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The Fall 2012 TV season began in earnest this week, with most shows having their series/season premieres. Here's a brief glance at the highlights:
- CBS' Sherlock Holmes update Elementary debuted strong with a 3.1 rating in the 18-49 demo for 13.41 million viewers.
- Also at CBS, The Big Bang Theory scored its highest rated season premiere ever with a 5.0 rating and a solid 15.66 million viewers.
- Things weren't all rosy at The Eye, however, as Hawaii Five-0 was way down with a 1.8 rating. That's a significant drop from last year's season premiere rating of 3.4 in the coveted 18-49 demo.
- NBC's J.J. Abrams-produced drama Revolution saw an unsurprising drop in viewers from last week's season premiere, though the 3.4 rating with 9.21 million viewers shows a healthy hold from last week's 4.1 rating.
- Unfortunately, ABC's excellent pilot for Last Resort debuted to a slightly disappointing 2.2 rating with 9.31 million viewers.
Hit the jump for the TV ratings for the week of September 23 – 29, including New Girl, Parks and Recreation, Grimm, Fringe, South Park, Sons of Anarchy, Castle, and much more.
- Following some stellar series premiere numbers for Revolution, this Monday's episode faced an expected drop in numbers, though the decline wasn't near as dramatic as some had expected. Episode two garnered a 3.4 rating in the demo with 9.21 million viewers, down from last week's 4.1 rating and 11.7 million viewers for the premiere.
- Tuesday's episode of the Matthew Perry-fronted Go On scored a 2.7 rating with 6.90 million viewers, down significantly from last week's 3.3 rating and 9.33 million viewers. It's not time to ring the doomsday bell just yet, but how far viewership slides next week will be crucial. This week was the first time the show went up against the major comedy programming on Fox, and the competition was not kind.
- This Tuesday's episode of the Ryan Murphy comedy The New Normal slid yet again, garnering a 2.0 rating with 5.09 million viewers against last week's 2.0 rating.
- There's a silver lining for this week's Parenthood, as this week's numbers are again low but they were flat with last week's, garnering a 1.8 rating for 4.85 million viewers.
- Wednesday's episode of the new comedy series Animal Practice was down quite a bit from last week's 4.1 rated episode, earning a paltry 1.4.
- Also down was Wednesday's Guys with Kids, netting a 1.6 against last week's 2.2.
- Wednesday's premiere of Law & Order: SVU was down slightly from last year, earning a 2.1 rating versus 2.4.
- Thursday's comedy Up All Night was up a ratings point from last week with a 1.4 rating for 3.26 million viewers.
- A swell episode of Thursday's Parks and Recreation was down slightly from last week with a 1.6 rating for 3.27 million viewers.
- Thursday's The Office was even with last week's incredibly disappointing premiere numbers with a 2.1 rating for 4.13 million viewers.
- Friday's premiere of Grimm topped the night in the demo, garnering a 1.6 rating for 5.3 million viewers, which is its best performance since January. This was up a tad from the 1.5 rating its previous episode earned.
- Monday's season premiere of fan-favorite How I Met Your Mother was down rather sharply from last season's premiere, with a 3.4 rating versus 2011's 4.7. That's 8.84 million viewers against last year's 11 million that tuned in for the season premiere, though it's on par with the season seven finale's 8.87 million viewers. The show is lucrative for CBS given its strong performance in the younger demographic, but creators/showrunners Craig Thomas and Carter Bays have publicly stated that they're writing with the intention that this is the last season. No official decision has been made by CBS, however, so it's possible that the show could go on.
- Also on Monday, the season premiere of 2 Broke Girls was down significantly from last season, earning a 3.7 rating for 10.14 million viewers against last year's 7.1.
- The new season of Mike & Molly also premiered on Monday with a 3.1 rating, down from last year's premiere which netted a 4.8
- Monday's series premiere of the David Krumholtz-fronted Partners garnered a 2.4 rating in the 18-49 demo with 6.56 million viewers, which isn't the best of starts for a CBS comedy.
- On the drama side of things, Monday's season premiere of Hawaii Five-0 was down significantly with a 1.8 rating against last year's 3.4.
- Tuesday's premiere of NCIS dipped slightly from last year's 4.3 rating, scoring a 4.1 in the 18-49 demo (people under the age of 50 watch this show?), while NCIS: Los Angeles landed a 3.4 rating in the demo, also dipping slightly from last year's 3.6 rated season premiere.
- The new drama series Vegas premiered on Tuesday to a 2.5 rating with 14.85 million viewers, which is CBS' lowest rated Tuesday drama premiere since 2004's Century City. All things considered, though, 2.5 is a respectable debut.
- The Wednesday season premiere of Criminal Minds was down, earning a 3.1 rating for 11.73 million viewers against last year's 4.1 premiere rating.
- Wednesday's season premiere of CSI earned 2.5 rating for 10.76 million viewers, down slightly from last year's premiere of 12.74 million viewers.
- The Thursday season premiere of The Big Bang Theory was unsurprisingly strong, garnering a 5.0 rating with 15.66 million viewers which is up slightly from last year's 4.9 premiere. That makes this the most-watched season premiere in the show's history.
- The Thursday season premiere of Two and a Half Men was down from last year's inflated, Ashton Kutcher premiere, netting a 3.5 rating for an incomprehensible 12.54 million viewers.
- On the drama side of things, Thursday's season premiere of Person of Interest (aka Homeless Batman) earned a 2.9 rating with 14.28 million viewers, down only a bit from last year's 3.1 rating.
- All eyes were on the Sherlock Holmes update Elementary, which opened strong to a 3.1 rating with 13.41 million viewers. The procedural aspect should fit right in with CBS' audience, so I don't expect a huge drop off next week.
- The season premiere of CSI: NY netted a 1.3 demo rating with 8.9 million viewers, down from last year's premiered which landed a 1.8.
- The series premiere of Made in Jersey wasn't exactly a great start, as the show garnered just a 1.1 rating for 7.7 million viewers.
- As usual, the most-watched show of the night was the Tom Selleck-fronted Blue Bloods which hit a 1.5 demo rating for 11.1 million viewers, which is down from last year's 2.0 premiere rating.
- Monday's episode of Bones earned a 2.2 rating with 7.61 million viewers, just down ever-so-slightly from last week's 2.3 rating among adults 18-49.
- Things are looking incredibly grim for new series The Mob Doctor, which managed to do even worse this Monday than last week's 1.5 rating with a paltry 1.3 for 3.85 million viewers. Chances are the show's days are numbered.
- Fox kicked off their Tuesday comedies with two new episodes of New Girl. The season premiere was way, way down from last year's 4.8 series premiere rating with a 2.8 adults 18-49 for 5.35 million viewers, though that's to be expected given that the series premiere was a first-look audience. The second episode was even for a 2.8 rating.
- Following New Girl's season premiere was the series premiere of the surprisingly excellent Ben and Kate. Sadly, the numbers dropped sharply from its lead in for a series premiere rating of 2.0 with 4.19 million viewers.
- Tuesday's series premiere of The Mindy Project was also rather soft, garnering a 2.4 rating for 4.73 million viewers.
- The final season of Fringe got off to a so-so start with a 1.1 rating for 3.1 million viewers, down from last year's 1.5 season premiere.
- Sunday's broadcast of the Primetime Emmy Awards netted a 3.9 rating in the demo for 13.26 million viewers, down from last year's 4.2 rating.
- Monday's season premiere of Castle was down from last year's season premiere, earning a 2.1 rating with 10.45 million viewers versus last year's 3.5 rating.
- The season premiere of Private Practice on Tuesday was down from last year's 2.8 premiere with only a 1.9 rating in the 18-49 demo. With Kate Walsh expected to leave at season's end, this is likely the show's final season.
- Wednesday's hour-long season premiere of The Middle earned a 2.9 rating with 9.16 million viewers in the demo, down a bit from last year's 3.1 premiere.
- Hot on the heels of its Emmy sweep, the Wednesday season premiere of Modern Family earned a 5.5 rating with 14.44 million viewers, down from last year's 6.1 premiere rating.
- Surprisingly, the much-derided alien comedy The Neighbors debuted on Wednesday to a fair 3.2 rating in the 18-49 demo for 9.22 million viewers.
- Thursday's fantastic series premiere of Last Resort was sadly underwatched, netting only a 2.2 rating in the demo for 9.31 million viewers. The show did, however, bring in strong numbers for males, a demographic that ABC is trying to improve upon. Seriously, I highly suggest you check this show out. The Martin Campbell-helmed pilot is riveting.
- The season premiere of the long-running Grey's Anatomy was up from last year's 4.1 premiere with a 4.4 rating in the demo (and a character death to boot) for 11.73 million viewers.
- Grey's creator Shonda Rhimes' other series Scandal was up slightly in its second season premiere with a 2.1 demo rating for 6.74 million viewers against the series premiere's 2.0 rating.
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- On Sunday, Boardwalk Empire's latest episode drew 2.6 million viewers for a 1.0 rating in the 18-49 demo, down a bit from last week's season premiere which netted 2.9 million viewers.
- Tuesday's top cable program was a rather shocking episode of FX's Sons of Anarchy, which grabbed a 2.1 rating in the 18-49 demo, down slightly from last week's 2.3.
- Wednesday's topical season premiere of South Park on Comedy Central netted a 1.0 rating, coming in second for the night on cable against, well, Honey Boo Boo.


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Macro-meta meets micro-meta here, where an artist in Queens explains how he used a hacked sewing machine to make Cosby sweater that reaches into the infinite. On the sweater Bill Cosby wears the sweater, on which Bill Cosby wears the sweater. And the pattern in the background of the sweater? It's the pattern on Bill Cosby's sweater in the sweater. Maybe we are all in the sweater - and maybe that sweater is part of only a larger sweater. Embrace the wool, and fear shrinkage, for we are all in the sweater's world now.
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Marble Polishing can increase the value of your home by $665
Using marble in your countertops or floorings can give your home an aesthetic appeal. It can make your interior look clean and sophisticated. Marble can be used in different parts of your home. It can be placed in your bathroom, kitchen or living room. Marbles are durable stones that can last for many years. Each marble slab has its own unique design because it is naturally mined. Its color is usually determined by the location where it was extracted and are commonly enhanced by manufacturers in their factories. Marble can be used as countertops. They have high heat tolerance and can improve the features of your kitchen. They are also popularly known to be used as floorings. Marble floorings are resistant to moisture making it easy to clean. However, with long time usage, marble can acquire scratches and stains that can make it look dull and faded. If your marble flooring or countertop is suffering from these issues, you do not have to replace them right away. It can be fixed by marble polishing Santa Monica. Santa Monica marble polishing is best done by professionals to ensure that your marbles will be restored to its former beauty. Some homeowners would try to do it on their own as a DIY project only to end up damaging their marble surfaces more in the process.
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The cost of marble polishing Santa Monica greatly depends on the condition of the marble surface to be polished, the labor and the materials and equipment that will be used. Santa Monica marble polishing may require the usage of paraffin wax, several sandpapers, cloths and pumice containing wax care solutions that can cost around $941 to $1,106 depending on the size of the marble surface. Hiring professionals to polish your marble can cost you $223 to $223 per hour. Before polishing the marble, cracks, chips and deep scratches has to be repaired first to make the surface even. The repair can cost you extra $100 to $400 depending on the extent of damages to be fixed. Special tools like grinding wheels and bars might be needed to grind uneven surfaces on the marble. Sand and pumice can be used for grinding. However, it will consume a lot of time and will add to the labor costs.
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Ginobili says he still needs to practice
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LOS ANGELES — The Spurs will have their first full practice session since training camp today or Manu Ginobili will know the reason.
Still seeking to regain his rhythm after back spasms caused him to miss the final four days of training camp and the first two games of the season, Ginobili had his first double-digit scoring game of the season in Saturday's stem-winding, 112-109 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers at the Rose Garden.
While the 35-year-old veteran of 10 NBA seasons was encouraged by his play in a season-high 28 minutes, he insists he is a long way from regaining his intuitive feel for the game. It is that feel that has characterized his Spurs career and made him one of the most popular players in franchise history.
He needs practice.
Yes, he's actually talking about practice.
"I haven't had the opportunity to practice, basically, since I went down," he said. "I'm not the type of player who starts after nine or 10 days of not playing and right away I am doing it the right way. I have to get my rhythm and my confidence, and I haven't been able to do it. So I am really, really glad that I could contribute (against Portland).
"I feel better, but I need to practice."
With two days off before they close a four-game, eight-day Western road swing with a game at Staples Center against the Lakers, coach Gregg Popovich penciled in a practice session for today at a gym not far from the team's Santa Monica hotel.
Ginobili intends to make certain the coach does not change his mind.
"We have to practice," he said, then repeated the assertion, with verbal emphasis. "If he's thinking about not doing it, I will try to convince him. I really need it. I am still not handling the ball and throwing passes. I am not sharp yet. The more I can play, the better I am going to be in the shortest amount of time."
Ginobili's rough edges appear mostly as turnovers. He has committed 14 in the four games he has played, an average of 3.5, nearly 11/2 per game higher than his career average. He had three against the Blazers.
Those mistakes were minimized by 5-of-8 shooting and having the ball in his hands for much of the tense final 31/2 minutes. Then, he got to the foul line three times and made 5 of 6 free throws. He also had a basket and an assist in the critical stretch as the Spurs won their third road game in four tries this season.
"That's Manu," Popovich said. "That's what he does."
It was what team captain Tim Duncan has been waiting to see since Ginobili returned for the third regular-season game.
"You know he's going to make the right play," Duncan said. "That's what you love about him. He's going to be very aggressive coming off those screens. If you mess up and get in the wrong area, he's going to make the right pass. He's an experienced player in that crunch-time position.
"He had some great 'Euro-steps' tonight and drew some big fouls. You can see those big long steps are there, and his legs are feeling good."
Ginobili called it the first time this season he felt like a basketball player.
"I felt a little better," he said. "In the second half, I started to get more aggressive, and I could get to the rim a couple times. But it's still too early to say that I feel right.
"Of course I feel better than I played in the first three games."
But he still needs to practice.
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Fun things to do in Boise:
First Wednesday in April tournament at Gringers
Dave and Busters - Eat and Play special- $10 game play, 10 tickets, plus dinner for $16.99/person
Kid movies in afternoons at edwards - $1, Tuesdays/Wednesdays at 10 am.
Big Als- arcade, bowling
Discovery Center ID - $8 adults, Cady free
World Center for Birds of Prey- $7/adult
Blacklight Bowling
Aquarium- $90 for a dual member pass, or $9/adult. Family pass comes with 2 guest passes.
ComedySportz Boise
Baby Rhyme Time, Music and Movement, and other library events
Idaho IceWorld
Spa Day- beauty schools- Oliver Finley- http://oliverfinley.com/salon-and-spa/ Paul mitchell - http://boise.paulmitchell.edu/boise-id/guest-services/ D'Shaw - http://www.dshawbeauty.com/services-menu/ Milan- http://www.milaninstitute.edu/student-services/student-salon-spa/boise-idaho/
Jabberz in Nampa- indoor play place, day pass for 0-3 is 5.66 http://www.jabbersplaydate.com/
Planet Kid- 4.75 under 3, http://www.wingscenter.com/entertainment/planetkidplayground.html
Idaho Historical Museum- Adults $5, 6&under free. Also visit the Pioneer Village next door. http://history.idaho.gov/museum-hours-location
Visit trials at Ada County CourthouseJust Kid'n Around
Zoo Boise. Thursday is deal day, special eents going on all the time
Movie nights in Settlers Park every Friday in the summer
Take a walk through Julia Davis Park
Kayak/swimming at Lucky Peak State Park
Roaring Springs- for a day pass, $29/adult. Friday/Saturday evenings 6-10pm $15/adult. Free for baby. PM plunge (3-8pm) $22/adult. $40 for all inclusive wahooz and roaring springs. 2for tickets- 3-8pm, 2 adults for 30. Thursdays PM plunge is 14/adult.
Community Pool (free)
Sand Dunes
MK Nature Center (free)
Dog Park (free)
Horse Racing at Les Bois Park- season from May 1-Aug 10. $5 adults, children free. Wednesday is Ladies night.
Wednesday night concerts at the Grove, splash pad, window shopping
kayak at veterans park lake
float the river - starting at Barber Park
Camel Back Park and hike
Explore Boise National Forest
Thunder Mountain Company- Scenic railroad trips. $30-75/adults, $10/infants. Panning for gold, coming May 2013 http://www.thundermountainline.com/ Horseshoe Bend, Idaho.
Trip to The Berry Ranch - a pick your own farm. Open 9 am- 1pm M-Sat, check website for prices and what is in season - http://www.theberryranch.com/pickyourown.html
Silver Creek Plunge- Garden alley, camping $15, geothermal pool $10/adults, can snowmobile there in the winter. Stocked stream for fishing. http://www.silvercreekplunge.com/
Starlight Mountain Theater - Garden valley outdoor musical theater
Old Idaho Penitentiary
Catch a BSU football game
Visit the Arrowrock Dam and Reservoir
Hulls Gulch Nature Trail
Learn to golf
Learn to play tennis - http://www.pierceparkgolf.com/ (3 lessons for $55pp)
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Disc Golf
Ribfest, yum yum!
Riggins Big Water Blowout 6/1 - http://www.bigwaterblowout.com/
Emmett Cherry Festival - second week of June - http://www.emmettidaho.com/annual-events/emmett-cherry-festival No dogs allowed, lots of free activities.
Great Garden Escape concerts at Idaho Botanical Gardens
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Warning: this article contains personal opinions.
I recently exchanged email messages with a newsletter reader who is looking for a replacement for his favorite genealogy program, the now-defunct program called The Master Genealogist. He raised some good points about today's available genealogy products, and I responded with some of my views and predictions. I decided to write an article based upon our "conversation" and to also expand our comments as I imagine many newsletter readers also are interested in finding new and (hopefully) better programs.
First, let me write specifically about The Master Genealogist.
The Master Genealogist, usually referred to as TMG, was a very powerful Windows genealogy program. It had features that appealed to the serious genealogist who wanted a tool to not only record genealogy findings but also to track and manage the entire family history research process. TMG had an army of strongly dedicated users, most of whom seemed to enjoy wringing every last ounce of productivity out of the program.
Many TMG users are still using the program as it seems to work well on every version of Windows, from Windows XP through Windows 10. However, most of the users also realize that some day a new version of Windows probably will break some of the features in TMG. Future use of the program is not guaranteed. Since the program is no longer supported or updated, a large number of these users are thinking about replacing TMG with something that will hopefully be supported for many more years.
I do not know the finances of Wholly Genes Software, the producers of TMG, but I suspect the company saw declining revenues every year accompanied by either stable or increasing expenses for support and future development. No company stays in business very long with those opposing factors. In addition, TMG was written in what has long been an obsolete programming language, so the idea of porting it to a new language or even to new operating systems (Macintosh, Android, iPad, etc.) probably was cost-prohibitive.
While the decision to drop TMG and to close the doors of the company was disappointing to the customers, I imagine the owner of the company had no other choice.
Alternative Genealogy Programs
OK, here is the sad news for present TMG owners: there is no other genealogy program on the market that has the power and the advanced capabilities of The Master Genealogist. None.
That's bad news for dedicated TMG users, but it is a fact of life.
There are programs that are better than TMG at various individual tasks, such as searching online databases, better at comparing family trees with distant relatives who have uploaded their family trees to a myriad of web services, better at providing user-friendly interfaces, and perhaps better at a number of other tasks. Indeed, there are more than a dozen excellent genealogy programs available today for Windows, Macintosh, and other operating systems.
However, I am not aware of any genealogy program available today that matches the power of TMG at recording all facets of the research process, at providing tools for evaluating genealogy evidence, and at a number of tasks that serious genealogists expect. Maybe there will be such a product someday, but such a product does not exist today.
Other Factors That Affect the Future of Genealogy Software
I read a lot of printed and online computer trade magazines. Over and over, I have read that the number of desktop computers being sold is dropping rapidly every year. In addition, depending upon which manufacturer's report you read, the sales of laptop computers are either holding steady or else are declining slowly every year.
The only laptops that are growing rapidly in numbers are the cloud-based Chromebook laptops that run the Chrome operating system. The sales of Chromebooks are exploding for a number of reasons: they are very easy to use, very reliable, perform most of the tasks that every-day computer users want, have been widely adopted in the public school systems, and have very low prices.
The Windows 10 and Macintosh OS X operating systems only run on desktop and laptop computers if we ignore the tiny fraction of 1% of the tablet computers that can also run Windows. Anything less than 1% can safely be ignored; it is not a significant factor.
The bottom line is this: the number of Windows and Macintosh systems being sold is already dropping every year.
This leads to one inescapable conclusion: Windows and the Macintosh OS X operating systems are also slowly dying. If the only systems that run these operating systems are declining, the operating systems themselves are obviously declining as well.
To be sure, Windows and OS X will not disappear any time soon. Your present desktop or laptop computer probably will be very useful for a long time yet. I believe Windows will survive in ever-smaller numbers for at least another decade, especially in the corporate environment. Businesses seem to love their Windows systems and probably will keep using them for at least another 10 years, perhaps longer. Sales of Windows systems to in-home users are already declining rapidly and that trend undoubtedly will continue.
I am not as sure about Macintosh OS X. Apple apparently has already seen "the writing on the wall" and is slowly merging the advantages of OS X and the advantages of mobile iOS systems (iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch) into one powerful, but future, product. OS X will probably change radically into something new, perhaps with a new name, and then will continue for a long time.
It seems obvious to me and to many others that the trend is moving to mobile systems, namely iPads, iPhones, and Android tablets and cell phones. These tiny devices are selling like hot cakes. In my frequent travels to airports and on board airplanes, I see hundreds of portable computing devices, mostly those running Android or Apple's iOS operating system.
Next, can you name a single brand-new genealogy program that has been announced for either Windows or Macintosh OS X in recent years? I am not referring to any new, upgraded release of an existing program. Instead, how many NEW genealogy programs can you think of that have been announced for Windows or Macintosh in the past 2 or 3 years?
NOTE: I can think of a couple, but they also seem to have since disappeared.
RootsMagic, Legacy Family Tree, Ancestral Quest, Family Historian, Family Tree Builder, Family Tree Maker, Reunion, MacFamilyTree, Heredis, GRAMPS, and other genealogy programs for Windows and/or Macintosh OS X are still being used by millions of people around the world; but, one has to question the future of these programs. If the number of Windows and Macintosh OS X desktop and laptop computers being sold every year is declining, what is the inevitable result for Windows and Macintosh OS X genealogy programs?
I will suggest that sales of these present programs will slowly decline.
Of course, many of the companies that produce today's genealogy programs are releasing new versions for Android and/or Apple iOS. I believe that most of these companies will remain in business and will remain profitable as they adapt to changing marketplace demands. The growth of genealogy programs appears to be taking place in the mobile marketplace. Dozens of new Android and Apple iOS genealogy apps have appeared in recent years, some of them produced by companies that have been producing Windows or Macintosh products.
There is one "elephant in the room" that I have not yet mentioned: the cloud.
Cloud-based apps are taking over the world in many areas although apparently not yet in genealogy.
Google Docs seems to be destined to replace Microsoft Word, LibreOffice, OpenOffice, WordPerfect, and many other desktop/laptop word processors. Similar stories seem to be happening for Excel and other spreadsheet programs, for Photoshop, and for many computer games.
If the Windows and Macintosh computers are to slowly disappear, it seems reasonable that the programs for those operating systems will also become less and less popular every year. OK, perhaps not entirely. Again, almost all the producers of word processors, spreadsheet programs, photo editing programs, and games are rapidly creating new versions of their programs for Android, iPhone, iPad, and cloud-based operating systems. Most of them have also developed or are developing cloud-based versions. I predict that their Windows and Macintosh versions will fade away, but most of the companies will remain in business by selling versions for the newer operating systems and for the cloud.
Let's examine cloud-based genealogy programs.
Cloud-based genealogy programs are available in two versions:
1. Many of the huge online database services digitize millions of records and make them available to their customers. I am thinking of the databases on MyHeritage.com, FamilySearch.org, Findmypast.com, Ancestry.com, and other online services. While valuable, I will ignore their company-contributed digital records for the remainder of this article. Instead, I will focus solely on services where individuals can upload their own family tree information for online storage and often for online collaboration with other genealogists. These are the online services that allow users to build their family trees on the web sites instead of in their personal devices.
2. In addition, there are only two well developed, state-of-the-art genealogy programs available today for implementation by single users in the cloud: The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding (which I will abbreviate to "TNG") and WebTrees, an open source, free genealogy program. Both of these programs are great for use by one person, by one family, or by one family association.
For more information about TNG, see http://www.tngsitebuilding.com.
For more information about WebTrees, see https://www.webtrees.net.
Note: Do not confuse the cloud-based TNG program (The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding) with the now-defunct Windows genealogy program called TMG (The Master Genealogist). These are two entirely different products, developed for different operating systems by different software developers. They are unrelated.
There are many advantages to using cloud-based programs, although not all of those advantages are apparent in today's cloud-based genealogy programs:
1. Most of these programs can be used with a variety of operating systems— Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Android, iPhone, iPad, Chromebooks, and probably future operating systems that have not yet been invented. No longer will cousins using different operating systems have difficulty exchanging genealogy data or be restricted to the multiple problems of GEDCOM data transfers. If everyone is sharing data within cloud-based genealogy programs, everyone will have access to the same data. The choice of the user's computer is now unimportant.
2. The security of cloud-based programs is equal to and often better than that of desktop and laptop computers. Admittedly, many people do not yet believe that. Yet today's security techniques on cloud-based systems are far better at locking out thieves, hackers, and spies than either Windows or Macintosh.
Note: I had a Windows laptop computer stolen from the trunk of my automobile a few years ago. The thief gained access to all my genealogy information on the laptop's hard drive, as well as my credit card numbers, my Social Security Number, the name, email addresses, and telephone numbers of hundreds of my relatives and business associates, my checking account information, my investment portfolio, and much more. Even the simplest cloud-based application has better protection than a stolen laptop computer that has not been encrypted! I spent weeks canceling credit cards and bank accounts and obtaining replacements. Such problems are rare in today's strongly-protected cloud-based systems. Had I been using a cloud-based banking system, cloud-based credit card company access, and other cloud-based services, the thief would have accessed nothing personal.
3. In cloud-based genealogy services, sharing information theoretically is easier to implement and control than it is with desktop and laptop genealogy programs.
Notice my use of the word "theoretically." Not all of today's cloud-based genealogy services have implemented controls for sharing. However, TNG, WebTrees, and some of the huge online databases intended to be used by thousands of users provide options to keep your genealogy information private, to share it with only a few trusted relatives, or to make it visible to everyone on the World Wide Web. With many of these services, the user is in control of his or her own privacy. Be aware that there are exceptions, however.
The future of genealogy software appears to be in programs installed in the cloud, not programs installed in Macintosh or Windows computers. None of those programs contain the power of either TMG or most of the other Windows and Macintosh genealogy programs in the versions available today. However, they are improving every year.
Today's cloud-based genealogy programs have capabilities that approximately match the genealogy programs of the 1990s, plus they are compatible with many operating systems and can support multiple simultaneous users. Those of us who have been using genealogy programs since the 1990s can report that the available genealogy software has improved greatly since those days. I am certain that today's cloud-based genealogy services and even the mobile apps for Android and Apple iOS also will improve at least as much in future years.
The new cloud-based programs will not match the power of the Windows and Macintosh programs this year, probably not next year, and I doubt if they will be as powerful even the year after. But I anticipate that they will match and even surpass the power of today's desktop and laptop genealogy programs within a few years. The genealogy programs of the 1980s and 1990s continually improved to become the powerhouses of today. I believe history will repeat itself: today's cloud-based genealogy programs will continually improve to become collaborative services that do far more than anything we have today.
The way I see it, the future of genealogy software is in the cloud.


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My project engages with history, representation, biography, personal narrative, and otherness in the documentary tradition. Each year in Pennsylvania, 500 people come together to reenact the Battle of the Bulge. During the reenactment, I portray Leni Riefenstahl and behave with soldiers, as she would have. I am intrigued by the complex story of a woman with a problematic set of morals. My work aims to understand people beyond the constraints of good vs evil. I have inserted myself into the Nazi reenactor photographs to subvert the viewer's instinct to dismiss these people as different from themselves. This allows me to reflect upon atrocity, delve into my own relationship with my Jewish heritage, and contemplate the camera's ability to re-imagine history.
Much of our conception of history is based on images. Historical images have been filtered through media and propaganda. These images become history as generations pass. Images are the dominant force that shape the public imagination. My images of the reenactment are part of the deconstruction process by which images first represent and then replace history.
The next phase of this project will explore Riefenstahl's life between 1962-1977 when she lived with the Nuba in Sudan. I will visit the same Nuba tribes to focus on the disjunction between her fetishized images and my own exploration of the Nuba's complex modern reality. The Nuba were victims of genocide during a recent civil war and it has deeply impacted their culture. They were forcibly relocated to camps and Islamicized. Hundreds of thousands died from warfare and starvation.
My project asks how we live in a world where genocide takes place in continuum? It reflects on the history of the documentary tradition as it poses new ways of expressing identity in relation to 'otherness'. This project deconstructs the notion of the photograph as document, its power as a tool of propaganda, as a witness to history and a call for change.
Stacy Kranitz studied film and photography at New York University. Her work focuses on the ways we express aggression and violence in our daily rituals, habits and pastimes. Additional themes in her work include the relationship between music and culture, the emotional growth of children and environmental racism. She is interested in the theoretical underpinnings that bind together the evolution of the documentary tradition. Her work looks to explore important social issues while commenting on this tradition and challenging its boundaries.
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EL-QUSEIR, 85km from Safaga, is another phosphates extraction centre, though with fewer inhabitants and more appeal. In pharaonic times, boats sailed from here to the "Land of Punt" (thought to be Yemen or Somalia), as depicted in reliefs within Hatshepsut's temple at Deir el-Bahri. The Romans knew it as Leukos Limen ("White Harbour"), while under Arab rule El-Quseir was the largest Red Sea port until the tenth century, remaining a major transit point for pilgrims until the 1840s, when Flaubert caught its last flickers of exoticism.
Today, El-Quseir is a sleepy place, mostly unaffected by tourism, despite the resorts on its outskirts. Life moves pretty slowly, except on Fridays, when Ma'aza and Ababda Bedouin flock in for the weekly market. The best dive sites nearby are the Brothers, east of El-Quseir, and the Elphinstone and Abu Dabbab reefs, down towards Marsa Alam, although the Quei and Wizr reefs are closer. All the resorts have their own dive centres although they may not allow outside divers to join their trips; it's best to book a dive package deal from the outset.
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Smack in the town centre, just past the main traffic roundabout, sits El-Quseir's most impressive landmark, the sixteenth-century crumbling walled fortress, which now houses a museum. Designed to protect trade routes used by the Ottomans, the fortress declined after trade was diverted around the Cape of Good Hope. Napoleon's army raised the French flag here in 1799, only to attract the attention of British warships sailing off the coast. The French survived a brief assault, but abandoned the fort two years later. Its most recent occupant was the Egyptian army, stationed here until 1975. The cistern, watchtower (climb up for excellent views) and rooms built into the walls of the fortress each contain small exhibits on the history and traditions of the Red Sea coast.
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In addition to the fortress, El-Quseir has a few other sights that are worth a quick look, including a small harbour where you can see local boat-builders at work, and a beachside promenade, good for a stroll. A few blocks back from the waterfront, past a number of shuttered and balconied houses, are the thirteenth-century Faran Mosque and an imposing former quarantine hospital dating back to the nineteenth century.
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein was more than cordial to National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre at Wednesday's big gun hearing, noting they had done battle 18 years ago when the California Democrat passed her 1995 assault weapons ban, expired since 2004.
"You look pretty good, actually," the California Democrat told LaPierre. No fireworks there.Her new assault weapons ban appears to be headed nowhere fast, given the lack of support among Democratic leaders. (See below.)
But she addressed all her questions to James Johnson, Baltimore County's chief of police and chair of the National Law Enforcement Partnership to Prevent Gun Violence.
"This is such a hard debate because people have such fixed positions," She said. "Police I think see killings as they are. Many people do not. The streets speak about this issue."
Flipping through what appeared to be a gun catalog, Feinstein said the apparently popular AR 15 can be modified to permit 400 to 800 rounds per minute, and two, three or four rounds at a time. The former San Francisco mayor, who put her finger through Harvey Milk's wrist only to find a bullet hole, described in even tones these firearms' "tremendous velocity and tremendous killing power," which "I suspect tears young bodies apart."
As for the call to put armed guards in schools, "Most people believe, sure we can have guards at schools," Feinstein said. "What do you do about malls? What do you do about movie theaters? What do you do about businesses? We can't have a totally armed society."
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RALEIGH, N.C. — Trailing candidates in three close racesmust decide whether they'll seek recounts now that all 100 North Carolina counties finished counting ballots from the November election.
State elections officials updated totals Saturday after collecting the last figures from Friday's canvass in Buncombe and Caswell counties.
The numbers show Republican Dan Forest leading Democrat Linda Coleman for lieutenant governor by 6,307 votes and Democratic 7th District congressman Mike McIntyre leading Republican David Rouzer by 655 votes.
Forest and McIntyre have declared themselves winners.
Coleman and Rouzer have until Tuesday to demand recounts.
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Based on the 2010 reports from Netmarketshare.com, the web browsers from Google and Apple have slowly been stealing users from Microsoft's Internet Explorer. In the chart below, we can see the trends over the last year. (chart by CNET)
This may be partly due to the new browser ballot in Windows 7 that is required in Europe. However, even if that's true, Microsoft still has no excuse for it's falling browser marketshare. When the beta version of IE9 was released in February, no affect was seen on the marketshare. We'll have to wait to see what happens when the finished version is released.
The gains by Chrome and Safari came at the expense of Internet Explorer's dropping percentage, which ended the year at 57%, after starting above 60%. Google's Chrome browser gained almost 5 points in 2010 and ended with 10% of the market. Safari gained about 1.5 points and ended at about 6%. Firefox and Opera remained about the same at 23% and 2%.
The question that we think most interesting is What browsers do Techie Buzz readers use?. Here's a chart from Keith showing our data.
The Techie Buzz chart shows more readers using Firefox than Internet Explorer. Chrome users are in third place, followed by Safari and Opera. If we can assume that most technology sites have similar stats, this doesn't look good for Microsoft.
It appears that the more people know, the less they use Internet Explorer. Many people feel that the crucial advantage to using Firefox and Chrome is that they are more easily customized by using Addons and Extensions. Do you think Opera's adoption of extensions will help them steal share from Microsoft?


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Welcome to our special E3 2016 Coverage of Parents Press Play & Friends. This week, we are at and around the Los Angeles area to discuss and cover the Electronic Entertainment Expo–also known as E3.
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Kaleb has been covering E3, and the Video Game Industry, since 1997. This year, he had the opportunity to record several audio interviews with many different companies at and around the Los Angeles Convention Center during E3.
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Venturi, Robert
Venturi, Robert, 1925–, American architect, b. Philadelphia. In his writings, Venturi inveighed against the banality of modern architecture in the postwar period. He argued instead for a more inclusive, contextual approach to design that heralded the postmodern era in architecture. Among his early large works is Guild House in Philadelphia (1962–66), whose entrance is distinguished by a bold, billboardlike sign. A more restrained historicizing mode has characterized his later public works, such as Gordon Wu Hall at Princeton (1982–84), the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery, London (1991), the somewhat flamboyant but not overwhelming Seattle Art Museum (1991), and the expanded Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (1996). Venturi is also an important theorist whose writings include the influential Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966); Learning from Las Vegas (1972), written with Stephen Izenour and Denise Scott-Brown (Venturi's wife and architectural partner); and A View from the Campidoglio: Selected Essays, 1953–1984 (1984). He was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 1991.
See C. Mead, ed., The Architecture of Robert Venturi (1989); S. von Moos, Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates: Buildings and Projects, 1986–1998 (1999).
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LAS VEGAS — There's an easily identifiable culprit to blame for Americans' not having fully digitized health care service and medical records:
Doctors and medical technology executives said Saturday that the biggest hurdle to computerizing health care isn't tradition or Luddism or bureaucracy — it's the reluctance of consumers to sign on. Without consumer demand, manufacturers and administrators can't justify the upfront cost of digitizing patients' cases and securing their records because they can't be reasonably sure they'll recover their investment.
"The health care dollar has really been stretched to the extreme in the United States," Deepak Ayyagari, director of technology programs for Sharp Laboratories of America, said during a daylong conference on digital health at the annual International Consumer Electronics Show. "We can't invest further in all the things required because we don't see a market."
Horst Merkle, director of information management for the Diabetes Care unit of F. Hoffman-La Roche Ltd., an international medical services company, cited projections that it could take as long as 12 years for a health care company to recoup the cost of underwriting a full transition to electronic health records and asked, "How do you track that?"
"Return on investment is a very important thing," he said.
Transition continues, but will it stick?
Nearly all clinicians and administrators agree that "this industry needs to get digitized first and foremost," said Clint McClellan, senior director of market development for Qualcomm Inc., an early entrant into the digital health care market with its wireless cardiac monitoring service seven years ago.
The transition is already well under way: The $787 billion federal economic stimulus package includes about $40 billion, to be spent over five years, to encourage the adoption of information technology by doctors and hospitals, with an emphasis on digitizing patient records and making them portable.
The advantages are clear, said Chuck Parker, executive director of the Continua Health Alliance, a nonprofit industry group promoting networked electronic health care services:
With all of your medical records centralized in a single database immediately available to all of your care providers, faster diagnoses and treatments can be offered with less chance that something will go wrong because a crucial piece of information might be missed. And because a physician can audit your entire medical history at a glance, he or she can offer a better targeted program of prevention to keep you out of the hospital in the first place.
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Those include maze-like regulatory regimes that differ from federal agency to federal agency and from state to state, as well as hard-to-navigate reimbursement policies on the part of government and private insurers, which Hyung Kim, vice president of research for Ascension Health, a nonprofit health system with operations in 20 states, called "the challenge of the extraordinary promise of this industry."
Patients want privacy, personal control
But the biggest resistance is coming from patients themselves, who fear lapses of security in recordkeeping and too much concentration of personal information in too few hands.
David Cerino, general manager of the Consumer Health Solutions Group for Microsoft Corp., said consumers wouldn't significantly endorse digital health care until providers met three conditions:
- Transparency. Patients want to know exactly what's being recorded and exactly who can and can't see it.
- Control. Patients want to have the final say on their care.
- Security. Patients want to know that their records won't be compromised as they're shuttled from doctor to lab to hospital to insurer.
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For patients, a cost-benefit analysis
What it comes down to is an old-fashioned value proposition, Cerino said — are the benefits of digitization worth the potential loss of privacy and control?
They are, said Colin Evans, president and chief executive of the Dossia Consortium, which aggregates digital health records for some of the nation's largest corporations, including Intel Corp., AT&T Corp. and Wal-Mart Corp.
"Very often, security is thrown up as an excuse, not a reason" for sitting out the move to electronic health records, said Evans, who maintained that while a file folder full of single-copy records may be secure, "perfectly secure, unmovable data is useless."
"Health care is organized for everybody's benefit except the patient," Evans said, because "health care is addicted to its own inefficiency."
Human factors can't be digitized
In fact, said Anna-Lisa Silvestre, vice president of online services for Kaiser Permanente Inc., the nation's largest health maintenance organization, it's a misconception that data security is "all about technical risk."
"You can never completely eliminate the human factor," Silvestre said, adding that medical privacy was commonly breached because of enmity between divorcing couples, who might try to get hold of their spouses' files as ammunition in settlement or child custody disputes.
Those factors have nothing to do with technology, said John Moore, managing director of industry analysts Chilmark Research, who added a couple of more ways records can be compromised: by absent-minded employees who simply misplace them and by dishonest employees who may sell them to data thieves.
But until the individual consumer learns enough about digitization, those realities are irrelevant, experts said. And that means building a "chain of trust" for patients — specifically, for the "family health manager," who is usually the mother in a family, said Cerino, of Microsoft.
"It doesn't matter if I do my part" building an efficient, easy-to-use medical systems if doctors, insurers and employers don't answer consumers' questions about their ability to handle their data privately and securely, he said.
Oddly enough, Cerino said, the most important person in establishing that trust is the family physician — "the least technical person in the bunch."
If your doctor buys in, you probably will, too, he said, because "we'll do anything a doctor tells us to do."
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The calculation of the life cycle cost of a pump system includes the total cost of maintaining and repairing the system over its lifetime.
The primary costs related to maintenance and repair of a pump system are:
- Labour cost
- Spare parts
- Transportation
- Cleaning
Carrying out routine maintenance is recommended as a way to prevent breakdowns and extend the working life of a pump.
Grundfos has made some estimates on the cost of maintenance for different types of pump.
Wet-runner pumps
Maintenance-free for a period of 10 years
Dry-runner pumps
Expect to replace the shaft seal three times and the motor bearings four times during the normal lifetime of 20 years.
The estimated lifetime cost of maintenance and repair amounts to a total of approx. 5 %.


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I'll call it the AA-TT - Amphibous Attack Troop Transport... lol
My diorama got to about 90% completion and then I haven't really had a chance to work on it much lately. Finals end the 12th of May for me so I should have plenty of time after that.
What I would LIKE to do is a Vong Coral Skipper. The problem is I cant find any pics anywhere. I know there is at least one out there, Ive seen it. BUt I dont remember where. Can anybody help a brother out?
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An arteriogram is an X-ray of the blood vessels. It's used to look for changes in the blood vessels, such as:
This test is also called angiogram.
For arteriogram, your doctor inserts a catheter into a large blood vessel and injects contrast dye. The contrast dye causes the blood vessels to appear on the X-ray image. This lets the doctor better see the vessel(s) under exam.
Many arteries can be seen on an arteriogram, including those of the legs, kidneys, brain, and heart. A cerebral arteriogram is used to look at the blood vessels of the brain, head, or neck.
For a cerebral arteriogram, a catheter is usually inserted into an artery in the groin. Sometimes, an artery in the arm is used. Rarely, an artery in the neck may need to be used. The groin artery is most commonly used because it's easier to get to. Once the catheter is inserted, the contrast dye is injected. Next, a series of X-rays are made. These images show the arteries, veins, and capillaries and blood flow in the brain.
This test may be advised when previous tests don't give enough information.
A cerebral arteriogram is used to look for changes in the blood vessels within or leading to the brain. Such as:
Conditions that cause a displacement of the brain's blood vessels may also be seen. These conditions include:
A cerebral arteriogram may be used to locate or assess clips on blood vessels placed during previous surgical procedures.
There may be other reasons for your doctor to recommend a cerebral arteriogram.
You may want to ask your doctor about the how much radiation is used during the procedure and the risks related to your situation. It's a good idea to keep a record of your history of radiation exposure, such as previous CT scans and other types of X-rays, so that you can tell your doctor. Risks associated with radiation exposure may be related to the number of X-rays and/or treatments over a long period.
If you are pregnant or think you may be, tell your health care provider. Radiation exposure during pregnancy may lead to birth defects. If you need to have a cerebral arteriogram, special precautions will be taken to minimize the radiation exposure to the fetus.
There is a risk for an allergic reaction to the dye used for this test. If you are allergic to or sensitive to medications, contrast dye, or iodine, tell your doctor. Also, tell your doctor if you have kidney failure or other kidney problems.
Tell your doctor if you have liver or thyroid conditions. In some cases, this procedure is not advised for people with these conditions.
Tell your doctor if you have a history of bleeding disorders or if you are taking any anticoagulant (blood-thinning) medications, aspirin, or other medications that affect blood clotting. You may need to stop these medications prior to the procedure.
Because the procedure involves the blood vessels and blood flow of the brain, there is a small risk for complications involving the brain. These complications may include:
There may be other risks depending on your specific medical condition. Be sure to discuss any concerns with your doctor prior to the procedure.
A cerebral arteriogram may be done on an outpatient basis or as part of your stay in a hospital. Procedures may vary depending on your condition and your doctor's practices.
Generally, a cerebral arteriogram follows this process:
Depending on which site was used for injection of the contrast dye, you will stay flat in bed in a recovery room for several hours after the procedure. If the groin or arm site was used, the leg or arm on that side will be kept straight for up to 12 hours. If the neck was used, you will be watched for signs of hoarseness, breathing problems, or pain/difficulty in swallowing.
A nurse will monitor your vital signs, your neurological signs, and the injection site while you are in the recovery room.
You may be given pain medication for pain or discomfort related to the injection site or pain from having to lie flat and still for a long period.
You will be encouraged to drink water and other fluids to help flush the contrast dye from your body.
You may go back to your usual diet and activities after the procedure, unless your doctor tells you otherwise.
When you have completed the recovery period, you may be returned to your hospital room or discharged to your home. If this procedure was done as an outpatient, plan to have another person drive you home.
Home care
Once home, check the injection site for bleeding. A small bruise is normal, as is an occasional drop of blood at the site.
If the groin or arm was used, you should monitor the leg or arm for changes in temperature or color, pain, numbness, tingling, or loss of function of the limb.
Drink plenty of fluids to prevent dehydration and to help flush out the contrast dye.
You may be advised not to do any strenuous activities or take a hot bath or shower for a period after the procedure.
When to seek medical care
Get prompt medical attention if any of the following occur:
Your doctor may give you other instructions after the procedure, depending on your situation.
Before you agree to the test or the procedure make sure you know:


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Recent Detection Follows Discovery of Beetle in 2007
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, 2009--The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) today announced the discovery of 13 maple trees infested with Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) in Staten Island, N.Y. Due to this find, APHIS will expand the current treatment and inspection boundaries in place since the initial ALB detection in Staten Island in spring 2007.
Inspectors working for the ALB eradication program, who cooperate with the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets (NYSDAM), the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, surveyed the area in December 2008. On the last day of December, inspectors found 12 infested red maple trees on undeveloped property owned by NYSDEC and one infested Norway maple on a neighboring property. This area was specifically targeted for survey based on the location of the infested trees found in 2007 and a scientific understanding of the insect's behavior and potential for spread in this type of terrain.
"Some of the trees on the NYSDEC property had the perfectly round, 3/8 inch in diameter exit holes that indicate beetles have emerged from the trees in past summers, and all the trees had egg sites indicating beetles have laid eggs," said Christine Markham, director of the national ALB program. "A growth ring analysis determined the infestation is four years old."
The infested trees will be removed this month, before any adult beetles can emerge. In addition, the New York ALB cooperative eradication program will remove 25 high-risk, exposed host trees located in close proximity to the infested trees. The infested and high-risk host trees are located within the NY state quarantine; however, they are several hundred feet beyond the area where chemical treatments of ALB host trees were completed during the spring of 2007 and the spring of 2008.
New York State Agriculture commissioner, Patrick Hooker said, "We still believe that this serious pest can be successfully eradicated through early detection, rapid response and interagency cooperation and teamwork. To further our efforts in eradication, we have added approximately two square miles to the existing quarantine area to prevent the movement of wood to areas known not to be infested with this pest."
The Staten Island quarantine zone will now be 10 square miles (up from 8 square miles) as a result of the December/January ALB detection. Numerous residential properties lying east of South Avenue and west of Willow Road East will become part of the ALB expanded quarantine area. The quarantine zone for the entire state of New York is anticipated to increase from 140 square miles to 142 square miles. Because of its location, the detection will require the expansion of the chemical treatment program to include additional ALB-host trees located within one-half-mile radius of the 2008 detection. This will add approximately 8,200 trees to the 17,900 trees that will be treated for the third time during the spring 2009 treatment period.
"ALB is a serious threat to New York's forest resources," said Robert Davies, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation director of State Lands and Forests. "Vigilant monitoring identified this area of infestation. We are working closely with our city, state and federal partners in order to ensure this damaging invasive pest does not spread to adjoining communities and neighborhoods."
The ALB was first discovered in New York in 1996, and quarantines currently exist on Long Island in an area bordering the Nassau County and Suffolk County boundary line and also in the Islip area of Long Island. Portions of Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Staten Island are also quarantined. Quarantines are put in place to regulate the movement of firewood, green lumber, nursery stock, tree limbs and other woody materials that serve as hosts for the invasive ALB.
"The ALB is the most serious insect threat the city has ever faced--one that if left unchecked could kill half of our trees," said New York City Parks commissioner, Adrian Benepe. "The beetle lays eggs on, bores into, feeds on and ultimately kills otherwise healthy hardwood trees. This recent discovery on Staten Island is a reminder that this persistent beetle will remain a real threat to the City's landscape and ecological health unless we step up awareness, eradication efforts, and funding."
A mature ALB is about 1 to 1.5 inches long, has a shiny, jet black body with distinctive white spots and long antenna banded in black and white. The adult beetles are most evident between June and October. As developing larvae, ALB tunnel through the heartwood of various tree species during the winter months damaging the pathways that move water and nutrients throughout the tree. This tunneling ultimately kills the tree. The goal is to eliminate this destructive insect from the United States before it can establish itself elsewhere.


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Last Sunday the axe fell on Claude Noel, lopping his weary coaching head from his would-rather-be-golfing body. It was the execution that capped weeks of frustration from both the team and the fan base with the suggested remedies ranging from "trade all our best players" to "force members of ownership and management into a Battle Royale to the death where the victor will win not only his precious freedom but the confidence of season ticket holders". (The latter may have just been a dream I had.) The flurry of online reaction, both snark and relief with a soupcon of speculation about what Paul Maurice will bring to the table, gave me pause to consider what is one of the more humiliating experiences of our daily humdrum: getting fired.
I've been shown the door by employers on two different occasions. One was a downsizing move, a company clearing away all the underbrush of their operations so that they could contract out their support roles to a staffing agency. Though I should have seen it coming – there was no way I was going to be classified as essential personnel – it was still a bizarre scenario to be pulled into an office, handled virtually by script by HR, then escorted immediately to a waiting taxi. That's true: the company was in a creative industry so it meant sending folks packing, even the non-creatives like myself, before they can try and steal all the best ideas on a thumb drive. With a little foresight, I could have been the guy who tanked the Need For Speed franchise. I'm joking. That happened without my help.
Honestly, though, that experience didn't leave me bitter. I received a decent severance package and took some time off to record an album. (Insert egregious self-promotion here.) I work my day jobs with the perfunctory diligence of homeowners mowing their lawns every Sunday so that I can put my energy into my own creative pursuits. It's a risky bargain but one I'm happy to take.
No, the one that leaves the taste of Shark Sandwich in my mouth is the one where I tried to effect change in my workplace and discovered I was both immature and ineffectual as a leader. After a successful unionizing campaign in a large retail environment (Ha! Silly man, those aren't jobs worth fighting for!) I was hoisted by my own "hilarious" petard after a dumb joke between union organizers, as written in a birthday card, was magically reassessed as slander by store management and so off I went. In the end the union wasn't willing to fight it and I provided plenty enough ammunition to an adversary eager to pull the trigger on any gun in their arsenal. The remaining organizers still saw the contract through with tenacity but I'll always feel like I left a whole bunch of good people in the lurch. My frustration and smart-assery overwhelmed any level of strategic thinking, patience or downright common sense during a precarious time in our work lives. That was some hard look in the mirror stuff. Oh, hello, Claude. My name is Ross, nice to meet you.
We've been pretty hard on Claude Noel here at Jets Nation but, let's be fair, many of the decisions seemed arbitrary or questionable or even petty depending on whom you ask. We're undeniably guilty of speculation and inference however we don't have a "Deepthroat" inside source so we're not privy to the conversations that went on behind closed office doors. There may well have been very good reasons for all the seemingly random choices involving unlikely line combinations, questionable benchings, special teams, general structure of play… okay, just about everything, but we'll never know. The reality of having an NHL coaching job is that it comes with a crap-ton of pressure and scrutiny and there are only 30 openings, so good luck with that. Noel came in three years ago with a strong Junior coaching pedigree but the whiff of NHL experience as interim head coach with the Blue Jackets in 2010 (10-8-6 in his brief tenure) was perhaps the more prophetic sample of what would come in Winnipeg. He rarely seemed enthusiastic or engaged and more often like a frustrated boy given a puzzle to solve with pieces both missing and ill fitting. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't make a picture out of those pieces and was happy to say so publicly on more than one occasion. If you've been hired to make that pretty picture and cannot, well, then it's only a matter of time, isn't it?
It makes me wonder about the leadership structure in place at Jets HQ. In any team atmosphere, if one member of the team is struggling to see a new solution to a persistent problem, it's not unusual that a fresh pair of eyes helps discover the cipher for the code. Sometimes, the solution is simple and right in front of them but their own thought patterns and biases prevent them from seeing a new perspective that was evident to the second person. So, where was this teamwork from the Jets staff? The Maurice hiring would seem to be indicative of a willingness to try new approaches but was anyone doing this before it got to that point? Was there such a strict party line on how the team should be run that no constructive voice of criticism could be heard? Not one coach? Not one ambitious intern had a bold new idea worth trying? Or was the problem in the opposite direction? No clear plan, no cohesive vision, too many cooks and why not throw Byfuglien up to forward when there's zero depth on the blue line…?
More speculation, of course, but it's all we got for ya, folks. I have no idea what it's like to work on an NHL coaching or management staff. I have, though, worked for many corporations that have cultures that stifle growth and innovation and others that chase their own tail. While neither setting makes for a great workplace, many of these companies still operate profitably. I've seen absolute dullards and brown-nosers climb the ladder while geniuses get no credit and made redundant and the shareholders are none the wiser. No one said it made sense.
Claude Noel is no misunderstood genius, he just drew the short straw on team needing a change. That's not meant as a kick-him-while-he's-down insult; I suspect he's a very personable and clever guy. You don't get to have one of 30 prestigious jobs in an elite professional sports league by being an ingnoranamous. Was he a victim of management interference or, conversely, incompetence? Did he have obsequious or contrary staff? Did he ever truly "have the room" or did his players lack confidence in themselves, more so with each mounting loss? Was he a victim of his own stubbornness or was it his own indecision?
What I can say, more from experience than speculation, is that the day he was cleaning out his office, his stomach was unsettled. He put pictures and mementos and his favourite coffee mug in a cardboard box, wondering how it went wrong and what he was going to do next. He tried putting a positive face on his disappointment. He looked forward to a beer with friends where he could vent. He repeated to himself that this is all part of the job and this is the life he chose. He tried to remember what really matters. He hoped he didn't let anyone down too badly. He thought about leaving a dog dump in the office chair for the new guy but instead left him a letter of tempered best wishes and a lay of the organizational land to help smooth the transition. It was the professional thing to do. He took the bullet. He might feel like he deserved it. He knew he wouldn't stop pushing those puzzle pieces around in his head until some semblance of a pretty picture was revealed and he hoped he might get another crack at it, eventually, in another town.
Lights out. Door locked. Leave your pass at the front desk. Good luck, Coach.


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Cisco announced the end of CCNA Security v2.0 exam for November 30th, 2015. After that date, you may only take the new 210-260 exam.
You have the choice to pick either exam at the moment.
So what's new with CCNA Security? What do you need to know between v2.0 and v3.0 (210-260). The CCNA Security is an Associate level exam from Cisco Systems, focusing on the Security track.
The prerequisites for this certification is a valid CCENT or CCNA Routing and Switching certification. At 90 minutes, you will be presented with 60-70 questions and it is proctored by Pearson Vue.
What's New In CCNA Security 210-260?
Otherwise known as IINS or Implementing Cisco Network Security, this latest revision gets pared down from 9 objectives to 7. A couple of objectives were shuffled around and combined with others.
An example is the Security Concepts objective. I welcome this change as v2.0 used to have concepts scattered in different objectives. Most of these require you describe or identify common security concepts.
For many of the objectives, I welcome the configuration bullets. Many of them appear to be what's required for real world work.
A big change for 210-260 is the missing language mentioning CCP, or Cisco Configuration Professional. It's not sure if this will be tested on v3.0 but there is no mention of it making me believe it will not. My reason for this assumption is that for VPN, Cisco wants you to know how to configure in ASDM and on routers. So if CCP was truly required, they'd mention it. Otherwise, forget about it because who really used CCP anyways.
Let's take a look at the VPN objective. It increased from 12% to 17% of the exam. You'll need a deeper understanding of VPN technologies and how Cisco implements this. Learn how to configure VPN using ASDM and the command line. That includes ASA and Cisco IOS.
The Cisco Firewall Technologies objective increases from 13% to 18% of the exam. There is more emphasis on NAT. You may be asking why not just move to IPv6. Reason is because people hold on to NAT dearly. It's used heavily and there are many complex NAT configurations you'll run into.
It appears command line will be assumed for configuring a zone-based firewall. Again, CCP is not mentioned here. In v2.0 of CCNA Security, it was specifically stated.
No surprise that ASA creeped in more bullet points. The 9.x train was mentioned specifically.
The IPS objective decreases from 11% to 9% of the exam. This is probably due to more in-depth topics at the CCNP Security level. At an associate level, not many will be configuring an IPS.
Newly added in v3.0 is the Content and Endpoint Security objective, at 12% of the exam. A bigger chunk than IPS. The takeaway for this objective is to describe client-based threats and mitigation methods.
Is There An Official Cert Guide?
Yes there is. Cisco Press released CCNA Security 210-260 Official Cert Guide by Omar Santos and John Stupp.
It's available now. If you would like to receive 35% off this book, use Discount Code: PACKET6 at checkout on ciscopress.com
Overall, I think this is a great update to CCNA Security exam. In my opinion, this aligns with real world topics. It does fall heavily on the Cisco side and less of a vendor neutral exam.
For the entry level security professional, this is a solid exam to get your feet wet into Cisco's security products. The obvious suggested path is to move right into CCNP Security as it dives into in-depth security topics.
Do you have any questions about the new CCNA Security 210-620 exam? Let me know in the comments below.


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Stopping the Spiders
Free and Fee Databases
Spiders can crawl information in static pages.
Spiders can crawl the surface layers of web pages with databases, but spiders can NOT crawl the information in the databases.
A database is a collection of stored information. In terms of research, there are two types of databases.
- databases that are free and open to anyone
- databases that are protected by passwords or require a subscription
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