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TORONTO - Ontario's projected deficit for 2012-13 has fallen from $14.8 billion to $11.9 billion.
Finance Minister Dwight Duncan says the nearly $3-billion drop from last spring's budget projection is due to higher than expected revenues and lower expenses.
Corporate taxes were more than $1 billion above the budget forecast, while revenues were also up from the sales tax and the land transfer tax.
The government expects to spend $1.2 billion less than budgeted mainly because of lower interest on debt, and savings from reducing the ability of teachers to bank sick days and cash them out at retirement.
Duncan says the government will not need to use the $1-billion reserve in the budget, so will use half of that to reduce the deficit and the rest will be kept for any unforeseen events this year.
Despite the lower deficit, Duncan says the weakened global economy, especially in the U.S. and Europe, will require "continued strong action" if Ontario wants to balance its books on schedule by 2017-18.
"Ontario continues to beat its deficit targets, a direct result of managing expenses while also protecting health care and education," Duncan said in a speech to the Canadian Club in Toronto.
"Ontarians don't want deep, across-the-board cuts that would hurt their valued public services."
The lower deficit projection was Duncan's last official announcement as finance minister.
The Liberals will pick a new leader this weekend, and Duncan has already offered to resign his Windsor-Tecumseh seat for Sandra Pupatello if the former Windsor-West MPP emerges as Ontario's new premier.
The Opposition wasn't impressed, however, saying Ontario's economy has a "history of mismanagement" under the Liberal government.
"This is Minister Duncan playing clean up, his swan song," said Progressive Conservative critic Vic Fedeli.
"When you look at the experiences of the last nine years, you would see that this is a completely mismanaged economy."
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Huhtamaki's New Vienna, Ohio facility received a Special Award for Safety from the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation, sponsored by the Ohio House of Representatives.
"Through the hard work, dedication, and dependability of each employee, as well as through the leadership ability of its astute management, Huhtamaki has achieved a praise-worthy record of service, as evidenced by the high esteem in which it is held," the award stated. "Indeed, this fine employer has set an example of excellence for others to emulate."
New Vienna employees have built a culture where safety is the unquestioned top priority, but it took an extraordinary effort over a long period of time.
"If you go back 10 years, this facility was averaging 35 recordable injuries per year," Plant Manager Mike Gross said. "Our improvement is the result of hard work from everybody in New Vienna and helping everybody realize that they need to stay safe and in this company, they have the right to stay safe. It's really about engaging in personal awareness and being personally disciplined when it comes to safety."
Between March and December in 2014, New Vienna employees worked 574,490 hours without an injury. Once again, the culture and constant attention to safety receives the credit.
"Every presentation, every meeting and many discussions begin with safety," Gross said. "I tell the employees all the time that safety is like the shiny chrome bumper on a car. You have to polish it constantly or it will rust. We work to keep safety shiny and number one on everyone's mind."
"Every single person in New Vienna deserves the credit for this recognition of our plant wide culture."
And the awards keep coming
Prior to the award from Ohio House of Representatives, New Vienna employees were recognized by the HFC Safety Council (Highland, Fayette and Clinton counties) for being injury-free between March and December 2014 and for working more than 500,000 hours during the same time period.
Congratulations to Huhtamaki's New Vienna facility.

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At least 50 percent of Californians favor the governor's prison plan. And nearly 80 percent oppose early releases. But there's growing skepticism about Brown's other signature public safety proposal – the shifting of low-level offenders from the state to counties, known as realignment.
"Compared to when realignment was a concept, or when it was in its early stages, we're seeing declining numbers of Californians saying they're confident that their local governments can handle this issue," says the PPIC's Mark Baldassare.
Still, Baldassare doesn't see public safety concerns affecting Brown's approval rating, which is holding steady at just under 50 percent. And majorities of Californians hold liberal positions on several other hot-button issues: They support same-sex marriage, fracking regulations, Obamacare, and – for the first time – legalizing marijuana.


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Here are some photographs of Hilary McKanna, my Aunt Vivian's husband, taken in his younger years, probably taken in Alaska:
Hilary with another boy that might be one of his brothers?
In this following photograph we see Hilary in a happy mood. The writing on the back had C. Penglase and I wonder if this is the C. Penglase that married Helena Mary McDonald, daughter of great Uncle Angus McDonald who would know be Hilary's father-in-law Ronald's brother?
This photo is one of my favorites of Hilary. My memories of him were he was a gentle and kind man.
This photo was taken in 1923:
My curiosity and the inspiration of the blog: A Convergence of Families has pushed me to try a few internet searches and I found some additional sites that will further the McKanna family history:
The McKanna House and Family from a descendant of James Adelbert McKanna:
The Rooney Family in Canada which mentions the parents of Michael and Katherine


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Blue Hydrangea Cupcakes I posted yesterday (complete with new how-to video...).
I love mixing and matching with all of the colors in my collection. I used my Powder Blue Anna Wheatherly gold rimmed china plates (they match the Bliss Blue Color Collection in my store) because I think the pale blue looks so great with the purple and deep blues of the late summer hydrangea that seem to be everywhere in our neighborhood - except my house. I "borrowed" them from my neighbor - with permission, of course.
I had a hard time deciding which candles to use to compliment the flowers...
Left to Right :
Mom's Hydrangea
Privet Berry Blue
Privet Berry Blue. I thought they looked great with the cupcakes I created, as they were a deeper blue. They "Mom's Hydrangea" color was almost too close of an exact match with the actual hydrangeas, and I thought the Seaside was a little too bright.
The Hemstitch Napkins are embroidered in Seaside.
"Hydrangea Cupcakes" I made featuring the fun Celebration Candles in Seaside.
For detailed step-by-step instructions, click here.
Here is the Pin Strip!
There is a new photographer in the family. You'll never guess what she was taking pictures of...


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James Bond himself! And in Ireland! Great story!
For a while there, I was thinking about trading or selling my GIT to buy Aventus, but I decided to Use and Enjoy my GIT after reading this story on the reviews section:
A friend of mine was having tea in a cafe nestled in a small village in the Wicklow mountains in Ireland.
As she bit into her raspberry jam slathered crumpt she smelt what she could only breathlessly descirbe to me later as "the most manly, clean scent I've ever experienced".
Temporarily paralysed by olefactory overload she allowed herself to be enveloped in the aroma, her mind delving into wild fantasy and being snapped back again. Butter dirbbling down her chin.
She had to know who it was. Tentativly, she slowly turned around to steal a glance...
Who was this man?
... Bam! Peirce Bleedin' Brosnan sitting there, eyebrow arched, mischeivous twinkle in his eye.
She had to ask...
"Green Irish Tweed my darling"
As soon as she told me this story I ran out the door mid conversation, tripping over myself in a blind panic to procure myself a bottle of this magical potion (she was a very beautiful girl and I was a total fragrance newb). After getting over the shock of the price I slathered it on and was... well a touch let down.
It's fresh, clean and manly. It is similar to cool water, but it is better.
Despite my intital mild disappointment i always get complimented whenever I wear it out. Its a confident smell and I like to think I'm a little more like Peirce Brosnan whenever I wear it.
Read more: http://www.basenotes.net/ID26120716/...#ixzz10pkMQ07n
James Bond himself! And in Ireland! Great story!
And it's both stories like these and the sheer versatility of GIT making me definitely preferring this over Cool Water anytime! Thanks for sharing.
Actually i want to buy a bottle of GIT.
Thanks for your post.
Pics or it didn't happen.
Funny story.
I have one of my own. Last night I wore Green Irish Tweed to work. I love it, but it's one of those scents that I can always smell on myself for a long time and I always feel like I've put on too much. I was wearing two light sprays under my undershirt and a light dab to my neck. I overheard the waitresses giving the busboy some grief over his awful cologne. They told him he was wearing too much and that it was a terrible cologne that they hated.
I was feeling self conscious (yet again, lol) about my GIT being too strong, so I asked one of the girls if my cologne was too strong. She didn't smell it until she walked up to me and put her nose against my chest. Then she said "Wow. That's really GOOD! A lot better than (the busboy's) cologne." Then she started sniffing again, slowly moving lower and lower, and then lower and even lower until I had to jump back, as her face was by that point adjacent to my belt buckle. Everyone started laughing, including a couple of guys sitting at the bar. She is kind of a pervert to begin with--always grabbing my butt and package, so maybe the GIT is not entirely culpable for the workplace sexual harassment-- still, it does seem to bring some women to their knees.
I remember showing my drobe to a female friend of mine once and she liked several of my frags, but when she sniffed GIT, something in her demeanor changed immediately and she said "I would follow a guy who smelled like this anywhere!"
I don't know why, but GIT is one of those scents that women seem to experience on a deeper level.
Here's a funny story:
My gf prefers Cool Water to GIT, even in a side-by-side comparison. I myself prefer GIT, however the longevity is abysmal on my skin, and therefore I didn't buy it. Cool Water lasts twice as long on my skin, and my gf loves it. So it all worked out in the end.
Same exact story with MI vs Unforgivable. MI = crap longevity on my skin, and the gf prefers Unforgivable. Oh well, it is what it is.
all these talk makes me miss my bottle of GIT :P
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Off Basenotes Sale: http://flacon.ambaric.net/viewtopic.php?p=193#193
Might have to get a 30ml bottle for £40
Top 10:
1. Acqua di Parma Colonia Assoluta
3. Tom Ford Bois Marocain
4. Creed Green Irish Tweed
5. Dior Homme/Intense
6. YSL Opium
7. Azzaro Pour Homme
8. Frederic Malle's Musc Ravageur
9. YSL Live Jazz
10. Burberry London
Maybe GIT only works with Irish women?
I've had lots of positive reactions to my scents, but GIT never seems to elicit one.
when it comes to compliments, it depends what you look like too. for example, lets say we have a hefner who weighs in at 250 lbs and is over weight. do you really think a girl will compliment his cologne if she thinks the guy is repulsive?
but if you're relitively average weight, clean cut, then your chance to get compliments increases IMO.


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- Australian Grand Prix - FP2
Friday times not important - Vettel
- Race:
- Australian Grand Prix
- Drivers:
- Sebastian Vettel
- Teams:
- Red Bull
Sebastian Vettel played down the importance of setting the pace in both Friday practice sessions for the Australian Grand Prix but admitted it was "a very good day" for Red Bull.
The first sessions of the 2013 season saw Vettel top the timesheets on both occasions and Red Bull secure a one-two in FP2. While Vettel said the times are not necessarily representative of the competitive order at this early stage, he did confirm he was pleased with Red Bull's trouble-free start to the weekend.
"I have to say it was a very good day for us," Vettel said. "Surely one thing is to look at the timesheets but that's not the important thing today. For sure it feels good to know that you're kind of up there somewhere but I have to say it was a very good day considering it was the first day of the season; we didn't have any problems, no major dramas so it was a very quiet day and we got through the programme so I'm very happy with that."
With rain threatening to affect Saturday and Sunday, Vettel warned that changing conditions could render Friday's results irrelevant.
"We know a little bit more than yesterday, that's for sure, but I think we have to be aware of the fact that conditions can change. A couple of degrees make a massive difference with these tyres so for today I think we are very happy but tomorrow could be another day so I think there's room for improvement and we need to keep our eyes open and see what happens.
"When we arrived it was very hot and since then it's got cooler. How much that has an impact on tyres and how they work and car balance we can't really predict but we need to be ready to change. Even though today was a good day - I was happy with the balance - the conditions will change so we need to be aware of that and switched on to make the right choices."
Vettel added that he was comfortable the performance of the Pirelli tyres in warmer conditions.
"I think better than in testing. We kind of expected that because it's a different circuit but the soft tyre surely doesn't last that long. We saw that people came in and went back on the hard tyre, but I think the hard tyre should be a decent race tyre. For qualifying, for sure, it's all going to happen on the soft tyres."


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Dimensional Measurement of Automotive Stampings
Measurement systems for automotive stampings can cause controversy through the automotive enterprise, since these systems vary from the body shop to general assembly due to operational efficiency and other requirements. Basically, it boils down to the 'stamping guy' not measuring parts correctly, and therefore not providing parts to the right specifications.
Body-shop workers often will check a panel in 'free state' based on geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), where only the A-B-C datums are engaged and dimensions are taken, with the expectation of the stamping behaving like a rigid body. While die compensation—to bring the dimensional adherence to the requirements to the GD&T—has developed by leaps and bounds, the expectations of the body folks often are unrealistic, though it clearly is getting closer to the requirements for clamping the secondary datums.
This is stated as a prelude to the following discussion of various measurement systems, since proper use of GD&T to datum a part is significant to the success of the measurement system.
In a die shop or stamping plant, two important measurements must take place. First, part measurements must be reliable, repeatable and accurate. Then we need a system to accurately measure the dies, enabling the use of the data to generate offsets to the surfaces measured. This process will allow the end product to be manipulated to provide a stamping that meets design requirements and, therefore, eliminate assembly issues. The holy grail of measurement systems is to develop one system for the stamping plant that can potentially perform all of the required functions with reliability, repeatability and accuracy, while being highly flexible to enable the user to obtain the measurements he desires shortly after the need for the measurement is determined.
Here we present the pros and cons of a few of the most common dimensional-measurement systems.
Feeler, Step and Pin Gauges, and Hole Position/Size Templates
This is the simplest form of stamped-part measurement, providing the die maker and the stamper a good sense of the dimensional accuracy of a panel. While this type of measurement approach typically is simple, the designer/manufacturer of the checking fixture must plan to include rails around the part to enable the use of feeler/step gauges around the panel. This technique enables relatively quick measurements, and allows inspection wherever rails are available—critical for areas of components where parallelism matters, such as door outer edges.
Feeler and step gauges (shown here) offer simplicity when measuring stamped parts, providing the die maker and the stamper a good sense of the dimensional accuracy of
a panel.
A significant disadvantage of this measurement method is the cost incurred to build rails onto fixtures, and the lack of documentation. Over the life of a typical fixture, its use typically will diminish as the stamped product attains dimensional stability. A significant portion of part measurement takes place during die verification and tryout, during which the process stabilizes and the part requires less frequent inspection. Also, we often see use of hand-written documents (sometimes scanned into electronic files) to document these measurements, not ideal for entering results into a database for future access. One other significant disadvantage: the lack of repeatability and reproducibility, since these techniques are highly operator dependent and require extensive operator training.
Electronic Data Collection Using "Datamytes"
Though a number of such devices are available, the term "datamyte" has practically become a generic name for the use of a bushing and an electronic transducer to check panel dimensions. The transducer makes physical contact with the part and the dimensions are collected in a database for future analysis using statistical tools such as x-bar and r charts that enable tracking of results over a specified period of time. The process takes less time to complete than does use of feeler, step and pin gauges, requires less operator skill, and allows for a high degree of repeatability and reproducibility.
…have long been the tools of choice to verify that a finished stamping meets design criteria at numerous discrete points. A CMM does have significant advantages in terms of ability to reliably, repeatedly and accurately measure the part dimensions required to verify a stamping's integrity. The checking fixtures used for measuring parts on a CMM are not complex, and staging panels for a CMM check typically takes little time. Lastly, CMMs can be used to certify a fixture or take dense dimensional data for a die.
Some disadvantages to the use of CMMs: They only provide discrete data, and results are not very visual. When using a CMM for the physical measurement of a die, the user may find it difficult to obtain a machine file using the data collected.
Gaining ground in stamping plants and die shops is use of portable CMMs. These compact and flexible devices can be moved to the location where data is needed, and can prove extremely handy for quick reviews on the shop floor. Many of these devices combine scanning (using red light) with the use of touch probes.
White-Light/Blue-Light Scanning
White- and blue-light scanning systems have become the Holy Grail for many stampers during the last 10 years or so, although many tool and die manufacturers have yet to adopt the technology. The most significant gain in using these scanners is the highly visual 3D representation of the part, which allows the user to almost instantaneously evaluate the parts. Here again, value is obtained by evaluating the panel following all of the GD&T rules; violating the rules can result in instantaneous misrepresentation of panel quality. An added benefit of these systems is the significant cost reduction of the simplified checking fixture used. Data can be quickly translated into a machine file with compensation to correct any die issues that may be causing dimensional issues in the body shop.
White- and blue-light scanners commonly find use for:
1) Panel checking—The typical considerations are accurate part measurement within the tolerances provided by GD&T, although tolerances typically have changed to the extent that finding tolerances of + 0.1mm on any given part is not uncommon.
2) Die checking—This allows the reengineering of dies by scanning an existing die, either for duplication or for recutting a damaged die.
3) Scanning of castings—This practice can eliminate the unproductive and wasteful air cutting that can occur in machine shops.
The development of blue-light (LED) technology for panel scanning represents a significant step in the right direction for this technology, since the data is less affected by ambient lighting and significantly improves the quality of the data collected.
Data collected from scanners is not instantaneously available, since there is considerable setup time on a nonautomated, manually operated system. And, a scanner attached to the end of a robot is limited to scanning panels that already have been set up.
Which System is Best?
None of the systems described here meet all of the requirements of speed, data quality and coverage of the panel or die. White/blue-light scanning seems to be the process of choice for most die manufacturers and stamping houses. In particular, the advent of blue-light scanning systems seems to bring the scanners closer in ability to the dimensional accuracy of a CMM. However, portable CMMs will continue to find use for comparison purposes, to ensure that the data reflects what is seen in the body shop.The use of rails, calipers and step, feeler and pin gauges will continue to play a significant role in applications requiring quick measurement of panel dimensions, but most fixtures will have limited rails around them. This will allow stamping plants and die shops to make quick decisions while waiting to obtain data from CMM or white/blue light inspections. MF
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You can create an archive from the master system for an initial installation. Or, if you have already installed an archive on clone systems, you can create a differential archive from two system images. The differential archive installs only the differences between the two images.
After you install the master system, the next task in the Solaris Flash installation process is to create a Solaris Flash archive. Files on the master system are copied to a Solaris Flash archive along with various pieces of identification information. You can create a Solaris Flash archive while the master system is running in multiuser mode or single-user mode. You can also create a Solaris Flash archive after you boot from one of the following:
Solaris Operating System DVD
Solaris Software - 1 CD
An image of the Solaris Software CDs and the Solaris Languages CDs
A Solaris Flash archive cannot be properly created when a non-global zone is installed. The Solaris Flash feature is not compatible with the Solaris Zones partitioning technology. If you create a Solaris Flash archive, the resulting archive is not installed properly when the archive is deployed under these conditions:
The archive is created in a non-global zone
The archive is created in a global zone that has non-global zones installed
You can create a Solaris Flash archive when you have aSolaris Volume Manager RAID-1 volumes configured. The Solaris Flash creation software removes all RAID-1 volume information from the archive to keep the integrity of the clone system. With custom JumpStart you can rebuild the RAID-1 volumes by using a JumpStart profile. With Solaris Live Upgrade, you create a boot environment with RAID-1 volumes configured and install the archive. The Solaris installation program cannot be used to install RAID-1 volumes with a Solaris Flash archive.
For examples of RAID-1 volumes in JumpStart profiles, see Profile Examples in Solaris 10 10/08 Installation Guide: Custom JumpStart and Advanced Installations.
For examples of Solaris Live Upgrade boot environments configured with RAID-1 volumes, see Creating a New Boot Environment in Solaris 10 10/08 Installation Guide: Solaris Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning.
Veritas VxVM stores configuration information in areas not available to Solaris Flash. If Veritas VxVm file systems have been configured, you should not create a Solaris Flash archive. Also, Solaris install, including JumpStart and Solaris Live Upgrade do not support rebuilding VxVM volumes at installation time. Therefore, if you are planning to deploy Veritas VxVM software using a Solaris Flash archive, the archive must be created prior to configuring the VxVM file systems. The clone systems must be then configured individually after the archive has been applied and the system rebooted.
The default copy method that is used when you create a Solaris Flash archive is the cpio utility. Individual file sizes cannot be over 4 Gbytes. If you have large individual files, you can create an archive with the pax copy method. The flarcreate command with the -L pax option uses the pax utility to create an archive without limitations on individual file sizes. Individual file sizes can be greater than 4 Gbytes.
If you have a clone system that is already installed with an archive and want to update it, you can create a differential archive that contains only the differences between two images, the unchanged master image and an updated master image. The differences between these two images is the differential archive.
One image is running on the master system that was the original software installed on the clone system. This image might need be installed on the master system if it was saved in a directory for future use.
Another image is to be accessed and used for comparison. This image contains the new additions or deletions that will be installed on the clone systems.
After you update a clone system with a differential archive, only the files that are in the differential archive are changed on the clone system. Scripts can be used to customize the archive before or after installation, which is especially helpful for reconfiguration.
You can install a Solaris Flash differential archive with the custom JumpStart installation method. Or, you can use Solaris Live Upgrade to install a differential archive on an inactive boot environment.
An unchanged master image should be saved after the initial installation so this image can be accessed by any of the following methods.
A Solaris Live Upgrade boot environment, mounted on some directory that uses the lumount command. For a description of a Solaris Live Upgrade boot environment, see Chapter 2, Solaris Live Upgrade (Overview), in Solaris 10 10/08 Installation Guide: Solaris Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning.
A clone system that is mounted over Network File System (NFS) with root permissions.
A system backup that can be restored with the ufsdump command.
For step-by-step instructions, see To Create a Solaris Flash Differential Archive With an Updated Master Image.
When you create a Solaris Flash archive, some files and directories that are to be copied from the master system can be excluded. If you have excluded a directory, you can also restore specified files or subdirectories under that directory. For example, you could create an archive that excludes all files and directories in /a/aa/bb/c. The content of the bb subdirectory could be included. The only content would then be in the bb subdirectory.
Use the flarcreate file-exclusion options with caution. If you exclude some directories, others that you were unaware of might be left in the archive, such as system configuration files. The system would then be inconsistent and the installation would not work. Excluding directories and files is best used with data that can easily be removed without disrupting the system, such as large data files.
The following table lists the flarcreate command options that can exclude files and directories and restore files and subdirectories.
How Specified?
Options That Exclude
Options That Include
Specify the name of the directory or file
-x exclude_dir/filename
-y include_dir/filename
Use a file that contains a list
-X list_filename
-z list_filename
-f list_filename
-z list_filename
For descriptions of these options, see Table 5–7.
For examples of customizing an archive, see Creating a Solaris Flash Archive and Customizing Files (Examples).
After the software is installed on the master system, special scripts can be run during creation, installation, postinstallation and first reboot. These scripts enable you to do the following:
Configure applications on clone systems. You can use a custom JumpStart script for some uncomplicated configurations. For more complicated configurations, special configuration-file processing might be necessary on the master system or before or after installation on the clone system.
Protect local customizations on clone systems. Local preinstallation and postinstallation scripts reside on the clone. These scripts protect local customizations from being overwritten by the Solaris Flash software.
Identify nonclonable, host-dependent data that enables you to make the archive host independent. Host independence is enabled by modifying such data or excluding it from the archive. An example of host-dependent data is a log file.
Validate software integrity in the archive during creation.
Validate the installation on the clone system.
When creating scripts other than the reboot script, following these guidelines to assure the script does not corrupt the OS or otherwise disrupt the system. These guidelines enable the use of Solaris Live Upgrade, which creates a new boot environment for installation of the OS. The new boot environment can be installed with an archive while the current system is running.
These guidelines are not for reboot scripts that are allowed to run daemons or make other types of modification to the root (/) file system.
Scripts must not affect the currently running system. The currently running OS might not be the one running when the Solaris Flash archive is installed.
Scripts must not start or stop any daemon processes.
Scripts must not depend on the output of commands such as ps, truss, or uname, which are dependent on the OS. These commands report information about the currently running system.
Scripts must not send any signals or otherwise affect any currently running processes.
Scripts can use standard UNIX commands that facilitate shell scripting such as expr, cp, and ls.
For an overview of Solaris Live Upgrade, see Chapter 2, Solaris Live Upgrade (Overview), in Solaris 10 10/08 Installation Guide: Solaris Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning.
Solaris Flash archives contain the following sections. Some sections can be used by you to identify and customize the archive and view status information on the installation. For a further description of each section, see Chapter 5, Solaris Flash (Reference).Table 2–2 Flash Archive Sections
Section Name
Informational Only
Archive cookie
The first section contains a cookie that identifies the file as a Solaris Flash archive.
Archive identification
The second section contains keywords with values that provide identification information about the archive. Some identification information is supplied by the archive software. Other specific identification information can be added by you with options to the flarcreate command.
This section follows the archive identification section. You can define and insert these sections to customize the archive. The Solaris Flash archive does not process any sections that you insert. For example, a section could contain a description of the archive or perhaps a script to check the integrity of an application.
This section is produced for a Solaris Flash differential archive and is used for validating a clone system. The manifest section lists the files on a system to be retained, added to, or deleted from the clone system. This section is informational only, lists the files in an internal format, and cannot be used for scripting.
Predeployment, Postdeployment, Reboot
This section contains internal information that the flash software uses before and after installing an OS image. Any scripts that you have provided are included in this section.
This section contains messages about the archive creation. The section also records the activities of predeployment and postdeployment scripts. You can view the success of the installation in this section by writing a script to send output to this section.
Archive files
The archive files section contains the files that have been gathered from the master system.
Create the archive when the system is in as static a state as possible. Create the archive after software is installed on the master system and before software is configured.
After you create the Solaris Flash archive, you can save the archive on the hard disk of the master system or on a tape. After you save the archive, you can copy this archive to any file system or media that you choose.
Network File System (NFS) server
HTTP or HTTPS server
FTP server
Local drive of clone system that you want to install
When you create the Solaris Flash archive, you can specify that the archive be saved as a compressed file by using the compress(1) utility. An archive that is compressed requires less disk storage space and creates less congestion when you install the archive over a network.


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Back to All Events
Earlier Event: September 9Solo at Blue - Portland, ME
Later Event: September 16Jazz at St. Joseph's Rehabilitation & Residence - Portland, ME
singer | songwriter
Sorcha Cribben-Merrill is a singer-songwriter hailing from Maine who composes stirring folk-blues-soul music. She sings in a sultry, jazzy voice of unexpected power. From haunting ballads to funk grooves, her songs unveil "a suite of musical styles that shows a wide-ranging songwriting ability. . . witty verses with smart rhymes." (Portland Phoenix)


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How to Use the Context
Inquiry Question
In 1936, Congress passed the Merchant Marine Act, creating the U.S. Maritime Commission to oversee "... that the United States shall have a merchant marine…to provide shipping service essential for maintaining the flow of such domestic and foreign waterborne commerce at all times, capable of serving as a naval and military auxiliary in time of war or national emergency, owned and operated under the United States flag…, composed of the best-equipped, safest, and most suitable types of vessels…, and supplemented by efficient facilities for shipbuilding and ship repair."¹ The fleet of ships responsible for this mission is called the U.S. Merchant Marine.
At the time the act was passed, the majority of the ships in the merchant fleet were over 20 years old. The original plan was to build 50 ships per year for 10 years. However, World War II began in 1939, when Hitler's Germany invaded Poland. The United States realized that the existing construction program was not adequate to meet the changing world situation. During World War II the Merchant Marine was nationalized, that is, the U.S. government controlled the cargo and the destinations, contracted with private companies to operate the ships, and put guns and Navy personnel (Armed Guard) on board. The government trained civilian men to operate the ships and assist in manning the guns through the U.S. Maritime Service.
With Hitler's attack on Great Britain in 1940, the need for the United States to increase ship production became critical. The British could no longer produce ships in great numbers and also needed food and supplies. The United States knew that if Great Britain fell it would have no allies in Western Europe. Under the Lend-Lease program (which enabled the president to transfer arms and equipment to any nation deemed vital to the defense of the United States), the U.S. agreed to build commercial ships for Great Britain. American ship builders began to construct these ships using an old, but reliable, English design.
In 1939 the German Navy launched submarine warfare in the North Atlantic Ocean to enforce a naval blockade against Great Britain. Their submarines, called Unterseebooten or U-Boats, sank great numbers of merchant ships approaching the British Isles. Under these pressures, the United States greatly increased the production of its own merchant fleet. Cargo ships were needed to ferry supplies to allies if the United States entered the war. The United States decided to modify the English design being used for the Lend-Lease ships. The new emergency cargo ships came to be known as the Liberty ships. Yet, between 1939 and 1940, only 82 vessels were constructed. In 1941, Congress passed the Ship Warrants Act, giving the Maritime Commission power to allot ship construction priorities. Since existing shipyards were working full capacity on naval contracts, the Maritime Commission established 18 new shipyards to work on these identical merchant ships. They were built on a common design in assembly-line fashion along the West, East, and Gulf coasts of the United States. Parts were manufactured in every state in the country.
Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and U.S. entry into World War II, ships were being sunk by German U-Boats almost as fast as they were being built. The Maritime Commission called for 2,000 ships to be constructed by the end of 1943. (The Japanese also inflicted a toll on supply ships in the Solomon Islands and New Guinea, but following their naval and air losses at Coral Sea and Midway, in mid-1942, they were less of a problem to merchant shipping than the Germans.) The ship building effort was a success. Finally, the United States had enough ships to keep pace with the losses caused by the U-Boats.
However, the Liberty ships were slow and small. Their design had a weakness in the hull that caused ships to sometimes break in two. In 1943, the United States started a new emergency cargo ship program to replace the Liberty ships. The newer ships were bigger and faster with better engines. These ships were designated Victory ships. While the Liberty ships were designed to be the workhorse of the war, Victory ships could continue to be used after the war as part of the regular merchant fleet.
The Liberty and Victory ships were adapted to suit the operational needs of each branch of the military service. Many carried cargo, while others were fitted out as troop carriers. Some were used as tankers carrying fuel for ships, vehicles and aircraft. Still others were fitted out as hospital ships or used to transport enemy prisoners of war. Ultimately, both the Liberty ships and Victory ships served with distinction in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans during World War II.
¹ Merchant Marine Act, 1936, U.S. Code website [http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title46a/46a_21_.html], (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office).


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|succinate dehydrogenase (succinate-ubiquinone oxidoreductase)
The structure of SQR in a phospholipid membrane. SdhA, SdhB, SdhC and SdhD
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Succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) or succinate-coenzyme Q reductase (SQR) or respiratory Complex II is an enzyme complex, found in many bacterial cells and in the inner mitochondrial membrane of eukaryotes. It is the only enzyme that participates in both the citric acid cycle and the electron transport chain.[1] Histochemical analysis showing high succinate dehydrogenase in muscle demonstrates high mitochondrial content and high oxidative potential.[2]
In step 6 of the citric acid cycle, SQR catalyzes the oxidation of succinate to fumarate with the reduction of ubiquinone to ubiquinol. This occurs in the inner mitochondrial membrane by coupling the two reactions together.
- 1 Structure
- 2 Mechanism
- 3 Inhibitors
- 4 Role in disease
- 5 See also
- 6 References
Mitochondrial and many bacterial monomer SQRs are composed of four subunits: two hydrophilic and two hydrophobic. The first two subunits, a flavoprotein (SdhA) and an iron-sulfur protein (SdhB), are hydrophilic. SdhA contains a covalently attached flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) cofactor and the succinate binding site and SdhB contains three iron-sulfur clusters: [2Fe-2S], [4Fe-4S], and [3Fe-4S]. The second two subunits are hydrophobic membrane anchor subunits, SdhC and SdhD. Human mitochondria contain two distinct isoforms of SdhA (Fp subunits type I and type II), these isoforms are also found in Ascaris suum and Caenorhabditis elegans.[3] The subunits form a membrane-bound cytochrome b complex with six transmembrane helices containing one heme b group and a ubiquinone-binding site. Two phospholipid molecules, one cardiolipin and one phosphatidylethanolamine, are also found in the SdhC and SdhD subunits (not shown in the image). They serve to occupy the hydrophobic space below the heme b. These subunits are displayed in the attached image. SdhA is green, SdhB is teal, SdhC is fuchsia, and SdhD is yellow. Around SdhC and SdhD is a phospholipid membrane with the intermembrane space at the top of the image.[4]
Table of subunit composition[5]
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|Succinate dehydrogenase [ubiquinone] flavoprotein subunit, mitochondrial
|Pfam PF00890, Pfam PF02910
|Succinate dehydrogenase [ubiquinone] iron-sulfur subunit, mitochondrial
|Pfam PF13085, Pfam PF13183
|Succinate dehydrogenase cytochrome b560 subunit, mitochondrial
|Pfam PF01127
|Succinate dehydrogenase [ubiquinone] cytochrome b small subunit, mitochondrial
|Pfam PF05328
Ubiquinone binding site
Ubiquinone's binding site, image 4, is located in a gap composed of SdhB, SdhC, and SdhD. Ubiquinone is stabilized by the side chains of His207 of subunit B, Ser27 and Arg31 of subunit C, and Tyr83 of subunit D. The quinone ring is surrounded by Ile28 of subunit C and Pro160 of subunit B. These residues, along with Il209, Trp163, and Trp164 of subunit B, and Ser27 (C atom) of subunit C, form the hydrophobic environment of the quinone-binding pocket (not shown in the image).[6]
Succinate binding site
SdhA provides the binding site for the oxidation of succinate. The side chains Thr254, His354, and Arg399 of subunit A stabilize the molecule while FAD oxidizes and carries the electrons to the first of the iron-sulfur clusters, [2Fe-2S].[7] This can be seen in image 5.
Redox centers
The succinate-binding site and ubiquinone-binding site are connected by a chain of redox centers including FAD and the iron-sulfur clusters. This chain extends over 40 Å through the enzyme monomer. All edge-to-edge distances between the centers are less than the suggested 14 Å limit for physiological electron transfer.[4] This electron transfer is demonstrated in image 8.
Succinate oxidation
Little is known about the exact succinate oxidation mechanism. However, the crystal structure shows that FAD, Glu255, Arg286, and His242 of subunit A (not shown) are good candidates for the initial deprotonation step. Thereafter, there are two possible elimination mechanisms: E2 or E1cb. In the E2 elimination, the mechanism is concerted. The basic residue or cofactor deprotonates the alpha carbon, and FAD accepts the hydride from the beta carbon, oxidizing the bound succinate to fumarate—refer to image 6. In E1cb, an enolate intermediate is formed, shown in image 7, before FAD accepts the hydride. Further research is required to determine which elimination mechanism succinate undergoes in Succinate Dehydrogenase. Oxidized fumarate, now loosely bound to the active site, is free to exit the protein.
Electron tunneling
After the electrons are derived from succinate oxidation via FAD, they tunnel along the [Fe-S] relay until they reach the [3Fe-4S] cluster. These electrons are subsequently transferred to an awaiting ubiquinone molecule within the active site. The Iron-Sulfur electron tunneling system is shown in image 9.
Ubiquinone reduction
The O1 carbonyl oxygen of ubiquinone is oriented at the active site (image 4) by hydrogen bond interactions with Tyr83 of subunit D. The presence of electrons in the [3Fe-4S] iron sulphur cluster induces the movement of ubiquinone into a second orientation. This facilitates a second hydrogen bond interaction between the O4 carbonyl group of ubiquinone and Ser27 of subunit C. Following the first single electron reduction step, a semiquinone radical species is formed. The second electron arrives from the [3Fe-4S] cluster to provide full reduction of the ubiquinone to ubiquinol. This mechanism of the ubiquinone reduction is shown in image 8.
Heme prosthetic group
Although the functionality of the heme in succinate dehydrogenase is still being researched, some studies[by whom?] have asserted that the first electron delivered to ubiquinone via [3Fe-4S] may tunnel back and forth between the heme and the ubiquinone intermediate. In this way, the heme cofactor acts as an electron sink. Its role is to prevent the interaction of the intermediate with molecular oxygen to produce reactive oxygen species (ROS). The heme group, relative to ubiquinone, is shown in image 4.
It has also been proposed that a gating mechanism may be in place to prevent the electrons from tunneling directly to the heme from the [3Fe-4S] cluster. A potential candidate is residue His207, which lies directly between the cluster and the heme. His207 of subunit B is in direct proximity to the [3Fe-4S] cluster, the bound ubiquinone, and the heme; and could modulate electron flow between these redox centers.[8]
Proton transfer
To fully reduce the quinone in SQR, two electrons as well as two protons are needed. It has been argued that a water molecule (HOH39) arrives at the active site and is coordinated by His207 of subunit B, Arg31 of subunit C, and Asp82 of subunit D. The semiquinone species is protonated by protons delivered from HOH39, completing the ubiquinone reduction to ubiquinol. His207 and Asp82 most likely facilitate this process. Other studies claim that Tyr83 of subunit D is coordinated to a nearby histidine as well as the O1 carbonyl oxygen of ubiquinone. The histidine residue decreases the pKa of tyrosine, making it more suitable to donate its proton to the reduced ubiquinone intermediate.
There are two distinct classes of inhibitors of complex II: those that bind in the succinate pocket and those that bind in the ubiquinone pocket. Ubiquinone type inhibitors include carboxin and thenoyltrifluoroacetone. Succinate-analogue inhibitors include the synthetic compound malonate as well as the TCA cycle intermediates, malate and oxaloacetate. Indeed, oxaloacetate is one of the most potent inhibitors of Complex II. Why a common TCA cycle intermediate would inhibit Complex II is not entirely understood, though it may exert a protective role in minimizing reverse-electron transfer mediated production of superoxide by Complex I.[9]. Atpenin 5a are highly potent Complex II inhibitors mimicking ubiquinone binding.
Ubiquinone type inhibitors have been used as fungicides in agriculture since the 1960s. Carboxin was mainly used to control disease caused by basidiomycetes such as stem rusts and Rhizoctonia diseases. More recently, other compounds with a broader spectrum against a range of plant pathogens have been developed including boscalid, penthiopyrad and fluopyram.[10] Some agriculturally important fungi are not sensitive towards members of the new generation of ubiquinone type inhibitors [11]
Role in disease
The fundamental role of succinate-coenzyme Q reductase in the electron transfer chain of mitochondria makes it vital in most multicellular organisms, removal of this enzyme from the genome has also been shown to be lethal at the embryonic stage in mice.
- SdhA mutations can lead to Leigh syndrome, mitochondrial encephalopathy, and optic atrophy.
- SdhB mutations can lead to tumorogenesis in chromaffin cells, causing a class of tumors known as succinate dehydrogenase deficient including hereditary paraganglioma and hereditary pheochromocytoma, succinate dehydrogenase deficient renal carcinoma and succinate dehydrogenase deficient gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST).[12] Tumors tend to be malignant. It can also lead to decreased life-span and increased production of superoxide ions.
- SdhC mutations can lead to decreased life-span, increased production of superoxide ions, hereditary paraganglioma and hereditary pheochromocytoma. Tumors tend to be benign. These mutations are uncommon.
- SdhD mutations can lead to hereditary paraganglioma and hereditary pheochromocytoma. Tumors tend to be benign, and occur often in the head and neck regions. These mutations can also decrease life-span and increase production of superoxide ions.
Mammalian succinate dehydrogenase functions not only in mitochondrial energy generation, but also has a role in oxygen sensing and tumor suppression; and, therefore, is the object of ongoing research.
Reduced levels of the mitochondrial enzyme succinate dehydrogenase (SDH), the main element of complex II, are observed post mortem in the brains of patients with Huntington's Disease, and energy metabolism defects have been identified in both presymptomatic and symptomatic HD patients.[13]
See also
- ^ Oyedotun KS, Lemire BD (March 2004). "The quaternary structure of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae succinate dehydrogenase. Homology modeling, cofactor docking, and molecular dynamics simulation studies". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279 (10): 9424–31. doi:10.1074/jbc.M311876200. PMID 14672929.
- ^ webmaster (2009-03-04). "Using Histochemistry to Determine Muscle Properties". Succinate Dehydrogenase: Identifying Oxidative Potential. University of California, San Diego. Retrieved 2017-12-27.
- ^ Tomitsuka E, Hirawake H, Goto Y, Taniwaki M, Harada S, Kita K (August 2003). "Direct evidence for two distinct forms of the flavoprotein subunit of human mitochondrial complex II (succinate-ubiquinone reductase)". Journal of Biochemistry. 134 (2): 191–5. doi:10.1093/jb/mvg144. PMID 12966066.
- ^ a b Yankovskaya V, Horsefield R, Törnroth S, Luna-Chavez C, Miyoshi H, Léger C, Byrne B, Cecchini G, Iwata S (January 2003). "Architecture of succinate dehydrogenase and reactive oxygen species generation". Science. 299 (5607): 700–4. doi:10.1126/science.1079605. PMID 12560550.
- ^ Sun F, Huo X, Zhai Y, Wang A, Xu J, Su D, Bartlam M, Rao Z (July 2005). "Crystal structure of mitochondrial respiratory membrane protein complex II". Cell. 121 (7): 1043–57. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2005.05.025. PMID 15989954.
- ^ Horsefield R, Yankovskaya V, Sexton G, Whittingham W, Shiomi K, Omura S, Byrne B, Cecchini G, Iwata S (March 2006). "Structural and computational analysis of the quinone-binding site of complex II (succinate-ubiquinone oxidoreductase): a mechanism of electron transfer and proton conduction during ubiquinone reduction". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281 (11): 7309–16. doi:10.1074/jbc.M508173200. PMID 16407191.
- ^ Kenney WC (April 1975). "The reaction of N-ethylmaleimide at the active site of succinate dehydrogenase". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 250 (8): 3089–94. PMID 235539.
- ^ Tran QM, Rothery RA, Maklashina E, Cecchini G, Weiner JH (October 2006). "The quinone binding site in Escherichia coli succinate dehydrogenase is required for electron transfer to the heme b". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281 (43): 32310–7. doi:10.1074/jbc.M607476200. PMID 16950775.
- ^ Muller FL, Liu Y, Abdul-Ghani MA, Lustgarten MS, Bhattacharya A, Jang YC, Van Remmen H (January 2008). "High rates of superoxide production in skeletal-muscle mitochondria respiring on both complex I- and complex II-linked substrates". The Biochemical Journal. 409 (2): 491–9. doi:10.1042/BJ20071162. PMID 17916065.
- ^ Avenot HF, Michailides TJ (2010). "Progress in understanding molecular mechanisms and evolution of resistance to succinate dehydrogenase inhibiting (SDHI) fungicides in phytopathogenic fungi". Crop Protection. 29 (7): 643. doi:10.1016/j.cropro.2010.02.019.
- ^ Dubos T, Pasquali M, Pogoda F, Casanova A, Hoffmann L, Beyer M (January 2013). "Differences between the succinate dehydrogenase sequences of isopyrazam sensitive Zymoseptoria tritici and insensitive Fusarium graminearum strains". Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology. 105 (1): 28–35. doi:10.1016/j.pestbp.2012.11.004. PMID 24238287.
- ^ Barletta JA, Hornick JL (2012). "Succinate dehydrogenase-deficient tumors: diagnostic advances and clinical implications". Advances in Anatomic Pathology. 19 (4): 193–203. doi:10.1097/PAP.0b013e31825c6bc6. PMID 22692282.
- ^ Skillings EA, Morton AJ (2016). "Delayed Onset and Reduced Cognitive Deficits through Pre-Conditioning with 3-Nitropropionic Acid is Dependent on Sex and CAG Repeat Length in the R6/2 Mouse Model of Huntington's Disease". Journal of Huntington's Disease. 5 (1): 19–32. doi:10.3233/JHD-160189. PMID 27031731.
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The 2Fe-2S ferredoxin family have a general core structure consisting of beta(2)-alpha-beta(2) which abeta-grasp type fold. The domain is around one hundred amino acids with four conserved cysteine residues to which the 2Fe-2S cluster is ligated.
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This entry represents the 2Fe-2S iron-sulphur cluster binding domain found in members of the succinate dehydrogenase/fumarate reductase protein family. The domain is around one hundred amino acids with four conserved cysteine residues to which the 2Fe-2S cluster is ligated.
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We show the species tree in one of two ways. For smaller trees we try to show an interactive representation, which allows you to select specific nodes in the tree and view them as an alignment or as a set of Pfam domain graphics.
Unfortunately we have found that there are problems viewing the interactive tree when the it becomes larger than a certain limit. Furthermore, we have found that Internet Explorer can become unresponsive when viewing some trees, regardless of their size. We therefore show a text representation of the species tree when the size is above a certain limit or if you are using Internet Explorer to view the site.
If you are using IE you can still load the interactive tree by clicking the "Generate interactive tree" button, but please be aware of the potential problems that the interactive species tree can cause.
Interactive tree
For all of the domain matches in a full alignment, we count the number that are found on all sequences in the alignment. This total is shown in the purple box.
We also count the number of unique sequences on which each domain is found, which is shown in green. Note that a domain may appear multiple times on the same sequence, leading to the difference between these two numbers.
Finally, we group sequences from the same organism according to the NCBI code that is assigned by UniProt, allowing us to count the number of distinct sequences on which the domain is found. This value is shown in the pink boxes.
We use the NCBI species tree to group organisms according to their taxonomy and this forms the structure of the displayed tree. Note that in some cases the trees are too large (have too many nodes) to allow us to build an interactive tree, but in most cases you can still view the tree in a plain text, non-interactive representation. Those species which are represented in the seed alignment for this domain are highlighted.
You can use the tree controls to manipulate how the interactive tree is displayed:
- show/hide the summary boxes
- highlight species that are represented in the seed alignment
- expand/collapse the tree or expand it to a given depth
- select a sub-tree or a set of species within the tree and view them graphically or as an alignment
- save a plain text representation of the tree
Please note: for large trees this can take some time. While the tree is loading, you can safely switch away from this tab but if you browse away from the family page entirely, the tree will not be loaded.
There are 9 interactions for this family. More...
We determine these interactions using iPfam, which considers the interactions between residues in three-dimensional protein structures and maps those interactions back to Pfam families. You can find more information about the iPfam algorithm in the journal article that accompanies the website.
For those sequences which have a structure in the Protein DataBank, we use the mapping between UniProt, PDB and Pfam coordinate systems from the PDBe group, to allow us to map Pfam domains onto UniProt sequences and three-dimensional protein structures. The table below shows the structures on which the Fer2_3 domain has been found. There are 114 instances of this domain found in the PDB. Note that there may be multiple copies of the domain in a single PDB structure, since many structures contain multiple copies of the same protein sequence.
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Baltimore Office of Sustainability
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Baltimore Commission on Sustainability, representing neighborhoods, nonprofits, institutions, and businesses, to plan for the future of Baltimore. Th Commission on Sustainability holds public meetings the fourth Tuesday of every month at 4pm at the Baltimore City Planning Department, 417 E. Fayette Street, 8th Floor.


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President-Elect Barack Obama's nominee for Interior Secretary claims a New Mexican genealogy going back to the late 16th Century. Colorado's United States Senator Ken Salazar announced during his presentation earlier this month, that his family has been in what is now the Western United States for more than four centuries. He claims that he can trace his lineage back to late 1500s Santa Fe. Of course, Santa Fe has only been around since the early 1600s, but we get the picture.
If he is claiming his lineage through his Salazar surname, his family may have not arrived in New Mexico until 1625 or later. In his book "Origins of New Mexico Families", Fray Angelico Chavez notes that a Francisco de Salazar appears in records as a soldier-escort at that time. Of course, Senator Salazar may have been refering to another line in his genealogy.
Another source, Congresspedia, claims that Salazar can trace his lineage back to 12th Century Spain.
Senator Ken Salazar has an older brother who is also in the United States Congress, Representative John T. Salazar. The elder Salazar brother had been vetted for Agricultural Secretary, but was not appointed to the post.
It would be interesting to find out more about Senator Salazar's family. Of course, until proof is offered, his claim is unverified. However, it is not unlikely that he does have New Mexico roots going back a number of centuries.
Click on this link to read the story about Senator Salazar's appointment.
Chavez's "Origin of New Mexico Families" and other books of New Mexico history and genealogy can be found on the New Mexico Genealogical Society link to Amazon.com. Using this link allows for a portion of your payment for books and other items to go to the New Mexico Genealogical Society, which we use to help out the Albuquerque Special Collections Library. Please use this link whenever your are on Amazon.com.
By the way, books published by the New Mexico Genealogical Society may be found on our website at this link.
24 December 2008
Obama Pick Claims New Mexico Family Ties
Posted by Robert Baca at 6:51 AM
Labels: Genealogy news
2 comments:
- Joe said...
I uploaded a photograph of Ken Salazar to my Picasa web album. It was taken at an Obama rally in Pueblo, Colorado in September. Feel free to add it to your blog post if you'd like: Ken Salazar at Obama's Pueblo, Colorado Rally
Some photographs of Barack Obama at the same rally are here: Barack Obama in Pueblo, Colorado
- December 24, 2008 at 11:27 AM
- Robert Baca said...
Thanks,Joe. I posted it on the blog.
- December 26, 2008 at 11:16 AM
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By Jeanine Prezioso
NEW YORK (Reuters) - When volatility returned to the U.S. natural gas market this winter after years of sleepy trade, the wild price swings created unexpected winners and losers.
The coldest winter in two decades boosted heating demand to all-time highs, quickly reduced stockpiles and prompted the kind of sweeping highs and lows that the market has not seen since shale drilling began flooding the United States with gas in 2009.
The flatlined trading of recent years lured trend followers and global macro funds to place one-way bets on declining prices which resulted in giant losses this winter as prices spiked.
Meanwhile, smaller, nimble hedge funds who correctly bet that winter gas supplies would quickly diminish as power generators scrambled to find last minute supplies, ended January
with some of their best gains on record.
The sharp price moves have called into question the conventional wisdom that natural gas would remain in a narrow range for months due to ample supply and have left a number of traders and analysts wondering if the volatility is here to stay.
U.S. natural gas futures prices gained as much as 50 percent this year, breaking the $6 mark for the first time since 2010, a far cry from the $2 seen in 2012.
Houston-based Goldfinch Capital, founded by Michael Maggi who worked with legendary gas trader John Arnold, finished January with a 21 percent gain, its best one-month gain since the 2009 inception of the fund, sources familiar with its performance said. The fund manages around $600 million.
Energy-focused hedge fund Lochridge Investment Advisors, which is also based in Houston and manages about $100 million, gained about 6 percent in January, sources said.
e360 Power, an Austin, Texas-based hedge fund focused on trading North American power and natural gas with $200 million in assets under management, was up about 14 percent last month, its principal James Shrewsbury told Reuters.
Meanwhile, others who either took opposing sides of the trade or had to purchase gas to deliver lost out.
Michigan-based utility DTE Energy (DTE) lost $3 million in the last quarter of 2013 in energy trading as natural gas prices rose sharply, it said in an investor presentation on Friday.
Commodity trader Cargill lost $100 million in wrong-way bets in the U.S. power market, attributed to skyrocketing prices, online industry publication SparkSpread.com reported on Thursday.
All the while, investors have refocused their attention on the gas market after this winter proved that funds that know the ins and outs of trading the fuel were capable of making large returns.
They too are watching from the sidelines to see if a few more quarters of volatility reap some fund managers large profits before they decide whether to plunge capital into high performers.
"It's not just the fact that we are seeing some interesting results from managers but it's the prospects of this market going back to what it used to be," said Osvaldo Canavasio, the New York-based head of trading strategies at Man Investments, which manages about $12 billion.
One of the sources of big wins or loses is the spread trade.
The prominent bet that created large windfalls for some this year was that March futures prices would rise against April as heating demand soared in the last six weeks. The spread, a notoriously risky bet for gas traders, widened by as much 85 cents from last week to $1.45 this week after forecasts for more cold weather.
Likewise, April futures widened to a 20-cent premium over October from a discount a week ago.
The idea that near-term gas is worth more because supply will resolve itself once winter passes could be a faulty assumption, said Teri Viswanath, a natural gas analyst with BNP Paribas in New York.
With prices dipping below $4 in the second half of next year, producers are not incentivized to drill more. And a lack of additional supply could mean more volatility.
"There's this idea that we'll have a surge in supply and we'll have no problem in correcting the current imbalance and that's a risky bet," Viswanath said.
Another trade used by hedge funds to hazard a guess as to how much supply will be available at the end of injection season in October to meet peak winter heating demand in January is the spread between those two months.
Trading in that spread could cause an instant replay of last month's move in the March/April spread, brokers and analysts said. The two spreads are interchangeably known as the "widowmakers" for the steep losses they have inflicted.
"Now that we've turned the corner from a surplus into a tight market, you're going to see prices respond to the weather and unanticipated spikes in demand," Viswanath added.
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In a saucepan, bring 2/3 cup lightly salted water to a boil. Add couscous, cover, and remove from heat. Let stand until tender, 5 minutes. Fluff with a fork and transfer to a bowl.
Toss broccoli, chickpeas, raisins, feta, oil, and vinegar with warm couscous. Season with salt and pepper.


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Bieber announces tour
NEW YORK — Justin Bieber will mark a comeback on the road with a 58-city tour in 2016.
The pop star announced his "Purpose World Tour" on Wednesday, which kicks off on March 9, 2016, in Seattle, Washington, and wraps in New York City at Madison Square Garden on July 18, 2016.
Tickets go on sale Friday, when Bieber will release his new album, "Purpose." Two songs from his album, "What Do You Mean" and "Sorry," are currently in the Top 5 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart.
Bieber's tour also will stop in Los Angeles, Chicago, Las Vegas, Dallas, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Boston, Miami, Toronto and Montreal.
On Friday, the 21-year-old will play a concert dubbed "An Evening with Justin Bieber" at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Tickets cost $18.


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Winning the Frame Game
What would you be more interested in: "employment for building new infrastructure" or "green jobs"? "Re-regulating the financial sector" or "favoring Main Street over Wall Street"? The dry, technical one or the one with a host of connotations? How we frame issues can change the way we think about them.
Cognitive linguist George Lakoff notes that people rely on metaphors, usually subconscious ones, to think about complicated issues. Different descriptions of an issue evoke different metaphors, which in turn affect public opinion. Opponents of the estate tax couldn't get political traction against a tax that affects only the richest 2 percent of Americans. So they reframed it as the "death tax" and got enough support to lower and, for 2010, suspend it.
Six years ago Lakoff claimed that liberals were losing the "frame game." But those working to create a fairer, more sustainable world have since generated powerful frames that are now changing mainstream debate.
Take what's happened to the word "green" over the last few decades. It's a simple word with a boatload of positive connotations—trees, meadows, the "go" traffic light. Due to tireless efforts of such folks as those at Green America, "green" has gradually come to connote a whole way of thinking about how to reshape our economy and the way we live.
Author and activist Van Jones linked "green" to "jobs" to frame a solution to the pressing problems of both climate change and employment. That frame bridged the concerns of environmentalists and workers, people of color and whites. It proved so powerful that politicians inserted billions of dollars into state and federal legislation for green jobs programs.
At YES! Magazine part of our mission is to frame issues to help people see the positive possibilities. Early on, we saw the power of the green jobs framing and served as a platform for Jones' cogent message.
Let me take a couple of lesser-known examples of such framing language. Shannon Hayes recently began blogging on our website. She calls herself a "radical homemaker" because she's stepping outside the dominant culture to live a life she finds simpler and more fun, and depends less on money and more on community. By connecting the word "radical" to "homemaker," she transforms the old-fashioned, pre-feminist connotations of "homemaker" to evoke a cool, cutting-edge approach to family life. Her blog is proving popular, providing thousands of people a fresh way to think about how they live.
Another example is "America: The Remix," the title of your Spring 2010 YES! Magazine. By mid-century whites in America will be a minority. For some, this is an unsettling prospect. "America: the Remix" evokes the metaphor of remixing music—updating older recordings to create a new, modern sound. Charles M. Blow, in a New York Times op-ed, picked up our "America: The Remix" phrase and from there it spread to The Wall Street Journal and other publications. Other newspapers and websites published Sarah van Gelder's "America: The Remix" article, further spreading the positive frame on our increasingly multi-racial country.
In the comments section below, I'll post additional examples of positive frames on the changes ahead. Do you have some favorite phrases? Please join the conversation and leave a comment.
As our society approaches major transitions ahead, we may welcome or resist the changes, find them fearful or exciting. How we react will rest partly on how we frame those changes and the metaphors our words evoke. This is a great time to frame needed changes in ways that help us all embrace the best possibilities ahead.
- Join the conversation: Use the comment field below to share your favorite phrases and stories about the power of positive frames.
- : Frances Moore Lappé on why we cannot create what we cannot name.


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Hackers Steal Target Shoppers' Credit, Debit Card Info
By Sid Kirchheimer , December 19, 2013 11:00 AM
Hackers have stolen confidential data from as many as 40 million credit and debit cards that shoppers used at Target stores from the day before Thanksgiving until December 15.
The data breach reportedly extends to nearly all of Target's 1,797 stores nationwide and involves the hacking of machines at checkout lines on which customer swipe their cards when making purchases.
So far, there's no indication that payment data was stolen concerning online purchases from Target, the nation's second-largest retailer.
News of the breach was broken Wednesday by Brian Krebs, a computer security expert and former Washington Post reporter. After the Secret Service confirmed it is investigating, Target issued this release early Thursday.
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It's not clear how attackers were able to compromise "point-of-sale" terminals at so many Target stores across the country, but it's believed that roughly 40,000 card-reading devices were affected. These machines collect information from the magnetic stripe on credit and debit cards, and potentially also personal identification numbers (PINs).
With this information in hand, cybercriminals can potentially create counterfeit cards by encoding the data onto any card with a magnetic stripe. If the thieves also were able to obtain PIN data for debit transactions, they would theoretically be able to clone debit cards and use them to withdraw cash from ATMs.
In its statement, Target confirms that stolen information includes customer names, credit or debit card numbers, as well as card expiration dates and CVVs (three- or four-digit security codes).
If you shopped at Target during the affected dates, immediately alert your credit or debit card issuer. You should also carefully check future credit card and bank statements for fraudulent purchases or withdrawals. In coming weeks, get a free credit report at AnnualCreditReport.com (you can get one per year for no charge from each of the three major credit reporting bureaus) and then get another one a few months later (identity thieves sometimes hold onto stolen data before using it). Look for unauthorized charges and the fraudulent opening of new accounts in your name. Immediately report any that you find.
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Bonjour | Smart Alarm Clock with Artificial Intelligence
Meet, Bonjour. She's a revolutionary voice-controlled and A.I. enhanced alarm clock that acts as your personal assistant.
With a human voice and mindful mannerisms, she's the first alarm clock you'll be happy to wake up to.
The Bonjour Smart Alarm Clock is like the personal assistant you never had. The best part about Bonjour? She's always there early to wake you up and make the most of your day.
Bonjour can adjust your wake-up time if certain conditions are fulfilled. Let's say you have a meeting and you can't be late: Bonjour will check traffic reports and may wake you up earlier than scheduled if there's a major traffic jam. Or, say you'd like to start your Sunday with a 6 AM run: Bonjour will check the weather and let you sleep in if there's any rain or storms.
By tracking traffic on your morning commute, Bonjour can suggest you leave early if there's heavy traffic on your way to work or order you an Uber earlier than usual.
Bonjour integrates with your calendar so she knows your agenda, allowing her to automatically set your alarm. You'll never oversleep and miss another meeting again.
Bonjour is the "hub" of your sleep needs and has the ability to help you sleep better. Ultimately, she can help you fall asleep faster with her guided relaxation program. She seamlessly connects with your Pebble, Apple Watch, and/or holi's SleepSensor allowing her to give insights and data to help improve your sleep routine (bedtime regularity and sleep-time consistency). Additionally, Bonjour can connect to many popular tracking devices such as Fitbit and Misfit to provide you with a comprehensive sleep analysis.
Bonjour can check local weather, surf forecasts, & wind presence to help plan your activities. Bonjour also connects with your FitBit.
- Fitness Tracking & Planning: When integrated with device like FitBit, Apple Health, or Withings, Bonjour is able to track how many steps you've taken throughout the day. If you haven't been very active, weather is good, and your schedule allows, Bonjour will suggest you go for a run, helping you reach your fitness goals.
Bonjour's brain is built in the cloud, so she will get smarter everyday by learning your preferences, gaining new skills, and learning new requests from the BONJOUR user community.
- Learns Your Routine: Bonjour has the ability to learn when you wake up and when you leave home. By learning how long it takes you to get ready in the morning and how long you commute is, she can make customized suggestions to make your mornings more enjoyable.
- Improved Language: As you use Bonjour over time, her language skills will improve helping her better understand your requests. Bonjour is the only device able to combine and analyze several sources of information to provide you with accurate answers and the right assistance.
- A.I. for Your Smart Home: Bonjour can adjust your smart thermostat or lighting automation based on your wake-up time. For example, if you need to wake up earlier than usual, Bonjour can adjust your thermostat so you'll have a warm and lit home when you wake up.
Bonjour acts as a voice-controlled smart hub for iOT, Home Automation and smart home devices making your home even smarter. She proactively checks if your home is safe and ideal for your sleep. She seamlessly integrates with IFTTT to do more with the services you love.
BONJOUR is the simplest way to add voice-control to your favorite smart home devices. Use her 180 degree voice recognition system to control your environment without leaving the comfort of your bed. Bonjour easily integrates with your favorite smart home devices such as WeMo, Philips Hue and Nest.
- Smart Home Integration: With Bonjour you can turn on your bedroom lights or adjust the temperature in your home.
- Amazon ALEXA Compatible: Bonjour helps you benefit from everything Amazon's ALEXA has to offer. Place your order with ALEXA via Bonjour without even getting out of bed.
Connect your smart lights and thermostat to create a perfect and automated environment to start your day. Teach Bonjour to check if your home is safe (night mode) each time you tell her "good night". She would then do a routine check and warn you if the garage door is still open or the door isn't locked.
Bonjour's IFTTT compatibility makes it easy for you to experience the apps and services you love in new, exciting ways. Bonjour can update you with new 'likes' and comments on your Instagram post! She will also allow you to add your late night thoughts to Evernote. You'll also be able to seamlessly connect Bonjour with popular devices such as August, Ecobee or Ring. There are thousands of experiences to choose from, or you can entirely create your own.
Bonjour has the ability to connect with certain home security systems over WiFi and show you its camera view on her screen.
Bonjour's voice recognition software lets you converse with unmatched accuracy. Additionally, the more you speak with her, the more she learns.
- Simply Ask: You can ask Bonjour to check the weather, news, or even how many steps you've taken in a day! More detailed questions can be asked such as directions to your meeting, and what you should wear. You can even order an Uber using Bonjour!
- Voice Recognition: Bonjour will start recording and analyzing your speech as soon as you say the magic words, "OK BONJOUR." After those words you can ask Bonjour your question or tell her your command.
- Privacy Button: Bonjour's thoughtful design includes a privacy button so you can choose when she hears you. Additionally, unlike our competitors, we can ensure our backers that user information is never shared.
Wake up to your favorite song, receive messages from select users, and charge your devices with Bonjour.
Rise to your favorite song from Spotify or webradio stations. Additionally, a simple voice request triggers Bonjour to play music. With two speakers and a bass radiator, BONJOUR fills the room with immersive sound.
Bonjour will be compatible with Google Play, AirPlay, Deezer and SoundCloud. On top of that, we're going to try our best to add Pandora to the mix.
This secure channel allows your loved one or your kids to send a private recorded video message you can only discover when you go to bed or wake up.
Bonjour's design includes an ultra-convenient USB outlet, allowing you to easily charge your devices from your smart alarm clock.
Bonjour has the perfect curves.
Bonjour's sleek and compact design perfectly fits your home's décor and your bedroom's nightstand. BONJOUR has perfect curves, chrome finish, and a large colorful screen that offers amazing graphics and animations.
We've developed a companion app to make setup simple.
Our app seamlessly integrates Bonjour with your smartphone making for easy set-up. The learning truly begins once you sync your accounts, devices, and third party apps with Bonjour.
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See Bonjour in action.
Making Life Easier
Waking Up
Protecting You and Your Home
Anticipating Your Needs
Delivering Messages from Loved Ones
Technical specifications that will keep Bonjour a staple smart device for years.
Risks and challenges
Our team already has more than 50 years of experience in designing, producing and selling hardware devices. We already outsourced the manufacturers, developed the software, and teamed up with the best technology providers. Despite our experience, risks and difficulties can still occur.
The risks linked to this project are essentially risks you would find in any ambitious technological project when taken to an industrial scale. We worked to minimize risk in all aspects of the project, but some things are out of our hands at this stage:
1) Hardware risks
We're making something physical. Engineering or manufacturing problems can occur. They may be way harder to fix than bugs in a code what may require more time. So we've worked (and continue to work) very hard to make sure we don't mess things up. We are a team of designers and engineers who have individually worked on electronic products used by thousands of people worldwide so we understand what goes into making hardware and we know how to do it. We understand the unique challenges of hardware and are familiar with how to avoid and mitigate any issues that arise. Additionally, we are working with a tier-one manufacturing partner that builds for some of the best brands in the business.
2) Lead-time risks
Component lead times could cause potential delay in delivering BONJOUR to our backers on time. We have reasonably estimated a May delivery for our first backers and checked component availability before the start of our campaign.
Nevertheless, as a brand new product, it's impossible for us to secure component stocks before the end of the campaign and before the final specifications are frozen. Thus once we decide to go for production, some electronic components may be out of stock and have up to 6 months lead time. We shall secure key components supply as soon as possible but as there is always a risk involved with large volume component supply, we thought we should mention it!
3) Software risks
Our software has been robustly tested on several prototypes. We've overcomed the most critical technical challenges and are about to start transforming our code into production-grade software.
Once done and tested, we plan to make a pilot run of several hundred units for beta testing and bug fix.
This beta testing period is already taken into account in our schedule. Yet, as we will undoubtedly encounter real-life issues that relate to use and environment of BONJOUR, this testing and debugging period could require more time than initially planned and may cause delay in the delivering BONJOUR to our backers.Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
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