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Lockheed Martin & The 2010 Census
Last week, a report came out that a Canadian man, Todd Stelmach, was fined $300 for failing to participate in Canada's 2006 Census. His reason for avoiding the surveys: His religious and antiwar beliefs made it such that he couldn't support Lockheed Martin, the American defense technology firm that was contracted by the Canadian government to provide the services responsible for the Census.
American anti-war advocates are most likely unaware that Lockheed Martin has a contract to "develop and deploy the Decennial Response Integration System (DRIS) to carry out the 2010 Census. The Lockheed Martin Team was selected by the U.S. Census Bureau last year (2005) o implement the most technically advanced Census in the history of the United States." Who awarded Lockheed Martin this contract? Was it a no-bid contract? What other firms sought to provide the 2010 Census with its necessary technology?
Here's Lockheed Martin's description of the Census services that they have provided for governments around the world:
The Lockheed Martin Census Business Practice team is a premier international provider of integrated census data collection, processing and analysis solutions. More than 10 years of unmatched experience, resources, methods, systems and commitment ensure that our census solutions are flexible, secure, accurate and cost effective.
Our Census Business Practice successes include the U.S. 2000 Census, the United Kingdom's 2001 Census, and Canada's 2006 Census, which was the first census in North America that allowed citizens nationwide the choice to submit their census via a secure Internet solution. The team is currently supporting the U.S. Census Bureau with the Decennial Response Integration System for the 2010 Census.
In the United States, the Corporation supported the Census 2000 with the Data Capture System (DCS). The U.S. Census 2000 was the largest, most sophisticated – and most accurate – census undertaken; encompassing 120 million forms with 98 percent accuracy. It represented the first census to use scanned optical character recognition (OCR) technology to process the handwritten forms.
For the 2001 UK Census, Lockheed Martin's team provided data capture and coding services, including form printing, dress rehearsal services and census services for nearly 30 million forms with an accuracy rate of better than 99 percent.
Lockheed Martin provided hardware and software integration for Statistics Canada's dress rehearsal and full 2006 census, including the first successful use of the secure Internet channel.
In every census we support, Lockheed Martin's team strives to:
• Provide the general public with multiple, easy-to-use and secure methods of response.
• Help census authorities collect and capture the data accurately and completely.
• Employ robust processes and tools to ensure complete protection of individuals' personal information.
Lockheed Martin's Census Business Practice represents technology expertise that make census taking highly accurate, more automated and efficient, and easier for citizens as well as for governments to use.
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In order to pick the gifts that we recommend in our December issue and here on the website, we review hundreds of items, looking for a well-rounded assortment so you can find something for everyone on your list from the babysitter to your mom. Many excellent items are often not included because we just can't feature too many pairs of pajamas or an excess of chocolates. But there are some delicious food items that I think are so incredibly good, I just have to tell you about them. Whether you buy them as gifts or treats for yourself, be sure to let me know if you find them as addictive as I do.Personally, I was very sad that Better Brittle ($14.95 for a 13.5-ounce gift jar) was not included. A package of this West African-style peanut brittle was given to me as a gift last summer and it's been a staple in my pantry ever since. Unlike the version your remember from childhood, Better Brittle's not tooth-breakingly hard. Made of finely chopped peanuts and cane sugar, it has just a touch of sea salt to cut the sweetness and bring out the flavor. You'll stop thinking of fruitcake as a joke, once you try the Beekman 1802 Fruitcake ($45 from williamssonoma.com). Athough like traditional fruitcakes, it's loaded with brandy-soaked fruits, this light butter cake isn't overly dense or aggressively spicy. I'm a sucker for fig anything. Combine one of the luscious fruits with chocolate and I'm a goner. That's why I'm hoping someone I love reads this and orders me The Chocolate Fig from John & Kira's ($22 for 6). Also irresistible from the same company: Bee My Ladybug ($29 for 9), little red and green candies with raspberry and mint fillings that are the cutest chocolates ever. To get through the afternoon slump, my associate, Paul Hope, and I, ate a ton of Bissinger's Wine Grapes ($36 for 1 pound), which are soaked in Shiraz and covered in dark chocolate, kidding ourselves that we were eating fruit, not candy. No, these are not the Raisinets you eat in the movie theatre. Squirrel Brand Italian Black Truffle Almonds ($23.99) did make the cut to be featured in Good Houskeeping, but I love them so much, I'm giving them a shout-out. One taste of these nuts, which are coated with a mixture containing real ground truffles, and you'll know what all the fuss is about truffles.
For more gift ideas be sure to visit Gifting Grace and The Daily Green.
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The Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA) are a set of hash functions often used to encrypt passwords. By default Arch uses SHA-512 for passwords, but some systems may still be using the older MD5 algorithm. This article describes how to increase password security.
Benefits of SHA-2 over MD5
In Linux distributions login passwords are commonly hashed and stored in the
/etc/shadow file using the MD5 algorithm. The security of the MD5 hash function has been severely compromised by collision vulnerabilities. This does not mean MD5 is insecure for password hashing but in the interest of decreasing vulnerabilities a more secure and robust algorithm that has no known weaknesses (e.g. SHA-512) is recommended.
The following tutorial uses the SHA-512 hash function, which has been recommended by the United States' National Security Agency (NSA) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Alternatively, SHA-2 consists of four additional hash functions with digests that are 224, 256, 384, and 512 bits.
Increasing security
If your current password was created with shadow version prior to 18.104.22.168-3 (2011-11-26) you are using MD5. To start using a SHA-512 hash you just need to change your password with passwd.
rounds=N option helps to improve key strengthening. The number of rounds has a larger impact on security than the selection of a hash function. For example,
rounds=65536 means that an attacker has to compute 65536 hashes for each password he tests against the hash in your
/etc/shadow. Therefore the attacker will be delayed by a factor of 65536. This also means that your computer must compute 65536 hashes every time you log in, but even on slow computers that takes less than 1 second. If you do not use the
rounds option, then glibc will default to 5000 rounds for SHA-512. Additionally, the default value for the
rounds option can be found in
/etc/pam.d/passwd with a text editor and add the
rounds option at the end of of the uncommented line. After applying this change the line should look like this:
password required pam_unix.so sha512 shadow nullok rounds=65536
/etc/pam.d/passwd password options check the PAM man page.
Re-hash the passwords
Even though you have changed the encryption settings, your passwords are not automatically re-hashed. To fix this, you must reset all user passwords so that they can be re-hashed.
As root issue the following command,
# passwd username
username is the name of the user whose password you are changing. Then re-enter their current password, and it will be re-hashed using the SHA-2 function.
To verify that your passwords have been re-hashed, check the
/etc/shadow file as root. Passwords hashed with SHA-256 should begin with a
$5 and passwords hashed with SHA-512 will begin with
Known problems
Arch Linux is using SHA-512 password hashing by default (since 2011-11-26). The very minimal terminal manager fgetty does not support SHA-512 password hashing by default. Enabling SHA-512 with the default fgetty will cause you to be locked out. A patched version of fgetty is in the AUR named fgetty-pamAUR[broken link: archived in aur-mirror] which adds SHA-512 support.


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A short video that describes the manifesto of the Center for Faith and Work.
FAITH AND WORK. We might see them as estranged. But, in truth, they share a crucial aim: to see the unseen. Nothing new has been made without faith. Nothing unseen has been seen without work. When the force of what we do hits why we do it, we wither or we flourish. We don't want to just examine that collision. We want to live in the intersection where it occurs. To celebrate what flies. And to rethink what falls. To map. To explore. To create. To risk and to fail better. Not just for a nicer 9 to 5. But to serve the city we belong to and love. It comes down to one key truth: work matters. So do it well.


text: Jaguar recently trademarked the names "C-XE," "C-XJ," and "XE." Could a spiritual successor to the classic E-Type finally be on the way? Sure, we've come close before, with the F-Type concept, but if this new name trademarked by the company is any indication, there may be another roadster in the pipeline. As was the case with the C-XF concept, which previewed the production Jaguar XF, the C-XE will likely be a concept which previews a possible production model Jaguar XE. That name is just one letter short of being XKE, the other name for the old E-Type. The above rendering from autoblog.it speculates at what might be in store. Another name registered for copyright by Jaguar was "C-XJ," which we can only presume to be a concept version of the upcoming new 2010 Jaguar XJ. Looks like Jaguar really is serious about re-inventing themselves. [autoblog.it, MotorAuthority]


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What fields are required for the Import Products spreadsheet?
Using the provided Excel spreadsheet template, you can add, modify, and delete products in your product catalog on your Quick Shopping Cart site. You cannot use another Excel spreadsheet or file format to upload products. The required fields are:
- Action
- Part Number (SKU)
- Title
- Short Description
- Long Description
- List Price
To Download the Excel Spreadsheet Template
- Log in to your GoDaddy account.
- Click Quick Shopping Cart.
- Next to the account you want to use, click Manage.
- From the Manage menu, in the Catalog section, click Updates & Exports.
- Click Export, and then specify where you want to download the file.
Note: If you want to modify category information in Quick Shopping Cart, you should modify it after you finish importing your data.
To Edit the Excel Spreadsheet Template
- Open the Excel spreadsheet you downloaded.
- Modify any details of the products you would like to update. You can also add new products or remove existing products.
Note: You cannot add products that already exist, and you cannot modify or delete a product that does not exist.
- Action
- Select whether you want to Add, Modify, or Delete a product.
- Part Number
- Specify the product's part number. This number must be unique from all products.
- Manufacturer Name
- Select the name of the product's manufacturer. The listed manufacturers are the ones you set up in your catalog.
- Title
- Specify the product's title.
- Short Description
- Enter a short description of the product.
- Long Description
- Enter a longer, more detailed description of the product.
- Category
- Select the Category with which you want to associate the product. The listed categories are the ones you set up in your catalog.
Note: When modifying a product, you cannot change the Category associated with it.
- Cost
- Enter the amount the product cost you to purchase.
- List Price
- Specify the amount you are charging for the product.
- Shipping
- Specify whether or not you charge shipping for the product.
- Weight
- Enter the product's weight.
- Length
- Enter the product's length.
- Width
- Specify the product's width.
- Height
- Specify the product's height.
- Featured
- Specify whether or not you want to feature this product on your category pages.
- Discontinued
- Specify whether or not the product has been discontinued. If you discontinue a product, it no longer displays on your storefront.
- Inventoried
- Specify whether or not you are tracking the inventory for this product.
- Allow Backorder
- Specify whether or not you allow customers to backorder this product when the inventory runs out.
- Inventory Quantity
- If you selected to track your inventory for this product, specify the current number of items you have in stock.
- Inventory Threshold
- If you selected to track your inventory for this product, specify the threshold at which you want to receive an email notification telling you the inventory is low.
- Ships In Own Package
- Specify whether or not the product ships in its own package.
- Click Save.
To Import the Excel Spreadsheet Template into Quick Shopping Cart
- Log in to your GoDaddy account.
- Click Quick Shopping Cart.
- Next to the account you want to use, click Manage.
- From the Manage menu, in the Catalog section, click Import/Export.
- In the Upload Products window, click Browse to locate and open the file.
- Click Upload Products.
You must publish your site for the storefront to reflect your changes.


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Design considerations
Flange support
Where cylindrical roller bearings are subjected to axial loads, total axial run-out (→ Tolerances for bearing seats and abutments) and the size of the abutment surfaces of adjacent components are particularly important for an even load distribution on the flange.
The inner ring flange should only be supported up to half of its height (fig. 1) so that it is not subjected to damaging alternating stresses that can result, for example, from shaft deflection.
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IF you thought the dual pistols power for City of Heroes Going Rogue expansion was cool, wait until you see the damage you can do with giant horned demons and a Hellfire Whip.
Demon Summoning is the second of two powers City of Heroes players will gain access to by pre-purchasing the upcoming Going Rogue expansion, which will allow heroes and villains to change sides, perhaps role-playing dark versions of themselves in a classic comic book twist.
First came Dual Pistols, which looks mighty impressive, and this month pre-purchasing will give players access to Demon Summoning, which is a bit more exciting than I'd envisioned it. Toss some bat wings and horns onto your skimpy black lingerie costume and you've got a World of Warcraft succubus waiting to happen.


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BMW plans for Mexico factory to be unveiled Thursday, government official says
FRANKFURT (Reuters) -- BMW's plans to build a new factory in Mexico will be revealed on Thursday, a government official said.
The Mexican official, speaking on Monday on condition of anonymity with Reuters, said details of the plans would be made in an announcement scheduled for July 3.
BMW said Monday it will make an announcement in Mexico on Thursday, although the luxury automaker stopped short of confirming it will be about a widely expected decision to build a car factory. "A decision will be made public," a BMW spokesman said.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the Mexican official said the plant would likely amount to an investment of at least 1 billion euros ($1.36 billion) and would be located either in Hidalgo state north of Mexico City or San Luis Potosi in central Mexico.
BMW's plans for a plant in Mexico have been reported by Automotive News and other news organizations for more than two years.
In May, German business paper Handelsblatt said BMW may build 3-series and 1-series cars and possibly Mini models at a new Mexican plant.
Last week, BMW CEO Norbert Reithofer said the company is still deliberating on where to locate a new factory and will reach a decision before the summer break. Automobilwoche, a sister publication of Automotive News Europe, reported in May that BMW had narrowed the list of potential plant sites to two.
Parts suppliers told Reuters in October that BMW had already mapped out a production timetable for Mexico, with a tentative plan to begin assembly operations in late 2017 -- ramping up annual capacity to 200,000 by 2020.
Global production
Premium automakers are expanding their global production footprint as they struggle to meet strong demand for offroaders and limousines in the United States and Asia.
On Friday, Daimler and the Renault-Nissan Alliance said they would invest 1 billion euros ($1.36 billion) to develop small cars and build a factory in Aguascalientes, Mexico.
Building cars in Mexico allows European car makers to sell cars in the United States while avoiding some of the currency and tariff costs that crimp profits on imported vehicles. Mexico also offers lower labor rates than Germany and the United States.
A decision to build a factory in Mexico would come on top of BMW's plans to invest $1 billion to expand production capacity at its U.S. factory in Spartanburg, South Carolina, by 50 percent.
Automotive News contributed to this report.


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Cops are searching real homes for clues in the theft of virtual items from Habbo Hotel, the teen-oriented social game that's been on the vanguard of virtual crime before. This time Finnish authorities are tracking some 400 cases of theft.
Individual users are reporting losses up to €1000, making this phishing scam potentially more sizable than the last Habbo holdup getting headlines, when a Dutch teen bagged about €4000 in virtual goods. That raised questions about virtual property, and whether stealing it should be classified as actual theft.
Finnish cops appear to be treating this as cyber-crime; but searching five homes in five separate cities in Finland show they're not treating it trivially.
Habbo Hotel claims some 100 million users.
Police Investigate Habbo Hotel Virtual Furniture Theft [BBC, thanks Clint S.]


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Mailing List HQ
This is the headquarters site for VMs-list, the primary mailing list for scholars attempting to read the enigmatic Voynich Manuscript. The list was started in 1991 by Jim Gillogly (then of the RAND Corporation) and Jim Reeds (then of Bell Labs), and it moved here to voynich.net in December 2002. It is managed by the Mailman program, which allows you to subscribe and unsubscribe yourself. You can find complete instruction at that link. Send mail to the list administrator, Rich SantaColoma, if you need help with the directions.
| The tone of the group has been
astonishingly civil and mostly scholarly for the over 20 years of the
mailing list's existence, despite differences in background
(cryptographers, linguists, botanists, astronomers, paleographers,
medievalists, historians, astrologers and even a few crackpots -- no,
course I don't mean you); and differences in approach,
half a dozen competing methods of transcribing the Voynich characters.
Jim Reeds has written an introduction to the study of the Voynich Ms. Some images from the Voynich Ms. published by the Beinecke Library on their website are mirrored here.
Mysteries surrounding the Voynich Manuscript have puzzled
researchers since the earliest surviving report in the seventeenth
century: we have no clear idea of its date, its author, its provenance,
the meaning of its script, or even the meaning of its drawings. The
suspected owner was the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II (1552-1612), who
may have bought it from an unknown seller for 600 ducats. The author of
manuscript was then thought to have been the 13th-century monk and
scholar Roger Bacon (1214?-1294?), but this attribution now appears to
much too early.
It may have passed from Rudolf II's hands, then through those of nobleman Jacobus Horcicky de Tepenec, alchemist Georg Baresch, professor Johannes Marcus Marci and scholar Athanasius Kircher S.J. (1602-1680), it may have been filed and forgotten amongst Kircher's papers. It finally surfaced in a collection purchased by book dealer Wilfrid Voynich in about 1912. After his death and the death of his wife, author Ethel (Boole) Voynich, it passed to Wilfrid Voynich's secretary and Ethel Voynich's friend Miss Anne M. Nill, who eventually sold it to rare book dealer Hans P. Kraus. Having failed to sell it for his asking price of $160,000 Kraus donated the Voynich Ms. to Yale University, where it currently resides in the Beinecke Library as MS 408.
|During his lifetime Voynich was coy about the provenance of the manuscript, but after his death and that of his widow, Miss Nill revealed that according to a letter from Ethel the manuscript had been found at the Villa Mondragone, an estate near Frascati, Italy which had been bought by the Jesuit Order in 1866 and turned into the international headquarters of the Ghisleri College, and later converted to a boarding school. Recently (23 Dec 2002). Wilfrid Gaye of Sussex called this provenance into question based on documentary evidence from his mother Winifred, the adopted daughter of Wilfrid and Ethel Voynich, but on further checking he found the evidence refers to "a manuscript" rather than specifically identifying this one.
A more detailed account of the history of the Voynich Ms. may be found at Rene Zandbergen's site. Rafal Prinke has developed a graphical timeline of its ownership and related chronology.
The small (16 by 23 cm) manuscript consists of 102 vellum leaves
including several fold-outs, copiously illustrated with water colors.
The manuscript was bound and numbered, probably by a later hand than
the author's. Fourteen of the numbered leaves are missing; comparing
Newbold's careful catalog with Kraus's shows at least six of
these disappeared since Voynich obtained the manuscript. An important
signature was found by chance with
infra-red light and made legible with chemicals, that of Jacobus
Horcicky de Tepenec, mentioned above. In 2009, the University of
Arizona tested the vellum for radiocarbon age, and determined that it
was made between 1404 and 1438. Samples of paint and ink was also analyzed
by McCrone Associates at about this time. Their tests did not turn
up any substance which would prove a time later than the C14 dating of
the vellum... however, the ink was not dated.
|The text is written in a neat and clear script which has defied attempts at interpretation by some of the best cryptographic minds available including Athanasius Kircher; noted cryptologist Brig. John Tiltman, head of the British codebreaking establishment at Bletchley Park during World War II; and William F. Friedman, the famous American codebreaker who turned cryptanalysis into a science and led the team that broke the Japanese Purple cipher machine
A MHonArc-produced archive for 2002-2004
is available:
An unstructured archive of old mailing
list traffic up through the end of 2002 is available.
The below search box will allow searching later Voynich List Traffic, to date:
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By ABC Papua New Guinea correspondent Liam Fox
Papua New Guinea's only female minister says some prisoners should be released on bail to have sex with their wives to reduce sex crimes.Loujaya Toni, the minister for religion, youth and community development, has drawn a link between prison breaks and sexual assaults.
In a statement, she says when men escape after being locked up and deprived of sex they will "find a female … to vent their sexual aggression".
Ms Toni says the solution is to release low and medium-security prisoners on weekend conjugal visits in order to "prevent rising levels of sexual frustration".
She also says high-risk prisoners should be injected with drugs to "lower their sexual aggressiveness".
Her comments have been widely panned on social media sites.
Ms Toni declined an interview with the ABC.


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NASA's Opportunity rover has found another spot where warm water may have flowed or percolated on Mars long ago, researchers announced Thursday.
Opportunity made the find while studying a rock on the rim of Mars' huge Endeavour Crater. The rock, called Tisdale 2, has unusually high levels of zinc and bromine, elements often deposited by water — especially hot water. The rock is unlike anything else ever seen up close on Mars, researchers said.
On Earth, life just needs water and energy to get a foothold, and hydrothermal systems teem with microbes. Such sites are thus good places to look for evidence of ancient life on Mars, which is cold and dry today.
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Opportunity's twin rover, Spirit, discovered strong evidence of an ancient hydrothermal system near its landing site back in 2007. While researchers are still interpreting Opportunity's data, they think Endeavour's rim might well harbor another one. [Mars Photos by Spirit and Opportunity]
"When you find rocks on Earth that are rich in zinc, they typically formed in a place where you had some kind of hydrothermal activity going on," Steve Squyres of Cornell University, principal investigator for Spirit and Opportunity's mission, told reporters Thursday. "This is a clue that we may be dealing with a hydrothermal system here."
A cradle for life?
Endeavour is a giant impact crater about 14 miles (22 kilometers) across. Opportunity just arrived at its rim on Aug. 9, at a site called "Cape York." The region looks completely different from other parts of Mars that Spirit and Opportunity have explored, researchers said.
Tisdale 2, which is about the size of a footstool, is the first rock the rover has examined in detail at Endeavour. So, researchers stressed, their investigation is still preliminary. They can't yet say for certain that Opportunity has uncovered a long-dead hydrothermal system — but it's a possibility.
Further, this system might be even more exciting than the one Spirit found four years ago. The warm water in that system was likely to have been very acidic, Squyres said. So was a lot of the other water bubbling out of the Martian ground long ago, both near Spirit's site and near Opportunity's site.
But the rocks and soil around Endeavour might be more neutral and thus more benign, researchers said. NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars have gathered compelling evidence that there are clay minerals in the area. And clay minerals don't form in acidic conditions.
"So if there really are clay minerals present, as we suspect there are," Squyres said, "then that points to water with a very different chemistry — water that's more neutral, and conditions that would have been more suitable for life."
A hydrothermal system doesn't necessarily mean flowing water, he added. Hot water vapor may have also moved through the rocks long ago.
And it was long, long ago — likely billions of years, researchers said.
The heat to power this system may have come from the impact that created Endeavour, Squyres said. Such a destructive event would have transferred mammoth amounts of heat to the red dirt and rocks.
Just getting started
Researchers hope to flesh out just what's going on at Endeavour over the coming weeks and months. Opportunity, after all, has only just begun studying the giant crater.
"Amazingly, after seven years and eight months, we're embarked on a brand-new mission," said Ray Arvidson, the rover mission's deputy principal investigator at Washington University in St. Louis. [Video: Opportunity's 7 Years of Mars Roving]
Opportunity and Spirit landed on Mars in January 2004, on what was planned to be just a three-month mission to search for signs of past water activity on Mars. Both robots delivered in a big way, finding lots of evidence that the Red Planet was a much wetter, warmer place in the ancient past.
The twin rovers long outlasted their warranties.
Spirit stopped communicating with Earth in March 2010, and NASA pronounced the rover dead this past May. Opportunity, however, is still going strong. It has now covered 20.8 miles (33.5 kilometers) on the Martian surface — more than 30 times its original distance objective.
Opportunity is showing some signs of its advanced age. Mission engineers have been driving the rover backward for the last few years, for example, to distribute the wear more evenly among the rover's gear mechanisms.
But the rover keeps chugging along. And it finally reached Endeavour, which has been its targeted destination since August 2008. The mission team is excited to start studying the crater's environs in detail.
"This has the potential to be the most revealing destination ever explored by Opportunity," said Dave Lavery, program executive for NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "This region is substantially different than anything we've seen before."
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Foursquare has come up with yet another way to hook you into their ever-so-pervasive geo-location service -- badge rewards.
"We think of the badges as digital candy," Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley said at Mashable's Media Summit during a Q and A with the social media blog's editor-in-chief, Adam Ostrow.
And like any treat, Crowley and his team at foursquare have to work to keep their users wanting more.
"We're starting to (hear from) some of the brands and media companies, 'The badges should be worth something,'" Crowley said. "If you unlock it, you show it to the bouncer and he lifts the VIP rope up."
And in this case, it seems like the corporate world is right. Historically, Foursquare badges have had little utility beyond showmanship -- by checking in (sorry, Foursquare, we're not using your hyphen) at certain locations, you could unlock badges that would then serve as a reminder of that four-night bender or visit to SXSW.
Today's announcement introduces a new opportunity. Let's say one week you went karaoke crazy and sang your heart out for three nights in a row. Now, in addition to capturing the Don't Stop Believin' badge, you could potentially gain access to exclusive karaoke bars (do those even exist?), or discounted rates for singing your heart out.
Foursquare first publicized badge rewards at Internet Week NY -- and yes, offered a badge with a reward. After checking in at the Internet Week Headquarters in NY, Foursquare users received the following in their inbox: "Show this badge & skip some lines! Monday @ Onion Party, Tues @ #140conf Party, Wed @ Pop Everything and Thr @ Obliterati & SoundCtrl."
One badge helps you jump the line at four different events.
Now imagine if Foursquare could get buy-in from larger companies or events. The possibilities are endless: A Starbucks badge lets you jump the line during the morning rush, an MTV badge lets you party with Snooki on the Jersey Shore.
As long as Foursquare actually ties something of real value to the badges, it would be hard for them to get this wrong. At Internet Week, Crowley knew what would appeal to the tech community. We'll see if he can do the same for all 1.5M+ users.
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King: Sochi threat 'very concerning'
Amid reports Wednesday that toothpaste tubes could possibly be used to carry explosives on planes heading to Sochi, Rep. Peter King continued to raise concern ahead of the Winter Olympics, saying he would not go himself.
"This is the type of threat that is very concerning to us. I can't go into the detail, but I can tell you that our intelligence people are working on issues such as this around the clock," King, a New York Republican, said Wednesday on CNN's "The Situation Room."
King's comments follow a report by ABC News in which a senior U.S. official said the Department of Homeland Security issued a warning to airlines traveling to Russia that toothpaste containers could contain explosive material and that the carriers should be aware of the possibility.
( Also on POLITICO: Schumer seeks release of Sochi yogurt shipment)
King, who used to chair the House Committee on Homeland Security, said Americans, the airlines and the people attending the Olympics should take this threat very seriously. He added that while the games may be secure for the athletes, it's "not worth the risk" for attendees.
"I would not go myself. If I were an athlete, that's one thing, but just as a spectator, I don't think it's worth the risk," the congressman said.
He said that "odds are nothing is going to happen" but addded that they are higher than any of the previous Olympic games.
( Also on POLITICO: Billie Jean King won't attend Sochi opening)
King has been vocal about his concern regarding Sochi and echoed his past criticism of Russian authorities, saying Wednesday he has "some confidence in what the Russians, are doing but really not enough."
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This will be a website for a real estate agent. Please read the brief for more details. Looking for a fresh web 2.0 look that will appeal to consumers looking for a house or to search the MLS.
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if you look at www (dot) thepilksrealestate (dot) com, you will see that I need a three column layout, with the navigation on the left side. The content middle section needs to be at least 650px. There also needs to be a featured listing section on the right side.
Also I need to have a New Listing Notifcation icon, Search area listings, and featured listing. Just base the content of the template off of the site I just mentioned.
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While I may have a Tiny Lifestyle blog, I have always been trying to really hone in on what the Tiny Lifestyle truly is. It is more than just owning a tiny house; it is a culmination of many things which leads us to a life which addresses human needs that we find are absent in our lives. It's seeking more time, discovering ourselves and loved ones. It's getting back in touch with nature; I would even go as far as saying there is a spiritual side to it as well.
I feel that the course we are going on as humans isn't sustainable in both ecological and psychological terms. With so many humans on this earth we are feeling cramped, we lack room to roam, time to be and other needs of the human condition. What does this all have to do with Urbanism?
Like I said the way we live today isn't sustainable in many ways, we must rethink, reengineer and adjust our behaviors. With 6.5+ billion people on this world urbanism will happen and we have to be smart about it.
So today I want to share these a few videos (if you only watch one, take time for the first it's phenomenal) about building better. There are many people who are part of the Tiny House Movement that do so in an urban setting. For those of you whom are a bit more remote, while these things talk about cities and urban area, there are undoubtedly gems we can gleam. Whether these ideas are used to develop your community, your own tract of land or a small community of tiny houses, these ideas are invaluable for the backwoods or cities alike.
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Casting and auditions for "The Amazing Race" proved to be a lengthy process, according to the couple. Parker, a former Clippers Girl, was spotted at a Clippers game by a casting crew member and was urged to audition for the show. The pair eventually made their way to Morongo, where the auditions were taking place."The line was extremely long," Parker said.Luckily, a casting crew member recognized Parker from the Clippers game and took the couple ahead to the front of the line."We just did our thing in front of the camera [and] danced and sang," said Hagstrom.After making it all the way to the final auditions in Los Angeles, Hagstrom and Parker still had to go through numerous interviews and medical tests before filming began in July.
In the Detour, teams filled baskets with 15 pieces of peat and transported it on a donkey to a nearby ranch to get their next clue. The task may sound easy, and it might have been if the couple had picked the right donkey. Sadly, this was not the case for Hagstrom and Parker, who took about five hours to get their donkey to move."We tried everything to get that donkey to move," Hagstrom said. "Jenn even tried to ride it."
Jennifer Parker says the 35-day trip she made for the CBS reality television show "The Amazing Race" is one of the hardest things she's done.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. – Last week may not have been the best of weeks for the King University men's basketball team, but Hunter LeVeau earned recognition from the Tennessee Sports Writers Association for his performance. LeVeau averaged 21.0 points per game earning the TSWA Men's Basketball Player of the Week award.
The Johnson City, Tenn., native led all scorers with 22 points off the bench against Belmont Abbey College, hitting 8-of-14 shots overall, including 6-for-11 from 3-point range. He added three assists and two rebounds in 34 minutes. He followed that with 20 points and nine rebounds against Pfeiffer University, connecting on 8-of-16 shots with four more trifectas in 25 minutes.
The freshman forward leads the club with averages of 14.2 points and 6.1 rebounds per game while shooting 43.0 percent from behind the arc.
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You can literally and figuratively get away with murder in Gothic 4. There's no one to judge you, and no CPU to police your actions. It's a free for all. It's virtually impossible to get killed. The worst that will happen is that you'll be delayed until you figure out what you need to get past the situation. All locks will open for you one way or another. There are no factions to fight or align with. There's no need for rest or food as recovery is instantaneous with the proper potions. Items don't need to be maintained. Your inventory is unlimited. See what I mean about the permanent cheat code?
If your PC can handle the new graphics engine, the Vision Engine 7, you're in for a visual treat. My PC is just a tad underpowered so I have to run it at a lower res, but it still looks great. Incredible draw distances with spacious environments are certain to send agoraphobics into a seizure. The villages are well rendered with great architectural detail. The NPCs are bland, functional but not very distinctive. The developers' talents clearly lie with environments.
The Gothic series has always been somewhat lackluster in the production department, so it's nice to see the new engine generating such amazing scenes. Perhaps the audio can be overhauled next time. The sound effects, particularly the environmental ambient sounds, are great. They are accompanied by a rich orchestral soundtrack that evokes the appropriate mood for the scene. But it's the voiceacting that kills me. There's the odd character that sounds believable, but most of them are atrocious. It's as though the actors just learned how to read. And with such awful dialogue that is also poorly translated, it's inappropriately comical. This is one time I wouldn't mind going back to the classic text-based RPG.
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Officials: Miner dead, 1 rescued in Utah cave-in
SALT LAKE CITY A miner died Friday and another was injured after they became trapped in a cave-in at a central Utah coal mine, authorities said.
The cave-in was reported earlier in the day at a mine in Bear Canyon, about 10 miles west of the small mining town of Huntington, the Emery County sheriff's office said. Rescuers freed one man but were unable to save the other miner, officials said.
A rescue team recovered the body of the second miner. Huntington Mayor Hilary Gordon identified him as 28-year-old Elam Jones, whose mother is a Huntington city councilwoman.
The injured miner, who has not been identified, was treated and released from Castleview Hospital in Price.
The mine is part of the Castle Valley Mining Complex. Preliminary information showed that a roof fall occurred on a pillaring section of the mine after a large rock fell, according to federal mine safety officials. The Mine Safety and Health Administration was investigating, said spokesman Jesse Lawder.
Messages left with the mine's operator, Rhino Resource Partners, were not immediately returned. The Kentucky-based company bought the mining complex, which has 26.1 million tons of coal reserves, in August 2010, according to its website. Federal records show one injury was reported at the mine last year.
Such tragedies are familiar to those who live in the area, which depends largely on mining for its economy. The mine is in the same county where the Crandall Canyon Mine collapsed in 2007, killing nine people. The operator of that mine, Genwal Resources Inc., an affiliate of Ohio-based Murray Energy Corp., reached a $949,351 settlement in 2012 with the Mine Safety and Health Administration over safety violations.
Gordon, who was mayor during the Crandall Canyon collapse, told KSL-TV and the Deseret News that the latest mine collapse brought back memories of that disaster.
"Whenever there's a cave-in at any of the mines, you hold your breath," she said. "Coal is very powerful, and Mother Nature is very powerful."
Jones helped in the rescue of miners at Crandall Canyon and later spoke at a vigil for those who died and were injured there, according to the Tribune.
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My trips to Ontario, Quebec, Michigan, and New York have come to an end. I might return but we will see.
The trips were EPIC. I did 2014 miles the first time and 1964 miles the second. The research is not done, it really never is!
These two trips have given me a visual memory of the places I have visited. I also have my posts for memory jogging and my journal which is more personal and detailed. I have the memory of the feel of the road, sort of like the lay of the land, the tastes, and smells. I love Canada it is beautiful and the people are helpful, pleasant and just plain nice. I also feel that I have a better understanding of the sources, archives and how to do my genealogy now. We will see.
Below you will find a Table of Content for both trips featuring the posts I have written about my journeys. I do want to say that writing posts while traveling the editing can be a challenge so if you find slight funny editorial mistakes, it happens. So be patient with me. I may do some maintenance and cleaning up. I am pretty busy getting caught up.
To find these posts, you can go to the right side of this blog and find the Archives and the box will drop down and you can pick a date, or you can use the search box to find a post. These are strictly the posts on this blog, if you want to see the posts on the Boardmans and Brown blog for that part of my trip which covers my mother's side of the family, you will have to go there and look at the page at the top of the blog, titled: Trips to Canada: 2012 and 2014 Posts. The link is on the right side of this blog.
Update 4/17/2016: These trips were a combination of research on my Mc/MacDonald side and my mother's side the Boardman's and Browns so you might check that blog for more details about my trips. See the right side of this blog for a link.
Second Trip to Ontario and Quebec, including Michigan and New York September 2014:
- September 11, 2014 Second Trip to Ontario has Begun…
- September 12, 2014 Ontario Wanderings: Loyalists and the Niagara Area, Part I (About Lt. Col. John Butler's statue in Niagara region)
- September 13, 2014 Ontario Wanderings: Loyalists and the Niagara Area, Part II (About Lt. Col. John Butler's family graves).
- September 14, 2014 Ontario Wanderings: Heritage Site, The Steward House (About the Colored in Ontario).
- September 16, 2014 Ontario Musings: Brock University and the Loyalist Collection
- September 29, 2014 Ontario Wanderings: Revisiting Kingston in Ontario
- September 29, 2014 Ontario Wanderings: Kingston Frontenac Library (About their Genealogical collection).
- September 30, 2014 Ontario Wanderings: The Brockville Museum & Leeds Grenville Branch of the OGS (Ontario Genealogical Society)
- September 30, 2014 Ontario Wanderings: The Glengarry area..Again..
These posts cover Quebec:
- October 1, 2014 Quebec Wanderings: Lancaster to Pointe-Claire, Quebec
- October 2, 2014 Quebec Wanderings: The Quebec Family History Society (In Pointe-Claire).
- October 2, 2014 Quebec Wanderings: A Visit to Montreal (Includes the Jean Talon Market, finding my hotel etc.)
- October 3, 2014 Quebec Wanderings: Montreal & The Grande Bibliotheque
- October 4, 2014 Quebec Wanderings: Historic City Center – Old Montreal (Vieux-Montreal)
- October 4, 2014 Quebec Wanderings: Montreal and the BAnQ (Archives of Quebec)
- October 4, 2014 Quebec Wanderings: A last look at Montreal…
These posts cover my time in New York State. On the Boardman and Brown Blog I do cover my visit to Niagara Falls.
- October 5, 2014 New York Wanderings: Montreal to Plattsburgh, NY
- October 5, 2014 New York Wanderings: The Adirondacks and Warrensburg
- October 5, 2014 New York Wanderings: Fort Johnston and the Mohawk Valley
- October 5, 2014 New York Wanderings: William Johnson House – The Mohawk Valley
- October 6, 2014 New York Wanderings: To Alexandria Bay
- October 6, 2014 New York Wanderings: Getting to Boldt Castle
- October 7, 2014 New York Wanderings: Boldt Castle..a sad story!
- October 7, 2014 New York Wanderings: Bolt Castle the grounds and the view!
- October 8, 2014 new York Wanderings: Heading Home (my travel across New York State).
What you find below is my first trip to Ontario and Quebec in Spring of 2012.
We start with my tour of the Upper Ottawa River Valley on both the Ontario and Quebec sides.
- Monday, May 21, 2012: A Tour of The Upper Ottawa, First Pembroke's Marina, May 27, 2012
- Touring the Upper Ottawa River: Pontiac County, Quebec – Allumette Island and Chapeau, May 27, 2012
- Touring the Upper Ottawa River: St. Alphonsus of Liguori, May, 28, 2012
- Touring the Upper Ottawa: Chichester Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, June 4, 2012
- Touring the Upper Ottawa River: Sheenboro Township in Quebec, June 9, 2012
- Touring the Upper Ottawa Valley: St. Joseph on Allumette Island, Quebec, June 12, 2012
- The Pontiac Archives, Shawville, Quebec, June 13, 2012
- The Pontiac Archives, Shawville, Quebec – One More Time!, June 14, 2012
- Calumet Island, Pontiac County, Quebec, June 14, 2012
- Hwy 148: The Quebec Side of the Outaouais River, June 15, 2012
- Pembroke, Renfrew County, Ontario, June 15, 2012
- Pembroke, Ontario: The Upper Ottawa Valley Genealogical Group & Library, June 15, 2012
At this time I headed back to Ottawa via Arnprior and I am so glad I stopped in that city:
- Arnprior, Renfrew County, Ontario: Archives, June 15, 2012
- Arnprior: Albert Street Cemetery, June 15, 2012
- First Visit: Ottawa in the Rain!, June 15, 2012
- Ottawa: The Ottawa Public Library, Main Branch, June 16, 2012
- Ottawa: Libraries and Archives Canada!, June 16, 2012
- Ottawa: Exploring its Food, Pubs and Sights, June 16, 2012
- Ottawa: A Pub and the Rideau Canal!, June 27, 2012
This is when I headed west to pursue the family history of the Browns. Now a lot of McDonells/MacDonalds came to Lanark so I am glad I stopped there as well just wish it has been a little longer now.
- Lanark County: Smith Falls, Ontario, June 17, 2012
- Smith Falls and the Rideau Canal, June 17, 2012
- Perth, no time to dally!, June 18, 2012
- West to Marmora, Hastings County, Ontario, June 18, 2012
The Ontario Genealogical Society was having their conference in Kingston. I attended and also visited the Diocese of Ontario for Brown research.
- Arriving in Kingston, Ontario, June 20, 2012
- Kingston: Anglican Archive, Visit with a Friend & the OGS, June 21, 2012
Since I don't know the origins of Archibald and Mary McDonell my great grandparents yet, I figured I should get to know all the famous McD's possible.
Now we start with the McD search and research:
- Kingston and the Cataraqui Cemetery – A Special Visit, June 22, 2012
- The St. Lawrence River and the 1000 Island Parkway, June 22, 2012
- Brockville: A quick Visit!, June 22, 2012
- Prescott, another town on the St. Lawrence, June 22, 2012
- At Last! Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry!, June 22, 2012
- An Overview: Dundas, Stormont and the city of Cornwall, Ontario, June 24, 2012
- The Cornwall Public Library's Genealogical & History Collection, June 24, 2012
- A Gem in the United Counties of S.D.&G: La Genealogie et archives Saint-Laurent, Inc., June 24, 2012
- Cornwall Community Museum! June 25, 2012
- Touring Glengarry: Glengarry Archives & the Sir John Johnson House, June 26, 2012
- Touring Glengarry: The Nor'Westers and Loyalist Museum, June 26, 2012
- Touring Glengarry: Williamstown, June 26, 2012
- Touring Glengarry: Dunvegan & The Glengarry Pioneer Museum, June 27, 2012
- Touring Glengarry: Alexandria "The Centre of Glengarry," June 27, 2012
- Touring Glengarry: St. Raphael's, June 28, 2012
- Touring Glengarry: Martintown, June 28, 2012
- Touring Glengarry: St. Andrews West (Stormont), June 28, 2012
- Touring Glengarry: Lancaster, June 28, 2012
- Last Night in Cornwall, A Turn of Events and a lovely view!, June 28, 2012
- Touring Glengarry: Cornwall to South Lancaster, June 29, 2012
- Touring Glengarry: Kirkhill, June 29, 2012
- Touring Glengarry: Lochiel, Glen Sandfield, Dalkeith, June 29, 2012
- Prescott, Russell, The Ottawa River & Ottawa!, June 29, 2012
- Ottawa and Gatineau Archives, June 30, 2012
- In Reflection: My Trip to Ontario and Quebec, June 30, 2012


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Often overlooked in discussions of what some analysts refer to as the "Asian century" is a country that, until recently, was the largest economy in the region: Japan.
The past two decades have been unkind to Japan. It has grappled with a long period of economic malaise following the collapse of its stock and real estate markets in the early 1990s, deteriorating public finances, the onset of negative population growth, and – more recently – natural disasters. Many decision-makers in North America appear to believe that Japan no longer matters. But it would be a mistake to ignore the country.
Consider, first, that Japan is still has the world's third biggest national economy, behind the U.S. and China. And it is a fairly prosperous one: per capita gross domestic product is US$36,900, using purchasing power parity exchange rates. This puts Japan ahead of many European countries and makes it four times richer than China. Japan is highly productive, owing to its well-educated population, strong manufacturing sector, and modern infrastructure. Over the period 1990 to 2010, Japan led the G8 countries in productivity growth, despite its well-advertised macroeconomic and structural problems.
Japan is an influential trading nation, ranking as the world's 4th largest exporter; it is also the 4th biggest import market. Endowed with few natural resources, it has evolved to become a leading global supplier of sophisticated products, particularly manufactured goods.
Japan has a strong base of human capital. Adult literacy is just a notch below 100 per cent. High school completion is almost universal, post-secondary attainment rates are relatively high, and the country hosts six of the 100 top-ranked global universities. Two areas of persistent weakness are female labour force participation, where it lags behind other developed countries, and its failure to use immigration to augment workforce skills and mitigate the problems posed by population decline.
Japan is home to a significant number of global-scale enterprises. According to Fortune magazine's Global 500 publication, 62 of the world's 500 largest corporations – including six of the top 50 – are headquartered in Japan. (Canada is home to just nine). Japanese firms are well represented among the ranks of the world's leading producers of automobiles, machinery and equipment, insurance, heavy manufacturing, and trading.
Geographically, Japan is ideally situated to benefit from ongoing economic development in broader Asia. Since the early 1990s, it has expanded and deepened commercial connections with other Asian markets, and Japanese corporations are among the most prominent investors in the region. Japan today is a critical link in Asian-centric global supply chains.
Japan's debt-burdened public sector undoubtedly will act as a constraint on the country's future growth. Gross government debt has reached an alarming 235 per cent of GDP, the highest among all advanced countries. Yet interest rates have long been at rock-bottom levels, and the government seemingly has no trouble financing its massive debts. It turns out that the Japanese public sector also holds extensive financial assets, which serve to partially offset its aggregate debt, leaving a net debt burden closer to 130 per cent of GDP (still high, but not much more so than in several European nations).
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It is too early to know how successful "Abenomics" will be. But Japan's economy grew by almost 2 per cent in 2012, and The Economist Intelligence Unit sees real GDP expanding by 1.7 per cent this year and 2.1 per cent in 2014. These are decent GDP growth rates for a country with an aging and slowly shrinking population.
Canada's two-way trade with Japan reached $25 billion last year, with 3,000 Canadian firms exporting to the country. Direct Japanese investment in Canada stands at $15 billion. By any measure, Japan remains an important economic and political partner for Canada. In the rush to strengthen Canada's commercial presence in the Asia-Pacific, it is important that we not neglect relations with Japan.
Jock Finlayson is Executive Vice President of the Business Council of British Columbia.