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Recruitment and admission methods
The course of study lasts 3 years. The 16-month plan of studies for final year students is organized along the following lines: an Area of Concentration to be chosen amongst 8 sciences or industry-related sectors and a choose between 5 Professional Tracks as they are applicable to the graduate's "debut" in an engineering profession.
How to become a Centralien
The educational project of École Centrale Paris assumes that its students, who have a huge capacity for work, have acquired a rigorous sense of logic, an ability to work in the abstract, and intellectual agility.
This is why admission to École Centrale Paris is based almost entirely on nationwide competitive examinations taken after preparatory studies: 330 places are available through the Centrale-Supélec entrance examinations.
Admission modes
The other places are filled through different methods of selection: 150 places are available to university transfer students and foreign students meeting specific selection requirements:
- First year entrance examinations: Preparatory studies,
- Foreign students,
- University program,
- Admission for disabled persons,
- Practical information.
The students accepted through the entrance examinations are admitted as engineering students ("élève-ingénieur").
This entrance examination is based on the Preparatory studies program for Grandes Écoles Scientifiques. The level corresponds to a minimum of two years preparatory work after the Baccalaureate. This preparatory work is generally carried out in Preparatory Study Classes for the Grandes Écoles in selected secondary schools.
Places available:
- 140 places through the MP program,
- 85 places through the PC program,
- 85 places through the PSI program,
- 10 places through the PT program,
- 10 places through the TSI program,
In addition to the selection procedures available to French candidates, other non-French candidates may apply for admission to the first year as a élève-stagiaire (trainee student). A student's nationality is deemed to be the nationality, which he or she holds on the closing date for admission applications.
The trainee students that meet, at the end of the first year, the conditions required of engineering students to be admitted into the second year, then become full engineering students themselves. It is only under very exceptional circumstances that trainee students that have not attained the engineering student qualification are allowed to continue their studies at the École.
There are two ways of obtaining admission as a trainee student:
- Special examination: This examination is based on the MP, PC, and PSI programs of the Preparatory Classes for Grandes Écoles Scientifiques. It offers 20 places. It is reserved for foreign candidates who have taken part in the Preparatory Classes for Grandes Écoles Scientifiques program in France,
- International program: Admission to the international program is open to foreign candidates that have already completed 2 or 3 years of university education, have obtained abroad a diploma equivalent to the baccalaureate, and have not already taken up any higher education studies in France. 100 places are available for this type of admission. Trainee students studying for a TIME program double degree are admitted by this route.
University program : Candidates with a Licence ès Sciences degree
- Candidates with a Licence ès Sciences degree that wish to follow engineering education may be admitted to the first year of École Centrale Paris, providing that they apply in the third year after obtaining their Baccalaureate (a dispensation of one year is given for long term illness),
- Holders of equivalent foreign degrees may apply under the same conditions.
The aim of this access route into the École is to admit candidates that have followed a complete university degree course. As a consequence, candidates that have gone through the preparatory classes for Grande Écoles will not be accepted, except in exceptional circumstances as deemed by the jury. 20 places are proposed each year.
The five Ecoles Centrales (Paris, Lille, Lyon, Marseille and Nantes) accept students from the university within the framework of the Intergroup.
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Practical information
Further information may be obtained in the booklet " Conditions d'admission à l'École Centrale Paris " (Conditions for admission to École Centrale Paris) and "Instructions relatives au Concours Centrale-Supélec " (Instructions relating to the Centrale-Supélec entrance examinations), published each year by the Admissions Service of the ECP.
Each candidate must undertake, in participating in the entrance examinations, to strictly conform to the instructions provided and to any decision taken by the jury, whose decisions are final. Any breach of the regulations, any fraud or attempt at fraud, either in the information provided during the application stage, or during the written or oral examinations, may give rise to disciplinary action leading to the annulment of the application or the loss of any right or advantage gained (particularly admission to an École), and definitive exclusion from taking part in the entrance examinations.
Students in preparatory classes who wish to consult past examination papers and the reports of the jury should:
- Visit the web site of the Concours Centrale-Supélec: http://centrale-supelec.scei-concours.org
- École Centrale Paris, Admission, Services, Grande Voie des Vignes, F-92
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Phone: +33 1 41 13 11 29 or +33 1 41 13 11 96
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- École Centrale Paris, Admission, Services, Grande Voie des Vignes, F-92
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He came to Hillel after a distinguished and varied career. As Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents from early 2007 to 2011, Fingerhut led Ohio's system of public universities and colleges. In that role, Chancellor Fingerhut earned a reputation as an innovative leader and ardent advocate of the value of higher education.
Working in constant collaboration with the business community and elected officials of both major political parties, Fingerhut developed a strategic plan to prepare students for 21st century jobs.
Most recently, he was Corporate Vice President of Education and STEM Learning business at Battelle. Battelle, based in Columbus, Ohio, where it was founded in 1929, is the world's largest independent research and development organization. With specialties that include an array of scientific and medical research, Battelle generates approximately $6.5 billion in research and development activity annually and is responsible for more than 22,000 employees worldwide.
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CHICAGO – Take it from someone who knows.
An extra-large, biggie-sized, mega-stuffed winning streak is as tough as it seems.
At least, that is, if you believe Phil Salvagio. He is the coach of the San Diego Sockers, who recently won 48 consecutive games in the Professional Arena Soccer League.
"It's no picnic," Salvagio said.
Picnics are nice and easy. You pack some sandwiches, you find an open patch of grass, and you spread out a blanket before sitting down to enjoy your meal.
This is tough.
This is the Blackhawks, who continued their dazzling, history-making start with a 5-3 win Tuesday against the Minnesota Wild. A sellout crowd of 21,836 crazies ventured out on a snowy night to watch the red-hot Hawks (20-0-3) extend their point streak to 23 games to open the season.
Move over, Michael Jordan and Ryne Sandberg. This city needs room for another 23.
Jack Bauer, you're next.
Earlier this week, USA Today quoted a math professor who calculated that the Hawks' record-setting start was likely to happen once every 700 years.
Hey, maybe so. I didn't do so well in math. Why else do you think I'm working here?
But I do know that a streak like this is tough. Or, at least, I think I know it's tough.
Salvagio knows he knows.
The Sockers' 48-game streak started in December 2010 and lasted until Jan. 27, when they lost in overtime to the Dallas Sidekicks. The streak spanned two championships and an undefeated season
"We could have lost so many games," Salvagio said with a chuckle.
Ring a bell?
How about Feb. 2, when the Calgary Flames scored with 35 seconds remaining in the third period to seize a 3-2 lead against the Hawks? That would have ended the streak, except for the fact that Jonathan Toews tied the game with 2.3 seconds to go, and the Hawks went on to win in a shootout.
Or what about Feb. 25, when the Edmonton Oilers carried a 2-1 lead into the third period only to see Marian Hossa and the Hawks rally for an overtime win?
The most recent (and most exciting) comeback happened Sunday in Detroit, when Patrick Kane erased a one-goal deficit with 2:02 remaining and toyed with Red Wings goaltender Jimmy Howard in the shootout round to deliver the win.
It all works together.
The Hawks play well. They win games. They gain confidence.
The more confidence that the Hawks gain, the easier it is to play well and win games, which in turn leads to more confidence. On and on it goes.
Salvagio knows the mindset. He has enjoyed the Hawks' point streak from afar.
"To win 22 games, the whole team has to believe they're not losing," Salvagio said. "If someone gets close to them, then it's [a question of], 'Who's going to be the hero?'
"Because they're going to win. That's how the Blackhawks are feeling right now. They know they're going to win."
Of course, Hawks players can't say such things out loud.
That would seem arrogant. It's better to play dumb and offer a surprised shrug: Gee, we won again?
I think the Hawks know exactly how dominant they are.
The rest of us can shrug in amazement. Because a streak like this is tough.
Yet it's going to end.
I don't know how and I don't know when, but I do know it can't last forever.
It happened to the Connecticut women (90 consecutive wins) and the UCLA men (88) in college basketball. It happened to the Los Angeles Lakers (33) and baseball's New York Giants (26) and the New England Patriots (21).
It will happen to the Hawks. And it will be a bummer.
Salvagio remembers what his locker room felt like after the streak ended in Dallas.
"There was no music, no beers, nothing," Salvagio said. "It was just silent."
But do you know what?
Even though their streak ended, the Sockers kept rolling. They're playing in the semifinals this weekend as they pursue another championship.
Pretty soon, the Hawks should know the feeling.
"All that really matters, to tell you the truth," Salvagio said, "is if you're holding the trophy at the end."
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Faces of Gmail: Petra Cross
Last month we kicked off "Faces of Gmail," a series where we'll introduce you to some of the members of the Gmail team. For our first post, we spoke with Manu Cornet, an engineer in Paris who made some of our favorite themes. This month we're back in Mountain View with Petra Cross, a globe-trotting gal who builds tools to help make the Gmail engineering team more efficient.
What do you do on the Gmail team and how long have you been at Google?
I have been a software engineer at Google for over six years. I spent my first three and a half years with the search team developing a framework for evaluating the relevance of search results. Since then, I've been focusing on internal Gmail infrastructure and building tools that help make other Gmail engineers more productive.
What did you do before joining Google?
After I got my computer science degree from Santa Clara University, I worked for a year at a small Silicon Valley semiconductor start-up. Before I came to California, I studied CS in Slovakia. I'm always doing many things at the same time. While I was in school, I created and sold little black and white drawings, taught English classes at a local elementary school, worked as a talk-show host at a local TV station, modeled, and also sang competitively in a choir. I miss singing the most. Today, besides working on Gmail, I'm focusing on photography and my husband Bradford.
What are the three Gmail features you wouldn't be able to live without?
Ah, there are so many features I would miss if they went away:
- Priority Inbox helps me point my attention to emails I might want to respond to first.
- I use chat a lot to communicate with my co-workers and friends. I also love Gmail's ability to call phones.
- I like how Gmail organizes emails into conversation view, instead of putting each email into a separate line in the inbox. It makes it a lot easier to see the entire context of the discussion.
What do you do when you're not working on Gmail?
I visit my parents in Europe few times a year. To trick my husband into joining me on every trip to visit his in-laws, I try to wrap the trip into a fun package that includes more countries. And so, in the last three years, we've visited Belgium, Netherlands, U.K., Czech Republic, Spain, Italy, Austria, Jordan (we visited Petra!), Lebanon, Egypt, and we also got married in a 13th century castle in Slovakia.
Besides traveling, I'm quite domesticated and I'm constantly decorating our San Francisco home. To my mom's disappointment, I almost stopped cooking since I joined Google (blame the free Google food!) and started spending most of my days on a computer. I've been blogging a lot lately and also spending a lot of time photographing people. I can't imagine what my life would look like without technology. I can't even sit still on a beach for five minutes. Seriously.
How do you procrastinate?
I don't procrastinate. I make conscious decisions to not do certain things at this very moment. Like right now, I am responding to your questions instead of coding. :)
What would your last meal be?
Crepes with Nutella and chestnut puree, and a lot of whipped cream. The whipped cream has to be hand-whipped, not from a can. Crepes need to be perfectly browned on both sides. I'm up for a crepe-off any time!
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Well, I certainly didn't mean to disappear there for a while. Let's catch up, shall we?
I went to Milwaukee for a conference. And had a good time — saw some good panels, got some good feedback, caught up with a few friends, rode the polka escalator (at the Milwaukee Convention Center, definitely worth the visit), saw the Bronze Fonz. You know, the usual.
And the memorial to letter carriers. That was a kind of happy accident, as it's tucked back on a quiet street. Or, at least, a street quiet late on a Sunday afternoon.
Then, what I'd been waiting for! My sister was in Milwaukee in the spring — also for a conference — and she told me about Mader's. It was fantastic, and so so much fun after a German studies conference. And the perfect way to end my first trip to Milwaukee.
And, surprisingly enough, there's even been a little time for knitting. Though not nearly as much as I might hope.
Still, I managed to finish up the i-cord bind off on the body of my Walnuss — now to battle my way through the sleeves. I really do think this has interview-cardigan potential …
I also finished up Budgie a week or two ago — it's a very quick knit. The seaming, however, is giving me fits: I don't know what it is, but I simple cannot get the sleeves to seam evenly. At the time, I thought "maybe i'll just knit these in the round" … then, decided I'd follow the pattern. So, really, I brought this upon myself. Still, I've got some time to figure it out.
I used some ancient stash Kureyon for the contrasting stripes, and I really love how the colors worked out on the body and sleeves. It took a little fancy footwork to make sure everything matched up, but definitely worth it in the end.
However … not so with the i-cord edging. Looking back, it probably had something to do with picking up too few stitches, resulting in unsightly bunching. At the time, I decided to just go with garter stitch to finish. We'll see, I might go back to the i-cord. If I ever get the arms seamed, that is.
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Switchfoot takes its name from a surfing term, but it could also describe their approach to spirituality in their music – one foot in this world, the other in the next. Their most recent album, Vice Verses (released Sept. 27) is one of their most openly spiritual efforts. Frontman Jon Foreman told a Red Rocks audience in April that Vice Verses would be their"best attempt at a worship record," and it certainly is that. Denver Post reporter John Meyer interviewed Foreman before the band's sold-out show Oct. 7 at the Boulder Theater.
John Meyer: There are a bunch of songs on Vice Verses that are prayers: Afterlife, Blinding Light, Thrive, Restless, Vice Verses, Where I Belong. What's it like to write and perform songs like that, especially when you're hoping to reach a mainstream audience?
Jon Foreman: I never subdivide humans into categories of Christian or Muslim or atheist or agnostic. I feel like, even early on, playing all sorts of places – whether it was coffee shops or bars or colleges or churches, whatever we could – there's hurting people everywhere that are trying to look for meaning and purpose and beauty, finding it in relationships or a sports team or a song or in religion.
For me, I've always been attracted to people who are telling the truth, so that's one thing we've tried to do as a band — just tell the truth. From day one, we've never been one to shy away from what we believe. We've always been very straightforward and honest about it.


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Interview with Kim Carstensen, new FSC Director General
Carstensen has worked with legislators, businesses and sees himself as an advocate of the poor. He has lived and helped shape an important part of recent environmental history - representing WWF as one of two NGOs on the Danish delegation in Rio in 1992. He remembers the disappointment when nothing substantial was agreed through the policy process on forests, and how this led to WWF exploring market alternatives. In many ways, this was the conception of the very organisation he is now leading 20 years later.
It is not all lofty global processes. Carstensen also remembers the difficulties of FSC work in the initial stages in Denmark, and trying to convince forest owners of the value of becoming certified and companies to ask for and source FSC products. Besides many fond experiences from that time, Carstensen also holds an important memento: a beautiful cutting board, which is one of the first pieces of FSC certified timber in Denmark.
Nina Haase, MTI Communications Manager, spoke to Kim Carstensen on his 11th day on the job – so fresh still that sometimes the new Director General would mix up the acronyms of the various organisations he is now working with.
What made you leave your own consultancy that you run in partnership with your wife, to now lead the FSC?
I was asking myself that same question. We were having enormous fun with our own company, doing things that we felt were groundbreaking, working with partners in the South to define what a Green Economy would look like if it was to be good for the poor and socially just.
To be honest, when I was first approached for this FSC job, I was not very interested. But then through the interview process, I increasingly saw that the FSC was in pretty good shape, that a lot of improvements had been made in the last five to six years.
So I felt there was a good basis. And some very interesting and important challenges, to which I thought I could bring some good experiences from my experience working with WWF and on my own. I thought we'd make a good match.
And apparently not only you thought so. I hear your appointment was unanimous by the FSC Board of Directors.
That is really important. It is key for me to be able to work across all three chambers and the people within the chambers. Of course representatives will fight for their own interests, but in the FSC they need to come together and agree on key decisions. And I would think the appointment of a Director General is one of them.
Looking at your experience, you have worked with all three stakeholder groups. Maybe not surprising that the different interests were able to come together around your appointment in the way that they have.
I am of course, an environmentalist, but in many ways I feel as much an agent for social interest. My background is that of a sociologist. The first task I did for WWF-Denmark back in the late '80s was to make sure that WWF-Denmark's portfolio in Africa was also beneficial for people. I always felt myself very much as a people's representative inside the environmental movement, while at the same time of course a full-bodied member of the movement itself.
Does that mean that we will see stronger social criteria for the FSC?
That I don't know. We just have been through a review of the Principles and Criteria for FSC International. But we will certainly see an interest from my side to engage with the Social Chamber inside the FSC.
Over the past few years the FSC has been quite good at reaching out to the Economic Chamber, to the big and small companies who are so important for the market penetration of FSC products all over the world. FSC has become good at that and that is certainly something we would want to continue. But at the same time, I will want us to also have a very strong focus on our constituencies on the social side: Indigenous Peoples Groups, Trade Unions and others, so we maintain a true balance between all three interests: the social, environmental and economic.
You mentioned challenges and opportunities. Where do you see them?
It is important that we maintain a true balance between the various interests in the organisation. We have to maintain the attention we have developed on the economic side and match that with equally strong interest from the social and environmental side.
There are also some very important issues that will come up. Some of which have been with us for a long time. We have not yet managed to get FSC to be the mainstay for sustainable forest management in the tropics, and particularly not in Africa. There is a huge challenge there to get activities going in Africa.
Another big challenge related to this is how do we move FSC beyond its stronghold in Europe and North America and into emerging markets, and particularly China and India? That is another big one.
Of course an overall challenge is to maintain credibility. We have seen enormous growth over the last few years. And now we need new systems and technologies that allow us to maintain credibility of a system that is much larger now than ever before.
Speaking about credibility. There is of course the system integrity, the processes and procedure. But there is also the ability to demonstrate impact in the field, to demonstrate that all these complex systems yield real positive change where it matters.
My sense is that we have some bits of answers, we have some good illustrations of how FSC certification matters. But there is a lot more that must be done to fully demonstrate the impacts of FSC certification. I am convinced positive impacts are there. But I am also convinced that more research needs to be done so we understand what the impacts are and where they are strongest and where they are weakest.
I am not sure yet how to address this. FSC is not itself a research organisation. And I am not convinced FSC should be analyzing itself. We believe very much in third-party verification. But it is an important issue that we need to figure out.
Impact is positive change times uptake. Compared with some younger certification systems, FSC is growing comparatively slowly. Do you see this as an issue?
Well, FSC has grown tremendously over the past 4-5 years, and I am as interested in consolidating that growth into a truly functioning global organization as I am in continuing the level of growth. Growth is important of course, but even more important is that we have a strong organization that can deliver on the ground, and that we begin to grow in those areas where we have not been growing so far, namely in tropical forest and smallholder certification.
I would like to see a clear strategically targeted growth in tropical forests and small holder forests, and succeeding in those areas would make me even more proud than just maintaining massive overall growth figures.
Looking beyond FSC now. FSC stood as the model for many certification systems. What do you see as the main lessons learned from FSC?
There was much learning in how to make a true multi-stakeholder environment work. This resulted in certain governance features either being dropped or adopted by others. The whole notion of doing something that includes social, environmental and economic interests is one that we have learned a lot from. We learned how difficult it can be, but also how powerful it is when it functions.
And we have demonstrated to the world that it is possible. Of course we need to get better at documenting and demonstrating the impacts - show that we are actually achieving what we set out to do. But I believe we have demonstrated that it is possible, not only to talk about environmental, social, or economic interests individually, but all at once. That will always result in compromise. That will always be more fuzzy, never as clear, edgy and sharp as you would want it to be if you only had one perspective. And it will take time. But it is also much stronger and more durable in the long run. These are important lessons not only of relevance to the newer certification schemes, but also for the world as a whole.
What role would you like to see WWF play?
WWF is of enormous importance to FSC. There are several roles.
One is as a partner everywhere FSC works on the ground. The global WWF network also is tremendously powerful and important. WWF has offices in pretty much all the places that FSC operates in.
Another one is to be a strong partner to help maintain and further develop FSC standards. Here, WWF has an enormously important role with its long-term experience working on forest issues. But also being a watchdog and bringing up issues, where WWF sees that something is not going the way it should be – be it with individual certifications, or more generally.
And lastly, in helping with communication. Informing people. Getting the word out. Not only about FSC, but about the importance of forests for biodiversity, people, environmental services and business. This understanding is so important and a necessary prerequisite for people to buy sustainable timber. Why should they otherwise care?
When will you have been successful as FSC Director General?
I think I will see myself as a success, if in five or ten years, the membership of the FSC, meaning the companies, social and environmental organisations will still find FSC to be the go-to certification system for forest products, and think that the FSC is in much better shape then, than when I started.


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AMERICUS - Simply put, Daryl Davis was perfect. Davis connected on all 12 of his shot attempts en route to a career-high 31 points as Georgia Southwestern fought off North Georgia for an 84-78 victory on Thursday evening in the Storm Dome.
GSW has won three straight games and improves to 15-3 overall and 7-2 in the Peach Belt Conference. North Georgia drops its third straight to fall to 6-9 overall and 3-6 in PBC play.
After falling behind 7-2 to open the contest, Southwestern went on a 14-2 run spurred by a pair of Johathan Brooks 3-point baskets.
UNG answered the Hurricanes run with a 12-0 run of their own. GSW was held scoreless for four minutes before Davis ended the drought with a 3-point play. Southwestern regained the lead and eventually built its largest cushion of the first half, 36-28, with 1:34 to go before the break. The Hurricanes maintained the eight-point lead and took a 38-30 advantage into halftime.
The two sides exchanged baskets in the opening minute of the second period before Brooks knocked down a 3-pointer to give GSW its largest lead of the night at 43-32 with 18:55 to play.
UNG would not go away and the Nighthawks clawed their way back into the game. An Ishmael Hollis dunk at the 12:45 mark put UNG back on top, 53-52.
Another 3-point play from Davis a few possessions later put the Hurricanes ahead for good with 8:39 to play.
GSW was unable to stretch the margin beyond five points until the final minute of the game.
Southwestern shot 52.9 percent from the floor in the contest while North Georgia rebounded from a 31.4 percent first half to finish the game at 44.1 percent. The Nighthawks struggled from long range, connecting on 3 of 17 attempts. Both sides were efficient from the free throw line, making over 80 percent. GSW made a season-high 25 from the charity stripe.
North Georgia held a slight advantage in rebounding (35-32) and bench points (19-13).
Davis jumps from 10th in the conference in field goal percentage to second after his performance against the Nighthawks. In addition, he made 7 of 8 from the free throw line, grabbed seven rebounds, collected three steals and swatted away a pair of UNG shots. Brooks came up two points shy of his season high with a 20-point effort on Thursday. Alan Arnett chipped in 18 points, six rebounds and four blocks.
Hollis paced UNG with 22 points and eight rebounds. Corey Green added 14 points and Lamar Richardson scored 10.
The Hurricanes wrap up their four-game home stand on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. against Columbus State.


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One of my projects this last month was to help a friend of our daughter with her genealogy. I started out with a few bits and bobs and found several lines in Williams County, so I'm going to post what I know. I only researched her direct line (a lot to do in a short period of time), so if you're familiar with this line, drop me a comment or shoot me an email; I'll pass it along to her.
Name: William Frederick Underwood
Birth: 29 Jan 1826 Cumberland Co, PA
Death: 13 Jan 1906 Defiance Co, OH
Other spouses: Mary Marion Larr
Marriage: 8 Aug 1850 Cumberland Co, PA
Spouse: Amanda A Traxler
Birth: 18 Sep 1831 Cumberland Co, PA
Death: 17 May 1874 Williams Co, OH1
Burial: Nettle Lake Cem, NW Twp, Williams Co, OH2
Father: Jacob Traxler (1786-1864)
Mother: Elizabeth "Polly" Kramer (1790-1878)
1 F: Harriet 'Hattie" Underwood
Birth: 27 Aug 1866 Defiance Co, OH3
Death: 17 Jul 1901 Montpelier, Superior Twp, Williams Co, OH3
Burial: Kintigh Cem, NW Twp, Williams Co, OH4
Spouse: Samuel Bunce
Marriage: 26 Nov 1889 Williams Co, OH5
Children: Edna Ellen (1890-)
Willard (1893-)
Alice (1897-1991)
Notes for William Frederick Underwood
1860 Washington, Van Wert, Ohio; Roll: M653_1045; Page: 375; Image: 52; Family History Library Film: 805045.
h/h 341/334 Underwood, William 32 PA farmer
Amanda 28 PA
Jacob 9 PA
Mary P 7 PA
John M 6/12 OH
Draft Registration, Civil War, June 1863
William Underwood, 36 OH Delaware Twp, Defiance Co, OH
1870 Northwest, Williams, Ohio; Roll: M593_1282; Page: 140B; Image: 284; Family History Library Film: 552781.
h/h /22 Underwood, William 59 PA farmer
Amanda 40 PA
Jacob 19 PA
Mary 17 PA
John 10 OH
Rebecca 8 OH
Sylvester 7 OH
Harriet 4 OH
William 1 OH
1880 Delaware, Defiance, Ohio; Roll: 1011; Family History Film: 1255011; Page: 153D; Enumeration District: 236; Image: 0533.
h/h 106/106 Underwood, William 60 day laborer PA-PA-PA kidney problems
Mary wife 32 OH-OH-OH good health
John son 19 OH-PA-OH farm laborer
Sylvester son 15 OH-PA-OH day laborer
Harriet E dau 13 OH-PA-OH
William H son 11 OH-PA-OH
Daniel son 7 OH-PA-OH
Rachel C dau 4 OH-PA-OH
Cora Estella dau 1 OH-PA-OH
1900 Delaware, Defiance, Ohio; Roll: T623_1263; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 9.
h/h 213/214 Underwood, William 74 (Jan 1826) mar 25Y PA-PA-PA farmer
Mary wife 51 (Feb 1849) 7/6 ch OH-OH-OH
Elmer son 15 (Oct 1884) OH-PA-OH
Redden son 12 (Oct 1887) OH-PA-OH
Susana dau 10 (Apr 1890) OH-PA-OH
Notes for Harriet 'Hattie" (Child 1)
Beulah S Underwood married Samuel Bunce 1917, Noble Co, IN
Obit in Montpelier Leader Enterprise, Montpelier, OH, Thursday, 25 July 1901, p4 c2
She leaves a father, 4 brothers, 1 sister, a husband, and 6 children, Funeral services at the home in Montpelier with remains to rest in cemetery at Nettle Lake.3
Obit in Bryan Democrat, Bryan, OH, Thursday, 25 July 1901 p2 c2
under NW Twp News
Mrs. Samuel Bunce died at her home in Montpelier. Burial in the Kintigh Cemetery, NW Twp, Williams Co, OH.4
A little child of Samuel Bunce of Montpelier was buried in the Kintigh Cemetery on Sunday.4
1. "Williams County, Ohio Deaths," 17 May 1874, dropsy of the heart, V1 p32.
2. WCGS, Williams County, Ohio Cemeteries: NW Twp, p133.
3. "Montpelier Leader Enterprise," Montpelier, Williams Co, OH, 25 July 1901, p4 c2.
4. "The Bryan Democrat," Bryan, Williams Co, OH, 25 July 1901, p2 c2.
5. WCGS - Lash and Sprow, Williams County, Ohio Marriages, V6 #120.


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A perfect balance of complex charted material with masterful improvisation
possible only due to the caliber of the musicians in the band. - Alex Oliver
A tradition of creative music orchestras developed and miraculously survived.
Sun Ra ... Gil Evans ... Michael Mantler and Carla Bley ... in Chicago AACM
founder Muhal Richard Abrams ... Anthony Braxton, Sam Rivers, Horace Tapscott's
Pan Afrikan People's Arkestra, and South African expatriate Chris McGregor's
Brotherhood of Breath ... It is within this maverick tradition that we happily
find guitarist/composer Jonathan Freilich's Naked Orchestra. - Rob Cambre
At the beginning of Naked Orchestra's set at the Lagniappe stage,
guitarist/leader Jonathan Freilich said, "We're gonna give you everything
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Hoping to capture the immediacy and raw energy of one of his live performances, Osby simply placed a mini-disc recorder on a table in front of the bandstand at New York City's Sweet Basil nightclub. Then he and his explosive young band -- and I do mean young; drummer Rodney Green is just 19 -- launched into an hour-long set of nonstop music. One microphone, no breaks between songs, no stage announcements -- just a solid hour of seamless, high-octane jazz. One of the most exciting improvisers around, Osby stretches out here on a set of standards by Ellington, Monk, Rollins, and Parker, plus one original. But don't expect to hear much that's familiar. The tunes are merely seeds for Osby's fast and furious improvisation. The young-gun rhythm section of Jason Moran on piano, Atsushi Osada on bass, and Green on drums keep things rolling at a full-throttle pace. This is jazz in its purest form: spontaneous, direct, and unfiltered. ~ Joel Roberts


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This activity challenges you to make collections of shapes. Can you give your collection a name?
An old game but lots of arithmetic!
Use the interactivity to sort these numbers into sets. Can you give each set a name?
This activity asks you to collect information about the birds you see in the garden. Are there patterns in the data or do the birds seem to visit randomly?
These red, yellow and blue spinners were each spun 45 times in total. Can you work out which numbers are on each spinner?
Explore this interactivity and see if you can work out what it does. Could you use it to estimate the area of a shape?
Which of these ideas about randomness are actually correct?
Can you generate a set of random results? Can you fool the random simulator?
How could you compare different situation where something random happens ? What sort of things might be the same ? What might be different ?
When five dice are rolled together which do you expect to see more often, no sixes or all sixes ?
If a coin rolls and lands on a set of concentric circles what is the chance that the coin touches a line ?
Can you work out which spinners were used to generate the frequency charts?
Use your skill and judgement to match the sets of random data.
Estimate areas using random grids
What is a random pattern?
By exploring the concept of scale invariance, find the probability that a random piece of real data begins with a 1.
Can you build a distribution with the maximum theoretical spread?
Many of you explained each step of your solution to this problem very clearly.
Those big numbers didn't seem to frighten you away. Take a look at how some of the problems were tackled.
This was a popular problem. Many of you managed to make sense of all that jumbled up information.
Matthew offers a good explanation of what appears to be happening and why.
In the time before the mathematical idea of randomness was discovered, people thought that everything that happened was part of the will of supernatural beings. So have things changed?
This interactivity invites you to make conjectures and explore probabilities of outcomes related to two independent events.
Four numbers on an intersection that need to be placed in the surrounding cells. That is all you need to know to solve this sudoku.
This tool allows you to create custom-specified random numbers, such as the total on three dice.
Think that a coin toss is 50-50 heads or tails? Read on to appreciate the ever-changing and random nature of the world in which we live.
In Classical times the Pythagorean philosophers believed that all things were made up from a specific number of tiny indivisible particles called 'monads'. Each object contained a different number of particles, and so they believed that 'everything was number'.
Make your own random patterns


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Consumer Information Center
The Consumer Information Center (CIC) within the Program and Consumer Services Division (PCSD) of the California Department of Consumer Affairs serves as the first point of contact for consumers with concerns or questions on a wide variety of consumer issues. Staff also refers callers to other agencies on issues not related to Consumer Affairs' jurisdiction, so consumers may find assistance in resolving individual marketplace problems.
CIC is the first point of contact with individual licensees, registrants, and the public for the following:
- Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR)
- Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair and Home Furnishings and Thermal Insulation
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- Respiratory Care Board (RCB)
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- Cemetery and Funeral Program (CFP)
Staff are responsible for answering questions and assisting with problems for license status checks, verification of licenses, and commonly asked questions for all the programs listed above.
CIC maintains Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf (TDD) equipment and a toll-free California TDD number for the hearing impaired. In addition, to assist speakers of languages other than English, the Center accesses the AT&T Language Line which has operator interpreters for 140 languages.
Phone Agents can:
Assist and educate consumers in methods available for resolution of concerns (questions or complaints); refer consumer to appropriate agency for assistance or information.
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(800) 952-5210
Consumer Resource & Referral Guide
Directory of State Agencies
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We will be covering the presidential and congressional elections, the daily political war in the Washington beltway, the country's ongoing fiscal crisis, the influence of big money, and all the faults and foibles of those in power.
The ideal candidate should be a compulsive political news consumer, constantly checking Twitter, RSS feeds, and even late-night television for what people are talking about in politics right now. This person will combine thorough knowledge of the political system with a skeptical and fun writing style. A robust sense of humor is required.
If you have fun writing about politics, our audience will have fun reading your work.
This position requires that you work full-time in our New York headquarters. At least a year of experience writing for a website is preferred. The ability to catch on quickly to CMS and Photoshop is a must.
Please send your resume and 3 relevant clips to Jessica Liebman at email@example.com. Be sure to explain in your email why politics is your passion (hint: it should be).


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General Guidance and Specifications for Aeronautical Surveys: Establishment of Geodetic Control and Submission to the National Geodetic Survey
Explains the specifications for establishing geodetic control on or near an airport. It also describes how to submit the information to the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) for approval and inclusion in the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS) in support of aeronautical information surveys. See also Airports GIS Video Training Series.
Standards for Using Remote Sensing Technologies in Airport Surveys (Consolidated to Include Change 1)
Provides guidance on the use of remote sensing technologies in the collection of data describing the physical infrastructure of an airport. This version is a substantial rewrite and includes new sections on remote sensing technologies other than aerial imagery (primarily LIDAR) for collecting airport data. See also the Airports GIS website.
General Guidance and Specifications for Submission of Aeronautical Surveys to NGS: Field Data Collection and Geographic Information System (GIS) Standards
Provides the specifications for the collection of airport data for the FAA Airport Surveying – Geographic Information System (GIS) Program. Also explains how to submit data to the FAA, which will forward the safety critical data to the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) for independent verification and validation. The standards covered in this document provide critical information for the operation and safety of the National Airspace System (NAS) and are classified as critical by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). ICAO Annex 15 defines data as critical when "there is a high probability when using corrupted critical data that the continued safe flight and landing of an aircraft would be severely at risk with the potential for catastrophe." The information furnished under these standards covers the entire spectrum of the FAA's airport data requirements. See also FAA Airport Surveying - GIS Program and Airports GIS Video Training Series.
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The title says it all. It used to be very handy to upgrade via wordpress theme screen, but it offered to me just upgrade to 3.4.9, then just stopped.
Is the only possible path to install 3.5.1 in a new directory, then saving configuration in 3.4.9 and reloading it in 3.5.1?


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Rajarathnam Chandramouli
- Ph.D. (Computer Science & Engg.), U. of South Florida, Tampa
- M.A. (Mathematics), U. of South Florida, Tampa
- M.E. (ECE), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
- B.Sc. (Mathematics), Loyola College, Chennai
- Cognitive radio networks
- Text mining
- Social media (data) modeling and analytics
- Experimental systems building and deployments
General Information
- Professor, Dept. of EC, Stevens Inst. of Tech., 2008-present
- Associate Professor, Dept. of ECE, Stevens Inst. of Tech., 2005-2008
- Assistant Professor, Dept. of Elect. and Comp. Engg., Stevens Institute of Technology, 2000 - 2005
- Assistant Professor, Dept. of Elect. and Comp. Engg., Iowa State University, 1999-2000
Stevens, Iowa State University, Motorola
Institutional Service
- Member, Institute Promotions and Tenure Committee
Professional Service
- Founding Chair, IEEE COMSOC Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks
- IEEE COMSOC Distinguished Lecturer
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Co-Founder, Dynamic Spectrum LLC (cognitive radio technology)
- Co-Founder, Jaasuz (text mining and forensics technology)
- Co-Founder, inStream Media, LLC (interactive video technology)
Honors & Awards
- Keynote Speaker, WCSP, Nanjing, 2009
- S. Sengupta, R. Chandramouli, S. Brahma and M. Chatterje, A game theoretic framework for distributed self-coexistence among IEEE 802.22 networks, Best Paper Award, IEEE GLOBECOM 2008.
- Y. Xing, C. Mathur, M. Haleem, R. Chandramouli and K.P. Subbalakshmi, Real-time secondary spectrum sharing with quality of service provisioning, Best Student Paper Award, IEEE CCNC 2006.
- NSF CAREER Award, 2001
- Founding Editor of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications: Cognitive Radio Series
- Founding Advisor for Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility
Professional Societies
- Founding Chair, IEEE COMSOC Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks
- Member, IEEE COMSOC Standards Board
Grants, Contracts & Funds
- National Science Foundation
- Airforce Research Lab
- National Institute of Justice
- Department of Defense
- SUN Microsystems
Patents & Inventions
- Method and apparatus for dynamic spectrum access, issued
- Data hiding based methods and advertisements, issued
- Psycho-linguistic statistical deception detection from text content, pending
- Systems and methods for automatically detection deception in human communications expressed in digital form, pending
- Automatic detection of deception in short and multilingual electronic messages, pending
- Software defined access, provisional application
Selected Publications
- R. Chandramouli. "Links to publications: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rajarathnam_Chandramouli".
- CPE 593 Applied Data Structures & Algorithms
- EE 606 Probability and Stochastic Processes II
- EE 609 Communication Theory
- CPE 592 Computer and Multimedia Network Security
- CPE 493 Data and Computer Communications
- CPE 491 Information Systems Engineering II
- CPE 608 Applied Modeling and Optimization
- CPE 679 Computer and Information Networks


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Three Asian carp now at Chicago Shedd Aquarium
CHICAGO (AP) — Three Asian carp now call Chicago's Shedd Aquarium home.
Shedd Aquarium debuted the fish on Thursday. Fisheries biologists with the
Illinois Department of Natural Resources found the fish in an inland lagoon
at Chicago's Humboldt Park in October.
Officials say they're unsure how the invasive species ended up in the
lagoon. The carp are now on public display.
Asian carp were imported decades ago to the U.S. They migrated up the
Mississippi and Illinois rivers and are poised to invade the Great Lakes,
where scientists say they could out-compete native fish for food.
Online: http://www.sheddaquarium.org
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With all the confusion about who Christopher William(s) Brooks' father was, (See the first post in this series) I started wondering what event occurred that first pointed me in the direction of Christopher Brooks Sr and Susannah Williams as Christopher William(s) Brooks' parents. Here are some details:
Henry WILLIAMS mentioned daughter Susannah RICE in his will written 1785. By that time, Susannah was already remarried to William Higgason RICE. Their Caswell Co., NC marriage bond listed Wm H. Rice and Susannah BROOKS, married 20 Dec 1784. According to the Caswell Co., NC Guardian Accounts, William H. RICE was legal guardian of Christopher Williams BROOKS in 1797; Caswell Co., NC Record Book C, p. 262, October Court 1797: Christopher Williams Brooks orphan in acct. with William H. Rice guardian. Cash paid to George Somers, William Holderness; tax paid for 1795 and 96. (Katherine Kerr Kendall's abstracts of Will Books, 1777-1814, p. 57).
Additionally, when Christopher Brooks Sr died in 1781, there were several court record entries for the administration of his estate:
- December court 1781 Susannah Brooks resigned her adminisration of estate of her husband (Christopher Brooks) to her father, Colonel Henry Williams. (Source: Historical Abstracts of the Court of pleas and Quarter Sessions Minutes of Caswell County, Kendall: p.7, Dec 1781)
- Adminstrators Bond in the amount of 500 pounds, dated 4 Dec 1781 signed by Henry Williams and Nath'l. Williams in presence of A. Murphey to bind Henry Williams as Administrator of Christopher Brooks, Deceased. Caswell County March Court 1782 – Inventory of estate of Christopher Brooks returned by Henry Williams, Administrator, and ordered to be recorded. Sold by David Shelton, Sheriff 24 Jan 1782. Buyers included Susannah Brookes, Henry Williams, William Holderness, Nath'l Williams, John Pane, Thos. Brookes.
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FALUN, Sweden (March 18) – American Kikkan Randall (Anchorage) validated another major milestone in her career, collecting a hard-earned Joska crystal globe as the FIS Cross Country World Cup sprint champion at the season finale in Sweden. Randall became the first American to win a title since Bill Koch won the overall in the debut season of the World Cup in 1982. Randall's hoisting of the globe in Falun was a decade long goal and one that came close onto her radar a year ago when she finished third.
Kikkan Randall
I feel like it's just right. It's been an incredible season. It has been really really fun and challenging. I feel like this is the perfect cap to end it. I'm looking forward to taking a little break and letting it all sink in.
The sprint globe was my big goal all season but to finish in the top 5th overall is an incredible step forward from where I've been. It's a huge accomplishment. It's what I've wanted all along- to be a contender in every discipline. So it's been really fun and I hope I can continue to make jumps forward.
Chris Grover, Cross Country Head Coach
It has been a long road to leading to a crystal globe for Kikkan. She has been part of the U.S. Ski Team since 2000. During this time, she has been systematic and incredibly professional in her approach to training, racing and living. She is now reaping the benefits of many years of hard work and professionalism. Her success should serve as a model for just what can be accomplished with a bit of talent, a ton of hard work, and a positive outlook. We are all so proud of her.
We are also proud of what the U.S. men and women have accomplished on the World Cup this season. We had seven World Cup podiums. The U.S. finished the season in eighth overall in the Nations Cup. Last year we were 13th, in 2010 we were 15th. We are a nation on the rise in the sport for sure.


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China's 12th Five-Year Plan Lays Out Ambitious Blueprint, but Data Challenges Remain
In March, China released its 12th Five-Year Plan – a blueprint outlining the key economic and development targets for the country over the next few years. Unlike previous Plans, climate change and energy are featured prominently, and a strong emphasis is placed on a slower, more sustainable growth trajectory.[1] Not only is the 12th Five-Year Plan the first to mention climate change, but it adopts as part of national, binding law the climate pledges China first made at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCCC) Copenhagen climate summit in December 2009. Binding targets for a range of other environment and energy issues are also included in the Plan, including important air and water quality pollutants that were previously absent.
Part of the country's ability to achieve these targets will be in its capacity to measure and track progress toward its goals. The Chinese government has pledged implementation of "well-equipped and statistical and monitoring systems" and "index evaluation systems"[2] in the 12th Five Year Plan, indicating an increasing awareness of the importance of data, information and robust infrastructure to ensure targets are met. However, while there are signs of China's move toward a more "data-driven" approach to decision-making in the formulation of the latest Plan, political sensitivities around pollution information still persist, meaning China may still confront challenges when trying to improve environmental conditions.
The 12th Five-Year Plan comes at a time of growing recognition from the Chinese government regarding the importance of information for environmental decision-making. In 2010 the Chinese government completed its first national census of pollution, requiring more than $100 million U.S. dollars, 570,000 staff and nearly two years to complete.[3] The survey mapped more than 6 million sources of residential, industrial, and notably agricultural pollution, which had been previously absent from measures of water contamination. The survey found that previous measures of water pollution – specifically chemical oxygen demand – had neglected to include non-point agricultural sources of pollution, from fertilizer and pesticide effluent as well as landfill leakage.[4] Including these non-point sources of discharge meant that prior measures of water pollution had been missing over half of the baseline data for chemical oxygen demand – from 13.8 million tons in 2007 to 30.3 million. At the time, Chinese officials noted that the targets would not be revised based on the new data, while still touting China's success in meeting COD reduction targets in the 11th Five-Year Plan. However, the findings from the survey did lead to the adoption of a binding reduction target for a critical water pollutant – ammonia nitrogen – and continued reduction goals for Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) in the 12th Five-Year Plan. The adoption of these new water pollution targets were largely due in part to the survey results, which allowed for the government to set new targets and refine previous ones based on this new information.
While this example speaks to the progress China is making in terms of measurement and performance tracking, political sensitivities surrounding other environmental data still prove to be barriers to policy changes. Earlier this year, the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) released draft proposals to amend its Air Pollution Index (API) [5] to an Air Quality Index (AQI) that more closely resembles the U.S. version [6]. While the proposed amendments include significant improvements – such as including ozone measurements, improved calculation methodologies, and standardizing color-coding schemes – PM 2.5 [7] is notably absent.Experts, such as Ma Jun, Director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE), a Beijing-based NGO, and former Yale World Fellow, have suggested that leaving out PM 2.5 is due to political rather than technical concerns. "Government agencies feel the index may hurt the image of many cities that want to attract investment or that they may not be able to improve PM 2.5 pollution in a short time," Ma told the Global Times. U.S. diplomatic cables have also revealed that lack of measurement of PM 2.5 and other dangerous air pollutants could be due to fear of political consequences.
So while we can see evidence that China is embracing improved data-based decision-making, the results are mixed because political vulnerability toward environmental pollution is still a serious concern amongst Chinese leadership who fear citizen unrest and social instability. What China must realize are the benefits from knowing risks and exposures to environmental harms and pollutants, which is not possible without measurement. Failing to incorporate critical pollutants in national environmental policies only pushes serious concerns under the rug, in a type of "act now, apologize later" mentality that in many cases have led to dire political ramifications for Chinese government officials when harmful pollution disasters surface [8].
Therefore, while the 12th Five-Year Plan makes important inroads in establishing more comprehensive environment and energy-related targets, equal progress needs to be made in terms of data transparency and a shift toward a government culture that doesn't fear data and numbers.Only then can the Chinese leadership expect to formulate sound policies and robust systems to drive environmental results.
[1] Full English translation of the 12th FYP can be found here: http://www.cbichina.org.cn/cbichina/upload/fckeditor/Full%20Translation%20of%20the%2012th%20Five-Year%20Plan.pdf.
[2] Premier Wen's Work Report, the NDRC Draft Plan for National Economic and Social Development, and the Ministry of Finance Budget Report can all be found online: http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/03/05/china-npc-2011-reports-full-text/.
[3] Xinhua News Agency. 2010. China issues first national census of pollution sources. February 10. http://english.mep.gov.cn/News_service/media_news/201002/t20100210_185653.htm.
[4] Ansfield, J. and K. Bradsher. 2010. China Report Shows More Pollution in Waterways. The NY Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/world/asia/10pollute.html.
[5] For information on how the API is calculated, see: http://www.livefrombeijing.com/2008/08/what-is-the-api-and-how-is-it-calculated/.
[6] Hsu, A. 2011. China amends air quality measures but misses key pollutant – PM 2.5. http://hsu.me/2011/03/china-amends-air-quality-measures-but-misses-key-pollutant-pm-2-5/.
[7] PM 2.5 refers to air particulates with a diameter of 2.5 microns or less; known to have serious health implications such as asthma, lung cancer, and cardiovascular disease, due to their ability to penetrate human lungs.
[8] Si, Meng. 2011. On Yunnan's Chromium Trail. China Dialogue. http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/4493.


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The Auditor-General, Peter Achterstraat, said he found it astounding that one person could earn so much overtime.
''Excessive overtime, whether it be rostered, unrostered or on-call cannot be good for the employees' health and patient well-being,'' he said.
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Last year the furthest thing from my mind was that there would be a good game based off a television show. WayForward surprised me in the best way possible with Adventure Time: Hey Ice King Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!, and certainly got me excited for the next game they would be doing. Well, they surprised me again, although this time, I'm surprised at how disappointed I am in Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I Don't Know. I was rather harsh on the 3DS version, but thankfully the WiiU version is slightly better, but it's still going to take a die-hard fan to reach the end of this one-hundred floor slog.
When was the last time you wanted to do one hundred levels of anything? Never right? So I don't get why WayForward thought one hundred randomly generated dungeons would be a good time. This might be okay if there were some cool loot or a good reason to go down there right? Well there is a good reason if you're a fan of the series, but it's such a small carrot that I might as well just spoil it all right here. Actually nah, if you want those deets you're going to have to go look it up. Getting back to the main point, yes, one hundred levels, broken up every ten stages by boss battles that are actually rather fun and are some of the bright spots of this game. But between those ten floors, a lot of boring combat, and a lot of treasure to pick up, in order to power up your characters. You can bring three other friends with you for the trip down, but by the end of it you might wind up hating each other, especially if someone isn't the sharing type, but kudos to WayForward for allowing players to share their treasure while in the main hub area of Candy Kingdom.
Visually this game is mediocre at best, it gets downright ugly at times when textures collide and start flickering, it isn't nearly as common or bad as the 3DS version, but that it still happens is disappointing. The sprite-work is excellent which is not surprising considering that this is a WayForward title, but it does start to get a little disappointing when you start seeing enemies that are just color swaps of earlier enemies. The audio is a bit of a letdown as well. While the entire cast of the show is here, from Lady's Korean, to Choose Goose's rhyming sales pitch, all of the characters are perfectly represented. The fact that Lady's dialog box is also in Korean is utterly hilarious to me, and how Nintendo let that one through is beyond me. It's too bad that for all the good the vocal cast brings, the music is mostly forgettable which seems odd for a series that has such catchy tunes, instead here we have repetitive themes for each area of the dungeons that don't really do much to make you feel like you're experience something, instead it's just there filling a gap.
Exploring the dungeon itself is just a matter of finding the exit to the next stage, one part Diablo, one part Gauntlet, though minus the fun character growth with loot. I've got to applaud WayForward for getting so many characters in the game, and the playable roster is pretty good. You'll start out with access to Finn, Jake, Marceline, and Cinnamon Bun, there are others who will join the party as you progress through the dungeons, but I don't want to spoil the surprise, that would be... UNACCEPTABLE! Each character has their own specialty that makes them viable in the dungeon, Marceline and Jake can cross gaps, Cinnamon Bun is just a tank with a ton of hit points, and Finn is a great jack of all trades character that can also carry extra tokens in to the dungeon, allowing him to gain their perks. You'll find plenty of tokens on your trip too that can do things like speed up your movement (a must in this game, because it is agonizingly slow early on), increase your damage, or increase the drop rate of treasure, B-Mo will be on the bottom screen and can fill you in on pretty much every power-up in the game, which is helpful. Combat is a simple one button affair, with minimal combos for each character. You'll be getting a lot of mileage out of some of the special weapons that allow you to use projectile weapons, or freeze enemies in place. Out of all the characters, I like having Marceline as my main because of her ability to get some of those out-of-reach items and eat enemy projectiles to power up her special attack.
There are also quests that become unlocked as you get further down in to the dungeon. These quests are just simple things, like kill X number of Y, and find a specific item, nothing too taxing, but some of the rewards are great, as they can help max out a character who's got an upgrade that seems just a little out of reach. The upgrades available will increase your max hit points, your damage output, the power of your charged attacks, and the power of your special attack that can decimate the enemies in the area.
The loot system is utterly baffling in this game, there's plenty of treasure to pick up, and you'll want to make use of all of it to level up your character, but if you return to the hub after every fifth or tenth level you'll have to lose your unspent cash. Why? In what world do you want to punish the player like that? I get that it prevents the player from being able to level up too fast, and there are tokens that will allow you to keep your unspent treasure, but those tokens are incredibly rare, and by the time you find them it's too little too late, because you'll be pulling in enough cash to pay off those final upgrades, and the items in the shop will be equal to the ones you find in the dungeon.
So boring, middling, repetitive gameplay, a shoddy map system, and a few minor but annoying bugs is what you get with the latest Adventure Time game. It's a shame that a year removed from a pretty good Adventure Time game, we get this awful experience. I almost think that WayForward shouldn't have even bothered if this is how they were going to treat one of my favorite domestic cartoons in years. I'm utterly disappointed in Adventure Time: Explore The Dungeon Because I Don't Know, can someone tell me why this game was released in its current state? Because 'I don't know' seems like a recurring theme during this game's development, why is this game so busted? I don't know.
There isn't a whole lot to enjoy in Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I Don't Know, it's just boring from start to finish. After the first ten floors or so you've seen a majority of what the game has to offer, with the exception of some interesting boss battles. Even if you're a major fan of Adventure Time, at best you should give this game a rental. WayForward has dropped the ball on what could have been a massive smash, and it's all the more disappointing after last year's game.
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You see, it all started about 2008 when I first started researching Daniel and Annie. When I joined the NGS the first time, I searched their database of family group sheets and found one submitted by a lady. It didn't give me anything I hadn't already found online. But? The name and address of the lady who had submitted it to the NGS was stamped across the front of it.
I tried writing her, but I never received a response, and I wasn't really surprised because the family group sheet had been submitted ages ago, like back in the 1980s.
And then I ran into some clues online involving the same lady who had submitted the family group sheet to NGS. Some very nice unsubstantiated pieces of info like how Annie had 8 or 9 brothers one of whom is named Henry and, oh by the way she had a partial letter that Henry had sent Annie and it had Henry's address in Dublin and there was a date too... . And? There was an email address. So, of course I emailed her. And? No response. One of the best pieces of info that she left, though, was that she was Annie's great granddaughter through Henry Lewis, which is my Boo's older brother making her my second cousin once removed. But after about 2001, she seemed to drop off the online internet forums and sites.
So in reviewing all of this when I was gathering everything together for my DAR application, I thought, well, I just need to get the documents myself if possible.
And about the same time I started blogging about my DAR and UEL application journey, which, if you'll remember, has also included tangents along the way because I just can't help myself. I mean, it's a no-brainer when the archivist emails you and says, "I found your great-grandmother's baptismal record, but I also found her siblings' baptismal records. You want those?"
For me, it's kind of like the movie Night at the Museum or book The Night at the Museum by Milam Trenc. You know how the statues and history come alive when the museum closed? Well, when I get a document and look at each piece of information and when I start to piece things together within the context of what I know already or what I've found, well, the people in my tree start to come alive...the stories start to become more real...and then my imagination starts playing with possibilities and then I write stories about the possibilities. I mean they're always open-ended because I don't usually have everything yet. But I always stop to look at a document and wonder...And instead of wondering in my head or on a piece of paper, I blog it. I blog my questions and possibilities as I go.
And, in this case, with my great-grandmother's {Boo's} siblings, blogging about each one's baptismal record was one of the best things I could have done because a descendant of one of my Boo's sisters contacted me because he'd been Googling. And since I had been off on one of my tangents with the baptismal records that have absolutely nothing to do with my DAR and UEL apps, Google matched us up and he emailed me. He also confirmed all of Vyla's names throughout the years. {Google has got to be the best distant cousin matchmaker. At least it is for me. Ancestry's trees come in at a close second though.}
Anywho, this cousin is also a second cousin once removed because he descends from Vyla. And he and his wife were supposed to come to Texas last October to photograph tombstones and do some research. But then life happened and then the trip got rescheduled to January. And then life happened again and the trip got pushed off to March.
And then in the meantime, um, life happened to me as well, but somehow I've found the time here and there to keep digging and to even keep blogging a bit. And every time I blogged, I tweeted about my blog post. You know, just to share it and what-have-you.
Then one of those times a fellow tweeter, who I had started following because she's a photographer/Photoshop kind of person and then she followed back and then she started following some other fellow genealogists and then we, um, kind of got her hooked on genealogy {I swear to you I didn't do it on purpose.}, direct messaged me after I tweeted a link to one of my blog posts. She said that she was really enjoying Daniel's and Annie's story unfold, that she had Googled their names, found this Vaughan Family Website and asked if I'd seen it.
It was that original site that I hadn't checked in a year. You know, the one with the malware. It had been taken down and redone. And? This time it had some more info. And it was from that same lady/2nd cousin who descends from my Boo's older brother, Henry Lewis. This time there was a ton of detail and verbiage that made it clear that she has some documentation of some kind. It just wasn't listed on there anywhere.
No response. *big sigh*
So I kept going with Daniel's and Annie's civil marriage record and ordered microfilm for other parts of the tree for my DAR and UEL applications. And then I started combing through all those clues from that Vaughan/Vaughn family site. Like...
...the clue where she states that their marriage record indicates Annie's mother's maiden name...
Turns out Annie's mother's name, according to this lovely lady cousin, is Jane Lennon. {Ohmigosh, right? That was totally one of my speculations/possibilities}. And since I already knew one of Daniel and Annie's marriage witnesses was Katie L. Lennon, well, I thought to myself, "Hm. Cousin?"
{Goose bumps, or is that just me?}
However, I still need to see that church marriage record. I want/need verification. I also need to familiarize myself with Irish records. You know, what's available for what time periods, and where are they located? I can't just blindly keep on drifting along the Internet looking at Irish records here and Irish records there never knowing for sure that I've looked at everything that exists, online or off. {Which is why I just bought Tracing Your Irish Ancestors: Irish Genealogy by John Grenham.} I need to get a lay of the land, so to speak.
So this week, I decided to take a look at the microfilm that I had previously ordered and I started with Daniel's family up in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and found some interesting information that I needed for both my DAR and UEL applications, and I'll get into the details of that in another blog post.
However, after a lovely day at the library perusing those handwritten parish records from about 1830s to the 1880s of St. Luke's Episcopal Church of Ypsilanti, Michigan, I came home and checked my email, and found an email from someone I didn't know {which happens a lot, btw} with 2 PDF attachments and no message. I usually delete those, but I knew my 2nd cousin was somewhere in the state taking photos of tombstones and the sender's email address was for a copy and print place in Giddings, Texas. {I Googled it.}
And? I clicked to view them. These were the PDFs {that I later converted to JPGs}:
Emails like this should come with a tissue warning. Seriously.
So, I guessed that my 2nd cousin from Alabama had probably found my 2nd cousin that had left all those online clues. So I emailed him to see if he had been the one to send me these pics, and he called me later on that evening and confirmed that he'd found her!
Apparently life had happened to my other 2nd cousin and she hadn't been able to respond, but that she'd been doing genealogy for 50 years. And she had pictures and books and documents and letters and you name it. And when my 2nd cousin from Alabama was at the local copy/print place copying everything that my other 2nd cousin had so generously shared with him and he saw that pic of the Daniel and Annie, he said he knew I'd want to see it!
Oh my, was he ever right about that! Did you see Daniel's awesome 'stache!!!! And Annie! I love how she has one hand on Henry Lewis and the other around Genevieve. And then Vyla's hand is on Annie's shoulder. And my Boo! {She's Alice on the left.} I have memories of Boo from when I was real little. And thanks to another cousin who found me on Facebook, I have some other photos of her including one from 1920, but to see her here with everyone one else? Wow.
And then Henry Lewis. Another wow. When he grew up, I knew he had become a Master Mariner because I have his death certificate, and my literary mind wondered about the stories he could tell. In these photos, he looks bigger than life! And look at him on the boat. Just wow.
I'm meeting with my 2nd cousin from Alabama either Sunday or Monday, and I can't wait to see what our other cousin shared about the Vaughan and O'Brien families with him. And if a copy of Daniel and Annie's church marriage record is in there with her mother's maiden name, well, then I won't have to order it. If not, I'll still order it because it's important that I have something that links Annie to James O'Brien and Jane Lennon. Of course, there might be other things that have been found. I won't know until I see everything and assess it all.
And then many of you probably saw my Facebook update the other day about all of this, but what you didn't see is that another first cousin who recently started following me messaged me that evening and said she remembered that her dad had some photos of Daniel from the Civil War, and that it'd been a while since she had seen them, but that she thought that he had had a drum in those photos. But she was gonna contact him and see what happened to those photos.
{Dramatic pause.}
- This is why I blog about my ancestors. {This isn't the first time I've hit the collaborative jackpot via my blog.}
- This is why I don't wait until I have the whole story or all the facts. {If you want a cousin to contact you real quick-like, then blog something wrong. I mean, wrap it up with words like I think or I wonder or I guess, but my point is there is always someone who is gonna respond to that.}
- This is why I not only research collaterals, but I blog about them as well. I just never know who is going to be Googling about their ancestor who might be related to my ancestor.
- This is why I Tweet. {Others are accessing my blog posts by the social media platform of their choosing, whether it be Twitter, Facebook, or Google+. And I meet the most remarkable people from around the world there. And then for some reason a few of them start looking for their ancestors. It's contagious, I think. I should probably come with a warning like, "Beware: following or interacting with me could very possibly lead you to wanting to learn about your family and where you come from."}
- This is why I Facebook. {Even though I don't really like Facebook. It's not about me and what I prefer, but about the fact that so many others are on and like Facebook. And even when I post my blog posts there, life happens and they just don't click through on those links to my blog posts, but they certainly are reading Facebook updates. Note to self: Remember that.}
You can be certain that I'll be blogging about that collaborative family history jackpot my cousins are so generously sharing with me, particularly the, um, "stuff" I think will be useful for my DAR and UEL applications. You know, the reason I started researching Daniel and Annie again in the first place.
Vaughn, Daniel Rooke and Family. Photograph. ca. 1895. Digital image. Privately held by Carolyn Marble, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE,] Lincoln, Texas. 2013.
Vaughn, Henry Lewis and Henry Daniel Vaughn. Photograph. Digital image. Privately held by Carolyn Marble, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE,] Lincoln, Texas. 2013.
Vaughn, Carolyn Elizabeth Laxson. Photograph. Digital image. Privately held by Carolyn Marble, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE,] Lincoln, Texas. 2013.
HLV & DEA B. Calvin Jr. Photograph. Digital image. Privately held by Carolyn Marble, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE,] Lincoln, Texas. 2013.
HLV (on sidewalk). Photograph. Digital image. Privately held by Carolyn Marble, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE,] Lincoln, Texas. 2013.
HLV (on boat). Photograph. Digital image. Privately held by Carolyn Marble, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE,] Lincoln, Texas. 2013.