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kenchris45 brauchte ein neues Website Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 81 Designs von 15 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
This contest follows the logo design contest held previously on 99Designs, and includes both a home page and sub-page design for a fireworks display company. A great opportunity to earn $$ over the holiday. The winning design will get $600, and the runner-up will get $100. Submit early and often, please!
Ramsey Pyrotechnics
The Website design should be on a black background in which the logo will work, and the navigational elements and other graphics recommended by designers should play off of the logo. The navigational section names to be included are, in order, Home, The Ramsey Difference, Our Displays, Experience, and Contact Us, and each is a single page as indicated in the copy offered for use. Navigation names should be accompanied by some related graphical element such as a fireworks burst similar to the logo element, or make the nav button a firework graphic. Be surprising.
The design should be forward looking, consistent with the logo, and represents the company's image of professional, high-quality fireworks displays, delivered with integrity, care, and attention to detail. In addition to the colors used in the logo, additional 'fireworks' colors of green, purple, or silver may be used. If other colors are used, they should work consistently with the hues and intensity in the logo. Type fonts used for headers, navigational elements, and body copy should also work well with the logo typeface, and we seek creative uses of san serif fonts or serif fonts or good combinations. Actual fireworks photography may be included but only if you own the rights to use them, and only if they can tastefully be incorporated into the overall design. The preferred look is one without actual photography of fireworks.
Both a Home Page and representative Sub-Page design are required. Please submit the two pages as two entries or in large enough size to easily see both pages. The form factor is to the Web safe area of 1024 x 768, so specifically 968 X 578. Please design to this form factor only, with an emphasis on all content being 'above the fold.' Navigation may be oriented either vertically down the left, horizontally across the top below the logo, or other surprisingly creative yet intuitive approaches given the limited content. The Home page should include a brand 'quilt' or other organization of the five logos of the client's key customers in a manner consistent with the rest of the design.
The deliverables required are both layered PSD files and HTML for the two pages. If you do not have the skills for conversion to HTML, please do not enter this contest.
The logo design files and associated Website copy and other needed logos for the home page may be downloaded at this link: http://dev.543group.com/RamseyPyrot…index.html. For the Illustrator file, be sure to add the '.ai' to the file name when you 'Save As' to save it off correctly to All Files.
• Clean, elegant design consistent with the logo and on black background.
• Copy and logos provided incorporated into design of both pages
• Deliverables are layered PhotoShop files and HTML of the two pages
• Don't get too cute or over complicated – clean and elegant and professional is what is desired.


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American Petroleum Institute woos women for all kinds of jobs
WANTED: Women to work in the oil and gas industry, where the American Petroleum Institute says all kinds of jobs are available, from welder to occupational therapist to accountant.
One way to reach out to them: start when they are young.
The Colorado Petroleum Council, a division of the American Petroleum Institute, has two events planned for this month to reach young women and talk to them about demystifying a science, technology, engineering and math career.
"We are about to ready to encounter what we refer to as the 'great workforce change.' In about 10 years, the majority of oil and gas executives, CEOs and managers are going to retire," said Tracee Bentley, the executive director of the newly created Colorado Petroleum Council.
"The good news is that creates a huge opportunities for women in particular and certainly minorities to come and work for the industry. We are aggressively seeking women who want to work in the oil and gas industry."


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josephnordic brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 70 Designs von 15 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
We want A new logo that we can use for our company's image. We're a cutting edge, eco friendly. We want a logo, which speaks for our company now, and still keep it in the 22th century.
Eco Light Nordic = Eco, stand for green thinking, eco friendly. Light stand for the led light bulbs we are selling, but light also is has a second meaning, Light for being lightweight feather-light. Nordic, because we sell to the Nordic countries.
Our company is divided in 3 parts:
1. Selling of eco friendly Led bulbs/Lights that's saves the usage of electric power. (Light ) & (Eco) friendly.
2. Selling of eco friendly heating systems, that's saves the usage of electric power. (Eco)
3. Selling of Light Bluetooth equipment and Bluetooth speaker that is (Light) weight.
OPEN to NEW ideas!
Eco Light Nordic
We are looking to design a logo for our main site, something that represents the three pieces of our business. Environmentally friendly combined with lights and lightweight products.
we think there is a lot of creative room to run with this and we don't want to be too specific in my description.
http://www.elnordic.com (under big construction)
Logo currently in use: No, We don't have one yet.
o Final artwork in vector Illustrator format.
o Natural colour, we like green and blue tones but is just a small suggestion.
o We need it to work for fine art printing.
o Need to work for business cards.
o Multifunctional logo for all kinds of leaflet.
o Webb user friendly
• Just keep it clean and legible, but unique enough to be recognizable as we want to build a strong brand and it is important that this logo isn't lost amongst all the other logos out there.
• Flat or lifeless. I want this to be professional.
Finden Sie heraus, wie ein Designwettbewerb funktioniert, oder lernen Sie mehr über unsere Logo-Design-Angebote.


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Psy's 'Gentleman' video smashes YouTube records
SEOUL, South Korea (UPDATE) - "Gangnam Style" star Psy's new music video had received more than 50 million views on YouTube by Monday, April 15, re-writing the video-sharing site's records for single-day hits.
The dance video to "Gentleman", the South Korean singer's long-awaited follow up to "Gangnam Style, was only posted on YouTube at 9:00 pm (1200 GMT) on Saturday.
In the first 24 hours, it racked up around 20 million hits, destroying the previous record for single-day views of 8.0 million, set by Canadian heartthrob Justin Bieber's "Boyfriend" video in May 2012.
Now that record looks set to be stretched again, with the view count about 40 hours after release standing at 51 million.
"51million views in 40hours!! My God~!!!" the 35-year-old star exclaimed on his Twitter account.
The video shows Psy, wearing his signature sunglasses, dancing at various locations in and around Seoul including a high-end clothing store, restaurant, swimming pool and a library.
The storyline features the singer teasing and playing practical jokes on women, such as pulling their chairs away as they are about to sit or untying a woman's bikini top at a swimming pool, before meeting his match.
It was the video of "Gangnam Style", and in particular Psy's signature horse-riding dance, that pushed him to global stardom last year after it was posted on YouTube and turned into a viral sensation.
A satire on the luxury lifestyle of Seoul's upscale Gangnam district, it has become the most-watched YouTube video of all time, registering more than 1.5 billion views since it debuted last July.
"Gentleman" was ranked in the top 10 songs on iTunes stores in a number of countries Monday, including France, Canada, New Zealand, Denmark and Sweden. It also topped the chart in Finland.
Critical reactions to the song were mixed but the video -- showing the quirky singer's signature self-mocking humor as well as the new hip-swiveling dance -- left many fans satisfied.
"The song isn't all that great but let's face it. The video is actually hilarious," wrote one Youtube commentator.
"I just love the fact that neither he nor the dancers are taking themselves too serious, but seriously enough to pelvic sway with perfect synchronization," wrote another. - Rappler.com


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Meet your 2009 Toronto Blue Jays
The Opening Day roster is set. The Blue Jays returned Brad Mills and Raul Chavez to Minors camp today and optioned Joe Inglett to Triple-A. Thus ends the battle for the fifth starting job, the backup catching role and the bench.
So, here's the 25-man roster, barring injury over the next four games:
ROTATION: Roy Halladay, David Purcey, Jesse Litsch, Ricky Romero, Scott Richmond
BULLPEN: B.J. Ryan, Scott Downs, Jesse Carlson, Brian Tallet, Jason Frasor, Shawn Camp, Brandon League
STARTERS: 1B Lyle Overbay, 2B Aaron Hill, SS Marco Scutaro, 3B Scott Rolen, C Rod Barajas, DH Adam Lind, LF Travis Snider, CF Vernon Wells, RF Alex Rios
BENCH: Kevin Millar, Michael Barrett, Jose Bautista, John McDonald
This is my last game of the spring. I will be flying back to Toronto tomorrow, taking a couple days off and gearing up for Opening Day. So, here's the final lineups of the spring for you.
Don't forget, you can follow my in-game updates at www.twitter.com/mlbastian
Today's lineup:
Lastings Milledge, CF
Roger Bernadina, LF
Elijah Dukes, DH
Brad Eldred, 1B
Kory Castro, 3B
Josh Bard, C
Justin Maxwell, RF
Pete Orr, 2B
Alberto Gonzalez, SS
John Lannan, P
Aaron Hill, 2B
Adam Lind, DH
Alex Rios, RF
Vernon Wells, CF
Kevin Millar, 1B
Scott Rolen, 3B
Rod Barajas, C
Travis Snider, LF
John McDonald, SS
Roy Halladay, P
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For anyone who is interested here is todays Jay's game on gameday
Great coverage this spring! Looking forward to the season!
Ill be there Monday night cheering the boys on.
Jordan – Any word on what Matt Bush did to get himself cut?
I guess the 19 year old Tim Collins experiment didn't work that well today. My only question is when did the kid toss up, before he went in, during the time he was in or after. lol
Would any of the Jays starters, other than Halladay, make it into the rotation of the Yankees or Red Sox?
Definatly not the Yankees, they could potentially have 4 top of the rotation guys if healthy. Sabathia, Wang, Burnett, Chamberlain, Pettite. Its pretty crazy.
Maybe Litsch could fit in as a 5th guy in Boston, but with Beckett, Lester, Matsuzaka, Brad Penney, and Bucholtz it would be doubtfull as well.
Last year maybe! I'd take Litsch, Purcey and maybe the other two over Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy. Some pretty good replacements they found for those guys.
Why is it that nobody wants Scott Richmond on this team.
Marcum and McGowan will not be here until 2010, Mills needs a lot of time in AAA, ball. Clemment will never make it, so who else is there.
This lad has a good story and I'm sure a true Canadian Jays fan will come out to see him pitch.
No one knows how good or bad he will pitch this year so give him a break and start pulling for him.
Considering The Jays had the best team era in baseball last year at 3.49 while Boston was in 9th place at 4.10 and New York was in 1th place at 4.28, maybe your question is phased wrong.
How rotations look on paper matters not, what matters is the annual performance. Injuries are the issue, what happens to NY's rotation if both Sabathia and Burnett go down? Or to Boston's if Beckett and Dice-K go down.
Of course the way it looks now, our rotation looks weak, but I'll tell you, I like this rotation better than the one we started 2006 with. At that time McGowan was struggling and Marcum was in the pen.
Now, it appears we're going with 3 youngsters in Purcey, Romero and Richmond-although I do think Richmond is replaced by Cecil in mid May.
But don't bury them yet, these kids might be a lot more ready than you think-162 games will tell the story so ask the same question in late September.
The way the rotation looks on paper does matter, because you can't predict injuries. Sure you can twist it and make Torontos rotation look good and say guys of Boston and New York could get injured. Well so could Halladay then what happens. There is no way the Jays rotation has the skill, depth, or experience of either of those two teams no matter how you put it.
You missed my point which is, we really don't know yet how these kids will perform. Case in point is Shawn Marcum. Before he turned into a starter in 2007, he struggled in the pen. But as a starter he did terrific and ended up having the lowest era of all our starters the last half of 2007.
At that time, he was probably as good or better than any Yank or Boston pitcher, maybe with the exception of Beckett and Mussina-from a performance standpoint.
My point is, we don't know yet how Romero, Purcey and Cecil will perform this season. Cecil might be called up and become ROY, Purcey might win the Cy Young-who knows how they'll do at this standpoint.
What they look like on paper means little, what's important is how they perform. So, let's re-ask this same question in September, because at that time, we'll have facts to compare not conjecture.
Catalanotto released – why not sign him for the minimum – not bad spring numbers – plays outfield and first – better than Millar?
Not a good start for Richmond today.
I'm sure what Cito said is true about Roger; does anyone remember Roger's web site when he was here. But, Cito will get the last laugh, I expect Roger will have multiple charges filed against him very soon. When it's all over and done with, Roger will spend twenty to thirty million on legal costs and his reputation is gone forever.
The only thing, I'd say about Richmond's start today Garry, is I hope Cecil gets ready soon.
Wow, just when I thought that my opinion of Clemens couldn't get any worse, we hear this story. Well, i'm glad that in the long run, both Gaston and Clemens are getting what they deserve!
As for Richmond, the guy is a #5 starter at best, so outings like this, even though painful to watch, are to be expected throughout the season…let's just hope there are not too many of them.
A couple years ago I had the pleasure of meeting Cito, he was the guest speaker, he let me try on his World Series ring. He is a class act all the way, looking back I wish I would have asked him what he thought of Roger Clemens, who at the time was my favorite "pitcher". Like Cito said Roger was a hell of a pitcher but not much of a person.
I wonder how good Clemens would have been if he hadn't been on the juice.
I think Clemens would still have been one h- of a pitcher, but he still wouldn't have been much of a person LOL
Nobody has mentioned Jansen in this thread, and I don't know what his status is right now, because he seems to have dropped off the face of the earth. A strained Lat muscle is pretty minor, (if that's what it really is), and if anybody has a couple of bad starts, he should be available, even with a good long rehab, by the end of April or so.
Nobody has mentioned Jansen in this thread, and I don't know what his status is right now, because he seems to have dropped off the face of the earth. A strained Lat muscle is pretty minor, (if that's what it really is), and if anybody has a couple of bad starts, he should be available, even with a good long rehab, by the end of April or so.
BTW, I think Purcey has a no-hitter in that arm somewhere.
Romero was good today.
So far Camp has a zero ERA this spring, another bit of Arnsberg magic.
So far Camp has a zero ERA this spring, another bit of Arnsberg magic.
Romero had a nasty little slider working today. From here on in the more confidence he gets the better he's going to be.
Looking forward to seeing some of these rookies develop this year. Here's hoping for a surprise from these 25!
So, can a sports writer watch the Detroit Tigers play their season-opening game in Toronto AND watch Michigan State play North Carolina for the NCAA men's basketball championship? Inquiring retired sports writers in Oldsmar who covered Blue Jays home spring training games want to know.
How about David Purcey this Spring – a 1.54 ERA in 23.1 innings of work? The only starter with an out of whack ERA is Scott Richmond (6+), and he got roughed up in the one game. Jesse's outing the other day reminded me of David Wells when he didn't have his best stuff, but he still got the job done. We have to expect some rough spots, but if these young kids keep doing what they have been doing, it's going to be fun! I think there will be fur flying in Spring Training next year with a healthy M&M in the mix.
I tend to agree on Purcey, as you know gnorman, I've liked him for some time. I think we're all going to be pleasantly surprised on both Purcey and Romero and I love having lefty starters for both Boston and NY, their right field fences are so close.
Purcey, Romero and Litcsh will have some bad days, but if we hang in with them, by mid year, we might all be saying AJ who?
Richmond on the other hand concerns me, I don't think he's had a real quality start in st. On the other hand both Cecil and Janssen should be ready to go mid May and by that time he has only 7 starts, so we could be ok.
What concern me is Wells, Overbay, Rolen and Rios and whether they hit like they're capable of and drive in runs. I still think hitting with risp is this team's weakness, I hope I'm wrong.
Matt Bush in trouble again
By Brent Schrotenboer
From coast to coast, trouble continues to brew for former Padres No. 1 draft pick Matt Bush.
This time, the former Mission Bay High standout was released by the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday after an incident at a party in Dunedin, Fla., where he was pitching in the team's minor league organization.
At the party early Tuesday, someone had drawn markings on his face, according to a complaint made with the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. He blamed a 23-year-old female, and she accused him of throwing a baseball past her head and banging on her car window to scare her, according to the sheriff's office. She said he appeared intoxicated and acted belligerently.
The Florida state attorney is reviewing the case for possible charges. Bush was not arrested, and there were no injuries reported.
The Blue Jays said he was released for ?failing to comply with team guidelines that were set out for him? and gave no further details.
Toronto acquired Bush, 23, in a trade with the Padres in February. The Padres designated him for assignment one day after he allegedly was involved in an altercation with lacrosse players at Granite Hills High Feb. 4. The San Diego District Attorney's Office filed four misdemeanor charges against him in connection with that incident. He has a pretrial conference scheduled for May 1.
Bush also had been wanted in San Diego on an arrest warrant for failing to appear at his arraignment stemming from a 2004 underage alcohol possession citation. That warrant was cleared by his attorney last week. His court date on that case is set for April 30.
***Reposted from BlueBird Banter
While the Giants say they are going to be patient with 19-year-old phenom Madison Bumgarner, don't be surprised if he gets to the big leagues by June. He struck out Manny Ramirez on three pitches Wednesday, prompting Ramirez to say it is "unbelievable" that he's a teenager.
Chicago Tribune From SI
I guess we're not the only team with young pitching prospects


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2020 Judith Lee Stronach Baccalaureate Prize Info Session: Funding for post graduation social engagement projects
Information Session | January 21 | 1-2 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Mary Crabb, Office of Undergraduate Research & Scholarships
Office of Undergraduate Research
The Judith Lee Stronach Baccalaureate Prize supports intellectual and creative pursuits that heighten awareness of issues of social consciousness and contribute to the public good. The award gives students the opportunity to extend and reflect upon their undergraduate work at Berkeley by undertaking a social engagement project in the year following graduation.
Up to $25,000. Proposals for service, creative, or community-based research projects are welcome. The 2020 Prize is open to Berkeley graduates in all areas of study who receive their degree in Fall 2019, Spring or Summer 2020. The application is due March 2, 2020.
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Is Apple trying to kill porn?
The furore over a new app raises some pertinent questions.
It's a pretty safe assumption these days that the internet is largely taken up by pornography, and that's been proven again with a new service from Twitter.
The social network has come under fire for its new video-sharing service, called Vine, which has become something of a haven for porn. Adult content was even featured in the Editor's Pick section of the app for a short while, which understandably sparked outrage from unprepared users.
Twitter was quick to apologise for the posts, and blamed ''human error'' for selecting it in the Editor's Pick. The company said adult content is not allowed on the app, and users who post such content can face a ban. Fair enough.
But tech giant Apple has also been criticised for keeping the program in its App Store, which has a long history of vetoing apps that host adult content — whether intentionally or not.
While I am strongly opposed to censorship of any kind, Apple should really be enforcing its policies equally across the board, or not at all. Smaller, independent apps should not be nixed while the likes of Twitter and Tumblr are continually allowed to host adult content.
That being said, this case presents a strong argument against Apple's censorship in general. I'm not suggesting Apple start selling porn directly via the iTunes Store (although there's more than a buck in that for them) – but surely an option can be integrated to allow for the selling and buying of some slightly more risque apps.
After all, it's much easier to pick up your iPhone, open the Safari browser and search for porn than it is to bother searching for and downloading an app. But obviously Apple needs to have some kind of restriction system in place for the App Store.
So why can't the same parental controls that iTunes currently uses to restrict purchases of music with explicit lyrics, and movies and TV shows with adult ratings, be used more effectively for apps?
Apps are currently ranked with age ratings of four-plus, nine-plus, 12-plus and 17-plus, but this mainly relates to violence in games rather than pornography.
This raises the question of why we as a society are more comfortable with violence than sex, but that argument is for another day.
Katie is a writer and producer on Essential Kids


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|The USGenWeb and MdGenWeb Project Welcomes You to the
Howard County Maryland Genealogy Web Site
SURNAME REGISTRY Register with an on-line list of the Surnames you are researching and would like to exchage information on with other researchers.
To help you identify sources of information please check the Bibliography of Howard County Genealogy Related publications.
You can enter or review Queries for Howard County Genealogy.
Phil Stackhouse has contributed a 1867 voters list for the 4th District (Lisbon) that he found among some old papers. This list is also available as a file from the MD Archives site
The First Families of Anne Arundel and Baltimore Counties is a collection of linked family group sheets of early settlers of Baltimore and Anne Arundel Counties (for now we are working on families who were in the area by 1720) and links to other sites with linage data. These files include many early settlers of what is today's Howard County. Contributions of GEDCOMS or text files are welcomed to add to these pages.
We have been adding On-line transcripts of Wills of Anne Arundel, Baltimore, and Howard Counties from the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries
A recent addition to the project is a collection of Family Bible Records for Anne Arundel, Baltimore, and Howard Counties.
Transcripts of Interrments for Howard County Catholic Churches prior to 1932
On-line Transcripts of other old documents , such as deeds, grants, court orders are also being collected to help researchers.
List of some marriage licenses recorded by the Circuit Court of Howard County between 1886 and 1900. Also a partial listing of Marriage licenses from May 1858 to November 1858
The Civil War in Howard Co was remembered in 1962 with a centenial program by the Howard County Historical Society and the local and state governments.
The LISBON HIGH SCHOOL NEWSLETTER From the 1926-1927 School Year. On -Line now if Volume II, Number 1 This contains information on alumni from 1924 and 1925 as well as students and teachers in 1926-1927 School Year. There is also a listing of advertisers.
Governor Edwin Warfield wrote several letters to his cousin Thaddeus Crapster ca 1895. Transcripts of these letters found in the vault of the Howard County Historical Society are now viewable.
In 1867, 1868, and 1870, the Maryland Legislature Passed acts providing for the payments of $80 annual pension to indigent veterans and indigent widows of veterans of the war of 1812. These acts lists the names of the persons eligble to receive the benefits of the act. Transcipts of the 1868 and 1870 acts are provided here.
new Feb 2007 A few Deed Transcripts have been provided by researchers.
The Tombstone Transcription Project for MdGenWeb Project https://sites.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/maryland/maryland.html also contains tombstone inscriptions in addition to those on this website.
The repository for most records in Maryland, including death and birth certificates up to 1988 is The Maryland State Archives located in Annapolis A new feature from the Maryland State Archives is on-line searchable death indexes for Baltimore City and Maryland Cos. (including Howard County). These searchable indexes are by the year groups and last name. This MSA site provides instructions for order copies of vital records from the MSA and department of vital records.Another on-line data resource for researchers at MSA provides on-line assess to a search engine for the original 72 volumes of the Archives of Maryland plus additional volumes. This Includes acts of the general assembly, some court records, listing of Revolutionary war musters and other data. In all there are about 103 volumes on line with some of them being more contemporary government papers.
There is a nationwide database operated by the Roots-L folks (Karen Isaacson and others) to identify researchers of a given surname. View information and enter your surnames in this national database for genealogy research.
Pam the "list lady" has prepared a listing from the 1895 Atlas of the localities in Maryland. So to find locations of places in Maryland check her index of Maryland localities
An on-line listing of the addresses and phone number for Maryland cemeteries is being maintained by Lynn Smith
We are building a list of links for finding information about the history and people of Howard County.
ROOTSWEB has added the JUNE 1999 SOCIAL SECURITY DEATH INDEX (SSDI). Now you can search the most recent version of the SSDI at sites.rootsweb.com.
Howard County has an active genealogical society that has published much material about the county, including volumes of cemetery transcriptions and early marriage licenses.
The website for the Howard County Genealogical Society is: http://www.hcgsmd.org and their mailing address is: P.O. Box 274, Columbia, Maryland 21045.
A listing is available of the most recent publications from the HCGS in PDF Format (December 2008) is available on this page . Among these publications are Genealogical Research Guide for Howard County. Another recent publication available provides a A collection of records for Howard County Genealogical Research. The HCGS has available a volume describing the early years of the Howard County courthouse and jail. Volume X, a master Index to the nine volumes of Cemetery records , published by Howard County has been released this year (2004). In March of 2001 the HCGS released the lastest is a series of transcriptions: Howard County Maryland Records Volume IX: Cemetery and Interment Records for Thirty-Two Howard County Grave Sites . Most of the cemeteries in Volume IX were copied during the period 1996-2000. The book contains information on about 1,900 burials, comprising about 575 surnames. Ording information for some these HCGS publications is provided in the first of two PDF files and the the second of the two PDF files
Here is the calendar of coming events for the Howard County Genealogical Society
The Howard County Genealogical Society announces publication of a new book "The Civil War Enrollment and Draft of 1862 in Howard County", authored by Joseph H. Nichols, Jr. and Richard W. Bush. The book is a complete transcription of the original ledgers containing the names of about 1,620 Howard County men who were obligated to register for draft into the Union Army in 1862. Information about this book is available on-line including a name index for the persons listed in the book.
The Howard County Historical Society is Interested in helping genealogical researchers find their roots. (And also in helping anyone interested in the History of Howard County.) The Society maintains alibrary which will assist genealogical researchers. Click here for the address, phone number, and hours for the library. Their website is www.hchsmd.org One relaively new feature on the Howard County History Society Website is a listing of marriage licenses for Howard Co., MD
The Maryland Historical Society publishs the Maryland Historical Magazine, quarterly
The Maryland Genealgocial Society publishes the Maryland
Genealogical Society Bulletin, quarterly.
The address of the Maryland Genelaogical Society (and the Maryland Historical Society) is
201 W. Monument Street,
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A considerable amount of information, such as cemetery surveys and early marriage licenses have been published by the Colonel Thomas Dorsey Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Howard County Genealogical Society.
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Provides coverage during labor and Delivery. After your baby is born he will be dried, diapered and placed on your chest. He will then be covered with the Swaddle Section to keep him warm and secure. The Womb like Enclosure will comfort him as he hears your heart beat and the sound of your voice. Learn More
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Skin to Skin Contact the first weeks of life have been proven to be a life changing event for you and your newborn. It is also great for Mom to have a break.
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When South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley came to New Hampshire to endorse Mitt Romney earlier this month, it marked more than just a meeting of political expediency. Yes, South Carolina was the next state on the primary calendar. And yes, Governor Haley could help him there.
But the topic of her remarks was something more than a typical stump speech. It was a trial balloon that could become a major issue in this autumn's general election.
"One of the reasons we're bringing jobs to South Carolina is that we have the lowest unionization in the country, and I want to keep it that way," she said at a Jan. 6 rally in Tilton, N.H. "Barack Obama doesn't appreciate right-to-work states. Mitt Romney appreciates right-to-work states … and I need a partner in the White House."
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Right-to-work states are those that that bar unions from deducting dues from worker paychecks as a condition of employment. Unions see right-to-work as a bid to undermine union financing, capacity to organize, and political clout.
Romney has used South Carolina, which is a right-to-work state, and New Hampshire, which is considering ways to become one, as testing grounds for how such a debate might play out nationwide.
Conservatives see the current campaign cycle as a rare opportunity to undercut union political clout. After historic gains in 2010 elections, Republicans hold the governorships and new legislative majorities in a number of strong union states, including Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Moreover, labor unions bankroll opposition to the sweeping pro-business agendas that undergird Republican orthodoxy.
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Yet states like Wisconsin, where a Republican governor will likely face a recall election over his decision to strip unions of another right – collective bargaining – show the danger of taking on unions. Gov. Rick Snyder (R) of Michigan says that right-to-work legislation at this time is too divisive and not on his agenda.
If Republicans are going to make right to work a national campaign theme, they will need to do so cautiously, and South Carolina has given the candidates – and Romney in particular – an opportunity to test the waters.
For his part, Romney has repeatedly targeted last April's decision by the National Labor Relations Board to file a complaint against Boeing Co. for locating a new production line for its 787 Dreamliner in South Carolina rather than at its home base in Washington State, which is not a right-to-work state. The move by Boeing's management was seen as retaliation against frequently strikes by a strong machinists union in Washington State.
A day after President Obama bypassed the Senate to make three recess appointments to the NLRB, Romney launched an ad campaign in South Carolina blasting the president for stacking the NLRB with "union stooges."
"You can't build a factory in South Carolina because South Carolina is a right-to-work state," the ad said.
The issue has also come up in Republican debates. Rick Santorum, a former US senator from Pennsylvania's steel belt, had to defend his own votes opposing right-to-work legislation at Thursday's debate in Charleston, S.C.
He said he had already "signed a pledge and said I would sign a national right-to-work bill," but added that his state had "made a decision not to be right to work."
Rep. Ron Paul (R) of Texas shot back, to applause: "But as president, are you going to represent South Carolina or Pennsylvania? That's really the question."
Twenty-two states are currently right-to-work states, mainly located in the south, the southwest and a stretch of the Great Plains from Texas to North Dakota. Conservatives pushed right-to-work bills in 11 other states in 2011. All failed.
But a presidential election battle, along with prolonged economic stress, is giving the issue higher visibility – and drawing funding into the race from both labor and business groups with deep pockets.
"The early primaries are putting a bigger spotlight than usual on the right-to-work issue," says Patrick Semmens, a spokesman for the National Right to Work Committee, which lobbies for right-to-work laws.
"You have a perfect storm of economic and jobs issues, the fact that South Carolina and New Hampshire both had important battles over the right to work at the state level, and a president whose administration is doing things to advance the interest of unions to the detriment of individual employees and the economy," he adds.
Right-to-work issues are especially prominent in the early primary states. Iowa is a right-to-work state, as are Florida and Nevada, the next primary contests.
New Hampshire passed a right-to-work bill last year, after Republicans took back the House and Senate in 2010. But Gov. John Lynch, a Democrat, vetoed the bill, with an override failing by just 12 votes. GOP lawmakers are now lining up new measures to curb union influence, including eliminating automatic payroll deduction for union dues.
Conservatives say that right-to-work rules improve the economic climate of a state and help create jobs. Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, tapped on Thursday to give the Republican response to the president's State of the Union address, and a GOP-controlled legislature are gearing up to make Indiana the 23rd right-to-work state.
"A right-to-work law will mean more jobs for Hoosiers," writes Paul Kersey, director of labor policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Michigan. "From 2000 to 2010, employees in right-to-work states increased 2.3 percent, compared to a 4.0 percent decline in non-right-to-work states," he adds.
Critics respond that the competition between states to lower costs for business also lowers job quality for workers – and does not necessarily produce more jobs.
"In the 10 years since Oklahoma adopted RTW, the number of manufacturing jobs in the state has fallen by one-third," writes Gordon Lafer, a political economist at the University of Oregon. "The number of companies coming into the state – supposed to increase by "eight to ten times" – has decreased by 30 percent."
But what's firing up the politics of right-to-work in the presidential campaign cycle is not jobs, he adds. It's the prospect of delivering a severe blow to organized labor as a political force.
Labor unions have contributed more than $395.6 million to presidential and congressional races since 1989, according to the Center for Responsive Politics in Washington. Of the top 20 all-time biggest donors, unions account for 12 of them.
This week, the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees, the top all-time union donor, launched a $1 million ad campaign in Florida, targeting Romney's business career but aimed as well at his support for right-to-work laws.
"The only serious opposition to the business lobby's agenda comes from organized labor," says Professor Lafer, who is also a research associate with the Economic Policy Institute in Washington and has advised Democrats. "There is a convergence of forces seizing on the right-to-work issue, saying: This is our moment to cut off our biggest opponent on a whole range of issues."
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Late last month, I walked into the Time Warner Cable store on East 23rd Street in Manhattan and sat down with a saleswoman. I left a few minutes later with a bright orange shopping bag, a new Scientific Atlanta digital cable box, and $80+ monthly digital cable subscription.
Okay, that's not too out-of-the-ordinary. Time Warner Cable added 56,000 new digital TV subscribers last quarter, finishing the year with almost 9 million subs. I wasn't alone.
But by buying cable, I was a failure. I was admitting defeat. I was caving in to The Man.
Why? Because I'm the guy who, almost two years ago, returned my Time Warner Cable set-top box to that same store on 23rd Street. I proudly vowed to get all of my TV content from the Internet forever -- becoming a "Hulu household," as I called it.
Why? Because cable was (and still is) way too expensive. My $80 cable bill adds up to $960 a year, which is an absurd amount of money for anything, let alone the boob tube. And back then, at least, I was determined to put that cash to better uses.
For almost two years, I laughed when cable companies downplayed the "cord cutters," as they called us. I learned more than anyone needed to know about the deep streaming libraries at Netflix, Hulu, Fancast, Boxee, Roku, iTunes, and other Web video sites.
Newsweek's Dan Lyons -- a.k.a. Fake Steve Jobs -- even included me in a magazine story about cable cord cutters. My money quote: "I'm not going to let myself get ripped off for a bunch of garbage that I don't watch anyway."
And then I caved, and now I'm spending $1,000 a year on cable again!
Conveniently, there's a good excuse here. A little over a year ago, I moved into a new apartment in Brooklyn with my girlfriend, who edits a fashion news site. She needs cable so she can watch live cable shows like "Project Runway" for work, because episodes don't show up on iTunes or Hulu or similar sites for several hours. So it's not completely my fault. She is the main reason I caved and got cable.
But now that I have cable again, I have to admit, I really like having it. The stuff I want to watch -- Food Network, Travel Channel, etc. -- is now in HD, which it wasn't when I last subscribed to cable. I'm super excited for the World Cup in HD, the Olympics in HD, the Tour de France this summer, and Discovery Channel's follow up to "Planet Earth," called "Life," which begins airing in March.
And while some of that stuff is available to stream live online -- Comcast's Versus network did a pretty nice job with its Tour de France site last summer, and Major League Baseball's MLB.TV blows away every other online sports subscription -- there's still way too much good stuff that's not online.
And much of that good stuff won't be coming online in the near future.
Why not? Because cable operators like Time Warner Cable and Comcast still represent a huge percentage of revenue for TV content companies, while online video generates a laughably small amount of revenue for these companies.
Therefore, anything that relies on a live, nationwide cable audience -- like most live sports, or the Oscars, or "MythBusters" -- isn't going to be available for free online for a long time. (And while some of the online-only content out there is entertaining, it's not enough to completely replace professionally produced TV for most people.)
So while the "Hulu household" experiment was fine, I'm actually pretty glad it's over -- especially now that I'm spending more weeknights at home, and fewer nights out on the town. Maybe I'm just getting older and more willing to pay a little extra for high quality home entertainment.
I agree with Henry Blodget that the TV industry is eventually going to be severely disrupted by the Internet, and eventually, I hope that I'll be able to get everything I want to watch online. I'm rooting for someone like Apple or Netflix or even Comcast to aggregate enough deals to make an online-based, a-la-carte TV service available to the masses. (Though Mark Cuban's concerns -- that there isn't enough Internet bandwidth available to make a product like this a reality -- are real, and will need to be dealt with.)
But it's going to take longer than it should, because TV companies are still fairly insulated -- especially as Comcast buys NBC -- and can protect their legacy business models for a while longer.
For now, that's going to cost me about $960 a year.
The good news: In the meantime, I'll be able to pay more attention to digital cable services as we track the Death of TV, and give cable companies like Time Warner Cable a hard time for their flaws.
First up: As I argued last spring, cable companies really need to fix their awful user interfaces. It's still way too hard to browse through all of the stuff that's available on-demand, and the cable guide's "search" product is still a joke.
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Stevens Starts Construction on Net-Zero Solar Home
The student team representing Stevens Institute of Technology celebrated the ribbon cutting of Ecohabit, the team's net-zero solar home that will compete against 19 other teams in the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon in Irvine, CA. in October 2013.
"This is a really exciting time for the team, because after so many months of pouring so much time into designing and engineering the house, they finally get to see it come off the paper and become real," said Mark Pollock, the team's project manager.
Pridefully wearing their colorful team t-shirts, the students gathered around Ecohabit's "L" shaped foundation overlooking the New York City skyline to officially present the home to Stevens and the greater Hoboken community.
"Ecohabit will be Hoboken's second net-zero home," said Professor John Nastasi, director of the Product Architecture program at Stevens and faculty lead for the project. "Our 2011 Solar Decathlon entry, Empowerhouse, was the first energy-neutral home built in Hoboken. We are planning on numerous open-house events over the summer to showcase the home and its inspiring innovations before transporting it to compete in California this fall."
The home is being constructed on the Hoboken waterfront and will feature in-house design innovations such as on-demand hot water sensors, Dow Solar Shingles, a misting system that reuses condensate to cool outdoor units, and modular furniture construction that can be reconfigured over time and adapt based on the needs of the users among other innovative and exciting technologies.
Students will continue to work on the house throughout the summer before dismantling it and sending it across the country to Irvine, CA., where it will be rebuilt and displayed to spectators at the XPO, a world's fair of clean, renewable and efficient energy as part of the Solar Decathlon.
To learn more about Ecohabit and Stevens Solar Decathlon team, visit www.stevens.edu/sd2013.


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Mascara & Eye Makeup
Ingredients and pollutants can more easily penetrate the body thru the tear channels and the cornea. Problematic, yet commonly used ingredients are:
- allergy causing nickel
- Mercury
- chrome heavy metals
- carcinogenic formaldehyde derivatives
During a lifetime of regular lipstick use, you actually eat about 4-6 lb. of lipstick! Most lipsticks contain ingredients that are not healthy at all!
Here are some commonly used problem ingredients:
- Aaniline or tartrazin
- Silicones
- Mineral oils
- Synthetic sun screen ingredients like oxybenzone or cinnamates.
Besides problem ingredients, many lipsticks have contaminants from impure ingredients. These contaminants include LEAD. See the article on Lead in our Ingredient Watch section.


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2 1/2 lbs boiled "baby" red potatoes, halved
2 cobs worth of corn kernels
1 small onion, chopped
8 cornichons, chopped
1/4 cup mayonnaise
1/2-1 tablespoons Old Bay
freshly ground black pepper
Toss the corn, onion, cornichons and potato together in a medium bowl. In a small bowl, whisk together the mayo and Old Bay. Drizzle over the potato mixture. Stir to evenly coat. Serve at room temperature.


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Stock Broker in Louisiana
Penny stocks sell for less than $1 per share on the electronic exchanges, such as OTC Bulletin Board. The share prices might seem attractive but these investments are volatile and highly risky. They occupy an ambiguous position on the financial markets and analysts also don't prefer these stocks for their manipulative nature. If you want to dive into the stocks, the eTrade account is a right way to go and start doing your stock trading.
Opening an Account
You can open the account through an online or paper application. You need to submit the necessary documents required by the broker to make the proceeding and get the bank account routing number for the deposits and withdrawals. With the approval of your papers, the website will allow you to practice the trade on its platform and you can check it out to make the appropriate proceeding. Louisiana will have the same rules and regulations as most other states.
Work diligently
Research is the most important thing for a penny stock investor. ETrade is a broker that works well in Louisiana as well as all other states. gives robust statistics and opinions on the individual stock lists with a professional approach. The opinions of penny stocks are actually very thin and there are big chances of it for a scam. Make sure that you're following the right stocks and your own investigation on the stocks before making the choice.
How to begin your investments in Penny Stocks?
Penny stocks trading can be highly risky in many ways. Those who are experienced would understand the penny stock movements and the ways to explore these low-cost stocks. These stocks are not like the major stock exchange stocks and come under the speculative range.
- Open an account with a penny stock firm or online brokerage company. There are many sources to reach the penny stocks recommendations through various sources.
- Penny stocks trading could be started off with paper money till you're ready to trade with the actual money. There are many stock programs that will help you in doing this kind of virtual trading. Take your time till you feel that you know enough of the penny stock market and check out its interaction with the larger markets.
- Start your investment with a small amount. Add to your principal to grow this amount. Don't break off your savings or get greedy with penny stock investments. It is never preferable to pump the additional principal into your account on getting a loss as it could turn into an adverse
- Don't let your emotions rule over your actions. You need to keep your greed and feeling of fear to succeed in penny stock trading. Speculators make money only if they play the game by the mind and not by emotions. There is no place for sentiments in the penny stock market.
- Reinvestment could be done by the profits you obtain from the investment program. It is the safest way to get profitable results from the penny stock market. This would diversify your purchases without any requirement of the additional principal amount.


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Ultra-Fast Genome Sequencing Could Save the Lives of Newborns
Whole genome tests can help identify the cause of a baby's mysterious illness. But ethicists say it's still too soon to use them for all infants.
Maverick Coltin seemed like any other newborn when he first came home from the hospital, wearing his beanie cap with bear ears and blue-and-gray onesie and following the typical around-the-clock cycle of sleeping and breastfeeding. But within a couple of days, his parents noticed something was off. At 6 days old, Maverick completely stopped feeding. His arms and legs would stiffen and then release, the spasms punctuated by his cries.
His parents rushed him to Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego, where EEG monitors recorded that he was having as many as 30 seizures an hour. Doctors scrambled to find the cause. Anti-seizure medicines didn't work, so he was sedated to stop the damage to his brain. His organs started to fail, and his skin turned a dusky blue. His mother, Kara Coltin, walked into his empty nursery at home and cried.
So when doctors from Rady's Institute for Genomic Medicine asked for permission to sequence Maverick's genome as part of a clinical trial of ultra-rapid sequencing for newborns who are critically ill from an unknown cause, Maverick's parents didn't hesitate. The doctors cautioned that they couldn't guarantee that they would pinpoint a genetic disorder or, if they did, that it could be treated. They gave the standard caveat about genetic testing—that identifying a genetic disorder could affect Maverick's eligibility for life insurance someday. But even if the sequencing didn't help him, his participation would contribute to a study that could benefit other babies. "Obviously, the pros outweighed the cons manyfold," his mother says. "We just wanted his pain to stop."
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The Taliban claimed no responsibility, and a spokesman stated:
"The Taliban had nothing to do with this, it was a pure act of responsible Muslims," spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said by phone from an undisclosed location.
"The foreigners brought the wrath of the Afghans on themselves by burning the Qur'an."
Did you note that? "...responsible Muslims". He suggests that the foreigners, who had nothing to do with the burning, brought this on themselves.
Christ. If there is any more proof that radical Islam is something that has to be eradicated from the face of the Earth, then this is it. Religion of peace my ass. Islam is so fucking backwards, it is still mired in a 16th Century mindset. It is a cancer on society that needs to be violently extracted.
Take a look at France - whole blocks where the police do not dare to go - populated by Muslims who rule outside the law of the country. This is spreading into Europe and it must be stopped.


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The above statement is not only very very true, but a fact! Prostitutes are usually compelled to sell sex because they have little or no alternative.
When prostitution was illegal, there were very few rich people. The rich people took advantage of laws that were in place at the time to have their women come to work for them. The women would basically be forced to work for them. Some women would do this because it was what their families needed, or because they could not find another job, but most of them were willing to go to work in order to provide for their families.
At first, the business didn't really pay very well and the women were not motivated to work if it didn't pay very well. This may be why some people do not realize the significance of the legalization of prostitution. They seem to think it has nothing to do with poor women being forced to work.
There are two groups of johns; the ones who are genuine and the ones who are not. Those who are genuine can afford a room to sleep in and keep their automobile running, while those who are not paid handsomely.
The businessmen who really care about the welfare of the prostitutes and the johns can come together and take steps to eliminate the demand for prostitution. In order to come up with a solution, we must first recognize the reasons why so many people engage in prostitution.
Prostitutes are desperate to make enough money to pay for bills, and the johns are desperate to be able to get a woman for themselves. The women simply need the money and the johns have a "need."
How can the johns be helped? We can not help the johns unless we learn to understand how they think. That means that if we believe that sex is just for reproduction, and that prostitution is a way to fill the emptiness of sexuality, then we will solve nothing.
Even if we believe that the sex is pure and that prostitution is strictly for men, the truth is that the Johns know that it is not. The ones who exploit the women do so because the women have "impure" intentions.
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The first step is understanding the motives of the Johns. The next step is recognizing how they think. Once we realize that they are not innocent, then we can start to show that they should be treated the same as any other human being.
So, the next time you see a group of women being harassed by a john, do not think they are just being silly. Think instead that they are actually exploited and abused. Asking the women to be quiet is not going to make them stop.
The Johns, who understand that they are not innocent, will be more receptive to persuasion. If the women are quiet and allow the johns to understand this, then the johns will get to decide if they want to continue to harass the women.
While most women understand that they are not abused, and they understand that the Johns think they are, the johns really don't care about this. The women are just being silly, trying to find humor in an often embarrassing situation. There is no real shame in it's all part of the comedic ability of people who understand their status.


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This paper describes a concept for a coplanar airborne self-separation display, which is designed to aid pilots in their separation task, by visualizing the possibilities for conflict resolution that the airspace provides. This study is a part of an ongoing research toward the design of a constraint-based 3-D separation assistance interface that...journal article 2013
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Every so often, incredibly energetic charged particles will reach Earth - and we're not sure what could possibly be powerful enough to generate these cosmic rays. Now we might have the answer...and it's just an absurdly specific set of circumstances.
Pulsars have long been one of the favorite candidates to explain the source of these particles that can reach energies of 1019 electronvolts. Pulsars are a rotating, highly magnetized form of neutron star, which are the ultradense remnants of supernova explosions. We know that these a pulsar emits an extremely powerful beam of electromagnetic radiation - indeed, the way the beam rotates relative to Earth is what gives the pulsar its "pulse" - and physicists have targeted this as a possible source for the ultra-energetic cosmic rays.
The problem is that pulsars can't just form anywhere - you're only going to find one in the middle of a massive debris field created by the preceding supernova explosion. That dense cloud of particles might provide too great an obstacle for cosmic rays to escape, at least not without losing a big chunk of their energy from collisions with other particles.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course, but it does rather defeat the purpose of looking at them as potential sources for these supercharged particles. You could also wait for the supernova debris to spread out enough for more particles to stream through - but by then, the pulsar will have slowed its rotation enough that it likely won't be able to create these particular cosmic rays. It's a bit of a cosmic catch-22.
But, as New Scientist reports, researchers at the University of Chicago have found that there's one slim window where these the pulsar is still rotating fast enough to emit these ultra-energetic particles and the supernova debris is just wide enough for them to escape. Their model suggests that newborn pulsars could meet these conditions...for the first year of the pulsar's life. After just one year, the pulsar is no longer rotating fast enough to create the particles we've observed.
Of course, a year is barely a nanosecond in the lifetimes of stars, which might make this seem just too ridiculously finicky to be believed. But the researchers point out that this accounts for one big question regarding these cosmic rays, which is the shockingly high iron content in the ultra-energetic particles. Pulsars are thought to have lots of iron in their crust, and the heavier atomic weight of iron could actually help account for how it reaches such ridiculously high energies in the first place. Now all we need is a pulsar to form somewhere near us so that we can actually put this theory to the test. The good news is that, once that happens, we won't have very long at all to wait before we know if this idea holds up.
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Previous versions of Microsoft Word offered a set of review features greatly enhancing collaboration and Word 2013 improves upon it. Whether it's a proofreader, colleague, tutor, or teacher, when you're working with someone else on a document you might want to prevent them from rewriting or changing what you've written.
In most cases, it's useful to just to use the Track Changes feature to monitor what's being changed in a document. But sometimes you need to lock down the document further. Here's how:
In Word 2013 open up the Review tab on the Ribbon.
Then select Protect and the Restrict Editing button.
Formatting Restrictions in Word 2013
There's two different types of restrictions that you can place on document editing. The first involves styles and formatting. This is the more minor of restrictions, and only prevents changes to the way that a document looks. In the formatting restrictions window there are a lot of different options to choose from. For the most part, this set of restrictions isn't hugely important.
Editing Restrictions in Word 2013
The second type of restriction that you can place on Word documents are those related to overall editing. As said earlier, for most collaboration projects it is simply enough to enforce "Tracked Changes." However, when needed, such as when working with a tutor, you may want to only allow comments on a document. And when creating corporate documents you may want to only allow users to add to embedded fillable forms. For the most extreme circumstances there is the option to make the document Read Only, and no changes can be retained.
Once you've decided which restrictions that you want to employ, click the "Yes, Start Enforcing Protection" button to apply this security to the document.
You'll be prompted to set up a password, or opt for User authentication.
The password route is the simplest way to go, and as a result, the restrict editing sidebar will immediately change. Instead of options, you'll see what permissions are allowed and a "Stop Protection" button which allows you to enter the password and unlock the document.
If you opt for User Authentication, you'll likely see the error:
This can be fixed by enabling IRM on the computer, and full documentation on that process is available for that via technet. Unfortunately, the instructions on TechNet can be a bit confusing to the average user.


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An in-depth review of Apple's 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base StationApple's revised AirPort Extreme, introduced at Macworld Expo in January, offers several new features and significant improvements in wireless networking speed and reliability. Whether it is worth the upgrade price to move on up to the new 802.11n wireless technology depends upon the specific needs of potential buyers. Read all about it in our 4-page in-depth review.
The most obvious advantage of the new AirPort Extreme over Apple's previous models is support for the new 802.11n wireless networking standard. Apple says the new standard offers five times the data transfer speed and more than twice the range of devices using the former standard.
The last time a new AirPort wireless standard appeared was 802.11g, back in 2003. Apple assigned it the marketing name "AirPort Extreme" to distinguish the faster new second generation wireless networking standard from the earlier 802.11b technology that the company had been simply calling "AirPort" since its introduction in 1999.
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This time around, there is no new Apple marketing name for the unwieldy mouthful of characters representing the IEEE's third generation 802.11n technical specification, but it is commonly referred to as wireless-n. One of the key technologies associated with the new wireless-n standard is its new MIMO antenna technology.
Rather than using a single radio antenna to send and receive wireless data, wireless-n devices all use a series of antennas, referred to as "Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output." MIMO technology allows wireless-n devices to more efficiently spread data over multiple radio frequencies and maintain multiple, simultaneous data streams.
The result is faster data transmission and greater signal reliability over longer distances, without a significant increase in the amount of power or bandwidth required. Wireless-n can operate on the same frequencies as existing 802.11b/g networks, and is backwardly compatible with earlier wireless devices.
How Much Faster?
Apple promises a five fold increase in speed using wireless-n, and AirPort Extreme delivers. That's in part because the wireless-n standard is a big jump in technology, but also because the former 802.11g standard was somewhat problematic. Users will likely appreciate the more reliable signal that wireless-n MIMO devices provide, and find the better coverage at least as useful as the new boost in speed.
The degree of benefit realized by the new wireless-n AirPort Extreme base station depends a lot upon how it will be used. To take advantage of its faster speeds, users will of course also need wireless-n support in all of their other devices.
Nearly all of the Core 2 Duo Intel-based Macs offer built-in support for wireless-n, apart from the entry level 17" 1.83GHz iMac. Earlier Intel Macs based on the original Core Duo or Solo, and all of the earlier PowerPC Macs lack built-in support for wireless-n.
Apple offers no wireless-n upgrade path for earlier Macs designed for the first two generations of wireless technology, in part because earlier systems' AirPort slots can't accommodate the full speed of wireless-n, and their existing built-in antennas wouldn't deliver the main MIMO advantage offered by the new standard.
Some third parties offer upgrades for certain Mac models, including QuickerTek's $149-$179 wireless-n upgrades for the Intel-based Mac mini, iMac, and Mac Book laptops. Other vendors offer external USB adapters, such as D-Link's $149 wireless-n interface, which is commonly available online for around $99.
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Of course, existing wireless clients will still work with the new AirPort Express, but won't be able to benefit from its faster speed. Using earlier 802.11b/g devices with it will actually slow down throughput for any wireless-n devices whenever those older devices are actively transmitting data.
That suggests two bits of buyer recommendations: the first is for users to consider waiting to upgrade until they have enough wireless-n devices to make use of the new speed; the second is to consider using a new wireless-n base station in tandem with an earlier existing AirPort base station for optimal speed in circumstances where there are several wireless clients with different speed capacities.
While the new AirPort Extreme can act as a drop in replacement upgrade for earlier models, it can also be configured as a parallel upgrade, set up to only talk to new devices supporting wireless-n. It can even be set up to use an entirely different frequency band, preventing any overlap or contention between existing network traffic and the new wireless-n only devices.
A Question of Need
Of course, another factor to take into consideration before building a complex system optimized to wirelessly shoot around bits at the most optimal speeds is whether wireless-n will offer any real world difference.
For users who are simply using AirPort to share an Internet connection, upgrading to wireless-n won't really make a speed difference at all; the existing AirPort Extreme 802.11g is already far faster than DSL or Cable Internet. Typical Internet access is commonly the weakest link, with speeds in the range of 1.5 - 3 Mbps, compared to the theoretical maximum of 802.11g at 54 Mbps (actual throughput is typically closer to around 20 Mbps). Upgrading the wireless network isn't going to make Internet access any faster, although it likely will help with the coverage area.
The upgrade to wireless-n is most useful to users who are sharing files between their computers. This includes both direct file sharing and remote sharing of the contents of an iTunes or iPhoto library between networked computers. While these are all possible using earlier wireless standards, the much faster speed of the new wireless-n makes for a considerable improvement in the overall experience.
Wireless USB Disk Sharing
Along those lines, the new AirPort Extreme includes a new feature to exploit its faster speed: a USB hard drive can be plugged in to set up a simple disk share that any connected Mac or PC can access. With a USB hub, multiple disks, along with multiple USB printers, can be shared among all of the networked users, whether they are wirelessly connected or plugged into the base station directly via an Ethernet cable.
This offers the potential for AirPort Extreme to serve as a simple file server for home and small office users. It also provides a convenient way for users to copy files from multiple computers to a central disk for backup purposes, and makes it easy for users to share files between Macs and PCs without setting up and managing file shares on each machine.
Some competing wireless routers also offer similar shared disk features, but few support the Mac's native Apple File Protocol file sharing; most only provide Windows' SMB file sharing. While Macs can interact with these systems, they do not provide full support for some expected Mac features such as file icons and resource forks; Apple's AirPort Extreme is both Mac and Windows savvy.
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This week will be the season finale for the U.S. Version of Who Do You Think You Are? In this episode, Minnie Driver sets out to learn more about her secretive father and traces the highs and lows of his career in the Royal Air Force during World War II. Through military documents, she comes to understand why her father was the way he was, and how his combat experience impacted the rest of his life. Then, since Minnie never met her paternal grandparents, she follows the trail in England until she comes face-to-face with the very first relative she's ever met on her father's side, and finds a kindred spirit in a family member she never knew about.
Some of the cities/locations visited include: Minnie's home, Malibu, CA; Minnie's mother's apartment, West London, UK; Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey, UK; Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon, London, UK; Rockside Hall, Matlock, Derbyshire, UK; Stockton Central Library, Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, UK; Eileen Wiper's home, Darlington, Durham, UK; Middlesbrough Central Library, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, UK; Stockport Plaza Theatre, Stockport, Greater Manchester, UK; and Minnie's home, Hollywood Hills, CA.
The episode will be broadcast on Wednesday, August 27, at at 9pm Eastern/8pm Central, on TLC. Check your local listings for the time and channel nearest you.


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National Louis University commemorated Veterans Day 2012 with a series of events, culminating with the dedication and ribbon-cutting of its new Veterans Lounge at the Chicago campus.
|Presentation of colors and singing of the U.S. National Anthem during National Louis University's 2012 Veterans Day event.
Staff Sergeant Paul Millbrandt, Bachelor of Science in Management student and a veteran of action in Operation Enduring Freedom, spoke about his role as the president of the newly formed Student Veterans Association at NLU.
Staff Sergeant Tammy Burton, Doctor of Community Psychology candidate, spoke on the critical needs facing veterans returning from conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
(Left to right) NLU Director of Armed Service Relations John Dill, Student Veterans Association (SVA) Vice President Jacob Edwards, SVA Secretary Shawna Yost, and SVA President Paul Millbrandt cut the ribbon for the new NLU Veterans Lounge.
|The Veterans Lounge is the first major piece of infrastructure built as part of NLU's Education to Employment (E2) Veterans Initiative, funded by a grant received from the McCormick Foundation in January 2012.
|Shawna Yost, NLU student and secretary of the Student Veterans Association, spoke of NLU's participation in the National Roll Call and led the moment of silence that was observed nation-wide at 1 p.m. CST.


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- Two main compartments with zippers (they have smaller pockets inside),
- Two small pockets with zippers,
- One pocket with Velcro on backpack's back.
The backpack is very solid. It is equipped with laser-cut modular system that facilitate pinning of any additional equipment. Back and shoulder straps have sponge inside while the hip belt and shoulder straps are adjustable. It is possible to compress the backpack using side pullers.
Please note, the backpack at real has slightly darker color than visible on the photos.


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Cook Islands has just become the latest member of the International Kiteboarding Association. This represents the first official expansion into Oceania after the inclusion of the Australian Championships earlier this year.
"We are honored and excited to be a part of IKA. We believe that the knowledge and spirits of our ancestors will guide us into the future.", Teanaroa Paka Worthington, President of Cook Island Kiteboarding stated.
Markus Schwendtner, IKA Executive Secretary added that: "... we are looking forward to include the experience and ideas of this part of the world now as well to the international development of the sport".
Cook Islands Kiteboarding Association is expected to add valuable experience to the various IKA committees as well as giving input from the kiteboarding scene in Oceania.


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Apple was granted a patent last week that will allow institutions or agencies to prevent wireless devices from working or shutting them off completely.
The U.S. Patent No. 8,254,902, also known as "Apparatus and methods for enforcement of policies upon a wireless device," was granted Aug. 28. From the patent office:
In this manner, various aspects of device functionality may be enabled or restricted (device "policies"). This policy enforcement capability is useful for a variety of reasons, including for example to disable noise and/or light emanating from wireless devices (such as at a movie theater), for preventing wireless devices from communicating with other wireless devices (such as in academic settings), and for forcing certain electronic devices to enter "sleep mode" when entering a sensitive area.
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While phones not being used in theaters might be a relief, the patent could also be used for oppressing free speech or the right to assemble by shutting down phone use, according to ZDNet. If this had been used in the Arab Spring, few images or videos would have made it out.
Apple also suggests in the patent document that etiquette seems to have flown out of the window with smartphones -- with users callously using them at church, weddings and funerals. Sometimes etiquette must be enforced.
Our favorite was also the suggestion of shutting down smartphones in locker rooms, changing rooms and bathrooms, where there is a "significant threat to privacy." While this could be the tool of Big Brother, we realize that there are several places where this no-use zone could be practical and even embraced.


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Could Prisons Soon Be Guarded by Robots?
South Korea is hoping to become the first country to hire robots to help guard their prison populations. The nation's Ministry of Justice rolled out its plan to implement the robotic guards starting next March at a prison in Pohang.
The robots, developed by scientists at Kyonggi University, are designed to monitor prison settings and conditions and alert human guards to potential threats or escapes. The robots will not be able to enforce order or threaten inmates with physical action if an incident should occur. Prof. Lee Baik-chul insisted these robots "are not terminators" and aren't designed to completely replace human prison guards, only to help them with their jobs and make their work loads less stressful. If they were terminators, this would sound incredibly similar to an awful Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, and don't give that guy any ideas, since he is currently out of work.
The robots will also help inmates contact guards quicker in case of an emergency like a fight, a stabbing, if another prisoner is digging a tunnel behind a poster in their cell or if an inmate is trying to get to third base without asking.
[Via WSJ Asia]