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Språkbanken is a research and development unit at the University of Gothenburg, and a node in cross-disciplinary research collaboration at the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology formalized under the name of Centre for Language Technology. Språkbanken was established with government funding already in 1975 as a national center. The main focus of Språkbanken's present-day activities is the development and refinement of language resources and language technology tools, and their application to research in language technology, in linguistics, and in several other disciplines, notably in HSS and medical research.
Språkbanken is strongly committed to the goals of CLARIN, as evidenced by, for instance, how Språkbanken:
- has been a member of CLARIN since the start of the preparatory phase project in 2008, and has been the main developer of the software platform for CLARIN's common metadata repository
- has developed a widely used corpus infrastructure (Korp) and a number of lexical resources, which are integrated into a lexicon infrastructure (Karp), in both cases based on
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- is involved in several research collaborations with scholars in the humanities and social sciences involving the use of language technology based eScience tools
- is an active participant in the Swedish mirror committee of ISO's TC7 (Terminology and other language and content resources), where standards important to CLARIN are proposed and adopted
- has developed and maintains Litteraturbanken (the Swedish Literature Bank), a comprehensive digitization initiative of national literature. In connection to this, Språkbanken has been actively involved in an international collaboration on the development of a standardized publishing platform for digital scholarly editions; and
- was a partner in the recently concluded META-NORD project, an EU-funded collaboration with the aim of making standardized language-resources and tools available for research and industrial development.
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Minister of Civil Defence Hon Kris Faafoi opened the Waikato Group Emergency Management Office on Monday. Mr Faafoi says the new facility will improve the ability of the Waikato Civil Defence Emergency Management Group to respond to emergencies.
"The Waikato CDEM Group comprises eleven local authorities and between them they face a wide range of risks from natural and other hazards. It is fantastic to see that the Group now has a resilient, purpose built facility that can support emergency responses right across the region."
The new building has been constructed to be operational immediately after an earthquake or any other emergency. Outside of emergency situations the office is used for readiness and reduction activities.
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While in Waikato, Mr Faafoi met with iwi, local mayors and civil defence staff to discuss the findings of the Ministerial Review "Better Responses to Natural Disasters and Other Emergencies in New Zealand', undertaken by a technical advisory group (TAG).
"The TAG report makes a number of recommendations so it is important for me to hear from local authorities and iwi as we work to develop a Government response.
"The civil defence response is hugely reliant on the effort and commitment of local groups across New Zealand so it is really important for us as a Government to hear from these people and to discuss the recommendations as widely as I possibly can.
"The current system stands up well when we need it, and has done so throughout the pressures, issues and challenges in recent years. But it is clear more must be done, particularly given the increasing events we have experienced I'm absolutely committed to making sure we have a fully robust and sustainable system and I know all of those involved in this work share that commitment."


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This series is one of the hottest shows on the CW, so it would make sense to capitalize on the popularity with a spinoff. Tonight, we'll get a peek at what that spinoff could look like with what's referred to as a "backdoor pilot." The "backdoor pilot" features the original show's characters with a new setting and new characters that could be on the show, should the network approve it. The spinoff would be called "The Originals" and would be set in New Orleans. The characters Klaus (Joseph Morgan) and Elijah (Daniel Gillies) would be the ones heading to New Orleans, which is the perfect city to set a show about vampires, witches and other supernatural characters. (Here's a possible crossover episode, in my dreams, that is: Could they team up with the vampires from "True Blood" in nearby Bon Temps, La.? What havoc they would cause!) But back to "The Originals." When Klaus and Elijah arrive in New Orleans, the city their family once built, they find vampires roaming around freely. Klaus also finds his protege Marcel ruling this little kingdom, which makes Klaus jealous. "Vampire Diaries" creator Julie Plec tells EW.com that, " 'The Originals' will ultimately be the redemption tale of Klaus and, possibly, the unraveling of Elijah, who is going to have to maybe get his hands dirty in an effort to keep his brother in check." We'll find out in May whether the series will be picked up. Meanwhile, tonight's episode finds star Nina Dobrev pulling double duty as both Elena and Katherine. 8 p.m. CW
Reese Witherspoon, the actress with the sunny, clean reputation, got in a bit of trouble with the law the other night. She's canceled her TV appearances. But don't hold it against her. Check out three of her biggest films over the next few days. Tonight is "Cruel Intentions." "Walk the Line" is Friday. "Sweet Home Alabama" is Saturday. All are at 7 p.m. on Oxygen.
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Apple versus Samsung: Full interview with the jury foreman
This is the full text of the BBC's interview with Velvin Hogan, foreman of the jury in the recent Apple versus Samsung patent lawsuit.
The case resulted in the jury ruling that the iPhone-maker should be awarded $1.05bn (£665m) in damages, and the South Korean firm's claims of infringement rejected. The judge has scheduled further hearings and Samsung has said it intends to appeal.
An edited version of the conversation can be found here.
What was the crucial bit of evidence that made you give a verdict that was so decisive in Apple's favour rather than Samsung's?
As I have told others that have interviewed me, for me one of the most decisive pieces of evidence was reading the minutes for myself of a meeting that was held at a very high level between Google executives and Samsung executives, where it was for a tablet and Google was concerned that for the sake of their operating system that the look and feel and the methodology that they [Samsung] were using to create their tablet was getting too close to what Apple was doing.
And in the memo themselves - remember this was minutes - they stated that Google demanded that they back away from that design. And later there was a follow-up memo among themselves, these executives, and in black and white it says: we elect to not pass this information down to the divisions that were actually involved in the design.
So, from the sake of the engineers they went merrily along continuing their design not given any orders to back away. They knew nothing of that meeting. To me that kind of raised a lightbulb in my head that when I got in the jury room I wanted to read the minutes of that meeting myself.
What they had done in the courtroom, was just of course highlighted certain things.
But when we went into deliberation in the jury room we not only had all the physical evidence of everything that was presented, but we also had sealed source code in its entirety from both sides, we actually had the memos that were talked about in the trial - but we had the full copy, not just what was shown [to] us [in the courtroom] - and there was a piece of evidence after a piece of evidence that just clearly stacked up.
That it became rather obvious that they either knowingly - or should have known - that they were getting close to infringing.
What did you make of the evidence given in the court? Did you form opinions of the two companies from what both sides put on show?
We, at least for me, there was several areas that caused question marks. What the jurors attempted to do was not form an opinion at all on either side until we got to the jury room.
We weren't allowed to keep our notes after the trial was over, but for every piece of evidence that was offered I had notes and asterisks to myself to, when I get into the jury room, look for myself, read for myself.
A lot has been made about the original interview you gave to Reuters in which you said you wanted to make the award sufficiently high to be painful to Samsung, but not unreasonable. There has been concern raised by some people that that may have been prejudicial and the awards should have been based on the facts alone. I wonder if you would like to clarify that.
Yes I would. Bloomberg asked me that question and others that have interviewed me asked that question and I have tried to make it clear that it wasn't an attempt from a punitive standpoint.
And it wasn't necessarily focused at Samsung - that is where it had been taken out of context.
What was actually meant by that statement when I made it was that what I wanted... the jurors wanted to send a message to the industry at large that no matter who you are - whether you are Apple, whether you are Samsung, or anybody - if you wilfully take the risk to cross the line and start infringing and you get caught, and again I emphasise wilfully, you need to be prepared to pay the cost for that.
And to what extent were you aware that because it was wilful, that the judge could now treble the damages, or was that not a concern?
We were never privy to that. There are a lot of things in the trial that we weren't privy to.
Case in point, every time the judge ruled on an action such as the injunction that they talked about we were not informed of that. We were either dismissed for the day, depending on what time it was, or retired to the jury room so that those discussions in the court would be out of our hearing.
And so there was a number of things like that we were kept in the dark. Further we had sworn an oath that we would not watch the media, we would not talk to each other or form any opinion until this was over, and we took that oath seriously.
So, a lot of things that you as individuals observing the trial before and after were made privy to, we were not until the deliberation was concluded and the verdict yielded.
There were two issues, looking at Apple's case: Whether Samsung had infringed their patents and whether the patents were valid. Why weren't you convinced by Samsung's arguments that some of the patents that Apple had put forward shouldn't be allowed to stand? There has been a lot made in the media and elsewhere that Apple wasn't the first with some of the ideas that they had patented.
To try to make it as easy as possible - I have addressed this in other interviews that I have had - what it amounts to is there has been a big fuss since the deliberation that prior art was not considered. Prior art was considered.
When we had to determine the validity of Apple's patent against the charges of Samsung's with the prior art examples, what we had to do - to make it clear - is that not only did we have to validate, if you will, the Apple patent, but in looking at the prior art we had stipulations in the law that tested both sides and if the test wasn't passed then it was clear either the patent was valid or it wasn't.
Prior art didn't mean that the prior art wasn't valid. It was valid. But the stipulation under the law is for the prior art to be sufficient to negate or invalidate the Apple patents in this case, it had to be sufficiently similar or, more importantly, it had to be interchangeable.
And in example after example, when we put it to the test, the older prior art was just that. Not that there's anything [wrong] with older prior art - but the key was that the hardware was different, the software was an entirely different methodology, and the more modern software could not be loaded onto the older example and be run without error.
And vice versa of that was also true. So the point being, at the 40,000 foot-level, even though the outcome of the two seemed similar, the internal methodology of how you got there was entirely different.
One could not be exchanged for the other. And that is the thing that most people at large do not understand about the legal system. And as a result of that you have heard a lot of hype in the media about did we turn our back on prior art? No.
Did it mean prior art could not have been used to compete against anything any other company had done? No, I'm not saying that.
I'm saying both could have existed independently of each other and been used. The thing you have to remember is that the prior art that belonged to Samsung, or belonged to somebody else that they had the ability of using, they had not used for quite some time.
And the methodology that they had implemented was just right up against the line of infringement and went beyond it in most cases. And not all cases.
Not everything that Apple accused of Samsung was correct and we made those stipulations as we filled out the form, and well, you know how it played out.
My point is that there were substantially difference between the prior art and the new method, but the key was you could not replace one for the other.
There had been a lot of speculation that although Apple might get damages, Samsung might get damages as well. Why did Samsung's case fail?
Whenever we considered the prior art and we looked at those patents, and specifically the claims that were involved, and the claim limitations that were involved, we had the instruction from the judge who had given us the stipulation of the precedent in the law that for the prior art in this case to negate or invalidate the patent on Apple's side - that was being involved in the allegation from Samsung that the patent was invalid because of the prior art - we had to establish that number one, the two methods were substantially similar; that the outcome was the same, in other words the functionality was the same, that would be at the 40,000-foot level. But what was key to us, and it was a very important piece, is that the stipulation in the law, they had to be interchangeable.
And so consequently, when we looked at the source code - I was able to read source code - I showed the jurors that the two methods in software were not the same, nor could they be interchangeable because the hardware that was involved between the old processor and the new processor - you couldn't load the new software methodology in the old system and expect that it was going to work, and the converse of that was true.
And we're talking about Samsung's patent claim about combining a mobile phone with email [and a camera]?
Exactly, in fact that is the one issue that we left on Wednesday night, the first day of deliberation, that had hung us up. And I, being the foreman, said because we had ran over and the US marshals had already told us that we could not work past six o'clock, and we were approaching six o'clock.
And we had hung up on this for over an hour and 45 minutes. I told them let's leave it, let's come back fresh in the morning and then let's deal with this.
And it was that evening that when I was sitting at home relaxing - and I have the type of mind when I'm relaxing doing one thing, my mind is running 90 miles an hour typically thinking about my distraction.
In this case, I was thinking about that specific patent and I was thinking of each and every claim and each and every claim limitation. And I know there are people out there that question what I have said and why it was important. But the task that I put it to, for myself, while I was going through this thought process is: let's pretend that this patent is mine.
And what I mean by the term "can I defend this patent", there's a process you go through in this country that you go through before a patent issued.
When the patent office determines that they are going to reject your patent based on a claim you are making against prior art - and in my case I had several of those - you have to be able to lay the groundwork and defend your claim that in light of the prior art it would not have been obvious to the individual who drafted that prior art that the new methodology could have been accomplished.
So that's the comparison and that's what I meant by defending the patent. And I'm going through this thought process of the patent that was involved and the prior art example that was involved, and making that comparison.
And when I got through with that comparison and that test, I asked myself the question: could I defend this patent, not in the court, could I defend this patent through that process just like I had to do my own if this were mine? And that's the "aha" moment that you hear talked about out there.
The answer to that question for me was yes. And so it just hit me that evening that that process I needed to explain to my fellow jurors because I was the only one that had ever gone through that process among them.
And there's a lot of misconception - even in the engineering community today among individuals who have never had to go through that process - of what that process consists of.
Do you think if you hadn't been on the jury then we might have ended up with a very different verdict?
I think so. But let's not say me specifically.
Let's say if there had not been an individual who had the technical background, and there had not been an individual who had gone through the process, the verdict might have been different, or it might have been the same.
I believe that the jury system in this country stands. The individuals would have ultimately come to a verdict. It might have been a lot longer.
But what definitely would have been required is passing more questions to the judge and having them come back. In our case we didn't have to.
A lot has been made of the speed that you came to a verdict. Bearing in mind the instructions were, I think, about 109 pages long...
Yes, the instructions were 109 pages long and you hear a lot of hype in the media about that there were 700 individual questions.
But what the misconception is, is the reality was there was only 33 questions but over 26 accused devices. And the judge had set up - you have seen pictures of what that looked like - a question and there was a matrix and you kind of had to put Xs or Ys or Nos in the box.
And some of them were blacked out and some of them weren't. And the patents were grouped.
In the sample I'm thinking of specifically, the very first question, there was three patents together and was the evidence da-da-da-da such that, against three division of Samsung. And where it is clear that a division could not have been involved in this the judge blacked out that area. You didn't have to answer it.
So what it amounted to for us, is that first we had to answer that question.
The very first one dealt with the validity issue. And so it was clear we had to determine that the Apple patent was valid in this case in the first place.
And it's because of that revelation moment that I had that evening, first off that we needed to do this with each case. We needed to go through this prosecution process that would have been done in the patent office against the inventors and their attorney to establish the validity of the patent compared to the validity of the prior art.
Once we had gone through that exercise and answered that question we could answer the question at hand and fill in the blanks, if you will. And the blanks were listed - not for all the 26 devices, that is something people haven't understood - not all of the 26 devices infringed all of the patents.
Some infringed one, some infringed two, some infringed three. Not all were accused by Apple as a bucket-list against all of the patents.
And the judge had broken things out by the questions in the matrix according to the group of two or three patents that Apple had accused certain devices against and created the matrix, and what we had to do is if they were valid we had to answer the question: did they infringe? And so forth.
A lot has been made that a couple had to be sent back [to the jury]?
That's not true. Let me explain what that was about.
It was as simple as this: When we had issued the verdict and the judge had given it to the court deputy and the court deputy had read aloud to the jurors and to ourselves what our verdict was item by item, copies of it were given to the attorneys on both sides, and the judge had a copy of it.
And the jurors were retired to the jury room while they looked it over. They were looking it over to make sure that there was no mistake and it was consistent. Because there was 700 entries across 33 questions.
And, even though we filled it out, and even though we had three people independently... we had one juror to be the transcriber and we had three others to proof-read the results. And then I checked it over again and at the end was my signature.
But we were called back in the jury room. What had happened is we were told that the attorneys had found inconsistency.
What it translated into was there were two products, there were the Samsung products, the two that we had determined did not - they were the tablets - that did not violate or infringe.
And somehow when we transcribed an answer to one matrix to each of those questions, they were answered yes when they should have been answered no.
And that translated for those two products into just two mistakes. But it translated into four complete places in the form where those two products, based on the answers that we gave, changed the damage award figures.
So we had to go back through for the two products and, first off make the adjustment in terms of how that question was answered and then adjust the award figure.
So just to be clear, this was a transcription error rather than a error of judgement.
Absolutely, absolutely.
Looking at the bigger picture, going forward do you have a concern that this case and the verdict given could encourage further patent litigation?
Yes. I have no doubt that, number one, this case for this country is historical. It's a landmark case and, as people have said, we set the bar rather high. But as jurors we took the job seriously.
What needs to be understood by those outside that are watching this and listening to it, no matter whether we or anyone else feel personally that the patent procedure in this country or the patent system is broken or sick, we as jurors were sworn to abide by the rules and the stipulations in law as they exist today, at the time we made the decision.
And so, if those had changed tomorrow, well that would have been tomorrow.
And personally, do you think it is broken and sick and needs reform?
I believe we definitely need to continue the discussion. What I applaud is the fact that there is a discussion going on. Not everybody agrees with me or agrees with the decision that we made.
But that's OK. Whether I believe it is sick or broken or needs to be fixed or not, the rules are today what they are.
But if the community of engineers at large believe that it needs to be changed or re-reviewed, this court, this trial, and this set of jurors - myself included - was not the genre for that. It was not the right place.
That wasn't our authority and it wasn't what we were supposed to do.
However, Congress is one vehicle, and the President has a cabinet post for technology, that is the other one.
Keep the buzz going, keep the debate going, and if you genuinely believe that change is in order, there is an outlet for that.
Stepping outside the legal process do you think for the health of the industry that this was the right verdict, or do you think people should look at what has happened here and maybe rewrite the rules?
At this point in time it's the right verdict.
But am I saying that the system shouldn't be looked at to make it more efficient? I believe how perfect or not you think the system is, it's not above being reviewed.
And the test of whether or not after 200 years in this country this protocol is correct or not, it's the court of public opinion - specifically those of us who that are technologists, no matter what our disciplines of technology are - it is our responsibility if we believe there is a problem, to request that the system be reviewed.
And the only way that is going to happen is to continue this discussion and to continue it in such a way that... there's a lot of statements that are made out there that you read everything that has been said, and some focus right at me and at my judicial peers, that this was the wrong thing and the wrong decision.
And that's why I make such a big deal is the rules exist the way they are. But if at large we believe some kind of change is in order, then the only way it is going to happen is if sufficient number of those that believe that are willing to stand up and make their point known.
And I applaud that debate and I don't take any of this personal. Debate is healthy in this country, no matter how heated it is. It's the only way that change is going to take place.
And I'm not saying that the system is perfect. But I am saying it is what it is today and that's the yardstick that we had to use in this trial.
Can anything be made better? Yes.
In fact the patent office has reviewed the fact that for several years now the system has been kind of clogged up.
And so, as a result, passing things through this process is rather slow. Because Silicon Valley is at the heart of the innovation in this country, they have determined it necessary to open an additional office in this area and I applaud that.
Samsung has suggested if the verdict is allowed to stand it would be hugely damaging to consumers. What do you make of that statement?
I believe that was gut-level reactionary and as it played out across the last several days, the statement I made at the very outset was that Samsung has a collection of some of the most innovative engineers on the globe, and that I believe they were sufficiently smart enough at the executive level to have two strategies.
One what if we lose, and one what if we win. And while the rhetoric initially was saying this is going to hurt the consumer - we are going to lose. I didn't hold that viewpoint, and I made it clear publicly what my viewpoint was.
And at the outset a few of the quote-unquote experts out there had a differing opinion.
But if you look at some of the question-and-answer sessions that have gone on since then you will see that the experts are starting to line up behind me.
Because what has been clear in the last 24 hours is the fact that Samsung hasn't in fact lost any revenue and has been able to move forward and has a strategy to do so.
My thing is for any company, and specifically for Samsung, as you're approaching that line you can get as close as you want to that line without infringing. Stop short of infringing and start innovating like crazy.
And Samsung is clever enough. Perhaps at the end of the day because of your innovation you wind up with a solution that surpasses Apple.
And if you do so I applaud you because I think you are capable of it. That's the point that I want to leave things with.
It's not that we're saying one side had to copy because they're not as good as. That's not true. There are many ways they could have accomplished this, they chose to infringe.
But I say step back from infringement, make the minor changes that are necessary, and then innovate forward and maybe even you'll surpass Apple.
You said earlier that one of the killer punches for you was the Google meeting with Samsung. A lot has been made of the idea that Apple may have ultimately been gunning for Android rather than just specifically for Samsung. Do you think this verdict will have implications for other companies who use Android?
No. There was a lot of rhetoric about that at the beginning, but it's becoming clearer. And the belief that I held from what I was hearing was specifically the Android operating system - the way that operating system runs - was not, first off... that was the point behind Google's demands against Samsung and the look-and-feel issue.
But that had no bearing on infringement. Nor did whether they infringed or not infringed hurt the Android operating system. As it played out those two operating systems can stand side-by-side, even though there is some similarity. The way those two operating systems function are sufficiently different enough that there is no infringement.
Just to make it clear, the phone that I have is a Motorola Droid 3 and the reason I'm mentioning that is because it is in the record, it was told to the judge and told to the court when asked that question.
And it is of a slider variety so it has a normal keyboard, and for that reason it's not among the 26 accused phones. It uses icons, and they are more than sufficiently different than what the iPhone, what Apple uses.
At the 40,000 foot-level there are some what you would perceive to be similarities. When you look at how the code is running and what the outcome is you will find that when you compare even that phone against the current patents that Apple is using, there is no infringement.
My point is that the consumer at large does not have to lose functionality. But the methodology that is used by the company building that can get as close as they want to to that line of infringement, but just don't cross it.
Don't cross the infringement line, make some changes so that you're not going to cross it and then innovate like crazy.
And that's really the most important part. And I think Samsung has the capability, perhaps like no other on the globe, to be able to do it sufficiently fast enough that they are not going to lose any revenue.
And if you look at the financial reports as of yesterday it seems to bear out that very case that I make.
A lot of people have said this case happened in Apple's backyard, what else would you expect? I wonder if you would like to address that.
I will. I have already stated publicly in a couple of taped video interviews about this very question.
Yes, this trial took place in San Jose in the heart of Silicon Valley and Apple is located just down the road west of where the trial was, and two of Samsung's divisions are here down the road north-east of where this decision was made.
Everybody in the valley knows that Apple's headquarters is local. Samsung's headquarters is in South Korea, but everyone in this valley knows also that there is two divisions functioning in this valley.
Everybody knows Samsung, everybody in this valley knows Apple. There is absolutely no ground to say that Apple had a hometown advantage.
Certainly it did not influence any of us on the jury panel.
Mr Hogan asked that it be reported that he had not requested any money for any of the interviews he had given.


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Preparedness Day Bombing
The Preparedness Day Bombing was a bombing in San Francisco, California on July 22, 1916, of a parade organised by local supporters of the Preparedness Movement which advocated American entry into World War I. During the parade a suitcase bomb was detonated, killing ten and wounding 40[1] in the worst attack in San Francisco's history.
|Preparedness Day Bombing
|Embarcadero, San Francisco, California
|37°47′39″N 122°23′40″W / 37.794167°N 122.394444°WCoordinates: 37°47′39″N 122°23′40″W / 37.794167°N 122.394444°W
|July 22, 1916
2:06 p.m. (UTC−08:00)
|Preparedness Day Parade
Attack type
|Time bomb
|Opposition to World War I
|Guilty of murder
|Planting homemade bomb
Two labor leaders, Thomas Mooney and Warren K Billings, were convicted in separate trials and sentenced to death, later commuted to life in prison.[2] Later investigations found the trials to have been marred by false testimony, and the men were released in 1939 and eventually pardoned. The identity of the bombers has never been determined.
By mid-1916, after viewing the carnage in Europe, the United States saw itself poised on the edge of participation in World War I. Isolationism remained strong in San Francisco, not only among radicals such as the Industrial Workers of the World ("the Wobblies"), but also among mainstream labor leaders. At the same time, with the rise of Bolshevism and labor unrest, San Francisco's business community was nervous. The Chamber of Commerce organized a Law and Order Committee, despite the diminishing influence and political clout of local labor organizations.[citation needed] The Preparedness Day Parade was organized by the Chamber of Commerce and the anti-union conservative business establishment.
The paradeEdit
The huge Preparedness Day parade of Saturday, July 22, 1916, was a target of radicals. An unsigned antiwar pamphlet issued throughout the city in mid-July read in part, "We are going to use a little direct action on the 22nd to show that militarism can't be forced on us and our children without a violent protest."[3]
Mooney had been tipped off to threats that preceded the parade and pushed resolutions through his union, the Molders, and the San Francisco Central Labor Council and the Building Trades Council warning that provocateurs might attempt to blacken the labor movement by causing a disturbance at the parade.[citation needed]
The San Francisco Preparedness Day parade of 1916 was the largest parade ever held in the city. The 3.5 hour procession had 51,329 marchers, including 2,134 organizations and 52 bands. Ironically, perhaps, the starting signals were "the crash of a bomb and the shriek of a siren." Military, civic, judicial, state, and municipal divisions were followed by newspaper, telephone, telegraph and streetcar trade unions. Many of the following divisions came from other cities of the San Francisco Bay Area. At 2:06pm, about half an hour into the parade, a time bomb in the form of a cast steel pipe filled with explosives exploded on the west side of Steuart Street, just south of Market Street, near the Ferry Building.[1][4]
Before capping the steel pipe containing the explosive (believed by police to have been either TNT or dynamite), the bomb-maker had filled the pipe with metal slugs designed to act as shrapnel, greatly increasing the bomb's lethality.[1][4] Ten bystanders were killed and forty wounded, including a young girl who had her legs blown off.[1] The bombing was the worst terrorist act in San Francisco history.[5] Witnesses differed on where the bomb was located. Some witnesses stated that they saw a man leaving a suitcase against the corner of a building at Market and Steuart streets that contained the bomb,[6] while others, such as Dr. Mora Moss, testified he saw the bomb being hurled or dropped from the roof of a nearby building, rather than being left at the scene.[7]
Trials and convictionsEdit
Led by the San Francisco District Attorney, Charles Fickert, authorities initially focused their attention on several well-known radicals and anarchists in the city, among them Alexander Berkman, who was well known to the government for his radical politics and prior conviction as an attempted assassin. He had only recently relocated to San Francisco after being implicated in yet another bombing conspiracy, the Lexington Avenue bombing in New York City, which resulted in the deaths of several anarchists and at least one innocent bystander. While in San Francisco, Berkman had begun his own anarchist journal, which he named The Blast. After the Preparedness Day bombing, Berkman abruptly abandoned The Blast and returned to New York, rejoining Emma Goldman to work on the Mother Earth Bulletin. The San Francisco District Attorney attempted to have Berkman extradited back to San Francisco on conspiracy allegations related to the bombing, but was unsuccessful.[8]
Two known radical labor leaders – Thomas Mooney (ca. 1882–1942) and his assistant, Warren K. Billings (1893–1972) – were eventually arrested. Billings, convicted previously for carrying dynamite on a passenger train, had a reputation for enjoying direct action, and Mooney, a militant socialist, had been arrested but never convicted for conspiring to dynamite power lines during the 1913 Pacific Gas and Electric Company strike.[9] Mooney and his wife had also previously been arrested for unsuccessfully attempting to stop streetcar operations during a planned streetcar motorman strike, and was known for being on the 'radical' side of labor activists.[10]
The conservative leaders of local trade unions and editors of labor trade papers in the San Francisco area disliked Mooney intensely, believing him to be a "dangerous troublemaker" whose methods "never produced anything but trouble."[10][11] Mooney and especially Billings both had prior knowledge of how to use dynamite (Billings was also familiar with clockwork timing mechanisms, and became a watch repairman after his release from prison).[1]
Police held Mooney incommunicado and without counsel for six days, during which time they attempted to interrogate him. Mooney declined to speak, invoking his right to counsel some forty-one times. At the grand jury proceedings, the suspects were still without counsel, and were not permitted to shave or clean up before appearing before the grand jury. The defendants refused to testify in protest of having been denied counsel. After the grand jury returned an indictment, Tom and Rena Mooney, Warren Billings, Israel Weinberg, and Ed Nolan were charged with murder.
Charles M. Fickert, the District Attorney, alleged that Mooney had planted the suitcase at the bomb scene, which contained a dynamite bomb with a clock as a timing mechanism. Fickert and the police discounted the testimony of witnesses whose descriptions did not fit Mooney and Billings, or whose description of the bombing did not support the District Attorney's theory that Mooney had planted the suitcase bomb. Mooney and Billings eventually retained a well-known San Francisco criminal attorney, Maxwell McNutt, as their defense counsel.
In a set of trials, Billings was tried first in September 1916, Tom Mooney in January 1917. Both were convicted and sentenced to hang. Rena Mooney and Israel Weinberg were both acquitted, and Ed Nolan was never brought to trial but released two months after Tom Mooney's conviction.[2]
Years later, a Mediation Commission set up by President Woodrow Wilson found no clear evidence of Mooney's guilt, and his death sentence was commuted. In 1918 Billings' sentence was also commuted to life imprisonment. By 1939, evidence of perjury and false testimony at the trial had become overwhelming. California Governor Culbert Olson pardoned both men. Ansel Adams wrote about meeting Thomas Mooney in his autobiography. Adams was a young boy at the Panama-Pacific International Exhibition, where Mooney was working. Adams later wrote, "In my memory he is a kind and gentle man."[citation needed]
Later investigationsEdit
Although the identity of the bomber (or bombers) has never been precisely determined, it has been attributed by several historians to anarchists espousing direct action or propaganda of the deed. In addition to the language of the unsigned July warning leaflet, the Preparedness Day Parade event had been organized by the Chamber of Commerce and the anti-union conservative business establishment to inspire patriotism and support for U.S. entry into the world war, a development that could hardly fail to infuriate anarchists. Besides Mooney and Billings, several persons are thought to have been capable of carrying out such a violent attack, all of them anarchists and advocates of direct action.
Postwar research has led some historians to suspect involvement at some level in the bombing conspiracy by the anarchist Alexander Berkman, given his knowledge of the Lexington Avenue bombing conspiracy, his enthusiasm for revolutionary violence while editor of The Blast, and his hasty departure from San Francisco immediately following the Preparedness Day bombing. However, whether he was involved in the conspiracy or not, Berkman was almost certainly not the person who constructed the actual bomb, since he was known to have little or no technical skills with explosives.
Another suspect group included the Galleanists, radical anarchist followers of Luigi Galleani, particularly the elusive Mario Buda. Buda, who was a bomb-maker of deadly repute, fit at least one witness' physical description of the bomber,[11][12] and the Galleanists were known to utilize time bombs consisting of cast steel or iron pipes packed with dynamite and metal slugs or other types of shrapnel to increase maiming and overall casualties.[13][14] While the Galleanists conducted most of their bomb attacks on the East Coast, there was a large and restive Italian anarchist community in San Francisco at the time, and many of them subscribed to Galleani's journal, Cronaca Sovversiva (Subversive Chronicle), which openly called for direct action via propaganda of the deed while glorifying the assassination of 'militarists' and 'capitalists'.[15][16][17]
The Galleanist group was known for their ruthlessness in choosing targets, had avidly participated in successful bomb attacks as far west as Milwaukee and Chicago, and in 1919 had unleashed a campaign of mail bombings to victims all over the country, including two booby-trap bombs sent to District Attorney Fickert and his assistant Edward A. Cunha in San Francisco, the men who had prosecuted Mooney and Billings.[8][18][19][20] Luigi Galleani himself wrote that police had not arrested "the right criminal", later telling investigators that he was "positively sure" with "mathematical certitude" that Mooney was not the bomber.[21]
The Galleanist group would go on to utilize bomb designs nearly identical to that of the Preparedness Day Bomb in several subsequent bombings during 1918 and 1919,[15] while Mario Buda was the prime suspect in the later and very similar Wall Street bombing in New York City in 1920.[8] Additionally, in an apparent oblique reference to an event in February 1916 in which a Galleanist operative in Chicago, Nestor Dondoglio, served poisoned soup to a host of political, religious, and business leaders, San Francisco police recovered two unsigned letters urging the headwaiter at the St. Francis Hotel to serve poisoned soup to Police Commissioner James Woods, one of the organizers of the Preparedness Day march, when Woods next came to dine there.[22]
Yet another possible suspect is Celsten Eklund, a well-known San Francisco radical orator, unemployed laborer, and passionate anarchist who had been previously involved in a series of labor demonstrations and altercations with police, and who was believed to have strong ties to the Italian anarchist community.[23] On March 6, 1927, Eklund and another man known only as 'Ricca' were shot by police as they attempted to light the fuse of a large dynamite bomb in front of the Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in San Francisco.[23] Ricca died at the scene and Eklund was seriously wounded.[23] The church, which had been the target of four previous bombings in the space of one year, had been a magnet for anarchist anti-Catholic sentiment in the city.[23] Eklund later died of his wounds without revealing anything to police save for the Italian last name of his fellow bomber.[23]
The filmEdit
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A film about the events was made shortly after the bombings. The film, with its animated propagandistic prologue, was clearly aimed at local audiences. Perhaps it was thought that the film might help to "flush out" the bomber. The Hearst-Pathe film of the bombing scene was filmed after most of the bodies had been removed.[citation needed]
See alsoEdit
- American Union Against Militarism
- Anarchism and Other Essays
- Anarchism and violence
- Espionage Act of 1917
- Fellowship of Reconciliation
- Joseph and Michael Hofer
- League to Enforce Peace
- Milwaukee Police Department bombing
- Palmer Raids
- Progressive Era
- Selective Service Act of 1917
- The Liberator
- The Masses
- ^ a b c d e "CRIME: Mooney & Billings". Time. Vol. 16 no. 2. July 14, 1930.
- ^ a b Frost, Richard H., The Mooney Case, Stanford University Press, ISBN 0-8047-0651-4, ISBN 978-0-8047-0651-3 (1968), pp. 106-108, 112-118
- ^ A Timeline of San Francisco History: 1900-1950, retrieved 23 July 2011
- ^ a b Bomb Hurled Through Air Says Physician Who Was Witness to Saturday Outrage, Reno Evening Gazette, 24 July 1916, pp. 1-2
- ^ "天下彩l天空票与你同行丨免费灬-跑狗玄机图85期-2016开奖记录开奖结果完整板". titlemn.com.
- ^ "The Pittsburgh Press - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- ^ Bomb Hurled Through Air, Reno Evening Gazette, p. 2: Dr. Mora Moss, one of the Preparedness Day marchers in the parade, stated that "I happened to turn and saw a black object surrounded by smoke falling through the air...it fell among the crowd and the explosion followed...I am sure that it was hurled into the mass of people and the theory that the suitcase was placed against the corner building is incorrect."
- ^ a b c Avrich, Paul, Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America, Princeton: Princeton University Press (1996)
- ^ Carlsson, Chris, Tom Mooney: Historical Essay, Found SF, retrieved 23 July 2011
- ^ a b Knight, Robert, Industrial Relations in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1900-1918, London, Cambridge University Press (1960), pp. 301, 307-309
- ^ a b McCann, Joseph T., Terrorism on American Soil, Boulder, CO: First Sentient Publications, ISBN 1-59181-049-3 (2006), pp. 48-49
- ^ Mooney Freed; Governor Tells of New Evidence, The Milwaukee Sunday News-Sentinel, Vol. II No. 16, January 8, 1939, pp. 1-A, 2-A: Some witnesses at the bomb scene stated that a man of dark, swarthy complexion in a cheap brown suit left the suitcase at the bomb scene, a description that could have easily fit one of the Galleanists.
- ^ Rapoport, David C., Terrorism, Volume I: The First or Anarchist Wave, London: MPG Books Ltd., ISBN 0-415-31651-0 (2006), pp. 201-203
- ^ Feldman, Noah, Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court justices, Twelve Publishers, ISBN 0-446-58057-0, ISBN 978-0-446-58057-1 (2010), p. 17
- ^ a b Avrich, Paul, Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background, Princeton University Press (1991), p. 97, 150-152
- ^ Galleani, Luigi, Faccia a Faccia col Nemico, Boston, MA: Gruppo Autonomo, (1914)
- ^ Wilkinson, Paul, Conflict Studies: Terrorism versus Liberal Democracy: the Problems of Response, London: Institute for the Study of Conflict, Current Affairs Research Services Centre, Issues 67-68 (1976), p. 3
- ^ Avrich, Paul, Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background, Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-02604-1 (1991), pp. 140-143: The package bombs sent to Fickert and Cunha were identical in packaging and design to other Galleanist mail bombs mailed at the same time.
- ^ Find More Bombs Sent in the Mails: One To Overman, The New York Times, 2 May 1919
- ^ Avrich, Paul, Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background, Princeton University Press (1991), p. 142: The package bombs sent to Cunha and Fickert were both actually delivered to their intended recipients; Cunha recognized the bomb packaging from news stories and had it removed, while Fickert's bomb was discovered and removed several days later, after it began to leak acid from its detonating mechanism.
- ^ Avrich, Paul, Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background, Princeton University Press (1991), p. 138: Galleani told an investigator at his deportation hearing that he was absolutely certain that Mooney was not the Preparedness Day bomber. When asked how he knew this, Galleani replied that "It is a very ticklish affair upon which I do not wish to comment; I am positively sure that it was not Mooney who threw the bomb."
- ^ Bomb Hurled Through Air, Says Physician Who Was Witness to Saturday Outrage, Reno Evening Gazette, 24 July 1916, pp. 1-2
- ^ a b c d e Issel, William, For Both Cross and Flag: Catholic Action, Anti-Catholicism, and National Security Politics in World War II San Francisco, Philadelphia PA: Temple University Press, ISBN 978-1-4399-0028-4 (2010) pp. 24-27
Further readingEdit
- ACLU, The Story of Mooney and Billings. New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 1928.
- William Bourke Cockran, A Heinous Plot: An Expose of the Frame-up System in the San Francisco Bomb Cases Against Billings, Mooney, Mrs. Mooney, Weinberg and Nolan. Chicago: Chicago Federation of Labor, 1917.
- Robert Minor, Fickert Has Ravished Justice: Story of So-Called Bomb Trials in San Francisco. San Francisco, CA: Tom Mooney Molders Defense Committee, n.d. [1917].
- "San Francisco Newspaper Man," Tom Mooney, a Miner's Son. San Francisco, CA: Tom Mooney Molders Defense Committee, n.d. [c. 1918].
- Henry T. Hunt; Thomas J. Mooney; Warren K. Billings (1929). The Case of Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings: Abstract and Analysis of Record Before Governor Young of California, March 25, 1929. New York: National Mooney-Billings Committee. pp. 1–444. OCLC 4742379.
- Estolv Ethan Ward (1983). The Gentle Dynamiter: A Biography of Tom Mooney. Palo Alto, Cal.: Ramparts Press. pp. 1–302. ISBN 978-0878670895. OCLC 9082943.
- Curt Gentry (1967). Frame-up: The Incredible Case of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. OCLC 231139.
- John C. Ralston (November 19, 2013). Fremont Older and the 1916 San Francisco Bombing: A Tireless Crusade for Justice. Charleston, S.C.: The History Press. pp. 1–192. ISBN 978-1626192676.
- Johnson, Jeffrey A. (August 24, 2017). The 1916 Preparedness Day Bombing: Anarchy and Terrorism in Progressive Era America. Routledge. pp. 1–198. ISBN 978-1317204008.
External linksEdit
- The film San Francisco's Future
- San Francisco's Future (Circa 1916) on YouTube
- Photographs Regarding the 1916 Preparedness Day Parade Bombing online collection, The Bancroft Library
- "1916 Preparedness Day Parade Bombing, 1916-1933 - Photographs". California Digital Library. Bancroft Library.
- Lectures in History Podcast from c-span
- Waxman, Olivia B. (July 22, 2016). "The Bomb That Rocked San Francisco 100 Years Ago". Time Inc.


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As promised, here are the step-by-step instructions to creating this sweet favor box, perfect for a bridal shower, baby shower, birthday party or many other occasions. Over to the left sidebar you can download the template with Jester motif or a blank one that you can print onto your own patterned or colored paper. (Note: the pictures below show the boxes with a personalized message. Your template will come without it but you can easily add your own if you have any Image Editing software at hand). Let's get started.
You will need:
- 8.5" x 11" Card Stock
- Ruler
- Self-healing mat
- Scissors
- X-Acto Knife
- Craft Glue OR Double Stick tape
- Hole Punch
- Bone Folder (not pictured)
- 1/4" Thick Ribbon
- Plastic or Glass beads (optional)
Download your template, open with Acrobat Reader (or any other software that can view PDFs) and print onto heavy card stock (the boxes won't be sturdy enough on copier-weight paper)
Cut out the template on the solid lines. After cutting a dozen or so of these, I found it was easier to use my X-Acto knife on the straight edges and corners and use the scissors on the rounded parts but you guys do what feels more comfortable to you.
Use a bone folder to fold your flat boxes on the dashed lines. You get a very crisp edge with a bone folder. But if you do not have one, you can use the edge of a wooden ruler or even a wooden spatula for this purpose.
Apply craft glue (I like using E6000, but if you prefer you can use permanent double sided tape) to the 4 flaps marked as "GLUE FLAP" and build your boxes. Punch a small hole in the marked areas on the rounded tops.
If you want to cover some Hershey miniatures to put in the boxes, like I did, print a sleeve sized at 1.5" wide x 3" long and apply to the chocolates using a small piece of double stick tape. You can use regular copier-weight paper for these. And there is no need to remove the original candy wrapper... just apply the sleeve right on top of the wrapper.
Voila! Personalized sweets:
Line each box with a half sheet of tissue paper and fill with about 7 - 8 chocolates. Cut a piece of 1/4" wide ribbon at approximately 18" long and feed through each punched hole at the top. Tie into a pretty bow.
For an extra special touch, add colored beads and tie the ends of the ribbon into a knot to secure the bead in place.
(and, please let me know if you have any problems downloading the PDF on the sidebar)


text: A new perspective on reverse mortgages Canadians have long known about the reverse mortgage. A commercial for the CHIP Home Income Plan has been a staple on screens across Canada for years. But taking money out of a home's equity to reduce debt and provide cash in retirement has typically been considered a stop-gap measure for clients in desperate shape. A new product from HomEquity Bank hopes to reverse that attitude and make reverse mortgages a common tool advisors can use to be more tax-efficient and sustain or create more estate wealth. Toronto-based HomEquity Bank originated the concept of reverse mortgages in Canada in 1986 and administers Canada's largest portfolio of reverse mortgages. The aforementioned Canadian Home Income Plan (CHIP) has been the main product of HomEquity Bank, the main underwriter of reverse mortgages in Canada. "We've helped thousands of people stay in their homes in retirement," says Jeff Spencer vice president of national sales for HomEquity Bank. "This has always been the goal of the company." But this past February the company began offering a new product, the HomEquity Bank Income Advantage plan, a new program that lets senior homeowners access equity in their home on a monthly basis, and at lower cost than CHIP. Plan members will have two accounts: The first account is set up for monthly advances, carries a low interest rate of prime + 1.25%; the second account is set up for lump sum advances and carries a competitive 5-year rate. By delivering a lower-cost monthly cheque based on the equity in a principal residence the funds are extremely tax-efficient compared to drawing down registered retirement fund says Spencer. A $1,000 cheque from a home equity loan can be comparable to, say, a $1,300 drawn from registered retirement funds when tax implications are factored in. Over the entire length of a retirement these differences can add up with a combination of tax deferral and potential tax rate savings. "What this plan allows an advisor to do is to take a client down a tax bracket or two and provide long-term tax savings," says Spencer. A recent presentation at the CFIP Conference saw Spencer present a case study of someone with a $2.8 million dollar net worth and 1.3 million dollar home. By taking some money out of the equity of the home monthly, withdrawals from registered retirement funds and non-registered portfolios were decreased. The family was able to add $600,000 in wealth to the estate. "After the presentation advisors were coming up and asking for the background on the case study," says Spencer. "They could see this is more than just a reverse mortgage, this is about maximizing tax efficiency. This is about activating your real estate. Instead of leaving asset dormant, do something with that asset that can affect the overall wealth of the entire estate. It's not complicated." By tapping the tax-efficient money in a home an advisor can help a client extend the life of an investment portfolio. Withdrawals from registered retirement funds can be avoided. The life of an investment portfolio can be extended, sometimes by five to ten years. "If you can extend the lifespan of a portfolio by five or ten years an advisor can revisit the asset allocation of that portfolio. Maybe you can put in some more equity in to make some gains," says Spencer. "Don't think of real estate in a retirement plan as just a point in time where they are selling the house, but as helping to position a client a bit better, so they can stay in their home but also profit from it. It needs to be considered. You need to get all the assets of a client working for the estate." "All we're saying is 'use your home productively.' How is this different than selling off a portion of your portfolio? It's a different way to think about reverse mortgages," says Spencer. No wonder advisors are starting to take a look at the new product. The company doesn't promote leverage in the case of reverse mortgages. The new program does not have the conveniences of a regular loan. There are no bank cards or cheques. An amount is deposited into the account of the member each month. That is, plan members cannot easily spend this money; there is a curbing of an impulse to overdo consumption based on these funds. "If you want to change anything you certainly can but you have to contact our client service team and go through a process ," says Spencer. "This is a good way to help an advisors keep their client on track with their long term plan." The product has only been on the market a few months but it seems many advisors are getting the message. At a time boomers are retiring in greater amounts anything to help fund a retirement has to be considered. Over the past 12 months alone HomEquity Bank has seen a 25% increase in volume directly from homeowners looking to unlock the value of their home. SHARE


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- Summer 2018
This program will facilitate the study of urban social control through a comparative analysis of control in Seattle and Amsterdam. By living in and studying two dense urban cities, students will explore the variety of social processes by which cities are rendered orderly. We will be interested in considering whether and how ordering processes might differ in an American city in contrast to a Dutch city. The program is designed to help students understand the key control mechanisms that make cities function, and to compare how these mechanisms work in two different cities, Seattle and Amsterdam. Through close readings, active class discussions, and fieldwork, we will develop an understanding of social control in both theory and practice, and do so through a comparative analysis of the two cities and the cultures of which they are a part. After the conclusion of this program, students will possess a deeper appreciation for the overt and covert means by which urban areas are rendered orderly, and an understanding of the larger political and philosophical questions those ordering processes necessarily generate.
Students will conduct field work in Seattle during the quarter before leaving for Amsterdam. While in Amsterdam students will be immersed in the local culture, will attend lectures from local faculty, participate in class discussions, and participate in group activities. These activities will include exploring a gentrifying neighborhood in Amsterdam, touring Amsterdam's Red Light District, visiting a marijuana coffee shop, and taking a trip to The Hague, among others.
As a whole, the program will engage students in a comparative study of two urban cities and their respective methods of social control, while creating in them more engaged, critical, and imaginative thinkers and citizens.
Information Sessions:
- December 6, 12:30pm
- January 10, 11:30am
- January 22, 3pm.; all in Smith M261.
Program Director:
- Ann Frost
Program Cost:
- $4,650
Application deadline:
- Jan. 31, 2018
- 6, 3 credit Spring Prep Class


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Police advice
Now that the evenings are drawing in, the Police have reminded residents to leave a light on, on use a timer switch, when they are away from home. There have been a couple of burglaries in neighbouring villages.
Advice re cybercrime
From Neighbourhood Watch:
Working with our partners to tackle cybercrime
Staying secure online can often seem complicated, but it doesn't have to be. The Government's Cyber Aware campaign, which follows advice and technical expertise from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), a part of GCHQ, offers the following simple advice to help you to improve your online security.
The key behaviours to help you improve your online security are:
Install the latest software and app updates
- They contain vital security updates which help protect your device from viruses and hackers
- Security updates are designed to fix weaknesses in software and apps which could be used by hackers to attack your device. Installing them as soon as possible helps to keep your device secure
- You can choose to install updates at night when you are asleep and your device is plugged in or set your mobile or tablet to automatically update your apps when you are connected to Wi-Fi and an update is available
- You can also set laptops and desktops to automatically install software updates when an update is available
Use a strong, separate password for your email account (you can use three random words or numbers to create a strong password).
- Hackers can use your email to access many of your personal accounts, by asking for you password to be reset, and find out personal information, such as your bank details, address or date of birth, leaving you vulnerable to identity theft or fraud
- Having strong, separate passwords for your most important accounts means that if hackers steal your password for one of your less important accounts, they can't use it to access your most important ones
- Make sure your password is easy for you to remember, but not easy for others to guess e.g. Pa55word may follow the rules of using letters and symbols but is well known amongst hackers as a common password
- Don't use words which would be easy to discover from your social media accounts, such as your child's name or favourite sports team
Other behaviours which can help keep you secure online include:
Secure your tablet or smartphone with a screen lock
- Give your device an extra layer of security by setting it to lock when you aren't using it
- Screen locks provide an extra layer of security to your device, as each time you want to unlock it or turn it on, you will need to enter a PIN, pattern, password or fingerprint
- This means if someone gets hold of your device they can't access the data on your device without entering your password, pattern, PIN or fingerprint
Always back-up your most important data
- Safeguard your most important data such as your photos and key documents by backing them up to an external hard drive or a cloud-based storage system
- If your device is infected by a virus or accessed by a hacker, your data may be damaged or deleted, which means you won't be able to access it. Backing up your data means you have another copy of it, which you can access
Final tips:
- Remember that spammers could also gain access to a friend's account, so if you get an uncharacteristic email containing a link from a friend, do not click on it but find another way of contacting them to check that the message is genuine.
- Leave a website if you feel suspicious – if the site doesn't look or 'feel' right, if there is text that doesn't appear to have any purpose or doesn't tie in with the rest of the site, or if you feel uneasy for any reason.
- Regularly check your social media privacy settings to control exactly what you're sharing with whom.
- If you're going away on holiday, don't advertise it on social media!
- If you use a wireless network at home, password-protect it.
These simple steps can go a long way to helping you to stay secure online. For more information visit https://www.cyberaware.gov.uk


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Windows 7 Mismatch with Windows 8 Not Too Gnarly
There's an interesting story from last Thursday morning (10/20/2011) on the IT ProPortal site entitled "How to Use Windows 7 Everydays Apps in Windows 8?" Therein, author Alex Serban demonstrates the truth of Microsoft's claims that ordinary Windows 7 apps run seemingly unchanged within the desktop side of the Windows 8 interface. Using this facility does require access what Serban calls "the old classic interface" (which Microsoft sometimes refers to as "the desktop interface") and lauching the application from there. And although there is no start menu available, so you must cycle through Metro UI to launch or run multiple applications, old-style or new, old-style applications still work the same as they ever did.
Frankly I found rumors or speculation that current Windows 7 apps wouldn't work in Windows 8 either hysterical or blatant attempts to incite controversy. Given the huge catalog of applications for the current reigning Windows OS, why would Microsoft want to alienate all of its application developers in one go? That just doesn't make sense. This is especially important to the business/corporate market, which is always slower to adopt new desktop operating systems than are individual users, and which always look at new releases with a skeptical, if not outrightly jaundiced viewpoint, ready to pounce on incompatibility issues to fuel their natural tendencies to delay platform migrations as long as possible.
That's why I'm glad to learn that my own experiences running existing apps in Windows 8's current developer preview are being repeated elsewhere as other professionals dig into the new OS and learn what they can about its pros and cons, strengths and weaknesses, and so forth. It continues to be an interesting ride, and it's pretty clear that MS still has lots of work to do to smooth out some rough edges in the next 11 months or so before the latest Windows version is ready for prime time.


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Lessons on a Battlefield
A few weeks ago, Ty and I were in Nashville for a work trip. While we were there, we got to take a tour of some historic Civil War sites. These are always my favorite things to do because I just really love history, but this time it was different than it's been before.
This time, I was seeing all of it through a new lens – the lens of now.
Our first stop was the Carter House in Franklin. The Battle of Franklin was bigger and bloodier than the Battle of Gettysburg, and the Carter family home got stuck in the middle of the front line. The family huddled in the basement for the five hours that the battle was raging around them.
When we went through the house, the scars of war were everywhere. There were bullet holes riddling the outside of the house and much of the furniture inside, reminders of the horror that happened there. It was so powerful to put myself in the basement with my kids waiting out a battle – to picture my boys huddled in the corner listening to the sounds of war. Innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire.
After the Carter House we went down the road to Carnton. "Carnton", a nod to the word "cairn" (piles of rocks built as a memorial or landmark), was the McGavock family farm and home. The farm was taken over and used as a makeshift hospital for the Confederate Army in the hours after the battle. The family gave every room in the house for the doctors to treat 300 men at a time inside, while over 400 more littered the lawn and porches.
Carrie McGavock was making bandages out of her sheets and tablecloths and curtains and her family's clothes – even down to their undergarments. Their harvesting baskets were no longer being used for collecting crops, but for collecting amputated limbs. The porch and yard were filled with fires to warm the hundreds of men bleeding and crying in agony.
On our two tours, the tour guides beautifully and masterfully made the battle and the aftermath come alive.
Two sides. 20,000 Union troops and 20,000 Confederate troops. Two deeply held beliefs and positions. Two opposing ideas that couldn't be reconciled, and neither could their supporters.
40,000 men. And every single man on that battlefield was just that – a man. A person with a family, with a story, with dreams and senses of humor and ideals and opinions.
They are us 150 years ago.
Two sides. Deeply held beliefs and positions. Opposing ideas that can't be reconciled, and neither can their supporters.
We're there, you guys. We're at hate. Just because we don't have cannons and rifles doesn't mean that history isn't repeating itself.
Normal people with families and jobs and homes and ideas, turning on each other. Every opinion laced with disdain for the other side. Instead of finding common ground, we're burning bridges with anger and contempt. Lumping people into categories based on one opinion. Assuming the worst in each other. Written or spoken, words are drawing lines in the sand.
We're at hate, and we have to do something about it.
When we were leaving the Carter House, our tour guide took us into one of the outbuildings that had been completely restored, except for one wall.
This wall stands as a poignant reminder of what happens when two sides become so divided it turns to hate.
Carrie McGavock was so committed to comforting the men piled into her home that her dress was soaked in blood for days. She didn't make the men change their opinions or denounce their beliefs before she tended to them. There were no heated debates about morality, or whether the South should secede or not, or if they owned slaves or supported slavery. No questions or accusations. She just set about the work of loving the real men begging for hope in her living room.
That sounds a lot like Jesus to me.
We need THAT history to repeat itself. A history of love no matter what. Of loving each actual person. Of seeing real people begging for hope and dropping everything to respond with love – no questions asked. Of seeing the person – the one that Jesus loved enough to die for – instead of the opinion or the words or the actions.
Everyone on both sides of everything is a little bit wrong. Some are a lot bit wrong. But we don't accomplish anything with disgust and condescension. We need to practice listening with open ears and hearts and minds and learn how to disagree with respect. We don't need to always agree, but when disagreement turns to hate, everything is lost.
Almost 10,000 men were killed, wounded, captured, or counted as missing in the Battle of Franklin alone. Real men. With names and stories. Not evil men – men just like us, who left regular jobs and normal families and small towns just like ours.
When the war was over, even though it wasn't politically correct, the McGavock family wanted to honor the men they'd cared for in their home, so they donated two acres of their land to bury the Confederate soldiers who lost their lives in the Battle of Franklin, many of whom had died within their very own walls.
Carnton lives up to its name by standing as a cairn. Instead of rocks piled high, it's rows upon rows upon rows of rocks standing as a reminder of what happens when two sides become so wrapped up in hate.
History is repeating itself, and only love can stop it.
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MARY JEAN SCHRAUFNAGELabout 1 year ago
Amen Hayley! I pray for the people who read this and find fault with the need for love with rationalizations that bolster their stand and completely miss the point. Love everyone all the time.Reply


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In the twenty first century, the value of connection is absolutely undeniable. Remember that we were not made to go through life by ourselves. It's worth pointing out, of course, that it isn't easy to form meaningful connections with people. Too many people go through life stuck in their own worlds.
Find a retreat center in New Jersey. You need to think creatively if you want to really bond with people. By attending an overnight retreat, you get the opportunity that you need to make real friends. It's worth stating, of course, that every overnight retreat is unique in some way. It's your responsibility to choose a retreat that meets your particular needs. Obviously, you'll want to know what you're looking for before you choose a retreat. A good retreat should offer a religious component of some kind. Never forget that religion offers an ideal way form new and lasting connections. By going on an overnight retreat, you can meet the people that you deserve to have in your life.
If you want to connect with people, there are a handful of things that you should know. Be aware that the desire to connect is one of the most basic human needs. As you may imagine, your personal relationships will have a tremendous influence on the overall quality of your life. The truth is that when you have good friends, your life is fuller and richer. If you want to make lifelong friends, it only makes sense to attend an overnight group retreat.
Connection isn't something that happens by accident. A connection is what forms when opportunity meets preparation. It takes real skill to earn a friend. Fortunately, this process doesn't need to be difficult. It's worth pointing out that the human experience is shared by everyone. We may have differences, but our similarities are much more substantive. This means that you should be able to connect with any person that you meet. Never forget that attending an overnight retreat is a great way to meet people and form lifelong connections.
If you're going to connect with people, you need to be genuine. As you are no doubt aware, people are very smart. You cannot trick people into respecting you. If you're being disingenuous, you will only miss opportunities. You need to know that your connections will last for years to come. You need to show people the real you. By attending an overnight retreat, you can get the help that you need to meet new people and form real connections. Go to http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/21/daily-meditation_n_7107390.html to learn more.


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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued recall notices for the following products related to the recreational vehicle industry:
- Certain (2009-2010) Dutchmen Manufacturing Co. trailers because the federal identification tag tire and loading information label does not contain the correct size.
- Certain Winnebago Industries Inc. (2007-2008) Access, Aspect, Sightseer and Vista motorhomes, (2007-2008) Itasca Impulse, Cambria, Sunova and Sunstar motorhomes (2009-2010) Access, Sightseer and Vista motorhomes and (2009-2010) Itasca Impulse, Sunova and Sunstar motorhomes. The RVs may have a missing stove partition that isolates the furnace air.
Meanwhile, the following companies are reclaling units in conjunction with an ongoing Norcold recall:
- Certain 2003 and 2004 Newmar Corp. motorhomes and trailers.
- Certain (2001-2003) KZRV recreational trailers.


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- Publisher: St. Martin's Press
- Published: November 6, 2015
One For The Money is an incredibly humorous and fast-paced mystery novel. It is the first in the series and I was enthralled from chapter to chapter.
The story follows Stephanie Plum, a comical, wayward woman who has recently lost employment. She finds a way to fill her ordinarily empty wallet by becoming a bounty hunter, even though she has no experience whatsoever in catching criminals. Her first assignment is to catch her unruly ex, Joe Morelli, who is a cop wanted for murder. Although Stephanie may not be the most intelligent character, she is eccentric and very like-able.
I loved this novel a great deal. It will definitely stay on my bookshelf for years to come. I would certainly recommend this book to anyone who loves a good laugh and a highly entertaining tale.


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Protein Crystallography in Drug Discovery - 2004 - Robert E Babine & Sherin Abdel-Meguid - 3527306781
Protein Crystallography in Drug Discovery (Methods and Principles in Medicinal Chemistry)
Author: Robert E. Babine / Sherin S. Abdel-Meguid / Raimund Mannhold / Hugo Kubinyi / Gerd Folkers
pages: 278 pages Published Online: 19 Feb 2004
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Format: pdf
Size: 4.9 MB
The rational, structure-based approach has become standard in present-day drug design. As a consequence, the availability of high-resolution structures of target proteins is more often than not the basis for an entire drug development program. Protein structures suited for rational drug design are almost exclusively derived from crystallographic studies, and drug developers are relying heavily on the power of this method.
Here, researchers from leading pharmaceutical companies present valuable first-hand information, much of it published for the first time. They discuss strategies to derive high-resolution structures for such important target protein classes as kinases or proteases, as well as selected examples of successful protein crystallographic studies. A special section on recent methodological developments, such as for high-throughput crystallography and microcrystallization, is also included.
A valuable companion for crystallographers involved in protein structure determination as well as drug developers pursuing the structure-based approach for use in their daily work.


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August 16, 1947 - May 23, 2016
August 16, 1947 - May 23, 2016
Bill George MARCH
August 16, 1947 – May 23, 2016
Bill passed away at the Victoria Hospital on Monday, May 23, 2016. He was born in Melfort on August 16, 1947. Bill spent his life living in the communities of Gronlid, Melfort and Prince Albert. Bill was very active in his community volunteering countless hours of time coaching sports, in his church communities and always willing to lend a hand wherever necessary. He retired from service to the RCMP in 2005. Bill will be remembered as kind and selfless, making every decision based on the well being of his family. Bill is survived by his wife Shirley; his son Kevin and granddaughter Katlynn; his daughter Karen; his son Trevor and grandchildren Halle and Cameron; his brother John; as well as many nieces, nephews, relatives and friends. He was predeceased by his parents Mike and Anne March; his sister Iris Ede and her husband Darryll and his sister-in-law Donna. Funeral Service will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, May 30, 2016 at Gray's Funeral Chapel, 575 – 28th Street West, Prince Albert, SK with Pastor Dennis Serfas officiating. Interment will be held at the RCMP Depot in Regina, SK. In lieu of other tributes, memorial donations can be made to the Canadian Cancer Society, 54 – 11th Street East, Prince Albert, SK S6V 0Z9 or to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, 1738 Quebec Avenue, Unit 26, Saskatoon, SK S7K 1V9. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.grays.ca. Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Gray's Funeral Chapel, (306-922-4729).
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The Nonprofit Risk Management Center (NRMC) is a small but nimble and nationally known nonprofit that provides educational resources and consulting help to nonprofits. NRMC seeks a Project Manager to work from our Leesburg, VA office. The professional hired for this position will lead and support consulting projects and product development initiatives, champion the marketing of NRMC products and services, and serve as a trusted resource for our consulting clients and Affiliate Members.
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