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Returning for Season 3 in September in the UKand January 2013 on Masterpiece on PBS, the hit drama series Downton Abbey will see wrenching social changes, romantic intrigues, and personal crises that grip the majestic English country estate, now that the Great War is over and a long-awaited engagement is on. Written and created by Julian Fellowes, the show has become a worldwide cultural phenomenon, breaking records with all of its nominations for the Primetime Emmy Awards.
While at the PBS portion of the TCA Summer Press Tour, Fellowes talked about how this season will be about the recovery from the war, the advantages of being able to create a story set in the past but with a modern mind-set in writing it, what actress Shirley MacLaine will add to this season, how amused he is by the people who wrongly point out inaccuracies in the show, and how far he'd like to take the story. Check out what he had to say after the jump.
Question: Last season was considerably darker with the war, but now there is an impending marriage. Would you classify this season as a little brighter and more cheerful, or is it just as dark?
JULIAN FELLOWES: We like a few laughs. This season is about the recovery from the war. The war brought a tremendous disruption to England and took many, many families, of all sorts. There were those few years when people were trying to decide if the world was going to go back and be the same as it was before, or had it changed completely, and that's really the theme of the series. There are chills and spills involved in that, for all the characters, with some laughs and some tears.
When people try to figure out what makes this show different from other Masterpiece programming, they say that it's because it's done in a classical setting, but you don't have to base it on any novel. What are the advantages of being able to create a story and set it in the past, but use your own modern mind-set in writing it?
FELLOWES: Well, I think there is a liberation in it being original because you can go into areas of the period that a contemporary novel would not have done. There are many subjects that we range, whether it's women's rights or homosexuality, or whatever, which you wouldn't find in a novel written in 1906, or whenever. So, you do have that freedom. The discipline is to look at those subjects, within the context of that period. You must be careful to try to give people reasonable reactions and emotional responses that are right for their own time, and not simply someone who's been parachuted in from 2012. I think that the decision to make it more like modern American television series, like The West Wing and E.R., with lots of plots going on – big plots, little plots, funny plots, sad plots – seems to be right for the energy of now. It seems to meet what the audience wants. With Downton, the fun is that it looks like a classical period drama from the '70s, but everyone is in bustles and ringing for lunch, and the energy is much more modern. I think that has worked for us.
What does Shirley MacLaine add to Season 3?
FELLOWES: One of the key elements that Shirley brings into the show is to remind us that Cora's (Elizabeth McGovern) upbringing was not the same as Robert's (Hugh Bonneville). During the first years of her marriage, that's all been suppressed, to a certain extent, and she's had to get on with it and do it the way they do it. But, as things start to change and the plates are shifting and we are reminded what Cora's come from, Cora is less afraid of the future than Robert is. She's much less afraid of change. Now, you'll start to see more and more of that because she's less afraid of expressing that. We have had moments of dissidence, in the first two seasons, when she refuses to think ill of Matthew (Dan Stevens) because he has a job. She doesn't like him taking her money, but she's not prepared to criticize him for having a job. And she's dismissed when Mary (Michelle Dockery) says, "You're American, mother. You don't understand these things." That's all changing now because, if anyone understands the world that's coming, it's Cora. The bringing in of Martha (MacLaine) ushers in that new era, by reminding us that Cora comes from a different past.
As Downton Abbey exploded onto the scene, here in the States, someone decided to pick out all the anachronisms in the script and the expressions that were not used back then. Is that something that you pay any attention to, at all?
FELLOWES: The interesting thing about this is that, when these people complain, the newspapers always assume that the complainant is correct and the show is wrong. In fact, in more or less every single case, the complainant was incorrect. There was a song that someone said hadn't been released when they sang it. Yes, it had. There was the thing that nobody had said "boyfriend" before 1930, but it was first in print in 1879. I was reading a Trollope novel once, and someone said something to the heroine and she said, "Oh, tell that to the Marines." I thought, "Well, that must be completely out of period. That's a Second World War phrase." But in fact, the book was published in 1867. Colloquial language is much older than a lot of people think. I'm not saying that we've never made a mistake. I'm sure we have. But with the language, I haven't yet found one where the complaint proved to be correct. The latest one was "kids." Someone said, "Oh, I'm sure 'kids' was a post-Second World War description of children." But in fact, it was first used in the 15th Century. I think the constant surprising of the audience by realizing that these people are much more like us and much more normal, and that there isn't a place called Period where these strange people live in funny clothes, is one of the strengths of the show, really.
Did they make a class system out of the necessities of the wardrobe, since it was virtually impossible to get dressed by yourself, or was it the other way around?
FELLOWES: I think it is true that, as life changed, part of that was the endless disciplines and the fact that you couldn't get either dressed or undressed without someone else's help, or you had to be in the dining room at this point and out of it by this point. In the end, it just became an enormous bore, for everyone concerned. In the '50s, there was an attempt by Dior to bring back the crinoline and all these corsets, and it looked absolutely ravishing, but it didn't last because it didn't match the life everyone was leading. Things go faster. We don't want to be dependent, in that same way, for our ordinary life. We like to be able to just get on with it. It's not even a money thing. People think, "Oh, it all ended because people couldn't afford it anymore." And I'd say that was part of it, but the main reason was that it just wasn't right for the way people were thinking, after the first war, and even less after the second. There was a wonderful divorce case, in this period, of somebody called Lady Colin Campbell. It was remembered chiefly for the fact that, among the people that she was accused of sleeping with were the Duke of Marlborough, a famous surgeon, and the chief of London's fire brigade. But, one of the reasons they found against her was because, when her maid came to undress her that night, her clothes had all been misfastened. The conclusion of the judge was that she had been dressed by a man.
In Season 3, with all the changes post-war and now that they've lost the money, are we going to see changes in aristocratic life?
FELLOWES: Yes. These were tough years for those families and households, and many, many great families would go to the wall between the wars because the ways of keeping these estates got easier. It didn't get more difficult. It got easier because successive governments decided that it wasn't such a great idea to smash up all the agriculture estates, so they would no longer charge death duties and you could set up individual trusts that made things easier. But for that initial generation, when the taxes were going up, and death duties were levied between husbands and wives, it was none of that modern thing of where one-half of the couple gets nothing. It was a toss-up, in many families, as to whether or not it was worth the struggle to go on, and that is a dilemma that is faced by the Crawleys. You have to watch the series to find that out.
In a lot of ways, Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) has actually been at the center of the drama on the show. What's going to happen with her, in the future?
FELLOWES: The risk of scandal makes her vulnerable. She was invulnerable before that. I think Mary is one of those people who does not want to give in to society. She's a very strong personality, but she's not a rebel. She doesn't want to live outside society. She wants to negotiate the rules, so that she can stay inside. Mary thought she would get away with the Pamuk incident, but it haunts her. It has given her an Achilles heel, and people know about it. To a certain extent, maybe she'll get past it, but she can never feel the superiority of being perfect again.
How did you come up with the limp for Mr. Bates (Brendan Coyle)?
FELLOWES: That was my wife, Emma. Normally, no valet would be able to limp because part of their job was carrying suitcases and waiting tables. It seemed such a simple change to make, but it worked. When he arrived, all of the other servants were nice and said hello, but you could see them all thinking, "This guy limps!" It worked really well. I've always been very thrilled with the thing.
Ideally, how far would you like to take this story? Do you have a year in mind?
FELLOWES: I don't think we've really thought in that way, actually. Each series takes about two years, and I think we will just continue to move forward, at that pace. The great thing is that you don't have to have anybody doing wobbly stick acting with gray wigs. They can remain reasonably the same age. The '20s are a very interesting period to me. Once you get into the '30s, then it's the Nazi-dominated, "Europe prepares for the war," period that we've all seen exploited in different films. The '20s are a much more nebulous time. Here, you've got Prohibition and gangland in Chicago, but we haven't even really got that. We've just got a transition between the Old World and the '30s and the Second World War happening. I think it's rather fun to be journeying through that bit in the middle. In the third [season], you see the impact of the Irish troubles on this family. That really started up after the end of the First World War, and was much more the headline than the suffragettes, or the other things. The Irish problem seemed to be a yawning difficulty for the British empire, and I don't think a lot of people know about that. It would be rather nice to go into that. We always try, in Downton, to make references to things like the Marconi scandal, and a few people will talk about it, but we never really explain it. What we hope, in our rather simple way, is that people then go off to the internet and do a search to get the whole thing, and they realize it was in that year and it did happen and everything we were saying about it was valid and true. Obviously, most people who watch the show don't bother to do that, but there is this vague sprinkling of events and references that, if you check them out, will work and are true. It seems to me to be rather good fun to be doing that in a much lesser-known period. So for all those reasons, I think we will be moving pretty slowly through the 1920s. We could go to the Wall Street crash, and then end with Robert playing a ukulele. That would be our big finish.


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The PawSox are sorely in need of leadership. Not from the coaching staff. Manager Ron Johnson and coaches Russ Morman and Rich Sauveur more than fill the bill in that department. What I'm talking about is the type of leadership that comes from within the clubhouse. A player who is not content to just play out the string. Someone who will grab a younger teammate by the front of the jersey and not be afraid to tell them to hustle, try harder, or just to smarten up. The PawSox miss Jeff Bailey. Not that "Bails" is a rah-rah type, he really isn't. But he leads by example and does not tolerate fools well. Bailey, the reigning MVP in the I.L. is currently on Bostons' disabled list with a high ankle sprain. The PawSox are not his responsibility, but I mention Bailey to show what the PawSox seem to be missing. If you've head me on the air over the last 5 years or read this blog this season, you know how I feel about RJ. There's not a better man for the job- anywhere. However, from what I've been told, nothing makes more of an impression than a teammate calling you out. Last season, Joe Thurston was that kind of guy in the clubhouse. Thurston didn't care if he ruffled feathers, winning was priority number one. He may not have been the best player on te team, but he cared, a lot. The PawSox have turned in a crummy month of July, so far. They've dropped 12 of their last 14 games, all but falling out of any possible postseason conversation. Monday night, the PawSox hit "rock bottom". That was the term used by shortstop Gil Velazquez in the Rochester newspaper after Pawtucket committed 5 errors in their most recent defeat. RJ closed the door to the visitors' clubhouse at Frontier Field and read his team the riot act. It takes a lot to get him upset, but apparently it's happened. RJ feels that if he allows mental mistakes, laziness and lack of concentration to be tolerated for one night, the wrong message is sent with the rest of the season in the balance. He made his point and made it very clear. If you can't hit, fine. If you can't pitch, ok. If you can't catch the ball, so be it. You better be on time. You better play hard and you had better be trying. Younger players like Aaron Bates, Bubba Bell and Mark Wagner are impressionable and will follow an example set by a veteran player, if they don't take the bull by the horns, themselves. It is tough enough to make the transition to Triple A without having to be the "team captain" as well. I'm not pointing fingers at any one specifically, but I'd love to see a roster that has this much talent on it, live up to somewhere close to its' potential.
Welcome Adam LaRoche to the Red Sox. The first baseman was traded from the Pirates to Boston for shortstop Argenis Diaz (Portland) and pitcher Hunter Strickland (Greenville). LaRoche, 29 was hitting .247 with 12 home runs and 47 rbi. LaRoche is a free agent at the end of the 2009 season.
I love Frontier Field in Rochester. It is very well-maintained and seemingly well run. The park features organist Fred Costello. It just sounds so great to hear Fred work his magic on the organ. Costello has turned down offers from Major League teams to remain in Rochester. His son Thurm, is another fixture in the League. Thurm runs the visitors' clubhouse at the ballpark. Freds' other son, Chris, works in the PR department for the Tampa Bay Rays. He gave his A.L. Championship ring to his dad. Freds' mom is 98 years old and lives in Syracuse. She used to listen to me back when I did the Syracuse University broadcasts and the Chiefs baseball games. Fred says she's up and about all the time, socializing and playing cards with her friends. "She's no decrepit old lady, that's for sure." says Fred.


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Alexion Global Headquarters Earns Highest LEED® Green Building Certification
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NEW HAVEN, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALXN) and The Connecticut Green Building Council (CTGBC) today announced that Alexion's global headquarters at 100 College Street in New Haven has achieved LEED Platinum certification for Commercial Interiors. LEED Platinum is the highest level of green building certification through the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and Alexion is one of less than 15 buildings in Connecticut to earn this prestigious certification.
"In addition to supporting vital economic and social efforts in the New Haven community, we are also committed to protecting our environment through responsible and innovative business practices," said Julie O'Neill, Executive Vice President and Head of Global Operations at Alexion. "Alexion's global headquarters represents best-in-class design, construction, maintenance and operation of a green building and we are very proud to be certified as LEED Platinum."
Alexion achieved LEED Platinum certification for implementing measurable strategies and solutions aimed at achieving high performance in various areas of building. The Company's 14-story global headquarters features a green roof top, renewable energy sources, high-performance fixtures designed to save water, and materials such as paints and adhesives that provide increased air quality for building occupants. More specifically, the building will save approximately 778,000 gallons of water per year, 50 percent of electricity will be drawn from renewable energy sources, and 90 percent of occupied areas will have access to natural light, among other benefits.
"The work of innovative building projects, such as Alexion's, is fundamental in transforming the way buildings are designed, built and operated," said Judy Swann, Executive Director, CT Green Building Council. "Buildings that achieve LEED certification are lowering carbon emissions, creating a healthier environment and reducing operating costs while prioritizing sustainable practices. We congratulate Alexion on this significant achievement."
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Alexion is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and delivering life-transforming therapies for patients with devastating and rare disorders. Alexion is the global leader in complement inhibition and has developed and commercializes the first and only approved complement inhibitor to treat patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) and atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS), two life-threatening ultra-rare disorders. In addition, Alexion's metabolic franchise includes two highly innovative enzyme replacement therapies for patients with life-threatening and ultra-rare disorders, hypophosphatasia (HPP) and lysosomal acid lipase deficiency (LAL-D). Alexion is advancing its rare disease pipeline with highly innovative product candidates in multiple therapeutic areas. More information about Alexion can be found at: www.alexion.com.
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Fancy 7.6mm of sexy Ceramic Metal and 4.3in of AMOLED screenage with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, a 1.5GHz dual-core processor and Beats Audio all under the hood? That's the HTC One S we're talking about – the super-thin Mobile World Congress 2012 smartphone that's set to join the quad-core HTC One X with an April 5th release date.
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text: Scot 123 Posted May 25, 2009 I spent some time a couple of days ago modifying the screens and emails that get sent to people who are going through the new-member registration process. The goal of this work was to make it more clear to everyone that registration to Scot's Newsletter Forums is not automatic. It takes a few days, on average, to have your membership confirmed. So the new wordings in the screens and the confirmation email should make it more apparent what the next steps will be and also that the registration process doesn't result in the ability to post right away.In a nutshell, these are the steps:1. Go through the registration process, creating login information, performing the Real Person check (remember, Number and Letter after the colon), the captcha, and I highly recommend that you enter information about your PC or Mac in those optional fields. This will speed your registration process because bots do not enter that info ever.2. Almost immediately, you should receive a confirmation email to the email address you used in the first step. You must receive that message and click the "activation link" in it. This proves that YOU initiated the registration, and meant to initiate this registration. It also verifies your email address. You must have a valid email address to register to Scot's Newsletter Forums. You will not get spam from us. Your email privacy is absolutely protected.3. Once the activation link is clicked, your steps are complete, and the next step is to be patient and wait for our Admins to approve you. It could take up to a week or two if people are on vacation or busy. Please remember, all moderators and forum admins at SNF donate their time. We realize that if you're registering, you probably have something you want to say right away. We regret the inconvenience, but this level of protection has been working for three years. And the security of everyone visiting this forums is the most important thing. You will be emailed when your registration is complete.Why We Do ThisOver the years, we've had to make this process more and more difficult to protect the forums from malicious bots. We are under siege at all times from bots attempting to register here and gain access to the forums. That happened to us in mid 2006, with disastrous results. The attack was a very simple one, but it placed every single visitor to the site in peril of getting a series of malware apps installed on their systems. The problem was evident for 18 hours before I was made aware of it. I was able to disable the problem pretty quickly, but we were also lucky. Since that time, bot attacks have been more sophisticated.To combat that, we've added several "real person" checks -- and our Forum Admins perform a personal check of every new member before they're given membership. The process takes some time, but in the long run, it's worth it. Please be patient. Thanks.-- Scot Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Educator Seán Ó Grádaigh is preparing a generation of digitally engaged teachers — and making a positive impact on schools across Ireland. He's developed a university program that empowers student teachers to create a digital curriculum in their native Irish language. As a semester project, Seán sends his students on a journey to create a Multi-Touch book with iBooks Author.
"By learning how to create their own content, our students aren't just becoming better teachers but passionate authors of Gaelic textbooks that are needed in Irish schools."
Seán Ó Grádaigh, Lecturer, School of Education, National University of Ireland, Galway
Mapping out an engaging experience.
Exploring the possibilities.
Seán introduces the project by showing his class a Multi-Touch geography book he made with iBooks Author. His iBooks textbook uses graphs, pictures, video, text, and activities to engage all learners in a way traditional books can't.Learn more about iBooks
Planning for action.
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"A well-designed learning resource integrates audio, images, interactivity, and learning activities that cater to all types of learners."
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Drawing out the details.
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Perfecting every shot.
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|Union Civil War Veteran's Pension, George Rothweiler (St. Louis, Missouri), Widow's Claim (Wilhelmina Rothweiler), 17 July 1890; obtained from the National Archives.
One problem with this part of the document is that I cannot read the names of the witnesses and I'm having difficulty reading the names of the streets. The witnesses have signed their names in German. Given that Wilhelmina was of German nativity, this is not unusual. What's slightly odd is that they have only known Wilhelmina for a short amount of time. Since she'd lived in St. Louis since approximately 1850, it would have seemed that she would have been able to find witnesses who had known her longer. But again, they are only testifying to her identity, not the specifics of her claim.
A map of St. Louis may help me in reading the addresses of these two witnesses. The first is probably Victor Street. The other I'm not so certain. It is noted that the house numbers are close, which may indicate that these two ladies (their first names are Christina and Rosa) are neighbors.


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Bloodnet now available on GOG
Here's one for the veterans among you; Microprose RPG Bloodnet is now available on GOG. For $6 you can enjoy both versions, which were originally released on floppy and CD, depending on which system was the seat of your heart back in the day. The Cyberpunk RPG boasts a cool gimmick in that players visit […]
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Special Forces: Team X gets video blog ahead of next week's release
Special Forces: Team X is the insane third-person shooter from Zombie Studios, and publisher Microprose. It's got the visuals of Borderlands 2 mixed with gunplay and gory chainsaw executions. In short, it looks totally hat-stands. The studio has released a new video blog ahead of the game's release. See it below.
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Special Forces: Team X -"stylized, team-centric third-person shooter," announced for PC
Special Forces: Team X, a PC game in development at Zombie Studios, has been announced as a downloadable release for fall.
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The WebDT 500 series LCD-integrated terminals incorporate vivid displays with low power consumption computing platforms in compact and mountable packages for various vertical computing and POS (point-of-service and point-of-sale) applications. The WebDT 500 series offer optional integrated MSR, 2D barcode scanner or RFID modules.
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Do I need to replace my filter media?
Alvin – Canton, OH
The filters in your water garden are one the best lines of defense against dirty pond water, algae blooms and poor fish health. Since they play such a big role in keeping your pond healthy, you will want to make sure your filter media is up to snuff for the season.
If you've stored your existing pond filters over the winter and want to reuse them this season, you will want to start by cleaning and inspecting the filtration media. Check the filter media pads in your waterfall box, skimmer and pressurized filters for frayed edges, deposits of solid debris, holes and other signs of damage. Replace pads that are a bit worse for wear with a new filter media pad. A wide array of filter media pads are available starting with the cost effective "cut your own" rolls to special coated Matala® Filter Pads for extended life and performance. The foam media that comes in your pressurized or in-pond filter is usually unique to your particular make and model and can be purchased specifically for your unit. Regardless of whether your filter media pads are new or old you should seed them with PL Gel beneficial bacteria so that your filters are ready and able to biologically filter your pond from the moment you install them.
Secondary filtration media such as filter media blocks or bio-ribbon should be inspected and replaced as necessary as well. An advantage to using BioBalls™ is that they only require a thorough rinse before you reuse them for the season, as they virtually do not wear or degrade. Don't forget to also inspect or replace filter media bags for your secondary filtration media if needed.
Keeping your filter media in working order can save you time, hassle and money by getting your pond off to a good start, so you can avoid dealing with insufficient filtration later in the season. Inspect your filter media with this in mind and purchase replacement media accordingly.
Pond Talk: What types of filtration media do you use in your water garden? Which types perform the best for you?
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Census Records for Ohio
This entry was originally written by Carol L. Maki and Michael John Neill for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
Population Schedules
• Indexed'1800 (Washington County only), 1810 (Washington County only'others burned 1812), 1820 (Franklin and Wood counties missing), 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870 (Cincinnati and Cleveland only), 1890 (fragment), 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930
• Soundex'1880, 1900, 1910 (Miracode), 1920
Industry and Agriculture Schedules
• 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880 (lists do not exist for all counties for each year); manufacturer's'1820 (very limited)
Mortality Schedules
• 1850 for counties H'W (published), 1860 all counties (published), 1870 (Seneca County only), 1880 (Adams to Geaugan counties only)
Union Veterans Schedules
• 1890
The Ohio Historical Society suggests that the duplicate tax lists of Ohio counties may be used as a substitute for the missing 1810 census. In addition to the indexes published by AISI (see pages 3-4), the 1850 and 1860 census records have been indexed and published by Lida Flint Harshman. The Ohio Genealogical Society (see Archives, Libraries, and Societies) has completed an every-name surname index from the original 1880 census it has in its possession. In addition to the online indexes through subscription services (see page 17), federal censuses for Ohio through 1870 are indexed in print form and available at Family History Centers and through several vendors.
The 1890 population census exists only for Cincinnati (Hamilton County) and Wayne Township (Clinton County) and is indexed in the microfilm index provided by the National Archives for the remaining 1890 census returns.
Ohio had no state census records. There are scattered county census records taken for militia purposes, plus personal and real estate tax lists, all of which have been incorrectly referred to as state census records. There are quadrennial enumerations taken every four years from 1803 to 1911 to determine voting districts. These include males (white only, prior to 1863) over twenty-one years of age residing in a county, showing address, race, occupation, and whether a freeholder of land. Not all counties are available for each four-year period, nor is each township for each county included. A list of the available records can be obtained from the Ohio Historical Society, where the enumerations are either on microfilm or in original form. This repository also holds 'enumerations of school-aged youth' for selected years and counties.
The 'Special Enumeration of Blacks Immigrating to Ohio, 1861'1863, by the Auditor of the State' (State Archives Series 2261) is microfilmed and can be purchased from the Ohio Historical Society Microfilm Department. The microfilm includes a four-part index, by name, previous residence, questionable names, and county of those African Americans who had migrated to the state between 1 March 1861 and 3 March 1863. Forty-seven counties scattered around the state responded with at least one name, resulting in a total of 1,375 names. The Ohio Genealogical Society (see Ohio Archives, Libraries, and Societies) has published many of these enumerations in its chapter's newsletters.
External Links
- Ohio Census Records - free up-to-date guide to accessing Ohio census records. Identifies federal, state, and territorial censuses, as well as substitute records (FamilySearch Research Wiki).


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Notice: the November 9th Magic Lantern Show with Atlas Obscura is cancelled for now. We hope to reschedule for sometime during the winter. Observatory, where the event is scheduled to take place, has been damaged by Hurricane Sandy and flooding.
Alternatively, it has been decided to move forward with this Sunday's Newtown Creek "SideTour" Poison Cauldron walking tour in Greenpoint, details are found at the bottom of this posting.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Completing the survey of the distaff tributaries of the fabled Newtown Creek in the aftermath of the so called Frankenstorm, Hurricane Sandy, my stalwart companion Hank The Elevator Guy and your humble narrator proceeded to the heart of darkness itself, the malign English Kills which runs along the borderland of Bushwick, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, and Ridgewood.
There are few casual visitors to this spot, and those of us who are familiar with this section of the Creek make attempts to limit our exposure to it.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Reports from those who live nearby, and don't enjoy the measured luxury of choosing how often to breathe the unique perfumes of English Kills, indicated that significant flooding occurred here. The water was meant to have infiltrated out from the bulkheads, overflowing the tracks of the LIRR's Bushwick Branch, and onto both Morgan and Johnson Avenue.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
The shells of bivalves were extant upon the moist ground. Can it be possible that they were deposited by the tidal surge? One thing which should be noted is that the smell one normally associates with this area, something not dissimilar to a turtle's aquarium tank, was absent. Everything smelled… well, wet.
Only way to describe it.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Everywhere that I've seen exposed rail tracks around the Creek, they all exhibit this fresh patina of orange corrosion. Causation does not equal correlation, however, if you were to compare them to the shots in the Newtown Pentacle posting from March of this year "approaching locomotive" you will notice a distinct change in color which your humble narrator would ascribe to immersion in brackish water.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
The water in English Kills, as always, was horrible to behold. It was a bit murkier than usual, as would be suspected, and a large amount of floatable trash was observed. Again, not unsurprising. There is a reason that my old pal Bernie Ente called this spot "the heart of darkness" and why I use "gods gift to pain".
– photo by Mitch Waxman
This is a pretty well established spot for homeless shanties and sometimes full blown camps to be established. It's hidden and far enough away from "civilization" for no one to complain about a camp fire, after all.
This shanty was smashed, no doubt by heavy winds.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
The CSO at the end of the Newtown Creek's furthest extant. One can only imagine what was erupting from it during the storm surge.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
The larger Homeless shanty dwelling atop the CSO seems to have survived the storm, and they are flying the flag.
Notice the storm debris hanging from the plants along the banks, no doubt left behind as the waters receded, sucking along anything that was submerged or floating in it on the way back into the waterway.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Your humble narrator has been in contact with certain members of the government about oil sheens and petroleum residues observed around the Newtown Creek on this survey. They assured me, and asked that I pass along that they will be back on the beat with us as soon as they clear up the disastrous situation in the Rockaways, Staten Island, and especially the Arthur Kill. They have asked that if anybody in the area spots oil, especially after the coming storm on Wednesday, that you call the NYS DEC Spills Hotline, open 24 hours a day at 1-800-457-7362.
Tomorrow, I'll be tying things up with a visit to Greenpoint and Hunters Point made on Saturday, sans the services of Hank the Elevator Guy.
Upcoming Newtown Creek tours and events:
Note: there are just 4 tickets left on this one, which is likely the last walking tour I'll be conducting in 2012.
for an expanded description of the November 11th Newtown Creek tour, please click here
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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Open bugs in Rockbox
Open bugs in Rockbox
From: <tracker_at_rockbox.org>
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:02 +0200
Flyspray contains 261 open bugs:
0 days old: I found in Two Bugs by my iPod 3rd Gen.
0 days old: plugin lib highscore: fix and improvement
2 days old: Status Bar is viewable in plugin "Star"
2 days old: Gigabeat: Switch volume buttons in Upside Down mode
4 days old: bad voicing in the chinese language
4 days old: checkwps builderrors
7 days old: bugs with pitch screen
7 days old: File corruption on USB writes when using the HID driver at the same time
7 days old: Wavview refuses to open a wav
8 days old: PictureFlow does not find album art in .rockbox/albumart
8 days old: ipod doesn't show connecting to PC
12 days old: Icons in the playlist viewer are not shown if the filetype icons are set to 'off'
13 days old: Resume after "Insert Shuffled" incorrect.
14 days old: remove viewport menu from star
14 days old: remote keymap description missing from manual
21 days old: WPS bug while playing some music files as first song
25 days old: HID input not working for me on ipod nano
25 days old: ovarlay loader for Lua is made while lua.ovl is not made.
25 days old: Rockbox not handling MP3s with large ID3 frames
32 days old: WPS track tags dont scroll in conditioal vp when progess bar is displayed
38 days old: Undefined instruction at xxxxxxxx (0) after playing an ogg file.
38 days old: Acessibility issues in rbutil
39 days old: Incorrect sorting of roman numerals when whole numbers selected
40 days old: Gigabeat F Remote Button Combinations
45 days old: RBUtil 1.2.1 will not enumerate SAPI voices
56 days old: Cannot charge iPod from Rockbox on low battery
57 days old: wierd behaviour when changing folder name while plaing music in it
58 days old: inaccurate seeking while paused
58 days old: LCD sleep can theoretically happen after the backlight turns on again
62 days old: License of firmware/export/usb_ch9.h is unclear
66 days old: Buggy selection of list items using keyboard
71 days old: Rockbox abort: search of title when the database is created by illegal codepage.
71 days old: Directory skip hangs iaudio x5
72 days old: iPod sometimes needs menu + select reset to turn on
72 days old: Clicking noise on Gigabeat S only when battery is fully charged and DC is connected
74 days old: Backlight on Hold
75 days old: Sometimes keys do not work after exiting plugins
78 days old: Scrolling doesn't pause at the top or bottom of a list on 2nd Gen iPod
79 days old: Pop noise via headphones when starting up
80 days old: crash in text editor
80 days old: Prefetch_abort at 43494C20(0) while initializing DB
85 days old: album art fails to display
86 days old: some folders are not shown after scrolling down in a sub-directory
87 days old: crashing pictureflow with certain podcasts on Sansa E280v1
88 days old: Cuesheets: Metadata incorrect after transition from last to first song
90 days old: fast changing time indicators when pausing with fading on
91 days old: database_changelog corrupted/wrecked
93 days old: improper sorting of names with underscores when Interpret numbers when sorting is used
94 days old: latest nat sort fix still sorts wrong
95 days old: wma decoder cannot work when the bitrate of audio file is 20kbps
98 days old: v1 tag not read if v2 tag present regardless of content
99 days old: The USB disconnect feature disconnects without prior ejecting or savely removing in Windows
104 days old: Does not sort by disc number then by track number
105 days old: iPod not charging well while in USB connection mode.
106 days old: H120 hangs on battery low if power adapter is connected
112 days old: H10 5G MTP bootloader can't be built from configure
113 days old: USB connection not made when action_userabort() is used
114 days old: iAudio X5L remote erratic starting with build from 20090211
114 days old: H300 status bar shows empty battery when charging
115 days old: Ipod Accessory bug reports
116 days old: fade on pause/playback in plugins is ignored
117 days old: "First Keypress Enables Backlight Only" broken on 5G and probably other clickweel iPods
117 days old: When only config-*.h is changed, apps/features is not updated.
120 days old: context menu delete does not work as expected
121 days old: "Most Played" and "Recently Played" display "dir buffer full!" in the database
123 days old: Moving items in a shuffeled playlists highlights the wrong entry
123 days old: keyclick doesn't work when playback is paused
125 days old: 15-Adobe-Helvetica.bdf: invalid SWIDTH, DWIDTH for ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE NO
126 days old: iAudio M3 does not charge *ever* using Rockbox
127 days old: Can't format a bdf file to fnt
136 days old: For a setting screen, if the cursor does not move, the selected item's value is invalid.
136 days old: make voiceing of "d" and "p"
136 days old: Release scripts are broken on many machines (/tools/release/*.pl)
136 days old: .ogg file(s) reliably crashes Rockbox on Gigabeat F40
137 days old: When cutting and pasting, overwriting doesn't work
139 days old: Playback is borked after attempting (and failing) to play a certain file.
139 days old: Text viewer plugin is not displayed to the last line for the large size text file.
140 days old: settings not saved when disk is not spinning
140 days old: Playback stutters, crashes player on certain mp3 files
142 days old: Rockbox hangs on erasing dynamic playlist with Polish language set
144 days old: WinPod misdetected as MacPod in rbutilqt
145 days old: Fix FM channel spacing for Europe
147 days old: RB sometimes forgets where it is in a playlist and that shuffle is on
147 days old: IPOD 20GB Problems with Edifier IPod SPK-EF-IF200 Dock
148 days old: wierd behaviour when skipping very fast
148 days old: Rapid skipping causes next track info to stop updating
152 days old: RockBOX freezes on X5L when changing between songs while RockBOX is accessing HDD.
153 days old: battery measurement "hangs" at 9%
154 days old: No header info in the .Scrobbler log
154 days old: m4a metadata read or stored incorrectly
155 days old: Conflict between Car Adapter Mode and First Buttonpress Enables Backlight Only
157 days old: Manual installion section of Rockbox Manual refers to outdated error message
157 days old: USB Connection to FreeBSD machine causes FreeBSD machine to freeze
158 days old: log-today doesn't load in Google Chrome
158 days old: browsing through playlist interrupts playback
159 days old: Broken wav file playback
159 days old: Intermittent glacially slow system (deleting, moving between audio tracks, etc)
160 days old: Single Mode Bootloader fails reboot on updated Gigabeat S.
160 days old: WMA Decoder - Problematic Files with example
160 days old: Premature and multiple storage_sleep() in buffering.c
164 days old: "Beep" sounds very distorted and fuzzy.
166 days old: Sleep timer causing premature shutdown (3.0 and 3.1), codec failure (3.1)
167 days old: No Voice on Archos Recorder 20GB with RB 3.1
167 days old: iRiver ihp140 LCD remote disappears again
168 days old: add missing sw tone control parameter on gigabeat s
169 days old: *PANIC* and unable to shut down/reboot Ipod 30/vid
170 days old: When DEBUG is defined and CONFIG_CPU != SH7034, debug functions do not exist.
170 days old: Car Adapter Mode isnt working anymore
173 days old: No error check after writes in ata.c
173 days old: splash screen shows wrong Wake up alarm time
174 days old: Playback skips and hangs badly on iPod Video 80GB on start up
176 days old: iPod 3G: contrast setting misses limit
177 days old: some further bugs in chessclock
179 days old: Database init error: PANIC Stkov tagcache
180 days old: NODO-list is incomplete, changelog is empty.
180 days old: cant save the file after "changes NOT saved" in text editor
181 days old: Resumes incorrect file after deletion from directory
182 days old: button queue should be cleared after some splashes
184 days old: Database selections trigger the dynamic playlist warning
184 days old: Compilation error in libdemac on arm946cc
185 days old: A song that is played the 1st time cannot be rated.
186 days old: makefile for new multifile plugins requires hackish extra code for unknown reason
186 days old: Bootloader USB Diskmode fails to exit gracefully on CFModded H100.
187 days old: WPS comments "eat" line-endings
188 days old: Sound sometimes doesn't work on mr100 if booted without headphones plugged in
194 days old: no display visible on 2nd generation ipod
203 days old: Report all flyspray bugs here
206 days old: SNES player missing tracks on certain SPCs
210 days old: rockbox.ipod not found
214 days old: Next Song Title Wrong after |<< {Back}
217 days old: PLAY and STOP buttons should be universal (where possible)
218 days old: UTF-8 BOM "visible" in viewer
219 days old: Voice disappear when stopping playback.
219 days old: FLAC+CUE hang on "Loading..." under some circumstances
223 days old: wma.codec does not decode low bitrate files correctly
226 days old: Remote Control Delete Function
234 days old: Idle Poweroff doesn't exactly poweroff X5
234 days old: Stack overflow during DB creation
241 days old: Freeze when playing multi-track OGG files
241 days old: severe screen corruption on H300
252 days old: Start screen option 'database' fails
258 days old: Bad meta-data cause momentary freeze when playing
260 days old: Database Error - Multiple Albums with same name
261 days old: Crash when creating a bookmark
263 days old: Pictureflow segfaults with a particular image
264 days old: Playback from cuesheet not scrobbled
267 days old: FM tuner reception fades over time
270 days old: Rockbox (and bootloader) mistakes battery for USB.
272 days old: cut/paste between volumes
281 days old: reopen task 9048 -- ipod 5.5g freezes upon usb connection
283 days old: playback engine gets confused by multiple simultaneous button presses
283 days old: display error for Asian text
283 days old: jittering(?) when leaving "lcd mode" without changes
284 days old: chessclock freezes on deleting a player
284 days old: spacerocks shows funny rocks
291 days old: fm-presets file is full: error voice message
291 days old: JPEG Viewer on iPod
303 days old: resume for m4a isn't consistent
305 days old: BBC dowload ID3v2.3 tags not read reliably
307 days old: Rockbox hardlocks while recording
312 days old: Cygwin setup fails due to missing setup.ini.sig file.
313 days old: r18234 - core + plugins shouldnt be calling opendir() directly...
315 days old: "Recently Added" always Empty
335 days old: The number of characters included in the Sazanami-Mincho-Regular font are few.
335 days old: WMA Decoder - Problematic Files (Gaps/Skipping) - Example included
339 days old: inconsistency with delete option for bookmarks
340 days old: iPod Nano & Video have microphone recording source option when it's not possible
342 days old: Switching APE tracks no longer works on H120
342 days old: Changing shuffle settings using LCD remote causes main unit LCD to light up
343 days old: flac decoder doesn't handle truncated files nicely
345 days old: RBUtil reports a successful install on the e200R when it hasn't
350 days old: No sound after seeking or dir skip
355 days old: Freeze in Database
356 days old: Fast forwarding during the first second of a song does not work
1 years 3 days old: Database initialization hangs if there's no music file on the player
1 years 5 days old: File name voicing progress dialog stucks on filename with unusual charaters
1 years 16 days old: Threads hanging if force track switching near buffer emptyness
1 years 17 days old: iRiver H340 skips when battery low
1 years 20 days old: AC3 playback does not work for single ripped songs
1 years 30 days old: AC3 Playback on iRiver H140
1 years 39 days old: Database update progress stuck to -1%
1 years 44 days old: Database - negative autoscore
1 years 45 days old: Problem with Speex encoder in Rockbox Utility
1 years 55 days old: iPod 80gb: unbeatable lockup while in shuffle mode
1 years 56 days old: Sansa e280 stuck after swtich the playlist
1 years 59 days old: m4a playback bugs
1 years 60 days old: compilation error due to GNU core utils BLOCK_SIZE value (and suggested fix)
1 years 70 days old: Equalizer is adding high noises
1 years 70 days old: *PANIC* stkov main showed at boot. & language choosing.
1 years 83 days old: Broken Manuals are Poorly Handled
1 years 83 days old: problems playing mp2 on ipods
1 years 83 days old: Extra button press required to continue browsing menus
1 years 86 days old: iPod does not charge via an AC -> USB adapter
1 years 87 days old: Freeze/Long duration when auto-creating bookmark if there's no free disk space left
1 years 91 days old: Audio response to seeking happens slowly with big files
1 years 91 days old: Half downloaded files, playback problems
1 years 101 days old: "Gather Runtime Data" creates problems if "Load to RAM" is disabled
1 years 104 days old: ALAC converted from dbPowerAmp is not recognized (RB r16536)
1 years 111 days old: MP4/AAC Playback problems
1 years 112 days old: Sansa c250 - bug in the metronome application (won't play!)
1 years 113 days old: Error saving non-current playlist file
1 years 115 days old: Backlight does not turn off when hold switch is on
1 years 122 days old: Sansa C240 Dock Line Level Audio disabled
1 years 128 days old: FM Recording disk thrashing
1 years 136 days old: Rockbox hangs on boot if disk full
1 years 138 days old: Queued songs reappear after resuming playback
1 years 145 days old: SPC codec failure rusuming playback on boot
1 years 150 days old: Hindi dependent Vowel signs are not rendering properly
1 years 160 days old: Text viewer crashes when jumping to end of file
1 years 165 days old: Duplicate entries in database (not caused by trash folders)
1 years 170 days old: Mini 2G fails to dual boot
1 years 172 days old: Problem when fast forwarding and then quickly changing track
1 years 175 days old: power button does not exit the recording menu on a Sansa c240
1 years 176 days old: Idle Poweroff only reboots my 1G iPod
1 years 193 days old: Bugs in Rockbox SIDplay
1 years 197 days old: Mpegplayer artifacts since few month
1 years 211 days old: Distortion on some tracks
1 years 211 days old: Resuming playback from end of song after power on confuses playback
1 years 219 days old: Slow scrolling in file view without CPU boost
1 years 231 days old: End of voice clips are cut off when playback stopped
1 years 232 days old: Save playlist defaults should be adjusted to match standards, should use /playlist directory...
1 years 237 days old: Selecting a buffered track in the current playlist forces a rebuffer
1 years 238 days old: scrolling freezes when you scroll as a new screen is loading
1 years 247 days old: Simulator crashes entering recording screen
1 years 248 days old: New live moving of playlist
1 years 248 days old: Shows Ata Error instead of charging screen.
1 years 255 days old: Disable shut down on Rockpaint for iPod & Suggestions
1 years 262 days old: Anti-skip buffer doesn't work correctly on read errors
1 years 264 days old: Poor performance until database is initialised
1 years 280 days old: Sudoku: "Solve" Crash
1 years 287 days old: Strange behaviour after Disk Full error while recording
1 years 295 days old: Volume gets louder then power cut. Battery shows no charge, but is ok.
1 years 304 days old: Charging screen broken on V2 Recorder
1 years 314 days old: The radio scan forward and backward actions don't stop
1 years 316 days old: FM Radio Quality
1 years 322 days old: Radio disappears from menu!
1 years 324 days old: Problem with onscreen keyboard and long lines
1 years 329 days old: WMA - freeze instead of playback - with example files
1 years 334 days old: Small weaknesses in FM-radio on iAudio X5
1 years 345 days old: Playlist insert doesn't work after skipping directory.
1 years 358 days old: Inconsistent operation of insert / insert-next, queue / queue-next
1 years 360 days old: FLAC with CUEsheet playback issues
2 years 0 days old: First keypress sometimes gets eaten (but configured not to do so)
2 years 8 days old: Bookmark feature doesn't work on user created playlists.
2 years 11 days old: remote volume up keypress sometimes causes directory skip (iriver h140)
2 years 66 days old: Background noise present with LCD remote
2 years 71 days old: Dynamic data tags aren't refreshed properly on scrolling lines
2 years 74 days old: Recording on iPods have weird noise
2 years 104 days old: Database progress reads above 100%
2 years 152 days old: Battery Life on Iriver H10 20G
2 years 268 days old: main vs. remote vkeyboard inconsistency
2 years 268 days old: Functionless buttons on remote when FM radio is on
2 years 291 days old: Battery display incorrect when H120 is plugged in
2 years 300 days old: "Fade on stop/pause" via Line-out does not work.
3 years 43 days old: mp3_encoder improperly encodes mono .wav files
3 years 50 days old: can't turn on iriver with the h300 non-lcd remote
3 years 57 days old: Keypad HOLD doesn't let go until scrolling is used
3 years 73 days old: Bookmarking does not work in connection with Database
3 years 98 days old: Change web server mime type for .diff
3 years 112 days old: H300 USB Bootloader Mode not working properly
3 years 291 days old: No radio on FM recorder
Page was last modified "Jan 10 2012" The Rockbox Crew


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The National Weather Service is investigating whether a tornado may have touched down in Anne Arundel County during Tuesday's storms.
Meteorologist Ken Widelski with the weather service's Sterling, Virginia, office, said Wednesday that radar during the storm and initial damage reports on the ground near Crownsville raise the possibility that a twister may have struck. Tornado warnings in that area were issued Tuesday.
He and another National Weather Service worker will survey the damage. A final determination will be made in a few days.
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Sunday, October 17, 2010
Maldives and more...
I am keying this in from the airport at Male, in the Maldives. It is a surrealistic setting , to say the least! I am rushing back to be with the family.... I was missing everybody a bit too much, and couldn't surrender to the charm of these islands ( over 1,200 0f them at last count). Of course, the resort ( Soneva Gili) is eco -friendly and breath taking, and of course I was exceedingly well looked after ( pampered!). The Hay Lit Fest ( the first one in the region) was perfectly organised, the sessions well attended etc. But Dusshera is special - very special. And I was lonely! Thanks to the good offices of our erudite High Commissioner, Dnyaneshwar Mulay ( from Kolhapur), I managed to get a ticket on Sri Lankan Airways. It involves a nine hour stopover in Colombo, but do you hear me complaining? I am going to rush into one of my favourite cities, eat, pray and love - ha ha!
More on the Festival and Maldives in my next post. The fresh tuna is the best in the world. The people, friendly. But there isn't a dog in sight!!!! Why? I asked my well- informed guide Yaseer, as we zipped around Male on a motorbike, and he said , " We have never allowed dogs on our islands! We are an Islamic nation, and dogs are banned. But you can keep cats." Go figure!
Am I wrong in guessing you want pictures??? They are gorgeous ... and designed to make you seriously jealous! Say " Oui" !
18 comments:
- Revati Upadhya said...
- October 17, 2010 at 1:24 PM
- pupurupus said...
good to have such a wonderful person in our country ... & thank you for loving our nation ... am glad to have a signed copy of your last book.
- October 17, 2010 at 1:27 PM
- anamika said...
Hope to see other pics of yours from Maldives..by the way i hope u know about Arnaaz khan tweeting about you? Do you ?
- October 17, 2010 at 1:33 PM
- Kush said...
wotta life flying here to there...this day bangalore that day maldives!
- October 17, 2010 at 1:50 PM
- Kadam007 said...
Love you!!! Happy Dusshera to you too!!
- October 17, 2010 at 1:59 PM
- चंद्रमौलेश्वर प्रसाद said...
`of course I was exceedingly well looked after ( pampered!). '
Of course, every celebrity is...
Happy dasera to you and family :)
- October 17, 2010 at 3:27 PM
- seriously kidding said...
happy dusshera to u ma'am..
hace a great time
- October 17, 2010 at 5:21 PM
- priyanka said...
its nice to read about ur experiences
- October 17, 2010 at 7:57 PM
- priyanka said...
happy dusshera to you ma'am
- October 17, 2010 at 7:58 PM
- आशु said...
Hello Shobhaa Ji,
I just started reading your blog recently. Your writing has a unique expression that takes the readers into confidence and they feel like they are a partner in your journey or exploration. It is very refreshing. Being in US, I feel at time disconnected with India, reading you bring me back old memories how it used to be.
Congratulations and good wishes for a long life for your recent birth day..and of course a very happy Dusshera to you and entire family..
- October 17, 2010 at 9:37 PM
- sonal said...
Hi Ms De, your fan as always! just wanted u to know that was watching a recenmt programme on Star world 0on which the american singer Cher, made an appearance. I must say that i found in her an uncanny resemblance to you. Cheers!!!
- October 17, 2010 at 10:42 PM
- gmanka said...
This is cool!
- October 17, 2010 at 11:31 PM
- Neha said...
Hope you reached safely! Waiting for the pictures
- October 18, 2010 at 2:45 PM
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- October 18, 2010 at 3:58 PM
- SUFFIX said...
Maldives is one of my favorite destination, you will really enjoy the trip:)
- October 18, 2010 at 4:07 PM
- Pooja Rathore said...
dogs are banned not done ! I love dogs. long back i had done a quiz in that they asked views(what comes to your mind) about Dog and Cat -i put my views (not aware of the trick)later i got to know that views on dog are your views about your self and views about cat are your views about your spouse ( dog stands for self , cat stands for spouse..)it was fun but true!
I have started acting on tips given by you in your new book( food, hotwater, green tea!)let see how it works will let u know when the results start showing...chou!
- October 18, 2010 at 5:32 PM
- Alwin Vallayil said...
Had a nice time at Hay Festival listening to your fast paced talk. Wonder how you keep your pace even after sixty. Being an Indian teaching English in Maldives, I have a request: please write a piece of fiction based on Maldives or a non-fiction on Maldives so that the people here will read at least one South Asian author. Now the people here look down upon Indian English and they have no idea about any Indian writer.
- October 21, 2010 at 10:13 PM
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60 seconds with Rajeev De Mello on why lower oil prices could lift Asian economies
The dramatic fall in the cost of oil should help countries like India keep control of inflation, interest rates and fiscal policy and could boost economic growth, says Rajeev De Mello.
Asia boost from falling oil
Oil prices have fallen substantially over the last 18 months and the scope of the fall has been dramatic.
A lot of investors are concerned that this will have a negative impact on overall emerging markets.
However, there are countries which are big beneficiaries of these low oil prices, and they are mainly in Asia.
Asian countries consume a lot of oil. They import a large part of their energy and commodity requirements, so they should be the first beneficiaries of this fall.
Countries like India, Thailand, and South Korea are all big beneficiaries through various mechanisms.
Consumer boost
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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — Reports of a hang-glider crash in the mountains on Lake Tahoe's North Shore Wednesday were determined to be unfounded.
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"Like many of my colleagues, I joined the American Ceramic Society as a student. And 20 years later, that almost unconscious decision has paid back incalculable dividends principally because of the volunteer opportunities that are critical to the operations of many professional societies. My original introduction was through an ACerS student chapter. These local groups are necessarily all-volunteer and they represent for many the first steps towards professional development. More importantly is that you are working together with your classmates who, in many cases, become your life-long friends and colleagues with whom you seek guidance and fellowship for the rest of your career. To this day, many of us stay in touch and it was the camaraderie of those student chapter events that laid the foundation for these relationships. Over the years, I've had the pleasure to serve on a number of award committees, division committees, conference organizational groups, and as an associate editor of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society. There are clear tangible and intangible benefits of such volunteer service positions. The tangibles are added experience in organizational dynamics, management, and running meetings and conferences as well as added visibility (particularly important for junior faculty or members starting their careers) and the opportunity to meet world class scholars from your field and others. The intangibles include a sense of giving back to the profession that is affording you daily intellectual rewards and the aforementioned personal relationships that, in many ways, become a very real motivation to attend meetings: I want to see my friends! And the beauty of all this is that it takes very little time relative to the pay-back.
Volunteerism is about leadership and leadership is not about your title, position, or age but about the everyday choices made as you encounter things that help others."
"I was involved with our local ACerS Student Branch when I was an undergrad and was lucky enough to be chosen as a delegate to the ACerS/NICE Student Congress. That opportunity was really what got me interested and involved in the Society on the national level, and now a decade later, I'm involved in my local Section, my Division, and helping to mentor the new student-run PCSA. Of course, the social aspects of meeting new and old friends make attending technical meetings a lot of fun, but it always amazes me how often the connections that I've made through my involvement in the Society end up helping me as a researcher. One of the great things about ACerS is that, depending upon your interests and the amount of time you have available, there are so many different ways that you can get involved. Regardless of how you choose to volunteer, you'll reap the benefits of becoming more connected within the ceramics community, both personally and professionally."
"As a member of the American Ceramic Society for over three decades, I have been continually impressed with its ability to serve its members on several fronts: opportunities for professional development, stewardship of resources, and advancing the science and technology of ceramics. But it's the professional and personal development opportunities that were enabled by my membership in ACerS that have most profoundly impacted me through my career.
As a student member, I was fortunate to interact with ceramics students from other universities at the Society's many technical meetings, to discover the "Who's Who" in ceramics, to expand my knowledge of ceramic science and technology, and to benefit tremendously from mentoring by many ACerS members. Throughout my career as a materials scientist, the ceramics community has been my home, and I have sought ways to give back all that it given to me, and hopefully more!
Volunteering my energy and enthusiasm for all things related to the study of ceramics has been my "coin of the realm!" As a faculty member, my volunteerism naturally focused largely on the development of our newest members – our students. In my case, it started rather small, first as an officer in my Keramos Chapter and ACerS Student Branch. The service orientation I encountered there carried on to increasingly important activities in the ACerS, such as Ceramographic Exhibit Chairman, Presidential Advisory Boards, Nominating Committee, chairing the Education Integration Committee, session and symposium chair, serving through the officer chains in the Ceramic Educational Council, NICE, and Keramos National Professional Ceramic Engineering Fraternity, ACerS Fellows Committee, and the ACerS Board of Directors. Each was a learning process, and coincidentally allowed me to enhance my friendships and interactions with other members of ACerS and the materials community.
Volunteering and serving, it's my way of giving back. And the more I do, the more my own life and career is enhanced with new friendships, knowledge, capabilities, and ideas. Sure, it's frequently hard work, and takes a lot of time. But it comes with lots of enjoyment and satisfaction in making a difference. And, the friends and relationships you gain will last a lifetime. That's one of the strengths of ACerS of which we should all be proud!
My advice to others who are considering adding service and volunteering to their careers? Well, first of all, don't be shy! Those mentors (I used to refer to them as "grey beards" until I sprouted one myself!) who are "running the show" in the community are always open to new ideas and fresh energetic volunteers; ask where you can help and there will be no shortage of ways to contribute cast before you! You'll learn a lot. Secondly, choose wisely: select an area in which you will enjoy putting your energy and ideas. And most importantly, keep an open mind, and don't take yourself too seriously. There are lots of good ideas out there, and plenty of great colleagues with whom to work to make those ideas a reality. Embrace that concept, and then you'll be in a position to make a difference! That's what leadership is about.
I hope you encounter the same."
"I first became involved with ACerS while I was earning my undergraduate degree at the University of Missouri – Rolla. Being in a Ceramic Engineering department, which was relatively small compared to the big traditional engineering departments on campus (Civil, Electrical, Mechanical), activities with the department like involvement in student groups was stressed. As I became involved in the ACerS student chapter and the Keramos Ceramic honor fraternity I found more and more opportunities to serve and to lead through participation.
While an undergraduate I served as the UMR ACerS Student Chapter Treasurer and Vice President and attended the ACerS Student Congress in Cocoa Beach several years. I also served in several offices in our local Keramos Chapter and as the Keramos National Executive Board Student Representative for two years. All of these experiences instilled in me the importance of being involved with other ceramic engineering professionals and the opportunities that could be opened up to you through such involvement. Through contacts I made through these activities I ended up attending Georgia Tech for my Masters degree and interning for a summer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where I would later return to do my PhD research and eventually for a Post Doctoral appointment which led to my current employment there.
After completing graduate school and starting my professional career, I was slow to reconnect with ACerS as a professional, as opposed to a student. Yet, as I began to interact with old contacts I had made during my student participation with ACerS, I again began to see the importance of being involved with the society, specifically through participation with the Refractory Ceramics Division. I was quickly brought in to participation on the RCD Executive Board as a member at large which led to my participation on the Programs and Meetings Committee and then to my co-chairing of the annual Saint Louis Section/Refractory Ceramics Division Symposium for several years. My participation then led to serving on the Executive Committee officer rotation where I have served as Secretary and am now Vice Chair. This involvement in RCD has not only helped me to gain contacts across the field of refractory ceramics whom I could call about any issue I may have a question about or could contact about teaming on a project, but has also opened opportunities to serve on international meeting committees and to meet and interact with people who are among the most well known and respected in the field of ceramic engineering. I have also made many friends through my involvement with ACerS which I hope last through the remainder of my career and beyond.
Finally, my participation in ACerS has brought me the satisfaction of being able to say that I am trying to make a difference and to change our profession for the better. It is too easy as a young professional to sit back and think that those who have been at this longer should be responsible for shaping and maintaining the field of ceramic engineering. If there is one thing I have learned through my participation as a student and now as a young professional, it is that those who have been "in charge" for a while generally welcome the participation of the younger members with open arms. It is our responsibility to step up and join in."
"I started volunteering for ACerS committees as soon as I became a full time employee. Since the business I work in has few ceramic engineers, I first volunteered because it provided an opportunity for me to communicate with the other ceramic engineers across our site. Over the years, it has continued to provide an opportunity for me to communicate with other ceramic engineers in similar industries, in academia, and in other ceramic industries. I find it easier to stay involved with the latest changes and new materials being developed through this participation. Now that I am a manager, it also provides me a opportunity to talk to others in management positions within the ceramics industry to discuss the challenges we all are facing. In my division, I have participated on all of our committees, which has allowed me to meet a different set of people with each committee. I have enjoyed learning and understanding the different perspectives that each of the committees holds. I particularly enjoyed my opportunities on the Education Integration committee and some of the leadership committees, which I participated on as Vice-Chair and Chair of the division. These committees allowed to meet many of the ACerS staff and to better understand the workings of the society.
While finding the time to volunteer is always difficult, I find it manageable because it is not an all year long activity. Most of the activities occur at the annual meetings or in very distinct time segments in the year, so the time investment has been relatively small. It is well worth the effort when you see a program come together or have the honor of presenting an achievement award to a fellow member."
"I initially became involved in the Nuclear and Environmental Technology Division at the urging of the late Tom Rankin. As a young engineer, I started working on the NETD membership committee and then became involved in the program committee. I later became the NETD Program Chair and organized a symposium at the Annual Meeting. At that time, I realized the value of becoming involved in a technical society through the many professional and personal contacts that I made and the knowledge I obtained by actively participating in technical meetings. As I worked my way through the NETD leadership positions, I also became involved in various ACerS committees primarily in the publications arena. I found it rewarding to work with professionals from other ceramic technical areas to help develop and guide the direction of ACerS publications and to work with the staff at ACerS that truly respected our opinions. Through my volunteer efforts within the society, I have made numerous contacts and friends – this has proven worthwhile whether just "having a beer" with a colleague at a meeting, procuring goods or services from a company or collaborating with fellow researchers on technical projects."
What I first volunteered was to review a paper submitted to JACerS some 20 years ago. It was a very valuable experience since I could learn how manuscripts are reviewed. Since then I have done a variety of volunteers including Symposium Organizers for the Annual Meetings, MS&T and Cocoa Beach (or Dayotna Beach) conferences, Associate Editors of JACerS and IJACT, Editors of ACerS publications like Ceram. Trans., etc.
What are the benefits of volunteering? My English teacher taught me that "volunteering" means an activity where you should not expect your own benefits. But, actually there are plenty of benefits in volunteering for ACerS. The most important and beneficial thing is the worldwide human network. Through these volunteer activities, I could know many people over the world who volunteered for ACerS, and (since they did not expect personal benefits) rigid human network was quickly formed.
"I did not originally "volunteer" to serve ACerS, but I was asked if I would be interested in participating as the Membership Committee Chair for the Electronics Division. I gladly, and immediately accepted, since at that time, I had not been asked to do much service for any of the organizations of which I was a member. To this day, I view this as an important decision that has contributed to my career success and my professional development. Eventually, with several more years of service, I went on to serve as the Chair of the division, a leadership role that has been held by many folks whom I hold in the highest regard. So in some sense, I view service as both a duty and an honor, though as I discuss below, there are many other important aspects to serving the Society.
I'm a true believer in the role of service in one's career. While it's unlikely you'll know exactly what will be involved when you say "yes" to such an opportunity, I can guarantee that you will be richly rewarded through the development of new skills. Outcomes of your service contributions will include running effective meetings, getting people to do things, particularly when they're volunteers, and developing management and leadership skills. You'll learn some things to do, and equally important, you'll learn some things not to do. There's nothing quite like on the job training or pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone to expand your skills. Since service involves the "soft skills" side of the profession, participating in one of the division or another service role in the Society is a great way to build these skills, or if you think you already have them, to further develop them. You'll also get exposed to different perspectives, both technically, and how to do things. These are invaluable experiences that will broaden the way you look at things and tackle problems, on either the technical or soft skills issues."
"I joined ACerS when I was a junior faculty member and was starting to carry out research on ceramic materials and teach an introduction to ceramics course. Attending the national meeting was both informative and enjoyable. On a personal level I enjoyed meeting the people behind cutting edge research on ceramics, while on a professional level I picked up samples and case studies for use in my class. Attending the talks also gave me valuable new ideas for my research. My first volunteer experience was serving on the Member Services committee after having been nominated for service by a colleague. It was both a pleasure and a responsibility to serve on a committee that ensures that the Society continues to meet the evolving needs of the membership.
Being a volunteer helped me get to know how the Society functions to a far greater extent than I had before volunteering. This knowledge has allowed me better mentor the junior faculty in my department.
Volunteering does take time, but the dividends far exceed the cost with respect to time.
I encourage all members to get involved with societal activities. Contributing to the development and improvement of a technical society as important as ACerS is satisfying on a personal level and can significantly enhance professional development across multiple levels."
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