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Certification Europe was founded with the simple aim of providing a certification service which goes further than simply ticking the boxes. We wanted to provide a service which went beyond the grey, unemotional check-list approach to auditing and inspection which has typified the industry for far too long. As a result we have constantly endeavoured, and will continue to strive to introduce new, cutting edge and innovative approaches to meet the needs of our clients.
Our innovation is not just bounded to the delivery of our service, as an organisation we have always sought to push the boundaries of certification by pioneering the certification of new standards in both the national and international market place:
Certification Europe launched the 1st accredited certification scheme for information security in Ireland and certified the 1st organisations in the country to both BS 7799 and ISO 27001.
Certification Europe was the 1st certification body in the World to offer accredited certification for energy management (ISO 50001, EN 16001 and IS 393)
Certification Europe pioneered the certification of electronic signatures and was the 1st certification body in the world to be accredited under EU Directive 1999/93/EC
We strive at all times to provide first class customer service and to go the extra mile in everything we do for our clients. We want to ensure that customers feel that through our work, our company has positively contributed to the success of their organisation in a positive and supporting way. Our aim is to give you an advantage over your competitors through your ISO training, certification and consistent implementation of management systems best practices.


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Info Check Frequently Asked Questions
Have a question that isn't covered here or just want to talk to someone about the programme in general? Contact us and we can further help you.
Click on a question to have its answer displayed.
Jump to:
Serial Numbers
Liens and Loans
Additional Questions
- What is Info Check?
Info Check is a listings enhancement for the HDD Broker websites.
Info Check provides a checklist for each listing that shows how comprehensive the information within a listing is. Website users are now able to search and sort listings by their Info Check rating.
This new system will help to increase buyer confidence and motivate sellers to provide even more information about their equipment.
- How are these listings different from regular ones?
Info Check ratings are applicable to all listings. As additional information is added to a listing, its Info Check rating will increase. The higher the rating, the more comprehensive the listing and the further up it will appear in certain search results on the website.
- What key things do you guys look for in the Info Check Programme?
There are eight categories of Info Check ratings and they are:
- Complete Description
- Detailed Photos
- Video
- Complete Serial Numbers
- Inspection Reports
- Lien Disclosures
- Titles
- Service and/or Work History
- What qualifies as a Complete Description?
A checkmark is awarded if the description includes a complete list of all components offered for sale including year, make, model and hours along with tallies of all included parts, tooling, pipe, etc.
- What sort of things will there be pictures of?
A listing with this category checked off will have at least 10 high resolution photos. The photos will include overall shots of the equipment, photos of areas of typical wear as well as photos of the other package contents.
- These photos don't look like they're very high resolution. Can I get better photos of these listings?
Absolutely! You can contact our sales department for high resolution photos of any of our listings along with additional information.
- What kind of video will be in the listings with the video box checked off?
The video will include footage of the equipment running and operating its basic functions.
- This listing has the SN# box checked off, but I can't see the SN# anywhere in the listing. What's up?
Serial number information is held on file at our offices for use in invoicing equipment when it sells. Any questions that you have pertaining to model series, year of manufacture, etc can be answered by our friendly sales staff!
- Why wouldn't all listings have SN#'s?
Most pieces of equipment will typically come with a serial number of some sort. Some exceptions include tooling, certain home built pieces of equipment and certain small trailers in some states.
- Who is filling out these inspection reports?
HDD Broker highly recommends that equipment inspection be carried out by a qualified mechanic from an independent third party company. These inspections carry the most value for potential buyers. However, in the case where the services of a third party company are not available or are not cost-effective, there may be a condition report that has come directly from the seller, provided it was carried out by a qualified mechanic. The inspection reports for these listings will be flagged with a disclaimer informing potential buyers of the fact that the seller supplied the inspection report.
- If a listing doesn't have an inspection report on file, can I still have it inspected?
Absolutely! Buyers are always welcome to personally inspect the equipment or have us arrange for an independent assessment. Typically these independent inspections are carried out at the buyer's expense. Consider them an insurance policy against your equipment purchase. Inspection reports from equipment dealerships typically range from a few hundred dollars to over a thousand depending on whether it can be brought to the dealership or whether they need to send a technician out to the seller's facility.
- So, the listing has a nice, clean inspection report. That means that it's guaranteed to be in perfect condition, right?
No. Unfortunately the third party inspectors include waivers of liability. They do their absolute best to provide comprehensive inspections of the equipment, however there are things that they can miss. Inspection reports are not foolproof, and having one in hand does not guarantee equipment condition. The best inspection is always one where you are there assessing the things that are important to you.
- Should I be concerned there is a lien on this particular piece of equipment?
In most cases, this is a perfectly normal thing. It's not often that companies elect to pay for an expensive piece of equipment with cash, and loans or leases are very common. Proper due diligence is always imperative and we have several resources available that will allow you to conduct an independent search for liens against the equipment or the seller.
- Does the lien apply to one item or all items in this package?
Most liens pertain to certain pieces of equipment, however there are liens such as "blanket liens" that apply to all of the possessions or resources of a certain company or individual. Again, due diligence is critical and we highly recommend in depth research by a qualified third party in order to ensure you won't have issues.
- Does the fact that the lien box is checked mean that the equipment is 100% free and clear?
No, not necessarily. It simply means that the seller has signed a declaration as to whether the equipment is free and clear or whether there is a debt to clear up prior to sale. Bear in mind that even if a seller has declared the equipment to be free and clear, HDD Broker highly recommends that any potential buyer make the investment to have an independent company research the equipment and seller to make sure.
- What types of equipment will have titles?
The most common types of equipment include trucks, trailers, and all other vehicles or equipment that travel on public roads.
- Are service records the same as inspection reports?
No. Service records are simply the seller's records of the work that has been done to the machine. They do not provide an assessment of the equipment's current condition or a list of necessary repairs. HDD Broker always highly recommends that an independent inspection be carried out prior to purchase.
- There is a repair estimate uploaded to the listing. Why?
Repair estimates are always welcome, but are not considered service or work history and they are not considered inspection reports. Having said that, they are a great piece of information to pass along to a potential buyer that will undoubtedly help with them feeling more comfortable about the actual condition of the equipment.
- Why do some listings have only a couple of checkmarks and yet show up with an Info Check rating that's higher than that?
Some listings will have certain categories of Info Check that don't apply to them. For example, tooling does not have titles, and most people would not require a lien disclosure for a backreamer. In those cases, even though the listing does not have those components of Info Check in the listing, it will not be penalized with an "X", instead getting a "not applicable" flag in our system which will count as a check as it pertains to its Info Check rating.


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Got Questions? Here are a number of frequently asked questions that we get: Do I have to be a great singer? Most of our members are not soloists. Because Barbershop music is sung without instrumental accompaniment, voices in the four parts must blend together to produce ringing chords. Vocal stylizing, vibrato, and tremulo are not compatible with producing the blended sound and therefore not desired for barbershop singing. The main requirement for barbershop singing, is a voice that can carry a tune, stay on pitch or key and blend with other singers. You also need to be able to memorize the notes, words and choreography for each song. How do I learn the songs? Music and learning CDs are distributed to members. Learning tracks can also be downloaded from our members' only website as mp3 files. Most of our members do not read music. They learn their parts by singing along with the learning tracks. Others prefer to "plunk" their part on a keyboard. When learning new songs, the sections practice in small groups to make sure that the notes are learned correctly and to develop a unit sound in the section. What is the audition procedure? After you attend three rehearsals and learn one of the songs from our songbook, you may do a practice audition. We expect you to start the regular audition process during your fourth or fifth visit and complete it by the tenth visit. During the audition, you will sing with the section leaders of the other three parts. The director and your section leader will listen to you sing in this quartet. The audition will be conducted away from the rest of the chorus. How much personal time will it take? In addition to weekly rehearsals throughout the year and learning the music and choreo, the chorus sometimes produces a scripted show for the general public. Everyone plays an important role in putting it together. We participate in a Sweet Adelines regional competition held in the spring of each year. We tend to perform in and around our area about once a month for local festivals, business, social, and charitable events, and retirement homes. The chorus usually has many performances during the Christmas season from Thanksgiving until about the 20th of Dec. Two or three times per year there are extra rehearsals or coaching sessions on Saturdays. Fundraisers are undertaken as needed and usually include a gigantic yard sale in the fall. What is the cost? If you decide to become a member after having passed your audition, monthly dues of $27 plus a one-time fee of $130 will be expected. As in most worthwhile hobbies, there are also other expenses, such as travel, meals, make-up and costumes. At present we have three glitzy, sparkling performance costumes, each of which brings definite audience approval! |
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IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next
- Word processor or spreadsheet users to gain transparency, minimize rework and increase reusability by having all their requirements available from a secure, central and accessible location.
- Systems and software engineering teams to improve collaboration and project agility through concurrent editing, automated versioning and effective prioritization.
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It wasn't too difficult picking out the Fat Bastard in the crowd of Russian models, craven moochers and media mavens. Besides, Fat Bastard and I were both desperate for coffee and heading for the same empty urn.
(We'd both signed on for Kazakhstan's annual Eurasia Media Forum, a kind of Burning Man festival for Eastern oilgarchs and their media camp followers.)
Now, it is my policy never to mention an interlocutor's weight, nor question the legitimacy of their birth, given my own vulnerabilities. (A would-be groupie told me, "You could do a few sit-ups, you know." Yes, I know.)
But this particular Fat Bastard is asking for it. I had tried to put the belly of this beast out of my thoughts, but I still had a New York Times story folded in my pocket that begins:
ATHENS – As an elementary school principal, Leonidas Nikas is used to seeing children play, laugh and dream about the future. But recently he has seen something altogether different, something he thought was impossible in Greece: children picking through school trash cans for food; needy youngsters asking playmates for leftovers; and an 11-year-old boy, Pantelis Petrakis, bent over with hunger pains.
Fat Bastard – or Theodoros Pangalos, thinks the little Greek kiddies should stop belly-aching. Pangalos, as you can see from the photo below, is not bent over with hunger pains. In fact, he looks more likely to be bent over with labour pains, but in truth he probably just can't bend over at all.
Pangalos is best known for blaming the working people of Greece for the horror and the hunger among the ruins of what was once Greece's economy. However, it is, of course, not his fault; until last year, and through the core of the crisis, he was just Greece's Deputy Prime Minister – why should he be held accountable for anything?
Minister Pangalos is much loved by Europe's banking chieftains, by vulture speculators and by Prussian President Angela Merkel because they've got themselves a gigantic Greek who will mouth their mantra: that his nation's sudden collapse can be blamed squarely on olive-pit-spitting, lazy-ass Greeks who won't work more than three hours a week, then retire while they're still teenagers to swill state-subsidised ouzo.
Pangalos leads the Fifth Column of Greeks calling to accept Germany's terms of economic surrender: austerity, meaning cuts in food allowances, in pensions, in jobs. As of this week, more than one in four Greeks (27 percent) are out of work.
While we hunted for caffeine, Fat Bastard told me that anyone who complains about the austerity diktat, "Is a fascist or a communist or a conspiracy theorist." He didn't tell me which of these three categories the 11-year-old kids complaining of hunger pains fell into.
Just for the record, those Greeks who can get a job, work 619 more hours per year (see table) than the average German (and way, way more than Britons or Americans as well).
But in the world according to Pangalos, Merkel and poobahs of the media, Greece went to hell in a handbag because the entire nation suddenly turned into work-shirking grifters.
But there's another explanation for wrack and ruin: Greece is a crime scene. And its working people are not the perpetrators of the crime, they are the victims – scammed, defrauded, their national industries looted and their treasury drained by financial flim-flam.
In 2001, Greece dropped the drachma for the euro. The drachma was good enough for Aristotle and very good for tourism, Greece's main industry. But when sun-and-fun was re-priced in euros, tourists swam across the Aegean Sea for kofte meatballs priced in dirt-cheap Turkish lira. Pre-euro tourist visits to Greece outnumbered those to Turkey by millions; but by last year, it was the just the opposite, with two-thirds of tourists tanning in Turkey.
With its Treasury bleeding hard currency, the government of Minister Pangalos' PASOK joined together with the opposition in a complex international currency kiting operation to conceal the losses from the public and, most importantly, from the European Central Bank.
Why the cover-up of the deficit? The answer is that the euro is more than a currency: it is a straitjacket, a set of constricting rules that, for example, prohibit any euro nation from running a deficit of more than 3 percent of GDP.
That's impossible in a recession – not to mention plain insane – as it requires cutting public spending when spending is needed most. The USA, China, Brazil, India – the nations that pulled the world from depression's brink – all ran deficits way over the nutty 3 percent cap. I asked finance wiz Nomi Prins to calculate America's debt-to-GDP ratio using euro rules, and she estimates that Obama's deficits are now way down from recession's peak – to 10.2 percent of GDP.
Greece, fearing expulsion from the euro loony bin, turned to Goldman Sachs. For a mere $400 million in fees, plus golden sacks of ill-gotten trading gain, the investment bank was willing to cook the nation's books via a complex set of derivatives transactions. [For the particulars of the derivatives con, see How Goldman Sacked Greece.]
Since the con was busted open in 2009, the Greek public has had to pay cheated bondholders a premium to insure against default of the nation's debts. The credit default insurance costs an average of $14,000 (£9,218) per family per year.
When I was a racketeering investigator working with the US Justice Department, in the days when we pretended America still had justice, we would have called the derivatives trick a "fraud on the market". We'd handcuff the perpetrators, lock 'em up, or, at the least, make them cough up their purloined profits.
So, should Goldman pay up? Not according to Pangalos, because – in the worldview of our rulers – the victims of the scam are as guilty as the victimisers. Pangalos even put it into a famous (or infamous) motto: mazi-ta-fagame. That's Greek for "We all ate it together".
But the visible evidence suggests Pangalos, not Pantelis – the kid doubled over with stomach pain – ate all the pies.
The mass privatisation of public property at wiener schnitzel prices has German speculators dipping in their spoons as well, though the Federation of German industry is complaining about Greece's own "princes" gobbling up the assets.
I was going to invite Minister Pangalos to lunch to test his theories, but he left in a pachydermic huff when I asked him about Geir Haarde. Haarde, the former Prime Minister of Iceland, was found guilty of concealing his knowledge of the trickery used by Iceland's banks before they melted that nation's finances.
I asked Fat Bastard, "Do you think you should be in prison for" similar conduct in the Greek government?
Maybe that's why Minister Pangalos didn't want to go to lunch with me.
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Margot and Joyfully Retired is hosting the second Foodies Reading Challenge in 2012 and I am very excited to sign up.
This was one of my favorite challenges in 2011; I read six food books for it. My wrap-up post is here, with links to my reviews.
This year, I am signing up at the "Pastry Chef" level to read 4 - 8 food-related books. Click the button or link above to go to the main challenge page for details or to sign up.
There are many foodie books on my TBR shelf. I am going to try to overlap with some of my other challenges, including my TBR challenges, the Non-Fiction Challenge, and the Memorable Memoirs Challenge.
Here is a list of possible choices. Those I've read are in red, with links to reviews if I did one.
The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America's Emerging Battle Over Food Rights by David E. Gumpert
On the Town in New York by Michael & Ariane Batterberry (reviewed here)
Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family by Patricia Volk
The Tuscan Year: Life and Food in an Italian Valley by Elizabeth Romer
Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table by Ruth Reichl (reviewed here)
Alice Waters and Chez Panisse by Thomas McNamee
Epicurean Delight: The Life and Times of James Beard by Evan Jones
Vie De France: Sharing Food, Friendship and a Kitchen in the Lorie Valle by James Haller (reviewed here)
A Cordiall Water by M. F. K. Fisher
The Feasting Season by Nancy Coons
Dumas on Food: Selections from Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine by Alexandre Dumas
Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil by Tom Mueller (reviewed here)
Monsieur Pamplemousse Investigates by Michael Bond (reviewed here)
And it might be a good idea to include this one:
French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating For Pleasure by Mireille Guiliano
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Lawmakers Unveil Gun Safety Legislation That Targets Assault-Style Weapons
For Immediate Release
Jan. 5, 2017
Patti Brigham, Co-chair, Florida Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence
1st Vice President, LWV of Florida
Andy Pelosi, Co-Chair, Florida Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence
Executive Director, Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus
Lawmakers Unveil Gun Safety Legislation That Targets Assault-Style Weapons
Proposed legislation to ban assault-style weapons in Florida will be unveiled this afternoon at a news conference held by the Florida Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence.
Sen. Linda Stewart and Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith are introducing the bills, which also include banning large ammunition feeding devices.
"Assault weapons are the gold standard for mass murder. They are weapons of war, designed for war and have no place on our streets or in civilian hands," said Smith. "We all have the right to defend ourselves and our families with a firearm, but nobody needs military-style assault weapons to do it."
Pointing a finger at the gun lobby and what he called its "stranglehold on Tallahassee and their extreme agenda," he added, "It's time we take back the conversation with a bold, comprehensive and common-sense approach to gun safety. This legislation is just the beginning."
"If not now, when?" asks Stewart. "We don't need any more tragedies like Pulse."
The bills target the type of weapon used in June's Pulse Nightclub shooting, which killed 49 people in the deadliest U.S. shooting in modern history.
The Florida Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence, initiated by the League of Women Voters of Florida, was created after the Pulse massacre to promote smart, common-sense gun legislation and helped set the course for the legislation being unveiled today.
The Coalition quickly gained momentum and has grown to include more than 100 local, state and national organizations. It includes such diverse groups as the Hispanic Federation, Interfaith Council of Central Florida, Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus, Florida PTA, and Doctors for America.
In addition to pushing for a ban on assault-style weapons, the Coalition also calls for comprehensive universal background checks.
"We are no longer going to allow the NRA to dictate gun laws in Florida," said Patti Brigham, Co-chair of the Coalition and 1st Vice President of the League of Women Voters of Florida.
"Florida cannot wait nor do we have to wait for our federal government to take action. We can and should follow the lead of seven other states that already have in effect what we are proposing today," Brigham said, adding that ordinary citizens do not need weapons such as the Sig Sauer MCX, brandished by the shooter at Pulse, to hunt, defend ourselves, or to show them off because we can.
Strong, outspoken support for the Coalition and the proposed legislation comes from a number of diverse groups, demonstrating the far-reaching passion for the assault-weapons ban and the safety of our community.
Not mincing words, Andy Pelosi, executive director of Campaign To Keep Guns Off Campus, said, "Assault rifles, like the one used in the Pulse shooting, where 49 people were killed and another 53 injured, are weapons of war, designed to kill and injure large numbers of people in a short period of time." He added that the state legislature should immediately act on the proposals unveiled today.
Also strongly supporting the proposed legislation is Equality Florida, an organization dedicated to securing equality and justice for the LGBTQ community. It was an early member of the Coalition.
"The Pulse massacre compelled us to confront two realities: the systematic dehumanization of LGBTQ people and the far too-easy access to weapons of mass slaughter," said Hannah Willard, Public Policy Director for Equality Florida. "We must uproot hatred and prevent those who seek to do us harm from accessing military-style assault weapons like the Sig Sauer used to take 49 of our family members in June. Equality Florida applauds Senator Stewart and Representative Smith for introducing this common sense legislation that will make all of our communities safer."
The Rev. Bryan G. Fulwider, CEO of Building US and a member of Friends Talking Faith With The Three Wise Guys on WMFE, says faith "leads us in the way of peace."
"We recognize that people of faith may differ on the way we feel about guns, individually. Nevertheless, honest faith leads us to foster and build a more peaceful community and society," he continued. "Military-style assault weapons are not part of creating a more peaceful and safe community. They have only one purpose, mass casualty shooting. These weapons may be a tool of war, sadly, but they have no place in a society and community committed to creating peace and safety for all people," he said.
The Florida PTA, also a Coalition member, likewise applauds the efforts of Stewart and Smith.
"Given the history and tradition of strong support for the safety and protection of our children and youth, and with the desire to encourage common-sense legislation that can potentially prevent future tragic scenarios involving our most precious resource, Florida PTA offers unwavering support banning the sale and possession of military-style semi-automatic assault weapons," said Angie Gallo.


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Over two years ago I wrote about the launch of the Mac App Store, Apple's resident app store available on all modern Macs, and the three genealogy-related applications that launched with it. At the time the three applications available were MacFamilyTree, Family Tree Maker, and Date Calculator.
Two years later, what is the state of Mac genealogy in the App Store? There are now six applications that show up if you search 'genealogy':
Six Genealogy Apps in the Mac App Store |
MacFamilyTree and Date Calculator are still there, while Family Tree Maker has been dropped from App Store. Newly added applications include Heredis, My Family Tree, GedScape Gold, and MemoryMiner.
Why did Ancestry.com drop Family Tree Maker from the App Store? I have no idea, but there are a few possibilities. The coding standards for applications in the Mac App Store are very strict, and they've gotten stricter over time. It's possible one of the those restrictions made it difficult for Ancestry.com to comply with the rules of the store. It's also possible that the lack of a clear upgrade path in the App Store was a bigger issue. Ancestry.com sells annual upgrades to their genealogy applications, and the App Store doesn't make this very easy. If anyone purchased Family Tree Maker on the App Store, I'm curious if you received any notification that the app was pulled, and for what reason.
Heredis had a major update recently, and that included launching it into the Mac App Store, as well as a free version for iPhone and iPad. Heredis calls this version the 'Blue Suite' and includes interperable version on PC, Mac, and iOS. I haven't used this new version of Heredis, but it looks quite impressive. There's actually a 20% off sale going on now for Heredis, through February 24, through the app store or through their web site. They have a free trial version also, so it's worth checking out first. Two of the more interesting features to me include the ability to create illustrated charts (i.e. a tree superimposed on an actual tree graphic) and the ability to generate a book. I've published a genealogy book before, but it required a lot of work in Adobe InDesign, and took months to finish. Imagine being able to generate a book with a single click? I haven't used this feature, but it's something I think all genealogy application should offer in some form.
My Family Tree and GedScape Gold are two apps I've never heard of before. My Family Tree seems to be a chart-based genealogy app that keeps an updated chart that you can add people to, but they show no other features in their description, and no trial version on their web site. According to reviews in the App Store, there are some bugs and support is not easy to get. It looks like an early version of an app that could offer a simple genealogy option to some, but it isn't quite ready yet (or supported well enough). GedScape Gold is a program to browse GEDCOM file and output a web version of your family tree. The application seems to have mixed reviews, although unlike My Family Tree, there is a support site and a free trial version available to test before buying. I suppose there is a purpose for GEDCOM viewers, but I certainly lean towards more full-featured applications.
MemoryMiner is an application I really like, and am happy to see it's in the App Store. This application fits in my visual sensibilities, where you can take a large number of photographs and link each person in the photo and can switch between looking at photos fro ma specific place, or of a specific person, etc. It's very powerful, and also includes the ability to import a GEDCOM file to populate the person database. My only big problem with the app is that while you can import a GEDCOM, it's very difficult to subsequently update information on the people you import. If you're working on a project over a long period of time, chances are your family database will be updated, and it would be great if you could import those changes easily. Another problem is the web site of the company hasn't been updated since 2011. Hopefully this is still an actively developed application, as it is unique in the way it allows you to tell a visual story of your family.
One last note. In my post last year, I mentioned that Date Calculator was created by the same company that puts out GEDitCOM II, a very interesting genealogy program for the Mac. GEDitCOM II has some very advanced features I've never seen in any genealogy program on any platform, including scripting using Applescript, Python and Ruby (including an online library of downloadable scripts), allows you to completely customize the user interface (including downloadable UIs), outputting a book using LaTeX (see this PDF of a book output of the Windsor family), etc. It's really quite an impressive program, but even though its been updated to work with application signing for OS X (a feature needed to show that a program is from a reliable source), it is not yet available through the App Store. I'm sure there are some good technical reasons for it not being available through the App Store, but it's really a shame as I think GEDitCOM II is underrated and could use the extra publicity of being available through the App Store to gain marketshare.


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This summer I had the unforgettable opportunity to work side-by-side with the some of the smartest, photography-loving software engineers I've ever met. Looking back on my first day at Flickr HQ – beginning with a harmonious welcome during Flickr Engineering's weekly meeting – I can confidently say that over the past ten weeks I have become a much better software engineer.
One of my projects for the summer was to build a new and improved locking manager that controls the distribution of locks for offline tasks (or OLTs for short). Flickr uses OLTs all the time for data migration, uploading photos, updates to accounts, and more. An OLT needs to acquire a lock on a shared resource, such as a group or an account, to prevent other OLTs from accessing the same resource at the same time. The OLT will then release the lock when it's done modifying the shared data. Myles wrote an excellent blog post on how Flickr uses offline tasks here.
When building a distributed lock system, we need to take into account a couple of important details. First, we need to make sure that all the lock servers are consistent. One way to maintain consistency is to elect one server to act as a master and the remaining servers as slaves, where the master server is responsible for data replication among the slave servers. Second, we need to account for network and hardware failures – for instance, if the master server goes down for some reason, we need to quickly elect a new master server from one of the slave servers. The good news is, Apache ZooKeeper is an open-source implementation of master-slave data replication, automatic leader election, and atomic distributed data reads and writes.
In the new locking system (dubbed "ZooLocker"), each lock is stored as a unique data node (or znode) on the ZooKeeper servers. When a client acquires a lock, ZooLocker creates a znode that corresponds to the lock. If the znode already exists, ZooLocker will tell the client that the lock is currently in use. When a client releases the lock, ZooLocker deletes the corresponding znode from memory. ZooLocker stores helpful debugging information, such as the owner of the lock, the host it was created on, and the maximum amount of time to hold on to the lock, in a JSON-serialized format in the znode. ZooLocker also periodically scans through each znode in the ZooKeeper ensemble to release locks that are past their expiration time.
My locking manager is already serving locks in production. In spite of sudden spikes in lock acquire and release requests by clients, the system holds up pretty well.
My summer internship at Flickr has been an incredibly valuable experience for me. I have demystified the process of writing, testing, and integrating code into a running system that millions of people around the world use each and every day. I have also learned about the amazing work going on in the engineering team, the ups and downs the code deploy process, and how to dodge the incoming flying finger rockets that the Flickr team members fling at each other. My internship at Flickr is an experience I will never forget, and I am very grateful to the entire Flickr team for giving me the opportunity to work and learn from them this summer.


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Springfield - RCMP New Brunswick occurrences
141 occurrences were reported in Springfield to date in 2024.
119 occurrences for same period in 2023.
Occurrence | Total |
Assault | 5 |
Break and enter | 3 |
Drug offence | 0 |
Fraud | 6 |
Mental Health Act | 5 |
Robbery and extortion | 0 |
Theft of motor vehicle | 2 |
Theft of over $5,000 | 0 |
All other occurrences | 120 |
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Kansas Outdoor Recreation Survey 2013
State Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan seeks public input
As part of the State Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan (SCORP), the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism is providing a forum and survey to learn more about what park-goers want. Public input is desired on topics including managed park use, issues and needs, and the types of experiences park-goers hope to have in the future.
Public input gathered from the forum will be shared with the State Outdoor Recreation Plan Advisory Committee at their September meeting. The online forum, moderated by Dr. Sid Stevenson of Kansas State University , will focus on four topics during specific time frames:
June 21-July 4: Which outdoor recreation facilities are most in need of renovation or replacement at state and federal parks in Kansas to best enhance outdoor recreation experiences? Specific examples are welcomed.
July 5-July 18: Share a story of a meaningful outdoor recreation experience that you or your family had in Kansas and how the site where that experience took place contributed.
July 19-Aug. 1: Which of the following local outdoor recreation experiences would you like most to be within walking distance of your home (if you live in town)? Trails, picnic areas, sports venues, natural areas, playgrounds, etc.
Aug. 2-Aug. 15: Improved access to natural outdoor experiences, particularly those that are water-based, is important for urban dwellers. Please provide suggestions on how this can best be achieved and examples of success stories.
The Kansas Outdoor Recreation Needs and Issues survey, which is being offered in conjunction with the forum, will assist outdoor recreation planners and agency decision makers in developing strategies to address important issues facing outdoor recreation in Kansas over the next five to 10 years. Participants should expect to take approximately 15-20 minutes to complete the survey.
SCORP serves as a vision for outdoor recreation in Kansas . It is designed to meet the requirements of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 (LWCF) which requires states to have an approved State Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan on file with the National Park Service.
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We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. From April 16 to 30, 15 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below:
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Debian Web Server and mariadb: A ready-to-deploy Debian Web Server with mariadb databases. A web server includes several parts that control how web users access hosted files. MariaDB is a fork of the MySQL relational database management system. |
Jamcracker CSB Service Provider Version5: This service provider appliance is a cloud brokerage solution for SaaS and IaaS products. It automates order management, provisioning, and billing, and integrates to support ITSM, billing, ERP, and identity systems including Microsoft Active Directory. |
MCubo Energy: MCubo Energy is a powerful platform that uses its own "best practices" to maximize your energy savings while safeguarding the environment. The proactive use of analytic tools, reports, and alerts can help your company achieve return on investment in a very short period of time. |
MicroStrategy Enterprise Platform VM: The MicroStrategy Enterprise Platform offers a complete set of business intelligence and analytics capabilities. Use MicroStrategy to build and deploy analytical and data discovery applications in the form of personalized reports, real-time dashboards, and more. |
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Ubuntu Server: An easy-to-use Ubuntu Server for developers on the Microsoft Azure platform. Certified by Microsoft to host Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2008 R2 as guests, under its Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP). |
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F5 BIG-IP O365 Federation IdP: Deploying BIG-IP Access Policy Manager provides secure, federated identity management from your existing Active Directory to your Office 365 applications, eliminating the complexity of additional layers of Active Directory Federation Services servers and proxy servers. |
Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall: Forcepoint NGFW (next generation firewall) gives you the scalability, protection, and visibility you need to more efficiently manage protect traffic into and out of your Microsoft Azure network as well as among various components of your cloud environment. |
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The Future of Publishing?
There is no doubt that e-books are a bright spot in the dismal economics of publishing. The current market is strong — according to a recent Harris Interactive poll, one in six Americans now uses an e-reader, and that number will grow as consumers become more comfortable with the technology.
Actually, the potential for growth is astonishing. The Association of American Publishers reports that e-books have risen in 2010 to 6.4% of the trade market, up from 0.6% in 2008. The Institute for Publishing Research predicts that by 2015, e-book sales will increase to $3.6 billion, from $78 million in 2008. In publishing terms, that's petrodollars.
But the certainty of growth brings confusion. E-books are transforming publishing, but nobody is exactly sure what that means. We all know that Amazon is dominant, and Apple and Google are now players, but the future of e-books is perhaps better divined by looking at the smaller players: the innovative startups and the individuals in the publishing trenches — the editors, agents and writers.
In terms of digital publishing, perhaps the biggest of the smallest is Open Road Integrated Media, founded by Jane Friedman, a former president and CEO of HarperCollins, and Jeffrey Sharp, a film producer. Open Road publishes 12 to 15 new e-books a year, but its bread and butter is digitizing backlist titles by such authors as Michael Chabon, Leon Uris and William Styron — names big enough to shift a few e-units.
Simultaneously, as an exercise in branding, Open Road produces short films about its authors. The living ones talk about their inspirations (often shown conspicuously absorbed by their e-readers). The not-so-living ones are the subjects of brief documentaries. Though Rachel Chou, its chief marketing officer, wouldn't provide sales figures, Open Road seems poised to do well — it is perhaps the only publisher, traditional or digital, with such a canny approach to marketing.
The slickness of Open Road is in contrast to intimate and organic Emily Books, the brainchild of writer Emily Gould and former literary agent Ruth Curry. While Emily Books also digitizes previously published titles, Gould told me that the publisher's list reflects "our enthusiasm for criminally underappreciated books." Gould and Curry see themselves more as curators than publishers, and their goal is to foster an independent bookselling culture online. Thus, Emily Books' first two releases are "Inferno," a novel by poet Eileen Myles, and "No More Nice Girls," an essay collection by anti-authoritarian feminist Ellen Willis.
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Emily Books is that it's a book club. Titles can be purchased individually or, for $159.99 a year, a subscriber gets 12 e-books, one per month. While this is a chunk of change, Emily Books has more than 100 subscribers. That's enough, Gould says, to put the company in the black, even to generate "a tiny surplus."
So with e-books, one viable path is to brand older or neglected titles. Perhaps this is because most consumers are overwhelmed by the selection of books now available. In this regard, e-reading creates opportunities for selectors, whether they be curators or savvy marketers.
And e-books are definitely creating opportunities for writers, especially as the stigma of self-publishing declines. Though many self-publishers of e-books are as poor as always, a few writers have enjoyed success: Darcie Chan sold 400,000 copies of her novel, "The Mill River Recluse," earning her a respectable six-figure sum; Amanda Hocking earned a jaw-dropping $2 million from her nine novels about zombies and vampires, and another $2 million from a traditional deal with St. Martin's Press.
"But that's like winning the lottery," said Neal Pollack, who has five print books under his belt. He turned to self-publishing when he realized that "Jewball," his basketball noir novel, would be a tough sell for traditional publishers. His e-book has been available on Amazon since October.
Pollack described his foray into self-publishing as "a mixed blessing." He feels that "Jewball" is a quality piece of writing, and he says he's broken even on his investment. But the e-book sold only a few hundred copies. Amazon didn't provide the marketing support that Pollack had hoped for, which was the targeted emails and the inclusion in the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" algorithm.
Nevertheless, Pollack said he's "not ready to put 'Jewball' into the failure category just yet." He is in the process of working out a better arrangement with Amazon. "That's what most people who are putting out their own books are missing," he said. "Without that, the odds of success are incredibly small."
But that depends on what you mean by "success." When Matthue Roth wrote "Automatic: Death, Girls, and REM," a short book about a friend who died young, he, too, knew that its brevity and subject matter would make the book hard to place with a traditional publisher. "But sometimes you just want to get it out there," Roth said.
Roth doesn't know how many copies he has sold: "I lost my Amazon password. It feels immensely successful just to get your stuff to people who want to read it."
Like Roth, TV writer Rob Kutner also had "an idea that I didn't know what to do with" — "The Future According to Me," a collection of 35 short comedic musings about the future. (Example: A breakthrough in quantum physics will allow Israelis and Palestinians to occupy the same land at the same time.) Kutner, however, did not have to turn to self-publishing. His e-book was acquired by Amazon editor David Blum and published as a Kindle Single.
"It was direct, fast and sold way more than I thought it would," Kutner said. He would not reveal sales figures, but he did admit that his e-book's price, 99 cents, probably helped.
What's notable is that all of the aforementioned writers are professionals releasing books without deal-making by their agents — an unthinkable situation before digital publishing. But Pollack's agent, Daniel Greenberg, was directly involved in the editing and production of "Jewball." According to Greenberg, his agency, Levine Greenberg, is actively trying to figure out where e-books are going and what they will mean to their clients.
"For us it's very important," Greenberg said. "Every job in the publishing ecosystem will change with e-books. That's why we want to learn what works and doesn't work."
So there is money to be made with e-books, but even industry professionals are still unsure how to get a piece of the digital pie. So what, if any, conclusions can we draw?
One is that the word "former" seems to come up a lot in digital publishing — meaning that experience in traditional publishing seems to help a lot. Another, as Greenberg pointed out, is that even more responsibility for editing, marketing and distribution is going to fall on the shoulders of writers.
A third conclusion is that smaller is better. (Even Open Road, which is well funded, is a small company.) Amazon, Apple and Google can afford to battle for the retail market; the people involved in the actual creation of e-books need to keep their costs down. Emily's Books and Pollack's novel may be in the black, but that's because there wasn't much red to get through. And both Pollack and Gould admitted that they're still puzzling out how to make a profit.
The good news is that e-books mean good things to readers. There are a lot of interesting, inexpensive choices out there, once you shell out for the Kindle or iPad. There is much hand-wringing that digital publishing will mean the death of print, and maybe it eventually will. But it's also been the catalyst of creativity, thus preventing, for another generation, the death of literacy.
Gordon Haber is a frequent contributor to the Forward.
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Most observers agree that offices are not egalitarian. Someone is at the top, someone else is on the bottom. Various utopian experiments and communal organizations do exist on the periphery of American business, and some are successful. But the overwhelming majority of corporate structures in this country are built hierarchically, with top management, middle management, and support staff.
Some businesses are organized somewhat differently. Professional partnerships like law firms and medical practices, for example, have no investors; the partners share equal power, equal decision-making authority, and equal access to the profits. A small professional office of this type may have no middle management, just the partners and their support staff.
Larger organizations usually have one person at the top, the president or chief executive officer, who reports directly to the board of directors (the investors or persons who represent the investors). These top managers usually depend on middle managers for two main reasons. The business is too large for one person or group to manage directly, and a large business is so complex as to require people with specialized skills or areas of expertise to run various departments.
A company that manufactures a product, for example, would require a chief financial officer to control payroll, ordering and paying for parts, sending bills and recording payments, and maintaining records for auditing and tax purposes. The company would also require a chief engineer--a technical expert in the company's line of business. The business would require shipping and receiving departments and people to head them. Someone would have to supervise all of the factory workers, train them, give them work assignments, monitor their comings and goings, and check the quality of their work. As the company grew in size, this would be too big a job for one person: another engineer could be responsible only for quality control. Breaking down work into smaller jobs is called specialization--which is characteristic of work and business in industrial and postindustrial societies.
Sociologists have long observed the connection between the design of environments and the power relations that determine what goes on there. Whether an office, a factory, or a prison, physical characteristics can tell us who is powerful, who is not; who watches, who is watched; who dictates, who takes dictation.
Even as the nobility and high clergy in feudal Europe, for example, marked their elevated status with their clothing and surroundings, so too twentieth-century culture makes such distinctions. From its beginnings, the office reflected the unequal status of its occupants. Almost anything inside an office can be made bigger, smaller, more expensively, or less expensively than anything else. In the same way, the feudal lord's robes often took hundreds more yards of fabric than the simple garb of the peasant who served him.
Offices reflect status in many ways, including the following:
These are some of the ways in which organizations visually and physically represent the intangible relations of power and authority in the office.
Typical office organization shows three levels of management under the hoard of directors: a chief executive officer, a tier of middle managers, and a tier of supervisors. Actual businesses show great variety in job titles and functions within this basic structure
The first clerical workers were men. Early clerical work was seen as a craft, developed to help business owners keep current records of their enterprises and to maintain relations with the outside world. Apprentices or journeymen craftsmen learned their crafts from master bookkeepers or chief clerks then advanced in the business by promotion. Since clerks often rose into management positions, owners tended to fill these entry-level slots with male family members.
As the office developed in complexity and size, clerical work was mechanized. The skills required to operate a typewriter or take stenography differed increasingly from those required of managers. Women were brought into offices to fill these new "clerical" positions, with firms taking advantage of the supply of middle-class, high school or college-educated women who would work for lower wages than men of comparable education. As women were drawn into clerical work, the jobs' contents changed. The previously masculine job of clerk, the first step on the ladder to a management position, was transformed into a permanently subordinate, and hence feminine, job.
As we approach the twenty-first century, many women have advanced from secretarial jobs to management positions by talent, hard work, and determination. It is fair to say, however, that most clerical positions remain "permanently subordinated." But this is not to say that nothing has changed.
A major difference in today's work world from that of our grandparents and great-grandparents is that women are not limited to a choice between clerical and factory work if they are without education or skills, and between teaching and nursing if they have advanced education. Both men and women work in virtually all the professions.
But again, these changes do not mean that being a man or a woman has no bearing on the kind of work a person will do. When we recall that the overwhelming majority of all professional positions were held by men at the beginning of the twentieth century, women's current career success represents their clear and steady progression into men's jobs. We do not see a similar rush by men to women's jobs, however. "Men's jobs" remain the favored choice.
No one could say with certainty which jobs will be held by men, which by women, fifty years from now. We probably are unable to imagine what the jobs will be, given the rapid pace of technological change in modern life, let alone who will hold them. But certain factors need to be considered when thinking about work in the future.
Technological advances bring changes to the occupational opportunities available to men and women. For example, many professionals now work without secretarial support, using their own computers with word processing capabilities to write correspondence and reports, using the computer to file information that formerly would have had to be stored in a filing cabinet. Telephone answering machines and services already replace receptionists and personal secretaries for many people. These factors would tend to change or affect the traditional hierarchies of offices.
Subordinate work or support work will always be attractive to some segment of the population, if only at certain times in their working lives. Some women will continue to choose family over career, at least for a number of years. Many people work more than one job, or work while preparing for another career, and are attracted to support positions. And as the population ages, former careerists may choose to supplement pensions or augment volunteer work with part-time or temporary jobs. These millions of workers would tend to support the continuance of "noncareer" jobs in the corporate or office structure.
Finally, not everyone can be the boss or a professional, nor do they want to be. If everyone could be in charge, managers would have nobody to manage.
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Mortgage Application Checklist
The following is a helpful checklist of items you'll need when you apply for a loan. Also, check out this great tutorial on applying for a home loan, and read more about home loans here.
All Borrowers
- Copies of W-2s for the past two years;
- Copies of the two most recent consecutive pay stubs showing year-to-date earnings;
- Copies of checking and saving account statements for past three months (all pages);
- Copies of quarterly or semi-annual statements for checking, savings, IRAs, CDs, money market funds, stocks, 401k, profit sharing, etc.;
- Copy of sales contract when ratified;
- Employment history for the previous two years (address any gaps of employment);
- Residency history during the past two years, with name, phone number, address and account number of land or mortgage company; for rental property, copies of leases;
- Canceled earnest money check when it clears or corresponding bank statement, if applicable;
- Commissioned income – if 25% or more of base, must have tax returns;
- Check for the expense of appraisal and credit report;
- Refinance copy of note, deed of trust, settlement statement, survey and insurance information;
- Any assets used for down payment, closing costs and cash reserves must be documented by a paper trail;
- If paid off mortgage in the past two years, need copies of HUD1;
- Copy of driver's license for applicant and co-applicant;
- Copies of your past two years' tax returns;
- Copy of Social Security Card for each applicant and co-applicant.
Self-Employed Borrowers
- Copies of your past two years' tax returns (with all schedules, including K-I's if applicable);
- Copy of current profit and loss statement and balance sheet;
- Copy of corporate/partnership tax returns for last two years if owning 25% or more of company plus copies of W-2s and/or 1099 forms.
Documents that may be required
- Relocation agreement if move is financed by employer (i.e. buyout agreement plus documentation outlining company-paid closing costs benefits);
- If you've had a previous bankruptcy, bring copies of petition for bankruptcy and discharge, including supporting schedules;
- Divorce decree (if applicable);
- Documentation supporting monies received from Social Security/retirement trust income, i.e. copies of direct deposit bank statements, awards letter or evidence income will continue.
Documents needed for FHA/VA loans
- FHA: Copy of Social Security Card and driver's license for each applicant and co-applicants;
- VA: Original certificate of eligibility and copy of DD214 discharge paper;
- VA: Name and address of nearest living relative.


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Colombia, Ecuador
and Venezuela retained the tricolour of the
Great Colombian Federate Republic when it broke up 1830-32. It
was designed by Francisco Miranda and was carried by Simon
Bolivar in all his battles to free South America from Spanish
rule (he had hoped that the Gran Colombia would be a step towards
federating all of South America).
The colours are said to symbolise golden America seperated from
bloody Spain by the blue sea.
Paul Adams , 29 November 1995
The Gran Colombia Tricolour was originally the family/personal
Flag of Francisco de Miranda. Miranda's flag had as much chance
of becoming the flag for the Colombia/Ecuador/Venezuela
revolution as Simon Bolivar's flag.
Miranda's was "chosen" because it was already in use by
Miranda's militant faction before Bolivar (who at the time was
taking a more diplomatic approach to the Spanish rule problem)
actively joined the military effort.
This information is not based in any one published document, but
on my general education (I grew up in Venezuela). If you wish, I
can try to dig up Simon Bolivar's flag (red field with blue
border, and - I think - a gold or silver star in the middle --
forgive my bad terminology), and any other historical flags
related to this region.
Fabio E. Speciale, 13 March 1997
Concering the República de la Gran Colombia (the federation
of Venezuela, Nueva Granada [Colombia] and Quito [Ecuador). I
believe the information above about the Great Colombia is not
correct. Its design is, indeed, based in Miranda's tricolori,
adopted by the first Vednezuelan Government of 1811 and it was
certainly used by Bolivar (with certain modifications) throughout
his political carreer. However, the symbolism cited by Fabio
Speciale is incomplete and the origin of the Miranda Tricolori
itself, mentioned by Mr Speciale is inaccurate. The yellow, blue
and red flag was not derived from Miranda's familya colours.
Despite the fact that he toyed with the idea of a South Americna
Kingdom, General Miranda was not a nobleman: he was not the
descendant fo Spanish Officers or a member of the Criollo
nobility which ruled. While white, General Miranda was the son of
a well-off but not "honourable" craftsman. As a matter
of fact, a controversy with the local upper class over his
father's origins, led General Miranda to pursue a life abroad,
away from the discriminating province of Caracas. In such life,
he lived many adventures, joined the American and French
Revolutions, was part of Europe's most important courts and,
while gazing at the colours of a Hamburg Granadier's regime, got
the idea for the tricolori (red-blue-yellow; depicted somehow in
every flag he designed). Also, there is no such thing a
Bolivar's Flag. Not what Mr Specially cites, at least. Bolivar
designed a flag much similar to that of 1814 (shown in your
pages), but adding one blue star to the seven which lied already
on the yellow stripe, representing liberated Angostura.
Guillermo T. Aveledo, 23 September 1999
The image at the top of the page represents the flag of what
is now known as the "Great Colombia" Republic, known
then (in 1821), plainly as the República de Colombia.
Current-day Colombia was then named "Nueva Granada",
and had its own CoA and flag . This flag is not of Colombia (as
we know it today) but of the union of the republics of Venezuela,
Nueva Granada (Colombia) and Ecuador.
Guillermo T. Aveledo, 4 November 1999
Bolivar organized Angostura Congress in february 1819 and in
August was he formed some kind of executive congress as a
provisional government but mainly military. In this era was used
the tricolor of Miranda, but it was never legislated and the its
variants and devices if any, are uncertain
On 17 december 1819 the Republic of Colombia was
proclaimed (historicaly known as Great Colombia but then called
only Colombia), under the conservative leader Bolivar, with three
departments (Venezuela, Cundinamarca and nominally Quito that was
still in hands of royalists). Vice-Presidents were the
New-Granadian Santander, liberal, and Roscio. By a decree it was
stablished at the end of 1919 that the new republic will use the
flag of Venezuela until another decree of General Congress,
arguing that the ensign of Venezuela is the most known.
Venezuela used the Miranda flag in 1811-1812. It was under
spanish domination but in 1813 Bolivar in the called
"Campana Admirable" recover wide areas and declared war
until death against the spanish, but seems that in this era the
Miranda flag was not widely used. After defeated by Boves in
1814, Bolivar fought in New Grenada under venezolan or
Cartagenian/Granadinian flag but in 1815/16, the Spanish
recovered all territories. Rebellion restarted in 1817 under
Miranda flag in Venezuela, and 1819 in New Granada. Venezuela-New
Granada formed the Colombia republic at end of 1819 and adopted
the tricolor. Generally used without arms (in Venezuela, stars
were added temporary) the first pattern of the used state flag
was based on the Venezuelan flag of 1811, with the arms in
canton. This flag was in use officially until 10 January 1820 in
the so-called Great Colombia (Venezuela-Nueva Granada) when it
was changed in the department of Cundinamarca (but later in use
in Venezuela). Is possible that the arms were also put in center
instead canton
In 1820 Cundinamarca adopted arms that were put on the flag while
Venezuela maintain the old flag. Some weeks later this arms were
adopted as provisional arms of the whole republic and was put on
flags (in all the republic of Great Colombia). In 1821 the first
official arms of Colombia were adopted and put on flags in whole
of the Republic. In 1822 second arms were adopted.
Jaume Ollé, 2 October 2001
On 10 January 1820, the department of Cundinamarca, one of the
three official departments of the republic (in fact only two
since the third was in hands of Spain) adopted arms of its own
alleging that the arms of the republic (that was supposed to be
used by in wholerepublic but was really used only in Venezuela)
are not known in Cundinamarca (I assume that it was not known to
the people and intermediate and minor autorities). This arms, put
on flags, was the orign to a departamental flag. While Venezuela
follow using the previous flag, that was the Republic one (but in
fact was only the Venezuela departament flag). No indication was
given where must be the arms in flag: following national flag it
must be mainly in canton, but most comon is use in center.
On 12 July 1821, the national congress decree that the arms of
Cundinamarca must be used on the national flag, as national arms
until that new arms are decreed. Thus, the departamental flag of
Cundinamarca was converted into national flag of the Great
Colombia, and officially must be used in the department of
Venezuela. A variant with the lower stripes of same size, was
also used. (see: 1820 Cundinamarca Flags
and Coat of Arms)
Jaume Ollé, 2 October 2001
Lucien Philippe reports flag with stripes 8:7:6 and centered
arms dated 1821. I reconstructed this reports with the oval model
(according plate and according Philippe), single emblem, and
round model (from Philippe). (see: 1821
Flags and Coat of Arms).
Also Philippe mentions flags with stars. Restrepo don't believe
that those are Colombian New-Granadian but Colombian Venezuelan.
The sure fact is that in on 12 May 1817 the governmente called
"Federal Pampatar government" was established in
Venezuela that adopted the Miranda's flag with seven light blue
stars. In 20 November 1817 a eighth star was added meaning
Guayana. Philippe reports this flags as used in Colombia c. 1820,
but this is probably a missinterpretation. Philippe even reports
a flag with 9 stars it but must be a wrong hand made flag or a
mistake. With three stars the models are well known. There are
many variants and those were used probably between 1819 and 1921,
only on flags with stripes 2:1:1. (see: Venezuela - Historical Flags)
Jaume Ollé, 4 October 2001
On 11 July 1822 Guayaquil was incorporated and Republic of
Colombia (known as Great Colombia) reached its final
configuration (Puerto Cabello was conquered some months later and
on 1 June 1824 was the last battle against the pro-spanish
forces. According Restrepo Uribe new arms were adopted c. 1822
and are shown in many official documents. The image from restrepo
show 3 stars (surely for three original departments) but also
show a variant with 10 stars, and quote the existence of others
variants with different number of stars. The most appropiate
designs must be of 3, 9 and 12 stars since the departments were
changed from 3 to 9 (with two still in hands of Spain) and from 9
to 12. (see: 1822 Coat of
This arms were put on flags either in the canton or in the
center. The first pattern must be used in flags with stripes in
different proportions for each one, but I believe that the second
and third pattern were used with stripes ratio of 2:1:1. (see:
1822 Flags)
From the creation of the republic surrounding forces worked
against it. General Paez in venezuela directed the movement
called "Cosiata" on April 1826 and denied the autority
of the acting president General Santander. Bolivar, that was out
the country, got back to Bogota, took the presidency on 1827 and
stopped the attempt of separation of Venezuela and started the
dictaturship. However, Paez remain in control of the military
forces in Venezuela and neighbourghs departments. In 1828
liberals try to depose the conservative Bolivar in the
"Revolution of September". On October 1828, the
liberals Jose Maria Obando y Jose Hilario Lopez revolted in Cauca
Valley, but were defeated. Then a war against Peru was started
since Cundinamarca claimed Maynas and Jaen. On November 1829,
Paez, for another time, didn't recognize the authority of the
Congress and a new congress was assembled in Valencia nd on 21
January 1830 proclaimed the independence of Venezuela. Bolivar
was dismissed and left to exile. A convention in Bogota (the
"Congreso Admirable") in January accepted the end of
the Republic. Guayaquil and Quito also separated. Departments of
Boyaca, Cauca, Cundinamarca, Magdalena and Panama (renamed Istmo)
created a new state named Colombia.
Jaume Ollé, 7 October 2001
Before 1834, the shade of blue in colobian flags was celeste
(light blue) and not the same shade of the current national flag.
Jaume Ollé, 26 October 2001
At J.W Norie - J.S. Hobbs: Flaggen aller seefahrenden
Nationen, 1971 [nor71] (original
print 1848):
276 Colombia - Yellow over blue over white 2:1:1, with in the
yellow in the hoist three five-pointed blue stars pointing down,
placed 2 before 1. If the last stripe is supposed to be red, this
looks like a Great Columbian flag, with the stars directly on the
flag, instead of in arms on the flag. (see: Venezuela - Historical Flags)
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 12 November 2001
I found in the following page www.banrep.gov.co
an old flag of Great Colombia Federal Republic which has the
three stripes with equal wide (like the original flag design by
Francisco de Miranda and the current Flag of Venezuela). It
called my attention so much because I thought that in Great
Colombia the stripes with different wide were always used (even I
know that in some cases appears flags with three different
Francisco Gregoric, 13 Febuary 2003
According to which we have investigating until now, some Great
Colombia' Military Corps used standards with equal stripes. In
addition to which on the link provided to us by Francisco
appears the Standard of the Battalion "VICTORIOUS IN
AYACUCHO" which also shows equal stripes.
Raul Orta, 28 Febuary 2003
On February 15, 1819, the Congreso de Angostura (Congress of
Angostura, see: Spanish
wikipedia) gathered the representatives
of Venezuela, Nueva Granada (New Granada, now
Colombia) and Quito (now Ecuador) met in Angostura (full name
Santo Tomé de Guayana de Angostura del Orinoco, changed to
Ciudad Bolivar in 1846) in Venezuela. This was in the context of
independence wars by the previously mentioned countries, as well
as Peru, Bolivia and Panama (then part of Colombia).
The purpose was to establish basic princples for the era when the war will be
over and they establish a Ley Fundamental (Foundation Law) or Constituion. At
the end it was agreed to meet again. This new meeting was held between August 30
and October 3, 1821 in the City of Cucuta, Colombia. There, the Constitución de
1821 (known as the Constitución de Cúcuta, full text at www.antiescualidos.com)
was proclaimed, establishing the República de Colombia.
Source: wikipedia.
E.R., 25 August 2008
image by Jaume Ollé, 2 October 2001
National flag provisorily adopted on 17 December 1819 by the
Fundamental Law of the Republic of Colombia (Gran Colombia)
image by Jaume Ollé, 2 October 2001
image by Jaume Ollé, 2 October 2001
I first draw the indian women in the 1820 arms from the
drawing by Restrepo Uribe in Banderas 30. In fact seems to
be an native man, but no doubt that correctly it is an native
woman. I analyzed the details and it must be a woman in the image
of Banderas (#30). I retouched it to give a more femenin aspect
to it without changing the design from Banderas.
Jaume Ollé, 2 October 2001
image by Jaume Ollé, 2 October 2001
image by Jaume Ollé, 2 October 2001
image by Jaume Ollé, 2 October 2001
image by Jaume Ollé, 2 October 2001
image by Jaume Ollé, 2 October 2001
image by Jaume Ollé, 4 October 2001
Flag of the Republic of Colombia (Gran Colombia) prescribed by the Law of 4 October 1821 adopted by the Constituent Congress in Villa del Rosario de Cúcuta
image by Jaume Ollé, 4 October 2001
image by Jaume Ollé, 4 October 2001
image by Jaume Ollé, 4 October 2001
image by Jaume Ollé, 4 October 2001
I believe this Coat of Arms was based on France's emblem although a more
elaborate version can bee seen here at Ralf Hartemnik's
Civic Arms Heraldry website. This symbol is officially called
"The National Symbol of the French Republic" (since
1953) and this version of the National Symbol of the French
Republic was created under the 4th Republic by a ministerial
commission meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on June
3rd, 1953
Source: Robert
Louis' website.
Colombia most likely adopted this Emblem as a Coat of Arms based
on the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen made
in France in 1798, translated from French to Spanish for the
first time by Antonio Nariño, a man who would be later be one of
the leaders of Colombia's independence, having a Department named after him and also a
General who participated in the early battles of Colombia's
Independence waiving his own flag.
Antonio Nariño himself was influenced greatly, as were other
South American leaders of the time, by the French ideal of a
E.R., 25 November 2007
Ministry of Culture of Colombia as well as the
National Museum show the flag of the 1er Batallón de las Milicias Regladas
de Cartagena (ca. 1823). The flag's dimension is 168 x 162,5 cm.
However both images are wrongly displayed: notice that the top color is blue,
where it really should be a 90° rotation clockwise so the top color is yellow
and the CoA is well read.
The flag has this coat of arms on the middle in gold, plus the name of the
Battalion around it.
Esteban Rivera, 24 April 2010
image by Eugene Ipavec, 25 August 2008
I believe there is a variant of this flag where the Coat of
Arms on the flag is actually golden, based on a picture seen at presidencia
web site.
E.R., 25 August 2008


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February 5, 2011
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SAN ANTONIO – National Cotton Council economists say a tight overall cotton supply/demand situation coupled with continued pressure from competing crops for the coming year is consistent with cotton prices above historical norms.
"As 2011 begins, the global cotton market is experiencing unprecedented prices with the "A" Index at $2.00 and nearby futures trading in the $1.70's," Council economist, Dr. Gary Adams, said in his outlook for delegates at the NCC's 73rd Annual Meeting here today. "Unlike the price spike of March 2008, the current price situation has support from the fundamentals."
Adams, the NCC's vice president, Economics and Policy Analysis, said a key issue to watch will be the ability to sustain cotton demand in the prevailing market conditions, particularly given the uncertain nature of the macroeconomic recovery. He said that consumers in developing markets such as China and India will increasingly become the drivers of global retail cotton demand.
"Growth in cotton demand bodes well for total cotton trade," Adams said. "Increased mill use in China will require additional imports as available cotton stocks remain at low levels. In fact, for most countries, beginning stocks for the 2011 marketing year are at the lowest levels in recent years, and leave little room for further reductions during the upcoming marketing year."
He said the increased import demand will create a positive environment for U.S. cotton exports, which are forecast at 15.6 million bales for the 2011 marketing year – the second highest level after the 2005 marketing year.
"U.S. stocks that began the marketing year under 3.0 million bales will fall to 2.3 million bales by July 31, 2011," Adams said. "When compared to the past 50 years, ending stocks for the 2010 marketing year will represent a new low. The United States will be essentially sold out of cotton as any remaining stocks will be committed to a textile mill, either in the U.S. or abroad."
The economist said that when combined with projected U.S. mill cotton use of 3.8 million bales, the demand base for U.S. cotton totals 19.3 million bales for the 2011 marketing year – although with little cotton being carried forward, U.S. cotton offtake could be dictated by the 2011 crop's size. The NCC Planting Intentions Survey revealed that U.S. all-cotton plantings in 2011 of 12.5 million acres (14 percent higher than 2010) should generate a crop of 19.2 million bales, 18.5 million bales of upland and 671,000 bales of extra-long staple.
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Despite the pressure caused by higher fiber prices, Adams noted the recovery in the U.S. textile industry after more than a decade of decline. U.S. mill use has bounced back in recent months with current monthly estimates running 10 percent above year-earlier levels. The U.S. textile industry is being bolstered by the Upland Cotton Economic Adjustment Assistance Program (EAAP), which was authorized in 2008 farm law.
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The government supports recommendations in a recent review of liquor policy to make it easier to sample and buy wine, beer and spirits from small B.C. producers, Clark said.
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