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- 1 What is ZooDiscovery?
- 2 Concepts
- 3 Download
- 4 Inner Concepts
- 5 Advanced configuration
What is ZooDiscovery?
ZooDiscovery is a discovery mechanism that runs as an OSGi service. It leverage Apache ZooKeeper robustness and implements Eclipse ECF Discovery API.(Hence the name!). ZooDiscovery is flexible and easy to configure.
If you use OSGi remote services (See OSGi Compendium Specs chapter 13) you have to know the other end. In large installations this configuration can be quite cumbersome.
At Remain Software we develop software to manage nodes in a network.We want our nodes to register themselves to us when they are in the network. This is fine if you manage a small office but not if you manage smart lightbulbs in a sky scraper.
As soon as the lightbulb is screwed into its socket, it can tap some power to activate its OSGi runtime. The runtime will activate the ILightBulb interface with methods dim(int), on() and off() as a remote service. Now, how do we get this service to interested parties...
ECF For the Win
The ECF discovery framework enabled us to create a Zookeeper based Discovery implementation. An addition to the already existing JmDNS (Zeroconf/Bonjour) and jSLP implementations.
An Apache Zookeeper server will replicate configuration data between other Zookeeper servers. The Zookeeper servers know each other and clients know one Zookeeper Server. So the smart bulb (which runs OSGi or did I mention that already?) is preconfigured with the address of its nearest Zookeeper server or gets this information dynamically by some kind of IP broadcast.
When the lightbulb publishes its Remote Service, ECF wakes up and publishes this service through the provided Discovery implementations. The Zookeeper discovery provider will immediately notify its nearest peers and the new lightbulb service is registered in all Zookeeper instances. When the Zookeeper instance that is connected to an interested party receives the data, the Discovery implementation will publish this service in its OSGi container.
The Lightbulb Control Center is waiting for the ILightBulb service and creates a UI in its console. The Building Maintainer can now control the lightbulb.
In the spirit of component based development: If you use ECF Discovery and you want the functionality that is provided by Zookeeper, you can replace your existing ECF implementation by this new one. Upgrade without pain.
Downland both bundles: org.apache.zookeeper & org.eclipse.ecf.provider.zookeeper
from CVS server at [1]
Anonymous CVS info: :pserver:email@example.com:/ecf
If you use Eclipse, just open the CVS Repositories perspective and add a new CVS repository by pressing the button in the view toolbar. Then copy everything between quotes here ":pserver:firstname.lastname@example.com:/ecf" and press paste (CTRL+V) in the wizard.
If you do not use Eclipse, you can find it here.
You can find the two modules in the plugins directory.
Inner Concepts
ZooDiscovery implements both ECF discovery interfaces: IDiscoveryAdvertiser and IDiscoveryLocator. That is, ZooDiscovery can publish our services and gets us noticed about
discovered services. Perfect! But how?
A ZooDiscovery instance running at your machine does its job by exchanging data with other ZooDiscovery instance(s) running elsewhere. So each running ZooDiscovery service must know where that other "elsewhere" exactly is. This is why we should first make our ZooDiscovery happy, giving it an IP address to play with.
To keep it smooth, let's take it step by step following these cases:
How to configure ZooDiscovery container?
To tell ZooDiscovery where to look for new services, we use of One of these three configurational properties: "zoodiscovery.flavor.standalone", "zoodiscovery.flavor.centralized" or "zoodiscovery.flavor.replicated" (difference explained later). For now, let's just use property "zoodiscovery.flavor.standalone" for the following illustration. This property accepts as value one or more IP addresses of target machines we want to connect to.
For example, suppose we have 3 ZooDiscovery instances Z1, Z2 and Z3:
Z1 instance running in a machine with IP address "126.96.36.199"
Z2 instance running in a machine with IP address "22.214.171.124"
Z3 instance running in a machine with IP address "126.96.36.199"
and some arbitrary senario's:
Senario 1 - To discover services advertised by by Z1, we should, then, talk to Z1 instance and the property would be set this way: "zoodiscovery.flavor.standalone="22.214.171.124".
Senario 2 - To discover services advertised by by Z1and Z2, the property is now set so: "zoodiscovery.flavor.standalone="18.104.22.168 , 126.96.36.199".
Senario 3 - To discover services advertised by by Z1,Z2 and Z3, the property is now set so: "zoodiscovery.flavor.standalone="126.96.36.199 , 184.108.40.206, 184.108.40.206".
Note the comma used to separate the list of the IP's.
In code this would look like this:
IContainer container = null; try { //"ecf.discovery.zookeeper" is the container name we want to initiate. container = ContainerFactory.getDefault().createContainer("ecf.discovery.zoodiscovery"); } catch(ContainerCreateException e1){ // TODO } // then one of the senario's
//Senario 1. We build an ECF ID to use it to connect to 188.8.131.52.
ID target = container.getConnectNamespace().createInstance( new String[] { "zoodiscovery.flavor.standalone=184.108.40.206" });
//Or senario 2. We build an ECF ID to use it to connect to 126.96.36.199 and 184.108.40.206.
ID target = container.getConnectNamespace().createInstance( new String[] { "zoodiscovery.flavor.standalone=220.127.116.11, 220.127.116.11" });
//Or Senario 3. We build an ECF ID to use it to connect to 188.8.131.52, 184.108.40.206 and 18.104.22.168.
ID target = container.getConnectNamespace().createInstance( new String[] { "zoodiscovery.flavor.standalone=188.8.131.52, 22.214.171.124, 184.108.40.206" });
// then connect
container.connect(target, null);
// Connected! Our provider is ready then.
// To advertise services we need adapting our container this way: IDiscoveryAdvertiser discoveryAdvertiser = (IDiscoveryAdvertiser) container.getAdapter(IDiscoveryAdvertiser.class); //then we enjoy calling IDiscoveryAdvertiser contract methods
// To localize/discover services we need adapting it this way: IDiscoveryLocator discoveryLocator = (IDiscoveryLocator) container.getAdapter(IDiscoveryLocator.class); //then we enjoy calling IDiscoveryLocator contract methods
How to build a ServiceInfo object and publish it
//Some location URI uri = URI.create("http://www.example.com"); //Some service priority int priority = 0; //Some service weight int weight = 3; //Some random service properties ServiceProperties serviceProperties = new ServiceProperties(); serviceProperties.setProperty("foobar", new String("foobar")); serviceProperties.setPropertyBytes("foobar1", new byte[] { 1, 2, 3 }); IServiceTypeID serviceTypeID = null; try { serviceTypeID = ServiceIDFactory.getDefault().createServiceTypeID( DiscoveryContainer.getSingleton().getConnectNamespace(),new String[] {"service1","service2"}, new String[] {"someProtocol"}); } catch (IDCreateException e) {//TODO } //build a service info instance to be published ServiceInfo serviceInfo = new ServiceInfo(uri, "myServiceName", serviceTypeID, priority, weight, serviceProperties); //advertise the service discoveryAdvertiser.registerService(serviceInfo);
Tip: If you already have an OSGi ServiceReference of the service in hand, it might be handy to build a ServiceInfo instance this way:
//Using AdvertisedService class means creating a compile-time dependency on "org.eclipse.ecf.provider.zookeeper.core" which may or may not suit your desing. So bear in mind when using it. IServiceInfo advertised = new AdvertisedService(myServiceReference); discoveryAdvertiser.registerService(serviceInfo);
I want to get notified about discovered services
You get notified about discovered services by registering yourself as an IServiceListener. Let's take it for a ride and make an inner listener class to see how lightweight its contract is:
IServiceListener sl = new IServiceListener() { public void serviceUndiscovered(IServiceEvent anEvent) { // service lost, do something.. } public void serviceDiscovered(IServiceEvent anEvent) { // new service is in, do something.. } }; //register to get informed discoveryLocator.addServiceListener(sl);
//To register for service discoveries with a specific type, you might add the type as well using this method: addServiceListener(IServiceTypeID aType, IServiceListener aListener), instead.
//To register for service types discoveries, you might consider registering as IServiceTypeListener
Note: ZooDiscovery tracks OSGi services being registered under IServiceListener or IServiceTypeListener, and add them as listeners so that (if you choose to) you don't have to add them explicitly the way we did just above. This is handy when your design is a bit more dynamic/component driven.
Advanced configuration
ZooDiscovery Flavors
Standalone mode: zoodiscovery.flavor.standalone
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Replicated mode: zoodiscovery.flavor.replicated
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Supplementation of flaxseed oil diminishes skin sensitivity and improves skin barrier function and condition.
– Source: Skin Pharmacology and Physiology, November 18, 2010
By K. Neukam, et al.
BACKGROUND: Skin sensitivity is a common problem in the Western population correlated with changes of skin properties like skin barrier function, hydration and skin physiology. Skin properties can be modulated by dietary fatty acids (FA), especially poly-unsaturated FA. The present study was performed to evaluate the effect of daily supplementation with flaxseed oil and safflowerseed oil on healthy volunteers with sensitive skin.
METHODS: The study was designed as a randomized, double-blind 12-week intervention with 2 female treatment groups (n = 13). Plasma FA profile, skin sensitivity, skin hydration, transepidermal water loss (TEWL) and skin surface were evaluated on day 0, week 6 and week 12.
RESULTS: Supplementation with flaxseed oil led to significant decreases in sensitivity (after nicotinate irritation), TEWL, skin roughness and scaling, while smoothness and hydration were increased. Concomitantly, the ratio of n-6/n-3 FA in plasma decreased.
Upon supplementation with safflowerseed oil, only a significant improvement in skin roughness and hydration was observed; however, the effects were less pronounced and determined at a later point in time than with flaxseed oil. The plasma n-6/n-3 FA ratio increased.
CONCLUSION: The data provide evidence that daily intake of flaxseed oil modulates skin condition.
Source: Skin Pharmacology and Physiology, November 18, 2010. By K. Neukam, S. DeSpirt, W. Stahl, M. Bejot, J.M. Maurette, H. Tronnier and U. Heinrich. Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.


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McAfee demonstrated the workings of its new McAfee DeepSAFE technology at the Intel Developer Forum on Tuesday. It sits beyond the operating system and close to the silicon, and by operating beyond the OS, it provides a direct view of system memory and processor activity. Among the threats that it detects are Stuxnet, SpyEye, the TDSS roorkit family and the NTRootkit.


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Hill handed QPR captaincy
Queens Park Rangers defender Clint Hill has been appointed the club's captain for the remainder of the season.
Hill, 34, has skippered QPR under manager Harry Redknapp in recent weeks despite Park Ji-sung's return to fitness.
"Clint is a great character, a good lad and a fantastic professional,'' Redknapp told the club's official website. "He leads by example and has been superb for me since the moment I walked through the door. '
"You know what you're going to get from Clint when he plays and that's 100%. He puts his body on the line for the club and that's what we need. We are in a battle to stay in the Premier League and we need players like him.''
The centre-back has made 89 appearances for QPR since moving to Loftus Road on a free transfer in June 2010. He said: "It's a very proud moment for me. I'm honoured and privileged. I'm sure it will be something I look back on in years to come with great admiration.
"Ji and Ryan (Nelsen) have both had the honour of captaining the side this season and I'm relishing following in their footsteps.''


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Less than halfway through his first season as William and Mary's head baseball coach, Jamie Pinzino doesn't look too far ahead or consider wins as much more than daily snapshots at this point.
That's not to say he takes lightly the Tribe's present streak or its recent remarkable weekend. William and Mary won seven in a row, before Wednesday's game at Norfolk State, to run its record to 17-8.
"In baseball, they say momentum's only as good as the next day's starting pitcher," Pinzino said Wednesday morning, the day after the Tribe's 10-4 win at East Carolina.
Starting pitching is the primary reason for W&M's success and a lights-out performance in last weekend's series at Northeastern.
William and Mary won three 1-0, complete-game shutouts in Boston to run its CAA record to 5-1. Pitchers Brett Koehler, John Farrell and Jason Inghram gave the bullpen the weekend off. They allowed only 14 hits, struck out 21 and walked five.
"If you had told us we were going to score three runs and win the series, the odds aren't very good for that," Pinzino said.
Two years ago, Pinzino coincidentally was the pitching coach at Northeastern when the Huskies swept Hofstra with three shutouts — the closest thing he's experienced to last weekend.
"It's even more impressive when it's 1-0 games," he said, "because there's so much more pressure on that pitcher, to make every pitch when it's 0-0, or 1-0. Even on defense, there's more pressure, because you're one ball being thrown away from giving up a run."
Northeastern pitched equally well, allowing the Tribe just 11 hits. W&M managed to get at least one timely hit per game, while the Huskies were 0-for-16 with runners in scoring position.
"It doesn't win us any championships," Pinzino said. "It doesn't win us anything, really. But it's kind of nice, because it's something that nobody can take away from us and it's a weekend that they're always going to remember later in life."
All three of the Tribe's weekend starters have been extraordinarily efficient. They've pitched a combined 130.1 innings, with 97 strikeouts and 17 walks. Farrell, a senior righthander, has thrown three complete games and averages nearly eight innings per start.
Koehler, a senior righthander, averages seven innings per start, and Inghram, a sophomore lefty, nearly seven innings per start.
"As a starter," Pinzino said, "when you don't beat yourself and you throw a lot of strikes and force the other team to earn what they get, you can be pretty successful, and that's what those guys have done."
Mid-week starters Matt Wainman, who earned the win at ECU, and J.T. Castner also have pitched well of late. Set-up reliever John Sheehan has pitched in 12 games thus far, and freshman Mitchell Aker so far has embraced his role as closer.
"The staff is starting to come together," Pinzino said.
Pinzino primarily handled pitchers as an assistant for former head coach Frank Leoni last season. He's confident allowing his starters to pitch deep into games, because of their experience and his knowledge of their capabilities.
The Tribe's pitching also has provided cover for an offense that remains a work-in-progress. All-conference Ryan Lindemuth (.356) and Ryan Brown (.315) are consistent producers. Pinzino has juggled lineups to find effective combinations and hoping that warm weather and experience will help Tribe bats.
Pinzino isn't concerned with the team's record and focuses on improving. If the Tribe continues to pitch the way it has recently, it will be in position to win a lot of games.
"We're just trying to worry about day-to-day and play the best we can," he said. "The way I was always taught is that's how you go about it. You kind of keep your head down and approach every game the same way, all 56 of them, and when we get to the end of May, we'll worry about the record and where we are in the conference and things like that.
"We haven't even played half the schedule yet and we've only played six conference games out of 27. There's a heck of a long way to go. I think it's way too early to worry about where we are in the conference or where we might end up. You start looking too far ahead and you lose focus on what we're trying to do on a daily basis."


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Southeast Steuben County Library (SSCL) will hold a Senior Technology Series workshop on Sept. 5.
Southeast Steuben County Library (SSCL), 300 Nasser Civic Center Plaza, Corning, will hold a Senior Technology Series workshop from 11 a.m. to noon on Sept. 5.
Workshop participants will learn about Windows and Mac operating systems. The series teaches seniors how to use basic technology and will meet from 11 a.m. to noon on Thursdays in September. Participants will learn about Skype on Sept. 12, tablets and e-readers on Sept. 19 and email on Sept. 26.
The workshop series is free and open to the public. Participants may register for the series or for individual workshops. For more information or to register, call 607-936-3713 or email email@example.com.


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UMW News Bureau
Montana Western students may have been greeted by faces of Pink, Neil Patrick Harris, or Lance Bass on their way to class last week. Those three celebrities were only a few examples of people chosen by LAMBDA Alliance to represent the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) community for National Coming Out Day, Oct. 11, at UMW.
To celebrate, LAMBDA Alliance, Montana Western's LGBT club, hosted a Coming Out reading on Oct. 8. Six people shared stories or poems about coming out at Thursday's reading.
"It's important to share your stories so you can identify with others, which brings you closer to them," explains LAMBDA Alliance president Rebecca Davis. "Everyone needs to know they're not alone."
After the reading, LAMBDA Alliance teamed up with Montana Western Campus Corps to stake signs around campus. Each sign featured a different famous person who is of the LGBT community, including world leaders, actors, musicians, writers, and athletes. Davis says they wanted to include a variety of different people to challenge the stereotypes of who gay people are.
"There are people who think there are not athletes who are gay or lesbian," explains Davis. "It makes you stop and think about those stereotypes."
The signs also raised awareness in the Montana Western community about LAMBDA Alliance's active involvement on campus.
"We staked the signs to make our presence here known, to bring back the idea that not everyone on this campus is straight," explains Davis.
The group's goal was receive greater acceptance on campus by raising awareness of their presence.
"We feel like our presence needs to be known," says Davis. "We face a lot of discrimination – not just in the world or in government, but also on this campus."
The efforts toward acceptance were soon evident when a student tore down one of the signs. Another student, Bernice Wigen, observed the vandalism and confronted the other student.
"Bernice didn't just stand by and watch what was happening," explains Davis. "She stood up and said something. LAMBDA is important, but it's good to see straight people stand up for queer rights. It sets a good example of how we need to be humans to each other."
The help LAMBDA received from Campus Corps is another testament to the changing mindset of the Montana Western campus.
Davis says LAMBDA Alliance will continue to raise awareness on campus, and the group will continue to be a source of acceptance.
"LAMBDA is here to provide a safe place for people who are queer and straight, so there is someone you can be with and talk to without feeling endangered," Davis explains. "We are a source of good friends and good people."
LAMBDA Alliance meets in the student lounge across from Stageline Thursday evenings at 6 p.m.


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Borden is beating teams this year by an average of a little more than 20 points a game. That held true Saturday in the championship of the First Harrison Bank Holiday Tournament Saturday against West Washington.
After finishing an oft-talked about project in October -- the Salem bypass, the Indiana Department of Transportation put another feather in its cap last Friday when they broke grown on the Star Hill Road.
Work on the project was set to begin Monday (Dec. 10).
According to a press release issued by INDOT, the $13.6 million dollar will construct a new two-lane road, which will extend from Rake Road near Starlight,, to State Road 60 near Borden.
The release says the project will also include the realignment and reconstruction of a portion of Rake Road and improvements to S.R. 60 at the intersection of the new Star Hill Road.
At the ground breaking, local business owners, elected officials and INDOT representative shared stories of how the project became a reality.
Ted Huber, owner of Huber Winery said his dad shared a story where the new road was set to be built as far back as the early 1950s.
"I think dad told me it was 1950 or 54, the governor at that time was visiting Starlight and pretty much had the road project sealed and approved to happen then. As elections go, the governor lost and the road project went out with him."
Huber said in the late 1990s, the Starlight visitor's association put together a 25-year outlook for the community.
"We came back the following week and all of us involved had the same thing as the number one priority -- getting better roads!" he said.
Huber said more than 550,000 people visit Starlight every year.
"That's a lot of people we put into this community on county roads that were not designed for that traffic," he said. "That was our number one goal."
Star Hill Road will provide a safe and efficient two-mile route adequate for truck traffic, as well as major access improvement into the Starlight community.
The roadway features adequate passing zones and paved shoulders for disabled vehicles, all of which will greatly enhance safety.
Huber said the more than 100 people attended all deserve credit for the project finally getting going.
"Every single person in this room deserves thanks," he said. "We all put a lot of time and effort talking to politicians and really talking this project up for 25 to 30 years to get it moving forward. Without everyone this project would have never happened."
Randy Koetter, President of Koetter Woodworking.
"Our forefathers had a vision for a better road from Highway 60 through Starlight to Highway 150," he said. "I didn't know the reason at the time, but seeing where we are now, those folks saw the potential of the true American spirit and entrepreneurial drive."
Koetter said since then there have been hundreds of jobs created and has the envy of a lot of communities in the country of balancing agriculture, tourism, manufacturing and distribution in the same area.
"Our forefathers saw that potential in the beginning," Koetter said.
Koetter said besides the much needed safety Star Hill Road will provide, it also will tie Starlight to Borden and the state forest.
"It will give us in the county the opportunity to go from hundreds of jobs to thousands of jobs," he said. ". . . everyone will see that this project is a great investment and that our forefathers vision is worth investing in the full connection between Highway 60 and 150."
Borden could see a very large increase in traffic once the road is complete.
Rudy Cook said the road will intersect in Borden in sight of the town's community park.
Cook said there are plans to expand that park, which includes plans for a recreational lake.
The park also connects with the Clark County State Forest.
"Our plan is to hook all of this together in one big area," Cook said. "The town is currently in the middle of building a comprehensive plan. This (Star Hill Road) will be a big part of it. We want to get some of those 550,000 people headed our way."
Clark County Commissioners Ed Meyer, Les Young and John Perkins also shared stories of their involvement in the Start Hill Road.
The ground breaking wasn't the only reason for the celebration. INDOT also held a ribbon cutting celebrating the completion of St. John's Road, located in Clark County.
The $1.3 million reconstruct and realign project improved the overall safety of the roadway, according to an INDOT press release. The improvements feature widened pavement, standard shoulders and guardrail.
"It's a great day seeing everyone's hard work and diligence payoff for these much needed projects," Meyer said. "These projects provide a whole lot of benefit for this area of Clark County."
Nearly 450 people gathered together beneath the shadow of New Albany's Amphitheater on the morning of Saturday, December 1, for the 5th annual Miles for Merry Miracles 5K walk/run.. Miles for Merry Miracles is a volunteer-run organization that works every year to support the Salvation Army and the Angel Tree program during the holidays.
The entrance fee to entering the 5K is simply to sponsor a child from the Angel Tree. After the race, participants go shopping for toys, clothes and other items their child needs and drops them off for the M4MM staff, who in turn discreetly pass these presents out to the children's parents during their annual Christmas party.
410 people ran or walked the 5K's route along the Ohio River this year, a new record for the continually growing nonprofit. 380 of those participants managed to complete the course in just over an hour. Miles for Merry Miracles started half a decade back as the Eagle Scout project of local youth Nick Hebert, who is currently living in Honduras on a two year missionary trip sponsored by his church.
Hundreds, if not thousands, of under-privileged families in our community have been helped by the generous acts of Merry Miracle racers and supporters over the past few years. As of race day 2012, 650 children had been sponsored this year alone through the organization.
For more information on Miles for Merry Miracles, visit www.m4mm.org.
The Southern Athletic Conference opened the season with Borden and Lanesville at Borden Friday night. The final score was 76 to 68, Borden, but the game was a tough struggle for both teams.


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So, I am officially registered for the 2011 National Genealogical Society's Family History Conference. The 5-day long conference is next May in Charleston, South Carolina. I almost decided against going because of the money - the conference itself and extra luncheons and social events are not exactly cheap and then you have to add in cost of travel and hotel, but I'm going with Cousin April, which will cut down on some of the expenses, and frankly, I didn't go on vacation this past year and I don't have any foreseeable vacation plans next year, so why not? Five days of workshops, all day long, isn't exactly a vacation, but it's a new city I've never been to, there's some opportunity to actually see some of the city, and just the chance to get away from home and work, for whatever reason? That's vacation enough for me.
Anyway, April and I met last weekend to discuss the conference, and the more we talked about it, the more excited I got. There are some really interesting workshops being offered covering an array of topics - I was looking at ones specific to German church records and Irish land valuation records, ones that deal with thinking "outside the box" when it comes to looking for and finding records, ones that talk about how to resolve conflicts in records, ones that talk about records I've only recently started to use or haven't used yet but might in the future, like probate records, ones that talk about the future of genealogy, specifically the way social media (and blogs!) are changing the way research and networking are done, and because I'm interested in becoming certified, I was also looking at several workshops that deal with that as well as the proper techniques for working as a professional genealogist.
Bored yet? C'mon, if you read this blog, I don't see how you can be!
April was excited about some of the workshop presenters, such as Elizabeth Shown Mills, who seems to be a big name in genealogy (I'll admit, I'm not quite as up-to-speed on my genealogy celebs - if anyone is a bigger genealogy nerd than me, it's April! :)), and the fact that Buzzy Jackson, who just wrote a book called "Shaking the Family Tree," will be a keynote speaker.
There will be several social events throughout the week, which I think will be great for networking - as you all know I love to repeat, we family historians have to work together! But I also think they just sound fun - a wine and cheese party at the Charleston Museum, a barbeque at the Charleston rifle club. I wonder if they cash bar at the rifle club will be followed by the opportunity to try out the weaponry...
I also decided to sign up for an extra trip to the South Carolina archives in Columbia. As it so happens, I have some family, the Storys, who lived in the Charleston area for a couple of generations back in the mid-1700s (Mary Story, daughter of Morris Story, granddaughter of Rowland Story, and great granddaughter of Zachariah Story, born in Charleston, married Richard Poole; their daughter Annie married J.J. Raynor - Annie and J.J. were my great-great grandparents...) and I think it's possible I might be able to find some records that could help flesh out and verify parts of that branch of my tree.
And on top of all that, it was nice to see April again. I think April and I are actually a good example of modern genealogy - we found each other through the Internet, we pool our research and resources, we're both big proponents of verifying our research. Whenever we go to these genealogy things, we're always the youngest ones there, but I think we represent the next generation of family historians. It's those like us, those like all of you, that have to make sure the *next* generation is well-prepared to carry on the legacy!
Registration for the NGS Family History Conference is still open! For more information, visit http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/!
Sharing my love of genealogy and my experience as a genealogist to inspire everyone to search out their family trees...the past, present, and future are all connected. Researching your family tree is like looking for a bunch of needles in a whole lot of haystacks, and then threading those needles together to tell your family's story. If you know where you come from you can know who you are and where you're going!
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Charleston, S.C., here I come...: 2011 NGS Family History Conference
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I don't care how big of an ass-pull is necessary; right now I just want Laxus to beat all of them no matter what. I hope maybe Erza will somehow see through the illusion with her magical prosthetic eye, or that Natsu will detect something is off with his sense of smell. Just thinking about Laxus going down like this makes my heart sink. Damn it Mashima always knows how to pull my strings.
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Thirded. The Icing on the cake would be that Laxus would insult each member of RT before knocking them into kingdom come.
Flare: Although I don't approve of female abuse, looks like your vag is the only thing less acidic than your hair.
Narpudding: Sheesh, no wonder pudding is part of your name. Did you eat so much your chins are individual members of your guild? Their names should be: 1- Fat, 2- Husky, 3- Fluffy, 4- DAYUM!
Kurohebi: Hey, Orochimaichemicalromance, Midnight called he wants his eye makeup back. No one uses an adjective and an animal to describe their junk in order to get girls anymore you asshole.
Obra: You look like the triple contact fusion of Gonzo from the muppets, something made by Tim Burton and Johnny Depp, and Spider-man prototype drawing that plays with dolls.
Ivan: Dad, I gotta say, from the bottom of my heart, time for you, to grow up *punch in the nose*.
That would be the perfect ending^^.
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I'm hoping for Mavis to help out Laxus (to turn the tide) or maybe Mr.Bunny will sense a disturbance in the force and breaks the illusion somehow.
The way they showed Mr.Bunny this chapter is like that he will do something grand very soon.
But yeah I hope Laxus even if not win against the RT he will at least break the illusion to show the world what total pieces of shit RT really is. You know lost a battle, but won the war.
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Mystogan was a boss with this type of magic, considering jellal is his counterpart - it's assumable he knows what's really going on. If anything, I am highly confident laxus can take on ivan.
If anything, it would be great to see Lexus vs them all cleanly.
Honestly, I doubt it, seeing as though Ivan uses underhanded tactics - if anything jellal or ultear might get involved idk.
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Ultear's too far to have any sort of affect on that match. This is a a phenomanal display of illusionary magic if even Mavis, who is dead, is fooled... Unless she's not, and she's giving Erza a head's-up on how best to dispel the illusion, along with Jelly.
...y'know, that might be the only way I'd accept him - if he becomes Mavis's eternal lapdog.
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She wasn't shown to show a reaction to the fight so far, I'm taking that as a good sign she knows whats going on.
If anything we could see her stepping in herself which I wouldn't mind if only after Laxus lays the smack down on a few of RT
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I'm starting to catch up a bit on the manga thanks to your guy's advice, and I'm trying not to get too far ahead.
I'm on chapter 271, at Lucy's fight with Flaire, and did anyone else notice that Lucy's whip is back to it's original design?
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I'm guessing it's another one of those continuity slip-ups Hiro Mashima that made in the manga, so he made up an explanation for it that the anime creators showed us.
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Kinana made a small appearance with the rest of the guild in chapter 285. She's seen to the right. I actually could never find her character sheet, can someone tell me what chapter it's in?
Yukino mentioned the incident in chapter 282.
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My guess is that she will get more involved when Cobra appears again, and I think it will be when the dragon arc will be close by.
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Does FTs 3 victories so far on Day 3 have to do with the date? and what do you think will happen 7/7?
Simply put in the story it is now July 3rd according to the last page of ch 280 it was the end of the second day and stated to be July 2nd.
Now as some of you may recall Lucy presumably joined Fairy Tail on July 3rd. In Chapter 3. When Natsu, Lucy and Happy left to find Macao, it was at night and they returned in daylight, which is most likely the next day (Romeo says the mountains are not far away). An info box on the last page says the date is July 4th and that she went from sunny to snowstorm to sunny, further suggesting that it is July 3rd.
Well anyways, we've had 3 back to back Fairy Tail victories on July 3rd oddly too. Maybe the battle round on day 2 could represent the night (second event = last half of the day aka night) before Lucy joined and that likely corresponds with the night Lucy and Natsu destroyed there first town together. Oh sweet memories...
Plot wise the main team of Fairy Tail character (Natsu, Lucy, Happy) have now from their point of view completed one year* together (*Unless you count the 3 month time jump against them or count it as 8 years (7 +1) instead ).
So if you think this might be true that Mashima choose today July 3rd (plot wise) for Fairy Tail's comeback has any possibility of being true, then do you believe this will effect the outcome of Laxus vs Raven Tail? aka will the streak hold since it is there "lucky" day? Or will they only have 3 victories because it was only a 3 member team on those dates (as crazy as this sounds remember Demise equaled route E, so who knows... Mashima is a bit odd with his riddles and stuff)?
Now next off that means July 7, the stated day for the "eclipse" is 4 days away... but there is only 2 days left of the 5 day tournament.
Simply put what are your thoughts on the dates of the tournament? Mashima seems to like dates in this series so how will he use them this time?
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So, RT is a specialised anti-FT guild, so does that mean when they study FT's members closely before they recruit members? And only put out members for the tournament that have direct advantages over FT's?
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As the leader of the Breakers' offence and one of their best at the defensive end, Cedric Jackson knows more than most about the shifting dynamic between the two.
Ahead of tomorrow night's game against Sydney on the North Shore, this season has so far seen a departure from the Breakers' free-scoring ways from recent years - their 3-1 record has been built not on blowing teams out but on shutting them down.
They have scored 25 points fewer per game in their first three wins than at the same stage last season, but the 74 points they have averaged have been enough to triumph thanks to a miserly defence giving up only 65 points per game.
Jackson, though, insists there has been no change in philosophy as the side search for a third straight championship. As the captain of the ship, he is confident the offence is set for some smoother sailing.
"It's all about rhythm," Jackson said. "We want to just focus on the defensive end. We know we have a lot of weapons and the offence will take care of itself. So that's something that we don't really focus on too much."
The point guard did concede, however, there has been a little more attention paid to that end of the court than in his first campaign with the club.
That's largely due to some ugly shooting numbers. The free burgers given to the home crowd when the side cracks three figures seem but a distant memory, and the fans will stay hungry as long as the Breakers continue to shoot just 41 per cent from the field.
Jackson has been something of an exception to that rule, with his improvements an evident benefit from a summer spent working on his game in an attempt to make it back to the NBA.
While his field goal percentage of 47 per cent is decent, the same number from beyond the arc leaves him in the league's top five in three-point percentage. Jackson's 15 points per game lead the Breakers, and it would by a considerably wider margin were it not for a woeful 38 per cent success rate from the free throw line.
Coach Andrej Lemanis spoke of a slight change in technique sparking Jackson's increased threat from deep, but the player said it was more a shift in mindset.
"I wouldn't say it's too different," he said of his shot. "Just a bit more emphasis on different aspects of the game. Trying to be more aggressive, learning when to take the wide-open shot. It was definitely a good, hard-working summer."
In the end, it was an unsuccessful summer, with the Breakers the benefactors from Jackson's inability to land an NBA contract. With the best league in the world resuming this week, Jackson said he had no longing for what might have been.
"No, I don't get the pangs. I'm still happy here and this is my main focus."
The 26-year-old will undoubtedly have another crack at the NBA during the next off-season, and said he still maintains contact with friends around the league.
"Some of the guys hit me up every now and then, checking up on me and seeing how I'm doing. One of my good buddies checked up on my stats last game and hit me up about free throws and turnovers and stuff like that," he said with a laugh. "A lot of them are point guards and say, 'watch those turnovers'."


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This probably should have been modded "funny" instead of "troll". There really are people suing to get wi-fi shut down because they claim to be allergic to it.
It's all great until some moron who's "attuned to the Earth" sues them claiming that the wireless transmissions are geiving them bad vibrations and the dowsers claim this is totally fucking with their stick pointing duties.
Have you been to Philly?
I live here... The last thing we worry about is "bad vibrations", more likely we're afraid of random violence.
Think I'm joking?
These were only in the last few days.
We're not Santa Fe...
Then one day people found out that the only way they could use the free service was to download some Windows-only program that spewed out ads by the dozen. Linux and BSD users were locked out.
That's an interesting perspective. When there is Windows only software, I'd think most people would be more concerned with Mac OS X being locked out than Linux (given their relative market share) let alone BSD. Unless, I suppose, one classifies OS X as a BSD.
OS specific ads seem pretty pointless. There seem to be well proven technologies to inject ads into Web content, regardless of OS.
Well, OS X users have their tethered iPhones [slashdot.org]...
TFA doesn't say anything about ads. If it's true, it's cause for concern, since there's no way to implement that without altering packets.the new investors are thinking of using advertisements
This could lop months off their timeframe!The private group won't estimate when the network might be completed (it's at 80%), saying it will take months to assess where the project is and what it needs.
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THQ developer Digital Warrington has officially been closed, the publisher announced today. Last month, THQ revealed the team behind the downloadable title Red Faction: Battlegrounds and Homefront developer Kaos Studios would be shuttered as part of a "strategic realignment."
While Kaos has long since been disbanded, Digital Warrington was only dissolved today due to a UK law which requires a 30 day warning period for company closures. Not only is today exactly thirty days later, today also marks the release of Digital Warrington's final title, Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team.
Develop reports that "close to" 36 employees at the UK studio have been made redundant "effective immediately." The remaining ten employees will be shifted to complete the PSN version of Kill Team, which is expected to launch later this summer.
Out of the ashes of the redundancies, two development start-ups have emerged: D3T and a second, unnamed team. A third "concept" team, dubbed Alien Apple Studios, has also been formed.
Studio founder Colin Bell, meanwhile, has decided to step away from the games industry for the time being. "THQ have done all they can through the consultancy period and have treated staff with respect," he told Develop. Bell then went on to reminisce that the Juiced franchise "has sold over 5 [million]" units, adding that Kill Team is "a great parting product for the studio."


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FARIAS JUNIOR, José Cazuza de et al. Validity and reproducibility of a physical activity questionnaire for adolescents: adapting the Self-Administered Physical Activity Checklist. Rev. bras. epidemiol. [online]. 2012, vol.15, n.1, pp.198-210. ISSN 1415-790X. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1415-790X2012000100018.
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate test-retest reproducibility and the validity of a physical activity questionnaire for adolescents (adapted from Self-Administered Physical Activity Checklist). METHODS: The test-retest reproducibility analysis was completed by 239 adolescents (average age 16 years, SD = 1.2; 56.4% female), and the validity analysis by 70 adolescents (average age 15.7 years, SD = 1.2; 55.7% female). All adolescents were high school students in João Pessoa, PB, in Northeastern Brazil, in 2009. The test-retest reproducibility was determined by repeated evaluations with one week interval between them. Validity of the physical activity questionnaire was assessed by comparing the results of the questionnaire with those of four 24-hour recalls (reference method). RESULTS: The test-retest reproducibility was high (intraclass correlation coefficient: ICC = 0.88; 95%CI: 0.84 - 0.91), and the agreement was moderate for physical activity classified in two groups (< 300min/week vs. > 300min/week; kappa coefficient: k = 0.52). Spearman correlation coefficient comparing the questionnaire data with those of four 24-hour recalls (reference method) was moderate (rho = 0.62; p < 0001). The agreement between these measures (questionnaire and 24-hours recalls) for physical activity classified in two groups was moderate (k = 0.59). CONCLUSIONS: The physical activity questionnaire showed high reproducibility, and moderate validity, and therefore, its use is recommended for assessing adolescents' physical activity level.
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"We are here to send a message," said Teresa Arieth, organizer of the La Fuente Jackson Heights march.
The goal, she said, was to notify congress that there is support for immigration reform.
"There is a lot of family separation," she said, "We've already been waiting a long time."
According to La Fuente, there are many illegal immigrants working in the Jackson Heights neighborhood and stimulating the economy. It was chosen as a march site, one of several across the five boroughs last week, because "it reflects the diversity" immigration reform affects.
During the march from 74th Street and Roosevelt Avenue to 103rd Street and Corona Avenue, the group passed many stores that were run by immigrants who were in favor of passing immigration reform legislation.
"They're working and they're paying taxes, too," Arieth said.
One individual who marched in support of immigration reform was a sophomore studying graphic design at a city university. He spoke on the condition of anonymity due to his status as an illegal immigrant.
While he is in favor of immigration reform on the national scale, this El Salvadorian immigrant said that he is seeking help from the state as well.
"We want to be able to work without fear," he said.
The Brooklyn resident said that he is also in favor of the DREAM Act introduced at the state level designed to allow students the same financial aid for college as citizens, as long as they can prove they were brought to the United States illegally by their parents.
"We want to grow in the community," Arieth said, "We want to work more and pay taxes. We bring a culture here to the community. "It's a benefit for everyone."
Along with the marches, Senator Charles Schumer discussed immigration reform in Downtown Brooklyn at the Cathedral Basilica of St. James on Jay Street and Cathedral Place.
In churches throughout Brooklyn and Queens - 194 parishes in all - mass is said in roughly 30 different languages.
"I am working with my bipartisan allies putting the finishing touches on a comprehensive immigration reform bill that will bring 11 million people out of the shadows and onto the path to citizenship," Schumer said. "With your help, and your prayers, I hope that we will succeed in passing this vital legislation."


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A Texas Republican senator who sits on the Senate Finance Committee is threatening a government shutdown if President Obama and Democrats don't agree to cut government spending in the coming months.
"The coming deadlines will be the next flashpoints in our ongoing fight to bring fiscal sanity to Washington," Sen. John Cornyn wrote in a Houston Chronicle op-ed published Friday.
Referring to the looming debates over the U.S. debt ceiling, the automatic budget cuts not addressed in the fiscal-cliff deal and the expiration in March of a stopgap funding bill, he wrote: "It may be necessary to partially shut down the government in order to secure the long-term fiscal well being of our country, rather than plod along the path of Greece, Italy and Spain. President Obama needs to take note of this reality and put forward a plan to avoid it immediately."
Republicans like Cornyn and Obama are on a collision course. Obama has pointedly said he will not negotiate around raising the debt ceiling. Republicans, who weren't able to prevent tax increases on wealthy Americans in the fiscal cliff bill enacted by Obama, now say their chief focus is spending cuts. Cornyn appears to be the first lawmaker to threaten a shutdown, however.
The government's current stopgap budget expires on March 27. If Congress doesn't approve a new budget before that, the government would partially shut down.
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The 34-year-old joined Swiss side Sion in the summer after deciding to call time on his 13-year association with the Rossoneri, but despite having enjoyed an exceptional career at his former club, he has no intent on returning and hopes to soon begin working on his badges.
"A return to Milan? I certainly won't abandon this ship," the former Italy international told reporters. "I gave my word to Sion officials when I came here.
"I hope to begin a cycle at this club and I don't harbour any nostalgia for home. Switzerland has, after all, a high quality of life.
"It is my objective to become a coach, but only in the future."
During his career, Gennaro Gattuso won the Champions League two times with Milan and the World Cup 2006 with Italy.


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Titans turn it on, pick up first victory
For the first time this season, things finally started to click for the Toll Gate hockey team Friday night – when it was too late.
But it wasn't too late for Saturday.
After scoring three goals in the final four minutes of a 4-3 loss to Mt. Hope on Friday, the Titans came out with the same pace and effort Saturday against Johnston/North Providence in Smithfield and steam-rolled to a 6-1 victory, their first of the season.
"Last night, it was a game that was there for the taking," Toll Gate head coach Mike Champagne said. "We're down 4-0 and we're kind of hanging our heads. But we knew we could play that game – it just took us way too long. Tonight, we finally realized 'We can go compete. Let's do it on time.' A lot of things we've been hoping to see all year, we finally saw tonight."
Both Toll Gate and JNP are now 1-7. The Titans had been hoping for a big weekend, with a chance to get their footing against comparable teams. In the month of December, Toll Gate played five games, all against teams with winning records. After a 3-1 loss to Pilgrim last weekend, the Titans square off with 2-6 Mt. Hope and fell into the same trap. The late surge wasn't enough.
But for the purposes of Saturday's game, it was a major step.
"I think as a coach, you're happy with a stretch like that, but it almost upsets you more – it's like where was this?" Champagne said. "When it finally showed up, I think they realized that they missed an opportunity. And they said to themselves, 'We can't do that.'"
They didn't.
Just 2:15 into Saturday's game, the Titans scored on the scramble after a rebound for the 1-0 lead. A little over two minutes after that, Jack Sullivan slipped a pass from behind the net to Sean Vittum in the slot, and he slammed it home for the 2-0 cushion.
"Tonight, they came out, put in a goal early, got some confidence and got right back at it," Champagne said. "Tonight was a complete game. They put in the effort. They earned it."
JNP, which had picked up its first victory last weekend, didn't go quietly. With 8:09 left in the first period, Sam DaCosta took advantage of a turnover in the Titans' zone and slipped a wrist shot past goalie David Stachurski to make it 2-1.
It was a dangerous spot for the Titans, who have been prone to momentum swings all season. This time, though, momentum was all theirs. Less than four minutes after the JNP goal, Vittum and Sullivan got loose on a 2-on-1 and executed it perfectly, with Vittum slipping a pass from the right to Sullivan on the left. He beat goalie Andrew Costa-Curtis easily to put the Titans back up by two.
"I think that was huge," Champagne said. "The goal was important – and more important was the style of play. You could see we were coming back from that. Any time it's within 1 or 3-1, that's still tough. That's a bad bounce away from being a tight game. It was really nice to get that next goal and to change the tide a little bit."
The Titans picked up a penalty with 7:32 left in the second period but killed it off. Twenty seconds after the power play ended, JNP's Justin Harvey got loose in front, but Stachurski made a pad save to keep the 3-1 lead.
Late in the second period, the Titans surged again. Vittum knocked in a bouncing puck with 3:26 left and Connor Sullivan scored on an odd-man rush with Daniel Mowry to make it 5-1.
The Titans got another goal from Vittum early in the third period and coasted to the 6-1 win.
"It was really important to build on the last four minutes of that game yesterday," Vittum said. "We did. We came out with the win."
Now the Titans need to keep the momentum alive. They have a weekend off from league play but will take the ice Sunday to face Narragansett at 3:10 p.m. in the Andrew J. Gauthier Hockey Festival. They return to league play Jan. 24. "
We've got to keep pushing at practice – four good days of practice," Champagne said. "We'll get a good opportunity against Narragansett in the Gauthier festival. Then go into the weekend following, hopefully riding that confidence. Now they hopefully connect what we do in practice with what happens in games. We see what happened tonight. You want the example to say 'This is what you need to do.' We finally have it."


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itwbennett writes: On Wednesday, Oracle amended the lawsuit it filed against Google in August, saying that 'approximately one third of Android's Application Programmer Interface (API) packages' are 'derivative of Oracle's copyrighted Java API packages' and related documents. In particular, 'the infringed elements of Oracle America's copyrighted work include Java method and class names, definitions, organization, and parameters; the structure, organization and content of Java class libraries; and the content and organization of Java's documentation,' Oracle says. 'In at least several instances, Android computer program code also was directly copied from copyrighted Oracle America code,' Oracle alleges.


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Former U.S. Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki inaugurates 2005-2006 UH Manoa Distinguished Lecture Series
Appearance at UHM Campus Center set for Tuesday, November 8University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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U.S. Army General Eric Shinseki (ret.) will appear as the first guest presenter of the academic year in the UH Manoa Distinguished Lecture Series.
The Kauaʻi native and former Army Chief of Staff will speak to "Challenges in the Effective Use of Force," at the UHM Campus Center Ballroom on Tuesday, November 8, beginning at 7:00 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public.
General Shinseki graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and has a master's degree in English from Duke University. His military career included two tours of duty in Vietnam, as well as postings in Hawaiʻi, Texas, German and Italy.
Shinseki was commanding general U.S. Army Europe, and, in 1999, became Chief of Staff of the Army. He was one of the principal architects of the current revolution in military affairs.
The Distinguished Lecture Series of the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa regularly hosts extraordinarily talented men and women whose work in the arts, sciences, humanities or public affairs is innovative and significant, and gives them a forum in which to share their contributions with the people of Hawai'i.
Other speakers this academic year will include Steven Squyres of Cornell University, principal investigator for the Mars Exploration Rover Project — speaking in mid-January — and Alexander McCall Smith, author of The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, The Sunday Philosophy Club, and other works, scheduled to speak in late March.
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WYANET — The descendents of William and Mattie (Aldrich) Smith met for their 50-year reunion at the Wyanet Park Shelter on Oct. 7 with 95 people attending. Hosts for the reunion were the descendents of the Lloyd Smith family.
There were two births recorded for the year, Ryan Matthew Burkholder, the son of Karyn and Ismal Burkholder, was born Aug. 15. He is the great-grandson of Keith Olson. Jayden Marie Binder, the daughter of Kayla Woolf and great-granddaughter of Derrold and Pat Mark, was born on May 24. There were no marriages or deaths. The oldest family member present was Ona Andersen of Walnut. The youngest member present was Liam Smith of Wyanet.
The next reunion will be Oct. 6, 2013, at the Wyanet Park Shelter with the Letha Olson family in charge.


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internet providers are obliged to keep records of users' access for six months
Exactly whose "rights" are they talking about?
From the original in Portuguese:
"O sigilo das comunicações dos usuários da internet não pode ser violado. Provedores de acesso à internet serão obrigados a guardar os registros das horas de acesso e do fim da conexão dos usuários pelo prazo de seis meses, mas isso deve ser feito em ambiente controlado."
which translates roughly as:
"The user's communication privacy cannot be violated. ISPs will be obliged to keep track of access and connection hours for six months, but
Sounds fair.
I don't think so. There should no forced retention of such data.
Well, it has always worked like this here in Brazil: you either log access, so that you can transfer blame, or you get the blame. It REALLY is that simple. So, before the Marco Civil, we had to log it *and* retain it for a loooooong while, and jump through hoops to answer the police (not the court!). Now we only have to do it for 6 months, and the law cannot request anything past that date, and all requests must be made by a court. They can, however, request that *specific* records be kept for longer i
True, that's not too bad, but an obligation to keep any records at all is still not really about "rights."
Knowing what they are legally obliged to do is very important to the ISPs. Knowing what the requirement is, frees them from collecting even more info because of ambiguity. It sounds a lot better than whats going on in the rest of the world at least.
No URLs, no content, just connection times.
What does "access" mean if not the URL or addresses of the sites you access during the time you are connected? If they had meant just "connection hours", they wouldn't have needed to say "access" because connection includes access to the ISP.
The new law states clearly that the records consist solely of the ip and time of connection, being illegal to make any analysis or record of the contents or protocols used in such connection.
The lack of this information kind of matters.
Rights given by men, can be taken by men; they are therefore not rights.
If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.
Any alleged "right" of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right.
No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation, an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as
No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation, an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as "the right to enslave."
So, jails and prisons are out, then?
You are basically wrong about rights. There is no objectively correct formulation for what a right is. The idea of rights precedes philosophical discussions about them. There are rights discussed in some of the most ancient writings we know of.
You can be given the right to enslave by a government. You might say 'in philosophy x you have no right to enslave' and you can also so 'philosophy x is the best way of thinking about this because' but you cannot say 'It is a rule of nature that you cannot enslave
You are confusing natural rights and civil rights.
If a society offers no rights beyond natural rights to it's citizens, it may not ethically expect any obedience to it's laws nor payment of taxes.
As for your other claims, nobody said people aren't being paid.
Rights are a term used in rhetoric, originally invented to convince theistic believers that their god made them inherent.
You don't even have the right to breathe. You, instead, have the need to breathe. However, as has been proven throughout history, this need can be overridden by someone with more power. And then you die.
This same thing is true of all other "rights". The term was invented to arouse emotional support, and it works for that purpose. It has no other meaning or function in nature. It doe
You assume that is impossible for a set of rights to exist which can ever be in opposition to one another.
But, that's clearly false. For instance, you have a right to freedom of speech. But I also have a right not to enter into a contract under false circumstances.
Hmm, no. That already existed. There is very little freedom of speech protection in Brazil (mostly because it is ridiculously easy to claim "slander" here), and that hasn't changed at all.
The FCC just substituted its oversight of subjective free speech protection for true net neutrality. What's funny about this is that while Comcast is chucking an evil chortle thinks they just actually crowned the mega church business incorporations as the new netflix. Mega churches are slowly taking over businesses due to their tax privledges, immunity from antitrust, large capitalization that let them operate a loss to kill competition and apple-scale brand loyalty. The mega churches just got another
Same deal in the U.S. but we didn't get network neutrality in the bargain.
"hat goes some length towards protecting net neutrality"
Where exactly is this stated in the actual document [netmundial.br]?
It is pretty clear in "Freedom of expression: everyone has the right to hold and express opinions, and to seek, receive, and impart information on the Internet without arbitrary interference." as in 'without arbitrary interference'. Also there is "avoiding arbitrary or unlawful collection of personal data and surveillance" as in you can not analyse people's data packets in order to treat 'arbitrarily interfere' with different kinds of data being transmitted. Not to forget " Everyone should have the right t
internet providers are obliged to keep records of users' access for six months
Nothing like making it easy to build the list of links for an ISP by putting all the data in one place. Bet it's online accessible, too.
Keeping net neutrality is a huge win. Other articles in the bill are very positive too.
The shitty part is the record keeping. As far as my legalspeak goes, and that is almost nothing, what I understood is that if I have a website I have to maintain a 6 month record of all my visitors. I'm guessing that they refer to general access logs, just like Apache access log files or some equivalent. What I did understand is that ISPs cannot keep those records. But I might be very wrong. Either interpretation is bad anyway, so it does not matter much how bad it is.
What bothers me more is that our equivalent to the FCC (Anatel) is building a database and backdoor access to all ISPs client data. If what I heard is right (two sources working in a third party developer for a local ISP) they will have access to every byte sent through every Internet connection in the country. The buffer size I do not know. THAT bothers me a lot.
It's that true? (about the anatel backdoor)?
If it's true, it's time to show this in the light. It's outrageous, absurd and ridiculous (specially from a government that said that is wrong when talking about NSA).
Besides the 2 sources, there is anything wrote about it?
What I could confirm otherwise is somewhat old news. http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/f... [uol.com.br]
would never allow that to happen in 'Merica. They fear and hate the Internet because it is against their religion. Also they do is plot against access. Even here in Seattle the conservatives have successfully destroyed Internet access. The fastest connection I can get is dial-up with copper.net. They provide great dial-up, but after over a decade with them, I fucking want faster access, but the city will not allow CenturyLink or Comcast to upgrade their equipment. I had DSL, but it was just too unreli
In the meantime, Harper is trying to pass laws [stopthesecrecy.net] against Canadians.
Message to Harper: you're supposed to be an elected official to represent the people, not a corporate puppet out to sell out our rights and natural resources to the highest bidder. Canada isn't your private land and property, it's the country you're supposed to be governing.
Will Canada become a worker's paradise once all resources and production are in state hands?
Dear everyone here,
Brazil is not the U.S. It has a different culture. Your cultural norms cannot be blindly fit onto Brazil. Please stop trying.
P.S. The rest of the world would like to express the same thing. They started a queue.
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Balkan Countries Join Forces to Fight HIV/AIDS Stigma
January 13, 2012
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Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the Balkans region are uniting to combat the stubborn stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS there. They are starting by hosting a special conference in April that focuses on the needs of people living with HIV.
Official case counts in the region are low: For example, just 65 people in Bosnia are registered as HIV-positive, and 103 in Montenegro. However, experts believe the true number of cases could be at least 10 times higher. Montenegro, with just 660,000 inhabitants, saw a 33 percent rise in persons living with HIV from 2005 to 2009, data show. NGOs say HIV/AIDS prevalence among young people is increasing rapidly.
While most countries of the former Yugoslavia provide free antiretroviral treatment, people with HIV/AIDS report discrimination and isolation. "They are often excluded from a society, lose their job, they are deprived of their basic human rights and education," said Tatjana Preradovic-Sjenica, a psychologist with Viktorija, a Bosnian Serb NGO in Banja Luka.
In this region where traditional values are deeply rooted, people with HIV often are shunned by their own relatives. "We do not have any place to house people rejected by their families. They live in hospitals until they die," said Boris Kovacic of USOP, an umbrella group of Serbian HIV/AIDS organizations.
Discrimination and stigma prevent many people from getting tested for HIV, especially in Bosnia and Montenegro. "Fear of being identified or what the results of the test could be leads many people to conclude it's better not to know," said Preradovic-Sjenica. "We try to motivate people to take a test."
Tomislav Beganovic of Croatia's Association for HIV and Hepatitis Patients, noted "discrimination ... is born of ignorance, so we need to raise awareness."
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It's no secret that Griffith Park is the site of many iconic moments in celluloid history. James Dean's knife fight in the Observatory parking lot over which the Rocketeer once soared… Marty McFly being chased on a hover-board by Biff Tannen through the same tunnel that was the entrance to Toon Town… The earthquake that helped Robert Downey Jr. and Tim Robbins cover up the murder of a date (in the Robert Altman film, Short Cuts)… With so many landmarks dotting the Griffith map, it's not a stretch to say that the park itself is a piece of film history.
Even one of the permanent "parks within the park," Travel Town, was the location of a scene from The Jerk, in which Steve Martin, the engineer of a miniature steam locomotive, pays the price for focusing more on Bernadette Peters than the train of which he's in charge, and ends up having to "rescue" the brat she's babysitting when he commandeers it. The mini-steamers are permanent too, and though new tracks, tunnels, bridges, and buildings have been added to the Travel Town grounds, little has changed since Carl Reiner (the film's director) yelled, "Cut!" The train ride is one of two mini-steamer lines (the other being the Griffith Park & Southern Railroad) that, with very rare exceptions, operate daily in the park, and have for decades.
Every Sunday (with the exception of Memorial Day weekend and the first weekend in October), local miniature train enthusiast organization, the Los Angeles Live Steamers, adds more rails to ride, offering donation-only spins around the huge LALS complex – just slightly east of Travel Town. At the suggested donation price of $3, it's both reasonable, and a nice way to spend a lazy Sunday. A lot of TLC has gone into producing an experience that shows the general public just how fun the miniature train hobby can be, while showcasing some of Griffith Park's most beautiful real estate.
At the far east corner of the property, just across from a functioning steam plant, is the "Crown Jewel," of LALS's section of the park, Walt Disney's Carolwood Barn. Maintained and operated by the Carolwood Historical Society, the Disney Barn – much like Winnie the Pooh's fabled "Thinking Spot" – was Walt's private space, where he came up with ideas for his parks and films as he worked on his hobby, nay, his passion, model trains and railroads. If you didn't know, the Disney family property included, for many years, the Carolwood Pacific Railroad, which ran through the 5-acre Holmby Hills estate. It was moved to Griffith Park in 1999, when, because of asbestos concerns, the current owner of the property was forced to demolish most of the Disney house.
Billed as "the birthplace of Imagineering," the barn is where Mr. Disney got one of his first inspirations for Disneyland: an amusement park with a scale train running along the perimeter. In the late 40's – after a trip to the Chicago Railroad Fair, he'd gotten into model trains as a way of relieving the stress of being a studio head. The barn is a scale replica of a set piece from one of the lesser known Disney features, So Dear to My Heart, designed by Disney and based on his recollections of the barn from his childhood home in Marceline, Missourri. One could even say that the barn is the flashpoint of all things Disney in that, as his favorite place to play as a boy, the Marceline barn was where young Walt nurtured his imagination with activities like putting on a circus for his neighbors.
In terms of space, it is only one room, and relatively small – in a sense, one of the world's first "Man Caves." A guided tour with a docent takes about 15 minutes. However if you have the desire to hear more information and stories, the volunteer staffers will gladly indulge you. Despite close quarters, and a healthy population of visitors, it's not very crowded at all, yet the space is packed with Disney memorabilia, both from Walt's personal collection, and Disney Studios/Parks. In the very near future, another permanent piece of Disneyana will be added to the permanent installation: a fully restored car from the first train to give "Grand Circle" tours around the park from 1955 to 1974.
The Walt Disney Barn is open to the public on the third Sunday of every month from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Like LA Live Steamers, admission is on a donations-only basis, so if you can give a little, it's well worth the modest requested contribution – and if, like a lot of folks these days, your wallet is light, and you need every cent you can keep, nobody will glare at you in resentment. There are a limited number of picnic tables, and plenty of shade. Additionally, on select Saturday nights during the summer, they screen classic movies on the side of the barn. [BYOC – or "Bring your own chair."] For more information on the Disney Barn, and the Carolwood Foundation, please visit the Carolwood Rail Road Company homepage.