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President Obama heads to Maine this weekend for a short summer vacation with his wife and daughters. It is a hallowed Washington tradition: Every year, presidents go on vacation, and every year, their political opponents lambaste them for demonstrating insufficient focus on America's problems.
But no matter where they go and what their trips are called, presidents are never really disconnected from their job the way a typical white-collar professional is when he packs up his beach towel and powers down his Blackberry.
"The president is always on call, 24/7, if there is a crisis," says presidential historian Robert Dallek. "They're lucky if they go on vacation and there's no crisis, and then they get some downtime. But they're always on call."
IN PICTURES: Presidential vacations
For one thing, the president can reach his principal advisers at a moment's notice, and many of them remain on duty during presidential vacations. Sometimes, aides will even accompany the commander in chief on a holiday – Henry Kissinger was a frequent guest at President Richard Nixon's compound in Key Biscayne, Fla. The president's daily briefings on national security and the economy happen as though he had never left the friendly confines of the White House.
High-tech, secure videoconferencing equipment also follows Mr. Obama and other presidents wherever they go. Obama will be renting his Bar Harbor vacation home this weekend, but historically, the White House and the Secret Service have had wide scope to "improve" presidential second homes. The program initially focused on enhancing security, but now permanent presidential retreats, such as George W. Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch, are wired with communications gear.
Some presidents have gone overboard with the renovations – famously, Mr. Nixon's Florida residence received millions of dollars in upgrades, including the addition of a floating helipad.
If all the efforts to make the presidency portable still aren't enough, Air Force One is always on standby to whisk the president away if needed. Two months ago, Obama took a day out of his Memorial Day weekend in Chicago to fly south and examine firsthand the handling of the Gulf oil spill.
Mr. Dallek recalls that when President Dwight Eisenhower showed John Kennedy around the White House after the 1960 election, Eisenhower showed the president-elect a special button that would call a helicopter to the South Lawn within seconds. That kind of rapid response follows the president everywhere, and it has only gotten better over time.
"That was 50 years ago," Dallek says. "Now, it's pretty instantaneous."
There are occasional cases of presidents truly going AWOL during vacations, but they are few and far between in the modern era. Nixon would sometimes drink himself into a stupor on holidays, according to some presidential historians, leaving Kissinger and other aides to make key decisions in his absence. But since the US became a global power, the days of presidents spending eight consecutive months outside the capital – as John Adams did in 1799 – have disappeared.
Obama has spent all or part of 65 days on vacation during his presidency thus far, according to Mark Knoller, a CBS news reporter who scrupulously tallies presidential vacation time. Mr. Knoller's tally shows that President Bush had 120 full or partial vacation days by this point in his first term. But even Knoller acknowledges that "vacation" might be a misnomer when discussing presidential trips.
"The president is never really able to take a vacation from his job," Knoller told NPR in 2005. "The problems and responsibilities of his office certainly follow him wherever he is."


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Sunday, March 05, 2017 - Deenadhayalan,Govindaraj Dheenadhayalan,Kumar,Lakshmi Narasimhan,Lakshminarayanan,Latchu,Maan Singh,Narasimhan,Prakash,Rajamani,Subhash Kapoor,Udit Jain,Vallabh Prakash,Vijay Nanda No comments
India arrests Udit Jian, business associate and accomplice to accused American businessman Vijay Nanda
One month after India's Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) arrested American businessman Vijay Nanda at his residence in the Girgaum Chowpaty area of Mumbai and charged him with with smuggling historic artifacts to the United States, Europe and Hong Kong, Indian authorities have arrested his business associate and accomplice, Udit Jain.
Not his first brush with the law, Jain was also taken into custody by Chennai authorities in October 2016 for forging Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) certificates for the octogenarian smuggler, Govindaraj Dheenadhayalan (alternatively spelled "Deenadhayalan"). Dheenadhayalan was arrested in June 2016.
In addition to serving as a middleman for Dheenadhayalan and Nanda, Jain is believed to have been procuring artifacts, stolen from temples, for Nanda and others, many of which were then exported to the Far East.

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WWE Smackdown Results
By Bill Pritchard for Wrestlezone.com
April 6th 2012
David Otunga comes out and says it is his pleasure to announce the introduction of the new general manager of Smackdown, John Laurinaitis. They walk to the ring while some 'triumphant hero' type music plays, and John says he is sure the fans are just as excited as he is. John says he will be the strong leader that they were lacking before, then he says hello to Booker T. He says this is a new era of people power, and he wants to talk about Teddy Long because he hopes Teddy will remain professional. John asks Teddy to come to the ring so he can thank him for his service, and he says he knows the past few days must have been crazy.
Teddy says losing his job does have one benefit, and he tells John to go to hell, then he says he isn't out there to whine or complain about what happened. He says people told him he was crazy for showing up tonight, but he can't walk away from Smackdown because it's the greatest job he ever had. Teddy wants to thank the fans for making it so successful, and he hopes all the fans had as much fun watching as he had being the general manager. He asks them for a 'Holla Holla' before leaving, but John stops him and says he wasn't finished because Teddy interrupted him when he was talking. John offers Teddy a job in his administration, and Teddy says he needs a job but it won't be with him and he tells John to shove it.
John says Teddy is a proud man but he shouldn't forget about his grandchildren's college tuition, and David Otunga can explain what that means. Otunga says the fund was established by the board of directors, but it remains in control of the person who has the official title of general manager. John says he will let him have a job if he says John is better than him, and Teddy can choose between his pride or the money for his grandchildren. Teddy says John is better, and John makes him repeat it into the mic before telling him to go to the back to start working, then he tells the fans to cheer for him. John says they have a great show tonight because Randy Orton will face Kane in a Wrestlemania rematch, and R-Truth will face Otunga and Mark Henry in a handicapped match.


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Why High-Intensity Workouts Can Be Dangerous
High-intensity exercise is the key to shedding belly fat| lowering disease risk| and blasting through calories| but too much is definitely not a good thing. In fact| too much intense exercise can actually put you at risk for major health factors| according to two recent studies.
One study looked at the effects of too much intense exercise on later heart health and found that men who exercised intensely for more than five hours a week at age 30 had a 49 percent higher risk of developing irregular heartbeat or atrial fibrillation (which can lead to stroke) by the time they were 60. Another study found that for people with preexisting heart conditions| intense exercise led to an elevated risk of heart attack or stroke.
While both these and countless other studies have proven that a normal amount of exercise can help improve your health| the findings are important| especially if you've ever felt like you're consistently exercising too hard. While high-intensity workouts are great for losing weight| remember to add steady| moderate exercise and rest days into your schedule for better health ¡ª now and in the future.
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Despite the availability of tools like Twitter Search, Twitter Advanced Search and Twellow, finding counterparts to follow on the Twitter social-networking site still can be a challenge.
Here's a quick rundown -- in no particular order -- of a handful of CIOs and IT VPs we uncovered who Twitter regularly. Those most active seem to be in the healthcare, government and education fields. We'll do a sequel when we come up with more, so feel free to pass them along to me via Twitter.
John Halamka, M.D., is CIO of the CareGroup Health System, CIO and Dean for Technology at Harvard Medical School, Chairman of the New England Health Electronic Data Interchange Network, and the list goes on. From his Twitter account, we also know that John is striving to read a book a week this year. The superconnected doctor uses Twitter to promote his blog, Life as a Healthcare CIO, where he can expand well beyond 140 characters.
Janet Claggett is CIO for Richland County, and an industry veteran whose LinkedIn account tells us she's got lots of experience in both the private and public sectors. She mixes work and personal Tweets: On the work side, we know that she's made progress on CRM and ERP projects, and is intrigued by a new mobile technology think tank.
Linda Cureton is CIO for NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and a blogger] as well. Her areas of interest include IT governance, which she says is the real deal. Scored points with me by quoting my favorite author: "thinkin' about Oscar Wilde quote and a perennial new yr rez -- 'I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do -- the day after.'"
Bill Schrier is CTO (CIO) of the city of Seattle and a blogger as well at The Chief Seattle Geek Blog. Given his location, he naturally keeps a sharp eye on Microsoft. But we also learn a bit about his family life: "My wife and I have a mixed marriage. She loves Apple stuff and I'm married to PCs and Microsoft Windows." The old softy broke down and got her an iPhone for Christmas though.
Will Weider is CIO of Ministry Health Care and Affinity Health System, which has 14-plus hospitals and 400 physicians. He blogs at Candid CIO, where he shares "what I have learned through my mistakes and other crazy things in the life of a healthcare CIO." One recent observation via Twitter: "I find it funny when a business claims to offer 'enterprise' services, yet requires payment via PayPal."
Charlie Catlett is CIO for Argonne National Lab. He has a serious background in supercomputing and grid computing, having been part of the team that started the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Among his recent Tweets: "pondering what IT infrastructure/service would a CIO look back on in 2 years and wish s/he had outsourced. (beyond the obvious)."


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Conference Abstract
"Correction of Gibbs ringing in diffusion MRI data using total variation regularization", Fourth Annual Meeting of the ISMRM Benelux Chapter, pp. 99, January, 2012.
"Gibbs artifact suppression for DT-MRI data", 10th Belgian Day on Biomedical Engineering – joint meeting with IEEE EMBS Benelux Chapter, December, 2011.
"A Novel Method for Realistic DWI Data Generation", International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 22, Milan, Italy, pp. 4427, 2014.
Conference Paper
"Bayesian Wavelet-based Denoising of Multicomponent Images", Proceedings Wavelet Applications in Industrial Processing V, part of SPIE Optics East, Boston, MA, 9-12 september, Vol. 6763-OK (12 pages), 2007.
"Classification of multi-source images using color mathematical morphological profiles", Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2011 IEEE International, Vancouver, BC, Canada, pp. 3919 - 3922, 2011.
"Multiresolution multispectral image denoising based on probability of presence of features of interest", Advanced Concepts in Image and Vision Systems, Brussels, pp. 357-364, 2004.
"Two-stage fusion of thermal hyperspectral and visible RGB image by PCA and guided filter", IEEE Whispers 2015, Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing, June 2-5, Tokyo, 2015.
"Wavelet domain denoising of multispectral remote sensing imagery adapted to the local spatial and spectral context", IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symp. IGARSS 2005, Seoul, Korea, 25-29 July, vol. 6, Seoul, Korea, pp. 4260-4263, 2005.
"Wavelet domain denoising of single-band and multi-band images adapted to the probability of the presence of features of interes", SPIE Wavelets XI, San Diego, California, USA, 31 July – 4 Aug, vol. 5914, pp. 508-521, 2005.
Journal Article
"D-BRAIN: Anatomically Accurate Simulated Diffusion MRI Brain Data", PlosOne, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 1-23, 2016. Download paper (16.22 MB)
"Denoising of Multicomponent Images Using Wavelet Least-Squares Estimators", Image and Vision Computing, vol. 26, no. 7, pp. 1038-1051, July, 2008.
"Semi-supervised local discriminant analysis for feature extraction in hyperspectral images", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 51, issue 1, pp. 184-198, 2013.


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'Godspell Under the Big Top'
A show that is being called "'Godspell' meets Cirque de Soleil" will open tonight and run throughout the weekend at the Nordlof Center, 118 N. Main St., Rockford.
Local actors and singers from the Gateway Performing Arts Studio will entertain with acrobatic acts and songs from "Godspell," including "Day by Day," "All Good Gifts" and "Prepare Ye The Way of the Lord." Performances will be at 7 p.m. tonight, 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday and 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $18 for adults, $16 for seniors and children 12 and younger, and $10 for center ring seats in the first two rows. For more information: 815-871-6422; gpasstudio.com.
Remembering the beauty
Fifty local artists will create works of art before your eyes at Unforgettable Art: An Affair for Alzheimer's starting at 6 p.m. Saturday at Lou Bachrodt Auto Mall, 7070 Cherryvale N. Blvd., Rockford.
The evening will include drinks, hors d'oeuvres and music, followed by a live auction of all artwork. Proceeds benefit the programs through the Alzheimer's Association, Greater Illinois Chapter.
Tickets are $50 in advance; $60 the day of the event; and $75 for VIP tickets. For more information: 815-484-1300; unforgettableart.org.
Bringing 'Sleeping Beauty' to life
The Moscow Festival Ballet will perform Tschaikovsky's timeless classic "Sleeping Beauty" at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Coronado Performing Arts Center, 314 N. Main St., Rockford.
The romantic ballet is one of the composer's most popular and longest pieces. This performance is part of the Rockford Coronado Concert Association's regular season.
Tickets are $40-$51 and available at coronadopac.org. For more information: 815-968-0595.
A culturally-rich opening weekend at Anderson Gardens
What: Anderson Japanese Gardens' Opening Weekend
When: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday
Where: Anderson Japanese Gardens, 318 Spring Creek Road, Rockford.
Admission: $8, adults; $7, seniors; $6, students; free, children 5 and younger.
Information: Outdoor activities for all family members include Bujinkan, iris planting, Okinawa Dance Group performances, gravel raking and Kendama.
Contact: 815-316-3307; firstname.lastname@example.com; andersongardens.org.
Swinging for the skies
Teams from around the Rock River Valley will participate in the 2014 Rockford Kubb Tournament from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at Ingersoll Centennial Park, 315 S. First St.
Kubb, also known as Viking Chess, is an old Nordic game which started in Sweden and uses wood batons. This event is sponsored by the Swedish Historical Society.
Cost to enter: $45 per team. To register: firstname.lastname@example.com; include email and team name.
Walking the dog through Klehm's grounds
Bring man's — and woman's — best friends to Klehm Arboretum & Botanic Garden, 2715 S. Main St., Rockford, from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday for its annual Community Dog Walk.
You and your canine friends can spend the day exploring 155 acres of gardens and ponds. Visitors are encouraged to bring cash donations for Kibble Korner, Rockford's pet food pantry. Dogs must be leashed and well-behaved.
Dogs and Klehm members get in free. Entrance for non-members is $3 for adults and $1.50 for seniors, students and children. For more information: 815-965-8146; firstname.lastname@example.com; klehm.org.
Monsters are delightful at Discovery Center
Dress as your favorite monster and take a mythical, magical romp through the Discovery Center Museum from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.
Attendees will learn the physics principles that go into movie magic, manufacture a monstrous treat and create creature crafts.
Find the monster inside of you for $8 at the museum, 711 N. Main St., Rockford. For more information: 815-963-6769; discoverycentermuseum.org.


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Admittedly, we ate inside and we were cooking by torchlight rather than the afterglow of a beautiful summer's day, but hey – this is England and we'll do what we can.
We had langoustines with chimichurri -the sweet flesh given a welcome smoky char from the coals. There was also sea trout with barbecued fennel and parmesan aioli, topped off with capers and toasted almonds and baba ganoush given all the more oomph from the flames.
Skewers of marinated vegetables brushed with thyme and rosemary from the balcony also featured with the humble sausage – is any food finer when given the hot coal treatment?
Stuffed in soft rolls, blobbed with ketchup and mustard along with a few slivers of raw onion for some sweet crunch, this is the stuff that dreams are made of – and made a chilly night on the balcony warm through and through.


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Add an SSL Certificate
You can add an SSL certificate in your Website Builder site to provide visitors with a secure connection when they submit information, such as payment or contact details. After your SSL is issued, you can select which pages you want to secure.
You can also display a Site Seal on your website that lets your visitors know the information they send through your site is secure.
Note: Pages using the SSL certificate will use HTTPS instead of HTTP in your Web browser's address bar. HTTPS is the secured version of the HTTP protocol.
- Log in to your GoDaddy account.
- In your Products list click Website Builder, and then click Manage next to the account you want to use.
- If you are working in the Page Designer, click Exit Designer.
- From the Home screen, in the SSL Certificate section, click Upgrade.
- Follow the purchase process and complete any remaining instructions to request your SSL. The length of time it takes to approve your SSL depends in the type of certificate you purchased. For more information, see How long will it take to issue my certificate?.
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- Log back in to your Website Builder account.
- From the Manage menu, click Organize Site.
- Click the thumbnail of the page you want to edit.
- Select Make this page Secure.
- Repeat these steps for any other pages in your website.
- From the Design menu, click Launch Page Designer.
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after latest update wmp plugin is missing in add-ons, but is still correct installed. Reinstalling wont work. What can i do?
I was lissening to online radio. Firefox needed to update. After the latest update the windows media player plugin dissapeared from the add-on list, while still being installed correct. I reinstalled it, but that didn't work. I replaced/deleted some files in firefox as suggested for similiar problems, but that didn't work either. Now I can't play wmp files anymore on firefox.
I hope u can help me solve this problem.
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Found a solution:
Go into about:config and change plugins.load_appdir_plugins from false to true. Apparently FF21 sets this value to false by default causing it to not detect plug-ins installed in this manner.Pročitajte ovaj odgovor sa objašnjenjem 80
Dodatni detalji o sistemu
Instalirani priključci
- Next Generation Java Plug-in 10.17.2 for Mozilla browsers
- NPRuntime Script Plug-in Library for Java(TM) Deploy
- Picasa plugin
- Shockwave Flash 11.6 r602
- GEPlugin
- Google Update
- Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape 10.1.6
- 5.1.20125.0
- McAfee MSC FF plugin DLL
- DivX VOD Helper Plug-in
- DivX Web Player version 22.214.171.124
- myVR 3D Framework
- Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) plug-in for Mozilla browsers
- Firefox 21.0
- Korisnički agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0
- URL podrške: http://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/21.0/WINNT/nl/
- Feedback 1.2.2 (firstname.lastname@example.com)
- Troubleshooter 1.1a (firstname.lastname@example.com)
- Adobe Acrobat - Create PDF 1.1 (email@example.com) (Neaktivno)
- Freemake Video Converter Plugin 1.0.0 (firstname.lastname@example.com) (Neaktivno)
- McAfee ScriptScan for Firefox 14.4.1 ({D19CA586-DD6C-4a0a-96F8-14644F340D60}) (Neaktivno)
- McAfee SiteAdvisor 3.3.1 ({B7082FAA-CB62-4872-9106-E42DD88EDE45}) (Neaktivno)
- Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant 0.0.0 ({20a82645-c095-46ed-80e3-08825760534b}) (Neaktivno)
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- driverDate: 1-26-2011
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- webglRenderer: Google Inc. -- ANGLE (ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT)
- windowLayerManagerType: Direct3D 10
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- accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar: 0
- browser.cache.disk.capacity: 358400
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run: False
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size.use_old_max: False
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value: 358400
- browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion: 4
- browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID: 20130401192816
- browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone: 21.0
- dom.mozApps.used: True
- dom.w3c_touch_events.expose: False
- extensions.lastAppVersion: 21.0
- gfx.direct3d.checkDX10: False
- network.cookie.prefsMigrated: True
- places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages: 87175
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If this issues pertains to an add-on being broken, please contact the developer of the add-on so they can release and update and keep up to date with new releases Firefox has every 6 weeks.
Try to delete the pluginreg.dat file in the Firefox Profile Folder and maybe addons.sqlite as well to reset the plugin registry databases.
You can use this button to go to the Firefox profile folder:
- Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Show Folder
You can (re)install the new WMP plugin (np-mswmp.dll)
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To feer56: Thank u for the advice. The wmp plugin is dated from 2007. I don't think this add-on is broken or not suitable after the latest update, because many users would then post this issue.
To cor-el: Thanks for the answer, however it didn't help. And when I tried to add the plugin manually firefox freezes or says the exe file is corrupted. I am almost sure the file is ok. I downloaded it from multiple sources but firefox refuses them all. I am wondering what could cause this.
It is possible that anti-virus software is corrupting downloaded files or is otherwise interfering with downloading files.
Try to disable the real-time (live) scanning of files in your anti-virus software temporarily to see if that makes downloading work.
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_save_or_download_files
- browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone
I may have to disagree, if it is dated back to 2007 then chances are that there may be many issues. We receive reports of addons breaking all the time and so we get reports all the time.
Please contact the developer for more assistance.
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I Think I have solved the problem. I didn't pay much attention to the version number. I Found out that I had Firefox 21. however app.update.channel was set to release. I installed version 20 and wmp plugin is working. I hope it won't update to 21 until it becomes a release version.
feer56 and cor-el; thanks for your help.
After upgrading to FF21, the WMP plugin disappears from the addon list, not suitable. Ok until FF20. Please fix this behaviour, otherwise a lot of websites become unuseful. Thanks.
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Try to delete the pluginreg.dat file in the Firefox Profile Folder and maybe addons.sqlite as well to reset the plugin registry databases.
See Re-initializing the plugins database:
Same problem. After updating to FF21, the Microsoft® Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin 18.104.22.168 np-mswmp is no longer listed in plug-ins as either enable or disabled.
Reinstalling the plug-in and deleting the pluginreg.dat file had no effect. Windows 7 Pro/SP1 64bit.
This is a bug! a lot of people does experience this issue...
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Found a solution:
Go into about:config and change plugins.load_appdir_plugins from false to true. Apparently FF21 sets this value to false by default causing it to not detect plug-ins installed in this manner.
You must contact developers to push an update for their plugins. We do NOT make updates nor do we push them. We only notify and inform them. The developers have more than enough time to make their plug-ins work. Please check if your plug-in is up to date as if it is out of date then obviously the plug-in will not work. I hope that you will understand this.
Thank you!
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No, I dont agree with you! absolutely! this is NOT due to the plugin developer, but to Mozilla. Mozilla modified the behaviour. Mozilla should to repair the issue! the plugin is NOT blacklisted by mozilla!!! therefore.... I am worried about your reply.
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Since 2007 it has been not updated ever, but it worked until FF20, therefore.... ;) I dont understand why the Firefox developers encourage the users to switch to other browsers with this kind of replies.
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Mozilla did NOT make any major changes. Every updates, plugins break due to security updates and fixes and other nits and pieces. Mozilla does not have the power to create a new plugin version nor update it on behalf of the developers. It is up to the developers to put an update out to fix. We cannot fix it because it has nothing to do with us making it not work. You reported this a while back using version 21. If you were using version 21, wouldn't the plugin have worked since you were not using version 20? Plug-ins break eventually and it's not because Mozilla doesn't care about it but developers are given more than enough time to fix or release updates for their plug-ins. We cannot do anything about the behavior, version 21 is released with no major changes so it is only up to the developers to fix the issue.
oh mozilla did NOT make changes, except this: >>o into about:config and change plugins.load_appdir_plugins from false to true. Apparently FF21 sets this value to false by default causing it to not detect plug-ins installed in this manner.
wouldn't the plugin have worked since you were not using version 20?
oh my god.
>> Found a solution: Go into about:config and change plugins.load_appdir_plugins from false to true.
BINGO! Thank you. How ridiculous that I have spent hours of frustration all because Mozilla broke the plugin load config in their new version...
And NO, the "developer" in this case should not be required to provide an Update to Mozilla.... the DEVELOPER of Windows Media Player IS MICROSOFT. Is this behavior now expected from new FF versions ??
but the expert say that mozilla did not change nothing in FF21... (nothing.... except this key!) ;)


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Can healthy taste good?
I think so. And after all these years I stumbled on doing something simple with broccoli that sure tickled my taste buds. And I mean, how simple is this?
I used 5 heads of broccoli,
1 pound of shallots
a dozen large mushrooms
3-4 tablespoons of olive oil
garlic powder
black pepper
And I made enough to last over several meals with healthy helpings!
1. Slice the shallots into thin slices.
2. Fry the shallot slices in a frying pan with the olive oil, garlic powder and pepper to taste.
3. Chop the broccoli into spear and boil with the mushrooms until you can just stab the broccoli with a fork. The broccoli should not be too hard or mushy, but firm and just right. And the mushrooms should still be firm too.
4. Drain the broccoli and mushrooms and thoroughly toss and mix the caramelized shallots in until the broccoli is coated with the olive oil.
5. Eat.
6. Yum!
I called TPC earlier this evening with this simple recipe and wouldn't you know it? She has been doing this same thing for years. And I only just discovered it. Oh well, but I think if I had more time I might have tried slicing or pressing some actual garlic cloves but I was in a hurry and the garlic powder was a quick solution. Give it a try and see if this doesn't add a spark to your healthy broccoli! Stumble It!


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Sending texts from your computer is extremely useful in dozens of different situations. Perhaps you lost your phone and need to send a message to someone; maybe you're over your monthly text limit and still need to get in touch with your friends; or what if you just hate typing on a tiny keyboard or lack cellular service? I know my living room might as well be a black hole when it comes to coverage.
If you simply want to send an SMS to any mobile phone, there's no need to use third-party services. You can do it right from your email client. Instead of using a service you don't know or trust, you can deliver a short email in the form of a text message by using an email to SMS gateway. So long as you know the person's phone number and the name of their service provider, you can easily find the appropriate gateway address that will forward your message.
Don't know what mobile carrier your friend uses? Find out here.
For quick reference, I've put together a list of some of the most common U.S. service providers and their corresponding gateway addresses below. Annoyingly, there are different addresses for regular messages (SMS) and those that include photos and other media (MMS).
In either case, sending a message is easy. Just compose an email like you normally would, but rather than entering the person's email address in the recipient box, simply insert their 10-digit phone number with the appropriate @gateway address behind it. Then, hit send.
|U.S. Carrier
|SMS Gateway
|MMS Gateway
|Boost Mobile
|U.S. Cellular
|Virgin Mobile
*For T-Mobile, include "1", which is the U.S. country code, before the phone number. To find SMS gateways for carriers not listed here, and carriers in other countries, check this list on Github.
To ensure that this process works, you should limit your messages to less than 160 characters. If you go over this 160 character limit, the message will be sent as an MMS rather than a SMS, which sometimes requires a different gateway address. Furthermore, although this method is entirely free for you the sender, standard messaging rates may still apply to the person receiving these messages. No third-party service will have access to your telephone number, or the person you're messaging, and replies will go directly to your email inbox. This process also makes it easy to send the same text to multiple people, since you can add as many addresses as you like to the recipients box.
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Amnesty decries migrant exploitation in Italy
A new report from Amnesty International is alleging widespread exploitation of foreign migrant workers in Italy, saying they often receive less than the minimum wage and sometimes are not paid at all.
The international human rights group said Tuesday that two visits to Italy this year, mainly in southern farming areas, confirmed other studies that also found a "pattern of labor exploitation" of migrants across Italy. Amnesty said migrant workers are frequently paid much less than Italians doing the same job.
Migrant workers, both legal and illegal, work mainly in farming, tourism and construction in Italy.
The group credits Italian investigators for prosecuting some "extreme" cases of exploitation cases, but contends less serious abuses often go unpunished.
The report focuses on migrant workers from Africa and Asia.
"Amnesty International's research found evidence of instances of widespread and/or severe labor exploitation, in violation of Italy's obligations under several international conventions on labor rights, in particular wages below the minimum wage agreed between unions and employers' organizations, arbitrary wage/salary reductions, delays or non-payment of wages and long working hours," the report said.
The places researchers visited included Rosarno, a southern farm town notorious for a violent tensions between natives and migrants in 2010. At least 38 people were wounded in clashes, which began when two migrants were shot with a pellet gun in an attack the migrants blamed on racism.
Under a crackdown by former Premier Silvio Berlusconi's conservative government, which included an anti-immigrant coalition partner, formal employment contracts are required before migrant workers can obtain residence permits. Thus migrants might feel pressured to accept unattractive job conditions in return for legal permission for themselves and their families to live in Italy.
"The employer's effective power to determine the worker's migration status can easily become a tool to intimidate or threaten workers, undermining their ability to negotiate better wages and working conditions," the report said.
Amnesty International's appeal for improvement of migrant labor conditions and laws risks falling on distracted ears.
Italy's Parliament is about to be dissolved ahead of early elections, and with many politicians campaigning for government stimulus to help spur jobs for Italians during a recession, migrant labor needs are unlikely to get much political attention soon.


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Susana Martinez, una loba con piel de cordero, a wolf in sheep's clothing
Something's very creepy about next month's race for governor. There's also something scary about the Susana Martinez message; her campaign speeches sound like tea party noise. And something is wrong with her sudden rise to power. Why is Martinez the nominee? Republicans have no substantive platform to offer the majority of New Mexicans. Therefore, their desperate strategy was to import a Hispanic from El Paso, Texas, hoping New Mexicans will base their vote on skin color more than policy issues. The scary thing is that this primitive strategy may work.
In her campaign rhetoric, Martinez will avoid specifics and just throw out glittering generalities like "government is corrupt." This is true. Governments are corrupt not only in New Mexico but across the nation, under both Republican and Democratic administrations. Moreover, they've been corrupt for generations. This does nothing to address the pressing issues facing us like unemployment, poverty, the education crisis, environmental decay & economic instability
It is disturbing to see polls showing Hispanics favoring Martinez. It must be because of her last name, because it's common knowledge that registered Democrats outnumber Republicans, especially among Hispanics. Are Hispanics falling for her empty promises of "bold change?" Hope not, because their livelihoods have never been of much concern to Republican leadership at either state or national levels. Everyone knows that Republican policies favor the wealthy, while Democrats are supposed to help the poor.
New Mexico is a poor state. I am a young Hispanic woman, who shares the same last name with Martinez. However, that is where the similarities end. My family has lived in New Mexico for generations. They reside in our poorest counties (Rio Arriba and San Miguel). The majority are civil servants, ranchers and laborers, or they work for small businesses. Policies favored by Republicans punish the typical Hispanic/working poor. Therefore I can't understand why a working class or middle class Hispanic would vote for the Republican candidate and against their interest. When Susana says that it's not the government's responsibility to create jobs, she needs to go talk to N.M. residents who depend on state jobs. I'm especially irked that these people, mi gente, are so willing to cast a vote for her when she's so willing to accept a paycheck from the state at their expense.
Susana is willing to take your vote, but she won't enact policies that benefit you or communities in any significant way. Her ideas on education are ill-informed. Her ignorant statements regarding border security demonstrate a lack of understanding concerning state vs. federal jurisdiction. We need a governor who seeks to provide us with the best education and gives us good job opportunities in both the public and private sectors. Susana is not this person.
My mother would warn us around election time to be wary of politicians who use their ethnicity to win favor among a group when their policies actually harm the very people who brought them into office. She called them "lobos con piel de cordero," or "wolves in sheep's clothing."


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The Death of the Author
"The Death of the Author" (French: La mort de l'auteur) is a 1967 essay by the French literary critic and theorist Roland Barthes (1915–1980). Barthes' essay argues against traditional literary criticism's practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text, and instead argues that writing and creator are unrelated. The title is a pun on Le Morte d'Arthur (The Death of Arthur), a 15th-century compilation of smaller Arthurian legend stories, written by Sir Thomas Malory.[1]
The essay's first English-language publication was in the American journal Aspen, no. 5–6 in 1967; the French debut was in the magazine Manteia, no. 5 (1968). The essay later appeared in an anthology of Barthes's essays, Image-Music-Text (1977), a book that also included his "From Work To Text".
In his essay, Barthes argues against the method of reading and criticism that relies on aspects of the author's identity to distill meaning from the author's work. In this type of criticism against which he argues, the experiences and biases of the author serve as a definitive "explanation" of the text. For Barthes, however, this method of reading may be apparently tidy and convenient but is actually sloppy and flawed: "To give a text an author" and assign a single, corresponding interpretation to it "is to impose a limit on that text."
Readers must thus, according to Barthes, separate a literary work from its creator in order to liberate the text from interpretive tyranny (a notion similar to Erich Auerbach's discussion of narrative tyranny in biblical parables).[2] Each piece of writing contains multiple layers and meanings. In a well-known quotation, Barthes draws an analogy between text and textiles, declaring that a "text is a tissue [or fabric] of quotations," drawn from "innumerable centers of culture," rather than from one, individual experience. The essential meaning of a work depends on the impressions of the reader, rather than the "passions" or "tastes" of the writer; "a text's unity lies not in its origins," or its creator, "but in its destination," or its audience.
No longer the focus of creative influence, the author is merely a "scriptor" (a word Barthes uses expressively to disrupt the traditional continuity of power between the terms "author" and "authority"). The scriptor exists to produce but not to explain the work and "is born simultaneously with the text, is in no way equipped with a being preceding or exceeding the writing, [and] is not the subject with the book as predicate." Every work is "eternally written here and now," with each re-reading, because the "origin" of meaning lies exclusively in "language itself" and its impressions on the reader.
Barthes notes that the traditional critical approach to literature raises a thorny problem: how can we detect precisely what the writer intended? His answer is that we cannot. He introduces this notion of intention in the epigraph to the essay, taken from Honoré de Balzac's story Sarrasine in which a male protagonist mistakes a castrato for a woman and falls in love with him. When, in the passage, the character dotes over his perceived womanliness, Barthes challenges his own readers to determine who is speaking, and about what. "Is it Balzac the author professing 'literary' ideas on femininity? Is it universal wisdom? Romantic psychology? ... We can never know." Writing, "the destruction of every voice," defies adherence to a single interpretation or perspective. (Barthes returned to Sarrasine in his book S/Z, where he gave the story a rigorous close reading.)
Acknowledging the presence of this idea (or variations of it) in the works of previous writers, Barthes cited in his essay the poet Stéphane Mallarmé, who said that "it is language which speaks." He also recognized Marcel Proust as being "concerned with the task of inexorably blurring ... the relation between the writer and his characters"; the Surrealist movement for employing the practice of "automatic writing" to express "what the head itself is unaware of"; and the field of linguistics as a discipline for "showing that the whole of enunciation is an empty process." Barthes' articulation of the death of the author is a radical and drastic recognition of this severing of authority and authorship. Instead of discovering a "single 'theological' meaning (the 'message' of the Author-God)," readers of a text discover that writing, in reality, constitutes "a multi-dimensional space," which cannot be "deciphered," only "disentangled."
"Refusing to assign a 'sece'aultimate te meaning" to text "liberates what may be called an anti-theological activity, an activity that is truly revolutionary since to refuse meaning is, in the end, to refuse God and his hypostases—reason, science, law."[3]
Influences and overview[edit]
Ideas presented in "The Death of the Author" were anticipated to some extent by New Criticism, a school of literary criticism important in the United States from the 1940s to the 1970s. New Criticism differs from Barthes' theory of critical reading because it attempts to arrive at more authoritative interpretations of texts. Nevertheless, the crucial New Critical precept of the "intentional fallacy" declares that a poem does not belong to its author; rather, "it is detached from the author at birth and goes about the world beyond his power to intend about it or control it. The poem belongs to the public."[4] Barthes himself stated that the difference between his theory and New Criticism comes in the practice of "disentangling". Barthes' work has much in common with the ideas of the "Yale school" of deconstructionist critics, which numbered among its proponents Paul de Man and Barbara Johnson in the 1970s, although they are not inclined to see meaning as the production of the reader. Barthes, like the deconstructionists, insists upon the disjointed nature of texts, their fissures of meaning and their incongruities, interruptions, and breaks. A. D. Nuttall's essay "Did Meursault Mean to Kill the Arab? The Intentional Fallacy Fallacy" (Critical Quarterly 10:1–2, June 1968, pp. 95–106) exposes the logical flaws in the "Intentional fallacy" argument.
Michel Foucault also addressed the question of the author in critical interpretation. In his 1969 essay "What is an Author?", he developed the idea of "author function" to explain the author as a classifying principle within a particular discursive formation. Foucault did not mention Barthes in his essay but its analysis has been seen as a challenge to Barthes' depiction of a historical progression that will liberate the reader from domination by the author.
Jacques Derrida paid ironic homage to Barthes' "The Death of the Author" in his essay "The Deaths of Roland Barthes".[5]
Literary theorist Seán Burke dedicated an entire book to opposing "The Death of the Author", pointedly called The Death and Return of the Author.[6]
J. C. Carlier, in the essay "Roland Barthes' Resurrection of the Author and Redemption of Biography" (Cambridge Quarterly 29:4, 2000, pp. 386–393), argues that the essay "The Death of the Author" is the litmus test of critical competence. Those who take it literally automatically fail that test. Those who take it ironically and recognize a work of fine satiric fiction are those who pass the test. Barthes was satirizing the stale notion that the author should be disregarded. This interpretation cannot be logically faulted, as Barthes' essay, taken literally, says that the essay means what any reader chooses it to mean. To say that Barthes did not intend such a meaning betrays the literal meaning of the essay and invokes the traditional notion of authorial identity and continuity. No wonder that Barthes signed the essay and claimed copyright: he thereby reasserted the traditional notion of authorship.
See also[edit]
- ^ Scala, E. (2002-08-16). Absent Narratives, Manuscript Textuality, and Literary Structure in Late Medieval England. ISBN 9780230107564.
- ^ Erich Auerbach, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, trans. Willard R. Trask. Princeton, 1953, repr. 1974 "Chapter 1"
- ^ Roland Barthes' "The Death of the Author"
- ^ William Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley (1946). "The Intentional Fallacy". Sewanee Review, vol. 54 (1946): 468–488. Revised and republished in The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry, University of Kentucky Press, 1954: 3–18.
- ^ "Jacques Derrida – The Deaths of Roland Barthes". Scribd. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
- ^ Burke, Seán (2010). The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault, and Derrida (3 ed.). Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0748637119.
- Barthes, Roland, trans. Richard Miller. S/Z. New York: Hill and Wang, 1974.
- Barthes, Roland. Susan Sontag, ed. A Barthes Reader. New York: Hill and Wang, 1982.
Further reading[edit]
- Content and critical essays
- Allen, Graham. Roland Barthes. London: Routledge, 2003.
- Culler, Jonathan. Barthes: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Gane, Mike, and Nicholas Gane, ed. Roland Barthes. London: SAGE Publications, 2004.
- Hix, H. L. Morte d'Author: An Autopsy. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.
- Knight, Diana. Critical Essays on Roland Barthes. New York: G.K Hall, 2000.
- Kolesch, Doris. Roland Barthes. New York: Campus, 1997.
- Moriarty, Michael. Roland Barthes. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1991.
- North, Michael, "Authorship and Autography," in Theories and Methodologies. PMLA, Vol. 116, No. 5. (Oct., 2001), pp. 1377–1385.
- Context and other post-structuralists
- Burke, Séan. The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault, and Derrida. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1998.
- Image-Music-Text
- Thody, Philip. Book review of Image-Music-Text, by Roland Barthes; trans. Stephen Heath. Review in The American Journal of Sociology," Vol. 85, No. 6. (May, 1980), pp. 1461–1463.
- Barthes and feminist theory
- Walker, Cheryl. "Feminist Literary Criticism and the Author. Critical Inquiry Vol. 16, No. 3 (Spring, 1990), pp. 551–571.
- Flip, illustrated cartoon version
- Course, Anne and Philip Thody, ed. Richard Appignanesi. Barthes for Beginners. Cambridge: Icon Books, 1997.


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Partridge Eye
Partridge Eye (Occhio di Pernice), commonly known by the acronym O.P., was created in 1971 through the historic collaboration between the Borbonese brand and the Redwall company in Bologna, becoming a mark of distinction of the brand's collections. The innovative O.P. print, produced entirely within the company, is derived from a special leather treatment that highlights the texture, giving a micro-speckled effect. Alongside it, a refined line of chamois bags was created that perfectly married with Borbonese's sophisticated design. The final effect of Occhio di Pernice is a neutral-coloured leather, a soft and light chamois that is nonetheless durably resistant to wear. The non-uniform appearance of the texture is the special characteristic of this technique that renders every hide unique and inimitable. Leading the way in modern bags, the O.P. print revolutionised bag design, giving life to light, unstructured models without internal linings, a real innovation in the field of accessories. It is no coincidence that it met with immediate success with the international jet set, becoming a must-have look for every high-society woman in the 1970s and the brand's trademark and continuing to be highly fashionable today. Occhio di Pernice is present on bags to small leather goods, clothing and homeware. Over time, it has also been combined with precious materials such as python skin and crocodile skin, as well as new materials, the result of the constant research that distinguishes Borbonese. The brand's creative direction has never renounced the O.P. print, rather constantly seeking new ways of developing it, with a view to allowing the motif to evolve in micro- and macro-O.P. form and finding different printing techniques to use with the symbolic print. We therefore find it in various colour variations and reproduced on fabric and cashmere.
Bracket fastening, an iconic rigid element available in both aged gold and the pale gold, appears on various historic and current Borbonese models such as the Shetland Bag and the Shire Bag. Over the years it has been used in various positions, with both precious and smooth leathers.
Luna Bag
The Luna bag is an iconic bag that symbolises the quality and elegance of Borbonese bags. It was created to commemorate the first moon landing but is still one of the most popular models on the market today. Designed in the late 1970s, it was an innovative product that met with immediate success: it was the first unlined, completely unstructured bag. The Luna bag was presented as a cross-body bag that was soft, light and more flexible than the structured, rigid bags in vogue at the time. Its revolutionary shape, unstructured style with sartorial stitching and its lightness, which is not at the expense of the quality or resistance of the product, were the main factors in the success of the Luna bag. Initially proposed in combination with Borbonese's historic material, O.P. chamois, it was also produced later in other colour variations and more modern, technological materials, such as PVC and jet, becoming a best-seller for the brand. It was also the first bag to carry the Borbonese logo – on the rivets, brackets and galvanized finished parts, a true precursor to modern marketing techniques, paving the way for other labels, which also began to use their own names to brand their products. With the Spring-Summer 2010 Collection, the Luna bag wall was produced, an array of iconic bags that the creative team at Borbonese conceived and produced to mark the brand's centenary.
Savile bag
The Savile bag is another completely unstructured Borbonese shopping bag. Four panels form a square, highlighted by four screw rivets at the central intersection. Its strongest characteristic is its handles, which are as one with the main body of the bag: the Savile is a bag with a sartorial flavour because like a garment, it toys with the body of its wearer, softly hugging it. With double handles, open, with detachable shoulder strap, available in four sizes and various materials, it lends itself to every occasion.
Sioux a bag whose construction with two squares retains the flavour of luxury leather that distinguishes the brand, through the use of bases and hardware in aged gold. The front panel is decorated with 16 different types of embroidery, all entirely hand-stitched. Mirrors, beads and metal balls are also applied by hand to the panel. The tassels at the base and the thread-work that frames the bag are also hand-produced by craftsmen.


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DWTS Karina Smirnoff Attends MAXIM "BIG GAME WEEKEND" And Leigh Steinberg Super Bowl Party
Doesn't Dancing With The Stars Karina Smirnoff look amazing again? Over the weekend and while in New York City, she attended Talent Resources Sports presents MAXIM "BIG GAME WEEKEND" sponsored by AQUAhydrat, Heavenly Resorts, Wonderful Pistachios, Touch by Alyssa Milano, and Philippe Chow. Karina also the 2014 Leigh Steinberg Super Bowl Party on 230 Fifth Avenue. You can lots more amazing photos of her at Zimbio Pictures and Getty Images. Beautiful. I think I like the green dress the best. How about you?


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Hi Everyone!
Here is a summary of our most recent Genealogy Program at the Schaumburg Township District Library on Tuesday evening, February 8, 2011. Our guest speaker for the evening was Steve Szabados. Steve presented a program titled "Mining Census Records".
We did not get buried by any vicious storm for the evening program! Oh No! That snowstorm came the week before on Tuesday evening when we received about 20 inches of windy, blizzard, drifting snow!
We had a great turnout for this wintry program. We had 70 participants who were willing to give winter a kick in the pants and come out for a great presentation!
This was the first time that Steve had presented a program at our library to our group. I can already say that this will not be the last time he makes a genealogy presentation at our library!!
I started the program at 7:30 PM with the introduction of new participants. Boy did we have a house full of new participants at this program! We had about 10 new participants who shared with all of us their name, their description of the their newness to genealogy and some of the surnames they were researching. Each new participant received a Welcome package from me with some good tips on how to move forward on their research journey using a variety of resources both within and outside our library.
I then reviewed our "Handout" package of electronic handouts from the library genealogy blog I author. I brought those in audience up to speed with some other genealogy programs in our area offered by other genealogy groups and societies. I also reviewed some other points of interest I came across on some genealogy news and topics and expressed why I thought some of the topics were of importance to help researchers.
You can easily find all of our monthly library genealogy "Newsletters" in this blog along the right sidebar. You can also find all of our monthly library genealogy "Handouts" in this blog along the right sidebar. Take some time to look at the current issues as well as the past ones. These are PDF files so you can look at them from the within the blog or download them to your own computer. All are filled with electronic bookmarks, hyperlinks, internet URL links for you to quickly find material and to link to topics of interest on the internet. That is the beauty of these electronic files!
Steve then started his presentation at around 8:05 PM.
I am a strong believer in using Census records in your genealogy research. They
are the "meat and potatoes" of resources for genealogy research. They should be a researcher's first choice of basic research on their family. Using census records is something you need to always keep "revisiting". You may have learned a little more about a particular family you are researching. Reviewing that family in the census with your newly discovered information may shed even more about that family within the census records.
Steve had a wonderful PowerPoint presentation of the material on Census Records. He also provided us with a great handout on this material. Steve was also kind enough to allow me to share the handout as a PDF file link within this blog posting. You can take a look at Steve's handout for this presentation here at:
Steve Szabados February 8, 2011 Mining Census Records Handout
Steve gave us a great review of what the census is, how it came about and how it has evolved over the years. From 1790 to 1840, our U.S. Census only identified the Head of Household by name. Anyone else in the house was just statistically captured. It wasn't until 1850 that each member of the house was identified by name. It took until the 1880 census when the individuals that were named were also identified as their relation to the head of household. Now the researcher could see these relationships from 1880 onward in the census.
More names and relationships, something all genealogists like to see as opposed to just head of household and statistics on the number of males and females within age groupings.
Steve showed us many examples of census data as they were included over time by showing us the actual images of the census data where you could find these occurrences. It is amazing how humorous some of the examples can be of what census takers noted and wrote on the ledgers they were compiling!
All genealogy researchers should know that the U.S Federal Census for 1890 was destroyed by fire in 1921. Therefore, in essence there is no data available from this census save for maybe thousands of records that were saved from a few isolated geographic areas. So in essence there is no data for this census enumeration that genealogists can tap into. This is unfortunate because it covered such a time of heavy immigration when our first ancestors to arrive in the United States may have very well been captured in this census. Alas! Such is genealogy luck!
Steve offered the researcher some alternatives to consider as "workaround" substitutes such as:
- City Directories
- Voting Lists
- State Censuses that occurred midway between the decennial amount for the Federal Census e.g. 1885 or 1895. State censuses were irregularly taken. All states did not do one in 1885 or 1895. So you have to realize you may not find this as a workable alternative to the 1890 census for the areas of your research.
- 1890 Veterans Schedule for Union military personnel.
Steve also made us aware of the universal issue of the spelling of names that occurs in online census material. You have to be aware that the name you know your ancestor went under may not be the name in the index associated with the online census. Errors could have easily been made in transcribing the data from the image to the index. Misspellings can easily occur here as well as omissions. You need to be flexible and creative when inputting your search name in the search box.
One resource Steve mentioned was to understand the use of the Soundex to help
as a tool when you can't find the name as you search. Soundex was a coding process to convert Surnames to a phonetic sounding approach. Most online census databases can be searched by using Soundex. Your search results may still be large but you stand a good chance of finding who you seek using this tool. When you find someone using Soundex you will be amazed as to how their surname may have been butchered in transcription. You may also see from the image how horribly written the name may also have been.
Steve also pointed out that when all else fails and you can't find your ancestor in the census data online you may have to resort to a "page by page" viewing of the enumeration district that you think your ancestor may have lived within. This is generally easier to do for large uninhabited farm areas of counties in which the number of people is smaller than for a large city. But you still have to have some idea of geographic location in order to browse census data on a page by page search looking for the elusive ancestor.
Take a close look at Steve's handout from the link earlier on in this post. He also provides a very nice list of Internet web sites to assist you with census research in one form or another.
Steve's presentation was a WOW!!
He is a natural speaker with a great voice and a great pace to his presentation. He is very knowledgeable about the census and just about anything in genealogy as evidenced from some of the questions he received. He knows how to put his material together with PowerPoint to make his point in an effective and often humorous manner!
I certainly believe most everyone left the program more knowledgeable about U.S. Census Data than when they arrived. Steve had everyone interested and involved until not only the end of the presentation but until we had to start reminding people that the library will be closing soon and they unfortunately had to leave!!
I am going to review what other programs topics Steve can present and invite him back again for another presentation.
Thank you Steve for your fantastic presentation!
Thank you to all of you that came out to our program!
See you again next month.
Tony Kierna
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my guess, neither. i think the specific history of french colonialism is a better place to start looking personally. That plus the sort of French secularism that led the the Hebdo cartoons and which is so incompatible with Islamic extremism.Why have multiple attacks succeeded in France and yet in England we've managed to escape a major attack since 7/7? Better intelligence, or more of an issue of border security?
Here we have no principles, we just think, vaguely, that people should be nice to each other to the extent thats possible, and ignore each other when niceness is too difficult.


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Carolyn says: "I keep thinking of Doe as a bit of a mash-up…
For one, it represents my love of print mixing.
And two–which is also what I might like most about it–is that it speaks to the idea of finding beauty and character in things that are raw and sometimes imperfect.
Perfection is also overrated.
Matching is totally overrated.
The designs are a big mix of things that have worked their way into my life and mind over the last year and a half, including, but not limited to the following: my quilt pattern work, the (new) old digs that I've landed in and will be forever dreaming up projects for, having watched a few too many reruns of Saved By The Bell while hand sewing (yes, I'll admit it…), and my forever love of grids, clean lines, and structure against the reality of what is hand drawn.
More so than with my previous lines, this one started with a strong sense of color, which the name–Doe (in my mind)–seemed to speak to. I was completely allured by a palette that was natural and earthy with lots of creams, white on white, caramels, and browns. Doe seemed to express that while also being simple, clean and totally unfussy."
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Coral Communities in the Seychelles began in 2006 to assess the impact of climate change on coral reefs and informing plans to help safeguard these precious ecosystems and the communities that depend on them.
Coral reefs support more marine life than any other ocean ecosystem, and are a favorite haunt for many divers. In addition to being physically and biologically spectacular, coral reefs also support the livelihoods of more than half a billion people. Funded by Mitsubishi Corporation, volunteers have examined the health and diversity of coral reefs of these islands. Research goals were to determine the conservation status of reefs in the region, identify key threats to them, and identify conservation management actions that could be implemented to protect this important resource for future generations.
Mitsubishi Corporation and Earthwatch are helping to train the next generation of conservation leaders through the Coral Communities in the Seychelles program.
Biological research conducted by Earthwatch volunteers investigates the ability of corals to tolerate and adapt to changing climate.
Mitsubishi Corporation funds six community stakeholder places each year, which are targeted toward early-career scientists. These individuals are selected by Earthwatch and the project staff from the Indian Ocean region, and they play an essential role in social science research by conducting semi-structured interviews in Seychellois communities, under the guidance of the Earthwatch team.
As well as contributing to the research component, the community stakeholders take part in a number of learning sessions, which help them to develop numerous skills of importance to their careers – such as science communication, how to develop a research questionnaire, how to write a CV, presentation skills, and using problem-solving tools. By helping these individuals to establish contact with leading scientists in a relevant field and a motivated peer group, these teams also help early-career scientists to broaden their professional network, giving them a chance to share ideas and gain inspiration.
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Earthwatch research activities in the Seychelles take place on the islands of Curieuse, Mahe, and Praslin and explore how anticipated changes in reef systems due to global climate change will impact both biological and social systems. The biological research, which is conducted by Earthwatch volunteers each year, investigates the ability of corals to tolerate, or adapt to, a changing climate. Because coral reefs also support the livelihoods of millions of people worldwide, it is important that the impacts of climate change on the reef are not considered in isolation. In the Seychelles, climate change, which is likely to affect the growth, abundance, and diversity of corals, may also dramatically reduce the number of people whose livelihoods can be supported by a reef. Therefore, in 2011 Earthwatch initiated a social sciences component of the research that aims to describe the dependencies of local communities on the reef and to identify the mechanisms for developing social resilience to change, through community engagement, capacity development, and changes in management.
The Seychelles has long been considered a resilient community, based on well-developed food markets and high levels of employment, but this research is already revealing a number of interesting findings, including a pattern of fisheries dependency that suggests that these communities are in fact vulnerable to climate change. At a local level in the Seychelles, the Earthwatch team has a long-standing relationship with management authorities and is in a position to translate this knowledge into management action that will help decrease the threats to the natural resources and people of the Seychelles from climate change.
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"In the early days of the sugar plantations, lunch was a simple affair. Plantation workers gathered in the fields for their mid-day meal. The Japanese laborers would bring teriyaki beef with rice and pickled vegetables. Seated next to them might be their Filipino neighbors with the traditional dish adobo or perhaps a pork or chicken stew. The Koreans had their kalbi or marinated ribs and the Chinese a rice noodle and vegetable dish called chow fun. Hawaiians were known for their kalua pig, roasted in an underground oven called an imu. It wasn't long before they began to share their foods with one another and the "mixed plate" was born.
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sea star, also called starfish, echinoderm of the class Asteroidae, common in tide pools. Sea stars vary in size from under 1⁄2 in. (1.3 cm) to over 3 ft (90 cm) in diameter. They are commonly dull shades of yellow or orange, but there are many brightly colored ones as well. There are about 2,000 species distributed throughout the world, mostly in shallow water along rocky coasts.
The body of most species consists of a central disk from which radiate a number of tapering arms—usually five, but up to 25 in some species. Some sea stars are pentagonal, the points of the disk not extending into arms. Each arm contains an extension of the body cavity and body organs. A network of calcareous plates located beneath the skin forms an external skeleton; the plates are joined by connective tissue and muscle, giving the apparently rigid sea star considerable flexibility. Calcareous spines, some of them movable, project from the skin.
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Padres honored for chance to wear No. 42
Club recognizes children from Jackie Robinson YMCA in pregame ceremony
SAN DIEGO -- A wide grin washed across Huston Street's face Tuesday when he pushed his way through the home clubhouse doors at Petco Park and saw his jersey hanging in his locker.
What's so unusual about that? It wasn't just his jersey, but the No. 42 that was hanging in each and every one of the Padres' clubhouse lockers.
"It's just ... cool," said Street, the Padres' closer.
On Tuesday, Major League Baseball celebrated Jackie Robinson Day, and for the sixth consecutive year, all players and on-field personnel wore No. 42 in honor the legendary Hall of Famer, who 67 years ago broke baseball's color barrier.
The pregame ceremony at Petco Park featured 42 children from the Jackie Robinson YMCA in San Diego standing along the first-base line in Padres' No. 42 Jerseys. Representatives from the Padres' RBI (Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities) leagues were along the third-base line.
Padres executive chairman Ron Fowler and team ownership presented checks of $2,500 to each of the five local RBI leagues.
The ceremonial first pitch before the game between the Padres and Rockies was thrown by Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholar Kenneth Patterson.
Street has always looked forward to this day, and not because he has an appreciation for the history of the game. As a closer, he thought that it was only fitting that the last player to wear No. 42 was former Yankees closer Mariano Rivera.
Street, who picked up his fourth save of the season Monday night, was looking forward to wearing No. 42 and watching the pregame ceremony.
"It's really special," Street said. "The barrier that he broke in baseball transcends the world, really. What he stood for, the example he set, what he stood for as a human being. He made it better for everybody and taught us. He deserves recognition."
The pregame ceremony Tuesday also included a pregame performance at the Park in the Park by the Jackie Robinson YMCA drum line, the Thunder Squad.
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The online edition of the Symphony's PICK3 campaign continues to be available all weekend. To get great seats at a signficant discount click here. While you are trying to figure out what concerts to attend this coming season, you also have to decide what to do about the Sunday afternoon (September 30) challenge. The San Antonio Brass, Camerata San Antonio and The Arts @ Coker all have concerts at the same time. But, there is a solution. Camerata and the Brass offer their concerts in different locations on different days. So, it is is possible to hear all three events. But, don't wear yourself out. The Symphony season opens October 5 & 6 and the Symphony presents Lang Lang on Tuesday, October 16. Save some of that concert-attending energy for those events. Here is the Sunday lineup:
San Antonio Brass offers From Russia with Love
Sunday, September 30, 2:00pm – Beacon Hill Presbyterian, San Antonio
Tuesday, October 2, 7:00pm – Abiding Presence Lutheran, San Antonio
Sunday, October 7, 5:00pm – St Mark Presbyterian, Boerne
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Kerrville: Thursday, September 27 @ 7:30pm
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San Antonio: Sunday, September 30 @ 3:00pm
On Sunday, September 30 at 3 p.m. there is a free concert at The Arts @ Coker. Soprano Laura Claycomb and pianist Keith Weber perform.
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Well hello there, I've missed you all. I have a great little bedroom update to share today. Yes we're still moving slowly along in that room. I've never really had any space that I could call done so I'm determined to keep on chugging along one little piece at a time until I get it where I'm content to move along.
Do you remember when I mentioned that I had purchased a lamp to place on the dresser and I couldn't decide if it was a right for the space? Well I decided I agreed with some of the comments I received and back it went to the store, I liked the lamp well enough but just not in that spot. I've learned if I'm not loving it 100% then to just return it and try something else. I always end up happier than if I kept it and tried to make it work.
The lamp covered up some of the wall gallery and the neutral colors weren't balancing against the other colorful elements of the room. On the trip back to Home Goods to return the lamp I found a great apothecary jar and at $19 I grabbed it and ran, especially considering I've seen ones for three times that amount in other places. It was the right shape and scale for the top of the dresser and I liked the light air feel of the glass, but it was still missing some color.
I contemplated a few different options to fill it, including glass fishing floats or colorful stones but in the end I decided it was the perfect spot to add a little life to the area in the form of a small terrarium . I had some small square glass vases stashed in the closet so I added those to the mix as well. I like how the square vases contrasted against the curvy lines of the Apothecary jar.
I was hoping that it would be a quick and easy project and it was. Once I had the supplies (which took 2 trips to the store because I couldn't make up my mind) it took less than an hour to put together. The most difficult part was lowering the plant into the jar, which took a little careful maneuvering to settle it in there.
On the second trip to Home Depot I bought my supplies. I already had my Apothecary Jar from Home Goods and two other glass containers I'd use as pots. I purchased a few African Violets and a Parlor Palm which are great indoor houseplants, thrive in low to medium light conditions and don't mind being a little bit humid which can happen in a closed glass jar. Side Note, I bought way too many plants. I only ended up needing 3, one for each pot. I also picked up some potting soil and decorative stones. Most people also recommend using activated charcoal but I couldn't find it so I skipped that step. We'll see if I live to regret it.
After that I added a small amount of the decorative stones to the bottom. Since there aren't any drainage holes I wanted to leave the water a place to gather at the bottom in case I overwatered. I actually had too many in the photo above and ended up taking some out, but you get the idea.
I placed a small amount of soil then lowered the African Violet carefully into place. At some point I may have wondered aloud how the #$*@ can I get this plant into that jar. After a little trial and error I found adding just a small amount of soil and then filling in around it was the best method. I ended up having to brush some of the soil off of the leaves this way but it all turned out good in the end.
It got a little messy so be sure to work outside or cover your work services to keep the clean up easy.
I planted another African Violet into one of the smaller square planters and the Parlor Palm into the larger vase, this time without the #$#^&. That was it, easy peasy.
I'm loving how simple this was and the color and sparkly touch it adds to this side of the room.
Also the clear containers that allow the pebbles to show through are super cute.
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We the undersigned urge you and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Government to cancel the "Dog-Meat Festival" which is held around late June in Yulin every year.
Every year at the Yulin Dog Meat festival in China it's estimated 10,000 dogs are horrifically slaughtered.
The discussion and outrage regarding this issue from the public and media is becoming more intense, and will keep on attracting negative publicity for the region which will impact on tourism.
Orange for Animal Cruelty Awareness
This petition closed over 4 years ago
Animals Asia founder and CEO Jill Robinson said:
"There is a strong hint that the local authorities see the dog festival as more harmful than beneficial to Yulin. We've long argued that any...
Animals Asia founder and CEO Jill Robinson said:
"There is a strong hint that the local authorities see the dog festival as more harmful than beneficial to Yulin. We've long argued that any short-term boost to traders will be small in comparison to the long-term international damage. We also know that for a country increasingly concerned with food safety - dog eating is a big problem. It's an industry characterised by criminality, cruelty and poor hygiene. Dogs are stolen from their homes – increasingly by being darted and drugged in the street. Poisons that will find their way into the meals of the festival-goers. "Without a law for banning dog meat consumption, the local authorities have limited options available in terms of stopping the festival. However, the content in their own posters suggests a workable alternative route map. Invest in greater scrutiny and enforcement of food safety, investigate the sourcing of the dogs and continue to advise of the health issues surrounding eating dog meat. The criminality and health risks surrounding dog meat eating should not be overlooked." As part of its annual opposition to the festival Animals Asia has written an open letter to the local authorities spelling out the reasons why ending the festival would be the best decision for the region. In addition Animals Asia has forwarded extensive research detailing the violent criminality that is part of the industry.