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WASHINGTON -- Longer lines at airports. Closed campgrounds at national parks. Fewer meat inspectors. In warning of the consequences of $1.2 trillion in budget cuts over the next decade, President Barack Obama and his administration are choosing examples likely to resonate with voters. Some Republicans, including Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, say this amounts to scare tactics and that agencies should instead cut wasteful spending. Budget experts, however, say that while Obama may be emphasizing cuts for their public-relations value, the decision of where to trim is largely out of his hands. That's because the law that mandates the automatic cuts was written to give agencies little leeway in where the budget ax falls. The idea was "that everyone was going to suffer" under cuts so unpleasant Democrats and Republicans would agree to some alternative, said G. William Hoagland, senior vice president at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington-based group that promotes legislative compromise. "There's not a helluva lot of flexibility," said Hoagland, who as a Senate Republican aide helped negotiate the 1985 Gramm-Rudman-Hollings balanced budget act that the current sequestration law is based upon. That law, created in negotiations to raise the debt limit in 2011, calls for automatic cuts split almost evenly between defense and non-defense spending with certain exemptions such as veterans benefits and Social Security payments. It starts with an $85 billion reduction in the remaining months of the federal budget year that ends Sept. 30. According to the law, the cuts must come equally from every "project, program and activity." Most federal agencies face a 5.3 percent cut, while defense programs would be reduced 7.9 percent, according to the Congressional Budget Office's economic outlook. Danny Werfel, controller at the White House's Office of Management and Budget, told Congress this month that the effective reductions actually would equal about 13 percent for defense programs and 9 percent for non-defense programs because they come just in the final seven months of fiscal 2013. There is some discretion over the timing -- the Pentagon last week began slowing payments to contractors to boost its cash reserves -- though that only does so much. "It was meant to be a burning platform," said Daniel Gordon, associate dean of procurement law at George Washington University's law school. "It is not meant to be a workable way to reduce the deficit." The automatic cuts apply to all 398 national parks, according to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. Yellowstone, which receives 3.4 million visitors a year, faces the same percentage cuts as the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library in West Branch, Iowa, which had fewer than 130,000 in 2012. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said the cuts would lead to flight delays of 90 minutes at peak times at airports such as those in New York and Chicago. The Federal Aviation Administration will begin furloughing staff on April 1, and more than 230 control towers at smaller and mid-size airports may be closed. "Sequester doesn't allow for moving money around," LaHood said in a briefing for reporters last week. "It just does not." The U.S. Department of Agriculture has warned that its $2 billion in cuts would leave less money for meat inspections, which could force slaughterhouses to shut when inspectors aren't present. "There have been a lot of predictions of hellfire and brimstone," said Steve Ellis, vice president at Taxpayers for Common Sense, a Washington-based spending watchdog group. "I'm not saying there won't be any impact, but it probably isn't the maximal impact the Obama administration is trying to paint." Hoagland said the examples the administration uses to highlight the effects of sequestration weren't accidents. Waiting at airports is an unhappy experience most Americans can relate to, he said. According to data compiled by Bloomberg, the impact to the U.S. air traffic control system may be less severe than the administration has depicted. Most of the 72 towers that may close overnight have so little traffic at those periods the night shifts could be eliminated now under FAA guidelines. Congressional Republicans said they'll push a plan to try to give Obama greater control over how to implement the budget cuts. Ellis said his group agrees that Congress should give agencies more flexibility in making the cuts so that good programs aren't put in the same pool as bad ones. The administration has rejected the approach, saying federal spending has already been so reduced in other budget deals that the focus should now be on how to raise additional federal revenue, by repealing some corporate tax breaks for example, along with targeted budget cuts. Republicans say Obama is exaggerating the impact to strengthen his negotiating position. Jindal, in Washington for National Governors Association meetings, said Feb. 25 that Obama needed to "stop trying to scare the American people." In a Feb. 21 letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., said the department could protect national security missions by cutting programs already identified as wasteful. By eliminating "wasteful, duplicative, ineffective and low-priority programs first," the department "can successfully navigate sequestration and continue to perform its vital functions," Coburn wrote. The agency says that is not true. "We do not have the luxury of making significant reductions to our capabilities without significant impacts," said Marsha Catron, a spokeswoman for DHS. Coburn said in the letter that "additional legal authority" may be needed to target budget cuts. Napolitano has told Congress the cuts could increase airport wait times and leave less money available to defend against cyber attacks. Americans who had to cut their own budgets during the recession may not understand why it's so hard for federal agencies to cut their budgets by the amount required in the sequestration, said John Feehery, president of Quinn Gillespie Communications in Washington. "Most people believe that the government could spend a little less money," Feehery, who was a House Republican spokesman in 1995 when a showdown with President Bill Clinton led to a government shutdown, said in an interview. "A 5 percent cut? For most folks, they've had to do that in their own budgets." Even after the March 1 deadline passes, Americans may not immediately feel an impact, said Scott Lilly, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a Washington-based public policy group aligned with Democrats. Federal workplace furloughs won't start until April, so services may continue largely unchanged for the first few weeks. As workplace absences mount and money grows tighter, the pressure from the public will grow, Lilly said. "It's going to be a country with its hair on fire," said Lilly, a former Democratic staff director to the House Appropriations Committee. "There are a thousand things in there that are going to upset people." The threat of sequestration is already having an effect, said Rich Gold, a lobbyist at Holland & Knight. Gold, whose clients include First Energy Corp. in Akron, Ohio, and Dow Chemical Co., in Midland, Mich., said the businesses and local governments he represents no longer have confidence that lawmakers can work through differences. "The real problem is, at the end of the day, nobody knows what's going to happen," Gold said in an interview. "The uncertainty is what's really holding back the economy, and this is a major dose of uncertainty."
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Several hundred coal industry supporters on Tuesday evening objected to the Obama administration's plan to crack down on mountaintop removal coal mining, urging federal regulators to back off a threatened veto of the permit for a huge mine in Logan County.
Coal miners and their families, along with other industry employees, supporters and political leaders, packed a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency public hearing held as part of EPA's review of whether to block Arch Coal Inc.'s Spruce No. 1 Mine.
The industry front group FACES of Coal hosted a rally in the Charleston Civic Center's main arena just prior to the EPA hearing, which was held in another theater in the same building.
Supporters of the permit complained that EPA was wrong to step in after a mining permit was already issued, and that such an unusual step means no permit ever issued is safe from being later rescinded.
"EPA wants to take the permit away for what seem like political reasons, not scientific reasons," said John McDaniel, a top Arch Coal engineer who worked on the Spruce Mine permit for more than a decade.
Coal industry officials from around the region warned that the Spruce Mine was just the start of the Obama administration's crackdown, complaining most vocally about a new set of water quality guidelines aimed at tackling increased electrical conductivity pollution that EPA believes is impairing waters downstream from large-scale surface mines.
A parade of miners and their families, along with mine vendors - companies that provide coal companies everything from heavy equipment to tires and electrical supplies - took the podium in the 3 1/2-hour hearing.
"This is our livelihood and our way of life," said David Lee Wilder Jr., a surface miner from Pike County, Ky. "This is all we know."
The Obama administration has promised "unprecedented steps" to reduce the impacts of mountaintop removal, a practice that scientists have concluded is causing "pervasive and irreversible" damage to the region's environment.
In a March announcement of its proposed veto of the Spruce Mine, EPA officials detailed their concerns about the broad-ranging negative impacts of mountaintop removal - from the burial of streams and downstream pollution to the destruction of forests and studies linking living near mining operations to premature death among Appalachian residents. Environmental groups have offered mixed reviews of the administrations actions to date, having hoped for an all-out ban on mountaintop removal.
"We're looking at this as a test of whether EPA will stand behind what they've been saying," said Bill Price, environmental justice organizer for the Sierra Club. "The coal industry has been unable to prove it can do this type of mining without extreme impacts on the environment and the communities nearby."
Marilyn Mullens, a Boone County native who described herself as a mother and a military veteran, said she believes there is plenty of evidence that mountaintop removal is harming coalfield residents.
"I've heard a lot about jobs and coal miners, and I appreciate that," Mullens said. "But what are we going to do when the entire Earth becomes so polluted that there's no going back?"
Tuesday's hearing was far more orderly than an October session run by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. At that event, mining supporters yelled and jeered repeatedly whenever any mountaintop removal critics or opponents attempted to speak.
EPA officials had arranged for additional uniformed police officers, as well as some plain-clothes agents, and government contractors who actually ran the proceedings warned that anyone who disrupted other speakers would be removed from the hearing.
Organizers had set up the room to seat 1,000 people, but perhaps half that number attended, officials said. While the event was clearly dominated by industry speakers, both sides said privately the turnout was lower than they expected.
The hearing also included plenty of politics. Among those who spoke were Rep. Nick J. Rahall, whose district includes Logan County, and his Republican challenger, former state Supreme Court Justice Spike Maynard.
Rahall issued a statement that said, "Pursuing this course will have a chilling effect on the coal industry in West Virginia and the Appalachian region.
"It sends a message to investors that no permit is ever assured and that money they might be willing to put into similar coal mining operations and coal jobs is nothing more than a high-risk bet," Rahall said.
Maynard issued his own statement that said, "West Virginia coal miners deserve a fair, common-sense permitting process. The EPA has changed the rules mid-stream on our miners, and I don't see how anyone could think that is fair."
In mountaintop removal, coal operators use explosives to blast off entire hilltops and uncover valuable, low-sulfur coal reserves. Leftover rock and dirt is dumped into nearby valleys, burying streams.
The Spruce Mine has been at the center of the debate over mountaintop removal since the issue first began to heat up back in the late 1990s.
At the time, the operation was proposed as a 3,113-acre mine that would bury more than 10 miles of streams in the Pigeonroost Hollow area near Blair. Arch Coal had proposed the operation as a continuation of its Dal-Tex mountaintop removal operation.
U.S. District Judge Charles H. Haden II blocked that version of the permit, prompting Arch Coal to close Dal-Tex and lay off more than 300 United Mine Workers members who worked there. Since then, Arch continued to seek the permit but shifted it to its non-union Mingo Logan Coal Co. arm.
At issue now is a Clean Water Act "dredge-and-fill" permit issued by the Army Corps of Engineers. Under Section 404 of that law, the corps generally handles such requests for permits to bury streams. But, EPA has broad authority to veto corps decisions if it believes the environmental impacts are too great.
In January 2007, the corps issued the latest version of a slightly scaled back version of the Spruce Mine, after completing a lengthy Environmental Impact Statement on the project.
The new permit covered nearly 2,300 acres and would bury more than 7 miles of streams. Eventually, the operation could produce an average of 2.7 million tons of coal annually over 15 years and employ about 250 workers. At the time it was issued, the Spruce Mine was the largest single strip-mining permit ever issued in West Virginia.
Soon after the corps action, environmental groups sought to have U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers block the permit. The Spruce Mine was not among those halted by a March 2007 ruling by Chambers or directly affected by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision overturning Chambers.
The environmental group complaints about the Spruce Mine have never been heard, and in the meantime, the operation - with environmentalists' approval - has been conducted very limited mining. During the first three months of this year, the mine produced just 132,000 tons of coal with 19 employees, according to federal records.
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Hundreds cheered a pro-coal speaker at Charlestons Civic Center on Tuesday, during a public hearing on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys review of a Logan County mountaintop mining permit.
Speakers opposing the permit included Julian Martin of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy (left) and Danny Chiotos of the West Virginia Youth Action League.
The FACES of Coal rally was held just prior to the hearing at the Charleston Civic Center on Tuesday.
Rep. Nick J. Rahall, D-W.Va., speaks in favor of allowing a permit to go forward for Arch Coal Inc.s Spruce No. 1 Mine.
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DDOS Attacks Wane in US, May Result in Mass Bot Suicide
Six days after the US/Korean DDOS attacks began it seems, in many ways, we know less than before about them.
The emerging consensus among security analysts is that the attacks are not being executed by the North Korean government or some sophisticated hacker group. The malware is MyDoom being used is MyDoom, a very old program built largely for attacking the PCs it infects and deleting data on them rather than a DDOS. For a detailed analysis of the malware involved, see this report from South Korean anti-virus firm Hauri. Thanks for the tip to Brian Krebs at the Washington Post.
But Kaspersky experts argue that the evidence points towards a "hooligan" gang (how's that for Russian terminology?). Sunbelt software concurs that the attackers are not all that sophisticated.
Reports have varied on whether the attacks are winding down or not. It appears that while some attacks persist against US government sites the main action now is against South Korean sites.
But the most interesting news is the revelation that the bot software has an option for self-destruction, one which the attackers might use to cover their tracks. The owners of the PCs in what appears to be a 50,000 system botnet in Asia would then find all the data on their computers destroyed.
In a way, it's more disturbing to find that the attacks are by some schmoe kid in Asia rather than a government, but it shouldn't be surprising. As Gadi Evron explains in this piece on DDOS and cyber wars, it's fairly easy to launch these attacks and you can't know who is really behind them. The way I see it, there's a big difference between a DDOS against a public, Internet-facing web site and successfully attacking the in-house systems of the agency that owns the site. As a friend of mine once said, a DDOS is like ringing someone's doorbell and running away. It doesn't do any real damage, but it's really bothersome. Eventually the attacker gets tired of it too.
It is still possible that the attacks are the unsophisticated work of North Korea or Dr. Evil or someone else we might otherwise consider sophisticated. The reason I would assume it is in fact some gang of kids is that it's reasonable to believe that some gang of kids would and could do this, and such things have happened in the past.


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Preparing for LIS 451
The best time to prepare for LIS 451 is now, regardless of where you are in your degree. You will take LIS 451 Senior Seminar in your final semester at UIS. In this course, you will be required to write a paper that integrates and summarizes your learning. This will require you to refer to all the syllabi, books, papers and learning projects from all the courses you've completed.
As you take courses, you should keep LIS 451 in mind. Here are a few questions you might consider for each class.
- What issues are framing my understanding of the course content?
- How have the readings and text books expanded my perceptions and knowledge?
- Are their quotes, from readings, faculty, or students, which opened a path of discovery and which are worth remembering?
- What key insights have I gained from the course?
- Have I discovered anything about my learning style?
- How does the course content reflect Boyer's philosophy of education?
- How does the course content reflect the world in which I live?
Graduating seniors have suggested that LIS students should take the time at the end of each class to summarize what they have learned. Keeping a journal with the answers to these, and other questions, will make your experience in LIS 451 more productive and fulfilling.


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When Collin MacKechnie, a 15-year-old child actor who has starred in movies and appeared on TV, created a Twitter account in March, fans began following his posts about everything from getting his braces removed to landing a part in "The Hunger Games" sequel.
Young fans who had seen him in the CW series "Supernatural" or starring with "Saturday Night Live" alumnus Norm McDonald in the kids' movie "Vampire Dog," found him on Twitter and sent messages.
"Collin" quickly replied, peppering his comments with details seemingly only he could know -- yes it was true, a stand-in actually played the drums in that one scene.
He would frequently post photos of himself, sharing publicity shots with his 100 followers, but also more intimate photos friends and family members had taken and first posted on their own Facebook pages.
Over time, however, some of the tweets became darker and, at times, more suggestive, telling young female fans he would be willing to meet up with them and then surprisingly outing himself as gay.
While much of what the tweeter said was true, plenty more was fake. Collin really is 15. He lives in Vancouver, Canada, and is a working child actor. But until this week he had never visited Twitter, let alone set up the @ColinMcKechnie account. And he is not gay.
"I also still have my braces on and I'm not in 'The Hunger Games,'" the real Colin MacKechnie told ABC News.
"It's creepy to think there's enough out there about me that someone could make this all up," he said. "They could search out my name and open and click on pictures from my friends' Facebooks and take everything."
Collin was the victim of a hoax in which an imposter assumed his identity for eight months, an online scheme experts said occurs with surprising frequency.
"We see these sorts of impersonations all the time," said Parry Aftab, founder of WiredSafety, an organization that aims to protect children online.
Collin is also, law enforcement authorities said, potentially the victim of several real crimes.
"Following any complaint that we get, our officers start an investigation," said Constable Brian Montague of the Vancouver police. "We don't have cyber-bullying specific laws in Canada, but we do have laws about threatening, stalking and harassment, as well as identity theft laws."
The "Collin" tweeter might also be the unwitting front for something more nefarious, a predator using the identity of a child to make contact with other children.
"Often in these investigations, there is a situation where a predator is involved," said Staff Sgt. Mark Sorokan of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. "That person may have had no previous relationship with the victim. In a bullying situation, the perpetrator tends to know the victim."
More common than pedophiles impersonating children are kids impersonating other kids in a rapidly growing subset of cyber-bullying called "bullying by proxy."
"We'll sometimes see sexual predators pretending to be kids in an effort to groom children for sexual exploitation, but more often we see kids impersonating other kids," Aftab said.
In a WiredSafety study conducted among 44,000 middle school students in the U.S. and Canada, 85 percent of students reported some kind of cyber bullying. Aftab estimated that as many as half of those students were bullied anonymously or through proxy.
"These impersonations are almost always kids impersonating other kids," she said. "I see 200 cases a day of kids pretending to be the bullying victim and making allegations about their promiscuity, for girls, or homosexuality, for boys."
Imposters have been involved in a series of serious cyber bullying cases, including the 2006 suicide of Megan Meyer, a Missouri girl who hung herself after being bullied by a teen boy online. In reality, that boy was the middle-aged mother of a girl with whom Megan went to school.
When Collin's parents learned about the fake Twitter feed, they contacted local police, his school, the user behind the @CollinMcKechnie account and the fans following him.
Once exposed, the imposter quickly came clean.
"I feel wickedly guilty (and wickedly proud) and for what its worth, i'm sorry. All this coming from a big fan of Collin myself," he tweeted.
"I know you all gonna hate me for this, but you have to admit I was one one of the top 10 twitter impersonators of all time," tweeted @ColinMcKechnie. "I urge you to go out and impersonate an upcomer [sic]. What an experience its been."
When contacted by ABC News, the impersonator responded via Twitter: "I'm gonna deactivate as soon as I get my hands on a pc. Soon I promise. I dont knw hw to find the deactivate option on my cell phone lol."
He did not answer any questions about his identity. He later changed the name on the account from Collin MacKechnie to the Collin MacKe Fan Club.
Twitter would not comment on the details of Collin's case. However, company spokesman Jim Prosser told ABC News that Twitter has a policy that bans impersonators, excluding celebrity parody accounts.
He said the company investigates all complaints and deactivates those found to be fake.
As of Thursday evening, the @CollinMcKechnie account was still active.


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The People's Choice Awards ushered in the 2013 awards season Wednesday night, and honored the most popular actors, musicians and entertainers in the industry.
"The Hunger Games" devoured its competition emerging the top victor with five trophies. Katy Perry was runner-up with three awards at the fan-powered ceremony that named winners in categories spanning music, movies and television.
"Hunger Games" was named favorite movie, action movie and movie franchise and stars Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth had fans' favorite on-screen chemistry. Lawrence also won favorite movie actress and "face of heroism."
Perry was the fans' favorite female artist and pop artist. Her video for "Part of Me" also won.
Jennifer Aniston claimed the first prize of the night, beating out four other nominees for favorite comedic movie actress.
"I love the people," Aniston said as she accepted her crystal trophy, adding that if it weren't the support of her fans, she wouldn't have been able to "keep doing this" for almost 20 years.
Adam Sandler won the other top comedy prize, favorite comedic actor.
For the 13th consecutive year, Ellen DeGeneres was named favorite daytime TV host and she offered "to hug each and every one" of her fans, but then added that "it's flu season and that's not happening."
On the heels of winning her fifth consecutive American Music Award in November, Taylor Swift added yet another accolade to her collection with the prize for favorite country artist.
Actress Sandra Bullock, meanwhile, accepted the first-ever favorite humanitarian award for her dedication to a New Orleans high school damaged in Hurricane Katrina, while singer Christina Aguilera was honored with the people's voice award for her ability to "to reach millions of fans both at home and abroad, across pop, soul and R&B genres."
Information gleaned from national rating averages, box-office grosses, music sales, and votes from PeoplesChoice.com helped determine nominees.
"Big Bang Theory" actress Kaley Cuoco hosted the 39th annual award show at the Nokia Theatre, where performers included Christina Aguilera, Jason Aldean and Alicia Keys.
The night's winners:
Movie: "The Hunger Games"
Movie actor: Robert Downey, Jr.
Movie actress: Jennifer Lawrence
Action movie: "The Hunger Games"
Action movie star: Chris Hemsworth
Face of heroism: Jennifer Lawrence, "The Hunger Games"
Comedic movie: "Ted"
Comedic movie actor: Adam Sandler
Comedic movie actress: Jennifer Aniston
Dramatic movie: "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"
Dramatic movie actor: Zac Efron
Dramatic movie actress: Emma Watson
Movie franchise: "The Hunger Games"
Movie superhero: Robert Downey, Jr., "Iron Man"
On-screen chemistry: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, and Liam Hemsworth, "The Hunger Games"
Movie icon: Meryl Streep
Network TV comedy: "The Big Bang Theory"
Network TV drama: "Grey's Anatomy"
Cable TV comedy: "Awkward"
Cable TV drama: "Leverage"
Premium cable TV show: "True Blood"
TV crime drama: "Castle"
Sci-fi/fantasy TV show: "Supernatural"
Comedic TV actor: Chris Colfer
Comedic TV actress: Lea Michele
Dramatic TV actor: Nathan Fillion
Dramatic TV actress: Ellen Pompeo
Daytime TV host: Ellen DeGeneres
Late-night talk show host: Jimmy Fallon
New talk show host: Steve Harvey
Competition TV show: "The X Factor"
Celebrity judge: Demi Lovato
Male artist: Jason Mraz
Female artist: Katy Perry
Pop artist: Katy Perry
Hip-hop artist: Nicki Minaj
R&B artist: Rihanna
Band: Maroon 5
Country artist: Taylor Swift
Breakout artists: The Wanted
Song: One Direction, "What Makes You Beautiful"
Album: One Direction, "Up All Night"
Music video: Katy Perry, "Part of Me"
People's voice: Christina Aguilera
Humanitarian: Sandra Bullock


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The problem is that in the past we have equated family history with research. Not everyone in the family is interested in doing family history research. There are now many other ways to get family members involved in collecting family history information without them having to do any research. The key idea is that we need to draw on each family member's strengths and interests.
For example, this past weekend my brother converted 55 minutes worth of audio files from the 1970s and 1980s. He took the cassette tape originals and converted them into mp3 files which could easily be shared over the internet and played on a computer. While he was in the process of doing the conversion he sent out five separate teasers. Each teaser contained 2-3 minutes of audio and a very provocative, catchy headline. He sent the teasers to the entire extended family. At the completion of his project he again emailed the entire family with a link to downloadable audio files of the entire 55 minutes (culled down from 5 hours worth).
My brother is not particularly interested in doing genealogical research. Yet what he did provided a incredible service to me (the family researcher) and the rest of the family. Harnessing his love of computers and technological skill provided us with a way to preserve our family memories for many generations to come. Quite a number of the people whose voices are heard on those audio files are no longer with us today. What a treasure it is to hear their voices again and to know that we will be able to pass them along. By distributing the audio files with the rest of the family, it will also encourage more of our family to get interested in learning about our shared family history.
When trying to get family members to participate in family history think of ways to harness their interests and passions.
Here are some non-research ideas to get the rest of the family involved:
- Encourage your family to scrapbook - either using paper and albums or electronically
- Have the music lover compile songs of the past or a disc of family favorites
- Convert analog video to digital
- Convert analog audio to digital
- Have the tech lover create a photo slide show and set it to music
- Have the kids interview grandpa using a digital recorder
When you think about it there are lots of ways to get your family involved in family history without having them do research. Remember, once you get your family involved be sure to share the end product with as much of the extended family as possible. Nothing breeds excitement and participation like sharing and getting others involved.


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PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) Ian Hummer scored 22 points with nine rebounds, while Denton Koon's 22 points were a career high in Princeton's 76-59 win over Cornell on Friday night.
The Tigers have won four games in a row and 19 straight Ivy League matchups at home. The streak is the longest for Princeton (9-7, 2-0) since the program won 26 straight from 1996-99.
Leading 35-30 at intermission, Princeton outshot the Big Red in the second half 61.5 percent (16 of 26) to 34.8 percent (8 of 23).
Cornell, which led by nine points early in the game before Princeton surged ahead, closed the deficit to 41-40 with 17:10 remaining. The Tigers then scored 15 unanswered points to pull away for good.
Will Barrett added 15 points for Princeton.
Josh Figini scored 13 and Shonn Miller 12 for Cornell (9-11, 1-2), which came in having won three of its previous four games.


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MORGAN HILL — A parolee found in possession of a hot iPad equipped with a geographical locator feature probably wishes there wasn't an app for that.
According to Morgan Hill police, a San Jose man's home was broken into Monday and electronic gear stolen, including an Apple iPad activated with a Global Positioning System feature that can track the device. Police verified that it was at an address on San Tomas Lane, where an occupant of the home, Alfredo Maldonado Jr., 33, was on parole for drug violations.
Officers went to the home conduct a compliance check and search, and in Maldonado's bedroom, they found numerous electronic items that were stolen from the San Jose home, including the iPad that was running the "Find My iPad" feature. More than $7,000 worth of property was returned to the victim, and officers also confiscated additional items reported stolen from other people.
Morgan Hill and San Jose police will be conducting a joint investigation into how Maldonado came to acquire the other goods.
Maldonado was booked into Santa Clara County Jail on multiple counts of possessing stolen property and violating parole.
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The American consumer appears to be levering-up again. But ahead of Wednesday's consumer credit report, the big debate among economists is whether borrowing signals economic growth or economic strain.
According to the Federal Reserve's latest report, total consumer borrowing reached $2.5 trillion in December of last year, nearly matching the pre-recession level.
January's report, which will be released later Wednesday, is forecast to add an additional $10.45 billion.
"For the first time since the recession, we're starting to see bank credit increase. That historically has been the catalyst for strong economic growth," said Paul Kasriel, chief economist at Northern Trust.
Banks constitute the largest proportion of total consumer credit lending, to which various finance companies, credit unions, savings institutions, and the government also contribute.
It follows, Kasriel said, that bank lending is the most important factor for economic growth. "It's what has been lacking up until recently in this economy."
Others are not so certain, and expect credit growth to taper off given two persistent drags on the economy: housing and unemployment.
"The consumer credit rebound is not sustainable," said Thomas Berner, an economist at UBS. While consensus estimates $10.45 billion will be added to the Fed's borrowing total, Berner is forecasting $6 billion.
"Consumer credit cannot grow as quickly as it did before because home equity was its major driver. Now a fourth of all mortgages outstanding are underwater," said Berner.
The latest industry reports show 1.1 million American borrowers are "underwater," meaning they owe more on their mortgages than their homes are currently worth.
Berner's lower estimate also hangs on the premise that the type of credit being borrowed — mostly non-revolving (auto and student loans) — is not as stimulative as short-term revolving credit card debt.
"Government-subsidized student loans are a huge part of consumer credit. And since state budgets continue to be strained, that will continue," said Berner.
On this point, economists agree: student loan debtinflates credit levels with little economic impact.
In total, the Federal Reserve'sborrowing report covers auto loans, student loans and credit cards, and excludes real estate loans, such as mortgages and home equity loans.
Economist Peter Morici from the University of Maryland points out that high student debt levels are a factor of the unemployment rate — which is still 8.3 percent.
"People are going back to school because they can't find a job," he said. "Most consumer credit has been auto loans and higher education."
Even on the heels of Wednesday's ADP report, which showed private sector jobs rising by 216,000, Morici still contends that depressed income levels continue to hamper spending and growth.
"Consumption has been constant. There's been no real growth in personal income and spending for the last three months," he said.
For the bears, just because borrowing is up doesn't necessarily mean the economy is improving.
But all three economists actually agree on the bullish credit scenario: if credit card debt shoots up today, they expect consumer spending to follow in the second half of this year.
"If we get a big jump in credit card debt, the consumer will be spending more. In 2012, we're looking at 2 to 2.4 percent growth in consumer spending," concluded Morici.
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Paints and finishes enhance the stylish appearance of your dwelling. Certain colour schemes can communicate a feeling and mood into each room. Moreover, it adds a coating of protection for the areas it would cover to prevent its quality's deterioration for a longer period of time.
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Who is the world's best men's mixed martial artist, regardless of weight class? My latest top-10 rankings are listed below.
In addition, here are my women's pound-for-pound rankings.
Note: Results through June 11, 2018.
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1. Demetrious Johnson
Record: 27-2-1
Div.: Flyweight (UFC)
Last: W (Sub5) Ray Borg, Oct. 7, 2017
Next: TBD
Johnson is the longest-reigning champion in UFC, having surpassed the great Anderson Silva's mark of 10 consecutive title defenses. How many of these defenses will Johnson have when it's all said and done? As many as he wants, seems to be the answer.
2. Jon Jones
Record: 22-1
Div.: Light heavyweight (UFC)
Last: NC Daniel Cormier, July 29, 2017
Next: TBD
Jones returned from two tumultuous years to regain his place as the No. 1 fighter in the world, only for it to come out he failed a drug test one day before his win over Daniel Cormier at UFC 214. He has maintained his innocence and will appeal.
3. TJ Dillashaw
Record: 15-3
Div.: Bantamweight (UFC)
Last: W (TKO2) Cody Garbrandt, Nov. 4, 2017
Next: UFC 227 on Aug. 4, vs. Cody Garbrandt
Dillashaw is a couple different scorecards away from an unbeaten record since 2012. His only two losses during that time were split decisions to Raphael Assuncao and Dominick Cruz -- both of which could have gone the other way. And now he's coming off a sensational finish over Cody Garbrandt.
4. Tyron Woodley
Record: 18-3-1
Div.: Welterweight (UFC)
Last: W (UD) Demian Maia, July 29, 2017
Next: TBD
Woodley's title reign has been widely criticized, as his defenses over Stephen Thompson and Maia were incredibly slow five-round fights. He is, nevertheless, the undisputed champion and he did defend every single one of Maia's takedowns at UFC 214. You may not enjoy the way Woodley is fighting, but there's no denying he's one of the best in the world.
5. Max Holloway
Record: 19-3
Div.: Featherweight (UFC)
Last: W (TKO3) Jose Aldo, Dec. 2, 2017
Next: UFC 226 on July 7 vs. Brian Ortega
We're only one title defense in to the 'Blessed Era,' and it's already been a fun ride. Holloway took the title from Jose Aldo, the most dominant champion in featherweight history, and then proved it was no fluke in an immediate rematch.
6. Khabib Nurmagomedov
Record: 26-0
Div.: Lightweight (UFC)
Last: Fight: W (UD) Al Iaquinta, April 7, 2018
Next: TBD
Nurmagomedov is the UFC's sole lightweight champion, following a five-round drubbing of Al Iaquinta at UFC 223. He's had trouble staying active in the past, but as long as that problem doesn't resurface, Nurmagomedov may be the champ this division needs. He says he's looking forward to regular title defenses.
7. Stipe Miocic
Record: 18-2
Div.: Heavyweight (UFC)
Last: W (UD) Francis Ngannou, Jan. 20, 2018
Next: UFC 226 on July 7, vs. Daniel Cormier
Miocic is the longest reigning heavyweight champion in UFC history, and he's taken one of the most difficult roads ever to get there. It's quite safe to call him the best heavyweight of all time.
8. Daniel Cormier
Record: 20-1
Div.: Light heavyweight
Last: W (TKO2) Volkan Oezdemir, Jan. 20, 2018
Next: UFC 226 on July 7, vs. Stipe Miocic
Cormier did what he does best at UFC 220, as he easily took Volkan Oezdemir to the floor en route to another UFC title defense. He doesn't have a ton of fights left, so appreciate him while you can.
9. Conor McGregor
Record: 21-3
Div.: Lightweight/Featherweight (UFC)
Last: W (KO2) Eddie Alvarez, Nov. 12, 2016
Next: TBD
McGregor is coming off a spectacularly lucrative boxing match against Floyd Mayweather. When it comes to his next move, one thing's for sure: He has options.
10. Tony Ferguson
Record: 23-3
Div.: Lightweight(UFC)
Last: W (Sub3) Kevin Lee, Oct. 7, 2017
Next: TBD
All Ferguson has done is won 10 consecutive fights, including a submission finish over Kevin Lee for the interim championship. He's all pace, all action -- and lately, all wins.


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so anyone can help me to make this code look better lol i got no idea if im following correct programing styles or whatever.Code:#include <iostream> #include <conio.h>// for getch() using namespace std; int main() { int amount; int years; int month = 12; float payment; cout << "This program calculates your morgage loan payments per month\n"; cout<< "Enter the amount of $ the house costs: "; cin >> amount; cout <<"Enter the years you want to pay off the morgage: "; cin >> years; payment =(amount /years) / 12; cout << "You will have to pay " << payment << " per month\n"; cout << "Press a key to close the screen."; getch(); //this waits for a user to entre any key before it closes return 0; }
aslo the prog works fine but it lacks something. there is no interest, how is interest calculated?


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Gov 2.0 Infographic: Bringing the Tobacco Control Act to Life
CROSS-POST from Cool Infographics:
In 2011, Enspektos, a health marketing communications innovation consultancy, invited InfoNewt (my company) to be involved in a special project the firm was leading on behalf of the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products (CTP). As a new federal agency, the CTP is tasked with regulating tobacco products and preventing tobacco use – especially among youth.
During the project, we collaborated with the CTP to help create The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act: Facts, History and Milestones, an infographic timeline that covers the past and future actions related to the Tobacco Control Act passed in 2009.
The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act) is an important piece of legislation with many requirements. This infographic illustrates the history, rationale and major events associated with the Act. The Tobacco Control Act provides all of the events, deadlines and requirements in full and should be used as the final resource for information about the Act.
The infographic is yet another example of Gov 2.0, or the effort to utilize a range of digital technologies to improve government transparency and public understanding of how federal agencies function. The original Tobacco Control Act is a 68-page document available online, but in actual practice that isn't easily accessible or understandable by the general public. The FDA has created several tools to help the public understand the Tobacco Control Act, like a snapshot overview of the Act, an interactive scrolling timeline viewer, a searchable interface and the infographic timeline.
On Wednesday, April 25th 2012, the FDA held a live webinar to share the different tools they have created to help everyone access and understand specific information from the 68-page law.
As you might expect from an official government publication, the design went through many iterations of review and revisions. In my opinion, the final infographic is text-heavy, but strikes a balance between optimal design and content that was vetted and approved by many different individuals at the CTP.
Fard Johnmar, Founder and President of Enspektos agreed to answer some questions about the project.
Cool Infographics: How do you think the infographic and other tools will aid public understanding of the Tobacco Control Act and the CTP?
Fard Johnmar: I think the infographic and other tools are an important step for the federal government. Transforming dense and complicated legislation into simple, visually appealing information products is a very difficult process. You have to balance the wish to make things clear and concise with a requirement that information be as accurate and complete as possible.
We had two primary goals: The first was to improve the public's understanding of the Tobacco Control Act. The second was to get people within FDA comfortable with using new tools that help visually communicate important regulatory and public health information. Now that this project is complete, I think FDA will be looking for other ways to communicate about its mission and activities in more visually appealing ways.
Cool Infographics: Do you see other health and medical organizations using visual communications techniques?
Fard Johnmar: Absolutely. In fact, since we published the Empowered E-Patient infographic a few years ago, I've seen a number of health organizations using infographics to communicate about a range of topics, including GE for its Healthymagination project.
Cool Infographics: How difficult was it to push the infographic through the FDA approval process
Fard Johnmar: As you can imagine, getting final approval for a novel visual project like this can be difficult for large organizations. However, there was a real passion for the project from Sanjay Koyani, Senior Communications Advisor at the CTP and other members of his team. They helped to successfully meet all of the legal requirements and answer the numerous questions posed by colleagues at the CTP. Now there is a higher comfort level at the agency with utilizing these types of visual tools to tell the CTP story.
I truly appreciated being involved in the project, and think this is a really big step towards making the often overly complex information released through official government channels more understandable to more people.
Thanks to Enspektos and the team at the Center for Tobacco Products!


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I just noticed that "revision 2309 : Email alert reduced volume" on the development blog. Which reminded me of another long standing "Oh, I should probably mention <that> sometime".
The immediate thought was about game volume(s). But there are some others too.
I'd regard all these as nice to have. The volume controls would be my highest priority item. Then the "invert camera direction" toggle.
But as always, it's your game - so you're choices. These are just my suggestions.
I know lots of people go ape about visual settings. Not me.
But one nice feature would be monitor selection. I personally run with 2 monitors (1920x1200 + 1920x1080). I've heard video pundits be mildly impressed by games that include a primary monitor picker. I wouldn't miss it if it weren't added, but since some people regard it as an impressive feature for modern games to have - I thought I'd list it.
Three, four or five separate volume sliders. (Master, UI volume, Voices volume, Music volume, Ambient sounds volume).
Extra points for "Subtitles: On/Off". But I'm guessing you've already discounted subtitles as an option - just figured I'd mention it.
Personally, I'd like to see a second sets of keybindings per game action. It's very much "icing on the cake", but it's also one of the indicators I look for in a "quality game". Whilst it's no longer the case, my brother and I used to share a computer - he's left handed, I'm right handed. That's just one example where double keybinds are invaluable.
I've already raised this as a suggestion in it's own right, but: a "reverse mouse/camera rotation" toggle. The current <MMB>+<Mouse drag> rotate the camera in the wrong direction for me. I know not everyone would agree. But I'd like to be able to set it to account for my preferences.
An old school option that nobody includes any more: Enable/Disable screen edge movement. Personally it's not something I would ever disable, but I can see why players might want to. The option would disable the game world scrolling up/down/left/right when the cursor nudges the edge of the game screen. Most of the UI elements are near the edges and sometimes I find myself inadvertently scrolling when I moved the mouse a little too far. Anyway, it's another "quality" option that I can't imagine would be too difficult to add.
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Author: cwarbeck
Story: The Five Minute Test
Part: The Five Minute Test
Rating: Teens
Setting: AU
Status: Completed
Reviews: 26
Words: 5,125
Updated: October 5, 2006, 6:50pm
The Five Minute Test
If this story seems familiar to some of you, it's because it was originally a Maurauder one-shot that I've posted elsewhere. I decided to rewrite it to make it more of a Harry/Ginny story, and I like this version better. I'm hoping you will too
Set in a kinder, gentler OotP universe, before Harry saw Snape's worst memory and Sirius fell through the veil.
Harry sat down beside Remus Lupin with a puzzled look on his face. Clutched in his hand was a piece of parchment covered in neat handwriting done in black ink. They were in the kitchen of Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place, and Harry had just come down from the attic, where he, Ron, Hermione and Ginny had spent most of the morning cleaning and trying to decontaminate several old chests from Doxies and Bundimun.
Harry was looking decidedly worse for wear. His black hair stuck up in all directions, and there was a big smudge of dirt across one cheek.
"Erm, Professor…" Harry said hesitantly. Remus had popped into Grimmauld Place for a spot of tea and to catch up on his reading.
Remus peered at Harry from over his copy of The Daily Prophet, on the front page of which screamed the headline: Sirius Black sighted near Buckingham Palace! Aurors Sent to Guard Muggle Royal Family!
"Yes, Harry?" Remus folded the newspaper and placed it on the table in front of him. He took a sip of his tea. "Is something the matter?" He looked at Harry with some concern. The boy was really too thin for comfort. Damn those Dursleys.
"I found this amongst Sirius' stuff while we were cleaning out the attic." Harry handed the parchment over to his former teacher. "It looks like an old essay of Sirius. Is it important?"
Remus took the paper and gave it a curious glance. His eyes widened, and he began to chuckle softly. "I can't believe he actually wrote it down as an essay, that old dog," he said, shaking his head.
"What is it, Professor? Is it Sirius'?" Harry leaned forward excitedly. "It has my father's name in it," Harry added.
"Yes, Harry. It's about some bizarre theory of Padfoot's that he kept pestering us about during our last year at Hogwarts." Remus' normally worn-out face was lit with a broad smile. "He claims that it was the reason your father and mother got together at last."
Harry sat back, impressed. "Really?"
Remus nodded. "Why don't you ask him about it yourself?" He turned his head and yelled out, "Padfoot! Get your sorry, flea-bitten hide in here!"
Sirius came bounding into the room, brushing his dark hair out of his eyes. Following behind him were Ron and Hermione who were arguing as usual.
"I don't care what you say, Ron," Hermione was saying waspishly. "Kreacher is not a gigantic mutant form of Doxy, so you are not supposed to use Doxycide on him!"
"He deserves a lot worse, if you ask me," Ron mumbled under his breath.
Both teens were also liberally streaked with dirt, Hermione's bushy brown hair escaping from the violently orange and purple knitted headband that she was wearing.
"Did I hear your honeyed tones hollering for me, Moony?" Sirius drew a chair opposite Remus and plopped down heavily in it. Still exchanging heated words in loud whispers, Hermione and Ron settled down on either side of Harry, who ignored them, being too used to their bickering to pay any real attention.
"Harry here has found something interesting in your musty old attic." Remus waved the parchment in front of his friend's face. Sirius snatched it out of his hands.
"Ah," Sirius nodded, his dark eyes gleaming. "The Five-Minute Test."
At the word 'test', Hermione stopped haranguing Ron and turned her attention to Sirius. "Five-minute test?" she asked, puzzled. "What is that? I've never heard of it."
"That's because this mangy cur over here made it up." Remus pointed to Sirius who was scanning the parchment, a delighted grin on his once-handsome face.
Sirius looked offended. "May I remind you, Moony, that this test is probably the reason for Harry's very existence?" He sucked in his breath dramatically. "Why if James hadn't administered this test, he and Lily might not have ever gotten together, and we would never have had young Harry over here, who – I might add – is getting more handsome every day, just like his godfather!"
Harry's cheeks reddened and Ron sniggered, while Hermione looked intrigued. Remus rolled his eyes. "Whatever you say, Padfoot," Remus replied wryly.
"So, what's the test about, Sirius?" Harry prompted, curiosity shining from his green eyes.
Sirius grinned. "Well…"
* * * * *
"Psst! Prongs!"
"What is it, Padfoot?"
"She's looking at you again."
"Marlene McKinnon."
"Oh. Is Lily with her?"
"No. Just Marlene. There she goes again!"
"Sirius, is there a point to this? I'm trying to finish this essay on the Fidelius Charm, so I can start revising for the Transfiguration exam tomorrow."
James Potter put down his quill and stared at his best friend, Sirius Black, who was lounging on the sofa. His other friends, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew, sat in adjacent armchairs, their noses in books. The Marauders, as they called themselves, were in front of the fire in the Gryffindor common room, supposedly working on their homework. All around them, other students were also bent quietly over their books and parchments, lending a solemn air to the otherwise ordinarily boisterous area.
Sirius, however, apparently had better things to do than something as trivial as school work. "I'm just testing out this new theory of mine," he said casually, pushing his long dark hair out of his eyes in a practiced manner, causing a couple of first year girls nearby to sigh in admiration.
"Yeah? And what might that theory be, mate?" James pushed his glasses up his nose, looking interested despite himself. Usually the other boy's theories and plans always ended up being the basis for another one of their more hilarious adventures, although this year, their last year at Hogwarts, James had tried to get his incorrigible friend to tone down his talent for mischief. After all, Professor Dumbledore had chosen James to be Head Boy probably for that very purpose.
"Well, according to my theory, I reckon that if a girl glances your way more than three times in the space of five minutes or if she stares at you for a full five minutes, she's probably right keen on you," Sirius adopted a scholarly mien. "I call it…the 'Sirius Black Five-Minute Test of Approximating Physical Attraction' or the 'Five-Minute Test' for short, or maybe just 'F.M.T.' What do you think?"
* * * * *
"Blimey, that's a mouthful, Sirius," Ron said, dumbfounded.
"I thought it was very professional-sounding," Hermione declared approvingly. "Better than 'F.M.T.'"
Ron gave her an annoyed glare over Harry's head and opened his mouth to make a scathing retort, but Harry shushed him before he could speak. "Please go on, Sirius."
"Where was I?" Sirius said, putting his hands behind his head. "Oh yeah…"
* * * * *
"…the 'Sirius Black Five-Minute Test of Approximating Physical Attraction' or the 'Five-Minute Test' for short, or maybe just 'F.M.T.' What do you think?"
Remus gave a snort of laughter from his seat besides James. "What do you need a test like that for, Padfoot? We already know that half the girls in the castle fancy you. They can't resist that puppy dog look you give them."
"I know that, Moony." Sirius waved his hand impatiently. "But this test will help me find fresh meat."
Remus rolled his eyes at his friend's comparison of women to livestock. Peter gave a squeak of appreciation.
"Besides," Sirius continued, "We can use it to find girls for you lot, even Wormtail here."
Peter started at hearing his name and became pink around the ears. "Thanks, Sirius!" he said eagerly.
James shook his head and frowned slightly. "Thanks, but no thanks, Sirius. The only girl I fancy going out with is–"
"Lily," chorused Remus and Peter.
"We know, Prongs, we know," Sirius added exasperatedly.
Everyone knew that James had harbored a massive crush on the green-eyed, auburn-headed Lily Evans ever since their fourth year. His persistence and creativity in asking her out, even after being rejected repeatedly, was now the stuff of school legends. He had hoped that this year would be different, since she was Head Girl and he was Head Boy (much to everyone's – including his own – astonishment), and he would get the chance to prove himself during their duties together.
* * * * *
"Dad was really into Mum, wasn't he?" Harry said wonderingly.
Remus and Sirius both nodded, exchanging amused glances.
"Obsessed would be the correct term here," Remus clarified, laughing out loud.
"Prongs was absolutely nutters over Lils." Sirius shook his head, his voice taking on an affectionate tone. "Nutters, I tell you."
"He nearly drove us mad with his whinging and sighing about Lily," Remus remembered fondly.
"Merlin, he was like a lovesick calf," Sirius chortled. "His Animagus form should have been a cow or something, instead of a stag."
Harry smiled at the idea of his father turning into a moon-eyed cow every time the Marauders would go on one of their adventures.
"I don't think a cow would have been exactly a good companion to a blood-thirsty werewolf, Padfoot," Remus pointed out mildly.
The rest of the group laughed at this comment. "I reckon you're right, Remus," Sirius agreed, grinning at him. "Although James would have made for a very skinny cow indeed."
* * * * *
James still hadn't managed to go out with Lily, but they seemed to be getting along pretty well. Their conversations during their nightly patrols in the hallways were always something he looked forward to. He even dared to hope that she looked forward to them as well.
At least she had not gone back to shouting and hexing him all the time, like she had during the last two or three years.
"But since there hasn't been any sign that she'll be going out with you anytime this century, maybe it's time to move on, eh?" Sirius went on, raising an eyebrow at his lanky black-haired friend. "Find other fish in the sea? Other deer in the forest?"
"I don't know about that, Padfoot," Remus interjected. "Whenever I talk to Lily these days, she's always telling me how surprised and pleased she is at how much our James here has changed from the obnoxious prat that she knew back in fourth year."
"She talks about me?" asked an astonished James. "Really? That's bloody brilliant! What does she say about me, Moony?" he turned an eager face to the rather thin, perpetually tired-looking boy.
"Well, that doesn't mean she fancies you, or else she would have already gone out with you," interrupted Sirius pointedly, causing James to deflate somewhat. "Now, how about asking Marlene McKinnon out? She just looked this way again, which, by the way, makes that five times in a row, if you count the ogling she gave you when she came through the portrait hole."
Taking a quick look at the corner where the pretty black-haired witch sat, James realized that, although Marlene was indeed looking in their direction, she was not interested in him but was rather staring intently at the boy sitting beside him.
"I don't think it's me she wants, Padfoot. I think she's more into Moony over here," he chuckled, inclining his head towards Remus.
Remus flushed and glanced cautiously over his book. Marlene turned a deep crimson when she realized that she had been caught staring. She hurriedly bent her head down, pretending to be reading.
* * * * *
"Who's Marlene McKinnon?" Ron wondered out loud.
"She was a member of the Order of the Phoenix," Harry explained. "Moody showed me a picture of the original Order when we first got here."
Remus looked somber. "She was a good person," he said softly.
"Was?" Hermione whispered to Harry.
Harry nodded, looking at Remus with concern. "Yeah. She and her whole family were killed in the First War."
Sirius patted Lupin on the back sympathetically. "I'm sorry, Moony. I forgot."
Remus sighed and gave a small smile. "That was a long time ago, and I know she would have wanted to go down fighting Voldemort." He motioned for Sirius to continue the story. "Go on, Sirius."
* * * * *
"Oho! It seems I was mistaken in who Miss McKinnon's object of desire was," Sirius smiled slyly, tapping the side of his nose. "But you have to admit, she did pass the Five-Minute Test."
The other boys groaned. "Can we please get back to revising?" Lupin asked. "This Transfiguration exam counts for half our marks, and yours aren't exactly that great right now, Padfoot."
"Don't worry about it!" Sirius winked at them. "McGonagall would never fail me. I did the Test on her in class yesterday and she passed with flying colors."
His friends laughed uproariously at that. Shoulders still shaking with mirth, James picked up his quill to work on his essay.
The sound of the portrait door opening caused him to lift his head, and, with a fluttering sensation in his stomach, he watched as Lily came into the room. She waved to the boys and smiled warmly at James before settling down next to Marlene. James could not concentrate anymore after that and spent the next few minutes sneaking furtive glances at the redheaded girl, trying to decide if that beautiful smile she had given him meant anything.
"Looks like you're gonna be the next one to pass the Five-Minute Test tonight, Prongs," Sirius smirked, slapping him on the back.
* * * * *
"Old Professor M?" Fred Weasley said, his eyes widening in shock.
"Never knew the old cat had a thing for you, Sirius," George Weasley added, shooting an admiring glance at Harry's godfather.
The twins had joined the little group around the table around the time that Sirius had picked up his story again. By this point, Sirius had summoned butterbeers for everybody and some Firewhisky for himself, which Ron was eyeing with interest.
Ginny had also wandered into the kitchen, her freckled face shiny and gleaming; she had scrubbed it clean and changed into a fresh white jumper before going downstairs. She sat down in front of Hermione, greeting the others with a pleasant smile.
"Hi, Ginny," Harry said, smiling back at her as he pushed his hair out of his eyes.
"Hi, Harry." Ginny grinned at him.
Remus snorted into his tea. "He's been saying that Minerva's had a little crush on him only since we were in third year. I've yet to see any proof, Padfoot."
"Oh, I have proof, alright. Loads of it, actually." Sirius lifted his chin in a superior manner. "However, being the gentleman that I am, I just choose to protect the reputation of Minerva McGonagall."
At this, Remus actually inhaled some of his tea. Harry and Ron had to pound on their old professor's back for several seconds before he could get a word out.
"Wha-What are you on about?" Remus spluttered, wiping his mouth with a serviette. "You – you and – you and Minerva McGonagall?"
Ginny giggled at the incredulous look on Remus' face. Sirius winked at her before lazily waving his wand to clean up the tea that Remus had inadvertently sprayed onto the table. "I never kiss and tell, Moony. Especially when it comes to pussycats."
Ginny and Sirius both erupted into gales of laughter as everyone simultaneously gave groans of disgust, except for the twins, who started sniggering appreciatively, and Hermione, who could not seem to figure out what was so funny about Sirius' last statement.
* * * * *
Much to the other Marauders' initial amusement, Sirius kept administering his Five-Minute Test all throughout the week.
During lunch at the Great Hall, he claimed that no less that six girls were longing for James, while Remus had three fans and even Wormtail had two admirers: a timid, brown-haired fourth year girl from Hufflepuff, and – to Peter's embarrassment – a short, stocky boy from Slytherin.
While at N.E.W.T. level Potions, he insisted that half the girls in the room had at one time or another been staring at either James or Remus. "Sorry Wormtail, no luck in here for you," he told a hopeful Peter.
* * * * **
"Urgh," Ron said, wrinkling his nose. "I always knew Wormtail was a loser."
"What a poof!" Harry muttered.
"Hey Ronniekins, didn't Scabbers use to sleep snuggled up to you?" Fred said slyly.
"Yeah, Ronniekins. And don't you usually sleep starkers?" George teased, waggling his eyebrows meaningfully.
"Shut it, you two," Ron snarled, his face slowly becoming scarlet when he noticed that Hermione was looking at him in wide-eyed shock. "I do not sleep starkers," he proclaimed hotly.
"Only since he was about six or seven years old," Ginny said in an undertone to Hermione, who was also turning a rather delicate shade of pink. "But when we were younger, he was always wandering around the Burrow in the nuddy-pants. I remember he had an unfortunate 'incident' involving the gnomes in the backyard…"
Hermione's cheeks flamed, but she leaned forward willingly to listen to Ginny's whispered story, her eyes darting to Ron's increasingly thunderous face as the twins continued to tease him mercilessly.
* * * * *
Sirius also delighted in telling a disappointed James that although Lily Evans had glanced his way, it had only been two times, so technically, she hadn't passed the Test.
After the class, though, James felt that she had more than made up for her lack of interest when she stopped outside the classroom to remind him about a meeting with Professor McGonagall that night. Lily's hand rested on his arm all the time she was talking.
By the end of the week, however, his friends had become weary of Sirius constantly counting under his breath the number of times any girl looked in their general direction.
"Padfoot, you're my oldest and best mate, but if you don't shut up about this Test of yours, I'm going to have to hex you," said James one Sunday, as they were lounging underneath a linden tree near the lake.
The afternoon was bright and clear with a cool breeze causing tiny ripples on the surface of the water. James and Sirius were sitting up against the tree, Remus was reading a book, and Peter was sprawled on his back, watching the clouds move lazily across the periwinkle blue sky.
A group of Gryffindor girls passed by, laughing and giggling as they walked towards the water. James caught a flash of red hair and straightened up, his hand reflexively reaching up to pat down his unruly hair. Lily smiled at them and waved hello to James who waved quite enthusiastically back.
"What? How ungrateful can you be?" Sirius said in mock outrage, bringing James' attention back to the Marauders. "Here I am, practically slaving away so that you lot can get your pick of girls to go out with your sorry arses."
"Thanks a lot and all that, Padfoot, but really, you're driving us completely mental," James said dryly, still trying to tame his obstinate hair.
"I don't hear Moony complaining, yeah?"
Remus had finally become bold enough to ask Marlene to go to Hogsmeade with him, and much to his delight, she had accepted, coloring prettily as she did. They had spent a lovely time together wandering up and down the village, ending the day with a butterbeer at the Three Broomsticks. Remus smiled and looked up dreamily from his book.
"Come off it, it was pretty obvious that she fancied Moony, even without your Test," James scoffed.
"Ah, but James, my good man, that's where you're wrong," Sirius said, and put on a scholarly expression. "Now the way I see it, if I hadn't given the Test to her, we would never have found out that she really, really liked Moony. So, it was only because Moony was sure that she was going to agree to go with him to Hogsmeade, that he actually found the nerve to ask her out and snog her."
Peter blinked slowly, trying to follow Sirius' train of thought. Remus gave a start. "I did not, as you so elegantly put it, snog her. I just thanked her for a wonderful time and kissed her on the cheek!" He hit Sirius on the arm with his book.
"Pitiful, really. You should have snogged her shamelessly. I would've," said Sirius with a wicked and highly obnoxious grin.
"We all know that, Padfoot," James said, smiling at the look on Sirius' face. "But could you lay off the Test? I swear, it's making me barmy."
"Have it your way then," Sirius said airily. "If you don't believe in my Test, then I won't tell you that the love of your life has actually looked at you several times in the past minute or so."
James whipped his head around just in time to see Lily hurriedly turn her head away from him, a pink flush visible on her soft face even from that distance. She was with her friends, cooling their feet in the lake and tickling the Giant Squid's tentacles floating in the water. He felt a huge grin forming on his face, and, as he watched, Lily gave him another shy glance, a small smile on her lips, her red hair glowing in the afternoon sunlight.
"So, how many has that been, Padfoot?" James reached up and ruffled his hair nervously. He could not seem to stop grinning like an idiot, but right now, he could not care less.
"I thought you didn't believe in my Five-Minute Test," Sirius said mockingly. Remus and Peter laughed at the goofy expression on James' face as he continued to stare unabashedly at Lily.
"Well, that's because you weren't telling me anything I'd find useful, you git," answered James, now positively beaming at Lily, who was smiling back just as widely.
"Oh all right, just so you'll stop making eyes at each other. It's getting really revolting, you know." Sirius smirked. "She's been shooting glances at you every second in the last five minutes. Must be a record of sorts."
Remus and Peter pushed at James. "Go on, Prongs, ask Lily to walk with you," Remus urged. "Before she decides she'd rather go out with the Giant Squid."
Giving them all an enormous joyful smile, James unfolded his lanky frame from the ground, brushed the dirt off his clothes and walked toward Lily. They saw him stop beside her and hold out his hand. Her cheeks were positively glowing now, but she let him pull her to her feet. The two of them strolled away, their hands still clasped together, oblivious to the whistles and clapping that were sent their way by other students relaxing around the lake.
* * * * *
"Awww, that's so cute!" Ginny sighed happily.
"Very romantic," agreed Hermione, a wistful look in her eyes.
The boys looked at each other and made gagging noises.
* * * * *
Sirius sighed dramatically. "Another happy couple courtesy of the Sirius Black Five-Minute Test. What do you think, Moony? Reckon I've got a future as some sort of matchmaker?"
Remus chuckled. "I don't even want to imagine you as some sort of Cupid!"
"Hmmm.…" Sirius said contemplatively. "Maybe I can branch out into singing Valentines. I could probably use some of the house-elves to deliver them, or maybe some dwarfs?" He trailed off, seemingly deep in thought.
"That's mental, Padfoot!" Remus and Peter collapsed in hysterical laughter.
Sirius looked highly offended that they thought he was making a joke, but he then realized the absurdity of his statement and soon joined them laughing.
After a few minutes, Sirius took a look around the grounds. "Okay now, let's just see if anyone else around here will pass the Test."
Most of the students were standing up and heading back towards the castle. James and Lily were nowhere in sight.
"Sirius! We'd better go. It's almost dinner time!" Remus exclaimed, as his stomach gave a growl.
"Oh all right, there's probably much more action in the Great Hall anyway. I'll do the Test there," Sirius decided.
Peter and Remus shook their heads in resignation, and the three of them stood up and gathered their things.
"Shouldn't we wait for James to come back?" Peter said worriedly.
"I have a feeling that he's going to be rather busy for a while, Wormtail," Remus said with a meaningful smile. "He probably wouldn't want us to wait up for him."
"Yeah, he'll be too occupied in snogging Lily senseless," Sirius waggled his eyebrows suggestively. "Merlin knows he's been waiting for an opportunity like this ever since he laid eyes on the fair Lily. He's definitely going to make up for lost time!" He slung his arms over the shoulders of the other two boys. "Come on, let's get a move on. I'm so hungry I could eat a hippogriff!"
And with that, the three boys made their way back to the castle for some dinner.
* * * * *
Sirius finished his tale to the sound of the twins howling with glee before singing wheezily about fresh pickled toads and blackboards. Ron was gasping out "Singing Valentines!" as tears of laughter streamed down his face. Sirius smiled at the three of them, pleased to find that his tale had been received so well.
Glancing over at his godson, he was taken aback to find Harry staring determinedly at the kitchen table, his cheeks flushed as he avoided other people's gazes. Sirius then noticed that Ginny was staring daggers at her brothers, her face even redder than Harry's if that were possible. Hermione was trying to suppress her own smile, whilst trying vainly to hold down Ginny's wand arm.
Sirius raised his eyebrows at Remus, who shrugged his shoulders to indicate he had no idea what was happening. Sirius turned to Harry for an explanation but was distracted when the Weasley brothers' merriment suddenly became screams of horror as enormous, flying, furry things erupted in their faces.
Ginny gave a final flick of her wand – causing the twins and Ron to yell even louder, nodded her head in satisfaction and regally left the room, her bright red hair streaming behind her. Hermione gave Ron a reproving look and also exited the kitchen.
The remaining Weasleys staggered into the next room, clutching at their noses and frantically flapping at the air, trying ineffectually to ward of the giant airborne objects.
Sirius and Remus stared after the boys and then at Harry.
"What was that?" Remus looked baffled. "What were the twins singing about?"
"Yeah, whose eyes are 'as green as fresh pickled toads'?" Sirius asked curiously.
"Long story," Harry mumbled, keeping his gaze trained on the kitchen table. "You had to be there."
"We've got loads of time," Sirius declared. "Why don't you tell us?"
Harry refused to elaborate and continued to look intently at the counter, seeming to find the well-worn wood grain fascinating. Sirius exchanged amused glances with Remus, who decided to change the topic. "Was that the Bat-Bogey Hex?"
Harry finally looked up, his green eyes astonished behind his glasses. "You know about Ginny's Bat-Bogey Hex?"
"I didn't know Ginny could perform that hex. Lily used to threaten James with it all the time. She actually did hex him more than once, if I recall correctly. I haven't seen one of that magnitude, however," Remus said, his voice filled with awe. "That was an impressive bit of magic for someone so young."
Harry suddenly looked concerned. "Hang on, I just thought of something. Won't Ginny get into trouble with the Ministry for performing underage magic?" he asked worriedly.
"Considering that this is a Wizarding household, I doubt that the Ministry will even notice, what with all the spells cast on a daily basis," Remus said thoughtfully. "They're probably too preoccupied with the war anyway. And I suppose the fact that Grimmauld Place is unplottable will make it even harder to trace that hex." He then grinned wolfishly. "That said, remind me never to get on Ginny's bad side, Harry."
"Yeah," Sirius nodded approvingly. "Ginny reminds me a lot of Lily. You know – red-hair, short temper, intelligent, great sense of humor and very pretty." He smirked at Harry, who blushed again. "Uncanny resemblance, right, Moony?"
Remus nodded, his eyes twinkling. "I remember James saying that the Potter men always did have a weakness for redheads."
Harry cheeks became even more flushed, but he shook his head at his father's old friends, his hair tumbling into his eyes. "I really don't know what you two are on about. I don't fancy Ginny. We're just good friends. She's Ron's sister, for Merlin's sake."
He stood up and turned to leave the room. "Thanks for sharing that story, Sirius. It's always good to hear about Mum and Dad." With that, Harry waved good-bye and headed up to his room to get cleaned up.
After Harry had left, Remus smirked at Sirius. "That went down a treat." The sounds of confused shouting could still be heard from the other room as the Weasley boys ran about, bumping into furniture and each other. "Well, Padfoot, my friend, what do you think? I caught Ginny looking at Harry around seven times just in the last five minutes of our conversation."
Sirius gave a short bark of laughter. "From the time Ginny came into the room, I caught Harry about fifty-eight times, not counting the ones where he would just stare at Ginny for a whole minute without even realizing it. He even did the hair thing that James used to do all the time."
"James would be so proud," Remus chuckled appreciatively. "Like father, like son, eh?"
Sirius leaned back, put his feet up the table and gave a contented smile. "Yep, like father, like son."
A/N: The term 'nuddy-pants' is something I borrowed from Louise Rennison, the author of The Confessions of Georgia Nicholson (No copyright infringement intended). It literally means 'nude pants', which means nude underwear, which means... oh, you get it, don't you?
As always, loads of thanks to Chreechree who keeps me grounded and points out my many, many mistakes to me. And thanks also to Mitch, my PS Beta, whose eagle eye caught a plot hole that I never noticed!
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Three times in the last week I have been caught up in the paper vs. digital controversy. My perspective is that the last time I calculated it, one paper copy of my primary data base would run over 80,000 pages! Of course, there are errors and all sorts of duplicates in this large file, but the errors and duplicates are nothing compared to what they would be if I had done all that work on paper. As an example, my Great-grandmother worked on genealogy for about 30 years and in examining her files, it is apparent that she duplicated all of her work about three times.
The duplicates in my Great-grandmother's files are not a reflection on her ability, it is simply impossible, absent some sort of card index, to manage any genealogical research once the number of people in the file reaches into the thousands. In my opinion, if you have from 0 to 900 or so individuals in your family file, it makes no difference at all whether you keep your information on paper or in a genealogical database program. I realize my critical mass number is totally arbitrary. In reality, I just picked it out of the air. I admit that if you are super organized and meticulous, you may be able to manage a paper system with more individuals. But if you are like me, anything over 10 is a challenge without a computer.
By the way, in either system, the key to organization is the system. If you have no systematic way of entering your individual's information or for associating sources, then your lack of system will break down and you will end up wasting a huge amount of time and effort. The challenges with a paper based system are the "one-to-many" and "many-to-one" problems. I have written about these before, but they bear further analysis. An example of "one-to-many" is a U.S. Census record listing one or more related families. That one record has a relationship to more than one individual i.e. one document to many individuals. The opposite is having a number of documents that relate to one individual. Unfortunately, you can also have a mixture of the two, multiple documents that refer to more than one individual.
In a paper system adequately addressing the one-to-many and many-to-one problem is part of the reason why computers exists today. Genealogy is fully as complex as any corporate organization chart, government bureaucracy or any other complex organization.
If you try to address these problems with a paper system, you can have a separate file for documents and you can even make a source reference for each individual to the paper document in your "U.S. Census Records" file. You can also have a unique document number on each paper document. Now you remember the 80,000 plus pages I reference above, how many documents would I have if every one of my families also had a couple of source documents?
So you see, the paper vs. digital issue is really like quantum mechanics, it only works at very small levels. If paper works for you, then fine, I think that is great. But my challenge has been amassing huge amounts of paper without making the time to catalog all of it and associate the facts with the individuals either on paper or in the computer. In theory, whenever you found a source you would immediately enter the full citation of the source into your database and link the source to all of the individuals mentioned in the document. I say in theory, because you may get documents in the thousands like I do with almost no hope of doing the cataloging.
Now, where does the paper system start to break down? Even assuming numbers are not the issue, individual paper systems become very redundant. In the one-to-many and many-to-one issues, you will begin to see the inefficiencies of the paper system almost immediately. As an example, how do you show that a relative appears on several different contradictory source documents in a paper system without resorting to a manually created timeline or a narrative report? On the other hand, most of the genealogical database programs today will create a timeline and incorporate data from multiple sources.
I also realize that the propensity to prefer paper systems is based on emotions and not reason. It may also have a large measure of techno-fear at its base. I will come back with some ideas about meta-organization of genealogical records in the near future.


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