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This Week
At Find My Ancestor, A. C. Ivory is starting a series on the "Family History Library: Getting Started," a guide to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City for newbies.
A must-read: "1851 Dilemma, Are Your Dresses Draggley or Turkish?" at Carol's Reflections from the Fence.
In "Not So Long Ago or Far Away: Six Degrees to Slavery," Nolichucky Roots examines her own connections to slavery and the impact it has had on her life; the original inspiration for this came from Finding Josephine, where Dionne wrote about discovering relationships between the slave owners of her ancestors in "Treasure Chest Thursday: Six Degrees of Slave Owner Separation."
"Archaeology on the cheap," "dumpster diving," "junking," or, as Tipper at The Blind Pig and the Acorn calls it, "Treasure Hunting for Old Bottles" – a fun way to explore the past.
At a3 Genealogy, Kathleen Brandt provides some great pointers on how to prepare for a research trip by checking out various state and local research resources in "Research in Mississippi?"
At FamHist Lee Drew reminds us that we should always look for ways to back up the information provided on death certificates in "Faulty Memories and Death Certificates."
Another thought-provoking post from Daniel Hubbard at Personal Past Meditations – A Genealogical Blog: "Quantum Genealogy" – dealing with the probabilistic, with winding paths, with how increased knowledge of a past life makes in more difficult to reconcile new knowledge that does not fit our expectations. And how do we change already lived lives with our examination of them? Fascinating questions.
At TransylvanianDutch, John Newmark has some good advice on how to make sure your genealogy notes and photo labels are not confusing or ambiguous in "Don't use shorthand, abbr., or otherwise leave out" (I am so often guilty of doing just that!).
Lots of helpful information on turning blogs into books and "herding photos" this week:
At I Will Remember, Kathy shows how she turned the first six months' worth of posts on her blog into a book in "Treasure Chest Thursday – A Blog Book" (Blurb was also the subject of an article by Heather Rojo at Nutfield Genealogy; her book is shown at the right side of her blog).
At Before My Time, T.K. writes about her progress on her Blurb book project in "Blurb Blurb."
And at Olive Tree Genealogy Blog, Lorine McGinnis Schulze writes about "How to Create a Photo Collage in Picasa."
I'm inspired by all these posts to get going on book and photo projects!
Around the Genea-Blogosphere
Happy Second Blogoversary to Elyse at Elyse's Genealogy Blog!
Happy Blogoversary to The Genealogy Gals! (And check out the "Blogiversary" post to read about genealogists' special take on certain words.)
For more suggested genealogy blog reading, check out John Newmark's "Weekly Genealogy Picks" at TransylvanianDutch and Randy Seaver's Best of the Genea-Blogs at Genea-Musings.
This week I started following these blogs:
Between the Gate Posts (love the inspiration for the blog name)
Genealogical Research – past, present, future…
Layers of the Onion – A Family History Exploration
Search For Agnes (search4agnes)
The Generations Project Blog
I would like to echo a request made by Carol at Reflections from the Fence for prayers for members of our GeneaBlogging community and their families, particularly Gini at Ginisology, whose mother is gravely ill, for the recovery of Linda's (Flipside) son Aric, and for recovery and good health for footnoteMaven.
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I think that will be easier , because through camera means I have to do image processing and all other stuff.
GregaG, please stop abbreviating 'you' to 'u' (and other abbreviations). Typing out full words does not take much longer and it would make your posts look a lot better.Also, I suggest you use a web browser with an auto spell-checker.


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Made in the heart of Motor City, the Runwell might just lead to a renaissance of American-made watches. The vintage-inspired timepiece's small seconds subdial and onion-shaped crown make it closely resemble some classic World War II field watches. But its durable Swiss quartz movement and domed sapphire crystal make it decidedly modern. [$550; shinola.com is sold out, but some are available here.]Back to top


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RIDGWAY, Colo. - The bodies of the five people were found in the wreckage of a single-engine plane that crashed into a southwestern Colorado reservoir, authorities confirmed Monday.
Ouray County authorities say a remote-controlled rover and divers working in cold, murky waters spotted the bodies.
The wreckage will have to be brought to shore before the bodies can be removed, authorities said. They say the plane is upside down in about 3 feet of silt and about 60 or 70 feet underwater.
A salvage team is expected to begin raising the wreckage on Wednesday.
Authorities haven't released the identities of the victims.
The single-engine Socata TBM took off from Gadsden, Ala., and was headed to Montrose, about 25 miles north of the reservoir, when it crashed into the water at Ridgway State Park on Saturday.
The flight stopped in Bartlesville, Okla., before continuing on to Montrose, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said. The cause of the crash isn't yet known.
According to preliminary reports, the pilot reported that the plane was in a spin before losing communication, National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Eric Weiss said Monday.
That's consistent with an eyewitness account from a woman who was attending a wedding nearby when the plane crashed.
"It popped out of the thick, heavy clouds and went into a flat spin," Lena Martinez told the Ouray County Plaindealer.
Such eyewitness accounts have been turned over to the FAA and the NTSB for their investigations.
The plane is registered to an Alabama corporation. Messages left for the company weren't immediately returned.
The crash occurred several weeks after three people died when a plane crashed after taking off from the Telluride airport, less than 50 miles south.


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Sleigh Bells dropped by Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last night to perform the Bitter Rivals track "Minnie." In true Sleigh Bells fashion, the performance mashed up the band's pulverizing, abrasive rock with Alexis Krauss' sugary-sweet vocals. But they also brought some friends along: Krauss had a trio of backup singers helping out, and a small horn section complemented guitarist Derek Miller's non-stop shredding. Krauss also sported a "Bitter Rivals" jacket, which seemed like appropriate attire for a television spot.
Stream Sleigh Bells' Positively Loud New Album 'Bitter Rivals'
The Fallon performance caps another strong year for the New York City duo. Last October, they released Bitter Rivals, their second album in less than two years. They've been on the road for most of the fall and wind down their headlining club tour this weekend with two hometown shows at New York's Terminal 5.


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Submitting and processing requests for information at MU
The provision of information about Masaryk University is governed by Act No. 106/1999 Coll. (Czech only) , on Free Access to Information.
1. Request for information (verbal, telephone, e-mail)
(1) The provision of information may be requested verbally, by telephone or using electronic communications services; requests shall be addressed directly to Masaryk University employees according to their functional classification (see www.muni.cz). MU employees are obliged to, if possible, provide the requested information immediately, or otherwise refer the applicant to publicly available information.
(2) In case no information is provided as requested or in case the information provided fails to satisfy the applicant, a request for information must be submitted in writing.
2. Request for information (written)
Written requests for information must be submitted to the Masaryk University Rector's Office, either in writing to the following address
- Masaryk University
- Rector's Office
- Žerotínovo nám. 9
- 601 77 Brno
- Czech Republic
or using the digital mailroom, i.e. by e-mail to
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3. Processing written requests for information
(1) In case a lack of the applicant's personal data (name and surname or identification number in the case of a legal entity, correspondence address or functional e-mail address in the case of a request sent by electronic mail) should hinder the processing of the request, the applicant will be invited to provide such data within a period of seven days from the day of submission; should the applicant fail to comply with this request within a period of 30 days, his/her request will be discarded.
(2) In case the submitted request is unintelligible, does not clearly state what information is required or is formulated in an overly general manner, the applicant will be invited to clarify within a period of seven days from the date of submission; should the applicant fail to clarify his/her request within a period of 30 days, a decision rejecting the request will be issued.
(3) In case the requested information does not fall within the purview of Masaryk University, the request will be discarded and the applicant will be notified within a period of seven days from the date of reception of the request.
(4) Unless decided otherwise in accordance with the above specified conditions, information shall be provided in accordance with the request within a period of no more than 15 days from the date of reception of the request or the date of its completion; if so required, a final license offer shall also be submitted to the applicant within this period. This period may be extended for serious reasons, albeit by no more than ten days.
4. Issuing decisions
(1) In case a request or its part cannot be fulfilled, a decision rejecting the request will be issued within the period set out for processing the request or its part, except in cases where the request is discarded.
(2) In case a request has not been fulfilled on grounds of commercial confidentiality or third party rights subject to copyright, the decision must identify the person (if known) who exercises the rights to the trade secret or object of copyright in question.
5. Appeal
(1) An appeal may be lodged against the refusal to fulfil a request analogically in accordance with the provisions of section 2.
(2) A ruling made by the Rector shall be issued within 15 days.
(3) A negative ruling may not be appealed; it may, however, be submitted for judicial review.
6. Complaint
(1) A complaint regarding the processing of a request for information may be filed by an applicant
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- who received only part of the requested information but who was not informed of a decision rejecting the remainder of the request.
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(3) A complaint is filed analogically in accordance with the conditions of section 2 within 30 days of
- receiving a notification in accordance with section 6, section 14, subsection 5, letter c) or section 17, subsection 3,
- the end of the period designated for the provision of information in accordance with section 14, subsection 5, letter d) or section 14, subsection 7.
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Court'Inn Aqua
Courtinn Aqua is a hotel opened in 2009 which offers comfortable accommodation and an outdoor swimming pool. It is situated just 1 miles from the Ramparts of Avignon.
Its rooms are equipped with a private bathroom, satellite TV the apartments are additionally equipped with a kitchenette.
You can also enjoy a balcony or a terrace in some rooms and apartments.
You can discover Avignon through bike rental service of Courtinn.
You can also have a rest in our swimming pool, nestled in the garden, and make use of table tennis and a barbecue with a free access.
Enjoy the free parking at the hotel, which will allow you to park safely and explore the Provence region by car.
The arrival will be in the second hotel, located 220 yards: the hotel Courtinn Suites, 36 Route des Rmouleurs, reachable 04 90 85 19 09.
Check-in: starting from 2.00 pm.
Check-out: 10.30 am at the latest.
The reception is open Monday to Saturday 8.00 am to 12.00 am and 2.30 pm at 9.00 pm.
Sunday: 9.00 to 12.30 and 4.00 pm to 9.00 pm.
In case of arrival after 9.00 pm, thank you to contact the reception during the day to get access code and your key.
City tax: 0,39 per day and per person.
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Hotel Facilities & Policies
- Air Conditioning
- Bicycle hire
- Breakfast Not Included
- Cots available
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Free City Maps
- Free Internet Access
- Free Parking
- Free WiFi
- Hair Dryers
- Laundry Facilities
- Meeting Rooms
- No Curfew
- Non Smoking
- Outdoor Swimming Pool
- Outdoor Terrace
- Pet Friendly
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- Wheelchair Friendly
Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 1 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
Must-Read Hotel InfoThis property has specific Terms & Conditions.
During July (Avignon Festival)
• Prepayment: The total price of the reservation will be charged on the day of booking.
• Cancellation: Please note that bookings during this period are non-refundable. If cancelled or modified, no refund will be paid. In case of no-show, no refund will be paid.
DirectionsShow MapHide Map
-------- Coming from the highway A7 (from Lyon or Marseille) -------- :
Take the exit 'Avignon Nord' and follow the signs for Avignon.
On the bypass, follow the signs 'Avignon centre - Palais des Papes'
Around the walls, follow 'Nmes - Gare TGV' and take the exit 'Courtine entre n3'. Please, stop on your right side in the Hotel Court'in suites in order to check in- the receptionnist will tell you the way to Aqua ( 200 meters)
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Take the exit Avignon and follow the signs Avignon.
After crossing the river (the Rhne), follow the signs A7 and Gare TGV.
Follow the bypass and take the exit Courtine entre n3
Please follow the sign for Court'in suites in order to check in- the receptionnist will tell you the way for Aqua ( 200m)
Located Near
The beautiful town of Avignon is only 5 minutes from the hotel by car. There you will see the famous Pont d'Avignon, the impressive Palais des Papes and the Place de l'Horloge.
It is also worth making a daytrip to see the Fort Saint Andr at Villeneuve les Avignon (8 km), The charming town of Isle sur-la-Sorgues and its famous market (27 km), Les Baux de Provence (29km), Le Pont du Gard (30km), Orange and his Amphitheater (32km), Arles and his Roman city (37km), Gordes and its ochers colors(40km), Nmes (50km), etc....


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For quite a few years now, Apple has offered an educational desktop machine at a lower price point than the rest of its desktop line. That machine was first the eMac, followed by the 17-inch iMac, but now there's a new educational model in town. Apple has quietly announced (PDF) that it has replaced the 17-inch polycarbonate education iMac with a new, low-end 20-inch aluminum model, marking the end of the polycarbonate iMac case.
Previously, Apple was offering educational institutions the 17-inch iMac model for the same $899 price, so the switch is a nice upgrade. The new model includes a 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, a SuperDrive, and the NVIDIA 9400M graphics package. All in all, not a bad deal for nine Franklins.
The new educational iMacs are supposed to ship in about four weeks, but even if you want to just order one now, they're pretty hard to get. The low-end 20-incher isn't currently available to individual students or educational buyers, so you may need to make friends with your institutional buyer if you want to get your hands on one (an iMac, that is).


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Spinal Muscular Atrophy
The first steps in diagnosis of a neuromuscular disease are usually an in-office physical examination and family history, with some simple tests to distinguish spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) from similar conditions (such as muscular dystrophy).
The doctor may order a blood test for an enzyme called creatine kinase (CK), an enzyme that leaks out of muscles that are deteriorating. This is a nonspecific test because CK levels are elevated in many neuromuscular diseases, but it's often useful anyway. High blood CK levels aren't harmful in and of themselves, but they do indicate that muscle damage has occurred.
The doctor probably will recommend genetic testing if SMA is suspected, because this is the least invasive and most accurate way to diagnose chromosome 5-related SMA (types 1-4). Genetic testing requires only a blood sample. However, it has implications for the whole family that must be considered (see Causes/Inheritance).
Genetic tests are available for chromosome 5-related SMA and for some of the other forms of SMA. See Athena Diagnostics, a Massachusetts company that offers genetic testing for many neuromuscular diseases, including SMA; and Gene Tests, a website supported by the National Center for Biotechnology Information and sponsored by the University of Washington-Seattle, that lists available genetic tests.
Reliability and specificity of genetic tests are improving, and the number of tests available is expanding rapidly as knowledge and technology improve. For more on getting a definitive genetic diagnosis, see The Genie's Out of the Bottle: Genetic testing in the 21st century. Your MDA clinic team can guide you toward the right type of genetic testing for your situation.
In rare cases, doctors may order a muscle biopsy, which involves taking a small sample of muscle tissue, usually from the thigh, and looking at it under a microscope.
Other tests sometimes used to diagnose SMA include one that measures nerve conduction velocity — the speed with which signals travel along nerves — and one that measures the electrical activity in muscle, called anelectromyogram, or EMG. Nerve conduction velocity tests involve sensations that feel like mild electric shocks, and EMGs require that short needles be inserted in the muscles.


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Do you have a family heirloom or newly discovered treasure that needs a little loving attention from a speciality weaver? Don't delay; contact me now for quality workmanship, at a fair price, in a timely manner. Chair Seats and Backs can be sent to Caning Calgary for around $35 see the shipping page on my website for more details. Caning Calgary offers a wide variety of speciality weaving including:
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Traditional Seven Step Hand Caning (with drilled holes)
Holes are drilled around the perimeter of the frame and individual strands of cane are hand woven through the series of drilled holes.
Cane Webbing, Pressed Cane, Machine Cane or Sheet Cane
Pre-woven sheet cane is set into a routed out groove on the top side of chair, held in place with a reed spline, no holes drilled in framework.
Chair Shipping
Most dining room chair seats or backs are removed by removing 4 screws, which screw up through a bottom or side of the frame and into the seat or back frame.
Danish Cord
These very Classic Danish or Scandinavian chairs had seats woven out of a 3-ply heavy twisted paper cord called Danish Cord.
Fibre Rush
Fibre rush is a tough grade paper twisted to resemble natural rush. Material is wrapped around the four dowels framing the square of a seat creating four triangles.
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Sunday, September 7, 2008
Will Lurkers share their Cognitive Surplus?
In Stephen's introductory email, it is clear, that the facilitators hope to provide differentiated learning experiences: "We expect, and want, each student to have a different perspective, to have viewed different resources. That's part of the theory of Connectivism, the idea that people have unique experiences."
En masse, those with the greatest potential to impact in the course, will be lurkers. Ken Allan, distance educator from New Zealand in a web article titled "Working with Online Communities led me to this conclusion:
"One behaviour in online groups that has been extensively studied is that of the non-participating members, termed the 'lurkers' - Etienne Wenger[2] calls them Legitimate Peripheral Participants. Lurkers are widely known to be among the majority of defined members and they have been found to make up over 90% of most online groups. They are perhaps the most important members in view of their potential to contribute to online groups."
To consider the potential impact of lurkers, familiarize yourself with Metcalfe's Law. My interpretation is that ""The value of a network increases exponentially with the increase in the number of 'active' nodes.
As Clay Shirky might suggest: "The value in media is no longer in sources but in flows; when we collaborate in sharing our cognitive surplus, it creates value that doesn't exist when we operate in isolation.""
While interested lurkers are more than welcome to engage with the content of CCK08, I'd like to invite the 1900 who expressed an interest, to engage with the participants of the course... If you need to step in lightly, maybe you'll consider adding a comment below?
Audio: If you'd like to learn more about CCK08, listen in on a conversation I had with my brother, which he published as the 'What is Connectivism Podcast'
Image: The map image is a screen grab from the collaboratively developed Google Map of CCK08 Participants.
Video: Clay Shirkey's "Cognitive Surplus" talk was recorded at Web 2.0.
8 comments:
- Lisa said...
Hi Rodd,
I'd like to say a few words in defence of lurkers (though I guess I've now ruled myself out of that group by responding to your post)
As a marketer, I'd say that there are lurkers and there are lurkers...ie the group can be segmented quite distinctly.
If people are lurking purely through laziness, in order to benefit from the work of others without making much effort themselves, then that is hardly in the spirit of the learning culture we are experiencing. Others (myself included)have every intention of contributing but recognise that time is limited and that we might not be as active as we would like to be.(And given that many CCK08 particpants are educators in some shape or form, the timing of this course with the start of term is not exactly ideal...)
Some lurkers may still participate in a less obvious way, perhaps by recommending the course to others.
On a practical level, with 1900 people signed up, if everyone was truely active then chaos would surely ensue...perhaps the organisers are praying for more lurkers :-)
Finally, it's surely possible to be TOO active...there are bound to be some characters who feel obliged to show the world how efficient/important they are are on a regular basis, ie by claiming to read and respond to all posts. The transparency of the medium soon highlights these people (on Twitter I quickly stop following the ones who clutter the screen by talking too much). Quality rather than quantity should be the message to these guys. This group needs to get a life :-)
Anyway, that's enough rambling from me. I think the both this course and the Clever Sheep are great - keep up the good work!
- September 8, 2008 at 12:04 AM
- Rodd Lucier said...
You raise a very good point about the practicality of a conversation that has 1900 voices... many of whom may say more than we'd like to hear. And, you're absolutely on mark with the idea that there are 'unseen' ways in which educators will participate in CCK08.
I think also, that many who are only involved as readers, may not realize that they have value to add and connections to gain by taking the leap to contribute an idea or reflection.
Beyond the course content, the greatest lessons may well be experienced through the linking that will occur in the 'public' learning experience...
- September 8, 2008 at 4:04 AM
- Sarah Stewart said...
Hi there, I'm trying desperately not to lurk but haven't got too much to say at this point. But even if I do say something in this course, will it get heard by anyone?
- September 10, 2008 at 1:58 AM
- Rodd Lucier said...
Regarding the audience for our thinking, the only thing we can be sure of, is that there is no way that the entire class will see our comments! At best, a segment of the CCK08 group will reflect on and individual's thinking, with some connecting their own thoughts to the ideas we share...
- September 10, 2008 at 4:06 AM
- April said...
Hi Rodd,
Lurking is a fine art--I spend a lot of time in my classroom just lurking. The things I learn from my students (when they do not realize I am there) often help me understand what I need to do better.
In the case of the CCK08 course, the sheer volume of information is taking me a long time to digest--I hate to make a rash judgement of any reading material. I have hesitantly stepped forward with a few observations and questions, but like Sarah I wonder if my thoughts and questions will be heard.
- September 17, 2008 at 10:10 AM
- Rodd Lucier said...
April, I find that writing/responding/publicly reflecting are great ways to help me think more deeply about things. When the result leads others to think/write/respond, you realize that there is value to posing the question, stating the position or proposing the idea.
There is value to the lurker in lurking; there is value to all in more open participation...
- September 18, 2008 at 8:37 PM
- Taina said...
Reluctantly loosening my lurker lips - or fingers, in this case - I agree with Lisa's comments.
I've yet to register my blog as part of CCK08, because it is in Finnish and my comments there are also in Finnish. I may have one or two readers, with whom I share the links that I've found useful and the thoughts that have arisen.
Thinking of constructivism as 'building meaning' and connectivism as 'growing meaning' is my current position. It is difficult to wade in a pool of plankton and think that one day something will evolve. It is easier to look higher plant organisms and see if any fruit are ripening.
Having seen the TVOntario program George Siemens mentioned in his blog, I now realize, that I may be perpetuating old patterns of learning. Since I'm not enrolled in the course for credit, I'm just happy to encounter occasional flashes of clarity. I don't know if I have anything to contribute, but I do know I not freeloading.
- September 23, 2008 at 7:02 AM
- Rodd Lucier said...
Thanks so much for wading into the pool! I've been working with my son to collaboratively explore 'Spore', and your comments fit many unrelated learning situations.
The fact that so many global participants are engaging in the discussion, ensures that our collaborative understanding will evolve further than would otherwise be possible.
- September 24, 2008 at 6:40 PM


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So I began to ask questions. My husband and in-laws knew that the name was of German origin, they believed it was from the Black Forest area, and that their immigrant ancestor came to the United States fairly recently.
My search started with collecting all of the census records I could find. I was able to trace the line back to Frank Roelker who, according to census records, was born in Germany in 1861. I found him and his wife Regina with their six children on the 1900 census in Montezuma County, Colorado. As far as official records went, this is as far as I could get. The 1900 census stated that Frank immigrated to the United States in 1878, but despite many searches I was unable to find any record of his arrival in America.
The 1900 census also stated that Frank was a naturalized citizen but finding proof of that also eluded me. I contacted the Colorado State Archives to see if they had a record of his naturalization but they had no documentation on Frank. In a search of Colorado newspapers at The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection I found small notes about the Roelkers' social life, but no information about their origin. I knew when Frank and Regina had died based on a search on FindAGrave.com, so contacted the local library, but there were no copies of the local newspaper from that time to search for an obituary. The Colorado Historical Society had copies of the newspaper on microfilm, but they were closed and in the middle of a move between buildings. Dead end.
I decided to request Frank Roelker's death certificate. I downloaded a death certificate request form from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and mailed it to the appropriate address. Unfortunately, his death certificate did not have any information that I did not already know. It only stated that he was born in Germany and the informant, his son William Roelker, did not know his grandparents name so they are not listed on the certificate.
It seemed that I was officially at a brick wall. I went back to my census research to see if there was anything I missed. In my second look at the 1900 census I noticed something I should have seen the first time: all of Frank and Regina's children were born in Colorado except for his first child, Mary. Mary was born in Ohio around 1885. If the information was correct, the Roelkers lived in Ohio around 1885 and moved to Colorado somewhere in between 1885 and 1900.
|The 1900 census page that broke my
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First, Bill Gates lost the "world's richest man" crown to Carlos Slim, the Mexican businessman. Now, according to Australia's BRW magazine, Gina Rinehart – the Australian mining magnate – has become the world's richest woman. She takes the crown from Wal-Mart heiress Christy Walton, who held the title of world's richest woman for seven years.


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- HP/MaxHP - character health
- SP/MaxSP - skill points (skills require 0 or more SP to execute)
- Fatigue - each point of fatigue reduces MaxHP by one and remains after battles (until party visits an inn to rest)
- Strength - physical attack
- Vigor - ethereal (aka magical) attack damage
- Fortitude - physical defense
- Protection - ethereal defense
- Agility - characters with more agility wait a shorter amount of time between selecting actions in battle
- Stamina - characters with more stamina accumulate fatigue more slowly
- Evade - the chance that a character has to dodge an attack (currently the only base stat that is not an integer number, but rather a percentage)
How do character stats change?
All base stats grow through gaining experience levels. There is currently no other way of doing so. There are two exceptions to this, however:
- Fatigue is a stat that grows as the character receives damage across battles, and is reset to zero after resting at an inn or other healing points in the game
- The modifier stats on the targets for a character never change
How are stats defined, as well as their growth?
Take a look at the file lua/data/actors/characters.lua. Each character listed there has some initial stats (the stats they are given when they first join the party in the game). The also have a growth table, which contains rows of numbers that this stat grows by for the character for each level. For example, here's a couple of Claudius' current growth stats (these are only defined for levels 1-20 currently):
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-- Begin character growth tables. Every line within these tables contains 10 elements to represent the stat growth for every 10 levels
growth = {
experience_for_next_level = {
100, 112, 126, 142, 161, 183, 209, 238, 273, 315,
363, 421, 490, 572, 670, 788, 931, 1105, 1316, 1575
hit_points = {
5, 5, 5, 5, 13, 13, 13, 13, 21, 21,
21, 21, 29, 29, 29, 29, 37, 37, 37, 37
There is a feature called periodic stat growth that you're probably unaware of. This feature is almost fully coded and has been intended for the design for quite a while, but it is currently not an active feature in the game. This feature takes approximately half of the gains in each stat that would normally be rewarded after reaching the next experience level and divides these gains out across small chunks as the player receives experience. As an example, lets say Claudius is to gain 25 HP at the next level gain. He's currently at level 3, with an total XP of 1000 and needs an additional 400 XP to reach level 4. The algorithm would take roughly half of this number (12 HP) for periodic growth. Then it would divide it into several small chunks (lets say 5 chunks, 3 of them at 2HP and 2 of them at 3HP). Then it would pick XP points needed to get these periodic gains by evenly distributing them across the amount of XP needed to level. So 400 / 5 = every 80 XP a chunk would be rewarded. Once Claudius gets to 1080 XP, he would get either 2HP or 3HP.
Make sense? Below is a comment in the code where this algorithm needs to be implemented.
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// TODO: Implement a gradual growth algorithm.
// The following scheme is suggested for this algorithm:
// 1) Divide all stat gains by 2. Half is rewarded gradually, while the other half is rewarded when the next level is reached
// 2) If a stat does not grow by more than one point, award all growth for that stat at the next level
// 3) Divide the gradual amount of the growth into a number of small sections (ie, +10 HP => +2 HP 5 times)
// 4) Evenly space the growth distributed based on the range of current XP to the XP needed to reach the next level
How does equipment interact with stats?
Equipment does not modify any stat values directly. Weapons provide an increase in attack power (calculated by strength + weapon phys attack power + skill phys attack power). So while weapons effectively provide a boost to strength and/or vigor, they do not directly modify these stat values. Weapons only provide physical/ethereal attack bonuses, and armor apply only physical/ethereal defense bonuses.
How do skills interact with stats?
Other than skills to restore HP or SP, they don't. Stats are used in damage calculations along with a skills attack power, but that's it.
Are there any limits set for different stats? What ranges do we want for the various stats?
Currently there are no limits to the values for each stat. We haven't discussed anything as far as value ranges, but personally speaking I don't want to have absurdly high numbers (think 100,000 or greater for HP/SP, or 1,000 or greater for stats like strength or agility)
Now some questions for us to answer. I have my own set of answers here for most of them, but I want to hear what you guys think before I share my own thoughts.
- Should equipment affect more than just attack/defense ratings? Would it be more fun/strategic to have equipment that may also modify other stats? (ex: heavy armor that increases stamina, light-handed weapon that improves agility, and so on)?
- If equipment does modify stats, should it be able to negatively impact a stat? Or should stat changes always be either zero or a positive number?
- Should there be other ways to grow stats other than just gaining experience?
- Do you like the periodic growth feature? Does it make sense given our design goals? Or do you feel it doesn't provide any value?
- Should we change the evade stat so that instead of a percentage, it's an integer figure like all the other stats? If so, what sort of formula (or integer value -> evade percentage) do you propose?


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The turnaround maven should have seen the problems ahead in the newspaper industry. His blind side may cost Tribune Co. its very life
by Emily Thornton, Michael Arndt and Ronald Grover
Business Week
"It's the deal from hell," says Sam Zell, never one to mince words. "And it will continue to be the deal from hell until we turn it around." Zell is talking, of course, about his $8.5 billion purchase of Tribune Co. in December 2007, a transaction that's shaping up to be one of the most disastrous the media world has ever seen. Zell is a real estate tycoon, and his plush office reflects his decades of success: Giant even by CEO standards, it brims with paintings and statues and looks out on a private garden above the Chicago River. One item that stands out among the clutter is an upside-down map of the world, a prop presumably intended to convince visitors that they're in the presence of an iconoclast. Zell, 66 and fiercely devoted to blue jeans, has burnished that image carefully over the years.
Were it not for the Tribune debacle, there would be no reason to question Zell's brilliance as a businessman. He describes himself, immodestly, as a "grave dancer" who buys properties at fire-sale prices and resells them for a profit. His biggest coup came in late 2006, when he orchestrated a bidding war for his real estate trust, Equity Office Properties. EOP eventually went to Blackstone Group (BX) for $39 billion, in what was then the biggest leveraged buyout in history. Weeks later he thumbed his nose at the dealmaking world with a satirical song, posted on the Web, that predicted the credit crunch soon to sweep the globe. It seemed he could do no wrong.
Then Zell bought Tribune and stumbled into a calamity of plunging sales and rising costs. He had expected only single-digit declines in newspaper ad revenue. Turns out he was off by a factor of two or three. "If current trends in advertising are permanent," he says, "we have a really serious problem."
He should have seen it coming. Tribune comprises eight newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and Baltimore Sun, which together generate 76% of the company's revenues; more than 50 Web sites; 25 television stations, including superstation WGN America; a 31% share of the Food Network; the Chicago Cubs baseball team; and real estate and other holdings. Tribune had been slumping for years, courting buyers for more than 18 months before Zell ambled onto the scene in early 2007. Against that bleak backdrop, he loaded the already strapped company with more than $8 billion in fresh debt to pay for the deal, leveraging Tribune to within an inch of its life.
The payments, $1.4 billion by June 2009 alone, have proven crippling. Tribune's junk-level credit rating has fallen since Zell took over, and some of its bonds are fetching 35¢ on the dollar. Zell has been forced to cut costs far more than he anticipated. It may not be enough to avoid a default. "The colossal debt Zell piled on is forcing Tribune to take more and more desperate actions," says media consultant Alan D. Mutter.
On paper, Zell's plan looked great. He would quickly sell the Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field, and a 25% stake in Comcast SportsNet Chicago to pay off debt, and focus on making Tribune's newspapers zippier and more ad-friendly. The strategy was based on an innovative financing scheme that used Tribune's tax-exempt employee stock ownership plan as the vehicle through which to fund the transaction. That would allow Tribune to save big on taxes: It paid $245 million annually on average over the past three years. Zell's financing arrangement required the billionaire to pony up just $315 million of his own cash to wrest control of the company, with a warrant to buy 40% more for as little as $500 million. What's more, Zell turned Tribune into a so-called S corporation, a designation usually reserved for small businesses. That could allow Tribune to sell assets in 10 years without having to pay capital-gains taxes.
Zell doesn't need Tribune to thrive; merely keeping it alive could earn him an astronomical return when it comes time to sell. That has always been the goal. "When we first undertook this project, we viewed Tribune as 60 ways to get lucky," Zell says. But amid the credit crunch, the quick asset sales haven't panned out. With the newspaper business deteriorating, his seemingly clever strategy has thrown the whole Tribune enterprise into jeopardy.
The question for the company's 18,500 employees is whether Sam Zell is the guy to save it. Although he owned a radio company called Jacor Communications that was acquired by Clear Channel Communications (CCU) in 1999 and spends his weekends in Malibu, Zell is no media mogul and hasn't mixed well in that world thus far. Early on, he told Tribune executives he would "cut off their ties" if he caught them looking so formal at future meetings. Prone to off-color jokes and profanity, he's more like "that guy you see on the Mexican beer commercial," says Jeff Peterson, owner of Geoffrey's Malibu, a restaurant frequented by Zell and his wife, Helen. "He just seems like a down-to-earth guy's guy."
Many staffers are alarmed by Zell's open disdain for the newspaper business. "The industry has lost its credibility" because of biased, boring, and self-indulgent articles, says Zell. For that matter, he doesn't much care for baseball, either, says Chicago White Sox majority owner and longtime friend Jerry Reinsdorf: "He actually dislikes it." Most dealmakers, by contrast, lionize the companies they own to pump up sale prices. "If you have a lemonade stand, you don't try to sell the lemonade by saying it's terrible," says Myron Levin, a reporter for 23 years at the Los Angeles Times who took a buyout in March.
Adding to the uncertainty, Zell has tapped some quirky characters with no newspaper experience to run key elements of the Tribune empire. Randy Michaels, the chief operating officer, is a former Clear Channel executive and onetime "shock jock" who worked for Zell at Jacor. Michaels has installed jukeboxes, pinball machines, and a sculpture of a six-legged man running in circles called "The Bureaucratic Shuffle" in the Tribune Tower in Chicago. Marc Chase, president of Tribune Interactive, is another Clear Channel alum and former DJ. Robert J. Gremillion, Tribune's executive vice-president and interim publisher of the Chicago Tribune, hails from the broadcasting division. Gerald Spector, the chief administrative officer who's overseeing the Los Angeles Times, is a Zell acolyte from the real estate business with a penchant for sweaters emblazoned with cartoon characters.
Tribune's new chief innovation officer, Lee Abrams, a former XM Satellite Radio Holdings (XMSR) programmer, has raised eyebrows, too. In March he began firing off 5,000-word e-mails suggesting employees peruse his 108 blog posts on what's wrong with the media. "While my background is steeped in rock 'n' roll," he wrote in his first e-mail, "I strongly believe that News and Information is the NEW rock 'n' roll…The NEW rock 'n' roll isn't about Elvis or James Dean, but it IS about re-inventing media with the exact same moxie that the fathers of rock 'n' roll had. The Tribune has the choice of doing to News/Information/Entertainment what rock 'n' roll did to music."
Empty Promises
With the newspaper industry in free fall, Zell's new survival plan is to build out Tribune's broadcasting and Internet groups, which represent 24% of revenues, and slash costs in the newspaper group. "It's a smart move," says Hale Holden, a debt analyst at Barclays Capital (BCS) who follows Tribune. Broadcast companies are commanding valuations double what newspaper companies enjoy. "We think it's one of the few options he has available," Holden says.
That grim assessment stands in stark contrast to the jubilation that greeted Zell last Dec. 20, his first day as CEO, as he strode triumphantly into the Chicago Tribune offices, smiled broadly at his new comrades, and announced: "You own this company now!" He promised no cuts.
Even then, most observers knew the industry was being buffeted by falling revenues. "We started out saying, 'big Christmas, slow January,'" Zell says of the typically booming fourth quarter and anemic first quarter for ad sales. "Then we started seeing trends we didn't expect." Companies were abandoning newspaper ads at an accelerating pace because of a souring economy and cheaper alternatives online. "It's going to get worse, and it's going to go on a lot longer," says New York Daily News owner Mortimer Zuckerman, who has known Zell for 15 years and considers him a "business genius."
As ad sales nosedived, Zell rushed to enact a turnaround plan originally scheduled for 2010. It called for cost cuts and an immediate redesign of Tribune's six smallest dailies to make them leaner and more attractive to advertisers. Zell told employees, whom he addressed as "fellow investors," that they had to start acting like owners. The new mantra was "AFDI," an abbreviation for a crude slogan that was later sanitized to mean "Actually Frigging Doing It."
The first round of cuts came in the form of buyouts intended to slice 2% of Tribune's workforce. Zell suggested in a Feb. 13 memo that the moves reflected "the reality of our significant debt levels" and other problems. Tribune publishers sent memos hinting that future packages wouldn't be as lucrative. Profits were falling so fast that Tribune looked likely to violate loan agreements requiring it to keep new debt no higher than nine times operating earnings. (The ratio now stands at 8.1.) In March, Standard & Poor's (which, like BusinessWeek, is a unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies (MHP)) cut Tribune's credit rating to B-, from B. Says analyst Emile Courtney, who wrote the report: "That reflects the concern that Tribune might violate [loan agreements] in the near term…as early as December."
Operating chief Michaels conferred with publishers to find out how many pages Tribune could afford to print without breaking its debt provisions. In June he ordered that the ratio of ads to news shift to 50-50 instead of the usual 60% reserved for articles—meaning the so-called news hole had to shrink by 17%. The Baltimore Sun killed its stand-alone daily business section. The Orlando Sentinel ditched its stock tables. The Los Angeles Times announced it was merging sections devoted to books, opinion, real estate, autos, and a weekend calendar.
To Michaels, the moves are a matter of survival. "An animal with his leg caught in a trap will chew it off," he explains. "At the moment, we're doing some leg-chewing." Zell, meanwhile, has no patience for what he views as the pomposity of journalists casting their profession as some kind of sacred trust. "If you want to tell people what they should want, become a professor," he says. "But if you're in the newspaper business—and I emphasize the word business—then you have to respond to what your customer wants."
Zell and Michaels also shook up the sales side. They started placing calls to big advertisers, paying sales reps on commission only, and arming them with new types of ads, including ones in the middle of stories. "We want to incent them like hell to be greedy," says EVP Gremillion. Even if advertisers didn't want to be in the paper, Zell suggested, they could buy space on delivery trucks and printing plants.
As newspaper bosses were cutting jobs and pages, Zell's lieutenants sought to crank up broadcast profits, which had fallen 10% in 2007 because 13 Tribune stations were affiliated with the struggling CW Network. Michaels pressured CW to lower the estimated $72 million a year Tribune pays for its programs. He also complained about its core audience of young women, saying they tend not to watch local news. Local newscasts are the most lucrative programs because 100% of the ad revenue flows to the station, without network or syndicator middlemen.
The More Urgent Problem
Internally, Michaels unleashed radical changes designed to double the number of hours of local news on Tribune's stations. In Fort Lauderdale, Tribune is building a local TV news station inside the newsroom of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel to feed hours of content to Miami's WSFL-TV station. It also plans to launch a four-hour local morning show in January. In Chicago the company is planning a 24-hour breaking news center in the Tribune's newsroom to provide content for television, radio, cell phones, and newspapers. "What we're doing could really change the business not only for television but also for print," says Ed Wilson, Tribune's head of broadcasting. One top executive at a major network has doubts: "Michaels doesn't know this business and hasn't taken the time to learn it. He's still a radio guy playing a TV executive."
None of the moves address the more urgent problem: Tribune's need for cash. It raised $630 million on July 29 by selling New York's Newsday, one of its most profitable newspapers, to Cablevision Systems (CVC) (Zell smartly kept a 3% stake to avoid taxes.) The price was less than what analysts estimate Zell paid for it last year, but it covered a big chunk of debt. In June, Zell put Tribune's headquarters and the Los Angeles Times' property on the market. On July 3, Tribune signed a $300 million asset-backed commercial paper deal with Barclays, in essence borrowing against money it expects to collect in the future.
And so the layoffs will keep coming. Tribune has axed 1,100 people thus far, with newspapers bearing the brunt. On July 2 the Los Angeles Times scrambled to cut 150 people, or 17% of its staff. It happened so fast that one editor said he didn't know whether to nod sadly or smile to his own staff members in the hallway because he couldn't recall who was on the list.
One wonders what might have happened had someone else bought Tribune. Zell and his team have limited flexibility, but a different buyer might not have taken on so much debt. Zell says the casualties will be "significantly greater" by year end, and he's unapologetic about that. "I knew that I needed to act as both the grenade thrower and the bomb deflector if we were going to get from here to there," he says. Getting "there," of course, would mean a big payday for Sam Zell.
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Feature Articles
Hands-on: SingTel LTE vs HSPA+
LTE versus HSPA+
Earlier on, SingTel announced the upcoming availability of its first commercial long term evolution (LTE) mobile broadband service. Dubbed as Broadband on Mobile Prestige 75, the LTE data plan promises theoretical download speeds of up to 75Mbps, with typical speeds of 3.4Mbps to 12Mbps being reported for Prestige 75.
LTE, which is essentially a speed upgrade to our existing cellular network, is the next logical infrastructure that will supercede Evolved High-Speed Packet Access, otherwise known as HSPA+. Promising theoretical download speeds of up to 21Mbps, HSPA+ has been available in Singapore since 2009, and we've seen SingTel, StarHub and M1 rolling out the speed upgrades over the past two years.
Back in June, we've touched on what LTE means to the consumers. However, with the unavailability of devices, in particular smartphones and tablets, that support LTE speeds and the lack of a commercial availability for the LTE service, it was still early days to understand how LTE will benefit consumers in the long run. With the launch of SingTel's Prestige 75 LTE data plan, the general consumer can have a taste of faster cellular download speeds on-the-move. To refresh your memory, here are the details of SingTel's Prestige 75 plan, including its price and initial coverage area.
|SingTel Broadband on Mobile Prestige 75 LTE Price Plan
|Price (including GST)
|S$69.90 per month
|Data Bundle
|50GB 3G data (21Mbps ) + 10GB LTE data
|Excess Charges
|S$0.512/MB, capped at S$94.16 per month
|Download Speed
|Theoretical: 75Mbps
Typical range: 3.4Mbps to 12Mbps
Comes with free Huawei E392 USB LTE modem and free Wireless@SG (3Mbps)
Coverage Areas
|Shenton Way
|City Hall
|Marina Bay
|River Valley
|Tanjong Pagar
|Boon Lay
|Jurong West
|Bukit Panjang
|Ngee Ann City
|Plaza Singapura
|Ang Mo Kio Hub
|Tampines Mall
|West Mall
|Parkway Parade
|Jurong IMM
|Republic Plaza
|Temasek Tower
If you've noticed, the Prestige 75 plan comes with 50GB of data on HSPA+ speeds and 10GB of data on LTE speeds. Earlier on, we've explained that even if you've exceeded the 10GB limit within the LTE coverage area, you won't be automatically switched back to the HSPA+ network. However, users do have the option to switch between the LTE and HSPA+ networks manually via the Huawei USB modem settings. As such, if you are nearing the 10GB limit on your LTE data, you can tap into your 50GB data on HSPA+ speeds, thus avoiding the excess charges if you remain on the LTE network.
On a similar note, the default setting is usually left at Auto, which will choose LTE as the preferred network. Once you leave the LTE coverage area, the USB modem automatically swaps to the HSPA+ network which is available across the island. However, should you leave your notebook powered up when you return to the LTE coverage area, the USB modem won't automatically switch from HSPA+ back to LTE.
Once the notebook or USB modem is powered down, and resumes operation when it enters the LTE coverage area, it will lock onto the LTE network automatically. Logically speaking, you probably will put your notebook on standby mode when you travel between areas. However, SingTel has stated that this won't be an issue when the LTE rollout stabilizes over the next few months.
We've also had a chance to check out how the new LTE speeds perform against SingTel's existing HSPA+ infrastructure. With the free Huawei E392 USB LTE modem, we conducted an initial field test of the Prestige 75 data speeds within the LTE coverage area. The speed tests were done within the basement level of Lucky Plaza to determine its in-building performance. Both the LTE and HSPA+ networks were subjected to the following tests:
- Pinging a local server via Speedtest.net to check its download and upload speeds
- Pinging a SingNet server to determine its latency
- Downloading a 500MB file via an FTP server
- Streaming a 1080p video on YouTube
Speedtest.net Speeds
When we ran the LTE and HSPA+ networks through Speedtest.net, we chose to ping a local server to highlight the speed difference across both networks.
The Speedtest.net test showed LTE speeds to be remarkably faster than HSPA+, with the former reporting speeds of 71.6Mbps that's nearly ten times faster than the 7.05Mbps speeds from HSPA. The LTE uplink speed got a much move massive boost of 35.01Mbps, 50 times that of the 0.7Mbps speeds reported by SingTel's HSPA+ network.
SingNet Server Ping
The second test, which involves pinging a SingNet server, is targeted at how both LTE and HSPA+ handles latency. Simply put, latency talks about the measure of time delay between servers, and this is particularly important for online gamers who need a low latency for commands to reach servers in minimal time. After all, no matter how fast you react to the game, a high latency will kill your online character if the command doesn't reach the server in time.
With an average 30.301ms gathered from the LTE network, the latency has been reduced by at least 1/3 from the 105.452ms latency time from the 21Mbps HSPA+ network. This essentially means that you'll have less to worry about since the response time between servers will be three times faster on the LTE network.
Download Speeds via FTP and Streaming
For the final two tests, we are looking at the actual download speeds of LTE and HSPA+. The first involves a 500MB file being transferred from an FTP server back to a local drive, and the final test was performed via YouTube, where we timed how long it took for a 1080p video with 2 minutes and 23 seconds worth of footage to be fully loaded.
The 500MB download looks promising for LTE, which completed the file transfer within 1 minute and 21 seconds at 6.1MB / sec (48.8Mbps). This is a sharp contrast from the HSPA+ network's download time, which ran into 11 minutes and 5 seconds for the same file with a download speed of 822KB / sec (6.576Mbps). The numbers are close to what we get from the theoretical speeds from the LTE speed of 75Mbps, but it doesn't come close to the HSPA+ speed of 21Mbps. This is probably due to the higher load being pushed on the HSPA+ network, as opposed to less users who are hogging the LTE network.
The 1080p streaming test also reported a huge difference between LTE and HSPA+, with the former completing the stream at 10 seconds while the latter clocked at 1 minute and 3 seconds. In summary, you're looking at the following numbers in a real-world situation:
|500MB File Download Time
|500MB File Download Speed
|Time Taken to load 1080p Video on YouTube
|1 minute and 21 seconds
|~6.1MB / sec (48.8Mbps)
|10 seconds
|11 minutes and 5 seconds
|~822KB / sec (6.576Mbps)
|1 minute and 3 seconds
Thoughts on LTE
As of now, LTE comes with a few compelling reasons, some of which includes download speeds improved by ten times from the existing HSPA+ speeds and a lower latency. Do note that the data that we've gathered are based on a network that hasn't reached critical mass in terms of users. During the SingTel press conference, Mr. Yuen Kuan Moon, SingTel's Executive Vice President of Digital Consumer, did mention that even though SingTel reports typical speeds of 3.4Mbps to 12Mbps for its LTE network, early adopters of the Prestige 75 service should see higher values during the initial launch since the load isn't too heavy on the network. As more subscribers jump onto LTE, the speeds should move towards the reported typical speeds.
With other countries such as Japan, Korea and the United States starting off its LTE services much earlier, Singapore is admittedly late on the bandwagon. Fortunately, the situation should improve in the months to come. Besides SingTel, M1 will be deploying its LTE network by Q1 2012 while StarHub has estimated that it will be launching its LTE service by the second half of 2012.
While no LTE devices, save for the stable of Huawei USB modems, have appeared over the last few months, we should be expecting LTE-ready smartphones and tablets sometime in 2012. This is subjected to the decision of smartphone makers such as Samsung and HTC to bring their LTE-ready devices to Singapore. Exciting times ahead, so stay tuned to HardwareZone as we bring you updates on the LTE scene when we get the latest news and findings.


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If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and teach my children Latin conjugations, Chinese, and Portuguese, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal, and no matter what I say, they will not hear me.
If I have the gift of prophecy, and know my children's bents and God's plan for their lives, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and am the keeper of the teacher's editions and solutions manuals, and if I have all faith, so as to move mountains, and even keep up with my giant piles of laundry and dishes, but do not have love, I am nothing, even if all the people at church think I'm Supermom.
And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and my formal dining room gets turned into a schoolroom, and our family vacations look more like educational fieldtrips, and if I surrender my body to be burned, never having time to get my nails done, put makeup on, or even take a bath, but do not have love, it profits me nothing because all my family cares about is the expression on my face, anyway.
Love is patient with the child who still can't get double-digit subtraction with borrowing, and kind to the one who hasn't turned in his research paper. It is not jealous of moms with more, fewer, neater, more self-directed, better-behaved, or smarter children.
Love does not brag about homemade bread, book lists, or scholarships, and is not arrogant about her lifestyle or curriculum choices. It does not act unbecomingly or correct the children in front of their friends. It does not seek its own, trying to squeeze in alone time when someone still needs help; it is not provoked when interrupted for the nineteenth time by a child, the phone, the doorbell, or the dog; does not take into account a wrong suffered, even when no one compliments the dinner that took hours to make or the house that took so long to clean.
Love does not rejoice in unrighteousness or pointing out everyone else's flaws, but rejoices with the truth and with every small step her children take in becoming more like Jesus, knowing it's only by the grace of God when that occurs.
Love bears all things even while running on no sleep; believes all things, especially God's promise to indwell and empower her; hopes all things, such as that she'll actually complete the English curriculum this year and the kids will eventually graduate; endures all things, even questioning from strangers, worried relatives, and most of all, herself.
Love never fails. And neither will she. As long as she never, never, never gives up.
~Misty Krasawski
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Time for another edition of Two Wheel Tuesday.
The opening weekend for the World Superbikes at Philip Island was a cracker, and Ben Spies showed the world that he wasn't just hype. The Supersport race was outstanding as well, but as an American I had to jump up and wave the flag after the finish of round two.
Sorry that you have to listen to Johnathan Greene rather than Bernakle and Whitham.


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15: After Maspero
In this week's podcast, we turn to the tragic events on October 9 in Downtown Cairo, when at least 25 people (mostly Coptic protestors) were killed at the Maspero state TV building. Ashraf, Ursula and I host New York Review of Books contributor Yasmine El Rashidi, an eyewitness to the massacre, and talk about what happened and its consequences.
show notes:
- Massacre in Cairo by Yasmine El Rashidi, in NYRB
- Yasmine's May 2011 NYRB article on Copts and the Imbaba church arson
- Get Yasmine's "The Battle for Egypt" ebook
- Reflections on the invisibility of Copts in Egypt by Anthony Shenoda
- Maspero Testimonies
- Ashraf and Issandr's appearance on AJE's The Listening Post, on Egyptian state media
- Latest Maspero round-up by Ursula, including the Bassem Youssef video cited and Maspero Testimonies
- Previous Arabist posts (and links) on the Maspero massacre


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Edward Kleinbard, the former Chief of Staff of the U.S. Congress's Joint Committee on Taxation, said today that the option of minting a trillion-dollar coin to work around the debt ceiling was "far-fetched and an embarrassment to the country as a first-world power."
Instead, he advocated a different work-around strategy: give out "IOUs" to existing claims holders like federal employees, defense contractors, Medicare service providers, and Social Security recipients. It's a strategy that has precedent from California's budget crisis in 2009.
Kleinbard's problem with the platinum-coin option is its legality. Both Republican and Democratic members of Congress have argued that it would be a legal interpretation of a 1997 law that says the Treasury can "mint and issue platinum bullion coins and proof platinum coins in accordance with such specifications, designs, varieties, quantities, denominations, and inscriptions as the secretary, in the secretary's discretion, may prescribe from time to time."
But that law was intended for commemorative coins. Kleinbard said that a strict, "hyper-literal interpretation" would not hold up in court.
"It's taking a statute ... that has one very small, narrow purpose for which everybody agrees — minting commemorate coins — and reading it in a hyper-literal way," Kleinbard said this morning on a conference call.
Kleinbard said that kind of interpretation ignores the context and is not consistent with the law's original purpose or intent — something the court would look to in determining its legality.
"We're all reading it out of context," he said.
Kleinbard outlined a different proposal in which President Barack Obama could avert the ceiling today in The New York Times— issuing scrip, "registered warrants" or "IOUs" to exi siting claim holders.


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Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police recruits in patrol school collecting funds for needy children received an unanticipated boost from the FBI on Dec. 21. And children spending their holidays at Safe Shelter, a Savannah center for victims of domestic violence, are the beneficiaries.
SCMPD trainees in classes 263 and 264 today delivered 13 gift cards totaling more than $1,400 to the center for its children to have gifts for Christmas.
The effort began as one to allow the recruits and their future police officer colleagues to contribute to the children. But Roger McLaughlin, Department of Justice District Security Manager of the U.S. Attorney's Office, heard about it from the media.
On Dec. 21 he presented SCMPD Training Director Gary Taylor with a $1,000 check from the Society of Former Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Coastal Georgia Chapter.
McLaughlin said the organization annually funds a charitable effort during the holidays and decided the Safe Shelter effort met their goals perfectly.


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The new VXi ConneXt PC/Phone switch is the easy, convenient solution for people who use a headset for both their phone and PC. Now you can easily switch between a webinar or Skype call and a desk phone call. At the flick of a switch, you're headset-ready for your desk phone, PC softphone or any other computer audio application. Lets you enjoy PC music and media, too.
Available in three variants:
Benefits include:
Use one headset for both your PC and desk phone — PC/Phone switch easily toggles between desk phone and computer.
Compatible with most phone types — Telephone compatibility switch for use with most phone brands.
Microphone volume adjustment — Microphone volume adjustment to boost transmit volume when needed on your desk phone. Up to +15 dB microphone gain available.
Small Footprint — reduce desktop clutter with the headset hanger plus tangle-free wiring with all connections on back of the unit.
Three variants available — available with V (VXi), G (GN/Jabra) or P (Plantronics)-style quick disconnect to work with any headset.
Includes all necessary connection cables: RJ9 phone cord, QD (Quick Disconnect cord) and USB cables.


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Set in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas with easy access to Mexico and South Padre Island, El Valle del Sol and Luna provide incredible value for our residents, with many amenities and activities to enjoy. Throughout the community you will find friendly residents, immaculate grounds, and an array of thoughtful amenities.
El Valle de la Luna is a wonderful place to call home while El Valle del Sol is an affordable home all year or just the winter. Sites are available for any length of stay. Homes are usually available for purchase for those who wish to own a permanent home in the Rio Grande Valley or you bring your motor-home, fifth wheel, or RV unit and spend the winter enjoying our resort-like amenities.
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Arsenal defender Bacary Sagna plans to get his hands on a trophy before leaving
Bacary Sagna is reluctant to speculate on his future at Arsenal, but hopes to win some silverware before moving on.
Last Updated: 24/01/13 2:25pm
The France full-back is under contract at Emirates Stadium until the summer of 2014, and extension talks are under way.
Sagna is, however, yet to commit himself to a new deal, with it understood that he is hoping for more than a 12-month offer.
With it unclear as to how long he will be sticking around in North London, speculation has linked the 29-year-old with Inter Milan and Paris Saint-Germain.
Sagna admits he cannot say for certain that he will still be at Arsenal next season, but hopes he will be given the chance to get his hands on some silverware before taking on a new challenge.
He told atlantiquefootballclub.com: "Honestly, I'm under contract with Arsenal and I give everything so long as I am under contract with my club.
"Before leaving, because I will leave here one day, I would like to win something with my club. I don't want to answer yes or no now because in football you never know what will happen."
Asked how he would sum up Arsenal's progress this season, Sagna added: "Slow. We had problems starting for several reasons, we lost important players. Some new ones arrived as well. We know it takes a bit of time for everyone to be ready.
"The rest of the season will be very, very hard. With teams like Manchester United and Manchester City who never give up. But we want to do the best second half of the season possible.
"We have to go as far as possible in the cups. We're outsiders (for the UEFA Champions League) but we still have quite a bit of pressure. The fact we haven't won anything for quite a while means people are expecting a lot from us."


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Quicktime and GDB
Debugging Components Using Quicktime Player and GDB
To get a debugger attached and put breakpoints into functions in your component files:
- launch qt player
- find its pid using ps
- launch gdb
- attach to the pid (attach pid). This will cause qt player to freeze
- use future-break to set breakpoints (or source them from a file)
- type "continue" (or just "c") to resume qt player
- load an ogg vorbis file in qt player
- press play
- work in gdb as your breakpoints are hit.
On other way, if you work with XCode:
- Select create New Custom Executable
- Choose an application that use component (QuickTime, iTunes, AudioUnit Lab...)
- Set break points in your projects.
- Use the Debug command to launch the application, and GDB will break normally.
A few useful gdb commands
- future-break
- sets a breakpoint at a function from a dynamic library that hasn't been loaded yet
- rbreak regexp
- break in any function matching regexp
- source fname
- execute gdb commands found in fname
Also, stdout from any printf's ends up in console.log, which can be viewed in Console.app


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Science Friday® is produced by the Science Friday Initiative, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Science Friday® and SciFri® are registered service marks of Science Friday, Inc. Site design by Pentagram; engineering by Mediapolis.
Does it sometimes seem like the web sites you visit know a little too much about you? Perhaps you've been greeted with an advertisement that literally has your name on it, or seen offers that seem strangely targeted to the area you live in. Yet while many people say they want more privacy online, those same people are often likely to exchange data about themselves and their habits in return for rather small rewards.The internet excels at sharing information -- but is that always a good thing?
We'll also talk about Facebook, the popular social networking site. As of March 2008, the company claims over 69 million active users, with an average of 250,000 new registrations per day. But does posting your pictures, contact details, and other personal information on such a site open you up to a complete loss of privacy? In this segment, Ira and guests talk about privacy online.


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Join us for a night of fun and great tunes. We'll give you bingo cards that are specific to each of four rounds (each round is based on a different genre of music). Instead of numbers, each square on the cards contain song titles and artists. Our host will play snippets of songs that correspond to each particular round. You cross off the songs on your card as they are played. Get five in a row, and you win the round and a prize. It's free to play!
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The Tailor of Gloucester (Peter Rabbit)
2012 marks 110 years since Warne published The Tale of Peter Rabbit. In celebration, we are publishing limited editions of twelve classic tales with colorful covers, special endpapers, and notes explaining the history behind each book. The Tailor of Gloucester is about a poor tailor trying to survive in his cold workshop over a hard winter.


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The last time we reported on Stitcher Radio was literally one year ago. The popular online radio streaming service, popular for podcasts and music fans alike, was looking to have an app for Windows Phone in "early 2012".
Obviously, that did not happen. And truth be told, we forgot that it even existed until an email dropped in our inbox today, noting that the company is looking to hire a Windows Phone dev for a mobile app, specifically for Windows Phone 8.
From their jobs site, we can see the listing looking for the dev for our mobile OS, though it is unclear if this would be their first hire or merely adding to what we would hope to be a team. Our guess? This is the first.
We're going to guess that Stitcher got cold feet on Windows Phone 7.x because of both market share and the more limited audio streaming capabilities present, including those affecting the arrival of Audible. It's no secret that Windows Phone 8 opens a few more doors for developers and a lot more flexibility for streaming protocols, meaning Stitcher may be finally taking a second look.
The bad news should be obvious though. While it's great to see popular brands jumping on Windows Phone 8, seeing as the company is looking to hire a developer now means we probably won't see this app until late spring, maybe even summer. We'd hope it could come sooner but some of these companies move quite slow, especially if Microsoft or Nokia aren't helping them out.
Hopefully though it won't be another year before we write about Stitcher.
Source: Stitcher; Thanks, Caleb, for the tip!


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The ability to analyze source code and identify risky behavior in applications is crucial to software assurance, but so is the policy behind it. It is impossible -- and unnecessary -- to catch every weakness in an application. It's better to focus on what is important during the development, acquisition and testing processes. But how do you know what's important?
Software's persistent flawsA flight plan for safer softwareStatic vs. dynamic code analysis: advantages and disadvantagesWant safer software? Start with this list
Last month, a coalition of experts from more than 30 companies, organizations and agencies reached a consensus on the top 25 programming weaknesses and published the list in the hopes that developers and users could increase software security by avoiding easily exploited errors.
The SANS Institute and Mitre spearheaded the list's development, with the support of the National Security Agency and the Homeland Security Department. The weaknesses are not new; the experts culled them from the more than 700 entries in the Common Weakness Enumeration database Mitre maintains. What is new is the agreement that removing those 25 weaknesses from software code would also remove most of the vulnerabilities that criminals, spies and other hackers exploit.
Although the discussion was heated, SANS Institute Director Mason Brown said, "there appears to be broad agreement on the programming errors."
The list, which will be updated regularly, is available at www.sans.org/top25errors and cwe.mitre.org/top25. The list's developers said they believe it will be especially useful for:
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Monday, February 23, 2009
12 mm Hand Painted PEARL Cat / Fish eyes Safety eyes Plastic eyes - 12 PAIRS
3:20 PM | Posted by 6060 | Edit Post
Last week finally I found some time that I can paint alone. I love cat eyes, especially the shinny and shimmers one. I also like different colors too, that's why I have these 12 mm cat eyes. What do you think? Check out more eyes ==> 6060
Labels: 12 mm, 6060.etsy.com, cat eyes, doll, doll making, eye, fish eyes, frog, plastic eyes, reptile, safety eyes, stuffed animals eyes, stuffed toys, teddy bears, wild | 0 comments
Sunday, February 22, 2009
30mm Comical Eyes for Puppet and Big Soft Toys
9:25 AM | Posted by 6060 | Edit Post
New Items in our store! Have you seen big comical eyes? They are cute and funny looking! No, they are not realistic at all, but they will make you smile! Some people, I say some... LOL may think when the plastic eyes are too realistic that it kinds of freaky looking, but you want to make stuffed toys just like everyone else, try these comical eyes. I have 8mm blue, 10mm blue, 30mm blue, 30mm pink and 42mm black in my store. They look like the one you've seen in cartoon! Instead of making stuffed toys look like real, try something different and make your stuff toys look like cartoon characters! =) My store: 6060.etsy.com or 6060.artfire.com
10mm blue comical eyes
Labels: 6060.artfire.com, 6060.etsy.com, big eyes, blue, cartoon, comical eyes, cute, doll eyes, doll making, doll parts, pink, plush, teddy bear | 0 comments
Friday, February 20, 2009
4:57 PM | Posted by 6060 | Edit Post
I know I know, I just can't stop discovering these great critters that this fellow Etsian made! I love to see how an artist put crochet works into a piece of crochet art! This time I am featuring this artist, her name is Angela, she likes to handmade this big creatures with eyes, many eyes!! If you haven't seen her works before, you can check out the pictures below or go to her etsy shop: AngDavidson.etsy.com She designed all these critters and just crochet it, she never use a pattern! Her works are unqiue, colorful and very creative!
Labels: angdavidson.etsy.com, Angela Davidson, etsy, eyes, handmade with love, one of a kind | 4 comments
Friday, February 13, 2009
Hand Painted Kawaii Eyes
2:41 PM | Posted by 6060 | Edit Post
This week I hand painted some Kawaii Eyes for me and you! =) I love amigurumi, of course I have to save some for myself! Have you watched all these Japanese Kawaii cartoons? I know I have! I am always amazed of how those cartoon producers can draw these little cute critters, especially the eyes, just a few dots more in the pupils and it show the critter emotions by no time! I love those critters, and mostly cartoons! LOL I am inspired by those cartoons and created these adorable cute eyes. These are 12mm eyes, I have used pearl green, pearl white and pearl pink colors on these eyes! I hope you like it! Check out my etsy store: 6060.etsy.com
Labels: 12mm, 6060.etsy.com, adorable, Amigurumi, cute, doll eyes, eye, hand painted, kawaii, monster, pearl, pearl green, pearl pink, pearl white, plush, soft toys, stuffed animals, teddy bear | 2 comments
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Eye Heart You
1:48 PM | Posted by 6060 | Edit Post
Last night I created this design on my 21mm eyes! I really like this! I put it up this morning (Sat) and it is sold within a few minutes! I was jumping up and down in the kitchen telling my hubby about that. I know, it's crazy! I haven't been jumping like this for a long time, you know, I am getting old and can't do this very often! LOL
♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪This pair of hand painted eyes are painted with pearl black and pearl red colors, with shimmer effect. Middle part is solid black.
♥♥♥ EYE HEART YOU ♥♥♥ Exclusive creation by ClaraThoughts - I designed this not just only for Valentine's Day. When we make our soft toys, it's filled with love and hard work. Eyes are always the soul of a critter, I think not only the critter itself can show the love, but also the eyes, it's telling the person who receive the soft toys that the creator is truly putting her/his heart into it. Putting this together is a lot of fun, I hope you will like it! Size: 21mm (inch: 0.83 or 13.23/16) I will paint more of these and put them in my etsy store. I also do custom order. Just send me a message and I will reply asap! =)
Labels: 21mm, custom, custom made, DIY, eye, eye heart you, eyes, hand-painted, handmade, handmade with love, plastic eyes, plush, safety eyes, soft toys, teddy bears | 4 comments
Monday, February 2, 2009
12 mm Hand Painted Safety Eyes Zombie Ghost Eyes
3:15 PM | Posted by 6060 | Edit Post
Newly Hand-Painted 12mm Zombie eyes are available in my etsy store! These eyes are bigger, good for medium size monster, zombie or ghost-liked amigurumi! Nah... Actually it's good for any project you want! I first of thinking to paint these bigger sizes monster eyes when I tried to make the amigurumi panda! After I tried different colors into the panda, I finally decided to use a pair of hand-painted 9mm instead of 12mm. I think smaller eyes are just better for a panda with a big dark circle around the eyes! It's natural! However, I will crochet more amis in the future by using my hand-painted eyes so that you will see how they look like! I personally think using hand-painted eyes will bring the amis more alive because of the shimmer effects. Have you looked right at the cat eyes? They are shimmering, like pearl, very lovely! Although crochet/ knit animals are for fun, but you do want to put some "soul" and heart into it, that's why eyes are important! If you want to see more amis that I have crochet these last 2 years, please check out my flickr!
Labels: 12mm, 6060.artfire.com, 6060.etsy.com, Amigurumi, eyes, ghost, hand-painted, monster eyes, pearl, pearl black, pearl purple, pearl red, plush, round, soft toys, stuffed animals, zombie | 1 comments
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Non-Fiction Picture Book
Ages 2 to 6
Written by Yukihisa Tokuda
Illustrated by Kiyoshi Takahashi
28 pages
When I was a child, like many children, I enjoyed playing with bugs. Pill bugs (also known as roly-polies or potato bugs) were always easy to find: all I needed to do was lift a rock or a piece of wood. The small, gray, harmless creatures were ubiquitous and, when touched, would curl up into perfect little balls. Despite all my experience with theses tiny guys, I'm A Pill Bug taught me many fascinating things.
Realistically illustrated in cut paper collage, this non-fiction book follows the life of a pill bug, as narrated by a pill bug.
Using simple and clear language this book offers a wealth of information regarding the life and habitat of these mini crustaceans. They are not insects, as readers will learn: pill bugs are related to crabs and shrimp.
Young listeners will also learn what pill bugs eat: basically everything, including dead plants, dead leaves, newspapers and cardboard. With all that eating, these bugs also do a lot of pooping. Some youngsters (some adults too) may be amused to learn that a pill bug's poop is square; some may also take pleasure in pointing out those telltale square specks throughout the pages of the book.
In addition to all the decaying organic matter, pill bugs also need to eat stones and concrete to aid in their digestion. That's why they live near people, and their concrete walls and buildings.
To defend themselves against ants, pill bugs roll themselves into a ball—hence the common nickname, roly poly. Pill bugs also shed their shells many times as they grow. First they shed the rear half; the next day they shed the front half. And at the end of fall, when it starts to get cold, they dig deep down in the ground and sleep until spring.
In addition to all this information, the last three pages offer instructions on how to hold a pill bug and even safely keep one as a guest in your home.
But remember to return him to the outdoors before fall, "He'll want to be with his family during the cold winter!"
These little creatures, everywhere under our feet, are introduced to readers in this simple yet fully informative book. Not only do we learn that they're helpful, they turn out to be lovable too!
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