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Series 23520
Washington County (Utah). County Clerk Death registers
Dates: 1898-1905.
0.50 cubic foot and 1 microfilm reel
These records are housed in the Utah State Archives' permanent storage room.
Historical Note
An agency history is available.
Scope and Content
These death registers record the decedent's name, age, sex, race, color, term of residence in city or county, birth place, marital status, last place of residence, cause of death, and date of death. By 1904, occupation, parents' birth places, contributory as well as chief cause of death, attending physician, place of death, burial place and date, and filing date are also included. Each physician, clergyman, justice of the peace, and undertaker was required to keep a registry of the name, age, residence, and time of death of the decedent. Each person registering deaths filed quarterly with the county clerk or the local board of health in the case of incorporated cities (Revised Statutes of Utah 1898, Title 57, p. 474-475). In 1905, the state passed a law requiring each county to file a uniform certificate with the State Bureau of Vital Statistics.
The first volume is actually a combined Record of Births and Deaths. Pages 121-123 record deaths while pages 1-10 record births (series 3166). The segments were filmed separately for clarity and research convenience.
Chronological by year but not by month. Entries were recorded in order of report, not by date of death.
Related Records
Birth registers from Washington County (Utah). County Clerk, Series 3166, contains birth entries from the first volume, Record of Births and Deaths.
Death certificates from the Department of Health. Office of Vital Records and Statistics, Series 81448, record deaths after 1904.
Access Restrictions
This series is classified as Public.
Preferred Citation
Cite the Utah State Archives and Records Service, the creating agency name, the series title, and the series number.
Gaps in Series
Apparently no deaths were recorded in 1899 or 1902 for Washington County.
Processing Note
Series 3166, at that time combined birth and death registers, was processed by M. Call in September 1998. These birth and death volumes initially were filmed together and out of order. The hardcopy was filmed again in 2001 as two separate series and the series updated in 2002. The birth and death register (box 1) is shared between series 3166 and series 23520.
Indexing Terms
- Death—Proof and certification—Washington County (Utah).
- Washington County (Utah)—Statistics, Vital.
Page Last Updated October 18, 2012.


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NHL jersey retirements: Who's next in 'Conference III'?
The Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday announced, finally, that they're retiring Pavel Bure's No. 10 jersey. That got us thinking—which players, if any, should be next to be so honored by their teams?
We're doing this division-by-division. Today is Conference III. Whoops—the Central Division.
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Chicago Blackhawks: Steve Larmer, No. 28
There are more than enough reasons for Chicago to honor Larmer, who had five 40-goal seasons and played 884 consecutive games for the Blackhawks, a record for most consecutive with the same team. He's also fourth in franchise history in points, third in goals and one of five Blackhawks to average at least a point per game with the team. The others are Stan Mikita, Bobby Hull, Denis Savard and Jeremy Roenick. Clark Griswold is not an option, but he should be.
Retirees: Glenn Hall (1), Pierre Pilot/Keith Magnuson (3), Bobby Hull (9), Denis Savard (18), Stan Mikita (21), Tony Esposito (35).
Future candidates: Jonathan Toews (19), Patrick Kane (88).
Colorado Avalanche: Milan Hejduk, No. 23
Hejduk, 37, wants to play another season, but the Avs aren't all that interested in keeping him around. Regardless, he should be a lock to have his number set aside. He's second in franchise history in games played (1020), fourth in goals (375) and points (805), fifth in assists (430) and captained the team from 2011-13. He also was part of a Cup team. This one is easy.
Retirees: Joe Sakic (19), Peter Forsberg (21), Patrick Roy (33), Adam Foote (52), Ray Bourque (77).
Future candidates: Matt Duchene (9), Gabriel Landeskog (92).
Dallas Stars: Brenden Morrow, No. 10
Morrow is currently a free agent and finished last season with the Pittsburgh Penguins, but he remains an icon in Dallas, where was the captain for seven years and, along with Mike Modano, one of the faces of the the franchise. Unlike Modano, Morrow wasn't part of the 1999 Stanley Cup team. Other guys from that squad—Sergei Zubov, Derian Hatcher, Joe Nieuwendyk (despite his failed stint as GM)—should be honored in time, but Morrow will probably get it first. Maybe the Stars unretire Modano's No. 9 to make space.
Retirees: Neal Broten (7), Bill Goldsworthy (8), Modano, Bill Masterton (19).
Note: Broten, Goldsworthy and Masterton played for the franchise when it was in Minnesota.
Future candidates: Jamie Benn (19).
Minnesota Wild: None, with an asterisk
The Wild have only been around for 13 years; Marian Gaborik would've been the best candidate—he was the team's first draft pick and All-Star—but he signed with the New York Rangers in 2009. Derek Boogaard, who died tragically and controversially in 2011, also could've been an option and should be in the future, but at the moment, Matt Cooke is wearing No. 24. He asked Boogaard's family's permission, which was honorable but unnecessary; if the team doesn't want anyone to wear Boogaard's number, they should hang it from the rafters.
Future candidates: Mikko Koivu (9), Zach Parise (11), Ryan Suter (20).
Note: In its inaugural season, the franchise retired No. 1 in honor of the fans.
Nashville Predators: Wade Belak, No. 3
This is the flip side of Minnesota's situation. Belak, according to police, took his own life in 2011. The tragedy resonated across the league, but particularly in Nashville, where he played the last three seasons of his career. The Predators haven't yet given out No. 3. It'd be a fitting honor for a beloved player and a show of support for people battling depression.
UPDATE: Rookie defenseman Seth Jones is going to wear No. 3.
Future candidates: Shea Weber (6), Pekka Rinne (35).
St. Louis Blues: Red Berenson/Garry Unger, No. 7
Other teams (see: Blackhawks) have numbers retired for two players, and that move makes sense for the Blues. Berenson was the first face of the franchise when it entered the league in 1967. Unger was a consistent 30-goal scorer in the 1970s and held the league's consecutive games played record until Doug Jarvis passed him during the 1985-86 season. He's also fourth on the franchise's list in games, goals and points. Most importantly, though, St. Louis needs to honor this.
Unrelated: The league-wide retirement of Wayne Gretzky's No. 99 is particularly funny for the Blues.
Retirees: Al MacInnis (2), Bob Gassoff (3), Barclay Plager (8), Brian Sutter (11), Brett Hull (16), Bernie Federko (24).
Future candidates: Alex Pietrangelo (27), David Backes (42).
Winnipeg Jets: None
Unless they decide to start retiring Thrashers numbers, the Jets don't have much of a choice. There's already enough confusion over them kinda-sorta-unofficially readopting the identity of the team that moved to Phoenix in 1996. No sense in making it worse. Maybe they can hang up a portrait of Ilya Bryzgalov instead.
Future candidates: Evander Kane (9), Andrew Ladd (16).
Note: Kane sought (and received) permission from Bobby Hull to wear No. 9, which had been retired by the previous Jets franchise. The team also does not give out the No. 37 that belonged to Dan Snyder in Atlanta, though his jersey is not officially retired. Snyder died in a 2003 car crash.

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- PGA Tour
Nike confirms McIlroy signing
Nike have confirmed the start of a lucrative endorsement partnership with world No. 1 Rory McIlroy, in a long-term deal worth millions of pounds.
At a carefully-orchestrated event in Abu Dhabi, where McIlroy is scheduled to begin his 2013 campaign later in the week, the Northern Irishman was formally unveiled as a Nike golfer - joining the world No. 2, Tiger Woods, who was also at the event.
Woods, who famously uttered the phrase "Hello, world" when turning professional to much fanfare back in 1996, had a simple message for McIlroy: "Welcome to the family."
The pair are set to play together in the opening two rounds of the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship, which gets underway on Thursday.
"I play for titles, I don't play for money," two-time major champion McIlroy said, when asked about the endorsement. "I'm way past that."
He added: "I chose Nike for a number of reasons. It's a company and a brand that really resonates with me. It's young. It's athletic. It's innovative. They are committed to being the best, as am I.
"Signing with Nike is another step towards living out my dream."
The 23-year-old will wear Nike clothes and use the company's clubs, having shed prior sponsorship deals with the likes of Titleist and Jumeirah to enter the wide-ranging arrangement.
The athletic brand have not disclosed the terms of the deal, but experts believe it could be worth more than $20 million a year for the next decade.
"It's a monumental deal, for several reasons," Bob Dorfman, an athlete compensation expert and executive creative director at Baker Street Advertising in San Francisco, told Sports Illustrated. "It may very well be the largest endorsement deal in history for an active athlete."
Dorfman added: "More than just about any other sport, golf has broad international appeal.
"It's popular here [in the United States], in Europe, in Asia, most everywhere in the world. And marketers are definitely thinking globally these days. McIlroy is an athlete who could appeal to and influence a broad demographic, across all continents."
Nike have been active in acquiring new ambassadors over the winter break, with Nick Watney, Thorbjorn Olesen and Kyle Stanley among a number of notable players to have joined the stable along with McIlroy.


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Syria: What happened at Jisr al-Shugour?
A few days ago a battle took place in the northern Syrian town of Jisr al-Shugour that drove refugees into Turkey for the first time since the uprising started and was possibly a first sign of defection or mutiny from the security services. From the Economist:
An accurate version of what happened there is hard to confirm, because independent reporters are banned from Syria and the state media have plumbed the depths of mendacity. Usually, however, they flag up an event and give an indication, sometimes unintentionally, of its magnitude. Then they set about rearranging the facts. In the case of Jisr al-Shughour, they at first said that 20 members of the security forces had been killed in an ambush "by armed gangs" and then, within an hour, raised the figure to 120, declaring that "decisive" action would be taken as part of the state's duty to protect its citizens. Probably the death toll has indeed been high.But who killed whom remains unclear. Theories abound. Residents say people have been fighting back after helicopters and tanks killed at least 40 civilians during the weekend. Tanks have been massing menacingly around the city. But well-informed Syrians surmise that the number of dead servicemen was exaggerated in an effort to make ordinary people rally to the regime and that most of the victims were killed in clashes between the police and the army or within some security-force units after their members tried to defect or to mutiny—the last two possibilities being the ones that must really scare Mr Assad.
Compare with the version from SANA, the official government news agency:
The Syrian TV broadcast photos of the brutal massacres perpetrated by organized armed terrorist groups against the civilians and the army, police and security forces groups in Jisr al-Shughour in the province of Idleb.Members of the terrorist groups used government cars and military uniform to commit their crimes of killing, terrifying people and sabotaging.
More of the same here, including gory pics.
Update: Also see this excellent narrative piece in Harpers, The Two Homs.


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Starting school in NTU soon? Here are a few things you should take note of!
1. Basic University Mambo Jumbo
Academic Units (AUs):
Academic Units (or Modular Credits in NUS/credits in SMU) is the measurement of the amount of workload required for that module. Normally a 3AU module usually means that the module has three hours worth of lessons/tutorials in total though there are definitely many exceptions to the rule like lab(3 hours a week but 1AU).
When your module results are released at the end of the semester, each module will be assigned a grade. This ranges from A+ to F and each grade has a certain weight assigned to it as shown below:
If you S/U a certain module:
S : Satisfactory
U: Unsatisfactory – Which means you have not "passed".
Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA):
To calculate your cumulative grade point average you'll need to use the following formula:
GPA = (Summation of all [AUs x Grade Weights])/(Summation of all AUs of courses taken so far)
Note: Modules that have been S/U-ed will not be included in the computation of your CGPA. Your CGPA can also be found in your Degree Audit.
Honours Class:
Once you've calculated your CGPA (or found it from the Degree Audit) you can then determine your current class of honours. The requirements for NTU students are listed below:
4.50-5.00: First Class
4.00-4.49: Second Class (Upper)
3.50-3.99: Second Class (Lower)
3.00-3.49: Third Class
2.00-2.99: Pass only
2. iNTU portal
The iNTU portal is one of the most important links that you'll need to remember. Primarily because it links to all the important functions that you will be using constantly throughout your life at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Although there is plenty to play around with, I will highlight the 5 most important functions as indicated by the red arrows in the image (click to enlarge) above.
1. STARS Planner
STARS (Student Automated Registration System) is NTU's system designed to help you register for your modules. It helps you map out your timetable as shown in the image above. As a freshman, it is highly likely that your timetable will be empty. To fill it up, go to your STARS Planner and on the bottom right hand side click on "Check Course Registered" and a window should pop up. Select the relevant semester and a list of registered modules should show up.
In your main STARS Planner window, now select "Back to Main" and key in all your course codes (eg. FE1007) and click "Plan". Then just simply match the index numbers of each module registered to you and your timetable will be shown. For a more in depth guide on NTU's STARS PLANNER, please see the guide located here.
Note: When registering for your modules, it pays to know your course well. Some courses like NTU's Mechanical Engineering programmers allow students to be streamed to either the Mechatronics or Design stream. Doing so changes your your academic requirements. In this case, a mechanical engineering student who chooses to be streamed to either one of the above programmers will be required to do 2 mandatory STS prescribed courses. He will loose his ability to do a General – prescribed course. Look into your course curriculum just to make sure.
Note 2: If you plan on taking a minor, please note that all the modules that you are required to take for your minor must be registered under your unrestricted electives. You will need to complete 15 AUs to complete your minor requirements so take note of this when registering for your electives.
This is the main system that registers your modules for you. After selecting all your modules and placing them in your STARS Planner, you can push them into STARS for registration. Here you can also drop courses, change the index number of currently registered courses and also change the "module type" (i.e. from General Prescribed to an Unrestricted Elective and vice versa). Pretty self explanatory.
Please note: Although your modules have been registered for you (and most likely will be next semester as well). Take note that the initial registration of courses (not the ADD/DROP Period) is based on a first come first served basis. This means that you will be competing with others in real time. So be be early and start spamming the "Add Courses to STARS" button a few seconds before your registration time.
3. Degree Audit
This page is pretty self-explanatory. It lists your AU requirements, GPA etc.
4. NTU Student Link
This contains links to more functions that are not so commonly used. Here you can apply for bursaries, choose your stream etc.
5. NTU Blackboard
This is also another VERY important link. You can visit the Blackboard by directly going to edventure.ntu.edu.sg. This is where your tutors will upload all your course materials, recorded lectures, tests and even put their announcements. Be sure to check this site regularly.
Setting up notifications in Blackboard:
To set up Blackboard's notification system (so that you can get e-mail alerts etc.). Log in to edventure.ntu.edu.sg with your NTU username and password and click on "Notifications Dashboard" as Shown in the image below:
Then select "Edit Notification Settings". Your page might differ from the one shown below but you should see it somewhere in the page.
Once done you'll be brought to another page. Look for the header "Bulk Edit Notification Settings" and select "Courses I am taking" and you'll be brought to the page shown below:
Simply select the services you want enabled and you're done!
*Note*: There is also a Blackboard App all almost all smartphone operating systems that comes in quite handy when you need to check announcements or download notes on the go. Search your devices app store for "Blackboard".
3. NTU Email
This is the primary method by which most of your NTU related communications will be done. Although most professors will just post their announcement on the Edventure, some may choose to communicate via email to inform you of last minute class cancellations (you won't believe how often this has happened to me) or upcoming test information. You may also risk loosing out on important announcements by the school such as subject registration information.
You can easily excess your email any time by going to
Office 365 but it's always more convenient to use a client like Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird or to even have your email synced to your phone. To do this, you'll need NTU's Email settings as listed below:
POP setting
Server name: pod51003.outlook.com
Port: 995
Encryption method: SSL
IMAP setting
Server name: pod51003.outlook.com
Port: 993
Encryption method: SSL
SMTP setting
Server name: pod51003.outlook.com
Port: 587
Encryption method:STARTTLS
Note: Your username is your full email address eg. firstname.lastname@example.com. They are required for both your POP/IMAP and SMTP settings. If you would like your mail to be synchronized across all your devices, opt for IMAP instead of POP.
4. NTU Campus Map
NTU's campus map website is another very important website as it will avoid making you look like a freshman completely. Instead of walking around with the huge map that comes with your welcome pack, you can now use the on line version on your smartphone. You know the best part? Just like Google's Map website, you can type phrases like "LT 1A to Tutorial Room xxx" to get directions!
5. Food
There are a total of 11 canteens and 3 cafes in NTU. The two most important being Canteen A (North Spine near LT 1A) and Canteen B (South Spine near LKC LT). These are the two nearest canteens tot he Academic Buildings. Canteen A has a large number of fast food outlets on its ground floor and a huge food court on the second floor. However it is important to note that due to the large student population, it may seem impossible to get seats during lunch time (12pm to 1pm) for both canteens. Especially if you plan to eat with a group of friends. I would be wiser to either postpone your lunch break till after 1pm or head down to one of the cafes (The Palette is just opposite Canteen A) or hall canteens.
6. NTU Smoking points
NTU is actually a smoke free campus but there are a few more common smoking points that have become somewhat accepted as official smoking points. Please note that you can get caught for smoking and and you may be fined (about $50?) or face disciplinary action (unheard of). So keep a look out for the campus security guards(especially if they're female).
South Spine
Here the main smoking point is the one behind the canteen near the loading and unloading bay. The easiest way there is through the canteen itself. Head towards the drink stall then head towards the toilets nearby. Next to the toilets you should see and opening to the loading and unloading bay.
North Spine
Here the main smoking point is also at the loading and unloading bay which is somewhat hidden. From canteen A, head towards the 7-11 store. Then turn left and walk to the end of that corridor. At the end of the corridor, turn left again and walk towards the lifts/air-conditioning units (you'll see either one depending on how far down you walk) and head towards it.
Note: It is also common to see people smoking in the open aired areas at the NorthSpine. Especially the one closest to the library/canteen.
Can be quite difficult to smoke within the hall compounds as there is always someone there to stop you (NTU Staff. You won't be fined but they will tell you to stop smoking) during the day. Your best bet is to travel to one of the near by bus stops and smoke somewhere there during the day.
7. NTU Bus Routes
There are many buses that operate both within and to NTU. More information on their routes can be found here. It is advisable to alight at Boon Lay instead of Pioneer to take the 179 to school especially so during peak periods. Although the service has an excellent frequency, it is normally always packed when it leaves Boon Lay Interchange.


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| March 20, 2007, 1:50 pm
By Patrick Saunders
Denver Post Staff Writer
Tucson – Those adorable Cubbies arrived at Hi Corbett Field today, bringing their fans with them.
I spoke to one of those fans. Her name was Linda. She was wearing a Wrigley Field T-shirt, Cubs hat and baseball earrings. Read more…


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MIDLAND, Mich. – The Northern Michigan University men's basketball team fell 81-48 at Northwood University on Saturday (Jan. 26) afternoon. The Wildcats placed three players in double figures but were outscored by 17 points in the first half and 16 in the second.
Junior forward Matthew Craggs led the 'Cats with 12 points on the day. Sophomore forward Kendall Jackson and freshman guard Stephen Pelkofer added 10 each. Jackson also added seven rebounds while sophomore guard Quinten Calloway totaled nine points and five rebounds.
NMU falls to 4-14 overall and 3-11 in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Northwood improves to 7-11 overall and 6-8 in conference play.
Northwood opened the game with an 18-5 run seven and a half minutes after tipoff and led by 17 (41-24) at the break.
The home team scored seven straight points to open the second half before the Green and Gold made a run to cut into the 24-point lead.
Jackson had an old-fashioned three-point play with a dunk and free throw followed by a jumper and three-pointer from Calloway. Sophomore guard Spencer Huss added another trey and freshman center Matt Iverson buried a pair of free throws to cap off the 13-5 run.
Northwood finished the game on a 28-11 run. Wes Wilcox poured in 29 points for the Timberwolves, shooting 11-for-15 from the field. Booker Stoudemire added 14 points while Will Bowles added 11.
NMU shot 43.6 percent (17-for-39) from the field and 33.3 percent (4-for-12) from beyond the three-point line.
Northwood was 50 percent (27-for-54) from the field and 10-for-22 (45.5 percent) from three-point territory. The home team turned 16 NMU turnovers into 21 points and had 12 points on offensive rebounds.
Northern returns home for one game next weekend against U.P.-rival Michigan Tech. Tipoff is set for 1 p.m. on Saturday in the first meeting of the season between the two teams.


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We offer services for applications written in a variety of languages, including (but not limited to) Python, Ruby, PHP, C#, and C. Pyramid, Rails, Sinatra, CakePHP, ASP.NET MVC, and Drupal are among those frameworks frequently serviced.
A small sample of services we are frequently asked to perform:
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- Mail cryptography management
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cmis.director necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 282 diseños de 42 diseñadores freelance.
Center for the Management of Information Systems
The Texas A&M University Center for the Management of Information Systems (CMIS) provides a competitive advantage to its student, faculty, and industry members by facilitating an active partnership (aligning needs and resources) to provide robust, relevant educational opportunities, research support and corporate access.
To achieve our mission, CMIS engages a highly active and innovative corporate membership who facilitates the CMIS mission through coordination, participation, and sponsorship. CMIS seeks to provide member organizations a competitive advantage through participation in CMIS activities.
See the following websites that have other relevant information about who we are:
-- http://cmis.tamu.edu - our existing website which describes the events and activities we host
-- http://mays.tamu.edu - our center is sponsored by an academic department in the Mays Business School
Our current logo is attached. While this logo has served us well for several years, we feel the logo look and feel is "dated." We will use the new logo as the first step in a digital makeover to improve our online presence (i.e., revise our current website).
-- Current and prospective students in the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University
-- Current and prospective faculty members
-- Mays Business School administrators
-- Current and prospective members of our corporate advisory board
We plan to use the logo on brochures (both digital and paper), website, promotional flyers, presentations, t-shirts for events, etc.
The new logo should incorporate both the full name of the center (i.e., "Center for the Management of Information Systems") divided across 2 or 3 lines and the center acronym (i.e., "CMIS"). In addition, the logo needs a graphic that represents who we are and ties the logo together. See attachments for examples of how we will use the acronym logo by itself and with the full center name (both horizontal and vertical).
Some key words that could be communicated with the graphic: global, connectivity, information technology, networking, business, fast pace, change, information systems, etc.
We like the idea that faculty, students, and industry are working together implied by the University of Arizona (http://mis.eller.arizona.edu/partnering) (see attached ArizonaIntegrationExample.jpg). Entries that represent the collaboration among students, faculty, and industry will (in general) receive higher ratings.
For color and other related information, see the Texas A&M University brand guide (http://brandguide.tamu.edu). At a minimum, "Aggie Maroon" must be included in the overall color scheme.
We require the following files:
- unlocked vector file
- layered .psd file (background of all layers should be transparent) (RGB)
- unlocked .ai file (CMYK)
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Please do not use stock images or clipart in the logo.
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I don't believe the Republicans really do want to reduce the size of the federal expenditure, but if they do, there's a way. It's the same way the socialists had to turn to when the United Kingdom finished the war broke in 1945.
Britain sold off its overseas investments to buy weapons and food and entered 1946 facing a world in which its overseas markets consisted of ruined people who could not afford to buy things; while at home, a wornout industrial plant was in no shape to produce efficiently and the residual effects of the Great Depression were unresolved.
In the '30s, Britain (under a coalition National government that was in spirit extremely conservative) had run austerity budget after austerity budget without much success in reviving its economy. The socialists who came into office in mid-1945 were disposed to spend money on domestic services and indisposed to spend money on an empire.
But even if the Tories had been in office, there was no money to spend overseas. The Bank of England went begging to the U.S. for a billion-pound loan to keep the currency from crashing.
As a result, Britain quit India, dumped its plans to support Greece against a communist rebellion and could not even fund a small force to keep policing Palestine.
Without an empire, it cut its military to prewar levels, which had been very low. There were aberrations. A useless battleship, HMS Vanguard, was completed, but generally the way Britain negotiated itself out of its fiscal crisis was to demilitarize. It took over a decade and was accomplished in part by relying on the United States to provide military muscle where needed.
The situation of the United States in 2013 is not nearly as critical as it was in Britain in 1946, but there is no question that some reduction of national expenditures would be helpful, along with a return to the kinds of tax rates (and concomitant infrastructure investment) that the U.S. charged during the period of its greatest prosperity.
You see, the Republicans understand nothing about public finance. Taxes are not a problem. Taxes are a solution. If you doubt that, try privatizing garbage collection and see where it gets you. (It gets you a lot of garbage dumped secretly on public property.)
So, no matter what else is done, if the Republicans want a smaller national expenditure, they need to make a large reduction in military spending.
A lot of that is locked in. By starting two wars, they obligated themselves to provide veterans benefits to men and women in their 20s and 30s who will live into their 70s and 80s. The Republicans have shown a strong disinclination to pay that bill, but it will get paid, nevertheless.
Republicans love to buy shiny toys, especially if they go boom. They are going to have to cut that out.
Here are some realistic cuts that could be and will eventually have to be made:
Zero out the Marine Corps.
Cut 80 or 90% of the ballistic missile submarine fleet.
Reduce the air force bombers, perhaps to just B2s. Rein in the army's air force, which is about the same size as the Air Force's air force.
There are some real problems with reducing the military budget. The biggest is that the force we have is disastrously short of infantry, which is (taking into account veterans' benefits) a very expensive kind of force. The price we paid for not having any infantry in Iraq was that we lost that war.
Assuming we are going to use our military in the future, the infantry (always and still 'the "queen of battle") needs to be much larger.
If you read the papers, you know that the Republicans want to spend more money, not less, on armies, navies and air forces.
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The most hyped IPO in history is turning into a disaster for Facebook and Wall Street underwriters as Facebook shares have fallen this morning by $4, or 10%, to $34.23, appreciably below the offering price of $38.
The stunning decline in Facebook (ticker: FB) shares could mean losses for the underwriting group led by Morgan Stanley (MS) which reportedly was supporting the deal in Friday trading at just above the offering price.
It's unknown how many shares were purchased by the underwriting group Friday to stabilize the deal, which failed to "pop" as expected Friday after opening above $40. The underwriters may have bought additional shares this morning. Many figured Facebook would be trading in the low to mid-$40s now.
The underwriters earned what looked like a nice payday from the Facebook IPO. While the underwriting spread of 1.1% is below the 5%-plus spreads common on IPOs, the total fee was $176 million – based on a spread of 41.8 cents a share -- thanks to the large size of the deal, which totaled 421 million shares. The underwriters may have given back some of those fees on losses on shares purchased in the open market on Friday.
The poor performance of the Facebook deal demonstrates a couple of things. Be wary of leaked word from underwriters before pricing that IPOs are hugely oversubscribed. Most institutional investors are greedy and want hot deals not because they love the companies but because they want to make money. If the deals fizzle, they head quickly for the exits to limit their losses.
It appears that the underwriters were overly aggressive in pricing the Facebook deal. Not only was the deal size increased to 421 million shares from 337 million shares, a 25% increase, but the price was set at $38, above the original range of $28 to $35. The underwriters bought into the hype and investors paid the price. Winners include Facebook, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other selling shareholders who netted $38 a share for their holdings sold in the IPO.
Barron's has been skeptical about Facebook (see Feature, "Mad About Facebook!, May 12) because of the company's high absolute valuation, relative to earnings and revenues, and challenges to its evolving business model from the greater use of mobile devices by Facebook users. Facebook hasn't found a way to generate meaningful ad revenue from mobile users.
The problem for Facebook is that it amounted to a giant concept stock with a $100-billion-plus valuation. Bulls said CEO Mark Zuckerberg was a genius and would find ways to monetize Facebook users.
However, without valuation support from ample earnings, it's tough to say where Facebook will settle. The company earned 43 cents a share last year and is expected to net about 50 cents a share this year. The stock, at $34, still trades for a stiff 60-plus times projected 2012 profits, and revenue growth has slowed. Google (GOOG), by contrast, trades for under 14 times estimated 2012 profits. It's possible that Facebook will move higher from current levels in trading today as weak holders are flushed out.
One key question is "where are the underwriters?" The underwriting group led by Morgan Stanley doesn't appear to be doing a lot to support the stock. Underwriters are under no legal obligation to support a deal after it is priced, but many see a moral obligation to do so, at least for some period of time. The underwriters' obligation seems to have ended on Friday afternoon, when they reportedly did support Facebook just above $38 a share. One problem for the underwriters is the huge size of the deal. It's one thing to support a deal sized at a few million shares. It's another to support a deal of over 400 million shares.
Then there is the question of the over-allotment option. The deal size was 421 million shares, but underwriters have 30 days to exercise an overallotment option to purchase another 63 million shares from the company and selling shareholders.
Normally, underwriters sell the additional overallotted shares to investors in the IPO at the offering price, especially on a hot deal, because it involves little risk to them. If the underwriters offer 484 million shares, they know they can exercise the overallotment for 30 days and buy shares for the offer price less the underwriting spread, which in the case of Facebook is 41.8 cents, or $37.582.
If the stock trades higher, they exercise the overallotment option, and if the stock trades below the offering price, the underwriters can buy stock in the open market, and opt to decline the overallotment option.
The underwriters may decide not to exercise the overallotment option and simply use cheap shares bought in the open market to cover the shares sold at $38 in the IPO. That would be a very profitable strategy now given where Facebook is trading. It'll be very interesting to see what happens with the overallotment option. Morgan Stanley declined to comment on the situation.
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So by now, unless you're embarrassingly behind on your incredibly important pop culture news, you've probably already heard: Superman's not an American anymore! Stop the presses! Call the fire department! Or – or – or something! However, the truth, as with most everything, is far murkier.
This whole ordeal arose from the nearly 100-page issue of Action Comics #900 that was released on Wednesday. Being a celebratory issue – indeed, 900 comics are a whole lot of comics – in addition to the main storyline by Paul Cornell, there are several back-up stories by various writers and even a storyboarded screenplay by Superman: The Movie director, Richard Donner.
The 9-page back-up story that set off the controversy in question, "The Incident," was written by Man of Steel screenwriter David S. Goyer (who has also had at least some involvement with films like Nick Fury: Agent of Shield starring David Hasselhoff, Blade, Blade 2, Blade 3 (bleck), Batman Begins, Jumper, Ghost Rider, and so forth) and drawn by Miguel Sepulveda.
Here's what you need to know about Goyer's story before you decide whether or not to be livid about it:
- Superman, not Clark Kent, stated his plans to renounce his American citizenship
- Superman, not Clark Kent, stated his plans to renounce his citizenship because he doesn't want his world-saving/interfering ways to be used against America anymore.
- This was a back-up story written by David S. Goyer – not a typical comic book writer.
- This will probably never again be referenced, by Paul Cornell or anyone else at DC.
- This back-up story might not even be in continuity.
If DC Comics wanted to actually change Superman's citizenship in a serious, line-wide fashion, they wouldn't have let David Goyer write it and it wouldn't have been nine pages in the back of a milestone issue. They would've had one of their go-to writers do the job – maybe Paul Cornell, maybe Geoff Johns. It would've been its own storyline with every single major character (Batman, Flash, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Green Arrow, and so on) making an appearance to say something about, I don't know -- America.
Now, in my opinion, Superman is unequivocally an American icon. It doesn't make you conservative or right-wing to believe this, because I'm about as liberal as they come and I believe it. By the same token, I don't believe this was some leftwing conspiracy for Superman to reject America and all of its values; it would be hard for you to thoroughly examine the issue, the story, what was said by Superman, and come to that conclusion.
That said, the story in and of itself – "The Incident" – is pretty flawed. Controversy notwithstanding, it's one of the more insignificant and arbitrary Superman comics I've read in a long while, and that's saying something if you've read JMS' short-lived Superman run from late last year about the man of tomorrow walking across America. David Goyer's story references the Iranian protests from 2009 as if they happened yesterday (implying to me that it was written by Goyer back then and has been sitting around his apartment ever since). And yes, I'm aware that there have been Iranian protests since then, as early as two weeks ago even, but this comic seems to explicitly reference the 2009 protests.
Apparently, Superman reads the news, and he can't stand seeing the Iranian leaders treat their people so deplorably. Fair enough. So, as an act of solidarity, he flies to Tehran and stands between the soldiers and the protestors for an entire 24 hours, letting them throw whatever they want at him in the process.
Long story short, the U.S. gets a lot of crap for this move. It's perceived as an American-sponsored act, because obviously Superman represents "Truth, justice, the American way," and so forth. Superman tells the President's National Security Advisor that he plans to go to the U.N. and renounce his citizenship post-haste - this, he hopes, will free him up to do whatever he feels is necessary in the future, and in the process not have his actions reflect poorly upon the good, old U.S. of A.
After reading this story, my primary thought is this: Comic books creators just need to stop shoehorning real events into their comic books in an effort to make them more "important" like the "real world." It's rarely, if ever, done in any interesting or satisfying way and it almost always trivializes the events themselves. I'm reminded of the time Doctor Doom shed tears at Ground Zero after 9/11:
Amazing Spider-Man #36 (Doctor Doom) as drawn by John Romita Jr.
It's a silly notion to suggest that Superman would go to Tehran and involve himself in the protests in any way whatsoever. Superman is smarter than that. Hell, he's got an advanced Kryptonian brain – he would know better than to wade into such a delicate situation without a second thought. In the end, the Iranian government doesn't give-in to the protestors' demands - an ending we already knew because it happened in real life. Regardless, as Superman's flying away from Tehran, he spots a protestor reaching out with a flower in hand toward the soldier in front of him. The soldier takes the flower (oh, symbolism!), and Superman takes credit for this small but amazing development – he even brags about it to the National Security Advisor, which is, again, something Superman would never do in a million years.
In sum, the media, the Internet, everybody everywhere, have blown this whole situation way out of proportion. This isn't (in my humble opinion) DC's attempt to de-Americanize Superman as a character, and there's no evidence that this story even belongs in DCU canon. I mean, just check out the visual progression of Superman through the years as drawn by Brian Stelfreeze (below) that appeared in the very pages of Action Comics #900. The rightmost iteration of Superman (in the style of the awesome Gary Frank) is the most modern of the six, and he's the one waving the massive American flag. If David Goyer's Superman renounced his Americanism, doesn't this counteract that?
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Instead, "The Incident" is just a terribly ham-fisted tale written by one David Goyer that fell flat on nearly every page. Frankly, we should be more concerned with the Man of Steel writer's ability to write the character of Superman than whether or not he's currently American.
Action Comics #900 has already sold out and will likely go back to a second printing. Overall, it's pretty good – especially Paul Cornell's work on the issue.
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Contribiutor Marc Saltzman takes a look at a $38 tablet and the Roku Streaming Stick.
Good news for cost-conscious tech lovers: You don't have to break the bank to pick up some cool gadgets.
From wireless speakers and mobile game controllers to portable hard drives and even touch-screen tablets, you might just be surprised what you can find on the cheap at your local electronics store or favorite online retailer.
In fact, the following is a list of a few sub-$50 tech toys that deliver a lot of bang for the buck.
ROKU STREAMING STICK (HDMI Version)
Access more than 1,000 on-demand channels — including YouTube, Netflix, Crackle, Hulu Plus and HBO Go — with the Roku Streaming Stick ($49.99 with free shipping; roku.com). Simply plug the small device into your television's HDMI port and start streaming content via the bundled remote or with a Roku app on your smartphone or tablet (iOS or Android). Speaking of your mobile device, you can also stream your personal videos, photos and music to your TV with the Roku app. Other features include up to 1080p video quality (on a compatible television), simple search and channel shortcut buttons on the remote.
UBI SLATE 7Ci TABLET
DataWind's UbiSlate 7Ci (datawind.com) is billed as the world's first $38 tablet. The 7-inch Android tablet lets you read e-books, watch videos, play games, browse the Web and pick up e-mail. It has integrated Wi-Fi, plus there's an adaptor in the box to snap in a WAN stick for cellular connectivity, if desired (3G only). Powered by a Cortex A9 processor (comparable to a first-generation iPad), the UbiSlate 7Ci also has 512MB of RAM (system memory) and 4GB of storage, but it's expandable up to 32GB via a microSD card. The screen isn't spectacular at 800 x 480 resolution, nor is the battery life (three hours between charges), but at $38 and a ton of bundled apps, it's certainly at the right price.
iHOME iBT16 CUBE SPEAKER
Sometimes you just don't feel like wearing headphones. iHome's iBT16 Cube ($29.99; ihomeaudio.com) is a tiny wireless speaker that lets you stream music, podcasts or audiobooks from your nearby Bluetooth-enabled smartphone, tablet, laptop or media play (such as an iPod touch). Available in several colors (gray, blue, pink, green, black and purple), these cube-shaped speakers have a rubberized finish, an integrated rechargeable Lithium-ion battery and a 3.5mm audio jack (cable included).
Turn any speaker into a Wi-Fi-enabled one, so you can listen to your music untethered. That's the premise behind the Kickstarter-funded Rocki Play ($49.99; myrocki.com). Simply connect this small gadget to the audio input of any speaker system (cables included) and you can then use your phone to play music wirelessly. Similar to Wi-Fi-enabled speakers that cost much more (such as Sonos), you can use the free Rocki app (iOS/Android) to search and select any song, control volume and playback and select which Rocki Play-enabled speaker to stream to (the app also supports HTML5, therefore you can also use a Web browser on a PC or Mac to play music).
Don't like typing much on your smartphone or tablet? The Verbatim Foldable Wireless Keyboard ($44.99; verbatim.com) is ideal for long-form typing on virtually any Bluetooth-enabled touch-screen smartphone or tablet. As the name suggests, this full-size QWERTY keyboard folds up to half its size and slips into a matching black case for when you're on the go. When you want to type some notes, write a long e-mail or type an essay or sales report, simply open it up, turn it on and prop up your device with an optional pull-out stand. Because Bluetooth is a universal standard, it works with all four mobile platforms: Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry.
Want more control out of your Android games? MOGA Pro Controller ($49.99; www.mogaanywhere.com), which stands for "mobile gaming," is a comfortable controller that holds your smartphone securely while you use the buttons and analog sticks to control the action. Because MOGA works via Bluetooth, you can also use it with your Android tablet (stand included). A number of popular games are supported, including Pac-Man (included), Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, Lego: The Lord of the Rings, N.O.V.A. 3, Six-Guns, Sonic The Hedgehog 4, Dungeon Hunter 4 and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
Thanks for the memory. Computer users understand the importance of backing up important information — be it documents, music, videos, photos and other files — and a robust, easy-to-use hard drive you can take anywhere is a recommended companion. Compatible with PCs and Macs and available in multiple colors, this Toshiba Canvio Connect 500GB hard drive ($49.99; toshiba.com) features USB 3.0 speeds (data transfer rates up to 5 Gbps) along with an average read and write time of 12-milliseconds.
Are you still getting hand cramps by using your laptop's touchpad for hours at a time? Instead, consider Microsoft's Sculpt Comfort Wireless Mouse ($39.99; microsoft.com), which pairs with a laptop via Bluetooth, therefore not requiring a dongle to be inserted into a valuable USB port. Along with multiple customizable buttons, a touch strip on top makes scrolling through long and wide documents quick and easy. Powered by both optical and BlueTrack technologies, you can experience accuracy and speed with this mouse, which can be used on virtually any surface.
If a more quirky gadget is your thing, the Swann MP3 DJ Doorbell ($49.99; swann.com) is the first product that lets you customize the sound of your doorbell. First, create a song clip from your music collection — such as the chorus to Ring My Bell or Who Can It Be Now? — and copy it to the large speaker via USB (cable and software included). Then, mount the other piece — a small, wireless doorbell — outside your door; when pressed, the speaker will play your music tracks inside.
The hotel you just checked into has only a wired Internet connection but you brought your iPad tablet, Android smartphone or skinny laptop without an Ethernet port. No worries. You can create a wireless network with the D-Link SharePoint Mobile Companion router ($49.99; dlink.com). About the size of a typical AC charger, it lets you wirelessly access the Internet on multiple devices when plugged into a modem or wired router. Plus, it also has a USB port, so you can insert a thumbdrive with media and stream to nearby devices. This product also acts as a repeater so you can extend the signal from an existing wireless router to cover a dead zone within your home.
Have any other sub-$50 gadgets you'd recommend? Let us know in the comments section.
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The Senate closed the door -- for now -- on an open debate about financial regulatory reform, as Republicans successfully banded together Monday to block a motion to publicly discuss Wall Street legislation.
Nebraska Democrat Ben Nelson hopped across the aisle to join the GOP in its filibuster, and in a late move, Sen. Harry Reid also joined the GOP, switching sides so he alone could call for another procedural vote in the future.
Pundits are divided over whether the vote was a short-term win for Republicans or a long-term play toward enacting substantial bipartisan reform.
- Nelson's vote against the motion means Republicans will likely claim that both sides of the aisle have issues with finance reform, Annie Lowrey blogs for the Washington Independent. "Republicans will tout this as an extraordinary victory demonstrating bipartisan opposition to moving forward on financial regulation until the bill is tried, tested and sorted," she writes.
- Conservative Hot Air blogger Allahpundit calls the vote "muscle flexing on both sides." For Democrats, it was a chance to test whether some Republicans were ready to "cave," Allahpundit writes. Meanwhile, the GOP "got to show their base that they're willing to stand up against bailouts, all the while knowing that negotiations will continue this week."
- The GOP may have had the win on paper, but Reid scored big points for the left with his politically savvy vote against, Chris Weigant writes for the Huffington Post. Reid's vote 'no' may seem "counterintuitive" but is actually an aggressive move that shows Republicans that the Senate Dems won't accept a weak bill rife with Republican exceptions -- and that they've learned a thing or two from the health reform debacle, Weigant writes. "By refusing to back down, and refusing to compromise (read: water the bill down and add loopholes for Wall Street) with Republicans, Reid is showing real strength and real leadership," he argues.
- Despite "political posturing" that has the GOP jockeying to filibuster an eager left, Republicans are too smart to block passage of a bill that has so much popular support, John Dickerson blogs for Slate. The GOP's public image is one of "scenes and sound bites that take place outside the negotiating room" -- but in reality, the right will likely work readily with Democrats to hammer away at a compromise to fight back against Wall Street fat cats, Dickerson writes. "Don't worry: Legislation is still likely to pass. Despite efforts to make this vote dramatic, the real drama (and work) is going on behind closed doors," he blogs.
- Those negotiations -- not the "zero drama" vote that happened Monday -- will show who's really got the power in the Wall Street debate, Andrew Leonard blogs for Salon. Dems voted yes and Republicans filibustered "as expected," Leonard writes, but it's the aftermath of Monday's vote -- read: the back-door deals -- that will be proof positive of political influence on the Hill. "If Democrats want to play hardball, they'll make no concessions to the GOP, and call another cloture vote in a couple of days. Then we'll find out exactly how intransigent Republicans intend to be," he writes.


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JACKSON, Miss. – Birmingham-Southern's comeback from a 14 point deficit came up short as Berry College (13-13) held on for an 81-76 win in the quarterfinals of the 2013 Southern Athletic Association Women's Basketball Tournament.
King led the Panthers with 20 points and had two assists followed by Bromirski with 19 points. Sydney Darnall added 17 points. Melanie Short had a game-high nine rebounds as the Panthers held a 33-26 advantage on the boards.
Chanlir Sagarra scored 34 points and handed out seven assists as the only Viking in double figures. Alexa Evans had nine points followed by Mel McLean had eight and Tara Mullinax had seven points and seven rebounds.
Berry held a 49-35 halftime lead shooting 48 percent while BSC shot 44 percent. The BSC defense held Berry to 29 percent from the floor while shooting 44.8 percent in the second half.
King's 3-pointer just over two minutes into the second half capped a 7-0 run and cut the BC lead to 49-42 only to see the Vikings use a 6-0 spurt to take a 55-42 lead on a Mel McLean three at the 17:27 mark.
Birmingham-Southern went on a 14-1 run to tie the game, 56-56, when Bromirski made a 3-pointer with 12:04 remaining.
A pair of Megan Walsh free throws gave Berry a 61-56 lead and would keep the margin around five points until an Alex Adams layup tied the game 76-76 with 2:11 to go second half.
Berry closed the game on a 5-0 run in the final 1:32 to claim the 81-76 win.
The Panthers finish the 2012-13 season with a 12-13 overall record and a 7-7 record in the Southern Athletic Association.


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Jumper (left) and Lambert finished in the top five in three of the first five races Thursday (photo courtesy Gil Talbot).
MADISON, Wis.—The Harvard sailing team placed sixth in the B division and ninth in the A division on the way to a seventh-place team finish at the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association Women's National Championship Thursday and Friday on Lake Mendota.
The Crimson totaled 163 points as a team, just one point out of sixth place in a field of 18 top teams from across the nation. Harvard had five fewer points than eighth-place St. Mary's. College of Charleston won the national title with 84 points, 25 fewer than its nearest competitor. The Crimson was 15 points outside the top five and 32 away from the top three.
"I'm proud of our team," said head coach Mike O'Connor. "They did a good job keeping focus in difficult conditions. If we had gotten in one more race, we would have had a good chance to finish in the top five, which is a nice accomplishment at this level of competition."
Senior Liz Powers and sophomore Marie Appel won two B-division races and had a streak of seven straight finishing seventh or better.
The event was hampered by a lack of wind. The two-day semifinal round was not sailed, and only two races were sailed Friday for a total of 10 in each of the two divisions. The Crimson had a good showing in the 11th A-division race and was off to a good start in the B race, but there was not time to finish the contest after a general recall.
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January, 2010
We had begun digitizing content in December, in order to have material with which to test the work flow, scripts, and display. This gave us a jump on the planned amount of digitization for January. Scripts used, methodology, and work flow were added to the wiki in December and January.
Beginning a bit early enabled Amanda to train one existing Digital Services student, who was available to work the first week of January, while the other did not start until January 11th, and then had to undergo training. The award letter did not arrive until late in January, and the pre-award approval did not go into effect for the first student until the 25th. Therefore, though we used approximately 140 student hours for the project in January, only about 80 were covered by the grant funding.
Amanda, Jeremiah, and Jody met with Jason Battles, Head of Web Services, to sort out issues related to the promotional web display and the usability test. Amanda developed textual content and located a potential image of Cabaniss for the website, and Jody began a section of the Digital Services wiki for Cabaniss information, to be linked into the website.
Amanda selected the Jemison Papers collection as being similar to Cabaniss, for the usability study. Jody analyzed the finding aids for Cabaniss and the Jemison collections and proposed questions for the study.
Jason provided a contact at the IRB and the names of others in the organization who have successfully navigated those waters. Jody contacted these folks for copies of their successful submissions, to use as models for our own. Amanda developed the consent form and preliminary IRB application form. The development of this took longer than we thought. Amanda, Jeremiah, and Jody met to finalize the IRB application on Friday January 29th. We hope the actual submission will be in early February.
- Total files digitized by the end of January, 2010: 6485
- Total files online by the end of January, 2010: 4561
February 2010
Amanda was out for most of a week this month, so we were challenged for the first time to cover her hours during an absence, but this went pretty smoothly. More critical is that her assignment to this project has heavily impacted the speed with which our other content is getting online, and we've had to alter our workflow and assignments there, incorporating students into the quality control process, which I consider a welcome improvement.
IRB application work has continued to hit new barriers, as we discover more and more forms and hoops to jump through. The latest one is that each person involved in the usability study must pass a 3-hour online certification course on Protecting Human Subjects. We did not plan for this, so that's a good chunk of work hours that we must dedicate to this additional preparation. In addition, one of the students currently working on the Cabaniss project will graduate in May, and thus will not be here when the study takes place. We will train a couple of additional students and use them as necessary when the time comes.
The web page is not yet live, due to Web Services department overload, but Jody developed a press release, and as soon as the website is live, we will send it out to audiences selected by our administration, as well as to appropriate listservs. The preliminary selection includes: Archives and Archivists, Metadata Librarians, LITA, Diglib, and JESSE.
Another anomaly encountered was the discovery that one box of Cabaniss is solely composed of empty envelopes, which had become separated from their letters at some point. We debated the value of digitizing them, but since we agreed to digitize the entire collection, we are forging ahead. Within the box we did discover a couple of letters, which belong elsewhere. We are separating those out and returning them to the archivists for assignment to another box and folder, at which point we will digitize them.
Digitization continues apace. 3801 more images were digitized this month, and 3617 more images went online: the first 14 boxes (out of 77) are done!
- Total files digitized by the end of February, 2010: 10,286
- Total files online by the end of February, 2010: 8178
March 2010
Early in March, we had some difficulties with the Captureback overhead camera (60 MP digital back with Phase One camera and 80mm lens), which seemed to have taken on a mind of its own (a phone consultation with the company indicates it needs repairs; we cannot afford downtime, so this may have to wait until after the project). This cost us a few hours, and while Amanda and Jeremiah struggled to sort out its issues, Jody analyzed student productivity rates for February, as we did not produce as many images as expected. An analysis of current production rates of all students, not just the ones involved in the grant, revealed that our expectations were a bit high. We had planned on flatbed digitization rates of 17 images per hour, yet for most students, including one of those in the grant, digitization speed was closer to 12 images per hour. Jeremiah and Amanda observed the students' workflow to identify problems and potential need for reeducation or remediation. However, no such issues were noted. It appears that the original rates specified in the grant had been based on experienced students working with the best possible material. The documents under digitization now are more fragile and require more care.
We had a staff meeting to discuss potential solutions and workarounds, and Amanda Presnell as Project Manager made the final selection, as she will be directly responsible for implementation. Students' level of awareness of the speed issue will be raised, and they will be trained to assist in quality control, which will free Amanda to spend more time scanning on the Captureback (on which she produces a consistent 26 images per hour). In addition, the students involved in the grant will be trained on the Captureback as well, so they can fill in there when it is free; also on optimization for the Captureback, again freeing Amanda to scan for more hours. We estimate that substitution of Captureback scanning for flatbed scanning for the slowest student potentially could make up the expected shortfall of images in less than 400 work hours.
We will continue to monitor productivity levels and adapt the workflow as needed to ensure success.
Also this month, we made our first press release File:For Immediate Release.docx to UA Dialog, Tuscaloosa News, and the following listservs: Diglib, Archives & Archivists, Metadata Librarians, Libraries and Information Technology Association (LITA), JESSE, and UALIB.
In addition, Amanda Presnell (Project Manager) proposed a poster session File:Poster Abstract.docx for the Alabama Library Association Annual Conference to be held in April 2010, and was accepted.
We completed the National Institutes of Health (NIH) training on "Protecting Human Research Participants," and made application to the Institutional Review Board (IRB) board for permission to undertake the usability study.
Our website is live! Please see http://www.lib.ua.edu/libraries/hoole/cabaniss for a description of the grant project.
- Total files digitized by the end of March, 2010: 14,944
- Total files online by the end of March, 2010: 12,900
April 2010
This month, Amanda and Jody responded to two separate requests by the Institutional Review Board for alterations to our proposed usability study application; it looks like approval is drawing near.
After the press release last month, Jody was contacted by Barbara Aikens, Chief of Collections Processing at the Archives of American Art (Smithsonian Institution). Their mass digitization of collections has a similar approach: [Collections Online]. Barbara was kind enough to extend an invitation to tour their shop, and on April 14th, Jody met with Barbara to discuss delivery methodology, work flows and usability studies. Major differences between the Smithsonian's approach and ours include that the series descriptions are separate fields in a database for search support, rather than the finding aid being a single online document, and also that there is no separation between items in their delivery, nor a way to store item-level metadata should some become available in the future. Additionally, our finding aids are searchable alongside our item-level described content (a strength of the Acumen delivery software), whereas the delivery in the Smithsonian interface is separate. Thank you so much, Barbara Aikens!
Additionally, Barbara recommended contacting Jodi Allison-Bunnell, the Program Manager at Northwest Digital Archives, who shared the preliminary report on a fairly broad usability study they did last year. The paper from the study is out for publication review. Despite the rather chilling discovery that neither the item-level described content nor the digitized content available via the finding aid provided sufficient metadata for researchers to "make a decision" -- overall, the researchers seemed to prefer access to the digitized content within the context of the finding aid. We hope to build on the results of this study, and are heartened by the results. Jodi also shared the scripts they used for the study, to help inform our own process. Thank you, Jodi Allison-Bunnell!
Jody posted a query to the EAD listserv announcing the project and asking for information about other usability studies which compare the use of item-level described digital content and digital content made available via the online EAD. Knowledge of others' efforts in this area will help to inform the scope and value of our reports on our own study.
Jeremiah is sorting out how best to juggle students to ensure that we have sufficient student labor over the summer, despite vacations and upcoming graduations.
Amanda uncovered a bug in the linking software, that added items out of order, and Jody repaired it. We are using locally-developed software for this process rather than the bulk linking available with Archivists Toolkit, primarily because we did not want to include links to derivatives within our archival finding aid. The finalized EAD will be uploaded back into Archivists Toolkit when we've finished so the archivists will have access to the completed finding aid for future work.
Amanda also presented a poster session at the Alabama Library Association Annual Convention in Huntsville, Alabama on April 15th. The session was entitled: "Leading the Way Toward Low-Cost Digital Collections: The S.D. Cabaniss Digitization Project" (see Cabaniss_Publicity). This helps us to meet our grant performance objectives, which include: "Publicize the project and its methods through press releases, announcements on appropriate listservs, an article in at least two peer-reviewed publications and presentation of the project during at least two professional conferences." Since this model is intended to help institutions with low funding to digitize their archival content, we considered it extremely important to share this at a state level conference, since few of the less-well-funded institutions are able to send representatives to national conferences. Good work, Amanda!
This month we began digitizing some letterbooks in the collection. These letterbooks require a large amount of attention to detail due to their unusual nature. First of all, the pages are very thin, similar to tissue paper, because the original letter was to be placed underneath the page and traced. So, in order to get a readable scan of one page at a time, acid free paper must be inserted in between the pages so we see only the current page when scanning. Also, these thin pages can become very fragile, and often stick together. Digitizing one of these (some are as large as 700 pages) can be quite time-consuming. Also concerning the letterbooks, we have come across some pages of the books that are very faded, almost to the point of being unreadable. We decided to digitize those pages anyway, because we feel like researchers who were interested could load these images into photo editing software and adjust the image to make the faded writing more legible. However, per our usual digitization policy, we are not digitizing blank pages of the books. We are making notes in the Tracking Files whenever a page is not digitized and why (page blank, torn out, missing, etc.).
We are still working out some issues we are having with the Capture One software and camera. Occasionally the camera will just quit working. After trying the usual troubleshooting techniques (changing batteries, turning off camera, restarting software), if the camera cannot be activated, we will just let it sit for a few hours or overnight. Whatever the issue is will then seem to resolve itself. Amanda dealt with some network connectivity issues this month, but after help from the Office of Library Technology, these issues have now been resolved.
- Total files digitized by the end of April, 2010: 20,267
- Total files online by the end of April, 2010: 18,050
May 2010
This month was marked by the end of the semester and thus changes in the student availability. Both of the two students already on the grant project will be out for long stretches of the summer, and some of that began this month. We discussed how best to manage the grant staffing over the summer, given that we have a limited number of workstations, and at times will have a full complement of students and staff. Jeremiah worked hard to develop staffing options and scheduling. A third student has now been assigned to the grant project, at least for the summer; her steady input of around 30 hours a week will balance out the loss of the other students for long stretches. At the end of the summer, one of the other students graduates, so we plan to hire again this fall.
After responding to queries and requests from the IRB board, the usability study was approved!! Since the best time to test the students is early in the fall semester before they become too busy, Amanda is planning to begin the marketing in late summer to draw in participants. After consulting with the archivists, it was decided to put a card on a holder on each table in the reading room, a flier on the door, and have plenty of copies of Frequently Asked Questions at the desk for the reference personnel to hand out. Additionally, Amanda will connect with Jason (Web Services) to ensure the laptops and Morae software will be available, will post fliers in the targeted departments, and consult with the secretarial staff to add postings to the departmental listservs. Amanda and Jeremiah will encode the usability test into the Morae software this summer as well.
More information about the usability study can be found here: Cabaniss_Usability_Study
- Total files digitized by the end of May, 2010: 26,585
- Total files online by the end of May, 2010: 24,020
June 2010
Amanda consulted with Jason Battles, Head of Web Services, about the implementation of the web advertisement for usability study participants. After some discussion, they decided to begin the web ad in early August, just prior to the desired testing time. Since students have the most free time at the beginning of the semester, we decided to target late August or early September for the usability test.
Our long-time graduate student worker (and one of our best!) Kate Matheny is working on the grant this summer, since the two students hired for the grant will be out for long stretches. At the end of the summer session, we will need to replace one of them, as she's graduating. Jeremiah is preparing to advertise; in the meantime, existing student workers will fill in as needed to ensure that we don't fall behind.
Also, Amanda had a week-long vacation this month, so we covered for her work as well. The pace of digitization is still up to par, with over 6900 new items digitized in June alone. Online we have content available now for 39 of the 77 boxes. During August and September, we expect the quantity of scanning will drop back quite a bit, as staffing will be involved in the test process, and also in the evaluation.
This month Jody submitted an article to the Journal of Library Innovation entitled "A Model for Low Cost Online Access to Manuscript Materials" to publicize the grant project; if published, this will be the first of two articles promised to meet the grant agreement. The second will follow the assessment of the usability test, and will incorporate those results.
Publicity this month also includes: Jody linked in the Cabaniss website to her homepage with a description ([1], updated the professors who contributed letters to support the grant application, and NHPRC posted a Facebook announcement about the project.
- Total files digitized by the end of June, 2010: 33,503
- Total files online by the end of June, 2010: 31,650
July 2010
This month was fairly quiet, with digitization proceeding apace, and Amanda beginning to encode the usability study into the Morae software. Jody altered Amanda's workflow a bit, so that her makeJpegs script is run from the Linux (destination) server across a mount point against the TIFF files residing on the Windows server. This takes her desktop out of the loop, leveraging the greater processing capabilities of the servers, and freeing up her desktop for other work. Also Jody added a script (moveCabanissContent) which copies the TIFF files across the mount point into a deposit directory for archiving, double checks each copy, and then deletes the copy on the Windows server. This frees up more room on the Windows server for digitization without requiring manual pickups and verifications.
Per the grant reporting requirements, Jody sent in the progress report for the first 6 months. (File:Jan2010 June2010.doc)
- Total files digitized by the end of July, 2010: 38,192
- Total files online by the end of July, 2010: 37,826
August 2010
As it tends to do, "life happened" to the individuals working on this project during the month of August. We expected to keep one of our current student workers and another who had gone for the summer was to come back and continue work on the project. Instead, both of our current student workers were offered graduate assistant positions in their respective departments that were just too good to turn down. So, we lost both of our student workers within the first week and a half of the month! We began the process of interviewing and hiring new student workers, and they are beginning the first week of September. In addition to this loss of workers, Amanda spent most of the month recruiting and scheduling participants for the Cabaniss Usability Study. This testing began on the last two days of August and will continue into September. Our number for the month are low due to the loss of student workers and Amanda's commitments to the usability study, but thankfully we have previously been very productive and had some cushion to fall back on. This should not delay the completion of the project.
- Total files digitized by the end of August, 2010: 39,633
- Total files online by the end of August, 2010: 39,723
Spreadsheets with digitization progress, updated monthly:
Numbers digitized each month and number online, with running totals: File:TrackByMonth.xls
Dates each box is put online and in the archive: File:Tracking.xls


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Social Security is much in the news these days. Some claim Congress has "borrowed" more from our Social Security reserves than from any other source and Social Security won't last long. For many years, I enjoyed a friendship with Syd Faulk each Tuesday in a Rotary Club in Beaufort and learning about his father, a Yale professor, who put Social Security together at the request of Franklin D. Roosevelt. I have also enjoyed a Social Security check each month since 1996. How did Social Security come about?
In 1953, a lawyer friend who also handled Prudential Insurance advised that, in addition to life insurance, I take advantage of Social Security. He told of just returning from an insurance convention where the chaplain talked about Joseph, a Hebrew slave of the Egyptians, advising the Pharaoh to store up seven years of surplus grain in preparation for the lean years to follow. When the "surplus years" passed and nations needed grain, they beat a path to Egypt to buy from their supplies. Egypt thrived and Joseph was considered a wise man for saving during the years of plenty so they would be able to survive in the lean years to come.
Is that now how "insurance" began and eventually didn't that principle apply to Social Security? We save from the surplus of the high-yielding years to provide for our "senior citizen" years. Solomon advises in Proverbs that we "consider the ant." The ant stays busy over the summer saving up for the winter when the food is not there to be harvested. Most humans are not disciplined enough to save or put something aside for a rainy day, so the government gives the participant a plan of putting away some surplus with our taxes so we can draw on it when it is needed.
Joseph's idea of putting something aside from our earnings may go farther. What if a tithe (one-tenth) of everyone's income was set aside for taxes? 49 percent of Americans pay no taxes. If we all paid one-tenth or 15 percent, it would bring us closer to everyone giving a fair proportion.
Or, if we obeyed Moses and the Ten Commandments (1) telling the truth and (2) not stealing by false accounting (and if we could get Congress to spend wisely and fairly), we would likely have enough.
Jeremiah in the 29th chapter advises "Seek the welfare of the community in which you live, for in its welfare is your welfare. Pray for it, marry, build homes and plant crops."
I wish we had some Josephs and Jeremiahs to elect to office in the U.S.
Bob Cuttino, pastor emeritus at the Baptist Church of Beaufort, is pastor of Sea Island and Indigo Pines chapels, a teacher and writer. He can be reached at 521-0152.


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Bushfires NT director Mick Ayre has resigned and the Northern Territory Government is reviewing the Bushfires Act.
Mr Ayre has been in the job for less than a year and says he is leaving for personal reasons.
He says they have nothing to do with the new government.
Bushfires NT is working with the Government to review the Act, he says, so the organisation works more closely with other emergency response agencies.
Mr Ayre says it is not a cost-cutting exercise but a move to streamline operations.
"We have also been party to a Chief Minister's taskforce, which is reviewing the status of the emergency management arrangements in the Northern Territory, and there are some good opportunities arising out of that taskforce work, I believe," he said.
Bushfires NT chairman Paul Blore says the organisation is to be restructured.
He says Land Resource Management Minister Willem Westra Van Holthe has updated staff on the situation.
Mr Blore believes the changes will benefit the organisation.
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"At the moment we're sort of dangling out on our own little branch."
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