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NEW YORK, Sept 19- U.S. Treasury debt prices rose on Friday as traders took advantage of a recent rise in yields to do some bargain hunting following a week dominated by Federal Reserve policymakers and a failed referendum that could have broken up Britain.» Read More
CNBC's Rick Santelli reacts to the Federal Reserve's remarks interest rates would rise a "considerable time" after QE ended. "It's all about timing," Santelli says.
NEW YORK, Sept 18- U.S. That level was last seen in May 2011. Prices for three-year notes were off 4/ 32, taking their yield to 1.117 percent, a level last touched during April 2011.
CNBC's Rick Santelli discusses the latest action in the bond market, and the U.S. dollar.
TOKYO, Sept 18- Japanese government bond prices dipped on Thursday on the back of a relatively sharp rise in U.S. The BOJ offered to buy 400 billion yen of JGBs in the 5- year to 10- year zone, 100 billion yen in the 10- year to 25- year zone, and 30 billion yen in the 25- year to 40- year zone under its massive JGB purchase program, as widely expected.
NEW YORK, Sept 17- Stock markets around the world closed with modest gains on Wednesday after the U.S. The dollar hit a 14- month high and the benchmark U.S. 10- year Treasury note yield hit its highest level since July 7 after the Fed's projections suggested that some officials see rates rising more quickly than the U.S. central bank projected three months ago.
NEW YORK, Sept 17- U.S. The Fed pleased many investors by pledging to keep policies accommodative for a "considerable time" but spooked others by raising projections for interest rate levels in 2015 and later, according to Anthony Valeri, investment strategist at LPL Financial in San Diego.
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WASHINGTON— Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills were mixed in Monday's auction with rates on three-month bills dropping to the lowest level in nearly a year while rates on six-month bills were unchanged. The Treasury Department auctioned $24 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 0.015 percent, down from 0.020 percent last week.
NEW YORK, Sept 15- U.S. "There was a lot of anxiety last week about the Fed... and that had pushed yields up but at this point the market may have adequately priced in all that," said Robert Tipp, chief investment strategist at Prudential Fixed Income in Newark, New Jersey.
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There's a new slogan in town, and it's a winner.
At least that's what President Barack Obama has in mind.
The president unveiled his "Winning the Future" mantra in his State of the Union address, and now the upbeat but amorphous phrase is part of every speech, policy and pronouncement coming out of the administration. It's also emerged as a fat target for his Republican critics.
What's next on health care? Where to go on energy and education policy? How to improve the jobs picture? It's all about winning the future through innovation and determination, Obama and his aides have argued over the past few days.
There's no room for losers is the implicit flip side of the message.
"We've got to up our game," Obama told a crowd in Wisconsin.
The nation must ensure "America is still on top" in a decade, the president said on YouTube.
The country can't just lead, adds Vice President Joe Biden; it needs to "dominate."
It's a juiced-up way for Obama to frame his initiatives after two years in which even some of the president's supporters acknowledge that can-do verve sometimes was lacking from the conversation. What it means, though, is still TBD — to be determined.
After the long slog to stabilize the economy over the past two years, "clearly they've got polling that Americans are looking for someone that has more lofty goals and aspirations for America," says GOP strategist Rich Galen.
It seems that just in time for the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, Morning in America has arrived once again.
Just in time for the 2012 presidential race, as well.
"People need some optimism, they need to feel hopeful," says Democratic strategist Karen Finney.
The "winning the future" construct, she says, couples a much-needed boost of optimism with the reality of the global competition that is afoot.
"It won't resonate with everyone," says Professor Wayne Fields, a Washington University expert on presidential rhetoric, "but it has pretty powerful implications in political life. Something has to be done is the view of most people. What this suggests is that he's at least going to act."
Republicans found much to mock in the president's theme, styling it as nothing more than new rhetorical packaging for the same wrong-headed approach to governing.
Newt Gingrich, who wrote a book titled "Winning the Future" back in 2005, found Obama's interpretation of the same phrase "depressing."
"Sadly, there is no Obama plan for winning the future," Gingrich wrote in response to the president's address. "There is an Obama plan for protecting big government, for pouring more money into broken bureaucracies, for borrowing several trillion more from the Chinese dictatorship. President Obama is on a path to lose the future while pretending to change things."
Sarah Palin, in a post on Facebook and public comments, seized on the acronym "WTF" to suggest another meaning altogether, and said the White House "still just doesn't get it."
Obama's vision, Palin said, is of a centralized government that declares "we shall be great and innovative and competitive, not by individual initiative, but by government decree."
All sides agree that the power of Obama's message will be determined by how he fleshes out what it means.
A big test will be Obama's release in mid-February of his proposed budget for the accounting year that begins Oct. 1.
"He's set a pretty high bar and now he's got to have something to back it up with," said the GOP's Galen. "I don't think he's got very much time to turn the rhetoric into action Finney, the Democratic strategist, said that after the economic turmoil of the past two years, Obama has the opportunity to return the focus to the things he campaigned on.
"We're finally at the point where we can step back" and take a broader view of where the country is going, she said.
Underlying the back-over-forth over Obama's latest turn of phrase is a larger and longer-running debate over America's place in the world.
Palin said Obama's new pitch "seems to be the Obama administration's version of American exceptionalism — an `exceptionally big government.'" Other Republicans eyeing the 2012 presidential race, too, have accused Obama of lacking a strong vision of America's rightful place in the world.
Obama, in turn, is offering optimistic talk about the potential of the American people in hopes of overcoming a sense of fatigue that set in over the past two years.
"In the popular mind, he lost them," says Fields.
Now, with the economy picking up, Fields adds, Obama has an opportunity to revive the public vision of a can-do American public that uses its freedom "to innovate, educate and move forward."
"To make this work," says Fields, "he'll have to bring us along with him not with a single speech but with a regular line of communication."
Copyright © 2011 The Associated Press
18 Responses to "Theres this new slogan in town but will it be a winner?"
I've been hanging back so long that pronouncements is a tired family of stink weed and thistle meant for crawling indigenous peoples.
While we cruise in in a Mercury ?
Is that with the top down on your sunny day ?
Mr. President, oh rid of Rahm, Justice, the Lady with the boobs is calling.
Hey I have an even better one…Back to the Future.
That is to say, back to our roots, what built this country. Free markets, self-determination, personal liberty, humble foreign policy, sound money.
These confirmed globalist shills wouldn't have a clue as to what you are suggesting Griff. You talk of quaint ideas; days gone by for the Republic, the stuff you read about in history books and founders essays and letters.
These traitors are full of themselves and drunk on power not only now, but that which is to come if they pull off their "New World Order" scam. They're also living large on our dime and seemingly short time for our failing Republic. In time, I smell in our face dictatorship as the order of they day while 'dear leaders' such as this one lull us into evermore deep complacency with their empty oratory.
Carl Nemo **==
Yeah I know. But a guy can dream, can't he?
Hmmm…"Winning the Future" juxtaposed against another euphemism "Change we can believe in"…?
How in the hell can you 'win the future'. The future is not ours to be had even if we try our best at creating it. No one knows the future, not even from a few minutes ahead to hours, days, weeks and years.
All we do know is that trends have intertia; ie., as bodies in motion as well as ideas either good or bad will continue on their path or stay in place unless acted upon an outside force.
Future constructs can be created from our present actions. Everything coming out of this administration to date has been bad for the Republic, the Constitution and our way of life thus creating our present hellish paradigm. So this President along with his advisers have created a construct with a strong trend and for any change to occur they would have to back off on everything they've put in place to date and simply state "we were wrong in doing so". Of course this wouldn't include any damage control or remediation as a function of what has already been done. To hear him say…'We've screwed up bigtime and now see the light', but he won't. Instead he'll spout "Winning the Future" all the while screwing us over 24/7/365 has he and his coterie of advisers, Czars and other hangers on have done to date creating an even more dismal future much less 'winning it'…?!
I guess we need to say thankyou Sir. Your brilliant "silver-tongued" oratory makes the pain less so. / : |
"The best-laid plans of mice and men…Often go awry" …extract from a Scots poem, Robert Burns 1785
Carl Nemo **==
Re: paragraph three "intertia" …should read: inertia
My apologies.
Nemo **==
"Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment." – Plato
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." – HL Mencken
"If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." – HL Mencken
How about putting all of His slogans into one almighty and all-encompassing phrase…I hope we can win in the future by making you believe we represent change.
My quote archive groweth Griff. Spot-on too. Thanks. : )
Carl Nemo **==
Ya left out the "dominate" part…
All this brings to my mind a few quotes from the Irish, who are world experts at being disappointed by disappointing "leaders."…….
"If you're not confused, you don't understand the situation:
"In Ireland we have no present, and no future. Just the past happening over and over again.
Myself being as Irish as one could be, I offer a Guinness to you my friend in thought and a toast to our fellow site members and hopefully so too of the same measure…
"May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm on your face, may the rains fall soft upon your fields, and, until we meet again …may God hold you softly in the palm of His hand." …- Old Irish Blessing
Carl Nemo **==
Thank you sir, and a fair pint raised to you as well. Youth allows one to come staggering out of a pub with the usual variations on the blessings.." May the road rise up to meet your face" etc. Stout I never cottoned to, but at the time they brewed Carling Black Label in Cork, and it was a fine beer. Most folks weren't all that keen on lager, preferring stout or ale.
Now that I think of it, President Pinocchio might draw upon Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" for an appropriate slogan! As Huey Long said in a speech during the Depression, like Evangeline you wait for your jobs, your roads, your schools…and you wait in vain.
Retiring in the Pacific Northwest, USA, the home of zillions of micro-breweries in a region for growing fine hops, I've become a bitter beer fanatic regardless of the brewing style. Hops and I are one. I guess in my twilight years I've become a hophead attributing why I loathe sweets as well as mild U.S. "wimp" beers. Bitter is better…no? Maybe not.
Interestingly a Chinese precept of holisitc medicine is the "bitter principle". Eating foods that are bitter to the taste or concoctions thereof seem to enhance the immune system giving folks a legup during flu season.
Carl Nemo **==
Bitter is better… especially with a bite of dark chocolate garnish.
I've done that, but it seems decadent… : ))
Nemo **==
As Forrest's mama would say…
My personal favorite is:
"Olde Frothingslosh; the pale stale ale for the pale stale male. It's so light , the foam is on the bottom!"
I don't want this thread to end on dour note, so I'm going to supply a link to my all time favorite male Irish vocalist….Christy Moore. Sleep well my friends in thought…. : )
Carl Nemo **==
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Favorite Self-Made Snack: "I add sliced banana and crushed walnuts to a low-fat chocolate pudding cup, then top it with Cool Whip. Or I make healthy pizza: tomatoes, basil, and feta cheese on mini whole wheat pita bread."
The Workout: "I run 5 miles outdoors six days a week and strength-train for 30 minutes twice a week. Once a week, I also do judo or swim."
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The planning for The Knot Dream Wedding has begun!
By Amy Shey Jacobs Jan 11, 2013 12:36AM
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I'm beyond excited to plan (with The Knot editors and, of course, you Knotties!) this wedding celebration on Valentine's Day 2013 at Citi Pond at Bryant Park -- Manhattan's very own ice playground.
Why Citi Pond? Well, the fact that more proposals have happened right here than pretty much any other place on the planet makes it a very romantic setting. Plus, it's New York City's crown-jewel skating venue -- where millions of winter enthusiasts, including Olympians, world champions and celebrities, travel each year for a chance to dance on the ice. It's an inspiring location for this once-in-a-lifetime wedding, and it is quintessentially New York!
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After the ceremony on ice (no worries -- the bride, groom and guests won't need to wear skates!), everyone will head over to the stunning two-story glass-enclosed restaurant, Celsius at Bryant Park, for a cozy cocktail hour on the outdoor terrace, complete with glacier-inspired drinks and toasty hors d'oeuvres, luxury banquettes, rink-side table service and heaters to keep guests warm as they chill on the deck.
Then everyone will head upstairs to dine and dance at the stunning Atrium at Celsius. Under the chandelier-adorned glass ceiling, the in-house mixologist will serve up warm and cold winter-themed cocktails like Chilled Polar Bear Cosmos and Snojitos from the 24-foot bar! Guests will enjoy a comfort-food-gone-luxe reception featuring eclectic American dishes by executive chef John Keller. Favorites include Celsius Mac and Cheese, Home-Style Chicken Pot Pie and Four Cheese Ravioli! And of course, the sparkling decor and magnificent views of the Manhattan skyline will take everyone's breath away.
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We've got lots of surprises in store for the bride and groom, their guests and all of America as they tune in on February 14 to watch this wedding stream LIVE on TheKnot.com. A mystery celebrity guest? A dramatic performance on the ice? Hmmm...the surprises await! Share your vision with me by casting your vote on each and every wedding detail at TheKnot.com/dreamwedding! After all, you're the wedding planners too!
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Kathryn Bigelow's 1991 film Point Break is not noted for its dialogue. There are thrills and spills galore as FBI lawman Keanu Reeves attempts to track down the 'Ex-Presidents', a collection of surfing bank robbers, but little by way of heart-stopping linguistic invention.
There is, though, one great line, delivered by a feisty Lori Petty to Reeves. Petty's character is suitably sceptical when Reeves announces his intention to learn to surf. "Lawyers don't surf," she says, lips curling with disbelief.
Although Reeves does get to say "this one does", Petty's would still be the standard view on the subject. Those whose day job is spent wearing suits rarely give the impression of hanging 10 or carving roundhouse cutbacks on the weekends. Which makes Ian Smith, head of sport at Clarke Willmott, nigh-on unique.
"I spent my teenage years and my early 20s surfing every day," says Smith, who was born and educated in South Africa. "I had to force myself to stop when I went to university."
Smith competed in South Africa against the UK's world surfing champion Martin Potter, who won the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) title in 1989. Smith was asked by his sponsors to consider turning professional, but he knew he was not quite good enough. "I surfed world-class breaks like Jeffrey's Bay and Cape St Francis for years with Craig Sims, who turned pro," he says. "But he was always slightly better than me. Good as he was, he struggled to make an impact on the ASP tour."
If South Africa's superb surf had a profound influence on Smith, so too did its politics. He grew up in the apartheid years when Nelson Mandela was in prison and took an arts degree in Comparative African Government before studying law.
Smith dates the awakening of his own sense of the injustice of South African politics to the Sri Lankan rebel cricket tour of 1982. South Africa was at the time excluded from
the international cricket calendar. "There was a lot of controversy about the tour," says Smith, who recalls walking into his university Student Union bar to find that a fight had broken out between students for and against the tour. As with so much in South African life at the time, the riot police were called. "One policeman came running in and swung indiscriminately with his baton. He caught me and I instinctively swung back at him - with my satchel. It was all on video and disciplinary proceedings against me followed."
Smith's university career survived, but any illusions about life in South Africa had been shattered forever. He became active in Student Union protests, many of which were broken up by the police using tear gas. Smith recalls attending the funeral of some youths killed in township violence. "The riot police arrived and surrounded the cemetery. We had to run a gauntlet to get out," he recalls. "We thought we'd made it, but they caught up with us, pulled us inside their van and whipped us with a sjambock." A sjambock is a large horsewhip; perhaps being on its receiving end made it easy for Smith to decide to travel in the US once his LLB was complete. He spent a year there, also visiting Europe, where he worked as a ski instructor. He decided to settle in the US and returned to South Africa to tidy up his affairs.
"I went back for two weeks just to sort out the admin," he says a little ruefully. "I'd only been there four days when the police arrested me, telling me that I had to stay and do my national service." Smith contemplated leaving the country regardless, but felt unable to do so with his parents still in South Africa. His two-week visit turned into two years as he completed his national service with the army.
His army stint over, he returned to Europe and spent another year travelling, during which he met his wife, Margie. They decided to settle in England and Smith completed his Law Society Finals at Bristol Polytechnic in 1992. He did his articles with Bristol firm Veale Wasbrough, where he stayed for two years post-qualification, working as an employment lawyer. Then came a move to Osborne Clarke's London office and a change of direction to sports law.
"Almost as soon as I joined Osborne Clarke, I started doing sports-related work," says Smith. "I'd made it clear that this was what I wanted to do from the outset." Given that this was the mid-1990s, Smith has a reasonable claim to be one of the first dedicated sports lawyers in the UK.
It was his desire to focus exclusively on sport that led to the move to Clarke Willmott. "David Powell of Clarke Willmott approached me, saying that the firm was determined to build up expertise in sectors," recalls Smith. "I enjoyed my five years at Osborne Clarke, but I felt there was a greater opportunity to drive a sports law practice forward at Clarke Willmott."
The approach coincided with Smith's three children being at pre-school age, and so he had little hesitation in accepting a position as partner and head of sport.
The sports team at Clarke Willmott is now five-strong and boasts a client rosta that includes the Professional Cricketers' Association, the Professional Rugby Players Association, Yeovil Town Football Club and various sports personalities, as well as (through last summer's merger with Southampton firm Ensor Byfield) sports agency Essentially Sport, the client list of which includes motor racing stars Jenson Button and Colin MacRae.
"There's an enormous amount of puff in the sports legal market. I want this firm to transcend that and be seen as having genuine substance, as opposed to a reputation out of all proportion to what's actually there," says Smith on the group's achievements.
Smith also acts for Indianapolis-based engineering company Riley & Scott Racing, whose Mark 111C car will this weekend be racing at one of the most glamorous events on the motor racing calendar, Le Mans. Smith, a motor racing enthusiast, will definitely be there with his client. "It's an awesome event," he says. "I can't wait."
The one thing missing is more surf time. "I only get in the water about three or four times a year," he says. "The surf's not great here, but I'm determined to do a lot more."
His eyes light up at the prospect of an impending trip to the southwest coast of Spain, known for its good beach-break waves, if not the hollow tubes of a point break like Cape St Francis. Whether or not he gets lucky in Spain, Smith remains one of the few lawyers for whom the words 'point break' mean more than 'Lawyers don't surf'.
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The '50s! The '60s! The '70s! Surveying distant decades can remind us of our better selves. More often, though — like adults looking back at a collective adolescence — we find ourselves laughing at earlier naiveties. We look at the '50s, for instance, and tend to mock that decade's powerful drive to conformity, its complacent postwar confidence. We remember the '60s and snicker at that decade's astral idealism.
What, then, were the naiveties, the misapprehensions, the idiocies of the '80s? "This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s" at the Institute of Contemporary Art presents us with a chance to reflect on the question. Organized by ICA curator Helen Molesworth for the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where it was mounted earlier this year, it's a tremendously ambitious show — just the kind of gutsy, rambunctious, debate-churning exercise the ICA needs, and for which Molesworth was hired almost three years ago.


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On Thursday, CiCi's Pizza will hold a customer appreciation day at multiple locations in the Atlanta area. The following CiCi's locations will offer an all-day buffet special for $1.99 per person (regularly about $5):
Also, carryout guests can purchase a large, one-topping pizza for $3.99 from Dec. 2-31 at each of the above restaurants.
CiCi's Pizza offers more than 20 pizzas on its custom pizza buffet, in addition to soup, salad, pasta and dessert. Every CiCi's Pizza restaurant makes each pizza by hand using freshly prepared dough, sauce made in small batches, freshly grated cheese and crisp vegetables.
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Awesome deal! My kids will definitely love this deal and all you can eat pizza.
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Even at $1.99 it's not worth it. Last time I got talked in to going to CiCi's by my ex and her overweight kids, I got sick.
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I eat CiCi's pizza everyday! It's a great deal. CiCiLova4Eva!
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So the 1.99, is for an ALL DAY BUFFET! NO TIME LIMIT?? GIMME DAT PIZZA!
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Sounds like you people have a weak constitution. You're really missing out on some high quality processed food for little $$. I will say some prayers that you will be healed and see the light.
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@Tubbs…. I EAT CICIS WONCE PER WEEK AND I ONLY WEGH 280 LBS.
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Its a great deal! I know a few grandparents that are struggling through these economic times and this is a way that they can take their grandkids out for a dinner date and give their parents a break. Its more for the kids than the adults, they will love it and its a nice little break in the middle of the week! look at the greater good and the kind gesture…stop trying to find a reason to say its not a good deal!
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My grandkids were so excited about going to Cici's and at $1.99, so was I. Imagine our disappointment to find the one in Griffin out of business.
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The one in McDonough was packed, but they were doing a good job of crowd control. They were seating people at the tables (like a hostess would) and it was well organized. The pizzas were hot too! Good job!
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Fizziology was dreamed up in the summer of 2009. Co-Creators Jen Handley and Ben Carlson were working at independent ad agency Bradley and Montgomery (BaM). Ben was Chief Strategy Officer of the agency and Jen was the Media and Analytics Director. They saw a hole in the research world – while many aspects of the ad campaigns they would launch for brands like Microsoft, MTV and JPMorgan Chase could be measured and tracked, there was only anecdotal reporting on movement in the social conversation.
Convinced there would be an appetite for richer research in social, they built the heart of Fizziology – using technology to automate data collection and then using human sentiment analysis to create rich insights and accurate, trackable data. They realized that this engine would be best used looking across an entire industry, where comps, context and ultimately predictions could be generated. In October 2009, Ben and Jen, along with Mark Bradley and Scott Montgomery (the owners of the agency) launched Fizziology and targeted the movie industry. In less than 6 months, they were working with major Hollywood studios and had established a partnership with Variety Magazine.
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Authorities pursued Ybarra westbound on the 2400 block of 22nd Pl. when his car hit another vehicle carrying 3 passengers. The collision caused the vehicle to roll over and hit a light pole in the median. Ybarra then fled the scene on foot.
The passengers of the car have been identified as Joseph Green, III, 28, Tiffany Devrouville, 26 and Travis Gearlds, 21.
Devrouville was riding in the front passenger seat and was partially ejected from the vehicle while Gearlds had to be removed from the backseat. Green, III, did not sustain any serious injuries.
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Shuffler.fm Makes Browsing Music Blogs a Danceable Experience
Shuffler.fm — which launched during the summer of 2010 as a kind of "Pandora for music blogs — is out today with a new way to browse music and editorial: an official iPad app.
I don't know about you all, but my Google Reader is jam-packed with music blogs. As I scroll through each day, I'm constantly seeing new songs that I want to check out — and constantly forgetting to check them out. Why? Well, it's kind of a pain in the arse to click on a bunch of blogs in order to hear individual tracks. Shuffler.fm streamlines that experience greatly.
When Shuffler.fm first came out, it was basically a site that allowed you to choose a musical genre, click on a blog post featuring a song in that genre, and listen to that song while you read. When the song finished, you were then punted over to another post featuring another song in that same genre.
A year later, Shuffler.fm revamped its site, letting users listen to songs featured on a single blog as a kind of radio station as they surfed that blog, as well as browsing by genre. This was a feature that I, for one, wanted added to the service since the beginning, since it made the reading/listening experience more cohesive. It was also a natural addition, as Shuffler.fm had partnered with Spin magazine to make its website listenable in a similar fashion (Spin's iPad app also lets users listen to the magazine's playlist as they read).
The new iteration also let users check out popular songs and artists, search for music and news from their favorite artists (a great way to find playable tracks from acts that you're into), and to save tracks to their own playlists, as well as subscribe to blogs.
The iPad app, however, is much more reminiscent of the first incarnation of Shuffler.fm than this summer's update. Open up the free app and you'll be presented with a series of squares featuring musical genres. Click on one (I chose Chillwave above) and you'll see a ton of squares indicating different songs. Choose a song and you can read the blog post about that song while you listen. If you like the jam, you can share it via Facebook, Twitter, email or direct link, and read the original post. You can also "Favorite" it to add it to your own playlist. The playlist is pretty barebones, but is a good way to bookmark tunes you're into.
You can skip any song you're not feeling, but if you're down to discover, you could conceivably just set up the app as a kind of editorially curated playlist. (The app also supports multitasking, so you can read a book on your Kindle while you listen.)
And that's the point of the app: Music discovery. But not a kind of passive music discovery as dictated by an algorithm — a curated way to find new music that manages to integrate technology without negating editorial skill. The app serves to make it easier to digest the plethora of music blogs out there — to discover both music and curators.
Also, the experience of physically flipping through songs (instead of sitting hunched in front of a computer, clicking through blogs while dealing with your friend's relationship problems over Gchat and trying to finish that email to your boss) is a nice change.
"[Shuffler.fm] was made for tablets and iPad," says co-founder Tim Heineke. "We knew this from the beginning. We are just a bootstrapped start-up with a small team so it took longer. On the iPad it actually has less features — for now — but it's a great lean-back, passive, music discovery app that tells you daily what to listen to and what is hot and relevant within a genre."
Heineke says that the next version of the app will have more features — as the web version does — so we'll just have to wait and see what future updates bring.
In the meantime, what do you think of Shuffler.fm as a music discovery tool?
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A great climb building to a solid 5b slab finale after easier lower pitches.eroica64 - AltLd O/S - Sep/95
RichardMc - Lead O/S - 12/Sep/86 with Angel Vila
2nd bona fide ascent. Some other climbers claimed the second ascent in the Marisco log but it was pointed out to them that having a rope thrown down the top pitch to help you didn't really count.
Tom V - AltLd - Aug/86 with Richard Lewis
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With that, the three get their showers! Crystal, who is taller than the showerhead, is understandably thrilled, even though it looks like the shower stall is next to a window anyone could watch her through. But fuck modesty when you haven't showered in over a month. The contestants get fresh clean robes to put on while presumably their game clothes are being washed, and they all look kind of silly and uncomfortable in them, probably because they aren't wearing anything underneath those robes. At least, that's what Bob's hospital gown walk suggests. Clean, fed, and robed, the three are approached by two men from the gorilla project. Africa's Eden is an orphanage for gorillas who were orphaned when their mothers were killed for their meat. I think it takes a certain kind of evil to kill gorillas, especially when they're holding their babies, which is why I wouldn't be surprised to hear that the gorilla population took a nosedive during the time Corinne was in Gabon.
And now, the gorillas! The three watch from an observation platform. The silverback gorilla steps out to check them out, and Bob is amazed by the size of him. He tells us that he felt a connection with the gorillas when they looked at him that "rocked [his] soul." Yes, exactly. Which is why I can't even begin to understand how people could kill them and eat them. I don't know how you could do anything but stare at them in awe. Not like we'll even get a chance to do that, because the segment is quickly over without even showing us adorable baby gorillas.
Instead, we check in on Susie. No fool, she picked Comfort and is enjoying cantaloupe while swinging in the hammock. This would not be comfort for me, as I am allergic to cantaloupe. It makes my mouth itch. I'd probably eat it anyway, though. But I wouldn't be comfortable! Susie says it's great to step out of the game and not think about anything for a while. Which is exactly what she does when she's in the game, so I don't see how this is different except that here there's a hammock and fruit. Susie says they'll have to change the name from Sugar Shack to Susie Shack. Very original, Susie.
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Ages (and I mean ages!) ago, I produced a video on utilising Sanbolic's Kayo/Melio FS with Hyper-V, as at the time, it was a fantastic way to overcome the 1 LUN per VM scenario that existed with Hyper-V R1 and brought a number of benefits along with it. Keyo/Melio FS provided the Clustered File System that Windows needed to achieve this, however in 2008 R2, Cluster Shared Volumes was natively introduced, which for many, would lead to questions around whether Sanbolic's Kayo/Melio FS technologies would offer the same level of value-add to the platform. Well, according to Aiden's excellent blog post, there is still significant value-add to be had by adding Sanbolic's technology to Hyper-V R2, and what's great about the R2 wave of technology, versus the R1 wave, is that both Hyper-V R2 and SCVMM 2008 R2 understand Melio FS, whereas in R1, SCVMM didn't get it.
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My take is this: The way in which we communicate now hasn't really existed before on such a scale. Many who play simply haven't grown up with any real learned etiquette or behavioral gates for this type of society -- one of knowing another person is there, but being anonymous and physically distant. How we behave is being made up by those who play as they go along in their virtual lives. Most who play this game (or any game where you're with other people, but not literally with) didn't have authority figures to show them the ropes of proper behavior. It's rare that parents, guardians, or other chaperones are there to guide behavior. Even folks old enough to know better, those who did grow up with a good moral code taught by those loving and caring enough to do so often fall in to least common denominator behavior. The good, old G.I.F.T. theory rears its ugly head again. "When in Rome," you get by like the natives do. I've been encouraged by guild mates who are parents, who play with their kids or who spend time playing in their kids' presence, or who don't play themselves but are there when their kids do play, because these folks are good, caring and supportive people. That behavior has a better than even chance of staying with those kids whenever they enter the next evolution of how we communicate via technology.


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group - i tried to batch-modify id3 tags for like 100 songs in 1 folder (filename -> tag). looking at the tags in mp3tag it seems to have worked fine, so does it when i look at the folder in winamp. if i look at the songs in windows explorer (vista home premium) it shows the id3 tags of only some of the songs, for some the id3 tag seems not to exist. trying to rename them in vista explorer it brings error message "0xC00D0026 - no error description available". when i try importing the entire folder in itunes it will only import those files where the id3 tag is displayed in windows explorer.
searching this issue on the internet i found that vista might be able to process only id3 tags up to v2.3 but mine are v2.4 - i could not figure out though how to modify the version of the id3 tags.
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I am an avid fan of comic books, bdsm, rope, bondage, gags and did I say gags, art that contains any of the above, superheroines, heroes, villains, peril, shibari, and a wealth of other things. I also love anime, poetry, history, science fiction, fantasy, and a whole wealth of other things. Most of the images here will be taken from my role play.
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This one too -- Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization. - M. de Sade


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The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has narrowed down the Best Original Score race…to 104 entries. The Academy has shortlisted over 100 scores from 2012 that are eligible to compete for the gold on Oscar night, including three from Alexandre Desplat alone (Argo, Rise of the Guardians, and Zero Dark Thirty). Every year there are a few scores that are ruled ineligible for one reason or another, and this year those ineligible films include The Bourne Legacy, Moonrise Kingdom, and Rust and Bone.
For my money, the standouts of 2012 were Beasts of the Southern Wild, Looper, and The Dark Knight Rises. I have a feeling Howard Shore's work on The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will end up being a favorite of mine as well. Hit the jump to check out the full list of 104 eligible scores, and leave thoughts on your personal favorites from 2012 in the comments section. The nominations for the 85th Academy Awards will be announced on January 10th, followed by the ceremony on February 24th.


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Eric on Web Architecture
Answers About Web App Architecture For Small Teams:
If you are planning on staying a small team (say, less than 3-5 engineers) for a few years, the friction you feel is going to be coming from some place different than communication and coordination between engineers.
When you're starting out, and when you're small, the speed at which you can make changes and improvements makes all the difference in the world. Having a bunch of separate services with interfaces and contracts just means that you have to make the same change in more places and have to do busywork to share code.
Timeline Algorithms
I've never stopped thinking like an RSS reader developer. A habit of nine years is difficult to shake.
For many years what I wanted to do was develop an algorithm for the reader that would pay attention to what you pay attention to, so that it could bring to the top things likely to be most important to you.
I never got that far, which I regretted for years.
But now I wonder if that would have been the right thing to do. These days I hear complaints that you don't see everything on Facebook from the people you've chosen to follow. And Twitter seems to be moving toward an algorithm-based timeline too, which has people (including me) upset.
At the same time, people do like things like muting features and lists. So it's not that they're against filters and organization — it's that they don't want these imposed from the outside.
These days, were I writing an RSS reader (I'm not), I think I'd skip developing an algorithm based on the user's attention — instead, I'd focus on making it really easy to filter out the things you don't care about, and to highlight the things you're more likely to want to see.
And not try to come up with some algorithm which would have the effect of bugging people and making them feel like they were missing things. Since they would be.
Online Life
Dave Winer, The frenzy of online:
This isn't communication, or sharing. It's growing more and more frenetic every day, it seems. And more pointless.
I've often had the thought that our social networks are the same thing every day, with just slightly different details. When I skip them for a few days, I find that I have absolutely no feeling of missing anything.
Here are some things that don't give me that same-thing-every-day feeling: making things, reading books, and talking to people in real life.
(Currently reading The Quiet American.)
On Criticism and Enjoyment
David Gerrold (one of my favorite science fiction writers):
Comic Book Guy isn't having any fun. He's bored — and he's boring. Bart and Milhouse are having fun. They're excited and interested. They get it — it's about being a kid again. The whole point of a comic or a book or a movie or a TV show is to be a kid and have fun. It's about trusting the author/filmmaker to take you on an exciting journey — not a dark ride, but a journey of discovery. You can't do that if you're watching the lighting, the editing, the camera angle, the dialog, the acting — you gotta let go and be a kid again.
Full-Text Search
New Yankee Codeshop shows how to do full-text search on iOS and OS X using SQLite and FMDB.
The Indie Developer's Wilderness
However much time I've been doing this for, and no matter how much practice I put into it, there's one thing that always sneaks up and pulls the rug right from under me. It's usually between major releases, but not always. It's a period of time where I'm pretty lost, and I don't know what to do. I have feature lists, I have open bugs to fix, and I have an outline of where the app is going. But I feel mentally incapacitated, like I'm getting nothing done.
Rock Stars
Fellow Q Dave Wiskus talks about putting on a good show in Rock Stars.
Apps are the showbiz of today.
Manton on Microblogs
For a new project, Manton Reece is defining a microblog post.
Manton and I care about many of the same things. (We've known each other since the '90s when we were both in the Frontier community.) Among the things we both care about are the virtues of decentralization and of owning your own writing.
I don't have much in the way of details of what he's working on — but it sounds like a project I've had in the back of my mind for quite a while. Since I'm more interested in the thing existing than actually doing it myself, I'm very happy to see Manton working on it.
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Is the web we lost gone forever? Was it a brief golden age before the rise of Facebook and Twitter and The Algorithms of Engagement?
Or is the current period a brief blip in time, where we turned the wrong corner and now we're getting back on the right road?
I used to think that the very structure of the web meant that it was always inevitable that we'd get back to the great web. I'm no longer that kind of progressive — I realize now that loss is real, and usually permanent, and that good things have to be fought for, not by a handful of heroes but by a bunch of regular people like me and Manton.
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Radosław Pietruszewski makes the case for brevity:
Some people say that "clarity trumps brevity." And they're absolutely right. Except for the fact that brevity can be a factor in clarity. Verboseness doesn't come for free…
The trick in finding the sweet spot is to maximize the things that explain what the code does and remove as much noise as possible — the things that don't really add information.
Alex on Developing for the Apple Watch
Alex Vollmer, A New Future?:
This is going to sound funny, but I think the tactile pulsing feature of the Apple Watch is one of its most intriguing. It got me thinking about how, paired with the right software, it could be a fantastic way to teach a wearer certain timing-related skills…
As a musician, that pulsing action might make for a great silent metronome. Instead of playing along with a monotonous click, you could simply time your playing with the watch's pulse. Music teachers always talk about "feeling the groove," this would make it a literal reality.
Tim on Size Classes
Tim Schmitz, Reading the Size Class Tea Leaves:
Both the iPad Air and the iPad mini have a "regular" size class in both dimensions, which implies that Apple is at least leaving room for something larger than the iPad. The likeliest explanation is that they're keeping their options open for shipping larger devices in the future. Maybe a larger "iPad Pro?" Or perhaps an Apple TV SDK, in which the TV has a "large" size class.
iOS Design Kit
TETHR is free and looks pretty good from the screenshots. (Scroll down on the page.)
(Via John Nack.)
Pablo on the Apple Event
Pablo Bendersky, Apple Watch Event Thoughts:
While iOS 7 and 8 have a visual style that do not require pixel perfect mockups, iOS 7 was touted as designed for retina displays, and the recommendation was to use retina assets (like 1px lines) which might not look good on the 6 Plus.
I would think that every programmer thinks in powers of two — more so than in powers of ten. (Is 100 a round number? Hell no. But 64 is.)
The @3x thing makes me feel like one of those computers in the original Star Trek that Kirk destroys by feeding it bad input. Does. Not. Compute. Can't. Divide. Three. By. Two. Help. Me.
Pop. Bang. Fizz. Lights out.
(Okay. I'll adapt.)
Gift Tickets to NSScotland
NSScotland (they're sponsoring this blog this week) has a nice idea: gift tickets. Buy a ticket for someone who can't afford it — a student, for example. Other conferences should do this too.
This Acquisition Makes Total Sense
Jared Sinclair, Unread is Now a Supertop App:
I'm proud of the work I put into Unread, and can't wait to see what Supertop does with the foundation I laid down. Unread has the cleanest code I've ever written for a personal project, so I'm hopeful that it won't be a burden for Oisin and Padraig to wander through it.
I admire both Castro and Unread. This looks like a great fit.
WatchKit Speculation
Will you have to write WatchKit apps in Swift? Seems that would not be necessary on a technical level, but it feels like a possible Apple-like move to encourage adoption.
What I Can't Get Over
It's crazy to me that with interest in Apple at such a high, a publication that covers Apple couldn't make enough money to retain its staff.
It seems to me that Macworld had a giant advantage over almost everything else.
Is it just that it's hard to make enough money to run a quality publication? Even with the advantage of being Apple-centered?
Swift Policy
Now that Swift is at 1.0, I need to set a policy for when to use Swift code and when not to.
Swift is a peer of Objective-C and you can ship apps written (all or in part) in Swift. And I expect that the share of Swift code will grow fairly quickly.
I also expect that, once I'm good at Swift, I'll be more productive than I am with Objective-C.
That's a big premise to accept, and it's not based on experience yet — I've written only a few hundred lines of Swift code, and slowly — but it looks like it's true. There are classes of bugs that won't compile in Swift. It has very nice things like type inference and optional chaining that cut down on the amount of code I need to write and maintain.
But this means I'll be less productive as I get up to speed. There's never a good time to be less productive, but developers are used to making this particular trade-off: adopting a new thing now has benefits later.
So my policy is this: new code will be written in Swift.
There are exceptions, though. The things Swift can't do will have to be written in Objective-C. (Luckily these are fairly rare.)
And there has to be a time limit. I forget who proposed the 45-minute rule for CSS, where you give up and just use a damn table for your layout. I don't want to be too quick to punt when using Swift, because it means I won't be learning as much as I could be (and I need to become expert: that's the point), but I also can't let my productivity go too far from what's normal.
I'll give myself two hours of banging-head-on-disk, then punt. As a rough guideline. (I'm not actually going to use a stopwatch.) This number may change, but it's important to have some limit as I'm doing this.
Also: I got the latest version of the Swift book and I'm re-reading it. Just because it feels right. You probably don't need to, but I feel like I do.
I'll also keep the known issues from the Swift release notes handy, for when I do get into a weird situation. And I've added the Swifter site to my favorites bar, for easy lookups.
Apple Watch and Username and Password
Say you have an app connected to a web service — like Twitter or Facebook — and you create a native Apple Watch app.
How is the watch wearer able to enter their credentials for the service?
Update 11:40 am: The answer, as many people have pointed out, is that this is one of the reasons the Watch requires an iPhone. I'm curious about the details. I'll be patient.


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Interesting rant. Have you considered that the reason most players assume a female avatar is played by a male player is because that is actually the norm. For instance, World of Warcraft estimates that their player base is 84% male and 16% female. This tends to track with my experience for MMOs where I would [...]
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This class will give you a basic understanding of how to bind books. We will begin by making a simple single signature book, with a few options for how to stitch it up, and then we will move on to make our books bigger. We will then learn to make multiple signature books using a variety of materials for covers. Bring any materials you may want to learn how to use (a leather scrap you've been saving for years, or a cracker box) to practice on.
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In an era when art encompasses infinite amalgams of visual media, The Gowanus Studio Space encourages inter-disciplinary exchange and provides affordable access to facilities for artists and designers. Offering exhibition, curation and production opportunities, the studio is an incubator for new ideas and an inroad to today's insular art world.
The GSS' 40+ members rent low-cost studios and storage and have 24-hour access to a woodshop, print studio and large common workspace. GSS was established with little funding in industrial Gowanus in 2007, and is now in the final stage of an ambitious move to a new 7500 sq-ft home.
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SCHAGHTICOKE, N.Y. - The funeral of long time Fire Chief and former Mayor of Schaghitcoke William Moon was held on Monday morning.
William Moon, 89, died last week in his home with his family by his side. He was a well-known and respected man in his community.
The Schaghticoke Fire Department along with family and friends of Moon gathered at Transfiguration Parish to pay their final respects to a man who touched so many lives in the community.
Schaghticoke firefighters led the procession into the church this morning to pay their final respects.
"There's so much to remember him by. His legacy is a very vast one to remember," said Bill Hughes, one of Moon's grandchildren.
Hughes said he is honored to be related and to have known such a man.
"He was a legend in this town before I was born," said Moon.
The 25-year-old said his grandfather took on many jobs in his lifetime, serving overseas during World War II and taking on the role as mayor for the village of Schaghticoke for five years in the late 1990s.
However, the one job the family says Moon was most proud of was being a firefighter for his local community.
Fire Chief Mike Jackson said Moon will be remembered as a dedicated public servant. He was a member of the Schaghticoke Fire Department for 70 years, serving almost 38 of those years as fire chief.
"Everybody knew who he was and what he did and everything that he's contributed to the community," said Jackson.
Flags were flown at half-staff at the Schaghticoke Fire House on Monday. The color purple draped over the building to mourn the loss of the firefighter.
Many people said they will miss an extraordinary man who served his community, family and church.
Moon will be laid to rest at St. John's cemetery in the spring.
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The U.S. Global Change Research Program recently launched the Metadata Access Tool for Climate and Health (MATCH). The tool offers centralized access to metadata about thousands of government-held datasets related to human health, the environment, and climate science for researchers and decision makers.
Cal-Adapt is a web-based climate adaptation planning tool developed in part by the University of California, Berkeley's Geospatial Innovation Facility for the State of California. Cal-Adapt allows users to identify potential climate change risks in specific geographic areas throughout the state. Users can either query by location, or click on an interactive map to explore what climate impacts are projected to occur in their area of interest.
The Southwest Climate Change Network is a virtual community for scientists, other experts, decision makers, and the public to share information on climate change and collaborate on solutions. The site provides static and dynamic content and encourages readers to engage with each other and the scientists behind the site and ask questions about what matters to them when it comes to climate in the Southwest.
The Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy has an archive of all its webinars on a variety of climate issues in the Alaska and the Arctic. The webinar series is also ongoing with new speakers and topics scheduled regularly.
Twice per day NOAA's National Weather Services publishes digital maps that show national forecasts for ozone, smoke, and dust. Ozone is shown as 1-hour and 8-hour concentrations. Official Air Quality point forecasts, issued by state and local air quality forecasters, along with additional information on air quality can be found under EPA's AIRNow site. Surface and column-averaged concentrations of predicted smoke for large fires are displayed as 1-hour averages, updated each day.
NOAA's Climate Prediction Center provides daily forecast maps of Ultraviolet (UV) Index for 58 U.S. cities, colored coded to their anticipated level of exposure. According to the World Health Organization, prolonged exposure to the sun's UV radiation may result in acute and chronic health effects on our skin, eyes, and immune system.
The NOAA Smoke Forecasting System integrates satellite information on the location of wildfires with weather data inputs from the North American Mesoscale model and smoke dispersion simulations. The result is a daily prediction of smoke transport and concentration 48 hours into the future. The model also incorporates U.S. Forest Service estimates for wildfire smoke emissions based on vegetation cover.
Atmospheric pollution manifests itself in many ways, ranging from reduced visibility to dangerous respiratory problems and discomfort. Atmospheric pollution can be gaseous (e.g. ozone, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides) and/or particulate (e.g. soot, dust). The degree of pollution is dependent on a number of factors: source, transport from source, and build up over time through air stagnation. The stagnation index maps show where in the United States air has stagnated, leading to potential impacts on human and environmental health.
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Needless to say, the "Ghostbuster" movie series ended sometime ago. And while the "black guy" was no where to be found on the cover of the second installment, Mattel has made sure to include the utmost of detail in the Ghostbusters Exclusive Prop Replica Ghost Trap. The toy apparently went on sale last October for a purported $155, yet it's already being sold at a premium. In fact, you can grab one on Amazon via a 3rd party retailer for $299.95. How's that for supply and demand?!
Nevertheless, this toy will have even the most minute of Ghostbuster fans pining for one. There are two modes; prop mode and movie mode. Prop mode simply includes a set of flashing lights with no sound effects when the toy is activated. The movie mode, however, is the more robust of the two that will have fans of the quirky comedy salivating. Step on the included pedal, the trap opens up, the lights flash and sound effects are emmited from the plastic box. True to the Ghostbuster movie experience the doors of the trap will close moments later, followed by a set of LED lights indicating a ghost has been caught. But that's not all! The toy trap will even go as far as to shake and wobble as if a ghost wants out. Adding further accuracy of the true to life movie prop is the ability to remove the box from the casing and discard of the ghost in an environmentally safe manner.


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Looking to see if anyone is related to this family....
I just added burial site photos for Charles Edward & Margaret Jane Armstrong in New Zealand. I also added burial site photos for Karorina (Matemoe) Armstrong. Earlier this month I added burial site photos for William Armstrong, Jr who originally came from Ireland & is buried in New Zealand. See all these & much more at my site, Family History Moments:
I just added a massive Family Tree to my blog starting with James Armstrong & Mary Yeats, 1666!
You can see it at my family history blog: http://beattyarmstrong.blogspot.com/
I'm looking for the parents of Wm Armstrong, Sr. who was born 1813--1817.
Also looking for the parents & siblings of his wife, Anne Beatty who was born between 1819-1821.
Anne married William Armstrong at the age of 26 in May 1847 at District Church of Lisnaskea, Parish of Aghalurcher in the Couty of Fermanagh, Irealnd. Marriage Record indicates Anne was living in Moat prior to marriage and her father was a farmer.
Her father's name was William Beatty and had a relative, James Beatty, also attend their marriage.
William Armstrong, Sr. was 34 yrs old on Marriage Record, aWriiting Clerk living in Coxton, Ireland. His Father's name was also William Armstrong and was a farmer. He also a relative attending the wedding named Charles Armstrong.
Wm Jr. died in 1874 & is buried in Laghy Cemetery, Ire.
William and Anne had five Children all born at Coxton, Fivemiletown, Donegal County, Ireland.
William Armstrong, Jr.- Born 10th July 1850 (Immigrated to New Zealand.)
Elizabeth Armstrong- Born 15th day of August 1852 (Married an American and settled in USA.)
Anna Armstrong- Born 6th August 1854 (Married an Englishman and settled in UK.)
Eleanor Georgina Armstrong-Born 20th March 1859 (Believed to have died in USA.)
Mervyn James Armstrong-Born 26th June 1861 (Died in 1888)
Anne died in 1891 and is buried in Laghy Cemetery with a few other members of the family.
Anne left behind a wealth of beautifully preserved information contained inside a Family Bible which we're willing to share. Many family photos also available. I'm also in contact with descendants of Annie Armstrong in UK and Elizabeth Armstrong's descandants living in Washington DC area. My wife is a descendant of Wm Armstrong Jr from NZ so we have much information also available on his hundreds of descendants.
***CHECK OUT OLD ARMSTRONG & BEATTY FAMILY PHOTOS ON MY BLOG: http://beattyarmstrong.blogspot.com/
Just wanted to say that I posted some new information on my Armstrong-Beatty Blog that may point to the missing link between the two families. I don't have everything tied together yet, but it's getting closer. Have a look at the info. on my blog and let me know whet you think: http://beattyarmstrong.blogspot.com/
Hi Ann-
I'm really intrigued with your search. I just posted a message under Armstrong as well as Beatty and I have a (Mervyn) James Armstrong who was the brother of my wife's 2nd Grt Grandfather (Wm.) who died young (Age 27) and is buried at Laghy Graveyard in Ireland. Little more is know of him so it could be a long shot. I haven't done any research on him to see if he was ever married or had any children and this little bit of information came from an old family bible also in the UK.
It's interesting to note that our James Armstrong had a sister named Annie and his mother's name was also Anne. Now you can see my interest in your search, Ann.
If you think this could be a match for you. let me know and I'll forard your information on to Cousin Claire who's also in the UK. (She's a descendant of Annie Armstrong.)


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"Musically, Cronian is the counterpart of Borknagar. Borknagar revolves around traditional riffs and organic arrangements, while Cronian starts out on huge visionary soundscapes, which we peel down to a cold, sharp and hard hitting expression. BORKNAGAR resembles a philosopher silently pondering about man and nature. Cronian is the activist with an attitude portraying the destructive rage of modern civilisation."
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