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Is this one. We also note that Orion has already started on its smaller mine strategy, by bunging
$30m $35m at GoGold (GGD.to) earlier this week and then $50m at Aurcana (AUN.v) today. Reuters got your info:
Red Kite partner Lewnowski spins off mine finance fundBy Eric Onstad and Melanie Burton
LONDON/MELBOURNE, Sept 19 (Reuters) - One of the founding partners of UK-based metals hedge fund firm RK Capital Management LLP has departed and taken a mining finance fund with him.Oskar Lewnowski, based in New York, was a founding member of The Red Kite Group, which started up in 2004 to become one of the biggest hitters in the metals industry. Red Kite had two mining finance funds, of which one, run by Lewnowski, has been spun off and renamed the Orion Mine Finance Fund, a Red Kite spokesman said in an email."A mutual decision was reached by the managing partners - Michael Farmer, Oskar Lewnowski, David Lilley - to separate their business," it said."Both funds expect to work together on select future deals, sharing expertise in physical sales and logistic where appropriate."The Red Kite Group has $2.3 billion under management and Orion Mine Finance has $1.1 billion. Lewnowski wanted to pursue a strategy of building a portfolio of smaller mining firms while RK believed mining finance should be strictly tied to offtake agreements, said a source with knowledge of the matter, declining to be identified. Orion - with offices in New York, Denver and Sydney -provides a wide range of financing transactions in addition to offtake deals, including debt, equity, convertibles and royalties, according to its website. The Red Kite Group has offices in London, New York, Shanghai and Hong Kong.
Continental's CEO, Ari Sussman, commented "The strength of the Continental Gold team is the desire and effort to always achieve more. This initial resource is a reflection of their dedication and puts the company on track to achieve its goal of commercial gold production in 2014.
Buriticá will be producing between 200,000 and 300,000 ounces of gold a year by the end of 2014, Sussman promises.
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This brings us to the big question, and the question is:
Gold Resource Corp (GORO): Am I allowed to make a short into a Top Pick? Would you people out there complain if I did? It's not really about the way that Reid pere has passed the baton on to Reid fils, as seen last week (8), because the corporate style (both operational and promotional) isn't about to change, we know that the news last week isn't some sort of harbinger of new brooms or a change towards a serious attitude at the company. What's more, I do get that a speculative junior gold name with a fanclub following and promotional pump from the anal yst community will see the type of rebound move we saw in it on Friday, so that's not the issue here.
The issue it its fundamentals, and GORO is about to hit some serious headwinds that not even its biggest promo artists will be able to ignore.
1) In two and a bit weeks' time, Hochschild (HOC.L) will be allowed by SEC rules to dump another large tranche of the GORO shares it owns onto the market. It will do so, and sooner rather than later.
2) At the current price for silver (and gold, but Ag is the main revenue generator) GORO is not making a profit on its operations. Let's be clear about what that means; it means before it pays any dividends to shareholders and before it pays tax, the combination of operating costs, necessary development, necessary exploration and G&A mean that GORO makes a loss. Silver under $23/oz means GORO is a lossmaking mining company, period.
3) At some point the company will have to make the decision to lower its dividend payments, else the depletion of treasury will continue. That's not opinion, that's basic mathematics.
4) Mid October will see GORO releasing its 3q13 production numbers, which are unlikely to be anything else but in-line.
As per Friday's close, GORO is running a market cap of $442m and I doubt it's worth even half of that, but I'm happy enough in keeping with the $5 downside share price target. That's a 40% upside to this short position from here and unless silver and gold put in a serious rally, we'll see $5 printed on this stock. Today's GORO, especially after that Friday rally, is screaming value at me and there's perhaps two weeks of window in which to position yourself to the downside.
continues hereMonday, September 16, 2013WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CN) - Liberty Silver sold stocks "at an increased price, pocketing unlawful profits amounting to tens of millions of dollars," investors claim in Federal Court.Lead plaintiff Todd Stanaford sued Liberty Silver Corp., Robert Genovese, Tiffeni Graves, Marnie Markin, Geoffrey Browne, BG Capital Group and Look Back Investments under the Securities Exchange Act."Genovese is believed to have used a pump and dump pattern of stock manipulations in Liberty Silver, as well as in numerous other schemes," the complaint states.Clearly Canadian Brands, Neptune Society, Envoy Communications, Spectrum Sciences & Software, and American Lithium Minerals are just a few of Genovese's other alleged schemes. They are not parties to the lawsuit.Stanaford says the other defendants "should have been known" or did know what Genovese was up to."Genovese is a penny stock promoter and is notorious for operating on the fringes of the financial markets, making millions of dollars by touting penny stocks," the complaint states.
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Sep 16, 2013) - Liberty Silver Corp. (LSL.TO) ("Liberty" or the "Company") has become aware that the Company and its Chief Executive Officer have been named as defendants in a proposed class action lawsuit filed against Robert Genovese, certain individuals alleged to have collaborated with Mr. Genovese, and an offshore investment firm allegedly controlled by Mr. Genovese. The action contains various claims alleging violations of the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and rules thereunder relating to anomalous trading activity and fluctuations in the Company's share price from August through October 2012. The plaintiff purports to bring suit on behalf of all who purchased or otherwise acquired the Company's common shares from April 1, 2008, through and including October 5, 2012.The complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and, to the Company's knowledge, neither the Company nor its Chief Executive Officer have yet been served with the complaint.If a complaint is served, Liberty and its Chief Executive Officer intend to fully investigate the complaint and will undertake a vigorous defence.About Liberty Silver Corp.
That's below consensus forecasts of 4.75%. Here's how the 4.5% news fits with the monthlies since 2010:
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And I left the apostrophe out of that title on purpose.
For obvious reasons, macro-finance fans.
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7) You know that society owes you nothing and that you owe nothing to society.
8) All of the above.
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Postal workers report 255 slips, falls in Milwaukee area, Northern Ill. since Nov.
Hundreds of postal workers in the Milwaukee area have reported falling on the ice and snow while delivering mail this winter.
They are practically begging residents to clear their sidewalks and driveways.
"When it's covered like this and you can't see the ice up underneath and then you step, and it's over," letter carrier Conrad Deslandes said.
VIDEO: Letter carriers ask homeowners to clear away ice, snow
Deslandes is walking a winter tight rope. These days he's only as good as his last step.
"It's still dangerous, and we can't go as fast as we would like to because we got to be real careful. We don't want to fall and injure ourselves," Deslandes said.
The regional postal office covering Milwaukee Metro and Northern Illinois said letter carriers have reported 255 slips and falls since November and 100 within the last week, which is higher than normal.
"It's definitely an issue, especially this time of the year, it is the No. 1 safety hazard that we have is the slip, trip and fall," said Scott Van Derven of the State Association of Letter Carriers.
"Please clear the sidewalks, please," Deslandes said.
Deslandes said he's had a couple of falls this winter but not as bas as some of his co-workers.
"I have fallen. I do my best not to fall," letter carrier Chris Passow said.
Passow has been a letter carrier for 23 years. He said he's gone down many times but has always been lucky enough to get back up.
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Aside from their really cold winters, Winnipeg has some good things going on. Especially when it boils down to their resident bands. Thanks to their friends, The Weakerthans, Mint's mod-popsters, Novillero will soon be making their way across the sea to support the German indie rock sensation, Tomte on a tour that weaves throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It's exciting stuff for our Winnipeg gentlemen.
Since their September 08 release, A Little Tradition, the band has toured Canada, played Pop Montreal and will soon be in New York for CMJ.
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PASADENA, Calif. — When Bill Hancock says "there won't be any tears," he doesn't mean what you probably think. While critics celebrate the end of the Bowl Championship Series, its executive director is wistful.
"I'll be emotional," Hancock says. "Sixteen years is a long time, a generation."
Yeah, he seemed serious. For too many, 16 years was far too long before moving to a four-team playoff, which will finally happen next season. But first, as Florida State and Auburn play in the final BCS National Championship Game tonight, the controversial system gets its chance to make a last impression.
If tonight's game comes close to matching the results of the other BCS bowls in the last few days, it'll leave a nice afterglow. But the legacy of a flawed postseason system is a lot more complicated, and will probably always be controversial.
How will we remember the BCS? Who knows? But as its time expires and the clock starts counting down to the College Football Playoff, even some of the system's harshest critics have mellowed.
A decade ago, after his team was edged out in the final standings and denied a shot at the national championship, then-Oregon coach Mike Bellotti called the BCS "a cancer." Now retired from coaching and working for ESPN, this week he spent time on TV analyzing the matchup between Florida State and Auburn. And given his history, he answered questions about the BCS and its legacy.
"I won't miss it," Bellotti says. "But I do think they tweaked it to get it right. It was a flawed system to begin with, and it's not a perfect system now – but I think it's probably hit the mark much more than people think. The majority of the time they got it right for the ability for us to see (No.) 1 vs. 2."
That, of course, was the goal when the BCS was created in 1998. And it's important to remember that from the time The Associated Press began ranking teams in 1936, the top-ranked teams in the poll met in postseason bowl games only eight times in 56 years. Tonight marks the 13th time in 16 seasons the BCS matched the AP's top two.
Hancock will fill the same role in the College Football Playoff – which, by the way, begins Tuesday with new logos, new assignments and no looking back. "Full-bore into playoff mode," he described it. As the BCS' chief spokesman for approximately one-half of its existence, he's always been a vocal proponent. More than occasionally, the propaganda has been correct.
"You can't deny the growth of the game that started when the BCS came along," Hancock says. "We can't take all the credit, but we deserve some of it."
They deserve much of the credit for the exponential growth, financially and otherwise, in college football. It has morphed the past two decades into the nation's No. 2 sport, behind the NFL. Regional became national as SEC fans, for example, found themselves paying attention to games in Eugene, Ore., that impacted the BCS standings.
It was more than 1 vs. 2, too. Because of the BCS, we got introduced to BCS-busters – Utah, Boise State, TCU and more – which provided the little guys a stage to compete with the big boys. And when people realized that with the right circumstances, one of those mid-majors might find their way into the BCS championship, it set off a whole nother round of debate. (It never happened, and with the shift to a selection committee rather than a mash-up of polls and computers formulas, it appears unlikely to happen in the playoff era.)
But the most positive impact of the BCS – and one even its detractors have to like – is this: Without the BCS, there wouldn't be a playoff. The system was a bridge from the old bowl system, with national champions determined by voters, to the playoff, in which teams will be chosen by a committee but the championship will be determined on the field.
Continued controversy is probably inevitable, which shouldn't bother anyone: All of the controversy fueled the growth in interest. It's why even though Hancock and the commissioners who run the BCS are glad there was no real dispute about the final BCS national championship matchup, they didn't mind the way the regular season played out.
With only a few weeks remaining, several undefeated teams jockeyed for position. Heading into the conference championship games, the argument raged over whether an unbeaten Big Ten champion should trump a once-beaten SEC champion.
As in most other years, it all worked itself out. "BCS-mageddon," as Hancock calls it, did not unfold. Florida State vs. Auburn turns out to be the right game. And then, as a bonus, the Rose, Fiesta, Sugar and Orange Bowls – which in the BCS era, essentially became consolation prizes, and quite often have been duds – were wildly entertaining.
"It's almost like the games themselves are saying, 'We're gonna go out, we're gonna show 'em, we're going out on a high note,' " Hancock says, "which is too mystical to even think about."
He can only hope tonight's performance comes close. But whatever happens tonight, there won't be a dispute over the final BCS national champion – and whatever happens in the new playoff era, controversy is a given. Come next December, when the selection committee unveils its four picks, some might actually pine for the days when a mash-up of human polls and computer formulas chose the teams. People hated the creaky system, but at least they knew how and why their teams were in or out.
Fair warning: With four teams instead of two – and even if, as seems inevitable, the playoff one day expands to eight teams – it will still generate controversy. We'll hear more comments from frustrated coaches who believe their team got robbed.
Back in the 2001 season, a few days after his Ducks were left out of the BCS National Championship Game, Bellotti clarified his comments, saying he'd recently lost his father and an aunt to cancer and that he understood college football's postseason formula was not inherently evil or a matter of life and death. Yet even as he says the BCS, which was tweaked several times afterward, got it right more often than not, he says he still holds a grudge.
"I never retracted," he says. "I never, ever retracted."
Not many will mourn the death of the BCS. But as it fades into history, its legacy might be simply this: If it wasn't a cancer, it wasn't quite a cure.


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:*Schaefer, Christina K. ''The Center: Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Capital Area''. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1996. (FHL {{FHL|770597|title-id|disp=975.3 A3sc}}) ([http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=ti%3AThe+Center%3A+Guide+to+Genealogical+Research+in+the+National+Capital+Area Worldcat]) This describes the records and services of the National Archives, Library of Congress, Daughters of the American Revolution Library, and other repositories in the Washington, DC area.
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United States Archives and Libraries
The following record repositories have major collections and services helpful for genealogical research. Before you visit an archive or a library, contact the organization and ask for information on the collection, hours, services, and fees.
- 1 National Archives and Records Administration
- 2 Digital Public Library of America
- 3 Allen County Public Library
- 4 Daughters of the American Revolution
- 5 Family History Library
- 6 Library of Congress
- 7 New England Historic Genealogical Society
- 8 New York Public Library
- 9 Newberry Library
- 10 Pritzker Military Museum & Library
- 11 Other major United States libraries with genealogical collections
- 12 University Libraries with special collections
- 13 Federal Repository Libraries
- 14 State Archives and State Libraries
- 15 Archives and Libraries in each State
- 16 County and Town Courthouses
- 17 Historical and Genealogical Societies
- 18 Inventories, Registers, Catalogs
National Archives and Records Administration[edit | edit source]
Pennsylvania Avenue at 8th Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20408
Telephone: 202-501-5415
Fax: 301-713-6740
Internet address: National Archives
The National Archives (NARA) has a vast collection of documents created by the federal government. The records most often used by genealogists are census, military, land, and immigration records.
Microfilm copies of many of the records at the National Archives are available at the Family History Library, other major archives and libraries, and at regional branches of the National Archives. You may purchase microfilms from the National Archives or request photocopies of the records by using forms obtained from the Archives.
- Eales, Anne Bruner and Robert M. Kvasnicka, ed. Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Archives of the United States. Third Edition. Washington, DC: Nathional Archives and Records Administration, 2000. (Worldcat) Explains records collections used most by genealogical researchers: Census, Passenger Arrivals and Border Crossings, Naturalizations, Military, Land, Native Americans, African Americans, and more.
- A National Archives (NARA) descriptive pamphlet (DP) provides helpful information about a microfilm set such as an explanation about the records on the film set, their origin, and a roll-by-roll descriptive list. Reviewing a DP prior to using a film set can increase a researcher's ability to use it successfully in a time-efficient manner. The Special Collections of the St. Louis County Library has placed on their web site full-text or PDF versions of DPs for some of the NARA microfilm sets.
Digitized NARA Microfilm Publications and Original Records[edit | edit source]
The National Archives has a list of digitized records and links to access them through online databases. It includes pay sites such as Ancestry and Fold3.com that have partnered with the National Archives to digitize many of the archives' records. Read more about the digitization program at the National Archives.
National Archives - Regional Branches[edit | edit source]
Regional branches of the National Archives collect records of federal government offices and courts within the area they serve. These branches are located in or near Anchorage, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Fort Worth, Kansas City, Los Angeles, New York (moving soon), Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Seattle.
Digital Public Library of America[edit | edit source]
The Digital Public Library of America provides a one stop access to the best of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America's heritage, to the efforts and data of science. See also Digital Public Library of America
Allen County Public Library[edit | edit source]
P.O. Box 2270
Fort Wayne, IN 48801
Telephone: 219-424-7241
Fax: 219-422-9688
Internet address: Allen County Public Library
The Allen County Public Library has a very large collection of sources for all states, including U.S. census records, periodicals, and local histories.
Daughters of the American Revolution[edit | edit source]
1776 "D" Street N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20006-5392
Telephone: 202-879-3229
Fax: 202-879-3227
Internet address: Daughters of the American Revolution.
Daughters of the American Revolution is a national society. Its library in Washington, D.C. has one of the largest genealogical collections in the United States.
Family History Library[edit | edit source]
35 N. West Temple Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84150-3400
Telephone: 801-240-2331
Fax: 801-240-1584
Internet address: FamilySearch
For more details see Family History Library.
Library of Congress[edit | edit source]
Genealogy and Local History Reading Room
101 Independence Ave. at First Street, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20504
Telephone: 202-707-5000
Fax: 202-707-5844
Internet address: Library of Congress, Local History and Genealogy Reading Room
The Genealogical and Local History Reading Room of the Library of Congress has a large collection of published genealogies, manuscripts, histories, directories, maps, and newspapers.
The Library of Congress site has a wonderful American Memory page that links to more 60 collections, searchable by keyword or time period in a variety of media.
New England Historic Genealogical Society[edit | edit source]
101 Newbury Street
Boston, MA 02116-3087
Telephone: 617-536-5740
Fax: 617-536-7307
Internet address: New England Historic Genealogical Society
The society's collections of New England family and local histories and manuscripts are especially helpful. Members can borrow printed resources from their lending library.
New York Public Library[edit | edit source]
Local History and Genealogy Division
Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street
New York, NY 10018
Telephone: 212-930-0828
Fax: 212-921-2546
Internet address: New York Public Library
The New York Public Library has collected many published sources, such as local histories, city directories, maps, newspapers, and genealogies.
Newberry Library[edit | edit source]
60 West Walton Street
Chicago, IL 60610-3394
(312) 943-9090
(312) 255-3513 fax
The Newberry Library was established in 1887 with a bequest from the estate of Walter Loomis Newberry. A privately endowed independent research library, their collections are free and open to the public. The library's Genealogy Collection includes more than 17,000 published family histories, and an extensive collection of local histories, military records, published indexes and abstracts, manuscripts and published sources.
Pritzker Military Museum & Library
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104 S. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60603
(312) 374-9333
(312) 374-9314
Internet: pritzkermilitary.org
The Pritzker Military Museum & Library was established in 2003 by Colonel J.N. Pritzker, IL ARNG (Retired), who had assembled a major collection of books and related materials on military history, with a particular focus on the concept of the Citizen Soldier in America. A private museum & research library, the galleries and collections are accessible to the public for a $5 daily admission and are free to PMML members. The Museum & Library has over 45,000 books on military history including numerous unit histories with rosters and cruise books (similar to high school yearbooks) with lots of photographs. Additionally, the reference collection includes guides to uniforms, equipment, insignia, and ships for many of the world's militaries. The librarians enjoy working with genealogists and genealogists should see the Library's Genealogy Research webpage before visiting.
Other major United States libraries with genealogical collections[edit | edit source]
The following libraries also have exceptional genealogical collections. These libraries collect major national sources as well as records of the states they serve.
- American Antiquarian Society (Worcester, Massachusetts)
- Harold B. Lee Library (Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah) Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University
- Dallas Public Library
- Detroit Public Library
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- Los Angeles Public Library
- Mid-Continent Public Library (Independence, Missouri) Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center
- Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin)
- Sutro Library (San Francisco State University)
- Western Reserve Historical Society (Cleveland, Ohio)
- Mountain West Digital Library
Your local public library can help you locate these and other archives and libraries. Current directories include:
- GoldenWest Marketing, Directory of Genealogy Libraries in the United States. Offers addresses, phone numbers, and web links to libraries with varying degrees of genealogical holdings; arranged by state.
Previously published directories include:
- American Library Directory. 53rd Edition. New Providence, New Jersey: R. R. Bowker, 2000-2001. (FHL 973 J54a 2000, 2 vol.) Alphabetical by state and town. Lists addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and describes each library's holdings and special interests.
- 65th Edition being published May, 2013.
- Bentley, Elizabeth Petty. The Genealogist's Address Book. Fifth Edition. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2005. (FHL 973 D24ben 2005.) Includes national, state, ethnic, religious, historical, adoption, computer interest group, and vendor addresses with telephone numbers, E-mail addresses, supervisors, and repository hours.
- A directory of many repositories and manuscript collections is:
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States. Second Edition. Phoenix, Arizona: Oryx Press, 1988. (FHL 973 J54u 1988; 1978 Edition on fiche 6010080-89.)
- American Library Directory. 53rd Edition. New Providence, New Jersey: R. R. Bowker, 2000-2001. (FHL 973 J54a 2000, 2 vol.) Alphabetical by state and town. Lists addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and describes each library's holdings and special interests.
University Libraries with special collections[edit | edit source]
Most large universities have a special collections division of their university library. Some of these repositories have extensive collections of local and state historical documents, including many individual record collections. Carefully search the university library catalog for references to the individuals you are researching. Access to the special collections may be very restricted, so check with the library about any restrictions before visiting.
Federal Repository Libraries[edit | edit source]
The federal government has designated at least one library in each state (generally a major university library) to receive a copy of published federal records. These include a wide variety of topics, such as pension lists, private land claims, veterans' burial lists, and individuals' petitions to Congress.
State Archives and State Libraries[edit | edit source]
Each state has a state archive or a state library. Many states have both. These serve as the repositories for state and county government records. They often have some federal records as well, such as the U.S. census schedules for the state. A list of all of the state archives and libraries is kept up to date on the webpage for the Council of State Archivists website. Another comprehensive list of state archives and their websites is available from the Georgia Secretary of State's website for anyone wanting to find a specific state archive.
Also see the state Archives and Libraries wiki articles (links below) for more information on these and other archives in each state.
Archives and Libraries in each State[edit | edit source]
County and Town Courthouses[edit | edit source]
Many of the key records essential for genealogical research were created by local county or town governments. These include court, land and property, naturalization and citizenship, probate, taxation, and vital records. The county and town courthouses are the primary repositories of these valuable records. (However, some courthouse records have been destroyed or transferred to state archives.) The Family History Library has copies of many of these important records on microfilm.
The individual counties have organized their records and offices in many different ways. The county Wiki articles provide further information on how to obtain these records.
Easy-to-use sources that list the various county offices in each state and the types of records at each office are:
- Bentley, Elizabeth Petty.County Courthouse Book. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1995. (FHL 973 D24bena) (Worldcat)
- The Handy Book for Genealogists: United States of America. Tenth edition. Logan, Utah: Everton Publishing, 2006. (FHL 973 D27e) (Worldcat) The Handy Book also lists the county seat and zip code.
Historical and Genealogical Societies[edit | edit source]
Historical and genealogical societies have been organized in each state, most counties, and some towns. These societies collect many valuable records and offer various helpful services to researchers. Addresses of local societies are listed in:
- Carson, Dina C., Directory of Genealogical and Historical Libraries, Archives and Collections in the US and Canada. Niwot, Colorado: Iron Gate Pub., 1002. (Worldcat)
- Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada. 15th Edition. Nashville, Tennessee: American Association for State and Local History, 2001. (FHL 970 H24d) (Worldcat)
Inventories, Registers, Catalogs[edit | edit source]
Most archives have catalogs, inventories, guides, or periodicals that describe their records and how to use them. If possible, study these guides before you visit an archive so that you can use your time more effectively. Many of these are available at the Family History Library, at your public or university library, or through interlibrary loan.
An example of a helpful guide is:
- Schaefer, Christina K. The Center: Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Capital Area. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1996. (FHL 975.3 A3sc) (Worldcat) This describes the records and services of the National Archives, Library of Congress, Daughters of the American Revolution Library, and other repositories in the Washington, DC area.


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In my new Slate article about Eva Rosencrans and Bee Zelin, I quoted frequently from Eva's "memoir" -- a short autobiographical essay that her family encouraged her to write for posterity a few years before her death, provided to me by her son, Bob Rosencrans.
The memoir was an invaluable research tool for me (if only every Permanent Record student had created something similar!), and the bits that I quoted in the Slate article are just the tip of the iceberg. Over the next few days I plan to share some other excerpts that didn't make it into the Slate article but should nonetheless be interesting to anyone who read about Eva's life.
In the article, I mentioned that Nettie Rosenstein -- Eva's sister-in-law, professional mentor, and eventual business partner -- retired in 1928 but then revived her career a few years later when she and her husband lost most of their fortune in the stock market crash of 1929. During that short period when Nettie was retired, Eva worked for another designer, named Rosie Roth. One of the models at their showroom would go on to bigger things, as Eva recalled in her memoir:
One young woman was a tall girl with red, stringy hair. I preferred shorter girls and told her so. She laughingly said she as going out to Hollywood to try show business. Her name was Lucille Ball.
Ball's modeling work with Rosie Roth is confirmed by many historical accounts, including this one, although Eva herself is never mentioned -- understandable, since she was just one of Roth's employees at the time. The photo at the top of this blog entry is one of Ball's early modeling shots from this period, although I don't know if Eva had anything to do with the outfit she's wearing.
Eva had many other brushes with celebrity -- and so did her clothing. At one point in her memoir she wrote:
A lot of movie stars wore our dresses. They bought them and wore them. I saw a movie not too long ago, an old movie with Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint -- I can't remember the name. And in she comes, wearing one of my dreses.
This movie was probably North by Northwest. But which scene? Which dress?
I'll have more excerpts from Eva's memoir in the coming days, along with some follow-up info on Bee Zelin (whose story was also told in the new Slate article). Stay tuned.


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Self-proclaimed Woodlands closet burglar sends stolen items to local newspaper
A person claiming to be the burglar who swiped nearly a million dollars of high end jewelry from a now infamous closet in an opulent home in the Woodlands has sent several of the items to a Houston newspaper.
According to a story published online this afternoon by the Houston Press, a person called the alt-weekly earlier this week claiming to be the burglar and that he or she had items to prove it. The caller spoke through a voice modulator, according to the story, so it was impossible to tell whether it was a man or woman.
"The materials received by the Press Friday include a silver locket containing an approximately inch-long lock of brown hair bound in a rubber band," Houston Press writer Craig Malisow wrote in his story. "They arrived in a white envelope tucked inside a large brown envelope with no return address on it.
According to the Houston Press story, the caller said that he or she had contacted Theresa Roemer and told her the items were fake.
"I requested over half a million dollars to return her items and not expose her to the news. During the meet, it seemed as if she contacted authorities," the caller told the Press. "The deal never went through. I'm following through with my threat."
Reached via phone, Roemer confirmed that she had been contacted by someone purporting to be the person behind the burglary, which took place Aug. 2 while she and her husband were dining at their local country club. They returned home to find a bathroom window shattered, and numerous high-end watches, purses, and other jewelry items swiped from her three-story closet, which had been the subject of many recent news articles.
Roemer said that she had first been contacted on Wednesday, Aug. 6.
"He tried to hold me ransom for my stuff," she said, explaining that the burglar had wanted her to pay $500,000 to give her back the stolen contents.
The calls left her "freaked out."
"How could anybody in their right mind could steal from somebody, try to hold them for ransom? I'm just baffled."
Roemer said she believed that because of the media's coverage, the burglar was unable to pawn the items.
"He never anticipated my [burglary] going viral - but because the closet went viral, the burglary went viral."
Roemer's three-story, 3,000 square foot closet received a flurry of news coverage after stories written on it appeared on a Neiman Marcus blog and on chron.com.
The caller used something to change how his or her voice sounded, Roemer said.
"It was a very scary, nasty voice - it sounds like a monster," she said.
Over the last week she's received "numerous" calls from the person.
"This person is just bound and determined to just keep bothering me," she said.
Roemer used it to hold her purse, jewelry, and watch collection, and intended to use it to hold charity fundraisers, she said. The collection held everything from her first handbag, which she bought when she was 18 - a small Louis-Vuitton purse - that she's never used and that wasn't swiped - to a diamond-encrusted Patek Philippe watch valued at $130,000.
After the caller contacted her, she told the person to prove he had her items.
"Send me a picture of my carat raw emerald ring - sitting in 10 carats of diamonds. Put it on today's paper to prove its my stuff, and he did," she said.
She said she hadn't seen the items personally yet, but had seen the Houston Press story and the pictures posted there.
One of the items stolen was a locket containing a tuft of hair of her deceased son, Michael. He died in a car crash in Wyoming in 2006.
Roemer said the pictures she'd seen of it appeared to be similar to the one stolen from her.
"If it is my son's locket, I'm ecstatic, I'm over the moon," she said.
Montgomery County Sheriff's Office Lt. Brady Fitzgerald confirmed that the press had contacted his office and a detective was on the way over to collect the evidence and speak with staffers there.
"As soon as we got the news, we made contact to get up there and we're trying to identify whoever sent these items in," he said.
Craig Malisow, the Houston Press staffer who wrote Friday's story, said he first received a call on Tuesday from the purported burglar. Today, he received a large brown envelope covered with stamps filled with about 10 to 15 items of jewelry and a man's watch, he said.
"It was kind of odd," he said, of his conversations with the purported burglar. "It sounded like he felt like he was wronged - because when he went to go fence this stuff, he was allegeldy told this was fake... it kind of felt like he was the victim here."
The burglary comes after a bitter lawsuit filed last month by Roemer against her stepson, Maximilian Roemer. In the lawsuits, which was settled recently, Roemer claimed her stepson became angry after the couple tried to evict him from a home they owned.
She contends that he went on to make negative comments about her online, including on a Neiman Marcus blog entry featuring her closet.
Maximilian Roemer couldn't be reached for comment Saturday evening. Roemer declined to speak about the terms of the settlement. Brady said he was not sure if detectives had spoken with Roemer's 32-year-old stepson.
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Ken Riley: In the Beginning
In this early work, done when Riley was not quite 30 years old and quite different from his later, more personalized technique, we can perhaps see the influence of the young artist's three most revered mentors: Thomas Hart Benton, whom Riley studied under at the Kansas City Art Institute, Frank Vincent Dumond, with whom Riley later studied by day at New York's Art Students' League and Harvey Dunn, Riley's instructor at the Grand Central Art School, where he concurrently took evening classes.
Next came W.W. II, in which Riley served in the Coast Guard according to author Frederic Whitaker in his article in the June 1958 issue of American Artist magazine. "Riley was assigned to the project of making permanent art records for the archives.... During this period, he designed the special commemorative postage stamp issued in tribute to the Coast Guard's contribution to the war effort. Near the war's end, Riley was transferred to the Washington area to augment the Coast Guard's treasury of painted historical records. One work of this period was a mural for the New London Coast Guard Academy."
Whitaker writes, "Its interesting that one of Riley's first commercial connections [after the war] found him drawing for a comics magazine."
Interesting indeed! Because just the other night I was reading the current issue of Alter Ego magazine, and what should I find in Jim Amash's excellent interview with Joe Simon, but the following:
Simon and his creative/business partner, the legendary Jack "King" Kirby were 'packaging' comics for Harvey Publications, that is, employing all the creative talent required to produce an entire comic book for the publisher. When Jim Amash asks Simon to tell him "about some of the people who worked for you", Simon responds, "Kenneth Riley was a great oil painter. He was a star up in Washington, DC, painting murals. What we had there was the combat art group. The guys would go out on trips and make sketches, and they'd cut to headquarters in Washington, DC, and paint them... Ken was the best of them all."
Isn't that cool? Could it be possible that Ken Riley and Jack Kirby worked in the same studio on the same comic books back in the mid 1940's? I contacted Jim who has passed my message along to Mr. Simon - and with any luck we may yet find out.
Not long after his brief stint in comics, Riley began his long association with The Saturday Evening Post. Below is the first piece he did, from the January 17, 1948 issue, taken here from the book, "Illustrating for the Saturday Evening Post".
Already we can see what Whitaker means when he writes, "Riley is a master of depicting character. He creates his folk with the volume and variety and with the facility, conviction, and accuracy of a Dickens."
Speaking on his own behalf, Riley said, "I think with a pencil - in terms of line, and my paintings are essentially drawings. I cannot lay too much emphasis on the importance of draughtsmanship."
"I do not refer simply to a knowledge of anatomy and the ability to register it on paper, for after all anatomical rendering is a static business, but I think rather of the faculty of reproducing on paper or canvas the life within the figure, its swing, movement, direction, and spirit."
"This calls for draughtsmanship."
My Ken Riley Flickr set.
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Great post about Ken Riley. My interest in him is mainly from the comic book side. As you mentioned Ken did some work for Simon and Kirby. He did not work in the studio but he knew both Joe Simon and Jack Kirby well. Joe still has some photographs Ken took for illustration proposals. Joe recently used one as a humorous ad but the picture was not altered. You can see a copy of the advertisement in my post http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/simonandkirby/archives/451ReplyDelete
Harry; Thanks so much for commenting. It was fascinating to see the examples of Ken Riley's comic art on your site. For those who stumble upon this post and care to see the comic art of Ken Riley, this link: http://ow.ly/olSm ... goes to Harry's post on Riley.ReplyDelete
My Dad knew Ken Riley when they worked together in the Coast Guard Art Department in Washington D.C. in 1944-'45. I have a portrait sketch that Mr. Riley made of my Dad posted here:ReplyDelete


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Professor Autumn to participate in Science Pub series
September 25, 2008
Kellar Autumn, professor of biology:
Autumn will present How Geckos Stick and Why We Care as part of Oregon Museum of Science and Industry Science Pub, a monthly event designed for a general adult audience to learn about advances in science and technology from leading researchers and scientists in an approachable, relaxed setting that includes food and drinks. Autumn's research on geckos and their adhesion capabilities has grown into a new field of study at the interface between biology, physics, and materials science. He has authored over 40 scientific papers and his research is featured in textbooks, encyclopedias, and popular books including The Nanotech Pioneers: Where Are They Taking Us? Every major television network has covered his work, as have hundreds of newspaper, magazine, and Internet articles worldwide.
The event takes place on Tuesday, Sept. 30, at Portland's Mission Theater & Pub, 1624 NW Glisan, at 7 p.m. (doors open at 5 p.m.). No reservations or tickets are needed; doors open at 5 p.m.


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Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. —2 Corinthians 1:21-22
In the early days of my journey of becoming more intimate with God, I struggled to feel His presence. I recall the day that I was in my office praying. I had been worshiping at His feet for about fifteen minutes when my secretary suddenly rang into my office. Annoyed at being distracted, I picked up the phone. My annoyance left as I listened to the caller's words: "God says that you are to set Him as a seal upon your heart. He wanted you to know that right now."
Sometimes, Lord, Your presence is so real to me that I feel as though I could reach out and touch You. But at other times the cares of this world and my own selfish desires keep me from being able to even sense Your presence. Teach me to enter that secret place of intimacy with You.
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It is rare, but occasionally, reporters become part of the story or stories they are covering.
The first example that springs to mind is that of Woodward and Bernstein and the Watergate scandal. They basically created 'investigative reporting' as they dug into the Watergate burglary and the scandalous coverup that followed it. They and their sources became part of the story and some actually were subpoenaed to give testimony that ultimately forced President Richard Nixon out of the White House.
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I'm currently working on a program where i need to call another java class from a button listener in another class. For example i have a button in example1 and when i press that button i want to execute the whole example2 class(which is a slideshow application). Here is some of my code That has the button
And here is some code from the other java class that i need to execute the whole fileCode:JButton button2 = new JButton("button2"); button2.addActionListener(new button2Listener()); .... private class button2Listener implements ActionListener { public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { // I'm confused on what to put here } }
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NAIA Adds Grueling Twist, Familar Names To March MadnessPosted by Brian Goodman on March 25th, 2011
Brian Goodman is an RTC editor and contributor.
Seemingly every March, pundits put forth the idea that playing on consecutive days in conference tournaments wears teams down for the Big Dance. While Connecticut has laregly debunked the theory, imagine playing nearly every day for the whole thing. Welcome to the reality of the Buffalo Funds NAIA Division I Men's Basketball National Championship, which recently concluded in Kansas City.
Operating outside the parameters of the NCAA are nearly 300 small schools from across the country, 32 of which make the championship's field. After the 32 schools are selected to compete, a frenzy of 31 games in seven days determines the national champion. All told, the tournament's finalists played five games in six days, with no days off between the semis and the final. Touting itself as "college basketball's toughest tournament, " the event was held solely in Kansas City, which meant nonstop opening round action from 9:00 a.m. local time to around midnight.
Though the schools may be obscure, some of the players are anything but. The tournament featured its share of players with familial connections and histories with some of D-I's top talent:
- Brian Wanamaker (Texas Wesleyan College) – The twin brother of Brad Wanamaker of Pittsburgh, Brian ran the point this season, averaging 19.1 points per game.
- Michael Stockton (Westminster College, Utah) – Gonzaga fans are familiar with the Stockton family, with David following in the footsteps of his father and NBA legend John Stockton, but Michael isn't too bad himself, averaging over 18 points per game to go along with four helpers.
- Taylor King (Concordia College) – King's journey began as a 14-year-old UCLA commit before stops at Duke and Villanova left him a journeyman. Returning home to Southern California, King feels comfortable at Concordia, where he led the Eagles in scoring (15 PPG) and rebounding (7 RPG) this season.
- C.J. Henry (Southern Nazarene, Oklahoma) – The one-time New York Yankees draft pick followed his brother, Xavier, first to Memphis and later to Kansas, but carved out a niche at a smaller school, averaging 13 points per contest.
In Tuesday's final, televised nationally on CBS College Sports, Pikeville (Ky.) College topped Mountain State (W. Va.) 83-76 in overtime behind 32 points and 17 rebounds from Trevor Setty. Quincy Hankins-Cole, a transfer from Nebraska, also chipped in with 21 and 16.
Next time they hear about a team losing its legs or looking worn out, a handful of players from a small college in Kentucky can deservedly scoff at their televisions, knowing they conquered a grueling test of stamina to capture a national crown.


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BW015: The Battle According to Lenora!
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As the Gym Battle between Ash and Lenora is about to get under way, Ash observes that Lenora keeps a keen eye on all her potential challengers. She quickly judges Ash to be a no-nonsense Trainer, and they launch into a fierce two-on-two battle—it's Lenora's Watchog and Lillipup versus Ash's Tepig and Oshawott.
Right off the bat, Lenora's Lillipup catches Ash off guard by using Roar, which forces him to switch Tepig out of the battle and send out Oshawott. Lenora decides to switch too, bringing in her Watchog and immediately using Mean Look—which keeps Oshawott from switching out again!
Watchog proves to be a fierce opponent, and Oshawott is quickly defeated. When Ash sends out Tepig, Lenora switches back to Lillipup, and its Take Down attack ends the battle quickly. Tepig is defeated, and Lenora wins!
Upset by his defeat, Ash vows to train hard and challenge the Nacrene Gym again, and Nurse Joy recommends that Ash put in some time at the Pokémon Battle Club. Don George says he is happy to help out, and we leave our heroes as Ash prepares to do some serious special training to prepare for his rematch against Lenora!
Meanwhile, James has hacked into Nacrene museum's secruity allowing Jessie and Meowth to easily steal the meteorite piece and replace it with the dummy they had. Team Rocket depart once their mission has been completed.
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- When Ash withdrew Oshawott, His shell was missing but when Nurse Joy healed him his shell was there.
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- Ash forgot what Mean Look does, even though it was used against his Cyndaquil by Morty's Haunter in "From Ghost to Ghost", against his Charizard by Brandon's Dusclops in "Gathering the Gang of Four" and against his Donphan by Conway's Dusknoir in "Working on a Right Move".
- This is the third time Ash lost to a Normal-Type Gym Leader. The first was Whitney in JE042: A Goldenrod Opportunity and the second was to Norman in AG003: There's no Place Like Hoenn (even though it was an unofficial battle).
- Professor Oak's Live Caster: Darumaka
- Who's That Pokemon?: Lillipup (US)
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The idea to collect slightly used hygiene products from hotels that normally dispose of them after a guest returns home is the brainchild of Clean the World, a nonprofit group based in Florida, which distributes the recycled products both domestically and abroad. Since its inception in 2009, Clean the World has put more than 12 million soap bars and 325,000 pounds of shampoo and conditioner back into human use, simultaneously eliminating more than 750 tons of waste. The program has touched more than 65 countries worldwide including Zimbabwe, El Salvador, Swaziland and Romania.
In 2011, Penn State's Nittany Lion Inn got on board with the recycling effort to not only help reduce waste, but more importantly to help prevent millions of deaths caused by hygiene-related illness across the globe. Hand washing with soap significantly reduces the impact of two fatal diseases: acute respiratory infection and diarrheal disease. These are the top two killers of children younger than 5-years-old and represent an opportunity for recycled soap to become the primary ingredient in a potential global hygiene revolution.
"The fact that nearly 1 million partly used bars of soap are tossed out daily by U.S. hotels was a factor in our decision to participate," said Jim Purdum, general manager of Hospitality Services for the University. "The products can be re-used not only in poorer nations but also in the U.S. in homeless shelters and during recovery operations for disasters such as tornadoes and floods. Being able to turn something that was once discarded into a life-saving instrument is gratifying and certainly makes you look at other things more closely to see what else can be done for the good of mankind."
The Nittany Lion Inn, which has 223 guest rooms, is one of four hotels in State College and one of only 76 in Pennsylvania participating in the program. For the past two years, the Inn has helped distribute more than 12,000 bars of soap, and in just the first half of 2013, the Inn's participation in the program has prevented 3,667 pounds of waste from entering landfills.
Penn State also owns a second hotel, The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel in Innovation Park, but University officials opted to run the pilot program at the Inn first to determine if a larger scale project was feasible. Because of the success of the Inn's recycling efforts, Penn State has now committed to rolling out the program at its second hotel.
"After watching a video on the program, I decided it was something we needed to do," said Jacki Weyer, executive housekeeper at The Nittany Lion Inn. "The thought of saving lives was extremely motivating. We also feel strongly about being 'green' and felt this was a good way to help."
Clean the World works with hospitality partners, like The Nittany Lion Inn, to train their staff on the soap and shampoo recycling process. Bins are provided for housekeeping staff to deposit collected soap and shampoo bottles. The bins are picked up weekly by Clean the World staff and the items are taken to a recycling plant, where soap is sterilized and reformed into 2-ounce bars. The center in Orlando has the ability to process more than 80,000 bars of soap a day.
As the world's first, high-volume soap recycler, Clean the World ensures that all bars of soap recycled and distributed domestically and abroad are completely safe and will not harm the end user due to disease or pathogens that can be transmitted if proper re-purposing did not occur. The charitable organization has had the recycled and sanitized products tested by an independent laboratory, which certifies their cleanliness and removal of all pathogens.
The program has been well received by both guests and staff at The Nittany Lion Inn. According to Weyer, the staff bought into the program immediately with the housekeepers setting goals and striving to reach them. Thanks to signage placed in each room, guests also have expressed positive feedback.
Participating in the Clean the World program is just one of the many ways the Inn has embraced the concept of sustainability. The hotel has installed water-saver showerheads and toilets, energy-saving light bulbs, and instituted the use of hand towels in their public restrooms to reduce waste. To learn more about the recycling program, go to http://tinyurl.com/l5rwwbw.


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Three Up, Three Down
Just like a Cub fan's hopes for a victorious 2011 season, this is gonna be quick, probably ugly and will require more alcohol consumption than a weekend with Lindsay Lohan:
Those Damn Pirates!
By now, everyone on the planet with the barest inkling of baseball acumen is amazed, flabbergasted and floored that, going into the weekend before the All Star Game, the Pittsburgh Pirates have a winning record. While a lot of folks find that to be pretty swell, I find it to be a major pain in the @$$, because now half of my jokes aren't even relevant. Thanks a lot, Clint Hurdle. At least, there's always Bachmann… and Palin… and Beck… and, okay, nevermind, everything's cool.
The RSBS interns recently handed me a report that suggests White Sox outfielder, Juan Pierre, could very well be an RSBS dear reader galore. In fact, after our very own schlumbach, Johanna Mahmud, went off on a Charlie Sheenian rant slamming the aging speedster, all Pierre did was go 11 for 31 with 2 doubles, 7 RBIs and act as the game winning hero THREE GAMES IN A ROW. To even hint that J.P. is in the same class of awful as Chone Figgins and Raul Ibanez should be a crime. So, next time I see Mr. Mahmud, I'm gonna shoot his eyes with Sriracha and cut off his supply of Goldfish crackers.
Ernie Has Lost His Mind!
Chicago Cubs Hall of Famer, Ernie Banks, was recently quoted as saying the following about current Cubs shortstop, Starlin Castro:
"He's a great player. He can hit, he can throw. He's a good young player. He's better than me."
Look, the kid is good. But he's like 10 years old and is baseball stupid. He makes mistakes… all the time! I hope this isn't a sign that Banks isn't all there. For a team that doesn't have much to feel good about, at least they can always feel good about Mr. Cub — that is, until he loses his mind, which may have already happened…
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As you learn more about his relationship with his family later on, that actually makes some sense.
This book is pulp. Unashamedly, unreservedly pulp, and I mean that in the best possible way; this is a fun read. Fleming's prose is quick and clean, there are no dead spots or breaks in the action, and I finished it almost in a single sitting. There was one point where, while riding a plane in a storm, Bond contemplated his own mortality, but the moment passed, and the book returned to its regularly scheduled sex and violence.


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The economy was harsh to the solar industry in 2011 as supply exceeds demand. In 2012, Taiwan-based solar cell firms still need to find a solution to prevent being marginalized.
2008 and 2011: Two dismal years
There were two hits to the solar industry, one in 2009 during the financial crisis and one in 2011 when demand suddenly froze.
In 2009, Taiwan's solar products with superior quality did not outperform others. Especially when China's solar firms began to flourish, the price of solar products started to drop rapidly, forcing Europe-, US-, and Taiwan-based firms to follow suit in price competition. Taiwan has not yet invested enough into the solar module and system segments, and therefore do not have the advantage of brand recognition like Europe-based firms do.
The solar industry rebounded quickly in 2010, only to see oversupply problem reappear as firms took on aggressive expansions. Demand froze suddenly due to changes made in the incentive programs in Europe. In second-quarter 2011, the oversupply pressure mounted.
Some firms in Greater China halted production after solar product prices dropped by 50% in 2011. Some Europe- and US-based solar firms declared bankruptcy.
Stable finances have helped Taiwan-based firms to survive the 2011 ordeal. China-based integrated solar firms have stopped issuing OEM orders to small- and medium-size firms causing the latter to halt production or closing plants. Despite the size of China-based integrated solar firms, some firms have been said to face difficulties obtaining financial capital, and need to reduce capacity.
The challenge in 2011 has forced Taiwan-based firms to face the reality that strong distribution channels are necessary. Taiwan-based solar cell makers have been working closely with Europe-based firms. But as the latter lose ability to compete with China-based peers, Taiwan-based firms have to suffer from decreasing orders. Solon declared bankruptcy while BP announced its exit of the solar market. These two firms have worked very closely with Taiwan-based solar firms.
Too far from end market
The weakness of Taiwan-based solar firms is that by only producing solar wafer and cells, the firms are distant from demand. This is hard for the firms to adjust inventory levels.
Taiwan-based firms have blind spots as far as the picture of demand is concerned because of its passive nature. So any cancellation of orders by customers would catch Taiwan-based firms by surprise.
Taiwan-based firms believe that by investing in the system end means securing distribution channels like their China-based peers have.
China's solar industry has been building distribution channels by allowing state-related financial institutes to provide funds for solar firms to invest in system projects around the world. It has been said that the surprising high level of installation in Europe in 2011 were due to China's large amount of investments.
Investing in systems is no panacea
Distribution channels are important, said industry sources, but another important segment is the finance side of solar PV projects. Solar firms need to acquire professionals that understand finance and the subsidy programs in various countries. This will prevent having financial capital stuck in a single segment.
The development of the system market can help solar firms to solve short-term sales problems, but in the long-run, liquidity may be a problem. Taiwan-based firms do not have sufficient capital sources like the China-based peers. It has been relatively easier for China-based solar firms to obtain funds because their government has been providing tremendous support through loans and tax breaks. This has caused the US government to initiate an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation against China's solar industry.
Giant platforms do not promise vast growth
Having a strong large-size company backing the solar firms up has not yet shown significant benefits.
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) invested in thin-film solar product maker NexPower. Though NexPower is still the largest thin-film solar product maker in Taiwan, the rapid price fall of mainstream polysilicon solar products has been putting a lot of pressure on the thin-film solar industry.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) decided to invest in solar cell firm Motech in 2009. In 2010, TSMC began the development of CIGS thin-film solar products. With TSMC's support, Motech became the largest solar cell maker in Taiwan. However, Gintech, the second largest solar cell maker in Taiwan, is a strong competition with a comparable size.
Industry sources noted that product differentiation by technology improvements is less beneficial to solar firms than market segment differentiation. The reason is that differences in technology levels cannot shelter firms from price competitions.
This is apparent for industry leading thin-film solar firm First Solar. The firm has been eager to develop markets in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and other emerging economies. But the main market for solar PV products has always been Europe where demand for thin-film solar products is close to zero. The price competition and increasing demand for higher efficiency products in Europe simply is leaving little room for firms who make the more expensive thin-film products.
Other large-size Taiwan-based firms such as Delta Electronics, Lite-On, Inventec, AU Optronics (AUO) and Foxconn (Hon Hai) have been entering the solar market in different ways. But the expected positive effects have not yet shown.
Taking the China risks
Many solar firms in Taiwan have been relying on OEM orders from China-based peers. Taiwan's government also has been proud in the close relationship between enterprises from both sides. However, many solar firms have indicated that relying on OEM orders from China is tantamount to digging their own graves. The firms accept such orders because of the increasing difficulties in finding downstream customers and sufficient financial capital to continue operating. In addition, Taiwan's government has not been supportive of the industry.
Furthermore, it is hard for Taiwan-made solar products to differentiate from China-made products. In 2011, there were many OEM orders given to Taiwan from China-based firms because Taiwan firms have quality technologies. Also, China-based firms want to avoid risks in producing high-end products, and therefore have been transferring such risks to Taiwan-based peers.
The anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation taken up by the US government has been pushing China-based firms to give OEM orders to Taiwan-based peers. But China-based firms demand quotes based on China's domestic prices, which are considered too low for Taiwan-based firms.
The anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation may be benefiting Taiwan-based firms in some ways. However, some industry sources argue that Taiwan-based firms may thrive due to the investigation but in non-US markets, China-based firms still dominate. Hence Taiwan-based firms are just OEM factories for China.
Desperate for a new path
The solar market is a market closely related to government policies hence Taiwan's government should create an environment and strong support for the solar industry as Taiwan-based solar firms desperately find a market on its own instead of relying on OEM orders from China.
Taiwan-based solar firms need to find a new path to avoid being marginalized
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It's 1973. An Irish television presenter in an interview with film director John Huston has just said the wrong thing
Presenter: "I think this is the first time you have actually shot any part of your films in Ireland…"
Huston: "Oh no, Seamus. Have you forgotten? A big piece of Moby Dick was shot in County Cork… in Youghal."
Questioning Huston's affection or promotion of Ireland was a sensitive issue. This was a man born to a father of Scots and Irish-Scots heritage, a man who settled himself in County Galway in 1952 and received Irish Citizenship 12 years later.
He was just as proud of filming in Youghal, as the town was to have him.
A whale of a time
Picture postcards are tailor-made for places such as Youghal, with its red and white fishing boats, breezy promenades and lines of Victorian town houses.
Imagine what Gregory Peck thought of the place when he arrived here in 1954 to play the lead in Huston's film adaptation of Moby Dick?
His Sunset Boulevard was now Main Street, the Clock Gate Tower trumped the Hollywood sign and Chateau Marmont was replaced with… well, a pub.
It's safe to say that Moby Dick's pub in Youghal was not so named when Peck and Huston arrived. What they saw, though, they clearly liked. The pair lodged there for the duration of filming.
The pub's walls are an ode to the time Melville's classic came to town. Peck wears a cheeky grin under his shaggy Captain Ahab locks, and black and white shots show just how a Hollywood film crew fitted into a small Cork town. Any air that sneaks through the open window is heavy with salt.
You should know, though, that Youghal doesn't just do imaginary whales. It does real ones, too.
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It's fair to say that Nic Slocum of Whale Watch West Cork knows about whales. He's also pretty knowledgeable about seals, dolphins, and even Moby Dick. ("Yes, I have read Moby Dick. I can't see any resemblance and would not want to be compared with the good Captain.")
But he really, really knows whales.
The basics
First off: why do whales find the Cork coast so much to their liking?
"There are two things that interest whales: sex and food. We don't see any overt sexual behaviour, so we can be confident that the main reason they move into Irish coastal waters is to feed. Also, the south coast of Ireland is very close to the drop off from the continental shelf into the deep ocean."
So we have an idea why they come here. But how does Nic know when they've arrived?
"We have a network of people along the coast who look out for these animals," Nic explains, "and we hear quite quickly if animals have been spotted off the coast. Baltimore is a fishing port, too, so any sightings by fishermen, Irish navy fisheries protection and customs boats will be reported very quickly."
And when they do arrive, is it as good as it looks?
Will she won't she
"It is 10 times more exciting than it looks. The sense of anticipation and drama on the boat when waiting for a large whale to surface is palpable. The wait, knowing that one of the largest animals ever to have lived on the earth is swimming around in the ocean beneath the boat.
"Cameras are at the ready for an animal that may weigh upward of 60 tonnes to surface, exhale and sink back beneath the water. Will she come up again? Maybe. Maybe not. It's easy to get carried away just imagining it."
Why imagine?
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CV Radhakrishnan
|CV Radhakrishnan
1953 (age 66–67)
Kuzhithurai, Kanyakumari district
|Alma mater
|Christian College, Marthandam
|Software developer
|River Valley Technologies
|Known for
|Setting up of Indian TeX Users Group and Free Software Foundation of India
Political movement
|Free software and open access publishing
Chandroth Vasudevan Radhakrishnan (ചന്ദ്രോത്ത് വാസുദേവൻ രാധാകൃഷ്ണൻ) aka CV Radhakrishnan aka CVR (born 20 January 1953), is an Indian free software developer, entrepreneur and the Founder of River Valley Technologies. He is also one of the leading proponents of free software in the world and a founding member of TeX Users Group in India. Diagnosed with perennial muscular dystrophy at the age of 25 and told that he had just five more years to live, he turned to computers as a way to distract himself from the grim prognosis. But soon he developed a passion for it and set himself to master the art of typesetting. Starting his business as a one man typesetting unit for scientific journals, he then grew it into a company that now employs over 150 people and is today rated as one of the best by Elsevier in the field of journal typesetting.[1]
Early Life
The eldest of four children, CV Radhakrishnan was born on 20 January 1953 in the village of Kuzhithurai in Kanyakumari district, now part of the state of Tamil Nadu, India. He studied in Anducode High School and graduated in Chemistry from Christian College, Marthandam in 1972. He dropped out in 1973 while pursuing the masters program in SN College, Quilon.
Radhakrishnan started his career at the Indian Telecom department where he worked briefly for six months in 1973. From there, he moved to Delhi and joined the Ministry of Shipping and Transport in August 1973. In 1978, he experienced a weakness in his leg muscles and was diagnosed with a neurological disorder known as perennial muscular dystrophy. Given the nature of his disease, where the muscle mass gradually wears away, and informed by the doctors that he could not expect to live beyond five years, he quit his job immediately and decided to spend the rest of his days in Kerala with his parents. On his return, he joined the administrative department of Kerala University. He continued there for the next fifteen years until he quit in 1993 to set up River Valley Technologies.
TeX and Free Software
CV Radhakrishnan began to learn about computers during his stint at Kerala University. Having no formal training in them, he took it up as a way to distract himself from the travails of his disease. He started by buying an XT machine and began experimenting with it. He also spent his evenings helping students at the University prepare their thesis and research papers. It was during this time that the job at the University fortuitously made him come across Prof. KSS Nambooripad from the Department of Mathematics. The professor, an ardent TeX lover, was just back from a visiting assignment in Milwaukee University in the United States and had brought with him the TeX program in 14 floppy disks. Discovering the fascination CVR had for data presentation, Prof Nambooripad introduced him to the TeX language and insisted that he started learning it. Taking heed, CVR diligently mastered this classical and complex text processing language and soon started exploring possibilities of making a living out of it. Beginning with research papers of the students, CVR went on to apply TeX in typesetting Entomon, an entomology research journal of the Department of Zoology. Soon his services became hugely popular within the university and it became difficult for the work to be handled single handed. Thus, encouraged by Prof Nambooripad again, CVR decided to set up River Valley Technologies in 1994 with the support of his two younger brothers (CV Rajendran and CV Rajagopal).
At this time, CVR was not familiar with the philosophy of Free Software and TeX was the only free software he knew. However, two turn of events in close quarters propelled him deep into the free software movement. The first was the inauguration of the Indian TeX Users Group at Trivandrum in January 1998.[2] CVR played a pivotal role in its formation by organising the first ever meeting of like minded TeX programmers in India on 16 December 1996. Prof. Nambooripad was chosen as the first president, and CVR became its first secretary. This brought him closer to many free software communities in different parts of the globe. Moreover, under the TeX Users Group, India, he played a key part in the preparation and publication of 'LaTeX Tutorials – A primer' under the GNU Free Documentation license. This comprehensive tutorial on the basics of TeX usage was very well received by the academic community and is considered even today, to be one of the best training materials available on TeX. All this popularity in TeX circles led him to be acquainted with several prominent activists like Karl Berry of the TeX Users Group and Sebastian Rahtz of the UK TeX Users Group which further exposed him to the Free Software philosophy.
The second event was the incorporation of FreeDevelopers.Net. A commercial company based in Washington with proposed branches all over the world and with Richard Stallman as its Chief Ethical Officer, its prime aim was to function as a democratic entity that stood for the development of free software. CVR and his younger brother CV Rajagopal, Anil and Rajkumar of Linuxense and Arun of Space-Kerala who were instrumental in the formation of the Trivandrum GNU/Linux Users Group were active members in it. FreeDevelopers.Net initiated a very serious discussion among its members about the philosophy of free software, its ethical stance and its fitness for commercial activities. A consequence was the setting up of the Indian chapter of Free Software Foundation.[3][4]
River Valley Technologies
River Valley Technologies came into existence on the premises of the Software Technology Park (STP) in Trivandrum on January 1st, 1994. Started as a proprietary concern dealing with software and IT enabled services and registered under the STP system, River Valley had an export target of one million dollars in the first five years of its operation. The firm quickly gained popularity in the text-processing industry and began providing services to such publishing giants as Academic Press and Institute of Physics that provided enough work to meet the initial target. This gave Radhakrishnan the necessary confidence to register a new private limited company which came into existence on August 17, 1999 as STM Document Engineering Pvt Ltd (STMDocs) that carved a new path in the academic text processing world.
Working completely on free software,[5] the company was CVR's befitting reply to all those who claimed that proprietary software was necessary for commercial grade text processing companies to be successful. Today, STMDocs is one of the main suppliers to Elsevier, the world's largest academic journal publishers and has been adjudged the best by them for quality, technology and adherence to schedules. Sprawled across a lush green stretch of four acres, the main campus of the company is located at Malayankizhu, a rustic village located 15 km from the city of Thiruvananthapuram. Very particular that his company shouldn't fit into the trappings of a profit oriented corporate culture, CVR has designed the campus to be an eco sanctuary that houses a range of bio-diverse species from exotic trees to birds and bees. Running on renewable energy and rain water harvesting and actively practising organic farming, the company encourages its 150 odd employees to feel part of a self-sustaining community. This coupled with a non-compromising attitude towards quality in service delivery has transformed STMDocs into a unique company.
Radhakrishnan supports philanthropic efforts through non-profit projects spearheaded by the Sayahna Foundation, a virtual community set up by him to promote open access publishing and collaborative digitisation of all contents that enrich humanity, culture, heritage and history. Under its aegis, a digital archive of over two hundred Malayalam books has been created. The books included are those whose copyright has already expired or the ones where the authors themselves have come forward to publish under open license. Some of the major works are Kerala Panineeyam, all the works of renowned critic, M Krishnan Nair (including 'Sahithyavaraphalam'), all the works of famed novelist E Harikumar, and a history of Malayalam literature in five volumes by Ulloor S Parameswara Iyer. An elaborate listing of the entire welfare schemes of the Government of Kerala is also a part of the archive. Radahakrishnan out of his ardent love for fonts and typography wanted to popularise the use of the beautiful fonts Rachana, Meera, Uroob and Keraleeyam, all created by KH Hussain in Malayalam typesetting, and all the books published by Sayahna are typeset in Rachana. He has also been instrumental in setting up the Rachana Institute of Typography along with KH Hussain and KV Rajeesh. Recently, a new opentype font namely, Sundar, has been released for free download and usage.
Personal Life
Radhakrishnan is married to Vidhya and they live in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
- ↑ The Hindu, The Tug of Opportunities, Jan 1, 2010, Life and Style.
- ↑ Sebastian Rahtz, Inaugural meeting of TUGIndia – A report, TUGboat, Volume 19 (1998), No. 1 (Report in pdf format).
- ↑ Linux Today, FSF-India and FreeDevelopers-India To Be Inaugurated at Freedom First! Conference, July 19, 2001 (Report).
- ↑ V. Sasi Kumar, The Origins of FSF India, Linux For You, December 2007, pp. 34–35. (Read the interveiw here).
- ↑ KG Kumar, TeX Helps in Timely Publication of BSNL's Trivandrum Telephone Directory, TUGIndia news, 2003 March.


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Name: Beamer
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"I purchased my beautiful sorrel show mule, Call Me the Fireman, aka Beamer, in February of 2010. We are on our 3rd show season together and have already won many Championships and All Around Performance Titles in English, Western, and Halter classes. Beamer is an amazing guy. People say he looks like a pretty Quarter Horse with long ears! I've competed against horses and mules with him, and he stands out in every show pen.
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File 2764/1904 Pt 3 'Baghdad Railway: general negotiations 1910-1912.' [back] (2/544)
The record is made up of 1 volume (268 folios). It was created in 1910-1912. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers.
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The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, newspaper cuttings, maps and notes, relating to negotiations over the proposed Berlin to Baghdad Railway in the period 1910-1912.
The discussion in the volume relates to the economic, commercial, political and military considerations impinging on British strategy for the international negotiations over the development of a railway to Baghdad.
Further discussion surrounds the motivations and strategies of British competitors in the area; included in the volume is a copy of the Russo-German agreement.
The principal correspondents in the volume include Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Sir Gerard Augustus Lowther, Ambassador to Constantinople.
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