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Well folks, another year of Washington wine has come to a close.
2010 was a breakout year for Washington with continued accolades and high scores. Of note, Gramercy Cellars was named Food & Wine magazine's 'Best New Winery in America' – the second year a Washington winery has won a major award from the magazine. Wine Spectator devoted a cover story to Washington wine. The magazine also gave its highest scores ever to a Washington red wine – 97 points - for the Charles Smith 2006 Royal City Syrah, Cayuse 2006 Armada Vineyard Syrah, Grand Reve 2007 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, and Owen Roe 2007 Red Willow Syrah. All things told Wine Spectator rated 17 wines 95 points or higher – 'classic' in the publication's definition. No other year has seen a number remotely close to this. Wine Spectator was not alone with Wine Enthusiast and Wine Advocate also giving numerous Washington wines high scores.
The number of wineries in Washington officially topped 650 in April. The number subsequently crept over 700 (unofficially) later in the year, but with the economic downturn, it's not clear if it will stay there. While several wineries including Yellow Hawk Cellar and Nicholas Cole did close in 2010, the industry did not see the mass closings some had feared.
The Great Recession continued to have a strong effect on the Washington wine industry. Consumers purchased wines at much lower price points. Price slashing worldwide made the environment extremely competitive of the state's wines. Many Washington wineries tried to move down-market, focusing on 'glass pour' wines in the $15 to $25 range.
Eastern Washington wineries continued to move into the Woodinville area, now home to over 70 wineries and tasting rooms, to try to take advantage of Seattle's large consumer base during the tough economic times. The Internet was also awash in 'mystery wine' offers as producers looked for creative ways to move juice.
2010 saw one of the more unusual growing seasons in decades (see a series of harvest reports here). The year was cool with several areas seeing a good deal of precipitation during the summer. A late September/early October warm front – which one grower referred to as a "multi-million dollar gift" – averted a potential disaster. A freeze in late November has led to some concern about how next year's vintage may be affected, particularly in the Horse Heaven Hills and colder parts of the Walla Walla Valley. Stay tuned.
There was a heated battle over liquor privatization in Washington State, with two initiatives on the November ballot. Both subsequently failed. No word on what may come next, although Governor Gregoire has said that she is 'open' to the idea of privatization.
The 2010 Wine Bloggers Conference was held in Walla Walla. The state subsequently saw a sizeable bump in posts and on-line discussion about Washington wine. 2010 also saw a great deal of expansion in the use of Twitter by the Washington wine community. Tweet-ups became commonplace. There were also several Washington-focused Twitter events including #WAMerlot and #WAwine which brought attention to the state's wines.
The bizarro story of the year was the theft of the first year of Mourvedre grapes from Grand Reve Vineyard on Red Mountain. The head trained vines had been meticulously cared for by hand for three years only to have someone steal the grapes ten days before they were ripe. The case remains unsolved.
That's it for 2010 folks. My sincere thanks to all those who followed the blog this year. Have a great New Year's Eve. See you in 2011!
A look back at 2010
Well folks, another year of Washington wine has come to a close.
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Dave Butner Says:
An hats off to you, Sean, and Washington Wine Report - the best Washington Wine Blog of 2010 as far as I'm concerned. The work you did on the November ballot initiatives alone was some of the best reporting I read all year, in ANY publication!
Cheers to a job well done, and looking forward to following you in 2011.
Sean P. Sullivan Says:
Many thanks Dave. Much appreciated!
Jim Scolastico Says:
I second that! Your work has provided a lot of enjoyment, and even more information over this past year, and I look forward to what you'll bring us in 2011. I know that it must take a lot of time and effort, but please know that it is appreciated. We wish you a Happy New Year, and many great wine adventures!
Daddy-O Says:
Sean,Your blog became my favorite wine blog in 2010.
It keeps me totally connected to the WA wine scene.
Great work!
Best of luck in 2011.
Sean P. Sullivan Says:
Jim and JP, many thanks for the kind words. Have a great start to 2011.


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Interview with Hyun Jean Lee
The interview with media artist Hyun Jean Lee was conducted in November 2013 via email exchanges. Currently living and working in Seoul, Korea, Dr. Lee is actively engaged in art and research projects while teaching young media artists at Yonsei University. In this interview, she earnestly talks about balancing herself as an artist and theorist, and explains her process of creating art. All photos and videos are courtesy of the artist.
Hyun Jean Lee, calibrating her Wii art installation
You started as a painter but took up media art in the late 90's and have been working with media art since. How did you make that transition?
Although I am working with different media now, my previous experiences with painting have influenced my sensibility and my way of thinking. I painted more than 10 years. During those years in art schools, I practiced to become a professional painter. But when I learned how to use video, I realized that the video medium was also very attractive.
Around that period, I gradually got interested in video, and I explored how to include the passage of time in painting. I also put an effort into making three-dimensional qualities by adding tactile layers onto the visual layer, although a painting is basically in the two dimensional realm. However, when I started to create video installations with the three dimensional screen structures, I found the video medium would be a more appropriate form for me to convey my idea efficiently and imaginatively. I could create my screen as I intended, for example, regarding the size, volume, and its form. So I started putting more time in creating video installations. Then I wanted to learn video art. That's why I decided to study in the U.S.A. By the time I entered the ITP program at NYU, my interest had extended to incorporate interactivity. At ITP, I concentrated on learning computer programming, physical computing as well as how to manipulate video interactively.
Although I don't paint now, I still often make drawings. Particularly when I work with installations, even when the overall creation process requires a mechanical and logical approach, I try to push my perceptual intuition and sensibilities into my work that I have accumulated from painting.
You are also a theorist. How does your study/teaching affect what you create as an artist?
Well, I am still not accustomed to introducing myself as a theorist. ^^ But I think I really enjoy studying and researching. During the Digital Media program at Georgia Tech, where I completed my Ph.D. study, I had to read lots of books and theoretical articles to pass the qualifying exam. It literally took several years.
Over the course of such years, I gradually became a researcher and got interested in the theories of digital media and media art. In fact, I had an interest in art history and theory before entering the ITP program. In order to understand them more thoroughly, I also read many books on philosophy. Although I had to spend most of my time obtaining technical skills at ITP and putting much effort into learning interactive media technologies at the Georgia Tech's media lab (syn-aesthetic media lab), the years I had to focus in navigating these diverse theoretical realms gave me a chance to extend my previous theoretical interest.
I think that the attractive part of studying theories is the very process of understanding diverse theoretical perspectives and finding a map of how one theoretical issue can be connected with others. The feeling of drawing the map and expanding it bigger is really intriguing to me, and it makes me want to be involved in such theoretical practices more often. This practice sometimes helps me look at my artwork in a more analytical and critical view.
I think that the process of researching and writing is very creative like the process of making artwork. It is also a system of generating and developing new ideas. However, grasping theory and applying it at the same time is not always good. Sometimes theoretical work and art work conflict inside me. I think theories help me look at the world in logical and analytical ways. But when I habitually apply the similar approach to create my artwork, this analytic way of thinking blocks me and makes me hesitate sometimes. When a critical view advances too much, it becomes hard to work on my art, because artwork creation requires sensible perception, which differs from logical thinking. Theory can affect artwork creation in a negative way.
Recently I thought that I would have to try harder in order to strike a balance between artwork creation and theoretical research. I think the best way would be spending my time more evenly for both, although it is difficult to focus on them simultaneously. I tend to concentrate on theory and art separately, with a very long interval of time in between. These days, I thought of spending more time on artwork creation in earnest, since during last ten years, I spent more time on the theoretical studying.
You asked me how teaching affects me. Teaching is always great fun and productive for me. I learn a lot from students and actually I got many artwork and research ideas while teaching. When I see what and how I teach would influence how my students think and create, I feel a strong responsibility in teaching.
You recently re-created a previous work of yours "The sea – recognition of sea space" (1998). What made you revisit the old project, and how is it different from the original production?
The sea – recognition of sea space (1998)
Yes, last May, I revisited my old video installation piece, "The sea – recognition of sea space" (1998). I re-created the work and entitled it as "The Cubic Sea" (2013). The reason I revisited this work is simply because the art museum of Ewha Woman's University asked me to show this work for the museum's exhibition.
Since my video installations are often big, it is hard to reserve the work as it is shown in an exhibition. So I break down my installations after exhibitions and whenever there is a request of showing, I just consider recreating for the new context. Actually every installation, I think, needs to be reconsidered based on the context of an exhibition. Spatial context is very important. When a show is decided, I visit the actual space where my work will be located and decide how to install the work in that place, based on the size and the moving route of the room, entrance and exit, lighting condition, and so forth…
This time when the museum asked me to show the work that I created a long time ago, I thought of creating an entirely new work. But when I visited the space they provided me, I kind of understood why they asked me to show that specific work. Thus, I decided to just recreate it. Based on the very specific spatial condition and the situation of how my work is inter-related with other works, I had to decide the cube size and position of it.
Most of my work, including "The Cubic Sea", is a video installation using beam projectors. I always think about how many projectors to use and how I can provide them, whether I have to prepare them or the museum/gallery provides them. Budget is always an important issue to consider.
In the 1998 version, I used four projectors and could not make a projection on the top of the cube. For "The Cubic Sea" this time, I used a projection mapping technique with two projectors, to cover all five sides of the cube. The entire cube became bigger in size. I wanted to make the viewers feel as if they were in front of the sea at the seashore. To provide such a feeling, a certain amount of size is important. But at the same time, I wanted to make the cube to look like an object when it was viewed from a certain distance, for example, from the entrance of the room. I needed to finalize the exact dimensions of the cube to support these two conditions. This process was fun and personally meaningful for me.
In many of your works, the natural scene made with video projection seems to offer a soothing experience to the viewers. It reminds me of the effect of natural phenomena described by Alain de Botton. Is there a reason why you often work with the landscape/natural imagery?
"Vast landscapes can have much the same anxiety-reducing effect on us as ruins, for they are the representatives of infinite space, as ruins are the representatives of infinite time. Against them, or within them, our weak, short-lived bodies must seem of no greater consequence than those of moths or spiders. Then, too, whatever differences exist among people, they are as nothing next to the differences between the most powerful humans and the great deserts, high mountains, glaciers and oceans of the world. There are natural phenomena so enormous as to make the variations between any two people seem mockingly tiny. By seeking these out, and experiencing a compelling sense of the insignificance of all humans within the cosmos, we may mitigate whatever discomfort we feel over our inferior position in the social hierarchy."
– Alain de Botton, on the effect of natural phenomena, "Status Anxiety"
Encountering Two Times (2012)
I know most of my artworks are using natural scenes. Probably it is due to my sensibility and personal preference. I like to use natural scenes to provide calm and meditative experiences for viewers. Such experiences could be called soothing experiences, as you pointed out. Also, I think it is somewhat related to the soothing effect of natural phenomena as Alain de Botton said. But the difference is that I don't care too much about the insignificance that a human being feels in front of nature. What I want to borrow, simulate or represent from nature is that we are also a part of nature. I also want to express the beloved feeling that nature gives us.
I was born and raised in cities. I am not a person who has grown up in nature. But my sensibilities are strongly attached and refreshed in nature whenever I experience it. I think most people also share this kind of experience and I want to share this with them. I want to create a work to transport the viewers to their own old memories of nature.
In the summer forest you created in "Light Green Leaves with Light", you hear the sound of the bugs, see the images of the sunbeam and can walk between trees full of leaves. With the projection light, is it also warm like the real summer?
Light Green Leaves with Light (2012-2013)
Yes, it is! At least, I think so. No, I think it is really warm at the center of the work.
In "Light Green Leaves with Light"(created in 2012 and 2013), I used three 6500 ANSI lumens projectors. Since the projection screen material is a fabric that is used for a silkscreen print, the projection light penetrates into the screen a lot, so there is lots of loss. Therefore, I had to use very strong and bright projectors. Also, I had to create a certain feeling of surroundedness in the space. Three projectors were the minimum number of projectors for this purpose.
In this work, I intended to use the projection light as one source of light. Projection light is an artificial light. But I always think that the projection light or RGB lights in it provides a very similar feeling as the natural light. Another source of light that I wanted to present was the sunlight in nature that I captured in the video. Thus, in the work, the videotaped sunlight and the projection light are inter-mixing and provide the feeling of surroundedness. Because of the multiple sources of light with the actual heat generated by three 6500 ANSI lumens projectors, I felt really warm surrounded by the lights in the middle, when I walked around the work.
You made several iterations of the interactive project "Ripplecast" over the years. I believe you do this in order to provide the viewers an ideal sensory experience. How has the process been? Is there a next step for this piece?
"Ripplecast" was an ongoing project for me over the past five years.
The first "Ripplecast" used a still picture as its background image underneath the ripples layer, but gradually I switched it to moving images with sound. And I have kept changing the moving images of water. In the most recent version "Ripplecast 2012", I scaled it up to be supported by two channel video projections. The reason I changed the water images is because I wanted to provide the viewers with the feeling of standing in front of the water.
The most ideal scene would be where viewers feel as if like they are standing in front of the water, forgetting the gallery and museum context. By expanding the screen, I thought it could approach the ideal scene one step further. I wanted to create the meditative feeling, as if we felt we were within nature. Thus I changed the video image of water several times. Also, since I had many chances to show this work at galleries and museums in Korea, as well as other countries, I wanted to show the beautiful scenery of Korea. I wanted to present the four seasons of a river depending on the actual season of the individual exhibition. Thus, I prepared different video images of water and changed it depending on the context.
What does audience participation and interaction mean to you and your work?
Well, I often create interactive works but I do not want to use interaction or participation just for the purpose of it. Interaction for interaction is not something that I want to create. Because I was a painter, I always think that there is an interactive experience when people look at paintings, between the viewer and the painting. Although it is more like an interactive experience happening in the mind and heart, I thought it could be said as an interactive experience as well as it is an experience with the work of art. I try to involve the audience's interaction more actively when I want to create bodily and engaging experience for the audience. The experience that a viewer has during the time he or she spends with the work is an important element of my work. I would like to invite the viewer to experience my work and extend their engagement with it.
It is somewhat related to the phenomenological experience that the viewers can perceive while experiencing the artwork. I like to convey this phenomenological experience in order to provide the viewer chances to meet themselves, while they experience the work. Meeting themselves would be like meeting their old memories. To create this kind of experience, I used to make big size works where an audience can walk into and walk around.
For me, audience participation and interaction involved in the artwork become the very means of leading the audience to experience his/her individual self.
Most of your works are not about personal issues, but in your recent work (Playground series), you talk about your experience as a mother (the boredom of watching kids in the playground). Is motherhood affecting your work? If so, how?
Playground – Slide and Stairs (2011)
Surely, motherhood has affected me and my work. But mostly it is because it takes up considerable amount of time for me. … Yes, I am somewhat agreeing with you that my works may seem as if they are not related to my personal issues. When I was an undergraduate student in the painting department, I was deeply concerned how to find my style in my work, thus I had to know myself. I thought when the work dealt with a personal issue in its theme or subject matter, it seemed authentic as an artwork. But I gradually found that I was more comfortable bringing my personal issues indirectly into my work. My works may not seem to deal with my personal issues, but I still think that my sensibilities and memories are deeply affecting my work. I never start with a very abstract idea or a general perception. My own sensibilities and memories motivate me to start a project.
Drawing for Playground – Slide (2011)
Many media artists collaborate with other artists or engineers. Some of your works are also collaborative. Do you work with others at the moment? How important is it that you understand recent technology?
Yes, currently I am working with others. As I said above, I began to learn how to use media technologies at ITP. But when I graduated from ITP, I felt it was not enough for me. I felt that I needed to learn more about technology in order to achieve more hands-on skills and technological knowledge. Since I created my artwork individually before entering ITP, honestly I was not familiar with working with others. I continued my studies at Georgia Tech (GT) to get more proficiency and ability. But at GT, I gradually realized that maybe I would not achieve the level of skill and knowledge that I wanted in the end. Instead, I learned how important it is to work with other collaborators. I realized that the skill of communicating with other collaborators, in order to figure out the common problems as the work progressed, is far more important and difficult. In this process, I got to know that the most difficult part is finding a proper collaborator to work with, rather than deciding how to work.
After moving back to Korea, and working at Yonsei University (teaching media art), it was not always easy to find collaborators for my art projects. Since I am in a school now, most of my collaborators become my students or other professors. Sometimes I work with my old school and lab colleagues that I met at GT. Since I cannot learn and follow every rapidly developing media technology, learning from collaborators becomes more valuable. Recently I have worked with engineers, computer scientists, and HCI experts for diverse projects. I also work with my husband, Jeong Han Kim, who is a media artist and art school professor.
As you mentioned, both you and your husband (Jeong Han Kim) are media artists and work in academia. Though you two are not an artist collective, you do collaborate with each other. How do you decide when to work together and when just to stay supportive? Do you discuss work at home?
We have helped each other often, but for a while we did not collaborate for an art project. I think there is no specific reason for it, but when we got married, one of our professors said that we shouldn't work together naively just because we were a couple. Actually, in some ways, our working styles are very different. Most of time I work with a single initial idea, and develop it until it is actually implemented. On the other hand, Jeong Han keeps changing his ideas while working; maybe his idea keeps evolving during the working period. Therefore, his initial idea is completed with a very different result. But for the last more than ten years, as closest collaborators, life partners and colleagues, we have discussed our ideas a lot, whether it is for a theoretical work or artwork. As we discussed a lot, we also fought a lot. We try to be very honest when we criticize each other's work. Hearing harsh critiques from each other is always very painful, but since we can agree with the critique from the other, it soon becomes very helpful in developing our work. In fact, after graduating from an art school, it was very hard to hear really helpful critiques from outside.
Last year, Jeong Han and I started to work together as a team in order to create a project that was entitled Emergent Mind of City (EMC). Jeong Han currently leads this project along with another designer, Jeong Do Kim. Our team is called AM (Art of Mind group). For this project, AM is collaboratively working together with the BiKE lab (Biomedical Knowledge Engineering lab) of Seoul National University (The director of this lab is Professor Hong Gee Kim). The EMC project is still a work in progress, but we have presented it in several media art and technology venues already.
What is the "screen" to you now?
Since I started working with video in 1997, the screen has replaced my canvas. Like the canvas, the screen is the realm for my artwork imagination. My Ph.D. thesis is about the screen as a boundary object between the real world and the virtual world. The screen, as a boundary object, is a conceptual realm. It simultaneously contains diverse times and spaces in it. Therefore, the screen becomes a psychological and philosophical domain. I think that the screen is the realm of imagination where artists can create the imaginative experience through it.
My dissertation begins with a sentence "Screen becomes everywhere". Now we are really in an era where screens are everywhere, and screen experience will expand more and more into our daily life. I attempted to create a malleable screen display when I was at Georgia Tech, at the beginning of my studies, but I realized that it would not be possible due to my small budget and the limitation of technical knowledge. But nowadays the flexible screen becomes an actual product. Screens still continue to evolve along with other emerging technologies, creating new kinds of experiences. It is still a means of communication and expression. The question of what contents to show on the screen, and how to create the screen experience as a perceptual and interactive experience is still wide open to be explored for me as well as other media artists and designers.
Any artists that you admire, feel influenced by and want to introduce to the readers?
In recent years, I felt I needed to know more about Ólafur Elíasson's work. I visited his solo show at MoMA PS1 in 2008. Before visiting the exhibition, I didn't know about him and his work. But one of my friends who I met in an artist residency program told me to check out his work. So, on my way home after the residency, I dropped by his show in New York. The show was titled "Take your time" and it was fascinating. It was an unforgettable experience for me. I liked how he used the materials and created the naturally engaging experience by using media technologies. He often uses analog and mechanical technologies, but they create a very attractive and interactive experience for the viewers. After I saw several other projects of his on YouTube, and also at his solo exhibition in Seoul, I thought that I needed to research him and his work. I wanted to understand more of his sensibilities and methodologies that he incorporated in his work.
How do you want to define yourself as an artist?
Hm… this question is the hardest one to answer in this interview so far. I have thought for a very long time about how to answer this. But I still cannot define myself either as an artist or a theorist. Maybe I can, but at the same time, it may not be correct or appropriate. Or maybe I don't want to define myself at all.
It is easier to define myself as a mom and a teacher. Being a mom and a teacher is a given fact for me, although I have tried hard to achieve those titles in my life. But being an artist and a theorist is not the same as being a mom and teacher. I write articles and papers, and create artworks with ideas I want to express. But how these creations would be read, perceived, and received as artwork and theoretical work is beyond my personal intention.
So, I just keep exploring and creating what I am interested in showing and sharing. Maybe I am an artist who hopes to create art that can generate substantial value and meaning for the viewers. Do you think this answer is too general? Hm, yes, this is surely a very difficult question.
Please share with us if you are working on any new project at the moment.
Jeong Han and I, with others, are developing the EMC project now. The EMC project has been presented at the Seoul Media Art Biennale 2012 (Media City Seoul 2012), Re-new Art Festival (2013, Denmark, Coppenhegen), IEEE Viz conferences (2013, Atlanta, U.S.A.). It will be presented at the Siggraph Asia, Art Gallery in November 2013 in HongKong. In addition, I am further developing "Encountering Two Times" by collaborating with Jeong Han. We are working on how to connect "Encountering" project with the concept of qualia landscape.
I am also involved in a project experimenting with the next generation of screens such as transparent displays and flexible displays. This project is created for the experience design and interaction design research purpose. I am working with many other scientists and artists on this.
Also during recent years, I have gradually thought of making my personal art projects more in earnest. My last solo show was held in 2009, and I have not found a proper chance to continue it since, so now I am thinking to put more energy to resume it.
More on Hyun Jean Lee: http://hyunjeanlee.com/
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Gap between state workers and counterparts' earnings one issue in Inslee pay talks
A 2014 consultant's report that says 81 percent of Washington state employees earn less than their counterparts in the public and private sectors is being cited by union leaders as they make the case that state workers deserve a cost of living adjustment.
Such inflation-based raises will be a key part of the talks between Gov. Jay Inslee's labor team and more than 25 unions this summer. Inslee, a Democrat elected with labor's help, is on record as saying he believes state workers and public school teachers deserve a "modest" boost in pay after six years without cost of living adjustments, or COLAs.
"Ordinarily it would be our year (for raises). It needs to be," said Dave Schiel, president of the Washington Public Employees Union, who noted that the lack of COLAs has continued even while the economy has begun turning around. "Our members are really, really, really, really fed up.''
The pay report, issued in April, relied on data from mostly unionized employers. It found that two-thirds of state workers' pay is within 25 percent of competitors but in certain job categories, such as auditors at the Department of Revenue, pay is 45 percent behind.
As part of the survey the governor's Office of Financial Management also used a benefits survey from 2013 to show that Washington state's fringe benefits are very competitive – both with private sector and government health plans offered in other jurisdictions, according to an explanatory document prepared by OFM. The value of the state's medical benefits is $10,800 a year compared to a $8,909 value of public and private sector plans surveyed by Segal Consulting, the firm hired by the state to do the survey that included general government agencies and many higher education institutions.
Andre Winstead is one of the revenue auditors whose job class, according to the salary survey, pays 45 percent less than the sample of other government and private sector workers in state and out of state that Segal used for its comparisons. A member of WPEA, his job is to go into the field and compare the books of a business against its tax returns.
Winstead works out of Revenue's Vancouver office and said he's seen co-workers earn accounting licenses and leave for better pay at big firms. The former military careerist called compensation a good way for the state to acknowledge the "great work and dedication" the DOR staff provides."Our contribution for health insurance increases but our income doesn't move,'' Winstead said.
"If your people aren't happy with compensation do you think morale is going to be up there?" Winstead added.
OFM's survey overview says pay ranges "are competitive at the entry level" but the lag grows as one moves to the top of ranges. That said, the report finds the state is retaining personnel in more than 90 percent of job classes - "including many of those that fall into the more than 25 percent behind the market category," OFM wrote in its April overview. The agency has calculated separately that its government-wide job turnover rate was 7.1 percent last year, lower than the U.S. average and lower than any other year since 2009.
Schiel said in an interview before face-to-face negotiations began - which triggered a no-disclosure rule for negotiators - that his union could seek a double-digit raise for the two-year contract period in 2015-17.
But he also acknowledged that the state's legal obligation to spend more for public schools is creating downward pressure on wages.
If the governor's team were to agree to just a 1 percent pay raise for all general government and higher education employees in 2015 alone, the first-year cost would be about $33 million from the general fund and $44 million from all other funds, according to the OFM. Over two years, the cost grows to $66 million from the general fund and roughly $154 million from all sources.
The salary survey was done by Segal Consulting, which the Office of Financial Management also hired for the 2010 survey that looked at how well pay was holding up for the state's workforce. The surveys were scheduled to be done every two years but the 2012 version was skipped due to belt tightening during the Great Recession.
Overall, the survey, which compared state pay with similar state, local or private sector job compensation, found two-thirds of state government positions were within 25 percent of peers. It found 19 percent paid above-market rates including rehabilitation counselors earning 8 percent more than peers on average. But 33 percent of workers were more than 25 percent below market, including automotive mechanics who were 37 percent behind.
Some of the biggest gaps are with jobs in finance, insurance, educational or library services, according to OFM's analysis of the report. But the pay gap exists in most classes of jobs - measuring 31 percent in the finance and insurance sector, 28.5 percent in educational or library services, 25 percent in administrative and support services, 20 percent in IT and media services, 15.8 percent in utilities and 11.3 percent in transportation or warehousing.
The Freedom Foundation, a libertarian-style conservative think tank that is critical of collective bargaining, analyzed the salary survey earlier this year and noted that half of participants in the survey were public sector, and 74 percent of private sector employers used were from the higher-wage King, Snohomish and Pierce counties. Analyst Amber Gunn, who argues for more contracting out rather than having the state compete for talent, said "a Puget Sound-centric survey has the potential to skew salary data for particular jobs much higher than what is paid for the same job in other areas of the state."
She added, "If the goal of the salary survey is to identify hits and misses in terms of lining up with the market, this is already a huge miss, though not one likely to be highlighted by union bosses during the course of ongoing secret salary negotiations. The union chokehold on public sector employees is highlighted very clearly in the data."
But representatives of the Washington Federation of State Employees, Teamsters and Washington Public Employees Association all say workers are doing more work for dollars that buy at least 10 percent less than they did in 2008.
A separate survey done in May for the Department of Corrections found state pay for corrections officers was also slightly behind the average for peer states around the country but lag at the high end of the salary range. Benefits lag somewhat for pensions and such things as long-term care, but health premiums for several plans were roughly comparable to other states.
"The worker perspective is ... we are far behind," said Eric Smith, a prison transport sergeant who has worked at the Washington Corrections Center near Shelton since 1996. A member of the Teamsters Local 117, Smith said he sees many workers enter corrections at the state level, get training, then move on to more lucrative jobs at county or city venues.
"Once they get trained they work for us a little bit and then say I can make more money in King County or Pierce County or Snohomish County – I think even Mason County …. So they go to work there,'' Smith said.
Patti Pollardo, a program specialist who administers tests at Edmonds Community College in Lynwood, said she is "tired of living from paycheck to paycheck. We have continually every year gone further and further in the hole. Our salaries don't go up, but our expenses go up."
Pollardo is in a program specialist 2 job that the survey showed is 39.2 percent behind similar jobs.
Contracts are supposed to be completed and ratified by Oct. 1, which is the deadline for putting in spending requests for Inslee's next two-year budget.


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They got their college shot after all. Jaxon and Weston Meardon, the star twins for Walsh's boys basketball team, have signed with Oklahoma Panhandle State along with teammate Jonathan England, according to coach Ryan Renquist.
You remember the Meardon twins, who were the subject of Woody Paige's column in late February. Combined they averaged more than 40 points and 15 rebounds this past season. They helped Walsh to the Class 1A state semifinals this season.
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Not that a chocolate or an orange flavoured cake doesn't entice me substantially, but that winter morning demanded a distraction from the familiar. I was fortunate Sumayya Usmani's 'Mountain Berries and Dessert Spices' had sailed from it's confines of the store and landed amid the cozy comforts of my living room. The author is driven by authenticity and her recipes are brimming with tradition. She paints the book with dishes showcasing the magic of rose petals, cardamom, berries, pistachios and other produce native to her homeland.
The love for baking isn't new. You know that. Let's just say this cake is a product of inspiration, madness and wild curiosity. For the sake of nostalgia, accompany me on a trip down memory lane, will you?
In Kannada, there is a phrase – 'MaTa MaTa MaDHyana'. It refers to blazing afternoons when the sun is at it's peak, the air warm, the roads desolate and the atmosphere blanketed by laziness. These breezy summer afternoons in the 80's and early 90's meant mom-made orange candy set in little ice cube trays or mom-made lemonade with pungent hints of cardamom and a tinge of salt. They were special treats stored away for school breaks only. These drinks were rarely(I mean, really rarely) punctuated with a rose drink that many of you are familiar with, RoohAfza. The cool hit from the floral notes of rose intertwined with sugar and hued in a deep fuschia-red was nothing short of a celebration on lackadaisical Banglaorean afternoons. Then there was also the coveted, 'Rose Milk'. Another blush toned concoction that got the tastebuds singing.
Finally one morning , in the present day, I wondered why I have absentmindedly ignored this mellifluous flavour. If anything, my cakes deserve to feel special! The previous evening was spent scouring for rose petals. A Chinese market bottled thousands of tiny rose buds meant to be steeped in tea. I bought a handful and chalked up a simple recipe.
This egg free cake is entangled with rose petals and mildly laced with cardamom. Dousing the cake, is a simple sugary rose glaze. Bear in mind, this cake is brimming with the rose flavour. Like an opera singer's high pitched chorus. Beautiful, at the same time, strong. Hence, I suggest you to feel free to play around with the Rose water measurements. We were happy with the outcome but take it down a notch or add some more if you like.
This cake takes me back to a simpler time and parallelly transports me to an ethereal one. One that my taste buds are familiar with and yet oddly, not. I hope you like this as much as we did!
RECIPE FOR : The 'Stop to smell the roses' CAKE (for a 6 inch EGGFREE cake)
For the Cake
3/4th cup Self Raising Flour
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
1/2 cup of Granulated sugar
2-3 green cardamoms powdered with a pinch of sugar
1 tbsp Rose water
3 tbsp Oil (I used canola)
1 tbsp + 1/2 tsp Vinegar
1/ 2 cup Milk
Dried organic Rose Petals (Optional)
For the Glaze
2-2.5 tsp of water/milk
3/4 cup of icing sugar
1 tsp of Rose water(optional)
A drop of Pink food colouring (optional)
For the Garnish(Optional)
Chopped Pistachios
Dried organic Rose Petals
1. Preheat the oven to 350F
2. Cut a round piece of parchment the size of the base of the cake pan and keep aside. Grease the entire cake pan and place the parchment to cover the floor of the pan. Then dust the sides with the flour.
3. In a medium sized bowl, bring together the dry ingredients and give it a whisk.(Self Raising Flour, Baking Soda, Granulated Sugar & Powdered Cardamom)
4. To the dry ingredient mix, add, Oil, Rose water and 1/2 tbsp of vinegar.
5. In a small bowl make buttermilk by mixing milk with 1/2 tsp of vinegar. Once it curdles, add it to the remaining ingredients.
6. Mix well to ensure there are no lumps.
7. Add rose petals(optional)and gently fold it in and pour into the prepared cake an.
8. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
9. Meanwhile, prepare the glaze by mixing together, icing sugar, rose water(optional) and milk/water. Add a drop of pink food colouring if you like and keep aside.
10. Once the cake is out of the oven, keep it on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Gently slide a knife along the sides to loosen it from the pan.Then carefully turn the pan upside down onto a tray to make sure it comes out in one piece.
11. Once completely cool, pour the glaze on the cake and garnish with rose petals & pistachios.
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How to Transfer/Sync DVD ISO/IFO files to Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 for playback
In this guide, you will learn how to rip and convert DVD to Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 supported video formats so that you can import DVD to Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 and play DVD movies on your Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 anytime and everywhere.
Samsung improves its flagship Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1) tablet by upgrading it to Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" and dropping the going price to $399.99. Superficially, it looks a lot like most other 10-inch tablets out there - the same 1-GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 and the 10.1-inch screen with 1280*800 we saw in the earlier Galaxy Tab 10.1. Despite that Samsung didn't put a Full HD screen and an upgraded processor, the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 really a nice video player to watch movies on. Here I am sharing my experience to help those who wanna to download and copy DVD ISO/IFO to Galaxy Tab 2 10.1. Besides, I also share something about how to get full-screen playback.
In the first place, in order to transfer DVD movies to Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, we need to use a 3rd party tool to rip and convert DVD to Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 compatible video formats(e.g. h.264 mp4). If you're looking for ease of use, and don't mind spending $30 (they currently have a sale), I've had success using Pavtube's DVD Ripper (Alternative Mac Version) to convert DVD to a format playable by my Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. I've found the quality to be excellent, and see no difference when compared to playing the discs themselves.
To be honest, the DVD to Galaxy Tab 10.1 Ripper can help you rip and convert all the DVD Discs even DVD iso/ifo image files. The audio/video synchronization is very good, the size of the subtitles too. The time it takes to convert in this software is almost half that in other. Now you can follow the guide below to learn how to convert DVD to Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 h.264-compliant mp4 video.
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Step 1. Run the top DVD ISO/IFO to Galaxy Tab 2 Converter and add your DVD files to the program.
Step 2. Choose the best output format for Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1. Here I recommend you "Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1(*.mp4)" from "Samsung" category. This format is specially designed for Galaxy 10.1 Tablet with HD playback quality and supplies full-screen effect.
Tips- Edit function is very useful in the best Galaxy Tab 2 DVD converter.
You can edit the video before conversion. Trim, Crop and Watermark functions are useful and convenient.
Step 3. After the above steps, just click "Convert" to start conversion from DVD to Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 mp4.
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a. Subtitles Select the subtitle language you like from "Subtitles" options. Meanwhile, you are able to choose your master language of audio track from "Audio" option.
b. Settings Click "Settings" button to set the video/audio parameters for the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1. Remember the file size is based more on bitrate than resolution which means bitrate higher results in big file size, and lower visible quality loss.
Once the conversion complets, transfer the converted DVD movies to Galaxy Tab 2 10.1. So there you have it. Now you can start watching DVD movies on Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 as you want.
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Root structural and functional dynamics in terrestrial biosphere models - evaluation and recommendations. New Phytologist. 205(1):59-78.. 2015.
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Representativeness-based sampling network design for the State of Alaska. Landscape Ecology.. 2013.
Parallel k-Means Clustering for Quantitative Ecoregion Delineation Using Large Data Sets. Procedia Computer Science. 4:1602-1611.. 2011.
Modeling the spatio-temporal variability in subsurface thermal regimes across a low-relief polygonal tundra landscape. The Cryosphere Discussions. :1-32.. 2016.
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This is a wrapper around the Zenoss JSON and REST APIs. For the most things it should feel very familiar to zendmd, but there are some changes do to the merging of the JSON and REST APIs. Please read the API docs for Zenoss and the YARDDoc for this gem (rdoc.info).


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Latest News
Again, Armenian genocide resolution confronts a president
WASHINGTON — The perennial political battle over an Armenian genocide resolution is joined again, as lawmakers Tuesday introduced a symbolic measure that puts President Barack Obama in a bind.
The resolution backed by lawmakers who represent large numbers of Armenian-American constituents calls on Obama to "accurately characterize the systematic and deliberate annihilation of 1,500,000 Armenians as genocide."
The bill introduced with 77 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives largely tracks similar resolutions introduced in previous years. Its fundamental point is to apply the term "genocide" to events that occurred between 1915 and 1923 during the Ottoman Empire's final years. The empire was based in what is now the Republic of Turkey.
"It has never served our national interest to become complicit in the denial of genocide, and it never will," said Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif. "While there are still some survivors left, we have a compelling moral obligation to speak plainly about the past."
But what some call a moral obligation strikes others as a diplomatic conundrum. Obama had one of the first telephone calls of his presidency with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan, with whom Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has met personally. Obama in early April will visit Turkey, where the genocide resolution is anathema.
The biggest test for the Obama administration is what the president will say on or around April 24, the traditional date for any Armenian genocide commemoration. A Los Angeles Times story published Tuesday suggested that Obama might postpone the traditional commemorative statement. A White House spokesman could not be reached Tuesday to elaborate.
"The resolution would be insulting to Turkey and would be very poorly received," said James H. Holmes, a retired U.S. ambassador who is now president of the American Turkish Council. He added that "some very significant commercial opportunities" might be put at risk.
As a presidential candidate, Obama bluntly characterized the deaths of Armenians.
"There was a genocide that did take place against the Armenian people," Obama said during one filmed campaign appearance. "It is one of these situations where we have seen a constant denial on the part of the Turkish government and others that this has occurred."
Clinton, while a senator, co-sponsored the Senate's version of a genocide resolution. National Security Council staffer Samantha Power, a high-profile foreign policy adviser during the campaign, filmed a video specifically aimed at Armenian-American voters considering a vote for Obama.
President Ronald Reagan in 1984 issued an Armenian genocide recognition. But other presidents, including George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, have made similar campaign attestations only to retreat from the genocide term once in office.
State Department officials have testified that historians differ as to whether the word genocide properly applies. More generally, diplomats have warned of potential diplomatic fallout.
"America can ill afford to lose the support of a critical ally like Turkey," Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Fla., a leader in the Congressional Caucus on Turkey, declared at one 2007 House hearing.
Schiff and Rep. George Radanovich, R.-Calif., have traded off as the resolution's chief sponsor, depending upon which party controls the House. Neither, though, has yet advanced the resolution to the House floor.
In 2007, amid intense pressure from the Pentagon, the White House and Turkey, 25 House members withdrew their support for a similar Armenian genocide resolution. At the time, military leaders warned that the resolution would undermine U.S. relations with a valued ally whose support was needed for success in Iraq.
Seven years before, literally minutes before Radanovich was going to bring a genocide resolution to the House floor, then-Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., pulled the plug following an urgent phone call from the White House.
Ethics watchdog seeks probe of Armenian-American group
Genocide issue may cloud Armenia envoy nominee's hearing
Will U.S. envoy to Armenia become an election issue?
History shows Armenia resolution faces tough odds


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"Give me the abbreviated version." Make it short; we do, after all, live in an abbreviated USA, don't we? I vowed I'd never text and would never do the "LOL," etc. thing.
Now, I've gotten so used to sending messages via text that when I write I have a hard time remembering to form complete words and sentences.
It's so tempting to, for example, tell u 2 visit ur local branch of JCPL, where its 2ez 2 find the best in new fiction, and ASAP! If ur like me, u will b impressed, c & g (chuckle and grin) and maybe even LOL when you check these out!
Nora Blackbird works as a society columnist. Her latest assignment is to "get the goods" on high society celebrities, or else. Because she can't afford to lose her job, she complies by writing a profile on billionaire fashion designer, Swain Starr. Before Nora can complete the story, though, Starr is murdered. The next step for Nora, of course, is to beat the cops to the punch and find out who murdered the mogul, so the Blackbird sisters put their heads together, investigating the high society murder with vigor in "Little Black Book of Murder: A Blackbird Sisters Mystery," book number 9 in the Blackbird Sisters Mystery series by Nancy Martin.
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Health Tracking Household Survey, 2007 [United States] (ICPSR 26001)
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Center for Studying Health System Change
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The 2007 Health Tracking Household Survey (HTHS) is the successor to the Community Tracking Study (CTS) Household Surveys which were conducted in 1996-1997 (ICPSR 2524), 1998-1999 (ICPSR 3199), 2000-2001 (ICPSR 3764), and 2003 (ICPSR 4216). Although the HTHS questionnaires are similar to the CTS Household Survey questionnaires, the HTHS sampling design does not have the community focus intrinsic to CTS. Whereas the CTS design focused on 60 nationally representative communities with sample sizes large enough to draw conclusions about health system change in 12 communities, the HTHS design is a national sample not aimed at measuring change within communities. Hence, "Community" was dropped from the study title. Like the CTS Household Surveys, HTHS collected information on health insurance coverage, use of health services, health expenses, satisfaction with health care and physician choice, unmet health care needs, usual source of care and patient trust, health status, adult chronic conditions, height and weight, and smoking behavior. In addition, the survey inquired about perceptions of care delivery and quality, problems with paying medical bills, use of in-store retail and onsite workplace health clinics, patient engagement with health care, sources of health information, and shopping for health care.
At the beginning of the interview, a household informant provided information about the composition of the household which was used to group the household members into family insurance units (FIU). Each FIU comprised an adult household member, his or her spouse or domestic partner (same sex and other unmarried partners), if any, and any dependent children 0-17 years of age or 18-22 years of age if a full-time student (even if living outside the household). In each FIU in the household, a FIU informant provided information on insurance coverage, health care use, usual source of care, and general health status of all FIU members. This informant also provided information on family income as well as employment, earnings, employer-offered insurance plans, and race/ethnicity for all adult FIU members. Moreover, every adult in each FIU (including the FIU informant) responded through a self-response module to questions that could not be answered reliably by proxy respondents, such as questions about unmet needs, assessments of the quality of care, consumer engagement, satisfaction with physician choice, use of health information, health care shopping, and detailed health questions. The FIU informants responded on behalf of children regarding unmet needs, satisfaction with physician choice, and use of health care information.
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Additional information about this study can be found on the Web site of the Center for Studying Health System Change.
Domestic partners are included in the same FIU since many health insurance policies now cover them. Previously in the CTS Household Surveys, domestic partners (same-sex partners and other unmarried partners) formed separate FIUs.
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Civilian household population of the contiguous United States
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- Center for Studying Health System Change. Health Tracking Household Survey, 2007 [United States]. ICPSR26001-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-10-16. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR26001.v1
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Enough, already.
In a campaign in which the size of a candidate's genitalia has been publicly discussed, in a week in which shockingly sexual video has been unearthed and after a debate in which the leading contenders for the White House exposed new depths of down-and-dirty exchanges, some voters are ready to deny either major-party candidate their support.
"We're screwed with either one of them," said Sally Stevens, 63, of New Orleans.
Stevens tried to keep herself from tuning into Sunday night's debate. "I completely lose hope and my anxiety level goes through the roof," she said. But she relented after about a half-hour, saying it was like attempting not to look when you drive by a car wreck. Watching brought no solace.
She is a lifelong Democrat and has, until now, always cast her vote for the party's presidential candidate. She had hoped Sen. Bernie Sanders would be the nominee; in his place, she has decided to vote for Green Party nominee Jill Stein. Both Clinton and Trump are too flawed, she said, and more similar than distinct.
"It's just spectacle, that's all it is," she said. "I don't find anything substantial."
Those feelings abound: An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll conducted Sept. 15-18 found three out of four Americans felt frustrated by the election, and majorities also described themselves as angry and helpless. Fewer than one in five people said they felt proud of the 2016 race.
In Washington, Ron Bonjean said the campaign already was "in a very sad state" before the debate. The longtime Republican congressional staffer, who now runs a corporate communications firm, said Trump's suggestion he would jail Clinton if he's elected amounted to "a nuclear bomb went off in American politics."
Bonjean calls himself "a very confused Republican." He won't vote for a third-party candidate. He's weighing whether to go with Trump or not vote at all. Even so, the 46-year-old expects the campaign to get even worse and for even more shocking revelations to arise as opposition researchers scrounge for more dirt.
"This is a historical low campaign of modern times and last night was the lowest moment in debate history," he said.
Jin Hua, a 28-year-old marketing consultant in St. Petersburg, Florida, already has resigned himself to skipping voting for president, calling deciding between Clinton and Trump a "lose-lose." He voted for President Obama four years ago and was hoping for Sanders this year, but won't accept a candidate he says is simply "the lesser of two evils."
"On one hand, we have Hillary Clinton, who has consistently demonstrated consistent deception," he said. "On the other side, there's Donald Trump. He's a toxic human being to the consciousness of this country. If he becomes president, our human values as a nation will degrade to the dark ages."
Christina Greer, a political science professor at New York's Fordham University, said the tone for the debate was set before it even started, with Trump holding a news conference with three women who accused former President Bill Clinton of sexual harassment and even rape, accusations that have never brought any criminal charges.
"It's just a new low in American politics and just set a tone of shock and awe for a lot of journalists and scholars," she said.
The latest bombshell about Trump, via the "Access Hollywood" recording from 2005 in which the businessman boasted of groping women, has spurred many in the Republican's own party to say they won't vote for their nominee. But few big-name party members have made the additional jump of saying Clinton will get their vote.
In New Hampshire, former Republican National Committeeman Tom Rath said he can't bring himself to vote for either party's nominee and will likely write in either Mitt Romney or John Kasich, the candidates he advised in the last two primaries. It's an uncomfortable spot for a lifelong Republican, and he is bracing for things to devolve even further.
"Anytime you think it can't get worse, it gets worse," he said. "There is no reason to have any hope that the tenor is going to improve or not get worse. If past performance is any indication of future action, this is a race to the bottom right now."
Tito Marcos, a 30-year-old system administrator for a small Denver company, said he's tired of what he called the drama and the immaturity shown by the major-party candidates. He is a registered independent and is leaning toward voting for a third-party candidate, turned off by both Clinton and Trump.
"It just seems like a heavyweight wrestling match," he said. "That's what it feels like."


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Joseph M. Parker was born in Kentucky, about 1811. I have no idea who his parents may have been.
He married Elizabeth Leach in 1850 in White County, Illinois. I also have no idea who her parents were although I believe she was also born about 1811 but in Illinois.
Joseph and Elizabeth had ten children before Elizabeth died in 1862 in Jefferson County, Iowa.
Ann Parker (1830 IL-1917 IA) married Albert Bryan in 1850 in Iowa.
Sarah Parker (abt 1833 IL-1899IA) married John C. Layton in 1862 in Iowa.
Margaret Parker (1834 IL – aft 1910 ?) married Joseph Stone in 1862 in Iowa
Louise Parker (abt 1837 IA – 1870-1880 ?) married John Richard Russell in 1860 in Iowa.
Thomas Benjamin Parker (1837IA – 1915 IA) married Ann Eliza Russell in 1862 in Iowa.
John Richard Russell and Ann Eliza Russell were siblings.
James Parker (abt 1845 IA – aft 1870)
George Dallas Parker (1847 IA-1922 IA) married Lucinda Olive Heckethorn (spelling varies widely) in
1871 in Iowa
Mary Parker (abt 1850 IA - ?) married William A. Bryan in 1875 in Iowa.
Ira Parker (abt 1853 IA – after 1860)
Iowa Parker (1855 IA-aft 1870) married, I believe, Joseph W. Harner in 1874 in Iowa.
After Elizabeth died in 1862 and was buried in Mount Zion Cemetery, Joseph married Sarah Stone in March 1865. Joseph and Sarah had four children.
Joseph died in 1877 in Jefferson County, Iowa and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery.
If you are interested in collaborating in this research, please contact me.


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Data Types
In addition to basic data
types for variables such as
string. Pike
supports arrays, sets, hash tables, and also a special data type called tagged
unions. Various operations, such as finding all unique elements in an array or
adding and removing elements to a set or array, can be easily done within few lines
of code. (This is similar to Python.)
Tagged unions enable
programmers to define variables that can contain values of different data
types. For instance, it's possible to declare a variable in Pike that can
accept both
float and
int values:
int | float number; number = 314; number = 3.14;
Or a variable that accepts
int and
string values:
int | string number; number = 256; number = "this is a test";
Furthermore, a variable can
have a special type called
mixed, meaning that it can contain data of any possible
type. This is an ideal feature to implement polymorphic functions. It is up to
the programmer to apply proper casting when a
mixed variable is assigned to
another variable of a certain type. For instance, if the programmer knows that
mixed type variable has an integer value at some point in the code, it is
possible to cast it to integer by putting the target type in the brackets:
mixed m; int n = [int]m;
In this way, Pike knows that
mixed variable is actually an integer variable and nothing
more. Using
mixed variables, it's possible to write functions that
check the type of the input variables at runtime and take different actions
according to the detected data type. Moreover, functions with a variable number
of input parameters can be implemented efficiently in Pike using tagged unions:
int fun (int x, int y, void | int z);
Pike is a strongly typed language with static type-checking. This makes
the language quite strict when it comes to casting between different data
types. Nevertheless, type promotion is a part of the language where implicit
conversion is applied and two variables of
int and
float are involved in a
mathematical operation, and the compiler automatically casts the
int variable to
float when needed:
> int x=10; > float y=1.1; > x+y; Result: 11.1
Ada programmers and software developers who have worked with safety-critical systems will recognize that these features help ensure robustness.
Memory Management
The memory management is (by default) done using a garbage-collection mechanism. However, it is possible to force the garbage collector to reclaim memory allocated to objects that are no longer used by the program. The GC in Pike uses reference counting to identify the objects that are candidates to be marked as garbage. The GC algorithm is further improved by utilizing a cycle-detection algorithm to find cyclic references that can be missed by standard GC.
Text Processing
Pike is a powerful language
for text processing. Its many routines that perform string operations have made
Pike a worthy competitor to languages such as Perl. It is also possible to
manipulate a string, as in Python, by using overloaded mathematical operators.
For instance, delimiters and substring joining are implemented in Pike using "
and "
*" operations, respectively, and "
+" and "
-" can be used
to concatenate or remove a substring. For example:
> ("this is a test" / " ") * ";"; (1) Result: "this;is;a;test"
String formatting and
analysis is identical to C, where
sprintf and
sscanf are utilized. Furthermore, wide strings as well as
regular expressions are supported. All these features have made Pike a good tool
for text-processing applications such as Web servers and parsers.
Pike has a rich library for concurrent applications and for simply launching multiple threads simultaneously, message passing, and mutual execution. The concurrency model in Pike is synchronous message passing. A communication channel, which can be a queue or FIFO, is used for sending and receiving messages between concurrent threads.
Moreover, threads can read/write from/to the shared channels if the channel is not empty/full. If the channel is full or empty, and a thread intends to write or read from it, the thread will go to sleep mode until the data or the channel is available. It is also possible to send signals to a sleeping thread to wake it up at any time.
Pike is a multipurpose programming language that can be useful for a large class of applications and problems. Features such as tagged unions bring flexibility to the code and let the programmer implement complex structures in an elegant, simple, and readable way, which will ease further development, debugging, and maintenance in software projects.
The powerful functionalities and diverse functions and libraries that Pike offers for text processing, together with the flexible structure of the language, let developers minimize coding time, while ensuring robustness and efficiency in their code. In addition, existing modules for cryptography, network protocols, image processing, file handling, and big numbers make many tasks straightforward.
Despite all this goodness, a few important items remain on the Pike team's to-do list. These include true native compilation and better tools (especially an IDE), and good debugging support. But even without these desirable aspects, I think you'll find Pike to be a fun and useful language to work with.
Danesh Daroui is a software developer working at Opera Software's office in Gothenburg, Sweden. He is a member of the Turbo team developing solutions that aim to accelerate browsing speed in Opera's Web browsers.


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Lower-Body Blast Workout
Karen Pearson
Behind Definer
What you'll need: a pair of 3- to 5-pound dumbbells
How it works: This workout is a circuit; perform the moves in order and then repeat the circuit to complete three sets total.
Targets: Shoulders, back, abs, butt, quads, and hamstrings
— Stand with feet hip-width apart, holding a dumbbell in each hand, arms by sides.
— Lunge back with right leg, bending both knees 90 degrees and lifting arms to shoulder level in front of you, palms down.
Karen Pearson
Roundhouse Combo
Targets: Arms, abs, obliques, butt, outer thighs, and inner thighs
— Stand with left foot staggered in front of right, elbows bent by sides, fists in front of chest.
— Step right foot toward left foot, then bring bent left knee out to side and up to hip height as you lean torso to right. Kick left leg.
Karen Pearson
Arabesque Kickback
Targets: Triceps, abs, butt, and hamstrings
— Stand with feet hip-width apart, holding a dumbbell in each hand by hips, elbows bent; extend right leg slightly behind you, toes on floor, hinging forward slightly from hips.
Karen Pearson
Jump Shot
Targets: Shoulders, abs, butt, outer thighs, and inner thighs
— Stand with feet slightly wider than shoulder-width apart, arms by sides.
— Squat, bending elbows by sides; bring hands in front of chest.
— Quickly shuffle to right twice and then back to left twice.
Karen Pearson
Inner-Thigh Rotate and Reach
Targets: Shoulders, triceps, abs, butt, and inner thighs
— Stand with feet together, a dumbbell in each hand, elbows bent by sides so forearms are at waist level in front of you, palms up. Raise left leg, toes pointed out to left; this is start position.
— Pulsing left leg up and down and keeping elbows at sides, rotate forearms out to sides.