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My computer at work which runs 11.10 exclusively, has been very very quiet for a few weeks now. I am not sure when exactly the sound stop working but it was after the upgrade to oneiric since I remember listening to music just before the upgrade. I tried many suggested solutions out there but it still does not want to work. Its not a case of sound being mute or lowered.
When I play music I can see activity in the pulse audio volume control (under the playback tab there is a progress bar that shows activity). But there is no sound coming out of either front or rear 3.5mm jacks or the HDMI (through monitor). I have Unity, Gnome3 and XFCE installed side by side and neither of them make a squawk! Anyways, I really like to know how to debug and fix this issue. I am comfortable using the terminal, and if you guide me I can provide debug info. What can I do to find out what the issue is and to fix it?
Sound is onboard:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
03:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
Update 1: As pointed out by fossfreedom in the comment, the issue seems to be in the device for sound output. Somehow my real devices have been replaced with a "dummy device". How can I add my on-board sound device to this list?
Update 2: I tried running
sudo alsa force-reload as suggested and here is the error I get:
sudo alsa force-reload
Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-hdacodec-hdmi
snd-hda-codec-realtek snd-hda-intel snd-hda-codec snd-hwdep snd-pcm snd-seq-midi
snd-rawmidi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-timer snd-seq-device snd-page-alloc
(failed: modules still loaded: snd-hda-codec-hdmi snd-hda-codec-realtek
snd-hda-intel snd-hda-codec snd-hwdep snd-pcm snd-timer snd-page-alloc).
Loading ALSA sound driver modules: snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-hda-codec-hdmi
snd-hda-codec-realtek snd-hda-intel snd-hda-codec snd-hwdep snd-pcm snd-seq-midi
snd-rawmidi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-timer snd-seq-device snd-page-alloc.
Update 3: Here is the detailed list of my sound devices as requested:
sudo lshw -class multimedia
description: Audio device
product: High Definition Audio Controller
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0.1
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.1
version: a1
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0
resources: irq:17 memory:fbefc000-fbefffff
description: Audio device
product: 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1b
bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0
resources: irq:56 memory:f9cf4000-f9cf7fff
Update 4: This is getting interesting. I thought I found the solution when I saw that my user did not have permission to use the sound device.
So I add myself to the audio and video groups and rebooted. Now the sound devices are available under choose a device for sound output. With lots of hope I selected Internal Audio Analog Stereo as the device, but still no sound at all is coming out of the system :(. I tried using the speaker test tool as well as playing music while trying out all the different jacks. I also tried switching between HDMI and the Internal Audio, still no luck. What else can I do next?


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John Smeaton was a great 18th century engineer, from Austhorpe, Leeds. He coined the term "civil engineer" and the symbol used by the Institute of Civil Engineers is an image of one of Smeaton's most famous creations, the Eddystone lighthouse, built on the Eddystone Rocks fourteen miles from Plymouth, in the English Channel . The Eddystone Rocks are a major shipping hazard and are marked by a lighthouse beacon as a warning to shipping. The first lighthouse lasted only five years and was destroyed, and its keeper killed, in a truly fearsome storm, of hurricane proportions, in 1703. Smeaton's lighthouse, the third to be built on the Eddystone Rocks, lasted much longer, from 1759 until 1877. The structure itself was sound, but it was the rocks underneath that were being undermined by wave action that led to the decision to replace Smeaton's lighthouse. At the end of its serviceable life the citizens of Plymouth had it dismantled and re-built in Plymouth, so proud were they of this extraordinary pioneering structure. The Leeds collections have the model that Smeaton made for the foundation of the lighthouse. It underwent conservation a while ago, to glue back together some of the wooden components. It is made of oak, and it was in effect the instructions to the masons on how to make the flat platform on which to build the lighthouse. It is comprised of interlocked stones, dovetailed together and let into dovetailed recesses cut into the Eddystone Rock, to key it all together. The story of the lighthouse's innovative and pioneering design and construction is a fascinating vignette of someone who could engage the brain and solve a significant problem.
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A great little primary school in Austhorpe, Leeds, also uses the the Eddystone lighthouse as the signature symbol of the school. This beacon of learning is rightly proud of Austhorpe's greatest son:
During the spring and summer of 2011 Temple Newsam House had a John Smeaton exhibition. Smeaton undertook several projects at Temple Newsam House and estate for the Irwins. The exhibition gave an overview of Smeaton's career and significance, as well as details of his most important accomplishments, especially his famous lighthouse. In addition to items from Leeds collections, we were privileged to borrow objects from the Royal Society, of whom Smeaton was not only a Fellow, but a Copley Medallist as well.
An old West Country folk song about the Eddystone lighthouse is good fun!
Eddystone Lighthouse folksong
An old West Country folk song about the Eddystone lighthouse is good fun!
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Dolphin, Lion, Blue Magpie in Asian data centre battle
Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan vie for foreign bit barn business
Hong Kong (animal emblem: White Dolphin) could be losing its grip on the hearts, minds and wallets of multinationals looking for a suitable location to stick their main Asian bit barn, as continued restrictions make alternative locations more attractive.
Speaking at the MIG Data Centre Summit 2012 in Hong Kong this week, deputy government CIO Joey Lam argued that demand for datacentres will grow in the Special Administrative Region (SAR) by CAGR of over 9 per cent in the period 2009-15.
She said the government was doing its best to attract investment here by offering a range of support services for interested parties and by expanding the amount of datacentre space available.
"We have reserved two hectares of land for high tier datacentre development with the first available for open bidding next year," she explained.
"In a small area like Hong Kong, greenfield sites for datacentre use are difficult to come by but we have a large stock of industrial buildings supported by good telecoms and power infrastructure and suitable for datacentre development."
Real estate firm Cushman and Wakefield seemed to think these policies were working, rating Hong Kong the safest datacentre location in Asia for the past two years in its Datacentre Risk Index.
However, Amod Jayawant, regional director for property advisor CBRE, told attendees that US clients are often not impressed by what's on offer in Hong Kong.
"For US firms the major stumbling block is they can't get over the concept of a building where different floors are owned by different companies," he said.
"If they're looking to do a greenfield build they have to handle several restrictions, like they can't release the land or on-sell the space. Actually they can't buy the land outright but just lease it from the HK government, even though they're spending millions."
Jayawant added that despite the government's insistence on pushing old factories as datacentre locations, there are some issues. "Not all industrial buildings can handle datacentres – either they can't handle the floor loading or the slab to slab height is too low or there are power capacity issues," he said.
Singapore (Animal emblem: Lion) has often challenged Hong Kong as the pre-eminent tech hub of Asia and is still going out of its way to attract multi-nationals, according to Deloitte partner Gavin Pathross.
"Hong Kong government is trying very hard but Singapore and Malaysia are giving away tax breaks to bring in Google and Amazon, and Singapore did the same to bring in the big banks," he argued.
"I'm not sure Hong Kong can continue building [datacentres] and hoping they'll come … But China's emerging position as a global outsourcing hub will potentially drive demand for datacentres and Hong Kong has an opportunity to play this market."
They will both face competition from Taiwan (Animal emblem: Blue Magpie), however, according to Jayawant.
"The power is stable, politically it's similar to Hong Kong, there are a lot of submarine cables going in and the government is willing to work with [foreign companies] there," he said. ®


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The sixth edition of the "Gobernarte 2019 - Eduardo Campos Prize" contest of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) identified four innovative ideas for data use and citizen services presented by subnational governments of Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico as winners of this edition of the contest.
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Monday, September 16, 2019 - 17:37
The winning IDB-financed project developed a new solution to monitor public infrastructure works and to empower citizens to evaluate the use of public resources in Honduras. WASHINGTON D.C., September 12, 2019. The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) announced the winner of the Superheroes of Development contest, an award given to executing agencies that have successfully implemented innovative solutions in projects financed by the IDB.
Investment in social development and efficient institutions, keys to better security
Friday, September 13, 2019 - 16:42
The IDB confirmed its commitment to work with Latin American and Caribbean countries on innovations that can contribute to prevention and crime reduction The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), during the Citizen Security Week 2019 that wrapped up yesterday, emphasized that to improve long-term citizen security, it is necessary to have greater investment in social development and more effective, efficient and transparent institutions.
IDB launches inaugural $600 million 3-year SOFR linked bonds
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The Inter-American Development Bank ("IADB" or "IDB"), Aaa/AAA (Moody's/S&P), today priced their inaugural $600 million 3-year SOFR-linked floating rate global bond due 16th September 2022. The issue priced at par, with a coupon equivalent to SOFR + 26bps. This will be calculated using a five-day observation lag on compounded daily SOFR, with no lockout.
Citizen Security Week will address the future of citizen security and justice
Tuesday, September 3, 2019 - 22:20
The Inter-American Development Bank and countries in Latin America and the Caribbean will discuss what digital innovations can contribute to the fight against crime and citizen security The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will hold the Eleventh Citizen Security Week, at the Headquarters of the IDB in Washington, DC from September 9-13, 2019.
Advances in key fiscal expenditure to finance climate change
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SANTIAGO, Chile – Advances on the basic elements to build a methodology that identifies public spending on climate change and produces information for decision makers, has been the main result of a regional workshop conducted by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Ministry of Finance of Chile, in collaboration with regional and international institutions and with governments of Latin America and the Caribbean.
IDB and Agitos Foundation extend project to strengthen Para sport and social inclusion
Tuesday, August 27, 2019 - 10:34
New phase of 'En sus marcas, listos… inclusión" will benefit communities in Chile, Argentina, Colombia, and Dominican Republic. Paralympic sport is a key tool in the socioeconomic inclusion of people with disabilities. That's why the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Agitos Foundation have launched a new project during the Lima 2019 Parapan American Games which aims to continue the previous work with the 'En sus marcas, listos… Inclusión' initiative.
Optimal sanitation: Focus on the Americas at World Water Week 2019
Monday, August 26, 2019 - 18:08
The Inter-American Development Bank is coordinating the Focus on the Americas sessions during World Water Week in Sweden's capital, with a focus on adopting a new paradigm to close the gap in secure sanitation services in the region. STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Providing safe sanitation for all in Latin America requires not only significant investments, but a change of paradigm to be able to do more with less resources. Right now, only 22% to the population of Latin America and the Caribbean have access to those services.
Program to eliminate malaria in Mesoamerica identifies 183 active outbreaks
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Coding bootcamps as a response to the shortage of digital talent in Latin America
Monday, August 5, 2019 - 18:00
A new publication of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) entitled "Disrupting Talent: The Emergence of Coding Bootcamps and the Future of Digital Skills", explores the potential of bootcamps as a fast and effective alternative to solve the shortage of digital talent in Latin America and the Caribbean.


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March 30, 2010
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Game Two Box Score
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - UC Santa Barbara (9-22) was swept by Fresno State (23-12) in a non-conference doubleheader at Campus Diamond on Tuesday afternoon. The Gauchos battled back from a 4-0 deficit in game one, but were narrowly defeated 5-4. In the second game of the twin bill, the Bulldogs sailed to a 9-1 run-rule victory.
Fresno State opened the day with two runs at the top of the first inning off of a two-RBI single to left field from Caitlin Stiglich. The Bulldogs built their lead to four in the second with a pair of RBI singles from Andrea Ortega and Michelle Moses.
UCSB finally broke through at the bottom of the fifth inning. Keilani Jennings led off with a base hit and then moved to second on a wild pitch. She scored on the next play when the Bulldog center fielder bobbled the ball while fielding a single by Kelly McDonald. Lainey DePompa followed with a walk and then Brooke Putich kept the ball rolling with a single to left center field that sent McDonald home for the second Gaucho run.
One out later, Allison Taylor hit a two-RBI single to left field that tied the game at 4-4.
Fresno State was able to break the tie at the top of the next inning with a RBI single to center field by Stiglich. The Bulldogs allowed just one more Gaucho on-base the rest of the way to hold on for the 5-4 victory.
MeLinda Matsumoto (4-7) took the loss after allowing the winning run. It was the only run she allowed on seven hits while striking out two. Lindsey Correa started the game and allowed four runs on eight hits She walked three and struck out one.
During the second game, Fresno State once again got out to an early lead when Haley Gilleland, Ortega and Moses led off with consecutive base-hits with the latter driving Gilleland home for the first Bulldog run. The lead extended to 3-0 after Ortega drove home two runs with a two-out triple in the second inning.
UCSB responded at the bottom of the second with McDonald and DePompa hitting back-to-back singles to open the inning. Jackie Sweet followed suit, firing one to left field, driving McDonald home for the lone Gaucho run of the game.
The Bulldogs benefitted from some heavy hitting combined with some heavy winds in the third. Walker drove home the fourth Fresno State run with a single to right field. Then, on the next play, Brooke Phipps hit a three-run homer over the left field fence on the first pitch she saw, pushing the advantage to 7-1. Moses followed suit two plays later, hitting a two-run homer to left field to push the Bulldogs ahead, 9-1.
Fresno State was able to shut UCSB down the rest of the way and with the Bulldogs' eight-run lead after five innings, the game was called due to the run rule.
Matsumoto (4-8) once again suffered the loss after tossing 2.2 innings. She allowed nine runs - six earned - on nine hits. She allowed two walks while fanning four. Krista Cobb pitched 2.1 innings of relief and allowed just one hit, one walk and struck out two.
The Gauchos will get a fresh start of sorts on Friday when they kick off their 2010 Big West schedule at Cal State Fullerton. The three-game conference series begins with a doubleheader at 4 and 6 p.m. on Friday and concludes with single game at noon on Saturday.


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In five fast hours Tuesday, the rebuilding Texans cemented their long-debated quarterback situation and erased the man who led the franchise to its first playoff victory.
Veteran Ryan Fitzpatrick became coach Bill O'Brien's first NFL starting QB. T.J. Yates was released. Former University of Houston star Case Keenum was effectively promoted, already placing the reconfigured 2014 Texans in a similar situation to their 2013 fall.
Fitzpatrick could spend the entire season as O'Brien's QB of choice, feeding off nine seasons of pro experience to finally limit the turnovers that have consistently undercut his intriguing career. But if Fitzpatrick temporarily exits a game because of injury or ultimately fails this year, Keenum is expected to receive the call, with the much-loved and often picked-apart quarterback again in line to become the Texans' starter.
Rookie Tom Savage, a promising but unproven strong-armed QB who bounced around college, will enter training camp as the No. 3 option. If Savage continues to impress, he could push Keenum for the backup spot. Yet an untested quarterback who went more than 1,000 days in college without playing a game could also spend the entire 2014 season on the sideline. Either way, the fourth-round pick is being groomed to eventually replace Fitzpatrick and Keenum as the Texans' long-term starter.
Tuesday initially belonged to Fitzpatrick, whom O'Brien named the starter during an 8 a.m. team meeting at NRG Stadium.
After playing with four teams in nine seasons, Fitzpatrick came to Houston wanting one more shot. Meanwhile, O'Brien entered offseason workouts needing an intelligent, veteran quarterback to guide a complex new offense.
A QB competition that began as "wide open" at the start of organized team activities was won by Fitzpatrick, who'll receive the majority of repetitions during training camp.
"He definitely earned it," O'Brien said. "He earned it with his preparation. He earned it with his accuracy. He earned it with his command at the line of scrimmage."
Fitzpatrick, 31, was handpicked by O'Brien this offseason, as the Texans moved on from former starter Matt Schaub, who was traded to Oakland after a disastrous 2013 season.
Fitzpatrick will be asked to manage games and minimize mistakes in 2014, relying on star running back Arian Foster and running an intricate offense that prizes crossing routes, heavy use of tight ends and backfield passes.
"This is going to be a really fun system to play in," said Fitzpatrick, a seventh-round pick in the 2005 NFL draft. "The guys have really bought into what we're trying to do. As long as we continue to do that, continue to try to reach that level of perfection – which we're very far from right now – and strive for that everyday, I think we'll be in good shape."
Fitzpatrick spent 2013 with Tennessee after four seasons in Buffalo. He's completed 59.8 percent of his career passes for 106 touchdowns and 93 interceptions.
Quarterbacks coach George Godsey and O'Brien have acknowledged Fitzpatrick must cut down on his turnovers for the Texans to be successful this season.
"All the great players we have on our side of the ball make my job a lot easier, in terms of … watching playmakers make plays," said Fitzpatrick, who added he has an "easy" role if the offense is consistently placed in the right situations.
In 2005, Fitzpatrick was a St. Louis rookie and initially the fourth quarterback in a three-QB system. In 2014, a 6-foot-2, 223-pound veteran on his fifth team in 10 seasons is O'Brien's first field leader.
"Personally for me, this is kind of where I wanted to be," Fitzpatrick said. "I wanted another shot at it. I wanted another chance to be the guy. This is about so much more than me, in terms of all the different things we're trying to do."
But the bearded veteran could enter training camp in late July without his best offensive option. Wide receiver Andre Johnson is at odds with the rebuilding team and didn't attend Tuesday's no-contact practice, which was the first of three mandatory minicamp workouts. Fitzpatrick acknowledged he doesn't know Johnson well, but the QB said he's made progress with the receivers who've been in uniform during the last month.
"He's obviously a great receiver and his play certainly speaks for itself," Fitzpatrick said.
While Fitzpatrick locked in as the Texans' starter, Yates was suddenly forced to find a new team.
He led the Texans to their first playoff victory (Jan. 7, 2012 vs. Cincinnati) after taking over for an injured Schaub. Yates was unable to capitalize on Schaub's 2013 collapse, though, with the Texans turning to Keenum – who went 0-8 as a starter — in a failed attempt to save their season.
Yates, 27, was a fifth-round pick in the 2011 NFL draft. He started five games during his rookie season but played in just seven combined contests the last two years. Yates completed 60.8 percent of his overall passes for 1,100 yards, three touchdowns and six interceptions.
In 2013, Yates beat out Keenum during a training camp battle for the right to back up Schaub. Yates entered this season knowing he'd be given a clean look by O'Brien. But with Fitzpatrick and Savage as traditional pocket passers, Keenum gives the Texans a much different QB if the starter misfires.
"Can't thank the Texans organization and the city of Houston enough!" Yates tweeted. "We've had some great memories and I will always call Houston home."
Can't thank the Texans organization and the city of Houston enough! We've had some great memories and I will always call Houston home.
— T.J. Yates (@TJ_Yates) June 17, 2014
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Currently, a total of 84 conference games (93.3 percent) will be televised nationally or regionally on an ESPN network, CBS or the regionally-syndicated Big 12 Network. The contests are being carried as part of the fifth season of a multi-year agreement with ESPN that runs through the 2015-16 season. Of the league games not televised on a national or regional basis, many of those will be selected at a later date for local telecast packages and inclusion on ESPN Full Court and WatchESPN.
This year's Big 12 slate welcomes two new members - TCU and West Virginia. Eight of the 10 league squads will tip off the conference schedule on Saturday, January 5. The Big 12 will also continue its spot in ESPN's traditional "Big Monday" lineup on January 14 when Baylor travels to Kansas. A total of eight different schools will be showcased on Big Monday with every team in the conference gaining exposure numerous times on ESPN or ESPN2.
At least 100 games overall (conference and non-conference) will air annually. In men's basketball, the Big 12 was the first conference to be guaranteed three weekly telecast windows on ESPN or ESPN2, which each reach approximately 100 million homes, respectively.
The Phillips 66 Big 12 Men's Basketball Championship on March 13-16 will continue to be televised on a variety of ESPN platforms including ESPN, ESPN2 and in regional syndication on the Big 12 Network. The Championship will begin for the second straight year with two first-round games on Wednesday evening, followed by the quarterfinals, semifinals and title contest in successive days.
The Big 12 Network is in its fifth year, with games seen throughout the conference's geographic footprint and produced by ESPN Regional Television. It has been or will be distributed in numerous other markets, including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix, San Diego, Milwaukee, Baltimore and Providence. Among all the televised games, most will be shown as part of ESPN Full Court and available on WatchESPN.
The Big 12 has had six or more teams earn NCAA berths in four of the last five campaigns. Eight of the 10 squads have been ranked in the top 25 during the last three seasons, with every school having been ranked at least once since 1999. Since 2008, every head coach in the Big 12 has led a team to the NCAA Tournament, with half of the current coaches having guided a squad to the Final Four during their careers.
The Big 12 has been rated among the top three conferences in the final RPI each of the past five seasons - no other conference can make that claim. In addition, the 19 teams that have advanced to the Elite Eight since 2002 is a total that is first nationally.
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COMMERCE - Bobbie Sue "Susie" Fields, 52, died Thursday, October 11, 2012 at her residence.
She was born in Commerce, the daughter of the late Bobby Ray and Annie Geneva Gee Fields. She was a member of the Baptist denomination and was employed at Norman Textile.
Survivors include sons, Steven Fields, Hull, and Jesse Fowler, Commerce; daughter, Carly Fields, Hull; sisters, Karen Fields, Commerce, Robin Parsons, Athens, Tammy Johnson, Hawley, Pa., and Tracy Ross, Danielsville; three grandchildren; and a number of nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, October 13, at the chapel of Little-Ward Funeral Home with the Rev. Ellen Cook officiating. Interment will follow at White Plains Baptist Church. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Friday, October 12, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Little-Ward Funeral Home, Commerce, is in charge of arrangements.
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N.Y. backyard press blows up
For Chris Christie, the national spotlight has always been just across the bridge.
It's about an hour's drive from the Trenton statehouse to the studios of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," where hosts refer to the New Jersey governor as a "friend" of the show — or to David Letterman's couch, where he famously ate a doughnut before all of America. The New York Times is considered one of the local papers in the Garden State, and Manhattan's tabloids have devoted significant attention to Christie's theatrical politics and outsize personality.
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For four years, such proximity was a boon to Christie's political ambitions, raising his national profile ahead of the 2016 presidential contest and affording him the sort of attention provincial politicians elsewhere in the country could only envy.
( PHOTOS: Who's who in the New Jersey bridge scandal)
Then, it backfired: In the wake of the George Washington Bridge scandal, Christie has felt the wrath that can only come from having the unrelenting mass media universe in your backyard. The anchors, editors and reporters who once marveled at his brash style or gently mocked his girth have now turned to scrutinizing issues of far greater significance — including whether the presumptive presidential front-runner is even fit to govern his own state.
The avalanche of press isn't due to proximity alone: Christie's larger-than-life persona has played a significant part in his relationship with the national media as well. He has charisma. His blunt demeanor, aggressive attitude and willingness to pick fights in public — and often with reporters — make for great copy.
"I am not a focus-group-tested, blow-dried candidate or governor," Christie said at a news conference last week.
And he is making for even better copy now that his skyrocketing political career has hit some turbulence.
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"Christie has benefited from the media's attention for four years. Now the screw is turning a different way," John Heilemann, New York Magazine's national affairs editor and the co-author of "Game Change," said in an interview. "With the combination of being the Republican front-runner and being this close to the national media, there's a new level of scrutiny."
The proximity Christie once enjoyed to the center of the media universe now seems like a cruel joke. To wit, the Bridgegate emails released last week by the New Jersey Legislature show the vice chairman of the Port Authority Board claiming that Wall Street Journal reporter Ted Mann had been "instructed to sniff out this story by his editors who were stuck" in the traffic caused by Christie's aides. (Mann later said his editors "take the train" and that he did not know where the vice chair's comment came from.)
"I think there's some old reporter's maxim to this effect — or I think I recall hearing it once in some newsroom: 'Tomorrow's front page is whatever the managing editor drove past on the way to work,'" said Mark Leibovich, the New York Times Magazine chief national correspondent and author of "This Town."
( Also on POLITICO: Ad firm: Christie wasn't first choice)
"Politicians based in and around New York tend to get disproportionate amounts of attention, usually for better, but not always," Leibovich said.
For days, Christie has been lampooned on the front pages of the New York City tabloids (the Daily News declared him "pathetic") and was even featured on the cover of The New Yorker as a little boy playing in traffic. Needless to say, late-night hosts like Letterman, Jimmy Fallon and Jon Stewart — all of whom are based in New York, and all of whom have had Christie on their respective shows — are having a field day.
Christie's office declined to comment for this story.
Any likely presidential contender comes in for national media scrutiny at some point, but Christie's proximity to the national media epicenter has elevated the scrutiny immeasurably.
( Also on POLITICO: Christie faces audit on Sandy funds)
"If history has taught us anything, it's that when a potential presidential candidate gets involved in a bridge controversy, the bridge can be located in Alaska and still get the attention of the national media," said Bob Garfield, the co-host of WNYC's "On The Media."
"That said, the fact that Christie is a 'larger-than-life figure' and probably the Republican frontrunner for 2016 — and the fact that the GW Bridge is one of the most traveled corridors in the world and there are more than 4 million votes within 20 miles of the bridge, and every major news organization — this was destined to blow up big," he added. "And by the way, the story is so salacious and sordid and delicious and seductive that how could anyone turn away."
New York-area politicians have always had a strange claim to the national spotlight. The New York Times, the national paper of record with a daily local section, devotes a disproportionate amount of attention to the exploits of figures like New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and former Newark Mayor-turned-U.S. Sen. Cory Booker.


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- "A Navy plane just went down on 24th Street," a caller told dispatchers
- "Oh my God! It's like something keeps exploding," another woman told 911
- Seven people, including two pilots, were injured, but no one died in the crash
- The service will compensate people whose homes were destroyed
Emergency calls highlight the confusion in a Virginia Beach, Virginia, neighborhood after a Navy fighter jet crashed last week, with one woman reporting that a pilot was on her patio awaiting medical aid.
Authorities released recordings of the calls on Monday, three days after the F/A-18 Hornet slammed into an apartment complex about two miles from the naval air station where it took off.
"Nobody's here, and I keep calling and there's no ambulance," one woman told a 911 dispatcher from her condominium a few blocks from the crash site. She said one of two fliers who ejected from the stricken warplane was outside, that he was conscious and that she had already called for help.
"He's still on my patio, but they told me to evacuate, and there's other guys there helping him," the unidentified woman says. "My neighbor's there helping him."
Seven people, including the two-person crew of the Hornet, were injured when the aircraft crashed into a Virginia Beach apartment complex on Friday. But there were no fatalities, a fact that Adm. John Harvey called a "miracle" over the weekend.
"A Navy plane just went down on 24th Street," a man says in another call to dispatchers. "It hit an apartment complex and I saw the, um, the pilot bail out. The pilot did bail out -- I saw it -- but it hit the apartment complex."
The aircraft experienced a "catastrophic mechanical malfunction" during takeoff from Naval Air Station Oceana on Friday, raining jet fuel over Virginia Beach before plunging to the ground, according to residents and Navy officials. It landed upright and in flames in the middle of the courtyard of the Mayfair Mews apartment complex, setting five surrounding buildings on fire.
"There's a terrible fire at the Mayfair Mews apartment building. ... Oh my God! It's like something keeps exploding or something," another woman tells dispatchers.
The jet carried a student pilot in the front seat and an experienced instructor behind him, and the leakage of jet fuel was "one of the indications that there was a mechanical malfunction," Navy Capt. Mark Weisgerber told reporters. The plane was part of a training squadron at Oceana and was not carrying live ordnance.
The Navy said Monday that investigators have recovered the flight recorder from the Hornet. The device, which records flight data but not cockpit voices, has been sent to a Navy air base at Patuxent River, Maryland, for analysis, Navy officials said in a written statement Monday afternoon.
The wing and part of the fuselage of the plane were being moved to Oceana for further study, but the remains of the jet's twin engines will remain at the crash site for now as investigators study them, the U.S. Atlantic fleet's aviation arm reported.
The Navy expects to finish removing most aircraft debris by the end of the week as part of its investigation. And the service will soon begin cutting compensation checks to the people who lost their homes in the crash, said Rear Adm. Tim Alexander, commander of the Navy's Mid-Atlantic region.
"We are committed to doing the right thing to address the needs of these families, who through no fault of their own have endured an incredible hardship," Alexander said. "We owe it to everyone affected by Friday's accident to help them get their life back together."
Initial payments will begin at $2,300 per person to cover immediate needs, such as housing, meals and clothing. The amount will increase for additional family members. Counseling and legal services also will be available, Alexander said.
Residents who completed claims by Saturday could receive payments by Monday.


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The word "No" papers the prosperous, tropical city of Santa Cruz, the cradle of opposition to Bolivia's President Evo Morales. Posters, bumper stickers, and even billboards urge residents to reject a new constitution to be voted on Sunday.
Yet the first placard one sees upon entering the city's Plan 3,000 indigenous neighborhood is in support of the president, urging a "Yes" vote. "We feel divided here from the rest of Santa Cruz," says resident Benjamin Penaranda. "Here we support the constitution. It will give us rights we never had."
It's just one example of the class, cultural, and geographical divisions that have roiled Bolivia since Mr. Morales, the country's first indigenous president, came into office three years ago promising to "refound" the nation.
The centerpiece of his mission is a new constitution that he says would reverse decades of discrimination against the indigenous majority – his critics claim it's just a power ploy.
In 2-1/2 years of legal and political wrangling leading up to this vote, dozens of people have been killed, buildings have been ransacked, and highways have been blocked as Morales supporters and opponents battled over what the future of the country should look like.
Now that the much-delayed referendum, which most pollsters predict will pass, is on the table, the question remains: Will this be the final act, putting an end to the violent chapter in the nation's transformation? Or will divisions – between the eastern lowlands and the western highlands, indigenous and not, rich and poor – remain? The most explosive flash points might be over for now, but most agree that conflict will simmer long into the future.
"In theory, a constitution is a pact between all of society," says Carlos Toranzo, a political analyst at the Latin America Institute of Social Research in La Paz. "There was no agreement. After Jan. 25, we will have more violence."
A new constitution would be a major victory for Morales and fellow indigenous Bolivians who, for decades, have sought to rewrite the nation's rule book. It includes over 400 articles that run the gamut from changing legislative structures to nationalizing the country's gas reserves, but the most overreaching theme is to empower the nation's indigenous. It will, for example, recognize that there are 36 different ethnic groups. That means that a person can introduce a complaint to a government office in his or her native language; it will now be the government's responsibility to understand. It also gives them greater representation in Congress and a new degree of autonomy, including the right to implement their own community justice.
But battles raged over the economic and political issues in the charter, including more state control over natural resources, limits on how much land one can own, regional autonomy, and how many terms a president is allowed to serve. More than 40 people have been killed because of political conflict since Morales took office, according to the Human Rights Foundation in New York.
In order to draw up the final version, the government compromised with the opposition on key points. Voters Sunday could choose to limit land holdings to 5,000 hectares, but the rule will not be retroactive as long as owners prove their land is not idle. And Morales will only be able to run for office one more time – an important victory for critics who say Morales, a strong ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, is simply seeking to consolidate his power.
The government hopes that the new charter, if passed, will be a tool to heal divides. "There will be more peace afterwards," says Jose Pimentel, a congressman from Morales's party. First, he says, the concessions made should appease the opposition. Its passage also takes away the object of dissent. "They have been able to use the constitution as a space to express opposition to Evo Morales. It is a political strategy that they will no longer have," he says.
Although opposition legislators compromised, many in society have dropped their hostility toward the changes, especially those seeking autonomy in the wealthier provinces, such as Santa Cruz, where many are of European descent. Sergio Mendoza, a lifelong resident of Santa Cruz, says he believes the constitution is the wrong direction for the country and hopes that his regional representatives find ways to push back. "Morales is just governing for the indigenous. A president must govern for all," he says.
Given the tensions in Bolivia, it was a significant breakthrough when politicians were able to come together this fall to agree on a final version.
Previous drafts were boycotted outright. Opposition governors held their own referendums on autonomy last summer, declared illegal by the central government, to reject the constitutional process.
But it was precisely because the situation deteriorated so rapidly – with some 20 killed in protests in September alone – that rivals came together, says Jim Shultz, executive director of the Democracy Center in Cochabamba, Bolivia and co-editor of Dignity and Defiance, Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization. "There was an enormous amount of pressure from various sides, including internationally, to cut a deal that would bring Bolivia back from the brink of widespread violence," he says.


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Year-End Update 2009
The wave of new distributions on October/November 2009 was great news for this laptop, as they all moved to the newer Linux kernels and packages which support all of its hardware.
- Linux Mint 8 (Helena): This is my absolute favorite Linux distribution on this laptop. It installs easily, and works extremely well. All hardware and devices recognized and working, including AMD Athlon Neo CPU with frequency scaling, ATI Radeon HD graphic controller and Atheros 9k WiFi adapter. The base installation uses the ATI/Radeon display driver, which is perfectly adequate for most use. If you need high-performance graphics, 3D acceleration, GLX and the like, go to System/Administration/Hardware Drivers and select the ATI proprietary fglrx driver. All of the Fn-Keys work, including sound up/down/mute, brightness up/down, lock screen and sleep. Suspend (to memory) and Hibernate (to disk) both work. All of the peripheral connections and slots work, including booting from USB and SD media.
- Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala): Installs easily and works well. As Ubuntu is the base for Linux Mint, the comments above about the display driver and Fn-Keys are all the same here.
- Fedora 12 (Contantine): Installs and runs without problem, all hardware recognized and supported. Fn-Keys, Suspend, Hibernate all work.
- openSuSE 11.2: Installs and runs ok. All hardware ok. Fn-keys for brightness and volume work, but for Lock Screen and Suspend don't. From the "Leave" menu, "Suspend to RAM" only activates the screen lock, but "Suspend to Disk" works ok.
- Mandriva One 2010.0: Installs and runs ok. All hardware ok. Fn-Keys for brightness and volume work, but for Lock and Suspend don't. Suspend to RAM seems to go down ok, but hangs with a black screen on resume. Suspend to Disk works ok, and has some nice graphics.
So, the obvious choice comes down to a matter of personal preference between Linux Mint 8, Ubuntu 9.10 and Fedora 12, all of which seem to work flawlessly. it is interesting to note that the three which work correctly are all Gnome distributions, and the two which do not are both KDE distributions, but I have not followed up on that by trying to load the alternate distribution for any of these (i.e. Kubuntu or Mandriva Gnome).
jw 31/12/2009


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Defrag: Clearing Frequent List, Keyboard Shortcuts, Window Always On Top
Microsoft tech troubleshooter extraordinaire Gov Maharaj and I help walk you through troubleshooting solutions to your tech support problems. If you have a problem you want to send us, you can use the Problem Step Recorder in Windows 7 (see this for details on how) and send us the zip file to email@example.com. We will also be checking comments for problems, but the email address will let us contact you if needed.
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Fine show as always. My favorite way to get to the device manager takes a bit longer the first time I do it but saves time thereafter.
Winkey + R to get the run box
Type devmgmt.msc and hit enter.
It's saved in the history of my run box and is normally one of if not the top item so it's right there.
I dont have AutoHotKeys so I use some free tool called DeskPins to pin windows on top.
For Windows 8 - fastest way to Device Manager is Winkey+X M.
Well, since you asked...
How can I get the Microsoft Cordless Phone to run in something more recent than Windows 98?
Of course the keys from the laptop sticker can be used with "normal" install Media (for example with the MSDN ISOs). Only drawback is that you SOMETIMES need to activate by phone instead of Internet.
If you don't like telling your customers that this is possible because Microsoft's legal department is likely larger in size than all Microsoft developers combined... fine. But then please just don't even take the question instead of pseudo-answering it with BS thats obviously wrong.
Preme for Windows (http://www.premeforwindows.com/) is a GREAT app that has many nifty features including Always On Top function.
You can always create a desktop shortcut to Device Manager and assign a shortcut key to it. I just set one up using devmgmt.msc as the target and then I assigned Shift-Ctrl-D as the shortcut key.
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She tells The Sunday Times Style magazine, "It's so unfair. They (the Golden Globes) fall just 13 days after the end of the Christmas holidays. Realistically, you only stop eating and drinking too much on January 1, and I was certainly no exception… I did… this juice thing. I've never done one before, but I was desperate."
Moore's hard work paid off and she walked the red carpet in a black and white Tom Ford gown before picking up the award for Best Actress in a Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for TV.
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Brick Wall Solutions – Finding Helen Carnegie At Last!
This is the first installment of a theme based blog on brick walls in family history research and how to break them down. Initially I will be using my own examples but I also welcome input from others who have solved their brick walls using out of the ordinary resources or searches.
It is inspired by my finding last Saturday my gg grandmother Helen (Ellen) Ferguson (nee Carnegie) after looking for 32 years. I started my family history in 1977 and it was fairly easy to purchase the certificates but without dates and places an additional fee for a search was charged. Those were the days before BDM indexes, MIs, genealogy and family history societies (in Queensland), email, Internet and all the other resources we take for granted now.
Ellen's story is a sad one and there are still gaps in it but over the years I have gradually built up a picture of her life. It starts in 1862 with her birth in Montrose, Scotland where she was named Helen. For most of her life in Queensland she was known as Ellen. Her parents John Carnegie and Helen Stratton made the decision to immigrate to Queensland in 1865 with their daughter Helen and son John. There are numerous brick walls here which will be the subject of other blogs but this one is Ellen's story.
We next have direct reference to her in 1880 in Brisbane when she gives birth to her son James Carnegie, father unknown. She gave her name as Ellen Carnegie on the birth certificate. The birth was certified by Helen Carnegie, mother but it is not clear if this is Ellen or her own mother Helen Carnegie. James complicated the picture by giving his mother's parents as his parents on his marriage certificate. It is not known if he was raised by them or not – it is a bit ambiguous and yet another brick wall to discuss later.
The next milestone is her marriage to Alexander Miller Ferguson in 1889 in Brisbane. She married under the name of Helen Carnegie. Alexander was a 37 year old watchmaker from Thargomindah in western Queensland. It is not known how he met 26 year old Helen. There were no children from the marriage.
There are references to Ellen, Alex and James in a letter written by Ellen's sister Clara's husband Charles Davis in December 1894 from Fremantle, Western Australia where he was working on the goldfields at Coolgardie. He refers to Alexander as Alick, Helen as Nellie and James as Jim but Jim is grouped with Helen's parents and indicates that he is living with them not Alick and Nellie.
Alexander is described on electoral rolls and post office directories as a watchmaker or jeweller. Between 1901 and his death in 1925 he is listed as a watchmaker and jeweller, labourer from 1915, in Eulo, not far from Thargomindah. It is not known if Ellen was with him – she is not listed on the electoral rolls for anywhere.
The next definite reference to Ellen was her arrest in Brisbane in December 1899 for drunkenness and her first of many visits to prison. During 1900 she was picked up numerous times and charged with drunkenness, disorderly conduct and obscene language which usually incurred a fine or imprisonment. She obviously could not pay the fines and usually did the time in prison although on some occasions the fine was paid by someone. This could have been her husband Alex, her son James who would have been 19/20 years old or perhaps even her parents.
This behaviour continued through 1901-1902 with Ellen adding prostitution to her list of offences. It is assumed that she had no means of support and prostitution was one way to earn money to buy the alcohol she so desperately needed. My last reference to Ellen was her release from Brisbane Prison in 1902.
I made exhaustive searches of prison and police records post 1902 but never found her again. I started to think she ended up dying as a Jane Doe and even looked at inquests where the deceased was unknown. Another possibility was that she went into an asylum but those records were permanently closed in Queensland back then.
Her father John Carnegie died in September 1903 and Ellen is not mentioned in his will, nor is his grandson James Carnegie. Her mother Helen Carnegie died in 1913 and in her will she left everything to her daughter Clara Davis, nee Carnegie.
Ellen's husband Alex Ferguson died in Brisbane in 1925. He had been transferred from Eulo to Dunwich asylum in 1924 as he was ill and had no one to care for him in Eulo. He stated that he did not know where his wife was. His admission record stated that he arrived in Queensland in 1886 and had spent 5 years in Brisbane and 20 years in Thargomindah as a watchmaker and jeweller. He married Helen in 1889 so he must have been on a visit to Brisbane at the time as he listed his residence as Thargomindah on the marriage certificate.
Over the years as various online resources such as Queensland BDMs, Brisbane cemeteries, Toowoomba cemetery (Toowoomba Prison was where they sent females in the early 1900s) and digitised newspapers, I checked them all for references to Ellen or Helen Carnegie or Ferguson.
In preparing for my talk on Convicts & Criminals and accompanying Handout at the Mulwala Family History Expo in November 2009, I looked at new resources and as always, used my own family names to search. Queensland Police Gazettes, which had been closed to public access when I did my original research, have now been digitised by Archive Digital Books Australasia and it is possible to name search them. Entering Ellen Ferguson returned five hits, four of which I knew about.
The fifth one excited me because it was for an Ellen Chick alias Ferguson in 1904 for vagrancy in Barcaldine. If she was mine it should have been Ellen Ferguson alias Chick so there was one doubt, the second was why and how did she go to Barcaldine if she was mine. The vagrancy fitted but the entry was only notification of an arrest and did not give personal details. A search for Ellen Chick revealed that this was the only reference to her which was odd for a vagrant so it strengthened the case for it possibly being Ellen Ferguson.
Interestingly, I had found references in the post office directories to an AM Ferguson in Barcaldine, a selector and meat company manager but as my AM Ferguson was in Eulo and Thargomindah I never followed it through. Now with this reference to Barcaldine I will have to go back and investigate if there was any connection between the two Ferguson families. The coincidence of a reference to Barcaldine is amazing.
I then checked Queensland BDMs online for a death reference to Ellen Chick but there was none which again was odd. I was disappointed but it was still a clue to follow up.
On the morning of my talk I woke early and started looking at emails and there was one advising that Queensland BDMs online had expanded their date ranges so I clicked on the link to do another Ellen Ferguson/Chick search. Perhaps I had missed something the day before or it would magically appear this time. Whenever I have searched for Ellen I have also searched for Helen as the two were interchangeable. There was still no Ellen/Helen Ferguson/Carnegie so I did the Ellen Chick search again and realised that I had not searched for Helen Chick.
I can't begin to tell you how I felt when an entry for Helen Chick came up listing her parents as John Carnegie and Helen Stratton. It had to be my Ellen Ferguson but she had died in 1946, 44 years after being released from prison as an alcoholic prostitute. She would have been 84 years old – how could she have possibly lived that long and where? Now I have the agonising wait for the death certificate to arrive (approx 6-8 weeks) and hopefully there will be some useful information. The fact that her parents are listed accurately means that whoever the informant was, they knew Ellen's real identity.
Stay tuned for the rest of this brick wall to come down, and in the meantime I will write about Ellen's father and his brick walls.
Brick Wall Tips
- Search name variations eg Ellen or Helen
- Search spelling variations for both given and surnames
- Check all available records
- Keep revisiting the research as more records become accessible and online
- Never give up
- Tell others how you did it – inspiration and clues for researching their own brick walls
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Helen Carnegie
I am trying to figure out the lineage for John Gordon of Cairnburrow who married Helen Carnegie in Scotland in 1590. According to the website for Glenbuchat (Glenbucket) Castle, the castle was built on the occasion of the marriage of John Gordon of Cairnburrow and Helen Carnegie. I thought I might turn up some information about John by looking for more information about Helen Carnegie. On the Glenbuchat site, she is identified as the daughter of Sir Robert Carnegie of Kinnaird in Angus who had been an ambassador in the French royal court. In 1701, this castle apparently came into the possession of a different branch of the family, the Gordons of Knockespock.
Obviously, I am working in a different era than the one that yielded information on your Helen Carnegie. I am wondering if you have any thoughts on how I might get through my brick wall.
Helen Carnegie married 1590
Yes it is earlier than the era I am researching. Have you also tried looking for more information on Sir Robert Carnegie as something might mention his son-in-law John Gordon. You say that you have already traced Helen, well I would try the father next. Tracing collateral lines can often throw up information that you won't find just doing direct lines.
I assume you have looked for traditional records like testaments, sasine registers, registers of deeds, service of heirs etc. I'm a fan of In Search of Scottish Ancestry by Gerald Hamilton-Edwards but there are lots of Scottish how-to books that might suggest sources for Scotland in this early period.
Good luck
I am trying to determine the
I am trying to determine the lineage of John Gordon of Cairnburrow in Scotland. I have a number of Gordons of Cairnburrow in my database, but no John. According to the website for Glenbuchat Castle, this castle was constructed in 1590 on the occasion of the marriage of John Gordon of Cairnburrow and his second wife, HELEN CARNEGIE. I have been trying to figure this out by working through John's new wife. According to the Glenbuchat website, "my" Helen Carnegie was the daughter of Sir Robert Carnegie of Kinnaird in Angus who had been an ambassador in the French royal court. Obviously, I am working in an era much earlier than the one that turned up your Helen Carnegie. I am glad that you managed to get through your brick wall. I am wondering if you have any insight into how I might get through my brick wall.
Ruth Gordon Hastie
The Gordons of Abelour
Dear Ruth,
I always am interested in your Gordon history on Ancestry.com and the internet.
I have sent you this message also on Ancestry.com and hope it may reach you one way or the other. I am trying to trace the Gordons of Abelour. I think the original one was John Gordon of Coffurach who was the 2nd son of Patrick Gordon the 2nd of Letterfourie. His mother was Helen Innes.
John Gordon of Coffurach (or Cuffurach) appears to have married the daughter of Jas. Harper (no more information here)
The Gordons of Abelour lived at Abelour House in the 1600-1700s-early 1800s, when the last Gordon, a James Gordon, went broke setting up The Abelour Distillery and sold the House and Distillery in 1833 to Alexander Grant.
Do you have any snippets of information re this family? I seem to have reached a dead end and we are heading to Scotland on 14 May 2011 and would like to know more about this branch.
I do hope you can help and look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards,
Jill Gordon
Email: email@example.com
PS We are direct descendants of the Gorons of Glenbuchat as well
Dear Ruth,I always am
Dear Ruth,
I always am interested in your Gordon history on Ancestry.com and the internet.
I have sent you this message also on Ancestry.com and hope it may reach you one way or the other. I am trying to trace the Gordons of Abelour. I think the original one was John Gordon of Coffurach who was the 2nd son of Patrick Gordon the 2nd of Letterfourie. His mother was Helen Innes.
John Gordon of Coffurach (or Cuffurach) appears to have married the daughter of Jas. Harper (no more information here)
The Gordons of Abelour lived at Abelour House in the 1600-1700s-early 1800s, when the last Gordon, a James Gordon, went broke setting up The Abelour Distillery and sold the House and Distillery in 1833 to Alexander Grant.
Do you have any snippets of information re this family? I seem to have reached a dead end and we are heading to Scotland on 14 May 2011 and would like to know more about this branch.
I do hope you can help and look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards,
Jill Gordon
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
PS We are direct descendants of the Gorons of Glenbuchat as well


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We asked comScore for a look at what their combined, non-overlapping uniques would be. Using August data, the answer is 212 million in the U.S. That's bigger, but not by much, than Google, which has 183 million.
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IWRG (THU) 04/25/2013 Arena Naucalpan [Black Terry Jr. (flickr), IWRG]
1) Dragón Celestial & Fulgor b Ángel Del Amor & Seiya
2) Imposible & Picudo Jr. b Alan Extreme & Saruman
Alan Extreme replaced Freelance.
3) Centvrión, Chico Che, Dinamic Black b Apolo Estrada Jr., Eita, Tomahawk
4) Danny Casas, Golden Magic, Veneno b Canis Lupus, Carta Brava Jr., Eterno
More Danny/Eterno feuding.
5) Dr. Wagner Jr., Hijo de Pirata Morgan, Pirata Morgan DQ Cien Caras Jr., Hijo de Máscara Año 2000, Máscara Año 2000 Jr.
Wagner team took 2/3, when La Migra from TxT ran in and attacked Wagner
CMLL held some big matches the last few couple of years on New Year's Day. Bobby Zavala & Disturbio beat Tigre Blanco & Leono for their hair a few months ago, and Hombre Bala Jr. & Super Halcon uncovered the Rayo Tapatios in 2012. CMLL hasn't always run big matches on New Year's Day, but one other of their most important matches took place on New Year's Day 2005: Mistico defeated Averno to win the NWA World Middleweight Championship. It was Mistico's first championship, it was Averno and Mistico's first singles match against each other, and it was the moment where a sold out Arena Coliseo saw Mistico change from a quickly rising young to the new top star of lucha libre. There were important events which led up to that match, and there was more to come to continue growing Mistico's legend, but that was the moment where the switch was flipped and where Averno became locked to Mistico as his eternal rival.
My calendar says today is April 26th, but CMLL is going for a New Year's Day feel tonight as it hopes to recreate some history. It's Mistico, it's Averno, it's their first singles match, it's for a title, it's the main event, and everyone expects it to end with the same La Mistica in the center of the ring. This time, it's the vacant Mexican Welterweight Championship, vacated seemingly only so CMLL can 'correct the mistakes' of last year's Busca un Idolo tournament. And that's the large problem: the fans got behind Mistico I to make it to the top, even with super quick rise to get there. He was the right kind of guy doing the right kind of moves effectively. CMLL hasn't found a way to get the people behind Mistico II, because there's now a lot of more of those kind of guys then there were when the first guy came up. (There was a Volador, as this Mistico will be reminded loudly on Sunday.) The fans gravitated to other luchadors last year. CMLL can ignore that and put Mistico on his throne, but it doesn't solve the underlining problems. If Mistico does win tonight, which is my assumption, there will be casual fans and curious fans there who will be okay with it, there will be loudly vocal hardcore fans very unhappy and he has a title in a promotion drowning in them. If Mistico loses tonight, he's stuck as another high flyer in a promotion overstocked with them. Neither really helps turn Mistico in to the big star CMLL desperately wants and needs him to become.
Mistico needs his own Averno – not this Averno, but someone new so this feels less like a recreation – to be someone he can battle and overcome, giving him wins he seems to earn and aren't just given. The other story of that New Year's Day 2005 match was Averno becoming a bigger star along with Mistico. 2005 Averno was a well regarded midcard rudo, someone who would be a challenge for young Mistico to beat and who could work against him to create a great match, but not someone established at the top. Mistico I had to progress his way to the top against others trying to do the same. Mistico II is being thrown in with guys who are calling themselves the best rudo in the promotion. If Mistico II is beating the top guys in the promotion already, he doesn't really 'need the fan's support' and so won't get much. If he's got to fight to get there, then the fans might go with him a bit.
Rey Cometa and Namajague are two guys who've found their own rival, though this would seem to set the level for the loser. There's nothing wrong with being a midcard guy who gets occasional big matches, but it's hard to imagine Rey Cometa going much farther than that if he loses his mask and his hair in under a year's time. A win in between only helps so much. Namajague losing his hair is less relevant to his career – his real one will be happening elsewhere – but it also seems to kill of interest in the NJPW guys coming in for apuesta matches for the next while. NJPW's already announced the next novato to go on a training session will be doing it in Europe, not Mexico, so maybe CMLL's just taking a break on Okumura based feuds for a while. The big matches feel rushed for this show, but if this card draws at all, it seems like it should be credited to this feud continuing on (and we'd also have to go back and give them extra credit for Dos Leyendas.)
The third big match for this Arena Mexico anniversary show is the Gran Alternativa final. I have less of feeling about who will win and more am hoping for the outcome. Hombre Bala Jr. has come along way from his debut, but the team with Super Halcon Jr. feels like it has potential and some momentum which would probably be disrupted if Bala wins. Boby Zavala (correct spelling, thanks Dr. Lucha!) is a deserving winner in his own right. His team with Disturbio is also good, but it has less time behind it. Neither of the guys are or should be going to the top right away, but both would be okay to move up from the Tuareg/Metalico/Starman tier to the Misterioso/Vangelis/Triton/Fuego tier. In a CMLL Gaceta interview, Zavala is thrilled by the possibility of joining the Revolucinarios, while Bala has put aside family feuds.
Los Piratas kept the IWRG IC Trios Championship over Los Legendarios in Arena Coliseo Monterrey.
Sombra, Rayo de Oro and Voltron beat Felino, Big Ban and El Padrino in Guatemala this past Sunday.
AAA's upload of last week's UTDN show is here.
A ESTO ticket giveway for this Saturday's TxT card has Golden Magic and a Triton – possibly a 3rd Triton – in the spots of the Rayo Tapatios. The main event guys from TxT did a lot of press for the show yesterday, including the run-in on the Arena Naucalpan show. Hijo del Solitario refused to promise he won't turn on Hijo del Santo in their trios match. Hijo del Santo says he doesn't believe Blue Demon Jr. is so unintelligent as to actually sign with AAA.
- A story on how Rayo de Jalisco got his mask – he was a double!
- Super Crazy is headed to Monterrey on 05/14.
- Oriental says he's headed to Spain, Japan and the US this year. Among many other jobs, he's working
- Aero Boy is one of the mystery luchadors in the opening tag match of the ChilangaMask show. He needs a partner, he usually has a partner.
- Rompe Huesos looks back at Perro Aguayo's biggest win.
- Four luchadors will debut on a Kid's Day show in Tizayuca.
CMLL (TUE) 04/30/2013 Arena Mexico
1) Camaleón & Höruz vs Apocalipsis & Inquisidor
2) Astral, Pequeño Halcón, Stukita vs Mercurio, Pequeño Nitro, Pequeño Olímpico
3) Guerrero Maya Jr. vs Ephesto [lightning]
4) Ángel de Oro, Diamante, Valiente vs Puma, Sangre Azteca, Virus
5) Rey Escorpión vs Stuka Jr. [CMLL LH]
Rey Escorpion is the champion. First defense.
6) La Máscara, La Sombra, Shocker vs Felino, Mr. Niebla, Negro Casas
Pesta Negra in the main event for a Kid's Day show. Rey Escorpion looks favored in his match as well.
Opener would be Horuz' return from a knee injury which took place back in the Sangre Nueva tournament.


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Humane Agents Predict a Dangerous Season for Horses
Skyrocketing feed prices have humane agents across the country predicting an increased rate of horse neglect and abandonment. ALDF urges everyone to be especially aware of horses and other farm animals this season – animal neglect is a crime in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Here are three ways you can help:
- Connect with a local humane agency now and see what their reporting process is so that you know who to contact should you witness neglected animals. They will likely be able to supply you with information/brochures on how to recognize animal neglect.
- Contact law enforcement. It is crucial that the various law enforcement agencies work together toward meaningful resolutions, so be sure that all of them are informed of any situation you witness.
- File all reports via formal written complaint, clearly communicating dates and locations.
Large animal humane interventions present particular physical and economic challenges to local authorities. Where agencies are working with a limited budget and a small staff, polite persistence is often necessary. If you discover that your local authorities have a policy of refusing to intervene on behalf of suffering animals, please contact ALDF at [email protected] and we will work toward enabling earnest investigations.
Useful links:
- Animal protection organizations via zip code search
- Local police and sheriff contacts
- State Veterinarian contact
- Find your state veterinary board which could help you locate large animal veterinarians in your area.
News coverage:
Three horses starved and left for dead in two separate abandonment cases
YubaNet.com, September 16, 2010
Oregon Hay Bank needs donations
Mail Tribune, January 5, 2010
In DFW, weak economy means hard times for animals
Star-Telegram.com, March 22, 2009
Equines and the Economy: Tough times spur horse neglect
Columbian.com, March 21, 2009
Kansas Shelters See Surge in Abandoned Horses
Fox News, December 28, 2008
Minnesotans reining in abuse, neglect
StarTribune.com, December 15, 2008
Starving Cattle Amid High Prices for Feed in Neb.
The Associated Press, October 24, 2008
More horses might starve or be abandoned during difficult economic times
The Oregonian, October 23, 2008
Local Vet Builds Network to Help Horses Survive
The Press Democrat, January 22, 2008
Rising Hay Prices Crimp Horseowners
The Charlotte Observer, November 15, 2007
Valley Ranchers Hit Hard By Rising Gas Prices
abc30.com, November 12, 2007
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We had to know if any of our users were at risk, so we could alert them to any danger. We replicated Trevor's findings, which he explained in his post on AndroidSecurityTest.com (the site seems to be intermittently down): http://androidsecuritytest.com/features/logs-and-services/loggers/carrieriq/
He also posted a YouTube video, now making it's way through the media, showing his tests:
We saw the same log entries Trevor saw when dialing phone numbers, and receiving SMS, so that is confirmed.
We did not see any log entires when using the general keyboard though, including when typing into our LastPass for Android app and our LastPass for Dolphin HD app. The LastPass pin code entry does not utilize the phone keyboard so that is safe as well.
This is very good news as your LastPass account - and most importantly, your master password - is safe on your Android phone even if Carrier IQ installed.
Please note that utilizing a multi-factor authentication device like Google Authenticator with your LastPass account would protect you even if an application was logging keyboard events, so it's highly recommended.
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text: The story of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's fall from power to disgraced politician who had to pull out of his own House race for fear of embarrassment is a simple story of greed and power. What's amazing is that DeLay was able to hide his lust and his scheming, underhanded immoral ways under the guise of promoting "moral values.� Christians conservatives, in particular, who bought into DeLay's temple of misbegotten rhetoric need to carefully review how they were misled, lied to and taken advantage of, if they are to avoid future deceptions by politicians who have no qualms about lying to their constituents.DeLay was a politician proud of his reputation for taking no prisoners. He gained immense national favor with the most conservative of American voters by pushing President Clinton's unwarranted impeachment proceedings at a time when Republicans controlled the Congress; and he helped stonewall legitimate investigations into the current administration's illegal actions against this country's fundamental principles. His delusion with power prompted his fall when he began violating campaign finance laws in a blatant and bold campaign to skirt the system, and again is his outrageous gerrymandering of congressional districts in Texas to give the Republicans six additional seats in the House.That DeLay has been thoroughly disgraced is a measure of justice. But what's likely to happen is that he'll remain a high-powered lobbyist or political strategist for the Republican Party and will continue to taint the best intentions of America's political process in the same way he has tainted his office. If America wants to escape the decaying jaws of DeLay's particularly putrid bite, fellow Republicans will have to make their displeasure known forcefully and bluntly at the national level.


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Sorry, Louis C.K., But My Smartphone Saved Me
I have an Autism Spectrum Disorder. Before the proliferation of the smartphone, I was constantly screwing up even the most basic of social tenets and losing friends, if I ever made them to begin with. While Louis C.K. and his supporters assert that you need face to face contact and the ability to see another person's expressions to build empathy, I've found that occasionally removing the pressures of that contact has allowed me, for the first time in my life, to express all of the empathy that I have always had for my loved ones and fellow humans. It has allowed me to prove that I am a person.