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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
The Other Mayflowers, Voyage 3
Prisoner of War aboard the ship "John and Sara"
From Scotland to Boston, 1651
This is part three of my miniseries of Thanksgiving blogs on the immigration of certain ancestors to America, during the week when our thoughts usually rest with our Mayflower passenger ancestors. My 7x great grandfather William Munroe arrived in Massachusetts a little more than thirty years after the Pilgrims settled in Plymouth. His immigration was forced as a prisoner of war and indentured servant, similar to the stories of thousands of other European arrivals, yet not nearly as infamous as the story of the arrival of the hundreds of thousands who arrived in America as slaves.
William Munroe was a Scots warrior, from a long line of warriors in the Clan Munro who had fought in battles such as Halidon Hill and Bannockburn. During the English Civil War three brothers, William, Robert, and George Munroe all fought for the crown at the Battle of Worcester. The Puritan side won, and the Scots prisoners of war were marched to London, and on 11 November 1651 the Munroe brothers were listed as chattel aboard the "John and Sara." The ship landed in Boston, and the 272 prisoners of war sold off as indentured servants by Thomas Kemble of Charlestown.
William served his time as an indentured servant at a mill in Menotomy (now Arlington, Massachusetts) and was on his own by 1657 when he was referred to in the Cambridge, Massachusetts records for being fined for not having a ring in the nose of his pig. By 1660 he settled in Cambridge Farms, now known as Lexington. He was a freeman in 1690 and in 1699 received communion into the church. The Scots were not welcome as neighbors to the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, but one by one they began to integrate into society.
William Munroe was married three times. The first wife was Martha George, married about 1665, who died young leaving him with four children, including my ancestor George Munroe born about 1672. His second wife gave him ten more children, and so began a huge line of descendants that went on to fight in the Battle of Lexington, the Revolutionary War and contributed to many other further events in Massachusetts and the United States. The line of Munroe Scots warriors continued to serve in the Civil War, Spanish American War, and both World Wars. Thus, a reluctant arrival in America directly influenced American History. Of the militia members at the Lexington Green on the morning of April 19th, 1775, at least half were Munroes or near kin.
Munroe Tavern in Lexington, Massachusetts
On Thanksgiving week we must remember that there were also several servants and indentured servants aboard the Mayflower, including the four More children (all under the age of eight!) and my own ancestors Ned Doty and John Howland. All the Mayflower passengers were also indebted to the Plymouth Company to pay back their passage to the New World with goods to be returned to England in trade.
For more about the Munroe Lineage see my blog on November 5, 2009 "Google Your Way to a Quilt".
For more information about the social history of forced emigration see:
"Emigrants in Chains: A Social History of Forced Emigration to the Americas of Felons, Destitute Children, Political and Religious Non-Conformists, Vagabonds, Beggars and other Undesirables, 1607 -1776" by Peter Wilson Coldham, published by the Genealogical Publishing Company
"The Dictionary of Scottish Immigrants to the U. S. A." by Donald Whyte, Magna Carta Book Company, Baltimore 1972
"Colonists for Sale: The Story of Indentured Servants in America" by Clifford Lindsey Alderman, Macmillan Publishing, New York, 1975
Copyright 2009, Heather Wilkinson Rojo
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I know this is an old post, but I am just now finding it. I'm writing a series of books about April 19th and, being of Scots heritage myself, am fascinated with Clan Munroe. Thanks for all your great posts. (And BTW, seriously?? A museum to the British soldiers?? Don't get me started.)ReplyDelete
I'm wondering if you know what happened to William's brothers.Replies
I have seen things on the internet about William's brothers, but nothing with good sources.Delete
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PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – Senior Courtney Hurt registered a game-high 20 points, classmate Andrea Barbour finished with 17 and junior Carleeda Green added a career-high 11 off the bench, but Drexel caught fire from long range in the second half and handed VCU a 73-63 setback in its regular season finale Wednesday night at the Daskalakis Athletic Center.
After hitting 1 of 7 three-pointers in the first 20 minutes, Drexel shot 7 of 12 from long range in the second stanza, including all four of Fiona Flanagan's treys during a key four-minute stretch midway through the second half. Kamile Nacickaite also went 3 of 6 from beyond the arc.
VCU cut the deficit to 62-61 on a pair of free throws by Barbour with 2:17 left, but Nacickaite drilled a trey from the right wing and Flanagan followed with a fast break layup on Drexel's next possession to put the Dragons' ahead by six with 1:35 left.
Drexel, which shot 60 percent (15 of 25) from the field in the final 20 minutes, then held VCU to just one field goal the rest of the way and went a perfect 6 for 6 from the free throw line to seal the win.
Barbour added a game-high six assists for the third straight outing to go along with seven rebounds, four steals and a pair of blocks. Green went a perfect 4 of 4 from the field and hit three critical second half treys to keep the Rams close. Hurt is now just 26 points away from becoming the first men's or women's player in school history, and just the sixth women's player in Colonial Athletic Association history, to score 2,000 career points.
After the first eight minutes featured five ties and seven lead changes, VCU used an 11-1 run capped by a 3-pointer from Barbour, and the Rams took their largest lead of the half at 21-15 with 8:21 to go.
A layup by Ayana Lee then halted the spurt and Drexel scored 10 of the next 11 points to take a 25-22 advantage, its largest of the period, on a basket by Tyler Hale with 3:27 showing. However, VCU responded with an 8-2 run to close the half and Hurt nailed a triple from the top of the arc with six seconds remaining, and the Rams took a 30-27 lead into the locker room.
After VCU increased its lead to six just a minute into the second half, Drexel battled back and regained the lead, 35-34, on a 3-pointer by Nacickaite with 16:01 to play. However, Green came off the bench and scored five of the next nine points for VCU and gave the Black & Gold a seven-point advantage with 13:20 showing.
Trailing by five with 11:55 left, Flanagan hit four straight 3-pointers to give the Dragons a 52-48 lead. Green again cut the deficit to 52-51 with her third triple before Barbour eventually made it a one-point game with a pair of free throws with 2:17 left.
VCU, which secured the No. 6 seed in next week's Colonial Athletic Association Championship, faces No. 11 William & Mary on March 8. Tipoff is set for 7:30 p.m. from The Showplace Arena in Upper Marlboro, Md. Check VCUAthletics.com for complete tournament coverage.

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LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game on the Nintendo Wii is an action adventure game bringing to life the Pirates of the Caribbean world and all its colorful characters in LEGO brick form. Players will experience all the memorable scenes from the first three films, as well as those in the upcoming fourth film, "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," in the humorous and quirky LEGO video games style. The game follows the recipe of other LEGO titles such as Batman and Indiana Jones with its humorous take on the characters and the film storyline.
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Developer Traveller's Tales just keeps the Lego fun coming. The maker of such favorites as Lego Star Wars, Lego Harry Potter and Lego Batman, the developer keeps finding new Hollywood franchises in which to insert a little Lego magic. If you've played any of the previous games in the Lego series, you will know exactly what you are getting with Lego Pirates of the Caribbean. You're getting a fun game that you can mindlessly button mash away on as you work to unlock new hilarious scenes featuring your favorite movie characters portrayed as Lego figures. It's a great way to spend a night with your friends and family. With that said, the Lego video game franchise has been out for a number of years now and with each new release, the weak combat, poor camera and other features start to annoy you just a little bit more. Overall though, this game offers more Lego magic for all.
The game works through the plot of all four Pirates of the Caribbean movies, and all of your heroes and villains are there. Once again there is no spoken dialogue, you are left watching cutscenes that can be quite hilarious as you watch the Lego counterpart of your favorite movie character like Jack Sparrow go to battle in Lego form. The gameplay is the same as always. Mash a couple buttons, smash enemies, smash everything in sight. Two players can play at once for some co op fun. You'll fight through levels with different objectives and some levels have no fighting at all which is a welcome change of pace from all of the button mashing. You'll work to unlock new costumes and other collectibles just like in other versions of the Lego franchise. All in all, it's more of the same for fans of this franchise and for most people, that's a good thing.
Still, it should be said that the same problems that have always hurt this franchise still remain to this day. When you are doing a bit of platforming, the imprecise controls can get you killed. The camera, as always, is a mess and doesn't always offer the best view of what is coming after you. One feature, or a lack of a feature really, that we really have to question is the lack of online play. We've been playing co op Lego games for years. Why can't we connect online and play with people all over the world? Games with significantly smaller budgets than the successful Lego series manage to incorporate online play. This is really something there's no good excuse for.
Lego: Pirates of the Caribbean is exactly the game a long time fan of the series wants it to be. It's Jack Sparrow and Davy Jones in Lego form. It's hilarious Lego inspired cut scenes. It's button mashing to collect items to unlock hidden features. But in this day and age, the game's weak camera, sometimes poor control and lack of online play are really starting to hurt the game's overall quality.
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Welcome to Watch List, where we find five shows on this evening that may be worth staying in for. Who needs pants and showering when you have TV to keep you warm and satisfied? Off we go:
It's the long-in-the-planning Cuddy episode, in which Hugh Laurie gets a well-deserved break, and Lisa Edelstein and her low-cut blouses take over as the central character for a full episode. Will this work? Will you miss Laurie's irascible charm as the show spends a whole hour on Cuddy wading through bureaucratic malfeasance? Hey, it beats a whole episode revolving around Foreman and his brother. ANTICIPATION: DEPENDS ON CUDDY'S OUTFITS
This is the one with the guy who gets hooked on morphine, and then has his brain function deteriorate to the point where he loses over $200,000 giving money to every Nigerian email scheme that he gets in his inbox. And here I thought morphine was so nice and friendly. ANTICIPATION: HIGH, TO THE POINT WHERE I'M SENDING MONEY TO NIGERIAN EMAIL SCAMMERS
RuPaul's Drag Race - 8PM (LOGO)
RuPaul continues her search for America's next great drag queen. I like that all drag queens use puns as stage names: Hedda Lettuce, Fabs Jansen, and the like. If I were a drag queen, my stage name would be Kat Skeevens. AND YOU CAN'T HAVE IT. I CALLED IT FIRST. ANTICIPATION: UP THERE, EVEN IF YOU WON'T ADMIT IT
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations - 10PM (Travel Channel)
Tony travels to the very close and very mild Hudson Valley to sample its wares and eat 30,000 calories a day without gaining any weight. Oh, what I would give to live this man's life. ANTICIPATION: GIDDY
Heroes - 9PM (NBC)
It's the season finale. Wait, it is? Well, that's a bit early now, isn't it? Anyway, in this finale, Peter helps Sylar. Wait, he does? I clearly have some catching up to with this show. ANTICIPATION: SERIOUSLY, I CAN'T BELIEVE CLAIRE IS DATING A KLITSCHKO BROTHER.


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Vatican confronts shifting landscape on family issues
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Faced with a cultural landscape that's shifting faster than the church's ability to keep up, Catholic bishops are looking for new approaches toward unmarried couples, divorced people and single parents who are disillusioned with the church.
The first-ever survey of 114 bishops' conferences around the world found that many Christians "have difficulty" accepting church teachings on key issues such as birth control, divorce, homosexuality and cohabitation.
But one senior church leader cautioned that "the doctrine of the church is not up for discussion."
The survey's findings, released in a 75-page document by the Vatican on Thursday (June 26), will serve as the blueprint for October's Synod of Bishops, when bishops from around the world will gather to discuss issues facing the family.
In response to the survey's 39 questions, bishops stressed that the traditional family was in crisis, while many divorced individuals felt "frustrated and marginalized" with no access to Communion. Those seeking a divorce also want a simpler approach to obtaining an annulment within the church.
The survey, however, reaffirmed the bishops' opposition to same-sex unions and abortion -- both issues where there is likely to be little or no change anytime soon.
Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, secretary general of the Bishops' Synod, said the document "provides a vision of family reality in its actual context" and would mark "the beginning of deep reflection" for the bishops.
The document said every bishops' conference opposed "redefining" marriage between one man and one woman or recognizing same-sex unions, but said the children of gay couples had the right to be baptized.
"The child must be received with the same care, tenderness and concern which is given to other children," the document said.
The unprecedented survey sought the views of lay Catholics as well as clergy, and has raised hopes that Pope Francis might be considering radical changes to the church's practices, such as allowing divorced individuals and remarried couples access to Communion.
The document paints a picture of a complex and rapidly changing social and economic environment that poses serious challenges to families in both rich and poor nations. Many priests reported battling a "crisis of faith" as families dealt with violence, abuse, drug and alcohol addiction and other social issues.
According to the findings, some clergy were "uncompromising and insensitive" when dealing with single parents or divorced people. Catholics who remarried often faced a "more painful wound" when denied sacraments like Communion.
Clerical sex scandals had also "significantly" weakened the church's moral credibility, particularly in North America and northern Europe, the document said.
"In North America, people often think that the church is no longer a reliable moral guide, primarily in issues related to the family, which they see as a private matter to be decided independently," it said.
On contraception, the survey found "in areas strongly influenced by secularization, couples generally do not consider the use of contraceptive methods to be a sin" while many considered abortion "a very serious sin."
The bishops' survey appeared to underscore the enormous difference between official church teachings on sexual and lifestyle issues and how the faithful live their lives, but synod officials sought to play down expectations of any major doctrinal changes.
"The doctrine of the church is not up for discussion, as we have seen emphasized many times in recent years by various teachings," said Monsignor Bruno Forte, special secretary to this year's synod.
The October synod is the first of two back-to-back yearly meetings of the world's Catholic bishops at the Vatican on the theme of "Pastoral Challenges of the Family in the Context of Evangelization."
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That's right! This years big funraiser (and yes, I DID spell it right!) party is going to be BIKE PROM!! So get your date, get your tux straight, pick a purty flower and put on your dancing shoes. Stay tuned for all pertinent details. And if you are interested in making this grand gala happen, the bring your happy self to the Comet next Thursday, March 1st, at 8:30 pm to begin planning. If you can't make it, get with me, Rob, at Mobo, or through the email.
Also, in regards to my last blog discussing the running of your lights….. really, go with your gut. If you think you're rolling through somewhere you could get mugged, maybe you shouldn't advertise yourself. Otherwise, run your lights so cars can see you. That's all. Its just food for thought.


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By Rang Harmon on October 26 2019 16:12:08
In case the essay is being written for the admission panel for some business school, the pointers and logic within the essay should be portrayed in a manner, which can best describe the candidate profile within the scope of the essay.
An essay can be anything and everything which can perfectly explain and comment on a given subject. The reader of the essay can be termed as the final judge to determine, how good an essay is. The essay should be such that it can reflect the actual situation through a spectrum of thoughts, in a manner which can keep the interest and facts on the same boat.
Once the task of creating an essay has been determined, the potential author should just initiate the process of writing, without any fear or comprehension. Once the first draft has been created, the base and the platform for the essay is ready, ready to be launched for the final version.
Creating the first draft: Initiate it! Initializing the first draft of the essay is as important as completing the whole task. It has observed numerous times that the first step towards essay becomes a huge task for the beginners.
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Oct. 13, 2009
Come one, come all! With college basketball season just around the corner, Santa Clara University, in cooperation with the SCU Alumni Association and the Ruff Riders, will host a Midnight Madness Rally on Fri., Oct. 16 from 8 - 9 pm at the Leavey Center.
The event is free and open to the public. All fans who attend the Midnight Madness Rally will receive a very cool eco-friendly color-changing cup.
Come cheer on the Santa Clara men's and women's basketball teams as they kick-off their season. Meet the Bronco men's and women's basketball coaches and players! There will be a shooting contest, raffle prizes and so much more! Bronco men's and women's players will play a two-shot game with fans.
"You remember the fun times you had at Bronco Athletic Events -- come re-live the glory days with fellow alums and Bronco students," said Bronco marketing assistant Kit Coyle '09. "For current Bronco students - get the first glimpse of the Bronco men's and women's basketball teams in action."
This weekend the SCU Alumni Association will also sponsor Grand Reunion Weekend.
The goal of the Grand Reunion Weekend is to inspire our alumni to remember their Santa Clara experience; reconnect with their classmates, the SCU Family and the campus, and renew their commitment to their fellow Broncos and the University.
To provide opportunities to remember, reconnect and renew, the Grand Reunion Weekend will feature a wide-range of activities including individual class reunion dinners, joint-class receptions, affinity group receptions, the Homecoming picnic, campus tours, "Back-to-the-Classroom" programs, a golf tournament, sporting events, networking opportunities and more! There will be something for everyone from the class of 1925 to the class of 2025!
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Hankook Tire has announced that its Ultra-High Performance (UHP) winter tire, Winter i*cept evo, was honored with the Good Design Award 2012 (Transportation Design category).
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The Good Design Award is a well recognized design program with a 62-year tradition beginning in 1950. Entries to the program are judged based on criteria for highest aesthetic in terms of innovative design, new technologies, materials, construction, concept, energy efficiency and more. In 2012, the Good Design Award selected approximately 500 product designs and graphics from 48 countries. Hankook Tire's Winter i*cept evo was honored in the Transportation Design category.
Winter i*cept evo is Hankook Tire's flagship UHP winter tire product that incorporates environmentally-friendly features and satisfies both style and performance, maximizing handling and braking in wet and snowy conditions. In particular, this product was highly acknowledged for its asymmetrical tread design reflecting a polar bear's claw shape and the application of 3D kerfs for further winter traction. In addition to its innovative tread design, the new silica compound applied to Winter i*cept evo significantly reduced the tire's rolling resistance for enhanced vehicle fuel-efficiency.
Prior to the Good Design Award 2012, Hankook Tire was honored with numerous design awards on various occasions in the past decade, such as the iF Design Award (Germany), International Design Excellence Award (the US), and the Reddot Design Award, which is one of the top 3 design awards in the world, for its Product Design Category. By winning another prestigious award for its product design, Hankook Tire has clearly demonstrated its status in the world as a global leading tire company, recognized for excellence not only in product performance but also in product designs.
"In addition to the award from the Reddot Design Award, Hankook Tire once again was selected for a prestigious award from the Good Design Award 2012. This certainly proves Hankook Tire's competitiveness in the global industry with leading technology, product performance and design," said Ho Youl Pae, Senior Vice President of Marketing Strategy Planning Division at Hankook Tire. He added, "Hankook Tire will continue its relentless effort to produce the best tire products in terms of quality and performance, but also in terms of its design and eco-friendliness."
Hankook has been gaining market share in the United States with its line of winter tires, with the Winter i*cept evo leading that growth. In addition to the recent Good Design Award, the Winter i*cept evo has been well received by the media in the U.S., being recognized recently by a leading independent magazine for its performance.
The design work put into developing new tires is an integral part of Hankook's marketing efforts. Tires that not only offer the exceptional performance that consumers expect from Hankook, but also provide a fresh, visually appealing design aid in generating increased brand awareness and purchase consideration.
To push the envelope of tire design Hankook partnered with the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning (DAAP) and a number of its third year industrial design students in 2012 for a project entitled 'Tire Design For The Future Environment'. Students were asked to create new tire designs based on their own visions of future cars, sustainability needs such as reducing and reusing raw materials used in tire production, the importance of increasing tire efficiency and meeting specific tire performance targets. Full-scale mockups of the winning designs were shown at the 2012 SEMA show in Las Vegas, Nevada to great media and show attendee interest.
The Good Design Award program is organized by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design in cooperation with the European Center for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies. The program announces winners on an annual basis and covers new consumer products designed and manufactured under various categories including electronics, transportation, furniture and more.
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I don't create many lisp macros but it is still a huge advantage having them. I'm a big user of macros that other people have created. For example, by default emacs lisp does not support keyword parameters. Thanks to the magic of macros they have been added in the
cl.el common lisp package.
(require 'cl) (defun* example (&rest args &key (a 1) (b 2)) (format "%s %s %s" args a b))
(example) works as expected and returns
"nil 1 2"
(example :a 10) is pretty good too although you may be surprised that keywords are not removed from the &rest args
"(:a 10) 10 2"
(example 1) returns the following surprise
(error "Keyword argument 1 not one of (:a :b)").
If you are using
&rest and
&key together, you can fix this with
(defun* example (&rest args &key (a 1) (b 2) &allow-other-keys) (format "%s %s %s" args a b))
Okay, so much for pithy examples. How about something practical?
(defun* remote-path (&rest path &key (user "jared") (server "someserver") &allow-other-keys) (concat "ftp:" user "@" server ":" (mapconcat #'identity path "/")))
(remote-path :user "uat-user" "/tmp" "test-dir") throws this error
(wrong-type-argument sequencep :user). This is because if you use
&rest arguments and
&key arguments together, the keyword arguments are also passed through into
I couldn't find an obvious function to remove keyword parameters so I've written my own
(defun remove-keyword-params (seq) (if (null seq) nil (let ((head (car seq)) (tail (cdr seq))) (if (keywordp head) (remove-keyword-params (cdr tail)) (cons head (remove-keyword-params tail)))))) (defun* remote-path (&rest path &key (user "jared") (server "someserver") &allow-other-keys) (concat "ftp:" user "@" server ":" (mapconcat #'identity (remove-keyword-params path) "/")))
Now it works correctly.
(remote-path :user "uat-user" "/tmp" "test-dir") ;; "ftp:uat-user@someserver:/tmp/test-dir"
So what do I want this for? For my directory aliases of course.
(defconst *dired-dirs* (list (cons "dev" (remote-path "~/dev")) (cons "dev:system" (remote-path :user "dev-user" "~/system")) (cons "uat:system" (remote-path :user "dev-user" "~/system"))))
And surprise surprise, because emacs is architected so well, it all works remotely through tramp completely transparently.


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When Words Just Aren't Enough
Within an hour of the moment we met
It took no time to realize
With you was my Destiny
The way you Listened with your Eyes
And we decided to become one
Under the stars that first Friday
Our Hearts Spoke the sincere words
That our mouths could never say.
Smiling into your moonlit eyes
I Communicated my love for you
Though Nothing was said to me Aloud
Your Silence Shouted, "I love you, too."
Quiet Poetry you Sang to me
With Tender Kisses on these lips
Every Noiseless Note and Soundless Melody
Made beats of my heart skip.
Times when I can't hear your voice
Since we are so far apart
When I listen to you without my ears
I can Hear you with my Heart.
Now when distance stops me from holding you
And protecting you from the cold
I reach down deep inside of me
And Touch you with my Soul.
Even though we are miles away
No couple could feel this close
Though you aren't here with me physically
You are here How I need you the most.
If the e-mail and phone-lines go down
And the water gets to be rough
Think of the many ways we can communicate
When words just aren't enough.
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I love you, ITSN Gregory Jackson.


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Data centers embrace The Great Outdoors
Why your big iron needs
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Some years ago, when power and cooling issues first started coming to the fore in data center conversations, some of us were joking that the smart thing to do would be to move big data centers to the polar caps and use the cool air keep the iron from overheating.
Of course, the polar caps are melting now, thanks to global warming, not supercomputers, so there goes that idea. But the next best thing is now coming into vogue: Some outfits are opening up the walls of their data centers when the sun goes down.
This idea is pretty obvious, particularly if you have been living with a Windows-Linux cluster as I do. In the winter, I use the cluster to not only support a bunch of websites, but also to dry wet clothes and keep my apartment warm, and when it gets too hot, we just open up the windows and let the cool air in. I figured this out in the first week of operating my own data closet, and it is a bit of a wonder that big data centers haven't figured this out sooner.
But if you think about it, when energy was cheap and compute densities were fairly low, it wasn't that big of a deal to keep paying for chillers and AC units in the data center. Nowadays, with energy costs skyrocketing, and the cost of building a large data center hitting $10 million, companies (particularly large ones with big computing needs) are scrambling to cut expenses. And the answer - at least in some geographical locations blessed by power and natural cool - might be as simple as opening up the walls and letting the air in at night.
Expect a lot of people to try to take credit for this idea, which Intel is calling the Air Economizer rather than something obvious like Direct Global Warming or Natural Cooling.
Back in early August, Advanced Data Centers, an owner and operator of data centers that is headquartered in San Francisco, announced that it had opened a 41,000 square foot data center outside Sacramento, where the nights are cool and where the Sacramento Municipal Utility District is bringing a 45 megawatt substation online and is charging 40 to 50 per cent less than Pacific Gas & Electric does for juice in the Bay Area.
The data center also has 30,000 sq ft of related office space and is located in a brown field site formerly known as McClellan Air Force Base. The base was closed in 2001 and a portion was converted into a business park called appropriately enough McClellan Business Park. (Think of it as The Office with an Air Force-class runway).
Ambient temperatures
Here's the interesting bit about ADC's McClellan data center. A 15-foot high, 100-foot long section of the data center wall opens up and lets outside air into the data center to cool it when the temperature conditions are right. And because of the temperate weather in the Sacramento area, outside air can cool this data center 75 per cent of the time.
When you add in the already lower electricity costs and the fact that the data center will have a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) rating of 1.1 (compared with anywhere from 1.8 to 3.0 for a typical data center), it stands to reason that companies will be knocking on ADC's door to move their computers out of San Francisco and into the McClellan center.
PUE is a metric created by the Green Grid industry consortium that is a ratio of total data center power divided by total IT equipment power. Getting a PUE of 1.1 is remarkable, and it is as good as containerized data centers sold by Sun Microsystems, Rackable Systems, and Hewlett-Packard are getting by using containers to house IT gear compactly and water jackets to quickly remove heat from the gear.
The ADC data center in McClellan Business Park will open in the spring of 2009, and ADC is carving it up into 10,000 square foot suites that can deliver about 2 megawatts of juice to computing gear. Michael Cohen, president at ADC, says the facility can be expanded to about 220,000 square feet of data center space, and given these numbers, you can bet that expansion is part of the plan.
McClellan is only an hour and fifteen minutes outside San Francisco - meaning it is outside the earthquake zone and flood plain - and it has its own airport. So it has more appeal than just a good power rating.
Cool running
Intel has also done its own proof of concept on the outside air cooling idea, and with this test, the company was able to cool the data center almost exclusively with outside air that was 90 degrees or cooler. Intel thinks that a correctly placed 10-megawatt data center could save $2.87 million annually in power costs. (ADC reckons its McClellan data center will save between $1 million and $2 million a year).
In Intel's proof of concept, a data center with 900 blade servers was set up in a temperate climate, half with a traditional air conditioner-chiller setup, half with the air economizer. Intel did not attempt to control the humidity in the air economizer setup and did minimal air filtering.
The test ran over 10 months, and the air economizer setup was used to cool the 450 blade servers on the one side of the data center 91 per cent of the time, resulting in a 67 per cent savings in electricity costs compared to the other half of the data center, which used normal AC. This test was done on two 500 square foot data centers - by no means large - but Intel's techies think the idea can scale. (Start buying up land now, speculators).
Intel also tested how running the gear at a higher temperatures and with more dust and humidity can affect failure rates. (Believe me, this is a problem in an Upstate Manhattan window-cooled data center looking out over a bus depot, the A train depot, a garbage truck depot with lots of dust coming in the windows from across Broadway, and a resident Border Collie with long hair).
Intel's test - which only spanned 10 months remember - showed a 4.46 per cent failure rate for gear in the air economizer setup compared to 3.83 per cent in the AC-cooled data center right next to it. My advice: Run this test for four years and get back to me. Commercial-grade servers can take the heat and the dust too - at least in my experience. But I think you'll see more of a divergence in failure rates over time.
If you really want to go crazy, and you are not worried about security, you could try what Microsoft did: build a tent city for your data center.
Microsoft's data center managers wanted to test the idea of how computers could handle the Washington weather, so they put a rack of machines under a metal-framed tent out in the fuel storage depot behind the real Microsoft data center. The tent city had five HP DL585 Opteron boxes running workloads from November 2007 through June 2008, and even with water dripping on the racks, a collapse of the tent during a storm, and a leaf getting sucked into the fans, the servers just kept going. ®
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|Cut! He cried when Kaye bounced
|Larry Tropea: He really is in the Hot Seat
|George Welsh: Living legend needs work
|Speaking up: Sally Thomas knows her stuff
|Friend or foe: Mike's still a radio wonder
|Chief Timmy: Longo dodges questions about trouble
|No regrets: Patricia Kluge wakes up and smells the grapes
|Virgil: Goode ole boy
|Meredith Richards: Blazing a campaign trail
|John Whitehead: A civil libertarian's job is never done
|Capful of feathers: Garrett named Poet Laureate
|David Toscano
|Brad Chandler
|The unsinkable Debbie Ryan
|HOTSEAT- Creigh Deeds: That's 'Cree,' not 'Cray'
|HOTSEAT- Shoe fits? Scarpa's Gardner shares secrets
|HOTSEAT- Painter of height: Architect Atwood cowboys up the town
|HOTSEAT- In like 'Zim:' Cavalier turned Major Leaguer gears up for '09 season


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IBM March 23 Webcast - Surveys and Recap
Visits (11479)
Last's weeks webcast [How to Diagnose and Cure What Ails Your Storage Infrastructure] drew 208 attendees!
Before we started, we asked the first survey question: "How is storage planning conducted in your shop?" Of the various responses, nearly four out of ten responded "Part of an overall IT infrastructure strategy".
Jon Toigo went first, and spent 20 minutes or so laying out the problem as he sees it. Jon travels all over visiting customers struggling with their storage infrastructures, so he gets to hear a lot of this first hand.
I then spent 20 minutes or so presenting IBM's vision, strategy and offerings to help solve these problems. I could speak for hours on this topic, but we kept it short for this one-hour webcast. To learn more, request a visit to the Tucson Executive Briefing Center.
At the end of my talk, we put out the second survey, asking the audience "What is your number one priority with respect to storage operations today?" Over one fourth of the attendees were focused on reducing storage infrastructure cost of ownership by any means possible.
I am glad we saved the last 15 minutes for Q&A, as there were a lot of questions.
The replay is now available. If you attended the event and want to hear it again, or want to share it with your colleagues, or you missed it and want to hear it, then [Register for the Replay].
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Denny Hamlin stands up to NASCAR
LAS VEGAS -- Denny Hamlin has decided to double down in his battle with NASCAR.
The Joe Gibbs Racing driver, who was fined $25,000 by NASCAR on Thursday for speaking his mind about the new Generation 6 cars last week at Phoenix, has vowed he won't pay the fine and will appeal.
Jeff Gordon thinks it'll be a losing bet.
"I mean, we are in Vegas, so we can try to count the odds of when the apology is going to be coming and when the, 'We're all in this together to grow this sport' tweet is going to be coming," Gordon said. "Your guess is as good as mine."
TEAM EFFORT:Joe Gibbs Racing says it will stand behind its driver
By refusing to go along with NASCAR's penalty and saying he would not pay, Hamlin has essentially decided to take on the establishment – a stance many drivers are afraid to take. His team released a statement Friday saying it would stand by its driver during the appeals process.
While NASCAR appears over-sensitive in issuing a penalty for comments that didn't seem incendiary, Hamlin could be the loser if officials choose to remind the driver who is in charge.
HAMLIN:'I was severely disrespected by NASCAR'
"It's like a soap opera or a train wreck; I think we're all curious to see how it plays out," said reigning Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski, who has drawn NASCAR's ire in the past with his comments. "I really want everyone to win, and that clearly is not going to be possible."
Keselowski called NASCAR out on a variety of topics in a USA TODAY Sports story before the Daytona 500, and that earned him meetings with NASCAR chairman Brian France and International Speedway Corp. CEO Lesa France Kennedy. Keselowski received no fine, however.
Refusing to back down might seem like a risky decision, but Hamlin has always been the kind of person to stand firm.
"He believes what he says," said his girlfriend, Jordan Fish. "He stands his ground. And that's something I admire about him. If somebody wants to tell him differently, he has these values he believes in and he's not going to back away from that."
PHOTOS: Denny Hamlin's NASCAR career
Hamlin, 32, clawed his way out of Virginia's short tracks when Joe Gibbs Racing noticed him and gave him a shot to race NASCAR in 2005. After just a year in the Nationwide Series, he was promoted to the Sprint Cup Series.
He was fast right away. Hamlin made the Chase during his rookie season and has never missed it since, winning 22 races along the way. In 2010, he entered the season finale with the points lead but was overtaken by Jimmie Johnson for the championship.
Despite his success, and despite a friendship with high-profile sports figures such as Michael Jordan and golfer Bubba Watson, Hamlin mostly stays under the radar. He was not one of NASCAR's 10 most popular drivers last year and typically doesn't draw a loud reaction from fans during pre-race introductions.
His gritty short-track racing roots don't seem to go with his urban interests – which include part-ownership of a Charlotte nightclub – but Hamlin often comes across as a puzzle to even those close to him.
Fish, who recently gave birth to the couple's first child -- daughter Taylor James -- said her boyfriend is "a little quiet" but never talks just for the sake of having an opinion.
"He might not say a lot, but when he does, you know it's something you want to listen to," she said. "It's something with meaning. He doesn't just say something just for fluff."
Hamlin often backs up his comments, too.
Shortly after a pit road miscue cost Hamlin a shot to win last season's Chase opener at Chicagoland, he tweeted a guarantee: "We will win next week" at New Hampshire.
He did, then celebrated with a Babe Ruth swing to remind everyone he called his shot.
But if he's truly intent in taking on NASCAR, it could be one of his toughest challenges yet. After angrily telling reporters he would not pay the fine, he reaffirmed his stance hours later with a post on Twitter.
"I said today I would not pay the fine," he tweeted. "I stand by that and will go through the process of appealing."
This isn't the first time Hamlin has been fined. In 2010, he was secretly docked $50,000 after speculating in an online Twitter conversation (with this author) that NASCAR sometimes threw debris cautions to tighten the field for the benefit of the show.
Before the fine, Hamlin had been Keselowski before Keselowski was – interactive on Twitter and highly opinionated. Since then, he tweets less, interacts less and has fewer public opinions.
Gordon said he won't be surprised if Hamlin ends up having to go along with NASCAR's punishment again this time.
"It's been an interesting story for someone to challenge that authority," Gordon said. "But at the end of the day, I know whose sandbox I'm playing in, and I like the sandbox and I like to play in it, and I want the best opportunity to have the most fun in that sandbox.
"Sometimes, while you don't always like it, you've got to bite your tongue and go out there and race."
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The Basics of Quick Turn PCB Assembly Process
The assembly of printed circuit boards is a multi-step process. It begins with the manufacturing of the substrate, followed by drilling and plating holes on the substrate surface, and then printing the circuit pattern on the substrate. After these first 3 basic steps, the contact fingers are attached then fused using a tin-lead coating. The panels are then sealed, stenciled and cut before the components are mounted on the PCB.
PCB assembly- Preparing the Substrate
The substrate refers to the baseboard through which the rest of the PCB will be made. Substrates are often made from woven glass fiber. The glass fiber is impregnated with epoxy resin. The substrate is either sprayed or dipped in a vat of resin.
After impregnation, the glass fiber is passed through rollers to flatten it into the desired thickness. Excess resin is also removed as the substrate passes through the rollers.
The substrate is placed in an oven to semi-cure. After which, the substrate is cut into large panels. The panels are then stacked in layers. In between each glass fiber layer is a layer of copper foil with adhesive backings. The stacked panels are placed in presses under high temperature (340˚F/170˚C) and pressure (1500 psi) for at least about an hour. The resin is fully cured in this process and the copper adhesives are tightly bound to the substrate.
PCB assembly- Drilling, plating, printing
Several substrate panels are piled and pinned together for stability. The panel is then laid out to sketch a pattern. The panel stacks are placed inside a CNC machine where designated holes are to be drilled. After drilling, the holes are de-burred in order to remove any excess from the edges of the holes. Copper plating is placed on the inside surface of the holes, which will serve as conductive circuits. The non-conductive surfaces are plugged to prevent them from getting plated.
The circuit pattern is printed on the substrate either through a substractive or through additive process. In the subtractive process, the entire substrate surface is plated with copper. The pattern is then etched on the copper plating, removing copper on areas that are not part of the circuit design.
In the additive process, the surface is covered in foil, revealing only the areas where the copper plating is supposed to go in. The copper plating is only placed in the desired pattern and the rest of the substrate surface is left unplated.
PCB assembly- contact fingers
Contact fingers are responsible for the conduction in between the layers of glass fiber substrates. These are fastened to the substrate edge and connected to the printed circuit. These are then masked off for plating, using three kinds of metals, namely, tin-lead, nickel, and then gold.
The entire PCB surface with the circuit pattern printed with copper is coated with tin-lead. This coating material is very porous and easily oxidized. To protect the PCB from oxidation (rusting), the entire circuit board is passed through a hot oil bath or a "reflow" oven. The tin-lead coating is melted and allowed to reflow on the shiny surface of the PCB.
PCB assembly- Seal, Stencil and Cut
The panels are then sealed with epoxy. This will protect the printed circuit patterns from damage when the PCB components are being attached. Then, other instructions and markings are stenciled on the circuit boards.
After which, the panels are cut into the desired size of individual boards. After cutting, the edges are smoothed out.
PCB assembly- Mounting
Electronic components of the PCB are then mounted as the boards are passed through several machines. The panels are passed through an automatic solder paster if surface mount technology is used to mount the components.
After all the components are placed, the boards are packaged for storage and shipping.


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Most of us take care of our appearance when we step out of our homes anytime of the day. There is a checklist from top to bottom, wearing a nice shirt, tie and cool trousers or just an informal combination along with our footwear plus perfume sort of completes the thing for most of us. Doing this daily you happen to have your preferences set. Paying attention to your hair is often lower down on the list but it's a very important part of managing your appearance. Badly done hair can spoil interviews, meetings, dates with your partner and even the day on the beach.
Your imagination is the limit when opting for a certain type of cut or treatment, what works for your favorite celebrity may not work for you. You should check out what clothes you like to wear and what hairstyle will suit when you are looking best in your clothes. Keep in mind the kind of job you have or the kind of work you do and pick a style that makes you feel comfortable.
Health of your hair and skin beneath the hair requires regular attention, there are numerous options to choose from as here . Your hair often needs not one treatment but several so it's good to read about it online or subscribe to a magazine. When you visit your hair stylist ask him questions about the latest trends and any problems that you have with your hair when you are managing it yourself as you will not go to a salon every day. Once a year or so you can think of opting for a personalized hair consultation with an expert in your area or when on a trip to a different city.
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NFL 2011 Season – Week Six Recap
Two head coaches fought, while another was injured during a game, as week six of the 2011 NFL season left just the defending Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers as the lone unbeaten team in the league. Here's a rundown of all of Sunday's games:
San Francisco 25– Detroit 19
The San Francisco 49ers scored 10 points in the final two minutes of the game to defeat the previously-unbeaten Detroit Lions, 25-19. Quarterback Alex Smith threw a six-yard pass to Delanie Walker to give San Francisco (5-1) the go-ahead touchdown with 1:51 remaining, and David Akers added a 37-yard field goal with 1:02 left to extend the lead. Detroit (5-1) could not muster a final drive. Lions coach Jim Schwartz charged after Niners coach Jim Harbaugh several times after the two men shook hands following the game. Schwartz claimed he heard an obscenity come from Harbaugh. Detroit quarterback Matthew Stafford, who was sacked five times and harassed all game by a tenacious Niners defense, finished with 293 passing yards and two touchdowns. Niners running back Frank Gore ran through the Detroit defense for 141 yards and a touchdown. Calvin Johnson had 102 receiving yards for the Lions.
Green Bay 24 – St. Louis 3
Aaron Rodgers passed for three touchdowns and 310 yards, as the Green Bay Packers remained unbeaten by rolling to a 24-3 victory over the St. Louis Rams. Rodgers' scoring passes were highlighted by a career-best 93-yard toss to Jordy Nelson in the second quarter that put Green Bay (6-0) up 17-0. The Rams got 321 yards passing from quarterback Sam Bradford, who was sacked three times and pressured often by the Packers defense. Running back Steven Jackson had 18 carries for 96 yards for St. Louis (0-5). Green Bay was led in receiving by Nelson, who had a game-high 104 yards.
N.Y. Giants 27 – Buffalo 24
Lawrence Tynes' 23-yard field goal with 1:32 remaining lifted the New York Giants to a 27-24 victory over the Buffalo Bills. Running back Ahmad Bradshaw rushed for 104 yards and three touchdowns for the Giants (4-2), whose defense held the Bills (4-2) to just seven points in the second half. Buffalo was led by quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick, who completed 21 of 30 passes for 244 yards and two touchdowns. Giants defender Corey Webster intercepted Fitzpatrick twice, with the second pick helping set up the winning kick by Tynes. New York quarterback Eli Manning passed for 292 yards and no interceptions against a Bills defense that had thrived on turnovers this season. Fred Jackson had 121 yards rushing and a touchdown for the Bills.
Cincinnati 27 – Indianapolis 17
Carlos Dunlap returned a Pierre Garcon fumble 35 yards for a touchdown with under three minutes left to play to ensure the Cincinnati Bengals' 27-17 victory over the Indianapolis Colts. Bengals cornerback Nate Clements blocked Adam Vinatieri's 52-yard field goal attempt earlier in the fourth quarter, which would have tied the game at 20. Cincinnati (4-2) led 20-7 at the end of the third quarter, but quarterback Curtis Painter rallied Indianapolis (0-6) to within 20-17 after he threw a touchdown pass to tight end Dallas Clark. Receiver Jerome Simpson had six catches for 101 yards, and quarterback Andy Dalton threw for 264 yards and a touchdown for the Bengals. Cincinnati's defense forced the Colts into three turnovers, while the Bengals committed none.
Pittsburgh 17 – Jacksonville 13
Rashard Mendenhall ran for 146 yards and a touchdown to lead the Pittsburgh Steelers to a 17-13 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars. After racing to a 17-0 lead in the second quarter, Pittsburgh (4-2) held on in the second half as Jacksonville attempted to rally. Down four points, the Jaguars got the ball back with over a minute remaining in the game, but Jacksonville rookie quarterback Blaine Gabbert, who had just 109 yards passing on the day, could not mount a drive. The Steelers sacked Gabbert five times during the game. Maurice Jones-Drew rushed for 96 yards for the Jaguars (1-5), who have lost five straight games.
Philadelphia 20 – Washington 13
LeSean McCoy ran for 126 yards and a touchdown, and the Philadelphia Eagles took advantage of four interceptions thrown by Washington quarterback Rex Grossman to defeat the Redskins, 20-13. Philadelphia (2-4) snapped its four-game losing streak with the victory. Eagles safety Kurt Coleman had three interceptions off Grossman, who was replaced by John Beck late in the third quarter. Beck was able to rally the Redskins, but Washington (3-2) could not overcome its big, early deficit. The Eagles defense, which came into the game yielding an average of more than 140 yards rushing per game, made a slight adjustment to its "wide-nine" defense and held the Redskins to just 42 rushing yards. Fred Davis had 95 receiving yards to lead Washington. Philadelphia wideout Jeremy Maclin had five catches for 101 yards.
Atlanta 31 – Carolina 17
Michael Turner ran for 139 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Atlanta Falcons to a 31-17 win over the Carolina Panthers. Panthers rookie quarterback Cam Newton threw for 237 passing yards and scored on a 14-yard run, but he was intercepted by the Falcons (3-3) three times. Newton's last interception, by defensive lineman Corey Peters, set up Turner's last touchdown with 1:56 left. Atlanta quarterback Matt Ryan scored the go-ahead touchdown on a one-yard run with seven minutes remaining, but he threw for only 163 yards on the day. The Panthers (1-5) were led in rushing by Newton's 50 yards on six carries. His touchdown gave Carolina a 17-14 lead in the third quarter, but the Panthers defense could not preserve it.
Oakland 24 – Cleveland 17
Punter Shane Lechler threw a 35-yard touchdown pass to tight end Kevin Boss on a fake field goal to help give the Oakland Raiders a 24-17 victory over the Cleveland Browns. The trick play gave Oakland (4-2) a 24-7 lead going into the fourth quarter. Oakland's Jacoby Ford returned a kickoff 101 yards for a touchdown, and Darren McFadden ran for 91 yards and a score. The Raiders withstood a Browns rally led by quarterback Colt McCoy, who finished with 215 yards and two touchdowns. Cleveland (2-3) was only able to gain 65 yards rushing for the game. The Raiders played the entire second half without starting quarterback Jason Campbell, who left with an injured collarbone late in the second quarter. The win came during the Raiders' first home game since the death of owner Al Davis last week. Many former Raiders attended the game to honor Davis, with Super Bowl-winning coach John Madden lighting a torch atop the plaza level of the stadium, which will remain burning in tribute to Oakland's late owner.
Baltimore 29 – Houston 14
Billy Cundiff kicked five field goals to help the Baltimore Ravens to a 29-14 victory over the Houston Texans. Baltimore quarterback Joe Flacco passed for 305 yards and ran for a touchdown to key the Ravens (4-1), whose defense sacked Texans quarterback Matt Schaub four times and held Houston (3-3) scoreless over the final 21 minutes of the game. Receiver Anquan Boldin had eight catches for 132 yards for Baltimore, while Ravens running back Ray Rice ran for 101 yards. Schaub finished with 220 yards and a touchdown for the Texans, who played without wide receiver Andre Johnson and linebacker Mario Williams. The Texans led 14-13 midway through the third quarter after a Jacoby Jones touchdown reception, but the Ravens defense held, while their offense methodically put up 16 unanswered points.
Tampa Bay 26 – New Orleans 20
Josh Freeman threw for 303 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a 26-20 win over the New Orleans Saints. New Orleans lost head coach Sean Payton, who sustained a leg fracture and a torn knee ligament when an on-field play rolled into him on the sideline in the first quarter. Earnest Graham, subbing in place of injured starting running back LeGarrette Blount, ran for 109 yards to help Tampa Bay (4-2) get the win. The Saints nearly avoided the loss, but quarterback Drew Brees' fourth-down pass was picked off in the end zone to seal the win for the Buccaneers. Brees had three interceptions to go along with 383 yards passing and a touchdown. Tight end Jimmy Graham, who inadvertently rolled into Payton to cause the coach's injuries, had 124 receiving yards for New Orleans (4-2), which also got 118 yards from receiver Marques Colston. Four turnovers doomed the Saints, who fell behind 20-7 before halftime.
New England 20 – Dallas 16
Tom Brady threw an eight-yard touchdown pass to Aaron Hernandez with 22 seconds left to lead the New England Patriots to a 20-16 win over the Dallas Cowboys. The Patriots' top-ranked offense turned the ball over four times, including two interceptions by Brady. However, the Cowboys' defense could not stop New England in the final minute, as Brady completed eight of nine passes on the final drive. Brady finished the game 27 of 41 for 289 passing yards with two touchdowns. New England (5-1) led 13-3 late in the first half, but kicker Dan Bailey's 26-yard field goal gave Dallas (2-3) a 16-13 lead with 5:13 remaining in the game. Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo had 317 passing yards, one touchdown and one interception. The Dallas defense sacked Brady three times and snapped the Patriots' 13-game streak of scoring at least 30 points, but New England still came away with the win.
Chicago 39 – Minnesota 10
Devin Hester scored two touchdowns, including a 98-yard kickoff return, as the Chicago Bears dominated the Minnesota Vikings, 39-10. Chicago quarterback Jay Cutler passed for 267 yards and two touchdowns, and the Bears (3-3) defense created problems for the Vikings all night. Chicago registered five sacks, including two by Julius Peppers, and held Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson to 39 rushing yards. Minnesota (1-5) quarterback Donovan McNabb was the victim of all five sacks, before he was lifted for rookie Christian Ponder. Hester finished with five catches for 91 yards for the Bears, before leaving with a chest injury.


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COLUMBUS: An Ohio bill would let rape victims request that a court terminate or deny offenders� parental rights over a child conceived as a result of an attack.
The proposal was scheduled for an Ohio Senate vote on Wednesday. If it passes, it would go to the House for consideration.
Under the legislation, the denial of parental rights wouldn�t relieve the attacker of any debts owed to the parent or the child.
Supporters say the bill will protect rape victims and their children.
A similar measure was introduced last year by two Democrats. Their bill came after Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro asked for permission to visit with the 6-year-old daughter he fathered with one of the three women he raped and held captive for years. The judge denied the request.


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House GOP scraps vote on Sandy aid
WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio indicated late Tuesday the 112th Congress would end its term without voting on federal emergency aid for victims of Superstorm Sandy.
"The speaker is committed to getting this bill passed this month," Boehner's spokesman, Brendan Buck, said in an email.
Buck also emailed a news article reporting that Craig Fugate, head of the the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said his agency will not need additional money until spring.
FEMA money will not cover everything needed by states hit by Sandy. Other needs include claims filed under the National Flood Insurance Program, repairs to mass transit and Community Development Block grants needed to help localities rebuild.
Lawmakers from Northeast states had hoped the House would vote Wednesday on the $60.4 billion aid package that passed the Senate on Friday.
If the House leaves the aid package to the next Congress, the new Senate will have to vote on the package again.
News that a House vote would not come this Congress drew outraged responses from Republican and Democratic House members from New York and New Jersey, many of whom went to the floor around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday to express their dismay.
House Democratic Minority Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland said Boehner declined to discuss plans for the Sandy aid vote during Tuesday night's House floor vote on the "fiscal cliff."
Hoyer said House Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia told him immediately after the vote he was "99.9 percent confident" the Sandy aid package would go the floor, but he was waiting for word from Boehner.
Soon after that, a Boehner aide told Cantor's staff there would be no vote. The message was conveyed to Republican Rep. Peter King of Long Island, who represents the shore communities hard hit by Sandy.
King described the decision to walk away from a Sandy aid vote as inexcusable and wrong.
"I think it's unprecedented for the United States Congress to walk away from a natural disaster," King said, adding that he was not given a reason for the postponement. "This to me is just walking away from responsibility."
King and Republican Rep. Michael Grimm of Staten Island, who represents some of the hardest-hit neighborhoods, joined Democrats at an impromptu news conference to publicly plead for Boehner to reconsider.
Grimm described himself as "somewhat in disbelief and almost ashamed," adding that he's "not proud" of the decision his party has made.
Democratic Rep. Nita Lowey of New York said victims of Sandy shouldn't suffer because of congressional dysfunction.
Democratic Rep. Rush Holt of New Jersey said he wishes he could speak eloquently on the issue, "but I'm afraid my anger is going to get the better of me."
"Why would we not help each other as this House has always done?" he said.
Democratic Rep. Rob Andrews of New Jersey said House leaders have failed the people of New Jersey.
"Our people are in great need of assistance," he said. "Every time we have been called upon to help other areas of the country, we have responded. It is outrageous that our needs are being pushed aside tonight."
The 113th Congress will be in session Thursday and Friday and then recess for a week.


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Mai Le tallied the game-winning goal at 49:37 (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – For the second straight game, the Harvard women's soccer team tallied four goals in the second half, as the Crimson shut down Holy Cross by a score of 4-0 Tuesday evening. Mai Le scored once and assisted on another Harvard tally, while Meg Casscells-Hamby, Elizabeth Weisman and Alexandra Conigliaro also found the back of the net.
Bethany Kanten played the first 80:43 in net and finished with two saves, helping the Crimson move to 7-3-3 overall. Harvard also extends its unbeaten streak to six games, going 4-0-2 during the recent stretch. Holy Cross slips to 6-8-1 on the year.
Harvard owned most of the scoring chances in the first half, as Weisman struck the cross bar with a shot at 25:32, but the game was scoreless after the first 45 minutes. The Crimson outshot the Crusaders, 9-3, and had a 4-1 edge in corner kicks in the first stanza.
In the second half, Harvard got on the scoreboard at 49:37, as Le dribbled into the Holy Cross zone and fired a shot into the top left corner, making it 1-0 in favor of the Crimson. In the 66th minute, Le assisted on the next Harvard goal, as she made a cross from the left side, and Casscells-Hamby finished with a header into the top right corner of the goal at 65:42.
Less than five minutes later, Harvard struck again, this time off a throw in. Aisha Price threw it into the box, and the ball bounced once before Weisman headed it into the net, making it 3-0 at 70:37.
Harvard capped the scoring at 83:55 when Kelsey Clayman dished a pass to Conigliaro, who turned and blasted a shot from the top of the box that beat Holy Cross goalkeeper Ashlyn Angell for the fourth goal.
Harvard held a 19-7 edge in shots and a 5-3 advantage in corner kicks. Angell finished the night with four saves.
The Crimson visits Princeton in a crucial Ivy League contest Saturday, Oct. 20 for a 7 p.m. contest.


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A Dance Community Resource
Welcome to SharedWeight.net. These mailing lists are for the people involved in producing events for Contra and Traditional Square Dance. This is a place where callers, organizers and musicians can support each other by:
- Sharing information
- Asking advice
- Discussing issues common to our community
People new to these roles are specifically encouraged to send questions to the group and learn from those with more experience. We also encourage people to use these lists to plan gatherings, workshops or anything else that helps to build our community.


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Broncos cornerback Perrish Cox has pleaded not guilty to sexual assault charges that carry a maximum punishment of life in prison. He appeared Monday in Castle Rock, which is in suburban Douglas County south of Denver. His attorney entered Cox's plea during the hearing. The judge set an Oct. 18 trial date.
Cox is charged with one count of sexual assault while the victim was physically helpless and one count of sexual assault while the victim was incapable of determining the nature of the conduct. Court documents say the alleged assault happened on Sept. 6. He was arrested Dec. 9 and is free on bond.
Details of the charges remain under seal at the request of prosecutors and Cox's defense attorney, which is being contested by the media.


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Allow More Latin American Students into the U.S.
As expected, President Obama's speech on Latin America, given on Monday in Santiago, Chile, was full of rhetoric but short of substance. He briefly mentioned the willingness of his administration to "move forward" with the pending free trade agreements with Colombia and Panama, but didn't say when he's submitting them for a vote in Congress. He recognized (again) that drug consumption in the U.S. is fueling drug violence in Mexico and Central America, but stayed away from saying how his more-of-the-same policies will change anything.
Obama's only tangible pledge was the announcement that his administration will work to increase the number of Latin American students in the U.S. to 100,000. This is laudable, but still unambitious. According to the Institute of International Education (IIE), last year there were already over 65,000 Latin Americans studying in this country. This poorly compares to other regions and countries. For example, South Korea alone has over 72,000 students in the U.S. Increasing the number of Latin Americans studying here to 100,000 would still leave the region behind China (127,628) and India (104,897). These countries each may have populations greater than that of Latin America, but, as President Obama said yesterday, Latin America and the U.S. share a common history, heritage and values. One would thus expect that the U.S. would be especially open to students from the region.
Of course, the number of Latin Americans studying here doesn't depend exclusively on the United States. It depends mostly on the ability of people in the region to afford pursuing a degree in a U.S. college or university. However, it's telling that, despite Latin America's growing incomes, fewer people from the region come to the United States to study than a decade ago. The IIE shows that in the school year 2001/02 there were over 68,000 Latin Americans studying in the U.S. After 9/11, new visa requirements had a negative impact on the ability of Latino students to come to the United States.
President Obama should be commended for looking at an area where the U.S. can help Latin America. Still, the U.S. should be more welcoming to students from south of the border. The region is at an important stage in its road towards economic development, and having more U.S. educated Latin Americans can have a significant impact on the region's fortunes. Just ask Chile's Chicago Boys, for example.


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Vol. XL, No. 12
February 15, 2006
The Faculty Senate of Southeast Missouri State University met on Wednesday, February
15, 2006, in the Indian Room of the University Center. The following Senators were
present; James Champine (Chair), Michael Cobb (Chair-Elect), David Smith (Membership
Committee Chair), Rick Althaus, Mary Ann DeLine, Marc Fulgham, Kathy Gilliland, Priscilla
Hornby, Kathy Farwell (Alternate), Daniel MacLeay, Jim McGill, Cheryl Milde, Bruce
Mims, Debbie Beard (Alternate), Jayanti Ray, David Reinheimer, Sophia Scott, Haohao
Wang, David Glick (Alternate), and Min Zou. Provost Stephens and Student Government
Liaison Heather Valle were also present.
Absent and not represented by their Alternates were; Mary Elizabeth Ambery, Ronald Clayton, Kim Dillivan, Arrick Jackson, Bonnie Stepenhoff, Marc Strauss, Rebecca Summary, Xuesong Zhang, and Martha Zlokovich
Approval of minutes Vol. XL-11 was moved by Senator MacLeay and seconded by Senator Scott. The motion carried.
Chair Champine reminded the Senate that Interim Grade Reporting runs March 4 through March 13, 2006.
Chair Champine reported that he attended the Administrative Council meeting on February 28, 2006. He reported that they reviewed the Student Success Initiative ideas. He indicated that the one that will impact faulty the most is the idea of creating an ad hoc or faculty advisors' forum to collect information on faculty advising activity. He indicated that he would distribute the revised Student Success Initiative ideas to the Senate electronically. The Senate held discussion on the Student Success Initiatives ideas.
Chair Champine reported that he attended the Dean's Council March 1, 2006.
He indicated that they discussed Banner Advising Training. He indicated that it is foreseeable that each faculty advisor will have to know about traditional advising by either Self Service or Internet Native Banner. Discussion was held on Banner Advising Training by the Senate.
Chair Champine reviewed the Faculty Senate's meeting schedule for informational purposes. He indicated that the March 29 meeting will be the last chance to introduce new business for completion this term.
Provost Stephens reported on the River Campus Funding. She referred to the press conference held Friday, February 24, 2006. She indicating that she and the President felt that they came to a good solution. Provost Stephens gave a special thanks to the Student Government for their interest and involvement. Discussion was held by the Senate. Chair Champine commented that the President complimented the Student Government and the faculty for their involvement and support.
Provost Stephens reported that Three Rivers is still pending. She indicated that there are more students enrolling from the Bootheel than ever before.
Student Government Liaison, Heather Valle reported that the Student Government's (SG) focus had been on the River Campus. She indicated that their new focus is MOHELA. She indicated that Nathan Cooper will be visiting the campus March 10, 2006 and invited the Faculty Senate to join the SG during his visit.
Heather reported that the SG will have new elections coming up in April and they will also be reviewing bi-laws.
Last, she reported that the SG had passed a resolution for the Safe Ride System. Chair
Champine asked her to explain the Safe Ride System. Heather indicated that this program
is being put into place to protect students and try to come together to resolve the
drinking and driving problem. There was discussion held on the Safe Ride System by
the Senate with many in support of the program.
Professional Affairs
Senator Bruce Mims yielded to Senator Althaus to present the Professional Affairs report.
Senator Althaus indicated that Faculty Handbook contains the official policy on Student Evaluation of Instruction. That policy requires the Faculty Senate to evaluate it every three years. From 2003 to 2005, the Faculty Senate Professional Affairs Committee, on behalf of the Senate, conducted a thorough study of the policy and its use. Based upon its findings, the Professional Affairs Committee prepared and recommended to the Senate a bill to revise the policy. The Senate passed the bill, but President Dobbins did not approve those changes.
Since President Dobbins did not approve those changes, the faculty is still bound by the provisions of the 1999 policy. The Professional Affairs Committee was given the charge to study this policy because of the potential misuse of student evaluations in the promotion/tenure process. Senator Althaus reported that the Professional Affairs Committee concluded that there is apparent widespread failure among faculty committees and administrators to fully comply.
For this reason, Professional Affairs prepared a memo with the intent to clarify what the policy says and to clarify the departmental promotion/tenure process.
Discussion was held by the Senate on the memo.
Senator Zlokovich was unable to attend the meeting.
Senator Beard reported that the Compensation Committee will submit the compensation proposal March 16, 2006.
Chair Champine indicated that a few items being considered are an increase in the cafeteria plan, an increase in chair stipend, and an increase in professional development.
Academic Affairs
Senator Reinheimer reported that Academic Affairs met last week. He indicated that they are close to completing the five-year calendar
Senator MacLeay reported that the Documents Committee did not meet week. He indicated that they are waiting on information from various constituencies.
Senator Smith reported that Senator Reinheimer is the new chair for Academic Affairs and Cheryl Milde is the replacement chair for Academic Affairs.
Chair Champine asked for a motion to authorize the Compensation Committee to negotiate
on behalf of the Senate.
Senator Althaus made a motion to suspend the rules and was seconded by Senator Smith. The motion carried.
Senator Smith made a motion to authorize the Compensation Committee to negotiate on behalf of the Senate and was seconded by Senator Althaus.
The motion carried.
Chair Champine distributed a document, Suggested Guidelines for Effective Use of Student
Evaluation of Instruction. He indicated that there was an ad hoc committee formed
to generate this document. He indicated that the document is meant to be a "best practices"
for those who choose to use Student Evaluation of Instruction and to serve as a tool
for interpreting data.
Chair Champine asked the Senate to review the document and be prepared for discussion March 29 during the next Senate meeting.
The Senate moved to executive session to consider a bill and have a discussion.
A motion to approve Bill 06-A-02 granting emeritus status for Bert J. Kellerman was put forward by Senator Mims (Althaus seconded).
The motion to adjourn (Scott/Fulgham) was recognized and approved at 4:40 p.m.
The next Faculty Senate Meeting will be March 29 in the University Center Missouriana Room at 3:00 PM.


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Hawaii Rep. Colleen Hanabusa is expected to announce she is challenging appointed U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz in a primary race in the 2014 cycle, a person familiar with her plans said.
Hanabusa has been considering a campaign against either Schatz or Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie, who picked the current senator for the post when long-serving Sen. Daniel Inouye died late last year.
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Hanabusa, a Democrat, was seen as the favorite to replace Inouye, with whom she had strong political ties. Instead, the Schatz selection kicked off an intramural fight among Hawaii Democrats.
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A Hanabusa spokesperson couldn't immediately be reached for comment, and it was unclear when she will make her decision known formally.
She recently met with officials at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. The DSCC has endorsed Schatz, but a national Democrat said the committee is unlikely to spend money on the fight since the seat is considered safe.
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AirMagnet's Enterpise 5.0: An impressive wireless security product
AirMagnet's Enterpise 5.0 can scale up to larger environments, boasts an intuitive GUI, and protects and monitors the WLAN. Find out if this device will work for your enterprise customers in this review.
AirMagnet's Enterpise 5.0 can scale up to larger environments, boasts an intuitive GUI, and protects and monitors the WLAN. Find out if this device will work for your enterprise customers in this review from Information Security magazine.
Enterprise 5.0
Price: Starts at $8,995
AirMagnet's Enterprise 5.0 is designed to deliver wireless intrusion detection, and performance and security monitoring on a global scale. It continues to step up in class from its early offering of a cool, handheld wireless sniffer for rooting out rogue APs. Enterprise 5.0 is a big-time wireless LAN security/management product that can scale up to very large, distributed environments.
Through a single console, security managers can control distributed AirMagnet servers, each of which can support up to 1,500 Smart-Edge sensors. The key to this scalable and flexible architecture is the Reporter module, the WLAN analyzer tool that draws on information collected from Enterprise database servers. The Reporter can communicate with single or multiple servers; for very large installations, multiple Reporter devices can connect to all available sensors and servers to view, export or print global reports. Users can choose the information they want to draw from the servers, including signal/noise, AP list, station list, alarms, channel noise and SSID.
Enterprise's console brings all this information to the security manager's fingertips through an intuitive GUI. An overview of the entire system is displayed on the main screen, from which the user can quickly dive into detailed information on policies, known wireless assets and detected rogue devices. Our favorite feature was the Charts option, which graphically displays event summaries and trends. The IDS/Rogue screen provides extensive details on detected unauthorized devices. It allows you to block and disable switch ports manually or automatically through policy.
One of Enterprise's few clear weaknesses is its limited ability to pinpoint rogue devices' location. The triangulation feature correlates the location of devices on imported floor plans and maps, but we found it to be inaccurate; our rogue testing came in at around 20 feet of the actual location.
If this were a cubicle maze in a multifloor office, finding the rogue device would be difficult and time consuming. Enterprise isn't a practical tool for RF coverage for sensor deployment.
Enterprise does protect and monitor the health of your WLAN rather well. It can detect 115 different WLAN vulnerabilities and performance issues. During our testing, it identified APs deployed without encryption and offered detailed remediation suggestions. It identifies common attacks and caught the dictionary and RF jamming attacks we threw at our test WLAN. It issued alerts and automatically blocked sources for the 24 hours we assigned.
Security and performance policies can be created globally or locally. Policy profiles can specify segments and sensors, the type of policy (security or performance), and importance and notification/alerts. For building custom policies, Enterprise walks you through possible violations in each event category.
Enterprise ships with an extensive assortment of standard, customizable reports that can be generated in a variety of formats, including PDF, Word, Excel, RTF, tab delineated, text, HTML and XML. With the notable exception of its inability to pinpoint rogue locations and its limitation as a sensor deployment planning tool, AirMagnet Enterprise 5.0 is an impressive enterprise-caliber wireless security product. Pricing starts at $8,995.
About the author
Sandra Kay Miller is a freelance journalist based in Pennsylvania with more than 12 years experience covering technology. Her work routinely appears in InfoWorld, IEEE's Computer Magazine and Midrange Computing Showcase.
This review originally appeared in the March 2005 issue of Information Security magazine.


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The Guile module system extends the concept of environments, discussed in the previous section, with mechanisms to define, use and customise sets of bindings.
In 1996 Tom Lord implemented a full-featured module system for Guile which allows loading Scheme source files into a private name space. This system has been in available since at least Guile version 1.1.
For Guile version 1.5.0 and later, the system has been improved to have better integration from C code, more fine-grained user control over interfaces, and documentation.
Although it is anticipated that the module system implementation will change in the future, the Scheme programming interface described in this manual should be considered stable. The C programming interface is considered relatively stable, although at the time of this writing, there is still some flux.


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The End 68 Hours of Hunger program has come to Barrington. Hunger is a national problem and Barrington is no exception.The 68 hours is the time from the free lunch that children receive on Friday at school to Monday morning breakfast. The program is for the lowest income children who receive free/reduced lunch and have the highest need for food help.
For many children who do not receive food regularly, the stress of not knowing when food will come again is high and can cause behavior problems as well as physical health issues. School professionals cite behaviors such as hyperactivity, anxiety, aggressiveness, irritability, frequent illness, high absenteeism and inability to concentrate in children who are "food insecure."
The program was started in NH and is now in 7 towns, including 2 in Maine. More than 450 children are now being served.
On Fridays, children are discreetly given a backpack full of food for the weekend. There is food for 2 breakfasts, 2 lunches and 3 dinners with a bit leftover to share. Volunteers pack the backpacks and transport them to the schools. The school distributes the food at the end of the day.
In a backpack, the following foods may be included: cereal, mac n cheese, ramen noodles, can of tuna fish, can or 2 of soup, jar of peanut butter, 3 fruit cups, a box of crackers and 2 nutrition bars. This costs appoximately$10 per child or $500 per year.This is entirely volunteer and relies on donations.The people who brought it to Barrington, Lindy Horton and Paulette Sirois, do not actually live in Barrington currently. To continue this program, Barrington will need ongoing volunteers. To have the program, storage space, backpacks and all other associated costs must be secured by donors because 100% of contributions will go toward food.
Turbocam donated the startup costs for the Barrington program but volunteers are needed to continue.Associate Buyers have donated the space for storage. The first 12 bags were given out to Elementary children in time for the Christmas break. 13 bags were delivered for last weekend for our first regular week. The program is starting small at the Elementary School, but expect the program to grow quickly.The goals is to add the Pre School and the Middle school this year.
Currently, Barringtonis in the process of finding 5 team leaders that will be responsible for fulfillment once every 5 weeks. There is also a great need for help in fundraising, as well. Barrington presents a unique fundraising challenge, as we do not have the numbers of businesses, churches and other civic organizations that other towns can draw on. This winter there is aplan on holding a community event to help raise awareness and funds.
The important thing about End 68 Hours, that everyone needs to understand, is that 100% of the money donated goes to food for the kids. It is a 100% volunteer organization.
Interested Volunteers or those interested in donating may contact Paulette or Lindy directly or through www.end68hoursofhunger.org. The town of Barrington owes them a big thank you for helping to take care of our neediest children.
To contact them by mail use: End 68 Hours of Hunger, PO Box 103, Barrington NH 03825.


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The first trailer is online for writer/director Jonathan Kasdan's The First Time. The romantic comedy centers on a burgeoning romance between two high school teens. Unlike other films of this ilk, Kasdan's take seems to be incredibly honest at capturing the awkwardness of the titular event. While the leads are unrealistically attractive, the chemistry is absolutely electric between the two of them. It's looking like Sony made a good decision in picking the John Hughes-esque film up from Sundance.
The First Time stars Brittany Robertson, Dylan O'Brien, Craig Roberts, James Frecheville and Victoria Justice. Be sure to check out Steve's interview with Kasdan here. Hit the jump to check out the trailer.
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THE FIRST TIME is a high school romance that follows two teenagers over the course of one weekend. Dave, a senior about to graduate, and Aubrey, a junior from a different school, meet one night at a party. What begins as a casual conversation soon turns into something more intimate, more romantic, and more complicated than either of them is ready for.


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Mental-Health Records Missing From Gun-Dealer Database
Despite recent progress in some states, millions of mental-health records remain missing from the national database that gun dealers use to run background checks on potential buyers, according to a new analysis of federal data by a coalition of U.S. mayors.
Amid growing discussion of the need for new legislation on gun control in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, the gaps in mental-health records in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System compromise one of the main measures already in place for gun dealers and law enforcement to prevent firearms from falling into the wrong hands, according to Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a group of more than 800 city leaders that recently analyzed new Federal Bureau of Investigation data.
Federal law prohibits firearms sales to anyone declared mentally unfit by a court or similar body. In the 1990s, the FBI began assembling a national database of individuals prohibited from buying firearms, partly with the help of a 1993 federal law that required states to report mental-health records to the FBI. But in 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the requirement, ruling that states could share mental-health records as they wished.
Contributions to the database have since been sparse, because of privacy laws, technological hurdles and the costs of reporting, according to a July report by the Government Accountability Office.
Just 12 states account for the vast majority of the mental-health records in the national database, the GAO found, "and most states have made little or no progress in providing these records."
Mayors Against Illegal Guns, an advocacy group co-headed by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, found in its analysis that 19 states have provided fewer than 100 mental-health records each to the national database, representing 100 or perhaps fewer people.
But it also found that some states have recently made strides, contributing to a 40% increase in records reported from October 2011 to October 2012.
Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Ohio and Oregon all more than doubled their numbers of mental-health records in the national database over the period, according to the data. All eight states recently began to implement new laws requiring or authorizing state agencies to share such records.
Delaware had long struggled with state privacy laws that prohibited such sharing. So Delaware Gov. Jack Markell said he pushed to change that with a new law last year. By October, the state had reported about 18,700 mental- health records, according to the data, from zero a year earlier.
"It was ridiculous that we have this information and we weren't reporting it," said Mr. Markell, a Democrat. "A background check is only as good as the records in the database, so I think we all have a responsibility to report" mental-health records.
Virginia, led by Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell, has led the nation in reporting. Mr. McDonnell is an advocate of gun rights, but he also has emphasized the importance of the national database for background checks since Seung Hui Cho killed 32 people and himself at Virginia Tech in 2007.
Mr. Cho purchased the guns he used in the crime legally, despite an earlier court ruling that he was mentally ill. That ruling wasn't reported to the national database because of a loophole in Virginia law. Since then, the state has amended the law and now has reported 180,300 mental-health records, or more records per capita than any other state.
This year, Mr. McDonnell sent a letter to the nation's governors, urging them to improve their states' reporting of mental-health records. "This system is about saving lives," he wrote.
After the Virginia Tech shooting, Congress passed a law to boost states' reporting of mental-health records by offering grants and threatening to dock federal funding if states don't meet certain thresholds. The program has since distributed $40 million to 14 states, most of which have improved reporting. Some states said a penalty would be more of an incentive to boost reporting, the GAO said, but the Justice Department has yet to penalize states under the law.
The recent improvements in reporting likely have contributed to the nearly fivefold increase in the number of firearms transactions that were denied because of mental-health records, the GAO said.
The effort to keep guns away from the mentally ill faces other challenges. Sales by private dealers, such as at gun shows, don't require background checks. President Barack Obama on Wednesday called this a "legal loophole" and suggested new efforts to reform U.S. firearm laws would address it.
Richard Pearson, executive director of the Illinois State Rifle Association, said he and most other gun-rights advocates support better reporting of mental-health records to the national database. "If someone has been adjudicated as mentally ill, of course those people should be reported immediately" to the national database, he said.
But he said gun-control advocates need to be patient while states work to increase their reporting. "It takes a lot of work and effort to do this," he said.
The National Rifle Association didn't return a call seeking comment.
There is no federal law or regulation that tells states how often or in what form mental-health records should be submitted to the database, should a state choose to participate.
Virginia reports its records electronically, almost in real time. Other states send CDs of data periodically.
This week, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said his state would move to begin reporting the records in real time, rather than delivering a CD of the data every six months.
The Democratic governor said that change and a series of other reforms to the state's mental-health program were initiated by the July shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., that left 12 dead. Colorado has reported the eighth-most records per capita.
Mark Glaze, director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, said that despite bipartisan support, many states have lagged behind in reporting mental-health records because it requires state leaders to make the issue a priority and spend time and money developing a system of reporting, including finding old records.
He said he hopes the recent tragedies in Newtown, Conn., and elsewhere would affect change. "One of the things mass catastrophes can produce is interest from state officials in getting their act together and actually improving their laws," he said.
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