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Inside MSRC: Wisdom on Exchange security
Microsoft's trio of May security bulletins includes a critical update for Exchange. The Microsoft Security Response Center's Christopher Budd explains why that particular bulletin may be more complex than it appears.
This month the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) has released three security bulletins. The May security bulletins address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Windows. Two of the bulletins this month are rated "critical," one each for Exchange and Windows. In addition to the information about the vulnerabilities and addressing them, the Exchange bulletin this month has some information Exchange administrators should be aware of as they plan their deployments.
First, it's important for Exchange administrators running Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 1 to be aware that this month's Exchange bulletin, MS06-019, contains a security-related change in addition to addressing an Exchange calendar vulnerability. Specifically, it encompasses a change that was introduced into Exchange hotfixes in January 2006. This change provides additional granularity around the "Send As" permission.
While the more granular permissions provide greater control and flexibility to Exchange administrators, in the interest of best security practices the update does not automatically grant Send As permissions to all accounts with Full Mailbox Access. This means that after this change is applied, any accounts that have Full Mailbox Access that also require Send As permissions will have to be granted that permission explicitly. Microsoft Knowledge Base article 895949 offers more information about the change itself.
A key thing for Exchange administrators to note in terms of deployment planning is that this change can affect some applications that rely on the implicit Send As permission. We have assembled information about the applications that could be affected and what steps customers can take to address the issue in the Microsoft Knowledge Base article 912918.
Because this change is included in MS06-019, when the security update is applied, this security-related change is applied as well. For that reason we encourage Exchange administrators to review the Knowledge Base article noted above as part of the evaluation and testing process before deploying MS06-019. More information is also available in the "frequently asked questions related to this security update" section of the bulletin itself. There you can find information about the update itself including information about other changes, deployment and detection.
From a risk-assessment point of view, MS06-019 addresses a remote code-execution vulnerability in how EXCDO and CDOEX processes certain iCAL and vCAL properties. This means if an attacker were able to send a specially formed message to the Exchange server, he or she could run code in the security context of the operating system.
In addition to MS06-019, we have released one other critical bulletin: MS06-020. This addresses vulnerabilities in Macromedia Flash Player. While Flash Player is made by Adobe Systems Inc., formerly Macromedia Inc., we are releasing this bulletin to share details about versions of Flash Player that have been redistributed by Microsoft. If you have installed Flash Player 7 or higher, we recommend that you download the latest version from the Adobe Web site. In addition to our Microsoft security bulletin MS06-020, there's information available in Macromedia security bulletin MPSB05-07 and Adobe security bulletin APSB06-03.
Our last bulletin this month, MS06-018, addresses a denial–of-service vulnerability in the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC). Because the denial of service would not affect the entire system (it would only affect the MSDTC and any dependant services), this bulletin is rated "moderate" for Windows 2000. Due to other mitigating factors, it is rated as "low" for all other affected platforms: Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Please also note that Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 is not affected.
In planning deployments, all three bulletins are detected by Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) 2.0. MBSA 1.2.1 provides detection for both MS06-018 and MS06-019; however, MBSA 1.2.1 customers will need to use the May 2006 Enterprise Update Scanning Tool for MS06-020.
You can deploy all three bulletins using Microsoft Systems Management Server with either the SMS Software Update Services (SUS) Feature Pack or the SMS 2003 Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates.
You can use Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) to deploy all three bulletins. SUS can be used to deploy the two Windows bulletins: MS06-018 and MS06-020.
Here's one final note regarding deployment: If you have enabled Automatic Updates (AU) for Microsoft Update for your Exchange Server, MS06-019 does require a reboot. This means that an Exchange Server will be automatically rebooted by the AU client once MS06-019 is installed.
As we do each month on the day after the bulletin release, I and one of my colleagues will be hosting a technical webcast to share more information about this month's release and, most important, to answer your questions on the air. This month's webcast is Wednesday, May 10, 2006, at 11 a.m. PDT. You can register for it at http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032294228&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US.
For further information, I have also written a TechNet column called "Principles of Patch Management," which outlines Microsoft's principles regarding security updates.
Finally, for those of you who will be joining us next month at TechEd 2006 in Boston, I will be presenting two sessions about the MSRC that might be of interest: "Integrating Your Emergency Response Process With the Microsoft Security Incident Response Process" and "Reading a Microsoft Security Bulletin." I hope you'll be able to join us.
Oh, and don't forget: Our June security bulletin release is scheduled for Tuesday, June 13, 2006.


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Austria Gracey: Tokyo Style Fashion with an American Touch
Austria Gracey: Tokyo Style Fashion with an American Touch
Horace C. White and Lee Jay Walker
Modern Tokyo Times
Austria Gracey has always been inspired by fashion and beauty. This elegant lady began her involvement in the fashion industry as a fashion model. Her modeling career started in 1994 in Tokyo, Japan, and her unique looks and professionalism helped her to develop into new exciting fields. Austria is currently signed with the designer brand, NEODANDI (http://neodandi.com/v1/), which is known for creativity.
In the past Austria worked for and was mentored by BGN PARIS (www.BGN.fr) under Susan Vesser from 2003 to 2006. This gave her a fascinating start in the fashion industry and highlights the internationalism of this exquisite fashion designer. After leaving this company she then moved to NORDSTROM from 2007 to 2009. Throughout her intriguing fashion journey, Austria found the courage to start her own brand of clothing and accessories for women and men, with its official inception in August of 2011.
Her main concept when she started Austria Gracey, The Brand – The Label, was to design and manufacture her clothing in the U.S.A. and this specifically applies to Seattle, WA. Distribution and growth was aimed at important markets throughout Asia and clearly with links in America and Europe then future possibilities are endless. After all, with such background experience at NEODANDI, BGN PARIS, and NORDSTORM, and with starting her modeling career in Tokyo, it is obvious that not only is Austria experienced within the fashion industry, but equally important is that she is truly multi-national and extremely creative.
The global economy is down worldwide but for many fashion companies they are still experiencing positive growth in major cities like Tokyo. This notably applies to top notch boutiques and given the exquisite nature of Austria's fashion designs then this is extremely positive.
Austria is hoping to reinvigorate the fashion scene in Seattle and elsewhere in the U.S.A. and to show the world the inner-creativity of this dynamic fashion designer from America. Also, distributing her goods around Asia is near and dear to her heart because of her multi-ethnic background. Her mother is mixed Asian and her father is Irish-European.
The Tokyo and Japan angle is very fascinating because the majority of her childhood was spent in Japan and her modeling career began in Tokyo. Therefore, given the exquisite nature of her designs then clearly they would fit in well throughout high octane fashion districts in Tokyo and all major cities in Japan. In Tokyo the extravagant nature of fashion in Aoyama, Ebisu, Jiyugaoka, Ginza, Omotesando, Yurakucho, and other adorable areas, would certainly be enriched by the creativity and elegance of her designs.
Also, the beauty of Austria and her exquisite designs is that this lady is not only a fresh thinker and always looking at new angles, but her designs are also extremely versatile. Therefore, they appeal to many different fashion trends. This means that her designs would be equally welcome in daring parts of Tokyo like Harajuku and Shibuya, and this is the beauty of this unique fashion designer.
The international nature of fashion in Japan whereby the crème de la crème of European, North American, and Japanese boutiques can be found, suits her background completely. Japan has always especially loved the American lifestyle and trends, with everything basically being on a larger scale and on a different level. This, along with the European angle, means that Austria is one step ahead because her fashion background and living in various international cities, means that her "mindset" suits all major cities internationally, irrespective of the continent.
Austria designs with fervid inspiration and extreme passion. She personally loves to test out her own designs, to wear what she created and see the emotional reaction of others. When she was ready to unveil her first dress that she sold, the Jeffrey Dress, in November 2011, she wore it to the Asian Hall of Fame Event and the Diamond Ball at Tracy Castle. After receiving many compliments, and through casual networking, she was able to make her first sale.
Whenever she wears her ensembles, there is a feel good factor and memories are created because of the stunning nature of her fashion designs. Austria also adores her favorite clothes and each special garment of hers is cherished because of the memories attached. Therefore, she understands the importance of fashion and the special feel it creates to the respective individual and this connection and passion can be felt in all her exquisite designs.
This means that Austria wants people to experience the same passion when they buy her lovely fashion designs. She wants her garments to inspire you to confidently feel and look your ultimate best. Likewise, live, laugh, and love passionately comes to mind when you think about her exquisite designs. This fascinating approach means that Austria always gives everything when creating a new design and immediately you can see and feel her passion.
She is NOT a one-note fashion designer. Austria envisions different looks, which are inspired by her mood and the way she would want to dress. Whether ruggedly casual, heroically athletic, rocker with a hint of S&M, bohemian-ethnic, ethereally cute, stealthily sophisticated, or glam goddess – all of these looks, designed and styled together, are always sexy and chic through her interpretation.
Without a shadow of a doubt this talented and creative fashion designer brings fresh sparkle and creativity. Therefore, the fashion brand Austria Gracey should continue to flourish and expand.
https://twitter.com/#!/AustriaGracey – twitter account of Austria Gracey
Austria Gracey was the stunning model in photo one and photo three – this highlights the many dimensions of this multi-talented lady.

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Is the fjord (47-48) new? I just ran through the intros to 15 and 16 again and I don't see it.
#8 - is Machu Picchu in Peru
Looks like an Irish castle... maybe
That one has been a mystery to me. Can you find the information?
Hmmm... I noticed something new in the intros today... looks like from Russia!
These three photos, to me, are this place in Google Earth in Muttah, Muscat, Oman. They were built by the Portuguese.Well I cant get the pic to show, so I will email it to Peach and let her edit this post.Google Earth coordinates are 23o37'29.03"N, 58o34'43.78"Portuguese Watch Tower in Muttah/Matrah
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In early 2000, south of Oakland, California, a physicist stuck in traffic was listening to the radio. He heard Mickey Hart, a drummer for the Grateful Dead, say that the archives of the world's aboriginal musics were deteriorating and needed attention. The bulk of the archives had been assembled between 1890 and 1940 by ethnographers using antique devices that recorded mainly on wax cylinders and aluminum disks. Many of the recordings had not been played for a number of years and had grown so fragile that the pressure of a stylus might destroy them.
Anything you can embed sound in you can scratch, crease, crumple, bend, break, tear, warp, or melt. Oil and dust and dirt get in the path of a stylus and deepen, widen, or distort a groove, making the stylus skip. Something, possibly mold, attacks the grooves on wax cylinders, leaving gaps that sound as if someone were banging a drum. On cylinders of Native American music, which typically features singing and chanting, this sometimes sounds like a phantom accompaniment. Wax cylinders were meant for businessmen to dictate letters on. After a letter had been typed, the cylinder was scraped clean with a tool the manufacturer supplied, so that another letter could be dictated, until the cylinder was used up. No one regarded the cylinders as permanent, and permanence wasn't what the ethnologists sought. They wanted a version to transcribe—they wanted to read the text more than hear it.
The physicist, whose name is Carl Haber, works at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, in Berkeley, California. There are essentially two kinds of physicists—experimental and theoretical. Experimental physicists test the ideas of theoretical physicists. Sometimes they observe peculiarities that theoretical physicists then name and explain. Haber is an experimental physicist. At Lawrence Berkeley, he is a member of the ATLAS Group, an international alliance of labs and universities that conduct experiments at the CERN collider, in Switzerland, where they discovered the Higgs boson, the "God particle," in 2012. The ATLAS Group is huge. When a paper is published, Haber says, "it has more than two thousand names on it." Haber specializes in the silicon detectors that line the collision chamber at CERN. The detectors are a little bigger than a passport, there are thousands of them, and they are arrayed like shingles around the chamber. They track the paths of subatomic particles in the aftermath of their impacts. Forty million collisions take place each second.
Haber regards himself as an instrument builder—that is, as someone who, after considering what device an experiment requires, designs the device and makes it or sees to its being made by a custom shop. To align the detectors at CERN, he had used a machine called a SmartScope, which "photographs the detectors in microscopic detail, then analyzes the images and the placement over and over again," he says. This type of measuring is called optical metrology. The SmartScope had worked so well that Haber was drawing sketches and writing notes for new ways to use it. "When I heard Mickey Hart talking about sound recordings, I thought, Maybe I've been considering the wrong problem," he says.
With the SmartScope, Haber had precisely positioned the detectors at CERN without touching them. He wondered what might happen if he used the machine to photograph the grooves of a cylinder or a disk that was too fragile to play. "I wondered, Could we somehow use optical metrology in some brute-force way to have the images interpreted as sound?" he says.
Haber went to Down Home Music Store, in El Cerrito, and bought a couple of 78s, "Goodnight, Irene," by the Weavers, and "Whispering," by Les Paul. The records were made from shellac, which is brittle; one of his colleagues dropped "Whispering," and it broke. Thirteen people at Lawrence Berkeley have won Nobel Prizes, most recently in 2011, when Saul Perlmutter won "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae." Haber told colleagues that he wanted to measure the grooves on the phonograph records. A postdoctoral student named Vitaliy Fadeyev volunteered to help. "I remember colleagues who were just dismissive," Fadeyev says. "Like basically not giving it enough thought—the actual value of it, the way you can save history and culture. How to do it, once you are told, and you are a physicist, it's almost obvious. I find this is the case with all big discoveries. Once you are told the solution, it's almost too simple. But, when you are trying to find the solution, you are scratching your head."
Fadeyev scanned the groove of "Goodnight, Irene" as it unfolded over several of the record's revolutions. Each revolution took close to forty minutes to complete. In all, he scanned about twenty seconds of music. A computer, following the path of the groove as if it were a stylus, converted the images to music.
"When I finally told Carl, 'We can scan the record,' he was shocked," Fadeyev says. "He brought our senior engineer into the room, and that engineer laughed out loud. He saw an unexpected use of the machine—not measuring the object but getting the sound."
Fadeyev's scan "demonstrated in a very crude way that you could use a tool like this to measure a record and get sound, so I knew the idea had some merit," Haber says. "It was laborious; it took hours; it was not practical. But I knew that, if we could make a machine that did this in a purposeful way, it could work. In physics, there are tons of brilliant ideas, but you have to make them work."
Silence is imaginary, because the world never stops making noise. A sound is a disruption of the air, and it doesn't so much die as recede until it subsides beneath the level of the world's random noise and can no longer be recovered, like a face that is lost in a crowd. In past times, people sometimes thought that all sounds that ever existed were still present, hovering like ghosts. Guglielmo Marconi, who sent the first radio message, in 1902, believed that with a microphone that was sufficiently sensitive he could hear Jesus delivering the Sermon on the Mount, and in 1925 a writer for the Washington Post speculated that a radio was capable of broadcasting the voices of the dead. A radio transmits vibrations, he wrote, and the voices of the dead "simply vibrate at a lower rate."
Except for an echo, only a sound that has been recorded can be heard again. A recording is a pattern of sound waves embedded in a medium. A person speaks, the sound moves a diaphragm, the diaphragm stirs a stylus, and the stylus traces a pattern analogous to the sound: an analog recording. (A digital recording converts the pattern of the waves into numbers.) Among audio preservationists, the few people who search for antique sounds and try to play them are sometimes called archeophonists; their field is archeophony. The oldest sound archeophonists have recovered is a proofreader of medical texts singing a folk song in Paris in April of 1860. As far as anyone knows, the proofreader, whose name was Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, recorded sound before anyone else did. Scott embedded his voice in soot on a piece of paper. He never heard it. The means for playing back sound weren't invented until 1877, when Thomas Edison recorded himself on tinfoil. No one heard Scott until 2008, when Haber managed to play Scott's recording. For his work in audio preservation, Haber received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2013.
Haber is fifty-five. He is small-framed, with a long face, short, wiry gray-brown hair like Brillo, and a beard. His manner of dress is informal, and his appearance is slightly rumpled-looking. His expression is alert and inquiring and placidly intelligent. He hardly ever raises his voice. He grew up in Queens, got his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Columbia, and began working at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab in 1985. For more than fifteen years, he was part of a project that discovered the top quark, a subatomic particle, at the Collider Detector at Fermilab, in Illinois, a smaller version of the collider at CERN. (The Fermilab collider is roughly four miles around; the CERN collider is seventeen.) Haber's team built a device called a silicon vertex detector. "You work twenty hours, then you go off and cook pasta and drink wine with your friends, who are also working, then you go back to work," he said. "It's like being in a band. It was tons of fun." When that work ended, Haber was added to the ATLAS team.
In late 2003, Haber and Fadeyev wrote a paper called "Reconstruction of Mechanically Recorded Sound by Image Processing," in which they described how their work might be used to make digital copies of fragile artifacts. They sent the paper to places that might be interested, among them the Library of Congress, where it reached Peter Alyea, who was involved in digitizing the library's sound recordings. "You had to understand some of the physics lingo, but my father is a physicist, so I had grown up with physics talk," Alyea says. "All these light bulbs were going off for me, though, because I realized that it applied to all these possibilities."
Meanwhile, Haber had measured his first wax cylinders and was deciding what capabilities his new machine should have. Analog recordings—that is, cylinders and records—have two kinds of grooves, lateral and vertical. Records have lateral grooves and cylinders have vertical ones. Lateral grooves move side to side, like a river through a plain; vertical grooves rise and fall like hills. The SmartScope took two-dimensional images of reflected light. For lateral grooves, this worked fine, because only two dimensions are necessary to show side-to-side movement, but vertical grooves require three dimensions, in order to convey depth.
In three dimensions, what is measured is not the light reflected from a surface but the distance of the surface from the lens. Three-dimensional scanning registers more of the groove, and is more precise: two dimensions is a map; three dimensions is a topographical map. To depict depth, Haber used a device called a confocal microscope, which measures depth across a line parallel to the axis of a cylinder. As the cylinder turned, the microscope could acquire up to eighteen hundred lines a second. Haber called his machine IRENE, after "Goodnight, Irene." IRENE stands for Image Reconstruction Eliminate Noise, Etc. He built one for his lab and one for the Library of Congress, which gave money for his research. Each machine can measure both two and three dimensions, and each cost about two hundred thousand dollars in parts and labor. There are now five of them. In addition to Haber's IRENE, in Berkeley, the Library of Congress has two; there is one in Andover, Massachusetts, at the Northeast Document Conservation Center; and there is one in India, at the R. Muthiah Research Library.
With IRENE, archeophonists could now listen to cylinders and disks that had been considered unplayable. Many of these songs and speeches and musics, held at institutions such as the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, the University of California, Harvard, and the British Museum, had been dormant for more than a century. The Smithsonian has a number of artifacts from Alexander Graham Bell's laboratory, the Volta Lab, in Washington, D.C., where he had worked on recording sound, mostly in wax. A curator named Carlene Stephens had overseen the collection for nearly thirty years without having heard any of the recordings or, in some cases, even knowing what the disks contained. She assumed that she would retire having carried out her responsibility to preserve them. In 2010, from a wax disk, Haber recovered Bell saying, in 1885, "Hear my voice, Alexander Graham Bell." It was the first time anyone alive had heard what he sounded like.
Before Haber built IRENE, an archeophonist could choose only between not playing a fragile cylinder, for fear of destroying it, and playing it in order to convert it to a digital form and then accepting the possibility that the original would be ruined. Mickey Hart told me that, playing a recording in order to copy it, perhaps for the last time, he is "filled with sorrow and total joy—we've gotten it before time has taken it from us, but it's also gone, too.
"There are a lot of great musics that are dying every day, falling off the edges of the world," he went on. "Some have disappeared entirely, of course. The chances of a recording making it are slight. The mortality is great. The cultures they belong to may be dying, too. Haber has come up with this jewel that will allow us to preserve this music and give it back to the cultures that spawned it."
Not every culture wants its music restored, however. "Some of them think it's too sacred to hear," Hart said. "They want it locked up forever." Haber has been asked by a California tribe to preserve cylinders that have songs and speeches on them. These include creature and spirit songs, dancing songs, and gambling songs. For the Burke Museum, in Seattle, he has preserved music collected in 1930 by the anthropologist Franz Boas. The music was made in a village on Vancouver Island called Fort Rupert by members of the Kwakiutl tribe. The occasion was the filming of a silent movie. On the film, you can see figures dancing, and behind one of them a man singing into a phonograph, a recording machine of the period. Many of the songs and rites involved have been forgotten. If they are remembered, it is often only partly—in the case of a song, a first verse, perhaps. Katie Bunn-Marcuse, a curator at the museum, was able to take the film to Kwakiutl towns and play alongside it the music that Haber had made available, allowing the people to hear their tribal songs. "It was very emotional," Bunn-Marcuse says. "Elderly men and women heard their ancestors."
Haber described IRENE to anyone who invited him to speak. In 2006, he began giving an annual talk on sound preservation at the Library of Congress. After the one in 2007, a man named David Giovannoni spoke to him. Giovannoni was part of a collaborative that called itself First Sounds. Its other founding members were Patrick Feaster, a lecturer at Indiana University, and Richard Martin and Meagan Hennessey. Martin and Hennessey have a company called Archeophone Records, which received a Grammy in 2007 for "Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry 1891-1922."
When the four of them discussed what their next project might be, someone suggested finding the oldest retrievable sounds. "Patrick knew that there was this guy in France named Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, who had made phonautograms on what he called the phonautograph," Giovannoni says. "We did not yet know how many phonautograms had survived."
Having proofread a passage describing the anatomy of the human ear, Scott had designed the phonautograph to approximate it. A phonautograph looks a little like the kind of early phonograph that had a turntable and a horn, except that, instead of a turntable, the phonautograph had a cylinder about the size of a coffee can mounted sideways between upright brackets. To make a phonautogram, Scott fastened a sheet of paper around the cylinder, then blackened the paper in the smoke of a burning lamp. Pressed to the cylinder was a stylus made from pig's bristle. The stylus was connected to a diaphragm stretched across a narrow opening at the bottom of a small barrel. Turning the cylinder with the handle, Scott stood at the open end of the barrel and talked or sang.
Recording one's voice in soot seems like a screwball idea, until you know that Scott wasn't interested in hearing recorded speech. He was interested in the pattern made by the sound waves representing the words, which he called a "natural stenography," and which he believed a person could learn to read. What people said was more revealing of character, he thought, and more vital than what they wrote; a phonautogram was a visual record of the pitch of someone's voice, how loudly he spoke, and with what emphasis. It was, Scott wrote, "living speech; our manual or printed calligraphy is nothing but dead speech."
A phonautogram would enable a singer to record a phrase precisely, leaving "an imperishable trace of those fugitive melodies which the memory no longer finds when it seeks them." Two people could record a conversation. A phonautogram could also preserve the performances of "those grand artists who die without leaving behind them the faintest trace of their genius." Furthermore, a deaf person could imitate the patterns on the paper rather than trying to speak by imitating the movements of someone's lips. When he could produce the same patterns, he would know that he was speaking correctly. Scott regarded Edison's invention of the phonograph, in 1877, as pointless, because it reproduced sound instead of writing it.
Scott started experimenting with phonautograms in 1853; the first phonautograms Giovannoni turned up, however, were in New Jersey and had been made by Thomas Edison in the summer of 1878. Edison had been hired by the Metropolitan Elevated Railroad, in New York, to determine why the trains made so much noise. He had modified a phonograph to trace sound waves on paper. Giovannoni scanned some of these and gave them to Haber. Haber and a colleague, Earl Cornell, managed to produce a few seconds of a sort of muddy, rushing sound that you could tell was a train only if you already knew that it was a train. "I kept hoping someone would say, 'Here comes a train,' " Cornell says, "but mostly it was pretty boring."
In the meantime, translating a book written in French by Scott, Patrick Feaster deduced that there were Scott phonautograms in Paris, at the French Academy of Sciences. Giovannoni took a scanner to Paris and scanned a few phonautograms. The phonautogram that he gave Haber was on heavy paper, about a foot and a half long. The paper had pairs of scratchy, wavy lines in rows across it. There were seventeen pairs in all, each of which represented a turn of the drum. As Haber and Cornell worked on recovering one line at a time, the sound emerged in increments. At first, Cornell said, they thought they heard someone groaning. Then they began to discern a pitch rising and falling, and they realized that someone was singing.
Haber and Cornell sent the individual lines to Feaster, who stayed up all night assembling them. Beside the track of the singer's voice, Scott had recorded a tuning fork, so that someone studying the phonautogram could measure the duration of a specific sound. The tuning fork, he wrote, was vibrating at "500 simple vibrations." When Feaster set the phonautogram at five hundred vibrations a second, he heard a woman with a warbly voice, as if she were singing on a record that was rotating unevenly.
"I was listening in bits and snatches, removing what fluctuations I could, so it really shaped up over the course of the night," he said. By the early morning, he realized that the woman was singing "Au Clair de la Lune," and that he "was the first person to hear someone singing a recognizable tune before the outbreak of the American Civil War."
A couple of months later, Feaster was working on another Scott phonautogram. A man was speaking, but at five hundred vibrations his voice was clearly too high-pitched. Feaster discovered that five hundred simple vibrations in the middle of the nineteenth century, in France, meant two hundred and fifty modern vibrations. When "Au Clair de la Lune" was played at the right speed, the singer was Scott. His voice sounded lugubrious and spooky, like a communication from the underworld. No one knows why the recording is so deliberate. He may have been trying to have each phrase last one rotation of the drum. Or perhaps he wanted the shapes of the letters and syllables to be very clear, so that they would be simple to read. In any case, he was not giving a performance; he was conducting an experiment. He was concerned with making a visual record, not an aural one.
Haber spent a day recently with Peter Alyea at the Library of Congress, in a subbasement room where the library has one of its IRENEs. They were planning to do some maintenance on it. Haber sat on an office chair while Alyea knelt on the floor, examining the computer that operates IRENE. The computer wasn't functioning the way they expected it to. As Alyea removed parts and unplugged wires, Haber said that many of the cylinders that interest him were broken. The breaks interrupt the sound, leaving gaps, which IRENE can repair. "There's a mathematical procedure called interpolation, which means, basically, that you connect the ends of the gap with a smooth curve," he said. "Whether you hear the fix depends on how long the gap is. If you did nothing, you might hear a click. With the fix, your ability to understand in certain contexts will be enhanced by not having the distraction of the clicking. You might not even hear the repair, but it has nothing to do with the truth. For example, if the recording is forensic—if there's a gunshot in the gap—you're lost. But if you're trying to understand a Native American language it might help."
IRENE wasn't responding to Alyea's instructions. He typed several commands, then got up and left. I asked Haber how a gap was filled. "If the missing section is music, you can stick in silence," he said. "Or, instead of silence, if you're trying to make it listenable, you can take music from another part and patch it in there. It's like detecting a skin tone on either side of a blemish and using that to conceal the blemish, like Photoshop. Psychologically, your mind may not react if the contrast is not so great. If it's a very big contrast, it's more obvious."
Alyea appeared, walking awkwardly and carrying a computer the size of a small suitcase. "You should know that, in the preservation sense, that's a no-no," he said for my benefit. "It's called a listener's copy."
"It's part of the ethics of preservation," Haber said. "There's a notion of doing as little as possible, not adding interpretations and leaving the material in a form that others can work with."
"When you add information, it becomes ambiguous what you've done," Alyea said.
"Restoration implies choices," Haber said. "Preservation implies stabilizing. With preservation, you want to leave the data clean."
Alyea sat on the floor and began removing parts from the computer to see if they were connected properly. "If you take a cylinder and you break it, particularly if it broke fifty years ago, everything on the pieces moves," Haber said. "They absorb moisture, they expand or contract, they deform and don't come back to where they were. Imagine there are parallel lanes on a road, and there's been an earthquake."
Alyea, sitting cross-legged, had parts of the computer arrayed around him. I asked if he was making any progress.
"We're always making progress; it's a question of what direction," he said glumly.
Haber turned the pages of the computer's manual. I could see headings such as "Convolution and Deconvolution" and "Helix Development."
Alyea began connecting wires to the computer. The computer made a sound like a squeal. "That's bad, that's worse than before," he said. "That's an unhappy sound." A red light on the computer came on. "It was green before," Alyea said.
They tried several fixes, then Haber said, "I think we're up against the wall on this one now."
Alyea took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. He spent some time on the phone with Earl Cornell, who was in California, but they weren't able to fix the problem. He and Haber then discussed whether they should call the help line for the computer's manufacturer.
"What question are we going to ask?" Alyea said.
Haber dialled the number for the help line and said, "This is Carl Haber, from the Lawrence Berkeley Lab." He described the problem, and was put on hold.
Alyea was on his knees, working with a screwdriver. "I think the capacitors are the problem," he said. He and Haber switched places, and Alyea began talking to the technician. Alyea put the technician on speakerphone.
I said, "I guess they can't just tell you to reboot."
Haber looked at me soberly. "There is no script for this," he said.
The next day, IRENE worked fine, but they didn't know why. Alyea said that happens sometimes.
There are approximately seventy Native American languages in California, far more than in any other state. In 2007, Haber scanned cylinders of Native American speakers from the Phoebe Hearst Museum, selected for him by Andrew Garrett, a linguistics professor at Berkeley. Garrett is interested in Yurok, which is spoken along the lower Klamath River, in northwestern California. For Harvard, Haber scanned aluminum disks of singers of epic poetry made by Milman Parry, in Yugoslavia, between 1933 and 1935. Parry and a student of his, Albert Lord, formed the Parry-Lord hypothesis, which proposed that epic poems such as the Iliad and the Odyssey were made up of formulas that involved descriptions and characters and scenes that were assembled for an occasion by poets who were improvising, much as musicians improvise according to a song's chord structures and the rules of harmony. Recently, Haber was visited by some British scholars who are interested in a collection, in Iran, of Persian music that is on cylinders that are broken into many pieces.
One afternoon, I drove with Haber from Berkeley to Palo Alto to visit the Stanford University Archive of Recorded Sound, in order to meet a musician who was interested in preserving piano rolls. Piano rolls were used on player pianos between about 1900 and 1930, when records replaced them. The rolls have holes in them, which act as instructions to a player piano, like the rolls in a music box. The musician, a pianist who also lectures at Stanford, was named Kumaran Arul.
At the Stanford library, we went downstairs to a windowless room. Haber was holding one temple of his glasses and spinning them like a pinwheel when Arul arrived. On a table were seven file boxes of piano rolls, which looked like scrolls. Haber sat at one end of the table and said, "What have you got?"
"Let me just explain," Arul said. "I'm interested in rolls from the early part of the twentieth century. Measured by time, they are the longest recordings we have from the period."
The librarian unrolled one. There were dots and long lines cut into it.
"This is a code," Haber said.
The librarian showed us a roll of a Chopin étude played by Arthur Rubinstein and one of Maurice Ravel playing his piece "Sonatine."
"The question is: how well do we need to know the exact shapes of those holes to get the nuances of the sound?" Haber asked.
The rolls preserved playing styles popular in the period which had subsequently fallen into disuse, Arul said. "Hearing them virtually revises how we understand what nineteenth-century music sounded like," he said. "It's that radical." The styles conflict with the way piano is taught, he told me later. "The ideal example is probably Carl Reinecke. He's nearly the earliest-born person we have any recordings of. He was born in 1824, he knew Schumann and Mendelssohn, and he was known for the way he played Mozart, which would violate all the principles we are taught today. His style was rhythmically much more irregular, and he didn't align vertical parts—if there are two notes written simultaneously, he will not play them together. He does it so often that it sounds practically chaotic. Most professionals who listen to it think there is something wrong with the roll."
Arul told Haber that the rolls were not as fragile as cylinders. The paper dried out, but most of the rolls that were in the range of a hundred years old could still be played. "A number of composers wrote for piano rolls," Arul said. "Stravinsky wrote his ballet 'Les Noces' with parts for piano rolls." There had been "a cottage-enthusiast industry copying them over the last fifteen years," he went on. "But the quality varies, so we are trying to start the process of having an archival standard."
Scholars often dismissed the rolls, Arul said—" 'It's a robot,' they say." Haber said he liked the idea of a conference devoted to music by automatons, which would feature the rolls, but "that opens a whole new can of worms."
Haber and I said goodbye to Arul, then went to a café on the campus. Haber said that he was interested in the opportunity to work on a system different from grooves. "I'm enthralled," he said. "I like the idea that it's a code." He took out a pen and, on a napkin, made a drawing of how he imagined a piano roll worked, with each line representing one of the keyboard's eighty-eight keys, and each hole an instruction about how forcefully to strike the key and how long to hold it.
He put the drawing aside. He said that what intrigued him about recovering relic sounds was the period and the figures who inhabited it. "Roughly toward the end of the nineteenth century, there were these early guys—I like to call them the heroic inventors," he said. "Edison, Bell, Muybridge with his time studies, Marconi. They were not particularly well established academically; they were not trained as engineers, mathematicians, or scientists; they were very creative; and they did intuitive, seat-of-the-pants, trial-and-error experiments, whereas once you get into the twentieth century, and you have an understanding of the physics and chemistry involved in these original scientific gestures, you get engineers and academics doing this kind of work. They're more cautious. No scientist would have thought you could hear Jesus. It violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics."
He shook his head.
"Anyway, they were the first to record the world as it was actually happening," he continued. "Before Scott, people wrote things down. They took photographs, they captured moments, but nobody was freezing the world in a sequence, as it unfolded. Sound, for example, is a phenomenon that changes as a function of time. Electrical signals, the brightness of stars—they're changing as a function of time. Anything we measure today in a laboratory—radio signals, meteorological equipment, subatomic particles, the ability to divide time into smaller and smaller increments—it all comes from the outline of this work."
We had bought tea, and Haber drank some. "Once the telegraph got installed, suddenly it mattered to keep track of time in New York and Pittsburgh," he went on. "It made a difference when the train left. One telegraph network needed to be able to speak to another. These rapid breakthroughs in the measurement of time were very important."
A young woman asked to sit in the seat beside Haber, and he moved to make room for her. "Thirteen years ago, it did not occur to me, stuck in traffic and listening to Mickey Hart about lost musics, that we would have succeeded in playing all these iconic recordings of the nineteenth century," he said. "I only thought, Here's a way we can be of help to a community of serious people. They were custodians and stewards of world treasures." ♦


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I think we should make a thread of rare sightings and funny moments in Minecraft. If you don't like the idea, then just don't like the idea and let this thread die! D: (There's probably gonna be a stupid complication of like having too many pictures in one thread or whatever... lol)
That is all pig, that is all.
I am on my laptop, so lack my screenshots.
But yeah. Chicken farm. I have seen at least 6 others on the server. There is one off the path from spawn to mosscow that had a leak a long while ago.
I should do some experiments. How much farms like this affect passive mob spawning. (Pre 1.8, I know there was a passive mob cap, limiting how many could be spawned at any time. Don't know now.)
I've see that farm before... lol
Here's the pics of it now... and what becomes of all those eggs.
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I have a few screen shots I could share.
This one is entitled "HAWK!!!"
sry for those of you that don't know what this means... but those of you that do will appreciate it.
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Here's me on my 3 hour trip bringing mooshrooms to our land... 2 days before somebody dropped some in openville.
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oh then there's this one... no you cannot have any information.
Wait, we're they making fun of me? Wow. I didn't act like that at all...
lmao... they were exaggerating a bit, but you are the king of finding grief. The best part about that picture was that you're even in it talking about some grief you came across, that was easily fixed it about 2 min, but when you first saw it you made it out to be way bad.
Since you were making renovations, it looked like your fortress had been dismantled. It looked worse at first. Aaa anyway let's get back to funny pics now.
Finally on my main computer. Upload time!
First set: Stuff I have from this server.
I typically don't screenshot. These I just happened to take
And some of me messing around on the snapshot on my server. Still have many other funny instances.
Second to last: all of them are in the same 1x1 area. All those you see were floating through space.
Last image is me testing clock speeds.
I came across this cave while mining
There was tons more iron up ahead too
I thought this thread died :o
Kaya and I were caving last night and we found this... (notice the diamonds...)
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Today is the second anniversary of the passing of Steve Blackwell, a Midwestern transplant who came to the Sunshine State as a high school English teacher and became a fixture in the Florida folk music scene. My path crossed with Mr Blackwell in the months before his untimely departure from melanoma at age 58.
I detailed my connection with Mr Blackwell in this repost of my thoughts from the day of his memorial service. Mr Blackwell's daughter and other former bandmates continue performing as Still Friends. Steve's memory was also honored musically this past March with SteveFest '08 in Port Charlotte, FL.
[REPOST: The following post appeared originally on 9 September 2006]
Another reason I reposted yesterday on my Stetson Kennedy visit in January was to also note some bad news that came my way this week. Steve Blackwell, Florida folk guitarist and magnificent songwriter, lost his battle with malignant melanoma last Sunday. He was only 58. His memorial service will be this afternoon in Punta Gorda, Florida.
As I wrote in May of the first time I heard Mr Blackwell at the Stetson Kennedy Foundation inaugural event hosted by former NPR Morning Edition Host, Bob Edwards, with performances by Arlo Guthrie:
My admiration for Arlo Guthrie notwithstanding, the musical highlight of the night was the Steve Blackwell/Dan Leach duet of "Beluthahatchee on my Mind," a song Steve wrote but has yet to record. Steve and Dan are stalwarts in the Florida folk music community and students of Florida folk legend, Frank Thomas, who also performed. Steve and Dan offered to meet with me on a subsequent trip to Florida to learn the song, but my schedule didn't permit. Such is the kindness and openness of folk musicians.
Steve and Dan essentially drove five hours each way to be at Stet's celebration to play one song. But Steve told me then that he wouldn't have missed it for the world.
After serving on a grant review panel a few weeks later, the family Pharmboy went to southwest Florida for four days for me to reconnect with them. I had been corresponding with Steve and he and awesome mandolinist and singer, Dan Leach, offered to meet me at the weekly folk gathering Steve established in Punta Gorda to teach me "Beluthahatchee On My Mind."
But, after spending the first day of family vacation in another grant review teleconference, it was felt that I should best spend the evening with my wife and daughter, who I had ignored in the weeks of frenzy leading up to my study section meeting.
As I get to Florida quite often, I figured that I'd always have another chance to catch up with Steve and play with him and Dan. In fact, we were already planning to come to Jacksonville/Fruit Cove in October for Stetson's 90th birthday and I was certain that Steve would still be well enough to attend and for us to finally jam.
Steve's last post on his Steve Blackwell & Friends band site back in December documented his melanoma setback, interferon therapy, and even Dan's own battle with colon cancer, of which I had been unaware at the time. Steve was always an incredibly upbeat guy, despite losing his house in one hurricane and having extensive damage in another.
This challenge, though, was too much to overcome.
Having lost PharmDad when he was also 58, I know some of the sadness and loss being felt today by the Blackwell family, especially his wife, Margie, and daughter and bandmate, Carrie Hussey. I also think of the grandkids, who may be too young to understand completely, and, of course, the larger musical family, students, and friends who knew and loved Steve.
Steve's place in the Florida and national folk music community cannot be replaced, but his devotion to Florida natural history will survive in his recordings. His spirit of friendship, openness, and unassuming encouragement will also live on in those who had the honor and pleasure to play with him.
I'm so sorry to not have known him better but my life is much richer for having had this one snapshot of a memory of this musician and gentleman.
Steve's obituary is hard to find on the SW Florida Herald-Tribune website and the link will be dead in a week, so here is the complete text, reprinted with permission, for the sake of posterity and to sing the praises of a lovely gentleman and his legacy.
Death silences local folk musician
Blackwell founded the Guitar Army and taught at Charlotte High School.
PUNTA GORDA -- Steve Blackwell wrote all kinds of songs about the people and places of Florida.
One of his first was about a famous Native American chief.
Others focused on a civil rights activist, a cowboy and a rattlesnake catcher.
Blackwell, well known as a musician on the Florida folk scene, a teacher at Charlotte High School and a founder of the Guitar Army that plays weekly and welcomes anyone, died Sunday after a long struggle with cancer. He was 58 years old.
He originally moved to Punta Gorda from Indiana 35 years ago to teach high school English.
But the grandson of a vaudeville performer never lost the love of music instilled in him from an early age. That love morphed with his passions for poetry and storytelling into a successful second life singing folk songs.
Over the past decade, Blackwell released three albums with his group, Steve Blackwell and Friends.
He and his band twice played at the Philadelphia Folk Festival and found their way onto the main stage at folk festivals across Florida.
Blackwell's folk career began in the mid-1990s after years of playing with the popular local cover band "The Armadillo Brothers."
Friend and fellow Charlotte High teacher Gary Helinski said Blackwell was searching for a new creative outlet when he began participating in a poetry group and went on to help found the the Guitar Army, a popular weekly jam session at Punta Gorda's Gilchrist Park.
Helinski said Blackwell influenced many local musicians through the jam sessions.
"I think his greatest success was bringing out the music in other people," Helinski said. "He always brought people in and made them feel welcomed and encouraged them."
Blackwell helped Helinski write his first song, about a rattlesnake catcher from Arcadia named Rattlesnake Johnson.
"I never would have wrote that song if it wasn't for Steve," Helinski said.
Carrie Hussey said that teaching role was typical of her dad. "He was always a gentle teacher who inspired people," Hussey said.
Many of the lessons came at campfire music sessions where Blackwell would "dance around and make up songs," Hussey said.
"He was so much fun to be around," she said. "He was just funny and goofy and he would put people at ease."
Blackwell also had a spiritual side, friends and family said.
He formed a gospel singing group with Hussey and friend Dan Leach called the Peace Creek Revival.
"He had a very strong belief in God," said Leach's wife, Robin. "I think he knew where he was going."
Blackwell's survivors include his wife, Margie.
Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Saturday at Port Charlotte United Methodist Church. Arrangements are being handled by the Larry Taylor Funeral and Cremation Services in Punta Gorda.
Note added in proof: I've noticed a number of folks coming by via Google searches for 'Steve Blackwell' - welcome. I also wanted to bring to everyone's attention a lovely tribute page to Steve at the Suncoast Sun and Herald.
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We've migrated most of our American Memory collections to new presentations. If you don't see what you're looking for here, see this list of updated collections, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/updatedList.html.
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- African American Odyssey
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- American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States
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- Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters, 1862-1912
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I'm putting together an article on Music and Home Schooling and am in need of some basic research on the issue. but i don't want to step out of turn and go beyond the bounds of the forum.
i've put together a short survey at zoomerang on this topic and invite people to participate. once the survey is complete, i will post a summary of the results here.
here's the link. if i've gone out of bounds on the forum, sorry.
thanks for indulging me.
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Since surveys keep getting posted, here is a place to put them.
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This is fine. I filled out the survey myself, for what it's worth.
interesting survey.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - Feb 25, 2013) - Phizzle Inc., a leading technology provider of advanced mobile marketing products and digital advertising solutions, today announced an agreement with the Columbus Blue Jackets to power its mobile marketing initiatives. Together, Phizzle and the Blue Jackets will create campaigns designed to provide fans greater opportunities to connect with the team while providing corporate partners the ability to enhance their marketing initiatives. Making mobile an instrumental aspect of the live event experience, Phizzle is providing the Columbus Blue Jackets with data-driven tools that engage sports fans across multiple communication channels, including text message, QR codes, mobile Web, social media and more.
Phizzle's proprietary technology, Broadcaster iX™ can produce real-time, interactive HD graphics for the Columbus Blue Jackets' home games, enabling fans at Nationwide Arena to interact with the team and corporate sponsors via their mobile phones and the digital scoreboards. A variety of text messaging campaigns (pre, during, post-event), can be activated to provide a fun, exciting and participatory audience experience including alerts, Text-2-Win promotions, Text-2-Vote polls, and Text-2-Screen contests.
Phizzle's innovative mobile communications platform combines powerful functionality with an easy to use interface, enabling our extensive client roster comprised of major sports teams to effectively engage and foster deeper relationships with their fans, sponsors and community members. Phizzle's technology allows the Columbus Blue Jackets to instantly add fans to its database by having them engage via their mobile device by either texting GOCBJ to 90561 or by visiting BlueJackets.com/CBJTextAlerts.
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benflux needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 88 designs submitted by 34 freelance designers.
We are looking to take http://www.quotationjunction.com from web 1.0 to web 2.0 in terms of look and feel, the first step is the logo and later we'll be back for the design of the site (if this works out)...
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We would like you to take influence from the great web 2.0 logos out there - you know who they are! (Well we want you to be the judge of what is great and use that to make your design).
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A farmer's market in The Holiday Shops at Bryant Park?
Nope, it's Scent in a Basket*! These strawberries, bananas, lemons, et al. are all decorative soaps that smell fantastic. And here's a twist: they're not really for washing. These adorable soaps are decorative and just for scent and show, so they'll be making your kitchen, bathroom, and living room looking and smelling good for a long time. Grab a basket, fill it up with your favorites, and remember: Don't eat the soap.
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Ben Sigelman talks about "Deep Systems", their common properties and re-introduces the fundamentals of control theory from the 1960s, including the original conceptualizations of Observability & Controllability. He uses examples from Google & other companies to illustrate how deep systems have damaged people's ability to observe software, and what needs to be done in order to regain control
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For now, I will try to spotlight at least one ancestor per month, (hopefully) alternating branches of my family. I think they get a little touchy when I spend too much time on the "other" side, which is why I think I have such a hard time finding information. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
The way this is supposed to work is that when I add an ancestor to my website, I will spotlight them here with a link to their page. Again, it's supposed to work like that. We'll see.
Charles C. Crowe is my maternal 2nd great grandfather. His page can be found here.
|Charles C. Crowe 1867-1945
In 1900, he worked as a sewing machine agent Troy Township in Cannelton, Perry County, Indiana. In 1910, he was working as a machinist in his own shop in Rockport, Spencer County, Indiana. By 1930, Charles was working as a laborer in a garage and living at 125 W. 3rd Street in Mount Vernon, Posey County, Indiana.
Rumor has it (from a grandaunt and a granduncle, Charles' grandchildren -- of course, I still need to confirm that with documentation, if any exists) that Charles and Ida's oldest daughter Mabel had "run off" and gotten married, and when Ida passed away, Charles decided he needed a housekeeper. He retrieved Mabel, had the marriage annulled, and brought her back. She lived with him until he died, and never married again.
Charles was a member of the International Order of Odd Fellows, and was a guest at the I.O.O.F. home from December 1942 until he died. He died on 1 Dec 1945 at the age of 78 in Gosport, Owen County, Indiana. He was buried on 4 Dec 1945 in Mount Vernon, Posey County, Indiana, at Bellefontaine Cemetery, section A row 15 grave 9.
I will continue to add information as I find it. Of course, I welcome any additions, corrections, etc.
Do we share any ancestors?
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I spent the last week keeping tabs on the beach in Maui, and I've returned not only sunburned, but also probably five pounds heavier. I couldn't stop eating the local food! I'd been told that island cuisine is often imitated but never duplicated, yet I was still ridiculously impressed by how outrageous everything tastes in Hawaii. From takeout spots to high-end dining destinations, I enjoyed it all. Here are the few favorites that I managed to capture before everything got wolfed down.


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A Rising Power in Chinese Art
In less than seven years, Poly Auction has become a major player in the art world. The WSJ's Jason Chow talks about the paintings that sold for nearly $3 million each at the Poly autumn auction in Beijing.
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Today's guest post is by Dan Q. Tham. Dan is a Medill sophomore who identifies as Theravada. His post explores religion as identity and the possibility of projecting too much faith on charismatic leaders.
Somewhere in the endless conurbation of Southern California, my family sat down to a meatless meal. At this time, we had been vegetarian for about a year and, at the recommendation of my mom's friend—a heavily made-up banshee named Co Hoa whose mischievous grandson Alex was always in tow—my mother, with her unflagging gusto for cruelty-free, had us eat at the Loving Hut. The campy name and the altar with lit incense at the door were the innocent hallmarks of a Buddhist food establishment. But I was to find out, much to my chagrin and at a time I hope against hope is not too late, that there is something sinister underpinning the rubbery fake meat, the ostentatious emphasis on Buddhism, and the caricaturized cows and chickens on the posters in the Loving Hut restaurant, word bubbles coming out of their smiling mouths saying things like "We Pray For Your Souls."
All my life, I've been raised Buddhist. I never really knew what it meant. I still don't, to a certain extent. For us, a family of Vietnamese immigrants, Buddhism was cultural. Buddhism was a tether, holding and sustaining us, connecting us with que huong, the motherland. Despite attending Catholic school for elementary school and growing up in a predominantly Mormon valley, I hung onto Buddhism, obstinately, because it made us unique in our suburban cookie cutter house. The incense sticks we solemnly stuck into our front lawn were our homage to our ancestors as well as a warning to wandering Mormon missionaries that implicitly said: not interested.
My mother was the force that championed Buddhism as a religion: worshipping a giant statue of Buddha at the local temple (a categorically un-Buddhist practice in my opinion) and muttering intonations at the family altar. My father was much more interested in Buddhism as a philosophy: acceptance that all of life is suffering and temporal, that nothing is permanent. Rather doom-and-gloom, but true nonetheless.
While my dad practiced daily meditation before dawn, sometimes in the form of Tai Chi on our driveway, no doubt scaring the neighbors, my mother went from spiritual practice to spiritual practice. First it was Feng Shui and she made us shift all of our beds to face more auspicious directions. Next it was a brand of Zen Buddhism, wherein she would practice an austere meditative routine. When that got boring, she ventured into a less static yogic practice. Mahayana Buddhism, Theravada Buddhism, an audience with the Dalai Lama, a pilgrimage to India and Nepal. My mother figured it would all connect somehow and create meaning in her life. My brother and I, boys after our father's heart, knew these were just phases.
Now my mom is in a phase I'm afraid she won't leave.
I asked her, "Mom, if you met Supreme Master Ching Hai, what would you say to her?"
"I love you," my mom said without hesitation.
This Supreme Master Ching Hai is the overlord of the Loving Hut brand. She preaches a militant, elite brand of veganism, arguing that her followers are saving the world. She was born in northern Vietnam, trained as a Buddhist nun in Taiwan, and, for some unaccountable reason, she eventually shed the draconian garb, appearance and lifestyle. She grew out her hair (which she dyed a Lady Gaga yellow-blonde) and formed an empire of 20,000 (mostly Vietnamese immigrants), a cult, my dad thinks, based on a meditation method she "developed" called Quan Yin. It involves a strictly meatless diet and generous donations from her supporters. She has a luxurious mansion in Nice, Italy. She sells her paintings and jewelry for obscene amounts. She is alleged to have sold her own bathwater. One lucky Supreme Master Ching Hai follower got to drink it. She has my mom's loyalty. And my utter disdain.
I don't have much experience with cults, but I'm afraid I will get some if my mom keeps following this. Ching Hai claims to fuse Christianity with Buddhism with her own personal dogma of immediate enlightenment. "Say my name and you will be immediately enlightened" is more or less her platform.
I wonder what the line is between a religion and a cult. The discovery of my mom's profound interest in the Supreme Master has led me to question why I am vegetarian, why I am Buddhist, and why my mom cried when my dad and I tried to have a discussion about her newfound beliefs. Unless it's the tears that are concomitant with a departure for college or new places or a loss in the family, I never want to see my mom cry.
Sometimes I can understand where my mom is coming from. Everyone wants meaning in his or her life. Even atheists and agnostics. I don't think religion is the only way that you can get that. But it's a convenient and often rewarding way. With Buddhism being as amorphous as it is, in the sense that it is not so regimented or 100% ritual-based (so much of it requires one to reflect on oneself, a trying and tiring task), I can understand the appeal of a woman with a similar Vietnamese background now living a lavish lifestyle saying to you that you can achieve enlightenment right now by eating at my restaurant chain, buying my crafts, and hanging up a giant portrait of me in your home (a step my mother has thankfully not taken, yet).
I'm reminded of the old Catholic indulgences by all of this: buying your way out of purgatory, buying immediate enlightenment. We all want things to be easy, fast, and painless, especially our faith. But is drinking a cult leader's bathwater really the price to pay? In some ways, I'm just like my mom and I could never be like my dad, utterly content with the teachings of Buddha. Like my mom did before she found Supreme Master Ching Hai, I'm still exploring different spiritual practices and it is that exploration that will give me greater appreciation of my own spiritual upbringing. I want my mom to start exploring again.


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Greenpeace went into the field two weeks ago to investigate how the haze wave was affecting communities in Sumatra and to get an insight into how the forest fires had turned people's lives upside down. "If the haze reached 400 PSI, it is already considered dangerous to human health. last week, on the 25th June, we measured it reached 900 PSI!" said Dr. Syaiful, the director of Dumai General Hospital.
7 month old Ihsan, is treated by a doctor after he was diagnosed as having a respiratory infection due to the air pollution caused by forest fires in Dumai, Riau Province, Indonesia.
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