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Sony Cyber-shot RX100 II
Written by Greg Annandale
Sony RX100 II sample images
The following images were taken with a Sony Cyber-shot RX100 II. All shots were taken in Program auto mode unless stated otherwise and Steadyshot stabilisation was enabled. The RX100 II was set to its best quality 20 Megapixel resolution JPEG with Auto White Balance. All of the images below are available to download in their original formats for analysis. Click on the desired image to access the files at Flickr. |
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What is in this article?:
- eGaN® FET- Silicon Power Shoot-Out: Small Signal RF Performance
- RF Measurement
- RF Power Amplifier Design
- Applications
In this eGaN FET-silicon power shoot-out series article, we examine RF performance using the 200 V EPC2012 [3] eGaN FET as a starting point. The eGaN FET is optimized as a power-switching device but also exhibits good RF characteristics. Future eGaN FET parts can be optimized for better RF performance at higher frequencies.
Unlike power switching FETs, RF FETs are designed to work best in the linear region of operation to maximize power gain and minimize distortion, whereas power switching devices are optimized for lowest RDS(ON) and gate charge[1,2,3,17,18,19,20]. Another significant difference between power switching and RF FETs is the power dissipation capability of RF devices is significantly higher than that of power switching devices for equivalent terminal characteristics to accommodate the higher power losses in the linear region.
We will focus on RF characterization in the frequency range from 200 MHz through 2.5 GHz, the results of which can be used to design a pulsed power RF amplifer.
RF Characterization
Prior to being able to compare various RF FETs with each other they need to be properly characterized, which can accomplished by measuring the S-parameters of the FET while regarding it as a 2-port network under controlled bias conditions.
A test fixture was designed for the EPC2012 to connect the RF signals to the FET and to provide the necessary S-parameter measurement reference planes from which the dataset would be valid. The test fixture design used a 30 mil thick Rogers 4350 substrate [21], chosen for its low losses at higher frequencies. This allowed the design to be suitable for frequencies as high as 12 GHz. Fig. 1 shows the reference plane design and highlights the outline of the EPC2012 device. The transmission lines to the device Gate and Drain were designed as microstrip transmission lines with 50 Ω characteristic impedance.
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The test fixture was also equipped with a negative temperature co-efficient thermistor (NTC) placed in close proximity to the source pad of the eGaN FET to provide an indication of the temperature of the copper in that area without affecting the RF performance. The EPC9903 test fixture in Fig. 2 shows the right side image showing the top mounted heat-sink. The EPC FET has a lower thermal resistance [3] from junction to the top side of the device, compared to the bottom side (soldered), and hence mounting the heat-sink to the back side of the device has a high impact on the power dissipation capability of the device.
Due to thermal limitations of the test fixture and the EPC2012 device, testing of the eGaN FET was pulsed with a low duty cycle with the average power dissipation kept below 0.7 W without the heat-sink, and 5 W with the heat-sink and forced air cooling. The heat-sink used was 15 mm x 15 mm x 14.5 mm high, supplied by Advanced Thermal Solutions [14] with thermal interface material from Wakefield [7].


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Sony DSC-T200 Review
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Record Mode Screens & Menus
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View Images Printing Manage Memory Settings
The camera mode is selected from the first option in the menu: Auto, Program, Scene and Movie. Within the scene selection you will find several scene modes: High ISO,
Smile, Portrait, Night Portrait, Landcape, Sport, Beach, Snow and Fireworks.
Half-pressing the shutter will activate the autofocus system, if successful it displays a green
"OK" dot and the shutter speed and aperture values are shown at the bottom.
Image size choices:
Menu Button:
White Balance - Auto, Sunny, Cloudy, Fluorescent 1-2-3, Incandescent, Flash ISO - Auto or manually locked at 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1000 Color Mode - Normal, Vivid, Natural, Sepia, B&W Flash Level - Low, Standard, High Red Eye Reduction - Auto, On, Off Steady Shot - Shooting, On, Off Setup - Setup Menu
Macro (close-up) focus mode allows you to shoot much closer than normal. The focus range in macro is from 8 cm and the magnifying glass from 1 cm.
Record motion video with audio. The 640×480 "VX Fine" mode is 30fps and requires the use of Memory Stick Duo Pro media to insure that it can stream the data fast enough from the camera. Movie Quality:
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Enable-UMAutoAttendant -Identity <UMAutoAttendantIdParameter> [-Confirm [<SwitchParameter>]] [-DomainController <Fqdn>] [-WhatIf [<SwitchParameter>]]
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Ivory Coast
Ultimatum for Ivory Coast Prez
Leaders from Sierra Leone, Benin, and Cape Verde are giving Laurent Gbagbo a last chance to step down and peacefully hand over the presidency of the Ivory Coast to Alassane Ouattara, the man internationally recognized to have won the election. In a sign that Ivory Coast's neighbors are ready to take a hard line with Gbagbo, the African Union appointed Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga as special envoy to the Ivory Coast; Odinga was the first African leader to call for military action. Meanwhile, buses have stopped working in Abidjan after Ouattara called for a general strike in protest of the disputed election.


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Looking up into the night sky, it seems like you can see forever. If you use binoculars or a telescope that feeling is, literally, magnified – you can see thousands, millions of stars.
But what you're seeing is barely scratching the depths of the Universe. You're looking out a few thousand light years into a galaxy a hundred thousand light years across, in a Universe where we can see distant galaxies over 10 billion light years away.
We build bigger telescopes so we can see those far-flung objects, and we even put them in space so our bothersome atmosphere doesn't interfere with the view. The most famous is of course the Hubble Space Telescope. It's hard to describe just how much of an impact this Grande Dame of astronomy has had on our perception of the Universe… though looking into the Hubble Deep Fields, you get a glimmer of it. In 1995, Hubble stared at one spot in space for over 140 hours, creating the first Deep Field. It revealed thousands of galaxies at tremendous distance, showing us that the sky is filled with galaxies.
The region of the sky for the first Deep Field was chosen because it was nearly devoid of stars and known galaxies, objects that would interfere with their more distant brethren. But what does that field look like from the ground? Astronomer Detlef Hartmann decided to tackle this question, and has done us all a favor by showing us. Using a 44 cm (17") telescope he built himself, he took an incredible 247 five-minute images to create this extraordinary picture with a total of 20 hours of exposure… and then lets it morph into the actual Hubble Deep Field to compare them:
[The image is an animated GIF that weighs in at nearly 6 Mb, so it may take a while to load. I urge patience; it's worth it. Click to edwinenate.]
Holy. Wow.
Let me be clear: Detlef's image is amazing. It's a tremendous effort by an "amateur"*, and shows dozens of the galaxies (and the same scattered handful of stars) in the Hubble image. It's an amazing achievement. A bigger telescope would show more galaxies, of course, and resolve them more clearly, but even the biggest telescope located on the surface of our planet needs to peer through the soup of air above it, which dims the faintest galaxies into obscurity. You need to get above our atmosphere to see the cosmos as clearly as possible.
And when you do, look at what Hubble shows us. That tiny region of the sky – easily blocked by a grain of sand held at arm's length – contains thousands of galaxies, each a sprawling city of billions of stars. It represents a relatively random part of the sky, so you can expect to see something like it no matter where you point a telescope… and that picture shows just one 24-millionth of the entire sky.
The implication is clear: there are hundreds of billions of galaxies in our Universe. That in turn means there are sextillions of stars, each a Sun, and many, if not most, circled by a retinue of planets.
It's the most ironic aspect of any science I know: it crushes my sense of scale and ego into dust, but also fills me with wonder and amazement that we can know such things, and be a part of it.
As is so often the case in science, you don't know what you'll get when you build a new instrument. You build it for one reason or for many, but later on new applications arise, new ways to use it. And sometimes, years down the road, it's utilized in a just such a new way which profoundly changes how you see the Universe, how you see yourself and your place in it, and in a way you had may have only had an inkling of when you started out. The Hubble Deep Fields are perfect examples of this.
We knew intellectually the Universe was deep, and our place in it infinitesimal yet rare and beautiful. But Hubble showed that to us.
Image credits: R. Williams (STScI), the Hubble Deep Field Team and NASA; Detlef Hartmann. My deep thanks to Salvatore Iovene (who hosts AstroBin where Detlef's image is displayed) for letting me know about this amazing work.
* Oh, that word. Detlef built his own 'scope, took hundreds of these images, then combined them in a painstaking and difficult process that probably took him many, many hours. The word "amateur" has many connotations, but as usual here when I use it, I simply mean someone who is not a career astronomer. Detlef clearly has it going on.
Related Posts:
– Revealing the Universe: the Hubble Extreme Deep Field
– BAFact Math: The Sun is mind-crushingly brighter than the faintest object ever seen. Seriously.
– Another record breaker: ultra-deep image reveals ultra-distant galaxy
– What does a half million galaxies look like?
– Hubble digs deep to see baby galaxies


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Album Summary
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Celebrations features the talents of some of this nation's finest musicians, members of the U.S. Navy Band. As a commemoration to the exceptional musicianship and unfailing dedication of the Navy Band, this exciting album strikes a balance between concert band works and orchestral transcriptions that challenge the performers and inspire the listener. The pieces on the album also represent the works of some of the world's greatest composers such as Carl Friedemann and Richard Strauss. Three of the selections found on this album were composed or transcribed by present and former Navy Band members. One such member, Chief Musician Herb Weber, had a father who performed with the Sousa Band. This album is a fantastic representation of the talent, dedication, and professionalism that is characteristic of the United States Navy Band in every endeavor.
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Zdechlik, John : Celebrations, for wind ensemble- Ensemble: United States Navy Band
- Running Time: 7 min. 36 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
Berlioz, Hector : Le carnaval romain (Roman Carnival Overture), ouverture catactéristique for orchestra, H.95 (Op. 9)
- Running Time: 9 min. 6 sec.
- Period Time: Romantic
- Form: Orchestral
- Written: 01/1844
Falla, Manuel de : The Three Cornered Hat :: Jota, final dance
- Running Time: 6 min. 36 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Written: 1921
Holsinger, David R. : American Faces, for band
- Running Time: 6 min. 16 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
Chattaway, Jay : Sailabration, for band
- Running Time: 6 min. 59 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
Barber, Samuel : The School for Scandal, overture for orchestra, Op. 5
- Running Time: 8 min. 36 sec.
- Period Time: Modern
- Form: Orchestral
- Written: 1931-1933
Friedmann, Carl : Slavonic Rhapsody for band no 2
- Running Time: 7 min. 55 sec.
- Period Time: Modern
Strauss, Richard : Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28
- Running Time: 15 min. 47 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Form: Orchestral
- Written: 1894-1895


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Comparative effects of home- and group-based exercise on balance confidence and balance ability in older adults : cluster randomized trial
Cyarto, Elizabeth V., Brown, Wendy J., Marshall, Alison L., & Trost, Stewart G. (2008) Comparative effects of home- and group-based exercise on balance confidence and balance ability in older adults : cluster randomized trial. Gerontology, 54(5), pp. 272-281.
Background: Exercise can modify fall risk factors such as balance and mobility impairments. However, can exercise improve balance confidence? In one strength-training study, researchers reported that a change in balance confidence was not uniformly associated with changes in objective measures of fall risk or physical performance. In fact, some participants' balance confidence decreased while their physical abilities increased and vice versa.-----
Objective: The aim of this study was to compare changes in balance confidence and balance ability resulting from three exercise interventions (home-based resistance and balance training (RBT), group-based RBT and group-based walking), and the concomitant relationships between change in balance confidence and change in ability. It was hypothesized that participants in the group-based RBT program would improve their balance confidence and performance more than those in the home-based or walking programs.-----
Methods: In a cluster-randomized design, nine retirement villages were assigned to one of the three exercise groups. One hundred and sixty-seven independent-living residents (aged 65-96 years) participated. Each group exercised twice weekly for 20 weeks. Objective balance ability was measured using timed tandem and one-leg stands (static balance), and the 8-foot (2.5 m) up-and-go test (dynamic balance/agility). Balance confidence was assessed using the self-report Activities-specific Balance Confidence (ABC) Scale.-----
Results: Participants in the group-based RBT program improved their static balance scores more than those in the home-based program; however, improvements in balance confidence were greater among participants in the home-based program (all p < 0.05). Discordance between static balance and balance confidence change scores was evident for up to 20% of participants. Change in ABC score was weakly correlated with a change in the up-and-go test score.-----
Conclusions: Exercise training can improve balance confidence and balance ability in retirement village residents. However, as has been shown previously, this study found that exercise interventions may improve balance ability without associated increases in balance confidence and vice versa. Whether the ABC score and balance ability can be enhanced by providing a tailored intervention to improve balance confidence in combination with a RBT program requires further study.
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Item Type: | Journal Article |
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Keywords: | Resistance training, Balance, Activities-specific Balance, Confidence Scale |
Subjects: | Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES (110000) > PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH SERVICES (111700) > Health Counselling (111710) Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES (110000) > PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH SERVICES (111700) > Preventive Medicine (111716) Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES (110000) > PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH SERVICES (111700) > Health Promotion (111712) |
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Incinerator doubles in cost without one brick laid
IN 1999, a site at Poolbeg in Dublin city centre was identified as the best location for an incinerator to dispose of the capital's waste. The projected cost was to be €200m.
More than a decade later, not a brick has been laid while Dublin City Council has racked up bills totalling €81.7m and the final price has doubled to €400m.
Despite the massive spend of taxpayers' money, the project has been plagued by a lack of financial controls.
In a damning report, the Local Government Auditor said that management of the project had been "weak", and financial controls "not adequate".
Numerous contracts over-ran, resulting in a massive overspend.
They included €28.4m paid to consultants to represent the council – three times the €8.3m expected price.
Some €3m of this was spent on public relations – three times the original contract. Between May 2011 and February 2012, RPS – the public relations team – was paid a retainer of €14,000 a month, ex-VAT.
The Local Government Auditor has also sought a detailed report in relation to a €10m overspend by the council on a land-swap deal related to the project.
Some €22m was paid for new premises for Westway Terminals Hibernian Ltd, which was moving from its original site in Ringsend to facilitate the development of the incinerator.
The original contract was €11.9m.
At a council meeting earlier this month, Dublin City manager John Tierney apologised for the overspend but said the reason for the increased costs was the amount of "obstacles, complaints and queries" that had arisen in relation to the project.
The proposed incinerator has been beset with problems over the past 18 months, with the US energy firm Covanta still seeking project finance to build the 600,000-tonne waste-to-energy plant.
It has been given until April next year to decide if it's going ahead.
The council's audit committee will meet on January 24 to discuss the project.
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text: Lost Planet Is A Big, Big MovieLuke Plunkett1/22/09 3:30amFiled to: MoviesLost PlanetCapcomNews49EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink The Resident Evil movies were B-grade stuff. The upcoming Street Fighter movie does not look promising. But Capcom are making more movies, and Lost Planet is one of them. And on that, they are not messing around. Advertisement Capcom's Toshihiro Tokumaru - the company's character boss - has revealed that the budget for Avi Arad's adaptation of the 2007 shooter is between $150,000,000 and $200,000,000.That's, uh...that's a lot of money. Big, Hollywood, summer tentpole kinda money. Silly money, really, considering we're talking the adaptation of a game that did OK business but will end up looking like the big-screen bastard child of The Thing and Starship Troopers. Advertisement Developer Interview [Capcom, via Siliconera]Reply49 repliesLeave a reply


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All of these fics are rated Teen and are under 3.5K. Most are AUs and fluff.
Beginning, Middle, End (Fluff/Mates)
Summary: Derek has known since they were kids that Stiles is his mate, he's just exceptionally good at ignoring the truth.
Abbacchio (There is slight Scott/Stiles here, also food)
Summary: "I have a casserole for you," says Scott.
Stiles triple-takes. "You what?"
I've Got a Whole Bunch of Ways (More food.)
Summary: Derek reads a lot and it's hot. Stiles has mad baking skills and it's hot. Or, the one in which Derek and Stiles can be amazingly hot together.
Nobody Does it Better (AU- undercover agents)
Summary: "Blue Wolf, come in, Blue Wolf. You should really thank me for suggesting the pink tie, as it's clearly bringing all the ladies to the yard."
I See You Standing There, But You're Already Gone (AU- gen, pre-sterek)
Summary: Up until then, the only ghosts he'd seen were kindly old people and his mother. It didn't happen as frequently as he expected because Beacon Hills was a quiet town. They weren't a high crime populace where people were murdered.
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Healthy Mouth, Healthy Kids |
Excitability in child after dental work12/07/2006 |
My 6 year old daughter had a front tooth pulled because it wasn`t getting loose enough to fall out on it`s own to let the permanent tooth come thru correctly. The dentist only rubbed something topical on her gums and didn`t give her a shot. She went to piano lessons about 30 minutes later and "acted up" quite a bit during the entire lesson, almost as if she was intoxicated. Then after going home, she was very unruly.Could this be some kind of reaction to the topical anesthesia? (Probably unharmful but changing her normal behavior.)
It is highly unlikely that the topical anesthetic used to extract this primary tooth affected her behavior. It was not injected so there would be very little, if any, systemic distribution of the anesthetic agent. Even more importantly, I am unaware of any reports of topical anesthetic agents affecting behavior as you describe.
Dennis J McTigue, DDS Professor of Pediatric Dentistry College of Dentistry The Ohio State University |


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Alexander Payne's The Descendants is wry, wise, lovable and handsomely photographed. But it's also one of those films that invites you to see it – like a steamer trunk readied for a busy itinerary – through a haze of labels, fanciful or direction-defining. George Clooney is the rich and troubled hero. You could call him Hawaii 5-O. He's 50 and lives on O'ahu. His wife is in a coma after a speedboat accident. You could call her the Plot Device. From her hospital room she catalyses the story's events, co-scripted by director Alexander Payne from a novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings. Those events include Clooney's attempts to control two difficult daughters (aged 17 and 10) and his anguished inner debate over whether to sell a 25,000-acre stretch of land – call it the McGuffin – owned by generations of Anglo-Hawaiian ancestors.
Of course it's no contest, even if we quietly, at times pleadingly, wish it were. We wish – especially from the director of Sideways and About Schmidt, two rumbustiously cynical (and label-resistant) comedies about surviving that death sentence we call life – that it were not so obvious that Clooney will do right by every subplot. He whisks the kids and us around Hawaii's islands (free travelogue!) for the notional purpose of meeting, and punching out, the man he learns was once the Plot Device's lover. He caringly tends the Plot Device. And he resolves the McGuffin the way we expect, though a startling late cameo by Beau Bridges, long-haired, large-girthed, wild-mannered, an apoplectic man-walrus erupting from the movie's gentilities, holds off "closure" for a while.
The devil is in the lead role's casting. This is George Clooney, not Jack Nicholson or Paul Giamatti (previous Payne protagonists). He cannot persuade us that he's a menopausal male frump, messing up everyone's life including his own. His is still the handsomest head of grey hair in the solar system. His are the debonair, subtly hydraulic eyebrows. His is the voice like mulled gravel – first-class gravel. Even when, in one sequence, he runs down a road in flip-flops trying to be ungainly, this accelerated duck waddle is just the Clooney swan doing an act.
The saving notes are the film's minutiae. There are dialogue moments in Payne's drollest, enemies-on-edge style. "Wassup, bro?" says the older daughter's lunkhead boyfriend, giving Clooney a dude-on-dude hug. Clooney, with a look: "Don't ever do that to me again." In a magical later moment – magical because it has no logical material connection with the scene it's in – Clooney, on a plane, turns from a despairing eye-duel across the aisle with his older daughter to exchange a split-second look with his seated neighbour, a big, dim-browed Hawaiian. There is something brilliant about this tiny deadpan collision of far-apart consciousnesses. It says either, "Well, maybe, given the alternatives, we are better off interacting with our families" or "When you need help, turn to absolutely any pair of human eyes you can find."
Some clever filmmakers have an inoculation ready against negative audience response. Just when we fear that Like Crazy is going to curl our toes – a romcom-with-tears about a pretty English student (Felicity Jones) sundered by circumstance from the young American furniture design trainee (Anton Yelchin) she loves – writer-director Drake Doremus features a close-up of the girl's naked toes, curling. Game over. No audience will pass up Jones's toes, even with a pinch of schmaltz. Wit, tenderness and outmanoeuvrings: that's what we get from a film setting out, with thoughtfulness and charm, to test the chestnut that true love is impervious to time and space.
Distance enhances devotion? Tell that to Anna, who overstays her US visa, thereby imperilling the lovelorn duo's later plan to build a marriage nest in America. Once back in Britain, she can't re-fly west; Jacob, building a business, hesitates to migrate east. Months become years; both get new partners. Jacob's Sam (Jennifer Lawrence) resembles a chubbier-faced Anna. A and J still swap texts – the intimate language of the geographically sundered – and once or twice meet to duel with immigration apparatchiks.
It can be a short step, with romcoms, from simple-hearted to simple-minded. Not every filmmaker is Eric Rohmer. But Like Crazy – never mind Rohmer – has at times a Godardian bite and fleetness. It tears off years like calendar pages. It does the puppy-passion phase with a single funny, innocent montage, shot from overhead, of serial sleep-together positions. Later it distils potentially syrupy scenes to single drops of poignancy: a standing figure in a room, as enigmatic as an early Hockney, holding the bad-news cellphone. The film's ending is exact, perfect, heart-touching. It has the last word without saying a word.
Liam Neeson battles howling Alaskan wolves and winds in The Grey. Socked by elemental sounds, socked in by snow blizzards, we can barely distinguish at times the stranded oil-rig toughies, led by hired company wolf-killer Neeson after the group's plane crashes, from the lupine marauders. Both parties are fur-headed or fur-hooded; both grimace with flashing, feral teeth; both seem to have been to the Actors Studio for advanced snarling classes.
Director/co-writer Joe Carnahan (The A-Team) does a terrific plane crash. At the press show we clung white-knuckled to our chair arms; our eyes panicked upwards in hope of oxygen masks; our styrofoam coffee cups shook with the DIY turbulence of our terror. But the film runs out of energy after that. When you've seen one actor torn apart by a man-eating wolf, you've seen them all. Weather worsens; anti-carnivore expedients fail. The story's middle section should be called "The Vanity of Bonfires" (conceived and created by a different Mr Wolf). Only the weirdly mesmeric momentum of Neeson's Ulster accent stands against danger and death. He sounds like a demented Ian Paisley blessed with the looks of a snow-battered Lohengrin.
Patience (After Sebald) wins the 2012 prize for the title least likely to cause a stampede at the multiplex. What? (After what)? WG "Max" Sebald was, a few may know, the British-based German author/thinker who wrote The Rings of Saturn, a peregrination around Suffolk with post-Holocaustic musings. Grant Gee's documentary is very winning. The film chugs devotedly in the late Max's wake, pausing at places named in the book to decant, like a libation, excerpts from the text. There are also spoken thoughts from an all-star cast of thinkers and artists, pondering the death of innocence, the purposes of art, the sculpting erosions of time. You name it – and them: Tacita Dean, Marina Warner, Andrew Motion, Rick Moody…
One contributor points out that Sebald was a pioneer in what is now an uncontrollable, runaway tropism: "The countryside is black with people going for walks to write books." And to make films. Sebald's work, screen-transferred, startlingly resembles Patrick Keiller's forensic travelogues (Robinson in Ruins) and even early Greenaway (A Walk Through H). It just shows. It can take a stranger from a strange land to point out first, to his adoptive countrymen, the strangeness and wonder of their own land.


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IP/10/1772 Brussels, 22 December 2010 Biofuels: Commission adopts Report on indirect land use change The Commission published today a report on indirect land use change related to biofuels and bioliquids. The report acknowledges that indirect land use change can reduce greenhouse gas emissions savings associated with biofuels, but also identifies a number of uncertainties associated with the available models. The report announces that the Commission will conduct an impact assessment, thereby taking into consideration potential changes to the existing legislation. If needed, the Commission will recommend to address this issue under a precautionary approach. In addition the Commission will continue to conduct work in this area in order to ensure that policy decisions are based on the best available science and to meet its future reporting obligations on this matter. Energy Commissioner, Günther Oettinger said: "The potential effects of indirect land use need to be properly weighed in our biofuels policy. It is in our interest to investigate this seriously and ensure to have a legislation that avoids negative side effects." Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said: "We have to ensure that the biofuels we promote deliver clear greenhouse gas savings. Although we have developed robust sustainability criteria for their production, we must not ignore any unwanted impacts that may be caused globally as a result of the additional demand. Action in the field should follow a precautionary approach." The report adopted today summarises the analytical work carried out by the Commission over the last two years, including an overview of the consultation exercises, involving both experts and the general public, that have been conducted on this issue. The Commission will now focus on carrying out a detailed assessment of a shortlist of the potential policy approaches for dealing with this issue, which will be presented no later than July 2011. This will, if appropriate, be accompanied by a legislative proposal for amending the Renewable Energy and Fuel Quality Directives. Should the forthcoming Impact Assessment come to the conclusion that legislative action is needed, the Commission will ensure that any future policy decision is based on the best available and most accurate science. The Impact Assessment will consider the following policy options:
Background: The 2009 Renewable Energy and Fuel Quality Directives set targets of a 10% share of renewable energy in the transport sector and a 6% greenhouse gas reductions for fuels used in the transport sector in 2020. The contribution from biofuels to these targets is expected to be significant. In order to avoid possible negative side-effects, both Directives impose sustainability criteria that biofuels and bioliquids need to comply with in order to be counted towards the targets. These criteria include provisions to prevent the conversion of areas of high biodiversity and carbon sinks such as forest and wetlands. They also require minimum greenhouse gas emission savings from biofuels compared to fossil fuels. However, there is a risk that part of the additional demand for biofuels will be met through an increase in the amount of land devoted to agriculture worldwide. This could lead to emissions associated with the conversion of land indirectly. Therefore, the Commission is required to review the impact of indirect land use change on greenhouse gas emissions and propose legislative action for minimising that impact if appropriate. Estimating the greenhouse gas impact due to indirect land use change requires projecting impacts in the future, which is inherently uncertain, since future developments will not necessarily follow trends of the past. The estimated impact can only be established through modelling. In this context the Commission recognises that a number of deficiencies and uncertainties which could significantly impact on the results remain to be addressed. Further information: Information on Biofuels is available here Studies on Land Use Change are available here |
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Elitserien Game Night: 2-28-13
Submitted by mike on February 28, 2013 - 16:51
Elitserien (Sweden)
Brynas 3 @ MODO 1
Johan Harju, Brynas, 0-0-0, +1, 2 SOG, 0 PIM
Season totals: 53 GP, 17-9-26, -7, 16 PIM
After winning just once in in its previous nine matches, Brynas took an initial lead which it built on and expanded a second time after MODO made it 2-1 to secure a much-needed regulation win with the season winding down and AIK nipping at their heels for the league's last playoff spot. After scoring last match, Harju had a mostly clean stat line. Former Lightning netminder Johan Holmqvist, who got the nod yet again, stopped 24 of 25 shots on goal in the match. On Saturday, Brynas (16-19-6-12, 72 PTS) travels to take on AIK (15-24-7-7, 66 PTS), which has three straight victories over the pending visitors.
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Roy F. Harris Sr. died Jan. 1, 2005, in Meeker. He was 93.
Roy F. Harris, Sr., was born Feb. 25, 1911, in Stillwater, Okla., to Samuel M. and Janette (Greenwood) Harris.
Knowledge of his childhood was very sketchy and security was something he knew little of. When he was 7, a flu epidemic hit the Pueblo area, killing both of his parents. Fearing the orphanage, he packed his meager belongings in a pillowcase and walked 15 miles to a dairy run by Tom Gordon and his wife. Tom gave him room and board in exchange for helping with the chores. During his time with the Gordons, Roy was able to complete his education through the eighth grade in four years, completing the fourth, fifth and sixth grades in one year.
At the age of 12, he was once again on his own, working for ranchers and doing odd jobs. During his travels he became acquainted with Red Cloud who was traveling the country raising money for his people. Roy's mother, being Indian, gave him something in common with Chief Red Cloud. You still can see the tattoo on his right hand given to him by Red Cloud.
At the age of 23, as a young man he stepped off a freight train in Rifle flipped a coin to help him decide on his destination. The year was 1934, and times were extremely hard; the Great Depression had a strong hold on the economy and there were many people traveling the country looking for jobs, hoping for a little security. His feet were the only mode of transportation for this trip. He walked as far as the present site of Colowyo Coal Company before he was able to get a ride the rest of the way to Craig. The next few years saw him in and out of the area, working summers for Rodge Saunders and winters in Grand Junction and other places. Craig, however, always called him back.
On a trip to Missouri in 1936, Roy met and fell in love with Hazel Bell Highley. Hazel was a high school student determined to graduate. Roy made many trips between Colorado and Missouri before marrying her on May 4, 1937, and bringing her home to Craig. The couple's only child, Roy Franklin, Jr., was born Oct. 25, 1939, in Craig.
The war years found the family living in Liberty, Mo. Roy was in charge of essential transportation in Kansas City, a job he held until the end of the war. In 1946, Northwest Colorado called again. This time, the move was permanent.
In 1949, Roy was able to open his own auto repair business on the east side of Craig, called Roy Harris Auto Service. His motto was "12 satisfied customers out of a dozen." In 1952, he and Hazel built a house and shop two miles south of town. The business remained Roy Harris Auto Service until 1962, when he was able to expand, handling Case and Massey-Ferguson equipment and it became known as Roy Harris Auto and Implement.
Retirement came in April 1974.
That year, Roy and Hazel designed and started to build a log home on Thompson Hill. Other retirement activities included buying and rebuilding a motor home that had been destroyed in an accident. They did travel some in the motor home, going to Missouri to visit Hazel's family a few times. The family enjoyed Roy and Hazel's company very much and they always had a great time visiting in Missouri.
Hazel passed away May 8, 1989, after a long illness. Roy continued to live in the home he and Hazel built until his health failed him in March 2004, and he had to move to Walbridge Wing in Meeker.
Roy is survived by his son, Roy Jr. "Sonny" and his daughter-in-law, Oveta; grandson, Jay and his wife Rita; granddaughter, Janette; and great-granddaughters Jennifer and Christine.
Services were held Jan. 5, 2005, at Grant Mortuary Chapel with Bishop Joe Ence conducting.
The organist was Myrna Ence and the soloist was Wanda Brown. The opening prayer was given by Marvin Cattoor.
The opening hymn was "The Old Rugged Cross."
A poem, "Footprints In The Sand" was read by Karen Cattoor.
The eulogy and remarks were given by Joe Ence.
A poem, "The Chain" was read by Jennifer Harris.
The closing hymn was "God Be With You Til We Meet Again."
The closing prayer was given by Dustin Ence.
Pallbearers were Jay Harris, Dustin Ence, George Ence, Mike Duzik, Marvin Cattoor and Jim Bohrer.
Honorary pallbearers were "All Roy's Family and Many Friends."
Interment was at Craig Cemetery, with a dedication of the grave by Joe Ence.


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It is important that you make your request for competent authority consideration as soon as you have been denied treaty benefits or the actions of both the United States and the foreign country have resulted in double taxation or will result in taxation not intended by the treaty. Except where otherwise provided in an applicable treaty, taxpayers have discretion over the time for filing a request; however, delays in filing may preclude effective relief. In addition to a timely request for assistance, you should take the following measures to protect your right to the review of your case by the competent authorities.
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The former Los Blancos defender once again talked to the press instead of the 'Special One', and revealed that everyone at the club is tired of the constant speculation
After some mixed results during the 2012-13 campaign so far, the former Chelsea trainer had been linked with a move away from the Bernabeu to join Paris-Saint Germain, and the retired defender made it clear that no one at the club is paying attention to the speculation.
"The only person who knows what will happen is the coach and we are fed up of saying it, we don't give any consideration to the rumours," the 39-year-old told reporters at a press conference.
"I have spent two and a half years with Mourinho and if we paid attention to all of these rumours it would be a disservice to him.
"He shows his strength on the pitch and in the office, which is the way it should be," he added.
The former centre-back remained tight-lipped over any possible transfers during the upcoming winter transfer window, but refused to rule out any moves.
"We have a fine squad but I can't say 100 per cent that there'll be no movements. We have the squad we wanted at the beginning of the season and the squad we want for the end of the season.
"But you can never say anything with 100 per cent conviction because it's not entirely within our hands."
Real Madrid currently sit third in the league and are preparing for their trip to Valladolid on Saturday.


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London: According to a book, there are few things that help a man decide if a first meeting needs to turn into a first date. Jacob Tomsky, author of Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles and So-Called Hospitality - has revealed what men really want when they first meet a woman and provided tips to prepare for first meeting, according to a daily. First, according to him, you should assume that you are an awesome, quality person. This is not about having a big ego. It's about not feeling insecure, not laughing too often and too long at what is not funny enough and not agreeing too fast and repeatedly before any actual points or ideas are fully expressed, he said. He explained that when you're busy thinking about all your possible flaws and faults, you might end up sounding like this: "Yeah, totally, haha, yeah, haha, totally, yeah. Haha." If you take your awesomeness as a given, you can focus on finding out what is awesome about the guy you just met. This will ensure that you remain genuine, and the conversation will end up the same way. Skip the sharp-edged wit, Tomsky suggested, adding that love doesn't always need a laugh track. Don't' invite friends on a date. He suggests people to show up mentally unaccompanied on date, so that the couple could spend the whole night discovering what exactly they do like about each other. Stop your brain from shuffling through other thoughts and focus on what your date is speaking, he suggested. Because Tomsky thinks nothing is sexier than women who know what they want in life and who are actively trying to get it, because nothing sounds more enticing coming out of a woman's mouth than something she feels passionate about. (Agencies) Latest News from Lifestyle News desk
Tell exactly what the other person wants to hear, like something you are passionate about. It may be about job, art, hobby or family.


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In quest for fame, Internet cat stars scratch the surface
They frolic in empty boxes and stick their heads under faucet streams of water. They dance on tippy toes and fly through the air with Pop-Tarts. They play piano wearing little frocks and get tickled to distraction to the delight of millions on YouTube.
I speak, of course, of the cat stars of the Internet, a place filled with felines and their wacky uploading humans since the dawn of bandwidth. Now, after years of viral viewing, they're coming into their own in lucrative and altruistic ways.
Corporate kittydom is happy with the higher profile for the cat meme, which actually goes back to the '70s, when swapping VHS tapes was big and the word meme was barely known. It means, by the way, all the crazy, viral themes that spread online faster than you can say nom, nom, nom (cat-vid speak for the sound of a cat eating.)
Roly poly Maru, the megastar in Japan with millions of views for nearly 300 videos since 2007, has three books and a calendar, among other swag for sale. The squishy-faced, often blissed-out Scottish fold who loves boxes and bags was used by Uniqlo when the Japanese brand launched its San Francisco store in October.
Not to be outdone, Simon's Cat, a funny feline in a series of line-drawn animated videos out of London, has a book and an online store, as does Henri, who lends his fame and some of his dollars to cat charities.
Even the funny-faced Grumpy Cat, whose real name is Tartar Sauce, coughs up some bucks to animal welfare groups, while captions for her still photos fly around the Internet and she sells T-shirts off her website.
So why cats?
Cats are fluffy and unpredictable and usually kept behind closed doors, which lends them allure and appeal when it comes to vapid, funny or deranged video. At least that's what cat fans think.
"Cats are going to do what they want to do, and that's one of the reasons that we love them," said David Kargas, a Fresh Steps spokesman who worked on Catdance, an evening of felines on screen that coincided with January's Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
These days in the cat-video game, acts of charity are expected as much as laughs, said William Braden, the Seattle filmmaker who morphed a pampered family cat named Henry into the French-speaking Henri for a 2006 film school project. Cranking out Henri videos and managing the black-and-white long hair's growing projects are now Braden's full-time job.
"On the one hand, you'd be stupid not to do charity because fans are sensitive," Braden said. "On the other hand, for the love of God, I make a living doing this. ... How horrible would I be if I didn't give a little bit of it away?"
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A girl at the age between 10 and 16 years. On weekends it goes to clubs where other mini-bitches are. It likes to drink a small amount of alcopops to get wasted quickly. Then it shows off and smokes a cigarrette. A typical mini-bitch changes friends every day and dresses like a whore. It doesn't show respect to older people. They want to look more mature but effect the opposite. Their main influences are stars like lady gaga, katy perry, jennifer lopez and nearly every other pop star or it girl. At least rhey're wannabe it girls.
there are no famous Mini-Bitch examples.. as I said they're mostly wannabes.
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Update on the Benjamin-Talk Show-Gruber Controversy.
So there has been more information revealed this week about the whole controversy which I posted about earlier. If you want a different summary, take a look here.
First, Gruber's second episode of the Gak Talk Show he finally opened up about what happened. CandlerBlog has a post with a transcript that says
Dan, the co-host, is obviously very popular and extremely talented. He's extremely good at what he does and I'm super proud of the work we did together. And I think we had lots of good shows and some great shows. Dan, the owner of a podcast network, I have longstanding disagreements with. Came to an end. Why did I take The Talk Show with me? Because I love it.
Candler is a little more deferential to Gruber, acting like now that Gruber talked about it everything is hunky dory. But we'll get to that in a bit.
So what's the disagreement about? Well, Gruber just posted a star story about the New Talk Show. In it he writes that he is selling sponsorships directly. As Space36 writes,
So it sounds as though the suggestions made at the time were pretty much accurate: a fundamental disagreement over the cut of sponsorship money, etc. with Gruber able to earn significantly more from the podcast by taking it to Mule.
CandlerBlog agrees. Which is interesting, but I think not that damaging to Gruber. While sad that Gruber was leaving behind a great show for more money, its not that rare, and in any case its not why this whole thing blew up. It was because Gruber and Benjamin said nothing when it happened, and then after fans starting reacting, Gruber and his cronies started attacking, insulting, and mocking the fans. That's what drove people crazy.
Benjamin then pretty quickly put up a podcast response, and you can tell he he was blindsided and hurt by what was done. People latched onto that and the attacks and just went on the offense against Gruber. This lead to very bad iTunes reviews, and I'm guess poor sponsorship requests. The first two shows were sponsored without hearing the episodes, and most likely without the PR disaster surrounding the show. I know that Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software and Rogue Amoeba got hammered for their support (rightly or wrongly).
Since Gruber has shown he cares more about money than fans, this is a huge problem. So he was forced to respond for damage control. But just like any other scandal (think politician cheating, who denies it at first), responding this late makes it seem he only cares about fixing his image instead of sincerely caring about the fans. That's what really damaged Gruber's reputation.
If this post immediately followed up after announcing the new Talk Show, we all would have speculated, and if Gruber and his cronies did not respond harshly to the critics, this would have blown over in a day (which is really short in internet time). Instead, its almost two weeks late and its still being talked about.
This serves as a great lesson for managing splits and managing PR. Though it should be common sense, apparently its not. I think the three things to learn are:
- Don't attack your own fans who support you, even via advertising
- Control the message yourself by releasing an honest statement, don't let others speculate
- Control the message early, not waiting until its a big drama
However, I'm sure Gruber won't be the first to ignore that advice.


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I just purchased a Walther PPS in 9mm. I was looking for a slimmer carry gun than my Glock 26. The PPS is pretty much the same dimensions and weight as the G26 but it is substantially thinner. HOWEVER, I am thinking I should have considered the G36. Here are the differences:
For the Walther PPS
Caliber: 9mm
Capacity: 6-8 rounds depending on the magazine
Barrel Length: 3.2 inches
Length: 6.3 inches
Height: 4.4 inches
Width: 1.04 inches
Sight Radius: 5.4 inches
Weight: 20.8 ounces
Trigger Pull: 6.1 pounds
For the Glock 36
Caliber: .45
Capacity: 6 rounds
Barrel Length: 3.78 inches
Length: 6.77 inches
Height: 4.76 inches
Width: 1.13 inches
Sight Radius: 6.18 inches
Weight: 20.11 ounces
Trigger Pull: 5.5 pounds
Don't get me wrong. I was pretty impressed with the PPS. But I would have preferred to stay with the Glock platform. There are some differences. I didn't even consider the Glock. I guess I better go back to the gun store and take a second look. :yup:


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Most recent entries are listed below...
With Ontario BDM registrations available on www.ancestry.ca, updates to this site are sporadic and based on what is received from volunteer transcribers. Presently ancestry.ca has births up to 1909 - there are some 1910/11 entries on this site.
November 20, 2010 - some 1911 entries from Toronto, Nipissing Dist & York County.
RECENT UPDATES - an "archives" of uploads
The site has been created to house transcriptions of Ontario Birth Registrations for genealogical research, and has a good representation of most Ontario counties and districts. Daily postings are highlighted at the top of this page; in some cases surname lists of updates are posted to the Ontario & York County lists on Rootsweb.
Birth Registrations housed on this website cover the period 1869 to 1911 only. Civil registration began in Ontario on 1 July 1869, although in the early years, not all births were registered. Prior to 1869 you will need to check existing church registers to find baptismal records. Check the Archives of Ontario website for more details on parish registers.
For births which occurred after 1911, you will need to contact the Office of the Registrar General for the province of Ontario. CLICK HERE.
All entries are arranged alphabetically by surname and can be accessed by clicking the appropriate letter of the alphabet on the chart to the left. In many cases, the content has grown so large that pages have had to be sub-divided. Look for the links at the top of each Birth page to lead you to a different page (ie: For H surnames, you will need to click the link "Ho-Hu" surnames to access this surname information).
FORMAT - Each entry is arranged in the following format - Registration Number; County; Surname; child's name; sex; birth date; father's name & occupation; mother's maiden name; informant; township/town/village of registration.
If you are not familiar with Ontario Birth Registrations, the sample birth registration on the right is a good example of what you can expect to see on an original entry. It also shows you the questions that were recorded and the format of the originals.
Due to space restrictions, I have omitted the name of the Doctor or midwife, the date of registration and the registrar's name. In many cases, the informant, often the child's father, signed the registration form himself.
SOURCES - The Birth Registrations shown on this site are available through the Archives of Ontario (see link below) or the LDS Church. Bill Martin's site gives an excellent overview of both sources with corresponding reel numbers. CLICK HERE to learn more.
WARNING - if you find an entry of interest, I would urge you to obtain a copy of that entry and verify the data listed here. Although care has been taken to list the correct facts in each transcription, errors can happen, old writing can be miss-interpreted and sometimes entries can be very difficult to decipher. For the integrity of your own research, you should use this information as a guide and support it with a copy of the actual entry.
Keep in mind that although this site is updated several times a week, the entries found here are a mere sampling of Ontario Birth Registrations. When you do not find the entry you are interested in this does not mean that the registration doesn't exist. Check the Ontario Birth Registrations indexes (see link under Sources) to learn more.
Miscellaneous Ontario Birth Registrations - as extracted by Duncan Blachford and arranged alphabetically. These 900 entries roughly cover the period 1866 to 1905 and encompass a number of counties and cities in Ontario. CLICK HERE
Baptism index to Grace Anglican Church, Markham Village, Markham Township, 1849 - 1862. From notes of the late Marion Keffer. This index includes the parents' names, father's occupation, abode and baptism date. Includes primarily families from YORK County. CLICK HERE.
Births from the Brampton Presbyterian Church, Baptismal Register, 1849 - 1876 (GS3452). Transcribed by Mary Crandall and listed in alphabetical order - most families from PEEL County. CLICK HERE.
PEEL COUNTY BIRTH REGISTRATIONS. A transcription by Mary Crandall of births registered in PEEL County for the years 1869, 1870, 1881, 1885 & 1901. This has been set up on a separate page and these births have not been included in the alphabetical listing, so be sure to check here also! CLICK HERE.
Baptisms 1853 to 1916 in Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Counties. (MS248, reel 6, vol 11). A work in progress by Mary Crandall. To view the entries transcribed to date, and arranged alphabetically, CLICK HERE.
Markham Circuit Primitive Methodist Baptism Registers (1843-1866). The Markham Circuit included areas of Markham, Scarborough, Whitchurch, Pickering and King Townships (to name a few) - predominately areas of YORK COUNTY and ONTARIO COUNTY, Ontario. The register begins in 1843 and includes the child's name, parents, father's occupation, birthplace and in many cases, the actual birth date. Often, whole families were baptised at one time. CLICK HERE to see the full register.
Markham Circuit Primitive Methodist Baptism Registers (1866-1881). This is the companion register to the baptisms listed above and continues where the first register ends in 1866. Again, entries are predominately for persons in York and Ontario Counties. This register begins in July 1866 and includes child's name, where and when born, parents' names, father's occupation and baptism date. CLICK HERE to access this register.
Parish Registers of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in Beaverton, Ontario. This parish served the Catholic community in Ontario County, York County and some areas of Simcoe County. The parishioners were predominately Irish and French Canadian. This is an on-going project and register pages will be uploaded as they are transcribed. Thanks to Joan Jackaman who supplied copies of the registers and suggested the project. The register begins with Baptisms in 1858. You can access the originals at your LDS library, using film number 1305883 St Joseph's Parish Beaverton. CLICK HERE to see the first 7 pages, covering the period 1858 to 1863.
Baptisms for St. Andrews (Maple) Presbyterian Church, Maple, Vaughan Twp., York County, Ontario (Dec.1865- Dec.1871). CLICK HERE to learn about the congregation and access the baptism register.
Baptisms for Erskine Presbyterian Church, Pickering Twp., Ontario County, Ontario (1869-1881). CLICK HERE to access the baptism register.
CLICK HERE to access Ontario Birth Registrations for the counties of Essex & Kent. This is a portion of the Essex & Kent County Transcription Site maintained by Cindy
CLICK HERE to access Mary Crandall's transcription of birth registrations for Goderich HURON (1870-75) & Galt WATERLOO (1870).
CLICK HERE for Erin Township, Wellington County birth registrations. Sandy McLellan's site contains many resources for Erin Township research.
CLICK HERE to access Jen Wylie's site with transcribed birth registrations for Howe Island Twp., Frontenac County from 1872 to 1903. Included are some entries for Amherst Island (Lennox & Addington Co) and Wolfe & Garden Island (Frontenac Co).
CLICK HERE to visit Mary Crandall's site of Ontario Marriages which houses full transcriptions of Ontario Marriage Registrations and was the driving force behind the creation of this site. If you find a birth registration on this site, check Mary's site to see if the parents' marriage registration is listed!
CLICK HERE to visit the Archives of Ontario site which explains the Birth, Death and Marriage Registrations, interlibrary loans and how to use the indexes.
Wesleyan Methodist Baptism Register - transcribed by Ida Reed and housed on Bill Martin's site. Lists full details of baptisms recorded throughout Ontario by the Wesleyan Methodist church - starting in the 1840s. CLICK HERE to go to the register.
Early Ontario Records - including baptisms, marriages, census etc - can be found on Bill Martin's site. It is a wealth of information! Scroll through his material and you will be amazed at the depth of on-line resources he has made available. CLICK HERE to go to Early Ontario Records.
To contact me about this website, please email - email@example.com.
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To Visit my personal Home Page, with genealogical information on the families I research please CLICK HERE.
Sample of an Ontario Birth Registration
(Source - Archives of Ontario) MS929
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Laguna Hills selects grand marshal for Memorial Day race
LAGUNA HILLS – Cpl. Josue Barron will serve as the grand marshal at the city's Memorial Day Half Marathon, 10K and 5K event May 27, the City Council agreed Tuesday.
Barron lost his left eye and left leg above the knee while serving in Afghanistan in 2010 with the city's adopted 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines of the 1st Marine Division out of Camp Pendleton.
Since finishing rehabilitation at the National Naval Medical Center in San Diego, Barron has participated in six full marathons.
The races are set to begin at 7 a.m. in front of the Saddleback Memorial Medical Center.
More than 500 people have already signed up to run in the event, according to city staffers.
The city is again teaming up with local nonprofit South County Outreach to hold a food drive in conjunction with the races.
The city also again plans to donate $3 from each registration to the 3/5 Marine Support Committee, which helps members of the battalion and their families.
This year, finisher medals will be awarded in all the races, and not just the half marathon, committee member Evan Gost said.
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Well hello, lovelies. I apologize for the delay in getting this column up. I had some work and travel issues (it was the blerst of drives!), so I had a fair amount to deal with before I could get to watching my new favourite episode of TNA ever. Before you find out why, let's get a few things out of the way:
– If you're not following myself, With Leather, or UPROXX on twitter, I encourage you to click the links for each. You can like the article on Facebook, you can tumbl about it, and you can apparently share it on Reddit. I went on Reddit once to read an AMA with Tim Donst, and that has been the extent of my experience, but I'm told it's a good thing, so y'know … if you could.
– You should also read that AMA with Tim Donst. It's pretty great. He talks about the time he tried to kill Hallowicked with a drill in a furniture store, otherwise known as one of my most treasured of Tim Donst videos.
– Like Brandon, I will be attending National Pro Wrestling Day to lose my mind over ACH in person, indulge in some Wrestling Bro high fives, and maybe try to hug Jervis Cottonbelly, because he is the best. If you can make it out, you definitely should. We're good people in person, and again, ACH!!
Alright guys, let's get to it. This week on TNA, it's the wedding of the century, and nothing else matters except all of the other stuff I wrote about. Move over, Will & Kate! A Hogan's getting married!
Best: HOLY F'N CRAP SPIKE DUDLEY
Guys. Guys. YOU GUYS. When I wrote last week that I would be the happiest girl in the world if Spike Dudley showed up, IT WAS TRUE BECAUSE I AM LITERALLY THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD. I have also taken the liberty of checking with all of the other girls in the world to confirm, and yeah, I'm right, no need to do your own research.
For someone who has some pretty serious opinions about this period of time in wrestling, it might shock you to know that some of my absolute favourite things came from ECW. My favourite match, my favourite feud, my favourite commentary team, my favourite wrestler was there for a cup of coffee, one of my favourite tag teams…ECW was incredibly influential in my formative wrestling experiences. Within all of those things I've listed, there are few things I love more in wrestling than Spike Dudley. He even inspired my favourite Halloween costume.
Now, when TNA and Bully Ray hinted at some "extreme" wrestlers showing up, I figured we would get Tommy Dreamer, because of course we would, and maybe Jerry Lynn. Worst case scenario we would get Balls Mahoney, and the gif of me running headlong into a wall would finally come out. But this…guys. Seriously. I am the happiest.
Best: No seriously, Spike Dudley
The glasses! The joke about the tye-dyed tuxedo! How genuinely happy everyone looked to be there! It's all a best! We've gone through a lot of 'acting' in the past few months, but did you see how genuinely happy and excited all three men in the room were? When was the last time we got to see something like that? When was the last time we got to see Bully Ray smile like that? A true, genuine smile? I can guarantee you that this will be the biggest Best that I ever give, and I don't think there's anything they could do to deserve a bigger one. I know they're going to star-wipe over to the bride-to-be any second now and this feeling will probably be diminished, but thank you, TNA, for giving me the happiest, most meaningful feelings I've ever had watching this show.
Best: Scumbag Miss Tessmacher
Right on cue we cut over to Brooke Hogan and her bridesmaids in mid-preparation for the upcoming nuptials. This should probably be a worst, and maybe I'm still sitting, basking in the warm Dudley glow from Dudleyville, but from Tessmacher casually, yet cattily, asks if Brooke's dad is going to be there, to the horrified looks on faces of Mickie James and Christy Hemme, this was great. "Say yes to being a bridesmaid, bring up near-traumatic daddy issues on day of wedding" is almost as good as reliving some of the best moments in Kellerman's history for Tessmacher. Even the whispered "Sorry!" is good enough to negate any amount of aforementioned "acting" from Brooke.
Worst: Pretty sure we've been over this before, Impact Crowd
Both Jeff Hardy and AJ Styles are 35 years old, have wrestled regularly for a good number of years on television, and with the exception of AJ disappearing to find his smile and Jeff disappearing to find enough of his sobriety to pass any drug tests he'll have to go through, they really never lost "it." So what's up with this sudden need to chant "YOU'VE STILL GOT IT"? Yeesh. Tune in next week when they chant the same thing at a 34 year old Austin Aries, and Brandon has to fill in on the report because I have thrown my laptop from the balcony in a fit of confusion and anger.
Best: ILU WTTCotW
Seriously. Just worship them…..now.
Best: Are you okay, Christopher Daniels?
Because you just spilled a lot of tea. During the (mostly one-sided) verbal exchange with Jeff Hardy, Daniels takes a dig at Hardy and his fans by saying that they're "not creatures of the night, but creatures of habit." It's amazing how one little sentence completely sums up almost the entire Jeff Hardy fandom, isn't it? It was such a small part of this segment, but it's not often that we get that kind of brutal honesty as a throwaway insult from a primarily comedy-based heel team. Almost the entirety of TNA's roster and business model is based on this notion: Oh, you used to like this guy? Well hey, come like him here in TNA! He might be a little older, a little slower, and a lot more full of drugs, but if you loved him once you can do it again! I'm happy to see that Jeff Hardy appears to be making strides in his overall health, but admittedly he has been going through the motions. We've gotten a few good matches, but nothing overly memorable. There's nothing much left that makes him innovative or exciting or different. He's just…Jeff Hardy, plain and simple. Heels can be jerks and say mean things, but the best heels will make you think to the point of throwing your arm-band loving, face-painting, nostalgic fans into a headlong existential crisis.
Worst: James Storm
I know Hogan is pretty busy practicing his disappointed faces and measuring his biceps, but you can't just magically decide, then and there, that you're going to launch into a tag team match. You aren't even wearing pants, let alone a three-piece plaid Teddy Long special. No. Stop it. Bad cowboy. Bad.
Best: Tazz
Wait, what? No no, bear with me! Speaking of throwaway lines, Tazz suggests that Jeff Hardy should paint the truck of James Storm. TEAM PAINT YOUR WAGON IS NOW CANON. Every other tag team name can go home now, thanks. I mean, this isn't as good as when the WWE blatantly and liberally used a tag name that Brandon had thought of came up with a really great name for Cody Rhodes and Damien Sandow, but whatever, it's TNA. This is the closest we'll get.
Best: Wrestling!
I enjoyed this match! The creation of it is sketchy at best, but in a show that doesn't have a whole lot of wrestling, I'm glad we got this one in here. Kazarian sells the Twist of Fate like death, and it looked awesome. Christopher Daniels hit the Angels' Wings on Hardy on top of the championship belt, then posed over his corpse in true Douchebag Eve Torres fashion. It was great, and I'm looking forward to seeing some good matches out of everyone involved. Even Jeff.


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Tulisa has unveiled the music video for her heartbreak ballad 'Sight Of You'.
The N-Dubz star is seen breaking up and making up with 'Shameless' star Jody Latham, as she stands on rooftops and other 'urban' settings.
Tulisa kisses Jody Latham
Tulisa seems to be keen to remind people of her gritty urban roots, of late.
She said: "The second I saw you guys I connected you with N-Dubz... if I don't stick up for my urban N-Dubz roots I'd be lying to myself... I'm sorry the act I'm sending home is Kye."
Tulisa is seen crying in the video
'Sight Of You' will be the third release from her upcoming debut solo album 'The Female Boss'.
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After entering Beleriand at Morgoth's bidding, Ulfang and his sons joined the service of Caranthir.[1] Their purpose was to eventually betray the Elves, which they did in the Nirnaeth Arnoediad. They turned against their allies, attacking them in the rear. Uldor was slain by Maglor.[2]


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The vitrophyre is the black, obsidian-like band at the left of the roadcut. There are also an interesting pair of faults near the center of the image. I had hoped to catch this roadcut a bit earlier in the day, but I only got here a little later than I wanted to. Nevertheless, the lighting wasn't as bad as I had f...
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"Our hope is that this is a concrete first step in moving this process along,'' NYRA president Charles Hayward said of the court filing that outlines the racing entity's plan for emerging from bankruptcy protection.
At the heart of the plan is the recent recommendation by Gov. Eliot Spitzer to give NYRA a 30-year franchise extension to run Aqueduct, Belmont, and Saratoga. In return, NYRA gives up its land claims for the three tracks, valued in excess of $1 billion. The state also would provide NYRA with $75 million and give up $132 million in past claims against NYRA.
The deal still needs legislative approval.
Hayward, though, said critics should not call the plan offered by Spitzer a bailout. "At the end of the day if there is no new NYRA franchise, the state has a responsibility to assume all the liabilities of NYRA, which is substantially more money than we are talking about in our reorganization plan,'' he said.
NYRA puts potential liability for the state at more than $300 million.
The "disclosure statement'' filed by NYRA Nov. 27 is intended as a roadmap for the creditors committee and the state to use in what NYRA officials hope will be the end of its bankruptcy case.
The filing says creditors will be paid 100 cents on the dollar for their claims and that contributions to its employee pension plans will be satisfied.. It is also offering to pay the IRS up to $25 million for back taxes, far below the $1.6 billion the IRS says it is owed by NYRA in taxes and penalties. NYRA also will retain 17.5 acres of land adjacent to Aqueduct; it then hopes to sell that parcel sometime next year for about $15 million.
The bankruptcy filing assumes NYRA gets another franchise, which is still up in the air as Spitzer and lawmakers have yet to resolve the matter. The current NYRA franchise expires Dec. 31, and NYRA again in court papers Nov. 27 said there is no guarantee it will continue racing after that date.
NYRA also argues in the court papers against an alternative bankruptcy option: liquidation, in which NYRA is done away with and its assets are sold.
"Our hope is that the creditors committee and that the state will vote to approve the plan subject to the approval of the terms of the memorandum of understanding (with Spitzer),'' Hayward said.


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Can the lt1000m directly input text like company name and phone or do I still have to do it with the countplus? So far I am having fun with this great tool!
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The LT1000m requires a computer to use, so you should be able to use that computer to input or edit any text on the reports.
Perhaps I am confused as to what you are asking though... does that address your concern?
I understand the text report thing what I want to know is can I use the LT1000 to enter text on to the seesnake count plus memory that is stored on the camera itself?Seattle Drain Service
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are you just trying to do overlays over the actual video instead of typing into the report. You can type text overtop of the snapshots you take by clicking on the image in your left side media bar then click the little color pallet in the lower left. you have a text tool in there that you can use to put text over the actual image.
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Is it possible to enter text onto the video format when doing a drain inspection other than taking or as well as a snapshot.
I think that sometimes that may be handy to show roughly where the problem is other than the snapshot.
Also when you are viewing the dvd it may make more sense.
With the USB type report, the report flows very well as you can click on the image to display the information.
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Today I have Terri Garey on the blog for My Favorite Things!
Having always been fascinated by legends and stories surrounding Satan's Biblical fall from grace, I'm excited to be able to tell it from a whole new perspective, from the side of the arrogant fallen angel whose lust for the flesh led him to defy his creator. In The Devil's Bargain series, I'll get to delve more deeply into Sammy's world: Where does he go when he's not tempting or tormenting Nicki Styx? Who (and what) are the creatures that surround him in his kingdom of darkness?
Even more intriguing, how do they feel when their Dark Prince is the one being tempted?
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Why is the ICF (Island Corridor Foundation) still trying to push to revive some retro-romantic railway to carry freight and transport residents and tourists on a scenic journey to various Island towns and Victoria?
If rail travel had been a practical, money-making proposition it never would have been canceled. But when the service was terminated trains ran mostly empty and freight, other than the occasional tank car, was non-existent, at least to the upper Island.
Trying to resurrect the train is folly. If anyone takes the time to walk the tracks it will be evident that the estimate of $140-160 million to refurbish the line is probably low. If the government and the ICF are hell bent on spending this kind of dough to develop the corridor, perhaps they should consider taking a page from the communities in the Kelowna area and develop the right of way similar to the Kettle Valley trail system, thus affording residents of the various Island communities access to a good walking and biking trail and providing an interesting tourist attraction. In fact tie it into the galloping goose trail in Victoria.
Stifle the rail idea. It's wasting the energy of our representatives and there are other more pressing priorities.
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Judging from its playful title, "Girls Against Boys" aims to flip the script on the battle of the sexes, forcing a handful of guys to atone for the sins of all men as two mad-as-hell gals go on a bloody revenge bender.
Judging from its playful title, "Girls Against Boys" aims to flip the script on the battle of the sexes, forcing a handful of guys to atone for the sins of all men as two mad-as-hell gals go on a bloody revenge bender. Clearly seeking attention, writer-director Austin Chick ("XX/XY") appeared stunned by the lack of outrage that accompanied this yawn-inducing SXSW midnight premiere, but then, there's something already old-hat about giving girls guns — and swords, and reciprocating saws — to the extent that this Chick pic's greatest provocation is how slow and disengaged it feels. Both genders will bite on VOD.
To call Shae (Danielle Panabaker) unlucky with men would be an understatement: On the same day she gets dumped by cheating husband Terry (Andrew Howard), the 21-year-old undergrad endures the come-ons of male patrons at the bar where she works, goes home with three randy guys and suffers a sexual assault at the hands of Simon ("Cloverfield's" Michael Stahl-David), the baby-faced one of the bunch. Unluckier still, however, are the men who crossed her. After the rape, Shae confides what happened to loose-cannon co-worker Lu (Nicole LaLiberte), and together they go to the police, who instruct Shae to fill out a report but do little to investigate her claims. While Shae suffers the detective's skepticism, the scantily clad Lu hangs out in the lobby, distracting the front-desk cop with a leg-spreading show that would make even Sharon Stone blush. Later that afternoon, Lu turns up with the officer's gun. Though auds get to see the unpleasant seduction/murder by which she acquired the weapon (twice!), Shae isn't curious enough to push the point. These ladies have retribution on the agenda, starting with the men least responsible for their direct misfortune ("The only thing that keeps them from acting like pigs is that they're cowards and they're afraid of getting caught," Lu rationalizes) and working their way up to Simon and Terry. Though "Girls Against Boys" postures as if it's all about exploring gender dynamics, it raises only a fraction of the insights Chick brought to his debut, "XX/XY," as it simultaneously plays and underplays the exploitation-movie card: The rape is shown out of focus, the murders are relatively bloodless, and the whole thing unspools with moody, slow-motion detachment — "tasteful" solutions to the pic's inherently disagreeable scenario. It should be noted that the women-on-top revenge genre is almost exclusively the domain of male directors, who mistake their fetishization of distaff killers for empowerment. As the pic's corrupting vixen, LaLiberte looks disarming, her giant, wide-set eyes and doll-like face contrasting with the rest of her hypersexualized appearance. Panabaker is more demure, but instead of embracing that persona, she goes through much of the film in a numb fog, dissuading the sort of identification that would make this stunt more subversive — or, at the very least, engaging. A poster in Shae's bathroom and other clues none-too-subtly suggest the entire ride may be little more than the retribution dream of a modern-day Alice. Though intended to leave all that's transpired open to interpretation, the last few scenes instead serve only to confuse what we've seen, a slippery attempt to subvert this usually gratuitous genre. Chick's influences range from gonzo French thriller "Baise-moi" to razorblade-laced "Hard Candy," with an "Audition"-lite hobbling thrown in for good measure. At least a dozen other pics have tried to tweak the same nerve to better effect, leaving this self-satisfied attempt to stun feeling like a pose, the blanks-and-squibs version of a familiar showdown.Girls Against Boys
A Floren Shieh production in association with Foco Films. (International sales: Paradigm, Los Angeles.) Produced by Clay Floren, Aimee Shieh. Co-producer, Daniel Sollinger. Directed, written by Austin Chick.
Camera (color, HD), Kathryn Westergaard; editor, Pete Beaudreau; music, Nathan Larson; music supervisor, Howard Paar; production designer, Jeanelle Marie; set decorator, Lauren Heanes; costume designer, Kama Royz; sound, Tammy Douglas; sound designer/supervising sound editor, Jacob Ribicoff; stunt coordinator, Anthony Vincent; special effects makeup, Anthony Pepe, Brian Spears; visual effects supervisor, Ari Levinson; visual effects, Leonid Studios; assistant directors, Cassandra Leymon, Glen Trotinor; casting, Ellen Parks. Reviewed at SXSW Film Festival (Midnighters), March 10, 2012. Running time: 93 MIN.
Danielle Panabaker, Nicole LaLiberte, Liam Aiken, Michael Stahl-David, Andrew Howard.