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Islamofascism - Zionofascism - Judeofascism - Christofascism - Neofascism etc.
An equitable distribution of Collateral Language!
Zahir Ebrahim
April 17, 2007
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Why this fanatical preference for waging the 'war on terror' against only 'Islamofascism' today?
Personally, I think that the fanatics of all 'religions' can be equally fascists. [The historical term 'fascists' as used here includes 'terrorists'; and its conjugate 'fascism' includes making the public mind, i.e., propaganda warfare, with terror as the principal instrument.]
It would not bother me so much if all such 'fundamentalist' fascist fanatics would be thusly labeled using the English language's choicest words, and equitably hung and then burnt at stake as monumental criminals after a stint in Guantanamo Bay with vicious dogs grabbing at their genitals and entirely reenacting for them the barbarisms that transpired in Abu Garib prison for good measure!
However, as a rather straightforward and ordinary Muslim, I do find it deeply offensive that:
a) only uniquely label our 'pirates' thusly disparaging only Islam unjustly after these 'pirates' have been deftly created/nurtured by the 'emperor' and now have germinated,
b) use them as a convenient excuse for "imperial mobilization" in the pretext of fighting an endless "War on Terror" as otherwise, "democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization", and "that exercise requires a high degree of doctrinal motivation, intellectual commitment", including a "sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being" and "truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat" such as a "new pearl harbor",
c) profound morons on the planet, mostly the educated ones, and almost all of them living in the West - the supposed 'enlightened civilization' - and including some indigenously well placed 'Native Informants', continue echoing 'a', and conveniently ignore 'b' as the proverbial dancing/trumpeting/shitting monstrous elephant right in the nuptial bed that needs 'a' as much as fish need water!
So to equalize the 'American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives" on 'the Grand Chessboard', and as a plebeian computer scientist but well versed in identifying the 'most significant bits' of complex issues - just as the old wise man of antiquity, St. Augustine - let's call a spade a spade, shall we?
Fight Zionofascism (fascism of the Zionists – too well known to need an explanation), and Christofascism (fascism of the Evangelical Christians hell bent on bringing on 'Armageddon'), and Judeofascism (fascism of the Jews hell bent on asserting their 'god's chosen peoples' mantra that puts them beyond the pale of ordinary people's morality), and Neofascism (fascism of the neo-cons to conquer the world regardless of the cost to anyone else), and Atheofascism (fascism of godless atheists who seem to be in the majority among the imperialists du jour who play realpolitik with other peoples' blood), and last but not least, Uberfascism (fascism of all the Nietzscheian supermen in all cultures who think they are better than human beings and can run rough-shod upon ordinary mortals as their 'god-given' primacy imperative), in your own backyards in this holy "War on terror" - the 'highest order bits' upon which the real 'page faults' (in computer science geek-speak) - and the threat of 'Islamofascism' 20,000 miles away will automatically melt away without spending an additional dime as the insignificant and dependent 'lower order bit'.
Indeed, 'Islamofascism' will magically disappear from the international scene just as it was deliberately brought into existence by "God on your side" with people in foreign 'suits and ties' as noted in this open letter to the veritable 'ubermensch' Middle East Scholar Daniel Pipes.
Then we shall be left with the more harmless and normative struggle for Renaissance within cultures and societies - a social struggle normal for every generation in every epoch as human beings attempt to keep up with the 'modernity' of their times and continually attempt to overcome their demons of history and its concomitant cultural baggage - as opposed to the fabricated 'synthetic terror' that is criminally and most audaciously being cultivated for "imperial mobilization" today!
To rationally and efficaciously eradicate the synthetic curse of the 'islamofascists' and the attendant suicide bombers, requires first and foremost, to nullify with extreme and ruthless prejudice, its highest level gardeners, and their deliberate aiders and abettors and exponents in all guises. The weeds, without its deft cultivation and nurturing, will die out in due course. It is a monumental crime against humanity to kill the weed with the most inhuman 'shock and awe' and blithely call the shattering of the tabula rasa of innocent civilians surrounding them 'collateral damage', while leaving not only their mastermind covert-patrons to cultivate more, but the very act of 'shock and awe' in itself being its rather obvious deft cultivator. If someone ever kills my loved ones in a 'shock and awe' as 'collateral damage', they better kill me too, or in my abject insanity, I will surely loose my gift of being a human being first and become the worst criminal – an easy recruit for a gardener! Let me know if there is another human being on this planet who would remain immune from such insanity. In the statistical law of large numbers, one can harvest a thousand a day!
And what of the so called 'misanthropic' statements or doctrines in the Islamic scriptures? Well, let's begin with the far more blatantly misanthropic and tortuous content in the Rabbinical Talmudic literature first as noted by the Jewish 'native informants' themselves, shall we? Followed surely by the Zionist and Christian Zionist doctrinal literature of hate and 'Armageddon', and then of course the neo-cons' blatantly chauvinistic 'American Mein-Kampfs' in duplicate and triplicate editions. Surely the Islamic literature must also not escape full-spectrum scrutiny-in-context either. If there are doctrines in 'Islamic' literature which are misanthropic, as in any influential doctrinal system, let's expunge them, for any god that is selective, racist, particularistic, misanthropic, iniquitous, and preaches hateful doctrines of 'primacy' and 'might makes right', can only be man-made and therefore, can easily be eradicated in the 'civilized' modernity du jour!
Thus we should be able to not only equitably excise all such misanthropic garbage in all fascist doctrines - be they emanating from the minds of White House National Security Council, or from the penmanship of imperial thinkers, or the crooked fingers of mullahs, priests, and rabbis and the assorted self-righteous 'ubermensch' deviants of all stripes - but also charge their authors and exponents, whether alive or dead, and whether self-proclaimed prophets, presidents, emperors, professors, editors, think tankers, journalists, or national security advisers, as the worst monumental criminals to ever poison mankind's thoughts and acts and thus accordingly deposit the living among them into Guantanamo Bay with full military 'enemy-combatant' protocol.
For good measure, we can pass equitable global laws outlawing all misanthropic doctrines, be they practiced by the Jews, Christians, Muslims, Atheists, Neo-cons, Hindus, Europeans, Americans, Free Masons, et. al.
Indeed, to equitably identify, adjudicate, and suitably consign all such forms of hateful doctrinal fascism and their fascist exponents who continually hide behind 'legal cover' of powerful nations, a radical free-thinking dialog algorithm is proposed in "Dialog Among Civilizations: Whytalksfail?".
I suspect most everyone with an ounce of moral imagination would subscribe to such equitable distribution of collateral language and agree for a perpetual 'holy jihad' against all fascism. Even the erstwhile ZioNeoConoFascist literati cabal who possess imagination by the bucketful - moral or not - and love 'perpetual war', will surely join in. Nothing inspiringly new or terribly profound here beyond simple self-evident moral truths and obvious empiricism!
And the only point of rehearsing this ad nauseam by the non-fascists is because the manifest Machiavellian deceit is also rehearsed ad nauseam by the 'ubermensch' fascists and their academic exponents who are almost always beyond the pale of any 'earthly' justice system. To take down and refute one sentence of their lie almost takes 10 paragraphs. And they blithely go on synthesizing new ones - as an infinite number of lies are possible on any topic - all it takes is some Straussian imagination. And to bring to book even a single one of these monumental criminals seems to require the 'victors' justice' and an unconditional surrender in an Apocalyptic World War!
Okay, so having done all that hard intellectual work, i.e., dispelled the myths, unraveled the deceptions, and identified all the terror philosophies in ancient texts and their modern exponents, then what? Who will equitably implement the actual excising of these doctrines from among mankind?
We are merely defenseless civilians, we don't possess vast armies of conquest, or even for our self-defense against the fascists, nor 'WMDs', nor other means of initiating détente through any 'MAD' checks! And nor do we have any resources to reach the mainstream audience in the world's most powerful 'populist democracy' who are indeed the accomplice prime-movers of this 'imperial mobilization' by virtue of their zombie-like 'United We Stand' as 'Good Germans' behavior of continually 'looking from the side', as atrocities upon atrocities upon the ordinary 'lesser' human beings continue to mount while the 'populist democracy' stays veritably busy pursuing its "American Dreams"!
So one mostly ends up preaching to the equally impotent choir - with some cheerleading here and there - and then all of us go home after a day's worth of hard loquacious workout on the treadmill of in-efficacious protests as noted in "History is great fun to rehearse - what does it do for us today?" and in this open challenge of courage thrown to Amnesty International, USA.
What has changed since October 7, 2001 when Afghanistan was bombed into pre-history and today 6 years later? Iraq was still bombed in the interim! And this time around, Iran may be bombed with Nuclear Weapons! And us, the so called 'voice of conscience', are still occupied dispelling and unraveling the lies ad infinitum - while Muslims across the world continue to die in large numbers from ZioCon inspired American and British peoples' own horrendous weapons of mass destruction bought and paid for by the American and British tax payers! It's better to not mention the soldiers of economic conscription also needlessly dying at the behest of their masters wrapped in the false flag of patriotism, for they are, after all, bombing and killing another peoples on their own indigenous land and are thus the aggressors. They do have the choice to say no! I'll be content mentioning only their victims, for those are my peoples as human beings first - regardless of their race and religion and nationality.
As per the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, all blame for aggression, and for "all the evil that follows", is laid upon those who initiate the first aggression. Yes even under the euphemistic but well worn mantra of "preemptive self-defense" - an idea deftly exploited by Hitler as he went in search and annexation mission for his 'Lebensraum' that caused the destruction of much of Europe, most of it due to Allied bombing of civilian centers to free the European cities from the clutches of the occupiers! Before you send your precious sons and daughters off to fight the fictional "War on Terror" - do remember these veritable lessons of 'victor's justice' subsequently enshrined into International Law not too long ago!
Thank you.
The author, an ordinary researcher and writer on contemporary geopolitics, a minor justice activist, grew up in Pakistan, studied EECS at MIT, engineered for a while in high-tech Silicon Valley (patents here), and retired early to pursue other responsible interests. His maiden 2003 book was rejected by six publishers and can be read on the web at http://PrisonersoftheCave.org. He may be reached at http://Humanbeingsfirst.org.
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The mission:
complete a set of 101 preset tasks in 1001 days.
The criteria:
tasks must be specific (i.e. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. tasks must also be realistic and stretching (i.e. represent some amount of work on my part)
Why 1001 days?
many people have created lists in the past - frequently simple goals such as new years resolutions. the key to beating procrastination is to set a deadline that is realistic. 1001 days (about 2.75 years) is a better period of time than a year, because it allows you several seasons to complete the tasks, which is better for organizing and timing some tasks such as overseas trips and outdoor activities.
Some common goal setting tips:
1. be decisive. know exactly what you want, why, and how you plan to achieve it.
2. stay focused. any goal requires sustained focus from beginning to end. constantly evaluate your progress.
3. welcome failure. frequently, very little is learned from a venture that did not experience failure in some form. failure presents the opportunity to learn and makes the success more worthy.
4. write down your goals. it clarifies your thinking and reinforces your commitment.
5. keep your goals in sight. review them frequently and ensure that they are always at the forerfront of your thinking.
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Knowing Your Rights and Lefts: Describing Relative Positions in Spanish
If you know the right words, you can use Spanish to describe something or someone's position in relation to your body. Follow these guidelines to correctly use Spanish to identify the space around your body in distinct and specific ways. And keep in mind that weaving these words into your Spanish vocabulary will make your sentences more descriptive and accurate.
Use delante to express in front. To state that an object is in front of you, always use the Spanish word delante (deh-lahn-teh). So the English sentence Paula walks in front of Clara looks like this when translated into Spanish: Paula camina delante de Clara (pahoo-lah kah-mee-nah deh-lahn-teh deh klah-rah).
Say detrás to convey behind. The Spanish translation of behind is detrás (deh-trahs). Thus, Clara va detrás de Paula (klah-rah bvah deh-trahs deh pahoo-lah) means that Clara goes behind Paula.
Use a la derecha to express to the right. If you need to say that a person or object is to the right of you, be sure to use a la derecha (ah-lah deh-reh-chah). To express the sentence To the right of Paula is Felipe in Spanish, you'd say A la derecha de Paula está Felipe (ah lah deh-reh-chah deh pahoo-lah ehs-tah feh-lee-peh).
In Spanish, two very similar words can have totally different meanings, as is the case with derecho (deh–reh-choh; straight) and derecha (deh-reh-chah; right). What was that, you say? Look again. The only difference between the words is that one ends in –o and the other in –a. As a result, the meanings of the words aren't the same.
Say a la izquierda to convey to the left. When you want to say that an object or person is to the left of you, you need to use a la izquierda (ah lah ees-keeehr-dah). So the sentence José gets to the left of Clara (where gets literally means "he puts himself") looks like this in Spanish: José se pone a la izquierda de Clara (Hoh-seh seh poh-neh ah lah ees-keeehr-dah deh klah-rah).
Use debajo to express beneath or under. The Spanish translation of both beneath and under is debajo (deh-bvah-Hoh). Thus, Hay pasto debajo de los pies de José (ahy pahs-toh deh-bvah-Hoh deh lohs peeehs deh Hoh-seh) means that There's grass under Jose's feet.
Say encima to convey above. To say that something is above you, you need to use encima (ehn-see-mah). Perhaps you want to express that The branch is above Paula's head. In that case, you'd say La rama está encima de la cabeza de Paula (lah rah-mah ehs-tah ehn-seez-mah deh lah kah-bveh-sah deh pahoo-lah).


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A New Jersey pharmacist arrested by the FBI last year on apparent drug-related charges admitted Thursday he was actually trying to produce ricin and had been stockpiling guns and body armor.
Jordan Gonzalez, 34, who also had an apartment on 161st Street in Manhattan, admitted he was plotting to develop toxic weapons and had ordered many of the ingredients online.
Gonzalez, wearing a green prison jumpsuit in court Thursday, insisted he had no plans to attack anyone but was stockpiling the items for the future. "There was no present intent to use them," he said.
In November, FBI agents raided his properties in Jersey City and Manhattan. At the time, investigators said Gonzalez was trying to build an illegal drug lab.
During the November raids, heavily armed federal agents were seen at his Jersey City property, and a full city block was shut down for hours as items were removed from his home.
Prosecutors say he purchased thousands of seeds containing ricin and abrin between September 2011 and March 2013, as well as the materials to extract the toxins, and manuals instructing him how to do it. In November of last year, prosecutors say he also bought a kilogram of sodium azide, a toxic compound that is explosive at high temperatures.
During searches of his homes and a storage unit, investigators also found 1,000 rounds of ammunition, handguns, components for assault rifles and high-capacity magazines.
"Jordan Gonzalez admitted today that he worked to manufacture and deploy deadly toxins, stockpiled weapons and body armor and acquired manuals training him for violent confrontation," said U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman. "We all have seen the devastation possible when these behaviors go unchecked. With today's guilty plea, Jordan Gonzalez will face justice and will not be a threat to society."
News that Gonzalez was considering criminal or possibly terror-related development of toxins came during a surprise plea hearing in federal court in Trenton. No planned target was mentioned during the hearing.
Gonzalez told the judge he had past battles with anxiety and depression but was knowingly pleading guilty.
His lawyer, Steven Ross, said outside court that "there was no plot," but declined to elaborate on his client's motive.
In addition to attempting to developing toxins for use as a weapon, Gonzalez also said he would admit to a separate count of possessing a flask that could be used to develop a controlled substance.
He said he was going to use the flask to develop a drug called MDMA.
Under the first toxin-related count, Gonzalez could face up to life in prison. Under the second drug-related count he could face up to four years in prison.
About a half-dozen family and friends looked on as the plea deal was being worked out in the fifth-floor courtroom.
Sentencing is set for Sept. 17.


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ST. CHARLES – To say St. Charles resident Steve Spear is doing a lot of running these days is an understatement.
Spear will mark his 49th birthday Dec. 31 by running 130 miles that week. He is in training for an even bigger run. In April, he will embark on a 3,200-mile run across the country to raise $1.5 million to build a clean water and sanitation system for 30,000 people in Kenya.
"It's more of a litmus test," Spear said. "Who knows what we'll will encounter and my body will encounter. But at least we are trying to do everything we can to properly train and get a proper gauge without overusing my body in the training."
Spear is running as part of Team World Vision, which is one of the fundraising programs for World Vision. He is a volunteer running ambassador. Spear is devoting all of his time to training and fundraising for the "Running for Water" project, which will take him coast to coast, from Los Angeles to New York.
He gave up his post as pastor at Willow Creek Community Church in West Chicago, where he had been for 16 years.
"It became evident that this was going to be a step of faith to go into this unknown territory," Spear said.
That alone impresses Michael Chitwood, national director for Team World Vision.
"He's very passionate," Chitwood said. "There's only a handful of people who have run across the U.S."
The two ran together in 2010 as part of the world-renowned Comrades 56-mile Ultra Marathon in South Africa. Chitwood asked Spear to be part of the race.
"That involved running through 10,000 feet of hills in South Africa," Chitwood said.
He is convinced Spear will complete the 3,200-mile run and meet his fundraising goal. Chitwood said he plans to run with Spear as much as he can.
"He's going to make it across the country in one piece," Chitwood said.
That's been the case so far as Spear continues to train for the race.
"For the most part, my training has gone quite well," Spear said. "I've staved off injury so far, and I'm planning and trusting that to continue."
Spear first came up with the idea to run across the country while he was on a 15-mile run in Ohio.
"I got the idea that I was supposed to run across America for the good of others," Spear said.
The idea scared him initially.
"I thought, 'That's the craziest, nuttiest thought a person could ever have,' " Spear said. "It freaked me out so much. I didn't tell anyone. I didn't tell my wife."
But Spear said he became committed to the project, especially after a recent visit to Kenya.
"It was mainly for me to get more educated on the plight of people that don't have access to clean water, and to see the varied water solutions that World Vision brings to communities," Spear said.
He saw children who walked miles for water that wasn't clean.
"The average distance that a woman or girl travels is seven to nine miles," Spear said. "When I got back from Kenya, I poured a glass of water, and then I figured how much water I use on a daily basis. I use 95 gallons of water a day, and I don't even have to walk a yard to get it."
Spear is trying to train for everything he might encounter on his run, including steep hills. He runs up and down the hill outside his St. Charles home to get used to the rugged conditions he will face.
"I'll just go up and down this thing 10 or 20 times to get used to inclines," Spear said.
Spear is not a runner by nature. He ran his first Chicago Marathon in 2007 for Team World Vision.
"I thought when I ran that first marathon, I was one and done," he said.
During the actual run, Spear plans to run 35 miles a day, five days a week. He hopes to finish the run by the end of August.
"We're holding that loosely," Spear said. "I'm pretty motivated to finish under five months. We've upset our lives quite a bit to be on the road. We'll be living basically out of an RV for five months."
Family members, including his wife, Frances, and their children, will accompany Spear on the trip.
"My wife is incredibly supportive of this whole initiative," Spear said. "She's the true hero in all of this. She wants to be right there with the whole thing. She doesn't want to hear about the experience, she wants to live it."
This isn't the first time Spear has traveled across the country.
"When I was 8 years old, I lived in Vermont, and we had a pop-up camper," he said. "My family and another family drove for 40 days around the perimeter of the United States. We went to 28 states."
The experience was breathtaking, he said.
"We saw the country in an unbelievable way," Spear said. "I tell my parents that was first big trip around the United States when I was 8 years old, and now I'm taking my second big trip."
Spear admitted that it's going to feel strange when he finishes the run.
"We're obviously going to spend a couple of months after the run is over going back and thanking people that helped us accomplish this vision," Spear said.
And he plans to make a trip back to Kenya in October.
"I'm hopeful to go back and just go, 'All right guys, we did it. We got the job done,' '' Spear said.


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Mr. Geis started his government career in Law Enforcement working as a communications operator, police officer and police lieutenant. He also worked four years in the private sector for a commercial developer as vice president in charge of operations. Mr. Geis graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a Bachelor of Science degree, and was conferred his MBA from Thomas More College.
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The Coalition is yet to announce details of key elements of its policy. To capture a range of possible policy options a number of scenarios were evaluated, including weakening or strengthening the Renewable Energy Target, changing the way large emitters are penalised for exceeding emission baselines, or giving firms access to international markets to achieve emission reductions.
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Around The Genealogy Center, when we talk of New Year goals, it's usually what we are planning for The Center. What new sources we'd like to acquire, what new databases might be available, planning for programs and events, and whether we need to shift material again.
But all of us also have our personal research, which isn't done on work time, and we all have goals in mind for the new year and we thought you'd like to see what we, as fellow genealogists are doing.
John, who will celebrate his 30th anniversary with The Genealogy Center in 2014, wants to complete all of the pieces of the portfolio for the submission to the Board of Certification of Genealogists and, if the judges approve, become a Certified Genealogist. That will be quite an accomplishment!
Sara would like to scan all of her family photographs and save copies to the "cloud," as well as to a CD. She'd also like to organize the physical copies of the pictures and store them in a more archival environment than the shoe-boxes in which they currently reside. See? We, too, keep our precious material in places we shouldn't!
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Monday, Dec 23, 2013
by John
The holiday season is a great time to investigate traditions associated with our families. When we interview older relatives, asking them to share holiday memories often elicits an animated response, and the information can be valuable material for us to preserve later on. One of my best Christmas gifts occurred in the early years of the 1980s, when I decided to write to several of my elderly great aunts and first cousins of my grandparents about their earliest Christmas memories. In several cases these were ladies born in the early 1890s whose earliest memories pre-dated the twentieth century. I still have their letters, which they wrote out in a shaky hand, setting out how my great-, and in some cases, great-great grandparents celebrated Christmas. One great-aunt on the Neal side, who had grown up in an upper middle class home in southern Kentucky, described the paper bell that was hung in the hall, the Roman candles that were given to the children to shoot off (one flame nearly missing another aunt), and a recipe for Christmas custard (egg nog, Kentucky-style), that my great-great grandmother (born in 1843) had always made. I still make it for guests, a Civil War era symbol of hospitality.
Another great-aunt, who had grown up in Goshen, Indiana, in the 1900s, talked about how her parents would decorate the family's modest tree while the children attended evening church services. My grandfather had gotten stage fright and refused to say his lines in the Christmas pageant, so his little brother had stepped in for him. When they returned home, they found that Santa had come while the kids were at church. Money was tight, but my great-grandmother had scraped up enough money to buy each of the younger girls a bisque head doll. Candles were lit on the tree, but there was always a bucket of water handy in case of fire. A Beatty cousin who lived in the country in the early 1900s said her grandmother, my great-great grandmother (born in 1834), would never light the candles on her tree for fear of fire, since there was no fire department in rural Kosciusko County at the time.
My maternal grandmother, born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1899, remembered Christmas mornings with presents that Santa had carefully stacked on chairs in the parlor. They had only a very simple tree with handmade ornaments and popcorn strings. Her mother and grandmother, born in Switzerland, would bake Mailänderlis, a Swiss butter cookie cut in shapes and painted with egg yolk before baking. The tradition was carried down, I loved them as a child, and I got the idea in 1990 to video my grandmother (then a spry aged 91), preparing the dough and rolling the cookies out, giving an explanation in the style of Julia Child. Today, sadly, my children hate the cookies, I'm a vegan and can't eat them, and the tradition has been allowed to go dormant, but I still have the video for any future descendant who wants to take on the challenge.
I'm also fortunate to have a short 78 rpm record, made for Christmas 1939, with greetings from the family, my grandfather singing "O Holy Night" in his baritone voice, and a precious clip of my great-grandmother (born in 1863), sending greetings. My project this year is to photograph and catalog all of my Christmas ornaments (some of which go back to the 1930s), and put together a kind of ornament heirloom catalog with information about where the ornament came from, if known, and who had it before. (Most are of the German painted blown-glass variety).
All of these stories are among my holiday treasures, and you can make treasures like this, too, by sending emails to older relatives, cataloging decorations, and, yes, making videos of traditions and events. The stories and traditions won't just descend to you – they take effort to record. But in the end, you will find it is definitely worth it.
Friday, Dec 20, 2013
No, not the breakable glass ornaments, nor the plastic ones of your favorite cartoon, sports or movie characters. And not for that green (or pink or silver) tree that appears every year in December. And not just people who celebrate December, either. The ornaments I mean are the the people and facts with which you decorate your family tree, either on paper or electronically.
The holidays are an ideal time to reconnect with relatives to gather facts and oral reminiscences. Ask an older relative about holidays from his or her youth such as the kinds of gifts requested, given and received; family food traditions; shopping; or attendance at parties or religious events. You will please your interviewee with your interest, and the stories shared will add substance to your family portrait. Ask a new in-law about their family traditions, adding to your information about this new family member and making him or her feel included. And, who knows? You might like to incorporate a new family tradition to your own.
Of course, you will want to record these shared memories, either by recording the speaker, or at least preserving the memories in print to be shared with future generations. So remember to take the time to decorate your family tree!
Wednesday, Dec 18, 2013
Would you like to give a family oriented gift this year? Something that reflects your family or some specific person? Try clicking on the "Create a Lasting Genealogy Keepsake" button on our home page and connect with Keepsake Threads, a company that will create pillows, toys, quilts and other items using your pictures or family trees. With Keepsake Threads, your own keepsake clothing can be used to create a one-of-a-kind treasure for a parent, child or friend. Plus a percentage of the profits go to the Allen County Public Library Foundation that supports The Genealogy Center, so not only will you give a terrific gift, but you will also support your favorite (we hope!) genealogy research facility.
Monday, Dec 16, 2013
The Genealogy Center has made some recent additions to its Free Databases including:
Take a few minutes to see if any of these will aid your research, and remember that The Genealogy Center is always interested in expanding our online databases, so look around to see what you might want to share with us, and everyone else!
Saturday, Dec 14, 2013
Have a brick wall in your family history research? Would you like a greater understanding of some aspect of your genealogy? The Genealogy Center is offering 30-minute personal research consultations with a staff member on some troublesome aspect of your research on Thursday, January 23, 2014, from 2 PM to 4 PM, and on Thursday, February 13, 2014, also from 2 PM to 4 PM. Call 260-421-1225 or send an email for an appointment, providing basic information concerning the nature of your quandary. A staff member will be assigned and a time established for your consultation. Be sure to bring your research notes to your consultation.
Space is limited, and pre-registration is required. Register today!
Thursday, Dec 12, 2013
Monday, Dec 09, 2013
Don't forget to join us on Wednesday, December 11th, 2:30-3:30 p.m., for our next WinterTech program, "Researching Indiana Digital Collections." If researching family who migrated or resided in the Hoosier state, then this overview of online collections is essential. And plan to make it a full day at The Genealogy Center by staying for the monthly meeting of the Allen County Genealogical Society at 6:30 p.m.
Call 260-421-1225 or email to register for this program. Click to learn more about our WinterTech offerings for January and February 2014.
Wednesday, Dec 04, 2013
by John
In many respects this month has been one to remember presidents. We have observed the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination. We also recall the many presidential proclamations establishing Thanksgiving as a national holiday.
There is a great deal about our presidents to interest genealogists. A few of us can actually claim a president among our direct ancestors. Those presidents who have living descendants include the following: John Adams, Jefferson, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Van Buren, William H. Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, Andrew Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding (through an illegitimate daughter), Coolidge, Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H W Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama. Others never had children (like Washington, Polk, and Buchanan) or have had their lines die out, including most notably Lincoln and Arthur. One, Andrew Jackson, has descendants (though not of his blood) through an adopted son, while Reagan's only grandchild is through an adopted son.
Even if you are not a direct presidential descendant, you may be related to a president through a common ancestor. Many presidents trace their ancestry who immigrants who arrived in the colonial era, and from them, many Americans also claim descent. The Genealogy Center has several books that attempt to trace exhaustively the known ancestors of presidents. Perhaps the best book is Gary Boyd Roberts's Ancestors of American Presidents (2009 edition) (GC 929.11 R54ab). This work catalogs the ancestry of all of the presidents through Obama, contains kinship charts among presidents, and also shows the royal descents of some presidents. Craig Hart's book, A Genealogy of the Wives of the American Presidents and Their First Two Generations of Descent (973 H251g), attempts to trace the ancestry of First Ladies, though this work is not as comprehensive as the Roberts book.
If your interest is in the descendants of American presidents, you may wish to examine Burke's Presidential Families (second edition, 1981) (929.11 B915), or American Presidential Families (1993) (929.11 Am352). The latter book lists descendants of collateral relatives of those presidents who do not have living descendants, but neither work is documented. Some presidents appear in larger published genealogies. For example, in 1990, the Theodore Roosevelt Association published The Roosevelt Family in America: A Genealogy (929.2 R67rf), an extensive genealogy of this extended New York Dutch family.
New research is continually being published, and sometimes new discoveries are made with some fanfare, such as the discovery of President Obama's Irish ancestry several years ago. In 2011-2012, Michael Thomas Meggison and R. Andrew Pierce compiled a multi-part article on descendants of Timothy Bush of Connecticut, the paternal ancestor of the Bush family, which continued over three issues in two volumes of The Genealogist (973.005 G2855), published by the American Society of Genealogists. Their research brings to light much new information about this colonial family, which, until recently, has not been fully investigated.
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21 Mar 2012 15:49
Republican Mitt Romney cruised to an easy victory over top rival Rick Santorum in Illinois on Tuesday, moving him one step closer to clinching the party's volatile battle for the presidential nomination.
Romney's comfortable win gave him a fresh burst of momentum in the White House campaign and new ammunition for his argument that it is time for Republicans to rally around his campaign and end an increasingly bitter nominating battle.
"Elections are about choices, and today hundreds of thousands of people in Illinois have joined millions across the country to join our cause," Romney told cheering supporters in Schaumburg, Illinois, a Chicago suburb.
"I'm offering a real choice and a new beginning," he said, touting his business experience and ignoring his rivals to focus his criticism on President Barack Obama. "I have the vision and the experience to get us out of this mess."
With 95% of the votes counted, Romney had 47% and Santorum, a former US senator from Pennsylvania, took 35%.
Romney's remaining rivals, Newt Gingrich, the former US House of Representatives speaker, and libertarian congressman Ron Paul, lagged badly.
While he has failed to win over many conservatives, Romney has more than twice as many delegates to the nominating convention as Santorum. Romney's campaign has argued that his rivals cannot catch him in the contest to pick a challenger to Obama in the November 6 election.
Choice up for grabs
Santorum and Gingrich hope to keep Romney from capturing a majority of delegates by the time the nominating contests end in June, leaving the choice up for grabs among the party's mostly conservative delegates heading into the August nominating convention in Tampa, Florida.
"We don't need a manager," Santorum told supporters in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania after the results were announced, referring to Romney, who is the former head of a private equity firm. "We need someone who is going to pull government up by the roots and throw it out."
The win in Illinois allowed Romney to expand his lead in delegates over Santorum. A CNN delegate count gave Romney 540 delegates to Santorum's 239 in the race for the 1 144 needed to win the nomination.
There were 54 delegates to be allocated in Illinois from Tuesday's voting, but Santorum was not eligible to win many of them because he failed to meet deadlines to file a slate of delegates in some districts.
Ready for Louisiana
The results leave Santorum with a tough path in the Republican presidential battle, although the next contest, in the conservative southern state of Louisiana on Saturday, is a state where he should do well.
"We're feeling very, very good about winning Louisiana on Saturday," Santorum said.
The race then heads to Maryland, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia on April 3 and to five northeastern states, including his home state of Pennsylvania, on April 24. Without several key victories in those showdowns, Santorum could face growing pressure to end his bid.
Romney and Santorum had launched a new round of attacks on each other ahead of the vote, with Romney calling his rival an "economic lightweight" and Santorum accusing Romney of being "a Wall Street financier" who would have a hard time winning in November.
Santorum, a staunch social conservative, campaigned heavily in rural southern Illinois and courted conservatives who distrust Romney for the moderate stances he took as governor of liberal Massachusetts.
But the Illinois result followed a bad week for Santorum, who spent two days campaigning in Puerto Rico before losing badly there on Sunday. In an effort to minimize the importance of Romney's business experience, he also told a campaign rally he did not care about the unemployment rate.
The diverse electorate in Illinois paid off for Romney, who has been unable to translate his substantial financial and organizational advantages into broad support in many states.
Exit polls showed Santorum won among voters who said they were evangelical Christians, very conservative or strongly supported the conservative Tea Party movement, but those blocs were smaller than in states where Santorum has done well.
Evangelicals made up about four of every 10 voters in Illinois, compared to more than seven in 10 last week in the Mississippi and Alabama primaries, which Santorum won.
Romney, a multimillionaire who has struggled to connect with blue-collar voters, slightly led Santorum as the candidate who best understood the average Americans' problems, exit polls showed.
Despite his poor finish, Gingrich pledged to keep running until the convention. He said if Romney was unable to capture the delegates needed by the time voting ends in late June Republicans will have to evaluate who should be the nominee.
"If that's what happens, then we'll have a real conversation," Gingrich said on Fox News.—Reuters
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Chinese official PMI fell to 50.2 in February, to an eight-month low.
The reading was down from 50.5 the previous month, but was modestly better than expectations for 50.1.
A reading below 50 indicates contraction.
On March 2, we get HSBC PMI which is already in a contractionary phase. The flash reading out earlier this month, came in at 48.3.
Economists have said that markets should interpret the data with some caution because of the impact of the Lunar New Year holiday.
The HSBC reading has exposure to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) while the official figure has exposure to larger companies.
Here's the full table which shows that almost all of the sub-indices in the manufacturing report fell in February, and many are in contractionary territory.:
See Also:PHOTOS: The 'Zombie Mills' Of ChinaTwo Simple Charts Show Why China Is Losing Business To Its Emerging Market NeighborsVolatility In China's Currency Could Mark The Start Of A Big Shift In Policy


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A NASA-backed study explores an innovative way to dramatically cut the cost of a human expedition to Mars — put the crew in stasis.
The deep sleep, called torpor, would reduce astronauts' metabolic functions with existing medical procedures. Torpor also can occur naturally in cases of hypothermia.
ANALYSIS: Private Mars Mission in 2018?
"Therapeutic torpor has been around in theory since the 1980s and really since 2003 has been a staple for critical care trauma patients in hospitals," aerospace engineer Mark Schaffer, with SpaceWorks Enterprises in Atlanta, said at the International Astronomical Congress in Toronto this week. "Protocols exist in most major medical centers for inducing therapeutic hypothermia on patients to essentially keep them alive until they can get the kind of treatment that they need."
Coupled with intravenous feeding, a crew could be put in hibernation for the transit time to Mars, which under the best-case scenario would take 180 days one-way.
So far, the duration of a patient's time in torpor state has been limited to about one week.
"We haven't had the need to keep someone in (therapeutic torpor) for longer than seven days," Schaffer said. "For human Mars missions, we need to push that to 90 days, 180 days. Those are the types of mission flight times we're talking about."
ANALYSIS: Why Extroverts Could Cause Problems on a Mission to Mars
Economically, the payoff looks impressive. Crews can live inside smaller ships with fewer amenities like galleys, exercise gear and of course water, food and clothing. One design includes a spinning habitat to provide a low-gravity environment to help offset bone and muscle loss.
SpaceWorks' study, which was funded by NASA, shows a five-fold reduction in the amount of pressurized volume need for a hibernating crew and a three-fold reduction in the total amount of mass required, including consumables like food and water.
Overall, putting a crew in stasis cuts the baseline mission requirements from about 400 tons to about 220 tons.
"That's more than one heavy-lift launch vehicle," Schaffer said.
The study looked at a two-part system for putting Mars-bound astronauts in stasis and bringing them out. The cooling would be done through an internasal system, which Schaffer admits is "not very comfortable," but inhaling a coolant has several advantages over reducing body temperatures with external cooling pads. Cooled from the outside, the body is more susceptible to shivering and possible tissue damage, Schaffer notes.
The so-called RhinoChill System lowers body temperature about 1 degree Fahrenheit per hour. Reaching torpor state — between 89 degrees and 93 degrees Fahrenheit — takes about six hours.
ANALYSIS: Fly Me to the Moon (for $150 Million)
Simply stopping the flow of coolant will bring a person out of stasis, though the SpaceWorks study included rewarming pads as a backup and to speed up the waking process in case of an emergency.
An alternative to having the whole crew in stasis is to have one person awake for two to three days, then hibernate for 14 days. By staggering the shifts, no one person would be in stasis for more than 14 days at a time and one crewmember would be awake to monitor the ship, conduct science experiments and handle maintenance chores.
Schaffer also points to a potential psychological advantage to stasis.
ANALYSIS: Fusion Rockets: 30 Days to Mars?
"Rather than being stuck in a can for 180 days, you go to sleep, you wake up and you're there," he said.
More research is needed to assure prolonged stasis is safe, but initial results are promising, Schaffer added.
"We have not seen any show-stoppers on the medical side or on the engineering side," he said.


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Manic Miner Trivia (Windows Phone)
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Critic Score
100 point score based on reviews from various critics.
User Score
5 point score based on user ratings.
1001 Video GamesManic Miner appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.
AuthorThe author of the game, Matthew Smith, wrote Manic Miner and the follow-up game Jet Set Willy before the age of 18. He wrote Manic Miner while working for Bug-Byte Software. When he left to join Software Projects he took the licence with him together with the follow-up game.
Cheat codeThe cheat code 6031769 is based on Smith's driver license number (slightly changed).
SequelThere was an unreleased sequel to Manic Miner called Mattie Goes Mining. The idea for this title was to improve upon the Commodore 64 version of Manic Miner. This may have included the use of multi-color graphics and other graphical or sonic improvements. There was once a news article about the title (the source is unknown) which says that the game was at an "advanced state" at the time of the article. They stated that there would be "many improvements" to the original game to take advantage of the Commodore 64. That was all that was ever heard of the game, and it never surfaced anywhere. Just who was developing the title is unknown as well.
- ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)
- February 1991 (issue #41) - Included in the list Greatest Games of all Time, section Platform-based Games (editorial staff choice)
- Commodore Force
- December 1993 (Issue 13) – #78 "Readers' Top 100"
- Commodore Format
- April 1991 (Issue 7) - listed in the A to Z of Classic Games article (Great)
- November 1994 (Issue 50) – #16 The All-Time Top 50 C64 Games
- Computer and Video Games
- Golden Joystick 1983: Winner best Arcade style Game
- Retro Gamer
- October 2004 (Issue #9) – #3 Best Game Of All Time (Readers' Vote)
- May 2007 (Issue #37) - #2 in the "Top 25 Platformers of All Time" poll
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Koufax provides relief for Dodgers' first pitch
After Hall of Famer does ceremonial duty, Kershaw evokes comparisons
LOS ANGELES -- Dodgers manager Don Mattingly made one call to the bullpen on Opening Day, but it wasn't to relieve starter Clayton Kershaw.
Mattingly called on former Dodgers great and Hall of Fame left-hander Sandy Koufax to throw out the first pitch before the game.
For a moment, it appeared ownership partner Magic Johnson would have the honor.
Johnson slowly walked toward the mound with a baseball in his hand as former Dodgers pitcher Orel Hershiser got in position behind the plate. Johnson took a deep breath, looked in at Hershiser and shook off his catcher. Before he could throw the ball, Mattingly hustled out of the dugout and called a meeting on the mound.
Mattingly lifted his left hand and signaled for a lefty.
Koufax appeared from the dugout as the crowd roared and rose to its feet.
"It was pretty cool," Mattingly said after Dodgers beat the Giants, 4-0. "I was kind of working on my acting skills. Pretty weak. I was thinking this wouldn't be a bad lefty to bring in."
Koufax slowly walked toward the mound, first stopping to shake hands with Maury Wills and Tommy Davis from the 1963 championship team and Tommy Lasorda. Johnson greeted him with a hug, as did Hershiser. Mattingly handed Koufax the ball and the pair shared a brief word.
Koufax stood ready at the base of the mound, until Mattingly implored him to step on the rubber.
As music from "The Natural" pumped through Dodger Stadium's new sound system, Koufax kicked off the 2013 season with a pitch that fell just short of the plate.
Koufax shrugged his shoulders, shook Mattingly's hand and then embraced Hershiser once again. As the two walked off the field, Hershiser handed Koufax the ball.
Kershaw followed with a pitching performance that reminded Mattingly of the great Koufax. The lefty shut out the Giants and struck out seven on just 94 pitches.
"I'd be lying if I didn't say it didn't flash through my mind there in about the sixth that this guy is rolling along and Sandy throws out the first pitch today," Mattingly said. "It's probably not fair to Clayton to throw that on him right now. But really for this day, Opening Day and Sandy throwing the first pitch out, just the way Clayton was pitching, it makes you think about him during the game."
Catcher A.J. Ellis wasn't shy about comparing the two left-handers.
"You got a sense on this day, with the first pitch thrown by Sandy Koufax and the last pitch by Clayton Kershaw, it's almost like a passing of the torch today," said Ellis. "He's the most special player I've ever played with."
But Kershaw believes he hasn't quite reached the same level as Koufax.
"I just don't want to disrespect Sandy; he doesn't deserve that," said Kershaw, who put the Dodgers on the board first with a home run to lead off the eighth inning. "He's the best left-handed pitcher ever. Obviously, I'm honored with the comparison. I don't put merit into it. I've got a long way to go."


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Welcome to www.Chicago-Fire.com, your new online face of everything Fire and what we hope becomes your preferred home for everything that is soccer in the Chicagoland area!
The new Chicago-Fire.com will serve as one-stop shop for all things soccer here in the Windy City and beyond. Not only will Chicago-Fire.com carry all of the stats, HD video and insider access to aid your support of the Fire, but also it will allow soccer fans like you the opportunity to personalize their soccer experience. Whether it be near-instant Fire replays and video on demand, photo galleries, fan blogs, scores and updates from the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa or events going on in the soccer community, Chicago-Fire.com will be the online home for you that love the beautiful game.
Chicago-Fire.com will feature a number of new functionalities built with the soccer supporter in mind, including live HD video to maximize the online viewing experience and a variety of editorial voices that will provide fans insightful content on the Fire and soccer in Chicago and around the globe. The new site enables supporters to interact with one another in a number of different capacities. Supporters will be able to banter back and forth about the action on the field and participate in online chats with fellow supporters through our club blog, En Fuego.
This new website not only represents a glance into the future of the Fire's new digital strategy, but also a new era in building upon the tradition, honor and passion behind the Chicago Fire Soccer Club. The Club and MLS have made a significant investment in improving this online experience for you, our supporters. This includes new staff to keep this information fresh, fun, and relevant. Jeff Crandall, for example, will be covering the team with numerous features and stories that will only be found at Chicago-Fire.com. Please check out his latest feature on Brian McBride.
Today's launch also represents a work in progress – a major initiative like this will surely have its glitches and challenges, so please look at this as the starting point, not the finish line. The Club will do its best to stay on top of the updates and changes that need to be made…but we also want the input of you, our supporters, in the coming weeks to make this the best Fire and soccer experience possible. Please send us your suggestions and let us know what you like – or what you don't like – about our new site. We welcome your feedback, insight, and perspective. So tell us what you think!
See you at Opening Night on Saturday, April 10th at TOYOTA PARK.
Go Fire!
Dave Greeley President, Chicago Fire Soccer Club


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Species In-Depth
At the Aquarium
The habitat for our olive ridleys is the Tropical Reef and the Soft Coral Gardens in the Tropical Pacific gallery.
Geographic Distribution
Pacific and Indian Oceans, along south Atlantic coast of east Africa and South America.
Breeding: Pacific Ocean, principally from Mexico, south to east Colombia, with major beaches in Mexico, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. Most common in the Indian, eastern Pacific, and southern Atlantic Oceans, but distributed worldwide in tropical and subtropical ocean waters. Occasionally seen along the southern California coast.
Olive ridley turtles prefer tropical and subtropical waters, but they can be seen in colder waters as well. Post hatchlings and young juveniles are most commonly observed in surface waters of open oceans. Adults may be seen in both the open ocean and in shallower waters near the shore in the eastern Pacific or in small parts of their range elsewhere.
Physical Characteristics
When viewed from above, the hard, relatively thin carapace of the olive ridley sea turtle appears broadly oval and without ridges. It is composed of a series of five to nine transverse bony plates called scutes. The number of scutes may vary relative to the geographical location of the turtle. The upper shell is relatively high in the eastern Pacific population of this species. There are two claws on each of the four flippers and there is sometimes an extra claw on the front flipper. Males and females differ in the length of the tail. The tail of a female is short and barely, if at all, visible from under the carapace. The male's tail is much longer and can be seen beyond the margin of the carapace.
Newly hatched turtles are black whereas adults are a dark greenish-olive color on the upper surfaces of the shell, head, and flippers. The ventral side is light yellow.
Turtles are commonly measured by carapace length. In the case of olive ridleys, the length of the carapace is 56 to 78 cm (1.8-2.6 ft). The turtles weigh 36 to 45 kg (80 to 110 lb).
These turtles, which are equipped with powerful jaws, are omnivores, feeding mostly on a wide variety of invertebrates such as shrimp, sea jellies, lobsters, and crabs. They will also prey on fish. Algae is a source of food if their usual preferred diet items are in short supply. They use multiple feeding grounds, typically foraging offshore to depths of 150 m (500 ft) on bottom dwelling crustaceans.
Olive ridley's make use of many different nesting sites around the world, varying in size and population. Three major populations are recognized—Indian Ocean, eastern Pacific Ocean, and western Atlantic Ocean. The site where most eggs are laid is probably the one in Orissa, India where as many as 398,000 eggs are laid.
Although not definitely known, the age of sexual maturity is estimated to be 7 to 15 years of age or when they reach a carapace length of about 60 cm (23.6 in). Nesting frequency varies, but probably does not take place more than every two to three years. Breeding takes place in the water. The females store sperm through the reproductive season with the result that one to three clutches of eggs may be produced at intervals.
Most commonly a female will nest on the same beach where she hatched (nest site fidelity).Females ready to nest may appear individually or in large groups that may be made up of thousands of turtles. These large gatherings are called arribadas, a Spanish word for "arrival". Where and when arribadas will occur is unpredictable at all sites. They appear to be precipitated in part by climatic events, such as a strong offshore wind, or by certain phases of the moon and tide. Solitary nesters lay a clutch at intervals of 14 days whereas the interval for those in arribadas is 28 days.
Nesting primarily takes place at night at a high tide period. The female leaves the water and laboriously crawls to a place of her liking above the high tide mark where she digs a nesting hole with her hind flippers. She deposits 50 to 200 eggs, (average 100+), that look like ping pong balls. She uses her hind flippers to cover the eggs with sand, tamping it down to remove all traces of the nest. She then returns to the ocean. The process usually takes from one to three hours.
The eggs incubate for about 50 to 58 days, but the number of days varies depending on temperature of the sand. The temperature of the sand also determines the ratio of male to female turtles hatching.Most eggs in a clutch hatch at the same time. The hatchlings use an egg tooth to open the egg shell. Once out they dig their way out of the nest. Guided by the light, they quickly make their way to the water. Predation is heavy as they crawl to the water and swim into the shallows. There is no parental care.
These turtles are migratory, sometimes traveling several thousand kilometers (miles) between feeding grounds and nesting sites. They are excellent divers spending a great deal of time underwater foraging for food. Trawlers on the east coast of Australia reported that most turtles caught in their nets were taken at depths between 11 to 40 m (36 to 131 ft). It is believed that foraging depths to over 100 m (328 ft) are not uncommon.
In cooler waters, ridleys may be seen, sometimes in small groups, sunning themselves on the water surface to warm themselves. In warmer waters this behavior is rarely noticed.
Sea turtles as a group are well adapted to their watery environment. They are, with one exception, cold blooded which permits them to adapt within limits to changing temperatures. The rather streamlined shape of the head and carapace reduces the amount of energy required to move through the water. The long, sturdy, fore flippers are efficient "propellers" and the rear flippers are effective "rudders" for steering.
The blood of sea turtles can absorb a relatively large quantity of oxygen. With a rapid exhalation and inhalation, almost all of the air in the lungs can be quickly renewed. The olive ridley can quietly rest or sleep underwater for up to about two hours. Activity or stress increases the need for oxygen and substantially reduces the time a turtle can stay submerged.
The lifespan of the olive ridley is believed to be 50 to 60 years.
The US Endangered Species Act lists the breeding colony on Mexico's Pacific coast as endangered. All other populations are listed as threatened. The IUCN Red List lists all populations as endangered. Continuing and serious efforts are needed if this species is to survive.
The olive ridley's life is fraught with many dangers. It is estimated that only one of a thousand hatchlings reaches maturity. The mortality rate in newly hatched and juveniles is extremely high. Predators such as small, carnivorous land animals, birds, and sharks and other fishes, contribute to a serious reduction in turtle population. As is so often the case of animal safety, man is the worst offender when it comes to loss of animal life. Although the ridley is legally protected in most areas where it occurs, frequently little or no enforcement of laws and regulations takes place.
There are many ways in which humans affect sea turtle populations. These include encroachment on nesting areas by commercial and residential development, placement of lights that confuse hatchlings trying to find the water, interference to nesting sites and egg-laying females, ghost nets and other dangerous debris, and boat-turtle collisions. In areas where the turtles have been plentiful, residents have traditionally harvested adults for meat and emptied the nests of eggs for subsistence and for sale. Thousands of turtles are killed yearly as bycatch by commercial fishing boats such as fish and shrimp trawlers and the long line fisheries. Newly developed turtle exclusion devices (TEDS) and circular fish hooks are effective in minimizing the accidental taking of turtles, but the fishing industry in general, with some exceptions, has been slow in adopting the new techniques.
In Mexico, 17 reserve areas were established for the protection of sea turtles in 1986, and a total prohibition on sea turtle harvest was instituted and additional protection camps were established on nesting beaches in 1990. Since the 1990 ban, the take of olive ridleys has been reduced, and the population appears to be stabilizing. US and Mexico government regulations requiring shrimp trawlers to use turtle excluder devices have resulted in reduced mortality from commercial fishing operations in US and Mexico waters. Continued direct and incidental take, particularly in shrimp trawl nets, remains a serious concern in the western Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
Special Notes
Male sea turtle embryos can't stand the heat. The temperature of the sand in which the eggs are incubated determines the sex differentiation of hatchlings. Warmer temperatures yield more female offspring; cooler temperatures yield more males. Temperature rise due to global climate change may cause male turtles to lose their cool.
In the United States protection of marine animals is usually the responsibility of NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). However, because sea turtles nest on land, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the protector of terrestrial animals, shares responsibility with NMFS.
Olive ridley arribadas are believed to be a 'safety in numbers' natural technique to conserve the loss of newly hatched young. So many hatchlings appear in such a short period of time as a result of the great number of eggs laid, a number of hatchings can escape the predators searching for food. Even so predation of hatchlings is heavy.


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State Rep. J. Paul Brown saw the camera trained on him when the Oak Ridge Boys were singing at the Republican National Convention Tuesday, but said he had no idea that meant his picture was going to be shown on the big screen.
"That was neat," the Ignacio lawmaker said.
Brown, who is a delegate to the RNC for the first time, raved about being in Tampa.
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How we used user research data to help design Compatibi
There have already been a few posts on Compatibility View in Internet Explorer 8 (here, here, here, here, here, and here), but none have gone into detail about the user research data we used to help design this feature. We collected data on Compatibility View throughout the IE8 beta releases and have made multiple decisions about its design based on our data from lab studies, field studies, instrumentation, and community feedback. What Id like to do is go through some common questions weve received about the user experience of Compatibility View, and explain how user data has influenced our decisions. Hopefully, this will give you some insight into our design process and how we use data to make feature design decisions.
Current design
So that were on the same page, lets do a quick review. The current design places the Compatibility View button at the end of the Address Bar, next to the Refresh button in the default layout, on sites that do not include the compatibility meta tag or HTTP header. The button has a page icon on it. The first two times a user is on a page with the button visible and refreshes the page, a notification balloon will pop pointing to Compatibility View.
Now that weve reviewed the design, lets look at some of our top questions.
Why put the icon next to the Refresh button?
One of our top concerns with Compatibility View has always been its discoverability. If users cant find this feature, they could have a severely compromised experience. When we first tested Compatibility View in our user research labs, it was a button on the Command Bar named Emulate IE7.
To test it, we created a task in which participants were asked to use a site that we knew would be unusable before switching to Compatibility View. When they arrived at the site and found it unusable, we asked them, What would you do if you came to a site that looked like this? The most common response by far was to click the Refresh button. After probing deeper into why people would try to fix a page in this way, most responses focused on a specific incident in the past where the participant had seen a page that was off somehow and refreshing the page had fixed the issue. Another common response was to look for something in the Tools menu.
Side note: We use the term fix a page in this article a lot because that is how our participants referred to what they were doing. We know the technical accurateness of this term is debatable in a lot of cases but were sticking with how our participants thought about the scenarios.
Almost no one thought to use the Emulate IE7 button, even though they had seen an explanation of it earlier in the session. The main problem was that the word Emulate had little to nothing to do with fixing sites to our participants. It was a technical description of the feature instead of describing what the user was looking for in these situations. Also, we knew that the problem wasnt that it didnt stand out enough. I mean, it was a BIG button that was totally new in the Command Bar. Our problem wasnt that it didnt catch users eyes, it was that it didnt fit into users mental models.
Based on this data, we knew that the majority of users will likely look to the Refresh button when they encounter a page that needs to be fixed. To take advantage of this natural tendency, we place the Compatibility View button next to the Refresh button next to the most likely place a user will look when a page looks off. Additionally, to catch the small percentage of users who we expected to look in the Tools menu, we added a link there as well.
Why use that icon?
We knew that having a button with a name as long as Emulate IE7 was not going to work being placed next to the Refresh button. It would take up too much space and we already knew that the idea of emulating IE7 in IE8 was strange for most users. We brainstormed and developed a series of potential icons that could work for Compatibility View. One challenge we faced was that communicating what Compatibility View does with only an icon is quite difficult. We tried various iterations such as showing blocks misaligned, representing areas of the page that could be out of alignment. These versions were too abstract to communicate the general idea and often its not a case of elements being misaligned (e.g., menus might have the wrong background color). We decided on the page icon because this correlated best with how participants were describing the pages that were not rendering correctly (e.g., broken, screwed up).
In refining the final design, we worked to make it fit as part of our family of icons in the address bar, including stop, refresh and go. We tried options that had different colors and textures for the page but found the page white design was most recognizable as a web page. We used the same colors, line weights and gradients present in the other icons to ground the icon to the overall address bar design.
When we tested the icon in the lab, we found that the majority of participants understood that the icon had something to do with the page with a problem they were looking at. Seeing the icon led most people to read the tooltip that explains the feature. After reading the tooltip, we saw many positive reactions to the icon and that it made sense given what the feature does.
Some reviewers felt that showing this icon on pages that were potentially fine would confuse users and make them think that the page was broken somehow, but we saw no indication of that in our studies. Participants did not even look toward the Compatibility View button unless they were in situations where it could potentially help them, which was one of our design goals.
Will people understand what its for?
We expect most users to understand Compatibility View and when to use it. Of our lab participants who read the Compatibility View tooltip, the notification balloon, or tried the feature, all have understood the features purpose. Most importantly, everyone who understood the the feature, continued to use it on the sites they encountered that had issues. This was true for our lab participants and also for our field research participants.
Why have balloon notifications?
After a few rounds of testing in the lab, and getting feedback from participants in our field research, we still saw some participants didnt notice the Compatibility View button, even after they hit Refresh on a page with layout issues. Quite naturally, they got into an automatic pattern of quickly clicking Refresh and then putting their eyes right back to the page content to see if it fixed their problem. We had an important decision to make--do we add some kind of notification that lets the user know about Compatibility View when it could help them? The upside is that more people who would benefit from Compatibility View will find it. The downside is that we are adding another notification to the system.
We tested a build with the notification balloons in the lab and in our field research and found that displaying a balloon did in fact help more people discover Compatibility View. We didnt take the decision lightly but felt the added awareness was worth the added notification.
Why have two balloon notifications?
Originally the balloon notification only showed once when a user refreshed a page displaying the Compatibility View icon for the first time. As I mentioned above, even showing this once was a strongly-debated decision. But, there were many concerns that once was not enough so we tested the possibility of showing the notification up to three times (after the first three times someone refreshed a page displaying the Compatibility View icon).
In the lab, we showed participants from one to three different sites with layout or content problems. At each site we asked them what they would do if they came to a site like this. Most clicked Refresh as we expected. What we found was that of people who saw the notifications, about two thirds reacted to the first notification and the other third reacted to the second notification. Showing the second notification caught the attention of a group of people who were very focused on the content of the page at the first site but were more likely to notice things outside of their normal pattern at the second site.
There was also a group who saw all three notifications and dismissed or ignored them all. We believe these users would not pay attention to the notification no matter how many times we showed it. This lead us to not show the notification three times to be safe because we had no evidence that showing the notification more than two times will catch any additional users and there is a real cost to over communicating with users (e.g., data in the recent e7 blog post about Action Center).
I hope this gives you some insight into how we as an engineering team use user research data to make some of our design decisions. As you can see, a lot of time, research, and deliberation can go into a feature (and this was just a summary, I didnt even get into our instrumentation data). We always want to base important decisions on the best data possible and that includes data from the lab, field, instrumentation, and community feedback. If youd like to find out more about user research at Microsoft, please check out our user research website.
Jess Holbrook
User Experience Researcher
Ben Truelove
User Experience Designer
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For podcasts I wanted to list both a link with the name of the podcast and homepage url along with an RSS feed that can be subscribed to. The link database does have a field for entering the RSS url though the template tag wp_list_bookmarks() does not support it.
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In this symposium we would like to discuss recent successes and challenges for the future. The recent success of IYA2009 brought a huge wave of interest and raised the awareness of the public in general towards Astronomy. It is mandatory that we use this opportunity to engage European authorities in broader usage of modern tools in schools all over Europe. We must invest in the construction of science culture as an official part of the upraising of future generations.
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Sideshow Collectibles and Hot Toys are proud to present the highly anticipated Hulk Sixth Scale Limited Edition Collectible Figure from the smash hit The Avengers. The movie-accurate collectible is specially crafted based on the image of the giant green-skinned angered monster Hulk in the movie, highlighting the newly developed head sculpt with rolling eyeballs and specially sculpted muscular body.
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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker finished a bad week with a misstep that emphasized his inability to generate support for his attempt to strip the state's public employees of collective bargaining rights.
First, the governor's radical proposal went to such extremes in its anti-labor bias that it sparked a protest movement so large, so steady and so determined in its demands that it is now commonly compared with the protests that have rocked Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries.
Then, the man that badges worn by marchers describe as "The Mubarak of the Middle West" really blew it. Saturday was supposed to be the day when the governor pushed back against the movement that has challenged his radical power grab. The governor's Tea Party allies attempted to grab the spotlight with a rally at the state Capital. Unfortunately, the much-hyped event, which national Tea Party groups had poured money and organizing energy into generating, drew an anemic crowd of several thousand. Even by the optimistic estimates of the Tea Partisans themselves, the pro-Walker turnout was one-tenth the size of the crowd that came to oppose the governor's so-called "budget repair bill."
The governor made things worse for himself by going on CNN and announcing that he had received 19,000 e-mails from the "quiet majority" of Wisconsinites since he made his proposal and claimed that most of them were supportive.
Dumb move. Really dumb move.
Within hours of making his claim, the streets of Madison were filled by what veteran political organizers described as the largest demonstration ever seen in the city. Former Mayor Paul Soglin, a key organizer of anti–Vietnam War protests, said, "We had some big demonstrations in the sixties, but this is bigger."
Organizers of a 2004 rally featuring Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and rocker Bruce Springsteen, where the crowd was estimated at 80,000, pointed out that Saturday's protest against Walker's budget filled a significantly larger space. And, they noted, thousands of addition opponents of the governor's proposal packed the Capitol.
Mahlon Mitchell, the president of the Wisconsin Professional Firefighters Association, which has been a high-profile participant in the demonstrations, surveyed the crowd while recounting Walker's boast about the 19,000 e-mails.
"I think I have 19,000 people behind me," said Mitchell.
Pointing to one edge of the massive audience arrayed before him, he said: "And 20,000 there."
He pointed to the other edge of the crowd: "And 20,000 there."
Finally, he pointed down State Street, the thoroughfare that stretches from the Capitol to the University of Wisconsin campus, which was packed with students who have backed the unions: "And 20,000 there."
Rallying with Mitchell was Wisconsin Education Association Council president Mary Bell, who picked up on the "this-is-what-democracy-looks-like" theme that has become so central to the marches, rallies and pickets that have swept not just Madison but a state where even small towns have seen protests against Walker's bill.
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Clear Channel lifted its ban on radio advertisements from the Wichita reproductive health clinic South Wind Women's Center on Tuesday. The ads were originally banned in July for divisive content, although they promoted general reproductive health care services for women with no mention of abortion.
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