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Cinema
The Great Gatsby dazzles Deborah Ross
OK, old sports, Baz Luhrmann’s version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, as produced by Jay-Z, and with Kanye West on the soundtrack, has already riled the purists, who… Read more
Benedict Cumberbatch is brilliant in Star Trek Into Darkness
P.D. James is a figure of fun in my household. She used to be a regular pundit on Newsnight Review, the old BBC arts programme, and her film criticism was… Read more
Deborah Ross is so NOT excited by Almodovar
I was so excited about I’m So Excited but now I am just so disappointed. I love Pedro Almodóvar, usually. I would be his bitch any day, I’d have said,… Read more
Cinema: The Look of Love
The Look of Love is the biopic of Paul Raymond and although it wants to be a tragedy — I could feel it straining at the leash to go in… Read more
Cinema: Love Is All You Need
Love Is All You Need is a romantic comedy that isn’t romantic or comic or much of anything. It stars Pierce Brosnan as Philip, a widowed, all-work-no-play Englishman working in… Read more
The Place Beyond the Pines - don't read this review!
The Place Beyond the Pines stars both Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper — you spoil us, ambassador! — and is a generational feud film about fathers and sons and legacy.… Read more
Composition and catharsis: Review of 'A Late Quartet'.
Why the sudden spate of movies about classical music quartets and impending death? Early this year, we had Quartet, about four senior singers in a retirement home. Now we have… Read more
Trance: not Danny Boyle's finest hour
Obviously, we all love Danny Boyle and want to have his babies — I’d like at least two of his babies — but his latest film, Trance, is a horrid… Read more
No questions asked
Compliance is a small film that says big things rather than one of those big films that say very little, if anything. It’s written and directed by no one you… Read more
Get a life
Welcome to the Punch is a British crime action thriller and here is why you may wish to see it: it is set in a night-time London so magnificently lit… Read more
Robot & Frank
Robot & Frank is about a robot, and Frank, and I’d like to say it is as charmingly irresistible as you might suppose from the cute posters all around town,… Read more
Secrets and lies
After a succession of epic films including three hours of watching Cloud Atlas disappear up its own bottom — if you are going to disappear up your own bottom, at… Read more
Only disconnect
Cloud Atlas is part-sci-fi, part-thriller, part-romance, part-comedy, part-action flick, part-this, part-that and it all adds up to? A whole lot of not very much. Based on David Mitchell’s novel, this… Read more
Mid-life crisis
This is 40. Or perhaps I should say, is this 40? I haven’t yet reached that rounded age myself, so don’t have much of a frame of reference. But a… Read more
What kind of film does ‘Hitchcock’ think it is?
Hitchcock is one of those films which would have been much better off if it had taken a moment to sit down and decide on its own sensibility. Before a… Read more
A Cirque to irk
Just as Les Mis was soaringly monotonous, Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away (3D) is soaringly pointless. No point to it whatsoever. I looked. I looked everywhere for a point, even… Read more
Telling tales
I cannot tell you about all the things Steven Spielberg can and cannot do. I cannot tell you, for example, if he can make decent goblets from Quality Street wrappers… Read more
The monotony of Les Misérables
Les Misérables is one of the longest-running, most popular stage musicals in history, having been seen by 60 million people in 42 countries — sit on that, Cats! — and… Read more
Friends reunited
You know how television is becoming like the movies, more expansive and more expensive? Well, what if the movies were to meet television halfway, becoming smaller and more routine? The… Read more | http://www.spectator.co.uk/arts/cinema/ | 2013-05-18T10:32:00 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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There are some simple things you can to that will keep your computer running smoothly. Microsoft incorporates some maintenance tools and utilities within the operating system.
Deleting other unused programs by using the add/remove programs utility. You get to this by going to StartRun and typing msconfig then select ok and choose the start up tab.
Try to never install programs that start running as windows start, like messengers. Because the programs you are wanting to run have to compete with the messengers type programs that keep running. To stop them, just press Ctrl + Alt + Del and go into processes tab and close them from there.
You may also want to turn off any unnecessary services in the services manager.(Access your control panel by going to your control panel administrative tools services) These are all simple things you can do yourself to help improve your computer speed.
I also recommend that you invest in two software programs that will greatly benefit you and your computer. Scan your computer weekly with a spyware program. And also get a registry cleaner software program. Cleaning your registry will really make a difference in your computer speed and your computer performance.
Protecting your computer from viruses, adware, spyware and other malware requires that you have an anti-virus program running. Major damage, besides just slowness, can be causes by these types of programs. You can download some good, free utilities from Microsofts web site or you can choose a third-party option.
You will be rewarded with a better performing system if you keep it maintained. | http://www.speedmypc.com/speed_up_computer/tag/computer-performance-2/ | 2013-05-18T10:53:14 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Canton of the Monistrol-on-Loire
The canton of the Monistrol-on-Loire is a French administrative division , located in the department of the Haute-Loire and the area Auvergne.
The country monistrolienThe canton of the Monistrol-on-Loire is located at the North-East of the Haute-Loire, in the country of the walk of Velay, called Pays beyond-the-wood with the Middle Ages.
CommunesThe canton of the Monistrol-on-Loire groups 4 common:
- Beauzac (Bausac): 2.061 habitants*
- Vault-in Aurec: 626 habitants*
- the Monistrol-on-Loire: 7.451 habitants*
- Saint-Maurice-with-Lignon (Sant Maurici): 1.803 habitants*
*Les figures indicated is those of the Recensement of 1999
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Chữ name
The chữ name (字喃, literally “writing of the south”), still called Quốc ngữ 國語, Quốc âm 國音, Nam âm 南音 in the texts, was the writing Vietnamese not using the Hanzi Chinese (called hán tự in Vietnamese). This system logographic was the only means of noting Vietnamese until the 14th century, and was used only by the elites educated in Chinese. The chu name from now on almost completely disappeared from the Vietnam, replaced by a “romanisation” in Latin characters decorated the diacritic ones, the Quốc ngữ.
Origins
The chu name known at the origin under the name of quốc âm (國音, literally “pronunciation of the country”), was supposed to be appeared about the 10th century. The old name of Vietnam, Đại (Cồ) Việt, precisely used the quốc âm. The oldest trace of the chu name known to date is on a stele of the temple of Bao Ân and is gone back to 1209. Another inscription in chu name was found on a bell in Bronze in Do Sound. It is gone back to 1076, but the exactitude of this dating is prone to guarantee.
After the independence of Vietnam with respect to China in 939, the intellectuals started to develop to them sytème clean writing of the chu name, based on the Sinogramme S Chinese but representing Vietnamese (the two languages do not have anything indeed jointly). Starting from this date, and during almost 1.000 years, Vietnamese was noted quasi-exlusivement in chu name, that it are the literature, philosophy, the history, the laws, the edicts, etc During the 14 years of reign of the emperors Tây Sơn (1788-1802), all the administrative documents were written in chu name. At the 18th century, the majority of the large poets and writers wrote in chu name. With the invention at the 17th century of the Quôc ngu - a transcription based on the Latin alphabet - the chu name disappeared gradually. Moreover, in 1920, the colonial government promulga a decree against its use, with the profit of the quôc ngu. This phenomenon of disappearance evolved/moved at a point such as today, less than 100 specialists are able to usually read the chu name, with the result that 80 million Vietnamese speakers does not have access to the written history of Vietnam. Some buddhist monks, as well as the Jing (Vietnamese exiled in China) are able to decipher overall a text in chu name.
Efforts of the Vietnamese government were made to give again a place with the chu name in the education system. The characters suitable for the chu name were integrated into the standard Unicode, and of the software were conceived to type in chu name. The police forces the container were developed only recently.
Principles
The sinogrammes were used in the beginning to note exclusively the chữ nho (of the traditional Chinese ). The chu name extended the use of these characters in various ways, just as new sinogrammes were created, following the example Kokuji with the Japan.
There exist several types of structures which one can subdivide in several categories.
Simple loans (chữ vay mượn đơn)
a. Phonetics (of characters with identical or approximate pronunciation): identical or modified (morphologiquement simplified): 卒 (tốt=bon, of quality), 意 (ấy=ce… there), (ấy=ce… there) b. Semantic (of characters with generally identical direction): identical or modified (morphologiquement simplified): 蓮 (sen=lotus), 爫 (làm=faire),…
Made up characters (chữ tự tạo)
a. of two natures (or elements) semantic: 𡗶 (trời=ciel, God), Ƴ (trùm=chef, pontiff, tycoon). ; b. of two natures (or elements) phonetic: 𢁋 (trăng=lune),… c. of two characters (or elements) semantic and phonetic: 𠫾 (đi=aller, to go), 𡎢 (ngồi), 唭 (cười=rire, to smile) d. of a semantic or phonetic nature and a differentiating sign (two standards known as dấu nháy and dấu cá): 叨 (đeo=porter during), 𡀬 (tủi=se to feel humiliated; appitoyer on oneself),…
NB: The characters of (A) are very limited. Those of (b) are limited and seem to relate to only the words old with initial doubles: bl-, Tl, ml,… The characters of (c) are, with the simple phonetic loans, most current. For the moment, it is difficult to affirm that there exist also characters made up of more than two elements. The borrowed, semantic or phonetic characters, employees alone or combined, can be the subject of a simplification by suppression of whole part. This is all the more true for the made up characters where the too great number of features leads with the simplification and the suppression of parts.
Semantic loans
Many terms were borrowed such as they are in Vietnamese, and are written with the sinogramme which was used to note the term of origin in Chinese. For example: 味 vị " goût" (in Mandarin wèi), 年 niên " année" (in Mandarin nián). Moreover, one raises of many words lexiconized Vietnamese before even the introduction of the hán tự, and which consequently preserved a more antiquated pronunciation. These terms are also noted with the sinogramme corresponding in traditional Chinese. Examples: 味 mùi (equivalent with vị, taste), 年 năm (equivalent with niên, year).
Phonetic loans
An significant amount of Vietnamese words are noted by sinogrammes whose direction does not correspond, but are used in a phonetic way (like the Ateji Japanese): they are the chữ giả tá (字假借), " words emprunté". These characters have only one phonetic value, their original significance not being taken into account. That made that these characters take a new direction, even several significances which become to them clean.
Inventions of characters
Many new symbols were invented to note Vietnamese terms (in a way similar to the Kokuji Japanese): they are the chữ thuần name, “symbols suitable for the Name”. These new logogrammes is often Idéo-sound record S, i.e. characters borrowed for their pronunciation to which one adds a radical allowing a new semantic analysis, forming consequently a new character. In certain cases, there existed already in Chinese a character similar to that created but with a different direction.
( part of this text was translated of a text gotten by the Name Foundation Safeguarding under GFDL ) | http://www.speedylook.com/Ch%E1%BB%AF_name.html | 2013-05-18T10:32:09 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
If you're bored as the new year gets underway, you're just not trying hard enough to find something to do.
There have been plenty of sports events involving high school, middle school and elementary school players since just after the first of the year.
The high school music and speech groups have offered opportunities for entertainment on multiple occasions. Thursday Night Live, showcasing the 15 talented performing groups and ensembles who have qualified for the Northwest Iowa State Large Group Speech, took place just two days ago in the old high school auditorium. Today, these same folks are just a stone's throw away in Le Mars, easily within driving range. Monday night, the Spencer High School Pieces of Jazz and Chromatic Jazz ensembles will take the stage at the Pearson Lakes Art Center in Spirit Lake.
Locally, several fantastic movies have played on the big screen at the Southpark 7.
Winter Games provided plenty of opportunity to cold weather lovers to get out and enjoy themselves at any number of activities and events as either a participant or as a spectator.
Look at the line-up the Clay County Regional Events Center has delivered.
Last week, Larry the Cable Guy tickled our funny bone. This weekend, Bixby's Inflatable Rainforest will offer something for families, and Nathan Staniforth will amaze with his magic show. Next week, they'll load in the dirt and spread a little bull as the cowboys and less-than-friendly bulls square off with big cash implications on the line as Extreme Bull Riders return to the area.
Of course, Arts on Grand and Carey's Electronics are teaming up to kick off February with Films for the Cinematically Disadvantaged on Monday nights through the month.
Tuesday night, Spencer will host the regional wrestling dual at 6 p.m. at the Field House.
The first session of Eggs & Issues launches this legislative season at 9 a.m. next Saturday in council chambers at Spencer City Hall.
Ag Outlook is just a couple of weeks away for those of you chomping at the bit to get back in the fields.
My point being, regardless of your interests, there's lots to do in Spencer - even in the miserable cold - so if you're bored, take a good look around and find a way to get involved. If nothing else, take the opportunity to try something new in the next month or so. You might surprise yourself.
SPEAKING OF SOMETHING NEW, we will be launching our first Coffee with the Editor from 7-8 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12 at the Clay County Regional Events Center. Come on out, enjoy some coffee on the Daily Reporter and visit with the editor. Frank, open and honest discussion will be the order of the day. You never know who might show up or where the conversation will go.
Do Clay..all the way!!!!) | http://www.spencerdailyreporter.com/story/1937402.html | 2013-05-18T10:22:13 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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“There are old mushroom hunters, there are bold mushroom hunters, but there are no old, bold mushroom hunters” – anon.
The point is that you need to know your stuff, getting some decent advice from someone who is knowledgeable, or else you’ll kill or severly injure yourself.
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REVIEWSThe Soundtrack of Our Lives, ‘Throw It to the Universe’
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Tiago Vignatti wrote: > Simon Thum escreveu: >> I'm pretty sure it's not - I used it to test my accel's behaviour on >> blocking. But ATM it just sucks the server down :( But in general it's >> true that X block on a lot less occasions than before say 2 years. >> Let's hope you'll get the rest. > > Funny, nothing happened in this venue in the past 2 years (or decade?). Well it's just personal experience modulo system factors. It doesn't even need to be Xorg itself, e.g. scheduler/kernel improvements, IDE DMA (I didn't have it for a while due to chipset/kernel issues), gfx drivers all play a role here. And xorg's design isn't particularly suited to avoid those pitfalls, at least as it is now. So if I can strike out the side effects of such things on acceleration I do it - no need to ask who's the culprit. _______________________________________________] | http://www.spinics.net/lists/xorg/msg37548.html | 2013-05-18T10:55:07 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Archive for July, 2011
Mt. Shasta with Jeremy Jones and Friends!”Read more | http://www.splitboardbindings.com/2011/07/ | 2013-05-18T10:21:41 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Chiefs edge Thunderbirds in Seattle
January 8, 2013 in Sports KENT, Wash. – Liam Stewart scored in the third period and the Spokane Chiefs killed off two power plays during the final 10 minutes Tuesday night in a 4-3 Western …
Blanchette: Abuse in football commonplace
January 8, 2013 in Sports The Pac-12’s drawn-out inquiry into the sketchy, and in some cases already recanted, indictments that Washington State football is a chamber of horrors presided over by the Marquis de Leach … 2
Suspect injured in shooting near CdA Casino
January 8, 2013 in Idaho A 41-year-old suspect sustained a minor injury, possibly from shrapnel, on Tuesday after he fled Drug Enforcement agents and the narcotics division of Idaho State Police.
Cougars basketball ready to pile up frequent-flyer miles
January 8, 2013 in Sports When Washington State finishes its 7 p.m. game at Stanford Wednesday, the Cougars will head directly to the airport and board a charter plane back to Pullman, where players will …
Lynch continues to carry load for Seahawks
January 8, 2013 in Sports Seattle needed all of Marshawn Lynch’s 132 yards rushing, and especially his 27-yard touchdown run midway through the fourth quarter, to dispatch the Washington Redskins on Sunday. 1
Albanez gives Gonzaga quality minutes
January 8, 2013 in Sports She leads Gonzaga in points per minutes played and is the team’s fourth-leading scorer overall, but she’s never started a game.
Swindler’s disputed rent wins new look
January 8, 2013 A judge who suggested a swindler could afford to pay more in restitution if he stopped renting a home on 40 acres, gave up cable and quit tithing will have … 10
Pantsless man attempts South Hill home break-in
January 8, 2013 in City A man with his pants pulled down to his ankles tried to enter a South Hill home in the early morning hours on Sunday. 42
Duncan targeted Spokane child
January 8, 2013 in Idaho Before Joseph Duncan murdered a 9-year-old North Idaho boy in 2005, he set his sights on a Spokane child, posing as a prospective renter and touring a Spokane duplex with … 8
Pac-12 investigation clears Leach, staff
January 8, 2013 in Sports The Pac-12 announced the findings of its nearly 2-month review of the Washington State football program on Tuesday, concluding that no evidence was found to suggest that coach Mike Leach … 4
US roasts to hottest year on record by landslide
January 8, 2013 in Nation/World WASHINGTON — America set an off-the-charts heat record in 2012. A brutal combination of a widespread drought and a mostly absent winter pushed the average annual U.S. temperature last year … 42
Masked man robs Airway Heights fast food restaurant
January 8, 2013 Airway Heights police are looking for an armed robber who held up Jack in the Box employees Monday night. 7
Crews continue plowing snowy streets
January 8, 2013 Plow crews across the Spokane and Coeur d’Alene areas are continuing their snow removal efforts today. 8
Giffords, Kelly launch gun control lobbying effort
January 8, 2013 in Nation/World TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband launched a political action committee aimed at curbing gun violence on Tuesday, the second anniversary of the Tucson … 16
TUESDAY: 10 things people will be talking about
January 8, 2013 in Nation/World Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Tuesday. 1
Hagel, Brennan face tough hearings
January 8, 2013 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – Digging in for a fight, President Barack Obama riled Senate Republicans and some Democrats, too, on Monday by nominating former senator and combat veteran Chuck Hagel to lead … 8
State getting growing list of pot tips
January 8, 2013 in City on Page A1 OLYMPIA – Washington residents have suggestions for how the state should write new rules to grow legal marijuana. Hundreds of them. Some want the state Liquor Control Board, which is … 17
Winter delivers its first big punch
January 8, 2013 in City on Page A1 The first major snowstorm of the winter sent dozens of drivers sliding off roads Monday morning as plow crews spread out across the Spokane and Coeur d’Alene region to clear … 3
In brief: Immigration laws are top enforcement cost
January 8, 2013 in Nation/World on Page A2 WASHINGTON – The Obama administration spent more money on immigration enforcement in the latest fiscal year than all other federal law enforcement agencies combined, according to a report on the … 2
Cancer deaths are still declining
January 8, 2013 in Health, Nation/World on Page A2 WASHINGTON – Death rates from cancer are continuing to inch down, researchers reported Monday. Now the question is how to hold onto those gains, and do even better, even as … 1
Health care spending slows
January 8, 2013 in Health, Nation/World on Page A2 WASHINGTON – Americans kept health care spending in check for three years in a row, the government reported Monday, an unusual respite that could linger if the economy stays soft …
Drill rig pulled from rocks
January 8, 2013 in Nation/World on Page A3 ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A giant floating drill rig that ran aground a week ago on a remote Alaska island arrived as planned Monday in the shelter of a Kodiak Island …
In brief: Shooting suspect found not fit for trial
January 8, 2013 in Nation/World on Page A3 OAKLAND, Calif. – A judge ruled on Monday that a man accused of killing seven people at a small Northern California Christian college is not mentally fit for trial. Alameda …
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'If Pele is Beethoven, I am the Bono', declares Diego Maradona
It doesn't take much to get a rise out of Diego Maradona when it comes to his old adversary, Pele, in the eternal debate as to who is the greatest footballer of all-time.
And so it proved on Tuesday night as El Diego could not resist aiming another verbal volley in Brazilian legend's direction, delivered, as always, in his own unique manner
"Pele has said he's the Beethoven of football. I've never heard any Beethoven music in a match, so as I've told you before, anytime he takes the wrong pill he comes up with a crazy statement," he said.
"If Pele thinks he's the Beethoven of football then I'm Ron Wood, Keith Richards and the Bono of football, because I have so much passion."
It's not the first time Maradona has aimed both barrels at the three-time World Cup winner this season having urged him to change his doctor after claiming Santos wonderkid Neymar was a better all-round player then Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi.
Maradona retorted then: "I think he [Pele] made the mistake of taking the wrong pills. Neymar is a good player, but he is not going to be better or even as good as Messi.
He added: "Pele may have taken the morning pills at night time, so he should make sure he takes the right pills. In fact it would be better if he changed his doctor."
Pele's musings view came ahead of the Club World Cup in Japan last December, a tournament Barca eventually went onto win after a 4-0 hammering of Santos in the final with Messi, surprise, surprise, scoring twice and being named Man-of-the-Match. | http://www.sport360.com/article/if-pele-beethoven-i-am-bono-declares-diego-maradona-0 | 2013-05-18T10:21:43 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Lessons From Europe
Few anglers take their sport more seriously than Nicola Zingarelli and probably none live and breathe jigging the way Zingarelli does. He penned one of the earlier articles describing the technique in a 2005 Sport Fishing feature entitled "Extreme Jigging." The interest in jigging of this Italian angler (currently living in Spain) is also evident in his websites: and.
Zingarelli often jigs fairly deep areas, typically 200 to 400 feet; at times, however, he'll drop jigs to 1,000 feet or more. Around the Canary Islands, for instance, he tangles with the likes of deepwater escolar and wreckfish. At times, he also jigs much shallower tropical areas - such as Panama.
To watch Zingarelli and Yuki jigging simultaneously is to understand that this is indeed a technique full of subtlety and varied execution. The European expert generally works the metal much more aggressively than his Asian counterpart. Zingarelli's rods are somewhat shorter - in that 6-foot range that most American jiggers have come to associate with the technique - and he generally moves the jig hard and fast in a staccato cadence. | http://www.sportfishingmag.com/techniques/masters-metal?page=0,4&quicktabs_2=1&quicktabs_community_side_bar=2&quicktabs_most_popular=0 | 2013-05-18T10:25:37 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Final Score: Charlotte 108, Washington 106 (2-OT).
"It was a real tough game. It was a real gutsy win for us," Charlotte guard
Kemba Walker said. "We just had to tough it out. We fought through the whole
game and were able to come out with a win. That just shows the toughness of
our team."
Martell Webster dropped 21 points and Nene had 19 points for the Wizards, who
are off to their worst start in franchise history. Washington (0-11) is the
only team in the NBA without a win this season.
"We were in positions where we could have taken advantage of a victory,"
Webster said. "But it didn't work out that way. We kept fighting but I know
that time after time that gets old. We just have to win."
Rookie Bradley Beal had 13 points, 10 rebounds and five assists in the
setback. Chris Singleton tallied 13 points and 12 rebounds.
The Wizards quickly took a 102-99 lead just over two minutes into the second
overtime period. Jordan Crawford converted a free throw stemming from a
Gordon technical foul, and Nene knocked down a fadeaway jumper, but Sessions'
layup pulled the Bobcats back within 102-101.
Chris Singleton was fouled, but made just 1-of-2 free throws, and the Wizards
led 103-101. Williams, however, came back with a deep 3-pointer to give
Charlotte a 104-103 lead with 1:18 remaining. It was Williams' only basket of
the game.
After the teams traded misses, Washington was forced to foul Sessions, who
could only convert on 1-of-2 from the charity stripe, but a loose ball foul on
Nene put Walker on the line and the second-year guard made both free
throws.
Beal sank a 3-pointer from the corner with 1.6 seconds left to make it a one-
point game.
Walker then split a pair of free throws, leaving the Wizards with one last
chance, but Crawford's desperation heave wasn't even close and Charlotte held
on for the win.
Gordon buried a 3-pointer with 1:10 left in the first overtime period to put
the Bobcats ahead 98-97.
After missing a pair of jumpers, the Wizards were forced to foul Mullens with
1.6 seconds left. Mullens made just 1-of-2 free throws to Washington a shred
of hope.
The Wizards threw it in to Singleton who was fouled while attempting a
potential game-winning 3-pointer, but knocked down just two the subsequent
free throws to force double-overtime.
Charlotte held a slim 25-24 lead after the first quarter, but Washington
outscored the Bobcats 27-25 in the second frame to take a 51-50 lead into the
break.
Mulled scored eight points in the third to help the Bobcats tie the game
entering the fourth.
Charlotte led 92-89 with 1:50 left in regulation, but a Webster layup pulled
the Wizards within 92-91.
Webster was then fouled with 17.1 seconds left, but could only make 1-of-2
from the line, and Crawford couldn't knock down a basket at the buzzer.
Game Notes
Charlotte has won six of its last seven ... Mullens and Gordon went a combined
9-for-17 from the 3-point line ... Beal was the only Wizards' starter with a
double-figure scoring effort.
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Final Score: Wofford 63, Furman 50
Spartanburg, SC (Sports Network) - Spencer Collins led the way with 21 points as the Wofford Terriers defeated the Furman Paladins, 63-50, in a Southern Conference clash at Johnson Arena.
For the Terriers (8-12, 2-5 SoCon), Karl Cochran added 15 points and Lee Skinner just missed a double-double with 10 points and nine rebounds. Wofford has now won eight of its last nine games against the Paladins.
Stephen Croone finished with 14 points to pace the Paladins (5-13, 2-5), while Colin Reddick chipped in with 10 points.
Wofford shot just 36.4 percent from the field in the first half, but an 11-2 advantage on second chance points allowed it to take a 29-24 lead into intermission. Furman made 40 percent of its field goal attempts but went just 1-of-7 from 3-point range in the half.
After halftime, the Terriers found their shot, connecting on 50 percent from the field. They used a 14-3 run midway through the second half to take control of the game as they cruised to the victory and snapped a three-game losing streak.
Furman was plagued by 20 turnovers, which led to 23 Wofford points. The Terriers coughed the ball up just 10 times themselves.
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SPORTS YAPP Episode #35 – March Madness Breakdown
Today on the show
Bryce and Aaron are joined in studio by Greg Arnold to breakdown the NCAA Tournament.
-Find out what surprising sleeper all three guys agree on.
-Listen to Bryce’s very risky Final Four pick.
-Greg picks every team from his home state of Ohio.
-Aaron makes a bold prediction and gives Bryce a hard time about the team he thinks will knock off Duke.
-Hear who we think will win the whole tournament.
-The guys talk about some of their favorite March Madness memories.
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Most ratings we see and discuss every day are "Live + Same Day DVR," which means the people who watch the program live plus the people who watch via a DVR within the "same day," or between the air time and 3:00am when the numbers get sent to Nielsen for processing. We all know DVRs play a big role in viewing, but when I think about DVR viewing, I mostly think about some of the later numbers (Live + 7 days of DVR viewing, for example). That's not really accurate, though. How about DVRs simply within the Live + Same Day numbers we're used to seeing?
I've taken a look at the Live + SD numbers along with the Live Only numbers for week two* of the 2010-11 regular season, and with some simple subtraction I can get the Same Day DVR numbers as well. This will be a three-post project about "the importance of DVR viewing." I'm not talking about how valuable DVR viewing is to advertisers or how much commercial viewing is done on DVRs. Those are important, maybe even more important, but I'm just talking about how DVRs affect Live + SD numbers, both in terms of the pure "Same Day" numbers as well as whether DVRing keeps people from watching in later hours.
*Why week two? Because unlike during premiere week, almost all the regularly scheduled programs are in place, and unlike for week 3 most stuff is airing "on time" (AKA no NFL overrun messing up the CBS Sunday start times). That's important because overruns can and do mess up DVR usage. I'm leaving out reruns, NFL overruns, and football pre-game shows, though I did include primetime football games just to give some sense of how heavily viewed sports are on a "live" basis.
This post looks at some of the most heavily-DVRed and least-DVRed shows, while the next two will look at the meaning of it all from a couple different angles. More averages info to come, but for now the most basic one: in the week I examined, the average Live + SD adults 18-49 ratings result consisted of about 85% live viewing and about 15% DVR viewing. In other words, for every adult age 18-49 watching via DVR within the same day window, there are almost six others watching live.
Now for some top 5 lists. We'll just start with the week's top 5 Live + SD programs.
You can see just from this list that there's a pretty wide variety of amounts that same-day DVR factors in. And NFL football is not just the biggest hit on a Live + SD basis, but it's also just as "DVR-proof" as they say it is.
Here's the Live top 5. Mostly the same shows, but Sunday Night Football's lead is even more considerable.
And now the most heavily viewed shows using same-day DVR.
I threw in The Office just to have all the shows that get 1.0 or more of their Live + SD demo from DVR usage, 8 out of 84 shows total. Almost all these shows get a very similar percentage from the DVR (~30%). Notice that the Live and the Same Day top lists have only one show in common.
Here are the shows for which the "live" viewing made up the highest percentage. I should note, of course, that particularly with the lower-rated shows there's a lot of rounding involved. The Good Guys was certainly not DVRed by literally no one, and the number could hypothetically be as low as about 87% (if Live + SD was a 0.74999 and Live was a 0.65)
There is some rounding going on with this top 5, but 29 of 83 shows had 90%+ live viewing, so there are a lot of shows viewed almost entirely live. On the next list, once again rounding enters play with the CW shows, but there are several others in that 30% DVR range.
It may not seem this way yet, but the original idea that led to this post was the struggles of the 10:00 hour. The next post is where I'll look at this stuff on an hour-by-hour basis. For a preview, you can look at this % Same Day DVR top 5. They're all in the 8:00 hour. There are a few shows with particularly young audiences at 9:00 that flirt with that 30% mark, but almost all the most heavily same day DVRed shows by percentage are at 8:00. Coincidence? Not at all. More on DVR usage hour-by-hour in the next post.
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Registering for Baby: Where to Start
Registering for baby can often be overwhelming and exciting all at the same time! Here is a simple guide to follow, making sure you are prepared to build the perfect registry for your needs.
Where to start- This is similar to when you are going to start preparing for the nursery. Take a look around and see what items may be transitional pieces, or items that you may be inheriting from friends and family. For example, decide whether or not you have an existing dresser that you would like to use in the baby's room vs. purchasing a new dresser. Make sure if you are receiving hand me downs they are made of sustainable, healthy and safe components. Once you have taken an inventory of your home it is time to go over the checklist of items you will need. We have created this useful checklist for each category pertaining to what you will really need to have a baby.
Furniture & Room Decor- This probably is one of the most fun categories to register for. First, figure out if you will be having family or friends offering to purchase the large nursery items or if these will be purchased by you. Once that is figured out the necessary items can be added to the registry.
Crib- Whether or not you use a bassinet or co-sleeper with your baby in your bed there will come a time where you will need a crib. There are different price ranges and styles to accommodate everyone. Make sure that the crib does not contain MDF that can release formaldehyde into the air.
Crib Mattress- This is a top priority to register for if friends or family have offered to purchase it. Out of everything organic and healthy to provide for your child this is a top priority. Remember non-organic mattresses are sprayed with flame retardant chemicals and can also release other VOCs directly into the air your baby is breathing as their foam core breaks down over time.
Changer or Dresser- You will definitely need a place to change your baby, whether it is on an existing dresser or if you need to purchase one. If you already have an existing dresser, make sure to register for a changing tray. This is a wood top that will sit on top of the dresser providing a secure place for your changing pad.
Changing pad- Although times get crazy and you may end up changing baby on the floor or any flat surface, it is important to register for an organic changing pad for the same reasons that it is important to register for an organic mattress.
Glider & Ottoman- While some people will initially try to live without this, it definitely ends up finding a space in your home. It is very useful and feels like a necessity for every home with a new baby. Whether you are having a one a.m. feeding or just needing a place for a quick nap, gliders or rockers are every new parent’s saving grace.
Storage- You will notice we have listed a few different storage options. This of course is dependent on how much space you have and if you have closet space. Since this is not a necessity we can leave it up to you to decide. If you need storage we have many great organic and sustainable options.
Furniture & Room Summary: Remember we have listed here what you absolutely need to have a baby in your home. On our Registry checklist we list extra items and provide additional ideas.
Sleeping: In this category we provide a checklist of items you will need to accommodate your baby during sleep time. You will need at least one of each of the items listed below and it is up to you if you would like multiples.
Waterproof crib mattress pad- It is important to register for this item so that you ensure you receive the trusted organic option that you want in your home.
Crib sheets- Remember that your baby will be sleeping directly on this cotton so it is best if the sheets are organic without any harmful dyes or finishers.
Swaddle Blankets- This is a wonderful blanket that is used from the day your baby is born to about 3-4 months. Babies love to be swaddled and it is a safe way for them to sleep. This is one product for which we suggest registering for more than one.
Sleep Sacks- Once your baby starts to "break free" from their swaddles it is time to move onto sleep sacks. This is a wearable blanket your baby can and will use up to 2 years old. It is great to register for different sizes so you have a nice assortment to last you through the months.
Sleep Summary: Organic blankets and surfaces are always more breathable and important to provide for your baby
Clothing: It is important to register for organic clothing since baby’s skin is so absorbent and sensitive. Non-organic clothing can release the pesticides from the cotton onto your baby’s skin. In this category we have listed the clothing items you need to get you through the first few weeks and months.
Kimono-Style Tees- Your baby will not only have no head support but they will also have a belly button scab for the first few weeks. This style of tee snaps easily on the side making outfit changing very easy. Often times these are lifesavers for most new parents. It's a great idea to have a least 6 if you don’t want to have to do laundry every day.
Loose fitting pants- These are great for when the belly button scab is still on. Get pants that are loose and soft and allow your baby to stay cozy. You will not be using pants as much as tops so about 3-4 pairs are good to start with.
Skull Hats- Even in warm climates it is good to have hats on hand for your baby. Depending on if you like to coordinate outfits or if you just want your baby to be warm will help determine the quantity. Usually you need about 3 hats. The name Skull hat just refers to the newborn style hat.
Sleep Gowns- These are definitely a necessity. They provide easy diaper changes in the middle of the night without having to undo any snaps or zippers.
Clothing Summary: Remember to not over buy since babies grow-fast! It is important to register for and purchase the basics. Think of it as having a great pair of jeans, a few great shirts and the perfect jacket!
Gear: With gear there are a lot of different options and opinions. When looking at this category think about your lifestyle and what you will actually be doing with your baby. For example, if you are never going to jog with your baby-don't buy a jogging stroller.
Infant Car Seat & Base- It is mandatory now to leave the hospital with an infant car seat for your baby. Orbit Baby makes the only car seat that is oeko-tek certified, meaning it has no harmful flame retardant chemicals sprayed on it. This car seat and stroller system is the one we highly recommend.
Stroller- No matter what your lifestyle, you will need a stroller. There are different choices offered at Sprout, each with healthy fabric options. First, determine what you will be doing mostly with your child and then stop in for a demonstration so we can show you the different options.
Playtime- You will definitely need to set your baby down to either take a shower or send an email. In this section we provide a few different options to register for. You don't need all of these but we recommend choosing at least one to provide a safe and healthy space for your baby. You will probably want at least a mat for tummy time and a bouncy seat for your baby to sit in while you get things done.
Carriers- There will be times when it is easier to carry your baby than to have him in the stroller or in a bouncy seat. Think about whether you want a sling, a wrap, or a backpack style carriers and whether you plan to share this with your partner. At Sprout we can demonstrate the many different options and help you to decide. Keep in mind, it is best to use organic fabrics, as these fabrics could be touching your baby’s skin for much of the day.
Gear Summary: There is an overwhelming amount of options provided in this category. We recommend taking a step back to really think about what your activities will include with baby, whether it be always hiking or always flying. Taking the time to think about this will help you not end up with 3 strollers, 2 bouncy seats and a swing.
Feeding: This is often an area where you end up receiving gifts you will never use. When it comes to nursing or bottle-feeding no product is guaranteed to work for you. It is important not to invest too much money or time registering in this area. We recommend registering for the following:
Nursing pillow- Even if you end up not nursing this is a great accessory to use during tummy time.
Bottle Feeding- This is always tricky so we recommend only purchasing a few bottles of different brands to try out once the baby arrives. The baby will choose his favorite, and once this occurs then it is best to go and buy more or exchange what you have for his preference.
Eating Solids- Babies will start eating baby food around 6 months. Right now this seems far away but time will fly once your baby is born. This is a fun and important category to register for. Many of the containers and sippy cups provided for baby are not BPA and Phthalate free, so it is best to make sure you get safest solution when registering for these items.
Food Processor- This is something you will definitely need if you are planning on making your own organic baby food
Highchair- Highchairs come in handy even before your baby has moved to solid food so we highly recommend registering for one. We have modern, traditional and functional options. This is a great safe to place put your baby once he can hold his head up if you need your hands free.
Bathing and Changing: Giving your newborn their first bath can always be a little nerve-racking; in this category we have provided organic and healthy options to help with this milestone.
Baby Tub- There are now safe options for your baby, so make sure you choose a bathtub that is BPA and Phthalate-free so that harmful chemicals do not leech from the plastic through the warm water and into your babies skin.
Hooded bath towels and wash cloths- These are definitely worth registering for. The hooded towels will keep them warm after the bath, and the washcloths will be great to clean a messy face after feedings.It is always best to put organic cotton up against your baby’s skin, especially when it is wet.
Body and Hair Wash- It is always best to register for this item rather than letting your friends choose a wash, as most shampoos for babies are full of harmful chemicals. It is best to use natural and organic shampoos and lotions when possible.
Bath and Changing Summary: This is definitely a personal preference section so make sure you pop into the store to smell and test out the products before registering. This is also a great way to learn about personal care products to use during pregnancy.
Remember we are here to help and walk through your specific budget and lifestyle, making sure you leave with the perfect registry!
At Sprout we have made some very exciting changes in our store to help ease this stress! We now offer informative display cards with information on every category throughout the store to help guide you through your purchases. We have provided a checklist of necessary products for each category plus a quick summary as to why it is important to choose these products. Along with these shopping guides there is a new Registry specific checklist to go through while browsing in Sprout.
Recently, we hosted a registry night at Sprout which offered expectant couples a night filled with helpful info, giveaways and treats! We started off the night going over our custom registry checklist. The goal for the night was to make sure our guests left with an understanding of what one really needs in order to have a baby and to care for them for the first two months. We also stressed that registering should be about your personal style and lifestyle and that taking advice from friends with different tastes and lifestyles may not be the best way to go. Our guests asked insightful questions, and we all learned a lot! We think it is safe to say that everyone left feeling more confident about their registry, and they got great gifts as well, including one couple winning an Indie Bumbleride stroller.
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An early analysis indicates that cracks in Clearwater's Memorial Causeway won't require reconstruction.
CLEARWATER - Cracks in the new Memorial Causeway Bridge's four tallest concrete columns aren't bad enough to force crews to tear them down and start over, an early analysis shows.
Preliminary tests ordered by bridge builder PCL Civil Constructors show no obvious evidence of damage to the steel reinforcements that form the spine of the massive concrete support columns, according to PCL's Tampa-based vice president Jerry Harder.
"We're pretty close to setting that aside," Harder said Tuesday.
PCL, the Canadian contractor building the $69.3-million state project, has hired two engineering consultants to study the cracks.
A full report is expected by the end of the week, but Harder said one consultant has recommended injecting epoxy into the biggest cracks, which are roughly 0.02 of an inch. Smaller cracks, at roughly 0.002 of an inch wide, are too tiny to be injected with epoxy, according to Harder. Instead, he said they could be sealed with a surface coating.
The idea is to protect the bridge's steel reinforcements from saltwater intrusion and corrosion. The cracked columns stand on both sides of the main channel in Clearwater Harbor and hold up the highest section of the bridge.
Any fix for the cracks will have to be approved by the state Department of Transportation, which will own the finished bridge. On Tuesday, DOT spokeswoman Marian Scorza said department engineers will wait for proposals from PCL before making a decision on how to proceed.
The cracks were discovered last month after a rainstorm. The hairline cracks are virtually invisible until they get wet, though DOT officials say they would have eventually been discovered during an inspection.
To find out the extent of the damage, engineers for PCL drilled seven cylindrical samples, called "cores," out of the concrete columns. Roughly 4 inches long and 2 inches in diameter, each core was examined for cracks. Engineers took four cores from the column with the most cracks, and one from each of the other three columns, Harder said.
By looking at the size of the cracks and how deeply they penetrate, engineers can determine whether the steel reinforcements inside the columns got bent, said Lawrence Kahn, a civil engineering professor at Georgia Tech contacted by the St. Petersburg Times.
Kahn, who has studied concrete bridges for the past decade, said the smallest of the cracks are common in concrete construction. But the larger cracks need to be filled to prevent corrosion, he said.
Judging by the width of the cracks, it is unlikely the interior steel would have suffered any significant deformity, Kahn said.
John Fisher, a civil engineering professor at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, also contacted by the Times, agreed.
"We're talking thousandths of an inch," he said. "That's a very small crack."
John Breen, a civil engineering professor at the University of Texas at Austin, said the large cracks are likely repairable, but they merit study.
"That's in the range where you start worrying about durability," Breen said.
Kahn said cracked bridge columns don't always signal the need to rebuild.
"That the concrete is cracked doesn't mean that the structure has failed; it means that it probably has been overstressed," he said. "But (it) quite possibly could be repaired so that it's as good or better than new."
Kahn said PCL's approach to assessing the scope of the problem appears sound. Ideally, though, he said a separate, independent evaluation by FDOT would provide an extra measure of review.
"It just gives a surety of independence," Kahn said. "Even though it almost doubles the cost."
In large jobs such as the Memorial Causeway project, though, experts agreed it is common for contractors to hire their own consultants and propose solutions.
"You have to allow the contractor some breathing room to try and fix the situation," Breen said, adding: "The state is going to have to be convinced. They're going to review what's done."
Harder declined Tuesday to reveal the names of the consultants PCL hired to study the damage.
"There's nothing secret," he said. "We will reveal who they are, but we would prefer to give them the opportunity to finish their work."
Harder said PCL expects to receive another report this week on how to repair another section of the bridge, which fell roughly 7 inches early this month after the scaffolding underneath buckled.
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ST. PETERSBURG - Five years is a long time to wait, but Devil Rays reliever Danys Baez kept track of every day.
Five years, Baez said, is how long relatives of defected Cuban athletes must wait before they can leave Cuba. The five years was up last month for Baez's parents, Miriam and Gilberto, who were at Tropicana Field for Friday's game against the Tigers.
"Just real happy," Baez said. "Just very happy to have them here after five years."
"It's wonderful his parents are over here now," Rays manager Lou Piniella said. "I know he came in today and was very happy."
Even happier that he got out of the ninth inning without allowing a run. How would that have looked during the first game his parents saw him pitch in person since he joined the Cuban national team?
They only had watched on television.
And though Baez struggled a bit and hit Ivan Rodriguez with a pitch, about which Baez said he was sure his mother would poke fun at him, the son said, "A very good history started now."
Baez defected to Costa Rica on Aug. 1, 1999, the day before the final game of the Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
He resided in Costa Rica until Dec. 10, attained a visa and flew to Miami. He went to Cleveland Dec. 15 and participated in the Indians' Winter Development Program, where he trained and learned English. He played three seasons for the Indians before signing in January with the Rays as a free agent.
Baez said his parents flew to Guadalajara, Mexico, on a tourist visa and then traveled by car to the U.S. border, where they were detained for four days while they established their identities and were given physicals.
From there, they traveled to Houston and Tampa, where they arrived Thursday night and met, for the first time, their nearly 3-month-old granddaughter, Daniela Lucia, and daughter-in-law, Mireya.
"They went shopping in the morning," Baez said. "They left everything because at the border, you know, you have to leave everything."
Except, Baez said, the clothes they wore and money they carried.
"It's crazy," said Baez, whose brother Denys, his wife and two children are still in Cuba. "Everything is fine. They can apply for (residency) in one year."
Compared to five, not that long to wait.
LOU UNDERSTANDS HUFF: Piniella said he is sure the comments made by leftfielder Aubrey Huff, who challenged ownership to spend more money to make the team better, were made out of frustration.
A six-game losing streak and Thursday's 13-2 thumping by the Orioles helped.
"And he's not the only one frustrated, believe me," Piniella said. "There are a few players, and you can put me in that boat, too, the frustration part of it. You get your butt kicked 13-2 or whatever the score was and all of a sudden you get a few mikes and a couple of pads and pencils in front of you, and sometimes you spill your heart out."
Still, Piniella said he liked that his star player stood up for himself and his teammates.
"You like to see leadership from your players," he said. "Put it this way, this ballclub is perfectly ripe for a leader to emerge and take over."
HUFF FALLOUT: Huff also took a shot at what he perceives as the limited play list of the in-game music chef. Was it just a coincidence It's the Same Old Song by the Four Tops played between the second and third innings? And how about the fact that the Rays took batting practice in silence until the Trop's doors opened to fans?
Huff also got a nice hand from much of the crowd when announced for his first at-bat.
PITCHING UP IN AIR: The postponement of today's and Sunday's games has thrown a monkey wrench into the pitching rotation. For now, Piniella said the only certainty is that Doug Waechter will pitch Monday against the Yankees whether the schedule calls for a doubleheader or a single game.
The right-hander has been on the disabled list since early June with a strained tendon in the middle finger of his pitching hand. He is 0-2 with a 6.75 ERA for Triple-A Durham with 22 strikeouts and 17 walks in 291/3 innings.
ODDS AND ENDS: The Rays recalled hard-throwing reliever Frankie Nunez from Durham. ... The Rays batted .168 (23-for-137) in the four-game homestand. ... Outfielder Delmon Young batted .437 in August (45-for-103) for Class A Charleston with seven doubles, nine home runs and 27 RBIs. | http://www.sptimes.com/2004/09/04/Rays/Baezes_complete_a_fiv.shtml | 2013-05-18T11:03:57 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
By JOHN C. COTEY
Published August 25, 2006
GULFPORT - The big mystery in Pinellas County this season?
Boca Ciega.
What will the offense look like? What will the defense be? Can Stevie Thomas coach?
All questions that will start being answered with tonight's season opener.
As for a sneak peek, Thomas is coy. He doesn't want to let on how many running backs he'll play, if he'll use a tight end, if he likes his offensive line big or smaller but fast.
"You have to wait and see," he says.
The first-year coach, a former Bogie star who went on to Arena Football fame as a wide receiver with the Tampa Bay Storm, likens his team to, well, himself in 1991. That year, no one knew anything about him. By the end of the year, he was hugging a championship trophy as one of the league's best players.
THROUGH THE AIR: The perception is Bogie will air it out in 2006, since Thomas comes from the pass-happy AFL. Instead, he said he just wants more balance than the run-happy Pirates have shown in recent years.
He inherits a gifted quarterback in Orhian Johnson, who was capable of starting last year. Johnson has mobility and a good arm, reminding some of former player of the year Terrell Skinner.
Wide receiver Allan Sherrard is a top prospect. Not quite as fast as the departed Jamar Newsome, Sherrard has good hands and should be the main threat. The wide receiving corps, though, is deep, giving Johnson plenty of options. Preston Pace and Aaron Kincy, both 6-foot-1 targets, will see lots of action as will a handful of others that Thomas believes are good enough to start at some other schools.
"It's a pretty deep group," Thomas said.
ON THE GROUND: Senior Josh Bellamy has 1,000-yard potential, and will be spelled by banger Cedric Williams and slasher Mundrae Francis. Thomas also mentioned fullbacks John Homzak, Ricky Stephens and Keon Burden, so forget talk of five-wide receiver sets every series.
Center Cody Hampton, a 6-1, 245-pound junior, anchors an offensive line that isn't necessarily huge as it is cohesive and quick. The guards are Trevor Yawn (6-1, 225) and Matthew Best (6-2, 240), while Ross Fairbiarn (6-4, 260) and Nick Null (6-3, 245) hold down the tackle spots.
DEFENSE! DEFENSE!: Ends Julius Forte and Johnny Hartsfield, both 6-4, 245-pound speed rushers, will be counted on to get at the opposing quarterbacks, with Stephens and Burden clogging the middle. At linebacker, George Durant, Homzak and Francis are quick and aggressive. Pace and Kincy will use their big frames to guard the corners at defensive back, with Bellamy, Williams and Eric Clayton sharing safety duties.
JUST FOR KICKS: Bogie has struggled with kickers the past few seasons, but Thomas said he has three good candidates - Blake Fraser, Randall Klafter and sophomore James Wilson, who can also punt.
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Yeah! I think this is why I always want honest critiques of my work. The past few months I've been thinking a lot about if I want support or understanding. I can't complain when I get support. Support is great. But what I really desire is understanding. So often people are just willing to just give support and not understanding by saying, "that's nice" without a reason why it's nice. Without really understanding what you are trying to achieve.
It comes to that taste thing that Ira talks about. I have this taste, vision, thing in my head. And when I make something that doesn't come out right, I want to learn from it. And keep pushing forward. But then there are people who are nice and say what I did is nice, and all i can think in my head is how my artwork there isn't really nice.
So yeah, I'll take the nice support. But I want honest understanding more than anything.
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Supervisors as Planners
Supervisors as Planners
Land-use planning in America is a relatively new phenomenon, and San Francisco was the first city in the country to try zoning—an 1867 law prohibited development of slaughterhouses and similar noxious facilities in certain geographic districts. This preventative, rather than curative law set the stage for further development of a system of regulation for how we use our land. In 1877, the United States Supreme Court verified the basic principle:.”
As population and cities grew, it soon became apparent that a whole family of tools to guide growth were required. In 1907, the first official permanent town-planning board—the Hartford Commission on a City Plan—was established in Connecticut. By 1913, 18 American cities had planning boards. The purpose of these early boards was to sponsor development of city plans, oversee their execution, and to generate public support for the attendant necessary public works. The plans—and the planning boards—focused almost exclusively on public property and public facilities. Gradually, necessity backed by a series of court decisions led municipalities to expand their regulation to private land and development as well.
In terms of the issue at hand, the biggest change came in 1928 when Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover published the Standard City Planning Enabling Act, promoting zoning. In a last-minute bureaucratic scuffle, the act suggested that a semi-independent planning commission oversee the plan and the planning staff, rather than the local legislative body. The purpose and the effect of the citizen planning commission enshrined by this conservative law was to weaken planning by making it an adjunct rather than core function of city government.
In San Francisco, until the new 1996 Charter (which SPUR had a major hand in crafting), it was the Planning Commission—not the Board of Supervisors—that adopted the General Plan of the City and County. Now it must be adopted by both the Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors, with the intention that it be a clear reflection of the public goals and objectives of the electorate. All rezonings and height-limit changes must be approved by the Board. Thus, the Board has broad authority to set land-use policy both for the city as a whole and for each neighborhood. But, until recently, implementation of those policies has rightfully been exercised by the Planning Commission and Planning Department.
But since the supervisorial election of 2000, we have seen the emergence of open warfare between the executive and legislative branches of government. Without ascribing blame, the result has been disastrous for the planning function and thus for the very future of the city.
The effect is that the Supervisors, unknowingly, are altering the direction American planning has taken since 1928 by taking on the duties and rights of the Planning Commission by assuming both policymaking and implementation in the context of project-by-project decisionmaking.
As a professional planner, I should be quite happy to see planning assume its rightful position as an integral component of government. But that is not what is happening. Instead the Board has set itself up to second-guess Commission decisions. This is a reflection of pressure from the fraction of the electorate that elected each of them, who in many cases are simply NIMBYs (“Not In My Backyard”s). The effect is increased uncertainty for the provision of housing—which is guaranteed to drive housing prices further skyward at the end of the recession.
This is ironic because we currently have the best Planning Commission we have had in years.
In the March, 2002 election, the voters approved (and SPUR opposed) Prop. D, which split the appointments to the Planning Commission between the mayor and the supervisors. At the time, SPUR predicted a war between the mayoral appointees and the supervisoral appointees. In fact this has not happened. Supervisor Ammiano in particular did an excellent job by setting up a broad-based public committee, vetting candidates on their qualifications, and making a balanced group of appointments. Prop. D has been a success and we have a Planning Commission that is professional, functional, respectful of each other and the public, and “gets it.” They understand their job is not to look backward but in fact to plan for our changing city.
At the time they put it on the ballot, the supervisors pledged that once the new “balanced” planning commission was in place, they would stop interfering with its functions. Yet, despite that pledge, into this atmosphere of forward-looking harmony the Supervisors have inserted themselves time and again with the effect of opposing what have to be the eventual interests of their constituents by bowing to the always-present vocal opposition who oppose any change any where any time. Here’s just some of the things they have done…
Conditional Use Appeals. Until 2001, conditional use approvals (the means by which the Planning Commission considers most medium to large-scale projects) were appealable to the Board of Supervisors only by a petition signed by the owners of 20% of the property within 300 feet of the development site. These appeals were rarely and seldom successful, since the vote of 8 of 11 supervisors was necessary to overturn the Commission or impose different conditions on the permit. However, less than six months after taking office after the 2000 election, the Board amended the Planning Code to permit any 5 supervisors to sign the appeal petition. At the time, members of the Board stated publicly that this was designed as a temporary fix until a system was in place whereby tenants as well as owners within 300 feet could appeal conditional use decisions.
Two years have passed and no effort has been made to draft legislation giving tenants equal appeal rights as owners. Instead, appeals to the board through the signature of five supervisors have become the normal course of events for conditional use project with any neighborhood opposition.
Typically, the board holds several hearings over an extended period of time, forces concessions out of projects that endanger their feasibility, and impose conditions far beyond what any developer would reasonably foresee at the beginning of a development project. This process escalates the risk for housing projects and injects high uncertainty into the process, two things developers need to avoid.
Site Specific Rezonings. For myriad reasons, the city has not done a good job of undertaking pro-active neighborhood planning efforts and the rezoning necessary to carry out neighborhood plans. Those reasons include an underfunded long-range planning division in the Planning Department and the substantial costs to the city of preparing the EIRs state law mandates before any rezoning can occur. The city is addressing those issues, but in the meantime, there has not been a major rezoning effort anywhere in the city since the 1980s, and in most areas since the 1950s. It is at least another year or two before the Better Neighborhoods and Eastern Neighborhoods plans are finalized and new zoning is in place.
In the meantime, many projects that respond to current plans and current needs are not consistent with the underlying zoning. The only way such a project can proceed is to seek a specific rezoning or height limit change for its specific site. And all such rezonings must be enacted by the Board of Supervisors, following a recommendation by the Planning Commission. A majority vote of the Board is needed to enact these rezonings, such that any six supervisors can block these projects. A far better process would be for the Board of adequately fund the Planning Department and neighborhood-wide EIRs so that neighborhood-wide rezonings, not site specific ones, are considered by the Board in the context of the broad policy decisions they should be considering.
How ironic it is. Here we are, with a Planning Commission doing an excellent job of just what they should be doing. And progressive district Supervisors attempting to be in touch with the electorate, going into unknown territory.
Environmental Review Appeals. The article “More CEQA Delays?” by Andrew Junius (p.16) deals with an important state law change. This is new territory. The Board must have the discipline to exercise its CEQA appeal powers responsibly, so that political or planning policy opposition to housing projects does not become an excuse for turning down perfectly adequate analyses of those projects’ environmental impacts. In general, the Board should summarily dismiss these appeals, unless the appellant can produce real evidence of environmental damage that has not been analyzed in the CEQA document.
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A first step in any disaster recovery planning is inventorying your database servers. Although having having an up-to-date list of SQL Servers sounds simple enough the reality is in an enterprise environment SQL Servers are bit like mushrooms—they suddenly crop up and when a server is no longer needed they are taken down. A secondary issue to deal with is verifying firewall settings. In an enterprise environment or really in any company that cares about security, internal layered data center firewalls are used between networks, web servers and user segments. The addition of layered firewalls has added a new troubleshooting requirement for DBAs–not only ensuring a server is up, but also verifying various machines can connect to needed endpoints. The point is once you inventory and collect your list of SQL Servers you need to check they are still alive and various services can be reached by remote machines. Once you find servers which cannot be connected to, then its time to research why. Has the server been decommissioned? Is it connection issue? And finally if the server has purposely been taken down then we need to remove it from inventory. What we need is a dynamic inventory and a way to automatically check endpoints…
In order to handle the inventory piece we can leverage Central Management Server (CMS). I’ve previously blogged about several ways you can use PowerShell and T-SQL to dynamically add servers to your CMS inventory and even update your RDCMan list:
The post on ?dynamically ???registering SQL Servers is interesting in that I’m leveraging System Center to find new SQL Servers and add them to a LostAndFound CMS group. I’ll then manually go through and move the servers to their appropriate groups. There also are many other uses for a CMS, you can even use CMS list to drive your Policy-Based Management collection as described here:
PBM and PowerShell
As for verifying connectivity and checking whether the server is still alive and connect through various firewalls, I’ve a new script called Test-SqlConnection.ps1 and posted to PoshCode.
The script executes against the CMS list and can perform several tests:
Aside from Database and Agent tests each checks for connectivity by making a connection to the service, pinging an IP or connecting to a port. A simple colorized HTML report is produced (see sample output below) for each test.
. ./Test-SqlConnection.ps1
Execute tests as follows:
Test-Main “Ping”
Test-Main “WMI”
Test-Main “SMB”
Test-Main “SQL”
Test-Main “Database”
Test-Main “Port”
Test-Main “SSIS”
Test-Main “Agent”
Sample output:
Testing a specific CMS group is supported. In this example I’m testing all servers in a CMS group named prod:
Test-Main "SQL" "prod"
You can also test a single server or list of servers using the individual functions without using a CMS:
Test-SQL 'Z003\SQL1'
get-content ./servers.txt | Test-SQL
Test-SQL 'Z003\SQL1','Z002\SQL2'
Additional sample output can be found here.
Failed connections should be researched and servers no longer online should be removed from inventory. Because there’s a bit of research involved, I choose to remove servers manually.
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One-hit KO
From SmashWiki, the Super Smash Bros. wiki
A one-hit KO, commonly abbreviated as OHKO (also referred to as an Instant KO in Melee), is an attack in all three Super Smash Bros. with such high base knockback, that it KOs at 0%. However, almost all of the so-called OHKOs are highly conditional; they all share the following restrictions:
- The opponent does not tech, DI, momentum cancel, and/or crouch cancel.
- There is no wall to absorb the knockback.
- Knockback may be insufficient to KO at 0% on very large stages (e.g. Hyrule Temple, New Pork City, 75 m.).
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[edit] Examples
- A smash attack with the Home-Run Bat.
- Roy's almost fully or fully charged Flare Blade.
- Mr. Game & Watch's fully loaded Oil Panic after absorbing three strong enough projectiles (Such as three PK Flashes).
- Ike's stage 8 Eruption.
- Roy, Ike, or Marth (Brawl only) countering a damaging enough hitbox (much more likely to be an OHKO with Roy).
- Marth's Critical Hit.
- Beast Ganon (If all hitboxes land).
- Puff Up, depending on stage size (more likely to be OHKO on smaller stage if the opponent is close to its body).
- Wario-Man's fully charged Wario Waft.
- Lucario's Aura Storm when it's at full power (170% damage).
- Zelda's Light Arrow (barely in OHKO threshold, easily DIed).
- Getting hit by a walking Bob-omb after being reflected by Fox's reflector in SSB.
- Lugia's Aeroblast (only in Melee).
- Touching Moltres.
- Suicune's Aurora Beam.
- Deoxys's Hyper Beam.
- When smash thrown, Electrode's explosion in Brawl is strong enough to OHKO nearly every character.
- The Dragoon.
- If Wario is striking a buried Pitfall while riding on his Wario Bike, he will be sent flying for an OHKO.
- If a Hothead is hit by a fire-based attack that does over 30% (such as Ike's stage 7-9 Eruption) while it is uncharged, it will OHKO when smash thrown. Any sparks it gives off while traversing the stage at this strength will also OHKO.
- If a Soccer Ball is launched at enough speed (after either being hit by an extremely powerful attack such a Home Run bat swing, or being hit after receiving enough damage), it will OHKO anyone it slams into.
- Banzai Bill's explosion on Princess Peach's Castle (if all hits connect).
- Great Fox's cannon laser shots on Corneria.
- Touching the hull of the Pirate Ship.
- The Ultimate Chimera's bite.
- The first spike on Rumble Falls (can easily be teched).
- Getting crushed in the Subspace Emissary.
- Tabuu's Off Waves (on Normal or higher difficulties in SSE) (Very Hard and Intense in Boss Battle Mode).
- Tabuu's Golden Bracket attack on Intense difficulty in the SSE.
- Galleom's attack when he stiffens and falls on the player on Intense difficulty in the SSE.
- Tabuu's Shark Blade attack on Intense difficulty
- Master Hand's grab (up throw), third poke, jet, and drill (the start up of his attack) (his palm, and his wrist can also OHKO, when he drills to the ground). Crazy Hand's drill (same as Master Hand's), rocket punch, jet (only when he attempts to fly into the player), third poke, grab (forward throw), and punch (capable of KOing grounded player). All of their combination attacks can KO at 0% (only in classic mode on very hard difficulty in Melee).
[edit] Trivia
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January 31, 2006
In June 1940 Britain expected enemy invasion. The government decided it was necessary to evacuate children and others living in the direct bombing approach to London. Many children were sent to Wales, Scotland, Ireland and the open countryside of England but others were destined to go farther afield to Canada, America, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Many children were sent to relatives in these countries but most were taken in by foster families.
The Children's Overseas Reception Board was established in June 1940 and organized the evacuation of hundreds of children to foreign countries during the war. 1,530 children were sent to Canada. The first group of CORB children, 39 boys and 43 girls, sailed for Canada on July 20, 1940 on the SS ANSELM. There is no complete list of ships and CORB batches in the CORB files but we do know that the SS NERISSA sailed for Canada on September 7, 1940 with 16 boys and 18 girls bound for Halifax, N.S. All of these children were transported across Canada to British Columbia. The next ship sailing for Canada on September 13, 1940 was the SS CITY OF BENARES. On September 17 she was torpedoed mid-Atlantic with the loss of 255 passengers, including 84 CORB children. The great exodus ceased but those already in safety had to spend several years far away from everyone and everything they knew.
A few years ago, through Pier 21, I made contact with Bernard Atkins, a former CORB child on the SS NERISSA. Bernard and his two brothers, Maurice and Michael, lived in Beckenham, Kent. In July, 1940 their parents decided to send them to relatives in Canada. Fate played a part in their lives as they were originally scheduled to sail on the SS CITY OF BENARES. Bernard has been a great help with the Nerissa website and become a valued friend. He kindly gave us permission to use a chapter from his personal family memories, "Back Then". The chapter not only tells the story of their voyage to Canada on the SS NERISSA but also gives us a detailed description of the ship. Our sincere thanks to Bernard.
» Please visit the Notice for Bernard Atkins
Although kept highly confidential, as it indicated imminent ship sailings, Father through his special press security privileges knew our point of embarkation to Canada. No sooner were we whisked away at Victoria station than both he and Ma were on the express to Liverpool. I remember catching a quick glimpse of Dad and telling my brothers of having seen him, before we were again hustled off out of sight and away.
Sometimes too much knowledge may not prove to be an advantage. As it turned out, what transpired was to torment them for weeks to come. There were some one hundred plus British evacuee children who, under cover of darkness, were to board the SS 'City of Benares' to slip away from the harbour, join convoy OB213, and sail for Canada; that date was Friday, the thirteenth of September. It seems that last minute one of our small group heading for western Canada was suspected of having chicken pox causing us to be detained and another group boarded in our stead. So we were held back 24 hours and put aboard the SS 'Nerissa'. There were twenty-eight of us children in all, a matron to tend our nursing, a curate to stand in for divine guidance, or in our case, as previously mentioned, Mums 'Me Devil'. There were five assigned to each cabin with the oldest of our group being in charge. At twelve I was the youngest of the oldies so, with sex separation, I ended up with three, all boys.
A Scot made up in orneriness for what my group lacked in numbers. To make sure he wasn't mistaken for one of the 'Sassenachs', unlike the rest of us, mostly in short trousers, he, poor wretch, was decked out in full Scottish regalia. Not only that, he spoke in monosyllables and sounded 'funny'! Traveling alone at that age, even at my tender years, I felt for him despite the desire to pop him on the nose.
In his cabin, Maurice had Michael, at six years old, the youngest in our party. As soon as allowed we set off to investigate our ship. The 'Nerissa' was built in Glasgow in 1926 to serve as a freight and passenger liner between the St. Laurence, New York, Halifax and St. Johns. She had an especially designed bow and hull to handle the arduous winter conditions of the ice floes she would encounter. We were soon to learn that this gave her a bucking motion to go with the roll of the open seas.
Her pre-War passenger capacity was 163 1st class and 66 2nd class passengers. She weighed over 5500 tons, which although told to us, meant little. The speed of 15.5 knots we could compare to the 'Queen Mary', the 'Hood', 'Bismark', P.T. Boats and others that, despite our youth, we would read of daily as we approached and entered the Way years. In the search of our ship, compared to the 'Old Man' taking us for an un-coordinated row in the amusement park or trip on the Thames, this was indeed a floating palace. It had wide curved staircases, grand pianos, marble columns, lush red carpets, a barbers shop that sold 'Andrews Liver Salts', that lovely fizzy drink powder, for only three-pence a tin and, a sweetie shop. We were amazed all this could stay afloat. Next morning with drumming of the gong we raced down for breakfast to the dining room which was obviously less luxurious than pre-War days with long tables replacing the ones shown on descriptive posters in the upper lounge.
Having surreptitiously been used as an American troop transport carrying back aircraft pilots and others following delivery of warplanes to Britain and like missions, most of the lushness was stripped away from the 'Nerissa'. The menu was much to our like, offering Sugared Rice Crispies, eggs, bacon, fried tomatoes, pancakes, kippers and oily bloaters with their heads still on. The latter two I ordered daily for breakfast even in the worst of storms and a request that I understand even gave the cook a turn. There was few of our group there for breakfast that first day, while not of concern it was hard to fathom. A later visit to the deck above gave reason for their absence. Our fellow passengers were all along the outer deck rail peering downwards, not so much enjoying the great height as being seasick on the dock below. Many parents in all their wisdom had assured them they would be ill. Despite the fact we were still tight to the wharf, they were meeting the family wishes. I decided then I would die before joining them at the rail any time on the voyage. I don't recall how many days we were at sea, possibly ten or more. Those of us who hadn't taken to our bunks were busy showing what good sailors we were, hands in pockets, rolling down the corridors bouncing off the walls. Being an icebreaker we got a forward rising and lunging along with the fore and aft rolling with the sea, which made it not only a challenge for our fun but later was also to prove a protective cloak. On the second or third day as the last sight of land slipped away we suddenly found ourselves surrounded by other ships with destroyers buzzing around us like mother hens. We had joined the convoy that would help see us safely the first three hundred miles on our way. The speed of a convoy as it zigzagged its way across the Atlantic was restricted to that of the slowest ship. In this case, convoy 23424 slugged its way at 5-6 knots, the speed of the 'Benares'.
With Mum's 'Me Devil' riding our shoulders we had little need and saw less of our Curate. No doubt he was there to act should calamity befall us and bring comfort to the needy, whomever they may be at the time. Different, was the need for the Matron. With God's little children throwing up their half digested sandwiches into the sea from the time of boarding. However, Michael in the care of pseudo mother Maurice was low on her list of priorities. She had to be Mum to a ship full of 'sickies'. Meantime, Michael was building up to be the icing on the chocolate cake. Weighing in at no more than 42 lbs., he was looked on as suffering everything from rickets to ringworm. Once out to sea, the rolling of the ship had him join the list of the seasick. This almost confined brother Maurice to the cabin caring for the one entrusted to him. With Mike's retching to contend with, Maurice himself succumbed to seasickness, leaving little I could do but offer sympathy, escape the stench and tend my own cabin. The worst was yet to come. How a body could be seasick and constipated for ten days at the same time was beyond all reason but Matron was not to have her charge reach land in such a condition. Mike was finally back eating, but what, we don't know other than he would take Matron's 'chocolate'. The day came when he finally exploded. A mother at the best of times does not relish such an occasion, but when it is the child of another there is no bond to compel them. I remember Maurice with his ward standing on a cabin bedside table, left to clean up Mike and the cabin, the matron doing little but supervise, and leaving the mess to a fourteen-year-old boy. Maurice never in any way held his brother to account for this. In fact, if anything, it endeared a bond but he never was to forget or forgive the Matron who walked away when he really needed help and understanding. Over the years, when reminiscing, it took little to bring that day back into his life.
It was four days after leaving Liverpool on Friday 13th September, 600 miles out at sea, wallowing in a storm like a sitting duck, the SS 'City of Benares' was torpedoed and quickly went to the bottom. Only a handful of the children survived. The Americans, yet to enter the War, released the grizzly story throughout the world within a matter of hours. The repercussions were enormous. The Germans were accused of doing it knowingly to help break the moral of the British people, while the British Government, under a hail of criticism, cancelled all overseas evacuation of children. Meanwhile we kids on the 'Nerissa' were bobbing, like a cork on our way towards Newfoundland, oblivious of what was going on. Meanwhile, at home, the 'Folks' received a terse telegram, "Your children are safe". Whereas in their position there was little the Government could say, it did nothing to dispel the fear that was to haunt the recipients of the message over the days to come.
One day, (I wish I had the date), the ships alarm sirens screamed out the alert, which was to send us all scurrying, lifebelts entangling our heads, to lifeboat stations. How we made it to deck let alone a specific station I'll never know. There, sitting off to starboard was the ominous dark outline of a submarine. Suddenly, after what seemed ages, we got the order for all the children to move to the rail and wave. "It's one of ours!" Our arms aching we suddenly saw the black shadow slip below the surface.
The German U Boats, unless threatened by warships, launched their torpedoes from the surface at their relatively helpless targets. I have also read since (in "This England Magazine, Spring of '84) that we were attacked but our bucking ship, bow to the heavens one minute and waving its screws the next, rose at the right time to let the torpedo pass below our stern. I wonder to this day if it was indeed 'one of ours' or, our Skipper, Captain G.R. Watson played his cards right and saved his precious cargo.
Again my memory fails me. I do not recall sighting land or coming into harbour, so I assume we must have docked overnight at St. John's Newfoundland. I remember lining the rail with all the others watching the cargo hatches being opened to discharge massive containers of supplies no doubt sent to help the cowboys fight those red Indians we had seen so often at the Saturday morning Mickey Mouse club movies. Just as we were all but ready to gallop into the throw, we were taken down the gangplank and whisked off and away, or should I say out the way, on buses. Our destination was a large white, wood planked community hall where the most friendly, generous people greeted us. Only our first taste of what we were to experience on our long trip still to come as we crossed what seemed an endless country portrayed so simply on a postage stamp. Our hosts, whoever they were, had really outdone themselves to present a table 'Canadian style', which was a learning experience for all of us. Not that we would ask, but seeing the gallon pitchers of milk all spaced up and down the tables did make us wonder how many cups of tea they expected us, English though we may be, to absorb in one sitting. Actually when Ginger Ale, Orange Crush, Lime Rickey and 7-Up came to the table we were instantly transformed into 'Canucks'. The ringer was dainty little triangular sandwiches with no crusts and a brown paste in the centre, which disappeared before they hardly had time to hit the table. It was one of the lovely ladies who let the cat out of the bag as to what it was by saying "We'll have to send out for more peanut butter!" Then when topped up to the point of bursting, with fizzy pop bubbles looking for any and every means of escape, they came around the tables with a gift for all of us by which to remember the day.
We each received a shiny new Newfoundland 10 cent piece. That each would be given one was generosity beyond expectation. The equivalent value of five pence was more than many of our party were given to carry them to their destination half way around the world.
Back on our ship life seemed to take on a renewed excitement. More of us were out of the bunks and buzzing around getting in the way and playing on the decks. Even the crew now in relatively safe and calmer waters seemed to relax their guard and want to smile and point out with pride to the highlights of their home on the eastern seashore. One such spectacular sight on our voyage was an armada of icebergs, one of which, even over the distance, made us feel like no more than a pea in the ocean. The children of the day being knowledgeable in worldly events thought 'Titanic', and became ship 'lookouts' for the day.
As we neared Halifax, the end of our sea voyage, the gentler waters brought out the romance of cruising. Between her spells of being seasick, I had become attached to a slim blonde little thing by the name of Doreen. When I say attached I mean we were usually seen hand in hand, nothing more that I'm aware of anyway. One day as we came down the wide curved stairway for dinner we were greeted with the resounding chorus of the wedding march and the grinning faces of all in the foyer. Possibly the last time ever, to be played on the SS 'Nerissa'. It was a short-lived affair though, as once on dry land, somewhere on route across Canada, I lost track of her. Whether she was met at a train stop, met a railroad Romeo or just got tired of secondhand peanut butter served between two protruding piano keys I don't know, but we were never to complete the celebration or meet again.
On April 30th, a few months later, on a return trip to Britain carrying American airmen and Canadian forces, U Boat 552 that was under the command of Captain/Lieutenant Eric Topp torpedoed the S.S. 'Nerissa'. It was reported that Captain G.R. Watson and all the 'Nerissa' crew went down with the ship. Only 35 of the passengers were to survive. Survivors could not agree on whether the second explosion was another torpedo or the cargo aboard, exploding. In their minds it was hard to justify such a small ship being so targeted.
Captain/Lieutenant Eric Topp survived the War and was taken to America. When questioned on the sinking of the 'Nerissa' he confirmed that, ordered back to Dresden, he fired his last 2 torpedoes at his target and turned for home.
There were many acts of bravery to go unreported throughout the War. It was not until 62 yrs. later on reading 'The Brentonian', my old College magazine, that I was to find that Barnett (Buster) Harvey, an old Brentwood College boy, was to have a lake in Strathcona Park named after him. Midshipman Harvey, having been serving in Singapore following five weeks leave, was transferring to Britain aboard the SS 'Nerissa' when it was sunk. He was last seen in the water lifting the child of one of the military passengers into the lifeboat, as the second explosion occurred.
It seems strange that, after over 60 years, having written a few lines to the 'Brentonian' magazine that the article on the honouring of Barnett Harvey and my lines, two former Brentwood College students and wartime passengers of the 'Nerissa', would come together on the same page.
Recent information, forwarded to me through Pier 21 and Ann Hentschel, who has created a Nerissa website (), causes me to continue to question some of my recollections. Regarding our sailing date, it differs from the report by Curate Anthony W. Muir who sailed with us, as reported in the 1984 Spring issue (page 65) of "This England" magazine, which states we sailed 24 hrs. after the City of Benares, which originally we were assigned to board. For me, still at loose ends is how long we were at sea and our arrival date in Halifax. I hope someday to resolve this query.
Records of C.O.R.B. sailings are incomplete as to departure and arrival dates, as is the number of passengers caused by cancellations. The age shown of children reflect that given at time of application. Passenger list shows that Curate Anthony Muir sailed on the S.S. 'Nerissa' 6 days prior to Rev. W. King (lost at sea) who was aboard the 'City of Benares', not after, as stated in This England Magazine, Spring 1984.
"Back Then" - Recollections of life in Britain up until Sept. 1940 and from then on, in Canada, until the present day - by Bernard H. Atkins.
Pages from Bernard Atkins' New Testament. Click a photograph to view a larger version.
Name of Child
Age
Sex
Country of Birth
Religion
Destination
Last Residence
HADDON, Peggy
14
F
England
C of E
Vancouver, B.C.
Bury St. Edmunds
ATKINS, Maurice A.W.
13
M
Victoria, B.C.
Beckenham, Kent
ATKINS, Bernard H.B.
11
ATKINS, Michael D.H.
6
JOHNSTON, Helen Margaret
7
Kenton, Middlesex
SIVERS, Ann
5
Nelson, B.C.
Ashford, Middlesex
NICKELS, Robert
Lula Island, B.C.
Pinner Hill, Mddx.
RICE, Martyn Arthur
W. Vancouver,B.C.
Whitton, Middlesex
RICE, Bernard James
9
SMITH, Shirley Astrid S.
Hillingdon, Mddx.
HALL, Sheila B.
Protestant
Harrow, Middlesex
HALL, Harold Kay
8
WATERS, Doreen Addelsee
11
Edgware, Middlesex
JONES, Bryan Sidney Powell
Mission, B.C.
JONES, Derek Hugh Powell
HAMILL, Peter John
R.C.
Pelkwa, B.C.
Feltham, Middlesex
HAMILL, Mary Angela
PHILLIPS, Beryl Veronica
Ocean Falls, B.C.
Coulsdon, Surrey
ELLIS, Joyce Helen
Cloverdale, B.C.
Epsom, Surrey
LUTLEY, Hazel Dora
10
Woking, Surrey
ENGLAND, Elizabeth Marion
Wellington, Surrey
ENGLAND, Mary Don
ENGLAND, Margaret Ann
STRUDWICK, Jennifer Isobel
Banstead, Surrey
WALLACE, Enid Agnes
15
Purley, Surrey
POVEY, Yvonne Rosamond
Mitcham, Surrey
POVEY, Pamela Maureen
BLURTON, Dennis Clive
Penticton, B.C.
Tadworth, Surrey
JEFFREY, Alan Roy
Tolworth, Surrey
KELLY, Brian Anthony
Summerland, B.C.
London, Middlesex
NAYLOR, Audrey
Lewisham, London
McCLUSKEY, Charles J.
Cranbrook, B.C.
OLIVER, William T. Hastings
Con.
Hot Springs, B.C.
KING, Allan George
Sooke, B.C.
N.Cheam, Surrey
Name
Occupation
RICHARDSON, Honor
34
England
Private Nurse
Eastbourne
WEBB, Ethel Rose
35
Hospital Nurse
London
MUIR, Anthony
27
Clergyman
Huddersfield
PHILLIPS, Florence M.
29
Girl Guide Officer
Kensington
ATKINS, Bernard July 16, 1928 November 21, 2009 At the age of 81 years, Bern passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by his loving family. He was born in Beckenham, Kent, England, and at twelve years old was evacuated in September of 1940 from the London bombing blitz along with two of his brothers, Maurice and Michael. Transported by ship, the SS Nerissa, and across Canada by train to Victoria, he lived briefly with his relatives, the Webb family. Bern happily became the foster child of Major & Mrs. C. Wilson in Gordon Head, and in his teens worked on their bulb farm, delivered mail and became a choker man in a logging camp before attending Brentwood College from 1943-46. Like his father before him, he loved photography and in April of 1947, Bern joined the B.C. Govt. Dept. of Travel Industry Photo Branch as a photo assistant. He travelled extensively throughout the Province as a still photographer, cinematographer, and film director, winning many awards including the "Teddy Roosevelt Award " for his conservation film "Valley of the Swans. " One of Bern's proudest achievements was his documentary film "The Silent Ones. " It won recognition for recording the expedition in 1957 to Anthony Island in the Queen Charlottes to collect a selection of totem poles to be transported south to the museums of Victoria and Vancouver for preservation, display and study. In a small way this documentary contributed to the Island being protected and declared a World Park. In 1959 after two issues of Beautiful B.C. Magazine, he took over the position of production editor until he was formally appointed Editor, a position he held until the Magazine was sold to private industry in the early '80's. Wearing many other hats, under the title of Director of Special Services, he produced numerous brochures and special publications promoting the Province; coordinated the first run of the Royal Hudson train from Vancouver to Squamish, headed the nine tourist regions of the Province, and revived the feature film industry. He coordinated a spectacular promotional event whereby he accompanied his much esteemed Minister, the Honourable Grace McCarthy, and her assistant, John Plul, on the Royal Hudson train to Southern California. During his exciting career he worked for thirteen different Ministers, retiring after 37 years service due to failing health. He loved the beauty of B.C., was proud to be a Canadian and often expressed his gratitude for the many opportunities his adopted country afforded, Liam and Celina Whitney; brother, Michael and family; Joan Popham and family; and the Colvin and Grant families. Bern will be remembered for the many attributes he passed on to his children and, in turn, his grandchildren: a dry sense of humour, hard work ethic, unconditional love and support of family and friends, endless generosity, and most of all, how to live life to its fullest, greeting everyday with a positive attitude. He will be loved and will live on in their hearts forever. At Bern's request, there will be no formal service. In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory may be made to the Heart and Stroke Fndn., Can. Diabetes, or Hospice. 570157
From remembering.ca. Published in the Victoria Times-Colonist on 11/28/2009 | http://www.ssnerissa.com/?q=evacuation | 2013-05-18T10:13:08 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Additional Higher Ed Funding to Support Research, STEM
Efforts in Virginia
To help meet the goals of Virginia's Top
Jobs Act enacted earlier this year, Gov. Bob McDonnell proposed
$200 million in additional higher education funding over the next
two years. A large portion of the new funds would support cancer
and high-tech research, competitive research grant awards, and
efforts to graduate more science, technology, engineering,
mathematics and healthcare (STEM-H) majors.
The Top Jobs Act outlines a plan for achieving an additional
100,000 undergraduate degrees over the next 15 years through a new
higher education funding policy, targeted economic and innovation
incentives, and the creation of a STEM public-private partnership.
In accordance with the legislation, the state's
colleges and universities completed six-year plans identifying
initiatives to help meet those objectives. Gov.
McDonnell's proposed funding for the 2012-14
biennium would support some of the efforts proposed by the
universities, including:
The increased funds proposed by the governor also would provide
additional support for base operating costs, enrollment growth and
student financial aid.
Gov. McDonnell's budget removes a $10 million
per year planned reduction to higher education. However, colleges and
universities must set aside the equivalent of 3 percent of their
general fund support for educational and general operations in FY13
and 5 percent in FY14 to reallocate toward the goals of the Top
Jobs legislation. Funding would be released to the schools once a
plan is approved by the Secretary of Education.
Within the Office of Commerce and Trade, the governor proposed
$10 million over two years to fund a research consortium comprised
of higher education institutions that would contract with private
entities, foundations and other government sources to capture and
perform research in the biosciences.
The 2012-14 budget proposal is available at:.
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Congress Approves Six-Year SBIR Reauthorization
After 14 short-term continuing resolutions and years of
negotiations, the federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
and Small Business Technology Tranfer (STTR) programs have been
reauthorized through 2017. The legislation changes a number of
features of SBIR/STTR, including making it possible for companies
that are majority-owned by venture capital firms to receive awards.
President Obama is expected to sign the bill in the near future.
Last week, the House of Representatives passed the National
Defense Authorization (HR 1540) conference report, which had
incorporated the SBIR reauthorization. The six-year term of the
conference agreement was a compromise between the three-year
reauthorization approved by the House in April and the eight-year
term passed by the Senate earlier this month. Funding for awards
will increase gradually over the six-year period. Federal science
agency set-asides for SBIR will increase from 2.5 percent of their
budget in the first year to 3.2 percent by 2017. STTR set-asides
will grow from 0.3 percent to 0.45 percent.
The increase in agency set-asides will contribute to a
significant boost in the size of awards. Phase I SBIR and STTR
awards will increase from $100,000 to $150,000. Phase II will
increase from $750,000 to $1 million. Up to 25 percent of the
awards made by the National Institutes of Health, the Department of
Energy and the National Science Foundation can be invested in
companies that are majority-owned by venture capital firms,
including hedge funds or other private equity firms. Other agencies
can make up to 15 percent of their awards in venture
firm-controlled companies.
A new pilot program will allow agencies to use three percent of
SBIR funds for administration, oversight and outreach. This program
helps carry out required data collection on awards and
investigate abuses. It also will be used to encourage
participation of companies in states that receive few awards.
Once signed by the President, the Small Business Administration
will have 180 days to implement the revised rules, during which
time the public will have a change to offer comments and
recommendations.
Read HR 1540 and check its status at::.
NIST Creates Office for the Advanced Manufacturing
Partnership
This week, the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) established a new office to coordinate the Advanced
Manufacturing Partnership (AMP), an initiative created by the White
House in June 2011 to facilitate advanced manufacturing
collaborations among industry, academia and government partners.
The National Program Office for AMP involves all federal agencies
related to manufacturing, including the new Office of Manufacturing
Policy of the National Economic Council. Read the details...
RIAN Launches Webinar Series
RIAN, the Regional Innovation Acceleration Network, is launching a webinar series beginning in January. These webinars will be presented by experts and practitioners in the field on a range of topics that will help to connect the Venture Development Organization community and exchange best practices and new ideas. The January schedule includes presentations on integrity, accelerators, and the EB-5 program. See the RIAN Events page or the News page for more information.
Ownership of IP is a Key Strategy of
Innovative Firms, According to WIPO
Ownership...
Report Finds Innovation and Manufacturing Fueled 2011's Best Performing
Cities
A new
report from the Milken Institute, Best-Performing Cities 2011, finds cities that saw significant
improvements to their economic performance between 2010 and 2011
were able to:...
Incub.
Job Corner
TechColumbus is searching for a nationally recognized
leader in technology commercialization and economic development to
become CEO.
TechColumbus is an integrated model (incubation services, venture
development, investment funds management, and membership) focused
on innovation in advanced materials, bioscience and IT. The ideal
candidate has experience commercializing technologies and knowledge
of investments in early stage companies, startup company
experience, and a track record of advancing companies and
successful exits.
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Annual Global R&D Funding Expected to Increase in
2012
R&D funding growth will largely be driven by Asian economies
a number projected to increase by nearly 9
percent in 2012. U.S. funding is expected to remain flat with a
decrease in federal spending.
Read more ...
China's Growing Share of Solar Market
Comes at a Price
This Washington Post article looks not just at the market
share that China manufacturers have, but also at reduced prices
that are benefiting installers.
Read more ...
USPTO Innovation Challenge Offers $50k Prize for Aiding
Patent Examination
The challenge seeks algorithms for patent examiners to reduce
page flipping, improve readability, and allow for annotation of the
documents.
Read more ...
Cornell Selected to Build NYC Science Campus
Cornell University and an Israel-based partner were selected
among seven competitors to build the $2 billion facility. Although
students will begin enrolling next year and studying at the
pre-existing space, the massive project won't be completed until
2043.
Read more ...
Stony Brook Using $150M Donation for Research
The largest-ever gift donated to a State University of New York
school will be used to help build a Medical and Research Translational Center,
increase faculty hires through new endowed professorships and
support top-level graduate students.
Read more ...
Global Report Identifies Three Reasons Why Women Start Fewer
Businesses than Men
Survey results indicate it's partly because of
opportunity costs associated with the private sector in developed
nations, including a steady paycheck, reliable hours and health
insurance.
Read more ...
UK Announces Two Capital Initiatives for Angel
Investment
This includes a 50 percent tax break for investment in early
stage businesses and the launch of a new €50M ($65.4M
USD) Business Angel Co-Investment Fund.
Read more ...
New EU Fundraising Rules Outlined
Increased financial support from the EU budget and European
Investment bank alongside a "single rule book"
for governing the marketing of funds is included in a new plan to
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They really should have marked VIP P1 and it really didn't need to be that large of an area if you limit it to P1 patrons ONLY (even I got in by mistake). P2 VIP should have a separate area from GA w/VIP. Day one you couldn't get through VIP and they fixed that for day 2 by allowing NO blankets or chairs. Two food choices only (you spoiled us in previous years) with all kinds of choices. Also how about pizza by the slice instead of only whole pizzas. Some people go alone. I ended up going to the bathrooms either to my left (facing stage) which mean't I didn't spend my money to get a drink or hiking it out of VIP and walking over to the bathrooms inbetween the other two stages which never had a line and had TWO airconditioned trailers to choose from. Tighter security in seated areas. SICK of the seat fillers and they are super rude. Need to INFORCE that rule of cannot take seat until AFTER the concert has ended. Too much commotion during the last act. | http://www.stagecoachfestival.com/forum/showthread.php?4281-VIP-Service-blown-by-stagecoach-Management/page2 | 2013-05-18T10:54:48 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
1. Fold kraft card stock for card base.
2. Stamp Decorative Grate onto card base with Versamark Watermark Ink Pad.
3. Sprinkle Clear embossing powder over card base and shake off excess.
4. Sprinkle Lime Micro Glitter over card base and lightly tap off excess. Heat emboss from back side of paper.
5. Cut three different widths of twill ribbon and make tails on one end.
6. Stamp Happy Day sentiment from Rose Thoughts Perfectly Clear Stamp Set in black ink. Trim and cut tail end on right side.
7. Stamp Jumbo Poppy with black ink. Color with markers.
8. Trim around colored Poppy and position around on card base with cut twill ribbon and sentiment.
9. Glue into place with Beacon glue. | http://www.stampendous.com/Projects/2013_01+Jumbo+Poppy+by+Janelle+Stollfus/3258 | 2013-05-18T10:30:57 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
10 minutes with... Anna Dello Russo
Editor-at-large of Vogue Japan, 50
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16 May 2012
David Cameron hailed a “Christian fightback” in Britain during an Easter reception at Downing Street today.
03 April 2012
Baroness Warsi today handed over a copy of the Koran and a gold-plated cube inscribed with references to Allah as personal gifts to the Pope.
16 February 2012
On the face of it Barclays missed City profit forecasts by some £200 million today and also admitted it is unlikely to hit its target of 13% return on equity in 2013.
10 February 2012.
02 February 2012
It's liberal trendies such as David Cameron who really make my blood boil. Oh yes, he talks about being a "Christian society"; says we shouldn't be ashamed of it. Blethers on about "Judaeo-Christian values" (why are we funding faith schools for other religions, come to that?) and suchlike.
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Patrick Barclay: Manuel Pellegrini has his work cut out at Manchester City to avoid the fate of Juande Ramos
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Duane Reed Belliston of North Ogden celebrated his 90th birthday with a family dinner at Maddox Ranch House Restaurant on Saturday, Dec. 1.
He was born Dec. 4, 1922, in Nephi to Alva R. Belliston and Harriet Broadhead Belliston. He has five siblings: Dee Belliston (deceased), Kent Belliston (deceased), Jo and Norma Belliston, Ruth and Bill Howard, and Marva and Jay Olson.After graduating, he attended Utah State University. He joined the Navy and served during World War II. His aircraft carrier captured a German sub, the only one captured since the 1800s.
He married Lucile Christiansen in 1944; she died in July 2002.
Their children and spouses are Layne and Tom Livingston, Dale and Nancy Belliston, Kaye Nye, Craig and Jennifer Belliston, and Carol and Paul Jex.
He and Sharron Wright Hill were later married, she having five children also. Between them, they have 33 grandchildren and 47 great-grandchildren.
He worked for Continental Bakery for nine years, owned a Dairy Queen in St. George and Ogden, and is the founder of Town & Country Snak Vans Inc. in Ogden.
An active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, his callings have included Young Men’s president, ward clerk for 26 years, and a mission with his late wife Lucile in the Ogden Temple for nearly four years.
He has enjoyed playing basketball, piloting his airplane, fishing, and playing Pinochle and card games with his friends and family. | http://www.standard.net/stories/2012/12/03/duane-belliston | 2013-05-18T10:25:22 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
By Gilbert Wandera
Kenya team budget to the London Olympic Games is likely to rise following the inclusion of extra disciplines and athletes in the contingent, officials said yesterday.
National Olympic Committee of Kenya (Nock) currently have earmarked Sh389 million to send a strong team to the games, which start on July 27 to August 12.
However, Nock official Stephen Arapaho Soi said yesterday the budget may increase slightly but was not in a position to reveal by how much.
The government as usual will contribute the bigger chunk of the money and having pledged Sh281million. NOCK has received more than Sh60 million from various sponsors towards the games.
National Social Security Fund (NSSF) gave out Sh35 million contribution. Other monies have come from Proctor and Gambler (Sh5m), Coca-Cola (Sh7m), Kenya Charity Sweepstakes (Sh10m) and Nakummatt Supermarkets (Sh3.5m). Safaricom has pledged to reward all medallists with gold winners taking home Sh1 million, Silver will draw Sh600,000 while bronze medallists will have Sh300,000 alongside the usual government reward.
“We are grateful for the support already received from corporate sponsors but we need more to come and assist us send a strong team to London,” said Soi.
Soi was speaking at a function where National Bank of Kenya donated Sh2m towards today’s Olympic trials at Nyayo National Stadium.
The bank’s out-going Managing Director Rueben Marambii said the support is part of their contribution towards the development of athletics.
“We wanted to contributed in whatever little way we could to make the even a success,” he said.
Athletics Kenya (AK) treasurer Joseph Kinyua, who is the team manager for the track and field team to the Olympics, thanked the bank for its continued support. National Bank of Kenya has supported athletics events for the last six years.
“ I’m grateful to the bank for showing faith in us. Athletics will again shine in London and surpass the 14 medals we got in Beijing. We will be transparent and accountable in using this money,” said Kinyua. | http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000060382&story_title=NBK-donates-Sh2-million-for-Olympics-trials | 2013-05-18T10:53:16 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
By Mwaniki Munuhe
Presidential hopefuls in the so-called G7 Alliance are in a scramble to put their houses in order ahead of a possible pre-election coalition deal.
The coalition will include political parties that are not part of the informal group.
Experts representing several of the G7 Alliance and allied parties are working to create a vehicle under which like-minded leaders will unite ahead of the 2013 General Election. The new party, to be known as the Alliance National Coalition (ANC), could be ready for use as soon as Friday next week. This development supports earlier reports that the G7 had abandoned the idea of testing the waters separately in the first round in favour of a united assault (The Standard On Sunday, June 24).
We can report that that the team of technocrats working to set up the new party is almost finished with the task. A source in the team says a meeting planned for tomorrow will see them agree on the last few details.
“The party is ready,” said our source, a member of the committee setting up the ANC. “The structures are already in place. The only (unresolved) issue is the (question of a party) symbol and colour, which we will discuss on Monday.”
The technocrats working on ANC includes representatives from The National Alliance, New Ford- Kenya, Wiper Democratic Movement, Alliance Party of Kenya, and Party of Action. These parties are linked to presidential aspirants Uhuru Kenyatta, Eugene Wamalwa, Kalonzo Musyoka, and Raphael Tuju.
APK leader, Kiraitu Murungi, says his party, the ‘Bus’, is open to Uhuru or Kalonzo at the helm, but may look to Deputy PM Musalia Mudavadi, Eldoret North MP William Ruto, or another candidate if neither comes on board in the next three or so weeks.
United Democratic Forum, which is associated with Mudavadi, has expressed interest in having a representative on the team working on ANC.
We could not establish if Ruto’s United Republican Party, which initially snubbed overtures related to this deal, plans to get involved.
The creation of a vehicle for a pre-election deal is expected to spur G7 leaders and others they are courting to speed up efforts to consolidate support. But the scramble to deliver united voting blocs to the negotiating table come as ODM – the G7’s strongest opponent – is seen to be propping up rivals to some G7 leaders in Western, Central and Eastern Kenya.
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Open-AudIT
Open Source Network Auditing Application
Open-AudIT audits the hardware and software it discovers on your computers, and posts its findings to a MySQL database. From there the data is presented in a clean and readable form via a set of PHP web pages. Open-AudIT will run on Windows and Linux systems and is essentially a database of information that can be queried via a web interface. Data about the network is inserted via a Bash Script (Linux) or VBScript (Windows).
The entire application is written in php, bash and vbscript -- making changes and customizations both quick and easy.
Features include:
- Tracking the following data on computer systems: Hardware, Software, Operating System Settings, Security Settings, Users and Groups, IIS Settings, Disk Usage Graphs and Audit History
- Audit network devices such as printers, switches and routers
- Reporting for an array of fields, plus custom reports by request
- Software license tracking
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Jasmine Pratt helped Cal State Northridge host its first women's soccer conference playoff game last season.
The 2007 Mililani graduate has even bigger goals for her senior year.
Pratt, a four-year starting defender for the Matadors, has her sights set on CSUN accomplishing more firsts in program history, including an appearance in the NCAA tournament.
"I want to host games in the conference playoffs and win," Pratt said. "Northridge has never won the conference championship, so I really want to do that and make the NCAA for the first time. That's the ultimate goal."Cal State Northridge was picked to finish fifth in the Big West, but currently sits in second place at 3-1 after a victory at Cal Poly on Sunday. CSUN's only conference loss came in a 1-0 shutout at UC Santa Barbara.
A big part of its success is due to the defense, which Pratt, who has started 67 games in the backfield, is a big part of.
The Matadors have allowed only one goal in four conference games.
"I think we're doing pretty good, especially considering we went 5-5 in the preseason against very good competition," Pratt said. "Right now we're pretty excited about where we're at."
Cal State Northridge scored a big win at the UNLV Nike Classic in September, earning victories over Kansas and the host Rebels to take the tournament championship.
The Matadors also played sixth-ranked Texas A&M in College Station and lost to Portland, currently ranked second in the country, by a goal at home.
Pratt, who can become the school's all-time leader in games played if she appears in every match the rest of the season, is hopeful that experience will help propel the team forward.
"When I first got here we were kind of rebuilding and slowly building the foundation," she said. "We lost four seniors and two redshirt juniors that decided not to come back for a fifth year, but (the five) seniors and returnees have really stepped up and taken control of the team."
Pratt, who had come home every winter and summer break in college, decided to stay on the mainland and play for a semipro team in the WPSL this offseason.
The experience competing in a league with a different skill set has made a difference in Pratt's performance her senior season.
"In that league, everyone was so much more technical in their abilities, which forced me to become a better soccer player," Pratt said. "The quality of soccer was really high."
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Barbara Bach Great Film Moments
Home > Actresses > B > Bach, Barbara > Great Film Moments
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) - Can You Swim? - James Bond (Roger Moore) and Major Anya Amasova (Barbara Bach) out run a helicopter in Bond's advanced car.
Force 10 from Navarone (1978) - Betrayed by Their Own - Maritza (Barbara Bach) discovers that Nikolai (Franco Nero) is a traitor just as he radios in an attack.
Force 10 from Navarone (1978) - Equal Consideration - Weaver (Carl Weathers) forces the mission to a stand still to get answers from Mallory (Robert Shaw) and Barnsby (Harrison Ford).
Force 10 from Navarone (1978) - Meet the Partisans - Drazak (Richard Kiel) introduces the partisans and starts a fight with Weaver (Carl Weathers).
Force 10 from Navarone (1978) - You Can Get Up Now - Plotting their desperate escape, Mallory (Robert Shaw) and Barnsby (Harrison Ford) are rescued unexpectedly by Maritza (Barbara Bach).
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Jessica Simpson To Star In Sitcom About Her Life
Jessica Simpson is set to star in a new sitcom based on her life.
The singer welcomed her first child, Maxwell, with fiancé Eric Johnson last May, and she recently announced she was pregnant again - but that isn't keeping Simpson from slowing down.
The busy mom is teaming up with the executives behind her reality series Fashion Star, on which she serves as a mentor, for a semi-autobiographical scripted comedy.
TV boss Ben Silverman tells TVGuide.com, "Having gotten the opportunity to work with Jessica on Fashion Star and see how funny she is firsthand, it seemed natural for her to end up in a situational comedy. She has gone through her own life journey, now becoming a mother. Her unique yet totally accessible approach to family is something I think America will love and laugh at."
Her father and manager, Joe Simpson, will co-produce the project with Silverman.
And Simpson, who made her acting debut in 2005's The Dukes of Hazzard, is excited about the venture: "I often find myself thinking that no one could ever make up the things that actually happen in my life - so between the real-life elements and a great team of writers, I think we'll have people laughing!"
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Bouchard a game-time decision for Wild
- Blog Post by: Michael Russo
- December 17, 2011 - 11:51 AM
Morning from the X, where the Wild hosts the New York Islanders -- my childhood team -- as a kid. Speaking of childhood, the great Jiggs McDonald is calling the game for the Isles tonight. He's subbing for Howie Rose, and the Hall of Famer is as good as it gets.
Pierre-Marc Bouchard, whom coach Mike Yeo called "very questionable" yesterday, skated this morning, lasted the entire skate and well past most of his teammates leaving the ice. If he plays tonight, it'll be up to him. Yeo called him a gametime decision. Even if he doesn't play, this is great news for a guy with a concussion history.
Bouchard knows his body better than anybody, he knows concussion symptoms better than anybody. For Bouchard to work out and skate, you know he's not feeling anything close to what he felt during his year-plus nightmare that originally occurred, coincidentally, against these very same Islanders in New York. So even if he chooses not to play this is good news.
If Bouchard plays, the Wild goes with 6 D and Greg Zanon presumably is scratched. If Bouchard doesn't, the Wild will go with 7 D and Zanon returns.
Casey Wellman is scratched, however, with that wrist injury I reported in yesterday's paper. Yeo says he just can't shoot the puck the way the Wild needs.
Jarod Palmer will make his NHL debut. The Fridley native guess he'll have 100 people in the stands tonight, including his dad, Jeff, whom he says taught him everything he knows about hockey. He's very excited obviously and seemed very calm.
Palmer had a real good preseason and scored in the exhibition opener in Edmonton, which gives him confidence that it can be done in the NHL. He got a quick, matter of fact phone call yesterday from Aeros GM Jim Mill to pack up and get on a plane.
Mikko Koivu skated this morning in a track suit. He won't play, but he's expected to make the road trip. I'd think Devin Setoguchi comes on the road, too. Guillaume Latendresse remains completely shut down and will be for a bit.
That's it for me.
Islanders vs. Wild, next. Talk to you before the game to let you know if Bouchard is playing.
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Gerald and Barbara Heil
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Italian authorities have decided that the Costa Concordia is too precariously perched on a reef for search and recovery operations to continue.
Pier Paolo Cito, Associated Press
John Heil, son of Barbara and Gerald Heil, stood in the harbor of the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, late last month as operations continued then to find victims of the cruise ship disaster.
Pier Paolo Cito, Associated Press
Family of White Bear Lake couple plans memorial service
- Article by: TIM HARLOW and MARY LYNN SMITH
- Star Tribune
- February 1, 2012 - 9:50 AM
Hope faded into acceptance Tuesday, as the family of a White Bear Lake couple missing in the Italian cruise ship disaster said they would begin planning a memorial service for Gerald and Barbara Heil.
"We are certainly disheartened ... but understand and accept the decision to bring the search operation to a halt," the family said in a blog update posted late Tuesday afternoon. "As we struggle to come to grips with this tragedy, we find comfort knowing Mom and Dad are now in a better place free from any worries. They have always been obedient to God's plan and now we must do the same."
Italian rescue officials said a formal decision to call off the search is expected Wednesday. The liner Costa Concordia slammed into a reef Jan. 13 off the island of Giglio; at least 17 people were killed and 16 are still missing. The ship, which carried more than 4,200 passengers and crew, lies at a steep angle on rocks in relatively shallow water off the Italian coast.
Italian authorities say conditions have become too dangerous for rescuers to continue working. Search operations have been suspended briefly several times before, when the ship shifted slightly on its rocky resting place, only to be resumed later. This time, the agency said, safety conditions for the underwater search had been "objectively" reduced, suggesting a more persistent problem.
News that the search was being suspended spread rapidly Tuesday among the Heils' friends, who had realized last week that the rescue operation had evolved into a recovery operation, said Duane Jabas, a family friend. "There are many sad eyes here," he said. "I haven't had a day when I haven't had a tear in my eye since I found out when the news came out on that Sunday."
Relatives, friends and even strangers have held vigils at St. Pius X Church in White Bear Lake, where the Heils had been members for 37 years. Gerald, 69, a former state employee, and Barbara, 70, a cancer survivor, were "silent leaders" who were always willing to give their time but never sought recognition in return.
"They were such caring and giving people," Jabas said. "It's hard to think that I won't see Jerry and Barbara anymore. Wherever Jerry was, Barb was close by. ... Throughout life we meet many people, but there are some that stand out above the others. And, definitely, the Heils stood out above others."
It was their charisma and their leadership, Jabas said. "But always the wonderful smile and hello whenever we were greeting at the morning mass. Jerry definitely exemplified the meaning of 'gentleman.'"
Gerald taught Bible studies and religious education classes, helped out with breakfasts and bingo, and most recently was coordinating the church's February Festival. He built the church's website and was involved in events such as Walk for Life and the Metro Area Paintathon. He was "a meticulous note taker for the Knights of Columbus," Jabas said.
Barbara, who was never far from his side, handed out baked goods to parishioners. She also volunteered at the Dorothy Day Center.
"It was always family first, but they bent over backwards and gave freely of their time," said friend Dennis Bechel. "This is hard to accept. It's like losing part of your family, the church family. Without a doubt, they will be missed."
Gerald was director of the Agriculture Marketing and Development Division of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, where he started in 1979. "He was a good mentor, very fair and supportive of his staff," said Mary Hanks, whom Gerald hired 15 years ago and who took over as department director when Gerald retired in 2006.
Gerald had a keen sense of humor and was quick with a quote from Mark Twain, Harry Truman or his favorite comic strip, "Dilbert," Hanks said.
The Heils joined St. Pius X in 1973 and sent their four children to the church's elementary and middle school, said Larry Erickson, parish administrator.
Family members said Gerald and Barbara had been looking forward to the 16-day cruise, which ended just three hours after they boarded the ship.
"They raised four kids and sent them all to private school, elementary to college, so they never had any money," Sarah Heil told WBBM radio in Chicago shortly after the accident happened. "So when they retired, they went traveling. And this was to be a big deal, a trip they were really excited about."
The family's statement in its most recent blog post thanks rescuers for all their efforts. "Time and time again, the rescuers faced many perils in the hopes of reuniting the missing with their families," the statement says. "We will be forever grateful for all those who worked so hard for people they did not even know, yet understood how important their job was for those that remained, waiting for news."
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John E. Robison and his son, Cubby.
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JOHN ELDER ROBISON
What: The author of “Raising Cubby” and “Look Me in the Eye” will speak at Talk of the Stacks.
When: 7 p.m. Thu.
Where: Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall, Mpls.
Tickets: Free. Doors open at 6:15 p.m.
Next Talk of the Stacks: Andrei Codrescu, April 4.
Writer examines how autism helps ‘drive the world forward’
- Article by: Laurie Hertzel
- Star Tribune
- March 19, 2013 - 5:40 PM
As a child, John Elder Robison found it very difficult to make friends. He spent most of his time alone. “My social disability was dismissed as laziness, or deliberate misbehavior,” he says on his website. “I dropped out of high school in the 10th grade.”
His genius lay in all things mechanical; over the years, he designed special-effects sound gear for the rock band Kiss, and video games for a toy company. He now runs J.E. Robison Service, an auto business in Springfield, Mass., that specializes in customizing and restoring luxury cars. But that “social disability” of his youth remained, and it wasn’t until he was 40 that he got a diagnosis: Asperger’s syndrome.
Understanding that changed his life.
Coming, as he did, from a writing family (his mother is poet Margaret Robison; his brother is memoirist Augusten Burroughs), Robison began writing about living with Asperger’s. His memoir, “Look Me in the Eye,” published in 2007, was a New York Times bestseller.
His latest book (“Raising Cubby: A Father and Son’s Adventures With Asperger’s, Trains, Tractors, and High Explosives”) explores his relationship with his son, who also has Asperger’s. Robison will be the Talk of the Stacks speaker Thursday at the Central Library in downtown Minneapolis. Here, he talks about the grave responsibility of the writer, the trickiness of writing about one’s family, and how autism might make him a better writer.
Q: Did writing your first book change your life?
A: Writing “Look Me in the Eye” put me out there in public view as a person with Asperger’s who’d done OK. Temple Grandin and I were two of the first people to show that you could be successful because of something others saw as a disability.
My first book opened many doors for me. I was invited to speak all over the world, and to participate in cutting-edge research by neuroscientists, which will be the subject of my next book. That book also showed me the responsibility authors have when they write words that go beyond simple entertainment. To my amazement, “Look Me in the Eye” proved to be a big deal to readers who had family members on the autism spectrum, and their comments and questions made me understand that I need to put my very best quality of thought into anything I write.
Q: How did your son feel about having his life written about in your new book? Did he have veto power?
A: Cubby has mixed feelings, I guess. Remember that the New York Times had him splashed over the front page and a whole two-page spread in a story, “Navigating Love and Autism,” about his relationship with his girlfriend, who also has Asperger’s. So a few million people have already “met” my son in print.
There was nothing he wanted to veto, though he did have corrections and advice — especially when it came to the names of complex chemicals and the details of his love of science and technology.
Q: Do you hope your books will change people’s perceptions of people with autism and Asperger’s syndrome?
A: Many people have said that “Look Me in the Eye” and “Be Different” changed how they see autism. I hope “Raising Cubby” will do the same, especially for parents.
With the reading public, I hope to start a dialogue and increase the acceptance of people who are different in our society. Kids who act different are not generally villains. In fact, it’s the different people who often drive our world forward.
Q: Describe your writing room.
A: I do most of my writing in the library of my home, and in my office here at work. I’m answering your questions from my desk at Robison Service.
My library at home is the highest point in the house, above the garage. I can see the whole length of my driveway from the window, and I watch for animals — weasels, turkeys, bears, foxes and squirrels. We live in a rural area, and the animals have been getting much more aggressive of late. Humans used to be at the top of the food chain, but now I’m not so sure. I walk around the house in the morning and see footprints in the snow where they stood at the ground-floor windows, and marks where they rested their forelegs on the sills, looking in. Are they watching TV, or planning the takeover?
Q: How do you get around the distractions of the Internet?
A: It’s true that I have far more distractions now than I did before the Internet, Facebook and my increased visibility as an author. I don’t have a special trick, though. … I just decide to write something and I sit down and do it. It’s possible that I have less trouble in this area because I’m autistic. One trait of autism is that people like me can concentrate more deeply than ordinary people, and that can help when it comes to writing.
Q: Do you have a favorite book from childhood?
A: I liked the Encyclopedia Britannica a lot. I also liked Tom Swift and the Hardy Boys, especially the old brown hardcover editions I used to find at my grandparents’.
Q: What are you reading right now?
A: This past weekend I read a new book — “Hitmaker,” by Tommy Mottola, the former president of Sony Music. I enjoyed that story because I’d worked with many of the people he wrote about during my own years designing fire-breathing guitars for Kiss and traveling with the rock bands who used my sound equipment.
Q: What’s been the best place so far to do a reading?
A: I’ve been honored to be invited to give talks at prestigious places, like the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control or the Harvard Graduate School of Education. And I’ve enjoyed giving talks in spectacular venues. The finest of those was the free-form aluminum and glass BMW Amphitheatre in Melbourne, Australia.
Q: Which authors have inspired you?
A: My brother’s book, “Running With Scissors” — and the way people welcomed and accepted him despite such an awful childhood story — gave me the courage to share my own stories. I’d never have written a book if not for that.
Laurie Hertzel • 612-673-7302 on Twitter @StribBooks
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March 10th, 2011 at 8:58 am
Hiring over there is good and will save you time and money..just keep on top of your game and reap the benefits..
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March 12th, 2011 at 10:31 pm
I appreciate the advice as I know how important it is, especially at “start-up” to TRUST someone else with any task. When you value your business and have an emotional tie to a product, it is difficult to establish trusting relationships. Giving out repetitive tasks that take time and energy away from those items that have priority is great advice! Thanks for the insights.
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I think it helps to view them as virtual assistants who are helping you complete important tasks that you will never get to but must get done.
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Episode 118 | Anti-piracy methods, HitTail, AuditShark and other madness
Show Notes
- Protecting against software pirates
- Actions to take when a software pirate steals your software
- WPEngine
- Micropreneur Academy
- WishList Member
- YSlow
- DotNetInvoice
- Mike’s Twitter handle: @SingleFounder
- Rob’s Twitter handle: @RobWalling
- AuditShark’s Twitter handle: @AuditShark
- HitTail
- GoDaddy
- TheSSLStore.com
- Comodo
- GeoTrust
- Trello
- thestartupkids.com
Transcript
[00:00] Mike: This is Startups for the Rest of Us: Episode 118.
’m doing good, Mike, aside from the fact that I don’t like anti-piracy code in DRM. Yesterday morning I wake up and I have an e-mail from our virtual assistant Andy who’s trying to log in to the Academy, micropreneur.com. He’s doing a little admin work and the WishList plug-in that manages our membership just keeps telling him, “You need to validate your product code. You need to click this button and validate the product code.” We’ve had this thing installed for four years, right? And although we’ve moved servers a few times, I mean we’ve never had to go through the step again. And it turns out that if you try to log in, it wouldn’t let us do anything in the WishList admin and then if you log in as a user to the Academy, it was deathly slow. It was like 20-second page load times.
[01:04] And so I’ve e-mailed WP Engine. I’m trying to run YSlow. I eventually e-mail WishList and as it turns out, they have piece of anti-piracy stuff in their plug-in that calls back to their server and if it can’t validate it by hitting their server, then it slows your site down. And their server was down. They told me the next morning that it had been hacked but that’s new to hearing there [Phonetic]. It was, you know, I tried to hit their server. I couldn’t hit it and so, I figure that that was the issue. And sure enough, when they come back up, everything worked again but it was just, ugh, it was like slap to the forehead, you know, like who does that? I mean honestly, I’ve heard of maybe one or two other vendors doing this and to me it’s such a single point of failure. It’s such a way to piss off thousands of your customers.
[01:50] Mike: I understand the mentality but it’s – I don’t want to say it’s the amateur mentality but it’s the mentality of people who feel like they’re probably not necessarily offering enough value or they’re too scared of pirates to understand that the people who are building real businesses are actually going to buy licenses for it.
[02:08] Rob: Right and actually you’re one of the first people who I had heard say that. This is like maybe 2005, 2006, you had a couple of blogs post on it and we’ll link those up in the show notes but you basically said because I always of the mindset, you know, like in the Shareware world, the MicroISP world, people would always have the license code and you know, in order to use it, you needed the specific license thing and you basically came out and said I don’t think that’s the right way to go and I think that hurts your customers, your paying customers more than it stops the people who are trying to pirate your software.
[02:35] And that was where we’re at the decision for our DotNetInvoice and we were looking at doing some type of registration code anti-piracy thing and we decided not to after reading your post and doing a little more research. But everytime I run in to this now and when I’m the customer and it causes me a great deal of pain and or a lot of angry e-mails from users, I totally think back to that argument of if you’re really a small vendor, the anti-piracy stuff is typically not worth it.
[03:02] Mike: That’s totally correct. I mean even the other way to look at it is how much time are you – and effort are you going to spend as the vendor supporting those people who are legitimate customers who really did buy your product and all you’re doing is you’re…you’re pissing them off and you’re making their lives miserable. And on top of that because they’re talking to you for a support help because your anti-piracy mechanisms aren’t working or there are something, you know, going on that’s making things slow or your server got hacked, it doesn’t really matter what the issue is. Every minute that you’re spending time working with those customers is a minute that they’re pissed off at you and a minute that you’re not getting worked done. So, you’re basically killing time on multiple people because you want to implement stuff that will theoretically help you but at the end of the day, it really doesn’t.
[03:48] Rob: Right and I think your argument in the blog post if you want to defeat pirates, keep releasing new versions of your software because nothing discourages someone from pirating your software more than seeing that they have an old version of it and that they can’t get the new version.
[04:01] Mike: That kind of came about because I had some software that I was publishing back in probably 2002, 2003 and I was selling it and I had put copy protection software on it and it gotten cracked and then we released a new version and then that got cracked and then we released a new version and then that one didn’t get cracked. And I don’t think that it was because somebody couldn’t crack it because it was the exact same encryption code, it was just the new version. I think that whoever was doing it, they just got bored and they said, “Ugh, I’m not going to bother.”
[04:28] Rob: So, I started the day off with a rant, you’re going to start it off with some positive news. Did you get an e-mail from someone?
[04:33] Mike: Yes, I did. So, last Thursday, I was having an absolutely horrendous day. There were tons of stuff that was just going right. And I got an e-mail from Bob Ropp [Phonetic] who said, “Just want to let you guys know that I really love the show. I found it searching through tech podcast about six months ago and I’ve been a loyal listener ever since. Thanks, guys and give up at the good work.” And as I always said, you know, it’s just kind of made my day.
[04:52] Rob: Very nice. I realized we haven’t mentioned our Twitter handles in quite some time. So, if you are a listener to the show and you’re not following Mike and I on Twitter, check us out. Mike is Single Founder and I am Rob Walling.
[05:05] Music
[05:08] Rob: Have an update on AuditShark? So, what’s the news?
[05:11] Mike: Based on your previous comment about Twitter, I started working on the AuditShark Twitter account and following a bunch of different people and just trying to get a small following there and I’ve got it up to around 40 or 50 people in three days or something like that, four days. I haven’t put it any extra time in to it since then but I’m starting to work on the process that I can hand to somebody and say, “Hey, I want you to start tweeting out links and stories and news articles to help grow that following a little bit.” And then in terms of the website itself, I roughly doubled traffics since November and December levels. So, I’ve been doing some content marketing and SEO that is kind of starting to pay off at this point. I got to go back and take a look at some of the inbound links and some of the different keywords that I was looking at as potential targets to go after for SEO but it’s a matter of kind of prioritizing those and putting up some new articles.
[05:59] Rob: And what’s the AuditShark Twitter account?
[06:01] Mike: Oh, it’s just AuditShark, @AuditShark.
[06:04] Rob: So, people who are interested in hearing about security world, is that what you’re going to be posting links about?
[06:09] Mike: Yeah. So, I haven’t kind of fully fleshed out my strategy for it yet but what I’m thinking about doing is kind of going to a bunch of new sources and trying to figure out what links would be relevant to the people who would be following the account and what sort of security things are happening in the world. So, for example, recently, there’s been a lot of problems in the Rails community because there’s been some pretty significant, I don’t want to say backdoors but security vulnerabilities that have kind of come out where you can take control of a server and basically run arbitrary code on that server even if the application is designed in a secure way because it has a problem to do with the framework itself, not necessarily the way that people are using it.
[06:49] And of course, it’s a problem because if your Rail server gets compromised, it means that they can get access to anything that’s on that server including the database and, you know, your customer data and then they can use that to go in to other servers. And just by doing a little bit of matching between different Rails applications, you could start whittling down to figure out, okay, well who between these two applications is using the same password on pretty much all their accounts. And then you could use that to launch massive attacks against some pretty major sites on the internet, you know, anything from Amazon or you know, Microsoft, Oracle, et cetera.
[07:21] I mean if these people are truly using the same e-mail addresses and passwords on all those websites, it would be very easy to go in to them and do different things and especially when it comes in to the things like banking. I mean because people use — if you’re reusing those usernames and passwords or the e-mail addresses, it can be a huge problem. So, I’ve been looking at that a little bit and trying to decide. I’ll say in how far in to that rabbit hole I want to go and I’ve actually reached out to a couple of people in the Rails community and see if they would want to use AuditShark to audit their servers to help monitor for changes of any critical system files. So, for example if the new user show up or a new software gets installed or if some of the code libraries are out of date, et cetera and I’ve gotten some responses from that [0:08:00] so I’m looking at those right now.
[08:02] Rob: Nice. So, if folks are interested in that kind of stuff, I see that’s what you’ll be talking about on your Twitter account.
[08:07] Mike: Yup.
[08:08] Rob: So, on Sunday morning [Laughter] I got an e-mail from both you and my HitTail product manager saying, “Your SSL cert is expired.” And what it have – this is totally me dropping the ball. When I acquired HitTail, it was maybe 18, 19 months ago, the previous owner had a 2-year SSL cert and she had bought it on February whatever two years ago and I don’t know if you can transfer ownership. I should had just bought a new one to be honest but it was on the server I’m working and I was able to export and re-import it when I moved servers and just never thought about it and so bam, right in the middle of – it was probably early Sunday afternoon Pacific Time, the thing just stops working. So, at least the website was up, the marketing site worked but you just wouldn’t, you know, when you click to register that’s SSL because they ask for credit card number and I wasn’t getting any trial.
[08:56] So, the kicker is I went in – I knew it was a GoDaddy SSL cert and of course, I go to GoDaddy to try to just renew the cert and I realize – that’s when I realized, I don’t actually own the cert so there’s no way that I can just renew it. So, I generated a new request on the server and I go to GoDaddy to try to fulfill the request and they say, “You can’t take out a cert for – a Wildcard cert for this domain name because one already exists in our system and it hasn’t been purge, doesn’t get purged for weeks after that.”
[09:23] So, I had to then call GoDaddy and I have to tip my hat to GoDaddy. I’m shocked at how good their customer service was over the phone on a Sunday afternoon and they – the guy I got on with their SSL Department and they purged the old one. I sent in the request and they turned it around in like 10 minutes. For a Wildcard cert, I was really impressed and oh, total time taking was about an hour from the time I heard, you know, from you and my product manager but it was a little stressful for sure. I didn’t know because I kept imagining back in the day, you’d wait 24 hours to get an SSL cert back and I was really hoping it didn’t laying in to Monday.
[09:57] Mike: It depends of what type of SSL cert is you’re getting. So there’s [0:10:00] this thing called an EV cert which is Extended Validation which gives you the – it’s not just the little lock icon in your browser bar but it also gives you the name of the company itself. So, if you like go to PayPal or Bank of America, they tend to have those Extended Validation certificates and it’s supposed to signify to the end user that, “Oh, we have done an extended background check on this company and that will take you several days or even a couple of weeks to get through.” But with yours, I mean it’s not an Extended Validation. So, you don’t have to worry about it and they can generally turn those around pretty quick. I get most of mine through either the SSL Store Comodo or GeoTrust and their turnaround time on most of them is, you know, minutes. It does not take fairly long at all.
[10:43] Rob: Yeah. So, that was good news. It was just a minor…little minor hiccup for Sunday afternoon. Luckily, it got resolved quickly. But Derek is my product manager for HitTail and I just start calling him by his first name. He e-mailed and then texted me and that’s what I needed was the text because I hadn’t check the e-mail that day.
[10:58] Mike: Cool. I just finished up writing an e-course. It’s an introduction to how to use Altiris for my Altiris training site and I’m working on building a landing page for it but I’m also touching base with some of the Altiris sales engineers to see if they’d be willing to tell people about it because they’re in the field all the time and they are talking to customers. So, these customers are obviously asking…going to ask them questions about where can we get resources and they will tell them but at the same time, if they knew about my site and they will probably tell them about my site and get more publicity for the site just because the sales engineers tend to have a lot of clout when they’re talking directly to the customers. They take their thoughts and opinions on whether or not a site is a good resource. They treat it as if they have some authority.
[11:38] So, I think that if just by touching base with some of my old contacts through that network, I can definitely get some more people to the website because the traffic is pretty much kind of leveled off back to where I had originally thought it would be. I don’t see it going significantly back up without some extreme measures [Laughter] just because the site doesn’t give very much traffic for the keywords that I’m targeting and there’s not much else I can target [0:12:00] for those keywords.
[12:01] Rob: Right, small organic SEO market which makes sense. What’s the e-course for? Is it to get SEO traffic? Is it going to rank for keywords or is it to give away and exchange for an e-mail?
[12:11] Mike: Yes, it’s to give away and exchange for an e-mail address and that because I’m getting a lot of people to the site or I’m getting, you know, enough people to the site but my conversation rate isn’t as high as I would like it to be. So, what I’m trying to do is first I want to get e-mail addresses from those people. Send them some valuable relevant content that they’re going to read hopefully on a daily basis and then try to draw them back to the sites who in an effort to get them to buy or to maybe sign up for other e-courses or something along those lines.
[12:36] Rob: Got it. Yeah, in terms of getting e-mail addresses, our landing page at GetDrip.com, I started sending some my paid traffic to that purely as a test of a couple of things, I’m split testing some different headlines and body text of the landing page. And that’s worked out well. There’s already one variation of the test that had just completely flopped and so that tells me that that particular, you know, that verbiage that I was using is suboptimal for this market. And what I like about the paid acquisition is it’s not that I’m trying to actually make money out of it, it’s just that it’s just so easy to send a bunch of traffic to it really quick and kind of see how it behaves.
[13:11] At this point, I’m getting around 20% of the traffic that I’m sending from these two niches to provide their e-mail address. So, I’m fairly happy with that. It’s not like outstanding but it’s definitely, you know, these are cold e-mails, people who’ve never heard of me or heard of the app or anything. So, the fact that they’re willing to type an e-mail in to our landing page is a good sign at this point.
[13:33] Mike: Yeah, that’s cool.
[13:34] Rob: I want to go back and update folks on my Trello versus paper competition, right? I’ve always use paper for to-do list and I moved to Trello a couple of months ago and although I’m still using – I have a Moleskine notebook, the black notebooks that I use for all my long-term items in my big thinking and you know, anything that’s like goals and such. But I got to be honest, man, I have not going back to paper for the to-do list since I wet to Trello and I have the iPhone app [0:14:00] and I have it on the iPad and I have it on my desktop and I loved that it’s all synced and then I can just pull it up anywhere and add stuff, move it around. It’s just – it really is someone finally cracked that nut. You know, Fog Creek finally cracked it and I really – I have not found a reason not to use Trello still. It’s pretty crazy.
[14:17] Mike: Yeah, it is. You know, it’s funny because…it’s funny that you bring up Trello because I was trying to think of how to move some of the UI for AuditShark in to the Cloud just because I was talking to the developer that I have working on AuditShark and we were trying to hash out where would be the best place to host all the stuff because right now everything is kind of split between the Cloud and then you have to have this policy builder and it gets kind of complicated for the user and it’s like well the easiest thing to do would just be have everything in the Cloud.
[14:44] So, we were discussing how to kind of rework the UI and make it easier to use and one of the things that I thought of was the way that Trello allows you to kind of drag and drop things between the different columns and I was thinking that will actually might make a very good UI for putting the policy builder in to the Cloud because I was trying to figure out how to do that, you know, using like grids and tables and adding things back and forth between different columns and within the policies and control points. And it gets…it gets a little bit complicated and hard to explain unless you’re kind of familiar with some of the different terms and how the policy builder works but basically the idea of being able to drag and drop objects on the screen, that right there would solve like 95% of those issues.
[15:26] Rob: Very nice and I wonder if…if Fog Creek use the framework or somebody you could piggyback on and say you don’t have to build it from scratch. You know, I imagine that you use jQuery or something that makes that easier.
[15:35] Mike: Actually, they…they posted a couple of links on their blog that tell you specifically what the Trello stack is. So, it started out – let’s see here, they say that they’ve got CoffeeScript, Backbone.js, HTML5. They have this thing called Mustache which is a templating language and then they also have Socket.IO and WebSocket, Ajax Polling. They’ve got MongoDB, Redis and a couple of other different [0:16:00] things in here. And I probably wouldn’t necessarily need all of these things but the fact is that they tell you basically what the use for that. So, if I wanted to build something that was similar that was specifically designed for AuditShark, then I could probably do it. It would be significantly better than putting much any other security product that is out there on the market right now. So, you know, it’s definitely something for me to think about. I just don’t know how much effort it would take to build something like that.
[16:26] Rob: Yeah and if you haven’t build something like that before, the learning curve will certainly be steep on the initial implementation. It’s nice that they – that’s why I like about software companies. There’s a lot of them will just say, “Here’s how we did this.” You know that Fog Creek published that so that other people can go build cool stuff is really neat and that’s not done in a lot of industries. You don’t see manufacturer showing you their process as a rule. I mean that’s pretty cool.
[16:48] Mike: You know, with software – I mean anybody can make it. It doesn’t matter whether you tell everyone about your idea or tell nobody. I mean the fact is as soon as you launch it, everybody is going to take a look at it and say, “Oh, well, I could build that and you know, this is probably how you did it.” And you can kind of reverse engineer most things. It’s just you kind of to have to put any effort and do the work in order to rebuild something like that. It’s not exactly a big secret.
[17:09] Rob: Oh, I have a couple last updates and then maybe we’ll dive in to a few listener questions. Regarding HitTail, January was the best month ever. It actually had – not only that but I had more trials than any month in the past and previously, June of last year had the most trials because it was the year or the month that the AppSumo deal ran and it sent a bunch of traffic. So, it’s a good kickoff to 2013 and what’s nice is since it’s a 21-day trial, February should actually look good too. We got an unexpected write-up in Search Engine Watch. The head editor had seen a HitTail ad and had been familiar with HitTail from years ago and so, he wrote us up and then invited me on their Search Engine Watch Podcast and obviously, that traffic would convert really well.
[17:50] And I guess the thing I realized, man is it’s like the more you’re out there, the more you have ads running, the more you’re just being written about, the more we’re getting contacted by joint venture partners, people who say, “Hey, we want to e-mail our list, you e-mail your list, you know.” Search Engine Watch finding us – I mean it – it just increased that, you know, that lock surface area like Justin and Jason talk about. I mean just being out there creates more exposure and more area free to expand your business. So, it’s definitely working out or at least it did work out in the month through January for us. So, trying maintain that growth and hit our growth goal of 2013 and on track for that so far.
[18:25] Last two update, one is I watch a movie on Netflix streaming. It’s called Indie Game: The Movie. I highly recommend it. It’s about some software developers who are building indie games and it’s – Indie Game is like it’s just one or two developers. So, they’re not associated with a studio. It is really cool. It captures the emotion, the struggles, the anxiety, how long it takes, how the internet can be really cruel if you put out a game and people don’t like it. I mean it’s very closely parallels what we do as developers also theirs world is a little more subjective, right, where people can just say your game is cool or not. At least with software, if we try to sell on value, we have a bit of, you know, a different measuring stick but if you’re all in to the software development stuff, I really recommend Indie Game. It’s nice because it’s free on Netflix if you have a subscription.
[19:11] Mike: The other problem with selling game is either people like it or they don’t and if people don’t like it, there’s not a lot you can do to save it. It’s not like a business application where it doesn’t meet somebody’s needs and you can tweak it until it does. But with the game, it’s really hard to tweak a game so that people like it if it was just a complete dot or bust from day one.
[19:33] Rob: Right. It’s much more hit-based. It’s like writing popular music or making a movie rather than building software for businesses.
[19:40] Mike: Yup.
[19:41] Rob: All right, last thing is our editor had a comment about last episode. Someone wrote in they were talking about the organic delivery idea in New York and she said that she – there is a grocery delivery service in New York City that delivers organic as well as other fresh food and it’s called FreshDirect. She said it’s a huge operation and it’s hard to imagine one person being able to coordinate that. She said FreshDirect is been around for a number of years and she sure they started out small but now they have a giant warehouse, thousands of trucks and drivers and deliver thousands of items within 24 hours of ordering them. There’s no subscription fee. There is a delivery fee at a minimal amount you can spend.
[20:18] You know, we touched on that a little bit just because there’s competition doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t do something if you can figure out a better way to do it. But if you are going to go head-to-head with a big incumbent player, you do need to figure out how are you going to be better or different than they are and obviously, the logistical aspects of handling all the perishable food is quite a big thing to bite off, if you’re wiling to do that and that’s the kind of thing that interest you, by all means.
[20:40] Mike: The problem with fruits and vegetables and things like that is you run in to a lot of what’s called shrink in the retail industry and shrink generally refers to any goods that are lost but when you’re talking about produce, what you’re generally talking about there is stuff that just could not be sold because it wasn’t any good. So, whether the…the apples have bruises on them or something just went bad, you know, the milk expired, things like that, there’s a lot more shrink in the produce industry than there is in the…the general retail but general retail does have shrink as well. I mean if clothes or something like that get ripped or if a TV set – nobody wants the TV set where the box is kind of destroyed a little bit or mashed in on the side. I mean that’s why in…in the past grocery stores used to take can goods and if the cans had dents in them, they would sell it to you at a discount. And now, they don’t do that anymore because people would take the cans and they just drop a whole case of them and say, “Oh, well, I get 50 cents off of each of this.” So – but shrink is definitely a big concern in an industry like that.
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[21:42] Rob: Let’s answer a few listener questions.
[21:44] Mike: So, the first one comes from Glen Lawson [Phonetic] and he says, “Hi, Rob and Mike. Once again, thanks for continuing to produce the podcast. It’s been my favorite for several years now. Rob, I have a question for you. You’ve mentioned that you brought on a friend to be product manager for HitTail with the hope that he’ll one day take up more responsibility with allowing you to focus on new products. Once you’ve launched or acquired a product and built it up to a stage where others can manage it with little direction from yourself, how do you maintain growth and encourage your staff to be passionate about the business and have a desire to grow it? Would love to hear your thoughts. Regards, Glen.”
[22:12] Rob: There’s a couple of ways to do this for sure. First thing is you need to hire the right people, right? You need to hire someone who is generally going to be passionate and excited about whatever they work on because if they don’t have that, if you just hire someone who’s kind of ho-hum about any job they do, then you’re not going to be able to instill that in them. The second thing to think about is you want to hire someone who’s specifically excited about startups or about growing startups or about being a startup founder. It’s not something that I think can really be taught but if someone is naturally excited about this concept of being a software entrepreneur, then it’s awesome for them to learn on the job and that’s…that’s what I found with Derek is just that he has such a thirst for knowledge and had such a desire to learn all the [Audio Glitch] of the business that I mean I remember, you know, being this back in the day, right? It’s like you’re a kid in a candy store because you’re doing what you really enjoy everyday and you’re getting paid for it and you’re just learning all these awesome stuff.
[23:05] And so, those are the first few things that I think will carry you a long way and then at some point, I think if you’re looking at long term, you do have to think about putting your motivations alongside the person that you hire. In other words, if you make out really well in the businesses well, then you guys should both do well. And so that product manager should ultimately either get a share of profits or equity. And that’s again, may not be the first year or two that they work but if you’re thinking long term, that has to be something in the back of your mind because someone is not going to work forever just to put a bunch of money in your pocket and they are always going to work harder if there is some more motivation to do that either again make more money in terms of equity or a profit sharing?
[23:46] Mike: Well, I mean I think a lot of what you said rings through for most people but the other…the other side of the coin is I used to think this exact same way as well. You know, what’s in it for the people that you’re hiring? And the fact is not everyone wants to run their own business. I mean some people just want [0:24:00] to be able to go to a job and do that job and it doesn’t mean that they’re not passionate about it. It just means that they don’t want to have to think about it when they’re not working. So, those are the type of people who are perfectly content to work for you. They’re not going to actively be looking for the next ride to catch, you know, the next business to jump on to. I mean they want a job. They want a steady income and they want to be able to enjoy their career and as long as you’re providing them with an environment where they are actually enjoying what they do, then you don’t necessarily have to worry about that too much. And again, it depends on what type of person you hire and what they’re interested in. But you can definitely run in to those people who are more entrepreneurial in nature and want to go on and do their own thing. But there’s definitely contingent of people who don’t want that.
[24:48] Rob: Yeah, that’s a good point. And I think I have a…I have a hard time giving advice in this area because my end is one, right? I have only done this once and I found a certain type of person who works in a certain situation and at this point, I don’t know if I could replicate it yet. With a lot of the stuff that I give people advice about, I have done it many, many times in a repeated fashion, all the marketing, the starting, a company they’re growing, you know, the product revenue and all of that stuff, it’s something that I feel confident that I have done it enough times that I do have, you know, an end of 10 or an end 20. My sample size is just larger and so with this one, I have thoughts on it about how I would proceed, but to be honest with, you know, really I only experience to one person. I have lesson I like [Phonetic] to stand on in terms of giving others advice in my opinion.
[25:31]Mike: The next one is from Brian and he says, “I’m currently struggling with the decision whether or when to hire employee number one. My dilemma is I don’t quite have the revenue yet to support this but I’m also very bogged down in task that I’d like to hand off. So, it’s the chicken or the egg thing. An employee will help free me up to focus on growing revenue but without the revenue, I can’t afford an employee. Should I grind it out as I’ve been doing mostly solo with study but slow growth and hire someone later on when I can afford it or should I hire someone sooner and think of it as an investment just for a faster growth? Thanks, Brian.”
[25:59] I think that the thing that you have to do here is take a look at the tasks that you have that you are spending a lot of time on and try to figure out which one is you’re spending the most time on and which of those tasks could be outsource to somebody at a part-time rate. I don’t know as I would go down the path of hiring somebody fulltime yet but you can definitely find people who are looking for part-time work and especially if you’re doing things like support tasks where those types of things can be scripted and you can give somebody some general guidelines and say, “This is my general blanket policy. If somebody asks for a refund, give it to them. If somebody wants you to help them out, go ahead and help them out.” And you’re paying them on an hourly basis. You can kind of have them touch base with you if they have any questions about that stuff but what you’re really looking to do is free up some of your time without having to pay for them to do it fulltime for you.
[26:47] And that allows you to kind of slowly get in to it and the one thing I would caution against for most people in general is if you’ve never been a manager before, it’s very hard to jump in and just take on somebody as a fulltime responsibility and have to manage their workload at all times. If you’re having problems trying to makes end meet and pay their salary, the best suggestion that I would have is don’t do that. What you need to do is take them on a part-time basis and gradually move in to that role and if it doesn’t work out, then that’s fine. I mean you’ve only taken them on as a part-time employee as a opposed to a fulltime employee because once you start taking someone on as a fulltime employee, that’s a huge responsibility because especially if they’ve left another job to work for you and if it doesn’t work out and a lot of these situations do not work out the first time because you – people are notoriously terrible at hiring people.
[27:38] So, you’re better off hiring somebody on a part-time basis kind of testing the water and see how things go and then move on from there if things work out. But if they don’t then, you know, cut the cord. Move on to the next person and at that point, you’re not really torpedoing somebody’s career or taking them away from a job that they realistically could have stuck around in for a while.
[27:59] Rob: That’s exactly what what I was going to say. That’s why we talk so much and we have done this over and over. We did it with support and in the Academy, with support with HitTail. I could go on and on literally, five, ten times I’ve done this, hiring someone who starts off maybe only at 2 hours a week and they’re purely on as needed basis and that’s where nice project management tool like oDesk that actually tracks their time. There’s things that can really track someone’s time accurately and then like you said, you’re only on the hook for the time they work. They can linearly scale up as the time expands and in fact at this point, I now have multiple people working over 20 hours a week and I have one person working 40 hours a week but none of them started at that point. They all started working a couple of hours a week and allowed me to have the free cash flow to then go invested in other things in marketing approaches or in development cost. There’s no reason to tie up a bunch of money in a fulltime employee. I really don’t see any reason to do that.
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[29:00] Rob: Our next e-mail is actually not a question. It was…it has a subject cool stuff found. It’s from Carl and he says, “A film is in the making that I thought might interest you and your listeners.” And so if you visit startupkids.com, you can see a trailer for a movie, that’s a documentary about young web entrepreneurs in the U.S. and Europe. Did give them my e-mail address because I’d love to hear when it comes out but it has interviews with the founders of Vimeo, SoundCloud, Kippt, inDinero, Dropbox, Foodspotting and several others. So, he said it should be out in March of 2013. I’m in to this type of thing, right? You know, I love movies that observe, you know, all the stuff that we go through and to see other people talk through it is just fascinating. So, thestartupkids.com.
[29:40] Mike: And I think our last question for today comes from Ricardo and he says, “Hi, Rob and Mike. Thanks for the show. We’re a small SaaS company from Brazil with nearly 250 customers. Obviously, we love to get new customers and hate it and I really mean hate it to lose them. I hate it to the point that I’m disappointed with the whole business and mad with anyone who crosses my path for a few hours after each cancelation. I know I should be doing more marketing to get more customers more quickly. What I want to hear from you is what is your strategy for when you lose subscribers from the moment someone request a cancelation to subscription to the moment you actually let them go, how do you deal with it? What sort of metrics do you think? At what point does it start to concern you and more personally, how did it affect your mood in the way you treat your products? Thanks very much, Ricardo.”
[30:19] Rob: First thing to think about is to look at your product and figure out are you past the point of product market fit meaning have you built something that people want to use, that solves a problem that they have and that you are marketing to the right market that really needs it. So, if you are at 250 customers and they are happy and they love what you’re doing and you are able to find new customers and bring them in to your app, then the answer to that would be yes. You know, if your churn rates relatively low, you know, typically when your growth starts going up, your churn goes down, then you know that you “hit” product market fit, okay? If you’re before that, then every cancelation is an opportunity to talk to that customer, find out why they canceled, find out if they just are never going to use your app or if you’re missing a single feature, if you’re marketing to the wrong people. You know, there’s a bunch of stuff that you can find out for them and that’s a whole another conversation but that’s the kind of pre-product market fit discussion.
[31:10] Once you’re scaling and you’re marketing and bringing new people in, churn is a fact of life, period. You’re going to have people that cancel every month and with 250 customers, I hope that number is not a lot of people but in fact in early days of a SaaS app while you’re trying to hone your funnel and hone retention and get all your features in to keep people happy, you can easily have churn of 10 or 20% a month. Now, you can’t have that for very long. You’re obviously losing a lot of customers. 20% churn with 250 customers is 50 customers a month and you’ll essentially be at zero in five months. So, realize that but no matter how well you hone that and how good you get that number, how low you get it, you are always going to have a few people that cancel.
[31:51] So, I think there’s kind of the mental aspect of it. You said you get, you know, angry when people cancel, I would take yourself out of that loop so that you are no longer receiving that e-mail and having to cancel them. If it really does impact you and impacts your productivity in the way that you’re working with other people, I would say give that to an assistant or a tier 1 support or something and let them handle that because you don’t need to know about every single cancelation if they’re comments given in the cancelation which you should always ask why are you canceling and require, you know, at least X characters. If their comments given in that, then yes, maybe you should see all of those every week and be able to read through them but in terms of you getting angry everytime they cancel, then you should probably remove yourself from that process.
[32:32] Second thing I think is you have to look at them in aggregate and that actually takes away a little bit of the emotion from it and what I mean by in aggregate is look at the percentage. So, tracking churn percent which is the number of customers who canceled in a month divided by the number of customers you have at the beginning of that month is, you know, an absolute key SaaS metric. So, you need churn. You want to calculate the lifetime value and of course, the monthly average revenue per customer. But in terms of churn, you also want to break it up in to multiple durations because with SaaS or with any kind of subscription, you’re going to have higher churn in the first period that there are customers. So, for some businesses, it’s the first 30 days has really high churn and that can be 20 or 30% and then after that, it’ll settle way down and by down, I mean it can be 2% or 5% like really low areas. In other businesses, your first 60 days have high churn and in other’s first 90 days.
[33:28] So, you’d just have to calculate yours and you see, you watch and look when that churn drops off and then I would look at your first X days, So, for you it’ll be 30, 60, 90, probably. So, I’d say, you know, look at your first 60 days churn and then look at your post 60-day churn. And those are really the numbers you want to track on an ongoing basis and you want to either have a graph of those that you can look at so you can easily see the change in churn or you want to have a table, you know, worst case, you have a table of your current month plus all your previous months so that you can eyeball it and see is my churn going up or down. When your churn is too high [0:34:00], then you have to implement a bunch of stuff to try to bring it down and again, that’s probably an entire podcast or maybe a MicroConf talk that needs to happen, talk about specific ways to bring churn down. There are a lot of different ways to do it. Those are my initial thoughts on it. Mike, do you have anything to add?
[34:16] Mike: I like a lot of the things that you said regarding what metrics to take and you know, when it should start to concern you. Those are good things. I think the number one point that you said was to kind of remove yourself from that feedback loop if it’s really affecting the way that you work and the things that you’re getting done. That I would say is probably the single most important thing to do.
[34:36] The one other thing that I would point out is that this is definitely a situation where it seems like you’re taking these cancelations personally and the one thing that I would point out is that while you’re getting these e-mails and somebody is actively telling you, “Hey, I’m really not interested in your product anymore,” it’s not a lot different than somebody coming to your website and looking at your products and saying, “I’m not interested.” And that 98% of those people who come to your website are not interested and they leave. But for some reason, those people are not irritating you, it’s these people who have actually gone through that extra stuff, have looked at your product, have probably made a couple of payments and at that point, that’s where, you know, you’re getting these feelings of anger from these people who are saying, “Well, you know what? I’ve tried it out. I really don’t like it. It’s not for me. It’s not going to fit for what my needs are.”
[35:24] And my point is that there is not a lot of difference between those two and there’s this much larger group of people who are telling you no and the only reason you’re taking it personally is because you don’t get that feedback loop. So, again, just kind of going back to what Rob said, definitely take yourself out of that, have somebody else e-mail them back, ask them why they’re canceling. Get the information that you need and then just give it to you and aggregate.
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[35:48] Rob: That wraps us up for today. If you have a question for us, call our voicemail number at 888-801-9690 or e-mail us at questions@startupsfortherestofus.com. Our theme music is an excerpt from “We’re Outta Control” by MoOt [0:36:00], used under Creative Commons. Subscribe to us in iTunes by searching for startups or via RSS at startupsfortherestofus.com where you’ll also find a full transcript of each episode. Thanks for listening. We’ll see you next time.
Mike, if you’re looking for a good way to checkout Backbone.js, I’d recommend
Not affiliate them in any way. I stumbled upon the site while trying to brush up on Backbone.js (among other things) for a new job.
$25 a month and you get access to all of the courses they offer. If you wanted to do some stuff with Websockets, the Node.js covers that, and they also have a couple of courses which hit on HTML5 and CSS3.
They also have a number of free courses, covering Ruby, jQuery, Git, etc.
Backbone.js would be well suited for handling the models and views for the UI you were describing, as well as handling the communication between the UI and the server when the models are updated, but you would probably want to use jQuery and the jQuery UI library for the drag and drop actions themselves.
Sweet. Thanks Eric!
I have tried to make Trello work for me in the past however the main issue I have with it is that it does not support recurring tasks. I’ve checked out all the various todo applications and Todoist is by far the best in my opinion.
There’s an API for Trello that’s in beta which you might be able to use to make recurring tasks. You could likely configure it to do anything you wanted at that point.
Should we have a drink every time Mike says “necessarily”?
It looks like it’s contagious as in #119 Rob started using it!
But seriously, what does that mean (from #117)?
“I don’t necessarily disagree with anything that Rob just said.”
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If you watch TV, you’ve probably seen those “Marry Bacon” commercials for Jack in the Box.
The first time I saw one, I almost fell out of my chair with laughter. I DO love bacon. Enough to marry it? Eh.
So, they’ve set up a website, MarryBacon.com, with all sorts of silliness. But I love the idea of celebrating bacon.
Every time I eat it I do a little dance.
You’ll find lots of fun bacon-related stuff there – including a Tumblr page, which is where the little artistic goodie above came from. Fun stuff.
And when you’re in the mood for bacon – but not in the mood for Jack in the Box – get your bacon here. It’s where I get mine and it’s to die for. Or marry. Whichever.
Have fun!
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Class Notes for Sept. 28
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Western Slope College Fair is today in Aspen
The Western Slope College Fair is from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. today at Aspen High School. The fair is free and open to all students and parents. About 180 college admissions representatives will be present to meet with parents and students. No registration is necessary. For more information, visit..
Mother and baby group Tuesday at Brooklyn Park
Newborn Network hosts a mother and baby group at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Brooklyn Park, for parents with newborns to crawling infants. In case of bad weather, call 879-0977 for an alternate location.
PIC meets Wednesday in SSHS teachers' lounge
The Steamboat Springs High School Parent Information Committee meets from noon to 1 p.m. in the Steamboat Springs High School teachers' lounge. Topics including fall funding and homecoming.
A parent and community information session for traffic, parking and pick-up plans at the new Soda Creek Elementary School is at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Camp Soda Creek gym on Eighth Street. Call the school at 879-0652.
Education Fund Board meets Wednesday night
The Education Fund Board meets at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Steamboat Springs High School teachers' lounge. All are welcome.
SPE hosts open house this Thursday at 5 p.m.
A Strawberry Park Elementary School Open House is from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the school. Call 871-3498.
The Yampa Valley University Women hold their monthly meeting Friday at noon at the Selbe Apartments Scott Center on Rollingstone Drive. Catherine Lykken from League of Women Voters will present upcoming election and ballot issues. Visitors and prospective members are welcome. Lunch is provided.
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Photo by John F. Russell
Ski jumper Hyrum Bailey soars off Howelsen Hill's plastic-covered K-68 jump Wednesday morning during a competition that included several members of the U.S. Nordic Combined Ski Team. Ski Corp. executive Andy Wirth confirmed today that Steamboat Springs will host Olympic Qualifiers for the U.S. Nordic Combined and Freestyle teams this December.
US Olympic qualifiers returning to Steamboat
Freestyle, Nordic combined qualifiers coming in December
Updated July 2, 2009 at 9:01 a.m.
Steamboat Springs The 2010 Winter Olympics are in Vancouver, British Columbia, but for some American athletes, the path to the games will go through Steamboat Springs.
Andy Wirth, senior vice president of marketing for Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp., confirmed Wednesday that Steamboat Springs will host the Olympic Qualifiers for the U.S. Freestyle and Nordic Combined ski teams.
The qualifiers, preliminarily scheduled for Dec. 22 and 23, will bring some of the country's elite skiers to Northwest Colorado for two days of competition. On the line will be U.S. Olympic team spots for men's and women's moguls and aerials, and men's Nordic combined.
The event also will bring welcome exposure to Steamboat Springs. Wirth said NBC will bring its Olympic television production crew to Steamboat for the qualifiers, which will be televised in high definition as part of a 90-minute special sometime between the Christmas and New Year's holidays. Wirth estimated the potential TV audience at between 1.5 million and 3 million viewers.
"Our company is bearing most of the cost," Wirth said. "We look at this as part of the company's contribution and part of our marketing. It's who we are as a brand and company. Of course, it's who we are as a community."
Wirth said Ski Corp. also will be looking to the city and other individuals and organizations for funding and volunteer assistance.
While some of the logistics are yet to be finalized, Wirth said the qualifiers likely will take place Dec. 22 and 23. There is the potential, however, for all the events to take place Dec. 23 with the Nordic combined competition in the morning, moguls in the afternoon and aerials under the lights at night.
The moguls and aerials will take place on the Voo Doo ski trail at Steamboat Ski Area. The Nordic combined event will be at Howelsen Hill.
Wirth said details will continue to be finalized in the coming months.
Wirth said Steamboat is a natural location for such a prestigious event and expressed excitement not only for its potential to market the community and resort, but also for what it means to fans of skiing.
"This place is the equivalent of playing high school football in Texas," said Wirth, who also is president of the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club's board of directors. "We're surrounded by greatness in this valley. : There are not many ways to look at this and not be generally excited."
Not the 1st time
Steamboat Springs also was home to the U.S. Freestyle Team's Olympic Qualifiers in December 2005 when Ryan St. Onge thrilled the hometown crowd with a nighttime win in aerials that vaulted him onto the Olympic team.
The significance of the Olympic Qualifiers certainly isn't lost on Steamboat's Travis Mayer, whose life changed during the 2002 Gold Cup at Deer Valley Resort in Utah.
At the time, Mayer was an outsider looking in at a potential spot on the Olympic team. He put together an amazing run during the Gold Cup - which later became the U.S. Olympic Qualifier - to earn a bid to the Salt Lake City games. At the Olympics, and skiing on the same course where the Gold Cup was held, Mayer captured a silver medal on the sport's biggest stage.
"The week before (the Gold Cup), I got second in a World Cup," Mayer said Wednesday. "I just tried to assimilate that mentally. Apart from that, when you're an outside chance like that, you can ski as absolutely hard as possible because you're a longshot anyway. For me, that's a liberating feeling. It makes it a lot of fun."
Wirth said the Freestyle and Nordic Combined teams likely will hold one spot open for the winners of the qualifiers, assuming those winners are eligible for the Olympics. The Freestyle and Nordic Combined teams are the only two teams for which Olympic qualifiers will be held, Wirth said.
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Hayden wrestler Treyben Letlow remains perfect
Senior maintains perfect record as the team prepares for regionals
Monday, February 7, 2011
Hayden High School senior Treyben Letlow stood out for one final time on the wrestling mat before he began his quest to claim a second consecutive Class 2A state championship.
In going 5-0 against tough competition at a duals tournament Saturday in Eaton, he proved to his coach he’s as ready as he’s been all season.
Letlow won a pair of white-knuckle matches, taking one in overtime, 4-2, and another 3-2.
“He got them, but not without some excitement,” Tigers’ coach Ty Camilletti said. “He had some insane matches.”
The five wins bumped Letlow’s record to 27-0 for the season and extended his unbeaten streak — which stretched all the way through his junior season — to 65 matches.
“He feels the pressure, but he handles it, too,” Camilletti said. “He feeds off of it.”
Letlow and the Tigers will wrestle again starting Friday in Palisade in the regional tournament. The top four wrestlers from each weight class at that event will advance to the state wrestling tournament in Denver.
Plenty of Hayden wrestlers worked Saturday to prepare for the coming weekend’s all-important matches.
Sophomore T-Lane Mazzola, at 119 pounds, and junior Chad Terry, at 130, wrestled and tried to shake off rust. They each missed time because of injury and still are trying to come back.
Mazzola struggled, going 2-3. Terry, meanwhile, went 3-0 before he was pulled from the tournament to avoid risking re-aggravating his injured arm.
Hayden sophomore 171- pounder Ryan Domson wrestled through an injury of his own, finishing 3-2 as he tried to prepare to make state for the first time.
The team went 0-5, giving away many points in each dual via forfeit. Several other Tigers picked up wins, however. Austin Cless was 2-3 and Kaiden Decker was 3-2.
“It was a tough tournament and a few of our kids had tough days,” Camilletti said. “I told them every time they lose to someone, they have to learn from it and they’ll get better. This just prepared us for regionals.
“Hopefully, nothing backfires.”
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Overall Grade for Steelers’ Image Protection for the 10 days before the draft: F
After an unusually strong effort in free agency, the Steelers appeared prime to make another Super Bowl run entering the 2010 NFL Draft.
Yes, there remained an ongoing investigation of standout quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, who had been accused of rape while “hooking up” with a college coed in a rural Georgia bar.
However, the sensationalist coverage but yet extensive details provided by media on the encounter made it appear highly unlikely that Roethlisberger would be arrested for rape or face any criminal charges.
Then, on the eve before the Baldwin (Ga.) County DA was slated to announce findings from the Roethlisberger investigation, the Steelers pulled a shocking late-night trade that had many Pittsburgh fans more enraged at their front office than any time I can remember.
The Steelers traded their top offensive playmaker Santonio Holmes to the New York Jets for a throw-away, fifth-round draft pick.
Holmes was the Steelers’ top offensive player throughout the 2008 NFL playoffs, on the final drive of Super Bowl XLIII and in the team’s three historic victories over Baltimore that season. Without Holmes, the 2008 Steelers do not win their division, conference or the Super Bowl.
Holmes followed up his Super Bowl brilliance by recording 79 catches for a team-high 1,248 yards in 2009. That marked the most receiving yards by any Steeler receiver since Hines Ward in 2002. At this point of his young career, Holmes is clearly a player who is still improving each season.
While he has never been an Eagle Scout since his impoverished background in the working-class football factory of Belle Glade, Fla., Holmes was even more of a loose cannon this offseason.
An Orlando college student claimed Holmes physically assaulted her in a nightclub. Holmes denied those claims. After investigation, the police elected not to press charges.
Holmes, whose agent should never allow him personal access to a computer again, Tweeted on his Twitter page one day that it was time to “Wake and Bake,” slang for smoking marijuana to start a morning. He also had 4:20 — another indirect marijuana reference — as the constant time on the cellphone he was shown holding on his personal Web site.
Marijuana is on the NFL controlled substance list and few were surprised when the NFL announced that Holmes had failed a drug test in violation of its testing program, automatically triggering a four-game suspension for Holmes to start the 2010 season.
Now, I could care less what people decide to do with their own body. Furthermore, from a physiological standpoint, I would actually prefer my star receiver smoke weed instead of drink hard liquor or beer if he felt compelled to do one of the two most popular vices.
Holmes, however, idiotically made his pot use public even though it (A) is illegal in all cases in the state of Florida and (B) is in clear violation of the league’s drug policy.
Moreover, Holmes pulled all these antics while reports of the Roethlisberger allegation were dominating the sport news cycle, which then led to media types and NFL fans to associate bad behavior with the normally “high-character” Pittsburgh Steelers.
There is no doubt in my mind that the Steelers panicked in quickly unloading Holmes to make an “image” statement before the Georgia DA announcement. Absurdly, the Steelers did not even call every team in the league to gauge interest.
Moreover, leaks about Holmes’ upcoming suspension had spread, but specific details and amount of games had not. Finally, Holmes’ trade value would have been much greater after Anquan Boldin (who was clearly the top receiver on the trading block) had been traded and probably after the 2010 NFL Draft, which was not particularly strong at receiver.
The Steelers could have and absolutely should have received more in trade compensation for a player the caliber of Holmes even with his suspension and off-field problems.
Actually, they should never have traded him at all if winning a Super Bowl this fall was upper management’s primary goal instead of preserving a marketing image. Having Holmes for 3/4th of the regular season and in the playoffs made Pittsburgh a strong Super Bowl contender as he was Roethlisberger’s favorite target when plays broke down and/or in crunchtime. He will be greatly missed in the playoffs, assuming Pittsburgh is fortunate enough to end up in the postseason.
In addition to his suspension, some Steeler fans claimed Holmes was trouble in the locker room after his trade. However, there were never any leaks about internal-team problems with Holmes while he was in Pittsburgh and there almost certainly would have been if he had problems in interacting with multiple teammates.
Moreover, some fans tried to rationalize the trade by pointing out that Holmes is slated to become an unrestricted free agent after 2010 and that the Steelers were highly unlikely to offer him a long-term extension.
However, that argument, too, was weak, since Holmes will remain the property of the Jets after this fall unless a new CBA is reached that grants fourth- and fifth-year players the right to become unrestricted free agents again.
Owners, though, have the upper-hand in negotiations and my guess is a new CBA will not be reached until shortly before the 2011 season, with no unrestricted free agency for fourth- and fifth-year players until after the 2011 season. In that case, all the Jets will have to do is tender Holmes a 1-year offer and the level of that tender would determine draft-pick compensation another team must provide to sign Holmes.
As dumb as the Holmes trade was, at least the Steelers have a deep and solid enough receiving corps to hopefully absorb much of his production.
However, image projection by Art Rooney II reached a new level of absurdity when he essentially threw Roethlisberger under the bus by saying that he would be punished by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell under the NFL Code of Conduct Policy and the Steelers would support this before Goodell had rendered any decision.
Just to make sure Roethlisberger or the NFLPA did not publicly complain, the Steelers floated rumors to the press that they were considering trading their franchise quarterback, whose trade value was at an all-time low.
Note: No player in the history of American team sports had ever been suspended before or since by a league commissioner when that player was not (A) either arrested for an alleged crime or (B) found to have violated a specific rule of that sport (e.g., gambling, steroids, etc.).
At least 29 NFL players were arrested this offseason, but only San Diego receiver Vincent Jackson was suspended by Goodell under the Code of Coduct Policy after Jackson was arrested for his second DUI within two years.
If Roethlisberger had been a member of the Cowboys, Raiders or probably just about any other franchise, Goodell would not have dared suspended him. Otherwise, the team, player and the NFLPA might have challenged such an absurd, arbitrary ruling without causation.
But the Steelers’ front office has been close to Goodell since helping him become commissioner, which ranks right up there with passing over Dan Marino in the 1984 NFL Draft, cutting Johnny Unitas from training camp, and giving up on Len Dawson too quickly among the dumbest managerial decisions ever by the Steelers.
Thus, after a tremendous effort in free agency that left the Steelers as one of the oldest teams in the NFL but a championship-caliber squad for 2010, Pittsburgh’s upper management essentially pissed away their Super Bowl chances this fall over 10 days to try and preserve an image of moral superiority.
Rest assured it was not Kevin Colbert or Mike Tomlin who said, “yeah, let’s trade away our top offensive weapon to get another fifth-round pick who may not make the team!” Moreover, I do not buy the notion that upper management supported the excessive Roethlisberger suspension to “send him a message” or keep him from becoming a “runaway freight train” as some fans believe.
No, they supported the suspension, because protecting the Steelers’ image was more important to Art Rooney II than winning. If Art Rooney himself was still alive – bless his soul – I doubt the Steelers would have traded Holmes, because he left personnel decisions up to football people and often looked the other way when players strayed off the field.
Now, like the vast majority of Steeler fans, I love having the Rooney family run the Steelers. There are no better owners in pro sport or a better franchise.
It is true that Pittsburgh emphasizes character and unselfishness more than most NFL teams. However, the Steelers have never been a team full of choir boys. Please remember that former first-round draft picks Tim Worley, Eric Green, Plaxico Burress and Santonio Holmes all had well-publicized, character/attitudes issues before being drafted by the Steelers; and those pre-draft character concerns came to fruition for all four players.
Moreover, the Steelers have kept around plenty of veterans with off-field problems, such as Ernie Holmes, Terry Long, Carlton Haserlig, and Burress.
And why was Roethlisberger punished so severely by Steelers management for a baseless allegation, while two of their top figureheads in the community – Jerome Bettis and Charlie Batch – have also been accused of committing — although never charged with — sexual assault (Bettis) and rape (Batch)?
The hypocrisy and double-standards run deep. But if Pittsburgh does not make the postseason this year, Art Rooney II’s fanatical concern about his team’s good image over a 10-day period should be blamed far more than the immature antics of Roethlisberger or Holmes, or any personnel decisions by Colbert and Tomlin.
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Interview with Julie James + Giveaway
Today's guest became one of my favourite contemporary romance authors immediately after I read the first few chapters of her debut novel Just the Sexiest Man Alive: it was sexy, it was romantic and most of all it was witty and funny! And whenever you pick up a book by her it is guaranteed you'll get this amazing mix, please give it up for the fantastic Julie James!
Stella: Hi Julie welcome to Ex Libris! :-) Thanks for taking the time to stop by and answer a few of my questions. My first one would be: you were an attorney (just like me), working at a big law firm (just like me), then one day you decided to become a published writer. Can you tell us about how you found your way? What made you decide to choose another path and leave your job as a lawyer? How did it all begin and how long was it before you took that leap?
Julie: Thanks for having me here!
I wrote the screenplay in my spare time, which, when you work at a large firm—and I’m sure you can relate to this—was, like, 10pm to 2am in the morning. Since I knew no one in Hollywood, after I finished the script I began cold querying agents and managers in L.A. There was some interest in the script, and I signed with a film agent. Shortly thereafter, a Hollywood producer optioned my script, and then I wrote a second screenplay (a suspense thriller), which also was optioned. I think it was about that time that I began to think, “Hmm…maybe I really can do this.” Still, because it was such a big leap—and I truly enjoyed practicing law—I did both (writing and working at the firm) for another 18 months while mulling over my decision.
As for taking that final leap and leaving law to write full-time . . . you know, it was just one of those things that I thought I’d regret if I didn’t give it a shot. Although I still vividly remember the day I told the firm I was going to leave—I was walking to the office of the partner who was the head of my group and I kept thinking, “Oh my gosh, am I really going to do this?” Luckily, that decision seems to have turned out okay!
Stella: Your 5th book About That Night comes out in April! Congratulations! Can you tell readers a bit about the story and its characters?
About That Night is a contemporary romance that will be available on April 3rd and is a follow-up to my previous release, A Lot Like Love. (I should mention, however, that each book can easily be read as a standalone.)
About That Night is about an ex-con, Kyle Rhodes, (who also happens to be a billionaire heir) who has just been released from prison after being convicted for hacking into Twitter. After being dubbed the "Twitter Terrorist,'" he wants to put the past--and his mistakes--behind him. He's therefore quite irked when the U.S. Attorney's office, the very prosecutors who threw him in prison, want his help in a high-profile homicide investigation involving a corrupt prison guard. But the Assistant U.S. Attorney assigned to the case just so happens to be a woman from Kyle's past, and may be the one person Kyle can't say no to . . .
Stella: About That Night is the 3rd book in the FBI/US Attorney series, why did you decide to write a series? Did you already knew when you wrote that it was going to be the first book in a series or it started out as a standalone and then when other secondary characters clamoured for their own story expanded into a series? Will there be other books in the series? How many more do you plan on having?
Julie: I’ve been getting a lot of questions about the FBI/US Attorneys series, so I added a page to my website that explains the inspiration behind the series and how each of the books developed. That can be found here.
As far as how many other books there will be in the series, I generally only think about a book ahead. I can tell you that my sixth book will be connected to the FBI/U.S. Attorney series, but beyond that, I don’t know. I like being able to write whatever story inspires me most, and fortunately, my publisher has been great about letting me do that.
Stella: What is your favourite part about writing a novel? The initial moment when inspiration strikes? Or when you are canvassing all the small details of the story? Or when the h/h meet for the first time? Or something completely different? (maybe when you type THE END?) I’m curious :-)
Julie: I like many parts of the writing process. I generally have a 10-15 page outline for a book when I begin writing, but it doesn’t include all the small details—so I “discover” things about the characters when I begin actually writing. I’ll give you an example from the book I’m currently working on (without giving anything away!) I knew the hero had suffered an injury in college that set his life on a different course from what he’d anticipated, but that was all I knew. So it was fun, when it came time to actually write that, to discover the details of the character’s backstory and how those details shaped him to be the person he is in the present day.
And yes, I do also like writing the moment where the heroine and hero first meet. In my books they often meet under circumstances where they think they don’t like each other, so those scenes are a lot of fun.
Stella: And another question just for fun, I’ve seen many people and readers wonder and comment about this. Please settle this big guessing game debacle that has been going on the internet regarding the exciting cover of About That Night: Kyle’s pants seem a bit tight *cough*, are those readers correct who claim to see a bulging bunchage? (just click on the cover at right to see it bigger)
Julie: LOL, that cover did create a bit of a stir. No clue what the situation is there.
Julie James lives with her husband and two children in Chicago. Her next novel, About That Night, will be available in April 2012.
You can reach Julie at her website / blog / Twitter / Facebook / Goodreads
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Julie has generously offered a copy of any of her books (except About That Night) to a lucky commentator, and it can be either paperback, Kindle or Nook ebook!
To be entered all you have to do is:
1. fill out the main form so I have your contact info (just once, if you have already filled it out for a previous giveaway that's enough)
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This applies whether I use IE7 or Firefox. It requires one to type much of the post blind. I can post a pic if you will tell me how.
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I'll hijack this thread a bit, although it's similar and probably an effect of the same thing.
When there's a lot to read I zoom the page to see better. And when the content div is wider than the screen, the left side bleeds out - I can scroll to see the right border, but not left. Can't really explain properly.
Well, for example, I zoom here to 200%. Horizontal scrollbar appears and when I scroll to the right I can see the whole sidebar up to the right border. But when I scroll to the left it doesn't go to the left border and I can see only as much as "ical Assistance" out of the "Forum > Technical Assistance". Everything to the left of it bleeds out of the screen. I guess it to be the effect of some sort of size/position/margin setup... So if someone has a smaller screen, for example, or constantly uses zoom, the left side will be invisible.
It's the same in Opera, Chrome... didn't bother to check in other browsers, but probably will be the same if it's a css | http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/the-left-50-px-or-so-are-cut-off | 2013-05-18T10:12:46 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Finally watched Jack Reacher the other night. I was willing to give Cruise a chance in the lead role but he just didn't work for me. I know it was a Tom Cruise production, but I wish he had employed a different actor for the lead role and maybe had a bit part as a baddie. He is not believable as Reacher.
Bookmarks | http://www.stephenking.com/community/showthread.php/11640-whats-the-latest-movie-you-have-watched?p=561846 | 2013-05-18T10:15:31 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
This lady wins her case about wearing a cross. I grew up in a very small town where the churches were the social and focal point of most of the town's activities. I cannot hardly believe that folk's would take offense of a piece of jewellry...whether a cross or a star of david,etc. | http://www.stephenking.com/forums/printthread.php?t=27685&pp=10&page=1 | 2013-05-18T10:45:13 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Excellent list. I'll have to check out that Peter Evans record. I've also been meaning to pick up the Hecker album; I've read such great reviews.
I think the Bee Mask record is Elegy for Beach Friday on Spectrum Spools, an offshoot of Editions Mego and another label that seems to consistently release outstanding stuff. | http://www.stereophile.com/content/my-favorite-records-2011?page=1 | 2013-05-18T10:22:24 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Zanden 5000 Mk.IV/Signature D/A converter & 2000 Premium CD transport Page 2
At the 2005 Hi-Fi News show in London, the Audiofreaks room featured an all-Zanden system driving Avalon speakers. Compared to most of what I heard that weekend, that room was an oasis of smooth, musical flow and utter ease and grace. I lingered there a long time listening to CD-Rs I'd recorded from analog and brought along. The Zanden system's sound was warm and refined, with none of the grain and edge that I usually (and correctly) associate with CD sound. Nor was it at all soft or rolled-off on top, or the bass thick or too ripe. In fact, the Zanden's crisp, extended top end could exhibit a hard edge when called for. The system could rock without ever sounding harsh.
But while enjoyable and impressive overall, the sound in that room was not what I'd want for long-term satisfaction, given my musical and sonic tastes. However, thinking about the sonic character of my system and of what I like, I figured if the Zanden transport-DAC combo could stamp my system with some of what I heard at the Hi-Fi News show, the results could be spectacular. That hunch proved correct.
Until now, I've never used the clichd phrase about "rediscovering" my music collection with the insertion in my system of a new piece of digital gear. Not even the dCS triple stack I reviewed in April 2003 had me saying that. What's always distracted me about even the best digital reproduction I've heard is the jittery sensation it induces in me (as opposed to digital jitter, though the two may be related), often accompanied by boredom—a deadly combination.
But the Zanden combo had me pulling out CD after previously dismissible CD and finally hearing a compelling presentation that excited my auditory and visual senses while producing the feel of musical continuity and delicacy that, heretofore, only good analog has provided (for me). For the first time, I actually looked forward to playing CDs.
I've been playing Keith Lockhart and the Utah Symphony's superb-sounding if somewhat unadventurous Symphonic Dances (Reference RR-105CD) since it arrived, and while I immediately appreciated engineer Keith O. Johnson's recording, it was only through the Zanden combo that the picture convincingly coalesced and began making sense to me the way even inexpensive analog always does.
Prof. Johnson's recordings remind me of a kid who sneaks into the hall during a rehearsal and stands right inside the door. He prefers a distant perspective, lots of room sound, and an unusually wide soundstage, usually as heard from the front of the hall. Through the Zanden duo, with the lights out, I convincingly felt as if I were sitting way back in the empty hall, the orchestra in the distance, spread across the stage and reproduced with palpable transparency.
From this difficult-to-reproduce perspective, edge, etch, and typical "digititis" can easily overwhelm the instruments' textures, timbres, and harmonic delicacy. The Zandens' ability to produce transparency and air without edge or etch created the most realistic and convincing images I've heard from an orchestra recorded from such a distant perspective. The three-dimensionality of the picture brought the hall's sidewall boundaries well to the sides, enveloping me in the space the way only analog usually does.
Compared to analog, CDs almost always sound two-dimensional and "smooshed" to me. The Zanden transport-DAC breathed honest three-dimensionality into recordings that have this in their analog counterparts but have never managed to exhibit it when digitally reproduced.
I pulled out what I'd always thought were good-sounding CDs that had nonetheless never sounded as good as their analog counterparts, such as the Bee Gees' astonishingly well-recorded Trafalgar (go ahead, laugh), which Mobile Fidelity issued on both gold CD and 200gm vinyl. The vinyl still sounded more real and managed to project more of the performances' emotional "physicality," but for the first time, the CD's transparency, three-dimensionality, and—especially—its microdynamic resolve made it a credible rival to the vinyl.
All of this appears to have been accomplished not by somehow softening the analog output to mask the harshness and edge of CD reproduction, as is often done, but by attacking the problem at its root. This seemed to be supported by the fact that soft, delicate recordings I've always admired—such as engineer Kavi Alexander's analog-sourced Water Lily Acoustics CDs—were not smothered by the Zandens. For instance, the astonishing Meeting by the River (WLA-CS-29-CD), by Ry Cooder and V.M. Bhatt (who can be seen in The Concert for George Harrison DVD), not only did not sound softer than usual, it actually sounded more open, airy, and dynamic than I'm used to, with better-defined images, greater transient definition, and tighter and better-defined bass from the tabla and dumbek.
I've always thought JVC's XRCD reissues of RCA Living Stereo titles sounded somewhat soft and euphonic, but with an overlay of inherent digititis—the worst of both worlds. But through the Zanden combo the XRCDs opened up, harmonically, texturally, and spatially, especially piano recordings. That had me pulling out the XRCD of Bill Evans' Waltz for Debby, which I've always found too warm and smooshed, but damn if the piano wasn't well-defined in space, and the cymbals did not, for once, sound like air brakes.
I hope JA finds time to listen to his recordings of Robert Silverman's performances of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas through this rig (OrpheumMasters KSP830). I've never heard these discs sound so open, airy, spacious, and believable—especially the delineation of the piano's physical boundaries, and the reverberant space JA captured so exquisitely—not to mention the sound of the piano itself, and JA's capturing of Silverman's touch on the keys.
Conclusions
Over the years, I've heard from CD players sounds that have been darker, warmer, brighter, richer, softer, more veiled, less veiled versions of what in the end proved to be musically uninvolving presentations. Some of these sounds were quite accomplished, given what I'd assumed were the intrinsic limitations of the Compact Disc. So I went into this review of the Zanden player expecting to hear another digital "flavor"—a warm, perhaps low-intensity one, but not a fundamentally different listening experience.
Don't get me wrong—the analog editions of recordings I compared still sounded more realistic and believable—but for the first time I found myself not caring about the medium and more concerned with the message. And crappy recordings and transfers still sounded that way. The Zanden combo is by no means a Band-Aid solution to the problems of bad digital processing.
However, I did listen long into the night on many occasions, and found myself pulling out, rediscovering, and becoming musically and emotionally involved in CDs I'd long ago concluded were dead meat. And CDs I'd thought were good now sounded great. The Zanden transport and DAC delivered soundstaging, imaging, dynamic nuance, tonal and harmonic purity, rhythmic flow—and especially transparency—with an effortlessness I hadn't thought possible from digital, not to mention 16-bit/44kHz digital, while being totally—I mean, totally—free of digital artifacts.
If, much like the Rockport System III Sirius turntable, the dCS triple stack I reviewed a few years ago was worthy of great respect for its groundbreaking resolve and analytical abilities, the Zanden 5000 Mk.IV/Signature D/A converter and 2000 Premium CD transport is the Continuum Audio Labs Caliburn-Cobra-Castellon of digital playback. It draws out both the detail and the emotional content of recorded music and presents it to you with an effortlessness that lets you relax into the music as you might at a live performance.
This exquisitely built, four-box combo costs well over $40,000 and uses a chipset rarer than Unobtainium, so it won't be flying off the shelves—nor are there that many audiophiles who could put it on their shelves in the first place. I hope it measures well, but, as with vinyl, I'm more interested in how it sounds. And from what I hear, the Zanden combo of Model 5000 Mk.IV/Signature and Model 2000 Premium proves that the holy grail isn't necessarily greater resolution, but better reconstruction of the music. Perhaps Humpty-Dumpty can be put back together again. With billions of 16/44.1 Dumpty-sans out there, that's good news, even for audiophiles who can't afford this Lamborghini Countach of digital playback.
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Mr. Kennedy Goes To Washington
by Susan D. Brandenburg, Ponte Vedra Recorder
February 5, 2009
As the Washington, D.C. taxicab pulled up in front of the U.S. Congressional headquarters for the House Committee on Un-American Activities, Stetson Kennedy quietly donned the Ku Klux Klan robe he’d worn when infiltrating the terrorist organization. Firmly grasping his heavy, evidence-stuffed suitcase, the white-hooded young crusader jumped from the backseat of the cab and entered the building, determined to take a dramatic stand against the criminal activities of the Klan. Instead, just moments later, he was roughly escorted from the building by four armed security guards.
That was back in the 1940s. Fast forward almost six decades.
At age 92, Kennedy visited Washington, D.C. last week, this time at the invitation of Senator Bill Nelson of Florida and this time as an award-winning and highly respected advocate for peace, justice and equality.
Kennedy’s work with Zora Neale Hurston in the 1930s on the WPA’s Florida Writer’s Project, his infiltration of the Ku Klux Klan back in the 1940s, his run in 1950 for the U.S. Senate on a ticket of “Total Equality,” and his ongoing lifetime penchant for fiercely wielding the written word like a sword against injustice earned him induction into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 2005.
Kennedy’s St. Johns County home, Beluthahatchee, has been designated a literary landmark in tribute to his lifetime achievements and his books, among them “The Klan Unmasked,” “Southern Exposure,” and “Palmetto Country.” Beluthahatchee was also the place where his “stud buddy” Woody Guthrie wrote 80 songs and his autobiography, “Seeds of Man.” Now owned by St. Johns County, the historic home on State Road 13 is slated to be a Florida Heritage Park, with the Stetson Kennedy Foundation () facilitating workshops and retreats for students, artists, activists and environmentalists.
The indomitable Kennedy has just published his seventh book, a Key West memoir titled “Grits & Grunts,” and is currently compiling a collection of his writings for a Kennedy Reader titled “Land Be Bright.”
On the Saturday prior to the inauguration, in an interview with Ira Glass of National Public Radio’s “This American Life,” the feisty old freedom fighter repeated a story he told recently at the Studs Terkel Commemoration Ceremony at Cooper Union in New York.
“A little old lady came up to me after I had spoken at a civil rights meeting in Connecticut in 1947,” Kennedy recalled. “She asked me, with a tear in her eye, ‘Was it all in vain?’”
At the time, Kennedy said, he didn’t know how to answer her regarding the effectiveness of a life spent signing petitions, writing letters, marching on picket lines and attending protest rallies. But, after seeing “the pouring out and coming together of the American people to put Obama in the White House,” he’s now got an answer.
After a lifetime spent in the company of icons such as feminist Simone de Beauvoir, French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, folksinger Woody Guthrie, authors Richard Wright, Studs Terkel, Zora Neale Hurston, and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, to name just a few, Kennedy paid special tribute last week to the late Harry T. Moore of Titusville, Fla..
When he and his wife, Sandra Parks, traveled from St. Augustine to Titusville for a speaking engagement, they got in touch with Evangeline Moore, the only surviving daughter of Harry T. and his wife, Harriette, who were dynamited to death in their home on Christmas night, 1951, as a direct result of Moore’s NAACP activities in registering thousands of black voters.
“My wife, Sandra, offered Evangeline her ticket to the inauguration,” said Kennedy. “Harry would have wanted her to be there.”
Although Evangeline Moore’s rheumatism would not permit her to accept the offer, she did tell Kennedy, “It has been more than half a century since my parents were assassinated, but it has taken the election of Obama to make me feel that they did not die in vain.”
No, it was not in vain, Kennedy agreed. The Kennedy’s watched the presidential inauguration on a big screen television at Nelson’s viewing reception held in the Russell Senate Office Building.
“Yes, I know I could have seen it at home,” admitted Kennedy, who walked more than 14 blocks in below freezing temperatures on inauguration day, despite dire warnings from his doctor to avoid getting chilled.
“I really did need to be there,” he explained. “I’ve been campaigning for President Obama since 1932.” | http://www.stetsonkennedy.com/washington.htm | 2013-05-18T10:22:00 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Sixty images of Duklija (Latinized as Doclea), an ancient city established by the Illyrians, and later conquered by the Romans is at the confluence of the Moraca, Zeta and Siralija rivers on the Zeta Plain, just 3 km northwest of Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro. Excavated by Sir Authur Evans in 1875 and 1882, at one time as many as 10,000 people lived here. Today remnants of Roman ruins remain at the site. | http://www.stevenfoster.com/photography/imageviewssubs/crna_gora/duklija/content/Duklija_606594_large.html | 2013-05-18T10:42:14 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Differences of the Political Sides
The right and those on it, will always be able to tell you why you should vote for someone and not just why NOT to vote for someone.
While the right comes up with ideas and solutions besides the left always just increase taxes!
The best the left can do is waiting until the right comes up with their ideas and solutions and just choose the opposite side and just rip into it.
Yes, the right is the party of “NO”, when it is about raising taxes. Now I am sure one of my favorite liberal bloggers will rush to his keyboard and type, but your side has raised taxes, your side has said NO on the train and he will try to raddle and prattle off some (few) examples of the right behaving like the left, but for the most part the right doesn’t raise taxes, doesn’t like big government (heads are popping right now),
We on the right can never make the left happy and we need to stop trying to move to the center, throwing away our principles, and attempting to make friends or be liked by the left.
What has worked and what we need to do is stay to the right and find those in the mushy middle and educate, explain and show them why it is important to be to the right and hope that we can bring them into the fold and not alienate them.
Why is it always “us” must be like “them”? Why is it that the Constitution always favors them and never us?
The left promises to do anything to anyone and they run to the center to portray they are more likable. They give them things and make them dependable on the government.
The left uses fear, anger, and hatred as can be seen by their ads and actions. Notice they always use the elderly fear. They stirrup anger and display hatred as one only needs to think about OWS to see that.
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Professor Paul Fabozzi of Fine Arts, has fourth
solo exhibit at LG Tripp Gallery in Philadelphia
Professor Paul Fabozzi of the Fine Arts Department
of St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Science has fourth solo
exhibit at LG Tripp Gallery in Philadelphia.
LG Tripp Gallery, 47N. Second St., 12 to 5 p.m.
Wednesdays, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays.
For more information: phone: 215 923-3110 or .com Through October 20.
For his fourth solo exhibit at LGTripp Gallery, Paul
Fabozzi is showing his series “Site Translation,” which draws
inspiration from urban architecture: “Buildings have a way of
revealing political, cultural and philosophical ideas that are then
experienced as physical entities existing in the world.”
His work combines several layers of material,
including ink, pencil on sheets of Mylar and gouache-painted
paper.
Professor Fabozzi said Philadelphia has played an
essential role in his art. “Many of the ideas in my work were
formulated during the three years that I lived in Philadelphia in
the early 1990s while studying at the University of Pennsylvania,”
he said. | http://www.stjohns.edu/about/pr_aca_120903_Fabozzi_solo.news_item@digest.stjohns.edu/academics/undergraduate/pr_aca_120903_Fabozzi_solo.xml | 2013-05-18T10:13:01 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
2012 Department of Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition
The most recent works of St. John’s University adjunct faculty
is on display as part of the 2012 Department of Fine Arts Faculty
Exhibition.
On Exhibit: November 13, 2012–January 5, 2013
Reception: Tuesday, 4:30–6:30 p.m., December 4
Location: Dr. M. T. Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery, Sun Yat Sen Hall,
Queens campus
Participating faculty include: Dan Ault, Linda Butti, Judy
Cooperman, Annette Cords, Daniel Da Silva, Heather E. Dunn, Connie
J. Frisch-Cherniak, Max A. Hergenrother, John T. Legaspi, Joyce
Malone, Michael Mancari, Stephanie Navon Jacobson, Mary Morris,
James Pavlicovic, Victor Michael Poast and Jack Sherman.
For more information and directions, please call (718) 990-7476
or visit.
This event is free of charge and handicap accessible.
Dr. M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery
Hours of Operation
Tuesday–Thursday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Friday,10 a.m.–3 p.m.
Saturday, Noon–5 p.m.
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School Board
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School Board meetings are held in the School Board Room on the 2nd Tuesday (regular) and the 4th Tuesday (workshop) of each month at 5:00 p.m.
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RCIA Schedule for Year 2012-2013 in Adobe Reader (pdf - 90 KB)
Are You Interested in the Catholic Faith?
Do you have a relative, friend or co-worker who has expressed interest in knowing more about the Catholic Church?
Would you yourself like to explore the Catholic community and its beliefs and practices?
Though you are a practicing Catholic, do you sense a desire to enter into your faith more fully?
If any of these questions describes you or someone you know, please consider this an invitation to you or someone you know to join us to explore our Catholic faith. We begin this RCIA process in September. RCIA, short for the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, is truly an opportunity to explore our faith without any obligations attached. Come and see and you will feel at home here.
The RCIA journey begins with the process of “Inquiry”. Focus is on participants questions of the why and how Catholic do things.
St. Mary helps with perplexing and difficult questions you may have about the Church.
This process is for all persons not baptized, or baptized in another Christian church, but in need of further instruction and initiation, or those baptized in the Catholic Church and needing more instruction to complete the Sacraments of Initiation. Persons never baptized are referred to as Catechumens, while those previously baptized are called candidates.
The Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) is a journey of faith for:
We begin the RCIA process in September and runs through May. Sessions are held on Tuesdays at 7 pm in the Parish Center.
We offer these seven reasons to join RCIA. Why seven; seven is a holy number in the Old Testament.
All are welcome.
We guarantee lively discussion, some refreshments and a warm welcome. The RCIA is an engaging, dynamic, respectful, challenging and enjoyable journey.
If you need more information, or know of someone interested in beginning the journey, please call Deacon Dennis Robak at (847) 864-0333 x 15 or drobak@stmaryevanston.org or drobak@archchicago.org.
Feel free to call with questions or concerns!
Deacon Dennis Robak
847-864-0333 x 15
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ChoralNet, an American website, has a number of
resources of interest to choirs and singers at
Delphian Records
has issued several recordings of Scottish organs, including one
of St Mary's (played by Philip Sawyer, a previous organist at St
Mary's) which is available in the shop.
The Edinburgh Society of Organists is Scotland's
largest, and organises or publicises a very full program of
organ-related events in Edinburgh and the Lothians
The British Institute of Organ Studies
has an extensive online information resource - the National Pipe
Organ Register - which contains detailed information on many
Scottish organs.
In 2012 St Mary's Church was awarded the
prestigious 3 star award by the Scottish Tourist Board. The scheme focuses on the welcome, hospitality, service and
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(CHRW) C.H. Robinson Worldwide to Buy Phoenix
One of the leading third party logistic companies, CH Robinson Worldwide Inc. (CHRW) is set to buy Phoenix International, Inc. for $635 million.
Phoenix International is a U.S. based privately-held global freight forwarding company that primarily deals in ocean freight along with other services like air freight and custom brokerage. The company has 76 offices across 125 countries and serves approximately 15,000 customers.
The deal is expected to close in late 2012. No deal terms have been disclosed yet but CH Robinson would split the payment into cash and equities. The company expects to pay approximately $571.5 million in cash and approximately $63.5 million will be paid through newly-issued stock of the company.
The uncertain market scenario in the truck brokerage industry is one of the key factors responsible for CH Robinson’s focus on other market opportunities. Capacity issues coupled with rising third party carrier cost in truck shipments are forcing the company to look beyond its conventional truck brokerage services.
We believe that the company is facing stiff market conditions in the form of intense competition and capacity constraints in the truck market, resulting in a continuous decline in net revenue margin. The company’s transportation net revenue margin is at a record low and is likely to further deteriorate if supply costs continue to rise at a faster rate compared to price recoveries. The prevailing economic condition has forced shippers to follow aggressive cost management strategies within their supply chain, thereby making them unreceptive to price increases. As a result, the company is struggling to pass on higher transportation costs to customers, resulting in lower profits.
At the same time, we would also like to point out that near-term outlook on ocean and air freight is not very attractive. We believe uncertainty over ocean freight is likely to persist as ocean liners are unlikely to offer any volume discounts, leading to higher freight rates that will affect freight forwarders’ purchased transportation cost. On July 11, 2012, 15 ocean carriers operating in the eastbound Asia-to-U.S. trade represented by the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement (TSA) announced their largest rate increases for 2012. Effective from August, rate increases include $500 per forty-foot equivalent unit (FEU) to the West Coast and $700 to all other U.S. destinations. The increases on refrigerated imports range from $1,000 to $1,250. TSA members have also raised freight rates ranging from $1,000 per-FEU to $1,250 per-FEU on refrigerated imports for Asia-West Coast services, effective August 15. The hikes represent the fifth increase in the eastbound trans-Pacific freight rates since January 1, 2012. Going forward, the air freight industry outlook remains subdued due to a sluggish economy and lower market demand.
Further, we believe international air and ocean freight forwarding and customs brokerage are intensively competitive and are expected to remain so in the foreseeable future. There are a large number of entities competing in the international logistics industry like Expeditors International of Washington Inc. (EXPD). Historically, the industry has experienced consolidations into larger firms striving for stronger and more complete multinational and multi-service networks. In addition, regional and local brokers and freight forwarders also remain a competitive force.
Given the current outlook of the freight forwarding industry, the near-term synergies arising from this deal is expected to remain modest. However, given Phoenix’ strong global footprint and financial performance, with revenues of approximately $807 million and adjusted operating income of approximately $48 million, the deal signifies potential long-term benefits.
We are currently maintaining our long-term Neutral recommendation on C.H. Robinson. For the short term, the company holds a Zacks #3 Rank (Hold).
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SRT confirms AtoN product agreements
The AtoN product was soft launched earlier this year and following a period of evaluation and negotiation, SRT has concluded its first agreements which permit certain customers to promote and sell SRT's AtoN products..
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The All Access EFT memberships allow unlimited climbing at both Stone Gardens Seattle and Stone Gardens Bellevue.
The All Access Punchcard lets you use your 10 punches at both locations..
Check out the Seattle Membership FAQ for more details about your membership. | http://www.stonegardens.com/bellevue/membership-faq.aspx | 2013-05-18T10:41:35 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Newsline: AIA FIRM SURVEY IS POSITIVE FOR NONRESIDENTIAL AND HOUSING MARKETS . . .
February 1, 2007
Paced by a recovering market for nonresidential projects and expanding housing activity, billings at U.S. architecture firms increased 11% between 2002 and 2005, reaching $28.7 billion annually. The total construction value of projects that architecture firms directly designed approached $360 billion, accounting for almost 3% of “green” design projects.
“While the residential design category posted the strongest gains in share of firm activity during this period, the institutional market - led by the healthcare% of project activity at architecture firms.”
The top five sectors served by architects in 2005 were healthcare (14.3%), office, (11.7%), education (K-12) (11.1%,) multifamily residential (10.7%) and education (college/ university) (7.7%)..
The survey was researched and compiled by the AIA department of market research. The survey data were weighted to reflect the population proportions of AIA member-owned firms in terms of number of firms in each of six different size categories, as well as their geographic distribution in terms of the nine census regions. For more information visit
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LUNG CANCER EVALUATION CENTER
Lung Cancer Support Group
Coping with Lung Cancer
The diagnosis of lung cancer often leads to significant physical, emotional and spiritual upheaval. Stony Brook University Medical Center recognizes the need for patients and their caregivers to discuss these issues associated with lung cancer. For such people, we provide a monthly support group designed to give both emotional and informational help to cope as you face lung cancer and its treatments. Please contact 631-444-8236 for more information and to register. | http://www.stonybrookmedicalcenter.org/lcec/supportgroup | 2013-05-18T10:13:17 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Basic state funding for education is set a year in advance, so the proposed increase would be for the 2008-2009 school year. Approval of the plan is likely to come as soon as next week.
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- Orear's with pedigree and citiations. Lots other's google martha O'rear and 1815 and see his page
The Pike branch of our family tree belongs to my father's (Frank Burt) mother's (Lula Pike Burt) family. This branch contains the other last names of Wilson, Lollar, Lawson, O’Rear, and Cooner.
The last name Pike originated in England and is an ancient Anglo-Saxon surname first found in the Devon area of England. It is said to be from the Middle Ages (it could have meant Pike as in the fish, or a hill) it is so old, its origins are unclear. The first Pikes arrived in Massachusetts as early as 1635.
The last name Wilson was originally a Viking name which meant "son of William." Most Wilsons lived in Scotland. The Wilson's began arriving in the New World in the mid-1600's with arrivals in the Massachusetts and Virginia areas. By 1760, our unknown ancestor had moved from either Virginia or Massachusetts to what was then considered the "Wild West" - York County, Pennsylvania. In the 1720’s, the first white men began to settle in the "Wild West" and many of those were Irish and Scottish immigrants who settled in the "York Barrens." The York Barrens eventually became York County, an area in southern Pennsylvania between Gettysburg and Philadelphia. In the 1700’s the “wild west” was in Pennsylvania – what a change from the “wild west’ of the 1800’s!
The last name Lawson is another ancient Anglo-Saxon surname. The first Lawson's were found in Yorkshire, England, and held a family seat from very ancient times (prior to 1050 A.D.) Lawson's arrived in America as early as 1623 in Virginia. From Virginia, our Lawson ancestors moved to North Carolina, then to South Carolina, and finally to Walker County, Alabama.
The last name Cooner is a harder name to find - there is an indication that is a variation of a German name. There is a document which indicates that three German brothers immigrated to America, landing in South Carolina. Their names were originally Kunner, but the name was changed to Cooner. From South Carolina they traveled, one settling in Alabama, one in Texas, and the destination of the third is unknown. Even if our ancestor was a Kunner, there is still not much information to be found.
The last name Loller is another ancient name from the eastern part of England - it can be traced back to 1133 in the Huntingdonshire area. Loller meant a pious person. Lollers arrived in Maryland in 1739 and in Pennsylvania in the 1740's.
An interesting note about our Pike ancestry is that I was told there was Native American blood in this branch of our family tree. My father told me that my grandmother (Lula Pike Burt) had Native American blood. Looking at this part of our tree, I am not sure where it came from. Aunt Diane believes it was an old-wives tale told to impress the young children in the family. I also found several websites which told folks to not believe the Indian princess stories in their family history as it seemed that every family with roots in the southern areas of America claimed to have had an Indian princess or maiden in its past. Oh well…..
I also remember being told that an ancestor returned from the Civil War as a hero for the losing Confederacy and was given land in the South as his reward. You’ll see the truth is far different from this story!
Around 1830, the Pike, Loller, Cooner, Wilson and Lawson families (along with the Boshell, Keeton and Romine families) moved together (approximately 400 miles) from their homes in the Carolina's to an area which is now Walker County, Alabama (northwest of Birmingham).
The amended land-grant law of 1819 (small areas of land could be purchased from the Government for $1.25 an acre) brought a host of settlers into this area of Alabama. The Indian trails were thronged with people from all classes of the social level seeking land under this new law. From wealthy planters with their slaves to the poorest (walking with their possessions on their backs), they each came seeking land in this wilderness territory. It was those of the poorer class, who before 1820, turned into the hill country of Walker county. These people, known as squatters, were few and widely separated.
Jasper became the county seat when Walker County was created. Jaspe r is named for Sgt. William Jasper, a South Carolinian who fought with distinction in defending Fort Moultrie during the Revolutionary War. Hugh Lollar, an early settler, is said to have named the town.
Walker County Alabama was originally part of the Mississippi Territory. Our ancestors lived in the section of Walker County in the vicinity of Townley, Holly Grove and Pleasant Grove, which are the earliest settlements in the county. Holly Grove was the first community with a post office for all the early settlers and it continued to be the trading center of the area but the community never grew, and its final doom came with the building of the Frisco Railroad in 1886, which laid its rails one mile south of Holly Grove, and the town of Townley, which was located on the railroad, came into existence.Pleasant Grove came into existence as a community in 1842 when a dissension entered the Baptist Church over the matter of missions. The Bethel Primitive Baptist Church, at Holly Grove, continued to follow the Primitive Baptist beliefs, while those who subscribed to the tenets of the Missionary Baptist organized and built their church at Pleasant Grove. Albert G. Lawson, grandson of our direct ancestor John Lawson, when he enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1862, indicated he was born near Pleasant Grove Baptist Church on Lost Creek in 1838. Several of our ancestors are listed in the membership of the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church.
Our Pike ancestors were living in Alabama since the early 1800’s before it was even a state. They were in America long before it was a country. Although we have English, Scottish, and Irish history in this branch, its got a lot of American history in it as well. Our ancestors from this branch fought in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Civil War, the Indian wars, and World War II. I am sure there are ancestors who also fought in World War I.
They were Southerners who fought for our country, farmed and hunted to put food on the table, had lots of babies, and worked hard to make sure their children had it a little better than they did.
The Pike family tree branch begins in the 1600’s in Ireland, so let’s go there.
In the past few years, many family researchers have tried to find information about the earliest O'Rear that lived in America. So far, no one has been successful in that regard. The consensus is that the earliest of the name was a John O'Rea who seems to have been in Virginia about 1675 when a son, John O'Rea seems to have been born or christened. There is speculation that the son may have been born aboard ship while his parent traveled to America and the record of his christening was after arrival. This speculation is based on a letter about the origin of the family written by Susan Marshall (an O'Rear descendant) in 1901. However, no records have been found of an O'Rea on any ship's passenger list. This doesn't mean that the name was never on a list, only that a list has not been found for various reasons including loss due to burning of courthouse records during the Civil War. Also back then, records were not diligently kept. Because we don't know when the first O'Rear came to America, we also don't know the origin of that first O'Rea. Opinions change as more records are located but the guesses vary from Ireland to Scotland to France. For many years, the thinking was that the O’Rear family came from France. This hypothesis was due to a number of factors, some of which are: (1) the settlement of the family near Brent Town which was primarily settled by French Huguenots, (2) the inter-marriage with some of the women from that area that were of French ancestry, (3) the existence of a Sword that was variously claimed to have been given to an O'Rea ancestor by the King of France, (4) the letter from Susan Marshall indicates flight "from persecution of the saints in Europe," and (5) the story that the O'Rear ancestors were French noblemen. Points one and two above may be just happenstance and the fact that the geographic closeness was the cause of the inter-marriages. It has been determined that the Sword of point three above dates from the latter part of the 1700's -- much too late for it to have any meaning about the family origin. The letter of Susan Marshall's does not specifically state the country of origin, but the statement about flight from persecution seems to lend credence to the French origin theory.As for the story of the family being French nobles, there is some support of that based on the report in the late Edward C. O'Rear II of Lexington, Kentucky's files. This report of unknown date was from an investigator in France who gave information on the Orré family. The name apparently is of Swedish origin although the family considered themselves Irish. This family (variously spelled Oree and Orea) seemed to have been of the Protestant persuasion and were apparently commoners in the 15th century that seemingly only lacked formalities which would have caused them to be noblemen. That at least some of the family must have been noblemen is thought because a register of arms gave a coat of arms for the Orré family of Poitou and Thouars. A hand-written description of the coat of arms appears to be: "D'azur au Lion d'o armé el Iampasse de guelles et au chef couser de gueles, chargé de 3 macles d'argent. Ecu timbré d'un caique posé de profil." The family motto is: "Non saeviat ore" which was interpreted in the report as "a Latin pun, meaning speaking of the lion, his mouth won't hurt you." The report states further that many records of the Orré family were destroyed and the family dispersed in the late 1600's following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (when the Catholics started killing the protestants in France).A family legend says that an O'Rea was an Irish baron in the court of Charles I. At the last minute as Cromwell seemed likely to win, the story is that Charles I entrusted his daughter to the O'Rea family to save her life, and supposedly the O'Rea family brought the daughter to America settling in New Jersey. The story goes on that Charles II came to America seeking his sister, never found her, and that she eventually married an O'Rea. There are a number of problems with this story. One is there are no records of either a Baron O'Rea or a daughter of Charles I. Another problem is that Charles II never came to America. Because most family legends have some basis of truth in them, one theory is that an O'Rea was a trusted servant of a baron, that it was the baron's daughter that was entrusted to the family, that she was known to Charles II (a childhood playmate?), and that she was taken to the Isle of Jersey which is known to have been visited by Charles II (not necessarily to see her). However, no real research has been made concerning this theory.Supporting the current thinking that the O'Rear family originated in Ireland is the finding of five persons named O'Rea listed in the 1651 Irish Census near the village of Cappamore. In addition to this, the affidavit made by George Washington O'Rear of Georgia on 17 Feb 1902 says that his great-grandfather came from Ireland. However, comparing his stated genealogy with the known family data reveals that the his great-grandfather was actually born in America as had his great-great-grandfather. Also his three-great-grandfather was either born in America or was christened here after being born at sea. Thus it seems that his claim overlooks a couple of generations. This overlooking of generations is not uncommon in stories such as this and in many printed genealogies, so the basic premise of his statement may be true, that one of his ancestors came from Ireland.It may be that the real origin is Scotland. The basis of this theory is that the great majority of Ireland is Catholic and most all of the O'Rear family seems to be Protestant -- primarily of a Calvinist background.
In any event, here are our oldest Pike family tree branch ancestors:
John O’Rea was born around 1650 in Ireland and died in 1710 in Virginia at the age of 60. At some point prior to 1675, he immigrated to Virginia from Ireland. John O'Rea was born in 1675 in Virginia or possibly "at sea" on the way to America and he died around 1716 in Stafford County, Virginia at the age of 41. He was the son of John O’Rea, who was born in Ireland. John was christened in 1675 at Dettingen Parish, Virginia. He married Mary Peck before 1700. John O'Rea was paid by the justices for trapping wolves in November 1702 at Stafford County, Virginia. On December 30, 1710, paperwork indicates that John O’Rea received a land warrant at Stafford County, Virginia for 198 acres of land. On May 31, 1711, he acquired an additional 400 acres of land in Stafford County, Virginia – on Dorrell's Run of the Occaquan River. John built the family home which he called Cloverfield and it stood until 1940 – over 200 years later.
Daniel Lanson O’Rear was burn in 1710 in Stafford County, Virginia and died in April, 1737 in Prince William County, Virginia at the age of 27. He was the son of John O’Rea who built the farm “Cloverfield”. Daniel is shown on the Tobacco Tenders List as 14 years old. The Tobacco Tenders List named farmers who grew tobacco. Therefore, we can assume that Daniel and his father John grew tobacco on their 400+ acres of land. Daniel married Ester Thorn before 1730. His estate was probated on April 25, 1737 at Prince William County, Virginia.
John O'Rear was born in 1730 in Prince William County, Virginia and died in 1810 in Hancock County, Georgia at the age of 80. John was the son of Daniel and Ester O’Rear. John married a Sarah in 1758 and is shown as living in Fauquire County, Virginia in 1759. By 1779 he had moved south to Wilkes County, North Carolina. We know this because in 1779 a restraining order was issued against John and his son Daniel (born 1758) by the Wilkes County Circuit Court for threatening bodily harm against a neighboring tobacco planter. John and his family moved to Georgia soon afterward. 20 years later, in 1799, John sold 100 acres on the waters of Shoulderbone in Hancock County, Georgia, to Jesse Brantley. In 1802, John O'Rear resided in Clarke County, Georgia. On September 7, 1809, John and Moses Lloyd sold 100 acres to his son-in-law.
Daniel O’Rear was born in 1758 in Fauquier County, Virginia and died in 1859 in Summerville, Georgia at the age of 101. Daniel was the son of John and Sarah O’Rear. Daniel served in the Revolutionary War. He joined Colonel Patrick Henry's Virginia Regiment in 1776 at Williamsburg, Virginia as a private. Between 1777 and 1779 he was a private in Captain John Ashley's Company. 1779 was a busy year for Daniel – he was paroled from the military, married Susan Gooch in Wake County, North Carolina, and had a restraining order issued against him and his father for threatening a neighbor. Daniel did receive a pension for service in the regular Army and the Militia in 1834. By 1838 he had moved to Bledsoe County,Tennessee and a year later he was in Chattooga County, Georgia. He died around 1859 in Summerville, Georgia and was buried at the Macedonia Baptist Church Cemetery, in Trion, Georgia.
Martin O'Rear was born in 1795 in North Carolina and died in Walker County, Alabama in 1864 at the age of 69. His parents were Daniel and Susan Gooch O’Rear. Martin was a farmer and it is believed he and his family moved from North Carolina to Tennessee. He married Letitia Alexander in 1817. By 1840 he was living in Walker County, Alabama where he was a founding member and first clerk of the Pleasant Grove Church, Walker County, Alabama in 1845. In 1859 he was the tax assessor for Walker County, Alabama. He died at “Snoddy’s Place” in Walker County, Alabama in 1864 and is buried at New Prospect Cemetery.
Martin and Letitia Alexander O’Rear had 15 children – seven of whom died as infants:
Martha 1815-1856 (this is our ancestor)
Jeremiah 1818-1890
Margaret 1819
Levicy 1820
Daniel 1822
Eliza 1825
Sarah 1826-1900
Frances 1827-1894
Elijah 1829-1907
Samuel 1830
Susan Ann 1833-1898
Lucenda 1834-1913
Caroline 1835
Anderson 1838-1907
Mary 1839
Martha O’Rear Nesmith was born around 1815 in Roane, Tennessee and died in 1856 in Walker County, Alabama at the age of 41. She married William Nesmith on June 21, 1835 in Morgan County, Alabama. At her death, she left behind children ranging in age from 8 to 24.
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William Pike was born in 1814 in Georgia and died in 1860 at the age of 46. He married Mary Richardson Pike.
Mary Richardson Pike was born in 1810 in Tennessee and died in 1898 at the age of 88 in Itawamba County, Mississippi.
At some point Mary and William Pike moved to Walker County, Alabama where they had at least four children:
Phillip Colton (this is our ancestor)
Mary Elizabeth
Sarah M.
Joseph V.
Philip Colton Pike was born in Walker County, Alabama in 1847 to William and Mary Richardson Pike and he died at the age of 82 in Townley, Walker County, Alabama where he is buried in Guthrie Cemetery in Townley.
Philip married Emily Jane Nesmith Pike. Philip served in the Civil War as a private with Company A of the First Alabama Calvary. Emily Jane Nesmith Pike was the daughter of Martha O’Rear Nesmith – Emily lost her mother at a very young age (See above). Emily’s father was Bill Nesmith (see below).
J.C. William “Bill” Nesmith was born on March 19, 1809 in Blount County, Tennessee and died on December 17, 1870 in Townley, Alabama at the age of 61. He married Martha O’Rear (the ancestor with roots back to Ireland) on June 21, 1835 in Morgan County, Alabama. He is buried at Fikes Cemetery, Townley, Alabama.
J.C. William “Bill” and Martha O’Rear Nesmith had ten children. Its interesting that papers show they married in 1835, yet they had children starting in 1832.
Alexander 1832-1906
Travis 1834
Gracie Frances 1835-1910
Elizabeth 1836-1934
John Wesley 1837-1914
Martin 1842
Malinda 1844
Lucinda 1847
Emily Jane 1848 (this is our ancestor)
You’ll remember that Martha O’Rear Nesmith died in 1856 at the age of 41. Her husband, J.C. William “Bill” Pike married a second time to Nancy Frazier, who became our ancestor’s step-mother. Our ancestor Emily Jane was only 8 years old when her mother died.
Emily Jane Nesmith Pike was born in 1847 or 1848 in _____ and died in 1912 at Walker County Alabama at the age of 64. She is buried at Guthrie Cemetery. She married Philip Colton Pike, whose parents were Mary Richardson and William Pike.
Emily Jane Nesmith Pike and Philip Colton Pike had five children:
John Campbell 1870 (our direct ancestor)
Nancy Emmeline
William Munroe
Lula Isabell
Philip Harrison
John Campbell “Johnnie C.” Pike was born in 1870 and died in 1953 at the age of 73 and is buried with his first wife Martha M. Cooner Pike at Guthrie Cemetery, Walker County Alabama. John married Martha Cooner Pike and they had five children:
Lula Nazrine (our direct ancestor)
Clelie
Ola
Ester
Grace
His wife Martha Cooner Pike died in 1904 at the age of 31 when Grace was only 2. John married a second time - to Suzan Randolph and did not have any more children.
Lula Nazrine Pike Burt is my father’s mother – your paternal great-grandmother – and we will get more to her – and to her mother Martha Cooner Pike – after we cover the history of the Cooners which we will begin next starting with the Lollar branch.
Isaac Lollar was born in Virginia in 1713. He moved to Burke County, North Carolina and in 1755 had a son - Jacob Lollar.
Jacob Lollar was born in 1755 in Burke County, North Carolina and died in 1840 at the age of 85. He married Elizabeth Gantt (1762-1840). After their marriage, they moved to South Carolina and eventually to Walker County, Alabama. Both Jacob and Elizabeth died in Walker County, Alabama. During their marriage, they had at least two children:
Martha Lollar (our direct ancestor who married a Cooner) Mary
Martha Lollar was born in 1794 in South Carolina and married James Patmon Cooner.
James Patmon Cooner was born April 10, 1789 in the Abbeville District of South Carolina.
His wife Martha Loller Cooner was also born in Abbeville County. He and his wife Martha Loller had seven children and migrated from South Carolina to Walker County, Alabama along with other families.
They "are buried on the home place, section 34, township 14 S, and range SW about 200 yards south of the Aunt Lottie Johnsons house place near the middle of a forty owned by Edcar Myers. At the 1945 Cooner reunion, Ed Cooner, Bruce Myers, Breck Sides, David Cooner, Billy Collins, Lenord Wilson, and others contributed enough money to erect a small granite marker in the cemetery to the memory of them. The cemetery is inactive and is located at the fork of Lost Creek, one mile south of Pleasant Grove Church. An anonymous annotation, which refers to Gilchrist Cemetery, reads "moved to Walker Memorial Gardens [North of Jasper] in 1988 due to coal mine stripping.”
Mahala Martha Parthenia Lawson was born on April 24, 1833 in Walker County Alabama to Sarah Wilson Lawson and John Lawson. Mahala died December 23, 1927 (at age 94) in Walker County where she is buried in Files Cemetery.
On March 16, 1854, she married John Carroll Cooner in Holly Grove, Walker County, Alabama. John was a farmer and Mahala was a housewife. According to the US Census, neither John nor Mahala could read or write. Their farm real estate was valued at $300 and their personalty valued at $200. John and Mahala had eight children:
Irene Elizabeth
John Wesley
Mary
James Patmon
Samuel S
Spencer Monroe ("Roe")
Daniel G.
Martha M. (our direct ancestor)
Mahala was spelled Mahaley and Mahaly. However, when she died at the age of 94, “Mahala” is what is listed on her death certificate and gravestone. The last census in which she is mentioned was taken in 1920 and she is listed as living with her son Spencer Cooner and his wife Mary in Beach Grove, Walker County, Alabama. Mahala died of appaplexey according to her death certificate, which nowadays is known as a stroke. The minutes of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church records, Walker County, Alabama 1845-1883, indicates Mahala or Mahaley Cooner a member of the Church. She is listed five times in the membership list at the end of the minutes.Mahala received a pension for her husband’s (James Carroll Cooner) service in the First Alabama Cavalry. She received her first pension payment on October 24 1914.
James Carroll Cooner was born December 25, 1835 near Pleasant Grove, Walker County, Alabama to James P. and Martha Cooner. John died September 11, 1914 (at age 79) and is buried with his wife Mahala in Walker County, Alabama at Files Cemetery James was a farmer. He married Mahala Lawson in March 1854 in Holly Grove, Walker County, Alabama. James and Mahala had eight children, as listed above, and their youngest daughter, Martha M. is our direct ancestor.
James was known as Carroll – the southern tradition was that you were called by your middle name. My father Frank Eugene Burt was Frank everywhere but in Alabama, where he was Gene or Eugene.
During the civil war, John was a member of Company G, 13th Alabama Cavalry for the Confederate States of America. He later left the CSA Calvary and tried to join the United States Alabama Calvary but he was captured and held as a prisoner.
In the book "Glimpses of The Myers Cavalcade", it states that George Allison Myers was a soldier in the Confederate Army but when the US Army got to Huntsville, he, his brother Howell, his brother-in-law, Jim Tindall, Carroll Cooner and Dave Wolf, with Dave acting as a guide, went through the woods from Walker County to Huntsville and joined the US Army. Some of them were imprisoned. John Martin Dombhart indicates in his book that James Carroll Cooner, on September 6, 1862, enlisted at Jasper as a private in Company G, Thirteenth Alabama Cavalry, under Captain Shepherd. He references Census of Confederate Soldiers, 1907. The following story was in the Daily Mountain Eagle, 'Opinion', dated February 28, 1979. "Two brothers, Sam and John Cooner, came from Germany and settled at Palmer on the lower end of Wolf Creek. Carroll Cooner married Mahala Lawson and they lived on the Beech Grove Road. During the Civil War both armies were moving across the South and they took provisions anywhere they could find them. The Cooner family had killed hogs and they hid the meat in a hole near the wood pile. They lined the hole with cloths, placed the meat on the cloths and salted it down. They put planks over the meat, covered it with earth and then moved the woodpile over it. US Troops saw the hog pen, questioned the family and searched the place but couldn't find the meat. The story was handed down by Elizabeth Cooner Alexander, a daughter of Carroll Cooner. Additional information of this period was given by Curt Cooner, a grandson. Carroll and Mahala lived at Wolf Creek. They always lived in Walker Co., with their residence/post office listed variously as Holly Grove (1864, 1915), Beech Grove (1889), Chickasaw (1896, 1902), and Townley (1911, 1914-1916). They were married by Wm. Sides, Justice of the Peace, and this was the only marriage for both.
In the Census of Enumeration of Confederate Soldiers Residing in Alabama, taken in 1907, James Carroll Cooner indicated he was born December 25, 1835 near Pleasant Grove on Lost Creek, Walker County, Alabama. He entered service as a private on the 6th of September 1862 at Jasper, Alabama, serving in Co. G. (Capt. Shepherd) 1st Regiment Alabama Partisan Rangers (later became the 56 Alabama Partisan Rangers). In Spring of 1863, he indicated he came home on furlough and then went to Decatur, Alabama to join the US Federal Army. Muster rolls dated July and August 1863 for 56 Regiment Alabama Cavalry indicated he deserted July 16, 1863.William Stanley Hoole, 1960, “Alabama Tories; The First Alabama Cavalry, U.S.A., 1862-1865”, shows Cooner, James C., pvt. G.A. enlisted Decatur for 3 years; muster in 4-13-64, Decatur; born Walker County, Alabama; age 28; farmer; deserted 11-17-64 Atlanta, Georgia. According to the Federal Army Pension Record of James C. Cooner, WC 786-002, National Archives, Washington, DC, he was 5’10”, 155 lbs., and had sandy hair, a fair complexion, blue eyes and no permanent marks or scars. The Record also has the following by his own attestation;
“I was forsed out in the confederate Armey by the Conscript ofiser but i left and went to the Federal Armey as soon as i cold get acros The lines.” He enrolled 8 or 28 Mar 1864 at Decatur, AL as private in Co. G of the 1st AL Cavalry under Captain John H. Hogan and was honorably discharged at Huntsville on 20 or 25 Oct. 1865. In Aug 1865 during a battle at Rome, GA, he was overcome by sun-stroke, which left him highly susceptible to overheating the rest of his life; he claimed this as a “nervous disability”. He said that he had been treated for this problem by Dr. J. F. Martan, Assistant Surgeon of the 1st AL Cavalry, at Rome in Sept. 1864, and during the summer and fall of 1865 at Decatur; that he was treated later by L. C. Miller; and that he “used pattent medisans mostly all the time”. In a later claim, he also said that he suffered from “Piles, Heart Truble, Rhumitism and Kidney Deases”. He was designated as a corporal only on his gravestone and in one of two post-death claims by his widow.
James Carroll served in both Armies. Both James and Mahala received a pension for his service in the First Alabama Cavalry. His pension started November 1889 and Mahala’s started October 1914.
James and Mahala Cooner were the parents of Martha Cooner Pike and Martha Cooner Pike is the mother of Lula Pike who is your mother’s paternal grandmother - your great-grandmother on your mother’s father’s side of the family. My father (Frank Burt) remembers Mahala as Grandma Haley.
Andrew Wilson was born in 1762 in York County, Pennsylvania. I do not know anything about his parents - where they were born, when, their names, or how they arrived in Pennsylvania.
At some point, we do know that Andrew Wilson moved from Pennsylvania to North Carolina or Virginia (approximately 500 miles) because as a young man he fought in the Revolutionary War (which took place from 1775 to 1783) for "Tate's Troops". He then moved to South Carolina (approximately 100 miles) where he married a woman by the name of Mariah (or Martha). While living in South Carolina, Andrew and Mariah (or Martha) Wilson had at least one daughter - Sarah Wilson in 1793.
Between 1830 and 1835, Andrew Wilson, his wife, and daughter Sarah (possibly with her husband John Lawson and their young family?) moved to Alabama with a group of families (approximately 300 miles). In November, 1850, at the age of 88, Andrew Wilson died and is buried just north of the US 278 (Sipsey River Bridge) in Double Springs, Alabama. No details are known about his wife Mariah (or Martha) or her parents. Andrew was a farmer.
Sarah Wilson Lawson was born August 23, 1792 in South Carolina. She married (questionably) a man with the last name of Ball and had a daughter Nancy in April 1816.
Later that year, in November, 1816, in the Mississippi Territory, which later became the State of Alabama. she married John Lawson and they had eight children:
Vinyard Lawson 1819
Jesse 1822
Unnamed infant boy 1825
Daniel John 1826
Unnamed infant daughter 1830
Patmon 1832
Mahala Martha Parthenia 1833 (our direct ancestor who married John Carroll Cooner)
William James 1836
Sarah and her husband John Lawson (13 years her senior) were farmers. Neither could not read or write according to a US Census. When they purchased land for their farm in Alabama, John signed with an "X". The 1860 census lists John and Sarah with real estate valued at $300 and value of personal estate is $370.
Sarah died in 1885 and is buried with her husband John Lawson in Files Cemetery in Walker County, Alabama. Sarah's gravestone reads: "Sarah wife of John Lawson died 14 Jun 1885 - age 92 years, 9 months and 22 days."
Caley Lawson was born in 1760 and died in 1855 in Walker County Alabama. We assume she was the mother of John Lawson born in 1780 because both the 1840 and 1850 census show a Caley Lawson born 1760 as living with John Lawson and his family. Caley is not mentioned in the 1860 census so we assumed she died during the 1850’s.
John Lawson was born in 1780 in North Carolina and died November 8, 1883 at the age of 103 in Walker County, Alabama. John was a farmer. All indications are that John Lawson and his family came into Walker County after 1830 and before 1835. It is believed he settled on Cane Creek, which is about 3.5 miles south of present day Townley, 4.5 miles south of Holly Grove and about 3 miles west of Pleasant Grove. In 1824 Holly Grove was the community center and post office of all the early settlers. This land on Cane Creek would be the same or some of the same land he sold to John Myers, March 16, 1876, which is about 7 years before his death. In the “History of Walker County, Alabama” by John Martin Dombhart, he states “The Boshell, the Pike, the Keeton, the Cooner, the Lawson, and the Romine families were established in this section before 1835.”
John died in 1883 at the age of 103 and is buried in Walker County, Alabama. John and his wife Sarah Wilson Lawson were married for over 60 years.
John served and was wounded in the War of 1812 (at the approximate age of 30): Master Roll of Captain James Cole's 1st Regiment, 1st Cpl. - John Lawson - wounded and served in the infantry.
At the age of 36, according to the research of Virginia Foxworth Lawson published in The Lawson Letters (#19, p. 165), John Lawson, with Vinyard Crawford and Goulder Fields as neighbors, were listed in the Mississippi Territory Census of 1816 as living in Monroe County, Mississippi Territory - an area from which Walker County Alabama was formed in 1823. That census was taken in the Mississippi Territory as a prelude to the establishment of Alabama as a state.
An interesting note on John - at the age of 44, he appeared in court: Superior Court Minutes 1819-1826, page 212, dated October 1824; State verses John Lawson, on the 7 October 1824 with force and angus assaulted John Mullins did beat, bruise, wound and ill treat and other wrongs to the said John Mullins then and other aid to the great damage of the said John Mullins and against the peace and dignity of the Sate of Alabama. He was fined $20.
The 1840 census indicates that John's household contains seven children, his wife, and his mother, Caley. All of the above were white, therefore it is assumed he owned no slaves.
John and Sarah Lawson are enumerated in the 1860 Western Division, Post Office Jasper, Walker County, Alabama Census with real estate valued at $300 and value of personal estate is $370. It states John was born in North Carolina and Sarah in South Carolina. He could not read or write. Age is given as 68 years.
First Court Records 1819-1849, page 48Taken up by Thomas Patton on the head of Greenwoods Creek – one cow and calf appraised to eight dollars by us – supposed to be twelve years old – marked with a crop of the right ear and a under leit (spelling?) of the left iers (ear or eye?) – before me William Ward and of the acting Justices of the Peace of St. Clair County this 31 October 1821. Paid $4.00Vinyard (X) CroffordJohn (X) LawsonFound in the St. Clair County library is a listing, page 23, of the officers at Ft. Strother, located on the Coosa River, in St. Clair County, during Dec. 1813 and Jan. 1814. Master Roll of Captain James Cole's 1st Regiment, company from White & Warren Counties, Tennessee, under the command of Colonel John K. Wynne, Robert's Brigade. In this Master Roll is; 1st Cpl. - John Lawson – wounded. I did find in the General Index Cards in the Birmingham Library a John Lawson, 1 Reg't. (Wynne's) W. Tennessee Militia (War of 1812), Corporal.In the Rutherford Co. Library in Murfreesboro, Tennessee was a book of Enlisted Men, War of 1812, which listed Cpl. John Lawson, served with Col. John K. Wynn, Capt. James Cole. Indicated John Lawson was wounded 12 Nov. 1813 (believe this may have been 9 Nov. 1813 unless he was wounded when there was no battle).In the Wallace State Community College there was a listing from the index for Corporal John Lawson, which gave the same information above, but also gave his date of enlistment as 4 Oct. 1813 and served in the infantry.Company Muster Roll for Captain James Cole’s Company of Militia, Colonel J. K. Wynne’s Regiment Tennessee Infantry. John Lawson, Corporal, Roll dated Nashville, July 9, 1814. Indicated John Lawson appears on Company Muster Roll for October 4, 1813, when mustered into service, to January 4, 1813, when discharged. Indicated he was absent. Under remarks it indicated on furlough wounded 12 November 1813. Company Pay Roll, not dated, for the same unit indicated John Lawson was on the Roll for October 4, 1813 to January 4, 1814. Term of service charged, 3 months, 13 days. Pay per month, $10.00 with subsistence of $1.69. Amount of pay $35.88. Under remarks it indicated on furlough wounded 12 November 1813.A brief history: For the Tennesseans who fought in the War of 1812, the Creek (or Muskogee as they are sometimes called) War (1813-1814) was the War of 1812. In one of the earlier battles, Andrewahatchie, Jackson surrounded the town with a brigade of militia under General Isaac Roberts on the left and a brigade of volunteers let by General William Hall on the right. A cavalry detachment, under Colonel Robert Dyer, was held in reserve and an advance unit, let by Colonel William Carroll, was sent in to lure the Red Sticks out into the open. When the Creeks attacked the section. (This could have been the battle that John was wounded in?)
In any event, John Lawson did marry Sarah Wilson Lawson and they were the parents of Mahala Lawson Cooner whom you read about earlier.
Martha M. Cooner Pike (1873-1904)
Martha M. (Cooner) Pike was born in 1873 in Walker County, Alabama. She was the daughter of Mahala Lawson Cooner and John Carroll Cooner.
She married Johnnie C. Pike and they had four children:
Lula Nazrine (our direct ancestor)
Clelie Ola
Ester
Grace.
Martha died in 1904 at the age of 31, when her youngest child was only two years old. Martha’s husband Johnnie Campbell Pike remarried to Suzan Randolph and did have any more children. Johnnie died in 1953 and is buried with Martha at Guthrie Cemetery in Walker County, Alabama.
Lula Nazarine Pike Burt (1892-1979)
Eugene "Gip" Gibson Burt (1885-1951)
Lula Nazarine (Pike) Burt was born April 24, 1892 in Townley, Walker County, Alabama. She married Eugene Gibson Burt and they lived in Walker County, Alabama. Eugene died and Lula remarried but did not have any more children. Her second husband did not live long and she then lived with her sister for the rest of her life. She died November 18, 1979 and is buried next to Eugene at Prospect Cemetery in Walker County, Alabama. Eugene and Lula had four children: Frank Eugene, Inez, and twins - Trudy and Truman.
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Below, you’ll find the entire annotated script for The Story of Change. If you’d like to download the PDF version, click HERE.
Ever since I learned where our stuff really comes from – and how this system is trashing people and the planet[i] – I’ve been trying to figure out how we can change it.
I’ve read a lot of these: 100 Ways to Save the Planet Without Leaving Your House, 50 SimpleThings You Can do to Save the Earth, The Little Green Book of Shopping.[ii]
I thought they might have the answers, but their tips all start here – with buying better stuff[iii] – and they all end here – with recycling[iv] all that stuff when I’m done with it.
But when it comes to making change, this story of “going green” – even though we see it everywhere – has some serious shortcomings.[v][vi] on the shelves or to allow slave labor in factories around the world.[vii] I didn’t choose to fill stores with electronics that can’t be repaired and have to be thrown away[viii]. I didn’t choose a world in which some people can afford to live green, leaving the rest of us to be irresponsible planet wreckers!
Of course when we do shop we should buy the least toxic and most fair products we can[ix], but it’s not bad shoppers – here – who are the source of the problem, it’s bad policies[x] and bad business practices[xi] – here. And that’s why the solutions we really need are not for sale at the supermarket.
If we actually want to change the world, we can’t talk only about consumers voting with our dollars[xii]. Real change happens when citizens[xiii] come together to demand rules that work.
Look, it is important to try to live green. As Gandhi said, “be the change.[xiv]”?[xv]
So how do we make big change?
To answer that question, I went back and looked at Gandhi[xvi], the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa[xvii], the U.S. Civil Rights Movement[xviii], and the environmental victories here in the 1970s[xix]. They didn’t just nag people to perfect their day-to-day choices. They changed the rules of the game.
It turns out, there are three things you find whenever people get together and actually change the world.
First, they share a big idea[xx][xxi] that puts safe products[xxii], happy people[xxiii], and a healthy planet[xxiv] first. Duh, isn’t that what an economy should be for?
Trying to live eco-perfectly in today’s system is like trying to swim upstream, when the current is pushing us all the other way. But by changing what our economy prioritizes[xxv],.”[xxvi]?[xxvii] But that was enough to make change – because those supporters took action – they did stuff. Today 74% of Americans support tougher laws on toxic chemicals[xxviii]. 83% want clean energy laws.[xxix] 85% think corporations should have less influence in government.[xxx]
We’ve got the big idea and the commitment. We just haven’t turned it all into massive action yet. And this is our only missing piece. So let’s do it.[xxxi].[xxxii] That’s one of those basic things that everyone’s just gotta do. But it gets way more exciting – and fun[xxxiii] –.
[i] I summarized what I learned about where our stuff comes from, and how current systems of production and consumption are trashing people and the planet, in The Story of Stuff movie () and book (The Story of Stuff, published by Free Press, 2010.)
[ii] The books we mention are just a couple in a long list of advice books on living green. The ones on my shelf right now are: The Little Green Book of Shopping (Diane Millis, 2008); Living Green – a Practical Guide to Simple Sustainability (Greg Horn, 2006),; The Lazy Environmentalist – Your Guide to Easy, Stylish, Green Living (Josh Dorfman, 2007); The Better World Shopping Guide (Ellis Jones, 2006); It’s Easy Being Green (Jennifer Pratt 2003); Just Green It – Simple Swaps to Save the Planet and Your Health (Ron and Lisa Beres, 2010); Save the World and Still be Home for Dinner (Will Marre, 2009); The Green Year- 365 Small things you can do to make a big difference (Jodi Helmer, 2008); It’s Easy Being Green (Crissy Trask, 2006); and 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth (Earth Works Group, 1989).
These books have some very good tips – from avoiding disposable goods to buying energy efficient appliances and much much more. If you’re looking for simple steps to get started, these books offer lots of ideas from the obvious to the innovative. However, we agree with John Javna, author of “50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth” and later “50 More Things You Can Do to Save the Earth” when he captured the spirit of The Story of Change in this essay:
“As I explain in the book [50 More things…], I believe the answer is that we need a “new environmentalism” which focuses on issues rather than tips–one that goes further than simple individual effort, to harness the power of cooperation and community; one that not only works to change individual personal habits, but also to change society–laws, business practices, and even values; one that inspires a sustained, committed effort to solve specific problems, rather than simply encouraging random environmental action.
The simplest, most practical way to accomplish this is for each of us to find a single environmental issue that’s right for our lives–one that we really care about–and make that issue the focus of our efforts. It might be saving coral reefs, or supporting solar energy, or bringing a modern railroad system to America. Whatever it is, if we really believe in it, we’ll find it a pleasure to stay involved. We’ll be able to build a satisfying relationship with others who care about the issue–particularly the community of environmental groups that are already working on it–and in the long run, we’ll be part of the change we want to create. It doesn’t matter which issue you pick–big or small–because they’re all connected. If you work to cut carbon emissions from power plants, for example, you’re also helping to clean up waterways. If you clean waterways, you’re improving wildlife habitat. By improving wildlife habitat, you protect trees. And when we have more trees, we clean the air…which means less climate change. “ (Full piece at:))
[iii] Just to be clear, I am all for bringing our values to the marketplace! When we do shop, it’s good to choose products without toxic chemicals and unnecessary packaging, made by companies which treat suppliers, workers and host communities well. Where we buy matters too; buying from local businesses keeps more money in the local community, creating jobs and supporting your local economy. Michael Shuman () explains that “every dollar spent at a locally owned business generates two to four times more economic benefit—measured in income, wealth, jobs, and tax revenue—than a dollar spent at a globally owned business.” Buying used stuff may also help, by potentially reducing the resource use and pollution associated with making new stuff. Choosing products aligned with our values supports companies that are working to be part of the solution. Conversely, avoiding (boycotting) products that are unhealthy for workers, communities and the planet sends a message to companies that are still stuck in the dinosaur economy. Sometimes not buying at all, but making do with what we have or sharing with a friend, is the best option of all. These are all good things to do.
[iv] Of course, I am all for recycling too! Recycling keeps stuff out of landfills and incinerators, reduces pressure to harvest and mine more resources, creates jobs, conserves energy and helps combat climate change. As explained in “More Jobs, Less Pollution: Growing the Recycling Economy in the U.S.,” increasing the recycling rate to 75% in the U.S. would result in 1.5 million new jobs, reduced greenhouse gases and less pollution overall. (). To learn more about the many benefits of recycling, check out the U.S.-based Recycling Works Campaign at. For information on recycling and other Zero Waste strategies internationally, please visit GAIA, the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives at.
[vi] Everyday products contain a variety of toxic chemicals. For more info, see:
[vii] We’ve all seen the reports about horrible working conditions in the factories that make our stuff, from iPads () to running shoes (). To learn more about worker rights issues in factories and fields around the world, check out the Institute for Global Labor and Human Rights (formerly the National Labor Committee) at.
[viii] See and the Electronics Take Back Coalition () for more information on planned obsolescence in the electronics industry.
[ix] And we’re lucky to have some excellent online resources to make it easier to find those better products these days. Environmental Working Group’s Skin Deep database () provides information on toxic chemicals in over 65,000 personal care products. And GoodGuide.com provides health, safety and environmental ratings for a broad range of everyday products, from sunscreen to snack foods to clothing to cars and even has an iPhone app for scanning product bar codes and getting instant info right in the supermarket aisles.
[x] In the U.S., like in most countries, there’s a wide range of policies that encourage our unsustainable dinosaur economy. In The Story of Citizens United v FEC (), we discussed rules that make it easier for corporations to influence election outcomes, creating obstacles for candidates who want to serve the public good instead of corporate interests. In The Story of Broke (), we explored the role that government subsidies play in supporting dirty energy, toxic polluters, mining on public lands and the throw away economy. In The Story of Cosmetics (), we discussed the lack of regulations to prevent companies from putting potentially dangerous chemicals in products we smear on our bodies. Other policies (or lack of policy) allow companies to externalize environmental costs, pollute local communities, use untested chemicals, produce products designed to be unrepairable and unrecyclable and much more bad stuff that we really should be moving beyond as a country. As author and activist Bill McKibben put it: “The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.” So let’s make some better laws.
[xi] For too long, business-as-usual has meant striving for economic success at the cost of the environment and human health. Toward this end, some companies make and sell products that are unsafe, unhealthy and designed to break. Many companies use and release toxic chemicals. Some relocate factories to countries with weak labor and environmental protections. And a disgustingly large number of companies actively undermine good laws, from container deposit laws (bottle bills) to climate solutions. Business-as-usual has turned out to be unhealthy, unsustainable and often downright ugly. Fortunately, some companies realize that this isn’t a good idea in the long run; there’s no business on a dead planet. Some are leading the way with renewable energy, clean production, design for durability and even lending their voice to the call for sustainable policies and practices. For more on companies working for a better future, see the American Sustainable Business Council (asbcouncil.org).
[xii] “Voting with our dollars” has become a popular phrase these days. I appreciate the intent –let’s use our purchases to make a statement about our values and, hopefully, help shift the market towards better options. But, as the good folks at Treehugger.org point out, shopping is not voting (). For one thing, if we want to make change with our dollars, just remember that Exxon and Walmart have a lot more dollars than we have, so right away, we’re at a disadvantage. What we do have more of is people with voices and real votes, hope for a better world and love for each other. Those are the arenas in which real people – not corporations – can win.
Another difference between shopping and voting is that everyone shops and fewer than half of the voters in my country bother to vote! No wonder we end up with such losers in office! So sure, bring your values to the marketplace, but don’t stop there. Get yourself – and your family members, coworkers, neighbors — to the polls! And let’s work before the elections to ensure we have candidates worthy of our support, and after to keep them working for a better future for us all.
[xiii] When we talk about citizens, we’re not talking about national status or documentation papers. We’re talking about how one shows up in the world. Citizens recognize, as Eric Liu says, that we’re all better off when we’re all better off. Citizens work together to make our communities, our schools, our countries better for everyone. In The Gardens of Democracy, Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer describe citizenship as “living in a pro-social way at every scale in life…showing up for each other…the recognition that we are interdependent.” Citizenship is about pitching in to make the world better – in whatever way fits each of us best. Again, from The Gardens of Democracy: “Central to our conception of citizenship is an ethic of sacrifice – and a belief that sacrifice should be progressive. That is to say, being a citizen is not just about serving others and contributing when it’s convenient but also when it’s inconvenient. And the scale of the contribution should grow in proportion to the ability of the person to contribute. Just as progressive taxation asks those who can pull the most weight to do so, progressive civic contribution asks those who have the most civic capacity and who have benefited most from our civic culture to take the most responsibility.” At the Story of Stuff Project, we believe that bringing our values to the supermarket is a fine place to start, but if we want to make really big change – which we do – then we’ve got to build the kind of power that only comes from working together as engaged citizens.
[xiv] We know, we know, this is one overused quote, but it is a good one! Many versions of this quote are given: “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” “Be the change you seek.” No one knows the exact words Gandhi said since this quote was paraphrased by his grandson, Arun Gandhi, years after Gandhi died. But we get the point. Walk the talk. Do the right thing. Live your values.
[xv] Gandhi did sew his own clothes and even spun his own fabric. He joined many other independence leaders in encouraging Indians to do the same, rather than purchase imported British goods, to support Swadeshi, or self-sufficiency. The goal of Swadeshi was to withhold economic support for British manufacturers, while instead investing in Indian-owned production. (Many local economy advocates encourage buying locally for the same reasons today.) Gandhi saw Swadeshi as critical to achieving Swaraj (self rule). While there’s inconclusive evidence that Swadeshi was successful at economically harming the British, the image of Gandhi sitting at his spinning wheel became a powerful call to action and continues to inspire people around the world today. However, he didn’t just sit there and spin and sew. He also marched, organized, did outreach and education, recruited people to join, challenged discriminatory social hierarchies, and advocated for new rules.
[xvii] Two good resources to learn about the anti-apartheid struggles are Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela, the film series Have you Heard from Johannesburg: Seven Stories of the Global Anti-Apartheid Movement, by Connie Fields. ()
[xviii] We highly recommend Taylor Branch’s trilogy on America in the King Years, from 1954 through 1968: Parting the Waters, Pillar of Fire, and At Canaan’s Edge. Check them out at a local bookstore or library.
[xix] To learn more about the U.S. environmental movement, we recommend
Philip Shabecoff’s ,A Fierce Green Fire (2003): The American Environmental Movement; Angela Mertig and Riley Dunlap’s edited book American Environmentalism (1992); and Robert Gottlieb’s Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement, (2005). Also, check out the new documentary, A Fierce Green Fire ().
[xx] For more of our thoughts on where we need to be headed (and to chime in the conversation), please check out the Story of Stuff blog here: .
[xxi] The New Economy Network (of which The Story of Stuff Project is a member) has developed a list of principles for a new economy which sustains people and the planet. We think this is an excellent foundation from which to start building a new economy. Please read it and let us know what you think:.
Also, those in the U.S., please check out Gus Speth’s new book, America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy.
[xxii] Learn more and get involved in the campaign for safe healthy products at
[xxiii] To learn more about promoting happiness in your community, access the free tools at The Happiness Initiative:.
[xxiv] There are many things we’ve got to do to have a healthy planet, including reduce toxic chemicals, stop pumping climate altering carbon in to the atmosphere, restrain our resource use to that which the planet can replenish and move beyond a growth-based economic model which requires ever greater resource use. “One Planet Living” is the term used to describe living within the means of our one planet. According to the Global Footprint Network (), globally we are now using 1.5 planets’ worth of resources and waste assimilation capacity each year. That’s a problem, given that we only have one planet. And that resource use isn’t spread equally; some communities and countries are using way more than others. If everyone consumed like the average person in the U.S., we would need five planets! A healthy planet starts with recognizing and living within the limits of our one wonderful planet – and that includes way better sharing than we’re pulling off currently.
[xxv] Our economy is currently set up to prioritize economic growth – measured through GDP- above all else, prompting a growing number of people to ask “What’s the economy for anyway? (Also the title of a new book by SOS friends John DeGraaf and Dave Batker – check it out to learn more.) A number of alternative metrics – such as the Genuine Progress Indicator () and the Happy Planet Index () have been developed to measure other metrics beyond economic activity. While none is perfect, they all promote the same idea; We value what we measure and right now we’re measuring the wrong things. We need to measure, value and prioritize those things that really matter: public well being, environmental health and social equity.
[xxvi] OK, here’s overused quote number 2, but it’s another good one: Margaret Mead summed up the importance of working together when she said: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
[xxvii] “In August 1963, Gallup found considerable public opposition to the now-famous civil rights march on Washington in which King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. The poll was conducted about two weeks before the march, at which time 71% were familiar with “the proposed mass civil rights rally to be held in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28.” Of those who were familiar, only 23% said they had a favorable view of “the rally”; 42% had an unfavorable view of it (including 7% who predicted violence would occur) and 18% said it wouldn’t accomplish anything.” And “In May 1964, Gallup asked, “Do you think mass demonstrations by Negroes are more likely to help or more likely to hurt the Negro’s cause for racial equality?” In response, only 16% of Americans — including just 10% of whites but 55% of nonwhites — said such mass demonstrations would help the cause.” From Gallup (), dated January 21, 2008, accessed May 1, 2012. If you want to learn more about the challenges King and the Civil Rights Movement faced, we recommend Taylor Branch’s excellent series on America in the King Years.
[xxviii] A survey of 825 voters in 75 swing congressional districts conducted between July 29 to August 1, 2010 by The Mellman Group on behalf of Safer Chemical, Healthy Families.
[xxix] February 2, 2011 Gallup Poll (“In U.S., Alternative Energy Bill Does Best Among Eight Proposals,”) discussed in GOOD (, dated February 8, 2011.)
[xxx] “Protecting Democracy from Unlimited Corporate Spending,” a national survey conducted by Hart Research Associates for People for the American Way, June 6 – 7, 2010. (Survey report available at: and more information at:). Results of the survey found:
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[xxxi] Go to and take our Changemaker Personality Quiz to find out which of your changemaking muscles are the strongest! Then, let’s get started putting those citizen muscles to work to build a better future.
[xxxii] If you’re not registered to vote, get going! In the U.S., our friends at RocktheVote have set up an easy process to get registered here: () Please register and then get all your friends to do so too. If you live in another country, I don’t know how you register to vote. It would be great if you would find out and then post it on your facebook, blog, tweet it – however you can get the word out. I know voting won’t solve everything, but it is an essential step in the process.
[xxxiii] It honestly is fun. Working for a better future adds meaning and purpose and joy to life. I am not saying every minute is fun (some city council meetings are boring!) but overall, it is a joyful way to live. Research done by The Story of Stuff Project reveals that a majority of experienced activists credit the increased meaning and fun added to life by working for a better world as among the top factors that inspired them to move beyond the simple green steps to deeper engagement. And Professors Malte Klar and Tim Kasser have documented a link between activism and social well being. (“Some Benefits of Being an Activist: Measuring Activism and Its Role in Psychological Well-Being” in Political Psychology, Vol 30, No 5. 2009).
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