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There is a daunting array of other issues which are related to the publication activities of the Society, but the standing committee on publications considers many of these issues on a regular basis. Questions have been raised with us about specific operational issues such as the editorial policies of the Canadian Journal of Mathematics (CJM) and Canadian Mathematical Bulletin (CMB) and the composition of the set of Associate Editors. Such questions are to be expected from a diverse mathematical community and the standing committee is the appropriate forum for their consideration.
Why is science public, with the exception of some research done at certain government and corporate laboratories? This is not the place to study these fundamental issues, but the importance of the continuation of a strong public system can perhaps be summarized as follows.
(1) The openness and transparency of the research done, and the publishing of results, are in exchange for the considerable freedoms granted researchers by society, through salaries and tenure, etc., at public or partially public institutions. Implicit in this is also a mild form of control: access to privileges and finite resources is based on excellence, and not on less desirable criteria such as political or personal connections.
(2) For reasons of efficiency, scientific results must be freely available to all researchers in a given discipline; this is to avoid wasteful duplication of effort, to enhance cross-fertilization and thus improve scientific progress.
The CMS plays a major role in Canada with respect to scientific communication. Our report is aimed at helping the Society maintain that role. The primary area of long term concern is the revolution in dissemination through refereed journal publications (is there a revolution?). We discuss this in section 2. To get a snapshot of the current situation in Canada, we have compiled an inventory of Canadian Mathematics Journals in section 3 with the actual tables of data presented in the Appendix. In section 4, we consider the possibility for the addition of new journals in the future and conclude that the purely electronic format should be seriously considered.
The TeX office located at the University of Manitoba is the technical heart of the Society's publication enterprise. We discuss this operation in section 5. The report concludes with a look at the various series of books published by the CMS.
We make a total of 7 concrete recommendations. It was certainly tempting to make more, but others that we formulated were really too representative of the personal prejudices of task force members. We chose in the end to be restrained in our recommendations. The recommendations stand out in displayed italics in the text for ease of location.
In a series of well-researched and well-documented papers, Andrew Odlyzko of AT&T Labs - Research gives compelling arguments in favour of a change to electronic means of communication. In his paper "The rapid evolution of scholarly communication" (preliminary version, March 19, 2000) he writes
Usage of electronic forms of scholarly information has typically grown at 50 to 100 percent per year [...]. On the other hand, print usage has shown little change, as far as anyone can tell. Thus [...] a decade is about the length of time we should expect for new modes of electronic communication to become dominant, if current growth rates continue. (p. 4f.)Another important argument made by Odlyzko is that ease of access is a dominating force in usage patterns. Thus, as electronic materials become easier to access, they will become dominating in scholarly communication. Odlyzko writes in his conclusion,
[...] the inertia of the scholarly publishing system is enormous, and so traditional journals have not changed much. They are in the process of migrating to the Web, but operate just as they did in print. However, we are beginning to see the sprouting seeds of new ventures that will lead to new modes of operations. Still, it will be a while before they become a sizable fraction of the total scholarly publishing enterprise. (Ibid., p. 16)The papers of Andrew Odlyzko can be found at http://www.research.att.com/~amo/doc/eworld.html. The research library associations ARL (http://www.arl.org/pubscat/) and CARL (http://www.carl-abrc.ca/ ) also have important material on this issue. There appears to be a great deal of fluidity in the present system and between the main nodes in the system of scholarly publishing, namely authors, editors, publishers, databanks (or preprint archives), libraries, and finally the readers. In many cases there are no clear distinctions between the roles of the various nodes. However, it does appear that in an effort to protect their markets, commercial publishers take a leading and aggressive role, with libraries struggling to keep pace, and all others falling behind. An example is a recently formed strategic alliance of the 12 leading publishers in Science, Technology and Medicine, to introduce the "Digital Object Identifier (DOI)"; further information can be found on the DOI homepage http://www.doi.org. We are not claiming that the commercial publishers' leading role is necessarily negative, but societies such as the CMS, and non-commercial journals must assert their respective roles in the system.
Our personal observations are consistent with much of Odlyzko's data. As with most major journals, the latest issues of CJM and CMB are available on-line well before they arrive in departmental reading rooms. The www.arXiv.org e-Print archive has become the primary mode for dissemination in some sub-disciplines of mathematics and mathematical physics. The number of papers posted to the mathematics part of the archive seems to be following a logistic growth pattern. In 1993 there were 18 postings per month, in 1997 there were 32 per month, in 1998 this jumped to 166 and since January, 1999, the average is close to 200 postings per month. We only have anecdotal evidence on readership of these postings, but one does often see papers being printed on the community printer with the vertical logo of the archive on the front page.
One active researcher stated that in the last month, he may have read the abstracts of more than a hundred papers on-line from www.arXiv.org or postings of the latest issues of assorted journals, downloaded more than 30 for a closer look on the monitor and printed out 10 to take home for traditional reading with pencil in hand. On the other hand, this person reported only a few minutes spent in the reading room where recent print copies appear and no visits to the main library to look at older papers in the past month.
There is a revolution going on in the way we access new results in our areas of interest, but it seems to be blending in with traditional publishing. Most papers in the e-print archive move on through the refereeing process to appear in a print journal or an electronic journal with a traditional editorial procedure. We expect that the need for libraries to hold print copies of journals will decrease as the issues are removed from the stacks less often. Those journals available in both formats will maintain their subscription levels; although increasingly libraries will chose the "electronic only" option.
The move to electronic media can be considered as a partial solution to this crisis. However, there are also a number of challenges and as yet open questions. Perhaps the most important question concerns ownership of the published information. Is an electronic article in the public domain, or is it a commodity?
It is in this uncertain and quickly changing environment that one should see the sub-group of Canadian mathematics journals in their present state, and in their future development.
Journal: The main criterion is that the publication be primarily devoted to refereed research articles. We therefore exclude society newsletters (such as the CMS Notes or the Gazette des Sciences mathématiques du Québec) even if they publish written versions of important lectures and similar material; such newsletters will only be listed at the end. However, we do include the purely electronic journal "Theory and Application of Categories".
Mathematics: A definition of the "mathematics" component may be a matter of contention. We include the "Canadian Applied Mathematics Quarterly", but not the journals in operations research, statistics, and the history and philosophy of mathematics. However, we list the relevant journals in a separate category, without much further study. Similarly, journals primarily devoted to mathematics education and/or problem solving are listed separately. Not listed at all are publications in computer science.
Canadian: For most journals in this study there is no doubt that they can be considered Canadian; this is certainly the case with all the society journals. However, in some cases it is by no means obvious whether a journal could (or should) be considered "Canadian". We used the criterion that the editor(s)-in-chief be located at Canadian institutions. This means that a journal may "migrate" to or from Canada. Two such cases were the move, in 1997, of the editorial office of "Aequationes Mathematicae" from Waterloo to Graz, Austria, and also in the 90s the change in editorship of "Order" from a Canadian to a US mathematician and institution. Since the publishers in both cases are large international companies, these journals can no longer be considered Canadian. We list them in a separate category. A more difficult case is "Historia Mathematica"; this journal was founded in Canada, but is now published by a big US company, with only one of the two editors-in-chief based in Canada. "Utilitas Mathematica" poses a similar problem; the journal's front cover actually shows "Durban, South Africa", recently changed from "Winnipeg, Canada". In this case we decided to still count the journal as Canadian since both the managing editor and the small publishing company are located in Winnipeg.
According to these restrictions, then, there are 11 Canadian mathematics journals devoted to research; we shall refer to them as the primary journals.
In the Appendix, there are tables providing a snapshot of the journal situation. The data in the tables should be seen as approximations only, although we tried to be as accurate as was possible or reasonable. In some cases a piece of information could not be obtained with a reasonable effort; those cases are indicated by question marks. A slash indicates cases where the corresponding entries were not available or not applicable.
Publishers: Four of the journals are published by three different societies, namely two by the CMS, and one each by the AMQ and the Royal Society. One journal is published by a North American consortium, sponsored by a Canadian society. Two are published by large multinational companies, with a third one distributed by such a company, while officially published by a university. Two journals are published by small independent (but interrelated) companies, and the last one is published electronically and independently by its editor.
Specialization: 4 of the 11 journals are "general", 4 specialize in combinatorics and graph theory and related fields, and one each in universal algebra, applied mathematics, and category theory.
B. Page charges
Most journals do not charge page charges. The CJM and the CMB abolished them in 1995; the loss in revenue at that time was made up for by a moderate increase in the subscription rates. Only the two least expensive journals have obligatory page charges, but payment is not a condition for publication. Utilitas Math. and Ars Combin. have a system of "priority page charges": if they are paid, the paper in question will be published faster by adding more pages to the next available issue.
C. Subscription rates
Most journals have differential fee structures, with significant discounts for individuals or for society members, both individual and institutional. In some cases a journal subscription is part of the membership privileges. No attempt has been made to document the various fee structures; the tables show only the subscription rates charged to libraries that are not institutional members of an appropriate society.
D. Circulation
We made no attempt to obtain circulation figures, but we did obtain the numbers of Canadian institutions (mainly university libraries) that subscribe, or subscribed, to a given title. The figures may not be entirely accurate, but may be useful for the purpose of comparison; they were obtained from the AMICUS database of the National Library of Canada.
A few points are noteworthy:
1. The erosion in subscriptions throughout the 1990's is not as dramatic as one might have expected, given the severe budget restrictions suffered by all libraries. Not surprisingly, the most inexpensive journals (such as the Ann. Sci. Math. Que. and the Math. Reports) were least affected, but even the very expensive commercial publications Algebra Universalis and Aequationes Math. were able to hold on to much of their Canadian library subscription base. A possible explanation is that libraries were reluctant to cut Canadian journals.
While only the latest available figures (1999/2000) are shown in the tables, we did also compile the figures for 1990 and 1995. The drop in Canadian institutional subscriptions did not exceed 20% in the case of commercial publications, and 10% for society publications.
2. It appears that new (print) journals have not been able to establish a viable subscription base, at least among Canadian research libraries. The trend is quite striking. Most journals were established in the 1970's or earlier; they are being subscribed to by respectable numbers of institutions. However, the numbers for the three newest print journals are as follows: "Order", founded as a Canadian journal in 1984: 13-15 libraries; Canad. Appl. Math. Quarterly (1993): 9-10 libraries; J. Algebraic Combinatorics (1992): 5 libraries. The last two are especially surprising since these are journals in areas of particular strength throughout the country. The Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics appears to be doing better internationally, while a low overall circulation is a matter of considerable concern for the Canadian Applied Mathematics Quarterly.
E. Electronic access
Six of the 11 primary journals are available electronically; one of them is purely electronic. Access to these journals by individual mathematicians is fairly easy through campus licenses if a library subscribes to a journal, but this may depend on the particular arrangement at a given library. "Theory and Applications of Categories" is free for everybody. Two of the remaining journals (Ann. Sci. Math. Québec and Canad. Appl. Math. Quarterly) are open to the idea and/or envisage an electronic presence in the not too distant future. Two journals (Ars Combin. and Utilitas Math.) have no plans for an electronic version. Nine of the 11 primary journals have a homepage, as do all 9 journals in Tables 2-4. Titles and abstracts can be found on some of these homepages.
F. Quality and impact
The quality of a journal is difficult to quantify objectively; it has many dimensions and depends on many factors. Within a given field there is usually a perception of which journals are "better" than other journals; we made no efforts to document this mainly anecdotal evidence. In some cases the "quality", however it may be defined, may not be the right, or the only, criterion for the value of a journal. For instance, the "Math. Reports of the Royal Soc." is a journal of rapid publication of short papers (limit: 6 pages) which may not have complete proofs. A certain compromise in quality is therefore inevitable and not necessarily harmful. Similarly, the "Ann. Sci. Math. Québec" started as a regional journal, and only fairly recently has tried to establish itself as an international journal with high standards. On the other hand, the "Canad. J. Math." and the "Canad. Math. Bull." have had decades to establish themselves as first-rate journals, supported by a stable subscription base, good technical and clerical support, and high-profile editorial boards with the backing of a major society.
One attempt at a fairly objective measurement is the "Impact Factor" from the Journal Citation Reports published by the Institute for Scientific Information (the publisher of the Science Citation Index). The last column in the tables shows the Impact Factor for 1998, if it was available. It is the number of citations (by other journals) to articles in the 1996 and 1997 issues of the given journal, divided by the number of articles published in that journal.
To put these figures into perspective, it may be interesting to consider the rankings within a discipline. Among the 138 journals listed under the "mathematics" heading, the Canad. J. Math. ranked 45th, just below the J. Algebra, and just ahead of the J. London Math. Soc., to mention two well-known non-Canadian journals. Leading the list was Acta Mathematica with an impact factor of about 2. The complete rankings are:
1. Mathematics, 138 journals:
|Canad. J. Math.
|J. Combin. Theory B
|J. Alg. Combinatorics
|Canad. Math. Bull.
|Algebra Universalis
|Ars Combinatoria
2. Applied Mathematics, 127 journals:
|J. Math. Chem.
|Utilitas Math.
3. Other Disciplines:
|Canad. J. Stat.
|40, out of 56 in Statistics
|25, out of 38 in Operations Research
|Historia Math.
|22, out of 29 in the History and Philosophy of Science
G. Purely Electronic Journal
The electronic journal "Theory and Applications of Categories" deserves special consideration because at this time it is the only journal in Canada of its kind. In spite of the obvious major differences from all the other journals, it does in many respects fit into the group of primary research journals. It is a peer-reviewed international journal publishing original research; it has an editorial board consisting of eminent researchers in the field, and perhaps most importantly, it serves as a "community centre" for an active branch of mathematics. The journal successfully took over this role from a well-established print journal (J. Pure Appl. Algebra) which in recent years was abandoned by this research community because of unacceptable increases in subscription rates.
"Theory and Applications of Categories" is edited by its founder R. Rosebrugh at Mt. Allison University, but it appears that the journal has reached a state of maturity and acceptance in which its existence does not depend on this particular editor. The journal is free of charge, supported by the editor's unpaid work and implicitly by his university.
H. The Non-primary Journals
Some explanation was already given above. More journals could probably have been added to Table 3 (such as the Ontario Mathematics Gazette); however, we included only the two listed because of their connections to CMS and PIMS, respectively. While "Crux" is well-established and has an international readership, the very new "Pi in the Sky" is expected to be distributed to high schools in Alberta.
For the sake of completeness of this inventory, we mention the existence of the following society and institute newsletters:
The opposite problem, while less of a threat to the future and the quality of a journal, leads to serious workload problems for editors, and sometimes very large backlogs. A journal loses its effectiveness as scientific medium if the time lag between submission and publication becomes too long. This problem is often addressed by increasing the number of pages published per year, and thus also increasing the subscription rates; this was certainly part of the reason behind the "serials crisis" of the 1990s. Other journals increase the rejection rate, thereby raising standards, while still others use a combination of both approaches.
Most journals on our lists have successfully gone through changes in editorship. Some, such as the two CMS journals, have editors with fixed terms, and are therefore very resilient to changes. In other cases a change in editorship means that the journal "moves away" from Canada; this was the case recently with "Aequationes Math." and "Order". However, since mathematics is such an international discipline, these moves should not raise too much concern.
|Recommendation: That the Publications Committee appoint a subcommittee or, perhaps better, an individual member who will continuously monitor the relevant literature on the future of scholarly publication and report back to the committee on a regular basis.
B. The Canadian Applied Mathematics Quarterly
This is a matter of a different nature, and of more immediate concern. As was mentioned above, the "Quarterly" has had difficulties establishing a viable subscription base. The survival of the journal would benefit the Canadian mathematical community and would be in the interest of the CMS. The Society could help the journal in a variety of ways, from listing it on the membership renewal form along with the CMS publications, through providing technical or clerical support (e.g., through the TeX office), to taking it on as a CMS publication.
|Recommendation: That the Publications Committee approach the "Quarterly" editors to discuss possibilities of supporting the journal that are of mutual benefit.
In light of these arguments, we considered whether the Society should be open to expanding our journal offerings. But Table 1 shows that new journals introduced in recent years are not being subscribed to by most Canadian libraries. Although the cuts seem to be slowing down, it is not the time to introduce new print based journals with standard subscription rates. They will not reach a wide readership and, therefore, not attract a heathy base of authors. But print journals are not the only option.
Electronic journals certainly appear to be here to stay. Most mainstream print journals now have an electronic version which is available free to institutions that receive the print version. More and more researchers check the contents of their favorite journals on-line before the print version of a volume arrives at the local library. Interesting articles are downloaded and scanned or even read completely on the computer before a choice is made to print a copy. The CJM and CMB are both operating very well in this format.
Besides those print journals that now have an electronic version, there have been some successful purely electronic journals. One Canadian example is Theory and Applications of Categories; with a strong editorial board and traditional refereeing procedures, it is established as a major journal in the area. As such, it is successful. However, this journal is offered at no charge.
The AMS offers two electronic only journals, Representation Theory and Conformal Geometry and Dynamics. These are free to institutions with subscriptions to the standard print journals of the AMS. Other institutions are charged $100 and individual members pay $25 per year for access to either of these journals.
We think the CMS could be successful following the model of these two electronic journals of the AMS. However, there is an important condition to be satisfied before such an expansion occurs. There must be a strong research group that is international in scope but with a significant committed Canadian component interested in the establishment of a specialty journal. In anticipation of such a proposal coming forward, the Society can take some modest steps to prepare itself.
|Recommendation: That the Publications, Research and Electronic Services Committees strike a joint subcommittee to determine the feasibility of purely electronic journals being offered that would become part of packages with the electronic versions of CJM and CMB.
|Recommendation: If an encouraging report comes from the above recommendation, the Research Committee should be responsible for announcing the Society's willingness to assist in the establishment of electronic journals and should receive and vet any proposals.
The office now produces camera-ready copy for both the Journal and the Bulletin and sends them off to the University of Toronto Press. In recent years, both journals have established a reputation for appearing on schedule and for their exceptional high quality of production. Much of the processing of manuscripts is now automated and Michael has developed documentation for the scripts and the process.
In addition, the office also produces camera-ready copy of Crux Mathematicorum with Mathematical Mayhem and, under contract with the Royal Society of Canada, The Mathematical Reports of the Royal Society. The TeX Office has also produced several books, notably the three volumes of the fiftieth anniversary commemorative series for the Society and some conference proceedings on contract. There is the expectation that the amount of such work will increase.
It is our opinion that the TeX Office represents an invaluable resource to the Society. We have been on sound financial footing for the last decade; even building up a substantial endowment fund. The TeX Office is a significant factor in that success. Michael Doob is hale, healthy and enthusiastic about continuing in his role as TeX Editor. We do not think it is time yet to worry about continuity in that position. However, we wonder if Michael might take on an apprentice.
An apprentice TeX Editor could be located anywhere in the country. He or she could begin with a small, well-defined, component of Michael's work. As time went on, the capacity of the combined offices would increase so that more contract projects could be handled. This would provide a robustness to the TeX operations that would make all of us more comfortable.
|Recommendation: We recommend that the Executive and the Publications Committee consider, in consultation with the TeX Editor, the creation of an Associate TeX Editor position. We envision such a person as being an experienced mathematician, committed to the CMS, and skilled at both TeX and forms of on-line communication of mathematics.
The CMS Book Series is published under a recent agreement with Springer Verlag; this replaces the CMS Advanced Book Series with Wiley. The first three books are due out in 2000 and the editors report several exciting projects underway. It is too early to determine how successful this new agreement with Springer will be, but our expectations are positive.
The ATOM Series consists of booklets intended to stimulate the interests of young people in mathematics during the middle school and high school years. The booklets are very inexpensive and the initial volumes are very good value for the cost. We wish that there were more volumes being written.
|Recommendation: To any member of the CMS who loves their specialty and has a flair for explaining it to young people, submit a proposal to the editors of ATOM.
The CMS Conference Proceedings Series (CPS) represented the Society's vehicle for dissemination of papers read at conferences. In some disciplines, a refereed conference presentation is one of the primary modes of research publication - this is the case in computer science for example. Within some rapidly developing areas of mathematics, timely conferences are often the venue for the presentation of cornerstone results. Thus, there are good reasons for having a vibrant conference series whose volumes appear rapidly and are easily available to a wide readership.
The CPS did not enjoy high sales volumes and, therefore, the papers published in those volumes did not reach a significant readership beyond those who attended the actual conference. In the last decade, 17 volumes were published. In contrast, since 1993 the Fields Communications series has published the proceedings of 24 conferences and, although this is very subjective, some have expressed the view to us that the institutes are attracting the proceedings of the best of the Canadian conferences.
We should not consider ourselves in competition with the research institutes in attracting conference proceedings. However, we feel there is still a valuable role to be played by the society in providing a vehicle for timely publication of conference proceedings. We return to the ideas of Andrew Odlyzko discussed in the introduction. He argues that ease of access is the crucial factor in determining volume of readership and that the electronic format is increasingly providing ease of access. As an aside, we observe that this is so in the developing world as well as, or perhaps even more than, the developed world. Information technology enables poorer countries to bypass the need for a large and expensive print collection.
It has been suggested that the CPS could be revived in an electronic format. We find this suggestion has several merits: We have argued that articles would reach a wider audience; publication should be faster; conference organizers would be offered a clear choice of format for publication; and we have the expertise in our TeX Office and Camel to carry this out with relative ease.
|Recommendation: That the Publication and Electronic Services Committees form an ad-hoc subcommittee to investigate the scholarly merit and financial implications of reviving the CMS Conference Proceedings Series in a purely electronic format.
The new CMS Tracts in Mathematics series is planned to publish monographs that would be shorter than those usually considered by the Books Series and coherent collections of survey articles. Such a survey collection could come out of a conference. The tracts will be published in paper cover form at a reasonable price.
The introduction of the CMS Tracts in Mathematics and an electronic Conference Proceedings Series will mean that the Society is providing the mathematics community with a comprehensive set of options for book publishing.
|Published by
|Algebra Universalis
|Univ. of Manitoba
Distr. by Birkhäuser
|Annales des Sciences Mathématiques
du Québec
|Assoc. Math. du Québec
|Ars Combinatoria
|Ch. Babbage Research Ctr.
|Canadian Applied Mathematics Quarterly
|Rocky Mountain Math. Consortium
|Canadian Journal of Mathematics
|Canadian Mathematical Bulletin
|Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics
|Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B
|Academic Press
Reports of the
Royal Society of Canada
|Royal Soc. of Canada
|Theory and Applications of Categories
|R. Rosebrugh
(Mt. Allison)
|Utilitas Mathematica
|Dept. of Math. & Appl. Math.
Univ. of Natal, Durban
|Published by
|Canadian Journal of Statistics
|Statistical Soc. of Canada
|Canad. Operational Research Soc.
|Historia Mathematica
|Academic Press (since 1977)
|Journal of Mathematical Chemistry
|Baltzer Science Publ.
|Philosophia Mathematica
|Canad. Soc. for the Hist. & Philos. of Math.
Distr. by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Pr.
|Published by
|Crux Mathematicorum
with Mathematical Mayhem
|CMS (since 1975)
|Pi in the Sky
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|Aequationes Mathematicae


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One win from a Stanley Cup championship, 21-year-old Kings forward Tanner Pearson produced the effort it takes to hold hockey's Holy Grail.
However, Pearson and his teammates came up short in the Kings' 2-1 loss Wednesday night because of the 40-save effort by New York Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist in Game 4.
Yet, Pearson put a game-high eight shots on goal — the Rangers mustered only one in all of the third period — and added four hits for good measure.
"You've just got to keep your head in it and realize what's at stake," Pearson said. "At the end of the day, that's what you've got to do, right? You can't have your head spinning about what's going on. You just have to go out there and do what got you here in the first place."
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The NHL continued what one general manager described as the "work in progress" on possible increased use of video replay, including the addition of a coach's challenge.
In a gathering inside a hotel meeting room near Madison Square Garden, where Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final was played Wednesday night, league general managers also examined altering the draft lottery and making teams change ends before overtime.
Nothing was finalized Wednesday, and Pittsburgh General Manager Jim Rutherford emphasized he doesn't expect the changes to be in place for the 2014-15 season.
The discussion of increased video reviews was bolstered by a Game 2 incident. Kings forward Dwight King was screening New York goalie Henrik Lundqvist and ultimately collided with the goalie as a shot by Kings defenseman Matt Greene sailed through, nicking King and going to the goal in what became a double-overtime victory for the Kings.
Nashville Predators General Manager David Poile said, "We talked a lot about goaltender interference."
Among the ideas were providing a firmer definition of goaltender interference, and requesting that one referee sharpen his focus on the crease when traffic occurs.
An extension of that is possibly providing coaches one challenge they could request, and lose a timeout if their challenge does not result in the play being overturned.
Also under consideration is to decrease the odds of higher-finishing teams for getting the top pick in the draft, having the Zamboni scrape the ice before an overtime (not currently done), having teams switch ends before the extra period, and increased fines for players who commit embellishment when involved in contact with an opponent.
Miller, Fox call it
Kings fans who have wished they could hear Bob Miller and Jim Fox describe the moment the Kings win the Stanley Cup will have that wish granted — if the Kings do their part.
Miller and Fox have been relegated to the sidelines since national TV began broadcasting Kings playoff games in the second round. Arrangements were made for them to record their play-by-play and analysis of the final step of the Kings' second Cup triumph, provided it happens, so it can be preserved for future use. Miller said the recording will be produced and sold, with proceeds benefiting the Kings Care Foundation.
A DVD of Miller's call was produced and sold after the Kings' first Cup triumph, in 2012.


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by Tamara Hilmes, Intern
With the Fourth of July coming up, it would seem only appropriate to list off a bunch of patriotic, star-spangled events and activities around Addison County that are easy on the billfold, but well, that seems a bit too easy. A bit too expected, if you know what I mean. Not to mention, Addison Independent reporter Chelsey Pletts is already on the ball, and a full run-down of Fourth of July events around the county will appear in Thursday's print edition of the paper. Grab the Thursday paper soon to read up on parades, fireworks, and the like, if that's your bag. But if you, like me, can only stomach so much apple pie before feeling nauseous, take a moment to explore the other options that the Fourth of the July weekend has to offer, one in particular being the President Calvin Coolidge Fourth of July Celebration at the President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site in Plymouth, Vt.
Few people know that Cal's birthday is July 4--making him the one and only U.S. President to share his nation's birthday-- and perhaps even fewer realize that he was born right here in Vermont; and by right here, I mean Plymouth Notch, about an hour and 15 minutes South and a little bit East of Middlebury. Each year, the little historical village, which was once one of Vermont's premier tourist attractions (way before Ben and Jerry's came to town and stole the show...), hosts an Independence Day event in commemoration of the President and native Vermonter.
1. The celebration will commence at noon with a march from the village green to the cemetery where the former president is buried.
2. Following the march, there will be a Chicken BBQ at the on-site Wilder House Restaurant.
3. At 2:00 p.m., the Okemo Young Artist Program concert will commence.
4. Closing the celebration will be the annual parade, co-sponsored by the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation and the Vermont National Guard.
In addition, visitors can tour the homestead of President Coolidge, where he not only grew up, but also where he was sworn in. President Harding died while then Vice President Coolidge was visiting the family home in Plymouth. In the middle of the night, his father woke him up, and swore him in as President of the United States. In addition to the family home, take a look around at the surrounding buildings, such as the old schoolhouse, and the Plymouth Cheese Factory, which shut down at the end of May (ending the cheese-curd production tradition that began in 1890), due to lease battles between the owner and the state.
If the drive to Plymouth is a bit out of your way, or if you've already registered for the confounded pie-eating contest in Brandon, well, have no fear. There are still several ways in which you can honor Calvin Coolidge, who led our great nation throughout the Roaring 20s:
1. Dress up in pastel colored suits with vests, wide-brimmed straw hats, loose-fitting shift dresses and bow-bedecked, bell-shaped bonnets
2. Be sure to bust out the lawn games. What better way to spend a Fourth of July afternoon than swinging the croquet mallet and sipping on iced tea and lemonade?
3. Use 20s lingo: you're a sap for sure if you don't think it's the cat's pajamas.
Turn on the DVD player and watch your favorite 20s-inspired flicks. And if I may suggest two that I'm absolutely goofy over, The Great Gatsby and Thoroughly Modern Millie are both the bees knees. They should be available at your local video rental store (Waterfront Video in Middlebury has the two of them, and at $3.50 for a three-day rental, it's a steal of a Saturday night activity. Just make sure you get there before I do...).
So you see, you don't have to rely on the typical parade, bbq, fireworks line-up if that's not your scene. Instead, join me in choosing to celebrate what I'm sure will become an annual tradition, the Real McCoy---Calvin Coolidge day is sure to catch on. And, as always, in true "On a Shoestring" style, your Calvin Coolidge Fourth of July Extravaganza doesn't have to be swanky, and you don't have to be puttin' on the Ritz to have a swell time.


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12 November 2012
Over two days in early November, students enrolled in the Faculty of Agriculture and Environment's 4-year undergraduate degree programs presented their final-year research project findings at the annual Stepping Out with Fresh Ideas (SOwFI) conference. Research projects covered a broad range of topics associated with agricultural and resource economics, agricultural and environmental science, climatic change, food security, sustainable resource management and mining. This was the fifth SOwFI conference sponsored by the Faculty.
Working with Faculty and industry supervisors, the students developed new research skills, and experience in data analysis, during their candidature. The students presented their research project results in both oral presentations and poster sessions. The research projects are part of the Faculty's embedded honours year, and the students were assessed at the conference on their oral and poster presentations.
Several students were recognised for their achievements and awarded prizes. The Best Oral Presentation (Agricultural Sciences) was awarded to Susannah Miechels (Bachelor of Land and Water Science) with commendations presented to Steven Drysdale (Bachelor of Land and Water Science) and Emily Tubb (Bachelor of Horticultural Science). The Best Oral Presentation Award for the Agricultural and Resource Economics students went to Ellana Brand (Bachelor of Resource Economics), with commendations awarded to Alexander Jury (Bachelor of Resource Economics) and Emma Patrick (Bachelor of Agricultural Economics). The Poster Award winners included Celine Ghabach (Bachelor of Land and Water Science) for the Best Poster in the science program, with Rebekah Niall (Bachelor of Horticultural Science) and Alice Thurgood (Bachelor of Land and Water Science) each receiving a commendation award. Among the Agricultural and Resource Economics students, Gabrielle Debreceny (Bachelor of Resource Economics) received the Best Poster Award with commendations going to Benjamin Church (Bachelor of Agricultural Economics) and Hugh Stump (Bachelor of Agricultural Economics). In addition, Jeremy Brown (Bachelor of Science in Agriculture) took home the 'People's Choice Award' for his poster, which was awarded by Bob Fozzard of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology.
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Rye – A Medieval Gem!
Perched on a hill, the medieval town of Rye is the sort of place you thought existed only in your imagination. Almost suspended in time, Rye's unhurried atmosphere and enchanting streets draw visitors with their warm welcome. It's small enough to make you feel at home almost straight away but holds enough secret treasures to entice you to stay much longer.
You'll find quality independent retailers not seen in anonymous malls. Luxury products, antiques, books, records and artisan goods are Rye's speciality. Art and photography galleries are evidence of a flourishing creative community.
Cobbled streets and narrow passages reveal architectural treasures among beautifully preserved Medieval, Tudor and Georgian buildings. Many are open to the public as fine restaurants, tearooms or pubs. And when you need a well-earned rest, retreat to the comforts of a bed & breakfast or hotel housed in ancient and quirky buildings but with every modern amenity.
Rye is a place where people pride themselves on doing things differently. The Quarter Boys on the tower of St Mary the Virgin don't strike on the hour but on the quarter.
Mermaid Street is peppered with ancient buildings, with unusual names such as 'The House Opposite' or 'The House with the Seat'. Even the sea is a little wayward – it retreated from the town centuries ago, leaving Rye a stranded seaside town…
Rye Castle – Ypres Tower/Medieval Garden/ Women's Prison Tower site: many displays on smuggling, military, police and maritime history and with things for children to do! Open all year round.
Rye Castle Museum 3 East Street site: It houses exhibitions from Rye's history including its unique C18th fire engine. Many visitors are especially interested in the wooden Tunbridge ware, the tobacco pipes and the examples of pottery made in Rye for which the town was famous.There are also several paintings showing the changes in Rye, its rivers and harbour over the past few centuries. This site is open from April to October at weekends.
Walks wind their way through the historic landscape full of special wildlife, which can be enjoyed all year long. In late spring sea kale blooms on the shingle ridges of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve and marsh mallows flower in the ditches.
Corn buntings can be heard singing and whimbrel flocks feed in the area. In summer dragonflies and damselflies dart over open water and marsh frogs bask in the sun at the edge of ponds. Autumn brings the spectacle of migrating birds and colourful fruit in trees and shrubs. In winter large flocks of lapwings circle over grassland and you might even be lucky enough to spot a bittern in the reed beds or little egrets in the saltmarsh.
Camber, renowned for its outstanding natural beauty with its miles of golden sands to be enjoyed all year round. With over half a mile to the water's edge at low tide, visitors have plenty of opportunity to enjoy water sports, bracing walks or to beachcomb for beautiful shells. There is also a scenic cycle track from New Road (the A259 on the eastern outskirts of Rye) to Camber.
Winchelsea is the 'Antient Town' of the Cinque Ports built in 13th century – here the sea receded to leave the town high and dry on an inland hilltop. Its picturesque Georgian houses have inspired many great artists such as Turner and Millais. This stunning village has stayed true to its ancient roots and is a quaint reminder of the area's rich history.
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On Saturday, June 6, Birmingham Botanical Gardens participated in Birmingham Parks and Recreation's Family Fishing Rodeo at East Lake Park. Check out the photos!
Student Art Display
The Gardens is proud to display student original works inspired by visits to The Gardens for what became a combination of a Discovery Field Trip made possible by Junior League of Birmingham, tours of The Archives and our Japanese Garden Collection led by Library Archivist Jason Kirby and explorations of Japanese Gardens. These vibrant, enlightening works combining haiku, iMovies, pastels, photography and watercolors will be on display in The Garden Center, Education wing, during the summer of 2015.
Birmingham City School's Mr. Timothy Hogan's students visited for a Discovery Field Trip and Highlands Day School's Mrs. Anna Shelley's students visited during their County of Study: Japan. These students were not aware that their similar culminating projects were in the works just as we were surprised to be the proud recipients. In the future, The Gardens will give even more students the opportunity to display their art in its Education wing walkway, which will be energized and educational, inspired by the students who made it possible.
The Garden Center and the Student Art Inspiration Display is open Monday-Sunday from 8-5 p.m. For the opportunity to display your students' original works related to The Gardens, please contact Education Program Coordinator Ellen Hardy at 205.414.3953 or email@example.com.
2015 Member Day Trip
On Thursday, June 4, Members at Birmingham Botanical Gardens visited Stone Hollow Farmstead in Harpersville, Alabama. There, they learned more about the cheeses and skin care products produced at the farm, and they participated in a pickling class, each leaving with their finished product. Members also enjoyed a delicious lunch from The Pantry, based in Crestline Village.
Junior Board of Birmingham Botanical Gardens kicks off summer in style
On May 19, Junior Board welcomed summer with their "Kick off to Summer" event. Chef Lori Sours taught the class how to prepare a watermelon salsa, a spicy shrimp cocktail, deviled eggs with jalapenos and the evening's featured cocktail, the Paloma.
On Friday, May 8, Darla Williamson brings "Beginning Zentangle" to The Gardens from 5:30-9 p.m. She has offered a guest blog post to The Gardens Blog to talk more about this unique educational opportunity. To register for "Beginning Zentangle" online, visit www.bbgardens.org.classes.
"Honey, I love your mother, but what am I supposed to do with this Zentangle® stuff?" That is the question I asked my husband when my Zentangle kit arrived in the mail from my mother-in-law in late 2010! Little did I know how much impact a little box would have on my life!
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Zentangle is an easy to learn, fun and relaxing method of creating beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. Maria Thomas and Rick Roberts created the Zentangle Method about 10 years ago to share the relaxation and focus you feel as you create a Zentangle. It is a very mindful activity – a great way to relax and be in the moment. It is liberating – no rulers, no erasers, just a pen, pencil, tile and room to explore. It is worldwide – there are currently about 1,500 Certified Zentangle Teachers (CZTs) in 25 countries around the world! (I was certified in October, 2011.) It is very now – in Shutterstock's Creative Trends for 2015 report, they used video clips, music tracks and 47 million images to look at which searches and styles were on the rise to predict creative trends for 2015. Zentangle was named as one of the Top 5 Design Trends.
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There are no mistakes! – Zentangle is not about trying to be perfect or make an exact replica. There is way more beauty in imperfection anyway! Zentangle is about being in the moment, enjoying the moment, and the bonus is you have a little piece of art as a result of your time. I think one of my favorite things about Zentangle is that you can take it and make it what you like. If we are working on a tangle (pattern) and you are inspired to embellish it your own way – that's ok. Creativity – it really opens Pandora's Box! Not only for me, but students frequently tell me stories about how Zentangle has helped them realize they are creative and they try lots of new things they never imagined they could do, and people who already work in another art form tell me how it helps them take a fresh approach to their art! Anyone can do it! – it really is true – almost anyone can do it. I've taught Zentangle to almost 1,500 people since March 2012, from all walks of life – doctors, lawyers, teachers, housewives (aka domestic goddesses), artists, bee keepers, yoga instructors, fitness experts, nurses, corporate types (from executives to entry level), clowns (seriously!), students, small business owners, in a homeless shelter trying to get their lives back on track, and everything in between, Age 5 to Age 90, recovering from strokes, With OCD, ADD, Autism and Depression. Relaxation – I get so relaxed doing Zentangle I lose track of time, ask my husband 🙂
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I've always been creative and have dabbled in many things – interior design, homemade bath products, wire art, travel tags, and I took a pottery class 20+ years ago that I loved. When I received the kit in late 2010, I had been in the corporate world over 15 years, in banking 12, and in Birmingham 10 years. For many years I loved my bank job in distribution planning (figuring out how many branches a market should have, where they should be, managing projects). I could look for creative solutions to problems, I loved working with people all across the southeast and I loved the sense of accomplishment. But I had reached a point where the stress level was no longer cyclical, it was pretty much nonstop, and I knew I wanted to do something different, but had no idea what. So I opened my little box, pulled out the pens and got to work! I loved it. I woke up one morning with an overwhelming voice in my head saying "Teach Zentangle!" It took six months for me to get into a certification class, but in October 2011 I became a Certified Zentangle Teacher and I quit my job on January 31, 2012! Teaching Zentangle has blessed me in more ways than I ever imagined. I've met wonderful people and I get to share my love of art with them. I also get to be creative every day – I also do pottery, mixed media, and fiber art!
Spring Donor Tour of the Kaul Wildflower Garden
On Wednesday, Kaul Wildflower Garden Curator John Manion led donors on a tour of his native collection. The group was honored to be joined by trustee and former Board of Directors President Mary Carolyn Cleveland. Friends of Birmingham Botanical Gardens hopes to host another tour soon, with a date to be announced.
Junior Master Gardener
Junior Master Gardener returns to Birmingham Botanical Gardens on Saturday, March 21 from 9-noon. "Ecology and Environment" will be the focus of the program's third session.
Julie Danley leads each class, an international youth gardening program of the university cooperative Extension network. Junior Master Gardener engages children in novel, "hands-on" group and individual learning experiences that provide a love of gardening, develop an appreciation for the environment and cultivate the mind.
Junior Master Gardner also inspires youths to be of service to others through service learning and leadership development projects and rewards them with certification and recognition.
Children can get involved in exploring their world through meaningful activities that encourage leadership development, personal pride and responsibility and community involvement. Youth involved in the program develop critical thinking skills and the ability to identify community concerns and take action to address them through individual group projects.
The program is targeted toward children ages 6-12. Individual sessions are available for $45, while packages can be purchased for $365. To learn more about all of the sessions on the 2015 calendar and to register online, visit www.bbgardens.org/classes.
Woodland in a Jar
A great time was had by all during our Woodland in a Jar program at The Gardens on Saturday! Kaul Wildflower Curator John Manion and Plant Adventures Program Specialist Brooke McMinn were joined by nine enthusiastic children, along with three equally eager adults, for an autumn adventure in terrarium building.
John and Brooke began the program by talking with the group about the definition and importance of ecosystems and what makes Alabama's ecosystems so special. The discussion also included a conversation about scale and how to select appropriate plants and objects for use in a terrarium. We then led the group on a walk through the Barber Alabama Woodlands garden to look at some of the plants we would be using for the terrariums and to collect some additional materials. Finally, we returned with the group to the Arrington Plant Adventure Zone where everyone carefully constructed their own unique terrarium ecosystem. Take a look some of the fabulous mini-versions of Alabama woodlands that participants took home!
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In time, the church promoted Cossin to assistant pastor, and he felt pulled to enter full-time ministry, though he had never attended seminary. He imagined it would be impractical to quit both jobs, uproot his wife and two young sons, and immerse himself in studies on a residential campus for up to three years to earn a coveted ministerial degree.
But Indiana Wesleyan University provided another option: stay home, keep working, and earn a master of arts in ministry online. Cossin enrolled in the Marion, Indiana-based school in 2004.
"I was a bit skeptical of the viability of the program when I started," says Cossin, 38. "I had no qualms about the school itself. But at Wheaton I had such spiritual growth because of significant interaction with professors."
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(PHOENIX) -- As the school cafeteria emptied out from lunch, Dennis Cagle, a charter school administrator in Arizona, noticed one little girl who stayed behind to collect the food left on other students' trays. When he asked her what she was doing, the girl explained that there was no food at her house, and she was bringing these leftovers home so she and her siblings would have something to eat that night.
The girl's plight haunted Cagle, who had no idea the extent to which children in his school were going hungry at home. But it shouldn't have surprised him: One in four Arizona children live in poverty, and according to the National Center for Children in Poverty, nearly 15 million children live in poverty nationwide. With high unemployment and foreclosures, this number has risen 20 percent since 2000. It's little wonder that many children go hungry.
Though Cagle would not live to see a solution, or at least a salve, to child hunger in his community, his story inspired his friends and fellow Phoenix residents Lisa and Vince Scarpinato to create the nonprofit Kitchen on the Street, which works to provide an entire weekend's worth of nonperishable meals to schoolchildren in need. Volunteers assemble these "bags of hope," as they call them, and distribute them to nearly 800 children in Arizona and Texas each week.
"We're parents," Lisa Scarpinato says, "and we just imagined the devastation of a parent if they felt like they couldn't feed their child. We had people in the community who were out of work, or had family members who were sick, and we knew we could help. We aren't overly rich, so we knew, at first, that we could at least help one kid, so we did, and that just grew."
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The backpacks are used because hunger isn't the only thing Kitchen on the Street is fighting, Scarpinato says. It's also fighting the stigma against poverty.
"Unfortunately, we are battling more than just physical hunger. Kids (and adults) don't want to admit they don't have enough food to eat. There is a shame that goes with it," Scarpinato says.
But thanks to Kitchen on the Street's presence, that's beginning to change, she says. When it first began, the partner schools using the program weren't "overly excited" to have their names connected to it, "which means they saw a negative connotation in it," she says. "Now we see a shift. They put it on their website. We've gone from not wanting to mention we have hunger in our community five years ago, to wanting to raise awareness about it and be open about it today," Scarpinato says.
One Phoenix charter school says Kitchen on the Street has meant the difference between success and failure for its students.
Though some might question whether a school needs to concern itself with what their students eat over the weekend, Freddie Villalone, principal of a Phoenix Imagine Schools charter, says he believes "food insecurity" was holding many of his students back.
"If their bellies aren't filled, they're not going to be able to focus on their academics. They won't be able to do the homework we assign over the weekend because they're worried about finding food," he says.
At his school, 97 percent of students receive free or reduced-cost lunches. For several years, Villalone's charter school wasn't doing so well: It was in the bottom 5 percent of Arizona schools in terms of academic performance, and was told it had to improve students' grades quickly or face getting shut down. That's when it partnered with Kitchen on the Street.
Now, 150 of the school's 700 kids receive weekend "bags of hope." Since Kitchen on the Street came to the school, the school's academic rating went from an F to a B -- a turnaround that Villalone credits in large part to the food that Kitchen on the Street supplied to his students most need.
It's not only about feeding kids, he says, it's about "building a level of confidence. Their confidence levels go down if they're hungry and unable to concentrate come Monday. When they know they'll have enough to eat over the weekend, they come ready to learn. Our kids have made tremendous academic gains," he says.
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The Louvre Palace is a former royal palace located on the Right Bank of the Seine in Paris, between the Tuileries Gardens and the church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois. Its origins date back to the medieval period, and its present structure has evolved in stages since the 16th century. It was the actual seat of power in France until Louis XIV moved to Versailles in 1682, bringing the government with him. The Louvre remained the nominal, or formal, seat of government until the end of the Ancien Régime in 1789. Since then it has housed the celebrated Musée du Louvre as well as various government departments.
The "Old Louvre"
The Old Louvre occupies the site of the 12th-century fortress of King Philip Augustus, also called the Louvre. Its foundations are viewable in the basement level as the "Medieval Louvre" department. This structure was razed in 1546 by King Francis I in favour of a larger royal residence which was added to by almost every subsequent French monarch. King Louis XIV, who resided at the Louvre until his departure for Versailles in 1678, completed the Cour Carrée, which was closed off on the city side by a colonnade. The Old Louvre is a quadrilateral approximately 160 m (520 ft) on a side consisting of 8 ailes (wings) which are articulated by 8 pavillons (pavilions). Starting at the northwest corner and moving clockwise, the pavillons consist of the following: Pavillon de Beauvais, Pavillion de Marengo, Northeast Pavilion, Central Pavilion, Southeast Pavilion, Pavillon des Arts, Pavillon du Roi, and Pavillon Sully (formerly, Pavillon de l'Horloge). Between the Pavillon du Roi and the Pavillon Sully is the Aile Lescot ("Lescot Wing"): built between 1546 and 1551, it is the oldest part of the visible external elevations and was important in setting the mould for later French architectural classicism. Between the Pavillon Sully and the Pavillon de Beauvais is the Aile Lemercier ("Lemercier Wing"): built in 1639 by Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu, it is a symmetrical extension of Lescot's wing in the same Renaissance style. With it, the last external vestiges of the medieval Louvre were demolished.
The "New Louvre"
The New Louvre is the name often given to the wings and pavilions extending the Palace for about 500 m (1,600 ft) westwards on the north (Napoleon I and Napoleon III following the quarter-mile-long Henry IV Seine Riverside Grande Gallerie) and on the south (Napoléon III) sides of the Cour Napoléon and Cour du Carrousel. It was Napoléon III who finally connected the Tuileries Palace with the Louvre in the 1850s, thus finally achieving the Grand Dessein ("Great Design") originally envisaged by King Henry IV of France in the 16th century. This consummation only lasted a few years, however, as the Tuileries was burned in 1871 and finally razed in 1883.
The northern limb of the new Louvre consists (from east to west) of three great pavilions along the Rue de Rivoli: the Pavillon de la Bibliothèque, Pavillon de Rohan and Pavillon de Marsan. On the inside (court side) of the Pavillon de la Bibliothèque are three pavilions; Pavillon Colbert, Pavillon Richelieu and Pavillon Turgot; these pavilions and their wings define three subsidiary Courts, from east to west: Cour Khorsabad, Cour Puget and Cour Marly.
Inside the Pyramid: the view of the Louvre Museum in Paris from the underground lobby of the Pyramid.
The southern limb of the New Louvre consists (from east to west) of five great pavilions along the Quai François Mitterrand (and Seine bank): the Pavillon de la Lesdiguieres, Pavillon des Sessions, Pavillon de la Tremoille, Pavillon des États and Pavillon de Flore. As on the north side, three inside (court side) pavilions (Pavillon Daru, Pavillon Denon and Pavillon Mollien) and their wings define three more subsidiary Courts: Cour du Sphinx, Cour Viconti and Cour Lefuel.
For simplicity, on museum tourist maps, the New Louvre north limb, the New Louvre south limb, and the Old Louvre are designated as the "Richelieu Wing", the "Denon Wing" and the "Sully Wing", respectively. This allows the casual visitor to avoid (to some extent) becoming totally mystified at the bewildering array of named wings and pavilions.
The Pavillon de Flore and the Pavillon de Marsan, at the westernmost extremity of the Palace (south and north limbs, respectively), were destroyed when the Third Republic razed the ruined Tuileries, but were subsequently restored beginning in 1874. The Flore then served as the model for the renovation of the Marsan by architect Gaston Redon.
A vast underground complex of offices, shops, exhibition spaces, storage areas, and parking areas, as well as an auditorium, a tourist bus depot, and a cafeteria, was constructed underneath the Louvre's central courtyards of the Cour Napoléon and the Cour du Carrousel for François Mitterrand's "Grand Louvre" Project (1981–2002). The ground-level entrance to this complex was situated in the centre of the Cour Napoléon and is crowned by the prominent steel-and-glass pyramid (1989) designed by the Chinese American architect I.M. Pei.
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If you can scoot across the pond for tommorow - reading is for supertubos, at Peniche.
6-9m waves at supertubos tommorow and wednesday, side on 25-30kn.. 15 second period.. epic.
PM me if you need information on where to stay starting at 40 bucks a night beachfront 15m drive from the spot..
Pic, yours truly from same spot but imagine x3 - x4 faces on a 7m-9m..


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LaMarcus Aldridge got the answers he needed from the San Antonio Spurs.
And the Spurs apparently got the answer they wanted.
Ending a frantic few days of courtship — and perhaps cementing the Spurs as the preseason favorites to win yet another NBA title — Aldridge announced Saturday that he will sign with San Antonio and align with Tim Duncan and Kawhi Leonard to form what would figure to be among the league's most-formidable frontcourts.
"I'm happy to say I'm going home to Texas and will be a Spur!!" Aldridge, a Dallas native, posted to his verified Twitter account. "I'm excited to join the team and be close to my family and friends."
The Spurs...


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Meadow Soprano may not be able to parallel park, but, according to a recent post on one of our favorite blogs, Modern Mechanix, female drivers once had bigger fish to fry. Like the following! "Among the driving problems which bother women, perhaps the most important are these: 1—Engine is difficult to start. 2—Gears have to be shifted on hills and in traffic. 3—Engine missing because of fouled spark plugs." Personally, we think that wearing outfits resembling a cross between Little Red Riding Hood and the Morton's Fisherman may be part of the reason female drivers weren't taken seriously but then again, starting cars is haard!!!!
Mobil Ad: Women Drivers [Modern Mechanix]
Earlier: One Problem With Last Night's 'Sopranos' Finale


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Are Overlays the Duct Tape of Networking?
Duct tape is pretty amazing stuff because its versatile and easy to use. That being said, sometimes, that versatility and ease-of-use means it gets used at times when maybe it shouldn't.
This thought came to mind a couple of weeks ago at VMworld. Over the course of the show, I had a number of conversations with folks about tunneling and overlay network. For many (mostly non-networking) folks, it seemed like the best thing since sliced bread—it gave them the holy grail—flexible, agile, one-demand connectivity without having to talk to the network folks.
From a networking perspective, its kinda funny, since the concept of tunnels is a decades old technology. It's always played a legitimate role in a comprehensive networking strategy (MPLS and IPsec VPNs for example) so its cool to see an old concept find new applications.
However, lest we be lulled into blissful slumber by the unicorns playing lilting melodies through their horns, its good to remember, as with pretty much everything in IT, there is no free lunch. While overlays networks make life simpler for the server admin or the virtualization admin, there are a couple of things to bear in mind.
From an operational perspective, the overlay environment becomes a second network that needs to be managed—often a dumber, less instrumented network. Somewhere, someone still needs to maintain a fully functioning, highly available, secure, properly traffic-engineered network that underpins that virtualized connectivity. Think of this as the difference between your checkbook and your checking account—just because you can write a check doesn't mean there is money in the account to cover it.
Now, if you are not a networking dude or dudette, your first reaction may be "why do I care?" Well, when you start seeing performance issues on your tunnel, you start to see intermittent drops on your tunnel, or you need to demonstrate auditable regulatory compliance, then you start to care. While some folks propose that the underlying network becomes irrelevant once you start using overlays, the truth is that the strengths and weaknesses (performance, availability, security, manageability, etc.) of the underlying physical network are going to manifest themselves in in whatever rides on top. While overlay technology is undeniably useful, having an approach that leverages the intelligence of the underlying infrastructure (assuming any exists) is going to pay off in the long run.
Speaking of the long run, the other thing to bear in mind is scalability of design. Long, long ago, when I took my first programming class, my instructor showed me the GOTO command, had me do an assignment, then told me never to use it again—extolling the values of structured code the seductive evils of GOTO-spawned spaghetti code. The same it true with networking. Given a choice, the typical admin would create manageable broadcast domains, crisply defined failure domains and clear L2/L3 boundaries. In fact that is usually how they are designed and often implemented. So, how do we end up networks that look like this? →
Largely because the network admin is trying to address a steady stream of ad hoc connectivity requirements that he or she has little control over–said by no one, ever: "We need to re-architect this app—its going to kill the network". This type of network environment is going to give someone headaches—the virtual overlay version may look neater, but it is is not going to operate any better and may even be worse (see afore mentioned comment about instrumentation and tools). One of the unresolved design goals is how well the overlay network can handle what essentially becomes decentralized provisioning of network resources—to extend the prior example, imagine you now share a checking account with your spouse and you both have checkbooks. How will the network arbitrate finite bandwidth or handle security and QoS policies that step on each other or gracefully manage a failure? I think this will get especially interesting in large enterprises that can be hosting north of a 1,000 apps in their data centers. Now, these are all solvable problems, but I think how well an overlay solution handles this is going to separate the men from the boys.
So, are overlays the duct tape of networking? No, not really–as I said before, they are (and will continue to be) an important part of every network engineer's repertoire. With the emerging use cases around virtualization, cloud and programmability/SDN, overlays are experiencing a renaissance, but remember that overlays are not the answer to every problem–its one of the reasons overlay infrastructure is only one component of Cisco's broader Cisco ONE approach to programmability. Finally, just because its virtual doesn't mean is doesn't have to be engineered–virtualization can hide complexity but it does not magically eliminate it. If you are looking at virtual overlays to support your server virtualization or cloud projects, trust me, make sure your network folks are involved, before one of you identifies some new uses for duct tape.
BTW, on a lighter note, if you want to know more about Cisco ONE , why don't you start with a fun activity by answering the questions that I put together for the Unified Data Center IQ contest ? One correct answer (out of 4 questions with multiple choices) gives you a chance to win an iPAD . You are one click away 🙂
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by Rose A. Valenta
I was looking for something to read the other day and the following summary of "The Bridges of Madison County" appeared on a film-oriented web site. However, if you are a laid-off, career-oriented, "A" personality like myself, I would not recommend that you read the book:
"The path of Francesca Johnson's future seems destined when an unexpected fork in the road causes her to question everything she had come to expect from life.
While her husband and children are away at the Illinois state fair in the Summer of 1965, Robert Kincaid happens upon the Johnson farm and asks Francesca for directions to Rosamunde Bridge. He explains that he is on assignment from National Geographic magazine to photograph the bridges of Madison County. She agrees to show him to the bridges and thus begins the bittersweet and all-too-brief romance of her life.
Through the pain of separation from her secret love and the stark isolation she feels as the details of her life consume her, she writes down the story of this four-day love affair in a 3-volume diary. The diary is found by her children among her possessions and alongside Robert Kincaid's possessions after Francesca is dead.
The message they take from the diaries is one of hope that they will do what is necessary to find happiness in their lives -- whatever is necessary. After learning that Robert Kincaid's cremated remains were scattered off Rosamunde Bridge and that their mother requested a similar disposition for her own ashes, the children must decide whether to honor their mother's final wishes or bury her alongside their father as the family had planned.
Adapted from the novel by Robert Waller, this is the story of love that happens just once in a lifetime -- if you're lucky."
Why not read it, you ask?
I hate to tell you, but this story reminds me of a silent film Concertino for Violin. If you are an A-type working mom or dad, you will never figure out how a four-day fling can turn into a life-long tear jerker.
If you want to read about boredom, imagine yourself as a stay-at-home mom or dad of several children living in a place like Madison County. After about one week of unemployment, while the kids are in school, you will put on your kid's Y-Gen jeans, just for the hell of it, to see what your butt crack looks like in broad daylight; put the baseball cap on backwards; hang a Dora doll with a slip-knot off the banister before running the vacuum cleaner; then, you will get out the baseball bat and beat the crap out of a cabbage patch doll, which will someday cost you a VAT Tax at Toys 'R US.
If you are a sheer genius, you will understand that any strange guy in a pickup truck, like the one in Madison County, who rings your door bell to ask for directions is probably also in the sex offender database and has been casing your property for the last three months; plus isn't "Rosamunde" something Houdini was supposed to say if he ever came back from the dead? Obviously, this guy is going to eat and run, and steal a six-pack, so you would never even let him in the house.
Another thing to watch out for are encyclopedia salesmen, telephone solicitors, and motivational speakers, who try to suck you into MLM plans. Somehow, these people get your e-mail address from the unemployment office and do a great job trying to get your $29.95 to "cold call" on your friends and family. You end up not only being unemployed, but your whole family hates you and your friends think you are just another Ponzi schemer.
So, what should you do with your spare time?
Turn your basement into a microbrewery. This way, you can enjoy what you do and sell a good product to your friends and family. You can also make your new business eco-friendly, by having your customers come over with a refillable jug, reusable bottle, or other reusable container to transport the beer - just like the old days after prohibition and before the stock market crash.
You can also go into the kids' computer room and give the Numa Numa Guy a run for his money on YouTube; write jokes for Jay Leno; or you can do standup comedy. For instance, just the other day, I was standing outside Starbucks selling #2 pencils to pay the electric bill, when Jay Leno decides to go Jaywalking. He comes up to me with a mic and asks "Who wrote 'Who Moved my Cheese?" I stood there for a few seconds, dumbfounded look on my face, and the most logical answer I could think of was "Chaz Bono?"
It gets better, watch:
The book is available online at Smashwords.com
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Results for the HRI Readers Choice Awards
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY, February 08, 2010--It took some time but the votes for the third annual HRI Readers Choice Awards have been tabulated. As you might suspect, some of the results were formful, some were not, but many interesting in their own way.
If you study the results, two things become apparent: That fans of thoroughbred racing are among the most passionate in sports, and that the attraction is both the athletic prowess of the horses and riders and the participatory nature of parimutuel wagering.
Unlike most sports, horse racing is year-round and not seasonal. That means racingâs fan base stays engaged 24/7/365, making them among the most knowledgeable fans in sports.
Here, then, is HRI Readers Awards III, celebrating the storylines and saluting individual achievement in 2009 with a few predictions of whatâs in store for 2010 sprinkled in, listed by category. (Some categories may not add up to 100 percent due to rounding).
The Retired Horse Readers are Going to Miss Most was, who else, the Un-Retired Zenyatta, by a 65 percent majority. After the late January announcement that she would return, that honor now belongs to the redoubtable Einstein, by a 17 percent winning margin over Ventura.
Will Rachel Alexandra run in the Classic if Summer Bird and Quality Road show up in top form? And, now, Zenyatta, too? Readers believe that Rachel will, including 44 percent of yes voters, 28 percent who donât think so, and another 28 percent who are not sure.
The Big-Race-Rider of 2009 was Julien Leparoux, who attracted 45 percent of the vote. Just over 28 percent thought it was Calvin Borel, while only 9 percent voted for Garrett Gomez.
Thirty-two percent of HRI Readers believe that Rachel Alexandra will win the Breedersâ Cup Classic--but that was before Zenyatta jumped back into the fray. Summer Bird attracted 23 percent of the voters, nine percentage points more than Quality Road. Over 32 percent thinks it will be none of the above.
The HRI Readers Choice for Trainer of the Year 2009 is John Shirreffs, by a majority of 54 percent. There was a dead-heat for place between Steve Asmussen and Linda Rice, each garnering 21 percent of the vote.
The Sprint Performance of the Year 2009 went to Quality Roadâs Amsterdam narrowly over Vineyard Havenâs DeFrancis Memorial, 35 percent to 30. Gayego was third with one of every five voting for the Ancient title winner.
The Best Effort in a Losing Performance in 2009 was Mine That Bird in the Preakness Stakes by a comfortable margin over Lookin At Luckyâs Breedersâ Cup Juvenile, 47 percent to 32. A number of horses combined to comprise the remaining 21 percent.
HRI Horse of the Year 2009 was conducted in a separate poll and was the most popular public opinion exercise ever conducted on this site: By a significant margin, 52 percent of the HRI voters preferred Zenyatta to Rachel Alexandra.
Considering that 14 percent of the voters thought that there should have been co-champions this, the margin was effectively 59 percent to 41 percent, a Zenyatta landslide.
In keeping with the prevailing trend, the Fantastic Finish of 2009 belonged to Zenyatta for her Breedersâ Cup Classic, doubling up Mine That Birdâs 27 percent for his furious Derby finish. Several others received support, accounting for the remaining 19 percent.
Early returns on the possible Derby winner are that Lookin At Lucky is most likely to succeed, so said 38 percent of HRI readers. Buddyâs Saint was next at 12 percent after Take Command, which attracted 23 percent but is off the Derby trail with bucked shins.
The Most Memorable Races of 2009 were conducted at Saratoga last summer, followed closely by Oak Tree-Santa Anita meet, a two venue race, 48 percent to 40.
Best Races to Bet On: An overwhelming majority of readers prefer betting on classy horses, stakes races attracting 79 percent of the vote and allowances, 21 percent. Surprisingly, there was no support at all for maiden or claiming events.
The Best Surface to Race On was a dead-heat between Dirt and Turf with each getting 43 percent. Only 13 percent of HRI Readers preferred an All-Weather surface.
The Best Race Story of 2009 was Zenyattaâs Classic at 47 percent over Rachel Alexandraâs 41 percent Woodward victory. Calvin Borelâs risky Derby ride finished a distant third.
Rachel Alexander Over/Under for number of 2010 starts was set at 5-½: A clear majority believe Rachel will run far less often this year, by a margin of 59-to-41 percent.
HRI Readers do believe, however, that she will make at least two starts vs. males in 2010, by a 77-to-24 percent margin.
The HRI Female Trainer of the Year was Linda Rice, so said 53 percent of responders. Place and Show was close between Helen Pitts-Blasi (25 percent) and Kathleen OâConnell (19 percent).
HRI Readers selected Rosemary Homeister Jr. as Female Jockey Of The Year by a surprisingly wide margin; 69 percent compared to 16 percent for Anna Napravnik. Chantal Sutherland got 14 percent of the vote.
The HRI Readersâ Choice for Horsewoman of the Year was extremely close, jockey Homeister edging out trainer Rice by a margin of two percent, 37 to 35.
The On-Track Disappointment of the Year was no contest. Rachelâs non-appearance in the Breedersâ Cup attracted 60 percent of the voters. Zenyattaâs non-appearance on dirt was next at 20 percent.
The Boardroom Disappointment of the Year, according to HRI Readers, was the failure of the industry to work together, said 58 percent of responders; 25 percent believed it was back-to-back Breedersâ Cups over a synthetic track.
The Best News We Could Read in 2010 provided another statistical dead-heat. Lowering the takeout to 10 percent and Hialeah becoming the future permanent home of the Breedersâ Cup each received 38 percent of the votes tallied. A sport AND gambling vehicle, indeed.
The award for Biggest Challenge in 2010 was not even close, according to HRI Readers. Sixty-two percent said racing must reverse its current slide in popularity; 38 percent think that finding homes for retired race horses is the industryâs biggest issue.
The HRI Readers Choice Award for Owner of the Year goes to Jerome and Ann Moss with 47 percent of the vote, compared to 40 for Jess Jackson.
The Best Division of Either Sex Overall surprisingly was extremely close, the 3-year-old division nosing out older males, 40 percent to 39. Older turf horses received backing from the other 19 percent.
And, finally, the HRI Readers Choice for Biggest Story of the Year 2009 was a landslide: The Horse of the Year Battle between Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta was the choice of 62 percent of the responders.