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Tampere Ice Hall, FINLAND
Review and pictures by Marko Syrjala
The "Live: In the Still of the Night" tour landed
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Then it was time of glorious Whitesnake. They opened with the old Deep Purple classic ?Burn? which was a really welcome addition to the bands current setlist. In the middle of the song band played a couple of chords from another DP classic ?Strormbringer? which also worked extremely well and then they returned back to ?Burn?. Marco Mendoza did really great job here when he was singing old Glenn Hughes high vocal parts during choruses. It was funny to see that even the average age of the audience was approximately thirty years and more still many people didn?t recognized that song at all?strange.
Next, a much more known song, was ?Bad Boys? from 1987 and then followed ?Love Ain?t No Stranger? from the 1983 release SLIDE IT IN. The later seemed to be a quite a crowd favourite. ?Ready and Willing? the first ?old? track and even the most cynical fans started to wake up. ?Is This Love? I don?t know? I do know that?s a big hit song, but in my ears it now sounds ?a little bit? updated. It?s one of those songs which should be replaced anytime soon? Just my opinion, but still I am sure that I?m not the only one who wishes the same? Another track from 1987 followed. ?Give Me All Your Love Tonight?. It?s a good rocker and David get the audience to shout their lungs out during the choruses. The very ?Led Zep? sounding ?Judgement Day? was played next. For some strange reason it was the only track played from the brilliant SLIP OF THE TONGUE album. That one sounded really cool. I hope that there will be more stuff from that album in the future? SLIP OF THE TONGUE was released back in 1989, so this song was the latest song on the set list.
The guitar solo of Doug Aldrich could be called standard. His playing style sounds a kind of combination of Randy Rhoads and John Sykes and there were some nice licks played but … nothing special here. On the other hand his playing especially in ?1987? tracks was really convincing and there was no doubt who was the lead player of the show. Rumours tell that it?s going to be him who will probably write songs for next Whitesnake album (if it never comes out..? At least he did great job with Dio on the ?Killing Dragon? album). No wonder why David introduced him as a closest friend of his?
?Cryin? In The Rain?. It?s a good track but could easily be replaced with something else nothing else to say here. Tommy Aldridge?s drum solo was just amazing. Okay, he?s been doing that since his Black Oak
Then it was time to go back to the early years of Whitesnake. ?Aint? No Love In The Heart Of the City? a song from the first SNAKEBITE album continued on and on something like ten minutes when David wanted to sing a long chorus forever with the audience. But it was good track anyway. Next song was another gem from the past ?Don?t Break My Heart Again?. It must be said that it was strange thing to hear when some of the old classics were kind of re-arranged. ?Don?t Break My Heart Again? was one of those and it was hard to even recognize. The musicianship was faultless and the guys played very well with plenty of passion but something was clearly missing when they played the ?old numbers??
Well the end of the set was coming to near and two big hits from the eighties closed the main set. ?Fool For Your Love? and ?Here I Go Again? are kind of song which everybody know. ?Take Me With You? was the first encore. It was a pleasant surprise because it?s been a while since it?s been a part of the set list. And again it was like during the ?Burn?. Many people didn?t recognize it at all. Maybe people should buy also other than just ?Best Of Whitesnake? albums because these two tracks usually can?t be found from there… 😉
Of course the final song tonight was ?Still of the Night?. That song is probably the biggest song in Whitesnake?s history and it?s impossible to exceed, so was a perfect closer of the set. It?s esteemed that David still could reach all the difficult high notes here. We have to remember that he?s in the mid of his 50?s and unlike most of the men in his age he still looks really good and he sounded now even better than on his last visit in Finland in 1998. Altogether it?s great that he?s generally doing what he does and we can only hope that there are still many years to come. It also must be said that Marco Mendoza is a man in a right place. He?s style might not please everyone but to be honest he?s a amazing bass player, performer and a singer. David called him ?A most dangerous man in the world? and that?s because he probably is now getting more ladies attention than ?Big D? himself? Second guitar player
The set list was quite well chosen. It?s true that there wasn?t too many surprises but most of the crowd was surely pleased. Personally I would like to hear some more ?classic Whitesnake?. How about doing ?Lovehunter?, ?Young Blood? or ?Rough ?n Ready? next time? Also why to reject all the stuff from latest albums? For example ?Restless Heart? would be a nice addition in the set list? Blaah? you will never get everything you want to? Wholly this concert wasn?t perfect but a really good one. Please do a new album sometime and come back soon, alright?
Special thanx to Ritva V??n?nen from Welldone Agengy and Promotion Oy and to Jussi Santalahti from Partysan Concert Promotion to get this review done!
Bad Boys
Love Ain?t No Stranger
Ready n? Willing
Is This Love
Give Me All Your Love
Judgement Day
Cryin? In The Rain
Ain?t No Love In The Heart Of The City
Don?t Break My Heart Again
Fool For Your Lovin?
Here I Go Again
Take Me With You
Still Of The Night


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Liberty University's School of Aeronautics (SOA) and Freedom Aviation joined forces to introduce its first affiliate flight training program Saturday during an open house at Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport.
The program will offer online courses through Liberty University Online (LUO) for students pursuing bachelor's degrees in aeronautics. Courses will supplement flight training provided by instructors hired through Freedom Aviation, the flight operations center and aviation business used by the SOA at Lynchburg Regional Airport.
"We were extremely pleased with this weekend's open house," said retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Dave Young, dean of the School of Aeronautics. "It achieved our objectives as the attendees were able to visit our facilities, meet our team, and enroll in our program."
|Visitors took rides in a Redbird simulator that will be used by Freedom Aviation through its flight training affiliate program at Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport.
Approximately 500 visitors took tours of the 6,000 square feet of office and hangar space Freedom is leasing from Newport News/Williamsburg International's fixed-base operator Atlantic Aviation. Guests had the chance to meet instructors from SOA's Aviation Maintenance Technician Program (AMTP) and its Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) division as well as representatives from Liberty's Office of Military Affairs, Liberty University Online, Residential Enrollment, and recruiters from Piedmont and ExpressJet Airlines.
Representatives from the Virginia Department of Aviation and aircraft manufacturing companies such as Cessna also attended the open house along with aviation education icons John and Martha King.
Responding to the growing demand for pilots around the world, the affiliate program is an innovative approach to expanding the SOA beyond its Lynchburg Regional Airport campus.
|Liberty representatives provide information to visitors about the program available on the Lynchburg Regional Airport campus.
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Liberty SOA is also affiliated with the Denbigh Aviation Academy, based at Newport News/Williamsburg International. Aircraft maintenance students there receive college course credit toward their airframe and power plant certification, which is transferable to Liberty's residential program.
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U.S. dealerships can significantly improve on the industry's average profit margin if they upgrade the capability of sales and service employees and pursue new sales formats, a McKinsey & Co. study concludes.
The average U.S. dealership posted a pretax profit margin of 2.2 percent in 2013, according to the National Automobile Dealers Association. But some top performers already make margins of up to 5 percent, and that level is attainable for the typical dealership that puts in the effort to improve, said Hans-Werner Kaas, McKinsey's senior partner leading the consulting firm's Americas automotive practice in Detroit.
"You can add anything between 2 to 4 percentage points," Kaas said. "For dedicated and committed initiatives, there is no reason why a 4 or 5 percent [return] should not be attainable."
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Such improvements will help dealers facing further consolidation of the U.S. dealership network.
While consolidation will be continuous, the pace of U.S. dealership reductions will be evolutionary rather than revolutionary, Kaas said. He wouldn't estimate how quickly the U.S. dealership count will contract or by what percentage or what the count might be in 2020.
There were 17,760 dealerships in the United States at the end of 2012, down 1 percent from a year earlier, according to the Automotive News Data Center. The count has been fairly stable the past few years after big drops in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
To make their retail networks healthier, McKinsey recommends that automakers develop new retail models that can address changing consumer behaviors and shopping preferences, such as the rise of mobile search. More than 80 percent of new-car buyers begin their research online, the consulting firm said, and automakers and dealers still have a lot of room for improvement in the eyes of those customers.
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A quarter of car buyers are unsatisfied with their dealership experiences, McKinsey found.
Those consumers are interested in new retailing models, such as service-only locations or test-drive centers that can be shared by multiple dealerships, Kaas said. In a McKinsey survey, consumers also expressed interest in smaller stores in prime city locations, online stores, pop-up stores and home visits by dealers.
While some of those formats are already being used in Europe, Kaas said he couldn't point to examples in the U.S. market yet. Not all those approaches are compatible with the varied state dealer franchise laws in the United States, he said. But Kaas predicted that U.S. dealers and manufacturers will try some of those models, possibly as soon as the next 12 to 18 months.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM), one of the nation's leading health and well-being companies, announced today that Tim Huval has been appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer. He will serve on the company's Executive Team and report to President and Chief Executive Officer Bruce Broussard.
A 10-year veteran of Bank of America, Huval served most recently as the bank's Senior Vice President for Consumer Service and Operations. In that capacity he led thousands of customer-service professionals who serve 57 million Bank of America customers. He also served as Human Resources Executive and as Chief Information Officer for Bank of America's global investment management group and as Operations Executive for its Global Card Services division.
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UPPER EAST SIDE — An Upper East Side real estate broker and cancer survivor was harassed by her landlord and evicted from her apartment because her management company was afraid she wouldn't be able to pay the rent if the illness came back, she claims in a federal lawsuit.
Heatheran Kristopher, 43, said she was forced out of her $2,250 per month apartment on East 81st Street by a landlord who began hounding her within a month of taking over the building in 2011, according to the lawsuit filed Jan. 25 in Manhattan Federal Court.
"I feel completely alone, I feel completely lost right now," Kristopher told DNAinfo.com New York Monday, as she stood inside her empty first-floor apartment at 336 E. 81st St.
"I know it's only an apartment, but it's just what I went through here. I healed myself here. I came home from chemo and laid in this backyard. I feel safe here."
"There's nowhere else I can turn at this point," she added, saying she's crashing on friends' couches while she tries to find a place to live.
Kristopher said the high-pressure bid to force her out of the building began in September 2011, less than a month after Stone Street Properties LLC bought her building from the previous landlord Icon Management.
She said she had signed a new two-year lease with Icon in August 2011, but had not received a printed version of the lease by the time Stone Street Properties took over.
According to the court papers, Stone Street co-founder Robert Morgenstern showed up at her door unannounced in September 2011, and began shouting at her that she owed him $5,000.
When she told him she had cancer, he allegedly snapped.
"How do I know you're not going to get cancer again?" Morgenstern yelled, according to the court documents.
Kristopher, who recently founded her own real estate firm, had lived in the apartment since 2008, just before she was diagnosed with ovarian and colon cancer and began chemotherapy and radiation treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, according to the lawsuit.
She had fallen behind in rent by more than $10,000 during her cancer treatments, but had caught up by the time Stone Street took over. She wanted to stay in the building in part because of its proximity to Sloan Kettering and because the first floor home made it easy for her to move around.
"They were doing anything and everything to get rid of me," she said.
Stone Street staffers began to insist that her new lease was invalid and refusing to honor its terms, the documents said. Instead, they urged her to sign a six-month lease.
"This way you're not locked in if you do get sick again," Stone Street leasing agent Cody Moore allegedly said. "I strongly suggest you sign this or you will be put on the black list."
Stone Street also tried to increase the rent by $700 per month and get her to pay six months rent up front, the lawsuit says.
On Nov. 22, 2011, the landlord filed a petition to evict Kristopher and a week later she filed a disability discrimination claim with the New York Division of Housing and Urban Development and the New York State Division of Human Rights.
After a nearly seven-month investigation, the New York State Division of Human Rights found that there was "probable cause for discrimination on the basis of [Kristopher's] disability," according to a report dated May 25, 2012.
However, the agency did not find evidence that Morgenstern moved to evict her because she filed the complaint with HUD. Kristopher later withdrew the human rights complaint in order to file the federal lawsuit.
Kristopher won a number of delays in the eviction proceedings, but she was forced to clear out Monday after the state Supreme Court upheld the removal.
"She's a sour-grapes tenant who was evicted because she had no lease," said Morgenstern, who denied making the cancer comment.
"I categorically deny any wrongdoing."
Kristopher, a spokeswoman for Ihadcancer.com, said she went to war with the building to protect herself — and to help others who might find themselves in the same boat.
"I'm an advocate for cancer patients. I work with cancer patients. I volunteer, I go to chemo with them," she said. "I'm not going to allow this to happen."
As part of the investigation, HUD asked Stone Street for a list of other tenants in the building who had fallen behind on their lease and were also then offered a six-month agreement, according to the investigation report. The company failed to provide the information.
While she does not hold any illusions about getting her apartment back, Kristopher said she hopes the suit will dissuade other building owners from discriminating against people in similar situations.
And she is committed to staying in the city, in part to honor her mother, who lived in Manhattan until she died of cancer when Kristopher was 10 years old.
"I feel close to my mom here. Every day everything reminds me of her," she said.
"I'm just going to fight this until the end. I have to. It makes me feel not like the victim."


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Our military has positioned assets in the region. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs has informed me that we are prepared to strike whenever we choose. Moreover, the Chairman has indicated to me that our capacity to execute this mission is not time-sensitive; it will be effective tomorrow, or next week, or one month from now. And I'm prepared to give that order.
But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I'm also mindful that I'm the President of the world's oldest constitutional democracy. I've long believed that our power is rooted not just in our military might, but in our example as a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. And that's why I've made a second decision: I will seek authorization for the use of force from the American people's representatives in Congress.
Over the last several days, we've heard from members of Congress who want their voices to be heard. I absolutely agree. So this morning, I spoke with all four congressional leaders, and they've agreed to schedule a debate and then a vote as soon as Congress comes back into session.
In the coming days, my administration stands ready to provide every member with the information they need to understand what happened in Syria and why it has such profound implications for America's national security. And all of us should be accountable as we move forward, and that can only be accomplished with a vote.
I'm confident in the case our government has made without waiting for U.N. inspectors. I'm comfortable going forward without the approval of a United Nations Security Council that, so far, has been completely paralyzed and unwilling to hold Assad accountable. As a consequence, many people have advised against taking this decision to Congress, and undoubtedly, they were impacted by what we saw happen in the United Kingdom this week when the Parliament of our closest ally failed to pass a resolution with a similar goal, even as the Prime Minister supported taking action.
Yet, while I believe I have the authority to carry out this military action without specific congressional authorization, I know that the country will be stronger if we take this course, and our actions will be even more effective. We should have this debate, because the issues are too big for business as usual. And this morning, John Boehner, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell agreed that this is the right thing to do for our democracy."
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A couple of years ago, I was being interviewed by a journalism class when a student asked me if I was a feminist. "Of course," I shot back. "Aren't you?" She looked at me, somewhat quizzically. "Well," she said, "how do you define feminist?" To which I replied, perhaps too glib and maybe even borderline cranky, "A human being." Beat. I continued, something along the lines of: It means you're in favor of equality. Equal rights. Equal pay. Equal opportunity. Blowing up gender stereotypes. My turn to be quizzical: "How can anyone NOT be a feminist?" I asked.
Of course, I knew the answer. A few years earlier, I had interviewed some kick-ass college seniors for a story on feminism for a local magazine. These were edgy, take-no-prisoners young women who were considerably more independent than I was, back in the day, when I was letting my own F-flag fly. But they refused to call themselves feminists.
It's a spectrum issue, they said first. They'd be more likely to call themselves feminists if they could explain where on the scale they fell. "I think a lot of people perceive feminists as being so hard-core – men-haters, almost masculine," one of them said. They said they'd never experienced gender discrimination, never been told they couldn't do something – or had to do something – because of their sex. Never – yet – faced discrimination on the job. Battles fought, battles won, they said. "I've grown up and had every opportunity," said another woman, who conceded that without the benefit of privilege this might have been a different conversation. "Therefore, it's hard to identify with the word feminist because, for me, it's the norm. Now it seems radical to say feminist. It's hard to get passionate about a cause when you haven't faced the consequences of what you're fighting for."
You will, I thought. But she had me at "radical." Because what I realized then — and now – is that the very word "feminism" has been appropriated by a bunch of nutjobs who fear everything but the status quo. (Go no further than some of the comments posted on this page, and you find that any post that advocates gender equality is likely to unleash a barrage of hate-rants that cast the writers of said posts as angry, bitter and ugly and/or fat.)
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Back when I was in grad school, I had a classmate who had just moved from Washington D.C. and whose car boasted a tattered bumper sticker that read: "I'm pro-choice and I vote." I can't help wondering if those of us in favor of women's rights (read: all of us?) shouldn't make our own bumper stickers with a similar message:
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The USD came under general pressure, led by EUR-USD and Cable following strong data out of the Eurozone and the U.K. EUR-USD rallied on upside surprises in Italian and Spanish PMI numbers, peaking 1.3931, a seven-week high and nearly 50 pips up on levels seen at the London opening. The break of 1.3900-1.3905 has swung the 1.3966 major-trend peak back into scope. Cable lifted above 1.6950 for the first time since 2009 following a much stronger than anticipated U.K. Markit services PMI outcome, the latest in a series of survey data that have been signalling a mini-revival in the pace of economic expansion. Elsewhere, USD-JPY ebbed back under 102.00 during the London AM following a quiet Asia session, where both Tokyo and Hong Kong centres had been closed. AUD-USD rose back above 0.9300. The RBA announced unchanged policy today and reaffirmed its neutral stance. USD-CAD dipped under 1.3500.
EUR-USD popped higher on the Eurozone data, specifically the upside surprises in Italian and Spanish PMI numbers. Signs of improvement in the troubled southern Eurozone periphery tend to go down well in markets. The euro logged a peak of 1.3931, a seven-week high and nearly 50 pips up on levels seen at the London opening. The break of 1.3900-1.3905, the latter level being the Apr-11 peak, will likely be noted as a bullish development by technical analysts, and the 1.3966 major-trend peak, which was clocked in March, has now swung back into scope. We have essentially been seeing a pricing-out in chances for aggressive ECB easing measures, though the bullish market will likely pause into the central bank's meeting and press conference on Thursday.
USD-JPY dipped back under 102.00 amid general dollar softness. The Tokyo market had been closed today. The pair remains amid a broad sideways range, roughly contained within 100.00-105.00, which has been in place since early January. This stasis may persist for some time, though technical analysts will be marking this as a potential topping formation after the steep rally from levels around 75.0 that was seen during the second part of last year. Fundamentals seem more bullish, however, as Fed and BoJ policy paths are likely to become more divergent.
Sterling rallied on a strong PMI data out of the U.K., with the services reading for April rising to a nine-month peak of 58.7, well up on the market expectation for an unchanged 57.6. Cable lifted about 20 pips to the 1.6952 area, a modest move but this still marks a new five-year peak. Sterling also traded moderately firmer against the euro and yen. We have been targeting 1.7000 in Cable. Incoming survey data have signalled a mini-revival in the pace of economic expansion with the implication that the BoE is increasingly likely to be the first major central bank to tighten policy following the multi-year policy stasis.
EUR-CHF dipped and matched the Apr-28 low on Monday as the Swiss franc safe-haven premium rose as the situation in Ukraine continued to deteriorate. The cycle low of 1.2104 and 1.2100 are considered key support levels. While situation in the Ukraine remains a concern, and a potential supportive factor for the CHF, the threat of SNB intervention into its 1.2000 limit peg is helping to deter franc buying to some extent. SNB's Jordan repeated recently that the central bank remains committed to defending the currency cap.
USD-CAD gave up the chase above 1.1000 and slipped to around 1.0950. There are reports that oil settlement inflows have underpinned the Canadian currency in a relatively illiquid market. There doesn't appear to have been a fundamental driver. The Arp-9 three-month low of 1.0858 now swings back into view. Bigger picture, USD-CAD has been in a consolidation phase since late January following a four-month rally period from sub-0.9700 levels. We'd need to see daily and weekly closes below 1.1000 to support the idea that a trend reversal is on the cards.


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RICHMOND — West Contra Costa residents are some of the most generous in the area when it comes to their schools, approving six bond measures to rehabilitate old campuses and build new ones since 1998.
The free-spending school district builds at will, proud of a $1.6 billion program that gives school communities everything they want — including large theaters, swimming pools and dental clinics — at costs that appear to far exceed the norm in other districts.
And on June 3, the district is going hat in hand once more to district residents, some of the poorest in the county, seeking another $270 million for such basic upgrades as removing asbestos and repairing overloaded wiring, as well as for renovating and replacing schools, including some that had been marked for possible closure due to declining enrollment.
But this year's request comes as significant opposition to the district's spending habits — and the secrecy with which it shrouds them — is beginning to bubble. This time around, the district is asking residents in Richmond, El Cerrito, El Sobrante, Hercules, Kensington, Pinole and San Pablo for more, even though it has not yet spent $600 million from earlier bonds and it won't provide details of how previous bond money has been spent.
Bill Fay, associate superintendent for operations, says the district builds according to "scope" rather than trying to stick to budgets or schedules. When money runs out, Fay said, projects get "bumped" until another bond measure is passed.
"What this district does is, anything they want in their school, they get it," Fay told the district's Citizens' Bond Oversight Committee in January. "That's one way that costs keep going up."
District staff failed to provide much of the detailed financial records of costs associated with school contracts in response to numerous requests from this newspaper and the public. But a review of publicly available data appears to show that West Contra Costa — with more than 50 schools and about 30,000 students — spends far more than many other districts on school construction.
School construction cost expert Paul Abramson, who creates an annual school construction report comparing costs nationwide and regionally, found the average new high school in the region that includes California cost about $43.5 million for about 1,250 students, approximately $321 a square foot, in 2013.
But in the West Contra Costa district, projected costs for 1,300-student Pinole Valley High, which is slated to be rebuilt over the next four years, have skyrocketed far beyond that. In January, Fay told the oversight committee the school would cost $200 million, more than four times the state average. By Wednesday, his estimate had increased to $250 million, including "soft costs" for architects and other services, or about 93 percent of the $270 million that voters are being asked to approve for Measure H.
"That's beyond the parameters of anything I have seen," Abramson said, adding that some Los Angeles high schools cost as much as $125 million.
The same disparity exists with middle schools. According to the 19th Annual School Construction Report by Abramson in February, the median-priced middle school in the California-Arizona-Nevada-Hawaii region in 2013 cost $19.5 million, or $195 per square foot.
By contrast, an analysis of West Contra Costa's building costs shows that Pinole Middle School was estimated to cost $719 per square foot, with a budget of $53 million.
Some residents are pleased with the multimillion dollar school facilities built or under construction for their children and support paying more.
"Students in every part of the district will benefit because Measure H will bring all of our elementary and middle schools up to the same high standard," five residents wrote on the ballot argument in support of the measure.
But a lack of information from the district about how that will be accomplished has prompted — for the first time ever — growing opposition from residents who believe the schools should be built within a budget and schedule.
District resident and former bond oversight committee member Linda Ruiz-Lozito recently asked district officials for a list of schools that need asbestos, lead paint and other hazardous materials removed, as detailed in the Measure H ballot language. But she was told that the district wouldn't provide that information until June 3 — Election Day.
She also questioned why the board recently agreed to triple the budget for a stadium at the already impressively rebuilt El Cerrito High — boosting the cost from $7 million to $21 million — while the new bond measure states that students at other schools are using unsafe classrooms.
Similarly, district resident and former bond oversight committee member Anton Jungherr asked the district for backup documentation explaining how it came up with its estimated tax rate of $36 per $100,000 in assessed valuation that residents would pay for the new bond measure. He was incredulous when the district said it had no such documents.
This year, property owners are projected to pay $282 annually per $100,000 in assessed value, or $564 for a home valued at $200,000, just to repay school bonds. If Measure H passes, that tax rate is projected to climb to $341 per $100,000, increasing taxes on a $200,000 home to $682 a year.
That is a steep price for district households where the U.S. Census reported the median household income in 2012 was $56,583.
Even some in the construction industry question why the district's schools cost so much.
Steve Chamberlin, a residential contractor who has supported district education programs, said the Making Waves charter school in Richmond was built at a cost of about $250 per square foot, compared with much higher costs for West County schools.
"It seems to me that there's a very strong feeling on the part of the school board that the issue for the district is the quality of the buildings — and if they have great buildings, they'll have great schools," he said. "So why then is the best performing high school in the district entirely housed in portables — Leadership Public High? You kind of look at it and you go, 'How does this work?'"
Trustee Madeline Kronenberg, who along with school board President Charles Ramsey sits on the board's two-person Facilities Construction Subcommittee, said she wanted to bring quality schools to the district after working as a teacher in another district where the floor was duct-taped. The committee routinely approves budget increases for new items added to community school wish lists.
"I don't believe for a second that this is any kind of Cadillac-level of building," she said. "Our district is right in the middle in terms of costs. This is not the Taj Mahal or Cadillac-level schools. They are excellent and better than before."
Some large architectural and construction firms hired to work on the projects have also contributed significantly to election campaigns, leading some opponents to question whether contracts are being awarded to those who offer political and monetary support.
Superintendent Bruce Harter told the bond oversight committee that the district needs Measure H to provide equitable facilities so the quality of a student's school won't depend on where they live.
"We really think it's important that we have equity for all of our students," Harter said, "to have them all in facilities that have been provided by our bond program."
However, Fay said after the meeting that the district could complete all of its planned projects without Measure H, but it would have to delay them for several years.
Staff writer Robert Rogers contributed to this report. Theresa Harrington covers education. Reach her at 925-945-4764 or email@example.com. Follow her at Twitter.com/tunedtotheresa.
6/2/1998 Measure E $40 million $40 million 0
11/7/2000 Measure M $150 million $150 million 0
3/5/2002 Measure D $300 million $300 million 0
11/8/2005 Measure J $400 million $322 million $78 million
6/8/2010 Measure D $380 million $140 million $240 million
11/62012 Measure E $360 million $85 million $275 million
SUBTOTAL $1.6 billion $1.037 billion $593 million
6/3/2014 Measure H $270 million
TOTAL if passes $1.9 billion
SOURCE: Contra Costa County Elections Office, West Contra Costa school district
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Dover Elementary
Downer Elementary
Ford Elementary
DeAnza High School
Pinole Middle School
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Ohlone Elementary
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Pinole Valley High
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Lake Elementary
Cameron Elementary
Fairmont Elementary
Olinda Elementary
Shannon Elementary
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"The cloud is certainly on everyone's radar, but there are a lot of issues still to be resolved on the process and regulatory side," said Kevin McPartland, senior analyst at Tabb Group, a Westborough, Mass.-based research and advisory firm focused on capital markets.
"Banks are not using commercial external clouds like Amazon and Google. If they use external clouds, it will be many years away. But quite a few are looking into internal clouds for IT systems, testing and less mission-critical apps. The cost savings that can be had are so big, it's impossible for CIOs to ignore the opportunity," McPartland said.
Cloud computing technologies promise cost savings as a result of more efficient resource utilization. In the case of public clouds (or commercial external clouds), all the hardware is managed by the cloud provider. The customer pays only for the computing resources it uses and no more. A private cloud (or internal cloud) is a computing architecture that delivers services to users behind a firewall. IT departments still save on hardware because they see better utilization of resources, which are delivered dynamically.
Lack of visibility = a lack of security
In the case of private clouds, the organization has complete control over its data and security. However, public clouds offer little in the way of service-level agreements and visibility into security, thanks to their distributed nature. A customer's data can be stored and moved between any number of data centers located around the world. "One of the phrases I've heard is, 'It's 5:00, do you know where your data is?,'" said Doug Johnson, vice president of risk management policy at the American Bankers Association.
"It's important for us to know what the security provisions are. Banks are used to having data internally or at a third-party data center where they can go and kick the tires. That's a challenge when computing is distributed," Johnson said.
This lack of visibility into the security of a cloud environment changes the way banks and other organizations in highly regulated industries must think about risk management. "An infrastructure that you know something about is inherently less risky than one you don't know anything about," said George Reese, chief technology officer of enStratus Networks LLC, a Minneapolis-based provider of cloud infrastructure management. "But that doesn't mean a public cloud is less secure than a private data center environment. It just means that you'll always have less information about that environment from which to make decisions about security," Reese said.
Case in point: A cloud provider might take a Fort Knox approach to security. But a lack of knowledge about the external data center represents a tremendous risk to a potential customer, explained Reese. "In order to be secure in the cloud, you need to be able to get answers to questions about what the provider is doing in the cloud," he said.
To further complicate matters, there is a lack of regulatory guidance associated with cloud computing technologies. "The regulations were written decades ago before the technology existed, so they don't address issues related to the cloud. These unknowns keep banks away," McPartland said.
The big audit firms try to stay ahead of the game by understanding how technology works, but they offer only limited guidance. "They have their interpretations of the law, but a law firm or audit firm opinion is still not a regulatory blessing," McPartland said.
While cloud computing providers are responsible for proving compliance to potential customers, regulators may see the matter differently. "Regulators may say that it doesn't matter what downstream providers promise. A bank could get all the promises they want but still be liable," said Paul Miller, founder of U.K.-based consulting firm, Cloud of Data.
Erring on the side of caution, many banks are choosing to wait for guidance from regulators on how they should view cloud computing technologies. "The SEC clearly has its hands full with implementation of regulations, so this is low on the list of priorities. It will be a couple years before [banks receive any guidance]," McPartland said.
Those banks that wish to move forward with public cloud computing are advised to go slowly. "Take the applications and use cases that you think might work in a cloud environment and try them one at a time. Do as much due diligence as possible to make sure the technology is within the letter and spirit of the law," McPartland said.
"Make sure your contract and SLA are water tight. Put in place some kind of inspection regime. At the end of the day, take a calculated risk," Miller said.
Private clouds: Cost savings and security
For many banks, a calculated risk is understandably too much to stomach. Instead, they are considering an internal cloud. "There is a lot of traction on the internal cloud front. Drivers are cost savings more than anything else," McPartland said.
Such is the case for McHenry Savings Bank, based in McHenry, Ill. The full-service community bank runs all of its storage in a private cloud. "At first we only virtualized the server farm, then we realized the advantages and moved all of the desktops to the cloud as well. Now everything connects to two storage units," said Bryan Nash, senior vice president of IT and chief information officer of McHenry Savings Bank.
Workstations connect to the internal cloud for applications and local storage via a Pano Device from Redwood City, Calif.-based Pano Logic Inc. The Pano Device is a stateless desktop computing hardware device that connects input-output devices like keyboards and display devices to a virtualized Microsoft Windows OS running in the data center. This setup has eliminated resource utilization issues for end users. "Now if they need more horsepower, it's there for them. As long as I have resources available," Nash said, "I can make them available to more people, and I can always add to it. I had a SAN that was filling up, so I added another in the cloud."
The internal cloud and virtualized desktops save McHenry Savings Bank money in a number of areas. The bank now saves more than $1,000 a month in electricity costs alone. But it has also experienced savings in labor. The IT department no longer has to deal with physical end-user machines going bad, and all administration tasks are centralized in the cloud. The department, which consists of two full-time and one part-time personnel, manages 135 virtual machines and 12 hosts, plus routers, switches and security.
Moving all storage to an internal cloud has also improved security. "Before every desktop was vulnerable, people could store data on their local PC, hook up USBs. Now if someone steals a Pano, they get nothing. They can't plug in USB devices or CD burners," Nash explained.
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AD5111, AD5113, AD5115: Shutdown mode
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AD5142 - IBIS File
AD5161: Error in equation 4 / effect of wiper resistance, VW
AD5203: Negative voltage at the output
AD5206: Timing
AD5222: Absolute maximum ratings, latchup, zero code resistance and distortion
AD5222: Residual audio signal
AD5232 Daisy Cain Mode Issues
ad5232: Connection of VSS
AD5232: Daisy chain
AD5235: Daisy chain
AD5235: Programming
AD5243 VOL output logic level
AD5248 fuse bit / power up at midscale
AD524: Thermal resistance
AD524: Theta JA(Junction to Ambient Temperature) and Theta JC (Junction to case Temperature)
AD524: Working in a strong magnetic field
AD5251, AD5252, Theta JC Values
AD5252 I2C pins on VDD+0.3V
AD5252: Channal matching
AD5254 - different VDD and I2C bus voltage
AD5258 datasheet shows how to calculate RWA and RWB. These AD5258 data sheet max Rwb query
AD5259 - "Not Connected Option - third logical stage "1", "0", "NC" ??
AD5259 I2C Device Address
AD5263, connection of Digital Pot SHDN Pin 15
AD5272_wiper resistance
AD527x resistance calculation
AD527x, how to measure the resistance value of digipot
AD5290: Nominal resistance
AD5292: SPI Mode issues
AD5293: shift register DIN with MSB first or least?
AD5301 Signal Accuracy and Absolute Error
AD5301: Reference usage
AD5318: locked status due to power on
AD5321_I2C level translator
AD5331: output voltage range and reduced output swing with greater loading
AD5338: Difference in offset between channel 1 and channel 2 of the AD5338
AD53500: Thermal questions
AD5363 AD5362_SPI communication with Blackfin processor
AD536: Using a potential divider
AD5370: Data Input Format
AD5383-5 maximum current that can be supplied by each voltage output?
AD5383: Pin connections
AD5405_four quadrant resistors
AD5412 output voltage range
AD5420 using an external resistor RSET
AD5420: ASYNCHRONOUS CLEAR Function
AD5420: fault flag state is indeterminate when digital power is applied first.
AD5420: What happens to output current if supply voltage drops below 10.8V, at what point is shutdown?
AD5421 Si revisions and influence on HART tests
AD5422 - Connecting multiple DVCC outputs together
AD5422: 3 pin SPI interface
AD5422: HART compatability
AD5422: What is the role of R27 Socket in AD5422's EVB?
AD5422_SPI daisy chain reading
AD5429: DAC not responding to sending of serial word
AD5439: crosstalk problem
AD5440 - Pin out query
AD5449 mixed mode DACloading query
AD5449: Output noise spectral density
AD548B replacement is ADA4062
AD549: Higher noise
AD549: Noise problem
AD5522 Evaluation Board kit documenation does not match datasheet Rev E?
AD5546: reference input circuit
AD5553 Operating Temperature
AD5554: Bias over temperature
AD5554: Current circuit
ad557: Maximum output current
AD5623R CLR pin
AD5640: Increasing gain
AD565A: did a AD565A/BIN exist?
AD5662: Output Buffer does not reach the Rails at nanoDac and add additional FSR Erroro - related to ALL nano Dacs with Voltage Output Buffer
AD5696R I2C SDA stuck on GND
AD5700 logic signal isolation
AD5700 Protocols
AD5700: HART Manufacturing ID
AD5722R, NC pins have 2 additional working DAC channel outputs (same as AD5724R)
AD574: Maximum ratings for 10V input
AD5750 hardware mode OUTEN
AD5750-1: Can the software determine which variant of AD5750 is populated -1 or -2?
AD5755 Non-Linearity
AD5755_vsense connection_DCDC_transfer function
AD5764_SYNC pin as CS.
AD5791 daisy chain
AD5791 Noise?
AD5791 question re Gain of Two Configuration
AD5791: Recommended reference
ad667: If CS\=0 are input latches transparent
AD667: supply voltage
AD688_internal resistors value
AD698 becoming hot
AD698 power supply current calculation
AD698 Supply Voltage versus Output Voltage
AD698: 6 wire sensor connection
AD698: Lead/lag pins
AD698: Maximum input at A and B input
AD698: phase lead / phase lag compensation
AD698: Power supply
AD698: Power supply +/-12V
AD698: R3 calculation error in datasheet phase lead phase lag compensation
AD8403: Connecting to digital
AD9913 interfacing circuit
ADG506ATE/883B operating temperature and thermal resistance in Leadless Ceramic Chip Carrier Package
Alternative FET recommendation for AD421
Bandwidth of buffer and IC
Bandwidth of the Singal that can be Measured by the Comparator
Can DAC SPI pins be left floating for a while before the micro is configured
Can multiple AD5660 devices be updated simultaneously?
Can you confirm 2's Complement coding in Table 14 of AD5724 datasheet Rev. D?
CN0336: Where can I find a solution for a receiver in a 4-20mA current loop sensor application?
Connect the AD5412/AD5422's Iout and Vout pins directly together
connection to the Exposed Pad of the Chip Scale Package for AD5664?
Current loop and HART with 4 channels
DAC8800BR/883C datasheet
Daisy chaining AD5271 and ADG714 possibility
Daisy Chaining AD532x parts
Datasheet output noise, figures 45, 46 and 47 labelled incorrectly
DEMO-AD5700D2Z kit : Finding a low cost IDE
Digital potentiometer: Rheostat mode: Bandwidth calculation
Do the AD5254 adjustable resistors have galvanic isolation?
Does AD5245 (Potentiometer) have a log or linear taper?
Error in Figure 32 - 2-wire serial bus
EVAL-AD5791SDZ for arbitrary function generators
Eval-ADUCM360QSPZ + Demo-AD5700D2Z
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Key differences in specification between the AD674BBD and BTD grades
Labview Error 1172 (.NET exception) when starting AD5780 evaluation software
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nanoDAC+ family
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Power Supply Rails
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Problem with HART Modem
Programmable LDO
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Purpose of the switch on the RTS - HART_OUT line
schematic diagram to control AD9913
Setting up the AD5755
The AD5420/AD5422 does not seem to function as I expect when using external RSET?
The maximum acceptable clock rise time for the AD5160's reliable operation?
Thermal Analysis Data
Thermal resistance value of AD5755
unused SDO output to tie or not to tie or leave it open that is the question
Using SYNC as a Chip Select Pin
Using the AD5755 family in Applications Without Dynamic Power Control
Using toggle mode in the AD5384 using an I2C interface
VDD and VLOGIC
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SEATTLE — It's tweaking season and Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington knows it.
He has his scouts out looking for bullpen help and righthanded power, and if there's a chance to do something big in the starting rotation, he would.
The Sox have had their eyes on Phillies infielder Michael Young. The Phillies had two scouts watching the Sox in Anaheim and other scouts positioned in Boston's fertile farm system. The Sox feel they could use more righthanded power with diminishing returns from Mike Napoli, so that could become a priority.
If Cherington wanted to do something big — the Marlins' Giancarlo Stanton, for instance — he has the pieces to make a deal like that happen.
But potential trades have a tricky element: The Sox have devoted so much energy and resources to building good team chemistry, could changes disrupt a good thing?
Cherington acknowledged such discussions among the inner circle on Yawkey Way. The Sox are in first place, with their lead at 3½-games after Monday's loss. Whatever they've been doing has been working.
Immediately, however, they need a replacement for Andrew Miller, who it appears will need season-ending ligament surgery on his left foot. What a blow. Miller had found his niche in the bullpen and was a vital cog, especially effective against righthanded hitters.
The Sox once had three lefties in the pen, now they have one — Craig Breslow.
White Sox lefty Matt Thornton could be a possibility given the familiarity of Red Sox pitching coach Juan Nieves to the White Sox staff. Righty Jesse Crain, who has been sidelined with a sore shoulder but has a 0.74 ERA for the White Sox, could be back soon.
"I don't know if it's as important whether it's left or right," Cherington said. "We need good pitchers."
Cherington said Monday that finding an internal solution is preferred. But Thornton, who has been a closer, had held lefties to a .163 average.
"The most efficient way to do it would be to ignore [the trade market] completely," Cherington said. "But then you run the risk of not having enough guys out there. We have to strike the right balance in the middle . . . I do think that if you can find solutions internally, that's always the better way to go."
Cherington knows more than anyone that the reliever market is a crapshoot. He was in on the decision-making leading to the Eric Gagne deal in 2007. He's been burned by Bobby Jenks and Andrew Bailey and Joel Hanrahan. Mark Melancon never got his Red Sox career going yet he's been lights-out in Pittsburgh.
"We've got to have an open mind," Cherington said. "As I said before, the players and the staff have done a great job putting us in this position working so hard, so we have an obligation to help them if we can. Losing Andrew is not something we were planning on. We'll have to react and try to find solutions."
Cherington won't necessarily be targeting a closer. He feels Koji Uehara has done a good job and believes Uehara can be the closer for the remainder of the season, though he said that's manager John Farrell's decision.
The Sox are keeping their eyes on some closers, however, including the Phillies' Jonathan Papelbon, the Mets' Bobby Parnell, and Steve Cishek of the Marlins.
The Sox wouldn't mind a few roster upgrades. That could be at third base, where Young would blend in nicely with team chemistry. According to a source, the Sox have yet to exchange names with the Phillies, but it's a situation worth following.
Cherington said the plan was to keep Will Middlebrooks in Triple A for a while to recapture whatever edge he's lost. Middlebrooks has been hot at Pawtucket and he's also being reminded that teammate Xander Bogaerts is now a threat for the job, and that Double A third baseman Garin Cecchini is coming on fast. Middlebrooks could be major trade bait if the Sox were thinking of doing something big.
"We're committing to a plan and let's carry it out and give him a chance to get his feet underneath him again," Cherington said of Middlebrooks. "He's done that."
A righthanded-hitting outfielder also could be in play.
Jacoby Ellsbury and Shane Victorino were both out with minor injuries Monday night, leaving the Sox with three healthy outfielders. Jackie Bradley Jr. is the most likely call-up, but he's not righthanded. That's why you hear names like Alex Rios linked with the Red Sox, because the White Sox could be selling players off any day now.
Cherington doesn't seem to feel the Red Sox have a big need for a starting pitcher, especially with Clay Buchholz likely to return after the All-Star break.
"It's a fine line, a slippery slope, call it whatever," Cherington said. "The moment you saw you have enough pitching, you don't. We've been through all that. You just have to make the right decisions at the right time and try to project what the needs might be later in the season. Sometimes that's not always easy to do.
"I think we're in a good position of being able to do some things if we need to. At the same time you want to protect the young core players that you think will be a big part of your future."
And so the bell has sounded. Cherington needs a reliever and beyond that could do something bold. Whenever a GM mentions "upgrade," that could mean something big.
Nick Cafardo can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @nickcafardo.


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Compiling Python Source to Real Java Classes
The previous section describes how Python classes can be created that subclass from Java classes. This works very well when you want to pass a Python class into Java from Jython. This is not adequate for building real Java ".class" files that implement a Java class and can be passed directly to Java programs. This sort of functionality is required to build applets, servlets, or JavaBeans in Jython that can be used exactly like their Java equivalents. It is also very valuable for users who wish to subclass Python classes in Java.
In order to build a real java class from a Python class, you will use the jythonc tool. A script called "jythonc" should have been installed in the Jython installation directory when you installed the package. If it was not, it can be invoked as follows: "jython Tools\jythonc\jythonc.py".
The jythonc tool generates actual Java source code, and then invokes a Java compiler over this source code to create the .class files. Thus, you will need access to a Java compiler in order to use jythonc. It is recommended that you use Sun's standard javac compiler, or IBM's excellent jikes compiler. Specifically, the Microsoft SDK jvc compiler is not recommended.
Invoke jythonc like this:
jythonc [options] [module]*
Options are given in the table below. Note that jythonc now uses the standard Python getopt module, meaning that both long and short forms of the options are available. The old option names still work, and are described below, but noted as deprecated and will be removed in a future version.
In order to create real java class, the Python module must contain a Python class with the same name as the module, and that Python class must subclass exactly one Java class or interface. The real Java class created will be a subclass of whatever Java class is subclassed.
Compiling python methods to java methodsNormally, compiled python methods are not directly callable from java. There is simple not sufficient information in a python method definition to create a useable java method. There are however two ways a python method be made into real java method. Both ways require that the python class have a java class or a java interface as its base classes.
On my Windows NT machine, I used the following command to create the file appletdemo.jar (containing all of the applet demos on the web site, as well as the core Jython libraries):
c:\jython\Demo\applet> jythonc --core --deep --jar appletdemo.jar *.py
Note: One special thing to consider when building applets is the java VM version used when compiling the sources must usually be the same as the VM version used by the browser. If a newer JVM is used when compiling the applets, the compiled code may have references to classes that does not exists in older JVM's.
To generate a skeleton class to allow a Python class to be used as java.awt.Component in a Java gui program, I used the following command:
c:\jython\Demo\javaclasses> jythonc Graph.py
To generate a Jython-based bean I do the following:
c:\jython\Demo\bean> jythonc --deep --bean f2c.jar conversion.FahrenheitToCelsius
To use this with SUN's BDK, I do the following (the important steps are to make the bean and the Jython libraries known to the tool).
You should now be able to access the FahrenheitToCelsius bean from SUN's BeanBox (or other Bean-aware tool).
Freezing modulesjythonc can also be used to freeze a python application. The frozen application can then be distributed and deployed as any other java application.
Some diffrences between an interpreted application and a frozen application exists:


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Turabian Style Guide
This guide has been created with the 6th edition of Kate Turabian's A Manual for Writers, and updated with the 15th ed. of the Chicago Manual of Style. Please refer to these books for further information. Our guide is intended as a tip sheet for some of the common citations used in bibliographies, works cited or reference lists. For in text citations please see: http://library.concordia.ca/help/howto/turabian.pdf.
Your paper should be titled "Bibliography" and the works should be alphabetized.
Book: Single Author
Corporate Author
Book With Editor, No Author
Book: More Than One Author Or Editor
Chapter Or Article by One Author From Book by Another Author or Editor
Authors' Work Translated or Edited by Another
Article in a Journal
Article in a Magazine
Article in a Newspaper:
Turabian states that items from daily newspapers are rarely listed in a bibliography. A parenthetical reference in the text is sufficient if the article is cited once or twice (p. 204). If it must be cited, use the following format:
If the newspaper or several of its issues are used frequently, note only the newspaper name plus the dates.
The Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed.) recommends omitting page numbers in newspaper citations due to the fact that there can be several editions of a daily paper where articles may appear in different places. If the paper is online, simply add the URL at the end of the citation.
Reference Works
Turabian states in section 11.42, p. 204, that well known reference books should not generally be listed in bibliographies. Chicago gives the following for not-so-well-known reference works:
Book Review
ERIC Document
Published Proceedings
Thesis or Dissertation
Government Publications
The following is cited from the University of Memphis's "Uncle Sam - Brief guide to Citing Government Publications" (http://exlibris.memphis.edu/resource/unclesam/citeweb.html). More examples and information can be found at that site. The general format for government publications is as follows:
Citing Electronic Works
The only electronic works covered by Turabian are electronic documents from ERIC (p. 210) and online technical reports (p.227-29). No examples are given of Internet sites or articles from full-text online databases. Therefore, the following citations are based on Chicago Manual 15th ed. Note: When citing electronic materials, Chicago Manual states that an access date need only be included "If the publisher or discipline requires it..." (p. 754).
CD-ROMs and DVD's
Full-Text Database (journal/magazine or newspaper article)
Web Page
Include as much of the following as can be determined: author of the content, title of the page, title or owner of the site, URL, and access date (see note above). Sometimes authors are not identified. The owner of the site may stand in for the author. For content from informal sites such as personal web pages where titles are lacking, descriptive phrases may be used:
Online Reference Works
If using a well known reference work, cite in text or the notes - there is no need to include it in the bibliography. If you do cite, use the following format:
Electronic Journal (E-Journal)
Electronic Books
In general, electronic book citations follow the format given for print books with the addition of either a URL or description of the format. If the book is available in both print and electronic form, it may be helpful to point that out in your bibliography. If your instructor requires an access date, include this in parentheses at the end of the citation.
E-Books from Online Libraries or CDs
E-Books on the Internet (chapter)
Online Multimedia
Turabian offers no guidance for citing e-mail. Chicago Manual states that "References to conversations (whether face-to-face or by telephone) or to letters, e-mail messages, and the like received by the author are usually run into the text or given in a note." (p. 706)
Disclaimer: USM Libraries offer this handout as a guide only. We cannot offer suggestions or interpretations about citations. Please refer to the actual Style Manual or your teacher for clarifications.
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