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After three years of development, OOo 3.0 is finally here with a bunch of new features and enhancements. Linux Format looks at the changes and rates the suite's overall performance, and you can try it yourself by downloading a copy from here.
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RE[2]: 100% compatible
by dimosd on Mon 13th Oct 2008 15:47 UTC in reply to "RE: 100% compatible"
"I'm not in the mood for gambling with my grades :-)
If it's a course about learning to use MS Office then of course you should be using MS Office. If it's a course where the layout of your final piece of work is critical to your grade, you should be using proper layout software. Other than that I can't think why OpenOffice should affect your grade. "
"Send me an (editable) file that looks right when opened with Office 2003" is the only real requirement...
Usability glitches or startup times are secondary to me. As I said, 100% compatibility is the only *must have* for OpenOffice.
It's an MS world, gotta live with it somehow.
Edited 2008-10-13 15:54 UTC
RE[3]: 100% compatible
by sbergman27 on Mon 13th Oct 2008 16:14 in reply to "RE[2]: 100% compatible"
"Send me an (editable) file that looks right when opened with Office 2003" is the only real requirement...
You said that using OO.o would be "gambling with your grades":
I'm not in the mood for gambling with my grades
That's spreading "Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt" in my book. And when confronted you quickly changed the subject.
If it is that critical that the document look *exactly* as you want it, you should be using a format like PDF. MS Office documents don't print out or view exactly the same even between different versions of MS Office. Why gamble on your grades by using it?
Edited 2008-10-13 16:15 UTC
RE[4]: 100% compatible
by emerson999 on Mon 13th Oct 2008 16:50 in reply to "RE[3]: 100% compatible"
I think you might have forgotten what it's like to be in school. If the instructor wants a doc file, you do not send a pdf. If something like spacing, margins, or anything else is off they're probably not going to cut you slack for using openoffice or accept that different word processors are going to produce different results. Especially when you're the only one in class who seems to have trouble with it. Now, I 'was' able to do all my papers in openoffice. But I can see why someone might be nervous about it.


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No love lost as Oregon, Washington renew bitter rivalry tonight
Published 9:00 pm, Friday, October 31, 2003
They don't like each other. They're angry about the way their seasons have gone. They're both wounded. They're both desperate for a win.
It's a night game the day after Halloween.
As if that wasn't enough to make Oregon's visit to Husky Stadium tonight interesting, there's also this little matter of Washington's prolonged celebration last year after whipping the Ducks 42-14 at Autzen Stadium.
That bitter memory was enough to motivate Oregon free safety Keith Lewis to take potshots at a number of Huskies and to essentially guarantee his team will be dancing on the "W" at about 10 p.m.
Lewis, however, isn't a bit worried about how he and his team will be treated at Husky Stadium.
"I'm looking forward to going to Seattle," Lewis quipped. "Their fans will welcome us with open arms."
While Lewis is known for his outspokenness, he's not the only Duck angry about what happened after last year's game. On Monday, Oregon coach Mike Bellotti said he thought the Huskies' behavior was in "very poor taste."
Even mild-mannered Oregon quarterback Kellen Clemens was annoyed by the memory.
"It wasn't ... how would I say this?" Clemens said. "I don't know. We will use it as motivation. It wasn't something that showed a whole lot of class."
None of the UW players were the least bit apologetic about their display last season. Their general feeling is that if the Ducks want to dance, they're going to have to earn it on the field.
Any wonder why this has become the Pac-10's most contentious rivalry?
"Wazzu is like a friendly rivalry," UW receiver Reggie Williams said. "Oregon is more of a hate rivalry."
Williams figures to play a central role in how the game goes. Last year, he almost single-handedly buried the Ducks, catching 14 passes for 198 yards and three touchdowns.
Considering the Huskies will be without tailback Rich Alexis and receiver Charles Frederick, Williams likely will be the center of attention.
Oregon's pass defense is again terrible. It ranks 109th in the nation, surrendering 282 yards per game.
"I think our pass defense is marginally better than last year," Bellotti said. "We are not as good as we would like to be."
The Ducks probably will surround Williams with two or even three defenders. Will the Huskies be able to get him the ball anyway, or will someone else have to step up?
Who that could be is a good question. Freshman Kenny James will fill in for Alexis, and he looked good at times in his first career start against USC, particularly on a hard-nosed 15-yard touchdown run. But the Ducks are strong against the run, ranking third in the Pac-10, and haven't allowed a back to gain more than 100 yards this season.
So if the Huskies are forced to throw, and Williams is muted by double- and triple-team defenses, one of the Huskies' inexperienced receivers needs to grow up quickly. That could be freshman Sonny Shackelford, who will replace Frederick; converted redshirt freshman quarterback Isaiah Stanback; or redshirt freshman tight end Ben Bandel.
Despite a swoon during a three-game losing streak that included the two worst losses of the Bellotti era (to Washington State, 55-16, and Arizona State, 59-14), the Ducks offense has put up good numbers. It ranks third in the conference with 417 yards per game and second in rushing yards (151 yards per game).
Last week against Stanford, sophomore tailback Terrence Whitehead turned in a breakout performance with a career-high 172 yards and two touchdowns.
The Huskies also must contend with Oregon's two-quarterback system that features Clemens as the starter and senior Jason Fife, last year's starter, coming off the bench.
UW coach Keith Gilbertson said it doesn't really matter who's calling the signals, the Ducks' system remains the same -- hard to defend.
"It's not like they run the wishbone with one guy and the no-back passing attack with the other," Gilbertson said.
The Huskies are trying to win their sixth consecutive game against Northwest opponents. The Ducks are trying to avoid falling into a tailspin much like last year, when they lost six of their final seven games, winning only against Stanford.
Bellotti and his players have insisted this team has better leadership than last year and won't fall apart.
"I understand people are saying we're the same old Ducks," Clemens said. "But we're not."
The Huskies, meanwhile, are trying to avoid spiraling into their first losing season since 1976.
Both teams are 2-2 in the Pac-10. Both teams need to win in order to position themselves for a bowl game.
But the biggest issue is hate.
Tonight isn't about the future, it's about who will be dancing when the clock strikes zero.
"Bowl games are far, far away," Williams said. "We don't talk about bowl games."


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|[C3] Deploying Snapshots Was: Re: [C3] XSLTTransformer cache
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Hi Grosso! I think that, in order to simplify also the release process - I'm stuck because I don't have the permissions to copy c3 artifacts on main sync repo - we should move our distribution management to Apache Nexus[1] in order to have SNAPSHOTs and simplified release process. At that point I'd suggest ato have also a Jenkins job on ASF's Jenkins[2] in order to have fresh SNAPSHOTs as soon as code is modified. WDYT? All the best! Simo [1] https://repository.apache.org/index.html [2] https://builds.apache.org/ http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ http://www.99soft.org/ 2011/6/22 Francesco Chicchiriccò <email@example.com>: > On 21/06/2011 18:08, Simone Tripodi wrote: >> >> Hi again, >> that's not log4j but ant[1], it is easy&smart enough that could be >> imported& modified depending on our needs... >> And we could make it generic in the way we can reuse the same policy >> also in all transformers that require an external resource to be load >> (i.e. the XSchema validator) > > Very nice idea, Simone (and Sylvain)! > > Tomorrow I'll start importing that Watchdog class from ANT, then I'll > replace the current XSLT file caching mechanism with something using this > approach. > > Let's see how this will go, and maybe we could extend it also to other > components, as you suggest above. > > Since I will be using this modified XSLTTransformer anyway, it would be much > more practical to me not to be forced all the times to rebuild cocoon 3 from > sources on each and every place where I need it. > In simple words: is there any possibility to publish SNAPSHOT maven > artifacts somewhere? > > Thanks. > >> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Simone Tripodi >> <email@example.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Grosso, >>> >>> of course, COCOON3-62 is still valid, I should have resolved it before >>> the alpha-3, but "maybe" I'm in too much things now... :P Feel free to >>> work on it! >>> >>> Anyway, we didn't implement the cache with the policy you suggested >>> because there was an original idea - suggested by Sylvain - that the >>> transformer should be take care about checking file modification and >>> reloading the XSLT if changed. So I'd proceed to a Watchdog >>> implementation - it could be kindly borrowed from already existing >>> Apache components (log4j has one if I'm not wrong, I'll give a search >>> anyway) - rather than a pure cache policy: immagine changes are >>> frequent, they could - in the WOOOOOOOORSe case of course - pull out >>> from the LRU also other XSL... >>> >>> WDYT? >>> just my 2 cents, have a nice day!!! >>> Simo >>> >>> http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ >>> http://www.99soft.org/ >>> >>> >>> >>> 2011/6/21 Francesco Chicchiriccò<firstname.lastname@example.com>: >>>> >>>> Hi folks, >>>> I am playing quite a lot these days with Cocoon 3 because I had the >>>> insane >>>> idea to build a CMS frontend framework upon its solid foundations :-) >>>> >>>> Among other things (for which I'll write some other e-mails), I see that >>>> the >>>> XSLTTransformer is currently implemented with a LRU cache using the sole >>>> filename as key. This would imply that XSLT files get never reloaded, >>>> even >>>> such feature would be extremely useful when developing XSLT. >>>> >>>> What do you think if I modify the current XSLTTransformer cache >>>> mechanism in >>>> order to have a more complex key (say filename + filesize)? >>>> >>>> Anyway, do you think that [1] is still valid? >>>> >>>> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COCOON3-62 > > -- > Francesco Chicchiriccò > > Apache Cocoon Committer and PMC Member > http://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/ > >
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Finally pics of my first dress fitting a couple of weeks ago, my 2nd fitting in next week. I was so excited to finally put it on. Pictures were taken after he pinned the hem so you can see the scallop on the front part of the dress. So far no major alterations. I think Im going to ask to have the top taken in though a lot of empty space that I dont think I will miracuously be filling in anytime soon.
Please ignore the comical look on my face its hard to smile properly when several family members are lurking at you hehe.
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I lurked the streets of Manhattan for several weeks to find the ribbon in the color and width I wanted (to match my shoes of course). The only place that had it (Phew) was M&J Trimming. I may end up using the ribbon that came with the dress for me and my BM bouquet.
And here are my shoes, close enough match dontcha think?:
Oh and thats not my veil I was trying to figure out length (im going for elbow), my mother is making it for me. Im super excited about that. I have been lurking the streets again to find lace trim.
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I got a shiver when I saw your dress - I came down to two and had a hard time deciding - your dress was one of them! You look absolutely stunning! Perhaps we are twins in another life - same hotel and same dress!
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Author Notes: I have been shaving dark chocolate into my chili for quite some time. It adds a rich dark undertone and depth of flavor. I also quite like the pungent bitter hit from beer in chili. So when I stumbled upon chocolate stout beer I thought it was indeed the perfect double duty magic that would elevate my vegetarian chili to another dimension.
And elevate it does. This is a crowd pleasing chili. Meat eaters included. It is a staple in my house, and my most requested recipe. Top it with fresh avocado and cilantro, a dollop of sour cream and a sprinkle of cheddar cheese. Or just eat it as is, its perfectly suited for that as well.
As an added bonus it is quite easy to make! —Abra Pappa
Serves 10-12
- 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 large white onion, chopped
- 1 large green pepper, chopped
- 1 large red pepper, chopped
- 1 large orange pepper, chopped
- 1 jalapeño, seeded and choped
- 8 cloves of garlic, chopped
- 1 15 oz. can of black beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 15 oz can of kidney beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 15 oz can of garbanzo beans, drained and rinsed
- 3 tablespoons ground cumin
- 1 tablespoon coriander
- 1 tablespoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon mexican oregano
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 tablespoon spanish smoked paprika
- 1 1/2 teaspoons sea salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 cup chocolate stout
- 1 28 oz. can of fire roasted crushed tomatoes
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- In a large pot on medium high heat saute onions, peppers, and garlic in extra virgin olive oil for 5-7 minutes (until tender, but not mushy)
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Golden Globes Canceled!
The Golden Globes have been canceled due to the ongoing writers strike. "[T]he Hollywood Foreign Press Association instead will merely make an announcement of the winners," according to Nikki Finke. Exciting! We've learned to live without writers, but can we live without... awards shows? Do we want to live in that cold, red carpet-less place? With the football postseason drawing to a close, what will office pools be about in a world without awards shows? How will we know which forgotten character actors died last year without a mournful montage? What will the gays do? (Actually if they can manage to get a couple more awards shows canceled—and maybe replace them with encore presentations of the new American Gladiators—we might root for this strike to go on forever.) [Deadline Hollywood Daily]


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Hey, remember when we told you about how movie torrenting lawsuits had essentially turned into large corporations and law firms blackmailing private citizens? Remember how we thought that was a new low? Oh, how innocent and naive we were.
You've probably never heard of Stephens Media, because they print newspapers, which hardly anyone reads anymore, in Nevada and Arkansas, where not many people live. But they've been trying to enforce their copyrights the only way old people who don't understand the Internet know how: By suing the crap out of anybody who violates their precious copyright.
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Philadelphia Phillies 2008 PreviewMarch 21, 2008
While the Phillies made an improbable run to the NL East Championship in 2007 (yes, the Mets choked big time, but the Phils to deserve a lot of credit), it's going to be no easy task repeating in 2008.
The one thing that should separate the Phillies from the rest of the field is their dangerous lineup, which is arguably the best in the National League and is unanimously in the top handful of all major league teams.
That said, the Mets and Braves lineups are far from pushovers, with proven star-quality run producers in Jose Reyes, David Wright, and Carlos Beltran, and Chipper Jones, Mark Teixiera, and Jeff Francouer, respectively.
However, it's tough to argue against the three perennial MVP candidates the Phils have, which is only helped by the most hitter-friendly park in the National League.
The Big Fellas
Everyone knows about the superstars in the Phillies' lineup.
Reigning MVP Jimmy Rollins, clearly the leader of this team, has proven to be one of the elite shortstops in the game.
Chase Utley was well on his to an MVP run before a broken hand forced him to miss a month of action. Even after missing 30 games, a sick line of .332/.410/.566 22 HRs, 103 RBI, and 102 runs puts him in a class by himself among second basemen.
Ryan Howard may be the most interesting of the Phillies stars. After winning the Rookie of the Year and MVP in his first two years, Howard followed up in 2007 with 47 HRs and 137 RBI. Not too bad, right?
What makes his 2007 more amazing was the way the season started for the Big Guy. Howard's first two months consisted of a mere nine homers, a .223 average, and a DL stint.
It was clear the injury was hampering him, especially when we witnessed his comeback.
After June 1, Howard hit 38 home runs.
This spring, Howard is looking as powerful as ever, showing power to all fields, which he was unable to do early in 2007. Some people are too nitpicky and may knock Howard for striking out too many times, but when the same guy gives you 50/140, you can live with it.
Expect Howard to get off to a quicker start this season, thus making his return to the 50 home run plateau.
The New Phillies—Hitters
With every year comes additions and subtractions, and perhaps the most important piece to the 2007 puzzle that is not on the roster in 2008 is Aaron Rowand.
While Rowand brought solid offensive output and even more valuable leadership, I feel the Phillies did enough in the free agent market to match and more than likely surpass their 2007 output.
Offensive Additions: Geoff Jenkins, Pedro Feliz, So Taguchi, Eric Bruntlett
Offensive Departures: Aaron Rowand, Michael Bourn, Rod Barajas, Tadahito Iguchi, Abraham Nunez
Aaron Rowand had a career year in 2007, hitting .309/.374/.515 with 27 homers and 89 RBI, mostly in the five-hole protecting Ryan Howard.
He was an All-Star and a Gold Glove winner for the first time in his career. He was rewarded by the Giants in the offseason to the tune of a five-year, $60 million contract.
Many of the Phils' faithful were upset to see Rowand go, but the Phillies were smart to let him go for a few reasons.
One, Aaron will be 30 this season. Management reportedly offered him a 3-year deal, but any more than that for a player more than likely on the decline in the next few years would have been financially irresponsible, especially due to the team's bigger needs in the starting rotation.
The $60 million can go along way in signing a free-agent starter in 2009 (Lowe, Burnett, Sheets, heck, maybe even C.C.).
Also, 2007 was by far Rowand's best year offensively. His next best year was in 2004, as a 26-year-old, when he hit .310/.361/.544 with 24 homers and 69 RBI, but then experienced significant offensive reductions in '05 and '06 before lighting it up during his contract year.
Rowand may find some success in San Francisco, but to expect 2007 production for the next five years is foolish.
And while his defense is still top-notch, he continues to lose a step with every year he ages. It wouldn't surprise me if the Giants shift him to left field in a few years.
To help make up for the lost production of Aaron Rowand, Geoff Jenkins was brought in to play the majority of games in right field. Jenkins is a power guy with plus defense and does the majority of his damage against right-handed pitchers, which is all the Phillies will be asking him to do.
The right field platoon of Jenkins and Jayson Werth (who not-so-coincidently rakes left-handed pitching) should be more than formidable as the sixth hitter in the lineup. I'd expect at least 30 homers between the two.
As great as the Phillies lineup was, they got away with minimal production from their third basemen, as the Wes Helms-Greg Dobbs-Abraham Nunez carousel attributed for some of the lowest numbers for the position in league.
The Phillies tried to address this need by signing Pedro Feliz to a two-year deal, relegating Nunez to sign elsewhere, Dobbs to utility role/first hitter off the bench, and Helms out of a job for now.
Feliz hasn't batted above .253 since 2004 and never had an OBP over .305, which is more or less Abraham Nunez numbers. But unlike Abe, Feliz has an impressive streak of hitting at least 20 homers in four straight years, and there's no reason that streak shouldn't continue in the hitter-friendly confines of Citizens Bank Park.
In the field, Feliz is fantastic, committing only 11 errors in 143 games last season, which will help the likes of Kyle Kendrick and Jamie Moyer the most.
In all, however, unless Pedro can learn to take a walk or two, I don't see the Feliz signing as anymore than a very slight upgrade.
Coming over in the Brad Lidge deal was utility man Eric Bruntlett, whose versatility to play just about anywhere but pitcher and catcher gives the coaching staff many options in regards to off days and possible injury replacements.
Offensive Offseason Grade: B
Other Keys to the Phillies Offense
Taking over for Rowand in center everyday will be Shane Victorino, who is entering his third year of regular playing time.
The Flyin' Hawaiian had a solid season in 2007, hitting .281 and going 37/41 in stolen base attempts while showing solid pop for a little man (12 HR).
In the field, Shane has the tools to be even better than Rowand. He displays both superior foot speed as well as one of the best outfield arms in the game, and his instincts will only get better with experience.
Victorino is an excellent compliment to the superstars in the Phillies lineup and has shown improvement with every season. The main key for Shane is to stay healthy, as he has never amassed 500 at-bats in a season.
For this reason, So Taguchi, a veteran role player from the St. Louis Cardinals, was brought in as a quality, experienced back up.
Assuming he can stay healthy in 2008, I'd expect a steady improvement in Victorino's game, hitting around .285 with the power numbers continuing to climb to the 15 to 18-homer range and at least 40 steals.
Pat Burrell has been a perennial target for hostile Philly fans over the years, mostly for his absurdly low batting average, borderline laughable foot speed, poor defense, and a knack for the un-clutch.
But oddly enough, at the end of every year, Pat the Bat puts up the numbers; 25+ homers, 90 RBI, and an on-base percentage approaching .400.
2007 was a vindication year of sorts for Burrell.
He stepped up big time when Utley went down, and contributed some memorial clutch home runs down the stretch. Chalk up Pat Burrell for much of the same this year, as he is looking for a new contract come seasons end.
Carlos Ruiz doesn't get much love, but in his first full season, he did enough to delegate Rod Barajas to the bench. Yea, he's only a .260 hitter, but he calls a great game behind the dish and guns down a good percentage of base stealers. With the job 100 percent his this season, I'd expect a slight rise in average as well as a few of his 29 doubles turning into double-digit home runs.
The Pitching
Key Additions: Brad Lidge, Kris Benson, Chad Durbin
Key Departures: Kyle Lohse, Jon Lieber, Jose Mesa, Antonio Alfonseca
You'd be hard pressed to find someone to who disagrees with the notion that the Mets acquiring Johan Santana isn't a big deal in the NL. He is the best pitcher in baseball, and he gives the Mets the best rotation in the National League East.
In 2007, the Phillies starting pitching went from what they thought was a strength (six starters, including the notorious disappointment Freddy Garcia and $24 million man Adam Eaton) to a great weakness, thanks to injuries and poor performances.
Kyle Kendrick was able to come out of nowhere and miraculously win 10 games with an ERA under four to give the staff a great boost. Guys named J.D. Durbin, John Ennis, and Fabio Castro pitched big games down the stretch.
The bullpen was in such terrible shape that Brett Myers went from their most experienced starter to closer. And just when he started getting acclimated to his new role, he was lost for a significant amount of time, as was former closer Tom Gordon and set-up man Ryan Madsen, leaving huge bullpen roles to guys like Antonio Alfonseca and Jose Mesa.
Despite all of these pitching deficiencies, the Phillies still won 89 games in the NL East, and that above any stat, shows just how great the Phillies lineup is.
The Starters
While the Phillies hope to have a similar fate as they did in '07 in becoming East Champs, they hope to do it in a more traditional way, front-running from the beginning with stronger pitching.
On paper, it looks like they are in better shape than last year. Brett Myers moves back to the front end of the rotation, where he hopes to return to 2005-2006 form, and shows all the signs of doing so thus far this spring.
Cole Hamels is a bona fide star in this league for years to come; the only thing that could possibly slow him down is the injury bug. Seems like a formidable one-two punch for an aspiring playoff team, but after that things start to get shaky.
Jamie Moyer may be the smartest pitcher in baseball and can still throw strikes and eat innings, but the man is 45 years old and you wonder how much longer he can do this.
Adam Eaton's struggles were well-documented last year, achieving one of the highest ERAs for a frequent starter in recent memory (6.29 in 167.2 innings). Despite Eaton's atrocious ERA, he still managed to win 10 games, further proving the greatness of the offense.
Although it is impossible to not improve on Eaton's '07 season, he is already experiencing back problems, so it is likely he will spend at least some time on the DL this season.
Oddly enough, however, Eaton has been the most effective against archrival New York Mets, whom he has never lost to in his career.
Kris Benson and Chad Durbin were also brought in to bring some stability to the back end of the rotation/long relief, but the team doesn't expect Benson to be ready to go right away.
Lefty Travis Blackley was selected in the Rule Five draft, and is still in the mix for the fifth starter. As with most every NL team, the staff has its strengthens and weakness, but the key to the Phillies rotation in 2008 is Kyle Kendrick.
Kendrick seems ideal for this team. A sinker-baller that limits home runs and thus keeps his team in the game, but his out-of-no-where like season left skeptics to believe he could be a fluke. He's done nothing to disprove his critics in spring training, where he has been getting lit up.
Of course the outcome of spring training games rarely correlate to success in the regular season, but Kendrick will most definitely need to prove himself this year and will be key in the Phillies success.
The Bullpen
The acquisition of Brad Lidge comes with mixed emotions for many Phils fans. Once a dominant closer, he just hasn't been the same since Albert Pujols teed one off on him in the 2005 playoffs.
He lost his closer role twice in Houston in the last two years, although his flashes of brilliance last year (3.36 ERA and 88 Ks in 67 innings) showed the baseball world that he still has nasty stuff. The issue with Lidge is his confidence, which has been shaken, to say the least, in the past two years. The job is his, but a few bad outings could start to pile up on him, especially in a town with relentless and impatient fans.
Despite the closer questions, the bullpen looks much stronger this year than in years past. The aging Tom Gordon seems much more suitable as a seventh/eighth inning guy, Ryan Madsen is getting better every year settling into his bullpen role, and J.C. Romero is coming off a flat-out dominating stretch run.
Francisco Rosario has also looked sharp this spring, which should result in a spot on the 25-man roster. There have been some rumblings of the Phillies trying to acquire another left-handed reliever, Brian Fuentes of Colorado and Steve Kline of San Francisco to name a few. But my guess is that they stand pat for the time being.
Offseason Pitching Grade: B -
The Prediction
Many baseball people feel that the Braves will contend for the division title in 2008, but I don't think Atlanta has done enough this offseason to improve. That said, I see a two-team race for the NL East crown between the Phillies and Mets.
The recent acquisition of Johan Santana seems to give the Mets the edge, but I'm still sticking with the Phillies. While the starting pitching may be no better than average, the Phillies may be the only team in the National League built to win on a consistent basis with their pitcher's ERA in hovering around five.
The Mets aren't without flaws as well. Their bullpen is full of questions, and other than their All-Star core, the lineup is filled with age and injury concerns.
Also, let us not forget the monumental collapse last year that still lingers in their mind, which included an 0-7 mark against the rival Phils in September.
Still, I see the Mets having too much talent to not make the playoffs. Expect this race to go down to the last week of the season once again, with the loser most likely manning the wildcard come October.
While the Phillies bats may be enough to overcome their pitching deficiencies in the regular season, I find it hard to see them as a championship caliber team. Of course, anything can happen come October (ala St. Louis Cardinals in 2006), and the Phillies could be just as likely to come out of the National League as any other team in the junior circuit, but the superior teams (Red Sox, Yankees, Tigers, Indians) clearly belong to the American League.


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The earliest written mention of Durroheim is found in a document of 889 AD. Later documents mention the names Diureheim and Diere. The latter version of the name is actually still used in the local dialect. Around 1300 the place was in possession of the commander of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Villingen. In 1806 Dürrheim became part of the Grand Duchy of Baden.
A subterranean salt deposit was discovered in 1822. From 1823 until 1972 the saline which contains about 27% of salt
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text: This book provides a review of image analysis techniques as they are applied in the field of diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine. Driven in part by the remarkable increase in computing power and its ready and inexpensive availability, this is a relatively new yet rapidly expanding field. Likewise, although the use of radionuclides for diagnosis and therapy has origins dating back almost to the discovery of natural radioactivity itself, radionuclide therapy and, in particular, targeted radionuclide therapy has only recently emerged as a promising approach for therapy of cancer and, to a lesser extent, other diseases. As effort has, therefore, been made to place the reviews provided in this book in a broader context. The effort to do this is reflected by the inclusion of introductory chapters that address basic principles of nuclear medicine imaging, followed by overview of issues that are closely related to quantitative nuclear imaging and its potential role in diagnostic and therapeutic applications. The different chapters discuss the basic principles and various steps required for obtaining quantitatively accurate data from nuclear medicine images including data collection methods and algorithms used to correct them for physical degrading factors (e.g. collimator response, attenuation, scatter, partial volume effect), and image reconstruction algorithms (analytic, iterative) as well as image processing and analysis techniques as their clinical and research applications in neurology, cardiology and oncology. Some algorithms are described and illustrated with some useful features and clinical applications. Other potential applications of quantitative image analysis such as image-guided radiation therapy are also discussed.


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They (Utah Jazz) worked hard to move up during Thursday night's draft to grab Justise Winslow, the athletic wing out of Duke who tumbled for a minute before ending up going to Miami with the 10th overall pick. The Jazz loved the guy, but couldn't snag him. No luck there.
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text: After some heavy usage (udp-nfs) my D-Link card refuses to send anything, I get lots of: /netbsd: vr0: transmit underrun /netbsd: vr0: transmit aborted Using tcpdump on another machine and watching the blinken lights at my hub I can see no frames coming out of the NIC; receiving works still fine. During recompilation of X11 (xsrc is imported via nfs) the problems apeared at exactly the same position twice so I doubt it's a hardware problem. The NIC has operated OK ~2 weeks before, but maybe I haven't done so much with NFS as I do now. This is with 10BaseT (100TX was planned) if it matters, the NIC is detected by the kernel as: vr0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0: VIA VT3043 (Rhine) 10/100 Ethernet Ethernet vr0: interrupting at irq 9 vr0: Ethernet address: 00:80:c8:fb:62:c9 ukphy0 at vr0 phy 8: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface ukphy0: OUI 0x006040, model 0x0000, rev. 0 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto (BTW: There's no vr(4) manpage) Any ideas? -- Dies ist Thilos Unix Signature! Viel Spass damit.


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Surely everyone has the same two questions on their lips this morning:
1. Did the Cowboys offense mistakenly think Week 2 of the NFL season was its bye week, instead of Week 4?
2. Who won Saturday's Margarita Pouroff in a soggy Sunken Garden Theatre?
The answers are (1). Yes, and (2) Matamoros Restaurant y Cantina.
Yes, the Mexican restaurant on I-10 West dethroned defending champ Aldaco's in Stone Oak for the title of San Antonio's Best Margarita, the folks on KISS-FM, which sponsored the 28th annual event, announced this morning. Hope the folks who bet on such things bet wisely. (Aldaco's did finish second, and won the Peoples Choice award).
A dozen establishments competed for the title, although the weather looked for a time it might have the final say. Steve Hahn of KISS's "Lisle & Hahn Morning Show" reported this morning that the storm send everyone running for cover about 3 p.m. Saturday, or about an hour after sampling had started. The band that was scheduled to play (and he was supposed to introduce) thought better of risking electrocution and took cover, he added, calling the event the Margarita PourOn.
The rain was a reminder of a chronic problem Sunken Garden doesn't drain particularly well. It's in a bowl in Brackenridge Park, and a heavy rain can turn it into a lake. Hahn said one puddle was so big, he wished he had his fishing gear.
I can certainly vouch for that. Covering a Stone Temple Pilots show there more than a decade ago after a heavy rain, I witnessed a moshpit that had been turned into the ol' moshing hole.Or maybe the world's grungiest water park.
As a footnote: The title of S.A. Best Margarita could be considered a bit controversial, since it applies only to the dozen establishments that participated in Pouroff. In our most recent Readers Choice Awards, Chacho's and La Fogata were voted as having the city's best margarita by the readers and our food critics, respectively (the readers gave La Fogata the silver medal; the critics said it shared the top spot with Tomatillo's).
I suggest a followup event, a possible clash of the titans the Margarita Playoff.


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Oakham Town Council is having its accounts checked after it made errors.
The council had until June 30 to send the accounts for 2014/15 to its external auditor Grant Thornton. But a number of inaccuracies were found when councillors looked through the documents.
As a result the accounts have now been passed to a firm of accountants to check for further errors.
Mayor of Oakham Alf Dewis said: "The accounts were prepared and authorised on June 10. It was found after they were authorised there were some inaccuracies in the accounts. Practical accounting problems.
"Two invoices for rent income were put in the cash book but the rent had not been received. Debt money had not been received but that was put in the book."
Coun Dewis said he would not have been happy submitting the accounts with errors.
The documents are currently being looked at by the accountancy firm, with a report expected by the end of this month.
The mayor said: "It's concerning. The point is that we are doing our best to get them corrected and send them off as soon as possible. We want to make sure there is no doubt that there are no errors."
A report to council on July 8 concerning the errors said: "These erroneous postings flew in the face of the very basic rule that the cash book should always be the rock solid record of actual receipts and payments."
The report highlighted "sloppiness or even incompetence" but there was no evidence to suggest an "intention to cheat or defraud".
Coun Martin Brookes, who was elected in May, said: "There is no place for 'sloppiness or even incompetence' even at local government level. I would hope Oakham Town Council will take the appropriate action needed to redress this current situation."


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A new grant‐funded Transportation Program will become available for low‐to moderate income DeSoto residents beginning January 1, 2018. The program provides the following for applicants who meet HUD eligibility:
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Town Hall Meetings to explain the program, eligibility criteria, and provide assistance with the application process will be held on December 11, 2017at 10 am and at 6 pm in the Council Chambers at DeSoto City Hall, located at 211 E. Pleasant Run Road. This program has limited funding, which is available on a first‐come, first-approved basis.
DeSoto residents in need of transportation assistance are encouraged to attend one of these meetings to meet with program administrators to discuss their eligibility and receive assistance in applying for the program. Applications will also be available for download at www.desototexas.gov on December 11, 2017.
"Although this first initiative only addresses a limited number, I am confident our ongoing efforts will result in an expanded Transportation Program to which all DeSoto residents will have access," said DeSoto Mayor Curtistene McCowan. "Stay tuned; the best is yet to come!"
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- Bruce L. Castor Jr. will become Pennsylvania's acting attorney general
- Kathleen Kane was convicted of perjury and obstruction; she has denied the charges
(CNN)Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane said Tuesday she will resign, according to a statement from her office.
The announcement comes a day after Kane was convicted on charges of perjury and obstruction. Critics had called for her to step down right away.
The resignation will be effective at the close of business Wednesday. The new acting attorney general will be Bruce L. Castor Jr., Kane's top deputy, office spokesman Jeffrey Johnson said.
In the statement, Kane said: "I have been honored to serve the people of Pennsylvania and I wish them health and safety in all their days."
Kane will be sentenced later. The felony offense of perjury carries a potential jail term, and prosecutor Kevin Steele said jail time may be recommended.
"It seemed that we had somebody who felt that she was above the law, and that's not the case because no one is above the law," he said. "We are a very honorable profession here. We have rules that we have to abide by and there are no exceptions to that."
Kane, a Democrat elected in 2012, had denied leaking confidential information about grand jury deliberations to the media in an effort to harm her predecessor and then attempting to cover it up.
Defense attorney Gerald Shargel told reporters outside the court that the verdict was "a crushing blow."
"We will continue this litigation, we will continue this fight because we believe that our client has been wrongfully accused of misconduct," he said.
Bribery investigation
The criminal charges were filed against Kane in August 2015. They alleged that Kane acted on anger about a local newspaper article that accused her of dropping an investigation into politicians accepting bribes.
To get back at her predecessors, the complaint said Kane leaked sealed, confidential grand jury documents to the media and then lied under oath.
Kane said in an August 10, 2015, statement that a campaign of political retribution had been launched against her long before the allegations at the center of the criminal complaint.
The entire episode, Kane claimed, began with a series of "pornographic, racial and religiously offensive emails" from the office of former Attorney General Tom Corbett -- who was elected governor in 2010 -- and uncovered in an investigation.
She called for the release of the emails, but Judge William Carpenter blocked the move under what Kane called "a tortured interpretation of our state's grand jury secrecy law."
Her attorney addressed the issue with reporters after the verdict.
"We believe that our defense was compromised, and we will fight that till the end," Shargel said.
"We have arguments to make on whether this trial was fair. We intend to pursue all arguments that are available to us. We're not going to walk away from any arguments."
On resignation
In a statement Monday, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf said the charges were "unbecoming of the Commonwealth's top law enforcement officer."
"As I have made clear, I do not believe Kathleen Kane should be Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. I believed this when she was charged, and today, after conviction, there should be no question that she should resign immediately," Wolf said in a statement.
"While there is no simple procedure to remove a civil officer, the Office of Attorney General and its employees, as well as the people of Pennsylvania, deserve to move on. I implore Attorney General Kane to do what is right: put the commonwealth's residents first and step down from office."
Kane had resisted earlier calls to step down, saying resignation would be an admission of guilt "and I'm not guilty."
After Kane's conviction, Pennsylvania Republican Party Chairman Rob Gleason said it was "a terrible day for the commonwealth."
"It is time to bring honor and respect back to the office of the attorney general," Gleason said.


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Pellagra is almost unknown to the average South Carolinian today, but the disease was a major health crisis for South Carolina in the early twentieth century. The symptoms of pellagra include red and peeling skin, diarrhea and other stomach ailments, and progressive mental difficulties including dementia. Pellagra first appeared in the United States in 1902 and had existed in southern Europe for hundreds of years.
The disturbing and highly visible symptoms of pellagra led to panic about the disease, termed "pellagra-phobia" as reported in The Abbeville Press and Banner in 1912. Newspapers in South Carolina frequently reported on the devastating effects of pellagra in the state and were a valuable source of information about the disease.
Although pellagra has very distinctive symptoms, the cause of the disease was mysterious to doctors. Leading experts suspected that spoiled corn or corn liquor was to blame, while others theorized that it was spread by insects or contaminated water. These conflicting newspaper reports show the level of confusion and concern surrounding the nature of pellagra.
Pellagra was especially prevalent among the mill operatives and poor farmers of South Carolina. In 1915 The Pickens Sentinel reported on the high mortality rate of pellagra and noted the number of deaths in each county in South Carolina. Due to the large number of affected citizens, pellagra experts from around the world arrived in South Carolina to discuss the disease and investigate a cure. The first pellagra conference occurred in 1909. The Spartanburg Pellagra Hospital, the nation's first such institution, was established in 1914 to research the disease and treat citizens of the Upstate suffering from pellagra.
Dr. Joseph Goldberger solved the mystery of pellagra and established that it was a dietary disease. The U.S. Public Health Service sent Dr. Goldberger to South Carolina to study pellagra in 1914. He examined places where pellagra was rampant like asylums and prisons. Dr. Goldberger made the key observation that while many inmates of these places suffered from pellagra the nurses and guards rarely did. This fact convinced him that pellagra was not infectious or contagious and had to be caused by the poor grain-based diet fed to institutionalized people. Impoverished farmers and mill workers in South Carolina ate a similarly poor and unvaried diet.
Dr. Joseph Goldberger demonstrated in a series of famous experiments that pellagra was related to poor diet. Children at Epworth Orphanage in Columbia and patients at the Spartanburg Pellagra Hospital were given a special diet under Goldberger's direction focused around fresh milk, eggs, meat and vegetables to prevent pellagra at these institutions.
Some leaders in South Carolina were resistant to this breakthrough because they were reluctant to admit that many South Carolinians suffered from a poor diet. The New-York Tribune noted Representative James F. Byrnes' displeasure about national reports of famine and disease in the state in 1921. Despite these views, dietary treatment for pellagra was highly successful and the Spartanburg Pellagra Hospital closed in 1921. Unfortunately, pellagra continued to affect the many citizens of South Carolina that were unable to afford the balanced diet necessary to prevent the disease.
Dr. Joseph Goldberger died in 1929. In 1937 the b-vitamin niacin was discovered to be the specific nutrient that prevented pellagra. The relative prosperity brought on by the Second World War and the introduction of enriched flour containing niacin eliminated pellagra in the South by 1945.
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|1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Field Museum of Natural History
|William Peirce Anderson of Graham, Anderson, Probst & White[2]
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|Classical Revival
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|September 5, 1975
The Field Museum of Natural History, also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in the city of Chicago, and is one of the largest such museums in the world.[3] The museum maintains its status as a premier natural history museum through the size and quality of its educational and scientific programs,[4][5] as well as due to its extensive scientific specimen and artifact collections.[6] The diverse, high quality permanent exhibitions,[7] which attract up to two million visitors annually, range from the earliest fossils to past and current cultures from around the world to interactive programming demonstrating today's urgent conservation needs.[8][9] It is named in honor of its first major benefactor, Marshall Field.
Additionally, the Field Museum maintains a temporary exhibition program of traveling shows as well as in-house produced topical exhibitions.[10] The professional staff maintains collections of over 24 million specimens and objects that provide the basis for the museum's scientific research programs.[3][6][11] These collections include the full range of existing biodiversity, gems, meteorites, fossils, as well as rich anthropological collections and cultural artifacts from around the globe.[6][12][13][14] The Field Museum Library, which contains over 275,000 books, journals, and photo archives focused on biological systematics, evolutionary biology, geology, archaeology, ethnology and material culture, supports the Field Museum's academic research faculty and exhibit development.[15]
The Field Museum academic faculty and scientific staff engage in field expeditions, in biodiversity and cultural research on all continents, in local and foreign student training, in stewardship of the rich specimen and artifact collections, and work in close collaboration with public programming exhibitions and education initiatives.[11][16][17][18]
The Field Museum and its collections originated from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and the artifacts displayed at the fair.[19][better source needed] In order to house the exhibits and collections assembled for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair for future generations, Edward Ayer convinced the merchant Marshall Field to fund the establishment of a museum.[20] Originally titled the Columbian Museum of Chicago in honor of its origins, the Field Museum was incorporated by the State of Illinois on September 16, 1893, for the purpose of the "accumulation and dissemination of knowledge, and the preservation and exhibition of artifacts illustrating art, archaeology, science and history."[21] The Columbian Museum of Chicago occupied the only building remaining from the World's Columbian Exposition in Jackson Park, the Palace of Fine Arts, which now houses the Museum of Science and Industry.[9]
In 1905, the museum's name was changed from Columbian Museum of Chicago to Field Museum of Natural History to honor its first major benefactor, Marshall Field, and to reflect its focus on the natural sciences.[22] During the period from 1943[23][24] to 1966,[25] the museum was known as the Chicago Natural History Museum. In 1921, the Museum moved from its original location in Jackson Park to its present site on Chicago Park District property near downtown.[26] By the late 1930s the Field emerged as one of the three premier museums in the United States, the other two being the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH, New York) and the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC).[4]
The Field Museum has maintained its reputation through continuous growth, expanding the scope of collections and its scientific research output, in addition to the its award-winning exhibitions, outreach publications, and programs.[5][11][16][27] The Field Museum is part of Chicago's lakefront Museum Campus that includes the John G. Shedd Aquarium and the Adler Planetarium.[8]
In 2015, it became public that an employee had defrauded the museum of $900,000 over a seven-year period to 2014.[28]
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As of 2017, the museum´s permanent exhibitions include:
Other exhibitions include sections on Tibet and China, where visitors can view traditional clothing. There is also an exhibit on life in Africa, where visitors can learn about the many different cultures on the continent and an exhibit where visitors may "visit" several Pacific Islands. The museum houses an authentic 19th century Māori Meeting House, Ruatepupuke II,[29] from Tokomaru Bay, New Zealand. There are also a few vintage Mold-A-Rama machines that create injection-molded plastic dinosaurs collected by Chicago children.
On May 17, 2000, the Field Museum unveiled Sue, the most complete and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex fossil yet discovered. Sue is 12.3 m (40 feet) long,[30] stands 3.66 m (12 feet) high at the hips[31] and is 67 million years old. The fossil was named after the person who discovered it, Sue Hendrickson, and is commonly referred to as female, though the fossil's actual sex is unknown.[32] The original skull, located on the balcony overlooking Sue, was not mounted to the body due to the difficulties in examining the specimen 13 feet off the ground, and for nominal aesthetic reasons (the replica does not require a steel support under the mandible). An examination of the bones revealed that Sue died at age 28, a record for the fossilized remains of a T. rex.
Professionally managed and maintained specimen and artifact collections, such as those at the Field Museum of Natural History, are a major research resource for the national and international scientific community, supporting extensive research that tracks environmental changes, benefits homeland security, public health and safety, and serves taxonomy and systematics research.[33] Many of Field Museum's collections rank among the top ten collections in the world, e.g., the bird skin collection ranks fourth worldwide;[34][35] the mollusk collection is among the five largest in North America;[36] the fish collection is ranked among the largest in the world.[37] The scientific collections of the Field Museum originate from the specimens and artifacts assembled between 1891 and 1893 for the World Columbian Exposition.[11][21][38][39][40] Already at its founding, the Field Museum had a large anthropological collection.[41] A large number of the early natural history specimens were purchased from Ward's Natural History Establishment[42] in Rochester, New York. An extensive acquisition program, including large expeditions conducted by the museum's curatorial staff resulted in substantial collection growth.[9][11][43] During the first 50 years of the museum's existence, over 440 Field Museum expeditions acquired specimens from all parts of the world.[44] In addition, material was added through purchase, such as the Strecker butterfly collection[45] in 1908 for example. Extensive specimen material and artifacts were given to the museum by collectors and donors, such as the Boone collection of over 3,500 East Asian artifacts, consisting of books, prints and various objects. In addition, "orphaned collections" were and are taken in from other institutions such as universities that change their academic programs away from collections-based research. For example, already beginning in 1907, Field Museum accepted substantial botanical specimen collections from universities such as University of Chicago, Northwestern University and University of Illinois at Chicago, into its herbarium. These specimens are maintained and continuously available for researchers worldwide.[11] Targeted collecting in the US and abroad for research programs of the curatorial and collection staff continuously add high quality specimen material and artifacts; e.g., Dr. Robert Inger's collection of frogs from Borneo as part of his research into the ecology and biodiversity of the Indonesian fauna.[13][46][47] Collecting of specimens and acquisition of artifacts is nowadays subject to clearly spelled-out policies and standards, with the goal to acquire only materials and specimens for which the provenance can be established unambiguously. All collecting of biological specimens is subject to proper collecting and export permits; frequently, specimens are returned to their country of origin after study. Field Museum stands among the leading institutions developing such ethics standards and policies; Field Museum was an early adopter of voluntary repatriation practices of ethnological and archaeological artifacts.[9][41]
Field Museum collections are professionally managed[48] by collection managers and conservators, who are highly skilled in preparation and preservation techniques. In fact, numerous maintenance and collection management tools were and are being advanced at Field Museum. For example, Carl Akeley's development of taxidermy excellence produced the first natural-looking mammal and bird specimens for exhibition as well as for study.[49] Field Museum curators developed standards and best practices for the care of collections.[50] Conservators at the Field Museum have made notable contributions to the preservation of artifacts including the use of pheromone trapping for control of webbing clothes moths.[51] In a modern collections-bearing institution, the vast majority of the scientific specimens and artifact are stored in specially designed collection cabinets, placed in containers made of archival materials, with labels printed on acid-free paper, and specimens and artifact are stored away from natural light to avoid fading. Preservation fluids are continuously monitored and in many collections humidity and temperature are controlled to ensure the long-term preservation of the specimens and artifacts. Field Museum was an early adopter of positive-pressure based approaches to control of environment in display cases,[52] using control modules for humidity control in several galleries where room-level humidification was not practical.[53][54] The museum has also adopted a low-energy approach to maintain low humidity to prevent corrosion in archaeological metals using ultra-well-sealed barrier film micro-environments.[55] Other notable contributions include methods for dyeing Japanese papers to color match restorations in organic substrates,[56] the removal of display mounts from historic objects,[57] testing of collections for residual heavy metal pesticides,[58][59] presence of early plastics in collections,[60] the effect of sulfurous products in display cases,[61] and the use of light tubes in display cases.[62] Concordant with research developments, new collection types, such as frozen tissue collections, requiring new collecting and preservation techniques are added to the existing holdings.[63][64]
Collection management requires meticulous record keeping. Handwritten ledgers captured specimen and artifact data in the past. Field Museum was an early adopter of computerization of collection data beginning in the late 1970.[11][65] Field Museum contributes its digitized collection data to a variety of online groups and platforms, such as: HerpNet, VertNet and Antweb,[66] Global Biodiversity Information Facility or GBif,[67] and others. All Field Museum collection databases are unified and currently maintained in KE EMu software system. The research value of digitized specimen data and georeferenced locality data is widely acknowledged,[68] enabling analyses of distribution shifts due to climate changes, land use changes and others.[69]
During the World's Columbian Exposition, all acquired specimens and objects were on display;[38] the purpose of the World's Fair was exhibition of these materials. For example, right after opening of the Columbian Museum of Chicago the mollusk collection occupied one entire exhibit hall, displaying 3,000 species of mollusks on about 1,260 square feet. By 1910, 20,000 shell specimens were on display, with an additional 15,000 'in storage'.[70]
In today's museum, only a small fraction of the specimens and artifacts are publicly displayed. The vast majority of specimens and artifacts are used by a wide range of people in the museum and around the world. Field Museum curatorial faculty and their graduate students and postdoctoral trainees use the collections in their research and in training e.g., in formal high school and undergraduate training programs. Researchers from all over the world can search online for particular specimens and request to borrow them, which are shipped routinely under defined and published loan policies, to ensure that the specimens remain in good condition.[71] For example, in 2012, Field Museum's Zoology collection processed 419 specimen loans, shipping over 42,000 specimens to researchers, per its Annual Report.[72] The collection specimens are an important cornerstone of research infrastructure in that each specimen can be re-examined and with the advancement of analytic techniques, new data can be gleaned from specimens that may have been collected more than 150 years ago.[73]
The library at the Field Museum was organized in 1893 for the museum's scientific staff, visiting researchers, students, and members of the general public as an resource for research, exhibition development and educational programs. The 275,000 volumes of the Main Research Collections concentrate on biological systematics, environmental and evolutionary biology, anthropology, botany, geology, archaeology, museology and related subjects.[citation needed] The Field Museum Library includes the following collections:
This private collection of Edward E. Ayer, the first president of the museum, contains virtually all the important works in the history of ornithology and is especially rich in color-illustrated works.[citation needed]
The working collection of Dr. Berthold Laufer, America's first sinologist and Curator of Anthropology until his death in 1934 consists of about 7,000 volumes in Chinese, Japanese, Tibetan, and numerous Western languages on anthropology, archaeology, religion, science, and travel.[citation needed]
The Photo Archives contain over 250,000 images in the areas of anthropology, botany, geology and zoology and documents the history and architecture of the museum, its exhibitions, staff and scientific expeditions. In 2008 two collections from the Photo Archives became available via the Illinois Digital Archives (IDA): The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893[74] and Urban Landscapes of Illinois.[75] In April 2009, the Photo Archives became part of the Flickr Commons.[76]
The Karl P. Schmidt Memorial Herpetological Library, named for Karl Patterson Schmidt is a research library containing over 2,000 herpetological books and an extensive reprint collection.[77]
The Field Museum offers opportunities for informal and more structured public learning. Exhibitions remain the primary means of informal education, but throughout its history the Museum has supplemented this approach with innovative educational programs. The Harris Loan Program, for example, begun in 1912, reaches out to children in Chicago area schools, offering artifacts, specimens, audiovisual materials, and activity kits.[78] The Department of Education, begun in 1922, offers classes, lectures, field trips, museum overnights and special events for families, adults and children.[citation needed] The Field has adopted production of the YouTube channel The Brain Scoop, hiring its host Emily Graslie full-time as 'Chief Curiosity Correspondent'.[citation needed]
The Museum's curatorial and scientific staff in the departments of Anthropology,[79] Botany,[80] Geology,[81] and Zoology[82] conducts basic research in systematic biology and anthropology, besides its responsibility for collections management, and educational programs. Since its founding the Field Museum has been an international leader in evolutionary biology and paleontology, and archaeology and ethnography.[citation needed] It has long maintained close links, including joint teaching, students, seminars, with the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago.[83] Professional symposia and lectures, like the annual A. Watson Armour III Spring Symposium, present scientific results to the international scientific community and the public at large.[citation needed]
The museum publishes four peer-reviewed monograph series issued under the collective title Fieldiana, devoted to anthropology, botany, geology and zoology.[84] Monographs in these series are accessible at the Internet Archive.[85]
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The museum was used in a 1986 McDonald's commercial entitled "Field Trip".
Both exterior and interior views of the Field Museum of Natural History were used in the horror film Damien: Omen II (1978), the sequel to The Omen (1976). This included shots of the main hall, upper galleries and use of the front exterior for the final scene.
The Field Museum served as the setting in the horror film The Relic (1997). Many parts of the film, though, were created with computer graphics or with sets that bear only a passing similarity to the actual museum.
It was used in several scenes for the Kevin Bacon movie She's Having a Baby (1988).
A chase scene in the Keanu Reeves thriller Chain Reaction (1996) combined the Field Museum and the Museum of Science and Industry, located several miles to the south, into one museum.
A portion of Dead Beat (2005), the seventh novel of The Dresden Files series, takes place at the museum. In one of the best-remembered moments of the series, Harry Dresden revives Sue the T-rex as a zombie and rides her into battle against a powerful necromancer.
Recreated Elephant Diorama
Animated display of ocean life during the Cambrian Period
Lifesize display of a forest from the Carboniferous Period
Recreation of Papeete street in Traveling the Pacific
Dinosaur wearing Chicago Cubs uniform in courtyard
Parasaurolophus skeleton
Stegosaurus skeleton
Daspletosaurus skeleton
Skull of Parasaurolophus
Skull of Masiakasaurus
Skeleton of Buitreraptor
Skeleton of Rapetosaurus
Skull of Rapetosaurus
Skeleton of Castoroides
Skull of Daspletosaurus
The Tsavo Maneaters on display
Deinonychus skeleton
Front view of Daspletosaurus
Skeleton of Brachiosaurus
Skeleton of Daspletosaurus
Skeleton of Menodus
Oxydactylus skeleton
Skull of Eobasileus
A shark tooth weapon from the Gilbert Islands.
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