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Posted by Ted Schadler on December 2, 2010
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The General Services Administration made a bold decision to move its email and collaboration systems to the cloud. In the RFP issued last June, it was easy to see their goals in the statement of objectives:
This Statement of Objectives (SOO) describes the goals that GSA expects to achieve with regard to the
1. modernization of its e-mail system;
2. provision of an effective collaborative working environment;
3. reduction of the government's in-house system maintenance burden by providing related business, technical, and management functions; and
4. application of appropriate security and privacy safeguards.
GSA announced yesterday that they choose Google Apps for email and collaboration and Unisys as the implementation partner.
So what does this mean?
What it means (WIM) #1: GSA employees will be using a next-generation information workplace. And that means mobile, device-agnostic, and location-agile. Gmail on an iPad? No problem. Email from a home computer? Yep. For GSA and for every other agency and most companies, it's important to give employees the tools to be productive and engage from every location on every device. "Work becomes a thing you do and not a place you go." [Thanks to Earl Newsome of Estee Lauder for that quote.]
WIM #2: GSA will save 50% of the cost of email over five years. This is also what our research on the cost of email on-premises versus email in the cloud shows.
WIM #3: Google gets a premier government client to learn from. What GSA learns, the rest of the federal government will want to also learn. Every other agency will be watching and waiting to see how it goes. I expect that a year from now, the cloud option, including Google, Microsoft, IBM, and probably Cisco, will be on the short list for every major collaboration and messaging decision in government and the private sector alike.
WIM #4: GSA's decision sets the stage for additional cloud services. Once the transition is complete and employees are comfortable in the new environment, then other commodity services are sure to follow. Email and collaboration are good test beds for cloud services. So what else can run in the cloud? Many edge workloads, lots of content management solutions, and other commodity business applications are good candidates.
WIM #5: Focusing on the needs of employees will streamline the adoption and satisfaction. First, GSA is sure to focus on the needs of employees. As we've learned from other organizations that have moved to Google Apps, not every employee immediately understands or values the Web experience. Searching for email and using the Web interface takes some getting used to. By focusing on the needs of all employees, with good training, embedded learning systems, and "Gmail floor wardens" to work with employees, GSA will be successful.
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Is Google Apps Secure Enough?
Comment from Blair MacDonald (not verified) on Thu, 12/02/2010 - 14:51
Wow, this is big news. It would be interesting to learn how Google addressed GSA's concerns around availability and security, given the fact that Google has had some major hiccups in those areas in the past.
Missing piece - Wiki, integrated w/ Google Docs?
Comment from Ellen Feaheny (not verified) on Sun, 12/05/2010 - 01:19
Great article! For all the reasons you state; I am thrilled to read this. But ... a comment.
I think Google Apps (or in particular, Google Docs) is not the start-all-end-all when it comes to doc mgmt and collaboration with the Google flavor.
What about ongoing ad-hoc collaboration - structured and unstructured? A Wiki?
Google Docs can be thought of as a pseudo-DMS (Doc Mgmt System), and very convenient with same interface as GMail.
But it is still the old way of working (physical docs only) - to REALLY meet item #2, I think it needs to be coupled with a Wiki too?
For this exact reason, we created the Google Docs connector for Confluence (by Atlassian).
Confluence is the most advanced Wiki in the industry.
This solution came out AFTER the RFP you cite, but I think one that the GSA and other large Google Docs deployments may want to consider.
We deployed it in a 1200 user Enterprise in early Oct, and it is being used daily.
Best of both worlds: structured Google Docs, and ad hoc collaboration, embedded visible Google Docs and file management from within the Wiki.
A Collaboration Architecture
Comment from Alexander Kämpfer on Tue, 03/08/2011 - 06:03
Ellen - fine reply, thanks!
But: Wiki is just one more feature. What we'd need is a comprehensive architecture for collaboration - maybe starting with e-mail and shared traditional docs and wiki but extending towards volatile interactions (phone, video) and in the other direction towards highly formal records management. Should be kind of an SOA if it's to be cloudable. Should be kind of SOA anyway...
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- Ashlee Simpson and her spouse Pete Wentz both adopted the emo look. The emo look works for both women and men
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Emo hair styles have taken over the scene by storm. After only a short time, emo is now an established style. We are not surprised! The asymmetric hair styles are versatile and most importantly, they are fun. We let you know what the newest emo trends are and help you find your individual emo look. Don't forget, emo hair styles are for men and women!
The 2011 emo hair styles are modern and at the same time playful and reminiscent of rock 'n' roll. The emo style originated in the hard-core punk music culture. ('Emo' is short for emotional and stands for strong involvement like anger, grief, desperation or love.) The look has come a long way from extreme marginal style to mainstream fashion. Stars like Adam Lambert acted as the trailblazers for this style. 'Emo' no longer just describes a musical style but has evolved into a fashion phenomenon with elements from the gothic and pop punk scene.
The secret of the emo fashion success lies in part in its diverse nature. Skull and crossbones motifs peacefully coexist with almost cute rock-n roll styles. The female emo style embraces extreme contrasts like colourful hair strands and patterns in clear basic hair colours like black or light blonde or the contrast between doleful and almost girlish elements. Usually, men stay with only one hair colour, preferentially black.
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The law was struck down prohibiting people from living in vehicles in Los Angeles
In the case Desertrain v. City of Los Angeles, the court sent a strong message all across the nation that cities cannot end homelessness, by making homelessness illegal with egregious city laws that essentially make it impossible for homeless people to survive by staying in their vehicles!
The law was struck down prohibiting people from living in vehicles in Los Angeles
By Lynda Carson - June 20, 2014
On June 19, 2014, an insidious law used by the cops in Los Angeles to harass and criminalize homeless people for sleeping in their vehicles and using their vehicles as "living quarters," has been struck down by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Court.
In the case Desertrain v. City of Los Angeles, the court sent a strong message all across the nation that cities cannot end homelessness, by making homelessness illegal with egregious city laws that essentially make it impossible for homeless people to survive by staying in their vehicles.
For years, it has been a common practice for homeless people to use their vehicles as a form of shelter when necessary. Whether it is due to a lack of money, or dire circumstances that leave them little choice but to sleep in their vehicles when the City they reside in does not offer them any other decent options, living out of a vehicle is an alternative to staying in brutal homeless shelters, or sleeping on the sidewalks, or under the bushes, or other unsafe places.
In 1983, the City of Los Angeles enacted Municipal Code Section 85.02 to attack it's homeless population, making it illegal for people to use their vehicles as "living quarters" either overnight, day-by-day, or otherwise while the vehicle was parked on City streets, City owned parking lots, and parking lots owned or under the control of the Los Angeles County of Beaches and Harbors.
During the week of September 23, 2010, Los Angeles officials created the Venice Homelessness Task Force, that included 21 cops who had orders to use Section 85.02 to cite and arrest homeless people for using their automobiles as "living quarters." The cops were also supposed to hand out information to people about providers of shelters and other social services.
A number of brave souls including Cheyenne Desertrain, Steve Jacobs-Elstein, Bradford Echhart, Patricia Warivonchik, Leroy Butler, William Cagle, and Chris Taylor fought back against the insidious anti-homeless laws of Los Angeles that discriminated against homeless people, and as a result the court struck down the law that made it illegal for homeless people to use their vehicles as "living quarters" in the City, and County of Los Angeles.
Some of the people being arrested in Los Angeles for using their vehicles as "living quarters" while being homeless and had their vehicles impounded, included one person who had congestive heart failure, and another that had epilepsy. And yet another was an individual that suffered from severe anxiety and depression after losing his own legal temp business company that he had for almost ten years, and he also lost his home during bad economic times. One of the people were caught using a cell phone while sitting in his car, and others were found to have food in their vehicles which the cops used as a pretext to accuse them of living in their vehicles, and then arrested them and impound their cars.
The cops were instructed to look for vehicles containing possessions normally found in a home, such as food, bedding, clothing, medicine, and basic necessities people need to survive.
The brave souls that fought back against the insidious law that prohibited the use of vehicles as 'living quarters" in Los Angeles argued that Section 85.02 is unconstitutionally vague on its face because it provides insufficient notice of the conduct it penalizes and promotes arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement. The court agreed with them.
In conclusion, the court believes that Section 85.02 provides inadequate notice of the unlawful conduct it proscribes, and opens the door to discriminatory enforcement against the homeless and the poor. Accordingly, Section 85.02 violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendent as an unconstitutionally vague statute.
The court further believes that for many homeless people, their automobile may be their last major possession - the means by which they can look for work and seek social services. The City of Los Angeles has many options at it's disposal to alleviate the plight and suffering of it's homeless citizens. Selectively preventing the homeless and the poor from using their vehicles for activities many other citizens also conduct in their cars should not be one of those options.
The criminalization of the poor and the homeless in the U.S. is cruel and inhumane. Other attacks on the poor and the homeless include the notorious sit/lie laws in San Francisco and the attempt to create such vicious laws in the City of Berkeley.
Sleeping bans exist in Santa Cruz, San Diego, and St. Petersburg, FL., under the guise of "no camping laws." Some cities prohibit the sharing of food to homeless populations unless you have a permit, and many cities refuse to grant permits to feed the poor and homeless people in their communities.
In Orlando, FL., people from Food Not Bombs have been arrested and sent away to jail for feeding the poor and homeless, and the volunteers of Food Not Bombs have been harassed and arrested in San Francisco for the same activities, in recent past years.
Laws against panhandling are another attack on the poor and homeless in many cities, and are cruel and inhumane treatment against many citizens across the nation.
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Why would you want your dog's stool tested?
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I believe it's tested for worms and other parasites.
I just went to the vet two days ago for a regular yearly checkup, and the fecal test cost me 50-60$
I didn't take a sample, they took him out of the room and came back and said they had gotten one. I'd call your vet and see what their protocol for this is.
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You'd want to get it tested if you just got the dog, if your dog is having any problems (runny stool, blood in the stool etc), or just for a periodic test just to make sure everything's okay.
I didn't think it cost that much - I'm not 100% sure, but I thought it was only like $20-$30 at my vet. But I can't say for sure.
You'll want to take 1 good sample in for them.
Just collect it in a bag, or empty margarine container or something.
My pups: Dexter (8 month old brindle Boxer/Labrador mix) and Jack (15 month old Jack Russel/Pug mix)
If you have multiple dogs, be sure and label the samples.
Go ahead. Ask me how I know.
My vet charges $28 + $1 disposal fee.
I just get specimen cups from my wife's work (hospital) and it works well. My vet told me that they don't need much at all.
Great, thanks for the help. I called the vet office back: they asked for a tablespoon size of the freshest possible. Just want to clear our pup of potential worms and parasites. We're seeing a new vet tomorrow because I was VERY unimpressed with the vet we saw 4 months ago when we first adopted Liddy.
Liddy, Family Vet Care in Chandler are great people and really friendly. Stool Samples are $30.
I have an annual heartworm, stool, and blood work set done for the dogs. Hope just got hers this week with a couple of vaccinations.
Neg on the HW and stool and I'll get the blood work report in the mail, but the vet says all is good.
As for packaging, usualy the vet will give you a sample bottle, otherwise it usually needs to be very fresh, and refirgerated if kept for more than a half hour or so.
I just took Kaya's in fresh ziplock sandwich bag. Luckily she pooed when I took her out right before going to the vet, so he got a whole turd in a ziplock.
Hope got the "take her in the back room" sample, which I can imagine what it consists of.
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Our 8-month-old pup has been scooting his rear end on the grass after he has a BM. I called the vet and she asked if "Buddy" has been to a groomer lately and he has. Groomers almost always clean out the anal glands. so the Vet helper said to just come and buy a dewormer pill, and that it won't hurt the dog even if he does not have worms.
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Thank you, guys. We saw an excellent vet this morning here in Gilbert (a complete 180 from the last vet we took Liddy to). The stool sample was $40.
She said she would call me with the results, but I forgot to ask how long it it would take. 2 days? 5 days? Weeks? Any ideas?
I dropped off a sample this morning and my vet said tomorrow they would call me with the results. Normally they get back to me in 2 days.
I just adopted my foster and he's having trouble putting on weight, so I am having a second fecal done. There are two types: a float, and a PCR. The float is fast, the PCR gets sent out (at least at my vet). The PCR is more comprehensive and probably more expensive, but truth be told, I'm not sure what else it tests for.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A huge mural, the largest-ever of Spain in modern history, returns this week to a long-neglected Manhattan museum that has been renovated with grants from Spain.
"Vision of Spain," which consists of 14 panels that together measure 230 feet by 11.5 feet was painted nearly a century ago by Joaquin Sorolla, Spain's pre-eminent painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The 14 panels, which showcase 10 regions of Spain and include large brush strokes painted with huge brushes, took Sorolla eight years to complete.
"The painting sparkles with energy," said Mitchell Codding, director of the Hispanic Society, which will display the work at its renovated museum at the northern end of Manhattan.
"It captures the dusty, dry air of Castile, the vivid colors of a fair in Seville and the glistening skins of tuna fish being dragged onto a seaside dock, showing the muscular effort of fishermen," he said.
The museum, which underwent a $6 million facelift, largely with funds from Bancaja, a Valencia savings bank, and Spain's Culture Ministry, has more than 100 works by Sorolla, including his 1903 "Beaching the Boat, Late Afternoon Sun."
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DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters Life!) - For women in Tanzania's humid Dar es Salaam port city, the "kanga" is must-have material, functioning as an everyday wraparound dress, bath towel, shawl and, when ragged, dish cloth and mop too.
But for Mustafa Hassanali, a popular local designer who organized this year's second annual Swahili Fashion Week, the traditional rectangular kanga cloth from east Africa's Indian Ocean coast means much more.
"Just as India has saris and Japan has the kimono, we have the kanga," he said after the show, as Tanzania's glitterati exchanged air kisses under the moon by an outdoor catwalk.
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Models strutted down the runway under bright lights and low-hanging tree branches wearing an array of vivid colors and traditional cloth sewn into figure-hugging mini-dresses.
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A few days ago, I presented attendance numbers that indicate the St. Louis Cardinals are currently seven percent behind last season while Major League Baseball attendance is slightly up.
A reader poll, which is still running, indicates an overwhelming view that the decline in attendance is most attributable to the uneven play on the field. The 2011 Cardinals seem destined to miss the playoffs as they did three of the previous four seasons as well.
Cardinals ownership has often stated that attendance has a greater influence on their player payroll than it does for many other franchises. Against that backdrop, this post is to consider and discuss what may happen next.
Obviously, the biggest question is whether or not the club can afford to keep Albert Pujols with secondary decisions on key players such as Lance Berkman and Chris Carpenter. The focus here will be on Pujols, with Berkman's fate perhaps tied to him. I will assume the Cardinals will not pick up Carpenter's $15 million option, instead trying to negotiate a lower-cost, longer-term deal.
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Well, I guess that drive-by didn't go as planned.
This is a discussion on Apartment Complex Security Guards Returns Fire and Kills Driver within the In the News: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Star-Telegram.com: | 01/13/2008 | Security guard shoots, kills man A shootout at a Richland Hills apartment complex early Sunday left a man dead and a ...
Star-Telegram.com: | 01/13/2008 | Security guard shoots, kills manToo bad the guard ate a bullet, but good shooting (or lucky) to hit a moving target in the head.A shootout at a Richland Hills apartment complex early Sunday left a man dead and a security guard in the hospital, according to reports.
The incident happened about 4 a.m. Sunday at the Bellaire Apartments, 7030 Baker Boulevard.
It is unclear what started the incident, but according to NBC5, an armed security guard on patrol was shot and returned fire at three men attempting to flee in a minivan.
One of the bullets hit the driver of the van in the head, and after jumping a median on Baker Boulevard (also known as Highway 10), the van came to a stop off the road, the report said. The driver died at the scene, the report said.
The other two men were in custody, the report said.
The condition of the guard, who was hit in the stomach and taken to John Peter Smith Hospital, was not known, but he is expected to survive, NBC5 reported.
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Well, I guess that drive-by didn't go as planned.
No fun to hunt when the bunnies shoot back, huh?
You have to make the shot when fire is smoking, people are screaming, dogs are barking, kids are crying and sirens are coming.
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hope the guard will be ok. one less bg on earth,two less bgs on the streets.
nice shot on the guards part though.
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Again with the shooting at moving vehicles... Without knowing the details - and the article just says they were "attempting to flee" - I can't say that it was or was not a good idea... It turned out well, of course, but a driverless van shooting down "Highway 10" sounds like a dangerous proposition.
Hope the guard recovers quickly and fully.
A man fires a rifle for many years, and he goes to war. And afterward he turns the rifle in at the armory, and he believes he's finished with the rifle. But no matter what else he might do with his hands - love a woman, build a house, change his son's diaper - his hands remember the rifle.
So lemme get this straight, the guard was shot in the gut, and then managed to pull of a head shot on a moving target. Sounds like a pretty tough shot to me.
-Never insult a man you are not prepared to fight, and never fight a man you are not prepared to kill.
That's the ticket as told 769.
A damned good or lucky shot.
In this case OPFOR I would disagree with you in regard to firing on a moving vehicle.
The gent here was in immediate mortal danger and not only taking fire but was hit as well. He was justified to fire onto the vehicle in defense of himself toward an effort to stop further attack by the occupants even as the vehicle was motorized and in motion.
No defense of property or those darn BGs are getting away scene in this case as have been with the others.
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That said, as Opfor pointed out, we don't know all the details. Was he shooting at the car as it drove toward or past him in his immediate vicinity (and therefor a threat in and of itself) or was he fifty yards down the road heading away from him? There comes a point where it's irresponsible to take the shot even when justified.
"Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must." - The Duke of Wellington
OPFOR, also consider that it was 4 AM. Probably the road was entirely deserted, and we don't know what might be on the roadside behind the van...
Glad things worked out mostly "alright." Good guy lives, BG not so much. Good day.
"War necessarily brings with it some virtues, and great and heroic virtues too. What horrid creatures we men are, that we cannot be virtuous without murdering one another?" -John Adams
It sounds appears that there were a total of 5 men in the van. Two of them got away, one dead and two of them are in custody. Apparently the guard came upon them while they were engaged in some criminal activity and one or more of the 5 initiated the gunfire at the guard.
Star-Telegram.com: | 01/14/2008 | Police seek cause of Richland Hills shootout
At 4:00 in the morning with the vehicle being inside the apartment complex I would not be too concerned over shooting at a vehicle that was in motion. It sounds as if it coasted across the roadway.
Sounds like the guard will be ok. Glad it is going to turn out ok for him. Hope they find the other two that got away and charge them with murder along with the two that are in custody.
This goes into the good shoot column so far in my book.
Just remember that shot placement is much more important with what you carry than how big a bang you get with each trigger pull.
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You can "What if" something to death. How about this: From this point on, we put the onus of ANY crime or ANY death on top of the bad guy. Simple. Dirtbag shoots at a cop or security guard, then they have the right to shoot back. If the bad guy gets hit, good. If an innocent person gets hit or killed by either the bad guy's bullet OR the cop's or security guard's bullet then the bad guy, not the good guys, are held accountable because if there hadn't of been a crime there would have been ZERO gunfire. Somebody in the car, truck or van gets hit, even another bad guy, then the other bad guys get charged with it. Civil suit? You have to sue the bad guys and collect from them. Good guys are all immune from any civil suits in this state. IT'S THE BAD GUYS, FOLKS!! Make their lives so miserable that they won't want to live in your state. After ANY three felonies, deport them overseas with orders to shoot to kill them if they EVER come back. Have you ever noticed that armed robbery rates dramatically drop after a couple of them get killed by the good guys? Shoot a bad guy, punish a bad guy and your crime rates drop. Imagine that.
Imagine that you're an enemy soldier and you are surrounded by U.S. Army paratroopers on one side and American marines on the other side... Talk about a hopeless situation... That has got to be legal grounds for suicide!
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I don't think I've ever suggested anything remotely like puting the "onus" on anyone other than the bad guy. The point here isn't blame, it's death. If your wife got run over by the bad guys pilotless van, or your child got killed by the stray rounds that missed the moving (fleeing) vehicle, would it make it better knowing that it was a good guys bullet? Yes, it's the bad guys fault, 100%. No, that doesn't make you any less dead.
And, as I stated, we didn't know the facts at the time of my post. All it said was he fired at a fleeing vehicle - nothing in there said that there were shots coming from that fleeing vehicle. Obviously, if you are taking fire, you do whatever is necessary to stop taking fire: move to cover, shoot back, call in an air strike. However, when the threat is over and you are still firing, you have become the threat.
A man fires a rifle for many years, and he goes to war. And afterward he turns the rifle in at the armory, and he believes he's finished with the rifle. But no matter what else he might do with his hands - love a woman, build a house, change his son's diaper - his hands remember the rifle.
Look at the good side......the Driver won't have to go to court


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You can get the cover off with a large screwdriver, work it along the outside between the cover and case, don't try to drive it in, just do like you're opening a can of paint, the governor will pull out, you may lose a few drops of oil, the governor looks like a "T" with plastic gear at the base, look for stripped or broken gear, broken retainer pin, or look for brokrn or missing springs and weights on the other end, check to see that the inner valve moves when you move the weights up and down.
I could be an easy fix if the gear is stripped. Getting it out depends on the vehicle it's in. I had a V-8 S-10 with a 700 and could get the cover off and back on but on some vehicles you have to remove the trans cross member and lower the back of the trans to access it.
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Ancestry.com to Add 1 Billion International Records From FamilySearch
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Ancestry.com and FamilySearch have expanded their
September 2013 agreement
to put 1 billion never-before-published international genealogy records online over the next five years.
The expanded agreement will put another billion records from 67 countries on Ancestry.com. These records, provided by FamilySearch, are already digitized and will be added to Ancestry.com over the next few months. The additional collections include more than 1 billion digitized and indexed records and over 200 million images containing birth, marriage, death, census and church records from Europe, Latin America, South Africa, South America, Asia and more.
FamilySearch has a
similar agreement with MyHeritage
, in which
searches return matches from FamilySearch record collections.
In the September agreement, Ancestry.com is investing more than $60 million to digitize microfilmed international records from the FamilySearch vault.
You can read the full press release on GeneaPress
Tuesday, 21 January 2014 15:28:25 (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Friday, 17 January 2014
Genealogy News Corral, Jan. 13-17
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FamilySearch's new record additions this week come from the United States, Brazil, Colombia, England and Portugal. Updates include both index information and record images.
You can see the new collections and click through to search or browse them (for those with unindexed record images) here
In other FamilySearch news, the organization has partnered with
Lisa Louise Cooke of Genealogy Gems
to produce a RootsTech magazine using the
platform. You can view it on your mobile device (Android or iOS) with the
Flipboard app
: Download the app from iTunes or Google Play, set up your free account, and then search for RootsTech.
You also can view it through your browser
The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) has launched a
blog called Vita Brevis
("life is short") that will share genealogy expertise and news from NEHGS editor-in-chief Scott C. Steward and other staff. It's a great chance to get an inside look at NEHGS research projects, family stories and research strategies.
The Southern California Genealogical Society announced its 45th annual Southern California Genealogy Jamboree, June 6 to 8 in Burbank, Calif. It'll be preceded on June 5 by the daylong Family History and DNA: Genetic Genealogy in 2014 conference.
Learn more about both events at the Jamboree website
The National Library of Australia has added new digitized newspapers to its
service, which mow contains more than 12 million pages from more than 600 papers published in Australia as early as 1803.
You can see the list of new papers here
and a
list of all the Trove titles here
Friday, 17 January 2014 14:03:29 (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Thursday, 16 January 2014
Genealogists Mourn Incinerated Records in Franklin County, NC
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When genealogists talk about "burned records," we usually mean a courthouse fire that happened accidentally or during a Civil War battle.
But the term has taken on a new meaning in Franklin County, NC, where thousands of historical records, long-forgotten in the courthouse basement, were systematically incinerated last month. As word gets out, genealogists and historians across the country are expressing their shock on social media (see links to bloggers' reports below).
Here's the short version of what happened:
Last May, a new county clerk discovered the records in a state of disarray in the basement, along with assorted trash, mold and water damage. The local heritage society formed a plan to inventory and preserve the records, lined up volunteers, and secured the necessary funds and space. Members had started the work when they were ordered to stop and wait for further instruction. At some point officials from the state archives and various county departments were allowed to remove an unknown number of records.
On Friday, Dec. 6, after the end of the workday and without notice to anyone, a crew in hazmat suits cleared out the basement and burned the records in the local animal shelter's incinerator.
Explanations from local officials have mentioned hazardous mold, privacy concerns, official record retention schedules, and possibly others I've missed in reading articles and blog posts. The county manager, who authorized the incineration, has promised a written explanation.
What was lost? No one was able to do a complete inventory of the records, but examples of the basement's contents include an 1890s naturalization document, 1890s chattel mortgages, post-Civil War to Prohibition-era court dockets, and a letter from a WWI soldier serving abroad asking the court to make sure his sister and his estate were looked after.
Several bloggers are following these events and the backlash in detailed posts:
Grace at Stumbling in the Shadows of Giants posted a
timeline of events in the Franklin County records destruction
, including links to correspondence among those involved.
She's also posting about
media coverage and public response
Renate at Into the Light is a member of the Franklin County Heritage Society who witnessed the records being carried out of the courthouse basement to be incinerated.
Read her story and see photos
One of a group of the bloggers at Bittersweet: Linked Through Slavery posted about
the potential (and now forever unknown) value of the burned records
, particularly for tracing enslaved ancestors.
court records
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Public Records
Thursday, 16 January 2014 09:48:34 (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Wednesday, 15 January 2014
My Genealogy Organization Score: C
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In light of our
Organize Your Genealogy in a Week online workshop
(happening Jan. 24-31, and see below for a chance to win a registration), I thought it would be fitting to show you my genealogy organization "system."
First, there's this:
When I started researching genealogy, I printed or photocopied all the records I found. I still get the occasional record on paper (which I scan). For these, I have binders. One for my dad's side, one for my mom's, and one for my husband's family.
I have another small file of "stuff," such as papers from a great-aunt, receipts for my mom's school books when she was little, and my grandpa's
Kentucky Colonel
It's all jumbled together and needs organization and better storage containers.
Most records I get now are in digital form. How can I put this? I won't even show you. Some of it's on our laptop computer, some of it's on our desktop, and some of it's attached to emails waiting to be filed. Some things are in two or three places.
My plan is to get all my digital files onto one computer. I've been pretty good about updating my tree online and attaching records, so at least the information is in an organized form. (From my "In Case I Get Hit by a Bus" to-do list, I do need to share my password with a genealogy-minded someone.)
As for my research log ... well, I need to be better about pausing in my research to update my to-do list. I've been using
, but I want to see whether I'll be more consistent if I use a
Google Drive
So I give myself a C when it comes to genealogy organization. How about you? Could you use some help keeping track of what genealogy information you have and what you need, and putting it into some kind of order that makes sense?
The aforementioned
Organize Your Genealogy in a Week online workshop
has on-demand webinars and video classes, written lessons, and expert advice from
How To Archive Family Keepsakes
author Denise May Levenick via the conference message board (also a good place for sharing tips with other participants).
giving away a free registration to the Organize Your Genealogy in a Week Workshop
Click here to enter your name
before Jan. 21 at 11:59 ET.
The workshop is Jan. 24-31 at FamilyTreeUniversity.com—
check it out here
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Wednesday, 15 January 2014 13:05:11 (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Friday, 10 January 2014
Genealogy News Corral, Jan. 6-10
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A new, free online archive called
Ireland's Memorial Records
lets you search information from printed volumes naming 49,000 Irish soldiers who died during World War I. The database is a partnership of the Irish government, Google-Europe and the In Flanders Field Museum.
Search it here
FamilySearch has unveiled a new
FamilySearch Indexing website
, which looks more consistent with FamilySearch.org and better integrates with that site.
This week, FamilySearch.org added more than 145 million indexed records and images to collections form the United States, England and Russia, and from the BillionGraves website.
You can see the updated collections and click each one to search or browse it here
Early bird pricing for FamilySearch's RootsTech conference has been extended to Monday, Jan. 27.
Register here
FamilySearch will live stream a selection of (as-yet-unannounced) presentations from the conference, taking place Feb. 6-8 in Salt Lake City. You can watch live on the conference website (Salt Lake City is on Mountain Time, so be sure to translate session times into your local time). After the conference, you'll be able to watch recordings of the videos
on the RootsTech website
Beginning Saturday, Jan. 11, the
Texas State Library and Archives
in Austin has expanded its hours to include the second Saturday of each month, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Regular hours are 8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Genealogy Events
Libraries and Archives
Military records
UK and Irish roots
Friday, 10 January 2014 14:58:21 (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Thursday, 09 January 2014
Setting and Achieving Your Genealogy Goals in 2014
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You probably have a few genealogy tasks you'd like to accomplish in 2014—specific records to request, lines to trace, stuff to organize, photos and letters to scan, stories to share. Writing down these genealogy goals makes it a commitment. It's the first step to making them happen.
Another step is gathering the knowledge you need to follow through. That's where our
Achieve Your 2014 Genealogy Goals Premium Collection
can help with tools including our desktop calendar,
How To Archive Family Keepsakes
book, Time Management for Genealogists course and 2013 Family Tree Magazine Annual CD.
For inspiration as you spell out your 2014 genealogy goals, take a look at what these bloggers want to accomplish this year:
Gena Philibert-Ortega on the GenealogyBank blog
: Document the story of your home sources, share family history and conduct a review of your research to date
Banai at The Ginger Jewish Genealogist
: Catch up on publishing family newsletters, write research reports for ancestors, continue learning Russian and Hebrew, and several others
Nick at Nick Gombash's Genealogy Blog
: write more, apply for membership in several military-related lineage organizations, focus research efforts on Polish families from two places with hard-to-access records, and others
Emily Kowalski at The Spiraling Chains: Schroeder-Tumbush Family Trees
: Scan more photos, get each grandparent's birth and/or baptismal records, use technology tools to create family timelines, tour the
Indiana State Library's Genealogy Collection
and research at the
Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
in Fort Wayne, Ind.
Renee Zamora at Renee's Genealogy Blog
: Start digitizing genealogy materials and weed out what she doesn't need (she also reviews her progress on last year's goals)
Beth at Beth's Genealogy Blog
: Complete an application for membership in the
General Society of Mayflower Descendants
, continue regular data backups, attend two genealogy conferences, finish a project to photograph stones in a local cemetery, and several others.
Achieve Your 2014 Genealogy Goals Premium Collection
is available only in January, and only as long as our limited supply lasts, so
check it out now in ShopFamilyTree.com
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Thursday, 09 January 2014 10:38:15 (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Wednesday, 08 January 2014
Four Ways I've Found German Ancestors' Birthplaces
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Finding a birth place for your ancestors from Europe is the genealogical Holy Grail, because it opens up the possibility of finding overseas records, particularly church records.
For German ancestors, our
German Genealogy Crash Course webinar
next Thursday, Jan. 16, has information about resources that can help you trace your roots back to Germany. It also gives attendees a chance to ask questions of presenter James M. Beidler.
In case any of you are ready to throw in the towel on finding your ancestor's place of birth, I wanted to share the places I found birthplace information (unexpectedly, in a couple of cases):
My fourth-great-grandfather Edward Thoss was a founding member of the Covington (Ky.) German Pioneer Society, which I was surprised to discover
on the Kenton County Public Library website
through a Google search. The overview there gives his birthplace as Langenweisendorf, Schleiz. The library has a 25th anniversary book, published in 1902, which lists "Langenweizendorf Fürstentum Schleiz." I believe this should be Langenwetzendorf.
My third-great-grandfather Joseph Ladenkotter immigrated in 1836 from Rheine, in the district of Steinfurt. I discovered this from the Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s (it's in print at many libraries, or
search it on Ancestry.com
), which in turn led me to a list of emigrants called
Auswanderungen aus dem Kreis Steinfurt
Emigration From the County Steinfurt
) by Freidrich Ernst Hunsche. I searched
and found this publication at the
Allen County Public Library
, so I ordered copies through
the Genealogy Center 's Quick Search service
The obituary of my third-great-grandmother (Joseph's wife) Anna Maria Weyer, printed in the German-language
Cincinnati Volksfreund
newspaper, gave her birthplace in Schapen. (The alphabet chart in our
German Genealogy Cheat Sheet
helped me read it.)
My great-great-grandfather H.A. Seeger was born in Steinfeld, as noted in his 1907 passport application, which I found
on Ancestry.com
. I had no idea he ever traveled overseas, so this was a thrilling find.
For a couple of other families, I've had luck by finding people I'm related to and contacting them about their research. Here's a map of birthplaces I've found so far. That cluster in northwest Germany is my Cincinnati ancestors; Edward Thoss is the one in the bottom right corner.
Besides the German Genealogy Crash Course webinar, we also have a couple of seats left in Family Tree University's
German Genealogy 101 online course
. It's starting this week, though, so you should register ASAP.
Family Tree University
German roots
Wednesday, 08 January 2014 14:04:56 (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Friday, 03 January 2014
Your First Genealogy News Corral of 2014
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This is a catch-up genealogy news corral—aside from a day spent at the
Kenton County (Ky.) Public Library
and the
Cincinnati History Library and Archives
, I didn't do much genealogy over Christmas and New Year's. Here's a summary of what's been happening in the genealogy-sphere:
FamilySearch added 6 million indexed records and images, described in announcements on
Dec. 23
records from Austria, Denmark, Hungary and the United States
) and
Dec 30
records from Belgium, Canada, Portugal and the United States
GenSoftReviews website
has announced
winning software programs in its fifth annual Users Choice Awards
, based on software users' reviews posted on the site. Seventeen of 29 eligible programs received an average score of 4 out of 5 from users. The top five award winners were
Ancestral Quest
(from Incline Software, for Windows),
(an online tree program that's free to start),
(free desktop software for windows), Personal Ancestral File (FamilySearch's free program, which is no longer being produced), and
The Next Generation
(a web-based program that helps you build a tree on your own website).
Family Tree Builder
from MyHeritage was new to the list this year. You can
see all the winners at GenSoftReviews.com
Family Tree DNA announced it has fully integrated X-chromosome matching into Family Finder, its autosomal DNA test. On their matches page, Family Finder test-takers can use a filter to display only X-chromosome matches, or X-Matches. You'll find a good explanation of this feature, and a link to more information on X-chromosome inheritance patterns,
on the DNAeXplained blog
Scottish records of births from 1913, marriages from 1938 and deaths from 1963 are
online for the first time at ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk
. That's nearly 222,000 images of birth, marriage and death records. You'll need to register with ScotlandsPeople before searching, and
purchase credits to search and view the Statutory Registers
containing birth, marriage and death information.
The National Genealogical Society has issued a call for papers for its 2015 family history conference in St. Charles, Mo. (just down the road from of my college stomping grounds in St. Louis). If you're interested in lecturing at the conference,
check out the guidelines on the NGS website
and mark the April 2 submission deadline on your calendar.
Genealogy Events
Genealogy societies
Genealogy Software
UK and Irish roots
Friday, 03 January 2014 15:03:34 (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Snowboarding Forum - Snowboard Enthusiast Forums (http://www.snowboardingforum.com/forum.php)
- Welcome New Riders And New Members (http://www.snowboardingforum.com/welcome-new-riders-new-members/)
- - Total Newbie to snowboarding - from NJ! (http://www.snowboardingforum.com/welcome-new-riders-new-members/32579-total-newbie-snowboarding-nj.html)
Total Newbie to snowboarding - from NJ!
Sup everybody!
Obviously I'm new to these forums, yet not new to forums in general.
Well my name it Troy, I was born and raised in New Jersey and lived here my whole life. I live about a half-hour away from NYC and about 20 minutes from East Brunswick, NJ. I guess my "home" mountain would be Mountain Creek. Though I've never been there... Nor any other mountain. I know its sad, but everybody has to start somewhere.
Right now, the fact stands, that I have never been to a Resort or even been on a snowboard. Yet, I have always wanted to. Just never really got that into it besides now. Growing up, I always liked snowboarding and have always wanted to learn. But now I think its the right time.
I plan on going out this season and taking lessons from a resort. But I'm not sure which one to go to. There are so many mixed reviews about a lot of spots. Blue Mountain, Creek, Shawnee, Bear, JFBB, 7 Springs, etc... So I'm desperately trying to find the best place. A place where its not crowded, a good learning spot, and has good rentals/prices.
I am super stoked about going out and finally being able to learn. For the last week I've been researching all different kinds of stuff. Info on gear, resorts, and all that stuff.
Any advice would be appreciated!
Welcome to the the addiction..
I think the best time to take lessons is during the day/mid-week. Its less crowded so you'll get alittle better coaching from someone thats not busy watching 15 people. And there wont be that many people to see ya crash. lol
Before you go buying anything other than some gear, I'd suggest renting resort stuff. If you end up not liking the sport, then you're not out hundreds of bucks. Also, wear wrist guards! Busted wrists are a very common injury because its habit to throw your hands down when you fall. But stick with it regardless of how many times you dont think you'll ever figure it out. Good luck bro
Mt Snow will be open in a few weeks. Take a bus up and get a lesson. You'll lose a month of the season if you wait for the local resorts to open. And honestly, unless you get into park just skip the local resorts. We don't have the climate.
i agree def take a lesson or two. last yr was my first yr and i feel it helped out soo much. it is worth the extra money. some mountains offer a first time rider rental package that are resonable if you are not sure if u are gonna like the sport b4 you buy all the gear. i did the oppisit i bought all the gear b4 i even rode so it forced me to keep going out but i love it now. good luck with your first season and dont let falling get you down keep getting back up because it is well worth it:thumbsup::)
blue mountain has some good easy runs to learn on. I would reccomend that over creek. I don't know how the instructors are at either mountain. However i would say give blue a shot. If you dont like it give creek a shot. I never got lessons but, it def takes a few times to learn to ride. Like GSX said def do mid week. week days are the least crowded. and if possible i reccomend going 2 days in a row or 2times within 3 days. muscle memory will help you learn quicker.. Just my 2 cents
not sure how you learn but check out some videos, snowolf and snow board addiction have some great tutorials. I just started last year and these helped me a lot. Videos aren't for everyone but they are free and I picked up lots of good tips before I got on the slopes.
It doesn't replace trial and error and the art of falling but it did help once I learned balance on the board.
Good luck and have fun, can't wait for this year.
If you have to learn locally, head to Camelbak. They've got a bigger wider bunny hill and slightly better snow.
1. Try to rent your gear in advance if possible. Some ski/snowboard shops near resorts are happy to accommodate such requests. If you rent from the resort, give yourself plenty of time to do it. Don't let yourself be rushed. Make sure the boots fit reasonably well and that you understand how to operate the bindings. If possible, ask them to adjust the bindings to make the stance more comfortable for you. If helmets are available to rent, rent one.
2. You should buy in advance: snowboard or ski gloves, snowboard socks (one or two pairs will do to start), snowboard pants, wrist guards, and soft knee pads. (You'll spend a fair amount of time on your knees at first.) I assume you already have some kind of suitable jacket. Don't worry about fancy base layers or long underwear at first; you won't be heading into a frigid zone, hopefully. Test the gloves with the wrist guards to make sure the gloves fit over the guards. If you can't rent a helmet, buy one. It's very easy to give your head a solid whack from a body slam suffered at a low speed. Oh, and padded shorts are optional.
3. If your scheduling is flexible, choose a day with good weather -- temp in the 20s (F), clear skies, recent snow, no recent rain. Ice is your enemy.
4. If you can afford it, take at least one private lesson, preferably several. Group lessons are less effective, and could quite poor. However, even a group lesson is better than no lesson at all. Snowboarding is not really an instinctive sport, and you'll have no "crutches" (poles, training wheels, skating rink walls, etc.) to hang onto while you're developing your balance. Understanding edge technique is the key, and a decent lesson will help a lot.
5. Buy your own board, boots and bindings as soon as you're ready to make a commitment to the sport. You will progress more quickly with consistent gear of good quality.
The best piece of advice I can give you is stick with it. The 1st day you will be on your ass A LOT. Dont let the falls discourage you. It's all apart of learning. Snowboarding is 90% mental and has a very steap learning curve. Believe and visualize that you can do it and more than likely you will. By the 3rd day you should at least be able to make turns and get down the bunny hill without falling. Once you learn how to link turns your skills will explode and the addiction begins.
Good luck and have fun!
Oh wow, I wasn't expecting such a awesome influx of replies. Must be an awesome community you all have around here!
Thanks for all the info! It really helps.
I've made the decision for when I go to a resort (still trying to decide which one is the right one) to rent the snowboard, binding and boots. I guess I'm going to have to buy some goggles, not sure if you can rent those at the resorts. I think I'm going to go to my local shop and buy a pair of OTG Goggles. I'm forced to where glasses, having 20/800 vision instead of 20/20, you NEED glasses. Yah, Im totally blind.
Im also going to hit up the local stores to find a cheap pair of waterproof or snowboard/ski pants. I don't have the money for a pair of $70 official snowboard pants. I'll most likely get a pair of wrist guards and some warm gloves.
I'm going to take some form of lessons. Yet, I do pick up things pretty quickly (Thankfully). I hope my past years of skateboarding will help a little. Like others said, I have watched a lot of how to videos and training videos. Hopefully that will also add a little to how fast I learn.
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When it comes time for service on your RV, Bayer RV can take care of all your RV service needs. Our RV service staff has over 25 years of combined RV service experience. Whether it's a problem with an appliance or work on your workhouse chassis, we are sure to get you in and get you back on the road in record time. We also offer RV Parts and Accessories to go with your newly repaired RV.
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Mon - Fri 8am - 5:30pm
Saturday 9am - 3pm
18417 US Highway 377 South
Dublin, TX 76446
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