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"More content = more possible places to comment = less per post but the same overall."
In my last post on commenting on blog comments, Dan Shure waxed sleuth rhetoric, helping illustrate the importance of being engaged with your blog's audience. Before that, I expressed the importance of bringing comments back.
In today's post, I want to explore the topic of blog spelunking even more, focusing upon where people are "hanging loose" online. Perhaps more content begets more occasions for comments; or, it's diluting the on-blog comment tradition, perhaps commenting altogether.
More could be less; maybe more real estate contributes to the contribution atrophy of any single location? Let's put a finger on it.
I Gotta G Me?
– Do you believe interaction on Google plus (specifically within our industry) has added to the atrophy of blog comments?
"Quite possible. As mentioned, I believe there's WAY more places to carry a conversation online than there was a year ago. Last year Google Plus barely existed, and Inbound.org wasn't even thought of. So I'd say G+ is just one more place out of many that have come out in the last 12 months"
Good points, Shure; online marketing subject takes place on Gplus and Inbound.org. Maybe those properties, though taking away from on-blog participation, do serve the same purpose?
"Whether I'm right or whether I'm wrong. Whether I find a place in this world or never belong. I gotta be me, I've gotta be me." Sammy Davis Jr. was a cool cat for many reasons, that attitude being one.
I'm on Gplus. Admittedly, I initially listened to Rand. It was early January. Google plus was shiny and new. All the cool kids were doing it.
I started doing it. But, I've been bad. Actually, I'm a poor Gplus citizen. I hardly use it. Thus far, I've found a place for pictures of Bubba the dog and to have someone else be me.
That's about it. The only reason I maintain the account is due to Google authorship potential. You know, so to Google I look like an 'author.'
Otherwise, I'm being completely hypocritical regarding hyper engagement. I'm not walking my talk…there. Twitter is another story. It's where I communicate most regularly.
Shure previously mentioned time as a factor:
"For one, time is an issue. I could literally spend all day sometimes responding to things."
I understand. As I replied, blogging is a commitment. Exposure and engagement is needed also. The Twitter/personal blog commitment is made. I walk my talk in those places. If I were to offer my relations in more places, it would take away from my investment in relations in those primary places.
This is a personal decision. I am a one-person brand. I must choose my resources and commitments accordingly. To me, less is more. I can make best use of my blog and Twitter profile due to the limitation of leveraging numerous branding/participating 'hangouts.'
I came across some user stats regarding social media:
"Increased frequency of blogging correlates with increased customer acquisition, according to…HubSpot. 92% of of blog users who posted multiple times a day acquired a customer through their blog, a figure that decreased to 66% for those who blogged monthly and 43% for those who posted less than monthly." (Marketing Charts)
Blogs are the single most important inbound marketing tool. "When asked to rank the importance of the services they use, 25% of users rated their company blog as critical to their business, while a further 56% considered them either important (34%) or useful (22%)" for a total of 81%. (Marketing Charts)
If less is more, I can make greater strides keeping it simple. I can better connect by being consistent, using Twitter and my personal blog in a robust, communicative manner.
AJ Kohn is diligent in the community. He regularly uses Gplus. He posted this apropos piece on caring about commenting today, receiving participation on it:
Okay, AJ, this could be an exception more than a regular occurrence; but, there is participation there.
Let's look at some of Shure's activity on Gplus of late. I know Shure is heavily ingrained in the community; but, in giving a quick glance, it may not be on Gplus so much…
This could be an 'off' time for Shure's Gplus activity; or, it may reflect sporadic and inconsistent commenting by peers despite his posting or sharing.
From referenced article above:
Google+ is expected to reach 400 million users by the end of 2012. It's membership is 63% male, with the largest cohort in their mid-20s. While the largest block of users by country are in the U.S., the second largest is India. However, only 17% of users are considered "active." (Jeff Bullas)
Gplus is a platform befitting to making comments (not limited to characters like Twitter). And, though an influencer may not 'circle' you back, one can 'follow' their posted content and thoughts, and possibly exchange thoughts with them.
However, is this occurring? It is not occurring for me. Is it for you? Do you see Gplus as a learning/engaging alternative to actively and directly partaking on blog comments?
Honestly, I'd be much obliged to gain the interest of new people on Gplus. But I would much rather have them participate on my blog property. I want them to come to 'my establishment,' not my marketing vehicle for it. The on-blog participation is 'closer' to the 'heart' of my brand. Savvy?
More Begets Less?
There isn't a lot of action on Dan's Gplus posts above. Many have accounts; yet, how 'active' are we? There is an influx of social media options. Courtney Seiter of Raven made an excellent point last week in this social media post. If I may use her Homer-riffic illustration of choices:
Perhaps, people are less likely to comment because of the sheer amount of information. Or, the high numbers of posts make people more 'picky' about commenting/thumbing.
"I think people at heart are really looking for the content that stands well above the rest, and I know I still only thumb things that are unique, SUPER-useful (like I find myself bookmarking it, sending to clients, or using as a guide for my own work)."
Is this true? Are readers suffering from content inundation, making it less inviting to share knowledge, to participate with the community?
Perhaps I've come full circle on this tri-post topic…
Sharing or Participating?
What is your take on distinguishing sharing from adding to the community? For instance, I see tweeting as 'sharing,' commenting does more to enhance the community. Agree/disagree/indifferent?
"Sharing vs commenting in a tangible sense are different, yes.
Sharing is like sharing your latest favorite band with your buddy. It's not YOUR music but you relate to it, it has meaning or benefit to you and you think your friend might find it of value.
Commenting is like being a journalist. You're adding your own opinion and viewpoint to the story.
BUT I think the intangible spirit of where sharing or commenting comes from is the same place, when done well. You simply have a pure intention of adding value – no alternative motives. You're not sharing or commenting because of how it makes YOU look. You're doing it to genuinely affect those who you share or comment with.
Specifically, blog comment can only be commenting, because you can't share the post you're commenting on while in the post :) But you can share another URL within that post, which then becomes sharing.
Tweeting can be both. I see a tweet using the pre-written title etc without changing anything – that's just sharing. BUT, some real power comes when you can add you're own commenting to something you tweet. I notice people who do this well get more attention on Twitter."
So, what's going on? We've been introduced to more 'social' platforms, creating "more" opportunity for engagement, or 'just' increasing real estate, ironically providing less with more?
As referenced, I see more value in working with less. If I may once again ask AJ to illustrate my point (but I won't ask him to guest blog or will I?)
"One of the things I tell every single client when we talk about blogging is this:
Respond to every comment.
I believe in the idea of 1000 True Fans by Kevin Kelley. Responding to that comment is an effective way to get you to that 1000 goal."
I like that point a lot. Courtney Seiter won the Web last week as far as I'm concerned. BE INTERESTED. That's how you get to be interesting.
Great message – "be interested." ..Maybe that's what begets people thinking you are interesting http://bit.ly/NGjfqj
I want to participate. I want to engage. I want to hear and be heard. I want to remember and be remembered. I want to be interesting. I want to be interested in my community. For me, less is more, facilitating my interests…
@content_muse Exactly! Easiest way to be remembered.
What do you think, valued readers? Does more content real estate inspire less occasions to connect? I believe leveraging less real estate is more effective/valuable in creating "True Fans." Do you?


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TSA Agent Humiliates 15-Year-Old Girl
We keep hearing more and more about TSA agents embarrassing people.
Here's a good one.
A teenaged girl was told by a TSA agent to cover herself, before she boarded a flight. Her father came out with a response saying, the TSA agent "humiliated and shamed my 15-year-old daughter."
According to the dad in the UPI story, the daughter was going on a college tour with friends and texted him describing the incident, "She said the officer was 'glaring' at her and mumbling. She said, 'Excuse me?' and he said, 'You're only 15, COVER YOURSELF!' in a hostile tone.
The outfit as seen here, was long pants and a tank top.
To me seems like the way every typical 15 year girl dresses. No big deal!
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Africa House.
Offices of the Guinny Company?
Originally the offices of the Royal African Company, a trading Company formally established by Act of Parliament, 23 George II. The Company seems to have been formed as early as 1588, and before coming to Leadenhall Street, they had their offices in Warnford Court, in Broad Street Ward (L. and P. Chas. II.1672, D.S. XII. p.87). From: 'Africa House', A Dictionary of London (1918). URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?com.... Date accessed: 24 November 2006.
Offices of the "Company of Royal Adventurers of England Trading into Africa" commony called The Royal Africa Company"
Founded 1660 as the "Company of Royal Adventurers into Africa," and refounded in 1663, by Prince Rupert and James, Duke of York, the company was granted monopoly trading rights in western Africa for 1,000 years. Apparently this company's activities were initially restricted to Gambia because of the need to negociate with the pre-existing rights of the Guinea and East India Companies. The charter of 1663 for the first time explicitly mentioned the slave trade among the Company's interests, in 1662 it undertook to supply 3,000 slaves annually to the West indian colonies. Gold was the main trade with slaves being a quarter of the total annual revenues.
The Company's first decicive act was to dispatch a naval expedition to Africa under Sir Robert Holmes, which established a fort on James Island in the Gambia (1661) It was this that lead to it becoming embroiled in conflict with the Dutch.
"The Company's first decicive act was to dispatch a naval expedition to Africa under Sir Robert Holmes,"
For the first expedition of Holmes see...
Taken as a summary from Ollard's biography it differs from Michael's source above in the following way...
"The mouth of the Gambia River was protected by an island called Dog Island, and within three days of arrival Holmes renamed it as Charles Island and decided that it was a suitable place to build a fort. He also took the fort of St Andreas located up the river near Jillifri from the Dutch, on the pretext that they had fired on a frigate and would not let her water at the Island. The island was renamed as James Island, and would provide matter for much diplomatic negotiation over the next decade. (Twelve years later Holmes was to say that "it was a little fort with two men and a dog in it", one of the earliest instances of the phrase.)"
L&M say that although Pepys usually refers to Africa House as being in Broad Street, in hearth-tax returns of the 1660s and on maps of 1677 it was clearly located in Warnford Court, north out of Throgmorton Street (which Pepys ignores) up or up and across from where Draper Hall is at the top of this 1674 map. http://www.motco.com/map/81002/SeriesSearchPlat...
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. WRDA 96 allows the local sponsor to take the lead on a project like this and submit completed discrete segments for reimbursement of the federal share.
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The Harris County Flood Control District, working in partnership with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), is helping area residents reduce their risk of flooding through the Tropical Storm Alison Buyout Program.
In the aftermath of Tropical Storm Allison, the District, FEMA and the State of Texas, initiated a "fast track" voluntary buyout program throughout Harris County. The "fast track" was a modification to FEMA's normal Hazard Mitigation Grant Program application and funding approval process. The fast track was designed to be responsive to the victims of Tropical Storm Allison and not just follow the normal process meant to mitigate damages for a future flood disaster. Through the fast track program, floodplain administrators could recommend homes for buyout that were determined to be "substantially damaged," or in other words, the cost to repair the damage was 50% or greater than the pre-flood value of the structure, excluding land value. Homes are purchased at "pre-Allison flood" fair market value for those homeowners who elected to volunteer. Environmental Justice Relocation Assistance (EJRA) is made available to income-eligible participants to assist in their relocation out of the 1% (100-year) floodplain. The goal of the EJRA program is to relocate individuals without adversely impacting their social and economic environment.
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This past Friday I and approximately 25 members of the Society of Non-Theists attended Porn and Popcorn, an event cosponsored by the Stewart Cooperative and (according to the flyers) PSUB. I am writing you because I am very disappointed that PSUB decided to sponsor such an event, as it seems against its purpose to "Present programs designed to meet current entertainment, cultural, recreational, social, and educational needs of students." I have two major complaints about the event:Unfortunately, all I got in response was a form email:
1. No part of the event was based on factual or scientific information even though it claimed to be education. They presented gross misconceptions and outright lies about human sexuality to young adults, individuals who need proper health information the most. They went as far as saying that "Protective sex is a joke" and that you would get diseases and pregnant no matter what sort of contraception you used, which is simply a falsehood. It appalls me that such dangerous information could be connected to PSUB's name, especially when Purdue University and PUSH work so hard to educate Purdue students about sex. If anything, this was detrimental to the educational needs of the students.
2. The event slandered non-Christian students by stating that "To connect with an unbeliever is to connect with the devil" and "If he can't be a faithful to God, he can't be faithful to you." As an atheist and the President of the Society of Non-Theists, I am extremely concerned that PSUB would sponsor an event that told downright lies about a significant percentage of Purdue's student body. Their discussion that non-believers are of the devil and are certainly going to cheat on their significant other is troubling, and hopefully you can understand why. In addition to this, when the speaker was asking questions about audience member's boyfriends and girlfriends, and asked if anyone had a "crazy drama girlfriend," two of our female members raised their hands. A student then walked by and called our group "Faggots." I know neither Stewart nor PSUB can control audience members, but this sort of "If you're not a straight sex-abstaining Christian, there's something wrong" attitude seemed to be the main theme of the event. I understand that the majority of Purdue students are Christians, and thus PSUB will likely sponsor Christian programming, but I am disappointed that this event was not welcoming to non-Christians.
I in no way want to ban further Christian events from being held at Purdue - they have every right to have their voice heard - but it worries me that PSUB, which is supposed to represent the student body as a whole, was associated with such an event. Thank you for listening to my concerns, and hopefully these problems won't occur again in the future.
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Dear Jennifer,Wow, talk about a non response. So it's totally okay that they provided misinformation and lies about sex and non-Christians because they didn't include those things on the forms? Is there absolutely no consequences for people who do such things, or is it that once you get PSUB's money you can do whatever you want with it? They apologized for me not having fun (even though the event did amuse me, but not they way they intended), but didn't apologize for anything that really mattered.
Thank you for your interest in campus programming at Purdue and your concerns in regards to the Porn and Popcorn event. Part of PSUB's mission is to promote student programming on campus that enrich and entertain and recognize the campus' diversity of interests. One way we meet this mission is by offering co-sponsorship opportunities to other student organizations seeking to hold programs on campus. We provided monetary support to the Stewart Co-operative Council for this event to help promote campus programming. The information they provided on their co-sponsorship application met our requirements and so the event co-sponsorship was granted by our Board of Directors. If you would like to further view the co-sponsorship guidelines and application, it can be found on our website at union.purdue.edu/psub.
Thanks again for your interest and concerns and I'm sorry you did not enjoy the event.
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October 17, 2009 ~ Flames Central, Calgary, AB
I've known of Matisyahu since his album Live at Stubb's and have respected him and his music from the moment I first heard him. For his recent performance at Flames Central, however, I brought along three people that had no clue about who he is, or what type of music he performed (to say nothing about how to pronounce his name).
In case you, faithful reader, are not terribly knowledgeable about this particular artist allow me to provide you a more detailed explanation than the one I gave my cohorts on Saturday night. When asked what kind of artist he was I simply said 'reggae', leaving out the 'tall lanky white guy' and 'Hasidic Jew' parts as I wanted to see how they'd react to him.
Born Matthew Miller in Pennsylvania, Matisyahu (the Biblical pronunciation of his name) found his voice fusing his Hasidic Jewish roots to reggae, rock and hip hop. After a year of following Phish, it was that band that helped launch his career at Bonaroo 2005 by inviting him to take part in their gig.
For the show in question the night started with a set by Dub Trio who is impressive to say the least. After pounding, and I do mean pounding, out a 20+ minute set the three members (2/3 Canadian) took a brief break only to re-emerge a short time later to hammer through the entire main set as the backing band. At no point did it seem even remotely difficult for any of them.
The first song "Sea" was delivered in what I can only describe as a subdued style, which was in contrast to what I had expected after listening to his live album. That first song however was not indicative of what was to come because by the third song, "We Walk", Matisyahu was obviously comfortable and his command of the stage strengthened from there.
Matisyahu's lost year as a dropout following Phish came through in most of his set, where he relied heavily on his band to take a 3 minute song into the stadium rock territory of 10+ minutes more often than not. The entire set covered a good mix of old and new songs, with the current single "One Day" from his album Light getting the biggest response out of the crowd. I have to admit that having heard the new album prior to the show, no song in particular stood out to me but watching the reaction of the crowd once he hit the chorus for the first time was powerful to say the least.
At times the extension of the songs from standard length to jam session length caused a drop off in attention by the crowd, with only the true devotees staying true throughout. While each song was impressive, some became a test of endurance that took away from the overall enjoyment. A perfect example was the start of the encore where he gave a lengthy beat box demonstration followed by a considerable instrumental by the band before launching into "King without a Crown" and finishing with a stage dive into the crowd.
All-in-all the concert was good, for the initiated and uninitiated alike. The friends I went with all enjoyed the songs, but found it hard to stay focused for the longer ones. Thankfully when our minds started to wander we only had to look to the side of the stage at the middle-aged man shaking his maracas to lift our spirits and help us push on. Literally, this guy shook maracas painted like soccer balls for the entire set. Anywhere else it would have seemed incredibly out of place, but in its own surreal way it seemed to fit perfectly.


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This going to be long but please bear with me.
There are 2 computers running windows 98 using an old DOS program called Fingertips(like an invoicing program for mechanics I think). According to them they used to be able to access the program over the network (just a hub).
On the computer the program is installed on I'll call it the 'server'
and on the computer that doesn't have the program I'll call the client.
Now the way the program lauches is very strange but heres what I got.
the MSDOS shortcut is linked to a batch file and the batch file is launches the actual program.com. Now the batch file passes along the username and location of the work files to the program. However just clicking on the batch file gives an incorrect password error. Finally examining the shortcut it goes something like this 'c:\fingertips\batch.bat ym' the YM seems to be the password since editing that out of the shortcut makes the same missing password error.
Now that I've established that, lets move on to the client computer.
On the client computer the customer shows me that she used to launch the program with a shortcut.
I click on it DOS windows pops up 'file not found/missing'. Examing the shortcut shows 'c:\fingertips\batch.bat ym' so the shortcut is pointing to the local drive not across the network...I ask again if she was sure she used to run the fingertips program by clicking that shortcut...she insisted yes, just last week. (I kinda doubt that now, it would of been impossible with that shortcut at least)
Alright so I change the shortcut to unc paths, still get missing file error...because the batch file also had local paths...even though the batch file was on the server it still said c:\ which made the client computer look on its own drive. So I copied and renamed the batch file on the server pc and changed the paths to unc paths. Now clicking the program on the shortcut on the clients computer launches the program....alas I get a missing password error. Even though I have the 'YM' at the end of the shortcut unc path.
So how do I get the YM across the network?? thanks for your help.
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Guessing here - can it not handle TCP-IP - was NetBUI on the machine before?
Is it going through a router now? NETBUI can not go over a router just hubs - If I am remembering right
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Point Piper House by POPOVbass Architects
POPOVbass Architects designed the Point Piper House in Sydney, Australia.
The design of this home has grown from the constraints and opportunities offered by its beautiful but challenging site. The site is an irregular shape that drops vertically three storeys from the street edge and enjoys views to the harbour to the east and north-east. The neighbouring dwelling was designed by Burley Griffin, with typical organic details.
As a response to the neighboring context, the street elevation adopts a modest, organic form and utilizes materials such as sandstone and timber in an undulating pattern. The low profile of this street elevation allows for views over the building from the public domain.
The client brief was for a three bedroom house with the living area at the lowest level to best utilise the outdoor garden space. As the entry to the dwelling was on the third story (at street level) it was necessary to design the building to provide a sense of arrival and to clearly define the unusual entry sequence. A four story void scallops out the building to unify all the levels and provides the sense of arrival at the top level. The void is expressed on the exterior of the building as a tapering blade that grows through the otherwise rectilinear building form. The primary views are to the north-east so that the entire house plan skews northwards to allow bedroom and living areas to enjoy this aspect to further animate the building form.
As the site has a vertical drop and has large neighboring dwellings on either side, light is only readily available from the east or from above. The four story void collects light from the north and drops it to the lowest levels of the house.
The same site constraints also restrict the through flow of air. The void space is designed to provide a stack effect to naturally ventilate all levels of the house. To ensure thermal comfort, low E glass is used throughout and the eastern glass is protected by external blinds. Rain water is collected and used for landscaping and toilets. Solar panels and gas boosters are installed to provide for pool heating, hot water and hydronic trench heating which is designed as the primary method of heating for the dwelling.
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Photography by Kraig Carlstrom
3 Responses to "Point Piper House by POPOVbass Architects"
Peter van der Veer on 02 Jan 2012 at 12:30 am #
The name Burley Griffin (Architect of the neighbour's house) is incorrect. Walter and Burley are Griffin's Given names. In Australia, it's a common mistake to assume Mr Griffin had a double surname.
The naming of the lake in Canberra "Lake Burley Griffin" does not help as perpetual reinforcement. It needs to be renamed Lake Griffin or Lake Walter Griffin or Lake Walter Burley Griffin in order to help undo the error.
Thomas on 02 Jan 2012 at 2:49 am #
The name "Burley Griffin" is not incorrect, it's just incomplete. His full name is Walter Burley Griffin.
Dave on 02 Jan 2012 at 5:45 pm #
Please keep your comments about the design of the architects work that is featured here.


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Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple
Nuggehalli is a village 18 Kms. North-East of Channarayapatna. It was once a flourishing town as seen from the inscription. Ch.238. The record states that in the reign of Someshwara Hoysala Bommanna Dannayaka made Nuggehalli into an Agrahara under the name Somanathapura and got installed in Saka 1168 Parabhava and Vijayaor 1246 A.D. the Gods Keshava, Narasimha and Gopala and in 1249 A.D. It will thus be seen that the original temple was a Hoysala structure built about 20 years before that of Somanathapura in Mysore District. At a later date very probably during the Vijaya Nagar period, the present Navaranga with its square granite pillars was constructed in front of the ;original porch which has lathe turned soap-stoned pillars. The Hajara in front and the Patalankana with 18 sided high fleeted pillars are possibly still later constructions belonging to somewhere about 1700 A.D. The South and North towers are also about the same date and are of brick and mortar. The temple is generally known as the Laxminarasimha Temple though the main God is Keshava. it is in Thrikutachala Style.
At the time of our visit the temple was under going Chemical wash done by Archeological Survey of India We could only take Pictures of Outer peripheral of temple and we will update the page once we get the pictures of Pradhana deity Lakshminarasimhan, Venugopala and Keshava, there is also a Srinivasar Temple and it is being renovated now
To reach this place you have to go to Hiresave then at Hiresave you have to take left and travel about 15 Kms you can reach this place named Nuggehalli
This web site was previously known as www.karnatakavaishnavatemples.net, now the name is changed as www.vishnutemplesofkarnataka.info. This website was started with the blessings of My Acharyan H H Sri Rangapriya Swami and also other Holiness of Sri Vaishnava Sampradaya.
What belongs to us is given as Bhiksha (ALMS) to us by Sriman Narayana and Pirati and hence All are free to use the contents and pictures of this web site with permission. Self and my Wife Geetha Sridhar travel extensively and locate all these ancient treasure troves left by our forefathers. We have been doing this as our Social commitment to the society , since last 6 years , hence as the fruits for our hard labour if you take permission and use , we will feel delighted. Please do not generate any controversies. For feedback etc please contact Lakshminarasimhan Sridhar, Bangalore, Mobile: +91 0 9448322378 (BSNL) / 08050778093& (Tata Docomo), email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Eight in 10 people between ages 25 and 44 years old believe they're living healthy lifestyles and are more likely to engage in healthy behaviors than 18 to 24 year-olds participating in the survey.
"This survey shows the dangerous disconnect that many young Americans have about how their behaviors affect their risks for stroke and other cardiovascular diseases," Ralph Sacco, M.D., neurologist and president of the American Heart Association / American Stroke Association, said. "Starting healthy behaviors at a young age is critical to entering middle age in good shape. The investment you make in your health now will have a large payoff as you age. We want everyone especially young people to strive to avoid stroke, which can affect anyone at any age."
People who make healthy lifestyle choices lower their risk of having a first stroke by as much as 80 percent compared with those who don't make healthy choices, according to American Heart Association / American Stroke Association guidelines released in December. The healthy behaviors include eating a low-fat diet high in fruits and vegetables, drinking alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages in moderation, exercising regularly, maintaining a healthy body weight and not smoking.
Most 18 to 24 year-olds said they want to live long and maintain quality health throughout their life. On average, they want to live to age 98. Yet, one-third of those surveyed don't believe engaging in healthy behaviors now could affect their risk of stroke in the future and 18 percent could not identify at least one stroke risk factor.
"Young adults need to make a connection between healthy behaviors and a healthy brain and healthy heart," Sacco said. "If we are not able to help young adults understand the relevance of their actions now and their risk of stroke tomorrow, then we could be looking at an increase in stroke diagnoses and deaths within the next 10 to 20 years."
"Everyone should recognize the severity of stroke, which threatens quality of life and can be prevented. People need to think in terms of striving for ideal health as well as surviving and thriving if a stroke occurs. An easier way to remember this is: Strive, Survive and Thrive," Sacco added.
Results from the survey also revealed that as people age, they become more aware of their overall health and risk factors for heart disease and stroke:
Among 35 to 44 year-olds, only 22 percent said they were not concerned about cardiovascular diseases and conditions, including heart disease/heart attack; high blood pressure; obesity; high cholesterol; diabetes; and stroke. Yet, about half (48 percent) of them are more likely to have health concerns they struggle with today.
Thirty-six percent of 25 to 34 year-olds said they were not concerned about cardiovascular diseases and conditions.
Forty-three percent of 18 to 24 year-olds were least concerned about cardiovascular disease.
All groups said that they're least worried about stroke as a personal health threat.
Long life with quality health is also a goal of many 25 to 44 year-olds. The average age this group wishes to reach is 91. If they continue to live healthfully, they will have a better chance of reaching that goal than those younger than 25.
Stroke occurs when a blood vessel in or leading to the brain bursts or is blocked by a blood clot. When this happens, part of the brain can't get the blood or oxygen it needs, so it starts to die. Depending on the severity of the stroke, immobility or paralysis may occur. In the United States, someone suffers a stroke every 40 seconds.
The American Heart Association / American Stroke Association are dedicated to improving the cardiovascular health of all Americans by 20 percent while reducing the deaths from cardio-vascular disease and stroke by 20 percent.
To learn how to strive toward a healthy lifestyle to reduce the risk of stroke, visit My Life Check at www.mylifecheck.heart.org. To Survive and Thrive, learn the stroke symptoms and other helpful tips by visiting StrokeAssociation.org.
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Welcome to the new Hamilton County Historical Society web site!
What's New!
11 Aug 2014:
This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the Hamilton County Historical Society.
We are going to have an Open House at the library on December 7, 2014 from
2:00 - 4:00 p.m. The Cloud and McCoy families are going to be present to
tell about their life when they lived there. The whole house will be decorated
extra special for Christmas, so it should be spectacular. So mark your calendars
and reserve that afternoon! 7 December 2014.
7 Oct 2013: The 2013 Cemetery Walk was held Saturday.
October 5th. Unfortuantely, due to inclement weather, the actual Walk had
to be held inside the old high school gym. Click here
for images and additional information. Click here
for images of the May 2012 Cemetery Walk.
Sep 2012: The Fall Festival Parade was held Saturday,
September 15, 2012. To open a new page to view photos of the event click
April 2011: Hamilton County Historical Society is seeking information on a Hamilton County community named Blue Heaven, located 1 ½ - 2 miles west of McLeansboro. The area was previously known as Hayes Garage which later became a tavern. Anyone with information please call Marion Russell at 618-231-7110
What is the Hamilton County Historical Society?
The purpose of the Hamilton County Historical Society is to bring together those persons interested in history, and especially in the history of Hamilton County, Illinois.
The Society's major function is to discover and collect any material which may help to establish or illustrate the history of the area and to arouse interest in the past.
The Society maintains a museum and genealogy library on the second floor of the McCoy library where these items are preserved and made accessible to those who wish to examine them.
McCoy Memorial Library
118 S. Washington St.
|2014 Meeting Schedule
|March 25
|August 26
|April 22
|September 23
|May 27
|October 28
|The meetings will begin at 7:00 p.m. The place to be announced before the meeting and will be shown below for the next meeting.
Next Historical Society Meeting
The next Hamilton County Historical Society meeting is going to be our annual meeting, so it will start at 6:00 with a potluck meal at Farris Family Restaurant. The meeting will begin at 7:00. Our program will be "Show and Tell." Everyone is encouraged to bring something of historical interest to show the group and tell about it. It's always a fun and enjoyable evening. Hope to see you there.
|Tuesday, 28 October 2014 at 7 p.m.
|Farris Family Restaurant (formerly Pat's Cafe)
|608 E. Randolph St. (view MapQuest)
McLeansboro, Illinois
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Hamilton Co., IL USGenWeb
Yesterdays of Hamilton County
Southern IL Photo Exchange
Grandma Deem Appreciation Society (Facebook)
McLeansboro Times-Leader
Hamilton County Schools
Hamilton County Unit #10 School District
Kyle Shoultz 's Gravestone Photographs
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New questions on deals made by Mayor Rahm Emanuel's indicted ex-comptroller
By CHRIS FUSCO AND DAN MIHALOPOULOS Staff Reporters October 5, 2013 9:51AM
Amer Ahmad (left) in April 2011 as then-Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel announces his appointment as city comptroller. | Rich Hein~Sun-Times file photo
County sues insurers
As lawyers hired by Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration review USI Insurance Services' City Hall deals, the firm is under fire from Cook County officials, who say USI left the county with a massive tab from a court settlement in a case involving strip searches at the Cook County Jail.
The county ended up settling that class-action suit for $55 million in 2010, after the searches were found to be inhumane and sexually degrading. County officials thought that money would come from policies USI had brokered with insurance giant American International Group and several AIG subsidiaries.
Instead, the county's insurance covered only $10 million of the settlement.
Now, Cook County has filed lawsuits against USI and AIG in Cook County Circuit Court.
The county is seeking more than $20 million from USI.
In a separate case, it's seeking more than $180 million from AIG, including $60 million the county claims AIG should have paid, plus $120 million in damages because AIG allegedly "misled" county officials.
"AIG engaged in a bogus insurance transaction" that deprived the county of "tens of millions of dollars of insurance coverage that the county had already bought and paid for," the county's suit against AIG says.
The lawsuit against USI says the insurance broker "failed to procure the required insurance coverage and failed to properly advise Cook County of the implications and consequences of its error."
It also claims county officials told USI executive vice president Ralph M. Wilson they were concerned about potential liability as a result of the strip-search lawsuit, filed in 2006, and that "Wilson represented to Cook County that he would be able to devise a program that would protect the county from such claims."
A lawyer for AIG declined to comment.
Caesar A. Tabet, a Chicago lawyer representing USI, said neither AIG nor his client did anything wrong.
"AIG has denied insurance because the claims against the county are old claims and not new claims," Tabet said. "The insurance company argues that you can't get fire insurance after your house starts to burn down."
Added Tabet: "The county should not be spending taxpayer dollars on a frivolous claim against the insurance broker."
Over the past 13 years, USI, Wilson and another USI executive have given about $162,000 to dozens of politicians and political groups throughout Illinois, campaign-finance records show.
That includes a total of $26,550 to former Cook County Board President Todd Stroger; his late father John Stroger Jr., who preceded him in that post; and the 8th Ward Regular Democratic Organization the Strogers once controlled.
USI also has made campaign contributions to Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, who got $1,500 in 2010, and Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez, who got a total of $3,500 in 2008 and 2009.
In response to questions, a Preckwinkle political aide said Friday that the county board president will return USI's contribution.
An Alvarez spokeswoman said the state's attorney doesn't plan to return her contributions from USI because an outside law firm is representing the county in the USI lawsuit, and the contributions were made before the county sued.
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An insurance firm that won deals under Mayor Rahm Emanuel's now-indicted former city comptroller was late completing some key tasks and wasn't getting others done at all, City Hall emails obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times show.
Despite that, Amer Ahmad gave USI Insurance Services a two-year extension in early July that boosted the value of one of its city contracts by $1 million — making it worth $2.5 million.
About two weeks later, on July 23, Ahmad abruptly resigned his post with Emanuel's administration.
The City Hall emails about USI are dated Aug. 7. It's unclear whether Ahmad was aware of complaints about the firm when he extended its contract to find insurance for the city's airports and special events such as Taste of Chicago.
Ahmad, 39, was indicted Aug. 15 in Ohio on federal charges involving his previous job as Ohio's deputy state treasurer. Prosecutors say he awarded "lucrative state business" to a financial adviser in exchange for payments totaling more than $500,000 to himself and others.
The former high-ranking Emanuel aide, who could not be reached for comment, has pleaded not guilty. He is not accused of any wrongdoing involving Chicago city government.
The concerns about USI were logged by Susan L. Schmitz, a 22-year city worker who is a risk manager in the comptroller's office. She emailed James T. Raussen, the city's managing deputy comptroller, saying she had been in touch with USI executive vice president Ralph M. Wilson about work that wasn't being done.
"If you recall, we asked him to do a benchmark study on terrorism liability," Schmitz wrote. "Never done."
Schmitz also complained that USI, which is based in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., was behind in developing a "risk management information system," writing: "I gave them a wealth of information on a jump drive. But only some of it is in the system. Also, it is not organized by project. . . . You would think they would at least organize them."
Provided with a copy of that email and others, a lawyer representing USI did not respond to Schmitz's allegations. The company previously put out a statement saying it has saved the city "millions of dollars in premiums and losses" and that, "in USI's experience, all of the officials involved in the city's complex insurance needs have exhibited the highest integrity and skill."
In response to questions about insurance deals under Ahmad, Emanuel spokeswoman Sarah Hamilton cited a previously announced investigation that the city has hired a law firm to perform.
"Drinker Biddle is conducting a thorough review of Amer Ahmad's tenure with the city of Chicago, and that review includes questions regarding procurement of insurance contracts," Hamilton said. "While we have no evidence of any wrongdoing at this point, the review continues, and if anything is found, the city will take appropriate action."
Last month, Emanuel aides announced City Hall is changing the way it awards insurance brokerage deals, taking away much of the authority that the mayor and City Council had given the comptroller in late 2011.
Such contracts had been subject to competitive bidding intended to get the best deal for taxpayers through the city's Department of Procurement Services. That changed in November 2011 when the City Council unanimously approved an Emanuel proposal to give the comptroller's office the authority to choose insurance providers for the city at its own discretion.
City procurement officials had received five bids for a major insurance-brokerage and consulting deal that were cast aside after the change took effect. Then, in 2012, Ahmad awarded contracts to two of the firms which bid: USI and Arthur J. Gallagher Risk Management Services, according to city records.
Under the new law, those deals weren't awarded under the city's normal contracting process, but under a process where the city Finance Department "invited brokers in to present and those presentations were evaluated," Hamilton said. "USI brought in the most savings on the airport."
An Arthur J. Gallagher spokeswoman said Friday that the company competed for its city business, adding, "We do not know how or by whom our bid was evaluated."
The move to bring back competitive bidding for insurance work through the procurement services department came after the Sun-Times reported that USI won its two contracts with help from an Ohio lobbyist with ties to Raussen, the top Ahmad aide. Raussen had worked with Ahmad in Ohio government before Ahmad hired him to come to Chicago and be the city's point man on insurance matters.
Raussen, who remains on the job at City Hall and makes $127,332 a year, served in the Ohio General Assembly between 2003 and 2008 and later was an aide to former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland.
Five months after Ahmad hired Raussen, USI hired Christopher S. Colwell as its City Hall lobbyist. Colwell had been an early contributor to Raussen's state legislative campaign and later lobbied on behalf of two communities in Raussen's legislative district.
The City Hall emails show Colwell, who records show was paid $48,000 by USI last year, repeatedly contacted Raussen to schedule meetings with Ahmad.
Raussen forwarded the Aug. 7 email from Schmitz regarding USI and Wilson, the firm's executive vice president, to Colwell, who replied, "I will address. How directly do you want me to proceed with Ralph?"
"Don't forward," Raussen responded, referring to sending along the email. "Just discuss with them."
In another email later the same day, Raussen told Colwell, "It just seems comical that we 'the city' have to remind them of what they promised to do."


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How to get OpenStreetMap data to the X-Plane bit different way…
Let us introduce our "secret" project with a working name XHT: Xhouse Tool ("exhoust" in short) which we spent all own (and sometimes also working) time in last two months. As the name unveils it is a tool for scenery creation converting Open Street Map data. Obviously the first we all in X-Plane community get in mind when those three words are said is Benny's excellent OSM2XP. Well, this project should not be a competitor of the OSM2XP. Both tools should rather amend each other.
I was bearing the idea of converting data pretty long time, but the "ignition" came quite recently. The "impulse" consists of three parts. Firstly – the revival of the community around the VFR Czech project, mainly thanks to Ludek (elPresidento) and his excellent xplane.cz site. Secondly – coincidently "discovered" JOSM editor and its wonderful features. And as a third I meet Premek who turned out to be mad and patient enough to listen my crazy ideas and even more – he attempted to realize them…
Well, what is all the stuff about?
For sure it is not necessary to introduce Open Street Maps project (also thanks to Benny). Everyone who is interested could participate to create content. But the most important part for us is the usability of the OSM data in the X-Plane (and this usability will be increased in the X-Plane 10). It is necessary to say that for usage of the OSM data in X-Plane we need some tools. The XHT attempts to be one of them.
The elementary way the XHT works is simple – select a certain area from OSM data, process it in XHT and get the X-Plane scenery.
But, to get this scenery looking as in our mind, we have to tell to XHT what to do, how to handle each item group. For that we introduced analytic algorithms and so called "Templates". Template is a kind of a XML structured script where the conditions for decisions and evaluations are defined. The most important fact is the template could be user defined so anyone has possibility to create own converting rules.
During the development a testing template is created which will be able to use 3D objects and facades from our R2_Library. On the presented pictures yet ALL the buildings you see are facades. But of course it will not be a problem to use different libraries like the OpenSceneryX etc. of course, for middle European region a template will be present from the release date.
JOSM & Co. What for?
The most data we will use for the conversion (mainly buildings but forests as well) has only elementary tag implemented (like "building=yes"). In such case analyze gives us only few information for decision and branching (like area size, approximate type of the shape etc.). The better result we want to get the more detailed tags should be inserted. For that purpose there's a plenty of OSM editors like Potlatch2, Merkaator or JOSM.
We can use any of them but JOSM offers some extra feature we can heavily use. These are:
- It is multiplatform so could be used on all systems (Win/Mac/Linux)
- has an excellent editing features and there's a plenty of plug-ins available
- It supports WMS services, so it could load maps from different serves. Standard BING maps are very fast for example. As Czech Republic is not very well covered in BING we have to use a local Czech government server for data creation and believe it works perfectly as well (we also use a color orthophoto with resolution 0.5m/px as a comparing source). So I'm convinced, there will be a huge amount of servers worldwide could be used.
- Tag presets – you can create your own preset tags and put them directly to the JOSM's main toolbar as color icons with preview. Work with them is then extremely effective. You can select a groups of building, press the button "apartments" and that's it.
- Displaying styles – similarly like presets you can create your own display style which will tells editor how to colorize objects by different tags – so you can easy see what was already edited and what tag is set.
As I said – work with these features is a piece of cake…
So, how the precise work process really looks?
Firstly we have to register and create personal account for OSM modifications. Please, get familiar with rules for map editing. We are just small part of the Open Street Maps community, so please, respect the rules (even if it is hard to believe, out there are also other worlds then the X-Plane ) So bear in mind whatever data you create, modify and send back could be (and will be) used to other OSM users. That's by the way the basic intent and philosophy of the entire OSM project. Further process could looks like this:
1. Download any piece of the map and modify it following OSM community rules (creating non-existing or missing data or modify wrong ones). Send back the result of your work.
2. Download again modified data and store them locally as *.osm file
3. Now you could eventually modify data adding some specific tags which should not (or must not) be send to the central OSM server for getting better X-Plane scenery result.
4. Run the XHT and enjoy the flight over detailed (yet not FPS expensive) scenery
Key XHouseT features
Let me wrap-up some of the key features of the XHT:
- Conversion of the OSM data to the DSF overlay using user-defined criteria and conditions
- Preparation and modification of conditions and setters in the integrated editor
- Independent generation of the scenery items by type (buildings, 3D objects, forests etc. – fully customizable)
- Generation of all the basic X-Plane elements (FACADE, STRING, FOREST, 3D OBJECT…)
- Real looking slope roof buildings generation using facades. As the X-Plane doesn't yet supports real slope roof and use a workaround by tilting last floor of the facades, has this feature its limits and a small number of houses are wrong. It is mainly because the facades are in every point aligned with the terrain (DRAPED) so on hillsides and "bumpy" terrain a roof's geometry is corrupted. But this issue seems to be really rare based on observations up to now. And result given by XHT already now looks pretty good.
- Reverse generation of the diagnostic OSM data for convenient template's functionality check
- Reverse conversion of DSF file to OSM data. Quite important feature allowing import of existing DSF data to OSM file. The file could be then loaded to the JOSM, modified as needed and again converted to the DSF file. That way you'll be able to modify already done overlays of forests using WMS data resources. May be it is not a big hyperbole to say we can use it instead of WED sometimes.
Development and future:
Please, do not ask when it will be finished. As I already stated me and Premek spent last two months with development every possible time. Unfortunately both of us needs to ensure such a down-to-earth stuff like job, family budget etc. what drags us back from "serious work and research" Nevertheless, we suppose that version 1.0b could be available during oncoming summer. Basic algorithms already works (as you can see on screenshots) but we still need to tackle quite a lot of things, improve the UI and of course extend the texture and facades library.
Further in the future we plan next to improve the analytic algorithms also introduce other elements of the X-Plane, mainly airports, navigation etc. Based on available info from X-Plane developer's blog should be roads and railroads in X-Plane 10 also created using "draped" geometry so theirs modification and conversion to the XPL will be similar to other items of the overlays.
I'm also keen (and a believer) that XPL 10 will bring out new possibilities for using facades like already mentioned sloped roofs… It's a pity we do not have yet proper amount of official information. May be Ben Supnik will disclosure some details from his kitchen soon…
What you could do right now?
Before the XHT will be available, everybody feels it could be proper tool for him could create an account on the Open Street Maps and get familiar with the modification rules and also with the JOSM editor. If you'll be impatient enough, you can already start editing data. Of course in the right moment we will publish a tutorial how to properly set up the JOSM, how to get a data from it and how to mark tags correctly. Just as a first sample we could reveal that one of the main tag for general branching is the tag 'building:levels=X' which tells how tall the building is. It is mainly significant for buildings taller then 4 floors. By the way – the result you see on X-Plane screenshots are mainly buildings generated on tags 'building=yes' and 'building:levels'. There's only few marked with special tags (and most of that few just because of necessity to place same texture to the different part of the building)
So, cross fingers our wives does not kill us (actually we would like to say "thank you" to them that way ) and we have good enough time for further development.
Artoo (Petr) & Premek
12 Responses to "Project XHT – a "disclosure""
Hi, looks realy cool
Well for early in 2012 we plan a 3D OSM developer meeting in Germany. Interested?
http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=14540 (using your OSM account)


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By Harry on March 18, 2014
To hear with attention and respect that the people speak independent of color, race, creed or social condition. To express itself with education observing: the timbre of voice and the words. To carry through quiet readings and you pray observing the rules. To ask always when it will have doubts. Educate yourself with thoughts from […]
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By Harry on February 25, 2012
Let us to explain more clearly what is happening, we present an example that explains how things are at Indeed. Imagine that a language – a bedside table, different boxes which represent different aspects of language: the first box – it is read and, therefore, to understand the text, the second – Conversation, pronunciation, along […]
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Reid's Rozzer Trouble
Telegraph | News | Police 'will lose 25,000 officers in mergers'
Police force mergers in England and Wales will cost up to Ł600 million to carry out and will 'destroy' Government plans to extend neighbourhood policing, says a confidential paper prepared for chief officers.
The report says that without extra funding the new 'superforces' will fail to achieve their intended purpose - to improve the protection of the public from serious crime. 'It won't even do what it says on the tin', it says.
Wonko's World: Will the Home Secretary order a single Scottish police force?
English police forces have to merged into large regional forces because they are too small to effectively fight terrorism and serious and organised crime. The proposed West Midlands regional police force will cover 5m people.
The Home Secretary's constituency in Scotland is covered by Strathclyde Police. They cover 2.2m people and are planning to split into 6 smaller forces because they can't effectively police 2.2m people.
According to the Home Office, this is too small to fight terrorism and serious and organised crime. By allowing any more than one single regional police force in Scotland covering its population of 5m, the Home Secretary is putting the UK at serious risk of terrorist infiltration from inside Scotland.
Naturally, I have written to the Home Office asking if the Home Secretary will be exercising his right to legislate on devolved matters in Scotland for the safety of the country by forcing them to merge into a single regional police force.
If I was "Dr" Reid I would just blame it on my predecessor and junk the plan - that is the normal management option, and the sensible one in this case - or because it won't affect his constituency or country maybe he doesn't care what happens in the vassal state.


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