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Deterministic Autonomous Systems
This article argues that autonomy, not problem-solving prowess, is the key property that defines the intuitive notion of "intelligent creature." To build an intelligent artificial entity that will act autonomously, we must first understand the attributes of a system that lead us to call it autonomous. The presence of these attributes gives autonomous systems the appearance of nondeterminism, but they can all be present in deterministic artifacts and living systems. We argue that autonomy means having the right kinds of goals and the ability to select goals from an existing set, not necessarily creating new goals. We analyze the concept of goals in problem-solving systems in general and establish criteria for the types of goals that characterize autonomy.
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Grey's Anatomy Spoilers: The LatestSteve Marsi at . Comments
-- Sources confirm that Emmy nominee Elizabeth Reaser is returning to Grey's Anatomy this fall as Alex's erstwhile Jane Doe / Rebecca Pope. An exact episode count is still being worked out, but Michael Ausiello of TV Guide reports that it's "definitely more than one."
-- Ausiello also reports that it's looking more like Shonda Rhimes may officially stick a fork in George and Izzie in the season premiere when the pals are forced to examine their relationship while tending to a very unusual patient: a deer. That's right, an injured deer comes to Seattle Grace Hospital.
NOTE: We've also heard similar spoilers along these lines ... the only variant being the animal, which is also rumored to be a raccoon. Looks like O'Mizzie could really be done, though.
-- Here's a spoiler from allegedly from a Grey's Anatomy script that got out. The names have been altered, so it's unknown whether the women involved in the plot line are cast members, guest stars or some combination thereof. In any case, here's the reported story line:
Three women, Elaine, Connie, and Joanne, are obviously very close. Dr. Lawson enters with his interns, and Elaine tells Connie this is why she should get sick also... they are all so handsome.
Dr. Smith enters and Connie calls him the most handsome of all, and it is clear that they know one another. Connie tells them all that Dr, Smith removed her appendix and it BARELY left a scar. She has told her friends all about him, and she says she gets nervous around the good-looking ones. Connie has cancer in her vocal chords, and they will have to do surgery on her to remove them. Connie is afraid that this may be her last chance to talk and she has so much that she has to say.
With her friends' encouragement she does speak - and insults Joanne (tells her that her pants make her look fat) and Elaine (her breath is terrible). Later, the friends return to find that Connie's surgery went well and she will talk again, but for now she has to rest her vocal chords (Dr. Brown is with her). Elaine and Joanne come in with balloons and tell her that since she can't talk it THEIR turn - and they begin by telling her that she has horrible taste is men.
The three woman bond as Dr. Brown leaves. Henry is a sullen 15 year-old, and his sudden change in behavior is alarming to his mother, Marcy, who has brought him in for drug tests and a complete blood work up. Dr. Keller is the doctor on the case. When the blood tests come back clean, Marcy is still concerned and Dr. Keller tells her that he's just a teenager, when Henry starts spouting nonsense.
Dr. Keller orders some neurological tests. Later, Dr, Keller is paged back to the clinic to find that Henry had another spouting nonsense spell and has collapsed. An exam shows that he has herniated and pressure in his brain. Dr. Keller orders Dr. Smith paged.
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NASA astronaut Suni Williams, veteran Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Aki Hoshide of Japan docked Tuesday slightly ahead of schedule at 08:51 a.m. Moscow time (0451 GMT). They will work at the orbiting laboratory until November.
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Odds. Ends. Out.
Just a few items as we wrap up Thursday and prepare for Friday.
First, I must chuckle and fart in the general direction of the Bullion Bank Cartel. As they arrived this morning, they thought they were going to put the hammer down today. The POSX was rallying and it was game on. As documented in the previous thread, from the opening bell The Cartel attacked...and attacked...and attacked. They soon ran into two, fundamental problems.
- The Pig suddenly reversed. (Do you see what I mean about Forex ripping you to shreds if you let it?)
- Over a thirty minute period, four stabs below 1710 were all met with plentiful buy orders.
Oh how The Forces of Darkness must be angry and confused this evening. This is not supposed to be how it works! Everything was set for a raid today. Gold would finally be taken back under 1705 and silver would be pushed below $33. OOOOoooops. As Coach Corso would say: "Not so fast, my friend". As quick as you can say "Sergey Aleynikov", the WOPRs flipped over to BUY from SELL and the metals charged back higher.
This all sets up a rather interesting day tomorrow. As you know, silver has painted red candles on the last two entries to the weekly charts and gold was red last week. Will they do so again this week? Silver needs to beat $33.58 tomorrow and gold's level is just $1723.
Adding to the intrigue is a big jump in OI yesterday. On a day where gold traded higher by about $10, total OI jumped by 7010 contracts, with 6,000 being added to the front-month April12. At 438,174, that's the highest total OI since 1/20/12, three days before the FOMC minutes that sparked gold over $60. Silver also saw it OI jump by almost 2000 contracts on a day where price rose just 6 cents. At 106,621, the total OI is now the highest it's been all year. Hmmmm. The silver picture is particularly interesting given that 1-month lease rates are again approaching -0.40% tonight. Caution is definitely still warranted.
Just for fun, here's a POSX chart that has lines drawn all over it like I'm some kind of actual, fancy-schmancy technician. It's probably useless but it's worth looking at, anyway.
Here are a few items I've picked up along the way today:
A solid chart summary from Trader Dan.
As if you needed more evidence that infinite QE is necessary and coming:
Gonzalo has written a timely, new piece:
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This is pretty solid from Denver Dave:
And this is certainly interesting, too:
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Holy balls, I can join the club!
Edit* I used to be one of those people who always thought people who posted "first" were immature, annoying, etc. But for some reason, when I saw the opportunity to be that person, I couldn't resist the urge. Now I understand, turdites... it feels like I'm on top of the wooooorrrrrrrlllllddddd!
Ok I'm done now
Missed it by this much!t
Really First?
Back to lurking duties.
Bix Weir out with an interesting note
Guess who they are grooming
Guess who they are grooming for the world bank!( geithner is listed too)The next World Bank president: Bill Clinton?
I give up...
Even the laws of nature are "not so" randomly rewarding the 1%
Same person wins the lottery....... again! WTF is wrong with reality!
2012 Gold
2012 Gold and Silver predictions compiled by RealMoneyTracker:
|During second quarter
|Ben Davies
|Silver: "higher highs". Gold: +15%(?)
|Bill Murphy
|Chris Marchese
|Silver: 60-65. Gold: 2250-2600
|Private conversation
|Read (in Swedish)
|David Morgan
|Gold: 2400-2600
|Watch, Listen
|Duet Commodities Fund
|Egon von Greyerz
|Gold: 3000-5000
|Read, Read
|Eric Sprott
|Silver: Above 50. Gold: "north of 2000"
|Goldman Sachs
|James Dines
|Gold: "New highs"
|James Turk
|Gold: 2000-3000
|Read, Watch, Listen
|Jim Rickards
|For 2013-2014: 3000-5000
|Jim Sinclair
|"1900-2100 or more"
|Read, Listen
|John Embry
|Silver: +100%. Gold: +60%
|Read, Read, Read
|John Hathaway
|"New highs"
|Keith Barron
|"Gold: 2000-2500"
|Michael Pento
|Morgan Stanley
|"By 2013"
|Nick Barisheff
|Peter Grandich
|"New highs"
|Read, Listen, Watch
|Peter Schiff
|"Above 2500"
|Rick Rule
|Rob McEwen
|"Above 50 and 2000"
|Stepen Leeb
|Silver: 60-100. Gold 2500-3000
|Read, Read, Read, Read
|Gold: "will average at 2050"
|Average gain in %:
|2012-01-02 prices:
I just want to openly admit
I just want to openly admit that I might have a man-crush on the Turd. I can't remember ever reading anything financial related with a big Cheshire grin on my face. Yet, here I am, smiling as wide as I can.
Love the Pig chart with "lines drawn all over it".
Turd seems highly optimistic.
Turd seems highly optimistic. He shouldn't be. The market is controlled. It begins and ends where THEY want it, and it will continue to be that way until the industrial users realize there is no silver (or until the whistle is blown and someone actually listens).
Think what you want, though. So long as you stack the phyzz.
In the general direction of...
Or until mining->minting an oz worldwide average cost exceeds...
...the paper price! At which point its purely a commodity that would cease production as its no longer cost efficient!
I would love to actually have somebody calculate the average worldwide mining->minting cost for all the PM's
Iran False Flag?
Lookey here: http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/iran-alqaida-planning-attack/2012/02/16/id/429684?s=al&promo_code=E31A-1
I am not buying that there will be a terrorist attack as noted. I am, though, pointing out the increasing frequency of the news articles that themselves are announcing all sorts of bad Iranian intentions.
I HATE to be the chicken little, but, caution is warranted to at least pay attention to the headlines. One need not believe what is written; one need only pay attention to the headline and question WHY the headline appears.
In my line of work, proof of a fact may be direct, or indirect. Sometimes, the ABSENCE of facts proves point.
Where are any headlines from ANY source, pointing out that Iran is suffering from the US sanctions, and wants desperately to avoid a conflict with Israel or USA? Hmmm . . .
By the way Turd, sorry to hijack your thread Nice chart work, though. Thanks!
What were their predictions and average for each of the last 5..
See if we can find Nostradamus from the group, or if a group Nostradamus was close to reality?
Ask yourself 2 simple questions
1. Do the Rothschilds/Owners of the Fed/ECB etc.... want Obama for 4 more years?
2. Does a false flag event hurt or hinder answer to number 1
Hello everyone. It has been over 10 days since I wrote a post here or anywhere on the internet. I have had my nose and brain stuck in research. Let me tell you, what I have found AIN'T PRETTY. My wife told me several years ago, I should get a hobby. I did... it was researching and now writing. It is a very cheap hobby. My father builds and flies those expensive Radio controlled model airplanes. Some of my other family members do other expensive hobbies, whereas I just waste it away on the internet.... only pennies a day.
Anyhow, the world is going to get a LIQUID ENERGY SUPPLY ENEMA of its life here shortly. Very few realize that actual AVAILABLE NET EXPORTS of oil (minus China & India), have already declined from their peak of roughly 38 mbd (million barrels a day) in 2005 to only 35 mbd in 2010. Available Net Exports are forecasted to decline to a staggering 16-18 mbd by 2020. This is about half.
Mining analysts still forecast higher and higher global output of metals of all kinds for the next decade. Here we can see that BRAIN DAMAGE is everywhere, not just in the Financial-Paper industry.
So far this year, the US Mint has sold 6.9 million silver eagles. In the first two months of 2011 the US Mint sold 9.6 million silver eagles. I do realize, that there will be more sales in Feb, but lets look at the numbers:
2011: First two months = 9.6 million silver eagles
2012: First 6 weeks = 6.9 million silver eagles
DIFFERENCE Of -28%
Again, we should have another 750,000-1,000,000 silver eagles for the rest of the month (maybe less). But even though this looks bad, GOLD EAGLE SALES are even worse:
2011: First two months = 226,000 gold eagle oz
2012: First 6 weeks = 142,000 gold eagle oz
DIFFERENCE of -37%
So we can see that its ALL PRECIOUS METALS sales that are down. A great deal of investors are DUMB as a BOX OF ROCKS. There should be record volume of sales in both of these metals as the situation in the USA and World continues to disintegrate. If the country and world stumbles along this next year, we could actually see a decline on Gold and Silver Eagle sales due to the INEPTNESS of investors.
I believe sales of gold and silver eagles will only go exponential right at the end the system. And of course, this will be when it is TOO LATE. Precious Metal Analysts have no clue just how bad the situation will become in the liquids fuel market in the next several years. My fear is that a good percentage of JUNIOR MINING COMPANIES may become worthless due to the fact that both the supply of diesel (that runs the industry) and price will become prohibited for these mines to be commercial.
My gut tells me that if a METAL MINE is not commercial by 2015-2017, most will not become mines, but rather their low grade ore will stay firmly underground. I hope I am wrong about this.
Position Limits?
I thought the position limits didn't matter?
Am I missing something?
I hate to ask folks but I
I hate to ask folks but I need really good vibes and prayers for tomorrow. Have a job interview. Thank you so much in advance!
@ CA Lawyer
I have read that Iran is experiencing hyper-inflation because of US policies. Do you contend that this is a lie?
Good luck Doc
Wishing you luck and any good vibes/prayers I can send your way.
Silver Monkey
I have read that as well, only more like an anecdote, not as a full news story. Also, the context of what I recall reading was that monetary sanctions was causing currency issues but this only was a precursor to pointing out that Iran's leaders did not have the interests of their people in the forefront.
In short, it reinforced the Iran's-Leader-Is-Crazy theme, rather than pointing out any facts from ANY source showing that Iran's citizens want peace just like we do.
That is all I am saying. I am not taking a position. I am just analyzing what information is being presented, and drawing conclusions by asking "Why did the article present that information, and not other information?"
@Silver Monkey Not sure but I
@Silver Monkey Not sure but I can tell you the US might have hyperinflation due to its own policies, so you never know!
GSE Addendum
At risk of beating a dead horse here but I want to make an addendum to the chart I posted earlier. As you can see Silver has definitely broken the green downtrend line vs gold just
as it has done I hope it will soon do in the silver vs dollar chart. What's not to like?
In case you missed it the original post follows the chart...
Here is a chart of the GSR, flipped so we can see silver action properly expressed in terms of gold. Some features: first we have a significant low in silver vs gold in 2008. In terms of Fibonacci retrace levels we are are right at the overhead resistance level of 38.2%. We have just recovered from a full 50% retrace of last springs high. We have 2 tests of the 50% level and have rebounded from there. Also notice that the 50 day moving average looks like it has turned a corner and is now headed up while the 200 day is moving down. If you look back in time to about August 2010 you can see that silvers huge up move from then to last spring took place after the 50 crossed the 200.
I am no expert at TA but I would say that it would be very bullish for silver vs gold if silver were to break the fibo retrace level of 38.2% and even better if we get the 50 crossing the 200 SMA. Also we might look for a test of the 50 day line before going higher.
So is it time to swap gold for silver? I just did a little bit of that but am waiting for a breakout to go deeper in on silver.
Please add your comments and analysis. I would like to know what you guys think! Also I wanted to note that last spring when Silver hit 30 vs gold I traded the other way.
EDIT: One more comment. It seems significant to me that the trend line has just crossed the 50% retrace level. That should provide strong support at that level, no?
California Conference
Hey Turd and All,
From ' The California Resource Investment Conference...
Keynote speaker David Morgan?
A lot of solid facts and interesting thoughts...bullish stuff.
I recommend all you experts to view as i would like to know your thoughts... video is not a waste of time or rubbish...
Silver investment of the century...
Can one of you fine Turdites please help me post the video properly so it looks more appealing to view... im too baked.
[Done, as requested. Mod. Jeff.]
just finished watching the video and honestly, this guy will make you go out and buy a 100oz of Silver...
Some Highlights...
- The major monetary metal in history is Silver, not gold. Milton Friedman
- Silver IS money- i will not back down from that argument
- The Silver specie standard was widespread from the fall of the Byzantine Empire until the 19th century
- The Chinese character for money is a building housing silver
In 52
5i5ty twoooo countries... the word for Money is Silver
In other words the word money (silver) is synonymous
Only in NORTH AMERICA have the hard money people been BRAINWASHED to think of silver as only industrial...
Fried(e)...good stuff
Never apologize for that- you are among friends here. May your path be illuminated, may doors open before you, and may you stride confidently through them to better things. All the very best, brother.
Interesting thoughts SRS. I
Interesting thoughts SRS. I have been wondering as to the run up in fuel prices especially. My job takes me overseas with little to no news/internet connectivity for months at a time. Therefore upon a return I am always more aware of the price shocks that everyone else experienced gradually. I was surprised to see gasoline at $3.40 a gallon (now $3.45) after being in the $3.20s for so long. I was thinking about how this may effect the election. It seems to me the administration is fully in control of managing the recovery facade in most areas, such as the unemployment numbers, extending unemployment benefits, payroll tax cuts, mortgage schemes, stock market pumping, and of course, free birth control for everyone! But gasoline prices, now those may be the Achilles heel for this flaming pile of V-shaped nonsense that is crammed down our throats through the media. How can they be controlled when war with Iran is already underway? Sanctions are an act of war, and if not convinced remember that the first thing Britain did after the skirmishes at Lexington and Concord were to close the port of Boston. Will voters tolerate $4 gasoline just because the president wants to install a Goldman-backed bank in Tehran?
It seems you have discovered some alarming trends in your research. As to research as a hobby, I applaud that direction over many other things you could be doing with your time. I have found this to be worthwhile as well. My education began the day I graduated and didn't have to worry about test scores and regurgitating the established theses of academia. I can probably learn more from the city library and youtube than I did in 22 years of federally-funded education. Just remember to get out once in a while, and my simple rule is any activity that wasn't mass-marketed to you is a good thing. Sometimes even a mass-marketed activity is fine too for your sanity, as long as you recognize the marketing beforehand and make a conscious decision to partake. This is the distinction of a well-rounded individual over a Real Housewives of Peoria drone.
Ron Paul: Gold Prices Could Hit $10,000 (Video)
Can't get the video to embed but here's the link
Presidential candidate and Congressman Ron Paul tells Alix Steel, of the Street, that a gold standard will become a reality when the current system fails and it's in the process of failing.
Silver analyst Ted Butler had his mid-week commentary
"Let me confess one of my greatest fears about a potential future bubble in silver. If a silver bubble does develop, by definition large numbers of uninformed investors will join in the fray, eager to capture sure profits. The concerns for risk will be cast aside, as they are in any bubble. Undoubtedly, many of my former bullish arguments for buying silver will be trotted out as current reasons for buying even as price and risk grow. I doubt very much that I will be pounding the table to buy in a silver bubble and instead will probably be way too early in suggesting its sale. Yet new uniformed buyers will mistakenly view my past pronouncements as reasons to buy after a bubble is formed. The thought that I will inadvertently be responsible for damage to the latecomers is troubling."
"Of course, the risk to latecomers only grows deep into the bubble, should it form. The risk of a silver bubble bursting now is remote, because it hasn't formed yet. Yes, there is always the risk of short term sell-offs for reasons related to manipulative activities on the COMEX, but those sell-offs should be viewed as buying opportunities as has been the case for the life of the silver bull market to date. In terms of a bubble-like collapse in silver prices, that risk will not exist until a bubble first forms."
"In the meantime, since a bubble has not yet formed in silver, what are the possible effects on the price should a silver bubble form? Certainly, I have not been particularly surprised by the 8 to 10 fold increase in price over the past 5 to 10 years. If anything, the price performance to date in silver, given all the facts, has been somewhat muted. Leaving out a possible bubble forming, it would not surprise me to see eventual long term silver prices at $100 or even $200. That's without a bubble. If a silver bubble does form, it is hard for me not to imagine some multiple of those prices."
Reader Scott Pluschau, a frequent contributor to this column, sent me this short note yesterday..."Since you mentioned TA and equities the other day, Wednesday was a key reversal day in the Nasdaq 100 on a surge in volume...if you have any interest." I did...and his blog from yesterday is well worth a look. The chart is a standout...and the link ishere.
Eric Sprott - When Money Dies - Casey Research
JPMorgan, HSBC Among Firms Accused
JPMorgan, HSBC Among Firms Accused by Informant Bank in Canada Libor Case
JPMorgan Chase & Co., Deutsche Bank AG and HSBC Holdings Plc are among at least seven firms accused by another bank of participating in a conspiracy to manipulate the price of derivatives worldwide for more than three years.
The unnamed bank, seeking immunity, told Canada's Competition Bureau that traders and cash brokers conspired to influence the Yen London interbank offered rate from 2007 to 2010 to profit on interest-rate derivative positions linked to the benchmark. The bureau spelled out the probe in documents it filed with the Ontario Superior Court in May.
The documents, shown yesterday to Bloomberg News by court clerks, offer one of the most detailed accounts yet as watchdogs in Europe, Asia and the U.S. look into concerns that firms conspired to manipulate interest rates serving as benchmarks for trillions of dollars of financial products. Canada also is investigating Citigroup Inc., Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, ICAP Plc and RP Martin Holdings Ltd., the court documents show.
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Henry Cavill & Ellen Whitaker Split, End Engagement
Henry Cavill and Ellen Whitaker have reportedly broken off their engagement after one year.
The 29-year-old Man of Steel actor and the 26-year-old show jumping rider have called it quits after speculation for the past few months that the couple were on the outs.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Henry Cavill
"There was no fallout. They just both agreed it wasn't working," a source told Us Weekly. "They broke up three months ago."
Henry recently went solo while checking out various events during the 2012 Summer Olympics. He attended a jumping show that Ellen competed in earlier this summer, though they were not pictured together at the event.


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The 67th annual Oley Valley Community Fair will be held at the Oley Fire Company Fairgrounds, Routes 73 and 662 in Oley, PA on September 19 through 21. Fair hours are 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.
Leave your diet at home. The fair is famous for its French fires, hamburgers and Pennsylvania Dutch foods. Seventeen area churches and congregations prepare and serve the home-styled food.
Goodtime Amusements will offer a variety of amusement rides for all. There will be a nice selection of kiddie rides, too. There will be a ride special to ride the rides between 1 and 5 p.m. for $18 per person on Thursday; and between 11 and 3 p.m. for $18 per person on Friday.
Entertainment will be held rain or shine under the Bandstand Pavilion. Bring your lawn chairs.
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On Saturday from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. will be a Child ID program by Berks County Sheriff�s Department, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. PA State Fair Queen and PA Honey Queen.
Thursday and Friday at 9:30, 10:30, and 11:30 a.m. will be Story Time, presented by Oley Community Library.
Don�t miss the Car Show on Saturday from 11 a.m.- 3 p.m. For addition information on the car cruise please call 610-987-3469.
Wednesday at 9 a.m. will be judging of the exhibits and Thursday at 8 a.m. judging of livestock. The presentation of Commercial Exhibit Awards will be on Thursday at 6:30 p.m.
The fair offers several contests. On Thursday at 4:30 p.m. is the Children�s Pedal Tractor Pulling Contest. Friday at 9 a.m. is the Sheep Judging and Dairy Management Contest, 10 a.m. Lamb Trimming and Blocking Contest and Tractor Pull Contest; at 2 p.m. Youth Pedal Tractor Pulling Contest and at 4:30 p.m. Big Wheel Contest. Saturday at 10 a.m. is the Garden Tractor & ATV Pull Contest, and Adult Pedal Tractor Pulling Contest; 12 noon Youth Bale Throwing Contest, 2 p.m. Adult Bale Throwing Contest and 4 p.m. Donut Eating Contest. For more information on their contests, please visit their website at www.oleyfair.org and click on �Contests.�
Oley Valley Community Fair prides itself in being a truly old-fashioned fair. Bring the whole family-come early and stay late for there is plenty to see and do at the fair. Admission to the fair is free, and there is a parking fee of $5. The fair offers free shuttle bus service from Frieden�s Lutheran Church on Route 73.
For additional information on the fair, visit them on their website at www.oleyfair.org or www.jtmonline.com/goodtime.
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One doesn't necessarily associate spring travel with heavy reading. For one, books are bulky luggage, the weighty enemies of economical packers; even an e-reader takes up precious space in one's overflowing duffel. And two, escapist migration to mountaintops or flowery fields or seaside locales for sun worship and meditative communion with nature connotes a markedly book-free environment, an escape from the office or the solemn halls of academe.
But surely even the most active traveler will have some downtime during the trip. What to read when it's raining outside your Puerto Rican bungalow, or with your cappuccino in a Parisian cafe, or on African safari when your cellphone's out of service and there's no Wi-Fi for miles? Or what about those of us stuck at home, tethered to work and family, eagerly awaiting winter's end?
The warming weather this time of year brings with it a growing sense of wanderlust. Thoughts drift to exotic locales, adventures abroad. We draw up itineraries, real and imagined, and wrestle with essential questions: What to wear, what to pack? Well, author Adam Wilson reminds us of another important consideration: What to read on those few precious vacation days? Here are a few of his recommendations for our series Three Books.
ADAM WILSON: Most people don't associate spring travel with heavy reading. For one thing, books are bulky luggage; even an e-reader takes up space. And for another, people like to escape to mountaintops or flowery fields or seaside locales. Communing with nature is really a book-free activity. But what about your downtime? When it's raining outside your Puerto Rican bungalow or with your cappuccino in a Parisian cafe or on African safari when your cellphone is out of service? And then there are those of us stuck at home, tethered to work and family. Here are three books that are perfect for those times.
Roberto Bolano's "The Savage Detectives" begins in diary form. It's from the perspective of Juan, a 17-year-old Mexican poet, green around the gills and eager for experience. It's Mexico City in 1975. While Latin America storms with revolution, Juan is falling in love with a clan of young poets. The visceral realists are on a sort of permanent siesta complete with passion, ideas, warm weather and beautiful women. It's a charged and romantic time for them. Eventually, they drive off into the sunset.
If the book ended here, it would feel nostalgic and sentimental. But the next couple of hundred pages show the harsh fallout from that freewheeling period. It's a reminder that time touches everyone. Youth, like all holidays, can't last forever.
Joy Williams' "Breaking and Entering" invites readers into the lives of Willie and Liberty. They're a young couple living like vagabonds on the Gulf Coast of Florida. They squat in unoccupied houses, dressing their blank lives in the clothing of strangers. But when the owners return, the couple has to hit the road. It's a funny book and breezy, but there's human drama too. Williams has a gift for dialogue. Sadness lurks beneath the smiley dispositions. No amount of sun and surf can wash away a haunted past.
Everything in this book really happened, but some of the things that happened only happened in my head. That's how Geoff Dyer introduces "Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It." And thus, we're off on a whirlwind world tour: the cramped cafes of Amsterdam, Indonesia's most competitive ping-pong tables. We see Burning Man and the Roman ruins. Dyer ponders life's deepest questions. The book is funny, occasionally beautiful, sometimes scholarly and usually under the influence of controlled substances.
In the end, it doesn't matter whether it's fiction or nonfiction. It feels true. It's like your best friend telling you his favorite adventure story. This anti-travel book will leave you feeling like you were there on the journey. These three books grasp the spirit of spring travel. Read them anywhere: on the subway or in an airport terminal, on the couch or on the beach. You'll be instantly transported to a tropical adventure land where the wind whips the ocean and the heart beats a slow samba.
SIEGEL: Adam Wilson is the author of the book "Flatscreen." You can comment on this essay at our website. Go to nprbooks.org. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) is a damaged, angry WWII veteran drifting through a drunken post-war existence. After an alcohol-induced blackout, he awakens on the yacht of the mysterious and wealthy Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman). Freddie has nothing; Dodd is the charming, fatherly leader of a cult dedicated to something known as The Cause. While claiming to be open to the wonders of human potential and an expert on many subjects, Dodd also enjoys being the master of his disciples and he may not have pure intentions when he offers to help Freddie. Much has been said about the film being an allegory for the Scientology movement; whatever the case, interesting questions are raised about the nature of masculinity and religion and the performances are ferociously committed.
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Reports, inspections keep the county safe
Inspections, mapping and submitted reports of hazardous chemicals in the county provide more safety in the event of an emergency.
Any business in the county with hazardous materials over certain thresholds is required by the county and the state to register them and file plans to help emergency responders know what they face if there is a release, fire or other type of emergency at the site.
By law, the local Emergency Management Agency (EMA) also is required to inspect these facilities. Auglaize County conducts inspections of each facility every five years as it inspects 13 businesses with hazardous materials each year.
"We are ensuring the records are accurate, that they have the chemicals they say they do, that they are where they say they are, and in the amount they say they have," county EMA Director Troy Anderson said.
A new stipulation also now requires that facilities that handle used motor oil and at any given time have 2,000 or more gallons on hand to burn for heat also must report that to the EMA.
"They are now required to call into the office and get a permit," Anderson said.
The $250 permit could save the businesses several thousand dollars in penalty and citation fines.
Those handling and shipping out large quantities of motor oil as waste are not required to have a permit.
Countywide, Anderson said 68 facilities report having hazardous materials at this time, however he knows there are more out there.
As the county gets new facilities, that number increases, but it has remained fairly steady the last few years because of other facilities which have closed.
"It seems there are still those who are not aware," Anderson said of the law which took effect in 1987.
"Once we find them, we give them the paperwork to fill out so they can get a permit and begin reporting," Anderson said, of the information that is required as part of citizens' right to know what is around them. "We do still find businesses that haven't complied. If it is repetitive, enforcement action is taken."
He said typically once the owners of a business are made aware of the situation, they get into compliance.
Anderson said in performing facility inspections he carries with him a book that has between 15 and 20 pages of cross references to approximately 1,000 extremely hazardous chemicals.
Hazardous materials include a wide range of things, from the more common gasoline to xylene. Typically the harder it is to pronounce, the more hazardous it is, Anderson said.
Going with him on his inspections are local fire chiefs, who also are presented with a copy of the report and information to maintain in the case of an emergency at the facility.
"It's a safety issue and is about preplanning" said Anderson, who also keeps the information in his computer database, which he would have with him at the scene of any emergency situation.
"First responders know what they are getting into," he said. "They know the number of employees per shift, have photos of the inside of the facility. Based on what is stored at a facility, they know what they need to do in an emergency."


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HOUSTON (AP) — When it comes to the fate of the iconic but now shuttered and dilapidated Houston Astrodome, take your pick from a variety of sports clichés to describe the stadium's dire situation.
The bottom of the ninth and down to the last out. On the ropes. A must-win ballgame.
A last-ditch effort has been organized to save the dome, with local and national preservation groups and a new political action committee banding together to come up with a solution for the stadium that involves rebirth and not razing the structure. The coalition is taking to Facebook and Twitter less than eight weeks before voters decide whether to approve authorizing up to $217 million in bonds to pay for a plan to turn the stadium into a giant convention center and exhibition space.
Houston-area leaders say the so-called "Eighth Wonder of the World" will more than likely be torn down if the Nov. 5 ballot measure fails to pass.
"It's going to be tough," said David Bush, deputy director of Preservation Houston, one of the groups in the coalition. "What we have going for us is that so many people have many positive feelings for the Astrodome."
Opened in 1965, the Astrodome became a symbol of Houston's innovation and ingenuity. As the world's first multipurpose domed stadium, it was home to Major League Baseball's Houston Astros and the NFL's Houston Oilers. But it hasn't been home to a sports team since 1999 and has been closed to all events since 2009.
While structurally sound, the stadium —with moldy walls and torn seats — looks its age and now sits in the shadow of the adjacent Reliant Stadium, its larger, sleeker big brother and home to the Houston Texans.
Coalition members, which also include the National Trust for Historic Preservation, say while nostalgia will be important in their strategy, they also must make the case that the renovation plan will allow the stadium to be reused in a practical and beneficial way.
A variety of ideas — from a shopping center, an indoor amusement park and even an indoor ski resort — have been proposed for the Astrodome in recent years.
But in June, the Harris County Sports & Convention Corp., which maintains the Astrodome, opted to go with its own renovation project, dubbed "The New Dome Experience."
The proposal would take about 2½ years to complete and calls for creating 350,000 square feet of exhibition space by removing all the interior seats and raising the floor to street level. Other changes include creating 400,000 square feet of plaza and green space on the outside of the structure.
"I think overall there is a desire to see the building saved and reused," said Beth Wiedower, senior field officer with the National Trust for Historic Preservation. In June, her organization placed the Astrodome on its 2013 list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places.
This week, the coalition of preservation groups launched its educational campaign with a Facebook page called "Our Astrodome," the Twitter handle @OurAstrodome and the Twitter hash tag #SavetheDome. It also plans on holding town hall meetings and other events.
The coalition plans to work with a newly created political action committee, "The New Dome PAC."
Former Harris County Judge and state Sen. Jon Lindsay, one of the PAC's co-chairs, said the PAC's goal is to raise between $200,000 and $250,000 to use for television and radio advertising and other political campaign efforts.
Officials say eight weeks should be sufficient to convince voters to approve the referendum, as people already know the Astrodome and political campaigns don't really get going until after Labor Day. Often with referendums, voters have very little knowledge about the proposals.
So far, Lindsay and others working to save the Astrodome haven't heard of any organized effort against the referendum. But Robert Stein, a political science professor at Rice University in Houston, said he is expecting some opposition.
Three polls Stein has conducted since 2007 on the Astrodome have shown support for keeping the stadium but the margin of support has lessened with each poll.
"I think it will probably pass," Stein said. "But I think even a weak opponent campaign can defeat this."
One thing that could hurt the effort to save the Astrodome is the lack of high-profile races — aside from the mayor's race — on the ballot. Bush of Preservation Houston doesn't expect voter turnout to be high.
James Glassman, founder of Houstorian, a local organization that works to preserve the city's cultural and architectural history, said Houston doesn't have the best track record when it comes to saving historic buildings and other landmarks but he's confident in the Astrodome effort.
"I think if we lose the Astrodome, it would be criminal," he said.
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This is a guest post by Alex Turnbull from Groove.
Have you spent weeks or months (or years) racking your brain trying to figure out how to get more customers?
Before you spend another minute thinking about marketing, consider a simple question: why?
Why do you want more customers? If, like most small business owners, your answer is "mo' money," then let's take a step back and look at some facts that might surprise you:
For most small businesses, acquiring new customers is the least efficient way to make more money.
What's the most efficient way?
It's your customers. The ones you already have. The ones who've already raised their hand and shown you that they're willing to spend their hard-earned money for the value that you deliver.
The potential return on spending for new users pales in comparison to the opportunity for growing your business with your existing customer base.
The research proves it: a Bain & Company report found that acquiring a new customer costs six to seven times more than retaining an existing customer. And that businesses which boosted customer retention rates by as little as 5% saw increases in their profits ranging from 5% to 95%!
Turning your existing customers into long-term repeat customers can be the most efficient way to grow your business.
Return customers tend to buy more from a company over time. As they do, your operating costs to serve them decline. - Fred Reichheld, Bain & Company
Want to help your existing customers want to buy more?
Try these three proven strategies, backed by research and case studies, to make your customers love doing business with you.
Know What Your Customers Need
Get closer than ever to your customers. So close, in fact, that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves. - Steve Jobs
Every single time you visit Amazon.com, you see something that looks like this:
You've shown Amazon what you're interested in, and Amazon does you the favor of suggesting other products that might be of value to you. Much of the time, they're right.
It's an effective strategy, but just how effective? Really. Damn. Effective.
Amazon says 35 percent of product sales result from recommendations. - Matt Marshall, VentureBeat
And it's definitely not just Amazon. Netflix users will recognize this screenshot:
That recommendation engine is responsible for 75% of the movie-watching choices Netflix's users make. Imagine what it would mean for your business if you could influence 75% of your existing customers to buy more by anticipating their needs!
But you don't have to be Amazon or Netflix - with millions upon millions of data points being mined around the clock - to know what your customers want and be able to deliver it to them.
If they've already purchased a product, send them an email highlighting more products from the same category. Or, even small copy tweaks can help. For example you could test changing your copy from "Related Products" to "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" on your product pages.
If you're talking with your customers, you should understand the challenges they're facing. Offer solutions to their problems, beyond what you're already offering.
Reward Loyal Customers
Look down at your keychain. Do you have any barcoded tags with logos of the businesses you frequent?
If not, you probably have a card with the same info on it sitting in your wallet, or stuffed in a drawer somewhere. Or, if you're like me, you manage most of these relationships online.
If any of those apply to you, then congratulations. You hold one or more of the 2.1 billion customer loyalty memberships in the U.S. today.
Why are loyalty programs so ubiquitous? Because they work.
A 2012 survey by ClickFox suggests that 54% of consumers would consider increasing the amount of business they do with a company for a loyalty reward, and 46 % said they already have.
The most popular forms of loyalty programs - frequent flyer programs, grocery store memberships and credit card rewards - are well known, but many small businesses generate revenue by offering their customers loyalty rewards.
In 2011, GrubHub, an online food delivery site, started offering a fun and unique loyalty program for its return customers. The program, called Yummy Rummy and first tested on GrubHub's team internally, lets customers play a game for every three orders they place. They're given a 25% chance to win free prizes like dessert, drinks or a discount off of their tab.
Is it working? We asked GrubHub:
Customers keep coming back to GrubHub for a lot of reasons (customer support being the most important!), but Yummy Rummy has been a big part of that. Customers call it addictive. - Abby Hunt, GrubHub
How do you create your own loyalty program?
Two of the many insights in Dowling and Uncles' 1997 piece on customer loyalty programs in the MIT Sloan Business Review might be particularly useful to you as you think about your own opportunity. Build your loyalty program to:
1) Add to the value proposition of your existing offering. Think about how you can reward customers with more value from your business, not just free stuff.
Probably the least useful rewards for customer loyalty are free gifts such as lottery tickets; these are nice to receive but tend to be only short-term tactical froth that can devalue the brand. - Dowling and Uncles
Instead of gift cards, can you thank your loyal customers with value-add rewards like useful, exclusive content that helps them in the context of what they're already buying from you? Notice how in the GrubHub example above, the rewards - free food - are valuable within the relationship between the company and the customer.
2) Maximize the buyer's motivation to make the next purchase.
You want your loyal customers to keep coming back. Otherwise, they're not loyal customers, right?
3) Leverage your loyalty program to incentivize repeat business. There are many ways to do that (again, GrubHub is a great example), but you can employ some neat psychological strategies to optimize your offering.
In one study, researchers handed out loyalty cards at a car wash. The cards offered a stamp for every car wash the customer bought.
Half of the cards had spots for eight stamps, with a free car wash offered for collecting all eight. The other half had spots for ten stamps, but two of the spots came pre-stamped.
The result?
The pre-stamped cards resulted in 178% more repeat business than the unstamped ones.
The customers with the pre-stamped cards already started with progress made toward their goal, and their incentive to buy was maximized.
This strategy is known as 'artificial advancement'. Pretty cool, huh?
"Above and Beyond" Customer Support, Every Time
Think about the last time you were truly WOW'ed in a customer support interaction. Did it feel like the agent went above and beyond to help you? That company probably won you as a repeat customer, right?
Chances are, if the company has a support-focused culture, "above and beyond" is the norm.
A couple of years ago, Peter Shankman was exhausted and hungry, flying home from a business trip. He sent a joking Tweet to Morton's Steakhouse:
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Can you guess what happened when he landed in Newark?
Shankman wrote about the experience in a blog post titled The Greatest Customer Service Story Ever Told, Starring Morton's Steakhouse.
Customer service is no longer about telling people how great you are. It's about producing amazing moments in time, and letting those moments become the focal point of how amazing you are, told not by you, but by the customer who you thrilled. They tell their friends, and the trust level goes up at a factor of a thousand. Think about it: Who do you trust more? An advertisement, or a friend telling you how awesome something is? - Peter Shankman
The post was shared more than 16,000 times on Facebook and Twitter - not a bad return on the cost of a steak.
Another example from our own archives: Allan Branch, founder of LessAccounting, is a Groove customer. After he emailed us for support, we resolved his ticket, but the interaction didn't end there. We sent him a small token of our appreciation, and he let the world know:
With his 10,000 followers, our little surprise to Allan got us one very happy customer, and a whole lot of website traffic and trial signups.
Empower your support team to create those 'amazing moments in time'!
Not every customer has Shankman's audience. But the research shows that customers do talk, and according to data from American Express, happy customers who have a positive experience with customer support share their story, on average, with nine people.
How many support tickets are you handling each day, and what would happen if each one of those resulted in nine new prospects?
Awesome support does more than create chatter; it makes great business sense.
That same American Express report showed that 70% of Americans would spend more money with companies that they believe provide excellent customer service. And on the other (scarier) end, another study concluded that 91% of unhappy customers will not willingly do business with your business again.
Keeping your customers happy through "above and beyond" support can be the difference between growing your business through keeping your existing customers happy and losing them to your competitors. The choice seems like an easy one to us.
According to Marketing Metrics, The probability of selling to a new prospect is 5- 20%, while the probability of selling to an existing customer is 60-70%.
The odds are in your favor, and the numbers add up: delivering more value to your existing customers is the best, most efficient way to grow your small business.
Don't Get User Acquisition "Tunnel Vision"
Now, I'm not telling anyone to abandon their user acquisition efforts. Acquisition is still a super important part of your marketing strategy.
But don't make the mistake of thinking that it's your only option for growing your business. There are others, like those I shared above, that can be just as - or more - effective.
About the Author: Alex Turnbull is the Founder and CEO of Groove, a customer support app for startups and small businesses. You can follow him on Twitter or read more at the Groove Blog.
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U.S. farmers will have to beef up their capacity to spray soybeans with soybean rust fungicides if they hope to minimize crop losses from the devastating disease, which they are facing for the first time in 2005.
That's the conclusion of David Wright, one of the leading U.S. experts on soybean rust.
"I question whether we have enough capacity to treat soybean acres in the time necessary to protect yield," says Wright, director of production technologies for the Iowa Soybean Promotion Board. "With soybean rust, you have a very narrow window of opportunity to treat after the infestation has occurred."
Typically, fungicides designed to stop soybean rust after it has infected a field must be applied within two to three days to protect yield. "In four to five days, it probably is too late," he says.
Currently, farmers and custom applicators don't own enough sprayers to treat the large number of acres that could need to be treated at the same time. "Unlike aphids, soybean rust will not be isolated," he says. "It will show up in many areas all at one time."
Wright notes that it is unclear how widespread soybean rust will be this year. Since rust can't over-winter at freezing temperatures, it must travel with the wind from southern states, where it was found in early November. However, he believes the disease is likely to infest Iowa and other Soybean Belt states in 2005.
Wright encourages farmers to develop a plan for treating rust after learning as much as they can about the disease. "There really isn't much else you can do but be prepared with a management strategy that might include deciding to make your own fungicide applications," he says.
High-clearance trailer and mounted sprayers with the capacity to treat several hundred acres per day typically cost $30,000 to $50,000, notes Steve Claussen, president of Redball, LLC, Benson, Minn., a large sprayer manufacturer. "We expect more farmers to buy their own sprayers to prepare for soybean rust. They will use them to apply herbicides, too. Other farmers will be upgrading to larger sprayers to handle the job as quickly as possible."
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Kosciusko County Histories
The following county histories are located in the microfilms area on the second floor of the library. Please ask a librarian at the microforms desk or the reference desk if you need assistance with these materials.
Title: Kosciusko County, Indiana, index of names of persons and of firms.
Author: U.S.--Works Progress Administration--Indiana.
Published: Indianapolis : n.p., n.d.
Title: A standard history of Kosciusko County, Indiana; an authentic narrative of the past, with particular attention to the modern era in the commercial industrial, educational, civic and social development, a chronicle of the people, with family lineage and memoirs. Author: Royse, Lemuel Willard, 1847-.
Published: Chicago : Lewis publishing company, 1919.
Reel 58 No. 231
Title: Progressive men and women of Kosciusko county, Indiana; to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography, memoirs of eminent men and women of the United States whose deeds of valor or works of merit have made their names imperishable.
Published: Logansport, Ind. : B. F. Bowen, 1902.
AGLL Reel 6
Reel 49 No. 176
Title: Combination atlas map of Kosciusko county, Indiana.
Author: Kingman Brothers, Chicago.
Published: [Chicago], 1879.
Reel 9 No. 39
Title: Biographical and historical record of Kosciusko county, Indiana ... .
Published: Chicago : Lewis Publishing Company, 1887.
Title: History of Leesburg and Plain township.
Author: Armstrong, James W.
Published: Leesburg, 1914.
AGLL Reel 6
Title: Standard atlas of Kosciusko county, Indiana; including a plat book of the villages, cities and townships of the county; map of the state, United States and world ... .
Author: Ogle, George A. and co.
Published: Chicago, 1914.


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Sponsor: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
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RICHMOND, Va. — Dominion Virginia Power says it's asking state regulators to increase what the utility charges customers to recover its fuel costs for the first time in two years.
The Richmond-based energy provider on Friday asked the State Corporation Commission to increase the fuel rate starting July 1.
If approved, the change would raise the average monthly bill of a typical residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt-hours by $2.36.
Virginia law allows Dominion to bill its customers for the company's cost of the natural gas, coal, uranium and biomass used to generate electricity and the power the utility company buys.
The company says higher fuel costs and increased electricity demand are the primary drivers for its request.
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Warning: IRS scammers are calling NH taxpayersBy JIM KIMBLE
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June 25. 2014 9:16PM
CONCORD — The Better Business Bureau Wednesday said a Hooksett man who received phone messages that claimed to be from the Internal Revenue Service, threatening to arrest him if he didn't pay his taxes, was savvy enough to call the BBB before calling the phone number left for him.
Jamie Shomphe, communications director for the BBB, said there are seasonal scams and this is the season for IRS scams. Because its just a few months past the filing date, there will be some people who haven't paid their taxes yet and that is who the scammers are hoping to fool.
She said the scammers are "spoofing" the phone number to the real IRS hotline, which makes the calls look legitimate.
Shomphe said she has been in contact with her counterparts around the country and the scam is in operation in many areas. She said the Hooksett man was smart to call the BBB before responding to the two messages left on his answering machine.
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Great North Museum: Hancock
The Great North Museum incorporates collections from the Hancock Museum and Newcastle University's Museum of Antiquities, the Shefton Museum and the Hatton Gallery.
Highlights of the £26million museum include a large-scale, interactive model of Hadrian's Wall, major new displays showing the wonder and diversity of the animal kingdom, spectacular objects from the Ancient Greeks and mummies from Ancient Egypt, a planetarium and a life-size T-Rex dinosaur replica skeleton.
The Living Planet display houses hundreds of creatures and by using a mixture of touch screen technology and hands-on investigations, visitors can investigate these animals and find out where they live and how they survive in such extreme places as the arctic and desert.
Live animal tanks and aquaria are integrated into this major display where visitors can see wolf fish, pythons and lizards to name a few. Star objects include a full size model of an elephant, a great white shark, a virtual aquarium, live animal displays, a polar bear, a giraffe and moa skeleton.
Venue Type:
Museum, Library
Monday to Friday: 10am - 5pm
Saturdays: 10am - 4pm
Sundays: 11am - 4pm
Free (donations welcome)
The Hancock collections represent an amalgamation of many hundreds of individual collections amassed by leading naturalists who worked not only in the North East but throughout the world, pioneering the development of natural history as a science in the 19th and 20th centuries. The collections continue to be actively used by researchers from all over the world. There is research material of international significance within all parts of the collection and this provides an irreplaceable tool by which biological and geological principles such as taxonomy, variation, speciation, geographical distribution, evolution and typology can be studied.
In addition, the Hancock Museum library houses, amongst its extensive archives, one of the largest collections in the world of the watercolours and engravings of the world-renowned, Newcastle born 18th century artist and engraver Thomas Bewick. His works, particularly the engravings featured in History of British Birds and A General History of Quadrupeds, have attracted international interest. He is regarded as the "father of wood engraving" and the success of his technique led to it becoming the most popular form of book illustration for most of the 19th century. A selection of Bewick's work is on display in the Museum in The Bewick Shrine.
The collections reflect the Museum's historic specialisation in the Natural Sciences. The collections number well over half-a-million items, and these include over 1,000 type specimens. A type specimen is the original specimen from which a new species was named. In international terms, the most important collections are the freshwater and marine crustaceans collected by Professor George Brady, and the Carboniferous vertebrate fossils collected by Thomas Atthey and Albany Hancock, some of which can be seen in the Earthworks gallery. Both collections are consulted extensively by researchers from all over the world.
In addition to these collections, the Museum owns an important collection of early vertebrate material as well as historical ethnographic material, some of which is traceable back to the voyages of Captain James Cook. Some of the ethnography collections can be seen in the World of Difference display.
When looking around the Museum you will see a wide range of collections and some truly wonderful objects including the huge fossil tree from Weardale, the giant Spider Crab, the Sea Dragon or Ichthyosaur from Whitby, the skeleton of a Moa, the animals in Abel's Ark and the vast collection of birds including extinct species such as the Great Auk, Passenger Pigeon and Dodo... and not forgetting Sparky Williams, the internationally famous talking budgerigar. Sparky died over 40 years ago but he is preserved in the Museum and visitors can hear some of his recordings.
The Hancock also possesses small collections of archaeological material, most importantly, Egyptology. Although not numerous, these collections do contain some important material, including two New Kingdom mummies which can be seen in the Land of the Pharaohs gallery. One of these, Bakt-hor-nekht, remains wrapped, and has been the subject of extensive research, including pioneering CAT- scanning work in 1991.
Collection details
Archaeology, Archives, Fine Art, Natural Sciences, World Cultures
Key artists and exhibits
- Thomas Bewick
- Professor George Brady
- Thomas Atthey
- Albany Hancock
World Cultures
- 1 November 2014 — 1 November 2018 *on now
This gallery shows some of the most exciting objects in the museum's collection from many world cultures – the Islands of the Pacific, the great land masses of Africa and Asia, the plains of North America, as well some parts of Europe (including Newcastle, of course!).
Suitable for
- Family friendly
Roman Empire
- 1 November 2014 — 1 November 2018 *on now
This display explores objects from the wider Roman Empire including a huge porphyry foot and one of the most famous coins in the world, a Roman silver denari of Anthony and Cleopatra.
Suitable for
- Family friendly
Natural Northumbria
- 1 November 2014 — 1 November 2018 *on now
Visitors can discover what makes the North East region special in terms of the animals and plants as well as paying a 'virtual' visit to a number of sites in the area.
Investigation Hides provide the perfect opportunity to take a closer look at how animals and plants live and behave in the North East region's woodlands, uplands, lowlands, and coastal areas.
Suitable for
- Family friendly
Mouse House
- 1 November 2014 — 1 November 2018 *on now
The Mouse House is especially for our youngest visitors and their families. Designed to excite curiosity and encourage young children to explore, the Mouse House gallery is full of surprises introducing the museum's exciting collections.
Young children and their families are also welcome to join free Mouse House activities. Visit the what's on section of our website to find out about our regular Mouse House events.
Suitable for
- Family friendly
Living Planet
- 1 November 2014 — 1 November 2018 *on now
The Bio Wall in Living Planet houses hundreds of creatures and by using a mixture of touch screen technology and hands-on investigations, visitors can investigate these animals and find out where they live and how they survive in such extreme places as the arctic and desert.
Suitable for
- Family friendly
Hadrian's Wall
- 1 November 2014 — 1 November 2018 *on now
An interactive model of the Wall enables visitors to discover the detailed history of this amazing fortification as well as finding out about all the forts, milecastles and associated museums that can be visited today.
The gallery includes a wealth of archaeological finds and visitors can hear stories of life on the Wall from the people who actually lived at the time. Also on display is the gold Aemelia Ring, believed to be one of the earliest Christian artefacts found in Britain.
Suitable for
- Family friendly
Fossil Stories
- 1 November 2014 — 1 November 2018 *on now
Discover the Earth's past through its fossil record and find out how amazing some of these creatures were.
Learn about the major changes to the landscape and the animals and plants that were around millions of years ago. Visitors can become palaeontologists and re-assemble a pre-historic creature using virtual technology. Sound, touch and animation brings alive a world that disappeared millions of years ago.
This gallery also has a display on Crystals and Gems providing a sparkling story about minerals their formation, function and beauty.
Suitable for
- Family friendly
Explore More!
- 1 November 2014 — 1 November 2018 *on now
An exploratory space for all the family to find out about the Museum's collectors, the reasons why we collect, and the types of classification which can be adopted.
This gallery interprets the Museum's Anglo-Saxon and Medieval collections and provides a wide range of activities and handling material which can be studied either on a casual weekend visit or in a more formal class. Identification reference books and computer interactives support the themes of the natural world, ancient world and world cultures.
Suitable for
- Family friendly
Ancient Greeks
- 1 November 2014 — 1 November 2018 *on now
Find out what it was like to be an Ancient Greek and how this great civilisation was shaped by the mountainous terrain that helped to create many different city states.
Visitors can listen to stories of Greek myths, and a huge frieze portrays images taken from the actual objects which are displayed down the centre of the gallery.
Suitable for
- Family friendly
Ancient Egypt
- 1 November 2014 — 1 November 2018 *on now
An exciting exploration of life and death in Ancient Egypt, this exhibition combines the Museum's own Ancient Egyptian collections with a number of spectacular objects on loan from the British Museum.
The exhibition takes visitors through a fascinating journey which explores how the Ancient Egyptians were shaped by the Nile and how they lived their everyday lives as well as their mystical religious beliefs. Visitors can take a dramatic journey through the transition from Life to Death by passing though a tunnel which spans a virtual River Nile.
Suitable for
- Family friendly
Which Way North
- 22 June — 9 September 2018 *on now
Set to be the biggest event in England for 2018, the Great Exhibition of the North is a summer of amazing exhibits, inspired technology, vibrant street performance, cutting edge culture and magical experiences in NewcastleGateshead.
At the Great North Museum, a portal to another world is about to open.
Get your game on and prepare for an adventure. Discover the heart and soul of the revolutionary North and learn how its inventors, scientists and artists shaped the world we live in today - and how you can change the future.
Which Way North is a free, family-friendly exhibition featuring over 200 fascinating items on loan from the UK's leading museums, galleries and private collections. You'll see:
Astronaut Helen Sharman's space suit
A rare miniature book created by Charlotte Brontë
The last piano played by John Lennon
The sonic screwdriver used by the 11th Doctor Who
George Stubbs' world-famous painting Whistlejacket
Damien Hirst's art installation Heaven
John Harrison's groundbreaking marine timekeeper 'H4'
David Hockney's painting Le Parc des Sources, Vichy
And much more...
Are you ready to go? Embark on a journey of Northern endeavour and discovery. Opens Friday 22 June 2018.
Suitable for
- Any age
Free entry
Great North Museum: Hancock
Barras Bridge
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyne and Wear
0191 208 6765
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