to the Cutter (.x) of the original work. If two languages are named in the uniform title field, modify the Cutter for the first language. For example, the c all number for the original English version of Sherry Shahan's The Changing Caterpillar is QL544.2 .S53 1997, but the call number for the Spanish translation entitled Los cambios de la oruga is QL544.2 .S5318 1997.
PZ call numbers are an exception to this practice. For PZ call numbers, follow the same procedures, but drop the 1 from the number representing the translation. For example, the c all number for the original English version of Ezra Jack Keats' The Snowy Day is PZ7.K2253 Sn 1962, but the call number for the French translation entitled Jour de Neige is PZ7.K2253 Sn4 1999.
For books issued as part of a series but cataloged separately, look at the 646 field in the series authority record. If |a=s , then classify the book according to the title or subject of the individual volume. If |a=c , then classify it according to the subject of the series to keep all the volumes of the series shelved together. If no authority record exists for the series, then follow the rule of thumb of classifying works of literature according to the individual title and non-fiction according to the series subject. 092 Locally-Assigned Dewey Call Number: We don't use Dewey; delete it.049 Holdings Code: Change to MUSD.100 Main Entry—Personal Name: If older records have an editor's name in this field, move it to a 700 field and make the title the main entry.130 Main Entry—Uniform Title: Use this field when a work is entered directly under a title, has appeared under varying titles, and a single form of the title is selected to represent all variations. You will use this most often for works of folklore and fairy tales, as well as some more recent books with no named author. Remember to drop initial articles and end the 130 field with a period. Also, if a 130 or 240 field is present, then the 1 st indicator of the 245 field must be 0. For example, an English translation of selections from The Arabian Nights (Lang: eng) would appear as 130 0_ Arabian nights. |l English. |k Selections.245 04 The Arabian nights : |b a selection of stories …240 Uniform Title: Use this field when a work originally appeared under another title (e.g., translations) and has a named author. Give the original title in the 240 field. If the work is a translation, add the language of the book in hand in |l. Unlike the 130 field, the 240 field does not end with a period, but you still drop initial articles. If a 130 or 240 field is present, then the 1 st indicator of the 245 field must be 0. For example, a Spanish translation of Curious George Takes a Job (Lang: spa) would appear as 100 1_ Rey, H. A. |q (Hans Augusto), |d 1898-240 10 Curious George takes a job. |l Spanish245 00 Jorge el curioso encuentra trabajo …If you use a 240 field to indicate the original title for a work that is not a translation, be sure to add a 500 field to the effect of "Published in 19-- under title: ---." Do not add a 500 field note for translations.245 Title / Statement of Responsibility: Scrutinize the Title and Statement of Responsibility field, as older records may not include complete statements of responsibility.246 Varying Form of Title: Some older records have varying form of title information in the 740 field. Change these to 246 fields, drop any initial articles, and remember not to end the field with a period. Some common 246 field indicators are246 3_ (Used to eliminate hyphens, spell out numbers, offer alternate spellings of words, etc. in the title proper)246 30 (Used to provide access to the subtitle when the title proper does not adequately convey the subject of the book and to provide access to a partial form of the title proper)246 31 (Used for a parallel title)246 34 (Used for a differing title on the original cover)246 35 (Used for a differing title on another title page)246 38 (Used for a differing title on the original spine)246 1_ |i At head of title: |a Phrase (Used for special cases when an explanation is needed for giving a varying form of title)250 Edition Statement: Record edition statements as they appear on the book, using the abbreviation "ed." when appropriate.250 2nd ed. 250 Abridged.250 Special Golden Books ed. 250 Reprinted with corrections, 1995.250 3rd ed. / |b rev. by James L. Smith.In the last example, the statement of responsibility for the particular edition is given in |b. For advance reading copies, insert whatever phrase the publisher used to describe the rough copy (e.g., Uncorrected proofs, Advance reading copy, etc.) in the 250 field. Do not add advance proofs to records for the published edition of a work; such advance copies are considered separate editions. For pre-publication copies that are folded and gathered galleys (unbound pages), add the phrase [Folded and gathered galleys] in brackets in the 250 field. 260 Imprint: If the same year is repeated as the publication, copyright, or printing date, do not use the same year twice. The order of preference is publication date, copyright date, then printing date. For example, if the publication and copyright dates are identical, use just the publication date in 260 |c and the Dates fixed field (DtSt = s). Similarly, if the copyright and printing dates are identical, give the copyright date in 260 |c and do not include a 260 |g. Do not record printing numbers (e.g. 5th printing) in the 260 field. 300 Physical Description: Simplify complex pagination in older records to meet AACR2 standards. For example, the description "2 p. 1., iv, 493, [4] p." can be reduced to "iv, 493 p." Also, count the number of pages in unnumbered books and give the count in brackets, such as [32] p.For books in a box set, give the dimensions of the box following the size of the volumes in |c (e.g., |c 16 cm. in container 15 x 16 x 3 cm.) If a collective title is taken from the container, add "Title from container" in a 500 note.440 Series: If the series is given in an older record in a 490 field with a first indicator of zero, change it to a 440 field, drop any initial article, and give any series number associated with the title in |v.440 _0 Great men of Canada ; |v 19If a series name is taken from the dust jacket, enclose it in brackets and add a 500 field stating "Series title from dust jacket." If a series has a 490 field with a first indicator of one and there is a corresponding 830 field, do not change the 490 to 440.500 General Note: Use the General Note field to note the presence of indexes, glossaries, and other special features. Also use it to record phrases similar to—but not exactly like—series statements. Make sure to give the source of the quotation if it is not taken from the title page.500 "An Apple paperback"--T.p. verso.For board books, add the following 500 field note: 500 On board pages.504 Bibliographical References: Do not use the word "bibliography." Always refer to "bibliographical references." If the references are scattered throughout the book, the statement should read504 Includes bibliographical references. If the references are collected into a bibliography or endnotes;504 Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-242).If the book contains both bibliographical references and an index;504 Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-242) and index.If the book has an index but no bibliographical references, note the index in a 500 field. If you use a 504 field, the Cont fixed field must have a value of b. If there is an index, the Indx fixed field must have a value of 1.505 Contents Note: Include a contents note without any formatting (subfield coding) when cataloging a collection of literature, science, or technology (i.e., works by various authors or independently titled works by the same author). Remove formatting if it occurs in a record you are editing. For collections in subjects other than literature, science, and technology add a contents note only if the item has fewer than fifteen titles. Be sure to drop initial articles from each title in the note. For example, the contents notes for Stories of Boy Scouts Courageous begins505 0_ Wildcat ride / Irving Crump -- Reveille / E. Waldo Long -- Mounted service / Brewer Corcoran -- Trial by fire / Stephen Jay …520 Summary: Devise a short summary statement for all original cataloging.521 Target Audience Note: If a publisher explicitly recommended a book for a specific age or grade range, include a 521 field note. Copy the publisher's recommendation exactly as it is written.521 1_ Recommended for ages 8 and up.521 2_ Grades 4-8.Adjust the Audn fixed field if appropriate. Use value j for any recommendation employing the phrase "and up."546 Language Note: Employ a language note field in conjunction with a 041 field for works in multiple languages. For example, a record for a work featuring text simultaneously in English, French and German should contain041 0_ eng |a fre |a ger546 Text in English, French and German.590 Local Note: Use a local note to give details unique to our copy of a book. Do not mention notations made by previous owners unless they are somehow significant.590 Dust jacket on de Grummond copy.590 De Grummond copy inscribed by the author.590 De Grummond copy inscribed December 25, 1906.590 De Grummond copy lacks title page.If the book belongs to a named donor collection, add the following fields to the record, using the appropriate donor name, for example: 590 de Grummond copy donated with the Floyd C. and Stella T. Dickman Collection. 791 2_ Floyd C. and Stella T. Dickman Collection.
If instructed by Special Collections, add a local note and access point for the individual donor's name:
590 de Grummond copy 3 donated by Theresa B. Smith.
790 1 Smith, Theresa B., |e donor.
6XX Subject Headings: Delete subject headings with 2 nd indicators of 3-8. You probably won't find medical subject headings (2 nd indicator 2) at all, but if you do, leave them in unless they duplicate LCSH headings in the record. Check juvenile headings (2 nd indicator 1) in 650 & 651 fields to see if they are identical to ones in LCSH. If so, change the second indicator from 1 to 0. If not, use an equivalent LC subject heading. Check headings in 600, 610 & 611 fields against LC authority records if you doubt their legitimacy. Lastly, add "|v Juvenile fiction" to all applicable headings if LitF = 1 or "|v Juvenile literature" if LitF = 0. Other free floating subdivisions like "|v Juvenile drama" or "|v Juvenile poetry" may be used if appropriate. 655 Genre Index Term: Use a genre index term for works of fiction or folklore if appropriate. Do not add "|v Juvenile fiction" or "|v Juvenile literature" to genre index terms, as those additions would be redundant here. Below is a selective list of LC genre index terms applicable to many types of juvenile literature. Terms marked with an asterisk (*) also are joined by geographically specific headings in LCSH. For example,655 _0 Adventure stories (Not Subd Geog) 655 _0 Adventure stories, American (May Subd Geog)655 _0 Adventure stories, Australian (May Subd Geog) 655 _0 Adventure stories, Canadian (May Subd Geog)655 _0 Adventure stories, English (May Subd Geog)…Please check LCSH before using such geographically specific headings, as the countries represented vary from term to term. Also, we do not geographically subdivide headings ending with "American," "Australian," "Canadian," and so forth even though you technically are allowed to do so.655 _0 Adventure stories (Not Subd Geog)* 655 _0 Alphabet books (May Subd Geog)655 _0 Children's writings (Not Subd Geog)* 655 _0 Christmas stories (Not Subd Geog)* 655 _0 College stories (Not Subd Geog)* 655 _0 Coloring books (May Subd Geog)655 _0 Comic books, strips, etc. (May Subd Geog)655 _0 Detective and mystery stories (Not Subd Geog)* 655 _0 Fables*655 _0 Fairy tales (May Subd Geog)655 _0 Fantasy fiction (Not Subd Geog)* 655 _0 Folklore (May Subd Geog)655 _0 Flip books (May Subd Geog)655 _0 Ghost stories (Not Subd Geog)* 655 _0 Glow-in-the-dark books (May Subd Geog)655 _0 Horror tales (Not Subd Geog)* 655 _0 Hunting stories (Not Subd Geog)* 655 _0 Legends (May Subd Geog)655 _0 Love stories (Not Subd Geog)* 655 _0 Musical books (May Subd Geog) 655 _0 Nonsense verses*655 _0 Nursery rhymes*655 _0 Picture books for children (May Subd Geog)655 _0 Plot-your-own stories 655 _0 Readers (Elementary)655 _0 Readers (Primary)655 _0 Readers (Secondary)655 _0 Scented books (May Subd Geog)655 _0 Science fiction (Not Subd Geog)* 655 _0 Sea stories (Not Subd Geog)* 655 _0 Short stories (Not Subd Geog)* 655 _0 Sound effects books (May Subd Geog)655 _1 Stories in rhyme (our only allowable juvenile subject heading)655 _0 Stories without words655 _0 Tales (May Subd Geog)655 _0 Tall tales (May Subd Geog)655 _0 Teenagers' writings (Not Subd Geog)* 655 _0 Textured books (May Subd Geog)655 _0 Toy and movable books (May Subd Geog)655 _0 Upside-down books (May Subd Geog)655 _0 War stories (Not Subd Geog)* 655 _0 Western stories (fiction set in the western United States)655 _0 Wit and humor, Juvenile700 Added Entry—Personal Name: Add "|e ill." for illustrators, "|e tr." for translators, "|e ed." for editors, and "|e comp." for compilers. Write out any designation that lacks an accepted abbreviation. Do not add 700 fields for illustrators of book covers, although you may acknowledge them in 245 |c if their names are shown prominently on the title page.If providing access for multiple titles by a single author bound within a single work without a collective title, try to use several 740 fields to avoid the repetition of the author's name. Use a series of 700 fields with |t only if you need to use |k or |l that the 740 field does not provide.
710 Added Entry—Corporate Name: For books issued as giveaways by corporations (e.g., fast food franchises, etc.), add a 710 field for the name of the corporation.740 Added Entry—Uncontrolled Related/Analytical Title: For varying title information, see the note for 246. Do use a 740 field for multiple titles by a single author bound within a single work without a collective title. Also, use a 740 field for multiple titles by unnamed authors bound within a single work without a collective title. Do not use a 740 field for multiple titles by multiple authors bound within a single work without a collective title. In that case, use a series of 700 fields with |t.800 Series Added Entry—Personal Name: USM does not use 800 fields. These usually are found in conjunction with a 490 1_ field. Instead, change the 490 1_ to 440 _0 and delete the 800 field.830 Series Added Entry—Uniform Title: This field is used when the series is indexed in a different form than the one found on the book. A common example is two series with the same title, so that one must be distinguished by adding a qualifier—usually the place of publication. In these cases, the series as found on the book is given in a 490 1_ and the title with the qualifier in an 830 _0. Drop initial articles in 830 fields and end the field with a period.490 1_ Nancy Drew files ; |v case 72 830 _0 Nancy Drew files ( New York, N.Y.) ; |v case 72.856 Electronic Location and Access: Always verify the validity of URLs in records you are editing. Also check the indicators to see if they are correct for the particular URL. Finally, add a statement in |3 describing what type of information the URL leads to.856 42 |3 Information about the author and this title available at: |u http://www...949 Local Processing Information: Don't add a 949 field at the time you edit the record. See Step 8.
If you're still being trained, let your supervisor check your records at this point and make any advised corrections.
Whenever your call number is finalized, write it in pencil in the upper right hand corner of the first page if it is not the title page. If the first page is the title page, write the call number on the opposite page. For very fragile or unusual materials, check with your supervisor before writing the call number in the book.
We do not stick barcodes and call number labels directly onto books in the de Grummond Collection, but rather use acid-free slips inserted into the book. Create an acid-free slip by copying the call number (050 or 090), the main entry (1XX), and the title proper (245) and placing them in the de Grummond slip template according to the following sample arrangement, making sure to obey the margins of a slip less than three inches wide. If the book has a numbered printing, add the printing number below the call number. If the book belongs to a named donor collection, add the donor's surname below the call number or, if the book is also a numbered printing, below the printing number. The printing number and donor collection are not part of the call number, so there should be spaces between them and the call number (see example).
De Grummond PZ7.B6748Em1956Cop. 2 Dickman3rd printing
For books having the title as the main entry, just move the title up to the spot on the slip usually reserved for the main entry. For an added copy, add the copy number left justified on the line just below the year, as in the example above. Finally, stick a barcode on the back of the slip about 2 cm. down from the top. Use the barcode label only, not the smaller label.
If the book is a numbered printing, add a note in the Staff Notes area of the WorkFlows item record:
4th printing.
Add these notes on the item record for each copy of a book that is a numbered printing.
Create a separate book slip for each book in a boxed set if you can assign volume numbers to each volume, just as you would for a multi-volume set not in a box. If you can't assign volume numbers, then create a single slip for the entire set.
Do not create a book slip for books that have been boxed for preservation. They already will have a title label, fragile label, and barcode placed on the box by the Preservation Unit. Instead, print just a call number sticker and affix it to the spine of the box if there's room. Otherwise, affix it to the front of the box in the upper left hand corner.
A record must have an LC call number and an OCLC number before you can insert a 949 field for local processing information. Acquiring OCLC numbers for original catalog records is a good opportunity to update holdings on all your records, original and edit. Highlight the records on the Local Save File, then follow the sequence Action -> Update Holdings thenBatch -> Process Batch -> v the correct file -> v Online Record Actions -> OKNow that you have LC call numbers and OCLC numbers for your original cataloging, add a 949 field by a Ctrl + F11 keystroke combination. Delete |v for monographs, scan the barcode in |i, and insert today's date after your initials in the second |o using your date macro.
If adding a copy 2 at the same time you're creating the catalog record, insert a second 949 field identical to the first, delete |v for monographs, scan the barcode for the second copy in |i, and insert today's date after your initials in the second |o using your date macro.
Before exporting the records, you may confirm that McCain Library is the destination of the records by following the sequence Tools -> Options -> Export.Once you're satisfied about the destination, you may export the records by highlighting the relevant records on the Bibliographic Local File and clicking the Export button. If you happen to get the File Exists box, always choose "Append" to avoid overwriting someone else's work.


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Description: Jones Dry Goods Company notions booth.
Item Type: Photograph, b/w
Collection: General Collection (P1), Festivals and Fairs--Merchants, Number 20
Local Subject: Jones Dry Goods Company; Jones Store Company; Merchants Fair; Fairs
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Barcode: 10003070
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Hurricane News, August 29, 2012
Anchoring the community in the northwest corner of Pontotoc County and the Union County line is Union Nazarene Church as the congregation held their annual homecoming on Sunday, August 26. Welcoming the guests and members to the service was their pastor Donnie Carpenter. Those from out of the community that attended the event are as follows: Berl Russell, Memphis;Barney, Susanne,Karlie and Clay Russell Wade, Calhoun City; Bartlee and Glenna Mitchell, Bartlett, Tennessee; James and Charissa Carepnter Pardee and children of Belden; Quinn Quillian of Pleasant Dale; and Jonathan Nabors, Shaun Nabors, and the Nabors Family of Nashville were the guest singers. They are the descendants of the late Oscar Nabors, a former pastor at Old Union. Ricky and Barbara Lucius Box of Houston as Barbara's dad was a former pastor there also. This homecoming day has been observed since 1938.
The family of the late Authur and May Benjamin Ross enjoyed a reunion at the Hurricane Community Center on August 18. Bro. Winston Ross(83)is the eldest in the family, and the younger generation was represented by Easton White who is seven months old and by Knox Poe also a baby. Ten of the twelve grandchildren attended and are as follows: June Ezell(Jack), Buddy Ross Montgomery (Betty), Brenda Barton(Charles), Dicky Ross(Doris), Tim Ross(Marilyn), Thad Ross(Barb), Chres Ross(Beverly), Scotty Ross, Missy Russell(Chris), and Glen Ross(Lisa). Their family history is interesting as there is a period of time that their family resided in Indian Territory in Oklahoma as well as West Texas before returning to Esperanza, Mississippi(the old name for Hurricane).
Clarenda Parrish of Sand Springs hosted a luncheon at her home on August 18. Those from out of state that attended with members of the Brandon and Montgomery families were as follows: Betty Swords Pierce of Cleveland, Ohio, and Floyce Long, Sandy Williams, Floyce Long, and Leatrice Langston of Memphis. The group went to Smoke Top to visit with Trudie Thompson(Curt) and their daughters, Elizabeth and Emme, at their new home.
Dillon Turner is a freshman at ICC and is on the football team. Proud grandfather from our community in Bro. Winston Ross.
Linda Weeden and her daughters, Amy May and Ginger Long, enjoyed a vacation at Ft. Morgan Beach. Also on the trip were her grandchildren, Lexi and Gabe May, and Mirandin and Adam Dillard. Great-grandchildren being spoiled at the beach were Malaydyn and Trystyn.
Ella Kate Hooker celebrated her fifith birthday on Aug. 20 with an owl cake and a swim party.
Seth Sutton is teaching at West Union Attendance Center as this is his first year. Seth is the grandson of Bro. Ronnie and Sue Sutton, former residents of Hurricane.
Betty Hill Grisham of Shady Grove just celebrated one of those decade beginning birthdays according to her older sister. Oh! no. the 6-0.
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Betty Pierce of Cleveland, Ohio, enjoyed a visit at Little Kettle Creek Camp at Lafayette Springs with Susan Hooker.
Marrietta Gafford of Etta and Seth Ferrell of Madison attended the morning service at Hurricane Baptist on Aug. 26 with Charlie Hicks.
Shelia Owen and Cheryl Sullivan of Ecru enjoyed lunch in Memphis on Monday, August 27, and were treated by their cousin Paul B. McCarver. Always a topic for discussion for this family in August is that the Memphis Funeral Home, where Paul B. is a director, was in charge of the arrangements for Elvis Presley's funeral thirty-five years ago.
A belated expression of sympathy is extended to the family of Irene Williams of Etta who was the widow of James Williams and the mother of Joyce Waldron(Randle) of Hurricane.
A belated expression of sympathy is extended to the family of E.E. "Jack" Williams(96) who was preceded in death by his wife Sally Blagg Williams. Mr. Jack was an employee of the second district supervisor for most of my youth and pleasantly recall a ride on the road grader from my grandparents' old home on Esperanza Road to downtown Hurricane. His family had hosted big,
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Been a little while - this is because I've gotten something approaching free time in the past few days. I'm not quite sure what it feels like, besides odd.
The CD creation is coming along nicely - we should know in a day or three if they will boot. If they do, we're pretty much set for potato.
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text: There are lots of very nice dogs with very nice pedigrees competing now, but very few with any skins on the wall as producers. Grady was given an opportunity to be bred to lots of different bitches and has produced. Fen Wizzard has produced well in pretty limited breeding. From the younger crowd, I think Slider is promising. He comes from 2 producers and has a 15 month old pup with 6 derby points. Ali has a couple of nice pups competing, one of which is qualified all age I believe.


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Everything becomes clearer with these great tips on how to crack the Observation puzzles of Smart As... find out why.
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Join April (April Showers) each Wednesday at 9 am Pacific, 10 am Mountain, 11 am Central and Noon Eastern Time for the High Noon Crop. These crops are designed to allow you to work on your own photos and themes simply giving participants a one hour goal and a fun, new challenge each week.
On December 12th we'll do a multiple photo challenge! Create a layout on any theme, any topic, and any colors - using FIVE or more photos! Gosh, I should have made you do 12.
Create your layout and upload it to the special High Noon Crop and Challenge Gallery. You'll be amazed what you can get done in just one hour, but there is no High Noon Sheriff timing you! Hope to see you in the chat room!
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My Gallery I scrap with Photoshop CS6.
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Done mine, Santa Hats
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We are back home from New Jersey. I hope to make the chat!
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thanks for a fun and informative chat! Here's my layout: Venice Impressions
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Finally found - no, took a spare couple hours to scrap this. And April, I DID use 12 photographs. Here's The Plaza Lights
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The data pins are routed to PC1-8 (lower 8 bit) and PC12-19 (higher 8 bit), so you probably need to shift your lower 8 bit to the right<<1, and higher 8 bit to the right <<12, and then you can strobe the WR pin. So you will need 3 arduino command for one WR strobe.Like this: REG_PIOC_CODR=0xFF1FE; REG_PIOC_SODR=(VL<<1) & 0x1FE; REG_PIOC_SODR=(VH<<12) & 0xFF000; pulse_WR();For the 4 command pins, they are routed to PD1-4. This should be straight forward.This is possible because the creator of DUE has made perfect routing of these lines to the 2x20 header.SD Card will be directly connected to the SPI interface on the 6pin header in the center of the DUE board(DUE only has SPI access on this 6pin header).Schematic is http://coldtears.lin3.siteonlinetest.com/files/CTE_DUE_shield.zip ]
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Well it is never too early to start obsessing about the next season and what better way to keep some excitement going that to post when you start seeing the first poults and update throughout the summer.
I have not seen any poults yet. Found 2 nests yesterday with 9 eggs each. One the nests had its eggs moving around a little so it will not be long before hatch.
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Who does it? What laboratory do you use and what specifically are you testing for?
I have not had any dogs with thyroid issues/symptoms but am looking at getting some of them tested for my own information, unfortunately it's all greek to me and I don't know which tests are meaningful. If there was an issue, which test would pick it up?
For example, HemoPet is one of the labs that I've heard being recommended as Dr. Dodds is a canine thyroid expert. But there are so many test options! Are these testing prices comparable to other labs? I see which ones are OFA accepted but a little guidance would be appreciated.
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From acclaimed novelist Mark Helprin comes a lush, literary epic about love, beauty, and the world at war. -- Alessandro Giuliani, the young son of a prosperous Roman lawyer, enjoys an idyllic life full of privilege: he races horses across the country to the sea, he climbs mountains in the Alps, and, while a student of painting at the ancient university in Bologna, he falls in love. Then the Great War intervenes. Half a century later, in August of 1964, Alessandro, a white-haired professor, tall and proud, meets an illiterate young factory worker on the road. As they walk toward Monte Prato, a village seventy kilometers away, the old man -- a soldier and a hero who became a prisoner and then a deserter, wandering in the hell that claimed Europe -- tells him how he tragically lost one family and gained another. The boy, envying the richness and drama of Alessandro's experiences, realizes that this magnificent tale is not merely a story: it's a recapitulation of his life, his reckoning with mortality, and above all, a love song for his family.
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MARK HELPRIN was educated at Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, and Oxford. He served in the Israeli Infantry Corps, Israeli Air Force, and British Merchant Navy. He is the acclaimed author of Winter's Tale, A Soldier of the Great War, Freddy and Fredericka, The Pacific, Ellis Island, Memoir from Antproof Case, and numerous other works. His novels are read around the world, translated into over twenty languages.Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:
ON THE ninth of August, 1964, Rome lay asleep in afternoon light as the sun swirled in a blinding pinwheel above its roofs, its low hills, and its gilded domes. The city was quiet and all was still except the crowns of a few slightly swaying pines, one lost and tentative cloud, and an old man who rushed through the Villa Borghese, alone. Limping along paths of crushed stone and tapping his cane as he took each step, he raced across intricacies of sunlight and shadow spread before him on the dark garden floor like golden lace.
Alessandro Giuliani was tall and unbent, and his buoyant white hair fell and floated about his head like the white water in the curl of a wave. Perhaps because he had been without his family, solitary for so long, the deer in deer preserves and even in the wild sometimes allowed him to stroke their cloud-spotted flanks and touch their faces. And on the hot terra cotta floors of roof gardens and in other, less likely places, though it may have been accidental, doves had flown into his hands. Most of the time they held in place and stared at him with their round gray eyes until they sailed away with a feminine flutter of wings that he found beautiful not only for its delicacy and grace, but because the sound echoed through what then became an exquisite silence.
As he hurried along the Villa Borghese he felt his blood rushing and his eyes sharpening with sweat. In advance of his approach through long tunnels of dark greenery the birds caught fire in song but were perfectly quiet as he passed directly underneath, so that he propelled and drew their hypnotic chatter before and after him like an ocean wave pushing through an estuary. With his white hair and thick white mustache, Alessandro Giuliani might have seemed English were it not for his cream-colored suit of distinctly Roman cut and a thin bamboo cane entirely inappropriate for an Englishman. Still trotting, breathless, and tapping, he emerged from the Villa Borghese onto a long wide road that went up a hill and was flanked on either side by a row of tranquil buildings with tile roofs from which the light reflected as if it were a waterfall cascading onto broken rock.
Had he looked up he might have seen angels of light dancing above the throbbing bright squares-in whirlwinds, will-o'-the-wisps, and golden eddies-but he didn't look up, for he was intent on getting to the end of the long road, to a place where he had to catch a streetcar that, by evening, would take him far into the countryside. He would have said, anyway, that it was better to get to the end of the road than to see angels, for he had seen angels many times before. Their faces shone from paintings; their voices rode the long and lovely notes of arias; they descended to capture the bodies and souls of young children; they sang and perched in the trees; they were in the surf and the streams; they inspired dancing; and they were the right and holy combination of words in poetry. As he climbed the hill he thought not of angels and their conveyances, but of a motorized trolley. It was the last to leave Rome on Sunday, and he did not want to miss it.
THE ROAD traveled relatively straight to the top of the hill, but descended the opposite side in switchbacks that, unlike their mountain counterparts, cupped fountains in the turns. Stairs cut through its shuttling, and Alessandro Giuliani took them fast and painfully. He tapped his cane at each step, partly in commemoration, partly in retaliation, and partly to make it a metronome, for he had discovered long before that to defeat pain he had to separate it from time, its most useful ally. As he went down, the walking became easier, and a short distance from the crossroads where he would board the streetcar he found himself on ten flights of gradual stairs and landings in a thick green defile. Through a confessional grille of tangled trees in a long dark gallery penetrated at intervals by the blinding sun, he saw the pale circle of light that marked his destination.
Drawing closer, he knew from the open blue awning that-unlike everything else in Rome that day-the cafe that seemed to exist solely for people who awaited the rarest streetcar in Italy had not shut its doors. He had neglected to buy presents for his granddaughter and her family, and now he knew that he would be able to take something to them. Though his great-granddaughter would not be pleased by gifts of food, she would be asleep when he arrived, and in the morning he would walk with her to the village to get a toy. Meanwhile, he would buy some prosciutto, chocolate, and dried fruit, hoping that these would be appreciated as much as his more elaborate presents. Once, he brought an expensive English shotgun to his granddaughter's husband, and at other times he arrived with the kinds of things that were to be expected from a man who had many years previously outrun any possible use for his money.
The tables and chairs on the terrace of the cafe were crowded with people and bundles. The overhead wires neither vibrated nor sizzled, which meant that Alessandro Giuliani could walk slowly, buy provisions, and have something to drink. On this line the cables always began to sing ten minutes before the tram arrived, because of the way it gripped them as it rounded the hill.
Walking through the thicket of chairs, he glanced at people who would ride with him on the way to Monte Prato, though most would leave the streetcar in advance of the last stop, and some even before it lowered its whip-like antennae, switched to diesel, and ran far beyond the grid of electrical wires from which it took its sustenance on the streets of the city. It had rubber tires and a pantograph, and, because it was a cross between a trolley and a bus, the drivers called it a mule.
A construction worker who had made for himself a hat of folded newspaper thrust his right hand into a bucket to encourage a listless squid that Alessandro knew would have to die within the hour from lack of oxygen. The headline running along the rim of the hat said, inexplicably, "Greeks Make Bridges of Gold for the Rest of 1964." Perhaps it was related to the Cyprus Crisis, but, then again, Alessandro thought, it might have had something to do with sports, a subject of which he was entirely ignorant. Two Danes, a boy and a girl in blue-and-white student hats, were at one corner of the terrace, seated next to German army rucksacks almost as big as they were. Their shorts were as tight as surgeons' gloves, and they were so severely and brazenly entangled in one another that it was impossible to tell his smooth and hairless limbs from hers.
Several poor women of Rome, perhaps sweepers or cafeteria workers, sat together over glasses of iced tea and were overcome now and then with the hysterical giggling born of fatigue and hard work. Sometimes they were free for a few days to go back into the country, where they had once been sylph-like little girls completely different from the obedient cardigan-covered barrels they had become. As Alessandro went past they lowered their voices, for although he was courtly and deferential, his age, bearing, and unusual self-possession awakened their memories of another time. They looked down at their hands, remembering the discipline not of the factory, but of childhood.
At another table were five strong men in the prime of life. They were truck drivers, and they wore sun glasses, striped shirts, and faded army clothing. Their arms and wrists were as thick as armor; they had huge families; they worked impossibly hard; and they thought they were worldly because they had driven over the high Alpine passes and spent time with blonde women in German bordellos. Without thinking, Alessandro formed them into a squad of soldiers in a war that had long been over and would soon be forgotten, but then, catching himself, he disbanded them.
"It hasn't arrived yet, has it?" he asked the proprietor of the cafe.
"No, not yet," the proprietor answered, leaning over the copper bar to glance at the wires, for he could read their vibrations as if they were a schedule. "It's nowhere near; it won't come for at least ten minutes.
"You're late, you know," he continued. "When I didn't see you coming, I thought you had finally given in and bought a car."
"I hate cars," Alessandro said, without the slightest energy. "Would never buy one. They're ugly and they're small. I'd rather ride in something airy and open, or walk, because to be in a car gives me a headache. Their motion frequently makes me want to vomit, although I don't. And they're so cheaply made I don't even like to look at them." He made a gesture in imitation of spitting. He was too refined to have done this in normal circumstances, but here he was speaking the language of the man behind the counter, who, like Alessandro, was a veteran of the Alpine War.
"These automobiles," Alessandro said, as if he were conceding the existence of a new word, "are everywhere, like pigeon shit. I haven't seen a naked piazza in ten years. They put them all over the place, so that you can't even move. Someday I'll come home and find automobiles in my kitchen, in all the closets, and in the bathtub.
"Rome was not meant to move, but to be beautiful. The wind was supposed to be the fastest thing here, and the trees, bending and swaying, to slow it down. Now it's like Milan. Now the slimmest swiftest cats are killed because they aren't agile enough to cross streets where once-and I remember it-a cow could nap all afternoon. It wasn't like this, so frantic and tense, everybody walking, talking, eating, and fucking all the time. Nobody sits still anymore, except me."
He looked up at a row of medals displayed in a glass case above a battalion of liquor bottles. Alessandro had medals, too. He kept them in a brown Morocco-leather folder in the credenza in his study. He hadn't opened the folder in many years. He knew exactly what they looked like, for what they had been awarded, and the order in which he had earned them, but he did not wish to see them. Each on...
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Scholarship Advice: "Don't Limit Yourself; Just Apply and Go for It"
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Apply for any scholarship for which you think you may be eligible, advises Cynthia Hudok, Director of Financial Aid and Scholarships for Fairmont State University.
"Don't limit yourself," she said. "You just apply and go for it and put your name out there."
Hudok said there are two keys to a successful scholarship application: apply early and make sure all of your information is filled out correctly.
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Summer of Light: 'Tiffany Glass: Painting with Color and Light' in Hoopes Gallery
As a painter, Louis C. Tiffany was captivated by the interplay of light and color, and this fascination found its most spectacular expression in his glass "paintings." Through the medium of opalescent glass, Tiffany could actually capture light in color and manipulate it to achieve impressionistic effects. Using new and innovative techniques and materials, Tiffany Studios created leaded-glass windows and lampshades in vibrant colors and richly varied patterns, textures, and opacities.
Organized by The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass, Long Island City, New York , Tiffany Glass: Painting with Color and Light is comprised of three windows, sixteen lamps, and seventy-five pieces of opalescent flat glass and pressed-glass "jewels" that illustrate the rich expanse of color and light available to the artists at the Tiffany Studios. The objects on display are some of the most iconic and celebrated of Tiffany's works. Chosen for their masterful rendering of nature in flowers or landscape scenes and for the subtle use of light and shading in decorative geometric patterns, they exemplify the rich and varied glass palette, sensitive color selection, and intricacy of design that was characteristic of Tiffany's leaded-glass objects. In addition to an exploration of materials and their effects, the exhibition also discusses the contributions of two of Tiffany's leading designers, Clara Driscoll and Agnes Northrop.
Dr. Egon Neustadt, the founder of The Neustadt Collection, began acquiring Tiffany lamps in 1935, when the excess of the Gilded Age was still out of fashion, and went on to amass an almost encyclopedic collection. Perhaps his most significant acquisition came in 1967 when he purchased the flat and pressed glass leftover from the closing of the Tiffany Studios in the late 1930s. This collection contains some 275,000 pieces of glass and is the only holding of its kind. With both materials and objects, The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass is uniquely positioned to fully explore Louis C. Tiffany's legacy of painting with color and glass.
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Invida changes its name to Menarini
Singapore: Invida Holdings, a biopharmaceutical commercialization company based in Singapore, is changing its name to A Menarini Asia Pacific Holdings.
The brand transformation reflects its alignment with parent, Menarini Group, and allows for the promotion of a single, unified brand in the global marketplace. The name change will also progressively take place across its other offices within the region in 2013.
Mr John A Graham, CEO, Menarini Asia Pacific, said that, "Since Invida's acquisition by Menarini Group in November 2011, we have been zealously working to integrate the culture and operations of the two companies, and the name change is a logical step in the process. We are proud to build on Menarini's more than 125 years of company history, bringing Menarini's brands and expertise into our already established operations in Asia Pacific."
"This will accelerate our achievement of the vision to become the leading provider of important healthcare brands to improve the lives of people in the region," added Mr Graham, CEO, Menarini Asia Pacific.
Menarini Group is Italy's largest biopharmaceutical company, with 2011 revenue in excess of $3.9 billion, 15,000 employees and a global presence in over 100 countries. As a fully integrated pharmaceutical company, Menarini Asia Pacific is able to tap into Menarini Group's R&D and manufacturing capabilities, as well as leverage on Menarini's collective strength to pursue the right opportunities for growth in the Asia Pacific region.
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Mammut's smartest, most sophisticated device.
The very compact, impact-resistant Pulse Barryvox Avalanche Beacon packs a punch with serious efficiency and high-tech function for a day of backcountry fun and peace of mind when traveling in avalanche-prone terrain. This ultra-capable device combines analog and digital with three antennas for massive range in a search. The fully graphic LCD display shows you all you need to know. In the event of a multiple burial, it shows victims and marks them or unmarks them as found. In Basic profile the device always searches for the strongest signal. In the Advanced profile, it searches based on distance and survivability criteria. Movement detectors analyze and transmit vital data from victims. When all victims have been detected, this beacon automatically switches to transmit mode. Also, it switches if the rescuer if buried in a secondary slide. Use the W-:Link to configure or update on a scalable software platform. This enables simple fleet management.
Clear user navigation is intuitive for ease of use. The device can test your group and automatically tests yourself before heading out. There's a headphone connection, too, if you prefer to use that to check audio indicators. Heck, this device even speaks eight different languages.
- Digital/analog combo with three antennas
- Real time-optimized 360-degree directional display
- 457 kHz transmitting frequency
- Search strip width 50 meters
- MapView display of number, distances, and locations of subjects
- Signal analysis and separation (DSP) when multiple burials
- Marking of found victims; unmarking of previous markers
- Fully graphic LCD display
- 3-D motions sensors
- Rescue-Send automatic switch when secondary avalanche
- W-Link scalable software platform
- Dimensions 4.5 x 2.9 x 1.1 inches
- Group check test function
- Automatic self-test
- Eight languages
- Headphone connection
- Item #MAM0941
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Great Beacon
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
The features that set this apart from the other ones I looked at was the way it displayed direction, distance, and separate victims in the display and the feel in my hand. I found the display to be very similar to many of the other electronics I use in life and it was very intuitive for me to be able to follow what was on the screen. While practicing in the field I found it very easy to mark a beacon and move on to a second beacon rapidly. It is also very comfortable in my hand and easy to use while wearing the different types of gloves that I use. I have used it for a season and I am very happy that I chose this model. My only complaint is that the harness straps tend to come loose throughout the day when touring. I think that the harness shape and design are very comfortable and easy to use but the strap material needs to be improved to prevent slip. I also like how the harness is designed to protect the digital screen.
Best beacon
I've used this beacon for years and trust my life with it. Its the best beacon in my opinion.
Good beacon
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I have used this beacon for a few years now and it is very user friendly and works great for single and multiple burials. I work as the assistant supervisor of snow safety for the ski patrol at my home mountain and our entire patrol uses this beacon and everyone loves it for ease of use. There are a couple of things that could be improved upon however, the first is the small piece of plastic that holds the battery cover in place, we had a couple patrollers use a screwdriver to open it and break the plastic. That is a very bad move on there part and it voids the warranty on the beacon, at first we thought it was the screwdriver, but after a few years of use I have noticed that the plastic on mine is showing signs of stress and I have not used a screwdriver. This is a huge design flaw on such a expensive piece of equipment. The second issue is every once in awhile it beeps and shows a sign saying 457 error. After a few second the issue resolves itself but it has happened on multiple beacons throughout the patrol and it isn't very reassuring when your on a control route. All in all it's a good piece of equipment with a couple minor flaws.
Works great
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
The Mammut Pulse works great....luckily I haven't had to actually use it for a rescue. It is comfortable to wear and seems pretty easy to use. I like the tab that protects both sides of the on/off switch so it can't be inadvertently turned off. All in all, a solid purchase.
Intuitive, easy to use
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I have not been in an avalanche condition, but i have been using this beacon for a couple of years now, and beacon practice is a pleasure with this thing. Easy to use, compact, long range and intuitive. I feel good wearing this in the backcountry.
Best beacon for multiple burials!
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
Recently got this beacon and am amazed with how easy it is to use both for single and multiple burials compared to the BCA Tracker II. I recently used it at a beacon park and it had no problem detecting 6+ burials. The multi-burial feature takes you to the closest target first then subsequently brings you to the next closest targets, and it doesn't get thrown off by multiple signals like many beacons do.
Other pros:
When turning it on the beacon displays battery life and you hear a reassuring "three beeps" letting you know that all three antennas are fully working.
Easy to switch from send to search mode with gloves on.
"Complex" and "Simple" modes
Lightweight and small size.
Overall I would highly recommend this beacon to anyone who is heading into the backcountry!
Mammut Pulse Barryvox Avalanche Beacon
Feature flex, grows with you
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
This is a top-end device but it has a "simple" and a "complex" profile setting, so it is great for the occasional user or the beginner but flexes into more sophisticated range of uses. The reference manual is comprehensive (online, paper version in box only describes most basic functionality) and helpful. Concerning the regional switching of W-link capability (which only works with other W-link devices, not so many seem to be around), on the US-version you can disable it but can't switch to other regions in the set-up menu, which is an annoyance if you travel back and forth globally.
User Friendly!
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
Practice makes perfect.
I picked up this beacon this year and have done a few practice days with it and have found it to be super user friendly, ESPECIALLY during multiple burials.
Being a small individual it is also great that it is a smaller beacon and isn't too bulky. The one thing that keeps me from giving it 5 stars? The harness is HUGE. I'm a small female (this demographic is growing!) and I could wrap the waist strap around me twice. Maybe it's time to start having harness sizes?
Get outside and learn how to use it!
Important! World Wide Use
I bought this beacon a few weeks ago. I haven't used it but my intention is to use it in Europe this winter. I have been looking at this beacon for several years and finally bought it. Like other reviews say it has so many features which is great but its lacking a very critical one which removes all the features your buying it for. If you should happen to venture out of North America with it. A Pulse bought in North America (Canada & US) & New Zealand with W-Link Region B will not work with Pulse bought in Europe with W-Link Region A or one bought in Japan which has no W Link as its banned in Japan, Russia, India and China . I just discovered this and was pretty disappointed. I will have to send it to a Mammut Barryvox service centre to get W-Link region A activated. While the North American Version you do have the choice in the menu to turn off the W Link Feature you cannot choose region A, unlike the European version where it seems you can choose in the menu system it you want region A or B or Off. So if you want a world wide pulse out of the box with the W LINK features enabled then the North American one and Japanese version will not work with out been sent away to a service centre to activate the W link region you require. Please note the W link channel is completely separate from the primary 457kHz so your beacon will still work normally with other world wide models you will just loose out on all the features you probably bought this beacon for. I know it will still work great but its a real pain to have to send it away. I understand its not the fault of Mammut as its just the different countries regulations for frequency but I have read nothing about this prior. Hope this helps others
I should add that if you have the Barryvox Element you do not even have the choice to change regions or to send it away to get changed. So what ever market you buy your beacon in will be stuck on that frequency or in the case of Japan you will not have any W link Capabilities. But don't worry you can still find buried people with it just the W link capabilities are removed when not on the same region.
What W-link capabilities does the Element come with? I thought only the Pulse had additional capabilities such as knowing who have a heart rate etc.? What will not work in Europe on the Element? or will it not work at all?
the Element's W-Link capabilities are limited to updating the firmware with a wireless transmitter at a Mammut dealer or service center.
HI Alastair, Thank you for your review. I was wondering if I buy my Mammut Pulse Barryvox from Europe, does that mean that W link capabilities will work in Europe, North America and South America, just as I take the pulse out of the box?
Great Beacon v4 Software Improvements!
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I have used many beacons over the years. I learned with a pure analog unit with no screen, just a headphone jack and volume control for search. I had the original Tracker, which was great in it's day, but the Pulse is far above and beyond.
I have had the pleasure of owing this unit since 2008, and up until this year was running the original software (v2). I finally updated my unit and all i can say is Wow- v4 software really brings the unit to some new levels! Pin Point searching has improved, no more confusion on following flux lines the wrong direction, and the ability to quickly toggle between multiple beacons while searching is truly industry leading.
I also like the dual user programs. I just upgraded my Wife to the Pulse from the Optio 3000, and she finds that the basic user setting is perfect for her.
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Great beacon but maybe too much for most
I've used this beacon for 5 or 6 seasons and its been great, fortunately I have yet to use it in a real scenario. However in beacon parks, and self-made scenarios it has never steered me wrong. Simple readings, accurate signals and any easy interface to switch from one signal to the next make's this worth every penny.
But then there are all of the other fancy features - like detecting the vitals of buried victims and such. Me and my touring buddy always messed around with this feature, but somehow never got it to work properly. Accessing and using some of the beacon's advanced features were somewhat confusing and difficult to decipher. That being said, these features are not a necessity for most of us recreational tourers. If the simplified Element were available when I made my purchase - I probably would have saved a few bucks and gone with that one - as there are plenty of features on this guy that I don't see myself using.
However, I still love this beacon and if I had it my way - everyone I ever toured with should have this beacon as well. Compared to other's - I think this one helps searches get to the buried victim in the quickest manner. In regards to beacons, I have Mammut and their technology in my highest regards.
the ultimate toy
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
This has every feature that could be crammed into a beacon without it becoming something else. Takes a bit of practice to know what everything is and does, but very accurate, feature loaded second beacon. Not for loaning to newbies, but perfect for daily or weekend use
Great Beacon
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
In my opinion the Mammut Pulse and the Mammut Element are the best beacons on the market. After using a friend's Pulse in my first avy class I knew I had to switch from the Tracker. The range, accuracy, ease of use, and multiple burial functionality is top notch. I have the Element myself as I did not really see the need for some of the Pulse features and I love it. The directional arrows and distance readings have always been on point and I have never had any issues. In my mind the Pulse is amazing, but the Element is close behind in functionality with a much smaller price tag.
Longer range
Took an avy course with a buddy who had the Pulse. There was no doubt, after many tests, that his beacon had the longest range (vs. BCA, others). His multi-burial functionality seemed to be the best as well. Do you need to upgrade your beacon now? Probably not. But, if I was buying my first beacon, would I spend the extra $150 on one that is, objectively, better? Definitely. Just my two cents.
Stunning image, ski safe!
Your observation is consistent with testing done by the German Alpine Club (DAV). The doc is in German but the comparison table is visual and easy to navigate: http://www.alpenverein.de/bergsport/sicherheit/lawinenverschuettetensuchgeraete-lvs-test-2013-14_aid_13823.html
What firmware version is on this...
What firmware version is on this beacon?
(Ver4.0? or Ver3.2?)
Regardless, you can take it to just about any ski shop that sell beacons, and they can update it for you. Shops at mountains have the ability too sometimes. Our ski patrol was able to do mine. Call around locally. I actually liked the 3.2 a little more, perhaps I need to just get reacquainted with it.
Hope that helps
The one I got from bc in November 2013 for my son arrived with SW 4.00, the target.
Does this beacon come with carrying case/...
Does this beacon come with carrying case/ pouch and harness?
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Family: Fringillidae, Finches view all from this family
Description ADULT BREEDING MALE Has largely bright yellow plumage with contrasting black cap and forehead; mostly black wings have a faint yellow wing bar. Rump and undertail coverts are white and contrast with black tail. ADULT NONBREEDING MALE Recalls breeding male, but yellow elements of plumage are yellow-buff above (brightest on face), grading to grayish white on belly; black on crown and forehead usually absent. Wing bar on greater coverts is more apparent and pale lesser coverts (bright yellow in breeding male) are whitish and form a second wing bar. ADULT FEMALE Similar to winter male, but brighter yellow overall in summer (with white upper wing bar, buff lower one) and grayer overall in winter (when both wing bars are buff). JUVENILE Recalls nonbreeding female but duller.
Dimensions Length: 4 1/2-5" (11-13 cm)
Habitat Common in open woodland and forest edge; widespread resident, but a summer visitor to north.
Observation Tips Easy to see.
Range Plains, New England, Western Canada, Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes, Southeast, Florida, Eastern Canada, California, Southwest, Mid-Atlantic, Northwest, Texas
Voice Song is a series of chattering whistles and squeaks; calls include a tinkling whistle.
Discussion Familiar bird of weedy fields. Forms flocks outside breeding season and often feeds on thistle seeds. Breeding male is stunning. Sexes are dissimilar.


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My son Jason and Hank went north to Ardmore OK (Texoma HRC) hunt test. He got a seasoned pass and HR title.
Me and Rowdy went south to Manheim TX (east of Austin) for the Waterloo AKC hunt test and we got our second senior pass.
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By Errol Castens/NEMS Daily Journal
Roger and I had been out in the crisp morning air since good daylight, butchering two does that we'd permanently retired from the turnip-thieving business.
"I don't ever want to enjoy this part of the process," I said as we nipped and tucked on the carcasses, "but I wouldn't mind if it were a little less distasteful."
"Cutting firewood isn't my favorite thing, either, but the labors of one winter pay off in the fires of the next one," Roger challenged.
About the time we headed up the hill to his kitchen with four venison halves on our collective shoulders, we'd begun comparing how we each enjoy some tasks and not others.
I love starting seeds, picking vegetables and actually writing but detest weeding, mechanical tasks and certain kinds of interviews. Most steps in supplying firewood are only pleasurable in memory.
Roger said he loved splitting firewood but not sawing it and enjoyed every step in his hot sauce business except bookkeeping.
That led us to the mindset that unpleasant work – to some people, ALL work – is something to avoided, even at the cost of not making one's own way.
It wasn't just the figures we'd seen of how many Americans depend on some poverty program or another. It was the chronic depression and dysfunction we'd both seen in families where ambitions center on winning the lottery, where the kids learn that work is abhorrent and success all a matter of luck.
As we peeled off our jackets and gloves and scrubbed our hands almost surgically clean, I told Roger that it took me a long time to find work I enjoyed.
"It's discouraging not to have any known talents, to experience work only as drudgery and to wonder if it will always be so," I said.
Roger nodded as he started a pot of coffee. He picked up a book, "Every Good Endeavor" by Tim Keller, and read a passage.
"According to the Bible, we don't merely need the money from work to survive; we need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives," the book said.
"Work is also one of the ways we discover who we are, because it is through work that we come to understand distinct abilities and gifts, a major component in our identities," it continued. "So author Dorothy Sayers could write, 'What is the Christian understanding of work? … that work is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties … the medium in which he offers himself to God.'"
Roger closed the book and poured two steaming mugs.
"Just imagine if every church, food ministry and human services agency helped needy people figure out what their vocation – their calling – really is," he said. "Just knowing what they were wired to accomplish would take a lot of people out of poverty and into joy."
Errol Castens is the Daily Journal's Oxford Bureau reporter. Contact him at email@example.com.


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Just saying hi to everybody. I have lurked on the forum for awhile and finally registered when I decided to reply to someone's post.
I have been hopelessly addicted to turkey hunting for four years now. Ive shot three toms in those 4 years with number 3 being shot about two hours ago.
My brother talked me into turkey hunting. He started going and kept bugging me to try it out. Finally I decided to go just to get him to leave me alone. I was hooked after the first hour! He gave me his decoys and shotgun to use because he had to work. I was hunting public land and I had one come strutting to the decoys shortly after flydown. Watching that tom strut so close was all it took, it was one of the coolest things Ive seen. I call it an addiction because there is no other thing I do that would convince me getting up at 3:30 am is a good idea!