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May 17, 1984
PIX #1 - Offices and General Stores, Haydenville Mining and Manufacturing Co.
PIX #2 - Nelsonville Sewer Pipe Co.
(AUTHOR'S NOTE: Today's article is the sixth and last part in a series of articles about the towns and villages along the CHV&T railroad. Next week's article may contain a few pictures from southern Ohio for which space has not been available, along with "Feedback." I am sure there are some old employ- ees of the railroad still living in this area. They may have interesting tales to tell. I hope they will call me.)
Leaving Columbus on the imaginary train trip we head south into a beautiful part of Ohio. The Remembrancer mentions Lancaster as "the first important city south of Columbus."
"From a geographical point of view, Lancaster ismost favorably situated in the very heart of a country rich in minerals, coal and pasture land; also large amounts of natural gas of a very dry quality with high illuminative power, without unpleasant odor."
Already back in the 1890's Lancaster had several carriage factories, two large manufacturers of agriculture implements, three flourmills, grain ele- vators, pottery, two cigar factories, tile and brick works, bottling plant, soap works, glass factory, creamery and brewery. In later years, shoe fac- tories located there.
Buckeye Lake, not far from Lancaster, was a popular recreation and fishing resort.
Lancaster also had the Boy's Industrial School of Ohio, the Fairfield County Fair Grounds and the Methodist Conference Camp Grounds.
Today that area of Ohio has newly developed state parks with lodging and camping facilities, fishing and hiking areas, and nature spots such as Old Man's Cave and Rock House.
Logan is located on what The Remembranceer termed "a beautiful plateau two miles long and three quarters wide, inthe center of the great mining dis- tricts of the Hocking Valley. The town's importance comes from its rich mineral fields and fine agriculture surroundings...contributing to its trade, manufacturing and shipping advantages."
The town back then was at the junction of a spur of the CHV&T line which went into Athens, Straitsville and several other stops. At Logan was The Depot House where all trains on the Hocking valley, both north and south bound, made lunch and dinner stops. It also provided sleeping rooms.
Among Logan's manufacturers were the Logan Fire Clay Co. and the Logan Foun- dry and Machine Works.
The clay companymade paving brick, fire brick and ground fire clays. It also made vitrified artistic paving tile for sidewalks. They operated 12 kilns with a maximum daily capacity of 40,000 bricks.
The foundry made plows, coal cars, car wheels, boiler fronts, columns, and iron fronts for buildings, wrapping machines and printing presses.
Haydenville, located on the spur of the CHV&T that ran to Athens, was not an incorporated village but was the property of Haydenville Mining & Manufactur- ing Co., which employed the adult population of 25 families, consisting of 700 people.
The company was the first to demonstrate the value of Hocking clay which became famous for almost every line of clay goods. They manufactured sewer pipe, chimney pipe, fittings, paving blocks, sidewalk tiles, terra cota brick, window sills, wall furring, column covering and wall and cornice fur- ring.
Being a "company" town they disallowed saloons and other degrading forms of busness and entertainment. There was a Methodist Episcopal church said to be a credit to large communities.
The Remembrance tells about Nelsonville, 40 miles south of Columbus, "...in the midst of the largest bituminous coal fields in Ohio...the surrounding country being rich in coal, iron ore, limestone, and fine clays, in many cases to depths of 48 feet. Also white clay and oxide of iron enough to paint every building in the union...20 coal mines in active operation... cheap fuel and good water."
The Nelsonville Sewer Pipe Co. manufactured sewer pipe, paving block, flue linings, chimney tops and fire brick.
The Nelsonville Foundry & Machine Co. made hoisting engines, coal dumpers, elevator and conveying chain, ventilating fans, mining cars, revolving coal screens and car wheels.
Athens is the county seat of Athens County and the home of Ohio University, the first institution of higher learning endowed by Congress. OU was also the first one established in the territory north of the Ohio River.
In addition to schools, churches and businesses, the town had two manufactur- ing plants.
The Athens Brick Co. made brick for building, paving and sewage purposes. It was capable of making 50,000 bricks per day.
The Crippen Wagon Co. made farm wagons.
Gallipolis was often referred to as "Detroit of the Ohio River." According to The Remembrancer, "It commands the admiration of all who ever visited it on account of its fine scery and the fertility of the surrounding country, and a beautiful park, covering six acres, bounded on one side by the princi- pal business street, and onthe other by the waters of the placid Ohio River, where looking up the valley, one can see the approach of its waters five miles distant."
There were also some manufacturing plants in Gallipolis.
Enos Hill & Co. made marine and stationery engines, all kinds of mill machin- ery and sheet iron.
The Fuller & Hutsinpiller Co. made furniture.
The Gallipolis Furniture Co. made oak bedroom suites.
The Anchor Mills, established in 1835, milled "The Amazon" brand flour. The mill could produce 80 barrels per day.
The State Epileptic Asylum was also located in Gallipolis.
Located in Meigs County, Middleport is 215 miles above Cincinnati on the Ohio River. The Remembrancer described it as "one of the handsomest towns on the river, the surrounding area being rugged hill country with pleasant valleys."
The Middleport Flour Co. is the oldest in Ohio established in 1835.
The Middletown Granite Brick Co. produced paving, common brick and hallwood blocks with a daily capacity of 25,000 bricks.
The Riverdale Brick Co. made paving, building and sewer blocks with a daily capacity of 20,000 bricks.
The German Furniture Co. produced 50 chamber suites per day.
The Ohio Machine Co. made boiler makers, brick making machinery and general machinists.


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From Friday the 12th to Tuesday the 16th of July the Fair of Los Boliches is on, so if right now you are on holiday at Hotel Yaramar, your hotel in Fuengirola, we recommend you visit the fairground as the fair is held there.
Tomorrow, Tuesday the 16th of July is in fact the most important day of this event as it is the day of Virgen del Carmen, the patron saint of Los Boliches.
Although this is celebrated by all locals in Los Boliches it is lived in a different and a more intense way.
Tomorrow in fact at 12:00 P.M. there will be a mass in honour of the Virgin in the Church of Los Boliches.
Being a man of the sea is a very hard and risky job, so due to the protection they believe the virgin gives them every 16th of July many of them take her out in procession as a way to express their gratitude.
This procession starts at 8:45 P.M. is considered by many as the most unique and special of the year as it ends with the Virgin in the sea surrounded by small boats and fireworks.
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PicLits was conceived by Terry Friedlander in 2002:
"I read an article from USA TODAY which talked about the most often searched words and listed in the top ten was writing/poetry. The numbers that I read were staggering. Add that to my "refrigerator magnets, and a personal appreciation for photography and the emergence of the INTERNET/computers and you have a entrepreneurial expensive project. Being reluctant to take 'no' for an answer..., I persisted. We actually launched the site in July of 2008. It will be four years this July. We did a few school presentations in Boise and Twin Falls, presented at CUE in Palm Springs in 2010, and that has been the extent of our marketing and zero advertising."Terry admits that he is not a "computer person," and feels that for the site to keep going it needs a new home, new blood, new ideas, or all three. There has been a substantial initial investment and there are ongoing tangible costs to running PicLits (hosting, photo purchasing, "wordsmithing," etc.), and the dilemma he faces is that to create a premium or revenue model for the site and to take it to the next level (or even mobile) will require an energy or financial investment he is not prepared to make.
PicLits seems to have a lot going for it: the site averages 260,000 visitors and 1.2 million page views per month. There are 40,000 registered users, most of whom are teachers from seven different countries.
Have you used PicLits? Do you like it? Is it worth saving? Let us know in the comments, join the EdIncubator PicLits group at Classroom 2.0, and/or come on Wednesday to hear Terry tell his story and help brainstorm how to save PicLits.
Date: Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
Time: 5pm Pacific / 8 pm Eastern (international times here)
Duration: 1 hour
Location: In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). Log in at http://futureofed.info. The Blackboard Collaborate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Blackboard Collaborate, please visit the support and configuration page.
Recordings: The full Blackboard Collaborate recording is at https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2012-05-02.1718.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350.
The good news was that Seattle during the seventies and eighties was inspirational to Terry's desire to pursue his entrepreneurial dreams. The dream came to light on one of the many grey, rainy days in Seattle. The idea was to create a retail store for professional sports team merchandise. With suggestions and tips from numerous friends, Terry modeled it after a store called "The Locker Room" based in Washington, D.C. For experience, Terry spent five weeks in D.C. following the owner around while taking copious notes and pictures. This period of self-employment is commonly known as instant poverty.
Starting with practically zero dollars, Terry found a financial partner and a location for the new retail store on one of the busiest prostitution corners in the Pacific Northwest. The Seattle version of "The Locker Room" opened in 1976 on the day that the Seattle Seahawks NFL team played their first game. Happily, the store was filled with Seahawks merchandise and business was good from the start.
Sixteen years to the day later, Terry signed the papers and sold the company (which had grown to 10 stores). Alas, at this moment Terry's identity also went missing. Inevitably, the earring, motorcycle, and tattoo that followed resulted in withdrawal therapy, stern words from his wife, and a serious mid-life crisis.
However, after regaining consciousness (he started cycling), Terry's restless brain and love for the outdoors led to a move to Ketchum, Idaho. PicLits.com emerged one cold, Idaho night near the turn of the century, from a combination of refrigerator poetry, an interesting article in USA Today, some Sun Valley Pale Ale, and a roaring fireplace.
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"Buy Local" is a popular battle cry these days when it comes to anything from small, local businesses to local food. Part of the emphasis, no doubt, on spending money in local communities is due to the declining economic stability the United States has faced in recent years. Buying local ensures that your money stays close to the community in which you live and directly helps the local economy. Often, by buying local, you can also ensure that less money gets lost along the way and have the satisfaction of knowing that the producer of whatever item you've purchased receives more of your money. However, the "buy local" mantra could also be slightly changed to "invest local" with great results for small communities across the country when residents look at investing in local companies.
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Keeping your investments local can not only have great effects for the local economy but also for your portfolio through the development of sustainable local business networks. Studies have shown that small companies are often more profitable than large corporations and retain two to four times more investment funds than a large corporation would (presumably due to overhead). Local banks often have their fingers on the pulse of the local market and can point you in the right direction for making such an investment. Check your local activity boards or local library for investment clubs as well since many businesses rely on "friends and family" networks provide funding for their businesses and as such, many look to local investment clubs for support and advice.
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If you have trouble at first finding where your money will do the most good, don't be discouraged. Due to current regulations by the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding small public offering and local stock exchanges, current laws are highly restrictive when it comes to investment choices of unaccredited (read: not in the top two percent of wealthy Americans) investors unless legal documentation is in place, creating obstacles to local investment strategies. Unfortunately, the legal documentation required in these cases can cost up to $100,000, which is prohibitive, to say the least, for most investors.
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Luckily, changes to these laws and restrictions could be simple, painless, and inexpensive. Modest security reforms could be put in place to exempt investors from needing legal release to invest in locally owned small businesses, and to allow the formation of co-op investment funds and micro-investment funds so that small investors can pool their money and invest in their local economies. It is, after all, better for both small business owners and local investors who can both reap significant financial rewards. Personal finance investing and local businesses can join forces to fuel sustainable, local networks and help boost small economies – and large nest eggs.
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I have had a note from Else Churchill, genealogist for the Society of Genealogists in London, to say that the society's enquiry and look up service is closed for six weeks whilst it is under review. You can still seek advice from the organisation's telephone advice service, details can be found on www.sog.org.uk.
Else has also stated that if you have an order for hard copy from data found on Findmypast or SoG Data online, please forward it to events @ sog.org.uk. All other queries will still be dealt with.
On another front, I've also noticed that the society's index of data available online has been updated on February 20th, and can be viewed on a PDF file at www.sog.org.uk/online/datsets.pdf.
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The GENES Blog (GEnealogy News and EventS) ceased publication on 14 FEB 2020. You will now find all the latest genealogy news and views on Scottish GENES at https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com. The GENES Blog archive will remain live, with a record of the genealogy news for Britain and Ireland from 2013-2020. Thank you!
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A mother entrepreneur finds her passion in creating tools to help every child succeed.
INTERVIEW | by Victor Rivero
Dan Dan Yang had traversed the globe looking for educational tools to inspire her daughter (pictured with her) to develop a positive attitude toward lifelong learning. Her dissatisfaction with what was out there, and her child's fascination with her smartphone — prompted her to realize that needs and interests of children just weren't being met in the existing market. Consequently, she decided to create VINCI, a safe, child-friendly and technologically advanced early learning system specifically designed for young children. She wanted to engage, educate and empower them — and with a team of forward-thinking educators, developers and designers — that is exactly what she has done. Her own fascinating story is worth a look; here, that passion flows through into her current work as she creates something that every parent would want for his or her child.
Victor: How does VINCI address some of your concerns about early childhood education?
Dan: With VINCI we are trying to standardize early childhood education, using technology as a tool. We all know children are born with a very similar kind of mind. They smile, flip, sit up, and walk all at a similar age. However, their minds develop very differently according to how their environment and surrounding conditions are – how parents interact with them, and how they learn at home and at school. We want to introduce a simple, yet powerful process for parents and teachers to follow to maximize the efficiency of raising smart kids.
Victor: Why technology?
1) Adults don't have enough time so technology helps to keep everything on track
2) We've got a lot more to learn, and a lot more people to compete with, so technology can help to streamline what skills we need to gain
3) Today's technology, combining touch screen, 3D animation, cloud based computing etc. becomes so much more interactive, fun, and playful, that it simply offers a powerful incentive for children to be interested in (and focused working on). Our case studies tell/show us that when it is VINCI time, kids are calm and focused.
Victor: What does VINCI Blended Learning do? What are the benefits?
Dan: VINCI Blended Learning brings the proven blended pedagogy, which is widely used from higher education to early childhood education. It combines digital learning with traditional curricular materials to achieve learning performance. The digital part needs to be specifically designed to fit to the younger age group.
We see from our case studies the real excitement from children for learning. It's a huge difference between a teacher trying to get kids focused in a traditional classroom, and a teacher spending all her time coaching individual kids with VINCI Blended Learning (see video).
Victor: How does technology support blended learning?
Dan: Technology makes it fun so kids are focused. Technology makes it easy for teachers because they don't need to struggle searching for curricular materials. Technology makes it specific when it comes to analyze learning results and to provide individualized recommendations as per VINCI cloud based learning management for the early childhood.
Victor: How does VINCI Blended Learning support early childhood education innovation?
Dan: VINCI Blended Learning uses an innovative way of teaching – getting kids to learn proactively.
The biggest innovation in early childhood is to recognize that every child deserves a chance to succeed, and that we all, parents and teachers, must respect their interests while giving them fun incentives to work hard to achieve.
Thus – VINCI Blended Learning provides clear expectations, it is fun, and it "feels good" to kids, making them happy to work harder for rewarding results.
Victor: Based on your experience working with preschool, schools and districts across the country, what are the greatest challenges they are facing today? And how does VINCI help them overcome those challenges?
Dan: The biggest challenges schools and districts face is that they are expected to do more, with an existing or even less budget. Resources are always a huge issue while everybody is struggling to close the achievement gap.
Thus — VINCI comes to help with technology powered, Common Core mapped blended learning programs that are ready to go for teachers — saving them valuable time thus they can spend more time assisting individual students.
Victor: What else can you tell educators and other leaders in and around education about the value of early childhood education and VINCI?
Dan: Early childhood education is crucial in preparing each child for their future. My team and myself are fully in support of President Obama's initiative to implement pre-K in schools.
Canada, as an example, has seen its high school dropout numbers declining year by year since 90s, from more than 20% to less than 8% last year. During the same time period in the US dropout rate increased from 12% to over 30%.
The difference is that Canada has a nationwide pre-K system in place as well as countrywide community services for families.
The ever-diverse student population makes the job even more difficult as a lot of kids go to school with language and cultural barriers.
The leaders of this country and education industry must understand that education is NOT just K-12. It starts when the child is born. I hope VINCI will be used as a tool or as an assistant to parents and teachers so they an spend every valuable minute in assisting their children to grow smarter and stronger.
Victor: Tell our readers about your company. What's your main line of business?
Dan: Rullingnet Corporation, home of VINCI as an early education brand, promotes learning solutions for home and for school. VINCI includes three ingredients: curriculum, learning management, and training. We offer blended learning curriculum that incorporates game based lessons, books and toys. Our learning management is specially designed for young children, with data collection, analysis, and recommendation consolidated into one system. We offer training programs in different formats – guidebook for parents, and professional development for teachers. As each one of us is the product of our environment, we want to use VINCI to connect home and school together so all our efforts are centered around each individual child.
Victor: Could you tell more about the inspiration behind VINCI?
Dan: My young daughter, Hera, was the inspiration behind VINCI. She was a very bright, energetic toddler and like many kids her age she got bored easily! Before having VINCI, she loved to occupy herself with my tablet. But I kept asking myself what she could gain from playing with my device. I was very disappointed in the lack of systematic learning in the tons of apps created. It's like you can't get your degree by reading newspapers, I don't see how my daughter can learn, and especially understand what she was learning, by playing those engaging yet superficial apps. And so, I decided to create a structured solution that would make children of my daughter's age have fun learning and advance their skills in a systematic way.
Victor: What would you say makes your company unique?
Dan: We want to engage all stakeholders to find a better way of educating our children. We want all children to reach their full potential and VINCI is a unique solution because it brings fun into education and it transforms passive education to interactive and proactive learning.
Benjamin Franklin once said, "Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I learn." That's exactly what VINCI does – empowers children through interactive and fun learning where they can be in control.
Victor: Where is your current product emphasis?
Dan: Our current emphasis is for children from toddler age to kindergarten. Our curriculum is leveled and meets or exceeds standards such as Common Core, state specific ECE, or Head Start.
Victor: What does your company ultimately want to achieve?
Dan: Closing the achievement gap and giving every child the opportunity to succeed.
Victor: How do you determine your company's success?
Dan: When students are passionate about reading and learning math, when teachers are excited about the learning gain of their classrooms, and when parents no longer have to worry about their children's future.
Victor Rivero is the Editor in Chief of EdTech Digest. The 2014 EdTech Digest Awards Recognition Program nomination period opens August 19, 2013 and closes September 30, 2013. For further information, write to: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Once upon a time, in a blog post far, far away, I started talking about auditing in SQL Server. And I told you all about how to use SQL Audit to monitor what's going on in your databases. Remember that? If you do, you might also recall that I mentioned there being more than one way to audit SQL Server. Well, it's been a while, but I'm here to pick up that thread, and the next method I want to tell you about is what I consider to be the most under-appreciated features of SQL Server: Event Notifications.
Event Notifications were first introduced in SQL 2005, and, unlike some other features I could mention (I'm looking at you SQL Audit), it's available in all editions. So you don't need to shell out beaucoup bucks to audit your instances. You just need to do a little TSQL coding (nothing too scary, I promise). I should mention here that Event Notifications are based on the SQL Trace architecture, and if you've been paying attention you'll know that SQL Trace has been deprecated. So the future of Event Notifications is a bit cloudy at the moment. I really hope MS finds a way to keep it, because there's no other feature that can take its place at this time. So if you're listening, Microsoft bigwigs, here's my plea: keep Event Notifications!!! Please?
Why I like Event Notifications
Why all the fuss? Well, Event Notifications are kind of like SQL Trace and DDL/Logon Triggers had a baby and that kid got the best part of both parents. Like SQL Trace, Event Notifications work asynchronously, meaning outside the scope of the transaction that caused the event. This means that the event notification's work doesn't use the resources that transaction was using, and more importantly, it won't impact that transaction if something goes horribly awry (think errors, blocking, etc.). Unfortunately, this asynchronous-ness has its price. Because it's working outside the scope of the transaction, an event notification can't roll back the firing event, like a trigger could. (So if you're looking for something that will prevent events from happening, Event Notifications aren't the answer.)
Like triggers, however, Event Notifications can do more than just record an event, they can respond to it. We'll go more into this next time when I talk about how they work, but let's just say that, since Event Notifications work hand in hand with Service Broker, they can be used to perform actions. What kind of actions? They can insert event information into a table, obviously, so no more messing with multiple trace files (whoohoo!). But they can also do things like send an email. Want to know the moment one of your developers modifies a stored procedure? Event Notifications can do that.
Because they use the SQL Trace architecture, Event Notifications are very low impact. They do incur some overhead due to their use of XML, but this is minimal and shouldn't be noticeable.
What can Event Notifications audit?
It might be easier to ask that they can't audit. Really, what events you can audit will vary based on the scope of the event notification. You can define it at the SERVER or DATABASE level, and obviously certain events only make sense at a certain scope, but other events are available at both scopes.
You can query the sys.event_notification_event_types DMV to see a full list of all events and event groups, but in a nutshell, you can use Event Notifications to audit:
- all DDL events – Things like CREATE TABLE, ALTER PROCEDURE, etc. are obvious candidates, but you can also audit CREATE STATISTICS to monitor SQL Server's creation of auto stats, or what about linked server modifications using the ALTER_LINKED_SERVER event?
- some trace events – How about monitoring when a query is missing a join predicate or missing column stats? What about auditing data or log file auto growth? That might be information worth knowing about.
- security events – Monitor failed logins, or all logins, as needed.
- DML events – Not too many people know this, but you can also use Event Notifications to monitor object access with the AUDIT_SCHEMA_OBJECT_ACCESS_EVENT. Like SQL Audit, this event is monitored at the time of the permission check, so you can audit not only successful attempts at access, but unsuccessful attempts, too. It's worth noting that this event is only available at the SERVER scope. Which means it will fire for every object access event in the instance.
What can't you audit with Event Notifications? Temporary objects. They won't fire for local or global temporary tables or temporary stored procedures. So no monitoring of TempDB usage here.
So what's next?
That's a basic overview of Event Notifications. In the next post, I'll go into how they work and creating a basic event notification. Stay tuned…


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AP WATERLOO, N.Y. -- The more Cindy Karlsen learned about her husband, Karl, the more suspicious she became. There was the $700,000 life insurance payout he received after the 2008 death of his grown son, who was crushed when the pickup truck he was working under suddenly slipped off its jack. There was the $200,000 life insurance payout he received when his first wife died in a house fire nearly two decades earlier. And finally for Cindy Karlsen, there was the $1.2 million policy that her husband had now taken out on her life. That's what prompted her to work with police, leading to second-degree murder and insurance fraud charges against Karl Karlsen in the death of his 23-year-old son, Levi. And New York and California authorities are now taking a new look at the circumstances of the 1991 death of his former wife, Christina Karlsen. Cindy Karlsen's cooperation evolved from an unnerving revelation a year before she came forward. She learned Karlsen had invested some of the insurance money from his son's death into a life insurance policy on her. "I would be worth $1.2 million dead to Karl," she testified during a pretrial proceeding. After speaking to sheriff's investigators last year, she agreed to wear a wire and sit down with her husband in a crowded restaurant in New York's picturesque Finger Lakes region in hopes of getting him to confirm her suspicions about the death of his son. "I led him to believe our marriage had a chance if he came clean," Cindy Karlsen said in a recent hearing, the husband she is now in the process of divorcing sitting in prison orange just a few feet away. "I told him he could trust me." The wire picked up Karl Karlsen telling Cindy how he'd removed his truck's front tires and raised it on a single jack before asking Levi to repair the brake and transmission lines. "It was so wobbly," Karlsen said, according to a recording of the conversation, heard against the backdrop of restaurant noise, played recently in court. Tell the truth, Cindy Karlsen implored. "It was never meant to be," he said. "It was never planned from Day One to ever go that way." A week later, Karlsen would spend 9 1/2 hours being interrogated by police. Seventy-five times, Karlsen denied killing his son, said his lawyer, Lawrence Kasperek. Eventually, he signed a statement acknowledging he had knocked the truck off its jack and walked away. In the videotaped interview, Karlsen explained he never would have intentionally caused the truck to fall. After years of taking pain medication for various ailments, his mind was fuzzy, he told detectives. "In some ways, it's a blank." Karlsen was immediately charged. The 52-year-old has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in advance of his trial scheduled for next month. If convicted, he could get up to life behind bars. Karlsen's attorney is fighting to keep the statement and the restaurant conversation with Cindy Karlsen out of trial. District Attorney Barry Porsch calls them crucial to the case. In an interview with The Post-Standard of Syracuse a month after his arrest, Karlsen said his ex-wife's death, his son's death and even a 2002 fire at his Seneca County farm that killed his Belgian draft horses, for which he collected $80,000 in insurance money, were all just coincidences. But Art Alexander, Christina Karlsen's father, told The Associated Press from his Murphys, Calif., home that he didn't think bad luck had anything to do with it. "I think it's a very greedy man with a very cold heart," said Alexander, who has long suspected that his son-in-law and former business partner was responsible for his 30-year-old daughter's death. Christina, Alexander was told, was trapped in the bathroom after spilled kerosene was ignited by a faulty electric light. Although Karl Karlsen is credited with getting Levi and their other two children out safely, Christina was unable to escape through the bathroom window because Karlsen had boarded it up from the outside days before, saying it was broken. "Seventeen nails were in that board," Alexander, 73, recalled. The insurance policy, he said, had been taken out just before Christmas. The fire happened New Year's Day. Karlsen's abrupt move to New York and away from scrutiny further stoked the father's suspicions. Even so, Alexander was surprised to hear of Karlsen's arrest in his son's death, and relieved to learn the 1991 fire was getting a second look: "I thought they would never catch up with him."
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Editor's Note: Roger Colinvaux is associate professor of law at Catholic University of America. He was counsel to the U.S. Joint Committee on Taxation from 2001 to 2008 on tax-exempt organization issues and recently testified before the House and Senate on tax reform and 501(c)(3) organizations.
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Roger Colinvaux: The outrage over the IRS's conduct is based on a misunderstanding
Colinvaux: The issue is fundamentally about disclosure of donors, not tax-exempt status
He says that after ruling, political groups can use the tax law to hide identity of donors
Colinvaux: The IRS should not be put in the position of deciding whether a group is political
The outrage over the IRS's conduct in targeting certain tax-exempt groups is based on a misunderstanding. Obviously, mistakes were made in how the IRS examined the groups, but what should not get lost amid the resulting hue and cry is that this is fundamentally about disclosure of donors, not tax-exempt status.
First of all, the IRS is to a certain extent in the "targeting" business. The agency's job – like it or not – is as an enforcer. It is supposed to go after tax scofflaws. It has to look for clues in tax returns and other materials to find the cheaters and dodgers.
In the current scandal, the method of the "targeting" – searching returns for names like "tea party" as indicators of possible misfeasance – was a mistake. But it does not follow that the IRS should not have been looking at these and other groups as a class, without regard to political affiliation.
Second is the question of what the IRS is looking for. Because the IRS is the cop guarding tax-exempt status, we think that the IRS is supposed to be deciding whether a group should be granted the "privilege" of tax exemption. It follows that we would and should be outraged if the IRS grants or denies the "privilege" because of an organization's political beliefs.
But this is wrong. This is not really what the IRS is doing when enforcing the tax laws in this context. To be clear: Tax exemption here is not much of a privilege and is not the main issue.
Tax-exempt status is offered by many parts of the tax code and not primarily to bestow some special tax break on an organization because of its function. Here's a breakdown:
501(c)(3) charity
Process for Exemption: Must apply to IRS. Scrutiny required because of other tax benefits charities receive.
Reason for Exemption: Performs a public benefit, lessens burdens of government.
501(c)(4) social welfare, 501(c)(5) labor union, 501(c)(6)
Process for Exemption: Not required to apply to IRS but can self-declare exempt status.
Reason for Exemption: Administrative convenience. Not much taxable income. Generally for a nonprofit purpose.
527 political organization
Process for Exemption: Must notify IRS (but approval not required).
Reason for Exemption: Historically always exempt on contributions – seen as a pass-thru entity.
The exception is for charitable organizations, i.e., 501(c)(3)s, which do have heightened standards for tax exemption. But the extra scrutiny here is less because of tax exemption and more because of other tax benefits that flow from tax-exempt status, such as the ability to receive tax-deductible contributions. Importantly, charitable organizations are not allowed to engage in any political activity, because Congress long ago decided that charity and politics are incompatible.
For noncharitable groups like the tea party groups, organized on a not-for-profit basis, tax exemption flows almost as a matter of course. Tax exemption is not viewed primarily as a subsidy of the federal government but more as a matter of administrative convenience.
Many nonprofit groups do not have much income, would not owe much tax, and so tax exemption is not that much of a "benefit." This is why such groups are not even required to apply for tax-exempt status but rather can just hold themselves out as tax exempt and simply start filing annual returns as an exempt group.
If this is true, however, then why does the IRS care about any group applying for exemption as other than a charity?
Well, the question for the IRS here is not really one of whether a group is tax exempt but under which part of the code the exemption will come from. Will a group be "tax exempt" under one part of the tax code, e.g., as a section 501(c)(4) "social welfare" organization, or under another part, e.g., as a section 527 political organization?
Both sections offer a form of tax exemption. But the big difference between the two has nothing to do with taxes. Rather, it has to do with the disclosure of donors.
For reasons of campaign finance law (not tax law), public disclosure of donors is required for political organizations but not for social welfare organizations. And this brings us to the current scandal.
After the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, it became possible for a 501(c)(4) organization to engage in unlimited amounts of political spending. It thus also became possible for a political organization to use the tax law to hide the identity of donors. After Citizens United, the abuse the IRS is tasked with policing is whether an organization that claims to be a "social welfare" organization is in reality a political organization in disguise.
So the IRS, when faced with a deluge of new applications for 501(c)(4) status, rightly had to decide whether some or many of these groups were actually political organizations, tax-exempt under section 527, and so subject to disclosure rules.
Primarily for reasons of campaign finance law, the IRS has been put in the position of deciding whether a group is primarily political. This is not a job the IRS is good at or ever will be good at. And as we have seen, it is not a job that we want the IRS to have.
The solution is disclosure. Congress has the power to level the playing field on disclosure and should take action to do so. This will allow legitimate nonpolitical social welfare organizations to enjoy their appropriate tax status and return section 501(c)(4) to the backwater of exempt law it once was.
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Today SPX, Small Press Expo, released the nominees for the Ignatz Awards given out the Saturday of the show, September 14th. We have quite a few cartoonists listed and are so excited for them. Their amazing work speaks for itself but a nice brick award (based the Krazay Kat and Ignatz) is always helpful makes you look tough as hell next to your drawing table. Attendees of SPX are given ballots so start walking NOW to Bethesda and you'll get there in time.
The formidable Peter Bagge's Other Stuff is up for the Outstanding Anthology or Collection Ignatz in addition to Heads or Tails by Lilli Carré.
From Heads or Tails, 'The Carnival' is nominated for Outstanding Story. Lilli Carré can't stop, she won't stop!
In the Outstanding Artist category Lilli Carré with Heads or Tails is nominated alonside Ulli Lust for Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life.
We have TWO comics up for Outstanding Graphic Novel. Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust and You'll Never Know Volume Three: A Soldier's Heart by Carol Tyler are bound to create a tie!
Prison Pit by Johnny Ryan continues to kill it and is nominated for Outstanding Series!
In the Outstanding Minicomic category, Charles Forsman's The End of the Fucking World #16 was nominated! To be fair, you don't ONLY want to read this gripping last chapter if you haven't read any of the series before. You can all the issues from Oily Comics as minis or the full she-bang as a graphic novel from our website! Both obviously endorsed heavily by Chuck.
Congrats are in order to Simon Hanselmann for Outstanding Comic nomination for St. Owl's Bay. His book MEGAHEX is coming out from Fantagraphics in 2014 so get ready for more amazing comis.
Here's a quick link to all of our Ignatz-nominee books in case you need to load up for some good readin'. See all of you at the awards acting all dignified and then sorta sloppy at the chocolate fountain!


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Microsoft announced a set of updates to its Bing search engine Wednesday, among them changes to the way search results are presented, enhancements to its "social search" capabilities, and some cool additions to its mobile app for Android and iPhone.
Microsoft is putting an impressive amount of manpower, time and money into adding new user-facing tools and features to Bing to give people a reason to break their Google habit.
Microsoft says that the quality of its searches, or the search's ability to return the results you want, is "about neck and neck" with Google. The company thinks Bing can best compete with Google by the way it organizes different types of search results on the page. "The science behind our visual placement is where we are spending a large part of our energy today," says Satya Nadella, VP of R&D in Microsoft's online services division. "We have a much different mix of results than Google."
Perhaps the main theme behind all the new functionality is the intent to deliver actionable – not just informational – search results that actually help people get things done. Some examples: For travel searches, Bing pre-populates a fare finder app in the search results based on the cities and flight times in the search query. Bing now returns show profile and video results for TV show searches. The search engine returns an organized set of reviews from sites like Yelp and Open Table for restaurant searches, along with a link to Open Table to make a reservation. The same approach is taken for movie searches, including a one-click option for purchasing movie tickets. Bing TV now shows a profile page for a show that includes a link to the most recent episode of the show in Bing Video.
Social Search Enhancements
Microsoft wants your friends, and the interests of your friends, to help influence and organize your search results. If one or more of your friends has Facebook "liked" a particular search result, this result might come up higher in your search results. So, if you search for "fitness," an article that one of your friends liked might show up high in the search results, with a thumbnail of your friend's Facebook picture underneath.
People searches also get a social twist. When Bing recognizes that you are searching for a person, it consults your social connections when choosing what results to bring back. "We rank people on who they are, who their friends are, and their social distance from you," says Microsoft's Paul Yiu.
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Home Page Chess Life Online 2008 August Hanken's Last Corner
|Hanken's Last Corner
|By Jerry Hanken
|August 18, 2008
This may well be the last of the Corner. The paper bulletins for major tournaments seem to be going the way of the Betamax. Only the National Open and the US Open have them available these days and I don't plan on going to the National Open next year. Who knows if YHR will survive another year to get to Indianapolis in '09.
Just a word or two about this column. It began in Jacksonville at the US Open of 1990, one of the memorable disasters of a US Open. The attendance was low, the food was unavailable, and the playing conditions were just bad. It was organized by the late Ed Butler, who was way out of his depth as both a Policy Board member and an organizer. There was a famous T-shirt which asked on the front, "WHO KILLED THE US OPEN?" The answer, on the back of the same T-shirt was "THE BUTLER DID IT!"
Mark Ishee and now IM Ron Burnett ("Don't call me little burn!") were putting out the round by round bulletins. There had been bulletins before but none as full and elaborate as these. Mark, whose family was in the publishing business, asked me to do a small column to break up the monotony of game after game after game. I thought about it and came up with "Hanken's Corner." In the 1920s, H. L. Mencken, the fabulous cynic and satirist, wrote a column for The Baltimore Sun. He was "Your Humble Reporter – YHR - and his editor became "Ye Kindly Editor" - YKE. They engaged in quite a lot of banter in the column to the amusement of the large readership of the Sun. I simply stole it and was always looking for a Kindly Editor who would banter with me.
The Corner is actually a blog and was so, long before anyone had ever heard that word. (My 2003 Word Program still does not have it in its vocabulary) I went on to write almost 400 of these columns in the next 18 years. Some are pretty good and were widely reprinted and quoted. Some were merely self indulgent and were about YHR. I spent an inordinate amount of space riffing on my "streak" of 38 straight plus scores I had kept up until it was brutally ended by a 12 year old rated 1628, Paul Duncan in Chicago '06. The game was in Chess Life For Kids in October of '06). Some were just bad, though it pains me to admit it. But who is on the top of his game 400 times?!
They appeared in bulletins of the American Open, the National Open, and most consistently, in every US Open bulletin since 1990, with the exception of Reno 1999 (Weikel is not a fan of mine), and other tournaments. It is certainly a mixed body of work, but mostly I am proud of it. My best editor, or at least the one who "got it" best, was Eric Schiller in Concord 1995. His spelling and other technical editing left something to be desired but his banter was just what I have tried for, without success, before or since. That set of bulletins is a classic.
CLO editor Jennifer Shahade showed me that my round seven corner and my best game of the event was published last week. For those of you who missed it, check out the link and the game, republished below:
My ninth round game was with White against the very correct Todd Imada from my home state. He is probably a low expert now. You may recall in the prior Corner I joked about an upcoming bloodbath at the Delegates meeting. It turned out to be less than a joke! I am sure you will read about this elsewhere. I mention it to explain why I literally fell asleep at the board five times during my last round game. I was both physically and mentally exhausted. I would wake with a start and find my Monroi stylus not in my hand but on the floor! Lots of nice people, including Todd, were kind enough to retrieve it for me. Aside from relative immobility, I have mild cataracts. I am not yet using a magnifying glass as does the two thousand year old man, my friend Dan Mayers, but it may yet come to that.
What was remarkable about the game was that I blundered away a pawn which turned out to be a good sac, giving me two bishops and the clear initiative. The next time I nodded off, I realized I had blundered an exchange. As it turned out, this too was a sound sac!, giving me the bishops and a strong attack on the king! If I had found the right place to warehouse my dark squared bishop, c7, I had good winning chances! But my last doze was fatal. I woke up to what I thought was a move to recover the exchange, -g4?? and completely overlooked the mate threat on my g2. So the dark squared cleric had to be exchanged with the bonus to Todd that the trade also compromised the white pawn position. That was one snooze too many and when I took the e-pawn, thinking it was protecting my hopelessly pinned knight on the e-file. (somehow I hallucinated that I was protecting the pinned knight with my queen, though I had a pawn on e3!), now it REALLY was bedtime.
As is usual, I hear the voices of Randy Hough and Al Losoff in my head. "Write about the tournament you egomaniac!!" I will do that in my well disciplined Chess Life story for February. The discipline comes from my not so Kindly Editor Daniel Lucas. I do want to say congratulations to my good bud Enrico Sevillano, the last top notch player I scored a full point against a couple of years ago (mea culpa, I just couldn't resist throwing that in- it IS true), and to the great comeback from recently out of form results of "The Pittsburgh Pounder," Shabba dabba do (as Joel Benjamin calls sometimes calls him), Alex Shabalov, last year's US Champion, who started with a half point bye and also got the super score of 8-1. This remarkable score was also achieved by IM Rade Milovanovic. Many 9-rounders in recent years were won with seven and a half. With a finish on that score, my "horse," Doug Root, took clear 4th . After I lost to Dougie, in the third round the Corner predicted he would win it all. (I keep wanting to call him "Dougie" even though he is 45 and a very distinguished Professor. He still looks like the teenager who beat me up so many years ago!)
Enrico, the current Southern California State Champion, got the trophy on tiebreaks and, more importantly than that, the qualifying spot in next year's US Championship! It was only this morning, as I write this on Friday the 15th of August, that the very exciting news has broken. Next year's US Championship will be sponsored by the new St Louis Chess and Scholastic Center! Other details will appear on this website soon.
Just so you know, the president of the St.Louis Chess Club, Rex Sinquefield is a student of your web-editor and was in contact with our EB member, Randy Bauer. The arrangement was finalized by our Executive Director, Bill Hall, who also plays chess. Bill scored plus two in the Dallas U.S. Open, and is trying to hit the master mark one of these days-just 81 points to go.
What I love about the website most is that I don't have to count my words! I do want to end these ramblings with a word or two about the Westin Park Central Dallas hotel. The rating by AAA is "Four Diamonds" and all four are well deserved. I stayed at another Westin in Boca at the Senior Open, and Westins are the classiest hotels which currently host chess tournaments. The Dallas Westin was particularly notable for the level of service and the ambiance provided. From the plasma HD TVs to the "heavenly beds," the rooms are spacious and comfortable. The service is attentive and the playing quarters are well lighted and roomy. The air conditioning was perfect. I did not need a coat to keep warm as has been the case in other hotels. Water was plentiful and readily available to the players. The setup people were Johnny-on-the-spot.
On the down side however, the hotel food was quite edible, but a $20 breakfast was a little out of the price range for most of the players. My main contacts at the hotel, Will and Jonathon, tried very hard to get the banquet folks to set up a food and drink concession before and after the rounds. We told them that they could charge six bucks for a sandwich and $2.50 or even $3 for drinks and chips and they would not lose money. It was partly the fault of the USCF official who did the original contract negotiations, but the banquet people were hearing none of it. This did not tarnish the many good things the hotel did provide, but it left a number of players with negative feelings and that was too bad. I am certain that if the Westin Dallas hosts future chess events, this will be remedied
Finally the answer to the two US Open quizzes which no one got. The FOUR US Opens which went 13 rounds, were Corpus Christi in 1948, Milwaukee 1953, Chicago 1963 (where I drew while almost beating Pal Benko, when he had been a recent Candidate for the World Championship. – OK, Bill Snead and Randy Hough, its just Hanken being Hanken here), and, of course, Seattle 1966 when not yet then GM Walter Browne, who was 16 at the time, disappeared in the middle of the tournament, and it was widely reported that he left with a 14-year-old teeny-bopper who was one of the fawning young girls drawn to the Beatles concert with which we shared the hotel! Nothing was ever proved and when Walter came back two rounds later, he was paired with YHR!! We made a draw. He went into an ending with a pawn less and two minutes left on his clock for 25 moves. When the time control came at 50 moves, it was I who was a pawn down and fighting for the draw! Walter did this time pressure magic almost routinely in those long gone days.
The US Open where the players were housed in a Merry-go- round?? Columbus 1977 when most of us stayed at the Carousel Motel! It was the first time I saw and used a remote controlled television set. AWESOME!
I do hope to be back to the US Open in Indianapolis in 2009. This should be a banner Open as we have some great ideas to build it up. If YHR is there, there will be another set of Corners if we do have US Open Bulletins. If I am not, let us hope we all meet in a better place sometime. To all my readers, critics or fans, I have genuine affection for you all. Go and enjoy our great game as I now do, more than I ever have before in my life.
Jerry Hanken


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The week seems to have rolled around quite quickly and it's pasta time again with Presto Pasta Nights, hosted by Ruth from Once upon a Feast.
Since it's Good Friday it obviously means that my pasta dish will once again be meat free. I'll be using a pasta that comes from Puglia known as Orecchiette which translates to "little ears" in English - it's quite obvious once you see them
While the pasta is authentic - they are made by La Genuina from Puglia and imported by Enoteca Sileno here in Melbourne, the dish is another matter.
I've taken as a starting point a traditional Pugliesi recipe of Orecchiette con Broccoli and put a bit of an Emilia-Romagna twist on it. A favourite pasta dish that my mother makes uses potatoes and peas as the basis of it's sauce, so I've decided to replace the peas with Broccolini and came up with this.
Orecchiette con Patate e Broccolini/ Orecchiette with Potato and Broccolini
[Serves 2]
Fresh/Dried Orecchiette
1 red onion, finely sliced
2 anchovy fillets, diced
2 garlic cloves, finely sliced
2 Kipfler potatoes
1 bunch Broccolini or 1 small head Broccoli
fresh basil leaves, roughly torn
freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano
freshly ground salt and black pepper
Boil the potatoes in their skin until just tender but not mushy. Peel and the cut into and even dice - they will continue cooking in the sauce so it's important not to over-boil them.
If using the Broccolini, remove the heads and put them to one side. Slice the stems at an even thickness on the diagonal. Boil or steam this until softened but leave them a bit on the crunchy side as they will continue cooking in the sauce.
Cut the heads into even sized florets and boil/steam them until they start to soften. This will take only a minute or two.
Heat a little olive oil with a knob of butter in a pan and when the butter has melted and started to sizzle add the anchovies - stir them into the oil so they start to dissolve then add the onions. When the onions have softened but not coloured add the garlic and potato cubes. Sauté until the potatoes start to colour then add the broccolini stems. Continue over a low heat, stirring often.
When the pasta has almost cooked add the florets along with a heaped tablespoon of finely grated Parmigiano-Reggiano and a tablespoon of pasta water - the cheese and water will combine to form a rough sauce. Season with salt and freshly ground pepper and a handful of roughly torn fresh basil leaves.
Add in the cooked pasta and another heaped tablespoon of Parmigiano-Reggiano and stir this through while keeping the pan over the heat. When well amalgamated serve in bowls topped with another sprinkle of Parmigiano-Reggiano.
I haven't used any cream to make a sauce - I find that the cheese is enough to give you that creamy characteristic. However, if you so desire you could add cream instead of the Parmigiano-Reggiano/water combination.
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Haalo, it looks absolutely delicious and the photo is so good I can feel the cheese melting in my mouth.ReplyDelete
Thanks for joining in Presto Pasta Night once again. It wouldn't be the same without you.
- AnonymousApril 07, 2007
I love orecchiette pasta. Love the shape, size and texture.ReplyDelete
Thanks Ruth - it's always a pleasure to be able to join in.ReplyDelete
Hi Paz, that little bowl shape is great for holding sauce.
I love broccolini - much more than I love broccoli.ReplyDelete
What a delicious dish, Haalo! Another great recipe for me to try at home.
Thanks Patricia - the broccolini are extra sweet and I can happily eat them by themselves.ReplyDelete
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ADDED: Telegraph blogger James Delingpole writes:
My favourite theory so far ... was that it was a move calculated to please his Lady Macbeth. At the moment in Britain, we're still in the "Doesn't she look fabulous in a designer frock" stage of understanding of Michelle Obama. Gradually, though, we'll begin to realise that she is every bit the terrifying executive's wife that Hillary Clinton was. Or, shudder, Cherie Blair.
We may just LURVE Michelle's fashion sense. But Michelle doesn't reciprocate our affection, one bit. Her broad-brush view of history associates Brits with the wicked white global hegemony responsible for the slave trade....
Now, there's some loose talk. There's no reason to blame Michelle. This is pure racial fantasizing. Quite bizarre. But Obama should be setting off positive fantasies around the world. That's what he said he'd do. That's what those of us who voted for him believed he would do. Come on! Where's the magic?


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Leaders from 32 cities in 19 states this week launched the Next Century Cities coalition to promote next-generation broadband Internet to attract businesses and jobs and to help reduce the digital divide among their residents.
Included in the 32 cities are Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kans., the first Google Fiber sites in the nation to receive Google's 1 Gbps connections, starting in 2012. Even with the flurry of tech activity that has followed Google Fiber in those two cities, neighborhood and nonprofit groups are concerned that fast Internet connections aren't reaching nearly enough of the area's poor residents.
"The digital divide is a much harder issue to deal with than many people realize," said Deb Socia, executive director of Next Century Cities, in a telephone interview Wednesday. "Kansas City is working hard on the problem and I know they are concerned about it, as are many other Next Century Cities."
Google won't say how many customers in the two cities are connected to Google Fiber, although it has announced 7,000 miles of fiber optic cable-related construction there. Despite that robust rollout, a recent independent survey sponsored by the The Wall Street Journal found just 15% of residents in six low-income Kansas City, Mo., neighborhoods had some form of Google Fiber service, compared to 54% of residents in nearby middle- and higher income neighborhoods.
Google's Erica Swanson, head of community impact programs, said in a recent blog that Google and others face a "long-term, complex problem" to address the digital divide, which requires working with local partners over time.
It isn't clear what specific solutions will come out of the new Next Century Cities coalition. In a statement at the launch event in Santa Monica, Calif., on Monday, the group said it will assist cities in developing and deploying next-generation Internet.
"Participating cities will work with each other to learn about what works and what doesn't so that every community has access to information that can help them succeed," the statement read.
In the interview, Socia was full of practical ideas that could come into play. She said cities need programs that are neighborhood-based to offer poorer residents three things: computer hardware, Internet connectivity and "relevance training," the last referring to offering residents "a reason why they need the Internet, why it matters."
In a program that Socia helped run in Boston called Tech Goes Home, she said residents were taught Internet relevance by showing them ways to save money with access to the Internet, including Internet calling to foreign countries. "Since many residents came from foreign countries they can save 30 cents a minute on calls to home, enough to pay for the cost of Internet service," she said.
In the three years running Tech Goes Home in Boston, Socia said 13,000 families were given relevance training and assistance in getting computers and Internet access at a cost of $325 per family. Three months after the training, 90% had Internet access. Tech Goes Home has expanded to Chattanooga, Tenn., she said.
In some cities, Socia said the nonprofit group Mobile Beacon has helped connect other nonprofits, schools and libraries with 4G wireless for $10 a month. Mobile Beacon offers a portable wireless hotspot, about the size of a hockey puck, for $39. The service offers unlimited data to connect to one computer, laptop or tablet at the $10 a month rate. On its home page, Mobile Beacon notes that 62 million Americans still don't have access to the Internet.
When Next Century Cities was first established, some press accounts described it as a group of cities determined to work around restrictive state laws that make it difficult for cities to create their own broadband infrastructure. As such, Next Century Cities has given the appearance of a lobbying group focused on attacking large telecom providers that backed restrictive state laws and haven't worked hard enough to build fast broadband with access to all.
"We are not anti-telecom, we are pro-city," Socia said in response to such concerns. "Our only goal is to expand next-generation broadband. Some cities are working with incumbent telecom providers and some are even working with Google."
She said the Next Century Cities group includes some cities that want next-generation broadband to be defined as affordable or free connections to homes at a minimum 5 Mbps or 10 Mbps, but she added, "a lot of cities are looking at 1 Gig service."
Despite what Socia said, the political fight to get more widespread broadband is undeniable. In a recent blog post, Next Century Cities stated: "Towns and communities struggle with limited budgets, laws that restrict their opportunity to build/support a network that fits their needs and even market pressures ... We are at a crossroads. Too few communities have the Internet infrastructure to deliver on the promise of America. Too few commentators and policymakers recognize that truly next-generation Internet is indispensible in the 21st Century."
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler made a video appearance at the Next Century Cities launch event and has offered support to cities working to promote broadband. Meanwhile, some conservatives aligned with telecom interests in Congress have objected to such federal involvement by the FCC, according to various reports, including one from Motherboard.com.
Given the inherently political nature of the digital divide debate, it is no surprise that Next Century Cities has urged more cities than the original 32 cities to join the cause. "Together, we can help every city become a next century city," the group's blog concludes.
Here is the entire list of 32 inaugural cities and communities in Next Century Cities: Ammon, Idaho, Auburn, Ind., Austin, Tex., Boston, Mass., Centennial, Colo., Champaign, Ill., Chattanooga, Tenn., Clarksville, Tenn., Jackson, Tenn., Kansas City, Kans., Kansas City, Mo., Lafayette, La., Lexington, Ky., Leverett, Mass., Louisville, Ky., Montrose, Colo., Morristown, Tenn., Mount Vernon, Wash., Palo Alto, Calif., Ponca City, Okla., Portland, Ore., Raleigh, N.C., Rockport, Maine, San Antonio, Tex., Sandy, Ore., Santa Cruz County, Calif., Santa Monica, Calif., South Portland, Maine, Urbana, Ill., Westminster, Md., Wilson, N.C., and Winthrop, Minn.


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Debt Consolidation
Like most of us, you probably have a car payment, some credit cards, retails cards, and maybe some personal loans. The month to month cost of all these debts combined can make it very difficult to get ahead, as all you end up doing is paying the interest or "minimum balances" of the loans.
Using the money in your home to consolidate all of your debt is a winning solution. Combining all of your debts and adding them onto your mortgage, also known as refinancing, has several advantages.
For one, the interest rate and amount of interest you pay is lower overall. Interest paid on credit cards can range from 10% to as high as 29% interest! This rate is compounded monthly as opposed to the semi-annual compounding period you get with a mortgage.
Perhaps the biggest advantage though is the monthly payment. By adding your debts to you mortgage, you can capitalize on a very low monthly payment. This can often give you the breathing room needed to put a plan in action and really start paying off your debt.
Here is an example of what refinancing can do to your monthly payments:
Type of Loan
Current Payment
New Payment
|Car Payment
|Line of Credit
|Mortgage Payment
|Total Payments
*This example is based on a total debt of $142,000 refinanced on a fixed rate mortgage set at 3.9% and on a 5 year term.
By consolidating your debts you can save thousands each year in interest alone. You will keep your credit rating in good shape by not missing any payments and eliminate late fees and penalties.
With interest rates still near an all time low, it just makes sense to consolidate all of your debt.


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July 7, 2007
Google File Search
Sometimes people create a web site, put some files in a directory, but forget to add an index file. So they end up with an unprotected directory that lists all of its files and subdirectories, when directly accessed from a browser. If someone links to the directory or submits it to Google, it becomes available to anyone who performs a search.
Because these directory listings are built using similar templates (depending on the web server), you can add to your query the most distinctive traits:
* The title starts with "index of" -> add to the Google query: intitle:"index of"
* They typically contain these words: "parent directory", name, "last modified", size, description -> you can add to your query "parent directory", for example
* Since most sites use Apache servers, you could also add Apache, that appears in the footer of a listing for Apache web servers
To find the page from the screenshot, you could use a query like:
intitle:"index of" firefox 2.0 rc1 source
Of course, you could use this idea to find any kind of file from a PDF e-book to an MP3 podcast or song. Some of the files are shared by breaking a copyright law, so you must you use your judgment before downloading them.
But finding files using this technique is too complicated, you'll say. First you have to enter a very complicated query, then visit all these strange-looking web pages and perform a new search in the current page to actually find the file. Then there are so many dead links and disingenuous webmasters that try to trick you with fake pages.
Some people with too much time on their hands built web apps that make it easy to search for files using Google. Briefli builds the query internally, loads the first results from Google and displays the links to the files on the same page. Moreover, the files that actually match your query are highlighted. To play the MP3s inline, you could add the del.icio.us bookmarklet to your browser and for Office files and PDFs, use Docufarm.
A site optimized for finding and playing MP3 files is mp3Salad. It lets you play all the MP3 files from a directory using a simple Flash player and even export the entire listing as a playlist.
The avalanche of file hosting sites brought a new to search for files: restrict the search results to one or more of these sites. Some examples of popular file hosting sites: esnips.com or megaupload.com. This custom search engine lets you restrict the search to 127 file hosting sites.
And then there are BitTorrent sites. Because they're so many, this custom search engine is useful to search across the most popular ones.
Google actually indexes some of these files, mostly Office documents, PDF files, text files. You can restrict a Google search to a file type by using the filetype: operator in your query (examples: bash linux filetype:pdf restrict the search for [bash linux] to PDF files). This way you can search inside these files and not only in a listing of filenames.
For files residing on your hard disk, a desktop search engine like Google Desktop (Windows/Mac/Linux), Windows Vista's search, Mac's Spotlight are great and should be used before searching on the web.
Maybe one day Google will come up with a nice file search engine that indexes unprotected directories, FTP servers, file hosting sites, torrent sites. But probably the legal challenges outweigh the advantages of a such a search engine (Yahoo has a music search engine, but only for China).
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- AnonymousJuly 7, 2007 at 6:56 PM
A nice site for doing specialized Google searches is http://g2p.org/ReplyDelete
I'm leary of that 'cause it sounds like an easy way to find some malware too.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2007 at 12:04 PM
Fedho.com crawls the files on the Internet and also allows users to share files and upload files.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 25, 2007 at 1:57 AM
as per your suggestion to find generic pdf documents, the filetype:pdf operator is sufficient.ReplyDelete
but if you are looking specifically for ebooks, then you are better off with a google custom search engine for ebooks such as the ebook searchr
-el boco
hey guys! , you forget about another rapidshare search engine (rapidlibrary.com) :ReplyDelete
this guys have their own crawler, 600.000 files database, fast and relevant search results...
- AnonymousNovember 1, 2007 at 2:47 PM
www.quicksearch.info - quick search rapidshare filesReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 25, 2007 at 2:08 PM
also www.loerking.com is a very nice google based filesearch engine... have fun^^ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 7, 2008 at 4:01 AM
http://Loadingvault.com will definitely make it easy for you to search rapidshare files instead of using complex Google operators.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 11, 2008 at 10:53 AM
A new site - fileshunt.com. It almost started to work.ReplyDelete
Fileshunt.com has incredible speed of searching rapidshare links in the internet.
http://fileshunt.com database includes all rapidshare links.
- AnonymousMarch 13, 2008 at 7:45 PM
DFUCS.com is the best IMO - Download Files Using Clever SearchesReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 28, 2008 at 9:46 AM
UPDATED March 27th 2008ReplyDelete
Use this Accnt'Generator to find a working rapidshare premium acc't
this was tested on March 27th and its still working. when you find
an account that works change the password from options in ur premium zone
- AnonymousMarch 31, 2008 at 9:47 PM
i use www.gegereka.comReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 13, 2008 at 10:43 AM
http://www.filestube.com is also very good rapidshare search engineReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 17, 2008 at 9:41 AM
A good, all round Google searcher can be found here.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 8, 2008 at 7:39 PM
My favourite is SearchFiles.de - The Premium File Search EngineReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 13, 2008 at 12:52 PM
You can do rapidshare file search with http://fileknow.com/ReplyDelete
It's easiest searching files by writing filetype: and the type of your wanted fileReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 16, 2009 at 1:09 PM
I really think, that Download Files Using Clever Searches is a more than useful tool.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 18, 2009 at 9:27 AM
Briefli is dead. Check out www.briefli.com if you don't believe me.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 13, 2009 at 10:23 AM
also the best rapidshare and megaupoload search engine is http://fileonfire.com just take a look and thank me later :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 13, 2009 at 4:44 AM
www.youfilesearch.com is best!ReplyDelete
I have come across http://www.frontaddress.com and it is fine.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 17, 2009 at 3:17 AM
As I know Kvaz is the most large Rapidshare file searcher.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2009 at 10:16 AM
try this one too its great ... rapidshare search engineReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 13, 2009 at 2:41 AM
Hi. I find the files torrents search engine.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 13, 2009 at 11:36 AM
Another rapidshare search engine - Uploading SearchReplyDelete
File Search is great. It combines both filespump and filestube search results.. its greatReplyDelete
Google is useful for shore, but I think it is much easier to use one of existing search engines. Try for example http://www.usemeplz.com , bet you'll find it very useful. You just have to type the name of the file you need and press "enter" and thats all.ReplyDelete
Aslo http://www.btscene.com/ is a great torrent indexer.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 26, 2010 at 8:25 AM
You might want to try http://findfiles.net/ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 20, 2010 at 1:03 PM
i use http://pdfsearcher to find ebooks, manual or documentation. it can search also in PDF text itself to find correct files.ReplyDelete
great article
- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2011 at 7:01 AM
i always use www.skoopio.com to search for files, mp3s and movies, it's quite good as you can choose specific file types and specific domains.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 1, 2011 at 3:15 PM
If you want to search files easily with google go to http://googlefilefinder.comReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 23, 2011 at 2:25 PM
http://www.findfiles.net/ is betterReplyDelete


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Taking Responsibility for Yourself
- Cliff Young Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer
- 2012 7 Feb
Over the past couple of years, I have been troubled, and at times perturbed, at the degradation of a lot of things in our society—family values, public trust, integrity, etc. However, my current soapbox theme has to be personal responsibility, or seemingly the lack of it.
We are constantly exposed to the negative exploits of public figures, celebrities and even "common folks" through the media. As a result of this barrage of public wrongdoing, the world has accepted, as commonplace, the universal retort of denying any accusation immediately and then rationalizing why the actions are not worthy of condemnation, nor any of their own doing.
We have almost become conditioned to hear the response, "I am not responsible (for what I did) because I was born this way, it's a result of a past experience or it's someone else's fault."
I have even caught myself dabbling with this behavior.
On (very rare) occasion, I sometimes (slightly) exceed the speed limit. During those moments of lapsed judgment (and if I should happen to pass a police officer), my instant reaction (besides prayer for grace and non-detection) is to come up with reasons "why" I had to be going that fast (in the event I get pulled over).
Likewise, every once in a blue moon I get asked for something I was assigned to complete (which I had inadvertently procrastinated on) and my first thought is to consider a compelling explanation which kept me from accomplishing it.
Is it just me or do we no longer take (immediate) responsibility for what we do (or don't do) or the mistakes we make?
I guess we can blame it all on Adam, who set an early tone on what (not) to do.
The LORD God called to the man, "Where are you?" He answered, "I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid." And he said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?" The man said, "The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it" (Genesis 3:9-12).
Adam taught us to run and hide from our accuser and blame our actions on someone else, in this case God himself. If we take notice of how common it is these days to shirk responsibility, many would mistake this as the Great Commission—"Go into all the world and avoid any and all personal accountability for your actions."
Adam wasn't our only example either.
Knowing Cain had killed his brother earlier, "the Lord said to Cain, 'Where is Abel your brother?' And he said, 'I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?'" (Genesis 4:9).
Cain claimed he "had no knowledge of what happened." How often do we hear of a similar situation in the media only to find out later the person was responsible all along?
Upon Moses' return from Mount Sinai, he questioned Aaron, "'what did this people do to you, that you have brought such great sin upon them?' Aaron said, 'Do not let the anger of my lord burn; you know the people yourself, that they are prone to evil."(Exodus 32:21-22).
Aaron didn't stand up to the Israelites in support of Moses when he was delayed in returning from the mountain nor did he do what was right in the sight of God, instead Aaron went along with the wishes of the people, then blamed his actions on them.
Following Jesus' arrest, Peter followed closely behind and was recognized by a servant girl. "'Surely you are one of them, for you are a Galilean too.' But he began to curse and swear, 'I do not know this man you are talking about!' Immediately a rooster crowed a second time. And Peter remembered how Jesus had made the remark to him, 'Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times" (Mark 14:70-72).
How far will you go to avert responsibility for your knowledge, actions and values in the face of shame, embarrassment, personal safety or negative public opinion? Will you stand up for your beliefs or admit your wrongdoings, or will you run, hide and blame others for your situation or transgressions?
I sometimes hear people say, "If it wasn't for so and so, I would be married and happy" or "If such and such didn't happen, I would be in a much better place" or "It's not my fault because…." Okay, maybe there are some unique circumstances in your case where someone or something can be attributed to having had a negative impact on a portion of your life, but that is now history.
It's time we stop blaming some past event or person on our actions or state of affairs and begin taking the necessary steps toward where we want to be and what God created us for. If we are ever going to make a difference in this world as believers, we need to take responsibility for ourselves now, no matter the consequence.
Winston Churchill once said, "The price of greatness is responsibility."
God blessed us with the power to make our own choices—the choice to receive him, to follow his Word, to love others, to forgive others, to forgive ourselves, to learn from mistakes, to live for a greater purpose, etc.
We can choose to accept responsibility for who we are, what we do and where we are going or continually make excuses for why we are not where we "say" we should be.
Especially as single adults, who are we to blame for what happens in our lives? Do we fault our parents, the "system," our friends, our jobs or our locations? Or are we taking the necessary steps to grow, learn and live in a godly manner?
If we spend our whole life responding "I didn't do it, it's not me—it's someone else," it won't be when an opportunity does present itself.
Each person must be responsible for himself (Galatians 6:5).
Cliff Young is a contributing writer to Sandlot Stories (ARose Books), as well as the monthly column, "He Said-She Said," in Crosswalk.com's Singles Channel. An architect and former youth worker, he now works with Christian musicians and consults for a number of Christian ministries. Got feedback? Send your comments and questions to firstname.lastname@example.com.