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Police: Pair may have committed dozens of burglaries
Burglary spree may date back to 2010
Two people are in custody in connection with a half-dozen burglaries, but prosecutors said the pair may have committed many more.
Colerain Township police said Joshalyn Rutherford and Robert Cunningham were arrested after attempting to break into homes earlier this month and that the two may have been involved in dozens of burglaries dating back to 2010 in Colerain Township, Springfield Township, Woodlawn and Fairfield.
Colerain police Officer Joe Carter heard the call for help from a homeowner that two burglars were firing BBs through the window.
"As I was going down Springdale Road, I did observe the suspects running between the yards," Carter said. "At that point, we started a track of the suspects."
Rutherford and Cunningham were arrested 20 minutes later -- a conclusion to a hunt that began years earlier for Colerain police. They headed a task force that brought together the detective work of several departments plagued by the same types of home burglaries.
"We were patrolling certain areas at certain times, trying to identify who the people were and get them into custody," Carter said.
The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office said the pair may be involved in even more burglaries in other states.
Fairfield police Sgt. Jeff Sprague said residents can feel safer after the arrests.
"Everyone should be rest assured, feel better at night knowing that these offenders have been apprehended by the Colerain Police Department
Cunningham's bond was set at $460,000, while Rutherford's was set at $130,000. Police said they will begin returning the stolen goods to their rightful owners as soon as processing is completed.

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JOSEPH BEN ISAAC BEKOR SHOR OF ORLEANS:(Redirected from JOSEPH BEKOR SHOR.)
French tosafist, exegete, and poet; flourished in the second half of the twelfth century; pupil of Jacob Tam, Joseph Caro, and Samuel ben Meïr (Rashbam). The identity of Joseph Bekor Shor and the tosafist Joseph ben Isaac of Orleans has been sufficiently demonstrated by Gross, who showed that the same explanations given in the Tosafot (Ḥul. 112b; Yeb. 25b, 36b) in the name of Joseph ben Isaac, are quoted in the "Semaḳ" (No. 205) and in Meïr of Rothenburg's Responsa (ed. Prague, No. 863) as those of Joseph Bekor Shor. Joseph was on very friendly terms with his teacher Jacob Tam, with whom he carried on a learned correspondence ("Sefer ha-Yashar," p. 71a). Besides tosafot on the greater part of the Talmud, he wrote a Biblical commentary marked by considerable acumen. Even more than Rashi, to whose exegetical school he belonged, he confined himself to literal interpretations ("peshaṭ"). Anticipating later Biblical criticism, he assumed the presence of duplicate narratives in the Bible; and he strove to give rational explanations to the miraculous stories. Thus he interprets "tree of life" (Gen. ii. 9) as "tree of healing," explaining that the fruit of the tree possessed the virtue of healing the sick, without, however, bestowing eternal life. In regard to the transformation of Lot's wife into a pillar of salt (Gen. xix. 26) he explains that, disbelieving in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, she lingered on the road, and was overtaken by the rain of brimstone and fire, which are usually mixed with salt.
Well acquainted with the Vulgate and Christian Biblical exegesis, Joseph, in commenting on Psalm ii., cites Jerome, whose explanation of the word
Joseph was the author also of a number of liturgical poems. Besides the short hymns in the style of Ibn Ezra with which he concludes each section of the commentary, he wrote the following seliḥot:
- Carmoly, in Univers Israélite, 1852, p. 365;
- Geiger, Parschandatha, pp. 37 et seq.;
- Zunz, Literaturgesch. pp. 282, 285;
- idem, Z. G. p. 74;
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 1446;
- Zadoc Kahn, in R. E. J. iii. 6;
- Gross, in Berliner's Magazin, i. 93;
- idem, Gallia Judaica, p. 34.


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Caribbean Scholarship in the Digital Age Webinar Series
Caribbean Scholarship in the Digital Age is a webinar series showcasing digital and/as public research and teaching in Caribbean Studies. The series provides a collaborative space for professionals to share on projects and experiences to foster communication and support our shared constellations of communities of practice. Please see the recordings:
- April 2: Digitization Training for dLOC Contributors (English)
- April 9: Demystifying Digital History (English)
- May 7: Ramble Bahamas (English)
- May 16, Présentation du projet British Library (French)
See more about the 2018 Caribbean Scholarship in the Digital Age Webinar Series.
Hurricane Irma Caribbean Recovery, Relief, and Rebuild Initiative
September 15th, 2017 as of 3:00pm
Please help us support our Caribbean community. We are working to help our Caribbean community recover from the devastating impact of Hurricane Irma. We have been using every means necessary to communicate and relay information quickly with those affected in the Caribbean as well as those willing to contribute and extend their support.
As of this moment we have received urgent needs lists from Sint Maarten Philipsburg Jubilee Library and from the National Library of Antigua and Barbuda. The American Library Association (ALA) is partnering with us to help expedite relief efforts. More information and details are forthcoming. We will be creating a centralized resource to help keep track of information and resources as they become available. We will also be using our social media accounts to quickly distribute communications since Facebook and WhatsApp have been working in the affected Caribbean region.
Our Official handle for Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram is: @dLOCaribbean
If you would like to help or provide support please contact me via phone to (305) 348-3008 or email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Thank you,
Miguel Asencio, Executive Director
dLOC Webinar: Introducción a la Biblioteca Digital del Caribe
20 de junio de 2017, 11am (costa este): http://ufsmathers.adobeconnect.com/dlocintroduccion
Este seminario en línea va a centrarse en las diferentes posibilidades que ofrece dLOC, como por ejemplo varias funciones de búsqueda y tipos de documentos que alberga. Al final del mismo se atenderán las preguntas que surjan.
Caribbean Scholarship in the Digital Age Webinar Series
Caribbean Scholarship in the Digital Age is a webinar series showcasing digital and/as public research and teaching in Caribbean Studies. The series provides a collaborative space for professionals to share on projects and experiences to foster communication and support our shared constellations of communities of practice. We are currently planning new webinars for 2017-2018. More about upcoming webinars in the series will be posted her in August/September 2017.
Click here to participate in the online event: http://ufsmathers.adobeconnect.com/Caribbean
See the archived videos of the webinars:
- Dr. Schuyler Esprit, Dominica State College, Create Caribbean Inc.
- Dr. Alex Gil, Columbia University and sx: archipelagos
- Nathan Dize and Abby Broughton, on Colony in Crisis
- Dr. Sara Gonzalez, Beyond Trinkets: The Value of 3D in the Library
The crowd helps unlocking historical maps of the Caribbean
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has started the project Maps in the Crowd. Nearly 1,100 digitized maps of the Caribbean will be unlocked with help from visitors, students and others who are interested. The project started on the 20th of March and will continue until May 2017. With participation of the public we hope to improve the accessibility of digital map data for teaching and research.
A special application has been developed to help the participants connect the digitalized historical maps, through the process of georeferencing, to a modern topographical map in Google Maps. It is quite straightforward: the historical map and its modern counterpart can be connected by designating five or more corresponding control points. The georeferenced map will then be shown as an overlay in Google Maps. Everyone who is interested is welcome to join our project. More information is available on the blog Maps in the Crowd.
The Caribbean Maps
The collection of Caribbean maps consist of printed and hand-drawn maps (some of them in more sheets) and some atlases from the sixteenth to twentieth century of Central America and the Caribbean in general and the Netherlands Antilles in particular. The larger part of this collection is part of the bequest of the nineteenth century map collector Johannes Tiberius Bodel Nijenhuis (1797-1872), complemented with maps from the collections of the Royal Institute for Southeast-Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) and the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT).
System Maintenance - February 2nd, 2017
The SobekCM environment will be undergoing system maintenance and an upgrade to SobekCM 4.10.1 (February 2nd). This upgrade will result in the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) site to be unavailable starting at 6 a.m. (EST) and will be operational again by 8 a.m. (EST).
For any issues after the upgrade is complete, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
For a full list of enhancements that will be included in this upgrade, please visit http://sobekrepository.org/sobekcm/currentversion
Haiti: An Island Luminous
The Digital Library of the Caribbean is pleased to announce the launch of Haiti An Island Luminous in French and Haitian Creole during the Haitian Studies Association's 28th Annual Conference in Cap-Haïtien on November 10 - 12, 2016.
The online exhibit is an introduction to Haitian History and Haitian Studies that combines rare books, manuscripts, and photos scanned by archives and libraries in Haiti and the United States with commentary by over one hundred (100) authors from universities around the world.
The site was first launched in English during the Global Caribbean Exhibition V at the Little Haiti Cultural Center (Miami) in January 2014. This year, the Haiti An Island Luminous is made available in Kreyòl and Français in order to reach readers around the globe. Check out the new trilingual site: http://islandluminous.fiu.edu
Barbados Synagogue Restoration Project, Launch on Oct. 26, 2016
Please join us for the launch of the Barbados Synagogue Restoration Project Records Online on Wednesday, October 26, 2016 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM At the Barbados Museum. See full details in the event flier.
University of Florida and Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Martí begin strategic collaborations
dLOC Partners Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Martí and University of Florida have a new information sheet on planned and developing projects and programs. See the full announcement.
Early Historic Danish West Indies Newspapers Digitized, News Release, August 29, 2016
Danish West Indian newspaper titles being digitized by the Statsbiblioteket include The Bulletin, the Danish West Indian, Lightbourn's Mail Notes, The Herald, The Royal Danish American Gazette, Danish West Indian Regierings Avis, St. Croix Avis, The Saint Croix Bulletin, The Saint Thomas Gazette, Sanct Thomæ Journal, the Saint Thomas Herald and The West End News. The Territorial Archives, a unit of the Division of Libraries, Archives and Museums, in collaboration with the Digital Library of the Caribbean and the University of the Virgin Islands, is also digitizing for free public access issues of D. Hamilton Jackson's newspaper, The Herald. Over 3,000 pages are already available online. See the full news announcement.
Diversity Award from the Society of American Archivists to the Latin American & Caribbean Cultural Heritage Archives Roundtable's Webinar Series (LACCHA Webinars, co-sponsored by dLOC and ACURIL)
The Latin American & Caribbean Cultural Heritage Archives (LACCHA) Roundtable webinar series, co-sponsored by dLOC and ACURIL, "Desmantelando Fronteras/Breaking Down Borders," is the 2016 recipient of the Society of American Archivists' Diversity Award. This award recognizes an individual, group, or institution for outstanding contributions in advancing diversity within the archives profession, SAA, or the archival record. (Full announcement)
dLOC Nominated for DLF Community Capacity Award
dLOC is one of the nominees for the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Community/Capacity Awards. See the full list of nominees on the DLF website.
Caribbean Writer Launch Event
The University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) with the support of dLOC will be hosting a launch of the Caribbean Writer's digital release of its historical volumes. This event will be held on Wednesday April 13, 2016, 5:30pm – 7:00pm at the UVI Libraries in St Thomas, St Croix and FIU's Library Special Collections; with a light reception to follow at the UVI Library and FIU Special Collections.
We encourage faculty members and students participation to this commemorative event either in the US Virgin Islands or in Miami. There will be distinguished guest speakers from the Caribbean at the event locations. UVI event program and UVI flier, and FIU event flier.
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)'s DORSA Collection in dLOC
We are pleased to announce that our newest dLOC partner collection from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Archives is now accessible in dLOC. The Records of the Dominican Republic Settlement Association (DORSA), 1939-1977collection exhibits more than fifty files about the role of the JDC in assisting refugees from Nazi Europe to settle in the Dominican Republic and establish agricultural colonies, in particular the settlement at Sosua. The collection records in dLOC link back to the digital collection of the JDC Archives, where users can download pdfs of the documents.This collection is a valuable addition to dLOC that will continue to develop Caribbean research material particularly in the understudied areas.More about JDC Archives.
Partnership with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is also a new collaboration with the Jewish Diaspora Collection.
FIU Special Collections contributes Cuban Genealogy Materials to dLOC
The Enrique Hurtado de Mendoza Collection of Cuban Genealogy was acquired by FIU Libraries Special Collections in 2012 and includes rare 17th and 18th century books, handwritten and typed letters, long out-of-print publications and periodicals, photos and other primary documents relating to Cuba and Cuban genealogy, collected over four decades by Felix Enrique Hurtado de Mendoza. The online collection of select materials, digitized by the Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami, makes thousands of unpublished family genealogies and manuscripts available for research online.
November 3rd, 2015 - New collection in dLOC: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)'s DORSA Collection in dLOC.
dLOC in the news for FIU's new Hurtado Collection, "'Cuban equivalent' of Ancestry.com a boon to family historians" (June 2015)
See the dLOC Newsletter
Coming Soon
- See recent and pending technology news for SobekCM (Open Source software technologies powering dLOC)
- News soon on second round of dLOC Seed Grant in 2016 - dLOC seed grant funding program
dLOC Announces the 2014 Award Recipients
The success of the dLOC collaboration relies on the support and dedication of many exceptional people and institutions. dLOC is privileged to acknowledge some of those who make this resource possible with these awards which were presented during the 2014 ACURIL Conference in Nassau, The Bahamas.
dLOC Receives the ACURIL (Association of Caribbean Libraries) Alliances and Collaborative Projects in the Caribbean Award
On the celebration of the 10th Anniversary of collaborative work of Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) in the region, the 2014 ACURIL Conference recognized the outstanding work of dLOC with the Albertina Pérez de Rosa Information Units Alliances and Collaborative Projects in the Caribbean. This award recognizes and honors the excellent performance of alliance and collaborative efforts of local or regional information units and communities of practice, or by private enterprises, evidenced through the implementation of successful information projects for the benefit of their clienteles in the Caribbean. Thank you for this very special recognition, ACURIL!
2014-2015 Financially Supporting dLOC Members
Thank you to the following institutions who have already joined to support dLOC with membership for this year. dLOC relies on the institutional support of its partners and the financial support of institutional and personal members to continue to sustain and grow this important resource.
Executive dLOC Members: Florida International University Libraries, University of Central Florida, University of Florida Libraries, Latin American Research Resources Project*
Sustaining dLOC Member: Duke University Libraries, Florida International University Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida State University, University of Miami,University of Virgin Islands
Supporting dLOC Members: Belize National Library of Heritage Service
Contributing dLOC Members: Brown University John Hay Library, University of South Florida, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Princeton University Library, National Library of Jamaica
* This funding is to support the digitization of Noticias de Hoy.
2013-2014 Financially Supporting dLOC Members
Thank you to the following institutions who have already joined to support dLOC with membership for this year. dLOC relies on the institutional support of its partners and the financial support of institutional and personal members to continue to sustain and grow this important resource.
Executive dLOC Members: Florida International University Libraries, University of Central Florida, University of Florida Libraries, Latin American Research Resources Project*
Sustaining dLOC Member: Florida International University Latin American and Caribbean Center, University of Virgin Islands, University of Miami
Supporting dLOC Members: Belize National Library of Heritage Service, Duke University, New York University
Contributing dLOC Members: Brown University John Hay Library, CARICOM, National Archives of Haiti, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra
* This funding is to support the digitization of El Mundo microfilm.
dLOC and the Green Family Foundation announce new exhibit: "Haiti: An Island Luminous"
An Island Luminous pairs rare books, manuscripts, newspapers, and photos digitized by libraries and archives in Haiti and the United States with commentary by more than 100 experts at 75 universities around the world.
The fourth dLOC newsletter is now online!
In this edition you can learn about the latest dLOC milestones, new collaborations for outreach, content and sustainability, the latest dLOC partner training and summaries of content available in dLOC.
July 2013: Major Grant Award to UPR and UF for Historic Newspapers
- Two dLOC partners, the University of Puerto Rico - Rio Pierdas (UPR) and UF, were awarded National Digital Newspaper Program Grant for $325,000 to digitize newspapers from Puerto Rico and Florida, with the digital newspapers going into several repositories including dLOC (grant proposal)
July/August 2013: Scholarly Publication & dLOC Advanced Training Institute
- dLOC Advanced Topics Training Institute: many presentations, trainings, and activities
- "Scholarly Publishing in the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)." By Laurie N. Taylor, Brooke Wooldridge, Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler, Mark V. Sullivan, Benjamin Hebblethwaite, & Megan Raitano. Library Publishing Toolkit (2013).
May 2013: UPR Awarded Grant to Digitize El Mundo Newspaper for 1936
- The University of Puerto Rico - Rio Pierdas (UPR) was awarded a grant for dLOC's Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library: Digitization Proposal to LARRP for El Mundo newspaper from Puerto Rico for 1936. See the grant proposal and a short news story.
2013: Select Presentations and Trainings
- dLOC Partner Presentations at the Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL) 2013 Conference. San Juan, Puerto Rico. June 6-10, 2013.
- "Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) and Collaborative Digital Programs for Government Documents." Presenter: Brooke Wooldridge. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida. March 25-27, 2013.
- "UNA Digital Learning Material Project" Training and Presentations. Presenter: Mark Sullivan. Curaçao: University of the Netherlands Antilles. March 20-22, 2013.
- Presentation on dLOC at THATCamp Florida in Orlando, FL (February 2013).
- "Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) Training on digitization theory and practice and management of digitization projects." Trainer: Mark Sullivan. US Virgin Islands: University of the Virgin Islands. Jan. 17-18, 2013.
Other News
SALALM: Popular Culture: Arts and Social Change in Latin America
dLOC representatives Laurie Taylor, Gayle Williams and Brooke Wooldridge presented "Digital Library Representations of Popular Culture, and Relevance and Impact for Social Change" at the annual SALALM conference in St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, June 16-19, 2012. Other panelists included Shamin Renwick from UWI St. Augustine with "Digital Library Initiatives in the Caribbean and the dLOC" and Cheryl Small from UWI Barbados with "Caribbean Resources and their Availability in Electronic Media".
ACURIL: 365 Doors Opened on the Technological Information Revolution
dLOC participated in the ACURIL library conference in Petionville, Haiti, June 3-9, 2012. Six dLOC Haiti partners presented to a standing room only audience in the Information Technology Special Interest Group about "Digital Library of the Caribbean – Haiti". Laurie Taylor and Brooke Wooldridge shared with the conference panelists about the "The Promise of Digital Libraries Against the Perils of Erasure" and in the poster session participants learned more about dLOC and projects in Haiti through the informative poster designed by Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler, Exhibits Coordinator, University of Florida.
Bridging the Invisible Gap: Teaching the Caribbean to Heritage Learners
Israel Alonso, Liesl Picard and Brooke Wooldridge led a discussion about teaching the Caribbean to heritage learners in Miami at the Caribbean Studies Association May 29, 2012, in Le Gosier, Guadeloupe. The topical collections and lesson plans available in dLOC are excellent resources.
Latin American Studies Association (LASA) and dLOC
In the annual LASA conference, Toward a Third Century of Independence in Latin America from May 23-26, 2012, the Scholarly Research Resources and Haiti and Dominican Republic sections combined forces to promote Caribbean research and networking. In addition, Brooke Wooldridge presented "Disaster Response on the Cultural Front: Collaboration to Save the Cultural Heritage in the Wake of Earthquakes" comparing the cases of Haiti, Chile and New Zealand.
Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars: Publishing Roundtable
dLOC presented for the second time at the ACWWS conference in Paramaribo, Suriname, on a publishing roundtable at the conference from May 8-12, 2012. The presentation, "The Digital Library of the Caribbean: A new model for collections" generated significant interest in the diverse group represented at the conference. dLOC also hosts the ACWWS journal, MaComere.
EducaVision Collection Comes Online
Florida-based Educa Vision Inc. (EVI) designs, develops, publishes, and distributes a broad range of Haitian-related educational materials for use in Haiti, United States, Canada and the Caribbean area. The publisher is now contributing select materials to dLOC. Please see their collection online here: http://www.dloc.com/ieducav.
"Researching Haitian Law" Article Updated
GlobaLex, an electronic legal publication dedicated to international and foreign law research, published an update to the article "Researching Haitian Law" by Marisol Florén Romero which highlights many of the unique materials made accessible via dLOC, many the result of collaboration with the Law Library Microfilm Consortium.
Article: http://www.nyulawglobal.org/Globalex/Haiti1.htm
Haitian Digital Law Collection: http://www.dloc.com/dlohlaw
dLOC Initiative Supports Preservation at the National Archives of Haiti
In February, dLOC representatives Brooke Wooldridge from Florida International University and Mark Sullivan from the University of Florida were joined by Bradley Coleman, a US representative to the Pan American Institute of Geography and History (PAIGH), to deliver and install equipment purchased with an $8,000 grant from PAIGH.
More info in the Protecting Haitian Patrimony February 2012 Report >>
50 | 50 The Road to Independence - Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago
This year marks the 50th anniversary of independence from Great Britain for both Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. In recognition of Black History Month, Florida International University (FIU) Libraries Special Collections and the Digital Library of the Caribbean designed a special exhibit and will host a conversation about the journey to independence.
More info in the Press Release and Event Flyer >>
Caribbean Challenge Teaching Materials (Dec. 2011)
Newsletter (Summer 2011)
Protection Haitian Patrimony Initiative Report (Jun. 2011)
Newsletter (Oct. 2010)
Concert to benefit libraries, archives damaged in the Haiti earthquake, in Gainesville, Florida on October 22, 2010 (Sept. 22, 2010)
New features with myDLOC (Apr. 21, 2010)
Protection Haitian Patrimony Initiative Assessment (Feb. 26, 2010)
Evaluation Report from Libraries without Borders Haiti Mission (February 4-11, 2010)
Séisme dévastateur/ Haïti 12 janvier 2010 Cellule de crise : « Patrimoine en Danger » (2 February 2010)
ISPAN, Institut de Sauvegarde du Patrimoine National, has just published a new issue of their Bulletin that highlights some of the damage to historic structures, 31 January 2010 (PDF)
News about the Haitian patrimonial libraries/National Archive (26 January 2010)
Please share this message with groups that may be interested.
Dear colleagues and friends,
There has been significant confusion as to the state of the four main patrimonial libraries in Port-au-Prince after the earthquake on January 12, 2010. Based on information that I have received from the Digital Library of the Caribbean partner libraries in Haiti, all four of the following library buildings are standing.
- Archives nationales d'Haïti
- Bibliothèque haïtienne des Pères du Saint-Esprit / San Martial
- Bibliothèque haïtienne des Frères de l'Instruction Chrétienne / Saint Louis de Gonzague
- Bibliothèque nationale d'Haïti
Importantly, the library at Saint Louis de Gonzague (FIC) was NOT destroyed. The reporter that stated the library had fallen was incorrect.
According to the director of the National Library, Mme. Francoise Thybulle, the structures must be inspected before the local staff can assess the situation and prepare detailed plans that will certainly ask for international assistance. While the buildings are standing, this does not diminish what will be the very real need for assistance once the local leadership is able to assess the situation. All of the library directors have asked that interested parties work together to help preserve the collections and bring these libraries/archives back into service.
Many institutions and individuals have expressed an interest in supporting the Haitian libraries/archives as they begin to rebuild. The outpouring of support and interest for the preservation of Haitian patrimony is unprecedented. Many of you are already in contact with colleagues regarding ways to help. I am trying to serve as a clearinghouse for the Haitian libraries of the different people, institutions or groups that would like to offer support to the libraries. Once I have feedback from the partner libraries in Haiti, I will share a working document of the projects I am aware of and an online survey for interested individuals to complete via www.dloc.com . Feel free to contact me personally at firstname.lastname@example.com or preferably via the dLOC Facebook Group if you are already planning a project locally.
The Digital Library of the Caribbean (www.dloc.com) has been working with partners in Haiti since it began in 2004. The National Archives in Haiti was a founding member of dLOC, and in the last few years we have developed strong relationships with both the National Library and the Fathers of the Holy Spirit (San Martial) Library. As more information becomes available from the local leadership, I will share it as widely as possible. I have been hesitant to send a large response until now because of the many conflicting reports. This information is confirmed, and comes from the directors of each library/archive.
As the many researchers that have worked in these four libraries know, their directors are completely dedicated to the preservation of their national patrimonial collections. All four have been fighting to preserve these collections for decades, and I am confident with support from the international community these collections will be preserved and accessible for many years to come.
Brooke Wooldridge
Digital Library of the Caribbean
305 348 3008
Integrating Technology and Area Studies: Discovering Caribbean Diversity
Professional Development Workshop for middle and high school foreign language, social studies and language arts teachers
Saturdays: January 23 and February 6, 8:30am-4:30pm, with accompanying online modules
Orange Park High School; 2300 Kingsley Avenue; Orange Park, Florida
Brevard County: Spring, 2010
- Learn about a region strategically important to Florida
- Interact with experts on Caribbean issues
- Take home a Caribbean resource manual
- Learn to use interactive technology tools while integrating content
- Create ready-to-use standards-based materials
- Earn up to 20 in-service hours
Sponsored by: Florida International University, University of Florida, Digital Library of the Caribbean and the Foreign Language Educators of Northeast Florida
Lunch fee of $10. Workshop limited to 25 participants.
Presentations on Haitian History, by Dr. Matthew J. Smith
- "Politics and Resistance in Twentieth Century Haiti" by Dr. Matthew J. Smith, presentation sponsored by the Digital Library of the Caribbean as part of the 12th Annual Haitian Studies Institute of Florida International University
- Red and Black in Haiti, presented at book launch by Dr. Matthew J. Smith
Jamaica Journal Historical Collection Online
November 15, 2009, 4-6pm
Florida International University; Green Library 220
Event is free and open to the public.
Video of the Jamaica Journal Online Launch (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4)
Celebrate the official launch of the Jamaica Journal online in the Digital Library of the Caribbean.
Event will feature Jamaican writer Donna Weir-Soley, reading from her book, Eroticism, Spirituality, and Resistance in Black Women's Writings. Tour an exhibit featuring the Jamaica Journal with presentations from the Institute of Jamaica.
Admission is FREE and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Subscriptions to the Jamaica Journal and books by Weir-Soley will be available for purchase and signing.
Co-Sponsors Include: Air Jamaica, Jamaican Information Service, Jamaica Tourist Board, and the Latin American and Caribbean Center
Caribbean Scholarship in the Digital Age (2009): event announcement, poster, and call for speakers.
Fall 2009: Lesson Plan Competition Winners
dLOC congratulates the winners of the 2009 Lesson Plan Competition.
Spring 2009: Lesson Plan Competition: Teaching US and World History with Caribbean Primary Resources
Submission Deadline: April 20, 2009
The limited access to resources and lesson plans that incorporate the Caribbean in K-12 and higher education prompted dLOC to create this digital library. It is important to facilitate the use of these materials though education modules and other lesson plans. The list below highlights the education modules already available in dLOC. If you are willing to contribute to addition lesson plans that have worked in your classroom, please see the guide to submitting resources and the grant permissions form for more information.
Join us in our mission to promote Caribbean studies in K-12 education. The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is working with diverse partners to provide free, online access to Caribbean documents. Now we would like to develop an open access repository of ready to use lesson plans to help busy teachers incorporate these resources into the classroom.
This competition is open to university, public and private school teachers, home school educators, and university students pursuing degrees in Education with monetary awards for the top eleven lesson plans.
See Competition Guidelines for more information.
Submission Deadline: April 20, 2009
July 2009: Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library Awarded Prestigious TICFIA Grant
The Latin American and Caribbean Center (LACC) at Florida International University and the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida (UF), in consortium with the libraries at FIU, UF, the University of Central Florida (UCF), the University of South Florida (USF), the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI), and 15 Caribbean institutions and publishers, have been awarded a U.S. Department of Education Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (TICFIA) grant to build the Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library (CNDL). This project will foster an understanding of the Caribbean region through increased research assisted by advanced technology, shared collections and inter-institutional collaboration.
The Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library (CNDL) will be built within the Digital Library of the Caribbean and will establish a collaborative international digital newspaper library that will preserve and increase access to valuable resources for the study of the Caribbean and the advancement of Caribbean Studies. CNDL will be an umbrella for regional newspaper digitization including literary news journals, traditional newspapers, government gazettes, and other works in newsprint. The project partners will create a critical mass of endangered resources that are currently available with only limited access to researchers.
The CNDL will use Federal funds to meet the following goals:
- Increase access to and preserve Caribbean newspapers of note in English, French, Haitian Creole, Spanish, Dutch, and Papiamento by digitizing, archiving and making them searchable through a centralized interface;
- Digitize complete runs of individual Caribbean newspaper titles, whenever possible, to unite fragmented collections;
- Build capacity for newspaper preservation and access in the Caribbean region by developing a multi-layered, comprehensive digital preservation and metadata creation training program with guidelines for negotiating Internet distribution permissions from targeted publishers;
- Cultivate new research initiatives among Caribbean scholars by providing increased access through full text searching and article-level indexing;
- Create tools to assist with overall newspaper digitization and create software to assist with newspaper segmentation, both manually and automatically, into the individual article level;
- Ensure sustainability of the CNDL by consolidating existing organizational and technical frameworks established by the Digital Library of the Caribbean and assist local partners in incorporating newspaper digitization into national public policy agendas, and support for secondary grant-writing and other fundraising activities..
This award grants approximately $440,000 for a four-year period beginning in October 2009 and running through September 2013. The CNDL is one of thirteen awards granted in this cycle.
Key Personnel on this project include:
Principal Investigator: Dr. Cristina Eguizabal, LACC, FIU; Co- Principal Investigator: Dr. Philip J. Williams, Center for Latin American Studies, UF; Project Director (s): Gayle Williams, Latin American and Caribbean Information Services Librarian, FIU; Co-Project Director: Judith Rogers, Campus Librarian, UVI; Digital Library of the Caribbean Project Coordinator: Brooke Wooldridge, FIU; Technical Director: Dr. Laurie Taylor, Interim Director, Digital Library Center, UF; Metadata Control Director: Laila Miletic-Vejzovic, Special Collections & University Archives, UCF
Please contact Gayle Williams with any questions, 305-348-2228, firstname.lastname@example.com. See CNDL's growing collection of resources within dLOC or here.
May 2009: CIFNAL Enters a Partnership with the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)
From the CIFNAL page on the Center for Research Libraries website:
In accordance with a recently signed memorandum of understanding between CIFNAL and the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC), the goal of this project is to work together to improve and increase electronic access to francophone documents. These may represent collections located in the French Caribbean or outside of the French Caribbean with a focus on this region.
Currently collaborating with the Haitian National Archives and other cultural collections in Haiti, dLOC and its francophone partners have concluded historic agreements to preserve and expand access to vital documents and materials. The success of the dLOC model is based on mutual international cooperation. CIFNAL members will bring additional linguistic and cultural assets to help dLOC reach out to new French-speaking partners.
Specifically, the two groups will work together to address needs related to:
- communication, partner relations, and translation
- meetings, training, fundraising, and grant writing
- collection development decisions and directions
- cultivation of relations with libraries and research institutes, specifically in France and the French Caribbean.
CIFNAL members who would like to participate in this new project should contact Matthew Loving.
September 2008: Invitation to Participate in Caribbean Newspaper Digitization Project
The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is issuing a call for partners in a new effort to ensure preservation of and increase access to newspapers in the Caribbean. Newspapers offer valuable information to researchers on a broad range of topics. Digitized newspapers with full text searching capabilities are revolutionizing the ability of scholars to discover information. Due to the natural tendency of newspapers to deteriorate more quickly over time than other resources, confounded by the climate in the Caribbean, digitization provides a mechanism to ensure that these valuable resources are available not only to today's researchers, but to those for generations to come.
dLOC is seeking Caribbean partners with historical newspaper collections that are interested in digitizing these titles and providing them online for free, open access to researchers, students and citizens. In addition, we are seeking partnerships with newspaper publishers to provide archival services of their current issues to ensure future preservation. The holding institution will retain all rights to the newspapers, and will provide the dLOC with permission to distribute the digital images for educational use. Please see the following examples of some of the newspapers dLOC already has online:
- Star. Roseau, Dominica: January 7, 1967
- The Royal gazette, Bermuda commercial and general advertiser and recorder. D.M. Lee. Hamilton, Bermuda: May 1, 1877
We are in the process of preparing the application for funding. If you are interested in more information about how to participate in this important initiative, please contact the dLOC project coordinator, Brooke Wooldridge, at email@example.com.
Project History:
The Digital Library of the Caribbean began with the collaboration of the University of the Virgin Islands, the University of Florida and Florida International University on a U.S. Virgin Islands History and Culture IMLS digitization project. After successfully working together on this project, the group decided to explore the possibility of expanding collaboration on digitization projects in the Caribbean. The initial concept of the joint Digital Library of the Caribbean was presented during the ACURIL XXXVI conference in May, 2004. The five Caribbean and four United States initial partners successfully submitted an application for funding from the US Department of Education's Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access program.
During the first three years of the project we have built a collaborative digital library management system, provided basic digitization equipment for each of the original project partners, developed and implemented tri-lingual training materials, conducted multiple on-site training programs, and initiated an educational outreach program. Our content and usage has consistently increased, and we now have nearly 500,000 pages of content online. In addition, seven new partners with existing capacity and/or desire for digitization have joined the project.
February 2008
dLOC Project Partner the Universidad de Oriente in Cumana, Venezuela, under the direction of Dr. Abul Bashirullah, Professor and Director of Libraries, hosted a three day Digitization Course where more than 30 participants from four universities learned about digitization and how to become part of the Digital Library of the Caribbean. The dLOC co-Director Gayle Williams, Project Coordinator Brooke Wooldridge and dLOC Programmers/Trainers Mark Sullivan and Lourdes Santamaría all traveled to Cumana to facilitate this training and meet with other potential dLOC partners who were invited to the training.
During this event, the dLOC trainers presented an overview of digital library software, digitization standards including recommended equipment and software, scanning recommendations and image editing tools, copyright protections and metadata creation. In addition, dLOC launched a newly updated Toolkit which streamlines the process for partners and members to provide content to dLOC.
The Universidad de Oriente is one of the original five founding partners of dLOC, and we are very excited to begin incorporating their submissions into the digital library. The University was created in 1958 and now has a network of five campuses throughout eastern Venezuela. The University's Digital Library already provides a wealth of regional historical information and University publications including two academic journals and a growing number of student theses and dissertations.
Official Call
Digital Library of the Caribbean Advisory Board Members
February 2008
The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) relies upon Caribbeanist scholars to contribute their support and expertise to help shape the direction of its collections and to develop its services. Four U.S. and five Caribbean institutions have been awarded a U.S. Department of Education Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (TICFIA) grant to build the Digital Library of the Caribbean. This award is for the four-year period October 2005 - September 2009.
dLOC is accepting applications for four new dLOC Advisory Board members. During the past two years, the Advisory Board provided feedback and support for the project to help the collection of resources grow to over 2,500 titles (www.dloc.com). This new 2008-2009 Advisory Board will play a vital role in the continued success and sustainability of dLOC. The Board will provide guidance to the dLOC Executive Committee and the co-Directors by reviewing proposals for collections, by nominating collections for inclusion, and by reviewing standards developed by the sub-committees.
The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a multifaceted and collaborative international digital library project that will preserve and increase access to valuable resources for the study of the Caribbean and the advancement of Caribbean Studies. The dLOC will be an umbrella for digital projects and collections from and about the Caribbean that might exist in isolation at a single institution, thus providing a critical mass of resources in a single space. This digital library will comprise collections facilitate the examination the similarities and differences in histories, cultures, languages and governmental systems throughout the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean.
The members of the Board should be skilled in technical issues, in relevant academic disciplines, and/or in curriculum development. Members should be active members of CSA and be willing to attend an annual dLOC meeting at CSA. No travel money is available, but Advisory Board Members will receive an annual honorarium of $100. Members will serve a two-year term from March 2008 through December 2009 and can be reappointed.
The dLOC Advisory Board will be chaired by Dr. Cristina Eguizábal, Principal Investigator and Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University and by Dr. Carmen Diana Deere, co-PI and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida.
If interested in becoming a member of the dLOC Advisory Board, please send a statement of interest and qualifications to project coordinator Brooke Wooldridge at (firstname.lastname@example.com <mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>) before March 1, 2008.


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May 25, 2010
Dr. Robert Guralnick
Writing Committee
Digitization of Biological Collections
Dear Writing Committee Members:
The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) appreciates the opportunity to comment on the proposed Final Draft Strategic Plan for Establishing a National Digital Biological Collections Resource. AIBS strongly endorses the Final Draft Strategic Plan and looks forward to working with the Working Group, National Science Foundation, and other agencies and stakeholders to finalize and implement this important initiative.
It is important that all Federal agencies participate in this effort. We encourage the Working Group to solicit the support and involvement of various Federal agencies. Many departments maintain their own collections; however, most also rely upon non-Federal collections or have formal or informal curatorial arrangements with non-Federal collections. A coordinated national effort is required and all agencies should contribute resources.
As outlined in the proposed plan, this effort will drive innovation and increase access to important scientific specimens and data. For these reasons, in April 2010 AIBS urged the President to include digitization of science collections among his Grand Challenges for the 21st Century. AIBS wrote: "The United States should strive to discover and document all living species within its borders and to work with international partners to do the same throughout the world. A key aspect of these efforts will be the digitization of object-based scientific collections, which will provide researchers and students with greater access to specimens and data. Additionally, if we were to digitally capture the specimens and associated data currently in our nation's scientific collections, this knowledge could be made available to students learning in the digital libraries envisioned by the President."
AIBS is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) scientific association headquartered in Washington, DC, and dedicated to advancing biological research and education for the welfare of society. Founded in 1947 as a part of the National Academy of Sciences, AIBS became an independent, member-governed organization in the 1950s. AIBS is sustained by a robust membership of individual biologists and nearly 200 professional societies and scientific organizations; the combined individual membership of the latter exceeds 250,000. AIBS advances its mission through coalition activities in research, education, and public policy; publishing the peer-reviewed journal BioScience and the education website ActionBioscience.org; providing scientific peer review and advisory services to government agencies and other clients; convening meetings; and managing scientific programs.
Once again, AIBS commends the Working Group and encourages the National Science Foundation and other agencies to include this important initiative in the fiscal year (FY) 2012 Federal budget. If we may provide any further information or assistance on this or related matters, please contact AIBS Director of Public Policy Dr. Robert Gropp at 202-628-1500.
Richard O'Grady, Ph.D.
Executive Director
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A doctor failed to see that former Tompkins County District Attorney George Dentes had heart disease, and this professional negligence led to Dentes' fatal heart attack in October 2006, his widow is alleging in a medical malpractice suit starting in county court this week.Remember, the doctor did not give this patient heart disease, God did.
Dr. Jonathan Mauser of Cayuga Cardiology Associates P.C. improperly interpreted Dentes' April 2005 stress echocardiogram, failed to suspect that Dentes had coronary artery disease and failed to recommend or perform a cardiac catheterization to confirm it, Elsie Dentes claims in the suit. Mauser and Cayuga Cardiology Associates are named as defendants.
While I do not know the circumstances surrounding the case in question, it is clear that our society increasingly accepts that all diseases are preventable, life is limitless, and all tests we perform perfect. Of course, none of these are true. Yet when something doesn't follow the Western psyche's playbook, someone has to pay. All too often, that someone is the doctor.
This, my friends, is why doctors will continue to order every test known to man... as this case exemplifies, there is simply no incentive to do otherwise.


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I have a long standing rule to NEVER EVER give money to bums. No matter what the circumstances. I even look down on people who do. They rub me as purely emotional acts with not even one second of real thought. I do this for two reasons: one experience, the other logical. Growing up in Compton, I was approached by what we called cluck-heads daily. Crack addicts who would do anything, and I mean anything, for a $1. They would give you the most extravagant reason why that dollar was absolutely necessary. Then, after a moment of weakness, you would see them smoking that dollar – digging themselves further into the crack addiction. After years and years of this, I have developed quite a thick skin from beggars.
The logical reason has to do with the fact that it is very difficult to separate the true needy beggar from the scammer. When confronted for a donation, with such limited information, there really is no statistically significant way to know if the bum is going to use the donation for something useful, or simply another hit of drugs. Much more beneficial is to save the donation and send it to a charity devoted to helping the truly needy. They have the means of separating the sincere bum ready to change their life, from the one who just wants another hit. With such noisy information, it's much more logical to withhold your money and choose an efficient charity of your choice.
With that said, I was touched by the news article showing a New York Police officer giving a pair of winter boots to a shoeless bum. I thought, maybe in that situation that is the best thing to do, as the bum currently needs shoes, else his feet will freeze. It's an immediate, obvious need that should be fulfilled. Sending money to a charity is not going to cut it, as by then the bum could have lost his feet to frost bite. Anyway, I didn't think much more of it until later when I saw the story on CNN.
While reading the article, still torn between feelings of admiration and disapproval, I came across this interesting section:
There were some who considered the officer a victim, taken in by another scam.
"This guy is only barefoot as a begging strategy," wrote David Levy. "I've been seeing him around midtown for years. I've even witnessed someone buy him slippers in a freezing day which he promptly put in his shopping cart."
"Clever stunt! The (man) is 'parked' at the entrance of a shoe shop. He got like 10 pairs that day," commented Louis Zehmke.
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I find it puzzling whenever I come across any reasonably sized IT infrastructure that has little or no virtualization in place, and my puzzlement turns to amazement if there's no plan to embrace virtualization in the near future. Whether it's due to the "get off my lawn" attitude that eventually killed off many AS/400 admins or simply a budget issue, clinging to a traditional physical infrastructure today is madness.
For one thing, what are these companies buying for servers? If they're replacing old single- and dual-core servers with new quad-core boxes (at minimum) and simply moving the services over, then they've got a whole lot more hardware than they need. Each of their server workloads is running on hardware that could easily handle a half-dozen virtual servers, even with free hypervisors. Are these companies only going to embrace server virtualization when the rest of us have already moved past it?
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If we look forward a few years, we can expect to see fundamental changes in the way we manage virtual servers. As if the advent of stem-to-stern enterprise virtualization wasn't already revolutionary, I think there's plenty more to come. The next leap will occur when we start seeing operating systems that were explicitly designed and tuned to run as VMs -- and won't even function on physical hardware due to the lack of meaningful driver support and other attributes of the physical server world. What's the point in carrying a few thousand drivers and hardware-specific functions around in a VM anyway? They're useless.
Eventually we'll start to see widely available OS builds that dispense with a vast majority of today's underpinnings, excising years of fat and bloat in favor of kernels that are highly specific to the hypervisor in use, and with different ideas on how memory, CPU, and I/O resources are worked and managed. We're backing into that now with the advent of introducing CPU and RAM to a VM through the use of hot-plug extensions that were originally conceived to be used for physical RAM and CPU additions.
But this is the long way around -- it's a kludge. When an OS kernel can instantly request, adapt, and use additional compute resources without going through these back alleys, we'll be closer to the concept of true cloud computing: server instances with no concern for underlying hardware, no concept of fixed CPUs, no concept of fixed or static RAM. These will be operating systems that tightly integrate with the hypervisor at the scheduling level, that care not one whit about processor and core affinity, about optimizing for NUMA, or about running out of RAM.
(I should note that Microsoft has already done something like this in the forthcoming Windows Server 8 Hyper-V, enabling the hypervisor to hot-add RAM to a Microsoft OS even as old as Windows Server 2003 R2. It just says, "Oh, more RAM," and goes with it -- good show.)
This will naturally take years to be fully realized, but I'm sure it's coming. The hypervisor will become strong and smart enough to take over these functions for any compliant host OS and essentially turn each VM into an application silo. As the load on the application increases, the kernel is more concerned with communicating the growing resource requirements to the hypervisor, which then makes the lower-level decisions on what physical resources to allow the VM to consume, and transition other instances to different physical servers to make room when necessary.


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Iraqis Not Being Allowed To Get VISAs into the U.K.?
Written on 12:12 AM by Jack B.
My favorite Iraqi blogger, 13-year old Raghda Zaid, otherwise known as Baghdad Girl, who in the midst of war spends most of the time posting pictures of adorable cats reports that she and her grandparents were refused a VISA to Britain at the UK Embassy in Jordan or as Ragdha put it, they basically said "Iraqis are not allowed to go to the U.K"
I really think this is a mistake. Ragdha's family should be known to many who read Iraqi blogs, her cousins Najma, Dalia, HNK, Hassan, brother Kais and uncles A Citizen Of Mosul and Life in Baghdad between them make up a large part of the Iraqi blogging community. They are deeply religious Muslims, but not fundamentalists, educated professionals and upper middle-class but not Baathists. They are the kind of Sunni Muslims who the allied coalition and new Iraqi govt. should be cultivating as the educated base of a new Iraqi democracy. As it is now, several of Ragdha's relatives are deeply suspicious of American occupying forces and look upon them with the same disdain as they do the terrorists. These are not the kind of people that we should be afraid to let into our countries (whether it be the UK or any other) but should be courting and convincing of our good motives.
I was not in favor of this war in Iraq but now that American troops are there I am convinced that we must win it and help bring a free and democratic Iraq into the world - yet it seems that every time we make a step forward poor planning and poorer public relations by politicians and generals make it that much harder not only for the new Iraqi government trying to convince everyone in Iraq to take part but our own US and British troops on the ground.


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Dr. Tom Termotto
National Coordinator
Gulf Oil Spill Remediation Conference (International Citizens' Initiative)
There has been much speculation lately about a nuclear device being planned for closing in the BP Macondo Well in the Gulf of Mexico. The consequences of exercising this option go well beyond killing the Gulf of Mexico; there would be far-reaching and profound ramifications for the oceans of the world. There are many risks associated with this option that must be considered. Let's review some of these before BP finishes the relief wells, which are allegedly being utilized for the strategic placement and detonation of a nuclear device.
What we have in the Gulf is a massive, unprecedented petrochemical cesspool, which has untold volumes of COREXIT, radioactive isotopes and methane gas added to the mix. The interactions, synergies and combinations of these various chemicals and compounds are not completely known. Surely the normal electrical grid and behavior of this body of water has been substantially altered. Therefore the conductivity of charges has been changed in ways that will have significant impacts on the weighty matters discussed in this essay.
As follows:
"Electricity is the flow of charges. Many minerals and gases will readily
dissolve in water. It is the presence of this minerals and gases that allow
water to conduct electricity. Perfectly pure water without these impurities
will not conduct electricity. This is why salt water is a good conductor of
electricity." (Per Argonne National Laboratory, Division of Educational Programs, Department of Energy)
So, we are referring to a confluence of circumstances, which has been relentlessly put into place by a convergence of highly unenlightened industrial, political and economic interests and forces. Their obliviousness to the aforementioned realities on the ground (undersea floor), in the water (Gulf of Mexico) and in the air (atmosphere suffused with powerful GHG emissions such as methane) will push the entire civilization into a corner with no way out.
If BP is allowed to use a nuclear device, it will be the first time that the US Federal Government has allowed a foreign multi-national corporation to exercise such overwhelming power in US Territorial Waters. It may even be the first time that a publicly held corporation has detonated a nuclear device anywhere on the planet. It therefore speaks to a corpocracy that has somehow arrogated power unto itself unlawfully – powers of destruction which can have extraordinary consequences for the entire planet.
Our greatest concern, throughout these remaining days of BP attempts to neutralize the well, is that BP will execute an implementation plan to insert a nuclear device into the well system without the knowledge of the American people. We know this corporate entity is completely without conscience, and therefore willing to do almost anything to bring an end to this PR nightmare.
We also know that our own US Federal Government is looking desperately for a way out of this Perfect Storm. The Obama Administration has caved in at every key juncture and with respect to every critical decision. It's as though the British Crown still operates as though we (US) are still a subservient colony. And that the City of London issues orders directly to BP, or through their proxies employed by the Departments of Energy, Interior, Homeland Security and the EPA.
What to do? Especially in light of what modern day prophets say, who have foretold of a time when a rift would occur in the Mississippi River Basin, which would divide in a day the land mass of the USA after inconceivable earthquakes rock the area!
Earthquakes triggered by what?!
The radioactive levels of the hydrocarbon brew that has been flowing for over 90 days into the Gulf is already cause for alarm. The deeper the well, the greater the likelihood that the oil and gas effluent will have greater concentrations of radioactive components, particularly radium, thorium and uranium.
"Helium is a naturally occurring gas formed in oil reserves. So common in fact, that helium detectors have been used to discover oil reserves. Helium is an inert gas known to be a by-product from the radiological decay of uranium and thorium. Uranium and thorium are known to be in great quantities at greater depths within the mantle of the earth. Radioactive elements occur naturally and can be found and detected in trace amounts in shallow oil reserves. Oil reserves that do not produce large amounts of methane also lack uranium and thorium. The presence of methane is proportional to the presence of uranium and thorium, both radioactive elements.
The more methane that is present reflects the amount of uranium and thorium in the oil reserve. The deeper the oil well, the younger the radiological decay which will therefore produce more helium. The Eugene Island 330 rig was quickly replenished as a result of massive quantities of deep oil sources re-supplying the more shallow oil reserves in the Gulf of Mexico just off the coast of Louisiana." (Per "Urgent – Radioactive Oil From BP Blowout!" at link below)
It is quite significant to point out that even the American Petroleum Institute (API) has designed elaborate protocols for workers in the Oil & Gas Industry who are exposed to Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM). The API readily acknowledges the existence of elevated levels of radium in virtually any geological formation that contains oil and gas, and yet their website fails to mention uranium and thorium concentrations. This omission is quite curious and begs for a more thorough explanation of the radioactive dimensions associated with the entire industry. Click on the API link for more info:
For anyone who doubts that the development of oil and gas reserves will always have radioactive hazards, please read the following authoritative papers starting with the Scientific American article below:
Scientific American: Natural Gas Drilling Produces Radioactive Waste
Radioactive Pollution at the Oil Fields of the Apsheron Peninsula, Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan
Radium-226 and Radium-228 in Scale and Sludge Generated in the Petroleum Industry
Investigation of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORM) in Oil Fields and Oil Lakes in Kuwait
Legacy of nuclear drilling site in Parachute lingers – Boulder Daily Camera
The real issue here is that, due to the deep source of these hydrocarbons (18,000 to 30,000 feet deep Macondo Prospect) the oil and gas effluent that has already poured into the Gulf possesses a discernible radioactive hazard. If a nuclear device was detonated to close off the well, many things could go wrong in the process that could actually worsen the current scenario. We could be left with a predicament that would contribute significantly to the already excessive radioactive burden throughout the Gulf. How so?
First of all, the only precedents we have for the nuclear option are those put forth by Russia. According to Komsomoloskaya Pravda, "the Soviets deployed specially designed nuclear explosions to extinguish well fires on at least five separate occasions". However, the context was completely different than the one in the Gulf. The Gulf Macondo Well is not on land, nor is it a gas fire. It is also 5000 feet under water, and then another 18,000+ feet deep into the earth's crust. To draw a parallel between the two scenarios doesn't get more apples and oranges. Oil gushers under 5000 feet of water does not compare with natural gas fires on land.
Therefore, the danger in this alternative is twofold. In the aftermath of a nuclear explosion, the oil volcano could be transformed into a super-volcano spewing more mantle-generated radioactive hydrocarbons into the water. Secondarily, if the radioactivity associated with the detonation is allowed to escape due to an unsealed well, or worse, a larger opening in the earth that has received the radioactive fallout from a subterranean explosion, then we have a true doomsday scenario in the making.
Per Wikipedia: "The New Madrid Seismic Zone (pronounced /njuː ˈmædrɨd/), sometimes called the New Madrid Fault Line, is a major seismic zone and a prolific source of intraplate earthquakes (earthquakes within a tectonic plate) in the southern and midwestern United States, stretching to the southwest from New Madrid, Missouri." "This New Madrid Seismic zone lies within the central Mississippi Valley, extending from northeast Arkansas, through southeast Missouri, western Tennessee, western Kentucky to southern Illinois. Historically, this area has been the site of some of the largest earthquakes in North America. Between 1811 and 1812, 4 catastrophic earthquakes, with magnitude estimates greater than 7.0, occurred during a 3-month period." (Per St. Louis University Earthquake Center) Distant from the Mississippi Canyon? Yes, but still very much connected by deep geological formations which can, and do, refer seismic waves along great distances depending on the depth, intensity and cause of the earthquake.
A Metaphor To Contemplate
Nothing on this planet ever happens in isolation. We have all heard how a butterfly beating its wings in Brazil can have effect on a hurricane that has yet to emerge from the west coast of Africa en route to the Gulf of Mexico. We start with this premise regarding the gathering energies around an event in the Mississippi River, Basin and Canyon. The river, herself, has been progressively staight-jacketed over many decades by the Army Corp of Engineers. She has been forced to carry a payload of pollutants down her water-course for an equal number of years. Bear in mind that she conveys every form of contaminant and chemical that is dumped into her by all the major tributaries that stretch throughout the heartland. Chemical fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides, pesticides, insecticides, antibiotics, bovine growth hormones, pharmaceutical medications, industrial sludge and effluent, residential wastewater, runoff from hundreds of thousands of square miles, animal farm wastes, etc. are just some of those ubiquitous pollutants. The entire Mississippi River System has been severely compromised in so many ways, and stress of this kind will always seek relief as a sort of self-protective mechanism.
Can there be a connection between chemical overload and mechanical stress triggered by a sub-seafloor nuclear detonation? If so, can such a relationship contribute to the precipitation of an inordinate seismic convulsion?
If the workings of the human body provide any indication, the answer is YES!
Our thesis is best presented by the analogy of the human body because quite often chemical, mechanical and emotional stresses do converge in such a way as to directly cause heart attacks, strokes, ruptured vertebral discs, inguinal hernias, gall bladder attacks and so on. When there is an accumulation of toxic burden in the body that overwhelms an organ, or organ system, the innate intelligence will sometimes take a more radical and dramatic approach in relieving itself of this toxic load. A convulsion of the liver to expel a gallstone stone in the biliary system is a good example of this self-cleansing mechanism at work. There are many more examples and they all point to Gaia, the planet and Her biosphere, doing much the same thing from time to time via hurricanes and tornadoes, mudslides and avalanches, volcanoes and earthquakes.
Deep Wellbore Drilling, Hydrofracking, Methane Burps & Explosions
As of 2006 there were almost 4000 Active Platforms in the both the Western and Central Planning Areas many of which are located in the Mississippi Canyon. Each one of these platforms represents not one drilled well, but many wells, as each platform is capable of drilling numerous wellbores and servicing multiple wells at one time. Which is why the above map of the Western and Central Planning Area is so significant? The obvious density of drilling activity over so many decades has surely created geological stress that has not been taken into account – by anyone except the undersea ecologist who is brutally aware of these realities. Because of how this map overlays with the following map of the Mississippi Canyon, we think it is high time to contemplate what outcomes might surface from this OIL & GAS ARMAGEDDON in the making.
We already know that the sub-seafloor geology of the Mississippi Canyon has been profoundly and fundamentally altered by decades of oil and gas drilling and extraction operations. We also know that the Gulf of Mexico has entered a period of higher than normal seismological activity, as evidenced by the higher incidence of undersea earthquakes in the Gulf. As follows:
Rare Earthquake Shakes Gulf of Mexico
Given the propensity of the Oil & Gas Industry to ignore vital data about their own backyard of oil and gas leases, it is necessary to point out some quickly changing realities. The concentration of nearly 4000 oil and gas platforms spread throughout an area known as Hurricane Alley ought to give cause for concern in light of the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon. An additional pause ought to occur when one considers the 27,000 abandoned platforms throughout the Gulf that are sitting idle, unattended, rusting and vulnerable to Category V hurricanes. As follows:
Enviro groups stunned that govt ignoring 27K wells
The global climate change predicament has brought to bear an understanding regarding methane gas which can no longer be overlooked. With enormous amounts of methane dissolving into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and even greater amounts being released into the atmosphere above the Gulf, we see the development of a potentially volatile situation. Of all the major greenhouse gases, methane is the one that contributes an inordinate amount of stress on homeorhesis, a little known "concept encompassing dynamical systems which return to a trajectory, as opposed to systems which return to a particular state, which is termed homeostasis. The Earth (atmosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere) are closely integrated to form a complex interacting system that maintains the climatic and biogeochemical conditions on Earth in a preferred homeorhesis." (Per Wikipedia)
"Compared with carbon dioxide, methane has a high global warming potential of 72 (calculated over a period of 20 years) or 25 (for a time period of 100 years." (Per Wikipedia) CH4, aka methane, is also the principal component of natural gas (about 87% by volume), which brings a whole set of other obvious issues into focus, as it increases in global atmospheric concentration especially in and around the Gulf of Mexico. "In addition, there is a large, but unknown, amount of methane in methane clathrates in the ocean floors. The Earth's crust contains huge amounts of methane. Large amounts of methane are produced anaerobically by methanogenesis. Other sources include mud volcanoes, which are connected with deep geological faults, landfill and livestock (primarily ruminants) from enteric fermentation." (per Wikipedia)
When you add to this mix the pervasiveness of METHANE HYDRATE, aka methane clathrate, within this same area of the Gulf, as determined by the US Geological Survey and US Department of Energy, and its tendency to convert to gas at a much higher rate during periods global warming (one cubic foot of frozen methane hydrate produces 160 cubic feet of methane gas at sea level), it's easy to understand how combustible the whole situation really is. The Interagency Coordination on Methane Hydrates R&D has produced a telling document which, when viewed through the lens of the preceding set of circumstances, illustrates the rapidly increasing potential for cataclysmic destruction.
The Interagency Coordination on Methane Hydrates R&D Report:
We're not even talking about the entire Gulf of Mexico becoming a veritable DEAD ZONE due to the deadly combination of oil, methane, petrochemical derivatives, dispersants (COREXIT), radioactive effluent, and rotting carcasses of every sort and kind. We're not talking about the growing DEAD ZONE that has been gradually taking shape for decades through the myriad forms of pollution, which have been channeled into the Gulf by the Mississippi River. We're not talking about the proliferation of radioactivity due to a nuclear detonation or gushing radioactive effluent either.


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What I've actually been reading lately are C J Sansom's Shardlake Mysteries (which are great and very well researched if you like historical murder-mysteries).
Also from the web:
- evizaer wonders how we can keep track of the 'real' histories of MMOs. All the guild drama, and the various interesting things that actual players have done.
- Tamarind suffers a brief bout of level-80-phobia. Anyone else find themselves curiously reluctant to actually get to max level once it's practically within reach? I know I often coast the last level or so, maybe a last ditch attempt to string the levelling game out for as long as possible.
- The Escapist reports that a guy in the UK (oh why am I not surprised?) has written a boot fetish version of Pong, the venerable old console game. The boot is actually the controller, you have to grope and fondle it to play the game …
- On a not very similar theme, Adele Caelia talks at BrightHub about embarrassing mistells and other ways in which sex can be entertaining in gaming. Well, she says embarrassing but I say there are few more hilarious things in MMOs than a totally inappropriate mistell. (Random factoid: mistells used to be known as 'mavs' in MUSH, named after a particularly notorious player called Mav.)
- Ysharros saves my EQ2 sanity with a noob-friendly guide to EQ2 addons.
- Naamah@Aionic Thoughts (a blog you really should be following if you're into Aion) asks when Mass-PvP becomes a zergfest, and whether one is more fun than the other.
- Andrew Douell, a roguelike developer, posts a very smart article about narrative in games and how some narrative tricks from other media just don't work. I'm particularly taken by his observation that you can't tell a story well with repeated play (eg. I killed an orc, then I killed an orc, then I killed an orc isn't a very interesting story.)
- Kirstimah at Rustled Leaves explains why DPSing reduced her IQ, a phenomenon many tanks and healers have also observed!
- Syp writes about all the MMOs he could have tried but didn't, and explains why not. I never played EQ because the only person I knew who played was a really annoying dork and he was really scarily obsessively into it. I knew if I tried it I'd be stuck talking to him any time we were in the same room.
- What does it mean to roleplay in a game? Psychochild takes a look.
- You've heard about the upcoming WoW film? Jess at Pretty in Plate starts wondering about who she'd cast to play her characters. Who would you cast for yours? (I dunno about that but Brian Blessed for Hemet Nesingwary with the help of some CGI is my pick.)
- Dusty makes the case for a finite MMO, like a TV series with a beginning, a middle, and an end.


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The beginning fly fisherman can sometimes become overwhelmed with all the information available on the sport from casting, to entomology, to how to read a stream. All of these elements can be broken …
The beginning fly fisherman can sometimes become overwhelmed with all the information available on the sport from casting, to entomology, to how to read a stream. All of these elements can be broken down into simple and easy-to-learn parts that will make your days on the water enjoyable and productive.
A successful angler will, over time, learn many things and each skill is an important part of the process of fly fishing. Effective casting is as important as knowing what fly to use in order to be consistently successful. The same is true of fly presentation and the techniques used to fish different types and styles of flies. Now the question becomes, where are the fish?
It's often been said that 10% of the fishermen catch 90% of the fish. I know that fishermen who fish in the right place will do much better than those that don't. So let's take a look at how to identify those secret locations.
First, start thinking like a fish. You'll quickly recognize two of the most important needs for survival are food and shelter. When both of these occur together, you're better than on the right track, you're there.
In addition to geographic names fisherman share to identify location, such as "Trout Pool," each location has a variety of types of water such as riffles, runs, pools and pocket water.
Let's start with riffles. These areas are parts of streams that have more of a downhill gradient that causes the water to have more velocity. A broken surface and somewhat of a gurgley appearance characterize a riffle. A small rapid might give you the picture. Riffles are higher in oxygen content and tend to be fertile with aquatic insect life. The broken surface makes seeing through the water difficult. It also makes it harder for trout and other fish to see out and, to a fish, that equals cover.
The techniques you'll use in riffles vary with the behavior of the fish. When there are insects hatching and trout noticeably feeding from the surface, a dry fly technique can be the most exciting method. At other times, nymphs, wet flies and streamers will also be effective.
Riffles run into pools. Pools are deeper, sometimes wider parts of the stream that act to slow the current and provide depth for fish to seek cover. Feeding fish are usually near the top, or head, of the pool where current speed still provides the cover of a broken surface, or at the shallow end, or tail of the pool, where feeding on surface flies is easier but the refuge of deeper water is just a tail flip away. Approach these areas carefully. Fish can easily see your approach and will hide in the deep water before you ever see them.
As a pool spills downstream, it creates a run. This is the area just upriver of where the water forms the next riffle, and runs provide food and cover. Are you catching the theme, food and cover? Find it and you'll find the fish.
Pocket water is the type of water that has more velocity like a riffle, but also has many exposed rocks or boulders. These rocks and boulders provide hiding places for fish but also afford them ease in feeding on what the current brings to them. The pockets also give smaller baitfish places to hide, and big fish do eat little fish. Some Upper Delaware River waters have lots of pocket water, while others hardly have any.
Now that you have a visual picture of the looks and character of a river, it might seem that the entire place will be harboring trout. Well, not really. In each of these stream sections, there will be parts that are simply more productive and are more favored by trout and other fish. Identifying these sections isn't too difficult if you remember that food and cover are what fish are always seeking.
Break each river section down into components. What part of the riffle has the most or best cover? Are there deeper sections of a pool or sections with a more broken bottom, maybe larger stones?
Keep in mind that fish are essentially lazy. Current breaks, also called seams, where two different currents meet, allow the fish to hold in the slower current while watching the faster current for an easy meal. Where you see foam lines form, you'll usually find hungry fish. The same water dynamics that congregate the foam and other bits of debris, also congregate aquatic insects.
You might find a large rock or a dead tree in the river and trout will use these as hiding places, lurking in the shadows with a watchful eye for an easy meal.
In all water types, look to the banks. The deeper bank and those undercut by the current are also hiding places that trout frequent.
Yogi Berra said, you can observe a lot just by watching. On-stream observation is the best way to hone your water reading skills. When you approach a river or stream don't instantly jump in. Take some time and look around; watch the water for feeding fish. Sitting on the bank can be productive fishing time as long as you stay alert and enjoy the wonderful surroundings you've chosen, a place of wonder and discovery.
[Capt. Joe Demalderis is a partner in Cross Current Guide Service & Outfitters, with offices in Milford, PA & Hancock, NY. In 2010, he was the 2010 Orvis Endorsed Fly Fishing Guide of the Year.]


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Vin Diesel is ridiculously popular on Facebook (37 million likes), and he's done a good job at using his page to promote his upcoming projects. Today, he has revealed a new image from Fast & Furious 6, and he also provided a confirmation that the first trailer will premiere during the Super Bowl on February 3rd. That's a scant three months before the film opens, but the Super Bowl is the perfect place to show off a trailer for a movie like Fast & Furious 6. Presumably, we'll start seeing some posters soon, and since Super Bowl ad time is ridiculously expensive, a longer trailer should debut online or in theaters soon after the Super Bowl spot.
Hit the jump to check out the new image. The film also stars Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez, Ludacris, Tyrese Gibson, Joe Taslim, and Luke Evans. Fast & Furious 6 opens May 24th.
Via Vin Diesel.
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