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"normally it's hard to know when an account has been compromised, because e-mail snooping doesn't leave a trace."
Well that's incorrect. I'd be fairly confident that most web-based email services have a way of telling when you logged into your account last (otherwise how would they know when to deactivate your account after X months of inactivity?) - they simply choose not to allow Joe Average to access this information.
GMail has a nice line at the bottom, telling you from which other computer you are connected, when you last took any action, and then some more details. Anyone can take a look at it, but I don't expect much of their users to know what that is for, nor to check it everytime they login
And part of the reason is that normally it's hard to know when an account has been compromised, because e-mail snooping doesn't leave a trace
Simply do like most client systems and put in big red bold: "someone tried to connect to your account 32 times from w.x.y.z
Simply do like most client systems and put in big red bold: "someone tried to connect to your account 32 times from w.x.y.z
Yeah, because the average person is going to know what subnet or network they're coming in from. And they'll remember that time they logged in from the coffee house. No -- the information is useless to the average person because they don't know how to interpret it. It'd be like me telling you that the R0 of variola vera is about 6.5. Meaningless to you in this context.
No -- the information is useless to the average person because they don't know how to interpret it.
So? Help them interpret it. That's what computers are for. You can't tell me that that raw data can't be presented in some way that does make sense to Average Joe and at least gives him the idea that somebody is screwing with him.
My online banking makes me read "You last logged in on Monday 12th June at 14:34. If this wasn't you, please phone 08000...".
I'm useless at remembering when I last logged in, it would be better for me if they put the IP address as well.
"Since the last successful login Yesterday at 7:13, 48 attempts to log into your account with a wrong password have been made from 3 locations. [details]"
Simple as that. More detail wouldn't help most users, so let them know something potentially bad is happening. If they care about their account, they'll have a techie friend look into it.
It's not the IP address that matters, it's the fact that a single source made 32 attempts to login to your account. This warning might prompt you to take additional steps, such as changing your password to something random.
I once had someone try repeatedly to access one of my online accounts. I changed the lost password challenge question to "Go f**k yourself".
> It's not the IP address that matters, it's the fact that a single source
> made 32 attempts to login to your account. This warning might prompt you to
> take additional steps, such as changing your password to something random.
This warning will not prompt most non-geek users to change their passwords,
but to call their bank in panic and BITCH at them why THEY don't do something
about it. And that's why the banks will not disclose that information because
they don't want to have to deal with the fallou
Well, when almost all the activity is from 2 ips - hoe and...
Spend a lot of time there do you?
Google Mail gives you an activity log: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=gmail&answer=45938 [google.com]
It's pretty damn cool.
for websites, it's super easy to see who's visited, with many online services providing this.
why isn't there a way to attach a counter to your inbox (i'm looking at gmail)? could it be embedded in a custom theme?
Password Hackers Are Slippery To Collar
By Tom Jackman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, September 7, 2009
When Elaine Cioni found out that her married boyfriend had other girlfriends, she became obsessed, federal prosecutors say. So she turned to YourHackerz.com.
And for only $100, YourHackerz.com provided Cioni, then living in Northern Virginia, with the password to her boyfriend's AOL e-mail account, court records show. For another $100, she got her boyfriend's wife's e-mail password. And then the passwords of at least one other girlfriend and the boyfriend's two children. None had any clue what Cioni was doing, they would later testify.
Cioni, however, went further and began making harassing phone calls to her boyfriend and his family, using a "spoofing" service to disguise her voice as a man's. This attracted the attention of federal authorities, who prosecuted Cioni, 53, in Alexandria last year for unauthorized access to computers, among other crimes. She was convicted and is serving a 15-month sentence.
But such services as YourHackerz.com are still active and plentiful, with clever names like "piratecrackers.com" and "hackmail.net." They boast of having little trouble hacking into such Web-based e-mail systems as AOL, Yahoo, Gmail, Facebook and Hotmail, and they advertise openly.
And, experts said, there doesn't appear to be much anyone can do about it.
"This is an important point that people haven't grasped," said Peter Eckersley, a staff technologist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco. "We've been using e-mail for years, and it's been insecure all that time. . . . If you have any hacker who is competent and spends the time and targets you, he's going to get you."
Federal law prohibits hacking into e-mail, but without further illegal activity, it's only a misdemeanor, noted Orin Kerr, a law professor at George Washington University and a former trial attorney in the Justice Department's computer crime section.
"The feds usually don't have the resources to investigate and prosecute misdemeanors," Kerr said. "And part of the reason is that normally it's hard to know when an account has been compromised, because e-mail snooping doesn't leave a trace."
Every state has laws roughly similar to the federal computer laws, Kerr said, and rate the offenses as misdemeanors.
Not long after Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska was named the Republican nominee for vice president last year, someone hacked into her personal Yahoo e-mail accounts. And as the election neared, someone at George Mason University hacked into the e-mail of the school's provost and sent a schoolwide e-mail saying the election date had been changed.
"Web Based email password hacking or cracking is one of our all time favourite and unique hobby," write the folks at YourHackerz.com. It's not clear where YourHackerz.com is located, but experts suspect that most of the businesses are based overseas. "We will provide you with the original Passwords. No questions asked whatsoever. Payment only after you are CONVINCED. 100% guarantee of Cracking. Total privacy of your information. No legal hassles."
At SlickHackers.com, they boast, "We are professionals interested in helping serious people for whom an email password would mean saving their marriage, knowing the truth, preventing a fraud, protecting their family/job/interests only when conventional ways and normal procedures do not work."
All the services advertise that they will e-mail a screenshot of the target's in-box or even send an e-mail from the target's e-mail as proof that they've cracked the password. The customer then sends payment. One service, whose fee is only 20 British pounds (about $33), then responds with the script from a scene from a Shakespeare play, with the stolen password hidden in the copy.
E-mail inquiries to several of these services did not elicit any responses.
The FBI cannot police the Internet, a spokesman said. "The FBI is aware of these illegal services," spok
mod parent funny.
Oh no. Mod TFA funny.
No! mod Elaine Cioni funny (didn't find the 'freak' mod option)
Yeah, well I'd say it's a big reason why I get phone calls. I hung my shingle out a long time ago about being a computer geek. People usually come to me for one of three reasons: First, their computer's suddenly running slow. "But I've tried everything." Malware is the main reason. Second is "It won't turn on anymore." Coffee spill on laptop, or HDD failure without error message. And the third most common reason: "I want to ruin someone's life! You're a hacker, right?"
Of course, these are my friends, not strangers. I usually oblige them by asking if they knew what common passwords their ex used, any websites they frequented, the full spelling of their name, date of birth, and social security number. And the strange part is: They usually know all of these things. You know what I do then? Nothing. Not a damn thing. I sit down and have a long talk with them about personal security and how just like we don't go out alone at night (I'm a girl. Most of my friends are girls -- I know most of you are dudes and don't think about it much), we also need to take precautions online! This is usually said while saying what a bastard the guy was. And I give them a pat on the head, some candy I keep around for this purpose, and send them on their way.
I'm a white hat (eh, most of the time). But a lot of people just like me know this about others because they've hung their shingle out too and announced they're a geek. And not all of them are going to have an ethical hangup about sucking up all your personal data, hacking your accounts, and leaving "I have a small penis" written to all your friends. Because really... The average person if you do go through all the effort to get them access just sits there feeling all powerful for a minute and then does something incredibly juvenile that'll make you wish you'd done your laundry instead of wasted two hours at the keyboard.
My advice to you people: Love your partner. But do not give them the root password!
P.S. Only once ever have I done a spot of sleuthing that I felt was worth it -- when I discovered a friend-of-a-friend was dating a terrorist. No, I don't mean the fluffy-bunny kind that the media portrays either (everything is terrorism these days). No, I mean the guy came overseas, setup shop over here, and was doing serious criminal enterprise and had cases open with a half-dozen agencies. A few days later, a police officer informed her that if she valued her life, she should cease contact with him immediately. Fun times. Everything else though? Boring as shit.
Sure, you may uncover evidence of unfaithfulness in your divorce case, but your winnings in divorce case will be offset when you go to jail for computer trespass and the victim [your ex] sues the invader [you] for mega-bucks.
Oh, and if you tell your lawyer where you got the goods, it will trigger HIS ethical obligations. Yes, lawyers have ethical obligations, even those with no ethics.
I wonder if in a case like this, the ex can make up where he/she found the info, to hide the real source. For example, it could be claimed that the passwords were gleaned through a keylogger or a hidden camera. Unless the other attorney knows what questions to ask, there would not
Doesn't matter where the ex got the password -- taped to the monitor or whatever, it's still unauthorized access to a computer system.
What is your girlfriend's name? Let's see the wife try to guess that one.
What is your girlfriend's name? Let's see the wife try to guess that one.
Her name is Alberta, she lives in Vancouver, she cooks like my mother and, um, other stuff.
There are two ways an advisory can obtain one's password:
The first attack can be countered by using Gmail with things set up to always use https for connections (near the bottom of the "settings" page).
The second attack can be countered by using a secure password that is easy to remember but hard to guess. For example, "MaraDNS.org" would not be a very good password for this account, however "otif10md" ("One time I fell 10 meters down") would be a good password. Or, in my case, I use a secure hashing algorithm where a common secret is concatenated with the name of the website I visit to get a secure password, akin to using the Md5 sum of "This is secret;slashdot.org" to get a password.
Yes, but you have to take into consideration that if the company was real, they wouldn't be operating locally. They'd be operating remotely. Which pretty much rules the former situation out.
Also, I was convinced that SSL was the de-facto standard for GMAIL and other web-mail services...
As I said in my previous post, it has been reported that the 'hackers' are merely scamming peoples money (as expected) and not delivering the service.
Or, in my case, I use a secure hashing algorithm where a common secret is concatenated with the name of the website I visit to get a secure password, akin to using the Md5 sum of "This is secret;slashdot.org" to get a password.
I'm curious. Assuming your attacker knows that you use a common hash (and can easily guess which one), what do you gain over just using "secretpassword;slashdot.org?" If the attacker was going to use a dictionary attack, it would require the same number of guesses with and without the hash (or perhapse a measily 5 or 10x if the attacker has to try several hashing algorithms).
Because if someone finds that your slashdot password is "25bf4e9796" it doesn't really help them work out that your amazon password is "ebf97d7aa8".
But you only need to remember one password, hopefully a slightly better one than that example...
And of course you would not usually use the actual md5 sum hex output, you'd use an encoding that gives you more than 4 bits per byte and manages meet the usual password restrictions.
The first attack can be countered by using Gmail with things set up to always use https for connections (near the bottom of the "settings" page).
Gmail always encrypts your password; that setting only applies to the rest of the connection (i.e. transferring the body of your email and such).
If you're curious how these things work, here's a write-up of a typical example of one of these services [mcgrewsecurity.com].
Wow, that's an incredibly lame way to get someone's password.
I'm betting people fall for it, too.
"Some folks really need to get a life, if they feel they have to snoop on their significant other like this."
Pre-emptive snooping is a bit much, but when an SO turns evil then all bets are off. After that, all that matters is self-defense and not the enemy.
Ok, so I can see how Joe/Jane Sixpack, getting their divorce, might only be a misdemeanor breaking into an email account without profiting from it (maybe just to do something mean to his/her ex, or dig up incriminating emails), but, with regards to these commercial services offering to do the hacking for a fee, isn't there some sort of statute which makes *any crime* which is done *for profit* a felony? I don't care if your hacking an email account is just a misdemeanor, but if you are doing it for hire, th
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Need update the topic to Catalyst 7.11
Can anyone update the installation method 2 to AMD Catalyst 7.11? The procedure is the same or not? Has hanyone tested it?
-> I just tested the procedure. It is the (nearly) same ... Found some issues till it worked for me.
sudo gedit /etc/init.d/ati-module-fix
In ati-module-fix I replaced
ln -sf /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/misc/fglrx.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/volatile/
ln -sf /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/misc/fglrx.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/volatile/fglrx.ko
after savig the file
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/ati-module-fix
In my installation gdm starts with sequence 13. So I did
sudo update-rc.d ati-module-fix defaults 12
"If you check the box to enable the restricted driver and reboot, it should work."
If I check the the box in "resricted manager" the line
in etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common is changed back to
I leaved it unchecked now.
So my "restricted manager" reports for the ATI driver activated: no in use: yes
Updated some information only applicable for Gutsy
I've updated some minor details about the fglrx-installation in Gutsy:
- By default, Gutsy (and Feisty too) now have Universe and Multiverse enabled
- The fglrx-version in Gutsy's linux-restricted-modules is 8.37.6 and not 8.28.8
Jealma 04:35, 19 October 2007 (CDT)
libGL error
- fglrxinfo gives: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file.
- Fixed with command:
sudo ln /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
installation hint
I followed this guide and fglrxinfo yielded the desired output.
But then I still got the following problems:
- crash/restart of X when trying to run glxgears
- crash/restart of X when trying to watch mythtv recording
- visual artefacts from window creation
The cause I assumed in that:
glxinfo | grep direct
did not yield 'yes' but 'no' and 'Mesa Indirect'
Long search, quick solution:
sudo apt-get remove xserver-xgl
Note: I don't really know what this actually does in the context of a desired installation, so try at your own risk. I assume this being installed from my earlier Feisty installation where I tried out compiz and AIGLX was not supported by the driver.
After removing the xserver-xgl package, all problems described above vanished.
Maybe someone with more detailed knowledge might find it useful to add a paragraph to the page.
Comment: I had a lot of trouble until I found your solution. Removing xserver-xgl made most of the graphical artifacts disappear (I still have some black bars in the bottom right corner of one screen), and made my dual screen setup work again. Should this be in the general guide?
Comment: I was seeing some very similar behavior after following this tutorial. glxgears would cause gdm to crash and the artifacts were left on the screen. The system would also be dog slow, moving windows was very laggy. Removing xserver-xgl did the trick for me!
still Mesa
I never had problems until Gutsy & 7.11 came:
(bmhm@Sentinux)[~] $ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep "(WW)" (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist. (WW) Including the default font path /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType. (WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported (WW) fglrx(0): *********************************************** (WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed! * (WW) fglrx(0): * (maybe driver kernel module missing or bad) * (WW) fglrx(0): * 2D acceleraton available (MMIO) * (WW) fglrx(0): * no 3D acceleration available * (WW) fglrx(0): ********************************************* *
(bmhm@Sentinux)[~] $ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep "(EE)" (EE) fglrx(0): [pcie] Failed to gather memory of size 262144Kb for PCIe. Error (-1000) (EE) fglrx(0): atiddxDriScreenInit failed, GPS not been initialized. (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable
Any Ideas? It did work before (on feisty, using older drivers)!! Help!! --18.104.22.168 14:08, 22 November 2007 (CST)
NEW (by subvertigo): I have the same identical problem (identical logs). Before with Feisty+8.43.2 or Gutsy+8.43.2 i had no problems... :-( My pc is a Dell Inspiron 6400 with ATI X1400. fglrinfo reports using Mesa drivers.
I tried to add or remove "fglrx" from /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common and it has no effects. The "restricted manager" signals that ati driver is not in use when fglrx is blacklisted. I don't understand if it have to be blacklisted or not.

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This main dish is a refreshing change of pace. The distinctive sweet-tart sauce complement any grilled fish nicely.—Taste of Home Test Kitchen, Greendale, Wisconsin
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- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 3 cups diced fresh or frozen rhubarb, thawed
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup chopped red onion
- 4-1/2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 3 teaspoons minced fresh parsley
- 1 teaspoon minced fresh basil
- 1/4 teaspoon lime juice
- Coarsely ground pepper to taste
- 4 cod fillets (6 ounces each)
- In a large saucepan, heat oil over medium heat. Add rhubarb and sugar; cook for 5-7 minutes or until rhubarb is tender. Remove from the heat; stir in the onion, mustard, parsley, basil, lime juice and pepper.
- Using long-handled tongs, moisten a paper towel with cooking oil and lightly coat the grill rack. Grill cod, covered, over medium heat or broil 4 in. from the heat for 5-6 minutes on each side or until fish flakes easily with a fork. Serve with rhubarb sauce. Yield: 4 servings (2 cups sauce).
Editor's Note: If using frozen rhubarb, measure rhubarb while still frozen, then thaw completely. Drain in a colander, but do not press liquid out.
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Would be nice to get the run rate back over 3.
Why De Grandhomme over Latham? CDG has shown nothing. Some of the selections are quite baffling. Nicol has be shown up against this lot and will be in the tests also.
When was the last time McCullum scored three consecutive 50s against non-minnows?
Let's face it, we really needed to win the toss and bowl today. Just can't see anything less than 300 troubling SA chasing at the moment, let alone the 220 we may get.
So McCullum... really standing up lately after that critical Cricinfo article. In the new position of 3 as well, and captaining an underperforming side. Impressive.
McCullum scores a bunch of fifties every so often and convinces us he's turning a corner.
Not convinced yet.
McCullum always plays well against us. Also got the impression he does pretty well against the Aussies. Otherwise nothing much against the rest.
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Cooked in the shell for extra flavour ... grilled chermoula prawns with pipirrana salad. Photo: Marina Oliphant
It is Australia's very own festive tradition - what would Christmas lunch be without a huge platter of king prawns to share? When I was young, they seemed so difficult to peel, while opposite me my dad flew through them, saying: ''The more you peel, the more you eat!'' I could give him a run for his money now.
After seeing the way prawns are farmed in Asia, I always look for Australian prawns. The wild prawn is still the most highly prized. Small school prawns can be coated in semolina, flash fried and served whole, head and all, with aioli.
Large king prawns taste amazing cooked with cider and garlic, or served cold in a prawn cocktail.
Farmed prawns from Crystal Bay in far north Queensland are also a fantastic product that come from very clean waters.
In Spain, prawns are often cooked and served in the shell, which retains a lot of their flavour. I think it is similar to cooking meat on the bone, which improves the moisture and taste of a dish. The prawns can be cooked on a grill, but for a true taste of summer, do them on the barbecue.
2 tbsp cumin seeds, lightly toasted and ground
1 tbsp coriander seeds, lightly toasted and ground
1.5 tbsp sweet paprika
1 tbsp ground ginger
2 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
2 small red chillies, seeded and roughly chopped
2 lemons, juiced
100ml olive oil
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp black pepper
16 large green prawns, peeled with head and tail intact
To make chermoula, put all ingredients except prawns in a food processor and process until smooth. Place prawns in a bowl with 3/4 of the chermoula and mix until they are well coated. Leave in the fridge overnight to marinate. When ready to serve, preheat a grill or barbecue and cook prawns for 3-4 minutes on each side. Serve with pipirrana salad. Store remaining chermoula in the fridge under a layer of oil for future use.
Serves 8
2 lebanese cucumbers
3 tomatoes, peeled and seeded
1 green capsicum, halved and seeded
1 white onion
125ml extra-virgin olive oil plus extra for drizzling
60ml sherry vinegar
1 tbsp cumin seeds
1/2 baguette, 2 days old
1 garlic clove
4 red witlof
4 white witlof
Partially peel the cucumbers, leaving a few streaks of green skin. Cut in half lengthways, scoop out the seeds with a spoon and discard. Cut cucumbers, tomatoes, capsicum and onion into half-centimetre dice. Place in a bowl with olive oil, sherry vinegar and salt. Mix. Preheat oven to 180C. Toast cumin seeds for 5 minutes. Grind coarsely in a mortar and pestle or spice grinder and add to salad. Gently mix through and set to one side.
Finely slice baguette crossways into 2-millimetre slices to make about 24 croutons. Lay croutons flat on a baking tray and toast in the oven for 15 minutes or until crisp and lightly browned. Cut garlic in half and gently rub croutons with the cut face. Drizzle croutons with a little extra-virgin olive oil and sprinkle with a little sea salt. Break apart a few pieces. Cut each witlof in half lengthways. Spread leaves open and place on a serving plate, spoon the pipirrana and dressing over and scatter the croutons over. Serve immediately.
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Wow... 10 minutes when I can't use my iPad. If this is your biggest problem in your life, celebrate like there's no tomorrow.
That's not the point. Senseless regulations just for the sake of their being regulations is dumb. Pilots can use them, passengers can't? - and there is no valid reason why not. If they want to say, "No it won't bring the plane down, but we need everyone's attention to listen to this important safety announcement about belt buckles" fine - just be honest about it. Don't treat me like an idiot.
Just don't feed me a line of bullshit about it might interfere with the electronics of the aircraft. The people that buy in to that irritate me almost as much as the control freaks pushing the message. Have rules that make sense and I'm cool. Foist rules that are bullshit and that treat me like an idiot and we have an issue.
So chill out, cupcake. Don't be all "stop your whining" and sarcasm. Whether it is someones big or small problem, it is "their problem" and it shouldn't be A problem if it was based on honesty.
"Pilots can use them, passengers can't?" Here's why. I spent my career in aerospace, the final two years on experiments involving these Electronic Flight Bags (In my case, ruggedized PCs, not iPads.) There has been hundreds of hours of testing, both in labs and aircraft to show that a particular model of iPad will not cause electronic interference to the controls or other safety critical systems... for that particular iPad model only. The pilot can't just go buy the next gen fondle slab and carry it aboard
... Your experience is pretty shitty. Everyone buys the same iPad hardware. Pilots don't get something different than me, they get the same gear.
How about the negative impact caused by hundred of thousand (perhaps a million?) passengers each day being feed an obvious line of BS?
On the off chance that some flight somewhere in the US has an message of actual importance and/or value, it is more likely to be believed and properly acted upon if the recipients have not come to expect nothing but a constant flow of mistruths from the FAA/air crews.
Well, here's the deal... the FAA DOESN'T KNOW. Got that? There's a chance that consumer devices interfere, so the FAA imposes an incredibly minor inconvenience on people. They take the position that it's better to be conservative than to just have an "anything goes" policy and see what happens.
Well, the FAA does know.
All of our aircraft have switched from paper approach and in-route plates to iPads over the last 2 years. They even have weight and balance, fuel use, etc. apps.
These are small jets, BeechJet, Hawker 800 sized planes. And with 2 iPads in each cockpit I'm sure we would have seen a problem by now.
If it really made sense to ban things because "you don't know there won't be any problems", why don't we ban shoes, food, umbrellas, eyeglasses, and pencils? Because you don't know with 100% certainty that any of those items won't cause problems. Better be safe than sorry!
You don't have any understanding of radio, or its importance to the operation of a commercial aircraft, do you?
It sounds to me like the people who don't have any understanding of radio are the people who designed avionics that, we're told, can be taken out by a Game Boy.
> Well, here's the deal... the FAA DOESN'T KNOW.
Do you *even* understand what shielding is ??
Counter-example: Show me _one_ reported problem. We have had cell phone for how many YEARS? Show me ONE plane crash caused to these electronic devices?
Hint: There are NONE.
I *never* turn my cellphone and iPad off. Nothing happens. You know why? Because any EMF noise that they could _possibly_ generate will NEVER effect KEY systems in airplanes.
Talk to the electrical engineers that design and implement the airp
I agree. The forced photography of one's nude body is a far more egregious violation of our liberties than ten minutes of not using your iPad. I wish more people cared about this.
How about a half hour on each end of a 2 hour leg were I can't read because brought a Kindle instead of 3 paper books.
When you board, they tell you that when they close the door, you have to turn off your electronic devices and they won't leave the gate until you do. Ostensibly, that's to prevent interference with the radio while they talk to the tower. After you land, while still taxiing, they announce that you can turn on your cell phones, but have to leave everything else turned off. Wait, I thought they said the cell phones were causing interference?
The rule is not just idiotic, it's inconsistently applied.
I hate that cellphone-only rule; if people are going to be talking on their cellphones, I want to be able to put on my headphones to tune them out.
I want to be able to put on my headphones to tune them out.
You could drown them out with a belching contest. Be sure to fill up on diet coke before boarding.
Doesn't your sell phone also play audio these days?
When you board, they tell you that when they close the door, you have to turn off your electronic devices and they won't leave the gate until you do. Ostensibly, that's to prevent interference with the radio while they talk to the tower.
I believe they're lying. Therefore I continue to leave my electronic device (an Android smartphone) turned on. Further, while they often announce that you must turn the device all the way off and not just airplane mode, very few people actually do this.
It usually takes much longer than 10 minutes.
Also, when you're on the verge of an epiphany, it doesn't matter if you can't access your device 1 minute or 1 hour, what matters if that you're not going to be able to type what's on your mind, and that you'll have lost it by the time you get access to your device again.
If there is no reason for this annoyance, then it should be removed, however minor the annoyance may be.
Pen, Paper, Problem solved.
Now let me bring my gun so that bastard on his cell phone for four hours in the seat next to me won't do it again.
Wow... 10 minutes when I can't use my iPad. If this is your biggest problem in your life, celebrate like there's no tomorrow.
It's not the biggest problem of my life, but when I'm using one to calm down a 1 year old who doesn't understand why he has to sit still for so long, in cramped quarters; it certainly is the biggest problem of my day. And if you were sitting next to me, his meltdown would be more annoying to you than it would be to me.
Is this for real? Can people really not go without using their stupid devices for 5 minutes at takeoff and another 5 minutes at landing?
SERIOUSLY! You're going to be in the plane, in the air, for an hour, if not far longer. A few minutes at the beginning and end of the trip won't have much impact at all on "economic productivity".
I agree it might be an excuse, but heck it works.
Yeah, just like the TSA and some snake oil, I am willing to sell you.
You're willing to sell him the TSA? That's cool-... we should start a Kickstarter to collect the funds to buy it and throw it in the trash
It cannot be possible. That is like saying that we need tighter restrictions on wireless devises becuae theri might be that "perfect frequency" that causes all humans in a 10 mile radius to defecate themselves.
It is not a plausible idea, so it does not matter how bad the consequences would be if it proved true.
I could say god exists and he hates cell phone users, he will send them all to hell. According to your logic, now you must go out and start convincing people to throw away their cell phones. Since if
The "pay attention" rationale doesn't hold water since they're not preventing people reading paper books or the newspapers they sometimes give out when you board.
Also, it's pretty well proven portable electronics like smartphones and tablets do not affect takeoffs/landings. Although there's airplane modes in many of them to disable wifi and cell transmissions, the idea is that all electronics are supposed to be off... and simply "sleeping" them does not turn it off. Even moving electronic components aren't a big deal--people were taping takeoffs and landings on camcorders long before solid state memory recorders came around.
Disallowing kindles/ereaders is especially hilarious considering they're effectively "off" all the time except when changing pages... and who remembers to turn off their kindle's wifi? I just realized I've flown 4 times without doing that (it's the basic version--the wifi disables airplane mode at some point to try downloading new ads).
No, I think the old rule was indeed to prohibit electrical/electronic devices back when they were new enough that they didn't know how to shield aircraft systems properly from a wide range of devices, and the "pay attention" rationale, while a good idea regardless, is just a way to avoid making significant bureaucratic/regulatory changes.
The "pay attention" rationale doesn't hold water since they're not preventing people reading paper books or the newspapers they sometimes give out when you board.
Books and newspapers typically do not feature headphones. To me, it seems much easier to say "put away all electronic devices" rather than try to hash out a list of exceptions.
I think it might be more about, busing able to react quickly.
If you have a book in your hands you can just throw it to the ground; They are cheap and rugged. If you have a $2K laptop you are probably going to spend 10 second powering down and putting it in its case.
back when they were new enough that they didn't know how to shield aircraft systems properly
Not quite. Radios have been banned for a long time, but I used to listen to music on cassette and CD while taking off and landing back in the 80s and 90s.
I believe the same, but because of the letter of the rule, it leads to stupid situations. I have to turn off my noise-cancelling headphones, which actually make it easier for me to hear and understand them, because they're electronic. Meanwhile, the guy sitting next to me can have earplugs in making it impossible for him to hear anything.
If there were a relatively simple electronic device that could interfere with a planes operation, it would have been found and exploited by now.
Short of intentionally jamming radio frequencies or sending out radar-confusing pulses, etc, there isn't all that much that can go wrong in that regard... and the stuff that can go wrong is generally just nuisance-level, not crash-level... I don't think there is any straight forward way to disable an engine or a computer through interference (at least, not on the le
If interference could really be a problem (unlikely), then politely asking passengers to put their gadgets away is a laughably dumb solution, because it doesn't account for people forgetting to do so accidentally or willfully (say, terrorists). The only sane solution is to design the planes to be robust to interference, which I'm pretty sure they do already anyway.
I always assumed it was because takeoff and landing are done at the lowest altitiudes, and have a higher risk of an emergency happening. Having items stowed and not being distracted may help in surviving an emergency. The fact that passengers can't even manage the feign interest in the safety instructions makes me question if people could pry their eyeballs away from their super important game of angry birds in the event of an emergency
>" but the agency still refuses to allow passengers to read on Kindles and iPads during takeoff and landing."
Great! Then I can use my Xoom or Nexus 10!
Honestly, do people *really* need to have phone and other electronic devices during takeoff and landing? They can't put the stuff aside for 15 minutes? Are they that dependent? What next, you HAVE to leave the tray table down, you MUST leave your seat back? You're on a fricking plane. Put your stuff away and prepare for landing/takeoff.
I've never really understood why it's so difficult to stop using these things during the crucial parts of the flight. Aside from the electronic signals part, it's also better not to have a bunch of hard, breakable glass, and/or relatively heavy objects floating around the cabin space. Stuff should be stowed below the seats in case there is turbulence or some other issue with the takeoff/landing. It might also be a good idea to have passengers' full attention in case the phrase "brace for impact" comes over the sound system.
I vote for banning hard cover books too. I think they hurt far more than a kindle when thrown at you.
I'm a pilot, and as much as I think the ban is BS, I also understand. The problem is that the FAA cannot (practically) garuentee any level of quality or standard compliance for any piece of electronics that a passenger may bring on board (think $50 imitation iPad that may have bad or poorly designed radio components and transmits way outside the frequency band and power limits of wifi).
Another half truth I've heard is that it keeps passengers more focused on their surroundings, so you may be able to take in
If a piece of consumer electronics can bring down a plane, don't you think you should... fix the plane?
As for 'more focused', when the people on the plane tell me to turn off my Kindle, I close my eyes and try to sleep instead. So I'm far less focused.
All it really does is make regular flyers regard anything the crew say as stupid BS.
Well at least if they yet at you when you are asleep to get into the fetal position you are not like "wait, I am powering down, don't crash yet."
As a pilot I would have expected you to have more common sense. You design aircraft to be 'fail safe'. You don't assume no interference, you design around interference.
If it was an issue, they wouldn't allow them to be carried into the cabin and your baggage would be checked like your check your wing tanks for water before every take off.
If they cared about focus, books wouldn't be allowed during that time either, nor would they allow people to sleep.
Every reason you've used doesn't make sense.
If a random normal everyday wireless signal can cause any damage or impediment at all to an airplane, then that airplane has a faulty design.
End of story; No ifs, ands, or buts.
If a random normal everyday wireless signal
Define "normal". And then try to get your everyday wireless device certified to RTCA DO-160 [wikipedia.org] standards.
Anything that is not specifically designed to stop other wireless devices from failing to work.
You do not just accidentally create a crappy device the throws out 1000 times the normally allowed power and blankets whole frequencies with static.
You do not just accidentally create a crappy device the throws out 1000 times the normally allowed power
Actually, that's pretty easy to do. Its not a matter of 1000 times the 2 Watt allowable transmitter power. Its 1000 times over the -43 dB (or more) maximum allowable out of band emission. That's still down in the milliwatt range.
One single device won't. That's why one passenger ignoring the instructions may happen a lot, but isn't a real issue.
The problem is having several radio devices in close proximity transmitting at the same time, because of intermodulation [wikipedia.org]. Two transmitters can produce interference at a third frequency - one that neither device is designed to transmit on. The more devices you have - and the more frequencies involved - the more likely such interference is, which increases the chance that some spurious product
If this is a potential issue then the passengers and their cargo would have to be sealed in a wireless insulating material so that no signal could leak out.
It is a faulty design if we are just getting by on luck.
Right, and when the plane is taking off
*no* radio can reject interference on a frequency it is trying to receive.
Really? There are some engineers that would tend to disagree with you. Thats the beauty of the digital age. Our radios aren't passive, they are active now. They can filter AND reject on their own AND cope with the problem. Extreme cases may lead to loss of signal, but they certainly can reject bad signals and validate the integrity o
Right, and when the plane is taking off
Transmitters not close to each other aren't much of an issue. Transmitters on the same tower *are* an issue - but they are heavily checked for IM products, both by the radio engineers who design/install the transmitters, and by the FCC monitoring bureau. There is usually lots of very expensive (and very large) equipment to prevent such interference - such as cavity resonators - that are not practical to add to a consumer product.
Really? There are some engineers that would tend to disagree with you. Thats the beauty of the digital age. Our radios aren't passive, they are active now. They can filter AND reject on their own AND cope with the problem. Extreme cases may lead to loss of signal, but they certainly can reject bad signals and validate the integrity of the signal. Hell, even GPS signals can be validated and ARE in military receivers.
Digital can actually make things worse. Static and distortion on an analog voic
If you demonstrate, for example, that a Nintendo does not cause interference, then the approval would apply only to the model tested, and not to any other gaming devices.
One could argue that this is overly cautious, but there are devices out there which do interfere with the aircraft. FM radios, for example, can and often do interfere with VOR navigation receivers. If they err, it is on the side of safety. It would take one really bad accident traced to an unapproved device to have the NTSB screaming for the head of everyone concerned.
Disclaimer: I hold airframe and powerplant mechanics certificates, an inspection authorization (lets me inspect aircraft on behalf of the FAA each year), and a general radiotelephone certificate.
The FAA doesn't allow much of anything to be used on aircraft until it has been thoroughly tested, and shown not to interfere with the operation of the aircraft.
Well, they allow them in the cockpit where if they were going to cause interference, that would be the most likely place for them to do so. Plus, they have been thoroughly tested, and they've been shown to be safe. If FM radios are the one thing that causes interference, let's ban FM radios.
I have a cousin who is a commercial pilot. He was first officer on a flight years back when wifi was first gaining popularity. After take off and the plane was levelled out, all of a sudden some of the nav equipment started giving false readings.
Long story short, it turned out that the wifi transceiver on a Toshiba laptop owned by one of the passengers was defective and was transmitting on frequencies it was not supposed to.
So yeah, while on paper it should not happen, you only need 1 fuckup by a minimum wa
I have personally observed a digital camera (Nikon D200 I think), interfering with the navigation receiver on a small plane. Every time we took a picture the VOR needles would jump slightly. We were at cruise altitude and VFR so it wasn't a problem, but it would have been disturbing if it happened low on an ILS approach.
I think the issue is that most electronics will not interfere with aircraft electronics, but a couple of things to consider:
The transmitter powers add - so a plane with 400 activated cell p
I didn't know these things were banned during flight. I've used my Kindle many times without an issue being raised by the cabin crew.
Of course, this means using them in air mode (no radio transceivers operating) and not during takeoff and landing. The reasons for a ban during these flight mode is two fold: These are the most critical (and dangerous) parts of flight and distractions from cabin crew instructions or PA announcements need to be minimized. Also, its not so much the nav equipment that interferen
It is only takeoff and landing, otherwise you can use them in airplane mode, or even with wifi enabled.
They'll leave airplane mode so your battery doesn't die in 30 minutes while it transmits and maximum gain searching for a tower it can't talk to.
I don't care if you use your smartphone/tablet to play games, read documents, write email whatever...
I just don't want to sit next to you for 6hours while you talk on the phone or use Skype/facetime, any more than I want to sit next to a screaming child for those same 6 hours.
As for the take-off and landing ban? That's what 15minutes and takeoff and 15minutes at landing? If you can't put that stuff down for 30minutes out of the entire flight, than you should stop referring to that device as your phone or t
Boeing has an explanation of the rationale and the steps they've taken to examine the effects of electronics on aircraft in their "Aero" magazine. This is pretty old (2000) and would certainly benefit from an update, but they did real live technical investigation instead of just mixing assertions with quasi-technical arguments. A link to the full text:
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/aero_10/interfere_textonly.html [boeing.com]
TLDR Summary:
After receiving very specific, detailed claims/complaints from airlines, Boeing inspected the frequency range output and dB level of electromagnetic emissions from several specific devices. Their biggest concerns in the testing seemed to be the EMI due to frequency harmonics and interactions between devices--the premise and conceptual explanation seems unlikely but isn't completely meritless. No airplane susceptibility was demonstrated. Boeing clearly said that since they tested specific items, the testing was not conclusive for all devices and all interactions.
The excerpt on cell phones in particular deserves to be fully quoted, as it illustrates their thinking:
*Cell phone tests and analysis.*
Boeing conducted a laboratory and airplane test with 16 cell phones typical of those carried by passengers, to determine the emission characteristics of these intentionally transmitting PEDs. The laboratory results indicated that the phones not only produce emissions at the operating frequency, but also produce other emissions that fall within airplane communication/navigation frequency bands (automatic direction finder, high frequency, very high frequency [VHF] omni range/locator, and VHF communications and instrument landing system [ILS]). Emissions at the operating frequency were as high as 60 dB over the airplane equipment emission limits, but the other emissions were generally within airplane equipment emission limits. One concern about these other emissions from cell phones is that they may interfere with the operation of an airplane communication or navigation system if the levels are high enough.
Boeing also performed an airplane test on the ground with the same 16 phones. The airplane was placed in a flight mode and the flight deck instruments, control surfaces, and communication/navigation systems were monitored. No susceptibility was observed.
Telephones installed and certified on the airplane by Boeing or operators are not actually cell phones, but part of an airborne certified satellite system. These phones are electromagnetically compatible with the airplane systems because their emissions are controlled. In contrast, the emissions from passengers' cell phones are not known or controlled in the same way as permanently installed equipment.
It doesn't matter. The nervous nellies are going to insist that every device, and every possible combination of devices in every possible mode, be tested before the ban is relaxed. They know that's impossible so they'll just sit back smugly and imply that you're willing to risk a crash for trivial reasons.
The summary mentions "The FCC studied the question several years ago but found insufficient evidence to support lifting the ban at the time." It is not talking about the FAA ban.
The FCC also bans cell phones [fcc.gov] and some other wireless devices in aircraft, not only the FAA.
... the agency still refuses to allow passengers to read on Kindles... during takeoff and landing.
Do they also refuse to allow people to read paper books during those times?
If it's an attention issue, do they prohibit people from sleeping during those times?
If graphics hackers are so smart, why can't they get the bugs out of fresh paint?


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Wigan chairman Dave Whelan has repeated his belief that Roberto Martinez will one day manage a top European club after the Spaniard booked the Latics a place in their first ever FA Cup semi-final.
The Premier League strugglers have taken just 24 points from 28 games in the top flight, but the convincing 3-0 win over Everton in Saturday's quarter-final has kept their hopes of claiming a major trophy alive.
And while his own side remain at risk of relegation, Whelan has no doubt that Martinez will eventually be handed the chance to coach one of the continent's big hitters.
"I will lose [Martinez], I don't think there is any question about that," he told BBC Radio 5 Live. "We have known each other and been together a long time. Hopefully that will continue.
"He is a top-class manager and he will get one of the top clubs in Europe. The big clubs in Europe, when they want a manager, Roberto is obviously the man. He is stone-cold brilliant as a manager."
Wigan can now look forward to a visit to Wembley and despite the cup distraction, Whelan has every confidence the Latics will perform another late-season escape from the Premier League bottom three.
"We have been there before and fought our way out of it," he insisted. "We are going to do exactly the same again, I hope. We have played well all season and just had so many injuries and bad luck.
"We played Everton off the park and have done that so many times this season but at times we have had up to eight players injured. It is very difficult to take that kind of punishment."


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"Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies." — Shirley Abbott
I never really felt a burning desire to trace my own ancestral roots. After hearing a host of complicated stories, particularly on my father's side of the family, I was perfectly content with leaving some questions unanswered. Inevitably, my journalistic instincts got the best of me.
The pre-Civil War era was almost a dismal breaking point in my previous research. Scrolling through slave records, or what museums consider property transactions, makes me more melancholy than the "Roots" movie marathon televised during the Christmas holiday. The recorded images and stories of slavery shock me each time I see them. I've learned to pause and journal about my thoughts and emotions as I read through accounts like that of Jane Amanda.
According to court of pleas and quarter sessions, she was an emancipated slave convicted by a jury in May 1857 for returning to the state. Emancipated slaves were not welcome in North Carolina, according to legislation passed in 1830. Slaves were required to leave the state within 30 days of emancipation and never return. The sheriff was ordered to sell Jane to the highest bidder at the doors of the old Davidson Court County House. It took days before I could move on to reading several similar atrocities.
My recent research started last month when I wrote a column about a slave register that sparked my desire to learn more about the contributions of African-Americans (enslaved and free). I was particularly interested in my father's family since they would have been in the area before the Civil War. The journey quickly intertwined with Rowan County because of the split between Davidson and Rowan in 1822.
The path led me to census records, birth certificates and even death certificates. I poured through records and facts about slave holders, traders and various other transactions. I searched for sales that would include names of relatives from stories I heard over the years starting with a very interesting ancestor named Robert Partee, born in 1847.
I learned that my father, Floyd Alexander Kerr II, affectionately known in Lexington as "Pop," was born to Floyd Alexander Kerr Sr. and Sarah Genola Partee Kerr in 1927. Sarah, often called Genola, was the daughter of Emery Jethro Partee and Margaret Angeline Perry. Emery was born to Robert Partee and Margaret Summer in 1876.
The journey then led me, Antionette Genola Carolyn Kerr, to the North Carolina Transportation Museum staring at a portrait of my great-great-grandfather, Robert Partee, a former owner of the land that we now call The Spencer Shops. I looked long and hard at his picture and read the story of this African-American farmer. Land records have confirmed that Robert owned 140 acres of land in Salisbury, Spencer and East Spencer in 1880. He would have been my age at the time of that savvy transaction.
By all accounts it was unusual for an African-American to own so much property shortly after the Civil War. Family legend says that he inherited land from a white parent, and I am searching for details. Needless to say, Robert's story became more interesting as I read the account of his business relationship with former U.S. Sen. John S. Henderson.
Partee purchased 102 acres of land in Spencer from Henderson in 1880 for $712. After an unsuccessful U.S. Senate race, Henderson began secretly purchasing land to develop a depot district for the southern railway. Robert Partee was honored by the N.C. Transportation Museum in 2010 for selling the land back to Henderson in 1896. He sold it back for $2,496.
I was told that family members throughout the years have written about Partee's story, and I am eager to read those accounts. But the details found in this journey have been rewarding in the most unusual ways. At the risk of sounding morbid, I pulled up death certificates to confirm the correct spelling of my grandmother's name (a last resort since the census records have her listed as Genoia, Genola and Genole). I came across something that made me suddenly appreciate my newfound curiosity.
Listed as my grandmother's immediate cause of death was a description of a lung problem that caused a "far advanced" growth in her left lung. I've read those words dozens of times: "Bronchogenic Carcinoma," Squamous Cell (left lung). I gripped my left side that is still scarred from multiple chest-tube inserts, a pleurodesis and the removal of a growth that was caused by my left lung collapsing repeatedly.
I may never be able to confirm how closely our issues are related; this could be an incredible coincidence. Regardless, this journey has already given me something that no medical professional ever could: hope. It appears that my grandmother was a dynamic woman who lived a long and healthy life despite her lung issues. She had four, healthy children and dozens of grandchildren.
My ancestral research hasn't been completely dismal. I have been enlightened in unexpected ways. I am eager to learn more about the accomplishments of my great-great-grandfather, Robert Partee, and even more proud to carry on the name of his feisty granddaughter, Genola.
Antionette Kerr is a freelance writer. You can email her at email@example.com.
Ancestral research answers important questions
"Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies." — Shirley Abbott


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The sixth- and seventh-grade middle school volleyball teams from Savannah Country Day School won the Savannah Parochial Athletic League's B & A Division postseason tournaments last month.
Sixth grade
The Lady Hornets squad, which headed into the playoffs as the No. 1 seed with a record of 14-1, opened by topping Veritas Academy in two sets 25-12, 25-16. They advanced to the title contest by putting away St. Peter the Apostle, also in two sets 25-18, 25-15.
In their finale with rival Calvary Day, the No. 2 seed, SCD won the best three-of-five sets and the B Division championship. The Lady Hornets, who finished their season 23-2, bested the Lady Cavaliers 25-15, 25-23, 25-13.
Team members were Olivia Allen, Kate Bailey, Helen Bishop, Leah Boyd, Sophia Carnahan, Sophie Grayson, Lucy Mock, Grayson Rhangos, Ana Schretter and Madeline Wynn.
The Lady Hornets were coached by Jessica Gamache.
Seventh grade
The 13-member Lady Hornets squad headed into the playoffs as No. 2 seed behind St. Peter the Apostle. The Lady Hornets upset the top-seeded Lady Rams to capture the A Division title.
Before their match with SPA, the Lady Hornets put away Blessed Sacrament (seventh), 25-13, 16-13.
SCD, which ended its season 12-5, also had several players step up this season. SCD won the finals in three sets, 25-18, 25-16, 26-24.
Team members: Josie Baird, Ivy Beaver, Anna Bolch, Lainey Cook, Lilyanna Glass, Brittany Hodges, Brooke Jackson, Leah Jackson, Alex King, Peyton Lowenthal, Lily Parker, Anna Stone and Bronwyn Tait.
The Lady Hornets were coached by Ty Stone.
Rebel Bowl
The 12-and-under Savannah Dawgs and Richmond Hill Wildcats finished the 47th annual Rebel Bowl youth football competition with wins over Port Wentworth and the Forsythe Park Flames, respectively.
The annual two-week event began in 1965 and was the brainchild of former longtime Garden City mayor Jay W. Harrell. This year, the Rebel Bowl featured 48 teams from Chatham, Bryan and Effingham counties. Players ranged in age from 8 to 12, according to Cliff Ducey, the recreation director at the GCRD, which hosted the tourney Nov. 5-17 at Garden City Stadium.
Dawgs team members: Donovan Barnes, Romain Bennett, Jonathan Bethel, Phillip Boblasky, Gage Carter, Jones Carter, Cory Evans, Jack Foster, John Foxworth, Landon Friday, Dominic James, Luke Lavely, Jacob Markiton, Tre Mayes, Miles McGinty, Cameron Parker, Denver Perkins, Ian Luke Smith, A.J. Waters, Alec Whitby and Austin Williams.
Wildcats team members: Skylar Aguilar, Michael Allen, Aaron Bedgood, Dalton Bettis, Trayvon Cokely, Hunter Cooper, Brendon Diggs, Austin Geeting, Jamari Green, Jacob Jablonski, Carjen Mack, Trevon Montgomery, Jamal Polite, Parker Poston, Drew Renshaw, Ryan Renshaw, Jackson Speer, David Stem, Randy Veal, Troy Watley, Cecil West, Hayes West and Luke Whetstone.
And speaking of winners, the Wildcats won first place in their division of the recently concluded South Georgia Youth Football League.
The Effingham Jaguars won the championship in both the 8 and 10-under SGYFL, while Port Wentworth (12-U), Hendrix Park (10-U), and Seaport Raiders and Bloomingdale Bears (8-U) were co-champions in the recently completed Coastal Athletic Association league.
Fall baseball
The 2012 Savannah Fall League Baseball season ended last month with four area teams winning titles. The league started in 2006 with only five teams, according to director Randy Harrell. Over the years, the league has steadily grown, with 20 teams participating this season.
In the 14-under division, the Storm won the championship by defeating the Richmond Hill Surge in the finals. During league play, the two teams split while playing each other four times.
In the 12-under A Division, the Rincon Mudslingers from Effingham County won. In the 12-U B Division, the Bluffton (S.C.) Thunder nabbed the title, and in the 12-U C Division, the Coastal Braves from Savannah claimed the championship.
The annual St. Peter the Apostle Preseason Christmas Holiday Basketball Tournament for area Catholic seventh- and eighth-grade middle school teams is set to tip-off Monday and run through Saturday at the SPA school on Wilmington Island.
The annual Blessed Sacrament Preseason Christmas Holiday Basketball Tournament for area Catholic and private school fifth- and sixth-grade teams finished up Friday.
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The Daily Freeman (http://www.dailyfreeman.com)
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Dear Editor:
Fred Nagel has written another one of his anti-Israel, anti-Semitic screeds (letter, Nov. 24).
His modus operandi seems to be that if you repeat a lie often enough, it will become true. Hopefully, most readers of the Freeman are smart enough to see through his virulent hate-filled letters.
However, the attack on our elected representatives in his most recent letter reveals another side of his paranoia. My advice to him is to lay low, otherwise some mental health experts (sent by diabolical Jews, of course) might spirit him away.


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(Via Bloggingheads.)
IN THE COMMENTS: Pogo said:
That clip makes me think how my own life would seem so much more meaningful and important were I to have a narrator and some choral music in the background.MayBee said:
"Shortly before 6 a.m., we saw Pogo heading straight for the downtown buildings some 7 miles away.
"Dr. Aingly explained that even if he caught Pogo and returned him to his family, he would immediately head right back for the buildings.
"But Why?"
Encounters At the End of Minnesota
A Werner Herzog Film
The penguin goes every summer to live alone among the grizzly bears.


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LXF163 has the Mint KDE distro. Is it 32 or 64 bit?
Other question/problem...When I run it as a live disk,
after from 10 to 30 minutes (it varies) it freezes.
Mouse and keyboard are unresponsive. Only way out
is to reboot.
I have the same problem with other distros live disks.
If it never worked that is one thing, but I can get the
live disks to run, sometimes as much as 30 minutes and
then it freezes.
i5 processor, 4 gig RAM, 64 bit system.
Any thoughts?


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'And they took Jesus, and led him away.' John 19:16
Suggested Further Reading: John 15:18–21
I will not say it is because we are unfaithful to our Master that the world is more kind to us, but I half suspect it is, and it is very possible that if we were more thoroughly Christians the world would more heartily detest us, and if we would cleave more closely to Christ we might expect to receive more slander, more abuse, less tolerance, and less favour from men. You young believers, who have lately followed Christ, should father and mother forsake you, remember you were bidden to reckon upon it; should brothers and sisters deride, you must put this down as part of the cost of being a Christian. Godly working men, should your employers or your fellow-workers frown upon you; wives, should your husbands threaten to cast you out, remember, without the camp was Jesus' place, and without the camp is yours. O you Christian men, who dream of trimming your sails to the wind, who seek to win the world's favour, I do beseech you cease from a course so perilous. We are in the world, but we must never be of it; we are not to be secluded like monks in the cloister, but we are to be separated like Jews among Gentiles; men, but not of men; helping, aiding, befriending, teaching, comforting, instructing, but not sinning. The more manifestly there shall be a great gulf between the church and the world, the better shall it be for both; the better for the world, for it shall be thereby warned; the better for the church, for it shall be thereby preserved. Go then, like the Master, expecting to be abused, to wear an ill name, and to earn reproach; go, like him, without the camp.
For meditation: The doctrine that Christians can befriend and please both God and the world is not a biblical one (Galatians 1:10; James 4:4; 1 John 2:15). Are you trying to do the impossible?
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Your article on May 13 ["Sterling High to end class rankings"] met with my hearty approval.
Another issue that has plagued me for many years is "perfect attendance." No award should be given for being healthy enough to attend school. No parents should have the right to send their children to school sick, just for them to have that perfect attendance.
Some children have poor immune systems, such as my daughter, which leaves them unable to fight germs, etc. They get sick by the day.
I let the school administration know about her needing IV's at home. They did not pass this information to the classroom teachers, so in turn, they viewed her as a habitual absentee.
These two items that are mentioned in this letter are both discrimination. Sorry to say, both have been taught for many years in the schools.
Hats off to Sterling for seeing that whether students are at the top of the heap or the bottom, they are still worthy.


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BVU Students to Hold April 28 "We Have a Dream" Breakfast
BVU Students to Hold April 28 "We Have a Dream" Breakfast
Buena Vista University students will hold an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast on April 28 from 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. in the Dows Conference Center with all proceeds benefiting the Make-A-Wish® Foundation of Iowa.
The students' goal is to raise $5,000 and Adopt-A-Wish in BVU's name via the organization's We Have a Dream campaign, says Grace Bodey, project manager who is a junior graphic design and digital media double major from Belvidere, Ill.
"We encourage BVU and the Storm Lake community to find the passion in their own dreams and support our campaign, making the dreams come true for a child with a life-threatening medical condition,"she says. "Several current BVU students are past wish recipients, so the Make-A-Wish Foundation has brought hope to the Storm Lake community in the past. We want to do the same thing now."
Tickets for the We Have a Dream breakfast are being sold in advance for $10, but walk-ins are welcome. Interested persons can contact Grace at 815.871.3126 or email@example.com for more information. A menu of pancakes, eggs, sausage, seasonal fruit, juice, and coffee will be served, and patrons will be invited to write their own wishes on their placemat.
The Make-A-Wish® Foundation of Iowa grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy. Iowa chapter volunteers are part of a nationwide network of nearly 25,000 caring people dedicated to making wishes come true. Visit Make-A-Wish online: http://iowa.wish.org/.


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The five-day film festival will feature expert speakers (beginning with Vince Porter, executive director of the Governor's Office of Film and Television), guided tours, a conference on cultural heritage film, concluding with an awards ceremony. A video bar will be available for private viewing of the competing films. Nearly 80 films were received for our 10th season, representing 22 countries.
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PERU — St. Bede continued homecoming week festivities honoring its 2013 Hall of Fame class Saturday morning.
The inductees included alumni Thomas Heitman, Leroy Herrmann, Brad Koster, Chris Lushina, Paul Perona, James Piletic and Tom Vallero. Also honored as a friend of St. Bede, was newly retired WLPO Sports Director Lanny Slevin.
Heitman, Herrmann and Piletic were all three honored posthumously.
As a member of the 1988 class, Koster was a three-time MVP pitcher for the Bruins and a member of the '88 state baseball championship team.
"You don't realize looking back how difficult it is to get to that state championship game," said Koster, who thanked his parents for giving him the opportunity to come to St. Bede for the academics and to play sports.
When he got the call over the summer, '91 graduate Lushina said he had time to reflect on being a Bruin.
"It really comes down to the entire experience," he said. He recalled playing against LaSalle-Peru saying that even though LaSalle-Peru may have been the more athletic team, "We were St. Bede, and that's what beat them."
Heitman was a member of the class of 2002 and a two-sport athlete for four years with the Bruins. He was killed on Sept. 19, 2011 in a helicopter accident during training exercises with the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton.
Herrmann attended St. Bede College and played professional baseball for the Cubs, Reds, and in the Pacific coast and international leagues from circa 1927-38.
Piletic was a member of the 1952 class and a four-sport athlete at St. Bede.
Perona was a three-sport athlete and graduated with the '81 class amassing six varsity letters.
Vallero, a 1963 graduate, was honored with the Ennio Arboit trophy as Athlete of the Year for 1962-63.
Slevin is a graduate emeritus and received HOF honors for his many years as an announcer calling Bruin basketball games for WLPO. He was also recognized at halftime of the Homecoming football game as a 2013 recipient of the new IHSA Distinguished Media Award winner.


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Game 8
Dartmouth Big Green (1-4-0, 1-3-0 ECAC Hockey/0-1-0 Ivy) vs.
Colgate Raiders (3-9-0, 1-5-0 ECAC Hockey)
Friday, Nov. 15 - 7 p.m.
Hanover, N.H. – Thompson Arena
Game 9
Dartmouth Big Green (1-4-0, 1-3-0 ECAC Hockey) vs.
No. 3 Cornell Big Red (7-0-1, 5-0-1 ECAC Hockey/1-0-0 Ivy)
Saturday, Nov. 16 - 4 p.m.
Hanover, N.H. – Thompson Arena
After back-to-back conference road weekends in the Empire State, the Dartmouth women's hockey team returns to Hanover and Thompson Arena to face Colgate and No. 3 Cornell in ECAC Hockey action, Nov. 15-16. Last season, the Big Green went 0-1-1 in the Upper Valley versus the Raiders and the Big Red. This year, the Green and White are 0-2-0 at home. In 2012-13, head coach Mark Hudak's squad was 7-2-4 inside Thompson Arena. In league play, Dartmouth was 6-2-3 in front of its home crowd.
The Big Green were swept in a road weekend in the North Country for the second straight season, falling to No. 6 Clarkson, 3-0, in the opener and to St. Lawrence, 4-1, in the finale. Versus the Golden Knights, the team from the Upper Valley was shut out for the second time this season. Dartmouth mustered just 11 shots on goal and Clarkson goaltender Erica Howe turned aside every one. The loss was the fourth straight versus Clarkson for Dartmouth. In the finale, St. Lawrence scored two goals in a 22-second span with less than a minute remaining in the first period. Dartmouth fought back, but couldn't overcome a three-goal deficit. In the third period, freshman Mackenzie St. Onge scored her first career tally as she intercepted a pass in the high slot and fired a shot past Saints goalie Carmen MacDonald.
The Raiders enter with a record of 3-9-0 overall and 1-5-0 in conference play. Last weekend, Colgate went 1-1 on the road versus Union and RPI. In the opener, the Raiders snapped a four-game losing streak with a 5-1 triumph against the Dutchwomen and in the finale, the
|Check out the Women's Hockey Program as the Big Green face
Colgate and Cornell this weekend, Nov. 15-16.
Engineers shut them out, scoring a 3-0 win. Miriam Drubel leads the offensive attack for Colgate with a team-high five goals and four assists. Between the pipes, a trio of goaltenders have seen action this year for the Raiders with Brittney Brooks seeing a majority of the action in league tilts.
The Big Red won the Ancient Eight title and the ECAC Hockey regular season and tournament championship a year ago and have once again started strong this season. Cornell enters in first–place in ECAC Hockey (5-0-1) and is the lone team to not suffer a setback in league play. The potent Big Red offense leads the league with an impressive 4.75 goals per game. They have 11 power-play goals so far this year and lead the league converting just over 30% of their man-up opportunities. Emily Fulton leads all ECAC Players with 19 points while Killian Saulnier has a conference-best nine markers. Not to be outdone, senior Jessica Campbell has 12 assists to lead the league. In net, Lauren Slebodnick is 7-0-1 with a 2.03 goals-against average and save percentage of .921.
Dartmouth is 0-2-1 in its last three games with the Cornell. All three of those contests have gone to overtime and have been decided by a goal or less. Dating back to November of 2011 all four tilts have been decided by one tally. Against the Big Red, Dartmouth has scored a goal or fewer in three straight. It's more of the same against Colgate, with the last three games decided by a goal or less. Conversely, versus the Raiders the Big Green are 2-0-1. Dartmouth is riding a 10-game unbeaten streak versus Colgate, going 8-0-2, dating back to February of 2009 when the Raiders took the opening game of a three-game ECAC Hockey Tournament series.
Heading into the game with No. 3 Cornell, the Big Green are still in search of their first win against a ranked opponent in nearly two years. They were 0-7-3 when facing top-10 programs in 2012-13 and are 0-3 this season. The team's last win against a nationally ranked foe was on Nov. 26, of 2011 as they topped No.10 Northeastern, 4-3, in overtime at home.
Dartmouth lost four-of-the-top-five leading scorers from last season to graduation and looks to a strong core of freshmen to pick up where the Class of 2016 left off. The youthful Big Green go from having eight players with at least 100 games under their belt last season to just one this year. Of the 20 players on the roster, 13 are underclassmen, as senior co-captains Ali Winkel and Lindsay Holdcroft look to lead the team through the ups and downs of ECAC Hockey and Ivy League play. The offense has to fill the void left by the Class of 2013 as last year's seniors accounted for 48 of the team's 84 goals (57.1%).
The Green and White boast a strong core of second-year players led by Laura Stacey. Through the first 35 games of her collegiate career the Kleinburg, Ontario, native has nine tallies and a team-leading 17 assists. Stacey has six career multi-point games, including one this season. She is currently second on the team with a trio of assists and leads in points with four. Her 22 points last season were the most for a first-year player for the Big Green since Camille Dumais in 2009. In fact, Stacey's 26 points are the most in a career of any player on the roster. Another sophomore looking to produce is Lindsey Allen. The Toronto, Ontario, native leads the team this year with three goals and two power-play markers.
Dartmouth has scored first in four of its seven games. A year ago, the team was 11-2-2 when scoring first. Twice this season the team has surrendered second period leads and once they've given up a third period lead. Last year, the team was 15-0-1 when leading after two periods, this year they are 1-1-0.
Dartmouth has seven new faces on the roster as freshmen Robyn Chemago, Eleni Tebano, Mackenzie St. Onge, Kennedy Ottenbreit, Devon Moir, Katy Ratty and Emma Korbs join the Big Green. Four forwards are making their collegiate debut as Moir, Ottenbreit, St. Onge and Ratty are looking to make an impact this winter. Korbs and Tebano, who leads the team with four assists, look to see plenty of action on the blueline while Chemago adds depth at the goaltending position.
Dartmouth's power play has scored a goal in four games this season. The Green have gone 4-for-30 in 2013-14 with the man advantage and rank eighth in the conference with a power-play percentage of 13.8. Lindsey Allen has scored a pair of goals when a man up, freshman Katy Ratty has one and Karlee Odland netted the game winner versus RPI for the other special-teams goal. Last weekend, The Green and White struggles when a man up, going 0-for-9.
The Green and White's penalty killers have started the season on a strong run, killing 32-of-34 penalties over the first seven contests. They currently rank second in the conference when a man down, killing 94.3% percent of their penalties. The special teams ranked third in ECAC Hockey last season, killing 87.9% of opponents' man-advantage opportunities in 2012-13. Last year, they were the fourth-most penalized team in the league with 320 penalty minutes through 31 games. Through seven games, the Big Green have 74 penalty minutes. Laura Stacey netted the team's first short-handed goal in over a year, breaking out and finishing to give Dartmouth a two-goal lead in the third period against Rensselear.
Last season's 7-2 senior-day victory over St. Lawrence on Feb. 23 2013, was the 600th in program history. In their 37th season, the Dartmouth women's hockey team has averaged more than 16 wins a year since its inception as Hudak has been at the helm for 197 of those triumphs.
Under Hudak, Dartmouth has played in the conference tournament nine times, won the league title twice and played in the championship game three times. The 11th year coach has led the team to the NCAA tournament six times, advancing to the Frozen Four twice. The last two seasons, the team has exited the conference postseason tournament in the first round.
Last season, Dartmouth was 1-0-1 against Colgate, skating to a 2-2 tie in Hanover while earning a 3-2 victory on the road. In Hanover, the team traded goals in each of the first two periods before Holdcroft and Ashlynne Rando took over, as each held the opposition scoreless over the final period and in overtime. In Hamilton, Dartmouth scored the first three goals and held off a late Raider rally to escape with a 3-2 win.
In 2012-13, the Big Green went 0-1-1 against Cornell in ECAC Hockey and Ivy League play. In Hanover last season, Laura Stacey opened the scoring in the first period, but Cornell would respond with a marker in the second. In overtime, Jillian Saulnier tallied the game winner with just under 90 seconds left in play. In the finale, both Holdcroft and Slebodnick played well, stopping every shot they faced in a 0-0 tie.
Dartmouth is 30-5-3 all-time against Colgate and 20-5-3 under Hudak. The Big Green are 41-27-7 all-time versus Cornell, while posting a 13-7-2 mark under Hudak.


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The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty, and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul when arrayed in this their natural and fit attire.William Ellery Channing
Truth consists not in never lying but in knowing when to lie and when not to do so.Samuel Butler
When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.Orson Scott Card
Im neutral on lying, seeing as how theres times when the truth just hurts people.Orson Scott Card
When I sing, I close my eyes. If I see a feather, everything is fine. Without this image in my mind, the sound is not 'truthful' enough and I must begin again. I have to. I first had this feeling, this instinct with Phantom of the Opera and since then have always listened to it.Sarah Brightman
Each of us is born with the potential for the unfolding of our true self. When you deviate from the truth, you are interfering with the intention of something greater than you are- call it nature or a higher power. As a result, you develop discomfort.Unknown
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorderLao Tzu
Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, dont blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being in love, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.Louis de Bernieres
A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his causes.Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin
Age after age, when the wick of Righteousness burns low, the Avatar comes yet once again to rekindle the torch of Love and Truth.Meher Baba
When I approached God at that time, I hardly had a living faith in Him. The agnostic was in me, the atheist was in me, the sceptic was in me and I was not absolutely sure that there was a God at all. I did not feel His presence. Yet something drew me to the truth of the Vedas, the truth of the Gita, the truth of the Hindu religion. I felt there must be a mighty truth somewhere in this Yoga, a mighty truth in this religion based on the Vedanta.Sri Aurobindo


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I think it's sweet. We also have a cow and music story. We were having lunch at a canal-side pub while a parade to a local church fete was lining up. It was a nice little parade with several bands. Next to the pub was a pasture with several cows. When the pipe bands started up, the cows didn't even look up. When the youth brass band started to play, the cows made a bee-line to the far corner of the field. So, cows can have a fine ear for music.
Cows are also super-nosy. In Mary Roach's book "Spook", she urges everyone to try the following experiment (after checking the vicinity for cow patties of course!)Go into a field where there are cows and stand about 30 feet away from them or so. Make a sound to get their attention, and when they look over at you, fall down. They'll all come to check out what happened.
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"The fact that the President,
George Bush's first foreign
visit has our country as its
destination is a clear message
of the interest his administration
places on strengthening links
with Mexico."
President Vicente Fox, Mexico
"We are welcoming a new day
in the relationship between
America and Mexico. Each
nation has a new President,
and a new perspective.
Geography has made us
neighbors; cooperation and
respect will make us partners."
President George W. Bush, U.S.
The United States and Mexico share a
2,235-mile border and a long yet little
known history of wildlife conservation.
As early as 1936, wildlife managers from
both countries have reached across
the way to each other and have been
quietly conserving the wildlife and
wild places of the border region.
What: The very first reintroduction of
black-footed ferrets into Mexico.
Where: Janos, Mexico
When: TBD, likely in October, 2001
Contact: Dario Bard, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, 202/219 7499
The Story
"The idea is to breed more and to
spread them out," explains Mike
Lockhart of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, describing the strategy to
recover the black-footed ferret from
the brink of extinction. "If you have
more than one population, then a
catastrophic event, like a disease
epidemic, isn't as likely to wipe them
out…again." Black-footed ferrets are
long, slender-bodied animals
characterized by a brownish-black
mask across the face, a brownish head,
black feet and legs, and a black tip on
the tail. Once reduced to just 18
individuals, they now number in the
hundreds, thanks to captive breeding
programs, such as the one at the
Phoenix Zoo. But although captive
breeding has gone well, re-establishing
wild populations has been difficult.
Re-introduction efforts at various
locations across the U.S. have been
struggling. Only at South Dakota's
Conata Basin are ferrets breeding in
the wild at a rate high enough to re-locate
some individuals to other re-introduction
sites. Lockhart and others
have their eyes on Janos, Mexico,
The Return of the Black-Footed
Ferret to Mexico
A New Day…Un Nuevo Dia
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Luray Parker
where there are half a million prairie
dogs. (Black-footed ferrets prey almost
exclusively on prairie dogs and also
use their burrows as dens.) Presently,
U.S. and Mexican conservationists
are working out the details on the
transportation and release of dozens
of black-footed ferrets into Janos's
prairie dog colony.
Status of Black-Footed Ferrets
Recognized as an endangered species
in the U.S. and no longer in existence
in Mexico. The black-footed ferret is
North America's only native ferret. The
present population is estimated at 600,
with approximately equal numbers
in captivity and in the wild. In 1987,
only 18 black-footed ferrets remained.
The species suffered tremendous
declines in numbers as a result of
rural development and disease, which
impacted not only black-footed ferrets,
but also prairie dogs, a species vital to
their survival.
Recovery Efforts
The U.S. first recognized the species
as endangered in 1967, under the
predecessor of today's Endangered
Species Act. At the time, only one
known population of black-footed
ferrets remained in the wild. That
population crashed in 1974 and its last
member died in captivity in 1979. At
that point, the species was thought to
be extinct, until a rancher accidently
discovered a colony of about 120 ferrets
near Meeteetse, Wyoming, in 1981.
Biologists were thrilled with this
second chance to rescue the species
from extinction, but hope dimmed
when the newly discovered population
succumbed to disease (canine
distemper). In 1987, biologists captured
the last 18 remaining members of the
colony in a last ditch effort to save
the species through captive breeding.
Following a tremendous effort,
biologists have realized extraordinary
success with captive breeding (from
the last 18 ferrets, they have bred
hundreds). Now a new struggle is
underway: the re-establishment of
wild populations.
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
June 2001
Rich Kruger
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I'm Finally Using BillionGraves
When BillionGraves launched just prior to Memorial Day I was quite excited at its availability. Though it was initially offered as an iOS app and I don't have an iPhone, I enjoyed perusing the website and using what was available there. I wrote a blog post outlining my initial impressions. I am a power techie user and their model fits nicely within my paradigm for how I like to operate. Well, this week, they made the Android app available and I could not wait to try it out!
Earlier this afternoon I took a trip to a nearby cemetery to see how it works. I am in love.
Getting Ready
- Android is notorious for all the different phone models, so the app does not work on all Android phones. I appreciated the developers taking the time to present a list of phones in their blog post that they know it works on, phones they know that it does not, and phones they were unsure about. My phone is on the "know it works on list" – yeah!
- The download went without hitch and it was easy to login. I do wish my avatar would have downloaded when I logged into my account – but that's a vanity thing. 🙂
Taking Pictures
I went to Calvary Cemetery – a Catholic cemetery here in Nashville. I've only been here once and this was an opportunity to further explore it. I was concerned about my GPS because my phone is awful for GPS, but this app is right on target as far as the section of the cemetery that I was in! Here is my photo map of the pictures I took and it is an excellent tool for location purposes. The headstones marked are not exactly in place, but close enough for someone who may wish to follow-up and find them for themselves. I like this view too because it makes it easy to remember where to pick up when I go back to the cemetery. In fact, I'm going back in the morning and am going to try and finish this section.
The app is very easy to use. In fact, the camera on it works faster than when I use the regular camera feature on the phone. I did have a few delays between pictures at times but it could have just been my phone -it has been acting up for weeks now. The GPS signal on my phone was strong and I was able to take around 150 pictures in about 30 minutes. Not bad! I had the kids with me, so purposefully did not stay long – just wanted to test it out.
Uploading Pictures
One touch upload. Perfect! I don't know how long it took for my pictures to upload because I did it and left my phone to charge back up and didn't come back to my phone until about an hour later. After the pictures are uploaded, the numbers show up on my online dashboard. For some reason, one of the pictures was attached to the cemetery next door, so I'll have to try and fix that.
From here, the transcription process is just like all other photos on the website after you click on the "My Photos" tab. After having used the site for the past month, I can conclusively state that I prefer their transcription process to FindAGrave – I can move more quickly through it.
On an interesting note I see that some of my pictures have already even been transcribed by others. How cool!!!
I am very pleased with my app experience. Thank you to BillionGraves for providing this app. I may even go back and redo past pictures I've taken so I can further contribute to the site.