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Philo T. Farnsworth was born in 1906, and he looked the way an inventor of that era was supposed to look: slight and gaunt, with bright-blue exhausted eyes, and a mane of brown hair swept back from his forehead. He was nervous and tightly wound. He rarely slept. He veered between fits of exuberance and depression. At the age of three, he was making precise drawings of the internal mechanisms of locomotives. At six, he declared his intention to follow in the footsteps of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell. At fourteen, while tilling a potato field on his family's farm in Idaho, he saw the neat, parallel lines of furrows in front of him, and it occurred to him—in a single, blinding moment—that a picture could be sent electronically through the airwaves in the same way, broken down into easily transmitted lines and then reassembled into a complete picture at the other end. He went to see his high-school science teacher, and covered the blackboard with drawings and equations. At nineteen, after dropping out of college, he impressed two local investors with his brilliance and his conviction. He moved to California and set up shop in a tiny laboratory. He got married on an impulse. On his wedding night, he seized his bride by the shoulders and looked at her with those bright-blue eyes. "Pemmie," he said. "I have to tell you. There is another woman in my life—and her name is Television."
Philo T. Farnsworth was the inventor of television. Through the nineteen-thirties and forties, he engaged in a heroic battle to perfect and commercialize his discovery, fending off creditors and predators, and working himself to the point of emotional and physical exhaustion. His nemesis was David Sarnoff, the head of RCA, then one of the most powerful American electronics companies. Sarnoff lived in an enormous Upper East Side mansion and smoked fat cigars and travelled by chauffeured limousine. His top television researcher was Vladimir Zworykin, the scion of a wealthy Russian family, who wore elegant three-piece suits and round spectacles, had a Ph.D. in physics, and apprenticed with the legendary Boris Rosing at the St. Petersburg Institute of Technology. Zworykin was never more than half a step behind Farnsworth: he filed for a patent on his own version of electronic television two years after Farnsworth had his potato-field vision. At one point, Sarnoff sent Zworykin to Farnsworth's tiny laboratory, on Green Street in San Francisco, and he stayed for three days, asking suspiciously detailed questions. He had one of Farnsworth's engineers build the heart of Farnsworth's television system—the so-called image dissector—before his eyes, and then picked the tube up and turned it over in his hands and said, ominously, "This is a beautiful instrument. I wish I had invented it myself." Soon Sarnoff himself came out to Green Street, swept imperially through the laboratory, and declared, "There's nothing here we'll need." It was, of course, a lie. In the nineteen-thirties, television was not possible without Philo Farnsworth's work. But in the end it didn't much matter. Farnsworth's company was forced out of the TV business. Farnsworth had a nervous breakdown, and Sarnoff used his wealth and power to declare himself the father of television.
The life of Philo Farnsworth is the subject of two new books, "The Last Lone Inventor," by Evan I. Schwartz (HarperCollins; $24.95), and "The Boy Genius and the Mogul," by Daniel Stashower (Broadway; $24.95). It is a wonderful tale, riveting and bittersweet. But its lessons, on closer examination, are less straightforward than the clichés of the doomed inventor and the villainous mogul might suggest. Philo Farnsworth's travails make a rather strong case for big corporations, not against them.
The idea of television arose from two fundamental discoveries. The first was photoconductivity. In 1872, Joseph May and Willoughby Smith discovered that the electrical resistance of certain metals varied according to their exposure to light. And, since everyone knew how to transmit electricity from one place to another, it made sense that images could be transmitted as well. The second discovery was what is called visual persistence. In 1880, the French engineer Maurice LeBlanc pointed out that, because the human eye retains an image for about a tenth of a second, if you wanted to transmit a picture you didn't have to send it all at once. You could scan it, one line at a time, and, as long as you put all those lines back together at the other end within that fraction of a second, the human eye would be fooled into thinking that it was seeing a complete picture.
The hard part was figuring out how to do the scanning. In 1883, the German engineer Paul Nipkow devised an elaborate and ultimately unworkable system using a spinning metal disk. The disk was punctured with a spiral of small holes, and, as it spun, one line of light after another was projected through the holes onto a photocell. In 1908, a British electrical engineer named A. A. Campbell Swinton suggested that it would make more sense to scan images electronically, using a cathode ray. Philo Farnsworth was the first to work out how to do that.His image dissector was a vacuum tube with a lens at one end, a photoelectric plate right in front of the lens to convert the image from light to electricity, and then an "anode finger" to scan the electrical image line by line. After setting up his laboratory, Farnsworth tinkered with his makeshift television camera day and night for months. Finally, on September 7, 1927, he was ready. His wife, Pem, was by his side. His tiny television screen was in front of him. His brother-in-law, Cliff Gardner, was manning the television camera in a room at the other end of the lab. Stashower writes:
Squaring his shoulders, Farnsworth took his place at the controls and flicked a series of switches. A small, bluish patch of light appeared at the end of the receiving tube. Farnsworth lifted his head and began calling out instructions to Gardner in the next room.
"Put in the slide, Cliff," Farnsworth said.
"Okay, it's in," Gardner answered. "Can you see it?"
A faint but unmistakable line appeared across the receiving end of the tube. As Farnsworth made some adjustments, the line became more distinct.
"Turn the slide a quarter turn, Cliff," Farnsworth called. Seconds later, the line on the receiving tube rotated ninety degrees.
Farnsworth looked up from the tube. "That's it, folks," he announced with a tremor in his voice. "We've done it—there you have electronic television."
Both Stashower and Schwartz talk about how much meaning Farnsworth attached to this moment. He was a romantic, and in the romance of invention the creative process consists of two discrete, euphoric episodes, linked by long years of grit and hard work. First is the magic moment of conception: Farnsworth in the potato field. Second is the moment of execution: the day in the lab. If you had the first of those moments and not the second, you were a visionary. But if you had both you were in a wholly different category. Farnsworth must have known the story of King Gillette, the bottle-cap salesman, who woke up one morning in the summer of 1895 to find his razor dull. Gillette had a sudden vision: if all he wanted was a sharp edge, then why should he have to refashion the whole razor? Gillette later recalled:
As I stood there with the razor in my hand, my eyes resting on it as lightly as a bird settling down on its nest, the Gillette razor was born—more with the rapidity of a dream than by a process of reasoning. In a moment I saw it all: the way the blade could be held in a holder; the idea of sharpening the two opposite edges on the thin piece of steel; the clamping plates for the blade, with a handle halfway between the two edges of the blade . . . I stood there before the mirror in a trance of joy. My wife was visiting Ohio and I hurriedly wrote to her: "I've got it! Our fortune is made!"
If you had the vision and you made the vision work, then the invention was yours—that was what Farnsworth believed. It belonged to you, just as the safety razor belonged to King Gillette.
But this was Farnsworth's mistake, because television wasn't at all like the safety razor. It didn't belong to one person. May and Smith stumbled across photoconductivity, and inspired LeBlanc, who, in turn, inspired Swinton, and Swinton's idea inspired inventors around the world. Then there was Zworykin, of course, and his mentor Boris Rosing, and the team of Max Dieckmann and Rudolf Hell, in Germany, who tried to patent something in the mid-twenties that was virtually identical to the image dissector. In 1931, when Zworykin perfected his own version of the television camera, called the Iconoscope, RCA did a worldwide patent search and found very similar patent applications from a Hungarian named Kolomon Tihany, a Canadian named François Henrouteau, a Japanese inventor named Kenjiro Takayanagi, two Englishmen, and a Russian. Everyone was working on television and everyone was reading everyone else's patent applications, and, because television was such a complex technology, nearly everyone had something new to add. Farnsworth came up with the first camera. Zworykin had the best early picture tube. And when Zworykin finally came up with his own camera it was not as good as Farnsworth's camera in some respects, but it was better in others. In September of 1939, when RCA finally licensed the rights to Farnsworth's essential patents, it didn't replace the Iconoscope with Farnsworth's image dissector. It took the best parts of both.
It is instructive to compare the early history of television with the development, some seventy-five years earlier, of the sewing machine. As the historian Grace Rogers Cooper points out, a sewing machine is really six different mechanisms in one—a means of supporting the cloth, a needle and a combining device to form the stitch, a feeding mechanism to allow one stitch to follow another, a means of insuring the even delivery of thread, and a governing mechanism to insure that each of the previous five steps is performed in sequence. Cooper writes in her book "The Sewing Machine":
Weisenthal had added a point to the eye-end of the needle. Saint supported the fabric by placing it in a horizontal position with a needle entering vertically, Duncan successfully completed a chainstitch for embroidery purposes, Chapman used a needle with an eye at its point and did not pass it completely through the fabric, Krems stitched circular caps with an eye-pointed needle used with a hook to form a chainstitch, Thimmonier used the hooked needle to form a chainstitch on a fabric laid horizontally, and Hunt created a new stitch that was more readily adapted to sewing by machine than the hand stitches had been.
The man generally credited with combining and perfecting these elements is Elias Howe, a machinist from Boston. But even Howe's patents were quickly superseded by a new round of patents, each taking one of the principles of his design and either augmenting it or replacing it. The result was legal and commercial gridlock, broken only when, in 1856, Howe and three of the leading sewing-machine manufacturers (among them Isaac Merritt Singer, who gave the world the sewing-machine foot pedal) agreed to pool their patents and form a trust. It was then that the sewing-machine business took off. For the sewing machine to succeed, in other words, those who saw themselves as sewing-machine inventors had to swallow their pride and concede that the machine was larger than they were—that groups, not individuals, invent complex technologies. That was what Farnsworth could not do, and it explains the terrible turn that his life took.
David Sarnoff's RCA had a very strict policy on patents. If you worked for RCA and you invented something patentable, it belonged to RCA. Your name was on the patent, and you got credit for your work. But you had to sign over your rights for one dollar. In "The Last Lone Inventor," Schwartz tells the story of an RCA engineer who thought the system was so absurd that he would paste his one-dollar checks to the wall of his office—until the accounting department, upset with the unresolved balance on its books, steamed them off and forced him to cash them. At the same time, Sarnoff was a patient and generous benefactor. When Zworykin and Sarnoff discussed television for the first time, in 1929, Zworykin promised the RCA chief that he would create a working system in two years, at a cost of a hundred thousand dollars. In fact, it took more than ten years and fifty million dollars, and through all those years—which just happened to coincide with the Depression—Sarnoff's support never wavered. Sarnoff "hired the best engineers out of the best universities," Schwartz writes. "He paid them competitive salaries, provided them with ample research budgets, and offered them a chance to join his crusade to change the world, working in the most dynamic industry the world had ever seen." What Sarnoff presented was a compromise. In exchange for control over the fruits of invention, he gave his engineers the freedom to invent.
Farnsworth didn't want to relinquish that control. Both RCA and General Electric offered him a chance to work on television in their laboratories. He turned them both down. He wanted to go it alone. This was the practical consequence of his conviction that television was his, and it was, in retrospect, a grievous error. It meant that Farnsworth was forced to work in a state of chronic insecurity. He never had enough money. He feuded constantly with his major investor, a man named Jesse McCargar, who didn't have the resources to play the television game. At the time of what should have been one of Farnsworth's greatest triumphs—the granting of his principal patents—McCargar showed up at the lab complaining about costs, and made Farnsworth fire his three star engineers. When, in 1928, the Green Street building burned down, a panicked Farnsworth didn't know whether or not his laboratory was insured. It was, as it happened, but a second laboratory, in Maine, wasn't, and when it burned down, years later, he lost everything. Twice, he testified before Congress. The first time, he rambled off on a tangent about transmission bandwidth which left people scratching their heads. The second time, he passed up a perfect opportunity to register his complaints about RCA, and launched, instead, into a sentimental account of his humble origins. He simply did not understand how to play politics, just as he did not understand how to raise money or run a business or organize his life. All he really knew how to do was invent, which was something that, as a solo operator, he too seldom had time for.
This is the reason that so many of us work for big companies, of course: in a big company, there is always someone to do what we do not want to do or do not do well—someone to answer the phone, and set up our computer, and arrange our health insurance, and clean our office at night, and make sure the building is insured. In a famous 1937 essay, "The Nature of the Firm," the economist Ronald Coase said that the reason we have corporations is to reduce the everyday transaction costs of doing business: a company puts an accountant on the staff so that if a staffer needs to check the books all he has to do is walk down the hall. It's an obvious point, but one that is consistently overlooked, particularly by those who periodically rail, in the name of efficiency, against corporate bloat and superfluous middle managers. Yes, the middle manager does not always contribute directly to the bottom line. But he does contribute to those who contribute to the bottom line, and only an absurdly truncated account of human productivity—one that assumes real work to be somehow possible when phones are ringing, computers are crashing, and health insurance is expiring—does not see that secondary contribution as valuable.
In April, 1931, Sarnoff showed up at the Green Street laboratory to review Farnsworth's work. This was, by any measure, an extraordinary event. Farnsworth was twenty-four, and working out of a ramshackle building. Sarnoff was one of the leading industrialists of his day. It was as if Bill Gates were to get in his private jet and visit a software startup in a garage across the country. But Farnsworth wasn't there. He was in New York, trapped there by a court order resulting from a frivolous lawsuit filed by a shady would-be investor. Stashower calls this one of the great missed opportunities of Farnsworth's career, because he almost certainly would have awed Sarnoff with his passion and brilliance, winning a lucrative licensing deal. Instead, an unimpressed Sarnoff made a token offer of a hundred thousand dollars for Farnsworth's patents, and Farnsworth dismissed the offer out of hand. This, too, is a reason that inventors ought to work for big corporations: big corporations have legal departments to protect their employees against being kept away from their laboratories by frivolous lawsuits. A genius is a terrible thing to waste.
In 1939, at the World's Fair in New York City, David Sarnoff set up a nine-thousand-square-foot pavilion to showcase the new technology of television. The pavilion, shaped like a giant radio tube, was covered with RCA logos, and stood next to the Perisphere Theatre, the centerpiece of the fairgrounds. On opening day, thirty thousand people gathered to hear from President Roosevelt and Albert Einstein. The gala was televised by RCA, beamed across the New York City area from the top of the Empire State Building. As it happened, Farnsworth was in New York City that day, and he caught the opening ceremonies on a television in a department-store window. He saw Sarnoff introducing both Roosevelt and Einstein, and effectively claiming this wondrous new technology as his own. "Farnsworth's entire existence seemed to be annulled in this moment," Schwartz writes:
The dreams of a farm boy, the eureka moment in a potato field, the confession to a teacher, the confidence in him shown by businessmen and bankers and investors, the breakthroughs in the laboratory, all the years of work, the decisions of the official patent examiners, those hard-fought victories, all of those demonstrations that had come and gone, the entire vision of the future. All of it was being negated by Sarnoff's performance at the World's Fair. Would the public ever know the truth? . . . The agony of it set off sharp pains in his stomach.
Finally, later that summer, RCA settled with Farnsworth. It agreed to pay him a million dollars for the rights to his main patents, plus royalties on every television set sold. But it was too late. Something had died in him. "It's come to the point of choosing whether I want to be a drunk or go crazy," he told his wife. One doctor prescribed chloral hydrate, which destroyed his appetite and left him dangerously thin. Another doctor prescribed cigarettes, to soothe his nerves. A third prescribed uppers. He became addicted to the painkiller Pantipon. He committed himself to a sanitarium in Massachusetts, where he was given a course of shock therapy. After the war, his brother died in a plane crash. His patents expired, drying up his chief source of income. His company, unable to compete with RCA, was forced out of the television business. He convinced himself that he could unlock the secrets of nuclear fusion, and launched another private research project, mortgaging his home, selling his stock, and cashing in his life insurance to fund the project. But nothing came of it. He died in 1971—addicted to alcohol, deeply depressed, and all but forgotten. He was sixty-four.
In "Tube," a history of television, David E. Fisher and Marshall Jon Fisher point out that Farnsworth was not the only television pioneer to die in misery. So did two others—John Logie Baird and Charles Francis Jenkins—who had tried and failed to produce mechanical television. This should not come as a surprise. The creative enterprise is a hazardous journey, and those who venture on it alone do so at their peril. Baird and Jenkins and Farnsworth risked their psychological and financial well-being on the romantic notion of the solitary inventor, and when that idea failed them what resources did they have left? Zworykin had his share of setbacks as well. He took on Farnsworth in court, and lost. He promised television in two years for a hundred thousand dollars and he came in eight years and fifty million dollars over budget. But he ended his life a prosperous and contented man, lauded and laurelled with awards and honorary degrees. He had the cocoon of RCA to protect him: a desk and a paycheck and a pension and a secretary and a boss with the means to rewrite history in his favor. This is perhaps a more important reason that we have companies—or, for that matter, that we have universities and tenure. Institutions are not just the best environment for success; they are also the safest environment for failure—and, much of the time, failure is what lies in store for innovators and visionaries. Philo Farnsworth should have gone to work for RCA. He would still have been the father of television, and he might have died a happy man. ♦


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Israeli leaders on Thursday rejected growing calls for an international investigation of its fatal intercept of the Gaza-bound "Freedom Flotilla." But they are weighing whether to include foreign observers in a domestic probe, a move that would help deflect international criticism after Israeli commandos killed nine pro-Palestinian activists.
A decision to include international involvement would mark an evolution from last year, when, in the wake of the three-week offensive in Gaza, Israel resisted calls to set up its own independent investigation committee and refused to cooperate with the United Nations inquiry headed by Richard Goldstone.
But part of the shift may be an Israeli perception that its prospects for vindication are greater this time around. An investigation of the isolated flotilla operation is seen as likely to be more straightforward than those that looked into the 2008-2009 Gaza war or Israel's 2002 invasion of a Palestinian refugee camp in Jenin that killed dozens.
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"It is a change in policy, but also reflects a change in circumstances," says Gerald Steinberg, a political science professor at Bar Ilan University. "The facts here are easy to establish, unlike Gaza and Jenin and numerous other incidents where the combat made it hard…. Clearly having an investigation which involves a neutral foreign observer will be an important response to the one-sided Goldstone process."
Indeed, this time, Israel is confident that it has evidence such as video footage that will back up its narrative that soldiers were attacked by weapon-wielding activists. Activists from the ship argue that they were provoked by Israeli naval commandos descending on ropes from a helicopter.
"This was a pinpoint incident that you have data material, before and after,'' says an Israeli official. "There's a sense in the air that if you investigate what happened on that ship its going to bear out Israel's version.''
Top cabinet ministers mulling US involvement
The United Nations Human Rights Council on Wednesday condemned Israel's raid on the flotilla and approved a resolution brought forward by Pakistan, Sudan, and the Palestinian delegation that called for an investigation. Israel and others say the legitimacy of the rights council is compromised by the presence of countries like Sudan, whose president has been indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court. They say the council's call for an investigation is political.
But demands for an international investigation have come from many corners, not just the council. Reflecting Israel's indignant response to such calls, which have placed no emphasis on Hamas's compliance with international law, Israeli Prime Minister Benjmain Netanyahu on Wednesday night said that the Jewish state faced an "international attack of hypocrisy.''
Israel has made clear it will conduct an investigation; the open question is whether it will be a domestic probe or one that will satisfy international calls for transparency and credibility.
"It is our standard practice after military operations, especially operations in which there have been fatalities, to conduct a prompt, professional, transparent and objective investigation in accordance with the highest international standards," said government spokesman Mark Regev, according to the Associated Press.
Seven top cabinet ministers in Mr. Netanyahu's government are reportedly discussing whether to approve an internal investigation that would include an American observer or observers.
Even Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who in the past has been the most vociferous critic of international pressures on Israel, told Israel's Ynet news that he sees no problem of commissioning an investigation with international involvement.
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Opposition leader Tzipi Livni also supports an Israeli investigation with a degree of foreign involvement coordinated via the US.
"Israeli soldiers acted appropriately, period. But the entire world has come out with strange positions on various commissions of inquiry,'' she told Israel radio. "The goal of the [Israeli] government needs to leave the world outside the door of Israel… The Americans can lower the threshold of international involvement.''
Shlomo Dror, a spokesman for Israel's defense ministry, says the army is already conducting a standard review of the incident necessary to learn lessons for the future. Under normal circumstances such a review is the preferred method, he says. However he acknowledged that the international political environment is "bad'' for Israel.
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Represented major restaurant chain in successful efforts to reduce its operating costs across all stores located in Chicago by obtaining an express exemption from the City of Chicago's Individual Pricing Rule, which is applicable to retail food establishments.
Successfully defended a major food importer against allegations arising under the Plant Protection Act (PPA) wherein the client faced tens of millions of dollars in fines. The USDA ultimately dismissed the allegations without imposing any fines.
Represented a large distribution company in connection with its efforts to manage an FDA inspection and to prepare the necessary 483 response, corrective action plan, and a food reconditioning plan. Ultimately, a state agriculture department adopted our food reconditioning plan, a model for handling large scale food adulteration matters.
Represented a food manufacturer in connection with its efforts to classify and manage a food safety recall event from start to finish. This engagement required Freeborn to help the client develop, implement and manage its recall process and to liaison with the FDA to ensure step-by-step regulatory compliance.
Counsel for a major food processor and helped them make internal financial changes that reduced their exposure to various agricultural liens by over $10 million dollars. This reduction in secured liability allowed the food processor to go back to its bank and negotiate an increase of its borrowing base by the same $10 million dollar amount.
Successfully moved to dismiss on jurisdictional grounds a breach of contract action brought by a client's customer in federal court in Minnesota.
Lead counsel to multiple produce companies in successful efforts to recover hundreds of thousands of dollars under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) in one of the largest produce industry bankruptcy cases in recent history.
Defended a foreign vodka manufacturing company in a trademark infringement claim resulting in settlement permitting clients to continue use of accused name.
Defeated the plaintiffs' motion for conditional certification in a Fair Labor Standards Act case, where the plaintiffs alleged a national policy of failing to pay for orientation, training and other hours at a quick-service restaurant chain.
Represented a large distribution company in connection with its efforts to manage an FDA inspection and to prepare the necessary 483 response, corrective action plan, and a food reconditioning plan. Ultimately, a state agriculture department adopted our food reconditioning plan, a model for handling large scale food adulteration matters.
Represented a regional natural foods grocery chain in its national expansion.
Represented a regional natural foods grocery chain in its national expansion.
Represented company in the acquisition of well-known Lincoln Park restaurant and bar, and the attached apartment buildings. Negotiated the asset and real estate purchase agreement, loan documents and lease, and guided client through the municipal approvals including obtaining the licenses and permits required to operate a restaurant and bar.
Represents Biaggi's Ristorante Italiano, LLC, in its expansion from a successful regional upscale casual restaurant company into a nationally prominent tenant in lifestyle projects.
Represented a branded food company in implementing its contract manufacturing supply chain and in dealing with food recall matters and related claims.
Represented a food manufacturer in connection with its efforts to classify and manage a food safety recall event from start to finish. This engagement required Freeborn to help the client develop, implement and manage its recall process and to liaison with the FDA to ensure step-by-step regulatory compliance.


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It's been proven in horror movies again and again: when you dabble in mad science, there will be casualties. Suddenly, people and things change into something else...something evil. Case in point: Frankenstein; Night of the Living Dead; Pet Semetary.
It was in this state of mind that we decided to go all mad science on a bowl of Halloween candy. Our weapon of destruction? The Microwave. We microwaved various Halloween treats in 30-second increments to see which would last the longest--and which ones would succumb easily and quickly to their fate, by popping or exploding or bubbling up. Why did we do this? Well, why do we watch horror movies? Morbid curiosity, the desire to feel alive...and you know, for entertainment.
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In Between the Numbers: The value of m-commerce: Is it where we think?
Thinking today about mobility – cell phones, smartphones, tablets – and where and when it'll be changing the rules of retail.
Forrester made a solid case this June that it won't be as a transaction tool. They – and eMarketer.com – expect M-commerce to be only 7% of total E-commerce revenue by 2016, which means M-com will total only 1% of retail merchandise purchase market.
Gartner made the case this May (echoed by Forrester) that it won't be as an electronic wallet – at least not until 2015 and beyond. Despite the fact that some 40-50 NFC-enabled smart phones will be shipped this year, the complexities of collaboration between service providers, financial institutions, retailers, and standards bodies is rendering progress slow and tortuous. (To see a preview, rewind to the past decade's EPC-RFID efforts.)
And yet: The future of the personal communication and computing is increasingly mobile, and that means retailers are looking at a potential opportunity.
IDC reported this past February that vendors shipped roughly 10% more smartphones than personal computers in the fourth quarter of 2010. eMarketer predicts that the percentage of U.S. mobile subscribers with advanced, web-enabled handsets (that's smartphones to you and me) will grow from 39% today to 49% in two years.
Strategy Analytics forecasts that U.S. unit sales of smart phones and tablets by 2015 will be 165 million – 2.4 times the unit sales of all forms of personal computers (notebooks, netbooks, desktops).
But if not used for transactions or payment, where and when will mobility truly matter? I'd suggest the answer at the moment is about search. This means we still understand mobile mainly as the anytime, anywhere, top-personal-preference entry point into the boundless breadth and depth of the Internet – a critical touchpoint in the omni-channel future. ABI Research and other firms are finding a significant uptake on in-store use of mobiles to check products and prices.
Keep in mind that smart phones with touch-screen GUIs drive more than four times more Internet access than those without. Mobile shopping searches increased 300% YOY, January 2009 to January 2010, and January 2010 to January 2011. Google reported that some 59% of U.S. smart phone users used their phones for holiday shopping in Q4 2010. And that 80% of those smart phone shoppers accessed them while in a store.
And keep in mind that of all those mobile shoppers, 48% researched on the smartphone, and then went into a store to purchase. And another 45% researched on the smartphone, and then purchased online.
Yesterday's channel thinking will miss this critical market transition.
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Traveling the world opened Kenneth Nicholson to an array of silhouettes that can be applied to menswear; silhouettes which are often restricted to shirts, pants, and jackets. As a design assistant for the LA based brand MartinMartin, Kenneth began focusing his vision on menswear.
Kenneth Nicholson AW '13 collection, "The City Walker", which was inspired by the diversity often found in downtown Los Angeles, can be found at CHURCH Boutiquelocated in Hollywood, California. Nicholson also makes bespoke pieces for a private clientele.
In his work, he strives to add to the narrative of menswear by working with techniques that are often reserved for womenswear. He focuses on applying modern techniques, making them masculine, applying them to his menswear line, expanding the way that menswear is viewed by society.
Nicholson's SS '14 collection, entitled "Clean Line", is inspired by clean lines and minimalism.
Nicholson is presenting his SS '14 collection at the LA Men's Collections this October 15, 2013 at Men's Fashion Week LA at the California Market Center. His exhibition begins at 1:30pm.


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A Finished Quilt ~ Stardust
I may have set a record in amount of time to make a small wall hanging, but I've finally finished my Stardust quilt! This quilt is a small version (9 blocks) of the Stardust quilt from Vintage Quilt Revival. Several, several months ago, my aunt asked me to make a quilt to hang on the wall in her home. She gave me some size requirements and some colors she liked - golds, yellows, teals, browns. She loves flowers and nature. I didn't really know of a lot of fabrics that fit those particular wishes until I saw Carolyn Friedlander's Botanics line at Fall Quilt Market. I sent her a few design ideas from my new book and she told me to surprise her. Well....surprise!
Normally I like to take my quilts outside for photos in natural light, but since this is a gift and I absolutely did not want it to get dirty...and outside is covered in snow, mud and sludge...I decided to duct tape the quilt to the wall in our guest room for photos. :)
This quilt took me some time to put together, despite it's small size. Since I knew this quilt would hang on a wall and people would probably look at it quite closely, I really worked hard to get things just perfect. I am so happy I took the time. These may be two of the harder blocks in the book but practice certainly makes perfect.
I wanted the design to pop and I also wanted this quilt to hang nicely (not too loosely), so I quilted a dense meandering design with thread to match the individual fabrics. I purchased Aurifil #2132, #4182, #2835, #1148 plus used the white I always use. This meant a lot of starting and stopping. I followed Amanda Jean's great tutorial for burying knots during quilting.
I still need to attach a hanging sleeve, but this one will be off to it's new home in the next week!


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DUBOIS – Members of the Penn State DuBois golf team were recognized on Saturday for their winning inaugural season, and their coach was honored for being named Penn State University Athletic Conference (PSUAC) Coach of the year. Recognition took place between men's and women's home basketball games in the campus gymnasium.
The Penn State DuBois Golfers claimed the Penn State University Athletic Conference Championship in October, with a 30-7 record, during the inaugural season for the campus program. The team also finished at eighth place in the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) National Championships out of nineteen teams from around the U.S. The championships were hosted by Penn State University and were played at the Penn State Blue Course in State College, PA.
Head Coach Pat Lewis was presented with a certificate on Saturday for recognition as the PSUAC Coach of the year. Four players were also recognized for making the PSUAC All Conference Team. Leading the way for DuBois on the PSUAC Golf All-Conference team was John Gaylor with a (157) total in the two day conference championship event. Gaylor was joined on the PSUAC All- Conference team by teammates Derek Buganza, John Kane, and Tighe Truman.
Pictured in front, left to right, are: Derek Buganza, John Gaylor, and Aaron Herzing.
In back, left to right, are: Chancellor Melanie Hatch, Assistant Coach Neil Hanes, Tom Fugate, Tighe Truman, Vinnie Montanari, Katie DeAngelo, and Head Coach Pat Lewis.
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For a week now government negotiators working on the plan for 'Long Term Co-operative Action' on climate change have been scattered across a conference center in Durban, South Africa negotiating over the wide range of issues not covered by the rules of the Kyoto Protocol. This includes two questions central to the success of these talks. The first is how to fund renewable energy and forest protection measures in developing countries, and how to support people living in those countries to adapt to climate change. The second is the question of whether or not countries will agree to sign a new comprehensive legally binding treaty by 2015. This morning all of the different viewpoints of the countries here were brought together in a single document – the draft text that will now be haggled over in the second week of these talks. The document presented today is 131 pages long, which in itself shows how complex the negotiations will be over the coming days, and how far we still have to go to reduce them to the few pages that ministers can sign up to in the final hours. There are areas where progress has been made and agreement is close, for example on technology co-operation. There are other areas where countries have been negotiating for years and have made little progress in reducing the divergent options on the table (an example of this is the text on long-term finance – how much money goes into the Green Climate Fund and where it comes from).
Green Climate Fund Developing countries are growing tired with the delay in delivering on the $100 billion dollars first pledged in the run up the Copenhagen. One option to bring these delays to an end would be to decide on a so-called 'work programme' on sources of finance with a clear deadline set for COP18 next year. This would mean that countries who pledged the money would have to focus on its delivery – and could free up other parts of the negotiations which are currently blocked because it is not certain if that money will come. A positive move, and one which shows that new alliances are beginning to emerge between progressive developed and developing countries, South Africa put forward proposals to raise money through levies on the aviation and shipping sectors. More progress on long-term finance will be required before there is the possibility of a deal being done here in Durban.
But when will we have a deal? One important thing was revealed upon publication of the draft text – some areas are so sensitive that whilst intense political discussions are going on behind the scenes, there aren't yet a series of clear options on the table for negotiators to discuss. One of these issues – one central top these talks – is the question of whether or not there'll be a mandate to negotiate a new treaty by 2015. In reaction to the text published today, the U.S. chief negotiator Jonathan Pershing indicated that his country doesn't even accept that it's in a negotiation about this issue. Yet at the same time, China was indicating in a public statement that it is now open to the possibility of taking on legally binding emissions cuts – a potentially important step towards a wider agreement on a treaty.
Forests Meanwhile, in another part of the building efforts were being made to finish talks in what are normally considered to technical, rather than highly political, issues. But today there was an outbreak of politics in the discussions on tropical forests. In a hard-won victory last year in Cancun, progressive countries achieved agreement on a series of safeguards to make sure plans to cut emissions from forest loss would also protect biodiversity and the rights of indigenous peoples. But today the original opponents to strong safeguards (including Brazil) restarted the battle, by arguing that they shouldn't have to supply information about how they're actually applying those safeguards in their own countries. In other words, they don't want to be forced to reveal if they've broken the rules. Brazil is at risk of losing its previous reputation as a relatively robust defender of tropical forests because right now, back in Brazil, plans are going forward to deconstruct their national laws for protecting the Amazon with the new Forest Code. The new Code would make it legal for agribusiness to cut down much larger areas – risking a rapid increase in forest loss and carbon emissions. Meanwhile, outside of the UN talks, thousands of activists marched in Durban during a 'Global Action Day' to step up the pressure on the government negotiators. Greenpeace was there, demanding governments listen to the people not the polluting corporations and take action on climate change.
Jess Miller is the Managing Editor for the Americas Communications Hub at Greenpeace USA.
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In SA every year 1000's of hectare sugar cane is burnt by "controlled" fires adding to global warming and in direct conflict with the Ky...
In SA every year 1000's of hectare sugar cane is burnt by "controlled" fires adding to global warming and in direct conflict with the Kyoto protocol. Stop the burning of sugar cane fields polluting the air and killing so many animals and harming our eco-systems. Calls to stop are ignored, yet we say we are concerned about our environment. look at the sky in SA during the mid year and its just fires and smoke ane we say we are concerned ?. stop this lip talk.
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As Canadian representatives "participate" at the UN climate change summit (COP 17) in Durban, South Africa, an Oil Clean-up Crew visited the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) to clean out the oil industry's influence on the Canadian government's foreign policy: http://youtu.be/xfMK-3qWAHo
The clean-up crew discovered severe oil contamination at DFAIT, including the prioritizing of oil industry interests over those of Canadian citizens, the green-washing of the tar sands, and billions of dollars leaking in the form of subsidies to oil corporations
The Exciting Sequel, with Special Guest Appearances by OPP & RCMP: http://youtu.be/3v6AoikETu8
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At our children's library, they always have a seasonal display of books, and the last time we visited, one of my children grabbed Pumpkin Pumpkin by Jeanne Titherington. This is an older book - published in 1986 - but we have loved it. The text is very simple and aimed at a young audience. The illustrations are beautiful and open the age range of this picture book to an older audience than the text would alone. The story and illustrations take you on a journey from a pumpkin seed to a jack-o-lantern in a very straightforward and unassuming way.
On of our favorite Halloween books is Sheep Trick or Treat by Nancy Shaw. This book was given to my daughter by her grandmother as a Halloween gift a few years ago and has been well loved. My four-year-old son especially thinks this book is hilarious. It is a simple rhyming scheme with fun illustrations that tell the story of the barn yard animals dressing up and trick-or-treating for Halloween. It is fun to see the costumes and what the different animals give out as "treats." This is a great Halloween book for a younger audience.
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It's not about the bike
AIDSLifecycle 2010 - Day #5 -"Red Dress Day?"
Traditionally being the shortest daily mileage of the week, "Red Dress Day" usually passes with ease. 67 miles seems like nothing. And one's only contemplation is whether or not to sport something RED in support of those who suffer, those who have died, and for those who presently are affected by the AIDS Pandemic .
However, (with a minor change from the traditional route), this year, the 67 mile trek did not come with ease ... it was a route that'BROKE THE CAMEL'S BACK!!!!!!!!!"
Departing at 6:30am. (from Preisker Park, Santa Maria), I rode like "a champ"to the town of 84 houses, Sisquoc. Upon entering Sisquoc, I visited 4960 Foxen Cyn to take my morning coffee at the neighborhood Sisquoc Store. As I drank my morning coffee, I contemplated heading straight for the finish line (passing up the lunch stop in Solvang).
Yet feeling social. I took a 30 minute lunch break in Solvang. During this time, I chatted up my favorite volunteer participants - "the CANNONDALE BIKE TECHS!!!"
After eating my humus sandwich, I departed Solvang. And, feeling like a million dollars & with approx 30 miles to go, I traveled on Highway 246 toward River Park, Lompoc, CA. Everything was going well, yet then came the 20 -40 mph winds.
Over the past 15 years, I've been hit by 3 cars, road directly into bushes, fallen over train tracks, "bonked," and even ventured 15 miles off route YET never had I run to into winds of this magnitude ...
As I cursed the AIDS/Lifecycle Route Planner & bounced from side to side, I wished I was 50lbs heavier. Moving at approx. 8 mph, I diligently worked at stopping the "little man in my head." I focused on the exhalation of the breath & struggled to peddle the remaining approx. 15 miles to camp. And at one point, I contemplated walking my bike. Yet then, I remembered my sponsors, my mother, and my yoga students - so, I trekked on!
Feeling like I had just completed a "double century," angrily, I arrived safely to camp. And as I placed my bike in bike parking, a volunteer suggested that I place my bike elsewhere. AND THEN, my frustrations surfaced, I CHEWED OFF THE HEAD OF THE BIKE PARKING VOLUNTEER.
As I left bike parking and proceeded to the gear truck, I realized that my frustrations had taken over & that I was not practicing "ahimsa." I realized that my actions where far from Buddhism. I realized that I owed the man an apology.
Arriving at my gear truck, I searched quietly for my luggage. I looked in front of the truck. I looked under the truck. Yet my bag was no where to be recognized. And then, I saw a pile of clothes which I recognized. (In short, a zipper on my bag had exploded & my clothes where everywhere) ...
Upon glancing at my bag, I stated to myself "that's what you get for chewing off the bike parking volunteer's head ..."
And at that moment, I immediately fell to the ground & set inPadmasana (for 20 minutes) until I regained my Yogic & Buddhist composure.
Question: So what did I learn from this experience?
1. It's not all about the bike.
2. From every experience you have the opportunity to learn.
3. When life throws you a "loop" - then life has throw you a "loop." And although it may be difficult to endure the change of plans (or route) - such is life. Life is always changing. Therefore, it's better to sit quietly in Padmasana & figure out "what is truly causing your frustrations?" (and/or ask for help) than to thrash out with negativity at the individuals who are there to support your endeavors.
A wonderful experience it was (smile).


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Two injured during attempted Armed Robbery
The Independence Police are investigating an attempted Armed Robbery that occurred at approximately 1817 hours on November 2, in the 200 block of N. Mo-291 Highway. The two victims were exiting a discount smoke shop when they were approached by an African-American male armed with a handgun. The suspect struck one victim with the handgun before shooting the second victim in the right calf. Both victims sustained non-life threatening injures and were treated at local hospitals.
The suspect was described as having a short "afro" style haircut with curls. He fled the scene in what is believed to be 90's model, maroon Ford Taurus. No further description of the suspect is available at this time and no loss reported by either victim.
This is an ongoing investigation. If anyone has any information regarding this attempted Armed Robbery, please call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477. You may also call the Independence Police Department at 816-325-7852 or the Investigations Unit at 816-325-7330.


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As they approached graduation, some Harvard Business School students had a simple goal: Find 100 classmates willing to put their names to an "MBA oath." They would pledge to "act with utmost integrity" and to "strive to create sustainable economic, social, and environmental prosperity worldwide."
The oath took off – not just at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., but around the world. (Read the full oath here.) By the June 4 commencement, more than half of the nearly 900 Harvard MBA graduates had signed on. By late July, the total had since risen to 1,427 students and alumni from scores of business schools, ranging from the University of Alabama to Singapore Management University.
In the wake of the financial meltdown, the MBA degree has lost its swagger. But these students hope to rescue its reputation and quell the public's wrath. Their efforts are part of a broader
effort to professionalize management by setting higher standards, akin to those agreed upon by doctors and lawyers.
"It was kind of just the perfect storm of people really yearning for this and thinking, 'I'm absolutely willing to stand by these principles,' " says Teal Carlock, a recent Harvard MBA graduate who helped draft the oath. His peers are eager to go public with their values, he says, to counter the perception that all business people operate with a "greed is good" philosophy.
The movement has encountered its share of skeptics who say the oath won't make a difference. "Those who are morally strong don't need the oath, those that are not won't honor it," one commenter wrote on BNET, a business website.
For David Hammons, an MBA candidate at Missouri State University in Springfield, the problem is the preamble's first line, which reads: "As a manager, my purpose is to serve the greater good...."
"In that statement, this oath has ceased to be an oath advocating capitalism," Mr. Hammons says. "It means that my individual pursuit of happiness is not ethical." The notion of the "greater good" has too often been abused, he says, citing the Cultural Revolution in China as one example.
Such dialogue highlights "a deep fundamental difference about what the purpose of the corporation is and whether it has any responsibility to society other than maximizing profits," says Rakesh Khurana, a Harvard business professor whose writings on professionalizing management have informed the student oath. It will take this kind of pressure, he says, for business schools to shift curriculum and practices to emphasize different values.
Business schools have ramped up ethics courses, in part in response to scandals such as the Enron debacle. These courses are a start, but they often stick to basic case studies, says Lawrence Belcher, a finance professor at the Stetson University School of Business Administration in DeLand, Fla. "Now, there's been a wake-up call for a lot of business schools to say, 'We really need to have these discussions in a broader context ... [to consider] problems when managers and shareholders have different goals.' "
The MBA oath reminds people that despite the high-profile ethical lapses of late, "there are tons of financial advisers [and] analysts who go to work every day and perform necessary services that do create value," Professor Belcher says.
While the Harvard group's effort has perhaps created a tipping point, this isn't the first time business students have embraced an ethical pledge. A short oath created in 2004 became a formal part of applications and graduation ceremonies two years later at the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Ariz.
"It's been a phenomenal instrument to create a dialogue among faculty and students," says Thunderbird President Ángel Cabrera. He tells of students challenging a professor who commented that the cost of doing business in India sometimes included paying bribes. And he's heard from graduates who have carried into the workplace a willingness to take a stand against corruption. "It's forcing all of us to review what we do and to be consistent with it," he says.
That's the attitude that Harvard organizers want to spread. "Anybody can sign the oath, but it is about the thousands of decisions you're going to make in business," Mr. Carlock says. "Some of these decisions are unbelievably hard.... Hopefully people that have signed the oath will say, 'OK, I took a stand ... and I'm going to make the right decision.' "
Carlock is heading to California soon for a job at a biotech company - an offer he received months before the oath took shape, he likes to point out to cynics who say it was a ploy to polish résumés.
Meanwhile, a group of business students and alumni are considering ways that the oath can have a greater effect - maybe by pairing people up as "accountability partners." In a nod to those who say the oath has no teeth, "we actually call them the Teeth Group," Carlock says with a laugh.
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The recent escape of herds of exotic animals from a private Ohio zoo has raised questions about what kind of animals may be legally housed in Fairfax County.
The answer is that residents of Fairfax County are welcome to own "companion" animals but there are restrictions on "exotic" animals.
Companion animal means any domestic or feral dog, domestic or feral cat, non-human primate, guinea pig, hamster, rabbit not raised for human food or fiber, exotic or native animal, reptile, exotic or native bird, or any feral animal or any animal under the care, custody, or ownership of a person or any animal that is bought, sold, traded, or bartered by any person. Agricultural animals, game species, or any animals regulated under federal law as research animals are not considered companion animals.
Wild or exotic animal means any live monkey (non-human primate), raccoon, skunk, wolf, squirrel, fox, leopard, panther, tiger, lion, lynx or any other warm-blooded animal, poisonous snake or tarantula that can normally be found in the wild state or any other member of a crocodilian, including but not limited to alligators, crocodiles, caimans and gavials. Ferrets, non-poisonous snakes, rabbits and laboratory rats that have been bred in captivity and that have never known the wild are excluded from this definition.
Exotics mostly prohibited
Local codes largely prohibit the keeping of wild, exotic or vicious animals in Fairfax County.
Section 41.1-4.1 describes the law and its exceptions:
– No person shall keep or permit to be kept any wild, exotic or vicious animal, as those terms are defined (above) for any purposes except: zoological parks, traveling animal exhibitions, circuses or veterinary clinics that are properly licensed by Federal or state governments. The wild or exotic animals of such establishments shall not be exhibited or displayed in such a manner than persons other than their handlers can pet, fondle or otherwise come into direct physical contact with such animals. This prohibition shall not apply to the riding of elephants by persons other than the handlers while under the direct supervision of the handlers while performing in properly licensed parks/exhibitions or circuses.
41.1-4-2 describes the requirement of proper information sharing for those selling exotic animals at the time/place of their sale:
No person may lawfully keep or permit to be kept in Fairfax county (other than a certified service animal) any live monkey, raccoon, skunk, wolf, squirrel, fox, leopard, panther, tiger, lion, lynx or any other warm-blooded animal, poisonous snake or tarantula, crocodile or alligator, which can normally be found in the wild state or any other member of the crocodilian, including but not limited to alligators, crocodiles, caimans and gavials.
Section 41.1-4-3 Disposition of Animals
Any person who keeps a wild, exotic or vicious animal in contravention of this article may dispose of the animal by removal of the animal from Fairfax County, by giving or selling the animal to a zoological park or by releasing the animal to the Animal Services Division, which shall release the animal to the wild, to a zoological park, or other entity approved for the care or protection of the particular species
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Free Public Access to More Than One Billion Family History Records
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WorldVitalRecords.com Opens Site Allowing for Free Public Access to More Than One Billion Family History Records
With the addition of the largest number of records to be released in a single day since the site launched in 2006
PROVO, UT, August 11, 2009 – WorldVitalRecords.com, an online family history resource, today announced the addition of the largest number of records to be released in a single day since the site launched in 2006. To commemorate this milestone, for the first time WorldVitalRecords is offering free public access to its entire online collection of historical and genealogical records beginning August 11 and continuing through August 13, 2009. The public will have unlimited access to more than one billion records in over 11,000 databases from around the world including newspapers, census, birth, marriage, death, immigration and military records; family trees; stories and publications; and yearbooks.
"As a genealogy enthusiast, I'm thrilled that people can go to one place like WorldVitalRecords.com, try family history research for free and find their parents or grandparents, and see how simple it is to start tracing back and discovering stories that bring family history to life," said Jim Ericson, Vice-President of Marketing for Family Link. "This is a rare opportunity to delve into the records and discover information about your family and ancestors you may have never known."
Featured records in this release include:
Historical Newspapers
Through a partnership with Newspaper Archive, WorldVitalRecords is adding access to pages from a variety of newspapers from all over the United States, dating from 1759 through 1923. This collection features images of entire newspapers from the western frontier, the Midwest at the turn of the century, and the long-time standard of our nation's news, "The New York Times" which includes over 7 million names. Newspaper Archive produces the largest historical newspaper database online, and the collection is fully searchable by keyword and date, and individual pages can be saved or printed.
According to Gena Philibert Ortega, Genealogy Community Director for FamilyLink, "Part of the fun of family history is uncovering details about our ancestors' daily lives — the events of the day, the goods and the services they bought. Newspapers allow us to better understand our ancestors."
Immigration Records
Living in a country of immigrants, ship passenger lists and other records documenting immigration can be an essential part in learning more about your family history. It is a thrilling experience to see their names transcribed on paper the day they entered this country through the Port of New York. Browsing and searching these passenger lists is a perfect way for someone to start researching their family history. This record collection provides documentation of over 150,000 passengers who arrived on nearly 8,000 ships at one of the busiest ports in the United States, New York, from 1820-1832.
In partnership with the website E-Yearbook.com, WorldVitalRecords is doubling its collection of digitized yearbooks. This collection features university yearbooks from the late 1800 to mid 1950s. E-Yearbook.com houses the largest collection of old college yearbooks on the Internet. Universities featured this week include Duke University, University of Oklahoma, Iowa State and the College of William and Mary.
Vital Records, Military Records and Tax Lists
Other records being released on the site include birth, marriage, tax lists, military records, and death records from Maine, North Carolina, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
Focused on helping users discover and share their family history, WorldVitalRecords adds new records to their online collection everyday.
About WorldVitalRecords.com
WorldVitalRecords.com is simplifying family history research by providing many easy-to-use tools and resources to discover and connect with others interested in family history. WorldVitalRecords provides access to more than one billion international and U.S. records WorldVitalRecords.com provides affordable access to genealogy databases and family history tools used by more than 258,000 monthly visitors. The site registers 3.6 million monthly pages views and serves tens of thousands of paying subscribers. With thousands of databases, including birth, death, military, census, and parish records, WorldVitalRecords.com makes it easy to fill in missing information in your family tree.
WorldVitalRecords is part of the FamilyLink.com, Inc. network of family-focused interactive properties including, GenealogyWise, WebTree, WorldHistory, and the We're Related and My Family applications on Facebook.


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Monitoring templates for Azure VM
Supports reading diagnostic data for virtual machines on Azure.
How to use
- Create a VM with Zabbix installed
Install Zabbix server manually according to the document or use zabbix quickstart sample for zabbix.
This sample is verified with Zabbix v2.2 and v3.2.
Install Zabbix agent on the same machine, and config to to talk to the server. The quick start sample will automaticlly do this.
- Prepare the hosting VM
Install nodejs, and make sure 'node' and 'npm' command line is accessable via PATH environment variable.
Please find a stable version at nodejs download page, v6.10+ is recommended.
Or please visit page for installing using package manager.
- Clone the project and run setup
sudo apt install -y git
git clone https://github.com/Azure-Samples/azure-zabbix-templates.git
pushd azure-zabbix-templates
npm install
npm run release
Set up zabbix agent
- Link the project to '/opt', you can also use any location you want, but remember to update
azure_monitoring_agentd.conf, so that it would point to correct path.
- Copy config file for zabbix agent.
- Restart zabbix agent.
sudo ln -s $(pwd)/azure-zabbix-templates/dist/azure-zabbix-templates /opt/azure-zabbix sudo cp azure-zabbix-templates/conf/azure_monitoring_agentd.conf /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf.d/ sudo service zabbix-agent restart
- Link the project to '/opt', you can also use any location you want, but remember to update
Setup conf.json
If you haven't got powershell for Windows installed, please check page Install the Windows Azure Cmdlets Module.aspx).
From a powershell console, log in an Azure account, then run genconf.ps1, it would automatically scan all VM with diagnostic data, and generate a 'conf.json'.
Copy 'conf.json' to /opt/azure-zabbix/lib/
- Import zabbix tempate
Import 'conf/azure_monitoring_templstes.xml' through Zabbix portal, and link the current host to template 'Azure Monitoring'.
Monitoring CPU usage percentage of same period on Azure portal and Zabbix Portal:
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The Court of Common Pleas is the court of general jurisdiction over civil cases in Fairfield County except those cases in which the amount or value of property in dispute is less than $7,500. Cases involving money or property totaling less that $7,500 are heard in Small Claims Magistrate's Courts.
The Court of General Sessions is the court of general jurisdiction over criminal cases in Fairfield County except most misdemeanor cases, which are usually adjudicated in the Magistrates' Courts.
The Family Court is the sole forum for the hearing of all cases concerning divorce, legal separation, custody, visitation rights, termination of parental rights, adoption, child support, alimony, division of marital property, and change of name. The court also has exclusive jurisdiction over minors under the age of 17 alleged to have violated any state law or municipal ordinance.
The Register of Deeds is mandated by the South Carolina Code of Laws. The proper recording of documents provides notice to purchasers or creditors of the interest of others in the property and establishes priority of claims against that property. Generally, all instruments conveying an interest in real property must be recorded in that county's Register of Deeds' Office in order to be valid.
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Girly Man - Shot in San Francisco, September 2011 by Jeff Steinmetz, Makeup Kat Steinmetz
Girlyman try not to take themselves too serious – after all, they named themselves Girlyman – but their fans take them very seriously. Travelling across states and countries to see a show, tattooing song lyrics on themselves – these are examples of their dedication.
Girlyman's playful approach to music and touring was born after the band's first rehearsal, scheduled for September 11, 2001. It was postponed, but the events of that day set the course for the future: "We decided to just have fun," explains Nate, "and not take ourselves too seriously. We started by naming our new bandGirlyman."
Tylan Greenstein and Doris Muramatsu have known each other since second grade. They grew up playing from the Paul Simon songbook and mimicking their parents' records from 60s vocal groups like the Mamas and the Papas. At a college talent show they befriended Nate Borofsky, who also grew up trained in classical music. The three shared an apartment in Brooklyn but didn't play together until a road trip to a music workshop. Singing harmonies in a rented Buick, the band was formed-or as formed as it could be before JJ Jones, drummer at the time for the Canadian band Po' Girl, joined to complete their sound.
"Empire of our State" is a new single fromGirlyman. It features elements that have become the group's calling card: beautiful three-part harmonies, insightful lyrics, and playful melodies.
For more Girlyman videos, check out this video of them playing live in New York City:


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Chevrolet Equinox road noise
Loved my HHR, couldn,t stifle road noise, traded for 2010 Equinox,which is a very nice state of the art cuv except for road noise. Do all unibody/strut suspension /vehicles road roar the same way? I spent a lot of money on the HHR insulationwise, but never got it quiet enough, even after plugging the holes in the floor..
Oh no! I just traded my 2005 Equinox LT for a 2010 HHR 2LT because I was sink and tired about that road noise coming for the struts (and also highway wind noise) and now I read that the HHR is the same? %&^#$%*(&*&
I thought I could compare it with the Cobalt....it's the same platform and engine, right? And poeple love the Cobalts.0
gmcustsvc Posts: 4,252Hello,
I am from GM Customer Service. Can you please email me at [email protected] with more information about your concern? Thank you,
Mariah GM Customer Service0
Us old guys lose the high range of hearing & seem to intensify the low
stuff, but that doesn,t account for the failure of engineers to produce a
really quiet car.
The Accord Crosstour is quieter, but has other shortcomings, as have all
the other cars I have tested lately. The 09 SRX made a limo out of my
Equinox,could not believe Cadillac let that pos out the door . New Malibu
reasonably quiet, but has some serious ergonomic issues.
Cars have come a long way in the 63 years I ,ve been repairing & playing
with them & I have come to believe it always boils down to costs of
The only reason I traded was for XM & OnStar, my LT1 HHR w/2.4 was a lot
more fun to whip around these hills than this thing I got now that sits too
high off the tires ,has a useless roof rack & too much britework. Good car,
Now, aren,t you sorry you commented0
Since you had the 2.4 L. engine...how was your "real" mpg? And how was it with highway and mountain driving?
I'm not a lead foot driver because I prefer putting money in my wallet instead of in my tank.
I'm always trying to get the maximum economies out of my driving and always loyal to the maintenance done on my car.0
I consider the 2,4 as the best effort GM has ever made---read up on it,s history sometime,that,s what caused me to early order the HHRLT1 w/option 2.4 in place of 2.2. Mileage & performance was always as advertised & I ejoyed handling more than acceleration, but quickly easing into traffic was very important too. The 2,2was sorely lacking in this area.
.Except for wanting XM & onstar, I would have put another 60K on it .Best fitting & most fun car I ever owned, including my 64 vette custom.------If it had only been a little quieter------0
Thank you for your reply (len79), you are so reassuring with your comments on the HHR. Yes it seems to be a very fun machine to own and drive but that noise problem that I read kind of scared me, but seeing that you adored yours and had no problems makes me feel so good and now I can't wait to get it and bring it home..
I'm still waiting for it, placed an order on the 8th of march and the dealer said that it must be just around the corner. Could come in any time now within 2 weeks.
Thanks again.0
Happy trails!
I almost got a 2010 HHR just for onstar & XM, but it would have cost me almost as much as the Equinox & isn,t as sophisticated. Another strong point:: my short wife likes to be high on the road <g0
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If a glammed-up Pauley Perrette is rare, so is the chance for her to bring a piece of high society back to life.
Thanks to one of the world's top fashion photographers and a fast-working team of wardrobe, hair and makeup experts, the co-star of CBS' Tuesday hit "NCIS" recently was transformed into someone who was part of the network's storied past. The reason: a photo shoot for the upcoming September/October issue of the CBS-published entertainment magazine Watch!
Barbara "Babe" Paley was a glamorous New York socialite and the wife of William S. Paley, the legendary founder of the Columbia Broadcasting System. The couple's weekday residence was the posh St. Regis Hotel, the site of Perrette's photo session with Patrick Demarchelier, the globally renowned French lensman whose previous subjects for Watch! have included Kaley Cuoco ("The Big Bang Theory") and the "Blue Bloods" cast encompassing Tom Selleck and Bridget Moynahan.
"We are having such a wonderful time," the hugely friendly Perrette tells this writer at the St. Regis while "playing" Paley in much fancier attire than she wears as self-styled "NCIS" forensics whiz Abby Sciuto. "It's been really exciting to talk about and plan it, and it's been a dream shoot. All the clothes are vintage pieces by designers of that era, and it's just been a bit of magic for everything to come together."
Babe Paley died the day after she turned 63 in 1978, and Perrette did considerable research on her before literally posing as her. "I was sent a folder of material on her, and I was instantly mesmerized. She had such a specific way about her, and it wasn't only what she wore; it also was how she stood and held herself. There was a certain something to her Babe Paley 'thing.' "
Well-traveled photographer Demarchelier also studied up on Paley, and he had no worries about Perrette meeting the needs of his assignment. Long known for working quickly and confidently, he says he usually finds that anyone in front of his lens also comes in ready: "Once the camera starts going, there is no problem. Everyone knows what they are there to do, and everyone is a professional."
Demarchelier knows instantly whether he's gotten what he's after visually, since he doesn't wait to review the shots. "I look at them right away," he confirms, "and if I see that we have what we need, then that's it. We're finished with that, and we move on."
That approach helped the shoot keep moving efficiently on a Sunday in New York, with St. Regis locations from the King Cole Bar to the restaurant Adour and even the East 55th Street sidewalk immediately outside the hotel utilized over the course of approximately nine hours.
The Pauley-as-Paley idea came from Watch! editor-in-chief Jeremy Murphy, who explains he's "kind of been fascinated" by Paley "ever since coming to CBS." Sigourney Weaver portrayed her in the 2006 movie "Infamous," which starred Toby Jones as Truman Capote. "She's been played by a couple of other actresses," Murphy notes of Paley, "so I thought the time was right to do an homage to her.
"She's such a part of the history of CBS, and apart from that, she's this iconic figure of fashion involving big-name labels and photographers. It was almost a perfect storm; it just seemed like a great combination of factors."
Perrette also worked last year with the Watch! staff on what she recalls as "just a whirlwind week in Paris. All of us are so sentimental about it. We had such an amazing time, and for the same group to be together again ... we have a really good flow, everybody's on the same page, and we are definitely in love with what we're doing."
Having modeled before, Perrette reasons "it's the same thing as being an actor in a way. You get into the personality of the character, even if it's not a real person. Being able to get outside yourself and become someone else, that's also part of the game of a photo shoot."
Perrette's ties to New York have gotten tighter lately: With two friends, she has opened Donna Bell's Bake Shop, named for her late mother. Add that to such other activities as the Watch! shoot and Perrette's role last winter as CBS' backstage and online source on the Grammy Awards, and the impact of the longevity and success of "NCIS" on her life and career is evident.
"It's been coming for a while," she reflects as the show nears the start of its ninth season Sept. 20. "Definitely for the last few years, my life has been extraordinarily full. There's never a dull moment, and never a quiet one, really. I also do work for something like 30 charities (the American Red Cross and animal rescue efforts among them), so I'm always helping them.
"I've been doing my thing for a while, but the series just keeps getting bigger and bigger, and my character is so beloved around the world. For everyone out there who's in love with Abby, I'm one of them, too. She never ceases to fascinate me, and I'm forever curious about her. And the fact that I get to play her is a gift. I have such an amazing job."


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Excellent tire, last about 48,00 miles rubber is soft and gives you a quiet ride, can't go wrong with Goodyear, this will be my 7 set why change?
Performance overall is pretty good. They just DON'T last long. On 3rd set w/only 48,000. Bought car new and not driven hard.
Second set on the car, get around 50K on each set. Great cornering grip, wet or dry, and the tire is very quiet. I drive on a busy and fast freeway every day and these tires have never let me down. These have never been in snow, so cannot rate them for that. I noticed that all the police vehicles in my city run on Eagle RS-A. So if it's good enough for a cop car chasing the bad guys, it's good enough for this civilian.
Turning 90k KM, owned since new. Used all year round and holds up really well, great in rain and dry. Winter driving was also reasonably well for an all season. Will definitely be buying another set in the next few weeks.
I have a little over 47k miles on them (since new) and they still are holding up quite well--hopefully until 50k miles or so before replacing. I am planning on buying the RS-A if I do not trade or sell car in the near future. The car has never been raced (during my ownership, at least) or been in snow, hence, no stars for that.
I love these tires! Replaced old cracked Michelin and have been very satisfied. The tread is not as deep or wide. You truly get what you pay for.
Love the tires.
Had a lot of shaking in steering wheel with these tires.
Good quality.
I had to buy these tires 'cause 2 had blown out. They were the best tires for traction and grip in all weather. Will definitely buy these again.
Tires are ok on asphalt roads. They whine and scream on concrete interstates. Ride is harsh. Mine also lose air. Have had in at dealer and can't find any issues.
These tires came OEM on my car and I would never buy them given there are so many other, better choices available. The tires are only average on dry pavement and below average at best on wet pavement. I do maintain my vehicle and rotate my tires according to my owner's manual. The only good thing about the tires is that they have good tread life. Mine lasted 40k and still could have gone longer, but I didn't feel safe any longer when the roads were wet. In Florida, you need a tire that does well on wet roads. If you want a tire that lasts but is only used on dry pavement, then this is tire for you.
These were stock on the car when new, bought new wheels and different tires I was told were as good... NOT !! 100,000 miles going for my third set on new rims (last set still good, will use them in winter). Great in rain, wet, snow, soft ride, no weird sounds. GET THESE TIRES!!! You won't be sorry!
Terrible tires for snow/ice. Cornering with just a dusting of snow is dangerous. These are summer only tires.
I was very impressed with this tire, the shop recommended them and I trusted their knowledge, as usual. They told me these tires were very good, I purchased them and he slapped those bad boys right on!!! This shop has never let me down. Next to my wife and kids, this shop gets all of my money!!
You can get a set of these for around $400.00. That's not the least you can pay, but for as high quality this tire is, it's a good buy. This tire is safe in the snow and rain. Depending on your vehicle, you may have to slow down a bit to accommodate the poor road conditions, but with good common-sense driving and these tires, you won't be the one stuck on the side of the road or in the median.
I have these tires equipped on my 2013 Nissan Juke and they aren't as good as I expected. I don't recommend this tire for snow/ice.
Good tire, no complaints
No bad experience since purchase.
We bought these tires because of their all season rating. Although they are a good running tire, they wore out (down to wear marks) in just over a year and half (~15,000 miles). I do not recommend this tire.
Overall a decent tire, that is while the tread lasts, which isn't long. I am not hard on cars or drive fast, but I needed new tires at 28,000 miles because the tread was so worn down.
Had them as a 2nd set on my SST they were fine on the FRWY, not on the back roads. wear too fast if not on FRWY.
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Software giant Microsoft reported quarterly earnings that were a penny higher than Wall Street's forecasts and revenue that was just shy of what analysts had expected on Thursday despite a lift from its latest version of Windows.
After the earnings announcement, the company's shares slipped in after-hours trading. (Click here to get the latest quotes for Microsoft.)
Microsoft earned $6.4 billion, or 76 cents per share, during its fiscal second quarter. That was down from $6.6 billion, or 78 cents per share, a year earlier.
Revenue increased 3 percent to $21.46 billion from $20.89 billion a year ago.


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The "Nowhere Boy" Trailer, About a Young John Lennon, Is Here, There and Everywhere
Aaron Johnson ("Kick-Ass") stars as the teenager who would go on to found the Beatles in this biopic that chronicles the birth of his love foe music. We saw it at Sundance and enjoyed it thoroughly. And yes, we know, it was Paul who wrote "Here, There and Everywhere," so just settle down.
We don't waste our time on anything not worth your time. We celebrate the best of what's coming on film and TV. We cheer when our expectations are met and criticize when we're let down.