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RIAA Not Happy With Rep. Lofgren Calling Out ICE For Web Censorship
from the and-the-pressure-is-on... deptWe've covered how Rep. Zoe Lofgren is one of the only Representatives in Congress (along with Senator Wyden on the other side of the Capitol building), who appears to actually be concerned that Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) group is seizing web domains on questionable authority, without due process, and likely in violation of basic First Amendment rights against prior restraint. Of course, even with just one Congressional Rep. speaking out about this, apparently the RIAA wishes to stomp out any dissent. Yesterday, they sent Rep. Lofgren an unsolicited letter in response to her comments. You can see the full letter embedded below, but let's go through a few of the "highlights."
Online theft, particularly through websites dedicated to infringing our rights, is a terribly important issue for those who invest in the artists and music that entertains the world. Online theft has cost our industry, the broader entertainment community, and our economy billions of dollars and thousands of jobs.Note the claim about the lost jobs and losses to the economy. These are the same claims that have been repeatedly debunked in the last few months. There are no direct losses from infringement. There is only the industry's failure to adapt with new business models for a changing market. Of course, even if we're feeling generous, and grant the RIAA's premise that there have been billions in losses here, is that really an excuse for ignoring due process and the First Amendment? Seems like an odd argument.
I would like to take this opportunity to respond to the reference in your comments at the hearing to a New York Times article regarding a site implicated in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement�s (ICE) domain name seizures that claimed it received some music directly from a record label. The implication of the article was that any action against this or similar sites would be inappropriate given its distribution of some potentially authorized content.Actually, this paragraph is quite misleading on a variety of points. First of all, no one has implied that "any action" against these sites would be "inappropriate" just because they published some authorized content. If it's true that they were distributing unauthorized content in violation of the law, then action could very well be appropriate. What we're questioning is the type of action. That is, no actual lawsuit has been filed on the sites named in that NY Times article. Instead, the sites were simply seized with no due process, and in violation of the higher standard for the seizure of content found in Fort Wayne Books v. Indiana.
Secondly, I've seen the evidence. The same evidence the NY Times saw. It wasn't just that there was "some" authorized content, but that every single song that ICE used to claim probable cause of criminal infringement was authorized.
Furthermore, according to the affidavit for seizure, it appears that ICE relied solely on a false claim from the RIAA's own Carlos Linares that the four songs in question were, in fact, unauthorized. It's rather odd that the RIAA's letter makes no mention of this. It also fails to mention that one of the songs named was not by an artist signed to an RIAA label -- and yet Linares allegedly still had no qualms about claiming it was infringing, despite no right to speak for that artist. Seems like a pretty big oversight for the RIAA to skip that point.
The First Amendment serves as a safeguard for free expression but not as a shield for illegal behavior. If, as the U.S. Supreme Court has stated, "neither the press nor booksellers may claim special protection from governmental regulations of general applicability simply by virtue of their First Amendment protected activities," then neither should sites dedicated to theft just because they also host online conversation. The fact is that these sites are welcome to limit their offerings to only authorized material (including any music provided by a rights holder) and to public discourse. But no one should be allowed to continue to engage in illegal activity while hiding behind a facade of legitimacyOnce again, the letter presents a gross misrepresentation of what actually is going on. No one -- no one -- is claiming that these sites get any "special protection" because they "also host online conversation." We're saying they get the same First Amendment protections anyone else gets -- which means that if you believe they infringe, you sue them. You don't just have the government seize their property. On top of that, you especially don't have the government seize their property based on four songs that were actually authorized.
Also, it's rather amusing that the RIAA's letter "quotes" the Supreme Court but is quite careful not to either name the case it's quoting, or to put the quote into context. That's because it knows doing either of those things would undermine its argument here entirely. First, the quote itself comes from Arcara v. Cloud, the one case that supporters of this kind of censorship keep hanging their hats on. Of course, Arcara doesn't apply here, as we've discussed repeatedly. The ruling in Arcara is explicit: it only applies to crimes that "manifest absolutely no element of protected expression." But speech on websites is protected expression.
Makes you wonder why the RIAA would leave out the fact that the very case they're quoting explicitly says it does not apply to the situation we're discussing. Funny, huh?
As for the claim that sites shouldn't be allowed to "engage in illegal activity while hiding behind a facade of legitimacy" -- we agree. But, no one is claiming that here, other than the RIAA. The problem is that no one has shown that illegal activity occurred. Instead, all they showed was that the RIAA appears to have said the songs were infringing, when they were all sent by representatives of the copyright holder.
It all sort of makes you wonder if the RIAA's response here is even more about covering its own hide from the fact that it may have made false representations to federal officials in a criminal investigation.
As notable First Amendment scholar, Floyd Abrams, stated last month in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee with reference to such seizures, "Copyright violations are not protected by the First Amendment. Entities 'dedicated to infringing activities' are not engaging in speech that any civilized, let alone freedom-oriented, nation protects. That these infringing activities occur on the Internet makes them not less, but more harmful."I am not familiar with the specifics of Abrams' claims, but I will argue that he is being misleading here as well (or the RIAA is being misleading in how it is quoting him). Oddly, we also just had to debunk Abrams' false claims about Wikileaks, in which he incorrectly claimed that Wikileaks had done things it had not. It appears that, once again, Abrams has been speaking without full knowledge of what's going on. First of all, no one is claiming that copyright violations are protected by the First Amendment. We're claiming that the the non-infringing speech is protected by the First Amendment. Furthermore, Mr. Abrams' claim that such sites are somehow not engaging in speech, suggests a near complete level of ignorance of how some of these sites functioned -- and the FACT that the labels themselves relied on these sites as part of their promotional strategies. If it were actually true that this was some sort of horrible, dangerous site that no civilized nation would protect... why were the labels using them to promote works?
Either way, the larger point is that Abrams and the RIAA appear to be playing a cheap game of misdirection here by focusing only on the claims of infringement and by ignoring the massive amounts of non-infringing speech. And, in the specific case of Dajaz1, the government has failed to prove any infringement. So, can the RIAA and Abrams explain how it is acceptable for the RIAA to falsely claim infringement, have a site shut down... and then pretend the site was dedicated to infringement?
Assuming the site referenced in the New York Times article you cited actually received some authorized copies of legitimate material doesn't excuse the criminal activity of making available thousands and thousands of copies of unauthorized material. In the physical world, if the government seizes a shipment of thousands of boxes of illegal goods, and the distributor of the illegal goods tries to cover itself by including a small portion of lawful goods on top, the seizure would not be improper.This is partially true, but mostly misleading. The big problem, of course, is that the government failed to show any criminal activity on the part of Dajaz1. So, it's hard to see how they can claim seizing is okay. Separately, once again, when a seizure involves speech -- even speech that is unprotected, such as obscenity -- the law is quite clear (though the RIAA ignores this) in a whole bunch of cases, that a higher standard must be met to avoid prior restraint. No such bar was met.
Some have opposed recent seizures based on the claim that "they are ineffective anyway because the sites just pop right back up." Follow-up to the seizures that have occurred thus far indicate the opposite -- recidivism is low.First of all, I haven't actually seen this claim made anywhere seriously, so I'm not even sure why the RIAA is bringing it up. But, more importantly, the claim that recidivism is low also appears to be (yet again!) misleading in the extreme. It may be true that there has been a low level of recidivism in the domains seized for trademark infringement/counterfeiting (still the majority of seizures). On that front, I haven't been following things as closely. However for the domains seized around copyright claims, a large majority of them came back online quite quickly, with most of the rest showing up soon after.
Finally, claims regarding a lack of due process under U.S. statutory procedure remain unfounded. The sites targeted by the government are reviewed by investigators, U.S. Attorneys, and judges. There is a thorough analysis and prosecutorial discretion is exercised by several parties. There has been no rush to judgment.This one makes me laugh because the RIAA completely ignores the very case that Lofgren so importantly highlighted: the mistaken and illegal seizure of 84,000 innocent sites. They all went through that same "review." And it didn't work. That's because it's not an actual review and it's not actual due process. Having only one side (the government) "review" (really: rubber stamp) things is not due process. Due process means that the accused should be allowed a chance to respond before any protected speech is blocked. That's fundamental to US Constitutional law, and it's troubling that the RIAA would ignore that.
And, as you noted at the hearing, an aggrieved party can always challenge a wrongful seizure under due process provisions set in statute � although it is noteworthy that so far none of the hundred sites seized for conducting illegal activity has chosen to do that.Due process does not mean the government seizes and then if you don't like it you get to protest later. As for the claim that none of the sites have yet chosen to take legal action, that's again incredibly misleading. First of all, the government did not even provide most of the sites with the necessary information until months later, and then many have spent the last few weeks scrambling to find lawyers willing to take on the US government on a pro bono basis (because, despite claims to the contrary by the RIAA, these sites are not huge moneymakers). That's not easy. However, I am aware of a few sites who have secured representation and are currently "discussing" these issues with the government. I'm sure the RIAA is aware of this as well, so it's misguided to pretend that they've all just gone away silently.
It's noteworthy, too, that the letter is signed by Mitch Glazier for the RIAA. Glazier, of course, is infamous for his supposed role in sneaking a clause into an unrelated bill -- literally in the middle of the night -- while he was a Congressional staffer, which would have removed an important right of artists to reclaim their copyrights from record labels. Months later, he was hired by the RIAA for a salary around $500k per year -- a job which he retains today. For Mitch Glazier, of all people, to write a letter to a Congressional Representative, pretending to represent the best interests of artists, is pretty laughable.
Either way, almost nothing in the letter is accurate or honest, and none of it answers the key questions being raised by Rep. Lofgren. It most certainly does not explain why ICE is involved in what should be a civil matter. It does not explain why there is no adversarial hearing, despite it being entirely appropriate (as the mistaken seizures have shown). It does not explain why the RIAA stated that these files were infringing when the evidence shows that they were not (and with at least one file, the RIAA had absolutely no right to speak for it).
All in all, the entire letter seeks to avoid the important issues and focus on claims that haven't actually been made. I fully expect Rep. Lofgren will give it all of the attention that such a letter deserves.
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Government report fuels another round of Islamophobia
Government must engage in dialogue with organisations it unjustly threatens in report, rather than creating new route for intimidating the Muslim community.
On January 12th a press conference was called by the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), The Cordoba Foundation and the Finsbury Park Mosque. This was in response to the Government's publication of a summary of the Review of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB).
The Review was carried out by Sir John Jenkins, the former UK Ambassador to Riyadh, and Charles Farr, Director General of the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism in the Home Office. With such authors it was inevitable that the report would become another route for intimidating the Muslim community.
Victoria Brittain, the campaigning journalist, chaired the press conference. She welcomed people to the Finsbury Park Mosque. "It is a pillar of the community. It is looking after the homeless and feeding hungry people. It has an outreach programme to other religions, and is engaging with young people. It is utterly false to attempt to link it to extremism".
Mohamed Kozbar, Chairman of the Finsbury Park Mosque, pointed out that 10 years ago the Government had asked for an intervention in the Mosque. He said that "MAB intervened, and within one day the Mosque was brought back into the community.
Abu Hamza and followers were ousted, as were the far-right extremists who used his presence to promote hatred. The Mosque is now a community centre as well as a mosque. It has won awards for its community engagement, both from Islington Council and from "Community Matters". Yet in the report the Government tries to isolate the Mosque. The Government is showing the community its back".
Only a summary of the report has been published. The three Muslim organisations called for the "full and transparent publication". It was published 18 months late from the date given previously by David Cameron. There is evidence from the Mail and the Guardian that the Government was lobbied by Gulf states, notably the United Arab Emirates. Everything indicates a lack of clarity and a bias in the Review.
Certainly the report's published summary is misleading enough. We are told that "MAB (like the MCB) have consistently opposed programmes by successive Governments to prevent terrorism". Both MAB and the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) have refuted this by simple reference to the record of their work against terrorism.
But the report implies that opposition to Government policy on Prevent, Palestine and Egypt implies an ambiguous attitude towards terrorism. Omar el-Hamdoon, Chair of MAB, told the press conference "Opposing government policy, and speaking out when they are wrong, is part of active citizenship. We encourage Muslims to register for voting, as we are promoting integration into British society".
The report names a number of British organisations as having links with the MB. The report has a negative and biased view of the MB, suggesting it has not abandoned terrorism.
This is significant, as the MB is the most popular party in the Arab world. In Egypt its entire leadership has been arrested, and is facing death sentences and life imprisonment, after winning Parliamentary and Presidential elections. The report is silent on this terrible repression.
Yet the repression of the legal and democratic record of the MB has been demagogically used by takfiri groups as an argument in favour of the path of ISIS, Al Qaeda, Al Nusrah, etc. There is no acknowledgement of this danger in the report.
Anas Al-Tikriti, from the Cordoba Foundation explained to the press conference that the MB has no structure in the UK. MB members in exile from Egypt and elsewhere first arrived in the UK around 50 years ago. He said "In that time there has been no record of these people breaking the law or committing a crime. There are no links between the Muslim Brotherhood and terrorism. 18 months silence is a clear indication that no evidence has been found."
The report, however, clearly characterises supporters of the MB as alien to British society. Thus we read "… aspects of Muslim Brotherhood ideology and tactics, in this country and overseas, are contrary to our values and have been contrary to our national interests and our national security". This raises a threat over the legitimate, and peaceful, activity of all the Muslim organisations referred to in the report. The whole progressive movement must insist that the Government engages in a dialogue with the organisations it is unjustly threatening in the report.
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The Nehru Planetarium in New Delhi is situated in the green surroundings of the Teen Murti House, earlier the official residence of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru and now a museum in his memory. Conscious of the fact that an understanding of the spirit and method of science was crucial for children to become responsible citizens, Nehru liked every opportunity to be provided to them in this endeavor. In 1964, the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund was set up to promote his ideas and subsequently it undertook to build the Nehru Planetarium with its primary aim being the promotion of astronomy education. Nehru Planetarium is now a wing of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library.
The Planetarium has been constantly improvising and innovating programmes for its visitors. The strength of the planetarium lies in its live interactions and programs for visitors, students and amateur astronomers. The Planetarium is always active with programs for school and college students and for amateur astronomers. Through out the year, there are a number of workshops or observing activities. There are also Astronomy Quiz and Art competitions in the months of February and August.
The planetarium infrastructure and projection equipment has very recently been upgraded with the upgradation process being undertaken as a turn key project by the National Council of Science Museums, Kolkata.
Inauguration of the renovated planetarium
The regular programmes of the Planetarium include public shows at 11:30 AM (English), 1:30 PM (Hindi), 3:00 PM (English) and 4:00 PM (Hindi). The topics included in these programmes are continuously updated. At present, the program - Chandra A stellar Life is available for public viewing at the planetarium. Watch out for programs on Light Pollution and Multiwavelength Astronomy, which are the planned new programs in the near future.
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Like so many expectant parents, Alana and Casey Madden were anxiously awaiting their baby's 20 week ultrasound. But on the day of their screening—when the ultrasound technician excused herself from the room to speak to the doctor—they knew something was wrong. Further tests revealed their unborn son, Noah, had significant heart defects and Heterotaxy syndrome. The family was referred to Dr. Caroline K. Lee, pediatric cardiologist at St. Louis Children's Hospital, for prenatal monitoring and to create a plan for labor and care after birth.
"It was very stressful," says Noah's dad, Casey Madden. "It was good to know ahead of time so that we could plan and prepare—but the waiting was difficult as we considered the worst- case scenarios," says Alana. The nurse coordinator of the Fetal Care Center, handled everything for us—she coordinated all of our appointments and testing—it was one less thing we had to worry about."
Noah's condition was stable while in utero. It wasn't until after he was born—when his circulation transitioned to his own heart and lungs—that his health would be in jeopardy. Of particular concern were several obstructions in the vessels leaving his lungs that could put him at risk of essentially "drowning" after birth.
On the night Noah was born, there were at least 20 medical personnel in the delivery room." The number one priority was to clear multiple obstructions in his pulmonary veins," says Alana. As soon as Noah was delivered, he was rushed to the cardiac catheterization lab. "It was touch and go for a while," says Casey. "It took five hours for the doctors to navigate through Noah's small vessels and atypical anatomy. Dr. Lee rushed to Children's Hospital on her night off and kept us up to date from the cath lab. Our prayers were answered when she notified us via successive texts as each obstruction was cleared."
While it was good news when Noah cleared this initial hurdle; he still faced additional surgeries to repair his heart and improve circulation. For the next stage of his care, the family turned to St. Louis Children's Hospital pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Pirooz Eghtesady. "Noah was diagnosed in utero with a single ventricle anomaly. This means his heart does not have the typical four chamber anatomy," says Dr. Eghtesady, co-director of the St. Louis Children's and Washington University Heart Center. "He also had Heterotaxy syndrome –a defect that means "different arrangement" and involves the heart and other organs forming differently or being located in abnormal locations in the chest and abdomen. There was also malrotation of his intestines which often leads to twisting and blockages. These various defects require a staged approach to surgical intervention. His initial catheterization was successful, but we needed to come up with a plan for improving his circulation so he could grow and tolerate successive surgeries."
"We had a long meeting with Dr. Eghtesady," says Casey. "While he did not give us false hope or 'sugarcoat' things—his detailed explanations and caring concern gave us confidence in his ability to help our son. It was clear that Noah was in good hands."
"We were told the first three days after his initial surgery—Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return Repair and Pulmonary Artery Banding—would be critical," says Alana. "We were amazed to see how closely Dr. Eghtesady was monitoring his condition," says Casey. "There were a couple of times I saw him sitting by his bedside and you could see the wheels turning in his head as he weighed the options and made decisions."
Within 17 hours, Noah went into cardiac arrest. "We were called back into his room where we witnessed Dr. Eghtesady literally holding Noah's heart in his hand—massaging it to keep him alive," says Casey. "It was our lowest point," says Alana. But once again, Noah fought back and his heart began beating on its own.
Noah is now at home with his mom and dad as they watch and wait for him to gain weight and get stronger for further surgeries. "We are just taking things minute by minute and celebrating the good times. We don't know what the future holds—but for now we are just enjoying our child and trusting in God's plan for him," says Alana.
"Noah, and other children with significant heart defects benefit from our multidisciplinary approach to patient care at St. Louis Children's Hospital," says Dr. Eghtesady. "In Noah's case, we worked together with cardiology and the newborn medicine team to develop a thoughtful, staged approach. We looked at outcomes for similar cases and decided beforehand that we would put Noah on a heart-lung bypass machine (ECMO) to give his lungs a rest as he adapted to his new physiology. While he still had a difficult course in the hospital, this gave him the break he needed for a successful outcome for his initial surgery."
While this wasn't what the family expected for their firstborn child, they are grateful for the exceptional medical care he has received. "The doctors never seem rushed—they always explained things in terminology that we could understand. And Dr. Eghtesady is just phenomenal, it is clear that he cares about Noah as a person—he's not just a number or a statistic to him. And that means so much to us."


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In CUDA, Supercomputing for the Masses: Part 11 of this article series on CUDA, I revisited CUDA memory spaces and introduced the concept of "texture memory". In this installment, I discuss some paradigm changing features of the just released CUDA version 2.2 -- namely the introduction of "mapped" pinned system memory that allows compute kernels to share host system memory and provides zero-copy support for direct access to host system memory when running on many newer CUDA-enabled graphics processors. The next article in this series will resume the discussion of texture memory and include information about new CUDA 2.2 features such as the ability to write to global memory on the GPU that has a texture bound to it. (Go here for more on CUDA 2.2.)
Prior to CUDA 2.2, CUDA kernels could not access host system memory directly. For that reason, CUDA programmers used the design pattern introduced in Part 1 and Part 2:
- Move data to the GPU.
- Perform calculation on GPU.
- Move result(s) from the GPU to host.
This paradigm has now changed as CUDA 2.2 has introduced new APIs that allow host memory to be mapped into device memory via a new function called
cudaHostAlloc (or
cuMemHostAlloc in the CUDA driver API). This new memory type supports the following features:
- "Portable" pinned buffers that are available to all GPUs.
- The use of multiple GPUs will be discussed in a future article.
- "Mapped" pinned buffers that map host memory into the CUDA address space and provide asynchronous transparent access to the data without requiring an explicit programmer initiated copy.
- Integrated GPUs share physical memory with the host processor (as opposed to the on-board fast global memory of discrete GPUs). Mapped pinned buffers act as "zero-copy" buffers for many newer (especially integrated graphics processors) because they avoid superfluous copies. When developing code for integrated GPUs, using mapped pinned memory really makes sense.
- For discrete GPUs, mapped pinned memory is only a performance win in certain cases. Since the memory is not cached by the GPU:
- It should be read or written exactly once.
- The global loads and stores that read or write the memory must be coalesced to avoid a 2x-7x PCIe performance penalty.
- At best, it will only deliver PCIe bandwidth performance, but this can be 2x faster than
cudaMemcpybecause mapped memory is able exploit the full duplex capability of the PCIe bus by reading and writing at the same time. A call to
cudaMemcpycan only move data in one direction at a time (i.e., half duplex).
Further, a drawback of the current CUDA 2.2 release is that all pinned allocations are mapped into the GPU's 32-bit linear address space, regardless of whether the device pointer is needed or not. (NVIDIA indicates this will be changed to a per-allocation basis in a later release.)
- "WC" (write-combined) memory can provide higher performance:
- Since WC memory is neither cached or cache coherent, greater PCIe performance can be achieved because the memory is not snooped during transfers across the PCI Express bus. NVIDIA notes in their "CUDA 2.2 Pinned Memory APIs" document that WC memory may perform as much as 40% faster on certain PCI Express 2.0 implementations.
- It may increase the host processor(s) write performance to host memory because individual writes are first combined (via an internal processor write-buffer) so that only a single burst write containing many aggregated individual writes need be issued. (Intel claims they have observed actual performance increases of over 10x but this is not typical). For more information, please see the Intel publication Write Combining Memory Implementation Guidelines.
- Host-side calculations and applications may run faster because write-combined memory does not pollute the internal processor caches such as the L1 and L2 caches. This happens because WC does not enforce cache coherency, which can increase host processor efficiency by reducing cache misses as well as avoiding the overhead incurred when enforcing cache coherency. Write-combining also avoids cache pollution by utilizing a separate dedicated internal write-buffer cache, which by-passes and leaves the other internal processor caches untouched.
- WC memory does have drawbacks and CUDA programmers should not consider a WC memory region as general-purpose memory because it is "weakly-ordered". In other words, reading from a WC memory location may return unexpected -- and incorrect -- data because a previous write to that memory location might have been delayed in order to combine it with other writes. Without programmer enforced coherency though a "fence" operation, it is possible that a read of WC memory may actually "read" old or even initialized data.
- Unfortunately, enforcing coherent reads from WC memory may incur a performance penalty on some host processor architectures. Happily, processors with the SSE4 instruction set provide a streaming load instruction (
MOVNTDQA) that can efficiently read from WC memory. (Check if the
CPUIDinstruction is executed with
EAX==1, bit 19 of
ECX, to see if SSE4.1 is available.) Please see the Intel publication, Increasing Memory Throughput With Intel Streaming SIMD Extensions 4 (Intel SSE4) Streaming Load.
- It is unclear if and when a CUDA programmer needs to take any action (such as using a memory fence) to ensure that the WC memory is in-place and ready for use by the host or graphics processor(s). The Intel documentation states that "[a] 'memory fence' instruction should be used to properly ensure consistency between the data producer and data consumer." The CUDA driver does use WC memory internally and must issue a store fence instruction whenever it sends a command to the GPU. For this reason, the NVIDIA documentation notes, "the application may not have to use store fences at all" (emphasis added). A rough rule of thumb that appears to work is to look to the CUDA commands prior to referencing WC memory and assume they issue a fence instruction. Otherwise, utilize your compiler intrinsic operations to issue a store fence instruction and guarantee that every preceding store is globally visible. This is compiler dependent. Linux compilers will probably understand the
_mm_sfenceintrinsic while Windows compilers will probably use
Each of these memory features can be used individually or in any combination -- you can allocate a portable, write-combined buffer, a portable pinned buffer, a write-combined buffer that is neither portable nor pinned, or any other permutation enabled by the flags.
In a nutshell, these new features add convenience and performance while conversely adding complexity and creating version dependencies on the CUDA driver, the CUDA hardware and the host processors. However, many types of applications can benefit from these new features.


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Beat the Streak Report: Tuesday, July 6
Is there a better way to start off a short week fresh off the heels of a Gravy Train Monday?
No there is not.
Villagers of Streakland feasted in a total hits smorgasbord yesterday,
as the the eight most popular selections each got hits to pull their
forces together and extend the streaks of about 55 percent of the
universe combined.
Justin Upton was the day's biggest annihilator, taking down 2.4 percent of all streaks with an 0-for-4 evening.
Was Justin Upton an MLB.com certified Pick of the Day?
Yes, he was.
Am I the guy who decides which players to feature in said Pick of the Day?
Yes, I am.
Moral of the story?
It's always fun to ask yourself questions in writing even if you
cost a small nugget of people the chance at $3,000,000 along the way.
Time for Tuesday's picks
Oh, hello there …
? Corey Hart: .360 AVG over 20-game hitting streak; has never faced Giants starter Madison Bumgarner
? Chipper Jones: .409 AVG (9-for-22) lifetime vs. Phillies starter Cole Hamels
? Vernon Wells: .400 AVG (8-for-20) lifetime vs. Twins starter Carl Pavano
? Juan Pierre: .375 AVG (6-for-16) lifetime vs. Angels starter Jered Weaver
? Michael Cuddyer: .571 AVG (4-for-7) lifetime vs. Blue Jays starter Jesse Litsch
Feeling kinda spicy?
? Tony Gwynn: .357 AVG (5-for-14) lifetime vs. Nationals starter Livan Hernandez.
Nepotism much?
You'll thank me later …
? Paul Konerko: .091 AVG (1-for-11) lifetime vs. Angels starter Jered Weaver
? Marco Scutaro: .143 AVG (2-for-14) lifetime vs. Rays starter Jeff Niemann
? Jimmy Rollins: .167 AVG (4-for-24) lifetime vs. Braves starter Jair Jurrjens
? James Loney: .167 AVG (2-for-12) lifetime vs. Marlins starter Chris Volstad
Leaderboard time!
"Wolfenstein35" didn't survive the long weekend. This means that
the Beat the Streak bee's knees for now is "scott.fredrickson", who is
rocking a 33-gamer after Robinson Cano's 1-for-4 evening.
Fredrickson is now 57.9 percent on his way to the big bucks. I
would not be opposed to the idea of Scott getting a little ahead of
himself, taking out an advance on his winnings and buying me one of
those hand-held fans with a water spritzer — a spritz-fan.
Oh, spritz-fan, how I need you on this 100-degree New York day.
Top MLB streakers
? Corey Hart: 20 games
? Miguel Cabrera: 14 games
? Clint Barmes: 12 games
? Jason Kendall: 10 games
? Corey Patterson: 10 games
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NYM game: Harang scratched yesterday, starts today. Has back pain & could be replaced near game-time. May want to monitor this.
Well tonight I have Ian Kinsler as he is facing Masterson and Masterson sucks on the road at night. Yanks in Survivor and Carlos Gonzalez in HR BTS. Just about to give up on HR BTS though.
im going to stick with my gut and stay with miguel cabrera to get a hit in all 3 games of this series against the orioles. tough luck for those who picked boesch yesterday. the orioles seemed like they were content with just putting him on base and hoping to let the rest of the lineup do all the damage. ive never seen boesch that patient at the plate as he rarely walks. i also praise him for his great batting average since he rarely swings at the first pitch of an at bat putting himself in an 0-1 hole alot
I still play Survivor but I can't even win when I picked the Mariners with King Felix on the mound against the Royals as the bullpen blew the lead in the 8th inning and lost in the 10th inning. Every right pick loses in that game.
Yanksgiantsdevils. If it makes u feel any better I've lost 9 straight in survivor.
Warning – This is not a test of your emergency broadcasting system. This is the real WARNING…….
LAA v. CSox in Chicago today
Peavy v. Weaver
This has all the markings of a 2 -1 pitching classic with the total hits by both teams being less than 8.
Forget about Pierre v. Weaver from past performance.
90 degrees in Chicago – and the men on the hill could be hot.
BTS – Miguel Cabrera
Survivor – Tigers (unless OOliber is taking them 🙂
HR – Cabrera
Lol. 🙂 nah I'm going with the twinkies over the Jays. Let's see if I can go 10 the wrong way.
@schenk015: sadly, I was one of those people who picked Boesch. However, he was oddly patient despite swinging at the 1st pitch 9 out of 10 times.
Nothing to lose today thanks to the Oriole's and Boesch yesterday. Going with M. Cabrera. Gotta get a head start going into the All-Star break.
I'm picking the Tigers in survivor and Justin Morneau in beat the streak. I hardly touch home run beat the streak but I'm taking Mark Reynolds tonight.
Had Jeter last night and Crawford tonight for hits. I'm up to 5. Also have A-Rod for HR and the Tigers to win
Still thinking about either Cabrera or David Wright even if it's against some Reds Pitcher from the minors.
Right now I'm going with David Wright in this one. Good pick right??
Today's Top Picks of the current Top2500
All games included, 158 batters picked overall
Batter, Times Picked, Percentage
Ichiro Suzuki, 359, 14.36%
Miguel Cabrera, 234, 9.36
Josh Hamilton, 225, 9
Justin Morneau, 176, 7.04
Albert Pujols, 110, 4.4
Joe Mauer, 84, 3.36 (Leader)
Robinson Cano, 80, 3.2
Brennan Boesch, 62, 2.48
David Wright, 60, 2.4
Martin Prado, 59, 2.36
Rafael Furcal, 47, 1.88
No Selection, 46, 1.84
Evan Longoria, 35, 1.4
Highest "No Selection": Page #6 with a streak of 16 now back to zero.
Yesterday was a great BTS day with only 14.5% reset
Bloggers Group Top2500
UserName, Streak, Page#, Pick
mreck13, 11, pg29, D.Wright
LaVolpe, 10, pg41, D.Wright
Deb23, 8, pg69, A.Jackson
dalywalker322, 8, pg75, I.Suzuki
ChiSox07 @ 10 was reset by B.Boesch
"Had Jeter last night and Crawford tonight for hits. I'm up to 5. Also have A-Rod for HR and the Tigers to win"
I looked at Crawford, but he is only hitting around .235 against lefties this year.
I doubted Cabrera yesterday and so I had to go with him today. Glad I did. 🙂 One down, 56 more to go!
Good news 00liber! The Twins beat the Blue Jays 7-6 so your bad survivor streak is over.
I've also managed to tie my longest HR streak of the year with Cabrera in the bottom of the ninth: 1.
Easily going with a Tiger for BTS tomorrow, just gotta make sure I pick the right one out of Maggs, Miggy & Boesch.
Nice win with the Tigers and Morneau's homer on beat the streak have made me 2/2 in the 2 real games.
Something is wierd. First the leaderboard said that the leader (scott.fredrickson) had Joe Mauer now it says Robinson Cano.
@yanksgiantsdevils33: Depend on how far past midnight, EST you refresh the listing. You may see yesterday's pick (Cano) or today's pick (Mauer). Ignore it and it fixes itself within an hour or so.
Well I'm going with Cabrera tomorrow. Didn't jump on the bandwagon and I just hope tomorrow is the day he doesn't have an O fer. Bergesen is pitching and he has a .327 BAA against on the road so yeah. Doing good and hope it continues. Rangers in Survivor tomorrow and Wright in HR BTS.


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The Family Dog in Orono, Maine has become one of my favorite spots to grab a bite to eat, there aren't any other places around to get a gourmet hot dog and I've recently discovered they lay down a serious brunch. It's not uncommon to find me and the family there, my son absolutely loves the fruit plate. It was on one of these brunch trips, Mother's Day I think, that I actually took notice of the menu over their ice cream bar and saw the "Demon Stout Float." I didn't need any explanation, I knew exactly what this was, I didn't know if it would be the right addition to brunch on Mother's Day but I knew I'd be back for one.
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Next time it's hot out take a ride to Orono and visit The Family Dog, the food is excellent, the beer is cold, there is ice cream for the kids and Demon Stout Floats for the adults and why not stop at the Black Bear Microbrewery and pick up a growler to take home. I also found out that when the Black Bear's summer seasonal, Blueberry Ale comes out they will be adding a new float to the menu that uses the Blueberry Ale and Shain's of Maine blueberry ice cream, I guess I'll have to make a trip back over and try that one, I'll letcha know how it is.


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"The goal is to give students an inside look at what they can expect in a health care career," said Kelli Bennett, Workforce Coordinator at Lexington Medical Center, who conducts the Partners Program. "It's a glimpse into our world."
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Approximately 200 students from Lexington County high schools applied for the Partners Program in a rigorous interview process with a panel of hospital staff members and written application. Sixty were selected to participate. Lexington Medical Center will award a $1,000 book scholarship to one rising senior from each Lexington County High School, home school and private school, for a total of 13 scholarships.
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Volunteer in Ghana Stars in Nollywood Movie
Louis Berger-Mole a sports volunteer in Ghana recently found himself a lead part in a Nigerian movie. Louis was on his normal walk to work in Teshie Nungua when he was spotted by the film's director. He was then asked if he could attend an audition where he was instantly given the job despite having no acting experience.
Nollywood is the name for the Nigerian film industry and Louis found himself filming only two weeks later. Louis plays a 30 year old English pastor called William who came to Africa in the 1990's to spread the message of Christianity. All was going well until William came across a little village called Nsawa where there was an evil goddess who wanted to kill him. It ended up with them falling in love and William successfully converting the village to Christianity.
Whilst filming Louis had many comical situations to deal with, if anyone out there has ever seen a film of this sort they would understand that it is built up of lots of shouting and a strange array of special effects.
Louis' most memorable moment was when handed a loud speaker in front of 200 locals he was asked to quote verses from the bible.
We are yet to hear the official release date of the film but we wish Louis all the best for his future acting career!
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While browsing through the long stream of posts on Fashion Planet an outfit caught my eye. It's not an outfit that exactly depicts what would usually catch my, but this outfit is a true necessity. The outfit, DE Chardonnay, is one of those items that sure, it's very casual and I won't patronise anyone by saying it's a totally original design, but it is a design that works. I can see myself wearing this outfit, aswell as individual items from these outfits, ALOT. I can't give an example as I can't think of one, but some items in Second Life are just able to be used frequently to show alot of different looks, or even variations of one look; your look. You get various options and layers and I have to honestly say these outfits are currently one of my favourites within SL. You get two tight options, both of which are the only tights in SL I have enjoyed wearing to date.
DE Chardonnay Kiwi and DE Chardonnay Tan
DoC Eldritch, the creative and inovative designer behind all of the outfits in this post and the DE Designs brand, has a wide selection of items from casual to formal, sexy and wild and pure genius outfits, that like I have previously said, you will use alot. He hasn't stopped at female clothing and items though, half of his large mainstore is occupied by male clothes and he promises atleast one new release every week.
DE Tango Oasis-Tan and DE Tango Oasis-Grey/White
These next two items are the perfect Summer-fun outfits. You get 3 trouser options: full length, capri and hot pant shorts (ow, ow). I chose to compliment both of these outfits with 1 bold colour. For the tan outfit I chose pink; a pink necklace, pink wedge-heels, pink make-up – and for the grey/white outfit I chose red; red bow, red lips, red bangle. These outfits can be both cute and adorable, as well as sexy mamma hot!
DE Home For the Holidays 07 – Ladies
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My first response when I heard about Sandy Hook
before I allowed myself to feel the horror of what happened there.
And then I cried.
Not just for the children of that little American town and those who loved them.
Those poor families...the empty space in their heart.
I slipped into crying for all the children who go to bed at night with fear in their hearts
children are called collateral damage in other countries.
Is it true?
We reap what we sow..
And I ask myself this.
by truly working to come together in peace?
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Byrds, the Mothers, and many other artists, he's discovered more million-selling artists than Slade have made spelling mistakes. Kim has made millions of dollars, lost them, regained them and mislaid them again.
He was B. Bumble and the Stingers, the Hollywood Argylls, he worked with the Raiders before Paul Revere and saw Leon Rusell stand in as Paul when Mark Lindsey vanished. His were the original versions of "Poppa Oom Mow Mow" and "Popsicles and Icicles." He was the first guy to produce Family and gave them their name.
Kim Fowley, writer / arranger / producer /musician / singer / talker / comic / entrepreneur / promoter / publisher / child genius /mature infant, has been involved prominently in every major development in rock'n roll since the late '50s. He was also the first producer to take Dave, Don, Jimmy & Noddy into a studio and produce a record. That 45 was You Better Run which went on to be the groups first 'sell out' Xmas #1 chart hit, although it was only in the Wolverhampton area, but it was still a good start.
My apologies to La Fuite, I ripped this from there, which was an interesting site, but is no longer around.
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Jay Leno returned to "The Tonight Show" Monday night with some riffs on the talking points du jour of Republican primary season.
Leno has an idea of why Herman Cain has thrown his support to Newt Gingrich — and why Gingrich should take the endorsement with a grain of salt.
"Adulterers like to stick together," he theorized, explaining why Cain had endorsed the former House Speaker. "You never know when you need an alibi. Yeah — 'you cover for me, and I'll cover for you.'"
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He noted that Texas Gov. Rick Perry has also endorsed Gingrich.
"Are those the kind of endorsements Newt Gingrich wants? I mean, a philanderer and a guy who can't spell philanderer?"
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Local creates original board game that resembles 'The Secret'
Jai Hudes is playing games with me. He leans in and asks me to tell him about an intention I have in life. I do so with a shrug, wondering, 'what have I got to lose?' Then he hands me a deck of circular cards and asks me to draw one from the stack. I continue to follow his prompts and as I reveal the card I've chosen, he nods knowingly. I lay the card down on a table, and then he and his colleague, Suzette Messa, offer commentary on my intention and the card that I chose.
It seems as if we're involved in a Tarot card reading or some sort of psychic activity, but that's not the case at all. What we're doing here is playing "experience—THE GAME," a socially interactive board game that is reminiscent of what would happen if the book, "The Secret," were condensed into a game.
In THE GAME, of which Hudes, a Santa Cruzan, is the creator, participants acknowledge intentions they have for themselves, their life, or for others, and draw inspiration from a card they choose, and from the feedback of fellow players. Hudes doesn't claim that the game is divinely inspired or spiritually guided at all, but he doesn't close the door on that possibility, either. Really, as he sees it, THE GAME is what you need it to be, and it can help you move closer to your intentions.
THE GAME is both inspiring and curious. It's esoteric and yet grounded at the same time. And perhaps the title is really what describes it best, because you can only really 'experience' THE GAME, rather than hear about it. This is a hands-on sort of thing.
Back in the late 1990s, Hudes started imagining some sort of tool that could "bring people together on a big level," he says. "To have more peace in ourselves and the world; to have better relationships, both on interpersonal and global levels." His idea morphed into a game which has many facets—the board game, an online version, a website and more.
In 2006, he launched "Global Community experience" which created THE GAME. Since then, THE GAME (both the board version and the online version) has been gaining fans— primarily through word of mouth. And now as THE GAME is garnering more attention, both locally and beyond, he's launching a Santa Cruz version of THE GAME with the 'intention' of getting Santa Cruz citizens and government to express their citywide intentions.
"The goal is to reach the highest potential while helping others reach theirs," he says. The game plays like this: it starts with three decks of cards, including life cards, relationship cards, and challenge cards. A player first speaks out their intention, and then chooses a life card, on which is written a word. The player then discusses how that word relates to the intention. Other players can comment. Then the player can choose another card from another stack and see how that relates to their intention. Another player takes a turn and attaches his or her card to the original card, and so on, until a collection of cards is displayed, each somehow relating to the card touching it. There are a bunch of nuanced rules, but the gist of the game is to get people to express their internal intentions, hear feedback, and, in fact, watch as seemingly relatable cards are laid down before them.
According to Hudes, THE GAME is currently being translated into different languages with the 'intention' of getting THE GAME out to the masses on a global scale. In fact, he believes it could have as much success as Monopoly. The current cost is $39.95.
As for the local component, Hudes and a number of other locals, including Mayor Cynthia Mathews, recently filmed a segment of playing THE GAME together on Community Television—keep an eye out for it.
The Santa Cruz version of THE GAME will have cards with Santa Cruz images, and will be "customized for the people in the Santa Cruz area," Hudes says. It will include everything from local arts, history, finance, sports, health and wellness, and so on.
And while the game itself is certainly interesting and seemingly fate-related at times, what's even more so is the story behind THE GAME. In 1980, Hudes was traveling and ended up in Europe, where he wrote a book about his travels. One day he took the book to a psychic in London. She opened the book and according to Hudes, said, "this book will be a game, played by people all over the world."
Seems like destiny enjoys a good card game.
To learn more about THE GAME, visit globalcommunityexperience.com. It sells for $39.95.


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China Rising, a 2007 book by the University of Southern California's David Kang, began by approvingly citing a speech a year earlier by Chan Heng Chee, Singapore's ambassador to the United States. "Dynastic China's relations with Southeast Asia were to a large extent based on 'soft power,'" she declared. "It was China's economic power and cultural superiority that drew these countries into its orbit and was the magnet for their cultivation of relations." Chan concluded her remarks by saying that "there is much optimism in Southeast Asia" about China's growing international heft.
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Perhaps the most significant development and least discussed trend of 2011 has been the astonishing drop in the prices of RAM. This change is rapidly reshaping all aspects of computing (and therefore programming) in every category of computing device.
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This state of affairs won't last long. Right now, predictably, the high-end is figuring it out first. Many capacious servers are being used to host virtual machines. The VM solution carves up the capacity into familiar-size computing environments and the performance benefit is derived from distribution of work across the many VM instances on the same physical machine. Such groups of VMs then interact with other hardware nodes running their own VMs. What they face collectively is the problem of shared data access, which is handled by one of two primary solutions: a shared key- value (KV) store such as Terracotta's Big Memory and ehCache products, or a in-memory data fabric such as Oracle's Coherence layer (formerly, Tangosol). Other vendors, such as IBM and VMware, have comparable solutions. These products make any data item in the memory system available quickly to any node and computing device that needs it. In the case of an update to a data field, the fabric makes sure all updates are synchronized and done correctly.
Some big apps, however, are not ideally run across a series of VMs cum memory fabric. Instead, they prefer to work in one huge (generally JVM-based) instance. The more the application favors computing-intensive activity, the more it makes sense to have its data on the local stack in the same huge process. In such a case, special VMs are needed so as to not stop-the-world to do garbage collection of, say, 64 GB of RAM objects. Azul Systems makes its living in this space with hardware and software solutions. The software version of the Azul high-capacity JVM is called "Zing" and it handles stacks up to 512 GB, with continual concurrent garbage collection and heap compaction. In considering this option, I personally would also evaluate Oracle's progress in integrating JRockit technology with the HotSpot VM. For a while, JRockit was a leader in this technology and so it might offer a less expensive alternative. Unlike Azul, where situations such this problem constitute is its bread and butter, JRockit and/or its descendants would need to be evaluated carefully to make sure they truly do scale correctly.
Ari Zilka, the CTO and founder of Terracotta, made a good point recently that vast memory makes it easy to suck whole databases into memory, have them run there, and then spill over transactions to a persistence layer as needed for record keeping and capacity management. The problem he points out is that you have to use a database where this model works well. Not only being able to perform transactions in memory, but also handling issues like loading the data into memory and sharding the database across several nodes.
If a KV store is added to the mix, Zilka points out, the program now has the problem of having lots of different ways of interacting with objects: the KV map, the in-memory database, the program's own heap, and likely some serialization to disk. If you throw long, slow-running processes, such as Hadoop, into the mix, you are confronted with an array of different object-access mechanisms that have their own unique latency, which must be managed to be able to complete transactions efficiently. The operational skills behind this have not yet evolved to the point where there are known good practices for handling so much data in so many different forms in memory. I expect the next few years will show much progress in this regard, and Dr. Dobb's will be reporting on the advances as they appear.
The benefits, though, of this use of massive RAM are so profoundly compelling that most IT organizations are happy to dance on the cutting edge to enjoy them. A prime example is complex event processing (CEP), which analyzes event data on the fly and looks for certain patterns. One example is a financial services firm. When a customer swipes her card, her profile is loaded into memory, and a recap of all the IP addresses from which she has swiped the card are analyzed on the fly (Is this a store? The third different address today? Was this card used at two different locations today without enough time between them for the same person to make the purchase?). Because CPUs are fast and the data is in memory, this analysis and much more can be done in the interval between the card swipe and the authorization. The benefits of so much analysis are clearly real and will only increase in the years ahead.
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Census Records for Maryland
This entry was originally written by Roger D. Joslyn, CG, FUGA, FGBS, FASG for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
Population Schedules
• Indexed'1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930
• Soundex '1880, 1900, 1920
Ancestry.com has digitized images of the entire U.S. Federal Census Schedules 1790-1930 and created searchable indexes for the images. This collection can be accessed at U.S. Federal Census Collection.
Industry and Agriculture Schedules
• 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880
Mortality Schedules
• 1850, 1860 (1850 and 1860 indexed), 1870, 1880 (1870 and 1880 indexed for Eastern Shore)
Slave Schedules
• 1850, 1860 (both indexed)
Union Veterans Schedules
• 1890 (indexed)
Microfilm of the federal censuses and corresponding book and microfilm indexes as well as indexed mortality schedules are at the Maryland State Archives, the Maryland State Law Library, and elsewhere (see pages 3 and 17). An index to the 1860 slave schedules was compiled by Ralph Clayton in the Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin 25 (1984): 92-112. Missing schedules include 1790 for Allegany, Calvert, Somerset, and part of Dorchester counties (destroyed); 1800 for Baltimore County (never taken); and 1830 for Montgomery, Prince George's, Queen Anne's, Saint Mary's, and Somerset counties.
Non-population census schedules are at the state archives, which also has the original 1880 population schedules.
A 1776 census was taken to determine population and is indexed at the Maryland State Archives, but it is not available for all counties. A transcription of the Maryland Colonial Census, 1776 is available at Ancestry.com. A 1778 'census' is a list of males over eighteen who in some counties signed the Oath of Fidelity, and in others, those who did not. Of the few extant lists, those for nine counties were published by Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh in Maryland Records: Colonial, Revolutionary, County and Church From Original Sources, 2 vols. (1915'28; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985). See also Bettie Stirling Carothers' compilations, 1776 Census of Maryland, and 1778 Census of Maryland (Lutherville, Md.: n.p., 1972). Both versions of the 1778 census published by Brumbaugh and Carothers contain transcription errors. Brumbaugh also published some of the 1778 Oaths of Fidelity (also indexed at the Maryland State Archives); others were compiled and published in two volumes by Bettie Stirling Carothers (Lutherville, Md.: the author, 1975'78). A police census taken in Baltimore in 1868 is in the Baltimore City Archives.
Among census substitutes are Maryland Rent Rolls: Baltimore and Anne Arundel Counties, 1700'1707, 1705'1724, from the Maryland Historical Magazine (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1976). See Maryland Tax Records for other lists.
External Links
- Maryland Census Records - free up-to-date guide to accessing Maryland census records. Identifies federal, state, and colonial censuses, as well as substitute records (FamilySearch Research Wiki).


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