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Saturday, I finished writing my "genealogical" schedule for March, and I posted the frist part for you to read. Now is the second part, and maybe you will be able to join me in some of the events I will attend or read some of the happenings that I will write about.
March 21st - The Beginners Course in Genealogy — held at the Library and Archives Canada and sponsored by BIFHSGO and the Ottawa Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society (OGS) — will be held from 9:00 a.m. until noon. There are four great speakers -
- John D. Reid (of Anglo-Celtic Connections fame) will talk about the Seven Great Rules
- Glen Wright will talk about Census Records
- Allison Hare will talk about Civil Registrations
- Terry Findley will talk about Local Resources
Afterwards, I plan to go to Lansdowne Park to the Green Conference and do a couple of interviews for magazine articles.
March 27th - The opening night of this year's Gene-O-Rama!
Registration will open at 7:00 p.m., and the official opening will take place at 7:30. Like last year, it will be held at Ben Franklin Place in Nepean.
The speaker at the Pat Horan Memorial Lecture will be Dr. Bruce Curtis, and he will talk about "Locating, Identifying, Knowing: Census Making in Canada to 1871".
March 28th - The second day of Gene-O-Rama, with nine lectures, a banquet, a marketplace, and genealogy computing. Phew!
It sounds like a lot of thing to go to, but Mike More, the Chairperson, has everything under control, and it should go off without a hitch.
I plan to attend a lecture on "The Canadian Genealogy Centre in 2009"; "Getting the Most from City Directories and Their Next of Kin"; and "Cold Cases: Hot Tips".
March 31st - I will send in another article to GenealogyToday.com for my column, "Canadian Connections". I hope you will drop by for a visit, and read some of my past articles.


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Tuesday, April 7, 2009
It's snowing.
No, for real. Don't.
Okay, fine... but just for a second. I have a lot of work to do.
Last night, Andrew tried to put toilet water in my glass of water on the night stand.
Then we had a fight.
Then I fell asleep and we woke up friends.
I think we are a strange pair. But it works.
P.S. Snow is dumb and for babies*
*Shout out, @sarah2kforever
19 comments:
- Lily said...
You're freaking adorable, you realize that right? And yes, snow in April is TOTALLY dumb.
- April 7, 2009 at 9:45 AM
- Freckles said...
I hate this damn cold weather. Can we get some Spring up in here already? For reals.
- April 7, 2009 at 9:46 AM
- **Liz** said...
ahhh I needed this post!
- April 7, 2009 at 9:52 AM
- Andrew said...
That wasn't a fight. You drank my poop, and I fell asleep.
- April 7, 2009 at 9:53 AM
- ria said...
i don't want to talk about the snow...ever! especially in april. summer is never coming...EVER!
- April 7, 2009 at 9:58 AM
- Sh. said...
Um, I'm slightly concerned about the toilet water...but it completely cracked me up when I read it!!
- April 7, 2009 at 10:03 AM
- Lexilooo said...
I wish there had been more snow here in DC this year! Everyone else seemed to get loads except for us. Boooo!
- April 7, 2009 at 10:25 AM
- Jamie said...
Blah, we had snow on Sunday. The day I came back from sunny Florida.
I'm taking it as a personal slap in the face.
- April 7, 2009 at 10:31 AM
- Lauren said...
I'll take the snow off your hands. You can just ship it to me, right?
- April 7, 2009 at 10:48 AM
- Hillary said...
ok but did you drink the toilet water?
mullets and monocles forever, baby!
- April 7, 2009 at 12:09 PM
Toilet water?
Okay. I did laugh. Sorry.
- April 7, 2009 at 1:52 PM
- Katelin said...
oh man you should come to california, it's 75 again! but then again it is supposed to rain tomorrow, but still, it's not snow :)
- April 7, 2009 at 3:51 PM
- Pretty Unfamous said...
Believe me, I'm just as mad about the snow as you, and all other Pittsburghers, are.
- April 7, 2009 at 6:28 PM
- Maxie said...
fuck snow.
- April 7, 2009 at 6:46 PM
- alexa @clevelandsaplum said...
that's all.
- April 7, 2009 at 9:02 PM
- .jimaie.marie. said...
LMAO!! you guys are hilarious, this post made me grin!
i can't believe it's snowing there...i'm sorry?
- April 7, 2009 at 10:18 PM
- michelle woo said...
What the.
That is all.
(you guys are cute)
- April 8, 2009 at 2:59 AM
I laughed at work.
Oh geez...the 'ol toilet water in the glass on the nightstand trick.
- April 8, 2009 at 1:57 PM
- sarah marie p said...
You guys are so hilarious/adorable! Let's go on a double date. At the food court! NOW!
p.s. We are totally music soul mates!
- April 13, 2009 at 1:56 AM

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Regular dental visits aren't just good for your mouth — they could be helping you decrease your risk for diabetes.
A new study in the Journal of Public Health Dentistry has linked periodontal infections with an increased risk for diabetes.
The study, led by Sheila Strauss, Ph.D., co-director of the Statistics and Management Core at New York University's Colleges of Dentistry and Nursing, examined the data of 2,923 non-diabetic adults who participated in the 2003-04 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
By using guidelines from the American Diabetes Association, the researchers determined that 93 percent of the subjects with periodontal disease were considered high risk for diabetes and should be screened for the disease, compared to the 63 percent without periodontal disease.
The study also examined how many times the patients with periodontal disease and a risk for diabetes visited a dentist and found that 60 percent reported a visit in the past two years, 50 percent in the past year and 33 percent in the past six months.
The American Diabetes Association reports that 5.7 million Americans with diabetes went undiagnosed in 2007. By adding dentists to the list of health care providers involved in early screenings, more people can receive crucial early treatment.
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TomTom today announced that it will enter the Singapore market with dedicated Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs). TomTom is proud to be expanding our local market presence after the release of the TomTom app for iPhone in August 2009.
TomTom products are developed with an emphasis on innovation, quality, ease of use, safety and value. Over 45 million people use TomTom solutions every day, in the form of PNDs, in-dash car systems or tracking and tracing solutions for fleet management. In addition, hundreds of millions of people use TomTom's digital maps (developed by our Tele Atlas division) on the internet or mobile phones.
"We are very excited to bring our award-winning navigation solutions to Singaporean drivers," said Chris Kearney, TomTom's Vice President Marketing, Asia Pacific. "We are confident Singaporean drivers will embrace the ease of use, safety features and quality navigation experience of TomTom PNDs."
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Talk about jeopardy — longtime game show host Alex Trebek arrived at a California event on crutches yesterday and revealed that he was hurt while in pursuit of a burglar at a San Francisco hotel.
TMZ reports that the 71-year-old icon hurt his Achilles tendon while chasing down robber Lucinda Moyers, 56, who had nabbed a bracelet and some cash from Trebek's room. Moyers was later arrested and Trebek is now arguably the most bada** syndicated game show host (step aside, Sajak).
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Rodney G. Stieff, former chairman of the board and CEO of Kirk-Stieff Co., which was the oldest silversmith firm in the country, died Tuesday of kidney cancer at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson.
The former longtime Orchards resident was 87.
"He was a very good businessman, and he helped from the standpoint of the financial end," said a brother, Charles C. Stieff II, former executive vice president of the company, who was in charge of its wholesale division.
"And he really knew our business, especially from the engineering and manufacturing end. I was in the selling end of it," said Mr. Stieff, who lives in Cockeysville.
Born in Baltimore, the son of Gideon Numsen Stieff and Claire von Marees, Rodney Gilbert Stieff was raised on Ridgewood Road in Roland Park.
After graduating from McDonogh School in 1943, Mr. Stieff entered the Navy's V-12 program at Princeton University, where he was commissioned an ensign.
He was a 1945 graduate of Cornell University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. At Cornell, he was also been captain of the varsity lacrosse and wrestling teams.
In 1946, he joined Stieff Co. as treasurer of the Baltimore silver and pewter manufacturing company that had been founded by his grandfather, Charles C. Stieff, in 1892.
While retaining his position as treasurer, Mr. Stieff was promoted in 1953 to manager of the company's Wyman Park Drive plant in Hampden, with its iconic 1920s-era outdoor electric sign overlooking the Jones Falls Expressway.
In 1971 he became president and chairman of the company's board, and eight years later, was named chairman of the board and CEO of the Stieff Co.
"He ran the business after our father passed away, and he did a good job while there," said another brother, Gideon N. Stieff Jr. of Roland Park, who oversaw the company's retail division. "He was involved in everything."
During Mr. Stieff's tenure, he entered into a relationship in 1973 with the Smithsonian Institution to begin production of silver and pewter products bearing the Smithsonian name.
In 1979, Mr. Stieff made an historic acquisition when his company purchased Samuel Kirk & Sons, which had been founded in Baltimore in 1815.
At the time the two firms merged, newlyweds were less interested in the sterling silver flatware that had been so venerated by their parents and a staple of the company's business for years. So they turned to making additional products and developing new markets.
For years, Kirk-Stieff had produced a replica for the winner of the Preakness Stakes of the famed Woodlawn Vase, which is part of the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art and had originally been made in 1860 by Tiffany & Co.
Since 1950, the company had been producing pewter gifts and products for Colonial Williamsburg and added Historic Charleston in South Carolina, the Monticello Foundation in Virginia, and Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts.
"He handled the merger with Kirk, which had been our major competitor," said Charles C. Stieff II. "But one of the conditions of the merger was that Kirk had to be first in the name."
Mr. Stieff ascribes his brother's success in business to his "outgoing and friendly" demeanor in addition to his technical abilities.
After the merger, Mr. Stieff was CEO of the Kirk-Stieff Co., and in 1986 was named CEO of chairman of the board.
In 1990, the company, whose stock was privately held, was sold to Lenox Inc., a unit of the Louisville, Ky.-based Brown-Forman Corp. Mr. Stieff remained as a consultant and director.
He retired later that year.
Lenox Inc. announced in 1998 that its parent company was closing the company's landmark Hampden plant and consolidating operations at its Smithfield, R.I., facility.
Mr. Stieff's directorships and board memberships were numerous, including The Savings Bank of Baltimore, RES Investment Corp., Baltimore Bancorp, Maryland Casualty Co., Vermont Federal Savings & Loan Association and the Waverly Press.
He had also been a trustee of McDonogh School and St. Paul's School for Girls.
Since the 1930s, Mr. Stieff enjoyed spending summers in Weekapaug, R.I., where he was an avid sailor and raced Hereschoff-class boats. He also sailed in the Chesapeake Bay and Maine waters.
Mr. Stieff, who had lived at Blakehurst since 2003, also enjoyed playing tennis. He was a member of the Baltimore Country Club, Elkridge Club, Gibson Island Club, Annapolis Yacht Club, Weekapaug Yacht club and the Watch Hill Yacht Club.
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Mr. Stieff was a communicant of the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, 5603 N. Charles St., where a memorial service will be held 11 a.m. Nov. 24.
In addition to his two brothers, surviving are his wife of 64 years, the former Dorothea Denison Stedman; four daughters, Dorothea Keeney Stieff of Roland Park, Laura S. Kelly of Owings Mills, Claire Dohme Stieff of Portsmouth, R.I., and Robin S. Knisley of Wakefield, R.I.; and eight grandchildren.
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"Get well soon," my granddaughter says as she's ushered out of my hospital room by my daughter-in-law.
I won't be getting better soon, but nobody has the heart to tell her. I am dying of brain cancer. I haven't been out of my bed in three months. The doctor won't give me any direct information, but I know what my outlook is if they've placed me in Hospice. That's where you go to die comfortably.
The IV in my arm is running low. A nurse should be here soon to replenish it. It's one of the few things I have left to look forward to. My family barely visits anymore; the hospital is a two-hour drive from home.
I understand though. It's hard to watch your father die slowly of something no one can control. I'm not scared though, I have my next life to look forward to.
The constant beeping of my heart rate monitor is slowly driving me crazy. Sometimes, I wish it would just end already, but I'm not sure if I'm ready to die just yet. I've been in and out of this hospital for a long time now.
Last summer, I broke my hip. I've been confined to a wheelchair ever since. Losing your mobility after having it for almost seventy years is a terrifying thing.
I can hear the Doctor talking outside of my room. Another man down the hall has just died, and his family can't afford to fly him to their hometown for the funeral. They're going to stick his body in a freezer until somebody drives up to collect him. I can't stop myself from thinking about my fate. My family lives far away, will the same thing happen to me?
The Doctor looks in my room as I lay here, pretending to be asleep. Maybe I'll learn something about my condition. He eyes a clipboard before sighing. The usually cheerful nurse has a sad look on her face. I know I'm close to dying. They're keeping something from me. Who do they think they are? I have a right to know about whatever is going on with me!
The reality of my situation hits me like a brick wall for the hundredth time today. Now I'm not sure if I want to know how bad I've got it. I don't know if I could handle knowing that I'll die tomorrow.
How will my family react? The last thing I told my daughter was that I never wanted to see her again. That was twenty years ago. I've regretted that every day since; even more so now that I'm on my death bed.
She can't even be bothered to visit me. At least I know she made it in life. She's a lawyer. The day she got accepted to that Ivy-League school was the proudest day of my life. I never got to see her graduate. After all these years, she still won't answer my calls. I shouldn't have let something so simple as a religious argument get in between us.
My son may not have been as successful, but at least he still goes to God's house on Sundays. I'm proud of him for that. He's a mechanic for a big franchise. It's not much, but it's honest work, and it puts bread on his table.
The nurse enters my room, but she won't look me in the eye. I didn't even get a smile today. Normally she greets me with an exaggerated hello, and a big grin. I miss that. I still thought I'd survive back then. I know better than that now.
She wordlessly changes out the bag that my IV is connected to. Normally she'll tell me a little bit about some sort of change in whatever is going into my wrist, but today she just mumbled something before hurrying out of the room.
I wish I had somebody to talk to. My son insists on keeping me all alone, though. Says it would get annoying having to hear somebody ramble on all day. Right now, I just wish I could hear somebody that talks too much. There isn't any topic that would bother me right now, as long as I get to hear somebody.
The Doctor enters my room shortly after the Nurse left. He's got a phony smile on, but something's different. His practiced expression falters for a moment as he checks out another clipboard at the bottom of my bed. He gives me some lie about 'looking better' before leaving the room.
I wonder how many days I have left? It's a sad thing, when you measure the rest of your life in days. Maybe hours for all I know. I don't even know what day it is anymore. I lost track of that a week ago.
I haven't cared enough to ask, not that I could do so very effectively. I haven't been able to speak very well ever since the cancer spread to its more recent boundaries.
A hiccup in my heart rate brings me to better awareness. It happens every now and then, but its been happening more frequently lately. I'll probably go later today, if not tomorrow.
It's probably for the best. I'm nothing but a burden anymore, ever since my medical bills got more expensive than my social security. I wish I'd gotten better life insurance. I don't think I'd get a very good deal if I tried to get a little coverage today.
I wonder if I've been good enough in life to get to Heaven? I've followed the Good Book all of my life, but I'm still not sure. I guess nobody's sure at this point in their life. Will the Lord be merciful of my sins?
Does the Lord even exist?
No! I can't be doubting him now. Not when I'm so close to meeting him. It's just my nerves. I know I'm going to his kingdom soon, and it's normal to be thinking these thoughts. It's all in my head.
The sun is setting now. I reckon I've got about thirty minutes left before I can't see it anymore. I've gotten used to using the shadows to tell time.
There's a clock in here, but the batteries died a while ago. Nobody thinks it's important enough to change them. Judging by the time it gets dark, I would be able to tell what the actual time is, but I don't know what day it is. It was so close to daylight savings time when I lost track, that I don't know if it's seven o' clock, or five.
I can see a plane landing at the airport nearby. I watch them land and take off all day. It's a busy airport; there's usually a bunch of flights every day. It's not often I can look out the window without seeing a plane.
I've never been in a plane before. I wonder what it's like to be that high above the ground? I get a sinking feeling in my chest when I realize that I'll never know.
The pain is back. It starts with a dull ache in my head, but pretty soon it's going to erupt into a crippling sharp pain that renders me near incapable of coherent thought.
I've never felt this kind of pain all of my life, and that's saying something. I've felt a lot of pain; I used to be a diesel mechanic. Dropping one of the heads of a semi's engine on your foot is painful, but it's nothing compared to this.
The Doctor won't give me any more painkillers than are necessary. He says they should still be working when I cry out in pain, and he tells my family that I'm just being dramatic. I hear screaming all around me all day. I know they're all suffering from the same thing. He won't give them any more of the medication either.
The pain is getting worse. I want to pull my hand up to my head and try to rub my temples, but I can't muster the strength to move. I haven't been able to move my hands more than a couple of inches for a few days now.
In about an hour, the pain will get bad enough for me to start screaming. Then I go through that for another hour before they finally give me another dose. It's all routine for me now.
Only a faint glow is left of the Sun as it lowers itself over the city skyline. If only I could see the treeline at my house one more time. I haven't been to my house in ten years. My wife got that in the divorce.
Ever since then, I've been living in a retirement home. At least when I was there, I had somebody to talk to. Those old people always wanted to play some card game, but they were great company when my family wasn't with me.
I get a terrible feeling in my chest before I cough up a mixture of blood and bile. I'll have to wait until the nurse visits me in a little while before that gets cleaned up. I can't even wipe my face anymore.
Maybe the blood is a sign that I'll die soon. I kind of hope so, as bad as that sounds. I know I shouldn't want to die, but it's hard to maintain the will to live, when there's nothing worth living for.
My heart rate monitor is fluctuating constantly now. Maybe that's a good sign. Or a bad sign. However you want to take it.
I can't help but let out a groan as the pain in my head gets worse. Maybe I can muster up the energy to ask for painkillers when the nurse comes to check on my heart rate. I hope so. The pain comes in waves. It's always there, but every few seconds, it grows in intensity for a short while before subsiding to a dull ache that never leaves my attention.
The Doctor and Nurse rush into my room. Maybe my heart rate is worse than I thought. They're both shouting things at each other. I close my eyes and say a quick prayer, hoping they'll stop; hoping that the pain will end this time.
My vision starts to blur as my brain begins to shut down. It's going to happen today. Probably within the next couple of minutes. I wonder if my granddaughter is home yet? I hope they break it to her gently. I've never been able to tell her how much I love her, but she's the greatest thing to happen to me in these last few years of my life.
I can't hear them yelling anymore; my ears are failing me now. I can see their lips moving, but I can't hear anything except the pain. The Doctor is doing all sorts of different things to me that don't really make sense. I guess they probably would if I had any medical knowledge.
I can feel myself scream, but I can't even hear my own last garbled screeching. My vision has almost completely left me. I can only make out basic shapes now. I know that two more nurses have entered the room. It won't help, though. I'm going to die, and only God can stop it.
The pain vanishes as my vision leaves me. I can't see, I can't hear. I'm finally feeling peaceful.
I wonder what Heaven is like?
I ponder that last thought as I slip from life. A wave of panic floods over me as I see what awaits me.
Nothing awaits me. There is no afterlife.
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Russell Tevault is a young thespian and for awhile this 13-year old was getting a little bored. As a face in the former community theater and arts group Whirligigs, Tevault found himself looking to extras and technical roles in select Montezuma-Cortez High School plays to get his stage fix.
Last year, as a seventh-grader Tevault met Autumn Bryce, the Cortez Middle School social studies teacher. They bonded over a love of theater and started to brainstorm ideas.
"We had talked about a drama club and starting one here (CMS)," Tevault explains. "Last year Ms. Bryce went to the principal and asked if we could do it."
The principal said yes and it was time to get their act together.
It didn't happen overnight, but the school was convinced to get the ball rolling. With funds from the 21st Century grant, CMS was able to produce the Jaguar's Dramatic Arts Club or JAG/DAC in the fall of 2012. However, money was still tight and Bryce was struggling to find ways to raise funds. Bryce has been teaching at CMS for two years. She had struck up a friendship with M-CHS theater director Nicholaus Sandner and she helped direct his fall production "Arsenic and Lace."
"Mr. Sandner and I have talked off and on about how to incorporate a drama club into the middle school," Bryce says. "In our conversations he would casually say 'So how's the club going? What do your funds look like?' And we had nothing."
So Sandner kindly donated $200 to Bryce and the CMS drama club.
"That was our foundation. That's where I started building from," she adds.
She used the donation to purchase food for fundraising and the club took off from there. Once everything was running smoothly, Bryce told the administration that the club was ready to do put on a performance. Their first production, "The Masked Musketeer" will be performed on Friday and Saturday Feb. 22-23.
Bryce said 35 kids, from sixth to eighth grade auditioned for the play and most of them have been involved with the production in some way.
"Some did not want to help if they didn't have speaking roles and that's OK," Bryce says. "But the majority are helping with sets, costumes, lighting, anything that needs help with behind the scenes."
Tevault landed the role of Lorenzo, the lead musketeer. When the club officially began, Tevault was excited and anxious. He had made a home with the Whirligigs, friends with the high school director and was now ready to show his peers what the fuss was all about.
"I don't think most kids know what to do in school, like, with activities," Tevault explains. "This club brings kids that don't fit in together. They find new friends, have fun and get to be creative. That was my experience before and I'm glad I got to help bring that to these kids."
Bryce calls Tevault her guinea pig. She says he was the brains behind the operation. His desire is what gave Bryce the incentive to push the idea. She was confident there were others out there just like him. If Bryce could help her actors become more involved and educated about the world of theater, she hoped that would cultivate a larger interest as the students head into Sandner's program.
"These aren't the sports kids here," she says. "We have a few that play football and basketball, but the others had nothing here to participate in."
Bryce and Tevault are hoping to ease the transition into high school by offering CMS students other after-school activities. Tevault has already participated in two high school plays. He was an extra in "Seussical the Musical" in fall 2011 and as a technician in "Arsenic and Lace." The high school puts on a musical every year that is open to middle school students so from here, he plans to audition for the upcoming "Annie." Bryce says Tevault isn't the only one heading in that direction.
"These kids don't mind bouncing from one show to the next," she says. "That's good because they will go into high school with more knowledge and instead of doing basic stuff Mr. Sandner can take them directly to step two and increase the quality of the shows."
Bryce has worked with her students on voice projection, character building, skits and improvisation. She says these exercises are not only good for acting but for building relationships with each other so they are more comfortable.
Tevault has no problem getting comfortable on stage. He found it hard in the beginning for the kids to open up, but now everyone is one "messed up family."
"The funnest thing about being in a play is hanging out with friends and getting ready for the show," Tevault says. "Hopefully after this play, other kids will see how much fun we are having and they'll want to join the club."
Tevault says that when he leaves CMS to tackle the drama department at M-CHS, he will return to help out the JAG/DAC club whenever he can, just like seniors Joshua Martin and Cayden O'Brien. These two high school actors pulled away from their busy schedules to choreograph the fight scenes for "The Masked Musketeer."
Bryce is overjoyed with the support she has received from Sandner and his pupils. She is hoping JAG/DAC can swing a musical in the near future as long as there is interest and commitment. She also wants to direct one spring and one fall production each year the club is successful. For now, the two schools will continue to combine acting force for the sake of theater.


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Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles. Dr. Kloner is a frequent lecturer at major scientific symposia including the Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, and Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics Meetings, and he has lectured at most major academic medical centers in the United States.
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Optimus Prime wrote:I'll ask this here first before taking it to yeti_c. Has anyone else experienced BOB freezing the game on them only when they are taking turns on this map? I've had it happening to me for the last few days now.
The game works great for all other maps, I can deploy, make attacks, etc. However, when this map comes up on my list all of the sudden everything freezes up and the only way I can take my turn is to disable BOB temporarily.
Then when I move to the next game on a different map, BOB works just fine and no freezing occurs. Anyone have any clues? I'm not sure if it is a map problem, or a BOB problem, but I highly doubt it is a problem on my end since it doesn't happen anytime except under the described circumstances.
<name>Russian Sector</name>
<component>Prenzlauer Berg</component>
oaktown wrote:Here's a thought: BoB has always had particular trouble with maps that don't use proper unicode character references for special character. There is a an ampersand (&) in the XML for this map in a territory title...
Ampersands are especially problematic in that they are used to indicate to BoB that an entity reference is coming.
If you replace the "&" with "&" the problem may go away. (Unless I just gave you the wrong code.)
of course, if this is the problem it doesn't make sense that it would work in some games and not in others, but it would be worth fixing to see if the problem goes away.
<border>Western Samoa</border>
sherkaner wrote:I started maintaining BOB, so I looked into this. Looks like BOB can't find the "Sulawesi"-territory as destination for an attack, since it only knows a "Suwalesi"-territory. So it's just a stupid spelling mistake. Just change it into "Sulawesi" (like on the map), and BOB should work again.
I'll change the script so it doesn't hang on this small thing with the next update, but I think it's better if you just update the map.
thenobodies80 wrote:Ok, the sulawesi-suwalesi problem was fixed:
Here the updated files:
Large Version: http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/3/21/2373685/oceania.L.jpg.jpg
Small Version: http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/3/21/2373685/oceania.S.jpg.jpg
Xml: http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/3/21/2373685/oceania.xml
xml is valid. see test results.
Test results:
Summary: 0 errors and 0 warnings detected in oceania.xml (7 continents, 44 territories)
Continents Summary
Australia [6] East Indies [3] Kiribati [2] Melanesia [4] Micronesia [4] New Zealand [2] Polynesia [6]
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Australia (6) | 10 |
Lord Howe Island ==> New South Wales
New South Wales ==> Canterbury Lord Howe Island Northland Queensland South Australia Victoria
Norfolk Island ==> Fiji Northland Queensland
Northern Territory ==> Queensland South Australia Timor Leste Western Australia
Queensland ==> New South Wales Norfolk Island Northern Territory Papua New Guinea South Australia Whitsunday Islands
South Australia ==> New South Wales Northern Territory Queensland Tasmania Victoria Western Australia
Tasmania ==> South Australia Victoria
Victoria ==> New South Wales South Australia Tasmania
Western Australia ==> Northern Territory South Australia
Whitsunday Islands ==> Queensland
East Indies (3) | 5 |
Flores ==> Timor Leste
Maluku ==> Palau Sulawesi Timor Leste West Papua
Sulawesi ==> Maluku Timor Leste
Timor Leste ==> Flores Maluku Northern Territory Sulawesi
West Papua ==> Maluku Papua New Guinea
Kiribati (2) | 4 |
Canton Island ==> Kiritimati Line Islands Tarawa
Kiritimati ==> Canton Island
Line Islands ==> Canton Island Cook Islands Tahiti
Tarawa ==> Canton Island Marshall Islands Tuvalu
Melanesia (4) | 5 |
Fiji ==> Norfolk Island Tonga Vanuatu Wallis&Futuna
New Caledonia ==> Vanuatu
Papua New Guinea ==> Caroline Islands Queensland Solomon Islands West Papua
Solomon Islands ==> Nauru Papua New Guinea Vanuatu
Vanuatu ==> Fiji New Caledonia Solomon Islands
Micronesia (4) | 6 |
Caroline Islands ==> Guam Marshall Islands Nauru Palau Papua New Guinea
Guam ==> Caroline Islands Marshall Islands Palau Saipan
Marshall Islands ==> Caroline Islands Guam Nauru Tarawa
Nauru ==> Caroline Islands Marshall Islands Solomon Islands
Palau ==> Caroline Islands Guam Maluku
Saipan ==> Guam
New Zealand (2) | 5 |
Canterbury ==> Chatham Islands New South Wales Northland Southland Wellington
Chatham Islands ==> Canterbury Wellington
Northland ==> Canterbury New South Wales Norfolk Island Tonga Wellington
Southland ==> Canterbury
Wellington ==> Canterbury Chatham Islands Northland
Polynesia (6) | 9 |
American Samoa ==> Cook Islands Tonga Western Samoa
Cook Islands ==> American Samoa Line Islands Tahiti
Marquesas Islands ==> Tahiti
Tahiti ==> Cook Islands Line Islands Marquesas Islands
Tokelau ==> Western Samoa
Tonga ==> American Samoa Fiji Northland Western Samoa
Tuvalu ==> Tarawa Wallis&Futuna
Wallis&Futuna ==> Fiji Tuvalu Western Samoa
Western Samoa ==> American Samoa Tokelau Tonga Wallis&Futuna
sherkaner wrote:Ok, to be more precise: BOB gets its country data from the XML from a certain link (in this case http://maps.conquerclub.com/Oceania.xml If you click the link, you should see it). That XML is correct, but still says Suwalesi in stead of Sulawesi, probably the old version.
In the dropdowns, it says Sulawesi. So something was updated, but the xml BOB uses wasn't. This is what breaks BOB, it can't find the country Sulawesi (it only has Suwalesi from the xml).
So I guess Lack had to do 2 things to update the XML correctly, and forgot about one of them (updating the public XML).
I'll try to PM him.
sherkaner wrote:Ok, to be more precise: BOB gets its country data from the XML from a certain link (in this case http://maps.conquerclub.com/Oceania.xml If you click the link, you should see it).
lackattack wrote:other xmls like Rail_Europe use & without any problem:
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I found your article interesting and informative. Like you, although not as extensively, I listened to some of services you discussed with varying results and found that MOG was the better choice. I've been a MOG subscriber for three months now and have enjoyed the user experience as well as the CD-quality sound.
Your choice is spot-on.


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This is the first video and blog post specifically about Family Tree Maker for the Mac version 3.
I had the previous versions of Family Tree Maker for the Mac on my Mac laptop. I have been using it and have demonstrated it. I also wanted to know what the difference was between the PC version and the Mac version.
I had FTMM-2 on the Mac and a couple of working files, including several test files to use the TreeSync™ feature in FTMM-2.
I now have FTMM-3 installed and at the end of the installation FTMM-3 found my existing FTMM-2 file.
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Earthquake overview : A strong earthquake occurred at a shallow depth of 4 to 10 km, depending on the source, in Tajikistan. The local time of occurrence was 04:28.
Tell us when you think you have felt this earthquake.
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Update 15/05 - 07:43 UTC :
- The landslide blocking the important road from the capital to the east of the country, has been cleared from debris. Service personnel from the government did the job together with the local people. 114 families were totally cut off of the outside world (they had no communication neither) during a number of days.
- The local press now talks about 2 fatalities. 1 person was crashed by a collapsing wall and a second person who perished because of a heart attack directly resulting from the earthquake.
- The region is still being hampered by aftershocks.
- Seismologists in Tajikistan have said that Tajikistan has an average of 3000 earthquakes per year, the great majority of them unnoticed by people.
Update 14/05 - 23:05 UTC :
- The important road which connects the central part of the country with the Eastern earthquake damaged part has been destroyed by a landslide over a distance of 150 meter. Experts and service personnel are working to make the road passable again. The height of the landslide debris covering the road ranges from 4 to 6 meter!
- The BBC Russian news reporting 3 killed people has not been confirmed by any other news source so far. Local and well informed Russian press is speaking about 1 killed person (also reported by us in the beginning).
- Sources close to the government have a new estimate of people made homeless : 6000!
- Tents have been send and pitched in some areas. Other areas could not be reached yet, making a clear picture of the earthquake devastation very incomplete
Important Update 10:00 UTC : 3 people have been killed.
Aftershocks are still occurring. Dozens have been injured and 2000 homeless have occurred.
The road connecting the Rasht Valley to the center of the country in several places has been blocked by landslides and rockfalls, hampering rescue work and complicating the delivery of humanitarian aid to affected areas.
Clearing the road will require heavy machinery. There are also no telephone services to the disaster area.
According to local authorities, the victims are in urgent need of medical and humanitarian aid.
The earthquake occurred at 04:30 local time. The epicenter of the shock was located at 152 kilometers southeast of Dushanbe, in the mountain region of Garm. According to the geophysical services, strong tremors were felt throughout the eastern region of the country.
Thousands of people are afraid to return home and try to stay on the street. People who have become homeless overnight, will spend the night in mosques, schools and homes of relatives. According to the deputy chairman of the Tavildara district, the earthquake left homeless villagers in need of tents, food and warm things.
The situation is complicated by the persistence of heavy rainfall and an incomplete damage picture.
Experts estimate the condition of many dwellings in the place of disaster and emergency as unfit for habitation.
"Looks like a blast"
"My family has remained practically on the street. My child was injured. People here are poor and cannot rebuild their homes. This is a tragedy. We spend the night on the street," - said another local resident of Shokirjon.
The Garm group of districts is one of the poorest regions of the country with the highest percentage of unemployment in Tajikistan. Because of the distance from the center of Tajikistan and the lack of basic foodstuffs and essential commodities the cost is two times higher than in other regions of Tajikistan.
ER Remark : contrary to what is mentioned in this report, the current weather is OK. The heavy rainfall with floods as a consequence was from a couple of days ago.
Important Update 09:30 UTC : The Committee of Emergency Situations and Civil Defense of Tajikistan, by means of Mr. Nurov Nargis, has reported that 1 person, Mr. Tandovchi Jamoat, has been killed when a wall collapsed.
- The same agency reports that several houses have collapsed by the 7 intensity quake (epicenter).
- A landslide has further destroyed 2 houses and their ancillary buildings in the village of Kalai Surkh Jamoat Langaral Rasht. (source News.tj)
We will certainly receive more reports later today as this is an intermediate report.
Video : The "tripadvisor video" (in fact a series of pictures) below gives a better idea of the road which is mentioned in the above updates and 1 image of a village in the Tavildara district, the location of the epicenter. Sorry for the pictures from the snow leopard, but we cannot cut parts out of this video as we want to respect the copyright of the owner. The pictures are showing a rug landscape. The only villages shown at the end is build against the mountain slope. You will not need a lot of imagination to be convinced that a landslide can make huge damage.
Update 07:50 UTC : While trying to find news from within Tajikistan, we could read that the Prime Minister has been visiting Kulob in the South of the country, where a couple of days ago, floods have destroyed a lot of houses, a lot of damage, but no fatalities. Kulob is a city in the South-West of the country. The earthquake's epicenter in the South-East. A lot of rain in combination with earthquake shaking is a dangerous cocktail. The current weather in the area is fine. temperatures from 9 (min.) to 22 (Max.).
Update 07:21 UTC : It is currently 12:21 in Tajikistan. We are confident that eventual serious damage news may have reached the capital of Dushanbe in the meantime. As the proverb says : no news = good news. Let us hope that the proverb is true.
Update 07:19 UTC : Kyrgyzstan seismological sources are reporting that the intensity of the earthquake in the epicenter area was felt as 7.5 (on a scale of 0 to 12 - the scale is more or less similar than MMI). At the Kyrgyzstan side of the border intensity was 3.5.
Update 07:00 UTC : So far we could not retrieve any added value info from inside Tajikistan. We haven't found any damage or injuries which is a very good sign. Most reports are mentioning 1/10th of our report and are writing about a "moderate earthquake". Specialized earthquake followers know that a shallow M5.7 earthquake from Turkey to China is in average not a "moderate " earthquake but can be very dangerous . In terms of Earthquake-Report.com, we are only convinced of the happy ending when we read direct news from de epicenter or from specialized emergency personnel. We call upon our Tajik readers to share their information with the ER readers.
Update 01:22 UTC : Historic earthquakes in Tajikistan.
37 damaging earthquakes have been recorded so far within 100km of the present epicenter.
- 1934 and 1935 - damaging quakes quite close - about 20km away with damage in Tajikistan, province of Tovildera.
- 1949 - the magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck around 40km away in Khait, killing around 12000 people (7200-28000), nearly all due to landslides.
- 1983 - saw lots of damage in the Garm region from a M5.3 quake.
- In 2007, about 20km away 12 people were killed from a M5.2 quake - Three people killed in the Rasht region and nine killed in a related landslide in the Asht region. Felt at Dushanbe.
(CATDAT James Daniell information).
Update 01:02 UTC : The epicenter area has an altitude of 2000 meters. The mountains in the greater area are more than 4000 meter high? We have printed a picture of the important valley where also the M 41 highway passes. The picture shows the kind of terrain where the earthquake occurred.
Update 00:19 UTC : WAPMERR, the theoretical earthquake damage calculation engine just reported that they are expecting 200 to 900 people to be injured and 30 to 200 fatalities. The WAPMERR data are based on historical earthquakes in the area and on the reported USGS data (M5.7 at a depth of 10 km).
WAPMERR refers to 8000 people experiencing a MMI VIII severe shaking, 5000 people a very strong shaking, 15000 people a strong shaking and 135000 people a moderate MMI V shaking.
Update 00:19 UTC : We do not expect to find a lot of news before 10 AM local time (about 5 hours from now) because of the remote mountainous area.
Update 00:19 UTC : EMSC has further decreased the Magnitude from Mb6.0 to Mb5.7, a whole lot of difference. EMSC keeps his focal depth at 4 km which is extremely shallow. Because of the depth parameter, we maintain our opinion and continue to call this earthquake dangerous.
Update 00:12 UTC :
Less than 1000 people are living in a radius of 5 km from the epicenter
4,200 people are living within a radius if 10 km
11,000 people within a radius of 20 km.
Earthquake-Report.com calls a radius of 20 km at high risk for at least minor damage or minor injuries
Update 00:08 UTC : The nearest populated places are: Kalay-Khodzha (16km), Talbar (7km), Yezgan (7km), Tavildara (13km), Chil-Dara (17km). The closest civilian airport is Darwaz (46km).
Update 23:59 UTC : Based on the current data, Earthquake-Report.com calls this earthquake "dangerous" for the villages in the immediate vicinity of the epicenter. Especially the building style is very vulnerable. An increasing danger factor is the fact that the earthquake occurred in the middle of the Tajik night!
Update 23:56 UTC : Following our own research Tavildara, a village with approx. 500 inhabitants is at a distance of 10 km from the epicenter. Ezgand another village is also very close to the epicenter
Update 23:56 UTC : EMSC has changed depth again to 4 km (extremely shallow)
Update 23:50 UTC : EMSC has decreased the Magnitude to Mb6.0 at the new depth of 40 km. Data from USGS and EMSC are too different to be convincing.
Update 23:48 UTC : USGS reports a far lower Magnitude of 5.7 but at a depth of only 10 km.
Update 23:46 UTC : the epicenter seems to be located in the middle of the mountains apparently with very few villages. We will search for more details.
An ER reader in Dushanbe (147 km from the epicenter) reported a moderate shaking.
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UTC Time : 23:28:46.0 UTC
Local time at epicenter : local time 04:28
Depth (Hypocenter) :
30 km 4 km (EMSC)
Geo-location(s) :
55 km NE Leningradskiy (pop 11,955)
147 km E Dushanbe (pop 543,107)
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baa43003 wrote:Raccoon tracks are very distinct because they favor a pace gait pattern; the left hind foot lands directly next to the right front foot and the right hind foot lands next to the left front. See photo below. So even if there are no track details, you can identify raccoon tracks just by the pattern. In my photo, you can see a snow ridge would eventually be created if this coon traveled the same path over and over. I don't see any reason why this wouldn't happen in dirt also.
baa43003 wrote:In the runs you saw, can you see why the coons are traveling in those particalr areas (along a water source, a narrow passage, do they lead to a resting area, etc.)? If you think this description fits your observations, we'll discuss why the top of the ridge is textured. I have theories for that, too.
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Hi Everyone!
I just wanted to provide you with an overview of our most recent Genealogy Program that was held at the Schaumburg Township District Library on Tuesday evening, April 13, 2010.
We had a "full house" gathering of 73 highly motivated genealogy researchers who were just ready to learn some new resources and techniques to help them in their own research efforts. this has been one of our highest levels of genealogy program attendance!
Our guest speaker for the evening was Teresa Steinkamp McMillin.
Teresa presented a program titled "So You've Found Your German Town of Origin … Now What?"
Our program was attended by about 10 new participants. I invited each new participant to introduce themselves to the group and to give us an idea of how new to genealogy they are and to provide us with a few surnames they are researching. Each new participant was provided an introductory folder of "beginning" material to help them start their "genealogy research engines". The number of new participants was also one of the highest we have had attending our program.
I followed the introductions of new participants with a quick review of the "handouts" of genealogical materials that I thought were important to note and to share. These "handouts" are the new electronic ones that are in the form of a PDF file available from our library's genealogy blog. I made note to the audience of some of the upcoming genealogy programs offered by other societies and groups that are local to the area. Attending programs such as our library program and these other programs can advance the research knowledge of any genealogical researcher. Anyone can look at or download this material from our blog. You do not have to be a Schaumburg Township District Library registered member in order to view the material. I like to expand my own thoughts in these handout write-ups to give you an idea as to why I think a particular one may be of value to the researcher.
After I reviewed the handouts, I turned my attention to briefly review items in the Schaumburg Township District Library Genealogy Newsletter. I will generally provide information in the Newsletter about recent periodicals that we received that focus on genealogy. I will also provide some summary material on any new genealogical books we may have added to our collection.
The periodical reviews include a listing of the articles in the issue, the author of the article, a small description of the article content if provided by the magazine. I generally provide an overview of at least two articles that caught my interest that I believe would be of interest to our participants.
The Newsletter is also available to anyone to look at or download from our library's genealogy blog.
Teresa started her presentation at around 8:10 PM.
It is ironic, sad and not uncommon that many genealogical researchers may actually not discover the town of origin of their ancestors. So if you happen to discover this piece of history in your research consider yourself lucky! Cherish this piece of information knowing that it can help you connect the bridge from the United States to whatever point of origin you discover.
Teresa had an outstanding PowerPoint presentation to share with us to show us what you can do if you have discovered your ancestor's German town of origin.
- 1. Find the town on a map or a gazetteer. One good German oriented resource is the Meyer's Orts and Verkehrs Lexicon des Deutschen Reichs. This resource is commonly referred to as Meyer's. Also consider using an online resource such as Shtetlseeker at www.jewishgen.org/communities/loctown.asp or Kartenmeister at www.kartenmeister.com.
- 2. What if you can't find the town on any map? The reasons for not finding it might be that the transcription of the original document was faulty, the town name may have been written in German script, it may have been documented by an English-speaking person not familiar with the details of the German language, or it might have been translated from another language such as Polish. In any case, if you are having problems at this stage, go back to look at the original document for a review.
- If you are successful finding the town on a map then try to get the records you seek. Knowing the history of the country and the town as for political divisions is important to know. Civil records are generally kept by the governmental jurisdictions. Knowing these jurisdictions is important, but knowing the jurisdictions in the historical time period of your ancestors is even more important. Consider using the Family History Catalog to see if microfilms exist for the village of your ancestors. It is important to look in the /Family History Library catalog for the town associated with level of jurisdiction for the village that you research. So for example, with a village called Kreyenborg, you would want to look at Kreyenborg, as well as Meppen, Bokeloh, Lingen and Osnabruck which are other levels of jurisdiction that pertain to Kreyenborg. There may be many categories of film types that you can order. There may be church records or civil records or any other type of category in the possession of the Family History Library. Become familiar with German word terms by accessing the Resource Aids of the Family History Library online for German researchers. These can be Word Guides to help you understand key German words you may encounter on the films you review. You may be lucky to find indexes on the films. You may be unlucky and find you have to look image by image through an entire film for a town. Be prepared for ANYTHING! Some of the data on the film may be easy to read in columnar format. Some of the data may be written as long paragraphs. Use the aid to help you interpret what is on the film and how best to interpret what may certainly be a foreign language or foreign format.
- Look on the internet for your German town. It is amazing how many towns themselves have an internet presence. Just try using a generic URL web address of www.<townname>.de. Look for any online German telephone books in which you might be able to look for a surname, one that is hopefully not too common. Try accessing www.dastelefonbuch.de to find German phone numbers. If you find some names, consider writing a letter.
- Good luck and enjoy your search for and in German records! Your research skills will improve as you search more. You will begin to know what you are looking for with the help of the Family History Library online aids.
- Dr. E. Uetrecht. Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs- Lexikon des Deutschen Reichs [Meyer's Directory of Places and Commerce in the German Empire]. 1912. Reprint, Genealogical Publishing Co., 2000. Gazetteer showing places of the 1871 German Empire and their governmental jurisdictions. The Family History Library's [FHL] cataloging of German places is largely based on this gazetteer. Written in German and gothic print.
- Gemeindelexikon für das Königreich Preussen [Gazetteer for the Kingdom of Prussia]. Berlin: Verlag des Königlichen statistischen Landesamts. 1907-1909. This gazetteer consists of 14 volumes (one for each pre-1919 Prussian Province). Among other things, it helps to identify to what Catholic and/or Lutheran parish a town belonged. Written in German and gothic print. Available at on microfilm through FHL and on indefinite loan at the Wilmette Family History Center [WFHC], Wilmette, Illinois
- Ernest Thode. German-English Genealogical Dictionary. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1992. This book is a must have for reading German records. Also contains Latin, some French and other languages found in German-speaking lands.
- Edna M. Bentz. If I Can, You Can Decipher Germanic Records. San Diego, California: Tamara J. Bentz, 2005. This book has many examples of words written in script, variations of letters in script, lists of occupations and illnesses.
- German Research Outline can be found at the Family Search Web site at http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/RG/images/34061_Germany05.pdf
- German Genealogical Word List can be found at the Family Search Web site at http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/RG/frameset_rg.asp?Dest=G1&Aid=&Gid=&Lid=&Sid=&Did=&Juris1=&Event=&Year=&Gloss=&Sub=&Tab=&Entry=&Guide=WLGerman.ASP
We ended our program at around 9:30 PM. Teresa stayed for a while answering questions of those that were present.
Her presentation was great! She really knows her German research methodology!
Thank you Teresa for the great presentation job!
We hope those in attendance left knowing a lot more of what is needed to further their Germanic genealogy research.
Tony Kierna
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ANAHEIM (AP) — Brad Miller hit two homers, Erasmo Ramirez pitched seven innings of six-hit ball, and the Seattle Mariners beat the Los Angeles Angels 8-3 Tuesday night for their second win of the season.
Justin Smoak hit a three-run double, while Abraham Almonte and Dustin Ackley also had RBI doubles as the Mariners followed up their 10-3 win on opening day with another surprising offensive barrage.
Seattle scored 16 runs in its first 15 innings of the year while beating Jered Weaver and C.J. Wilson, their AL West rivals' two best starters.
Wilson (0-1) labored into the sixth inning for the Angels, who are off to their first 0-2 start since 2001.
Raul Ibanez hit a two-run homer and Josh Hamilton had two hits for the Angels.
HOUSTON (AP) — Jesus Guzman and L.J. Hoes homered off CC Sabathia to help the Houston Astros roll to a 6-2 win Tuesday night in the first game of Derek Jeter's farewell tour with the New York Yankees.
Jeter's final big league season began by being plunked on the left arm by Scott Feldman. The 13-time All-Star went 1 for 3 with a single.
Jeter, who has won five World Series with New York, announced in February that his 20th season would be his last.
The Astros added Dexter Fowler and Scott Feldman to improve a team coming off three straight 100-loss seasons. On the first day, it worked.
Fowler had two doubles as Houston jumped on Sabathia (0-1) for six runs in the first two innings. Feldman allowed two hits in 6 2/3 innings in his Houston debut after signing a three-year, $30 million contract.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Drew Hutchison won his first start in almost two years and Adam Lind homered for the visiting Blue Jays.
Hutchison (1-0) allowed three hits and walked three over 5 1/3 shutout innings in his first big league game since June 15, 2012. The right-hander had elbow ligament replacement surgery in August 2012.
Lind hit a three-run homer in the first off Alex Cobb (0-1). He sent a 3-1 pitch over the center-field fence.
Cobb gave up four runs, five hits and four walks in five innings.
Jonathan Diaz, filling in for injured Toronto shortstop Jose Reyes, made it 4-0 with his first major league hit, an RBI single in the fourth.
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Adrian Beltre singled home Shin-Soo Choo with the winning run in the ninth inning, and the Rangers saved a run on a successful replay challenge.
Choo, who also scored the tying run in the seventh, reached base for the fourth time on a walk to start the ninth against Mario Hollands (0-1), who was making his major league debut.
After Elvis Andrus' sacrifice and a walk to Prince Fielder, Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg went to right-hander B.J. Rosenberg. Beltre then singled, scoring Choo without a throw.
New Texas closer Joakim Soria (1-0) got the win with a perfect ninth inning in his season debut.
The first replay review of the series was a successful challenge by Rangers manager Ron Washington and helped keep a run off the board in Philadelphia's two-run sixth inning.


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We've gone buggy in Pre-K! We've been learning about bugs, insects, creepy crawlies and pond life. We found a lot of useful information with "kid friendly language" on the Scholastic Teacher webpage, Going Bug-gy! Facts and Fun About Insects. Ms. Frizzle from the Magic Schoolbus explains the difference between bugs and insects:
Question: What's the difference between bugs and insects?
Ms. Frizzle: Insects always have three body parts and six legs. They usually have four wings and two antennae. Now most people call spiders, bugs. But they are not insects, because they only have two body parts and eight legs with no wings or antennae. They are really arachnids. So bugs usually refer to anything that is creepy crawly. And "insects" is a more technical term.
We learned about the life cycle of the caterpillar.
One of our small group activities was to have the children trace, cut and glue circles with letters of their names to make a "Name Caterpillar".
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Thank you Aba! It was wonderful of you to come! The children really enjoyed your visit!
Mia M.'s mom made "dirt cake" aka "dirt and worms" for us to enjoy for snack. It was delicious!!!!
Our final activity was to share bug facts we recalled from our unit. I recorded the responses on a black dot and we placed them on a ladybug!
note: During our unit, we made lots of creepy crawlies in our art center. Look for pictures in a separate post!


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Herbert Bolton is my 2nd cousin 2x removed. His parents are Nicholas Bolton and Elizabeth Ann Ainsworth. Our common ancestors are John Carradice and Ann Ridley, my 3x great grandparents.
Herbert was born in 1889 in Kendal, Westmorland and his birth is registered in Q1.
On the 19 February 1910 Herbert married Priscilla Harrington at St. James Church in Halifax, West Yorkshire. They set up home back in Kendal and the 1911 census shows them living at Yard No 5, 51 Stricklandgate, Kendal.
Herbert and Priscilla had two sons – John William born on 9 September 1911 and Sydney born on 1 September 1913.
Britain declared war on Germany on 4 August 1914. Ten days later on 14 August Herbert enlisted at Kendal. He was assigned to the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) 60th Field Ambulance. His military service number was 30398.
Herbert was initially assembled with the rest of the division in Aldershot. I found a medical record showing that he was hospitalised from 20 October 1914 to 20 November 1914 with gonorrhoea.
They spent several months undergoing training and getting their equipment in place. The Division was inspected by King George V at Knighton Down on 24 June 1915, by which time all equipment had arrived and the Division was judged ready for war.
Herbert embarked from Southampton on 20 July 1915 and arrived at Le Harve the next day. On 26 July 1915 the Division completed concentration in the Saint-Omer area, all units having crossed to France during the preceding few days. Early trench familiarisation and training took place in the Fleurbaix area.
The Division served on the Western Front for the remainder of the war, taking part in many of the significant actions.
Herbert's military career was apparently going well and he was appointed to corporal on 29 September 1916 and then promoted to lance sergeant on 29 January 1917.
Things went badly wrong for Herbert when he received gunshot wounds to his back on 1 December 1917. I can't be sure which battle this was in but I suspect it was as part of The Cambrai Operations – http://www.1914-1918.net/bat21.htm
Sadly Herbert died as a result of his wounds on 7 December 1917 in No. 16 General Hospital at Le Treport.
He is buried at the Mont Huon Military Cemetery, Le Treport. There are now 2128 Commonwealth burials of the First World War in the cemetery and seven from the Second World War. The cemetery also contains more than 200 German war graves.
Priscilla was awarded a pension of 26s 8d from 10 June 1918 for herself and two children. Later that year she remarried in Newark, Nottinghamshire to James Hall.


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| Thresher shark
Temporal range: 49–0 Ma[1] Lutetian to Present
|Common thresher (A. vulpinus)
|Scientific classification
| Alopiidae
Bonaparte, 1838
| Alopias
Rafinesque, 1810
|Type species
| Alopias macrourus
Rafinesque, 1810
Thresher sharks are large lamniform sharks of the family Alopiidae found in all temperate and tropical oceans of the world; the family contains three species, all within the genus Alopias.
The genus and family name derive from the Greek word alopex, meaning fox. Indeed, the long-tailed or common thresher shark, Alopias vulpinus, is named the fox shark by some authorities. The common name is derived from a distinctive, thresher-like tail or caudal fin which can be as long as the body of the shark itself.
The three extant thresher shark species are all in the genus Alopias. The possible existence of a hitherto unrecognized fourth species was revealed during the course of a 1995 allozyme analysis by Blaise Eitner. This species is apparently found in the eastern Pacific off Baja California, and has before been misidentified as the bigeye thresher. Thus far, it is only known from muscle samples and no aspect of its morphology has been documented.[3]
- Alopias pelagicus H. Nakamura, 1935 (pelagic thresher)
- Alopias superciliosus R. T. Lowe, 1841 (bigeye thresher)
- Alopias vulpinus (Bonnaterre, 1788) (common thresher)
Phylogeny and evolution
|Phylogeny of Alopiidae[3][4]
Based on cytochrome b genes, Martin and Naylor (1997) concluded the thresher sharks form a monophyletic sister group to the clade containing the families Cetorhinidae (basking shark) and Lamnidae (mackerel sharks). The megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios) was placed as the next-closest relative to these taxa, though the phylogenetic position of that species has yet to be resolved with confidence. Cladistic analyses by Compagno (1991) based on morphological characters, and Shimada (2005) based on dentition, have both corroborated this interpretation.[4][5]
Within the family, an analysis of allozyme variation by Eitner (1995) found the common thresher is the most basal member, with a sister relationship to a group containing the unrecognized fourth Alopias species and a clade comprising the bigeye and pelagic threshers. However, the position of the undescribed fourth species was only based on a single synapomorphy (derived group-defining character) in one specimen, so some uncertainty in its placement remains.[3]
Distribution and habitat
Although occasionally sighted in shallow, inshore waters, thresher sharks are primarily pelagic; they prefer the open ocean, venturing no deeper than 500 metres (1,600 ft). Common threshers tend to be more common in coastal waters over continental shelves. Common thresher sharks are found along the continental shelves of North America and Asia of the North Pacific, but are rare in the Central and Western Pacific. In the warmer waters of the Central and Western Pacific, bigeye and pelagic thresher sharks are more common. A thresher shark was seen on the live video feed from one of the ROVs monitoring BP's Macondo oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. This is significantly deeper than the 500m previously thought to be their limit.
Anatomy and appearance
Named for and easily recognised by their exceptionally long, thresher-like tail or caudal fins (which can be as long as the total body length), thresher sharks are active predators; the tail is actually used as a weapon to stun prey. The thresher shark has a short head and a cone shaped nose. The mouth is generally small, and the teeth range in size from small to large.[6] By far the largest of the three species is the common thresher, Alopias vulpinus, which may reach a length of 6.1 metres (20 ft) and a weight of over 500 kilograms (1,100 lb). The bigeye thresher, Alopias superciliosus, is next in size, reaching a length of 4.9 m (16 ft); at just 3 m (10 ft), the pelagic thresher, Alopias pelagicus, is the smallest.
Thresher sharks are fairly slender, with small dorsal fins and large, recurved pectoral fins. With the exception of the bigeye thresher, these sharks have relatively small eyes positioned to the forward of the head. Coloration ranges from brownish, bluish or purplish gray dorsally with lighter shades ventrally.[7] The three species can be roughly distinguished by the main color of the dorsal surface of the body. Common threshers are dark green, bigeye threshers are brown and pelagic threshers are generally blue. Lighting conditions and water clarity can affect how any one shark appears to an observer, but the color test is generally supported when other features are examined.
Pelagic schooling fish (such as bluefish, juvenile tuna, and mackerel), squid and cuttlefish are the primary food items of the thresher sharks. They are known to follow large schools of fish into shallow waters. Crustaceans and the odd seabird are also taken.
Thresher sharks are solitary creatures which keep to themselves. It is known that thresher populations of the Indian Ocean are separated by depth and space according to gender. All species are noted for their highly migratory or oceanodromous habits. When hunting schooling fish, thresher sharks are known to "slap" the water, herding and stunning prey.[7] The elongated tail is used to swat smaller fish, stunning them before feeding. Thresher sharks are one of the few shark species known to jump fully out of the water, making turns like dolphins, this behaviour is called breaching.
Two species of the thresher have been identified as having a modified circulatory system that acts as a counter-current heat exchanger, which allows them to retain metabolic heat. The mackerel sharks (Lamnidae family) have a similar homologous structure to this which is more extensively developed. This structure is a strip of red muscle along each of its flanks, which has a tight network of blood vessels that transfer metabolic heat inward towards the core of the shark, allowing it to maintain and regulate its body heat.
No distinct breeding season is observed by thresher sharks. Fertilization and embryonic development occur internally; this ovoviviparous or live-bearing mode of reproduction results in a small litter (usually two to four) of large well-developed pups, up to 150 cm at birth in thintail threshers. The young fish exhaust their yolk sacs while still inside the mother, at which time they begin feeding on the mother's unfertilized eggs; this is known as oophagy.
Thresher sharks are slow to mature; males reach sexual maturity between seven and 13 years of age and females between eight and 14 years in bigeye threshers. They may live for 20 years or more.
Importance to humans
Threshers have a low fecundity, like all large sharks, and are highly vulnerable to overfishing. Besides being hunted for its meat, threshers are also hunted for their liver oil, skin (for leather), and their fins, for use in shark-fin soup.
They do not appear to be a threat to humans, although some divers have been hit with the upper tail lobe. A dubious account of a fisherman being decapitated by a tail swipe as the shark breached has been reported.[8]
Thresher sharks are classified as prized game fish in the United States and South Africa. Common thresher sharks are the target of a popular recreational fishery off Baja, Mexico. Thresher sharks are managed in some areas for their value as both a recreational sport fish and commercial species.
All three thresher shark species have been recently listed as vulnerable to extinction by the World Conservation Union (IUCN).[9]
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- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). Species of Alopias in FishBase. February 2011 version.
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- ^ a b c Eitner, B. (1995). "Systematics of the Genus Alopias (Lamniformes: Alopiidae) with Evidence for the Existence of an Unrecognized Species". Copeia. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. 1995 (3): 562–571. JSTOR 1446753. doi:10.2307/1446753.
- ^ a b Sims, D.W., ed. (2008). Advances in Marine Biology, Volume 54. Academic Press. p. 175. ISBN 0-12-374351-6.
- ^ Shimada, K. (2005). "Phylogeny of lamniform sharks (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii) and the contribution of dental characters to lamniform systematics". Paleontological Research. 9 (1): 55–72. doi:10.2517/prpsj.9.55.
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- ^ "More oceanic sharks added to the IUCN Red List" (Press release). IUCN. 2007-02-22. Retrieved 2007-02-25.
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xspeedballx wrote:Nevermind.. on further thought that spirit was never effected and it's high health was because of life drain. Regardless the rest holds true. Dragon was zotted and then no longer zotted.
dislekcia wrote:Bugs up to here logged yet again
xspeedballx wrote:This could be me not understanding some mechanic of Cursed Oasis but here goes:
1) Used Orb of Zot, Dragon boss is now at 5XX/25X health.
2) Use Whupaz
3) Smack Dragon, I am now in cursed realm(dragon took damage)
4) Putz around in cursed realm and kill Shade(started at 25X/12X health) boss.
5) Back in normal realm, Dragon boss is at 5XX/5XX health. Orb of Zot seems to have been forgotten.
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Editor's note: Jason Johnson was selected 13th overall by the Houston Dynamo at the Jan. 17 MLS SuperDraft in Indianapolis.
It wasn't until the eighth grade that VCU's Jason Johnson first played in an organized soccer game, years after many of his peers. But his career got off to an auspicious start – Johnson scored a goal in that contest. He hasn't slowed down since.
Earlier this month, Johnson inked his first professional contract with Major League Soccer as part of its Generation Adidas program. Generation Adidas seeks to identify and retain the best college soccer talent in the United States. Players are offered guaranteed multi-year contracts with the league and do not count against a team's budget or roster limits. Players in the program also receive educational stipends to finish their degrees.
On Jan. 17, Johnson is expected to be one of the top selections in the MLS SuperDraft in Indianapolis. Johnson will be the first VCU Soccer player drafted since Dominic Oduro was a second round pick of FC Dallas in 2006. Some rate Johnson as the top forward in this year's draft. He scored 13 goals this season and a total of 28 in three seasons with the Rams.
"He's got a unique combination of size, power, strength, speed; his technique is good," said VCU Soccer coach Dave Giffard. "He strikes the ball well with both feet. He can play in combination. He's good in the air. I think those qualities together are, they're not super, super unique, but you don't see them everywhere. There certainly aren't many guys in college that have all those qualities."
For all of Johnson's soccer skills, and they are considerable, his greatest asset may be his ability to play catch-up. The 22-year-old Johnson grew up in the small inland village of Happy News, Jamaica. Although soccer is popular on the island, the school Johnson attended as a young boy did not offer the sport, so he played cricket and ran track.
It wasn't until Johnson's older brother, Kemar – an avid soccer player and fan – turned Jason onto the game that he considered taking it up seriously. In the eighth grade he joined the team at his high school, Knox College. He fell in love with the game almost immediately.
"When I was on the field, I had a different feeling," Johnson said. "It was like I was just having pure fun. Nothing to worry about, no matter what happened off the field. When I was on the field everything was blank; just fun, pure fun."
Although the game came quickly to Johnson, he was years behind many of his peers. For that reason, he said he didn't initially consider where the game could eventually take him.
"I didn't even know I could make it because I started so late, and after seeing that a lot of kids start at age six, age seven I was like, whoa, this is late, I might never make it," Johnson said.
But even if Johnson was unsure of his abilities, others were not. Observers recognized his potential.
"While playing through my first high school back at home with the guys, everybody was just saying, 'yo, you can play, man,'" Johnson recalls. "I listened to my brother so much, and he told me, 'yo, you can really plan, man.' That was what really caught me. That set it [in motion]."
Inspired, Johnson sought every available opportunity to play soccer and improve his game. He played on the weekends. He played all summer. Mornings, evenings, it didn't matter. By the time he moved onto Manchester High School for his final prep year, he was catching the attention of others on the island.
At the Schoolboys Championships, Jamaican National Team Coach Theodore "Tappa" Whitmore, scouting for young talent, took notice of Johnson and invited him and a number of other players to camp. Johnson didn't expect to have any shot of making the team, but was proven wrong. Whitmore added Johnson to his roster for a match against Argentina on Feb. 10, 2010. Johnson assumed he was just there to fill out the roster, but late in the game, Whitmore told him to warm up.
"I heard Toppa call my name, but I wasn't sure," Johnson said. "When he said, 'J.J.', everything went blank. I didn't even have my shinguards in."
Although he played the waning moments of the game, Johnson's future with the national team and beyond was clear.
Giffard was among a number of college coaches who learned of the dynamic, albeit late-blooming striker. He had recently accepted the VCU job and was in the midst of assembling an 18-player recruiting class to begin overhauling the program. The Rams weren't necessarily the most attractive suitor. They were coming off a 5-10-2 season and hadn't reached the NCAA Tournament since 2005. But Johnson saw the Rams much like himself, an unfinished product with unlimited potential.
"He had a plan, and I had a dream, and the plan and the dream had the same direction, so it was really good to work with. It's easy to work with someone who wants the same outcome as you want," Johnson said. "He just came straight and told me what he wanted to do and what he thought he wanted my accomplishments to be, so they were similar so it was easy to make that decision."
"When we sat down and met with those guys, I sold them on what our dream was, what was going to happen here, what we were doing, and what we wanted them to come be a part of it, and we wanted them to come and develop and grow together," Giffard said.
Johnson didn't enjoy immediate success at VCU. The college game differed from Jamaica, as did life in general. Despite his considerable ability, Johnson was not a starter as a freshman.
"It wasn't any doubt that I had the talent, but the transition from a different environment, it took longer than it should, which was mostly my fault," he said. "I think I settled in too much. I was too comfortable."
Johnson needed to work harder, and he knew it. By his sophomore year he earned his way into the starting lineup and led the Rams in scoring with 11 goals. He followed with 13 more, as well as six assists, in 2012 as VCU reached the Atlantic 10 Conference Championship match and returned to the NCAA Tournament.
This fall, it was already clear to Giffard that Johnson was MLS-ready and would likely be a Generation Adidas target. Giffard coached and recruited six previous Generation Adidas players as an assistant at Akron. He knew top-end ability when he saw it.
Giffard also knows that means Johnson's ceiling is higher than the MLS. The best soccer leagues in the world are still in Europe, and the VCU Coach believes Johnson has a future there, if he wants it bad enough.
"MLS is not the top of his potential," he said. "We'll see how it all works out. He has to go out and go do it. We certainly feel that there could be a step beyond that for him. Time will tell. Potential is just that. It doesn't mean anything until you do it, but not everybody has it, and Jay certainly does have it."
After a late introduction to soccer, Giffard thinks Johnson is just scratching the surface of his true potential.
"Jason would be the quintessential diamond in the rough," Giffard said. "He's a guy who, his best days are well ahead of him, and I don't know that there will be a cap on how far he could go."


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Lawmakers Caution FCC To Slow Down On Safety Auction Rules
With the Federal Communications Commission poised to vote tomorrow on a new plan to auction off spectrum for public safety first responders, some key lawmakers are urging the agency to slow down.
In a letter to FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin earlier this week, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John D. Dingell (D-Mich) and Telecommunications Subcommittee Chairman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass), criticized the agency for advancing a proposal for new auction rules of the spectrum with just 14 days for the public to comment on the issue.
"We believe the comment cycle should more closely reflect the complex legal, administrative, and technical nature of this proceeding," they wrote in the letter, which was also signed by Rep. Jane Harmon (D-Calif). The lawmakers said the agency should allow at least 45 days for public comment on the plan.
The agency failed to auction off the block of spectrum earlier this year, attracting just one bidder at a price well below the minimum reserve price set. Many lawmakers and public interest groups criticized the auction for failing to attract bidders and create more competition in the increasingly consolidated wireless industry.
FCC Spokesman Robert Kenney said "we cannot get this done by the end of the year without an expedited timeframe."
The new plan, crafted by Martin, includes breaking up the spectrum into dozens of regional blocks so that individual carriers can purchase parts of the radio waves, which would be shared with police, fire and other emergency first responders in the event of a natural disaster or a terrorist attack. The proposed auction rules, however, would give preference to a bidder who buys all licenses as a whole.
"We are concerned about reports that the item, as drafted, indicates a strong preference for a national license, even where regional bidders may have offered significantly more money for the right to use the spectrum," the lawmakers wrote in their letter.
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