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The following announcement was written by the folks at Reclaim the Records:
Hello again, from your favorite open records activists at Reclaim The Records! Do you remember how at the end of our last newsletter we promised you 116 years of brand new records, coming soon to a computer near you? Well, we might have made a tiny mistake, because we stink at math. It's only 115 years. And here they are!
New Jersey Marriage Index
Introducing the NEW JERSEY MARRIAGE INDEX, 1901-2016! These records are now totally digital, and totally free — forever! Now you can research anyone who got married in the Garden State right from your home, still in your pajamas.
We've posted these images at our favorite online library, the Internet Archive (archive.org). You can skip right to any year you want and flip through all the images, or you can download the records to your hard drive as JPG's, PDF's, and/or other formats. Each file is listed year-by-year (or occasionally by a year range), and then the marriages are listed alphabetically by surname.
Just to be clear: these are images of the index, so this isn't a real text-searchable marriage database just yet. But rest assured that the usual genealogy websites we all know are going to start indexing projects and will make that happen eventually. (Yes, the Internet Archive does run automatic OCR on the text contained in the images, but the recognition quality isn't that great, so you're probably better off just reading through the images instead of trying to text-search.)
New Jersey Marriage Index
Every year from 1901-2000 has a Brides Index, which means that the file is listed alphabetically by the bride's surname or maiden name. Many (but not all!) years from 1901-2000 also have a Grooms Index, which is alphabetical by the groom's surname. This means that most years, but not all years, have double coverage. For some reason, all the Brides Index data survived for all years, but the Grooms were not so lucky. Still, once this information eventually gets transcribed into a real database, this discrepancy won't matter so much because almost every record lists both sets of names.
There are a small number of years in the mid-1930's where the Grooms Index doesn't exist anymore and the Brides Index is currently being scanned from six microfilm rolls that we had to get from the New Jersey State Archives in Trenton. This means that for those handful of mid-1930's records, they aren't online just yet, but they should be there by the end of the year. The awesome people at FamilySearch once again stepped up and graciously volunteered to digitally scan these six microfilms for us for free. Thank you, FamillySearch!
Finally, the 2001-2016 section of the New Jersey marriage index (oooooh, twenty-first century data!) was held in an actual state database, not just a four-generations-removed digitization of a microfilm of a dot-matrix print-out of an old database. We received the records for those years in PDF format, one file per year, but because the state had created those PDF's by doing a print-to-file directly from their real database, you can do an actual text-search in those 2001-2016 files right now if you download those PDF's to your computer. That's good to remember, because these 2001-2016 files are not in any kind of alphabetical order at all, they're just roughly chronological.
New Jersey Marriage Index
As you can see from the varied example images we've added to this newsletter, these records are in multiple formats, with the data layout changing about once a decade. Some of the records give the exact dates of the marriage, some have the date the license was applied for, some have the month and the year but not the day, and some just have the year. Some of the records give the exact municipality of the marriage, some just give a county, some don't list any locality at all, and some list a numeric locality code. To make things even more confusing, the state has used at least two different sets of locality codes over the years. Here's a link to the old list of locality codes that were used between 1949 and 1984, which New Jersey genealogist Michelle Tucker Chubenko was able to dig up for everyone (thanks, Michelle!). And here's the list with the the modern version of the locality codes, although we're not 100% sure that this one started in 1985.
One more thing: this record set runs all the way up through 2016. That means that this is the very first public or genealogical marriage database anywhere that includes same-sex couples! We've looked around online, and we don't see any other databases anywhere that include this, not on any website; Ancestry's Vermont marriage database is probably the one that came closest, but even that one ends a year before their law changed.
In New Jersey, the government started legally recognizing same sex-marriages in September 2013. This means that if you're using this marriage index for any point after late 2013, the header row that labels people as Bride or Groom is invalid; from that point forward, anybody could be Spouse #1 or Spouse #2, including opposite-sex couples who might have preferred to switch the order on the marriage license paperwork. The state apparently never updated the database field names, and did not add any new columns to record each spouse's sex.
And one more thing to note about the 2001-2016 portion of the marriage index: that data spans across two pages, not just one. See that layout below?
New Jersey Marriage Index
Well that layout is missing four more columns of data, which are on the next page! So do be careful to check at least one page ahead, too.
So, how did we get 115 years of New Jersey records? Well, in this case we all owe a huge debt to a mild-mannered genealogist who, probably much like you, was just totally fed up with the government wrongly withholding records from the public. But rather than just being frustrated, he decided to do something about it. This is a story about how one genealogist can make a difference.
Meet Alec Ferretti. He may look young, but he's been a serious genealogist for more than a decade. Alec is a graduate student at New York University's Dual Degree Program with LIU, in which he is earning two Masters Degrees simultaneously, one in Archives and Public History, and one in Library Science. He's a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) and recently won third place in their Young Professional Scholarship contest. In this photo, we catch a rare glimpse of the genealogist in his native environment amongst the microfilms at the NYC Municipal Archives.
Alec was inspired by our work at Reclaim The Records using Freedom of Information laws to force government archives and agencies to release copies of important archival documents back to the public. In fact, Alec was so inspired that he decided to launch his own public records requests!
He started looking around for states where the birth, marriage, and/or death index — just the basic index, not certificates — were not easily available to the public. Unfortunately, far too many states have some or all of these indices unavailable to researchers. Alec lives in New York, so he had started his search in the northeast and he quickly hit upon the issue of New Jersey's marriage index.
Alec researched New Jersey's state law OPRA, the Open Public Records Act, which is their state's equivalent of New York's FOIL, the Freedom of Information Law. He then researched New Jersey's vital records laws, to see what they had to say about birth, marriage, and death records — and their indices. Most states have strict rules about who can access vital records (and when, and how, and how much it will cost per copy), but most states forgot to explicitly restrict the index or finding aid to those same records.
New Jersey is one of those states. Alec realized that while the actual text of the state vital records law seals the marriage certificates as private, it also directs the state to create an index to all marriages, for all counties that have a population more than five thousand people. Well, in New Jersey, every county has a population above five thousand people! And this law further uses the phrase "…which record shall be preserved as a public record" to refer to this index.
In other words, Alec had just figured out that the New Jersey marriage index was always supposed to have been a public record! You can read it for yourself in NJ Rev Stat § 26:8-44 (2013), otherwise known as New Jersey Revised Statutes, Title 26 – Health and Vital Statues: Section 26:8-44 – Indexing, tabulation and preservation of records by State registrar.
So Alec filed an OPRA request with the New Jersey Department of Health on April 26, 2017, asking for a copy of the index. But they denied his request.
So Alec turned to the New Jersey Government Records Council (the GRC) and asked them for an Advisory Opinion about the matter, which is a non-binding but very helpful ruling on some of the facts of the case. But in late May, the GRC told him they couldn't provide a legal opinion one way or the other because there was essentially no previous case law about this issue for them to go on.
And that's when Alec realized that he was going to need to bring in the big guns to launch Ferretti v. NJ Dep't of Health — Office of Population Health, as a Denial of Access Complaint. This would essentially send the case to mediation, which is an option that some other states (including New York) don't offer. But there was a catch: the backlog of cases meant that it might take up to a year before they heard his case, unless he wanted to file a motion in the New Jersey Supreme Court. Either way he was going to need help, both legally and financially.
And that's where Reclaim The Records enters the story as something more than just an inspiration. Alec e-mailed us and told us what he'd done so far, and could we maybe help him? Could we set him up with an attorney for either mediation or help him move the case to court?
Well, of course, we said HECK YES we will help you reclaim those records!
New Jersey Marriage Index
So we set up phone calls with Alec, and phone calls with our attorneys. And amongst our Board of Directors we discussed the situation and decided to set aside money and time to fight for these records in mediation and in court, if need be. Alec informed the GRC he would move on to mediation, and the Department of Health agreed. They attempted to set a mediation date for late August or early September.
On July 11, 2017, the Deputy Attorney General of New Jersey, Angela Juneau-Bezer, took up the case on behalf of the state. This was a little bit intimidating, but we were still prepared to go to court if we had to. Those records were supposed to be open, after all, and we would fight for them. We'd already won the New York City marriage index last year; whey shouldn't New Jersey have an open index too?
But one week later, a small miracle happened. The Deputy Attorney General decided that there was no need to go to mediation after all. She would drop the state's refusal and the New Jersey marriage index would be legally declared to be available to the public. She would instruct the Department of Health to put all the files on a small hard drive and send it to Alec in the mail, along with an invoice for the cost of the records and the drive. She thought the total costs might be about $675.
Now, that might sound like a lot of money, but really, a one-time charge to get about five million records and 115 years of data released to the public domain forever, plus avoiding all the costs of litigation? That sounded like a very good deal. Reclaim The Records made plans to reimburse Alec for the cost of these records, with his agreement that they would go online for free without any kind of usage restrictions, and we got our credit card ready.
And then? Another small miracle. New Jersey did something very un-Jersey-like and suddenly decided they wouldn't charge a dime: not for the records, not for the labor, not for the hard drive, and not even for the shipping. They just gave us the data! We'd won everything and in the end it hadn't cost us a thing — except for time and stress.
Why did they do this? We can only speculate, but it could be that New Jersey realized that they would lose the OPRA case, had we gone to the Supreme Court. New Jersey is one of only a handful of states where a requestor who wins an open records lawsuit will also automatically win payment of all their attorneys fees and court costs. This is unusual; in most other states, including New York, the decision whether to award attorneys fees is a totally separate question from whether the records were being wrongfully withheld from the public.
Alec sent us a copy of the data as soon as he received it. We started to put it all online at the Internet Archive.
And then we realized a few years were missing. The New Jersey Department of Health did not have a complete set of their own state marriage index! They were missing a number of the Grooms Index files for many years, and worse, they were missing the mid-1930's entirely!
Luckily, we were able to figure out that the New Jersey State Archives in Trenton had copies of the missing years of data on microfilm. Alec reached out to their executive director Joseph Klett, who is himself a dedicated genealogist, and they agreed to make us copies of the six missing microfilms at the low low cost of $35 per film, which was incredibly nice of them. The similarly nice people at FamilySearch then agreed to scan the microfilms for us, and the box is out in Salt Lake City right now, getting turned into digital images. So, again, if you're looking for mid-1930's marriages in this index, that missing piece of the data will go online in a few months, hopefully by end of the year.
We also gave a heads-up e-mail to some friends in the genealogical community about the impending data release. (Special shout-out to all the people in the New Jersey genealogy Facebook groups who knew about this index going online two months ago but who didn't spill the beans!) All the major websites you would hope or expect to see this data will have it online eventually, and multiple transcription projects are being planned, although it may take a year or two for everything to wind up freely text-searchable.
And as for Alec? Well, he seems to have been bit by the records requesting bug, and we're working with him on some other new projects that we can't talk about just yet, in new states. And you should probably tell him thank you for having the great idea to go after these New Jersey records in the first place. (Or you could hire him for your northeastern US genealogy projects, or Italian or Latin American or Jewish genealogy projects, or hire him as an archivist once he finishes his two masters' degrees…)
One more fun fact: at one point in this records fight, a New Jersey government official casually mentioned to Alec that only a New Jersey state resident could file an OPRA request. This government official was slightly misinformed, as a new court case just this past April decided that OPRA requestors no longer need to prove in-state residency. Nevertheless, Alec was never a New Jersey resident at any point during this fight; he just conveniently didn't volunteer that fact during the proceedings, and the state officials apparently didn't think to ask him. We in the genealogical community are the beneficiaries of his forbearance. 😉
One more way to say thank you
And there's one more thing you can do before you rush out and start using the New Jersey marriage index.
We at Reclaim The Records were able to step in and work with Alec on this project because we finally became a real 501(c)(3) registered non-profit earlier this year, and have quietly been fundraising for the past few months. We're planning to grow and expand, to target records access fights in more states, and to do that we needed to grow up from a little not-for-profit project into a real IRS-approved non-profit organization.
This also meant that we had enough funding to feel comfortable hiring an attorney and potentially launching a new lawsuit to help Alec fight for these records, and we knew we could also pay the state the $675 invoice for the marriage index. It was only by sheer luck that we did not need to pay out either of those associated costs in this particular case, because the state suddenly decided not to go to mediation or to court, and then they didn't even charge us for the copies of the records.
We want to keep reclaiming and publishing records like this New Jersey marriage index. And we want to keep helping genealogists like Alec with legal assistance and financial support to reclaim any new records they may discover. If another genealogist comes to us tomorrow needing help with another awesome records project, we want to be able to say yes to them too.
So we hope you'll consider supporting Reclaim The Records so that we can keep on doing things like this. We now have a DONATE button on our website, and we also accept checks, and every little bit helps.
And we thank you for your support. 🤗


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The residence of anchoret Aghios Arsenios
In a small cage, located on the southeastern steep slope of the small Erimitis mountain (518m) and not far away from Morfi village (formely known as Morfati) of Margaritiou district in Thesprotia prefecture, stands a church dedicated to Aghios Arsenios. According to an inscription on the right side of its built chancel, this residence was limned in 1872 by the hagiographers Anastasios and Pantoulis who came from Chionades.
The residence of anchoret Osios Nilos
It is located behind the street that leads from Filiates to Tsamanta. On the external side of the wall at the cave entrance there is a fresco depicting an Archangel and there are also other 14th century frescos in its interiors. Someone can pay tributes to the cavernous church at the rock bed.
The residence of anchoret Aghios Arsenios
In Paramithia mountains, on an abrupt location above Velliani village, is the residence of anchoret Aghios Arsenios whose memory the inhabitants celebrate on the 8th of May.
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Welcome to this installment of Learn Windows XP Professional in 15 Minutes a Week, the 22nd in this series. In this article we will continue our look at compression and EFS under Windows XP Professional.
Windows XP Professional allows for both compression and encryption natively within the operating system by setting given attributes on the files and folders. Both of these functions are mutually exclusive of each other and only one or the other can be enacted on a particular file or directory at any given time.
[NOTES FROM THE FIELD] - What you can do is compress an entire directory and all of the files and folders within that directory and then go in and elect to encrypt select files which will remove the compression bit from those selections that will be come encrypted. A file or folder cannot be both encrypted and compressed at the same time under Windows 2000 or XP Professional natively by the operating system itself.
There is a Compressed Folders feature within Windows XP Professional which provides the ability to create compressed folders and view their contents much in the manner that many other programs such as PKZip and WinZip perform. This article deals with the operating system / attribute driven level of compression and not this particular utility.
It is important to note that compressed folders of this nature, created through the use of the Compressed Folders feature within Windows XP Professional, can be encrypted on NTFS partitions and can be compressed (only) on FAT16 and FAT32 partitions.
You can encrypt a folder by selecting the folder, right clicking it and choosing Properties.
On the GENERAL tab of the properties page you would select the Advanced button in order to bring up the Advanced Attributes page, as shown below.
On the Advanced Attributes page you would go down to the Compress or Encrypt attributes section where you can choose one checkbox to compress the contents or the other to encrypt them.
[NOTES FROM THE FIELD] - Strangely enough, the options to target are check boxes, which normally denote the ability to choose more than one selection. (Radio buttons are normally used in a situation where only one option from a number of given ones can be selected.) Regardless of which, if you attempt to select both, you will find that your second choice in this section undoes your first selection.
I think the decision to program this property page in this way stems from the fact that you cannot unselect a radio button by clicking on it a second time as you can a checkbox. (This is just my thought on this. This is not backed up by any facts). If you want to make a folder and the contents "normal" by neither encrypting them nor compressing them, you'd clear the checkboxes.


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text: This is a blog for Rocket guys by Rocket guys. The ARC was formed to introduce and educate the public about both low and high power rocketry. We love to build rockets, both large and small. We want to expand the sport,pass on the knowhow that we have learned, and hopefully get some from others to also pay it foward. Some like to keep it to themselves. We hope to get people reinterested in space and the importance of math,and science in school.


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Blogs in 'Of Apps and Developers'
Who knew phone locater and security apps could become life-saving tools as my other half found out the hard way by misplacing her phone - overseas! As they say, prevention is better than cure and that's the point I hope to drive in this blog.
As an avid gamer, one thing that bothers me is the exclusivity of certain games for specific platforms.
Opera has been around for 14 years to date. Here are some reasons as to why I love it so, most of the time.
Intel is the latest to plunge into the 'App Store' model with a beta version for netbook apps. Is the App Store model the best distribution method?


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Ensemble InterContemporain: Luciano Berio: Sequenzas
Avant-Garde jazz may be considered in the same vein as much 20th Century postmodern classical music, a la Maurice Kagel and Luciano Berio. Both genres (if, indeed, they are different) boast a deliberate composition and/or improvisation providing a product of almost stream-of-consciousness sound. Knowing your interest in the avant-garde in jazz, I thought you might interested in what is happening on the other side of the fence.
The Italian composer Luciano Berio has been composing a series of "Sequenzas"; compositions for solo instruments, since the mid-1950s. They are not unlike Bach's suites for solo instruments and can be considered the progeny of that German's instrumental creation. Berio considered these compositions his " harmonic discourse with melody". Indeed. These pieces are asymmetric, arrhythmic splashes of tones and smears, an embarrassment of aural richness that appears suddenly in the center and radiates outward. The current collection is the most recent release of any Sequenzas and is the first release of the complete collection extant. For this collection, DB has assembled an outstanding cast of soloists, several show are closely associated with Berio.
The earliest composition is the Sequenza I for Flute (1958) and the latest are the Sequenzas for Bassoon and Accordion, respectively (1995). The must hears in this set are Sequenza III for Woman's Voice (Luisa Castellani, Berio's preferred interpreter of his vocal works), Sequenza V for Trombone (Benny Sluchin, forget Wycliffe Gordon, these are effects that break the mold), and Sequenza XIII for Accordion (Teodoro Anzellotti). Anzellotti is considered the Liszt of the accordion (Sequenza XIII was composed specifically for him). He is also featured on a Kagel collection recently released on Winter & Winter.
So, Berio is no Bach and was never meant to be. He is also not Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, or Sam Rivers. This may be music in its purest, subatomic form, existing the moment it is played. I thought you might like to know about it.
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Sequenzas I - IV
Ensemble InterContemporain
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Title: Luciano Berio: Sequenzas | Year Released: 2000 | Record Label: Deutsche Grammophon


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This Giller Prize 2010 winner connects the flooding of an Ontario town, the Vietnam War, a trailer in North Dakota, and an unfinished boat in Maine. There are many references to the movie Casablanca and many direct quotes from it including the title of the book. It is about the unreliability of memory and how things which lie just below the surface can affect us.
Reluctantly I must say that this book was a struggle for me to finish, and I never felt like I connected with it much.
The author is a poet and her prose has a style as elusive and vague as the hidden town beneath the water. Maybe that was her point. Her sentences are run on and her meaning unclear, illustrated in this excerpt:
"I think now that that's really the most – the best – we can do: answer the questions that pose themselves to us, and describe, if only to ourselves, the things that we have loved, and believed in, and the actions that we have or would have liked to have taken, and will take now, and do take, over and over again, in the quiet parts of our minds."
A common frustration is how literary novels often have low readability. Out of the five Gillers I've read in the last 10 years, I've really only enjoyed two of them. Controversy over literary awards is not a new thing. The Orange Prize (awarded only to women) was begun as a reaction to an all male shortlist for the Man Booker Prize one year. And the Whitbread/Costa award chooses books with high literary merit but also "works that are enjoyable reading and whose aim is to convey the enjoyment of reading to the widest possible audience". Hear, hear!!
Most of us prefer books that draw us in somehow, either because of characters, plot, setting, eloquence, articulation, or because of a skillful turn of phrase. That is readability. So who is picking the literary award winners? Perhaps others in literary circles who "get" what the author is doing. One cynical reviewer said: the "Giller might say more about the people who made up the jury this year than it does about the book itself." I want to like award winners, that is probably why I keep reading them. They are important, they make the news, and they have beautiful covers, but often remind me of the cod liver oil my mother used to give me because she thought it was good for me.


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text: Environment Where should old cargo ships go to die? Some Europeans say bring them home The World October 21, 2013 Most of the Europe's old cargo ships end up in South Asia, where they're broken up for scrap under terrible labor and environmental conditions. But there's a growing movement to have ships scrapped in Europe instead.


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I just got back from signing all the papers for my 2012 5door Dark metallic Gray WRX and I will not be able to sleep tonight as the car is still sadly at the dealership . It's not ready to be picked up until tomorrow afternoon. I have had this car on reserve for a little less than a month and the wait has me killing me! Finally I get the call today that the car has arrived and that I should come in and do the paperwork, but that it won't actually be ready to go home till the next day. It still had the plastic on it and on the rims too. Sucks I had to leave it there but I can wait 1 more day. I look foward to being a member of the forum and a new wrx owner. Will post some pics tomorrow as it was already dark. This is my first WRX not to mention Subaru and did I mention Im excited?


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THIS is great. To see these big guys up close would be pretty sweet.
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Thursday, November 4, 2010
Reaper Sentinels
THIS is great. To see these big guys up close would be pretty sweet.
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Labels: cemetery, lighting, reaper, scarecrow, Scarecrows, tombstones, yard haunt, yard haunts
2 comments:
- Hopsy the beer drinking clown said...
love those looooong sinister tendril-like fingers, great prop!
- November 4, 2010 at 7:41 PM
- JD said...
Years ago, I saw a picture of a prop with strangely long fingers and was struck by how creepy it made the thing look.
Had to do it.
This year, used a heat gun to make the hands more expressive.
- November 4, 2010 at 8:56 PM
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Happy Wednesday
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My name is Darlene Lyons and I live in Ayr Ontario. I am a SAHM blessed with two beautiful girls Abigail and Hailey and a wonderful supportive husband Todd who gets the addict I've become since being introduced to scrapbooking. After spending more time at the table than my girls colouring I needed to find an adult excuse to colour, which I found in Copics!! I have just recently started a blog to showcase some of my creations, you can find them at http://www.scrappyduesbydarlene.blogspot.com/
Darlene made such an adorable card using Donita Angel
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Friday's two-hour exchange at Abdullah's desert camp did not yield a shared statement or any evidence of policy changes, leading some Saudis to question whether differences over Syria's war or Iran's nuclear programme were closer to being resolved.
But diplomats said the mere fact Obama made the effort to visit and discuss issues "frankly" - in a US official's words - with the king should reduce the margin for public spats and counter an impression that both sides value the alliance less.
Obama visited the world's top oil-exporter and birthplace of Islam aiming to soothe Saudi fears that the United States was retreating from its commitment to the security of Middle East allies and allowing Riyadh's rival Iran more influence.
Those concerns, revolving particularly around the cautious US approach to the war in Syria where Riyadh and Tehran back opposing sides, had led top Saudis to warn of a "major shift" from Washington and that they might "go it alone" in future.
Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes said before Obama and Abdullah met late on Friday night that the relationship had improved since the autumn thanks to better coordination on assisting Syria's insurgents.
But the comments made by a senior administration official later on Friday did not indicate any shift in areas where the two sides have disagreed.
"It's too early to judge whether the meeting is successful. Judge and jury on this is if the American policy on Syria changes quickly enough," said Mustafa Alani, a security analyst with close ties to the kingdom's Interior Ministry.
That point was echoed by Abdullah al-Askar, chairman of the foreign affairs committee in Saudi Arabia's Shoura Council, a body appointed by King Abdullah to discuss policy issues and advise the government.
"As you know, before the visit the relationship was a cold one, but not to a degree where it was in danger," he said, adding that he was speaking in a personal capacity and did not have direct knowledge of what Obama and Abdullah discussed.
But Askar added that although the meeting had appeared to go smoothly, it was not yet possible to judge its success. "We can figure out on the ground...if there is a change (in US policy), it means the Americans now understand the real story."
Iran Threat
Saudi faith in Obama was shaken by his approach to the Arab uprisings in 2011, when they wanted him to do more to protect shared allies who were unseated by popular protests, and by his failure to press Israel into ending settlement construction in occupied territory that Palestinians want for a state.
Last year their anger boiled over when Obama backed away from air strikes against the forces of Syrian President Hafez al-Assad after a poison gas attack in the country's civil war, and when Washington and five other world powers agreed a preliminary deal with Iran over its disputed nuclear programme.
They have been pressing for US involvement of some kind, whether air strikes or more help in turning the Syrian rebels into a competent military force, since early in the conflict but feel Obama has vacillated over how far to commit.
Saudi Arabia believes it is facing a life-and-death struggle with Iran for the future of the Middle East, including in Syria, and abhores the prospect of sanctions and other pressure on the Islamic Republic being lifted.
Washington's early reassurances that it would not allow Iran more scope to be involved in Arab issues in exchange for a nuclear deal were met with suspicion in Riyadh. But as the interim nuclear accord has shown little sign of being broadened into a permanent settlement, their concerns have diminished.
Nevertheless, Riyadh had hoped for concrete developments on improving the weapons flow to Syria's rebels, especially after US media reported last week that the White House was considering a new plan that involved providing more arms and stepping up training efforts.
But a senior administration official said after the meeting that US reluctance to provide anti-aircraft missiles, seen by backers of the rebels as indispensable if they are to start turning the tables of the stalemated conflict against Assad, had not changed.
Robert Jordan, US ambassador to Riyadh from 2001-03, said that normally such summits produced action on concrete measures.
In this case, he said, "it's not clear to me that either side got very much other than words and reassurances".
A Saudi source said the lack of tangible action was "expected" and that the kingdom's rulers had lost their trust in Obama when he backed away from military action against Assad.
Alani said: "The question is how fast he (Obama) is going to deliver on his promises. This is a major issue now. Especially on Syria. They will give it a month or two to see if there's a shift. If it isn't happening, we'll go (back) to square one."
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Peter Bell, president of CARE, speaks on world poverty
Bell, president of the international relief organization CARE, gave a Princeton audience a personal account of the growing gulf before poor and prosperous nations Sunday, and outlined a five-component strategy to attack poverty.
"It is jarring to travel back and forth between two worlds -- a world in which Americans buy groceries on the Internet and a second world in which one child in three - in a country like Angola - dies before age 5," said Bell, a Princeton Graduate School alumnus. "We ought to and can bridge the gap between these two worlds and affirm the ties that bind all human beings to one another."
Bell's address was the fourth lecture in a yearlong series called "Frontiers of Knowledge," which celebrates the centennial of the Graduate School with talks by distinguished graduate alumni. Bell received his master's degree in public affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1964.
Bell illustrated the wealth divide with examples from his own life. He described how he and his wife chose the name of their daughter, Emily, two weeks before she was born. But in poor communities in Bolivia, parents typically do not name their children until they are a year old because so many children die before their first birthday.
When his son turned 15, Bell recounted, his biggest concerns centered on obtaining his driver's license and preparing for college-entrance exams. By contrast, he said, 15-year-olds in South Africa must cope with a 50 percent chance of dying from AIDS.
A self-described idealist, Bell said it is possible to end poverty in this century. He advocated a systematic attack on the roots of poverty, often engendered by discrimination and exclusion, conflict, poor governance, the HIV pandemic, environmental degradation and population growth.
First, he said, ending poverty requires action at every level, including rethinking the process of globalization. "Right now, globalization helps rich countries more than it does poor countries, and sometimes it helps rich countries at the expense of poor countries," he said.
Second, the international community needs to work in concert to end poverty. Third, the United States must support and lead the effort. "No other nation is as well positioned to provide diplomatic support for resolving conflicts or to correct the failing of globalization," Bell said.
The fourth component is promoting strategic investments that should have high impact in poor communities. For example, CARE strives to establish basic education, safe water and control over the spread of HIV/AIDS.
And finally, governments and other agencies must increase dramatically the resources dedicated to the task. "Not just financial resources, but political, diplomatic and peacekeeping resources as well," Bell said.
Bell urged his listeners to work to end poverty by lobbying elected officials, supporting organizations dedicated to relief, and volunteering with such groups as the Peace Corps. "Be a voice for inclusion, equality and social justice," he said.
Bell has spent more than 35 years in public and international affairs. As president of CARE for the past five years, he has been credited with expanding the scope of the organization from providing immediate relief to focusing on the root causes of poverty. CARE's work in development and emergency aid reaches tens of millions of people each year in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America.
In addition, Bell has held leadership positions with other organizations dedicated to reducing poverty and improving the quality of life in the U.S. and abroad, including the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Inter-American Foundation and the Ford Foundation. He served in the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare during the administration of President Jimmy Carter.
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DOE: Uranium shipments to Nevada could start soon
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – A U.S. Department of Energy official says stocks of radioactive uranium could start shipping from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to Nevada in 2013.
However, The Knoxville News Sentinel reports that agency officials will not discuss exact dates of the shipments because of safety and security reasons because of the fissionable material's potential use in nuclear weapons.
DOE's Environmental Manager Mark Whitney said in an interview with the newspaper this fall that the DOE wanted to start the shipments to the Nevada National Security site in early 2013 pending approvals to ship.
The agency released another statement saying that all approvals for shipment were not yet in place, but they expected approval soon.
The shipments are part of a program to dispose of a stockpile of old reactor fuel called the Consolidated Edison Uranium Solidification Project that has been housed at Oak Ridge for decades.
The 1980s project processed the radioactive materials for storage and there are 403 canisters contained about 2.6 kilograms of uranium in each. The radiation at the exterior of the canisters is about 300 rads per hour, which categorizes it as a high-hazard level.
The energy department said a container sleeve acts as a shield and has reduced the radiation field by about half.
Whitney did not agree with an analysis by the Institute for Policy Studies released earlier this year criticizing the plans to disposal of the materials, which suggested the agency would have to waive its own rules in order to bury the materials in the Nevada desert landfill.
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Students may audit a course and attend without taking examinations. The regular tuition rate is charged. Audited courses carry no credit and do not count as a part of one's course load, which will affect a student's status if he or she receives financial aid or veterans benefits or holds an F-1/M-1 visa. Students who wish to change status in a course from credit to audit or from audit to credit must complete the Auditing a Class Form (125–012) and have it signed by the instructor and the academic dean within the add/drop period for the course (no later than the census date). Students may also audit NOVA Online courses with the instructor's permission. The instructor may still require a certain level of attendance or completion of some assignments; students should follow the guidelines on the course syllabus or negotiate expectations with the instructor early in the semester.
Students who wish to earn credit for a previously audited course must retake the course by reenrolling in the course for credit and paying normal tuition to earn a grade other than X. Advanced standing credit will not be awarded for a previously audited course.
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Sonic Heroes – Final Boss FAQ
Final Boss FAQ by Tei Sama
Version: ker-FINAL! | Updated: 12/16/2004
SONIC HEROES METAL MADNESS/METAL OVERLORD FAQ By Tei Sama Version ker-FINAL Version Updates: 12/16/2004 - Updated Contact Info and performed a couple nip-and-tuck edits. This baby's finished. 06/02/2004 - Added a new site to the list of sites allowed to post this FAQ. 01/23/2004 - Updated [5.2] Team Chaotix. Did a little nipping and tucking. 01/18/2004 - Updated [5.1] Team Rose and [5.2] Team Chaotix. Added a new strategy to [5.3] Team Dark. [1.0] Introduction [2.0] Cinema 1: "It Was..." [3.0] Cinema 2: "Metal Transforms" [4.0] Cinema 3: "The Power of Teamwork" [5.0] Fight: Metal Madness [5.1] Team Rose [5.2] Team Chaotix [5.3] Team Dark [6.0] Cinema 4: "Super Sonic" [7.0] Fight: Metal Overlord [7.1] Team Super Sonic [8.0] Cinema 5: "We're Sonic Heroes" [9.0] Legal St00f [10.0] Contact In-for-may-shun ---------- [1.0] Introduction I hate writing Intros, so here's the short version: This FAQ is to help those having difficulty beating the final FINAL boss of Sonic Heroes. Warning, it does contain story spoilers (as this is rather in-depth). Have at it! The sections are ordered chronologically. Those dealing with Cinemas will be in script format, with important actions placed within astericks, *like so*. The action-based sections will be more practical for their intended usage and shall be pretty self-explanitory. ---------- [2.0] Cinema 1: "It Was..." Vector: Then who was it? Who locked you up here for trying to conquer the world? Eggman: *holds up a hand, then frowns* It was... ---------- [3.0] Cinema 2: "Metal Transforms" *Teams Sonic, Rose and Dark run up to the bridge of the Final Fortress* Metal Sonic: Hmmhmmhmmhmm...All living things kneel before your master! *Metal holds his hand into the air as lightening strikes. Team Chaotix join the other three Teams as Metal Sonic destroys the bridge of Final Fortress and uses its remains to transform into Metal Madness. Metal Sonic melts away and forms Metal Madness' head. Two eyes split the liquid-like blue, one on top of the other. Metal Madness roars.* ---------- [4.0] Cinema 3: "The Power of Teamwork" Eggman: Metal Sonic has finally transformed! *Eggman's robots run away from Metal, past Eggman and Teams Sonic, Rose and Chaotix* Sonic: So that's Metal Sonic? *Team Dark moves towards the other three Teams and Eggman* Eggman: It's useless! Metal Sonic has combined your data with the power of Chaos and is super strong! We can't defeat it! *grabs head in frustration* Aagh...if only we had the seven Chaos Emeralds! *Cream blinks and pulls the orange Emerald from behind her. The camera pans across all four teams--Big has the purple Emerald, Rouge has the silver one, Omega has the green one, Espio has the red one and Charmy has the light blue one* Eggman: What's this?! But how? *Slams fist into hand* Even with the Emerald's power, our chances for victory are slim...it would take a miracle! Sonic: Just leave that to me, Doc! *Tosses up blue Emerald* Amy: Sonic, no! Tails: I'm going with you too! Sonic: Tails... Knuckles: You can count me in, too. Sonic: Knuckles... Shadow: Okay guys, we'll buy you some time. That way you can use your super powers! *Rouge nods and Omega clenches his fist. Sonic turns to Team Rose: Amy gives a thumbs-up and Big gives a determined, serious nod. Sonic then turns to the Chaotix and points at them: Vector gives a thumbs-up, Charmy flips over backwards, and Espio gives a small nod. Tails and Knuckles run up beside Sonic.* Sonic: Okay then, let's get ready to do this. We'll show that creep the real super power of team work! *The Camera pans back to show Team Sonic framed by the other three Teams, all posing* ---------- [5.0] Metal Madness [5.1] Team Rose DIFFICULTY: EASY STRATEGY: You start on a platform on Metal's left side. A glowing blue circle sits on Metal's hip, like a giant bullseye. The color indicates which attack formation will not affect Metal; Blue means Speed formation won't work, Red means Power formation won't work, and Orange means Flight formation won't work. As far as I know, the color never changes when you play as Team Rose, meaning don't even consider using Amy for this. That leaves you with a choice of Big or Cream. Throughout the battle with Teams Rose and Chaotix, Flight formation is in- effective--the Thunder Kick will either not lock onto the targets and home, or will hit the targets but not actually inflict any damage. Whenever it does, the damage inflicted is minimal at best, so Cream is also not recommended for this battle. That leaves you with Big--who can inflict maximum damage and avoid Metal's attacks easily enough. Metal has three attacks: he'll sweep the platform with his tail, strafe the platform with the flamethrower in his left arm, and launch spines from his back, which implant themselves in the ground and form giant icicles. The first two can be avoided by jumping and using Big's parasol--the last one just requires you to be fast on your feet. Attack whenever Metal Sonic isn't doing anything. Start the battle by switching immediately to Big and grabbing up a lot of rings. There are sixteen on the platform. There are two tactics you can use: you can go to the back of the platform and bust open one of the wooden crates for a Team Blast powerup. Use the Team Blast right away to do do heavy damage to Metal, then run over to the other corner and break open the second wood crate. Grab the remaining Team Blast powerup. While the Team Blast meter reloads, attack Metal using Big's fireball attacks, and unleash the second Team Blast. This is the first and super-easiest of the tactics, guaranteed to get you past the first part no problem. The second tactic involves you ignoring the crates and power-ups altogether and simply attacking with Big whilst avoiding Metal's attacks. This takes longer, but is much more fun and challenging. Be careful while attacking with Big; hit the attack button too fast and he'll start doing his "TOYYY!" attack after you hit Amy and Cream. To escape this, either jump or switch out and back into Power formation. The attack doesn't reach Metal's weakpoint and leaves Big open for attack. [5.2] Team Chaotix DIFFICULTY: MEDIUM STRATEGY: The Chaotix' platform is set up similarly to Team Rose's, only instead of two wooden crates in the back corners, there's a single cannon. Going in as Espio will launch you up to one balloon situated above the platform, which contains a Speed powerup; going in as Charmy launches you to another balloon, which contains a flight powerup. Going in as Vector will, as you've learned by this point in the game, give you free reign over a certain area to shoot wherever you want--there are two more balloons behind the platform, with one more Speed and Flight powerup in each. You don't need these to complete the fight. Now situated to the right of Metal Madness, he has three attacks to unleash on you, one of which is new: along with the same tail-sweep and back-spine icicle attacks, he can now shoot the claws on his right had at you. They have limited homing abilities and form giant crystals on the platform, which can capture and contain any members of your team, including your current leader. You must free your teammates from the capsules immediately, because if all three of you get captured, the game is over. (Charmy has a weak stinging attack that can be utilized should Vector and Espio get caught.) The tail can be jumped over and the back-spines are easy to avoid, but the safest way to avoid the crystal claws is enter Power formation and wait the attack out inside the cannon. Metal will usually punctuate the back spine attack with the crystal claws, so be careful if you decide to stay on the platform and avoid the claws on foot. The icicles will shatter after Metal has fired off two or three claws. To make things a tiny bit tougher for you, Metal's weak spot (another light on his side) starts out yellow and will change to red after two hits. You want to start as Vector as he can inflict the most damage--get your two hits in fast before switching to Espio. Use his homing attack repeatedly until Metal starts to make a move so you can properly avoid it. The homing attack (for Team Chaotix and Team Dark) will bounce you back to the middle of the platform despite the distance to Metal's weak spots. Eventually, the weak spot may change back to yellow (switch back to Vector for this). If you get a Team Blast, use it when Metal's weak spot is red--the Team Blast won't inflict any damage, but it will cause the weak spot to change colors, leaving you open to attack with Vector once more. Otherwise, continue to attack with Espio's homing attack. Another means of using the Cannon comes from Nightshade the Hedgehog - you can use the cannon when in Power Formation to attack Metal's weak spot, but only when the weak spot is yellow. CREDIT TO: Nightshade the Hedgehog, for telling me about the cannon. [5.3] Team Dark DIFFICULTY: MEDIUM STRATEGY: Now you're positioned in front of Metal Madness, and his tail swipe has been replaced with the flame-thrower claw from the battle with Team Rose. The back-spines and crystal claws are back again. Metal's weak spot, which is positioned dead-center in front of you, starts out blue and switches to yellow, then red, with only a handful of attacks. This is better than the Chaotix, because you can attack with Rouge four times and Omega twice in a constant, steady cycle. Also worth noting: there are six crates and three balloons on or above this platform. The crates on the left contain Power powerups, the crates on the right provide Speed powerups, and the balloons hold Flight powerups. I recommend getting these soully for the sake of adding to your Team Blast meter. Start the battle by switching instantly to Rouge, and grab the Flight powerups. Get up as high as you can and start Thunder Kicking Metal Madness; eventually the weak spot will change Yellow, in which you change to Omega and hit him until his weak spot changes again. Rouge, when fully powered up, causes Omega and Shadow to get stuck under Metal's chest, making them do incredibly high amounts of damage in a short period of time. This new strategy puts my old one to shame, and when in tandem with Team Dark's Team Blast, it can be very lethal. Team Dark's Team Blast operates different from the others' as Shadow uses the Chaos Control to freeze time temporarily--you can use this to do heavy damage to Metal without taking damage yourself. And a quick note: if Shadow and Omega get trapped by the crystals, Rouge has a solitary attack--she'll throw three rings (not from the ones you've collected) right at her feet, which act as a weak Thunder Kick and is incredibly hard to use properly. Just keep trying until you get Shadow or Omega out of the crystals. SPECIAL THANKS TO: Jimmy Liztie, for pointing out the new Rouge-oriented strategy, which totally owned my Omega-oriented one. ---------- [6.0] Cinema 4: "Super Sonic" *Metal Madness roars up at the sky and thrashes violently. He sprouts wings, seperates from the Final Fortress, and flies off. Sonic glances at Tails and Knuckles, the latter two nodding; Sonic holds out his hand, which Tails and Knuckles touch. The seven Emeralds circle overhead, then begin orbitting the trio; Sonic crosses his arms over his chest and closes his eyes, erupting in a golden fire into Super Sonic. He floats up into the air and Tails shields his eyes. A golden aura bubble forms around him, and he grins--Knuckles, too, has been surrounded by a bubble. Team Super Sonic zoom off towards the camera.* ---------- [7.0] Metal Overlord [7.1] Team Super Sonic DIFFICULTY: MEDIUM STRATEGY: Okay. Like Sonic Adventures 1 and 2 (and most Sonic games prior), you start the level with fifty rings, which act like a count-down meter. When you run out of rings, Super Sonic transforms back into regular Sonic, and he, Tails and Knuckles plummet to their doom. Along the way there will be some balloons, all of which contain ten rings--pick them up whenever you can to keep your rings fresh. Metal now has five attacks in his arsenal; the back-spines and the crystal claws return, which you must counter with Tails' Thunder Kick. Tails isn't useless in this battle, like Cream and Charmy were in the Metal Madness fight; countering the claws and spikes builds a hefty amount onto your Team Blast meter. Metal's most common attack comes in the form of ice blasts from his chest, which you need to counter with Super Sonic's homing attack. He'll rarely use his other two attacks--he'll dive beneath the clouds and bring up a ship from the Egg Fleet, which you need to counter with Knuckles' Fire Spike, or he'll unleash the Chaos Control; this freezes you until the counter on the screen runs down to zero. There's twenty seconds, but this time can be sped up by tapping buttons and wiggling the joystick, you'll be helpless and your rings will continue to count down during this time. Things work partially for and against you in this battle--to start, all three members of the team start out at Level 3+, making their attacks incredibly strong and not in need of a powerup. However, Metal's three weak spots on his chest and hips have gone blank--you can't attack them, or Metal at all, using conventional means. Anticipate Metal Overlord's attacks and counter with the appropriate characters--these add incredibly to your Team Blast meter, which Eggman will explain as being your only hope to defeat him. Once you can pull off a Team Blast, do it IMMEDIATELY; this will have Super Sonic, Tails and Knuckles do repeated homing attacks on Metal. The key is to do this five times without running out of rings, which shouldn't be too hard if you keep an eye on your ring meter and the balloons in the distance. Once again, the crystal claws can trap you, this time right in midair. If this happens, Metal will stop moving forward; he'll continue to attack you, but you'll still have the chance to free your teammates. And again, should Super Sonic and Knuckles get taken, Tails has a ring-toss attack that can free them. ---------- [8.0] Cinema 5: "We're Sonic Heroes" *Metal Sonic is on his hands and knees on the deck of Final Fortress. Team Sonic run up to him.* Metal Sonic: It's no use...but why can't I defeat you? *Transforms back into his original Sonic CD form* Sonic: Huh! Because...we're Sonic Heroes. *Waves a finger* Amy: Sonic!! *Teams Rose, Dark and Chaotix run towards Team Sonic* Sonic: Anytime you want a rematch, just let me know. I'll be waiting. *runs past Metal Sonic* Tails: Hey Sonic, wait up! *runs past Metal Sonic as the he passes out* Amy: *Chasing Sonic and Tails* Sorry to leave like this, but I can't let my Sonic get away! Cream: Good luck Amy! Big: Bye-bye! Cheese and Chocola: Chao Chao! *Big and Cream wave goodbye* Knuckles: Heh...Sonic sure has his hands full. Rouge: *walking past Knuckles* I guess I'm out of here too. I think I'll go hunt for someone else's treasure. Knuckles: *shrugs* Heh, she never gives up, does she? Oh no you don't! WAIT! *chases after Rouge* Vector: Well, I guess that's it for this case. Espio: Guess so. Charmy: But what about our money? Vector: *slaps his snout* Oh, man! I almost forgot! *Eggman tiptoes away in the distance* Vector: THAT SLIMEBALL! *Eggman glances over his shoulder and runs, the Chaotix chasing after him* *Omega picks up the unconscious Metal Sonic. He and Shadow glance at each other, then look out to the horizon* *Sonic runs along Seaside Hill. Tails and Knuckles join him during his monologue* Sonic: Alright! Our next adventure awaits us, so there's no time to waste! Yeah! We're SONIC HEROES! *Team Sonic jumps at the screen and poses* ---------- [9.0] Legal St00f Sonic Heroes (c) Sonic Team. Do not steal it from them or they will excecute you with their nifty Samba de Explosives. (Har! I clever!) This FAQ is (C) Anthony Summo (that's me!) 2004. Don't redistribute. GAMEFAQS and NEOSEEKER have permission to use this. http://www.neoseeker.com/ http://www.gamefaqs.com/ If you want to post it elsewhere, email me with permission, and a link to the site in question so I can check it out. This FAQ must be posted in its entirety, or not at all. ---------- [10.0] Contact In-for-may-shun My email address (written in the nifty Sluggy Freelance SPAMbot blocker code!) is tei(dot)sama(at)gmail(dot)com. If you have questions, comments, flames, et cetera, give me a hollar.
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Resolving conflicts in parallel sprints
Portfolio for Jira now lets you accurately schedule the work of teams that are sharing a board, and are working in parallel sprints.
Conflicts happen when there are overlapping start or end dates across the active parallel sprints, or when one sprint ends and another sprint starts on the same day.
When such conflicts happen:
- Portfolio for Jira notifies you about the overlapping sprints on your board.
- You can choose to resolve the conflict at the time, by assigning each sprint to a different team.
- You can also consider assigning future sprints to your teams, to avoid future conflicts.
When viewing a plan and teams are connected to a board that has conflicts
When in the Teams view of a plan, and there are active parallel sprints that are overlapping
How to resolve conflicts in parallel sprints
- Click Resolve sprint conflicts. The following window appears, indicating:
- the teams connected to board that has conflicting sprints
- the active sprints that are currently conflicting for each team
- Select the checkbox for the sprint that you want to assign to each team.
- Click Save and calculate.
How to assign a future sprint to a team
- In your plan, go to Teams and find the team you want to assign a future sprint to.
- Click more (
) > Assign sprints. The following window appears, indicating:
- the currently active sprints in your board, and whether or not they have any conflicts
- any future sprints in your board
- Select the checkbox for the sprints that you want to assign to the team. You can also assign multiple sprints to the team if necessary.
- Click Save, and recalculate your plan.
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