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Be It Hereby Resolved...
New Year Reality vs. Resolutions
"Be it Hereby Resolved…"
A phrase that reeks with importance, significance, even a seemingly legal regality, right?
In reality, resolutions that begin with those words are often passed by less than regal bodies. Like city councils and town boards, which may be resolving to do nothing more significant than call attention to the anniversary of a landmark lunch place.
But let's face it, that same feeling of significance and importance is what we want to feel in making personal New Year's resolutions, too. You know, like they really mean something. Maybe for many people they do.
Me? Alas, I've become rather cynical when it comes to New Year's resolutions.
It's not that I don't make them—I do. I have for years. I just have a terrible track record of keeping them. I take comfort in the fact, however, that I have plenty of company.
According to one study, a majority of Americans (45%) make New Year's resolutions. It goes downhill in a hurry from New Year's on, though: less than ten-percent of those resolvers say that they're successful in achieving their resolutions.
The top three most common resolutions? No big surprise -- self-improvement, money-related, and relationship-related.
According to the study, age does seem to play a factor in successfully achieving resolutions. People in their twenties had a thirty-nine-percent success rate, while those over fifty (hello) had only a fourteen-percent success rate.
Ah, my twenties. I vaguely remember. Woodrow Wilson or someone was president. And my resolutions were high-minded and absurdly ambitious: to travel around the world (okay, I did some of that much later), learn two additional languages (nope), ski the Alps (nope), and make a ton of money (huge nope).
Call it age, call it realism, call it for what it probably is (laziness), but while I still make New Year's resolutions, I do so with none of my former lofty ambition. Perhaps part of that is because my family has forced me to downsize them, mostly on account of I have to make them publicly now.
My wife and children and I sit at a table and officially enter our resolutions into a book, which is then re-opened the following New Years Day and, before this same stern group, judged on the level of success.
I have not fared well.
True, I did finish a book this past year. That was a biggie. Ironically, it's the smaller-bore resolutions that seem to have eluded me most. Becoming an expert braid-maker for my daughters? Still woefully sub-par. Re-learning Hebrew? Pitiful. Making more money? Not so much.
This year, in hopes of doing better, I decided to go even more small-bore. Nothing about work, money, travel, weight or any other dicey proposition.
Instead, I limited myself to one simple resolution: to spend even more time with my kids.
Hey, it's written down and everything. I feel good about it, too--after all, I have to live with the two people who are judging its success.
"Be it Hereby Resolved…"

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DENVER (AP) -- Broncos linebacker Al Wilson's heart tells him he can still play football. His neck is a different story.
The Broncos Friday released the five-time Pro Bowler due to a combination of injury and salary cap concerns. Wilson is coming off a neck injury suffered last season against Seattle on Dec. 3.
He was also scheduled to make $5.2 million in base salary this season.
A Broncos spokesman declined comment and an e-mail to Denver general manager Ted Sundquist wasn't returned.
Wilson, who was informed by the team Thursday night he'd be cut, had no bitter feelings toward the team.
"My time is up as a Bronco," the eight-year veteran said. "It's time to move forward and try something else. You have to do what's best for your organization, just like a Fortune 500 company. Sometimes you have to let good employees go."
Wilson has been the defensive captain of the Broncos for the last six seasons. He led the team in tackles last season with 113.
However, he was plagued by injuries in the second half of 2006.
Wilson hurt his neck running into teammate Gerard Warren on a tackle against the Seahawks and had to be carted off the field as the crowd gave him an ovation and chanted his name.
And while he played the next three weeks, Wilson didn't participate in the season finale against San Francisco due to thumb and back injuries. The loss knocked Denver out of a playoff spot.
"I've had a great time here," Wilson said. "I feel like I've got a few more good years in me, too."
He was nearly dealt to the New York Giants earlier this spring. However, he failed a physical and the Giants backed out of the trade.
"I was looking forward to a new opportunity," Wilson said. "There are 31 other teams out there."
But his neck remains a concern. Wilson won't play again until doctors clear him. Wilson claims doctors say his neck is getting better.
"If I can get medically cleared, hey, I'm going to go out and play," Wilson said.
"I feel like I still can play. It's not about the money. I'll only get out there and play if I'm healthy."
Peter Schaffer, Wilson's agent, wouldn't discuss the exact nature of Wilson's neck injury.
Wilson played the following week after he injured his neck against division rival San Diego. Asked if he came back too soon from the injury, he paused as his eyes stared at his folded hands.
"Maybe I should've sat out a week or two," Wilson said. "The competitive nature in me, I wanted to compete."
Wilson had a good parting conversation with Broncos coach Mike Shanahan on Thursday.
"I wish him nothing but the best," Wilson said.
Yet there's still the side of him that wants to prove cutting him was a bad decision.
"You definitely have that in the back of your mind," Wilson said. "You definitely want to prove people wrong. You want to go out and show people you can still compete.
If I'm able to get back out there, and the doctors say I can do it, you'll see me out there flying around."
Wilson was the undisputed leader in the locker room and even spoke at the funerals for cornerback Darrent Williams and running Damien Nash. Williams and Nash both died in the offseason at age 24.
The fact Wilson was a no-show at the Broncos' offseason conditioning program in early April was taken as an ominous sign by teammates. Cornerback Domonique Foxworth took the Broncos shopping Wilson around as a wake-up call.
"It tells you everybody is expendable in this business," Foxworth said at the time. "I don't think anybody in this organization will say that we're better off without his personality around.
For whatever reasons they felt we'll be better off going in a different direction."
If Wilson's neck injury prevents him from playing again, he said he's at peace with his accomplishments. He has 21.5 career sacks and five interceptions.
"I have no regrets," said Wilson, the Broncos' first-round pick in the 1999 draft out of Tennessee. "I gave them all I had. I can walk away with my head held high."
Schaffer thinks Wilson's tenure in Denver will one day be rewarded.
"I believe he's done enough to have No. 56 on the Ring of Fame someday," Schaffer said of the ring around Invesco Field that honors former players and administrators.
"That's immortality right there. He's definitely a player who's earned that right."
But Wilson isn't ready to close the door on his career just yet. Neck willing, he still wants to play.
"It's time for a change," he said of his release. "I'm not sad. I'm not mad. I'm looking forward to the next step."
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Today I would like to do just that; think small. Think, George Shrinks, The Lilliputians along with Gulliver or Honey, I Shrunk The Kids. Some of the diminutive things in life offer us joy while other small things add up to large benefits, one small step at a time. First, let's look at those that bring us delight in a life that can be very drab at times. Perhaps, what they always told us was true: "The best things come in small packages." Diamonds immediately come to mind, and they are wonderful, but life does offer many other treasures of equal intrinsic worth if not monetary value. What about the possibilities in buds, seeds and tiny newborn creatures. Small is usually something or someone that will grow. At other times small is always small and to be valued. The important idea here is to notice the small objects, animals, buds and treasures. It's far too simple to let our pain loom largely in our minds and in our lives, overshadowing the smaller things in life.
This thought occurred to me yesterday while looking out the back door, from the aspect of our small back porch; I was grasping the wonder and the beauty of three hydrangea bushes that have finally crept into bloom. One, a large bush of lace-cap hydrangeas, in violet and white flowers, was burdened down by snow last winter. I felt certain it would never bloom again. Most of its branches were so laden with the weight of snow they touched the ground. Yet, it has never been more beautiful than it is this year as hundreds of tiny bundles of buds unfold. The bush next to it is also a lace-cap but is in a shade of blue and white; further down the flower bed is a white full-headed hydrangea with a hint of pink amidst the white. It was a difficult winter for all of us but we all have bounced back, some blossoming more than others. The gorgeous floral bushes are better than ever. I'm not sure I could say that about me, but at least I have rebounded, one small step at a time.
A flowering hydrangea, a thorny Rugosa rose trailing across the ground as it creates more scarlet floral-hewn bushes; mossy ground cover with tiny lavender flowers that survived and is creeping along beside the house, as a tiny bird with a brown stripe on his head is hopping about in the groundcover buried to his "knees." These are the wonders that remind us life is truly beautiful and yes, it's on our side. Leaves die and fall only to be replaced by new leaves. Flowers bloom and with the help of "dead heading" are swapped, thanks to the destiny of the plant, for new blooms. Don't you love it when life seems to give you an endless supply…of everything?
A cool, fragrant wind always blows across the Columbia River as we attempt to throw stale bread chunks into the water for the benefit of a variety of seagulls, shiny black crows and an occasional knock kneed pigeon. One lonely seagull soon becomes a flock as "word" spreads that some crazy homo sapiens are tossing bread into the river. Amongst the seagulls there is an occasional gull with a withered or damaged leg. Life's not a bed of roses for seagulls, apparently, either. The children laugh spontaneously when one of the gulls catches a piece of bread in mid-air while gliding on air. There is always one or two of the birds which go off to a corner by themselves as well as a brave one or two who approach very near to us to snatch a scrap or two from the dock on which we stand. For those who have eyes to see, there is much to appreciate, all around us. We must tread carefully lest we focus only on our misery and our pain. There's so much more.
On the dangerous and sometimes treacherous side of life it's the small things that often get us into trouble. A wet spot on the floor can lead to a dangerous fall. A slippery rug or wet towel can have unfortunate results. A burner left on after we've ingested too many pain pills; lifting a bag that's too heavy because we don't remember to carry an extra bag in the trunk just for these circumstances. Careless daily medicine dosing which may require a small plastic medicine container to keep them straight would take only a few minutes of planning. Other measures include remembering to don shoes or socks on a slick floor or to hold onto a handrail when descending stairs; and always remembering to turn on lights by stairways, in darkened rooms, etc. I've learned to love the small dim lights I've scattered throughout our house which stay on all night for those trips to the backdoor with one of the dogs or a much needed trip to the kitchen for a snack to take with a pill. We often need to remember to accept our limitations when carrying heavy equipment or scooting furniture. All of these can cause us unforeseen trouble and make our already tedious and troublesome lives worse. One pound too much, one tiny instantaneous fall can all lead to trouble. Care is the byword in everyday life, for all of us but especially for those of us who run (or limp) around with pain, limitations and very often, much medication onboard.
It's a proven statistic that those who work out, even a few minutes a day achieve many health benefits and suffer less falls. Cardiovascular health is enhanced, cholesterol is lowered and muscle tone is maintained by lifting a small weight; remembering to use a stretchy band to strengthen muscles needed for daily life in spite of pain. Little steps still get you there. Slowly still arrives at the destination. Daily life offers opportunities for stretching and strengthening such as scrubbing a pan twenty more times than needed; rubbing lotion on your arms or feet to the count of fifty or using your non-dominant hand once a day to strengthen it. There are so many "little things" like taking the stairs or parking the car a few hundred feet from the door of a store; these all bring strength to diseased or damaged muscle tissue. This may be a pain wracked body and it has indeed betrayed you, as has mine, but it is the only one you and I have and we're in it together for the long haul. It's good to make friends with that which we cannot change, like this miserable body. It denotes wisdom and courage. It also gives life a sweet taste instead of the bitterness of adversity and ill health.
There's no rule that you have to lie down and take it. You can fight back one step, one breath, and one day at a time. It also helps to keep self-pity away. You're doing something and that is always empowering. It is the little things that comprise the big ones. The small joys and pleasures are as enjoyable as the larger ones. Who says they aren't? Think small today. Note the bird on a branch, the flower that hadn't opened yesterday and spend 5 minutes doing that stretch you know will help because tomorrow, you can do it 10 minutes.


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Digitisation for access to preserved documents
Today the digitisation of our collections is a goal for libraries all over Europe. The choices we make in digitisation and preservation now will have a significant impact on the future. Do we only emphasise access? How do we enable access and preserve our originals in a qualitative and productive way? What will actually be left of our cultural heritage in the next millennium?
In this paper I am going to look at promoting access to preserved originals mirrored by the experience at the Helsinki University Library, the National Library of Finland:
|Preservation activities as platform for digitisation and OCR
|Processing access to collections
|The future - looking ahead
For a long time microforms have facilitated access of remote collections to library users. Large reformatting programs have in Europe and USA been the action of saving brittle paper collections, like books and newspapers, printed on acidic paper. In the 1990s the preservation discussion has gradually turned to digitisation matters. Anne R Kenney wrote in RLG DigiNews in 1997 that microfilm besides being a preservation medium for "slow-fires" of acidic collections "...could become an important legacy measure for coping the "fast fires" of digital obsolescence" (Kenney, 1997). The discussion of using microforms as platforms for digitisation is today a relevant issue. We have all heard about the Brittle Book projects in USA (Chapman, 1999; Conway, 1996). In these projects hybrid approaches were tested: digital images were transformed to microfilm and microfilm was used as a platform for digitisation.
Recently both IFLA Newspapers Section and the Research Libraries Group (RLG) have given guidance on microfilming for digitisation. IFLA Newspapers Section has published Microfilming for Digitisation and Optical Character Recognition in 2002 as a supplement to the microfilming guidelines. The RLG Guidelines for Microfilming to Support Digitization, Supplement to RLG Microfilming, was published in January 2003. There is hence an ongoing interest in microfilm as a safety platform for preservation. When again we deal with collections printed on more sustainable paper conservation and preservation measures are needed to prolong the lives of the originals. These measures can be carried out as a part of the digitisation process. Preservation and digitisation programs can successfully collaborate. Libraries and archives have the major responsibility for digitising and preserving their collections. That is why we have to have a digitisation and a preservation program - a strategy for our users of today and tomorrow. We do also need to know in which condition our collections are to make the final choices within our plans.
The National Library of Finland - Helsinki University Library, was established in 1640, and has had Legal deposit right since 1707. It is carrying out most of its preservation and digitisation services in the Centre for Microfilming and Conservation, which was established in 1990 in Mikkeli, 220 kilometres from Helsinki. As the responsibility of Library's digitisation services are here since 1999, the work for all projects, programs and co-operation activities on preservation and digitisation are organised and processed in the Centre, with over 40 employees.
Digital Program for LibrariesThe Library Sector - co-ordinated by the National Library - has in 2002 accomplished a Digitisation Program for the cultural heritage. The target for digitisation starts with the copyright free material from the Middle Ages to the end of the 19th century. Within this field the 19th century is prioritised because of the demand of the material. Access to Historic Newspapers, journals, books and ephemeral print are of great importance. Also older collections were considered nationally and internationally important. Our lost cultural heritage due to a disastrous fire in Turku in 1827, could be digitised from Swedish collections. Dissertations from the same era have a great demand, as well as the special collections in the participating libraries. Like the Nordenskiöld map collection, part of the Memory of the World Register of UNESCO. The National Library will promote copyright solutions for access via digitisation of more recent materials.
Preservation program in the National LibraryMicrofilming is playing an important role in our preservation program. Newspapers have been filmed on a large scale since 1951. Today, since 1997, all current newspapers including local and some free newspapers have been microfilmed. Books have been filmed from 1966 onwards primarily on microfiche. Retroactive microfilming of newspapers, books and journals is part of our preservation program. The chosen books consist of unique titles of Finnish literature from the era before 1810 and of more recent literature from the 19th century. The preservation program includes also other preventive actions for current legal deposit material like boxing, protective enclosures, binding and retrospective measures like conservation for the most unique material already damaged in use or storage.
Condition surveysAfter having established the goals and priorities in our digitisation and preservation programs we need to make the actual choices. In order to do this we do need a condition survey to establish the condition of our collections. These surveys should be based on standards or internationally accepted methods in order to be comparable internationally. As microfilms are used as a platform for digitisation, a condition survey was done in 1997 based on a random sample of 500 microfilms of 40.000 films. The period included all films from 1951-1996. [1]
It was found that more than half of our older films needed re-filming. Most of the material would have been in a good shape if:
|newspapers were filmed unbound or bound volumes were filmed on a book cradle under a glass according to existing standards
|there had been a separate master for duplicating copies in early times
|the density readings were acceptable
These findings correlate with the IFLA Guidance for microfilming for digitisation and OCR, which adds the importance of a low reduction rate for maximum quality. The condition survey of our paper collections began at our library in 2002 and is continuing. It is based on the international surveys made in US (Stanford and Yale), Sweden and Holland. A random and stratified sample of 3.700 books from our scientific and literary collections from 1810-1944 was chosen out of 150.000 books. The results will have a great impact on digitisation and preservation priorities and co-ordination within the programs and conservation measures can be directed to specific problems.
Helsinki University Library had in 1997 chosen digitisation of all newspapers as one of the main targets in its reformatting program. And as practically all newspapers in Finland and the other Nordic countries have been microfilmed, it was possible to use microfilm as a platform for digitisation needs. This resulted in the Nordic project Tiden on Historical Newspapers, 1998-2001, co-ordinated by Finland in which the Nordic national libraries from Sweden and Norway, and the Århus State Library in Denmark participated, supported by the Nordic Council of Scientific Information, the NORDINFO and the participating libraries. The National Library of Iceland, together with Greenland and the Faroe Islands was in close cooperation with the project.
The Objectives of the Nordic ProjectThe main objective of the project has been to use microfilm as an intermediate for future digitisation. Microfilm enables large-scale production of digital images. In Norway and in Finland we have built production lines for digitisation of newspapers from film. The objective has been to start with a part of the newspapers and when this project is finished, integrate the digitisation of the newspapers to the libraries' ordinary functions. In Denmark and Norway the objective has been to get as much of the collections on the web as possible - with minimal search possibilities. That is search on title, date and place.
In Finland and Sweden we have included full text search, which enables search on each word in the textual content. In addition in Finland an index of articles with hierarchical search terms from 1771-1890 will be available.
The Newspaper ContentsThe contents in the Digital Newspaper Library of Tiden have been chosen according to the importance of the newspapers and copyright possibilities in the member countries. Kungliga Biblioteket chose to digitise Post-och Inrikes from 1640-1721 in Sweden. Some predecessors to this actual first newspaper have been digitised from 1620-1630s. This means that information starting from the 30-year war until 1721 in Europe is included and available today for full text searching. In Finland we chose to build a digital platform for the day to day life in the 18th and 19th centuries. In this project every newspaper, containing 44 titles, is digitised for full text searching from 1771-1860, starting with our first newspaper Tidningar utgifne af et Sällskap I Åbo in 1771 containing 140.000 pages. This project has been continued by a second project, which will include all newspapers until 1890, with 800.000 pages more. Denmark continues in the Tiden project, almost where Sweden stopped, with Adresseavisen from 1751 - 1890. Shorter periods of other titles have also been included, like Berlinske Tidende 1863-1865, Dannevirke 1862-1864 and Faedrelandet 1863-1865. Norway is covering almost two centuries, the 19th and 20th century with Den norske rigstiden 1815-1882 Adresseavisa 1802-1900 and Norlands Avis 1893-1978.
The number of pages we have on the net at this point is actually of minor importance. More value lies in the development and innovations we have made to build the production line, for digitisation and full text searching, for our large library collections. As I know the Finnish project best, and as it is the most complete I will introduce our production line to you.
|The individual steps of the process are as follows:
|Microfilming: refilming the newspapers if the quality of the present microfilms is not good enough.
|Digitisation: scanning of the microfilms; the scanner software has been made to identify the varying page images and the films are scanned automatically.
|Optical Character Recognition (OCR): conversion of the images to text files; requires many adjustments and training of the software especially for text in Gothic letters.
|Identification: identification of title, issue, date, pages and attachments of the newspaper takes place in principle automatically but requires some human treatment.
|Database import: importing the prepared material into the database system
The originalThe quality of the original is essential for all reformatting activities. Old books, maps and newspapers are often not of the best quality and cleaning, repair and conservation measures might be needed. Older newspapers are small in size continuously growing to the size of A1. Problems are encountered as the paper is turning yellow in the 19th century and many types of fonts and languages are used on the same pages in one newspaper.
MicrofilmingWhen using microfilm as intermediary the quality of the microfilms is the key to the success. Of course, the quality is crucial also for the preservation in general because we have to accept the simple fact that in the long run newspapers and acid books will survive only on microfilm. Digital long-term preservation is still sought for. We are always using the smallest reduction ratio possible for microfilming, not exceeding 16 or 18 x. The size of the smallest e-letter influences the OCR- of Gothic text as much or more than the reduction ratio.
DigitisationMost of our digitisation experiences via microfilm are from old historical newspaper collections. We are using black and white, 400 dpi, 1-bit digitisation for the OCR-process. Too sharp images might influence the OCR- of Gothic text in a negative way as the letters become more individual and needs more teaching time. We are thus dealing with material where compromises have to be made. (The newspaper image files would be too large to handle smoothly in greyscale. And as the microfilm has a limited dynamic range some of the problems diminish in black-and white, and some, like the quality of photographs, are getting worse. But with the text and OCR in mind some of the bleed through in the papers is extinguished and the result is even better than direct scanning from the newspaper.) The digitisation process is automatic. Very seldom changed density in the films require adjustments by the operator. In a production perspective scanning from film is much faster than using the originals when oversized items like newspapers are concerned.
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)Because of the majority of Gothic letters in our newspapers, the OCR conversion requires much effort. We are using Fine Reader by ABBYY for the OCR, which also provides support for Finnish and Swedish languages. It is not too sensitive to react too much on the unevenness of the quality of the original pages and is able to process the text in batches after training. In our experience the most important factors influencing the OCR quality of the conversion are the text font, language and reduction rate. Roman style, Swedish language and a low reduction rate gave the best results in our newspapers. At the moment we have had OCR read 250.000 pages. For a newspaper with acceptable print the identification rate exceeds 95 %.
IdentificationThe last point in this process, the entering of each image and its textual version should aim at automation when dealing with large quantities of material. Usually, every image has to be addressed on behalf of the title, date, number and page. We have built software for the identification of large quantities of images. By indicating the title and ISSN-number of a publication this can automatically be used for all chosen newspaper numbers. Each newspaper number, when chosen, gets in turn automatically correct page numbers. When the identification step has been completed the software creates an XML file that is copied to the server along with images and text files.
Much effort has been put into developing a proper functional architecture for the digital newspaper library, as a part of an overall digital architecture. This will include all kinds of materials and the production of the digital versions as the digital original, the digital master and the digital image on the web and the textual versions for full text searching. URN identifiers are generated automatically. Solutions have to be applicable for other types of material such as maps, periodicals and books. The database will also be connected by search and retrieval protocols to the National Portal and database of the Scientific Libraries in Finland, enabling fuzzy search, vocabularies and indexes to older digitised collections.
Text search softwareFrom the very beginning it was obvious that a hundred per cent OCR conversion is impossible. That is why two decisions were made. The first one was that the basic tool for the users of the digitised newspapers is the digital facsimile of the original pages. The ASCII version will be used for searching purposes only.
The other decision was to use RetrievalWare from Excalibur, software that could manage a limited percentage of errors. This is also needed for the retrieval of the old fashioned language used in the newspapers. It has among other features a so called fuzzy search function which is able to identify the searched words even if one to three letters would differ from the word sought for - because of misspelling or old-fashioned language. (It processes the words as bit-strings and uses pattern recognition to find matches. Therefore RetrievalWare was chosen. Finnish and Swedish language support has been added to the normal search functions.)
The Nordic Digital Newspaper Libraries were opened to the general public on 25th of October 2001. By the end of 2002 the total searches of pages rose to 1 million. Systems have been running without problems since the launch. We have received plenty of user feedback on the system. Most of it has been positive along with some error reports and improvement suggestions.
Access is available by:
|online browsing
|title search
|search by date (in which you can actually see the day of the week)
|free text search via fuzzy search function
|article search by indexed words
The Nordic countries are still working together to enhance full text fuzzy search possibilities between the Nordic newspaper databases including the new co-ordinator Iceland. This pre-investigation has been funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and will be ready in spring 2003. Co-operation is and has been successful. A broader access to our digital strategies and results will in the future be gained in the EU Minerva project (a Ministerial Network for Valorising Digitisation Activities in the EU Member States), a network that promotes sustainable access to our cultural and scientific heritage. Institutions can present their digitisation policies, programs and projects and obtain good practices [2]. You are welcome to participate. Co-operation is the platform for sustainable access.
Kenney, A.R.: "The Cornell digital to microfilm conversion project: final report to NEH". RLG Diginews 1, 1997. http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews2.html#com
Chapman, S., P. Conway & A.R. Kenney: Digital Imaging and Preservation Microfilm: The Future of a Hybrid Approach for the Preservation of Brittle Books. Washington, DC : Council on Library and Information Resources, 1999 (http://www.clir.org/pubs/archives/hybridintro.html), and Conway, P. Conversion of Microfilm to Digital Imagery: A demonstration Project. Performance Report on the Production Conversion Phase of Project Open Book. New Haven, CT : Yale University Library, 1996.
Microfilming for Digitisation and Optical Character Recognition, 2002
Dale, Robin L. RLG Guidelines for Microfilming to Support Digitization. RLG, 2003. http://www.rlg.org/preserv/microsuppl.pdf
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. http://www.mellon.org/
Helsinki University Library, The National Library of Finland, http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/english/infoe/index.htm
IFLA Newspapers Section. http://www.ifla.org/VII/s39/snewsp.htm
Memory of the World Register of UNESCO. http://www.unesco.org/webworld/mdm/register/index.html
Minerva project. http://www.vilmamedia.fi/minervaeurope
Research Libraries Group (RLG). http://www.rlg.org/
Tiden - A Nordic Digital Newspaper Library. http://tiden.kb.se
[1] The survey was based on the ANSI/AIIM MS45-1990 standard: Recommended Practice for Inspection of Stored Silver-Gelatin Microforms for Evidence of Deterioration and on the Finnish standard, which is in accordance with the former: SFS 5808: Inspection of the Stored Silver-Gelatin Microforms for Evidence of Deterioration 1998.
[2] Username: mindemo - passwords: mv1731
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Three Valleys Municipal Water District is a wholesale water agency that was established by a vote of the people in 1950. Three Valleys provides water to 13 customers (member agencies).
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The partial government shutdown has now lasted three full weeks and will become the longest shutdown in U.S. history this weekend. Still, President Trump said he won't yet declare a national emergency to fund his desired border wall. Yamiche Alcindor joins Judy Woodruff to discuss public reaction, why the president thinks federal workers back him and the latest activity on Capitol Hill.
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Your number will always end up as a number in the 9 times table, all the numbers in the 9 times table are the same symbol.
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Think of a number with two digits. For example 43.
Now add the two numbers together. For example 4 + 3 = 7.
Next, subtract the new number from your original number. For example 43 - 7 = 36.
Finally, look at the symbol next to your number. Remember it.
Now the Magic Gopher will read your mind and tell you what your symbol is. Watch carefully.
Did he get your number right? How does he do it?!
Your number will always end up as a number in the 9 times table, all the numbers in the 9 times table are the same symbol.
I've worked out how it works, every possible combination has the same symbol, don't believe me, take a look a 0, 9, 18, 36 and 54, they will all be the same
I figured it out now! Only a few numbers are produced with the first part (adding digits then taking that away) and those numbers all have the same symbols. Look at the ones you've done - they're the same.
And guys one more thing , never move your mouse pointer to that number which you've guessed.
just choose a number like 15 and match with a pic and I guarantee he'll answer wrong . Prove? I did it and proved it myself.
either you did the calcul wrong or you didnt watch the right image. 15 : 1+5 =6 15-6 = 9.
He answer is always a multiple of 9. You can try with any number between 10 to 99 it will always give you a mutiple of 9. 10 : 1+0 = 1 10-1 = 9. 75 : 7+5 = 12 75-12 = 63. 63 is a mutiple of 9. You can look at all the multiple of 9 it will always be the same image.
That was really coool, but I've done this before and guess what, I tricked him and he was wrong.
it was simply amazing!
Wow! It's amazing game. Squirrel is very smart *-* *-* :D
That Gopher looks weirdly similar to Courage the Cowardly dog .
yay i tricked him. he got my number wrong
It's a bit strange but fantastic !How does it work????
It's magical.He got my number right!
Ohhhhhhhhhh! It's amazing. He's always right.
Ohhhhhhhhhh! It's amazing. He's always right.
No I was wrong O-O
he said the number which you put your mouse on it :))
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let the number = ab and ab = 10*a + b. 10a+b-a+b=9a. look at those patterns, does 9 and 18 and 27 etc. look the same?
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He didn't get it right for me, I was thinking of 52 and he said 78! But I still think it's a good game. I enjoyed it anyway.
At the first time he is always right but at the second time he is always wrong....But I love this game!
he is answering too many numbers wrong
its really nice but still i have played the same game on another site but the there was no magic gopher there was a magical box in which the symbol appeared this game is pretty similar to that!
He is going wrong most of the times!!
It is amazing..
How did he do it ? Did the gods of Egypt helped him. Thrice I tried he gave the right symbol. What sort trick did he do I wonder!
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By invitation of the Government of the Dominican Republic, and with the support of the Italian Government, the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development (CFE) is organising this two-day conference as a follow-up to the expert workshop held in the Caribbean Region in April 2005. This is a joint event of the OECD/CFE LEED Programme and the locally-based Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (FUNGLODE), in collaboration with the SME and Entrepreneurship Division and the Tourism Programme of the OECD.
This conference will address the importance of women's participation in business as driver for economic development and social inclusion. Particular interest will be given to the role of women in the Caribbean Region where activity rates have been increasing in the last two decades. This conference will also highlight the importance of tourism as a key economic and services sector in most of the Caribbean economies. Challenging environmental and economic changes urge to develop economic activities around the high-volume mass tourism industry in order to enhance the local business environment.
The working languages will be English, French and Spanish with simultaneous interpretation. Policy makers, authorities, women entrepreneurs associations, tourism promotion agencies, experts and practitioners from Caribbean and OECD countries are invited to take part in these debates which will contribute to finalise and implement the Caribbean Rim SME and Local Development Initiative to be launched in 2006.
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Well, one such person that I know on Twitter from Boston comes down to NYC occasionally and asked for a specific recipe next time all his Twitter buds met up. I promised him I would make it, and a promise is a promise….no matter how exhausted I am.
Well, exhausted me = more messy me. First step was to measure the flour and put it in a sifter.
In Twitterland we would call that a #fail.
Then, of course, there is the measuring of peanut butter. Now, whoever thought that measuring peanut butter would be a great idea obviously never did it. It sticks to EVERYTHING and made my poor goose measuring cup look like it was a volcano exploding (or like my goose was molting brown feathers.)Well, have no fear. Even an exhausted and extra messy Erika Beth still ends up baking a delicious dessert.
Peanut Butter Cup Cookies (http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Peanut-Butter-Cup-Cookies/Detail.aspx)
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons milk
40 miniature chocolate covered peanut butter cups, unwrapped
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
Sift together the flour, salt and baking soda; set aside.
Cream together the butter, sugar, peanut butter and brown sugar until fluffy. Beat in the egg, vanilla and milk. Add the flour mixture; mix well.
Shape into 40 balls and place each into an ungreased mini muffin pan.
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When I click on a reference from Augustine, the Internet Explorer tries to go online and find it there rather than on my computer. I'm sure the Augustine files are on my hard drive. Why would BW or IE think that I'm searching the internet? Is there a setting in BW or IE that I can change so that I can see the Augustine file on my computer and not try to go online?
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Here in Japan, it is the season of festivals, fireworks, and finally, the summer harvest. In the Northernmost part of Japan that we are living in, summer comes later than other parts of Japan, and goes by quicker. However, at long last, local gardens are giving up bounty of green peas, bok choy type greens, tomatoes, and edamame soybeans. I have never lived in rural Japan before- which is called "Inaka", or Ee-nah-kah, by residents and visitors. Honestly, I don't find Mutsu City (where we are currently living) all that "Inaka" or rural. There are a handful of different grocery stores, tons of clothing stores, lots of restaurants (although we just end up going to the kaiten zushi, revolving sushi restaurant called Kappa Zushi), and a terrific city workout center and city library.
But one thing that does make me think that I'm living somewhere rural is how warm and generous the local people have been to us. I've never gotten so many (food) gifts in my life, whether it is the local specialty Beko Mochi for Kid Yum, or random snacks received and redistributed, or, these days, bounty from people's garden. Just today we were given fresh, beautiful tomatoes from two different friends' gardens. One woman befriended my Mom at the city workout center (wellness center), and today had her over for lunch and gave her tomatoes to bring home from her garden. Kid Yum's Preschool friends' mother came all the way to my research site today and brought me still more tomatoes from her own mother's garden. We were suddenly swimming in tomatoes! The latter friend also gave me some beautiful garden eggplant. I looked at those two ingredients, and somehow thought that risotto would be the perfect way to marry the two together. I found an interesting recipe online which roasted and pureed eggplant and mixed it into the rice. Since Kid Yum won't touch any eggplant she can see, I thought it would be a good way to sneak a little variety into her diet, so taking that as my jumping point, I created a new recipe topped with vibrant roasted baby tomatoes.
We've been having a wonderful time here in Japan enjoying the festivals. Kid Yum got to participate in our neighborhood Kid Nebuta float and play at pulling the float along with her neighborhood pals. And a week or so later, I got to help carry the City Hall Mikoshi (portable shrine). There's no place like Inaka, at least, the inaka of the biggest city in Tohoku's Shimokita Peninsula.
Here are a few pictures and a video to give you a taste of our life here, before you enjoy my latest recipe.
A terrible picture of me, but it was dreadfully hot. Unfortunately the only picture of me in the happi traditional jacket for festivals.
Alta from Tasty Eats at Home is hosting THIS MONTH'S Adopt a Gluten-free Blogger. You can still sign up! Please give her your support in comments and love. Since I'll be staying in Japan through October, I would love any offers to host for September or October. Please let me know if you are interested in Hosting Adopt a gluten-free Blogger! *hugs*
Finally, a Video from the Tanabu Festival, with traditional dancing and Shimokita's theme song
Grilled Eggplant and Roasted Tomato Risotto Recipe
2 small eggplant, cut in half horizontally, pierce skin in several places and rubbed with olive oil
2 cups small tomatoes, halved
2 tbsp olive oil
1 small onion, diced
1 1/2 cup arborio rice
1/2 cup white wine or mirin (sweet rice wine)
3 cups vegetable broth
1/2 cup non-dairy milk (unsweetened, plain- I used soy)
salt or herbamare to taste
smoked paprika
fresh basil, julienned to garnish
Grill eggplant on a bbq, broil in an oven, or grill in a Japanese fish grill (under the rangetop in a japanese house) until soft. Then scoop out the flesh, dispose of the skin, and food process the soft eggplant flesh until smooth and creamy.
Prepare tomatoes by placing on cookie sheet lined with wax paper, drizzling with olive oil and a little salt. If you have a toaster oven, you can roast them in the toaster oven for about 20 minutes. Otherwise, you can use a regular oven or broiler… remove when the bottom starts to brown slightly and they have shrunk in size.
Heat the olive oil to medium in a large stock pan (a dutch oven is great) and add your diced onion. Saute until onion starts to turn translucent, and then add your risotto rice. Stir rice into the onion and let the rice start to turn translucent around the edges. Add your white wine or mirin (I didn't have wine so used mirin) and stir. Prepare some warm vegetable broth either in a pot or microwave. I used a gluten-free vegetable bullion cube with hot water from a tea dispenser. Add 1/2 cup of broth to your rice, stirring until it is evenly distributing and then leaving the rice until it has absorbed more liquid. Add more broth 1/2 cup at a time, until you have used it all and the rice has become soft, about 20 minutes. If you need more liquid, add water 1/4 cup at a time until the rice is soft. Don't add too much because the water will dilute the flavor! When rice is tender stir in the grilled eggplant puree and non-dairy milk. Season with salt or herbamare and smoked paprika. Serve topped with roasted baby tomatoes and fresh julienned basil.
Chickpea Hummus Un-Burgers
1 can garbanzo beans, drained
1 tbsp tahini (if thick, add a little hot water to make liquid)
1 tsp. lime or lemon zest (grated skin)
1 tbsp. potato starch
herbamare or your favorite seasoned salt
dried dill herb to taste
1 tbsp. julinned basil
1-2 tbsp. olive oil
Lime slice (For serving)
Place your drained beans in a medium bowl and use either a potato masher or your fingers to partially mash them. Drizzle your tahini on the beans, add zest, and sprinkle potato starch, dried dill and salt, mixing together to form a ball, adding fresh julienned basil at the very end. Form into small, firm patties. Heat olive oil on medium and put in your patties, turning when side is golden brown.
Serve each patty topped with a squirt of lime juice from the lime slice.


text: The same types of derivatives that caused the Great Recession could sink our financial system again. By Steven Goldberg, Contributing Columnist November 16, 2011 Just three years after the worst financial crisis since the 1930s drove us to the brink of another Great Depression, the Wall Street bankers who caused the catastrophe again threaten the global economy. What's more, they're doing it by making almost the exact same mistakes that triggered the earlier meltdown. SEE ALSO: Our Special Report on Investing in Volatile Markets This time, instead of gross negligence with securities and derivatives based on rotten U.S. mortgages, the big bankers have tied us to shaky debt and derivatives in Europe. Specifically, it's the financial web that surrounds Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain. The PIIGS are at the center of a toxic mix of bonds and of credit default swaps -- derivatives that are supposed to protect bondholders from default. These supposedly brilliant bankers don't seem to remember that credit default swaps were at the heart of the 2008 financial catastrophe. The problem: When many of the mortgage securities soured, the banks and insurance companies that had sold the credit default swaps couldn't afford to pay them off and collapsed. Advertisement Now consider that European banks are, if anything, less well regulated than U.S. banks. So no one knows how much in PIIGS bonds each of the European banks holds. Nor do we know how much these banks hold in credit default swaps, or how much of these swaps they have issued to other banks, in Europe and the U.S. So bankers are afraid to lend one another money, even overnight. Liquidity, the ability to buy and sell bonds without driving their prices violently up or down, is as bad as it has ever been except for the worst weeks of the 2008 crisis, says Dan Fuss, co-manager of Loomis Sayles Bond fund (symbol LSBRX) and a man with more than 50 years of experience in the bond investing business. Unfortunately, bankers are scared for good reason. Buried in the footnotes of their third-quarter earnings reports, U.S. banks revealed how much they own in derivatives, such as credit default swaps. The numbers: Bank of America (BAC), $2.17 trillion; Citigroup (C), $1.1 trillion; and JP Morgan Chase (JPM), $2.04 trillion. The total from just these three banks equals about one-third of U.S. gross domestic product! These are gross numbers, the bankers correctly note. In other words, this is what the banks would be on the hook for if every conceivable thing went wrong. And most of these obligations are hedged with other securities or other derivatives. But what happens if we have a rerun of 2008, and some of the banks can't make good on their obligations to other banks? They could fall like dominos. Advertisement The collapse of a big European bank is the nightmare scenario. It's not clear that some of the European governments would or could come up with the cash to bail out their biggest banks. And the whole global banking system is inextricably linked through a bigger web of credit default swaps and other derivatives. If one bank fails, the whole web could unravel. What's the solution? To start with, break the big banks up into much smaller banks. This was persuasively argued by Simon Johnson, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, in his 2010 book, 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown. Smaller banks means any bank could fail without threatening the entire financial system. Next, bring back the Glass-Steagall Act. This Depression-era law separated commercial banking (banks that take deposits and make loans) from investment banking (banks that provide assistance and financing to companies in going public and mergers and acquisitions.) It was repealed in 1999 in the misguided belief that big banks could safely mix those businesses. Depending on how the rules are written and enforced, the Dodd-Frank financial reform law may accomplish some of these things -- but not nearly enough, thanks to the lobbying efforts of the banks and their friends in Congress. Fortunately, we can count on Dodd-Frank to make it harder for banks to trade for their own accounts -- that is, make big wagers with bank money. And, thankfully, it will raise the amount of capital that banks have to hold on their balance sheets so they can cover losses when their gambles go awry. Advertisement The big banks need still more regulation -- which they fight at every turn. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like they'll get the regulation needed to protect us from their recklessness. To start with, the banks need more transparency, lower leverage limits and restrictions against buying and selling derivatives, such as credit default swaps. Alas, there is zero evidence that these bankers learn anything from their mistakes. Steven T. Goldberg (bio) is an investment adviser in the Washington, D.C. area.


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Crews filming a commercial for Scion in Northern California had a near miss early this month with a deer who just wanted a little screen time.
A professional driver was cruising along winding roads in the new car when a deer jumped out in front of him.
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Frosty sea glass with layers of aquamarine glass suspends from a sterling silver bale. We found this sea glass on a beach in Seaham, England near the site of a Victorian era glassworks that discarded scraps of glass into the North Sea. I made the bale with sterling silver. In this organic pendant design the wire looks to have been sea tangled by wild surf. This pendant design allows for the color striations of this beautiful piece of multicolored sea glass to be viewed from all angles. The sea glass is 5/6" L x 3/8" W and the entire pendant length is 1&1/8".
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- Ships in 1-2 business days
- You will receive the pendant pictured here
- Arrives in a ribboned gift box
Why Is This Pendant So Inexpensive?
I have been making sea glass jewelry full time for over 30 years and am experiencing a calling to explore other art forms. I am phasing out sea glass jewelry and am offering it to you for ultra low "bargain" prices. I am happy to let my sea glass jewelry go for very low prices while endeavoring this transformation.
Our sterling silver wheat chains work beautifully with all of our pendants.
About The Sea Glass
Ultra Rare Sea Glass
This sea glass was found on a beach in Seaham, England near the site of the Londonderry Bottleworks which was on a cliff overlooking the North Sea. It had seven bottlehouses and produced various types of hand crafted bottles, decorative glass and household glass. Glass items were sent weekly by boat to a warehouse in London and from there were shipped to various locations around the world.
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Jewelry arrives in a ribboned turquoise blue gift box and will be accompanied by a printed jewelry description and a free gift of beach found seashells or sea glass. Sea glass is carefully packaged and arrives with a few extra pieces of sea glass.
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- Orders ship within 1 to 2 business days
- Orders under $74.99 ship at a discounted rate of $7.00
- Orders $75.00 or more ship for free
- We can not ship internationally.
I love making jewelry and it is very important to me that you are happy with your order. I am honored that returns/exchanges are few and far between. If for any reason you are not happy with your order please feel free to return it to us. Our return process is very simple. No questions will be asked and you will not be asked to give a reason. We must receive all jewelry in its original condition within 30 days of purchase. Once we receive your return we will refund you within 24 hours via your method of payment less shipping costs. If requesting an exchange please let us know as soon as possible so that we can hold the new item for you while waiting for your parcel to arrive. Exchanges are usually shipped within one business day. All exchanges are final. Please note with exchanges/refunds the shipping cost will be excluded. Please contact us before sending your return/exchange so we can provide you with shipping instructions.
Out Of The Blue Sea Glass Jewelry is the oldest sea glass jewelry business in the world. All of our sea glass is authentic. We are renowned for originality, quality of sea glass, excellent craftsmanship and outstanding customer service. Lisl Armstrong has lectured at several sea glass festivals, wrote the foreword to the book "The Ultimate Guide to Sea Glass" and was one of the first board members elected to the board of the North American Sea Glass Association.


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Mother's day is only in 2 weeks but it's always nice to have some clue on what to get before the actual weekend (as with any last minute shopping).
As a mother myself (hint hint), a round face rose gold men's watch, preferably with chronograph, would be on top of my wish list! I love the sporty oversized look in rose gold which softens the look and gives such a beautiful glow.
Here are my picks, which includes every dad's budget (let's face it, baby might be the one gifting it but daddy is the one pulling out his credit card):
- Michael Kors Chrono
- Emporio Armani Chrono
- Cartier Ballon Bleu
- Omega DeVille Chrono
- Rolex Daytona Chrono


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The upheaval within billionaire investor George Soros' firm continues as one of his sons is separating some of his personal fortune to manage it himself.
Jonathan Soros, who stepped down in September from day-to-day management of Soros Fund Management LLC, plans to hire at least one of his father's key employees, say two people familiar with the situation.
The two sources said Soros' son intends to set up his own family office - something the Soros Fund converted to last year - with the help of David Kulsar, currently chief risk officer for the Soros Fund.
"Jonathan wants to manage some of his own money so the (Soros Fund) family office has made that accommodation for him," said a source familiar with the situation but who was not authorized to discuss the matter.
Jonathan Soros, who was a law clerk for a federal judge before joining with his brother Robert in 2002 to oversee the management of Soros Fund, did not return calls or emails seeking comment. He currently is a senior fellow with the Roosevelt Institute, a liberal think tank group in New York.
Kulsar, who also did not return a phone call seeking comment, worked in risk management for John Meriweather's JWM Partners before joining the Soros Fund. Meriweather founded Long-Term Capital Management, the hedge fund whose collapse in 1999 sparked fears of a financial crisis.
There's no indication of a family feud between father and son - Jonathan Soros continues as chairman of his father's foundation. But the move comes after a year of a big changes and significant losses at the $25 billion firm founded by the elder Soros, a wealthy liberal philanthropist who rose to investing fame on his big bet against the British pound.
These developments are part of an ongoing series of structural changes as the Soros fund evolves as a family office, one of the sources familiar with the matter said.
Last summer, the Soros Fund announced it was returning some $1 billion to investors and would cease to operate as a hedge fund and would convert to a family office. The switch enabled the Soros Fund to avoid the March 30 deadline for registering as an investment manager with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The firm now mainly manages money for the elder Soros, family and his foundation. George Soros has five children.
The changes continued in September with Scott Bessent, a former Soros disciple, returning to the firm to become chief investment officer and taking over the daily management of the firm from Soros' sons Jonathan and Robert.
Behind the scenes, it also was a rough year for the firm's main investment portfolio, the Quantum Fund. The fund declined about 15 percent last year, say two people familiar with the firm's performance who did not want to be identified because they don't speak for the firm.
The poor performance came in a year when the average hedge fund declined about 5 percent in 2011.
The Quantum Fund also took a big write-down on a $200 million investment it has with Philip Falcone's Harbinger Capital Management hedge fund, something Reuters previously has reported. Harbinger fell about 47 percent as Falcone's big bet on building a wireless network called LightSquared appears to be faltering.
The Soros firm ended a rough year by laying off a handful of analysts and portfolio managers. In December, a Soros spokesman called the layoffs part of the normal course of business at the firm.
(Reporting by Matthew Goldstein and Jennifer Ablan; Additional reporting by Svea Herbst-Bayliss; Editing by Edward Tobin, Gary Hill)


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Babies' cremated remains were cruelly dumped in a mass unmarked grave at a city crematorium, the Evening News can reveal today.
For 45 years, grieving parents were told by bosses at the council-run Mortonhall Crematorium there would be nothing to scatter after the cremation of their children.
But now it's been revealed that the ashes of babies who were stillborn or who had tragically died within days of being born were kept by the crematorium – and later buried in cardboard boxes.
Incredibly, it is not known exactly how many babies' ashes were dumped at the crematorium – but it is feared the number could run to hundreds.
• 'We must hope some good can come from this'
• 'Someone must be held accountable for suffering'
Some parents were apparently lied to when they asked for their child's remains and were told there were none to collect.
The remains of many children were buried in a field behind the crematorium but it is not clear whether all were buried there or what happened to the ashes of those who were not.
The inhumane practice is understood to have been accepted policy at the crematorium from its opening in 1967 until last year when it was changed following the arrival of a new manager. It is not known whether the policy was devised by one official acting alone or approved by more senior managers at the local authority.
One grieving mother said that when she questioned the policy she was told it had been a result of "laziness and a bad attitude". The city's privately-run crematoriums - Seafield and Warriston - have both always given ashes to parents who request them.
Some of the parents involved have contacted lawyers with a view to suing the city council in what is potentially one of the biggest scandals ever to hit the local authority.
The city council has now launched a full investigation into why the practice was allowed to develop at Mortonhall and environmental services convener, Councillor Lesley Hinds, has offered a full apology to all parents affected.
Sands Lothian, a charity which counsels parents who have lost a child through a stillbirth or neonatal death, uncovered the scandal at the crematorium on Howdenhall Road.
One devastated parent who wants someone to be held accountable for the scandal has told how she has never recovered from the shock of being told she couldn't have her son's ashes – only to find out later that they have been dumped unceremoniously in a biodegradable box on crematorium land.
Helen Henderson, 43, from Sighthill, said: "My son Nathan died when he was just one day old in August 2004. We were told by the undertaker that we would receive his ashes, but when we went to collect them a lady at the crematorium told us we had been misinformed and that there was nothing for us to collect, that 'you don't get any ashes from a baby'."
The charity's operations manager, Dorothy Maitland, has also discovered that the ashes of her daughter Kaelen have been interred in the ground at Mortonhall – 26 years after she was told there would be nothing for her to collect after the funeral.
Ms Maitland said: "It's come as a complete shock to me. For years I have had nowhere to go to put flowers, or grieve for Kaelen.
"The new manager at the crematorium has told me the only reason he can think why this happened in the past was either laziness or a bad attitude."
According to Ms Maitland, she and other parents were told by the former bosses at the crematorium that there were no ashes after a baby's cremation.
She added: "We need to know how many babies' ashes are buried there. My fear is that some kind of moral judgement was made and it was only babies who survived for a few days before dying who were buried, so who knows what happened to the ashes of those stillborn?"
The staff involved in the cruel practice are understood to have retired last year and Mortonhall's new manager has changed the policy, so all parents who wish the ashes of their babies now receive them.
A council source said: "The million dollar question is, why did the staff do this? No-one can understand it and of course they don't work for the council any more so who knows if we'll ever get an answer?
"Perhaps it was misguided good intention? We are all completely gobsmacked by it.
"Apparently the ashes were put in biodegradable boxes and buried. There seems to be no real reason why they weren't given to parents."
The Evening News understands that some parents are already seeking legal advice about possible compensation. But Councillor Hinds said that there was no indication yet of whether legal action was likely and that the council was concentrating on doing "everything possible" to get an explanation for the mass burial of babies' ashes.
"I was given a briefing by council officials after this came to light from Sands and I have now met with Dorothy and others from Sands to discuss what we do from here. I have apologised on behalf of the council and we have agreed to work together to try and contact the other parents affected, which will be a problem as this goes back a long way," she said.
"We will also be contacting the senior members of staff who have now retired to get an explanation to why this happened. It is harrowing for the people involved. We can't change history but we can work with Sands to try to help those affected.
"We will be truthful about what's happened and we will look into a memorial for the garden.
"We will also be making doubly sure people are now happy with the policy we have in operation and that they are getting the right information and choices. We're trying to do everything possible."
One former crematorium worker traced by the Evening News refused to discuss the issue.
The employee said: "The council is making its own inquiries and that's all I'm prepared to say."
Margo 'shocked beyond belief by inhumanity'
MARGO MacDonald today called for the heads of all senior personnel involved in the scandal.
The stunned Independent MSP said those responsible should be "out of post as quickly as is decently possible" and called for the creation of a memorial garden where parents can now pay their respects.
Mrs MacDonald said: "I am shocked beyond belief at the insensitivity of the people who oversaw this inhumanity and lack of charity towards parents who were probably breaking their heart.
"Everyone at the council will be feeling really rotten about this. It is a complete anomaly and something that's been happening for all these years that the council seem to have had no control or responsibility over and knew nothing about it. They will feel terrible but will want to review matters and make sure there are no other blind spots in their operation."
She added: "There should be a quiet garden of peace and memories set up – a place where the parents can go and remember. They wouldn't have that particular tie to it but it might help a little to give them a sense of closure."
AROUND 100 babies die in the Lothians ever year – that number almost divided evenly between those who are stillborn and those who die shortly after birth – and Sands Lothians offers support to grieving parents and grandparents affected by such tragedies.
If you have been
affected by the Mortonhall Crematorium scandal, then the charity can be contacted for help and advice on 0131-622 6263. If you wish to discuss it with the Evening News call our newsdesk on 0131 620 8733.
Sands will also be holding an open evening at 7pm on Thursday, December 13, for parents affected by the scandal which will be attended by Edinburgh City Council senior environmental officer Andrew Mackay to answer any questions. The charity's offices can be found at the Craiglockhart Centre, 177 Colinton Road, Edinburgh, EH14 1BZ.
Not the same at seafield
SINCE it opened in 1939, Seafield Crematorium has always conducted cremations in such a way that a baby's ashes could be returned to the parents.
The ashes are returned in a little bag inside a white box alongside a teddy bear. Staff also scatter rose petals over the remains "like a little duvet" before returning them to parents.
Seafield Crematorium acknowledges that "the practice with regard to the return of the baby's ashes to the parents differed" depending on the funeral operator. "Some crematoria offer this service and some don't," said a spokesman.
If the baby is being cremated the catafalque is dressed sensitively and appropriately for a baby. Tea lights are lit around the catafalque. On one occasion, the staff realised the baby being cremated that day had lived for six days, so they lit six candles, one for every day the baby had lived.
If a baby is being buried, the staff at Seafield will place flowers and rose petals on the surrounding ground and inside the grave before burial.


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text: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 New in the Literature: Distal Sensorimotor Polyneuropathy (Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2011 Nov 28. [Epub ahead of print]) Distal sensorimotor polyneuropathy (DPN) results in a remarkable functional imbalance that may expose patients with diabetic neuropathy to danger of falling during daily activities and becomes more severe as the severity of neuropathy aggravates, say authors of an article published online in Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. The authors designed a case-control study to test the ability of 214 patients with DPN and healthy people to control functional balance using the Berg Balance Scale (BBS). Furthermore, the correlation between diabetic neuropathy examination (DNE) and BBS scores were calculated using Spearman's correlation coefficient. Comparison of 2 groups showed a significant decline in the overall score of BBS in patients with DPN versus the healthy control group. The most challenging tasks for patients with DNP were single leg stance, tandem standing, and forward reaching, followed by standing unsupported with feet together, sit to stand, stand to sit, transfers, standing unsupported with closed eyes, and placing the alternative foot on a step or stool while standing unsupported. There was a significant strong negative (r=-0.77) correlation between DNE and BBS scores.


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Sole length: S 9" (approx 7us women)
Materials: 95% Cotton 5% Lycra main, microfleece lining, non slip soles
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Enjoy the comfort of these sweet ready to ship Menta Booties in size S, sole length 9" approx. Exclusive, and hand made, one of a kind pair, constructed with cotton Lycra main fabrics and entirely lined with microfleece.
These booties are stretchy, and have elastic attached inside the ankle area to prevent the bootie from falling off.
**If you are purchasing shoes or booties it is highly recommended that you choose sizes based on foot length only, and not by age or shoe size. This is very important in ensuring you get the right fit, as age and shoe size both vary significantly.
Exterior soles are non slip and the inner sole is done with a soft and plushy faux sherpa layer. The round toe shape and wide soles (wider than the slipper style) leave room enough to grow and wiggle.
This product is intended to be worn indoors and when it is dry outside. You can wash and dry on your machines delicate cycle.
At Menta we pride ourselves on providing only the very best products for you and your little humans. Footwear is made using all vegan fabrics including faux suedes and leathers, and is sourced based on our beliefs that supporting our local economies and other small businesses is important.