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T here's a lot of money in spyware - and it could be yours. Last year, thieves used spyware in an attempt to steal £220m from the Sumitomo bank.
Over half of the malicious software creeping onto PCs is trying to ferret out confidential information rather than cause damage, according to Symantec's latest threat report. The problem is getting so bad that American banks have been officially warned to protect their data - and their customers. Meanwhile adware vendors are making nearly $2bn (£1.12bn) a year from pop-ups, hijacked browsers and redirected searches.
While most businesses know spyware is a problem, far fewer have the right systems in place to protect themselves. The average company may not be at risk from commercial espionage and organised crime, but you can lose time and money to adware that slows down your PCs and clogs up your network. Relying on free detection software designed for home use isn't the best way to protect hundreds of desktop PCs.
So how big is the spyware problem? There's a lot of scaremongering, and many of the spyware removal tools don't help, as they include cookies left on your PC by advertising networks in their reports. While a cookie from DoubleClick will track you around the net, and could possibly be used to tie your browsing habits to a name and address in someone's database, it's not even close to being in the same league as CoolWebSearch.
Anti-spyware vendor Webroot recently published its "state of spyware report" for the first quarter of this year. Based on more than a million scans of corporate and consumer PCs using Webroot's online tools, it showed that 87% of the enterprise machines examined had at least one form of spyware on them.
When you exclude tracking cookies, there's still some form of spyware or adware on 55% of corporate machines. CoolWebSearch (browser redirecting adware that's notoriously hard to remove) remains the most common problem, alongside Claria and 180Searchassistant. Malicious spyware is still relatively rare - but it's rapidly becoming more prevalent.
While some adware vendors start to clean up their acts, turning into legitimate web-marketing businesses, the bad guys are getting worse. One variant of CoolWebSearch is now based on a rootkit, enabling it to hide itself from scanners, and making it easier for piggy-backed malware to infect systems. And of course, if the software that infects your machine is malicious, there's the serious risk of identity theft.
Webroot's figures indicate that in a typical company, anything from 3% to 12% of Windows PCs will be infected with real spyware in the shape of system monitors - most of which are keystroke loggers. Key logging tools can record you typing in passwords and credit card information, then phone home with the details. Some versions, like Advanced Keylogger, can even take screenshots or record audio. There's a significant risk here for business, especially those working in the financial sector. It's hard to be compliant with financial regulations if you have no idea who may be seeing everything typed into your PCs.
One thing that's hard to find is a definition of spyware that everyone agrees on. There's a whole ecology of adware, spyware and malware. The recently formed Anti-Spyware Coalition is trying to put together an acceptable set of definitions, but the current draft is 13 pages long. There are also legal issues to be surmounted. Webroot regularly receives threatening letters from adware companies, and Sophos, a UK anti-virus company, has deliberately chosen to detect only spyware that is obviously malicious.
Despite the known risks and all the information we have about the scale of the problem, it's hard to put a figure on just how much a spyware infestation will cost you. Poorly written adware affects PC performance, and steals network bandwidth. Greg Day of McAfee tells a story of one company that cleaned up its PCs and found that three-quarters of its internet traffic suddenly vanished.
If you're running a helpdesk, you'll already be aware of the impact of spyware and adware. Infected PCs take longer to boot, run more slowly and crash more often. Microsoft estimates that a third of reported application crashes are due to spyware and other unwanted software. The result is more calls to the helpdesk and more time spent tracking down the cause of problems and uninstalling unwanted software. Indeed, Gartner reports that more than 25% of helpdesk time is spent dealing with spyware and its effects. It's not surprising that the usual response to a spyware infestation is a reformat and reinstallation.
Anti-virus and anti-spyware tools help protect PCs, but they're not the only thing you need. Browser plug-ins from Cloudmark and Netcraft can warn users of suspicious websites that might download spyware as part of an attempt to steal financial information. Microsoft has bought in similar "phishing filter" technologies, and has added them as part of a range of security improvements in the beta version of Internet Explorer 7, released last week.
Many businesses have taken a first step to protecting their PCs, often using consumer anti-spyware tools such as Lavasoft's Ad-Aware and Spybot Search & Destroy as part of their standard PC image. However, these tools only work as long as users keep their scanners up to date. In the longer term, IDC expects that anti-spyware will quickly become a key feature in anti-virus products, security suites, and server-based gateways.
Managed anti-spyware tools will also be a key component in any corporate security platform. Today's strict business regulations and their associated compliance regimes mean that it's just too risky to leave corporate information at the mercy of any piece of spyware.
Even though vendors such as CA and Trend Micro are starting to integrate anti-spyware software into their anti-virus tools, it isn't that easy to find enterprise-ready anti-spyware tools. According to security vendor Sunbelt, about a third of IT managers are waiting for anti-spyware tools that are easy to manage.
One thing to note when evaluating anti-spyware tools: spyware labelled as a single program by one program can show up as 30 different products with a different spyware scanner. A program that claims to detect 60,000 types of spyware may not protect you any better than one that is only capable of covering 20,000.
The only way to protect PCs from spyware is a defence in depth, and that includes educating the people who use them. Users need to be shown how to spot software and websites that attempt to install malware on their machines, either by deceit or "social engineering". It's not just a matter of keeping to safe internet sites. Webroot's Phileas web crawler has catalogued nearly 90,000 web pages that might be able to download malware on to PCs, often using exploits (security holes) to sneak their payloads into your web browser.
Making sure all PCs have the latest security patches is obviously a good first step on the road to keeping them spyware-free. The internet isn't the Hill Street Blues, but by far the best defence against spyware is to heed Sergeant Phil Esterhaus's regular advice: "Hey, let's be careful out there."


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Ever wonder why some businesses get press and some don't? Getting a mainstream media outlet to pay attention to your business seems like an impossible-to-solve mystery.
You might see your competitors spouting a diatribe that you know for a fact is wrong, or that you could explain better.
"Why did they interview that guy instead of me?" you wonder.
Actually, it's not you. 99 times out of 100, it's not your qualifications, your knowledge, or your ability.
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I like a slice of pizza occasionally and am particularly partial to the stuffed crust variety. I have found a nice stuffed crust pepperoni pizza from Tesco that is only £2.78 which is a fraction of the cost of one from Pizza Hut.
This pizza comes in an attractive box that is open at the centre to show the plastic wrapped pizza and there are plenty of pepperoni slices and a generous sprinkling of cheese. These pizzas can be frozen so I took advantage of the 2 for £5 deal and put them both in the freezer until my grandaughters came to visit so we could sit and watch a DVD with some pizza and Coke.
We had one last night and it was lovely and I would say as good as any stuffed crust pizza from Pizza Hut or Dominoes. In fact I prefer this Tesco stuffed crust pizza because it was not as greasy tasting as take-away pizza. I cooked it straight from the freezer, preheating the oven to gas mark 6 and cooking for 25 minutes. If it was not frozen it would only have taken about 15 minutes so good for when you want something quick to eat.
I could smell the pizza cooking from all over my bungalow and it smelled so good that I could not wait for the timer to go off so I could tuck in. It is very easy to slice into triangles using a sharp knife and it did not tear into pieces the way some supermarket pizzas do.
The taste of this pepperoni pizza was lovely. I shall describe all the different components of the pizza to you because everything is super quality and together they all make for a very interesting pizza. The base and crust is lovely and doughy with a nice floury texture and taste that has a definite fresh pizza dough quality to it. I like the cheese that has been used to stuff the crust because it is nice and mellow with a good stringy texture that melted in my mouth each time I had a bite of the crust.
Onto the pizza itself, Tesco have used a lovely spicy tomato sauce on the base. My grandaughter does not like anything too spicy or hot and she said it was a little bit too much for her but I liked the fact that there was such a kick to the sauce because I find supermarket pizzas are often very bland tasting but the herby spiciness of this one really added an extra dimension to the pizza. The mozzarella cheese used for the pizza topping was nicely sprinkled over the entire pizza and it stretched and went stringy as I bit into the pizza just like I would expect in Pizza Hut. The bland taste that is typical of mozzarella cheese cooled the spicy sauce down and the two flavours mingled nicely together, I like the combination of textures as well because the sauce is spread quite thickly so my teeth squidged down through it and then met the semi solid layer of mozzarella which then sunk into the sauce with my teeth. It is lovely.
There was quite a lot of pepperoni on the pizza and if I had one criticism I would say that it is the fact that the pepperoni was all stuck in one place and before I cooked the pizza I had to separate clumps of pepperoni slices and spread them out properly. The pepperoni added a little bit of greasiness to what would otherwise be quite a dry pizza and as you know there are two kinds of greasiness - the lovely greasiness you find yourself left with after you have eaten something lovely like a thickly buttered crumpet, or the nasty grease you get on top of bacon sandwiches when you have eaten in a not terribly good café. This pepperoni is greasy in a nice way, it is quite spicy and tastes lovely and meaty.
All together the flavours in this pizza combine to create a pizza that is at least as good as any I've eaten from a take away pizza restaurant. It has a very nice fresh taste and all of the ingredients are tasty and surprisingly flavourful. You've probably all eaten a pizza from the supermarket that has had as much flavour as a slice of cardboard, I think it is the special spiciness of the sauce that brings this pizza from Tesco to life.
There are 650 calories per half a pizza and 30 g of fat. This is a lot because the pizza is so moreish that I could easily have eaten half and not even thought about it, I am torn about whether to have another one or not now because I really enjoyed my slice of pizza but I could have a whole Weight Watchers ham and pineapple pizza for less than this and those pizzas are very nice as well. I will definitely buy this Tesco pizza again because it was such a lovely meal but not very often because there are too many calories and fat.


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In a departure for this blog from the technical focus on analytics – gaining insights from (data) history - here we focus on how businesses can efficiently make better decisions when there are multiple ways of achieving the same goal. In any situation, the more variables, or options, one has, the more difficult it can be to decide what to do.
For example, consider a manufacturer of widgets who knows he has an order to fulfill for a customer with multiple retail outlets scattered geographically. He may ask, "Should I hire more people, pay overtime rates, or should I outsource?" Here, he will want to factor in onboarding and training costs as well costs to downsize the workforce if required, at a later time. The best answer may be a combination of all three. Furthermore, he may ask, "Should I make all my widgets in a single production run, and pay inventory carrying costs; or should I produce in multiple runs over time?" Other questions may include, "In which of my plants shall I make my widgets given their different manufacturing overhead costs and the differences in shipping costs to customer locations?"
In each of these cases, one may try to begin to manually calculate the costs for different scenarios. To find the best scenario this way would be impractical. A step in the right direction would be to build a spreadsheet allowing the total cost to be calculated, and then changing inputs to see what the best outcome is. Still, how would you know if you've reached the best solution? The answer to this is to employ an optimization technique.
A simple linear solver, which is available as an "add-in" to Microsoft Excel, does this. Within the 'model' built using the spreadsheet, the inputs, constraints, and objective function for the problem are defined. The inputs are the values which can be changed, i.e. the variables a manager can decide on; the constraints are limitations on any of the variables; e.g. the total number of widgets made must be greater than or equal to the order amount; and the objective function is the output value to be optimized. By doing this the solver algorithm is allowed to 'converge' upon which set of inputs gives the lowest output of all, within a particular degree of confidence. For a problem involving manufacturing overhead calculation, then the solver would be set to seek a minimum.
Clearly, you will need to understand and correctly setup the objective function to achieve the desired results. In case of manufacturing overhead, you will need to get concurrence from your accounting and production teams on how it should be allocated. Should you use revenue based allocation? Resource (head count) based allocation or activity based allocation? It will be helpful to have a schematic of your manufacturing overhead calculation process, similar to the one shown below, before setting up the optimization problem.
Depending upon the complexity of the problem, a person may take minutes or hours to set up the 'model', and the solver will take seconds or minutes do its part respectively. In addition or in place of excel you can also use "free" or open source tools such as RapidMiner to perform optimization tasks. (see for example, how to use RapidMiner's optimization operator to select the best parameters for a decision tree model). Now you can ask yourself, shall I do my own optimization problems or outsource them to a consultant?
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The Benedict College Concert Choir has been dedicated to the preservation of African-American music throughout the history of the College. The choir is recognized for its stylistic diversity and originality, performing works ranging from anthems, opera and oratorio choruses, African- American spirituals, classical and contemporary gospel, and interpretations of Broadway and popular tunes. The choir's credits include performances with poet Maya Angelou, actor Clifton Davis, Gospel recording artist BeBe Winans, the South Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra, the Savannah Symphony Orchestra, and numerous television and radio broadcasts. Additionally, the choir recorded a holiday video, A Christmas Tribute-1990, dedicated and sent to the U.S. Troops serving in the Persian Gulf War; an inspirational video for Magic Johnson in 1991; and is in current production of its first compact disc.
Under the direction of Dr. Linda L. Kershaw, the choir has grown from thirty-five voices in 1990, to over seventy voices. The ensemble is a highly visible, cultural emissary of the college, performing for an array of school, church, civic, and social entities. The Benedict College Concert Choir has been featured at the National Baptist Convention in Greenville, South Carolina (Fall 1998); The National Congressional Black Caucus Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C (Fall 1998); at two American Baptist Churches USA Biennial Meetings (Des Moines, Iowa-Summer, 1999 and Providence, Rhode Island- Summer, 2001); and, the Newberry Opera House, March 2000 and April 2002.
The touring group of fifty - representative of every academic discipline, campus sororities, and fraternities, student government, student leadership, the NAACP, athletics, and the Honors Program - continues to be a prominent recruitment entity for the College. This dedicated group of students annually spends its Spring Break in recruitment. In most recent years, the group has performed nationally in Orlando, Miami, and Jacksonville, Florida; Chicago, Illinois; New Orleans, Louisiana; Kansas City, Kansas; Detroit, Michigan; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Windsor, Ontario; San Antonio and Austin, Texas.
Seventy-five percent of the performers have earned Service-to-the-College performance awards and academic scholarships.


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Have you heard "This Time", the newest single release from John Elefante, former frontman of the rock band Kansas?The song and its accompanying video tell the story of a young high school girl who discovers she's pregnant.The theme is a familiar one: The boyfriend turns away. The girl is afraid to tell her parents, and schedules an abortion. In the video, the young woman imagines her sweet daughter as a preschool beauty, then watches her grow up. Horrified by the choice she had made t … [Read more...]
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Good Magazine Interviews Expert Food Reviewers
Everyone's a Critic, But It Takes an Expert to Be Good
Sure, anyone can be a critic, but isn't the info always a bit more intriguing when it's coming from an expert? The folks at Good magazine thought so, and they've enlisted several experts to help critique select foods.
So who did they bring in? A teacher to talk about apples, a pilot to talk about airplane food, a cop to talk about doughnuts, and a rock star to talk about whiskey. Here are some of my favorite excerpts.
Andrea Peterson, teacher, on apples:
I absolutely love apples, and believe it or not, several times a year, a student actually does give me one. . . . If I had my pick, though, instead of apples, I'd love to be getting Starbucks gift cards.
Patrick Smith, pilot, on airplane food:
People don't want a fancy French restaurant at 30,000 feet; they just want something to eat, and a distraction on a long flight. . . . Economy travelers don't want to live out some bourgeois fantasy of the 1940s. Give me a damn sandwich or some pasta.
Two more, just
Andrew Smith, cop, on doughnuts:
I think the cop/doughnut thing came around because cops, working late at night, need coffee to stay awake, and the only way to get coffee in the wee morning hours is at the all-night doughnut places. . . . The only thing I would say cops like more are sunflower seeds, based on all the damn seeds I find on the floor of my police car.
Patterson Hood, rock star, on whiskey:
You can go anywhere in the world, it's always the same. A McDonald's hamburger may be different in Amsterdam, but the bottle of Jack Daniel's is exactly the same as the bottle of Jack Daniel's in Nashville or Singapore.
To read the entire quotes — some are quite funny! — be sure to check out the full feature at Good magazine.


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Feminism | Posted by Natasha V on 03/11/2013
Teen Mom Shaming vs Teen Pregnancy Prevention
What is with this unnecessary need to shame, bully, and stereotype teen mothers in an attempt to decrease teen pregnancy? Teen pregnancy prevention campaigns DO NOT have to be at the expense of a teen mom's dignity. It doesn't work, it isn't fair, and it's only perpetuating a stigma that further increases the isolation of young parents who need support. Quite frankly, it's extremely sexist too! I don't see an ad shaming teen dads? If my comprehensive sexual educating cohorts are correct, it takes two to make a baby.
In this pathetic and desperate attempt to eliminate teen pregnancy, the adults who sat around this campaign and ok'd it knew that it would send a horrible message to teens: "Teen moms suck so don't become one." And of course, the baby couldn't be a happy baby and it had to be a baby that didn't look just white. No. We have to not only perpetuate the idea that teen moms suck, but also that it's a minority issue. It's an unhappy minority baby with an awful teen mom. Yes, let's bring racism into this too, NYC, with no additional information or follow up. Great idea. {Read with extreme sarcasm}
How is this campaign going to prevent teen pregnancy? Someone please explain how this is a comprehensive educational and positive way to encourage safe sex or abstinence? It there any mention anywhere of how someone can prevent pregnancy? Anywhere? Bueller?
When I was a teen, I knew how hard it was to be a teen mom because I saw it in my family and in families around me. My mom was a teen mom, my grandmother was a teen mom, my aunt was a teen mom, my cousin was a teen mom, and so many more. Yes, I saw girls drop out of school and struggle with many aspects of their lives. I didn't need a lame ad with a picture of a crying baby (who of course had to resemble a minority) to tell me that. Yet, at 17, I still became a teen mom and it was NOT what I wanted for myself. I never thought to myself, "Ahhh yes, statistics say my kid would be twice as likely to not graduate than kids born to moms over 22. SO, I will have a baby now before 22 and accept the challenge." So what makes you think most teens are going to think the opposite? Pregnancies are usually unplanned and accidental. These ads don't prevent unplanned pregnancies.
As a teen mom, my life has seen some insanely high peaks of hell and it wasn't because of my pregnancy or motherhood, it was because of the crappy experiences I had to endure with people who were (and still are) judgmental and bitter. When I wanted to apply for college in high school, my guidance counselor told me not to bother – that I should focus on trying to graduate high school first and apply to a community college IF that even happened. When I turned to people for support, they threw statistics into my face and told me I was what these very ads portrayed. I wasn't. I'm not. And most teen moms aren't. Until today, I still hear the "Well, you should have thought about that before becoming a mom."
It's this very concept of shaming teen moms that drives us into a deeper hole of isolation. I didn't want to tell anyone that I was a teen mom, I didn't want to ask for help, I refused to apply for any aid, and I put myself in unhealthy situations so I wouldn't have to face the judgment of others. It was horrible. Yet, no one ever bothered to talk to me about the occurences in my life that led up to my pregnancy. Or what my life was like before becoming a pregnant teen. No one knew that I was already depressed in high school. No one knew that I already faced many of the adversities that teen moms face too. My life may have been exactly the same if I hadn't become a teen mom but no one cared to look at me until there was a baby involved (that no one really cared about either).
If you are genuinely interested in seeing teen pregnancy rates decrease, encourage your school, city and state to provide comprehensive sexual education, increase access to birth control and emergency contraception, provide youth with honest (non-bias) answers when they have questions, and be the support teens need… THEN you will see your numbers decrease. Until then, good luck to NYC with this horrible ad.
Originally posted on The Pushback
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Jen @ at 11:00 pm, March 11th, 2013
Yeah, that ad campaign strikes me as full-on misogyny. Seriously, with all the real problems in this world, it's pretty twisted to hate on people for creating life and being nurturing.
On a personal note, every single Mom I've known, young or otherwise has been fierce and funny and warm and smart and generally impressive (probably because they had to be to survive), and the majority have raised pretty awesome kids. I don't doubt that you're probably every bit as herioc.
Jen @ at 11:02 pm, March 11th, 2013
Whoops! heroic, I meant to say. (:
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Ciara @ at 11:23 pm, March 20th, 2013
The part of this that is most astonishing to me is that the fathers are not being lectured. They had an equal amount to do with this as the mothers. And rape victims have NO say. The people who created this campaign are clearly putting the mothers on the spot. It's quite frustrating how people very rarely see the dads getting in trouble. I'm very glad that you brought this to people's attention.


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Data center developer Prairie Bunkers announced that it will soon begin offering "powered shell" DataBunkers for the cloud computing, managed services and disaster recovery markets. Previously the company was planning to develop and sell rack-ready Tier III data centers.
Prairie Bunkers also announced new power rates through an agreement with utility South Central Public Power District, which will provide power pricing of between 5 cents and 6 cents per kilowatt , depending upon the load factor. South Central's power mix includes 30 percent carbon-free content from hydro, wind and nuclear sources.
Former Ammunition Storage Bunkers
The 750 acre Prairie Bunkers data center campus is located near Hastings, Nebraska and features 184 World War II naval amunition storage bunkers. The Denver-to-Des Moines corridor has seen a lot of data center activity over the past decade from companies like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and IBM. The Prairie Bunkers Data Center Park is outside the zones for earthquake, floods, hurricanes, volcanoes, airport flight paths and major traffic routes.
"From inception, we have offered high location security, high site security and a low carbon footprint,"said Prairie Bunkers Chairman Gary Hultquist. "With today's announcements, we also offer large users the "powered shell" alternative and low initial capex by sharing our savings in construction costs from the reuse of the existing bunkers and the presence of the power substation and fiber optic lines which are adjacent to the bunkers and already in place."
A powered shell provides undeveloped space with the power and fiber connectivity already in place. This allows for easy expansion for companies with the capital to build the data center infrastructure themselves.
Individual DataBunkers are configured in 1 megawatt, 5,000 square foot modules. Pricing for the DataBunkers will be such that other developers can configure a secure campus of their own with multiple bunkers that is competitive with larger footprint sites. If a larger footprint is desired, adjacent bunkers can be connected with new construction.
Included with each powered shell is 1.5 acres of land, an above-ground bunker with 5,000 square feet of internal floor space, loading dock, 14 foot ceilings, and 12 inch reinforced concrete walls able to withstand F5 tornadoes. Multiple fiber providers are available and space for an optional in-ground geothermal cooling system, solar or wind installation.
Completed Design
As an additional-priced option Prairie Bunkers is offering a completed design for conversion of a powered shell bunker into a rack-ready, Tier II or Tier III, high-density, hot-aisle containment, LEED-certifiable data center.


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Mark the Calendar for the Angel Tree Ceremony Nov. 7
The annual Angel Tree ceremony will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7 in the Campus Life Center second floor lobby.
There will be a brief history of the Angel Tree project, student singing, and individuals will be able to begin picking up their "Angels" name.
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About the Book
Limited Edition Colour Copy
Features & Details
- Category Biographies & Memoirs
Standard Portrait, 7.75×9.75 in, 20×25 cm
94 Pages
- Publish Date Nov 11, 2009
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Stephanie Connolly
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Writer Stephanie Connolly was born in 1984 in Surrey, England and now lives in Bedfordshire where she shares her home with her husband, 3 children, 1 dogs, 1 cat, 8 ducks, 3 chickens, 1 budgie and too many pairs of shoes. Steph's latest book, 'Give a girl the right pair of shoes and she can conquer the world,' is available to buy now! Stephanie is currently working on a candid & comical Pregnancy Guidebook entitled, 'The Real Girls Guide to Growing a Baby!' ~ Due Spring 2012 ~ www.stephanieconnolly.com
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March 12, 2011
As of 12:45 JST
Report following the earthquake in Northern Japan (report #3)
On March 11, at 14:46 JST, a strong earthquake hit Northern Japan. The following is an update regarding operations at Nissan.
- Iwaki Plant (Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture), Tochigi Plant (Kawachi County, Tochigi Prefecture), Yokohama Plant (Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture), Oppama Plant (Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture), Zama Operations Center (Zama City, Kanagawa Prefecture), Honmoku Wharf (Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture) have reported some damage to its buildings and/or equipment.
- Damage has been reported to 1,300 U.S.-bound vehicles at the Port of Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture.
- Damage has been reported to 1,000 vehicles stored at the Miyagi Service Center (Tagajo City, Miyagi Prefecture) due to tsunamis.
- On the night of March 11, approximately 1,500 employees in plants and facilities remained on site. However, as public transportation gradually resumed services from Saturday morning (March 12), all except those in the Emergency Management Office have left the facilities.
<Affiliate companies>
- Nissan Shatai and Nissan Kohki, located in the Kanto region (area surrounding Tokyo), which produces vehicles and powertrains respectively, reported some damage to its buildings and/or equipments. There are no reports of injuries regarding employees of affiliate companies.
- We believe that dealerships in Fukushima and Miyagi Prefectures, which are prefectures nearest the epicenter, have suffered severe damage. We have not yet confirmed the safety of all employees in our dealerships. Regarding dealerships in the Kanto region (area surrounding Tokyo), some damage to facilities have been reported, but no reports of injuries have been received.
<Operations for Monday, March 14>
- All production facilities (Oppama, Yokohama, Tochigi, Iwaki, Kyushu (Kanda Town, Fukuoka Prefecture)) will suspend operations.
- We expect Global Headquarters (Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture), Nissan Technical Center (Atsugi City, Kanagawa Prefecture) and Nissan Advanced Technology Center (Atsugi City, Kanagawa Prefecture) to be operational.
<Forecast for operations after March 15>
- No decision has been made as we are continuing to assess the damage to our facilities and equipment, as well as discussing parts delivery with our suppliers.
- In response to a request from Yokohama City, Nissan opened its Global Headquarter facilities to the public the night of March 11, and provided shelter for approximately 150 people, providing them with supplies such as blankets and water.


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Chris Glionna returns for his fourth campaign full season as Head Ice Hockey Coach at Suffolk this winter. The former Ram standout served as an assistant coach under Brian Horan for five seasons before ascending to the top post for the 2004-05 season, and last winter he coached a pair of all-ECAC Northeast and all-New England selections in Dan Pencinger '08 and John Rocchio '09.
Glionna is a 1995 Suffolk University graduate and also earned his Law degree at Suffolk University Law School in 2001. He is currently an attorney for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Glionna's father, Leonard A. Glionna and brother, Josh Glionna, also graduated from Suffolk University.
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Zac Brown Band's 'Goodbye In Her Eyes' Goes #1
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Zac Brown Band scored their ninth number-one single this week with "Goodbye In Her Eyes," which is atop the MediaBase chart.
The band will perform the national anthem tonight (Monday) at the BCS National Championship Game. Then they'll headline three shows before heading to Los Angeles for next month's Grammy Awards, where Uncaged is up for Best Country Album.
So where does frontman Zac Brown get the savvy to handle such a tight business schedule? He says a solid work ethic runs in the family.
"I probably get it from my dad. He's a great business man, and I think I learned a lot of my business ethics and principles from him. I was born a hustler. When I was selling candy out of my backpack in elementary school, I was selling Blow Pops and Jolly Rancher sticks. That's just always been my, ya' know, I've always been working."
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Wednesday, 12 June, 2002, 00:12 GMT 01:12 UK
Charge against 'shoe bomber' dropped
A Federal judge in a court in the United States has thrown out one of the charges against the alleged shoe bomber, Richard Reid.
The accused, a 28-year-old British citizen still faces eight other charges including attempted murder.
Mr Reid was appearing in Boston at a pre-trial hearing on a defence motion to suppress an alleged confession he made after his arrest.
His lawyers argue that it should not be admitted because it was made after he had been given sedatives and they interfered with his ability to make a statement.
Alleged al-Qaeda link
Mr Reid is accused of attempting to blow up an airliner in December 2001 using explosives hidden in his shoes.
The indictment also alleges that he was trained by the al-Qaeda network in Afghanistan.
There were 197 passengers and crew aboard the flight, some of whom overpowered the accused when he allegedly tried to light the explosives.
Mr Reid is also charged with attempting to wreck a mass transportation vehicle - a charge created under the new USA Patriot Act, passed in the wake of the attacks of 11 September.
Question of definition
But the judge has now thrown this out on the grounds that an airliner does not fully meet the definition of a mass transportation vehicle under the new act.
It is a small victory for the defence.
The judge himself pointed out that his decision would have no effect on the possible life sentences Richard Reid would face if convicted of the other charges against him including attempted murder.
The hearing continues.
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"THE DEAD FLOWERS REJECT" PROJECTWhen we recorded each album I had in mind that I would record another albums worth of material at the same time. These songs could be used to make the EPs we would release to promote the album. I never really thought we were a singles band, instead we would put 4 EPs out with every album. Miraculously all these EPs went in the bloody charts! But the real reason for doing so many tracks was that I was trying to make at least two albums worth of material.
Now a lot of people have said about Mansun that the b-sides were our best material, well that's possibly true, because they weren't b-sides, they were an album in their own right in my mind spread across 4 EPs. I always planned to release these tracks as the albums they were meant to be at some point in the future, but the band collapsed before we got there. I wasn't surprised the band ended, just surprised we managed to finish the bulk of the recordings for the 4th album 'Kleptomania'. (Hence the last song on 'Little Kix' being called 'Goodbye'!) So in total we recorded 7 and a half albums, they just come out as 4 albums proper, 3 albums worth of EPs and the unreleased bonus CD. With the 'Kleptomania' sessions box set we released the guts of the EP material with the 'Kleptomania' album proper on the bonus CD3. Incidentally, some of my favourite tracks destined for these EPs were on the 'Kleptomania' bonus unreleased CD, including 'It's OK' and 'Drones'.
'The Dead Flowers Reject' project is how I envisaged the second CD recorded with 'Kleptomania' to be sequenced at the time, I've dug back through my notebooks to make sure I have the running order correct as it's important that you listen to these 'b-sides' for the first time as an album in its own right, that album was entitled 'The Dead Flowers Reject'.
It's a better rock album than 'Six'. 'Six' was just an idea of making a vinyl record in the CD age, as I said, but nobody would go for doing the cover idea, even if we did a little CD inside it coz apparently we wouldn't be able to get 'rack space' in HMV. With a little more foresight the powers that be could have seen that to release 2 albums would have been awesome, one a straight rock album and the other 'the vinyl experience'. Radiohead did it a couple of years later with the 'Kid A' / 'Amnesiac' sessions, they really liked our first album as they were in the next room recording 'OK Computer' when we were finishing off 'Attack of The Grey Lantern', we shared the same A&R guy at Parlophone and Ed from the band really liked 'The Chad Who Loved Me', the segued different sections and mellotrons etc... I'd really liked 'The Bends' and it was really kind of them to praise 'Attack Of The Grey Lantern' when they collected their awards for 'OK Computer'. We got a Jo Malone candle each, if I'd have known who Jo fucking Malone was, I'd have kept it.
Talking of 'Attack of The Grey Lantern' in relation to 'Six'; 'Six' wasn't a concept or prog rock record, as I explained earlier, just a 'vinyl experience' on a CD, but 'Attack of the Grey Lantern' was supposed to be a pisstake, like a Monty Python skit on a concept. A journo once asked me if it was a concept album and I tried to explain to him it was half a concept and I said it was a con album, meaning it as a joke i.e Half of the word concept is, ahh forget it. He thought I was a complete cunt. But it was only supposed to be a joke, we'd already made one album before 'Attack of the Grey Lantern' which we released over 4 EPs thru 1996. That was our early sound with samplers and drum loops. 'Attack of The Grey Lantern' was a separate project as a skit on the album format coz it was gonna be our first long playing release. If you think of 'Six' as our third album then 'The Dead Flowers Reject' could be thought of as the fourth Mansun album if you're that way inclined. I think the record would probably have been my favourite Mansun album, it's the closest to how we played live. The title, well it's obviously a nod to the Rolling Stones, and relates to it being recorded at the same time as 'Six'.
I played bass and actually wrote it on bass originally. I recorded it in my home studio and played everything myself. I programmed drums up first but I got Andie to replace the drums when mixing the track, the same process as making 'Attack of the Grey Lantern'. You can hear the 909 kick drum I kept in the drop down and my tambourine in the chorus background. Chad might have doubled up my chords on the chorus to make it bigger, but I can't remember. Essentially it was me with Andie playing drums. The best lyric in it is definitely 'piss in the face of the sick'. LOL! Fucking brilliant! This song was omitted from promos sent out to journalists for review because of the lyrics. (Fucking awesome!!!)
This is one of my favourite songs that I ever wrote along with 'Keep Telling Myself' off 'Kleptomania'.
Here is some exclusive behind the scenes footage of me writing 'Keep Telling Myself' whilst getting the Jubilee Line to Canary Wharf.
OBSCURE MANSUN MYTH NUMBER 7 - Have I made all this myth shit up to make us look more interesting than we really are? Well it would be cool to just go, yeah of course I have and laugh, as in the line from 'An Open Letter to the Lyrical Trainspotter': "If you believe all of this you're a bigger fool than me." That was specifically referring to 'Attack of the Grey Lantern'. But actually, it is all true. In fact it's all quite an underembellished version of the true events if there isn't such a word that doesn't exist.
Chad plays the part of the guy placing the ad on the voicemail on the first verse and the reply in the 3rd verse, and he plays the girl answering the ad in verse 2. I was reading the paper and noticed how everyone in Lonely Hearts columns says looks aren't important but then always want a photograph. The best bit is at the end when I shout 'a fucking photograph'. I was rolling around on the floor listening to this 10 minutes ago, Chad's bit is hilarious. I've never listened to it since we did it and totally forgot about it. A Mansun classic, typical Mansun, Should have been the lead off single...
I played acoustic guitar in the verse, the second guitar riff that comes in (the loud one), bass guitar and the big rhythm guitar on the bridge under "I'm sure I've been here once before." I think Chad played the other guitar riff. Andie put down the drums in the live room of studio 1 at Olympic. Lyrically this song revolves around self preservation. How you always retreat back to your ingrained character traits when looking for some security. A simple one.
'When the Wind Blows' was going to be part of my cartoon song 'Shotgun', but evolved into its own song. It's about the animated film of the same name. It was going to go with my 'Wacky Races' style theme tune which was the first minute of 'Shotgun'. The recording misses a big dirty guitar on the chorus but I didn't have enough time to fully finish it. The animated film (they're all cartoons to me!) 'When the Wind Blows' was apparently inspired by Simon Le Bon's worst ever lyric "You're about as easy as a nuclear war".
Obviously that is a joke. You didn't?
Andie, Chad and I played this live. We went back to Parr Street in Liverpool for some time out of London. We recorded this with Mike Hunter. I might have wrote this one back at home in Chester as I remember. I'm on bass, Chad lead, Andie drums with a tambourine on his hi hat which he took off for the choruses, then I overdubbed piano and a chorus rhythm guitar. Chad might have added different inversions of my chorus chords underneath to fatten the chorus up. A trick I often used. I read an article about how expensive it was to die these days, so I thought it would just be better to go into a fucking coma and pay the hospital bills like a hotel than pay for the sodding funeral. A nice jolly little ditty.
When I was in Las Vegas I saw 'The Church of the Drive Thru Elvis' wedding chapel which was hilarious. I thought about the idea of having a cult of 'The Church of The Drive Thru Elvis' from the chapel and developed the idea from there, about getting sucked into a cult. I recorded it playing acoustic guitar and singing then overdubbed the mellotron keyboard line and the pad guitar sound and me scraping the guitar strings above the nut in a few places. Andie added the percussion but importantly I added the finger cymbal at 1.14 and a few times after. Very important that! Chad sings the middle 8 and plays the middle 8 arpeggio.
This is the real actual footage of me writing the song in the back of a stretch hummer on the way to 'The Church of The Drive Thru Elvis' wedding chapel in Las Vegas on my way to get married.
This song is about someone in a band... but not myself.
This song is about Mussolini, the Italian dictator who apparently kept the masses in line by making sure the train system ran smoothly, keeping everyone happy. He had a big belly and liked hanging around train stations. (Sorry, couldn't resist that). You can hear right at the end of the song Steve Austin, the bionic man, runs into the control room of the studio and runs briefly past the microphone.
This is the real actual proper authentic recording of me writing the song on a train carriage on the outskirts of Rome in 1944.
From one of the books floating round at the time from the vinyl sports bag called 'Great Apes' by Will Self, I wasn't reading it, I just used it for the song. The lyric 'Fear looks like laughter' refers to apes grinning when they're scared apparently. I remember the padded cage referring to a monkey getting taken away as I remember.
This was me trying to do a Prince stylee track and get away with it, which is virtually impossible if you're white and from Liverpool! I should have sung it a bit rubbisherer. I did it with my LINN drum machine originally, which is how Prince made all his good records, except for 'Sexy MF' and 'Darling Nikki'. Andie played over the Linn Drum machine patterns that run through the track and played some cool hi hats and beats especially at the end. I play all the keyboards and the synth bass line (gimme a break, I had to try it on one track at least!) Chad overdubbed a single note lead line as usual onto the song thru Lovetone 'Big Cheese' pedal. I can't remember who played the zither on the bridges, but it might have been Chad as it backs up his 'Big Cheese' guitar part.
My duet with Howard Devoto and the closing track on 'The Dead Flowers Reject'.
Howard sent me some demos he'd done on a cassette and some sheets of lyrics which arrived at my house in Chester. Chad, Andie and I set about recording them. They were 'Everyone Must Win' which we did around the time of the 'Closed for Business' EP and 'Railings' which we tackled later. Howard wrote the lyrics on both tracks. While 'Everyone Must Win' was recorded by Chad, Andie and I in Liverpool, we recorded 'Railings' in London with Howard. 'Everyone Must Win' was from Howard's lyrics sheets, 'Railings' was a song Howard had written on piano on one of the cassettes.
Chad, Andie and I recorded the backing track to 'Railings' using Howard's chords he'd used on the cassette demo which he played on piano and sang over. Howard came down to the studio to do the vocals and we recorded them with all the studio lights down to get the right atmosphere for the song.
Chad's lead guitar on the chorus and at the end is great and there's a brilliant vocal by Howard. I played acoustic guitar. I don't remember who played piano, probably Chad. I deffo did drum sticks, I nicked this off 'Disgusting' off 'Attack of the Grey Lantern', where I'd done it before.
You'll have to ask Howard what it's about. You'll also have to check out the Magazine gigs coming up if your a fan to see Howard live.
This was Chad's song. You can see the footage of Chad writing it here. (Here is the band trying to record a version with 2 bass players - Ed). I didn't do anything except sit in a £99 plastic swivel chair from Do-It-All shouting: "Cue the fucking music."
After this fiasco I was sacked as producer coz of the expense of the oil to constantly lubricate the swivel mechanism of my seat coz I used it to slide round the live room.
Chad's ideas like 'Spasm of Identity', 'Witness to a Murder' and 'Face in the Crowd' were difficult to come up with melodies for me as his ideas during the 'Six' sessions were a bit off the wall. I managed it with 'Television' which was the best thing we managed to co-write from one of his melody ideas during the 'Six' sessions. While working on 'Spazm of Identity' he wrote 'The Soundtrack of 42 Bummers' which was his piano bit he came up with on the out of tune piano whilst messing about in the conservatory of Olympic Studios and I captured on a dictaphone and made a record out of it for the next album.
I launched myself like, almost like Steve Austin, a bionic man almost, to capture this improv on a dictaphone I had in my pocket... from sitting in front of a giant SSL J series desk that I used to stroke with my fingers coz I don't understand buttons. EMI had rigged the conservatory with CCTV coz every time they turned up at the studio we'd all be in the back 'playstation room' playing computer games and eating sweets, so they were keeping a beady eye on us as it cost a lot of dosh to hire such salubrious surroundings to play computer games in...
Now I can't make out if this is the actual footage or just a really good reconstruction from the 'new media' department at EMI to convey to the general public that we were, in fact, friends and band mates, but it looks pretty authentic to me, so I dug the CCTV footage of the writing session for "The Soundtrack of Lurve" out from the bowels of EMI specially for this anniversary, as they were keen to participate in such a historic event. I actually broke in to the offices to see if I could get my silver disk for 'Little Cacs' but it had been stolen so I stole this tape as a consolation, and I posted it on Youtube so watch it right now before we get a cease and desist order from Farrah Fawcett Majors.
The footage starts of with me leaping from the SSL desk, of which I have no idea how to operate except the on switch at the plug hole, but I do get confused between red, on and white, off, or is it the other way round, whatever, it doesn't matter as long as the faders go, weeeee, weeee up and down, or is that neve plug sockets? Either way it's out of phase if I walk past it. You can just make out the SSL mixing desk behind the tree to the left at the start of the studio footage. Suddenly, as you can see from the footage I'm in the conservatory at Olympic, I jump over the pile of steaming shit left on the floor by God knows who and make my way into the depths of the conservatory where the piano is, which is played by Leonardo Di Caprio in this movie....no?...piano...made of wood...oh, forget it. You can just make out that I switch my dictaphone on as I jump over the ravine or a creek or the wiring loom coming from under the desk, I'm not sure which as we kept the lights dim in the control room, whatever. Now I'm being played by Lee Majors coz I would have played the part with a tracksuit on with two stripes down the sleeves, not the proper Adidas one and definitely no t-shirt underneath, like the credits where I'm running down the airstrip after I crash my spaceship. That's important to the plot of this writing session, so remember that, I'll come back to that in a bit.
Now EMI have superimposed Lee Majors head digitally onto my body coz I cant train my hair to go to the side properly, it just goes straight down coz it's so straight without hair wax or a demi wave, so the make up girl came in and spat into her hand and pushed my fringe across to the side then cut my hair into the shape of a 'flick' while it hung straight down, so as you can see in the footage it looks like the real thing.
Andie is on bongos but his second kick drum is a little ahead of the beat and we hired a full 32 piece orchestra to do the strings which Chad wrote and scored.
It's probably best to get 2 windows open in your browser at this point so you can actually see this classic Mansun track being composed by Chad with me producing him whilst you can actually read this actual transcript of us working harmoniously together.
Now as you'll see from the footage it's difficult to produce someone else in a band from within a band so I had to tread very, very carefully here as he wasn't prepared to be in Steve's backing band as you can see, although he was the only sasquatch who wanted it that way. Talking of treading carefully, from the studio footage you can see as I scan round the conservatory at Olympic Studios I see Chad's footprint in the conservatory floor, Andie does his drum solo, which is a bit prog rock, and the second bongo hit, if you listen really carefully is slightly ahead of the beat, but that's coz my bionic eye is just over calibrated and overthinks everything which didn't need do be, but it was the 'Six' sessions for fuck sake, so we allowed bongo solos, anyway we just kept the master tapes from the dictaphone recording of this song and used it for the next album you see, 'Little Britain'.
From the footage you can see as I dodge the plants the studio buys and leave everywhere round the studio in case Elton John turns up. Now I don't actually run this fast in real life, it's just I speeded the tapes up when mastering it on to Youtube as I can't run as fast as Steve Austin in real life and he'd beat me fair and square as it was every man for himself. (The flares were acceptable as we were still ripping off the Stone Roses you see in the year 4BS (Before Strokes), and I got the shirt from the vintage clothes shop in Chester where I buy all my Steve Austin stuff.
It's only at this point do I even attempt to use my bionic eye as I'm listening to see if the magic melody is in there and you can see my bionic pupil dilate as I realise we're onto something with this little piano riff stolen from 'Clocks' by Coldplay, you can just make out the crosshair over my pupil where I'm carefully listening for the sasquatch's magic melody. (N.B The sasquatch can easily be confused with the yeti out of Dr Who in 1968 with Patrick Troughton and not the Tom Baker version from Witness to a Murder Pt II featuring David Walliams and Matt Lucas, but you have to be very discerning to know the difference between a sasquatch and a yeti as the only real difference is they have different feet. Ozzy Osbourne has his own sasquatch which he uses in sasquatch throwing competitions).
Now coz I was overthinking everything, which I did, but with the best of intentions may I add, I noticed at about 1 min 17 secs into the track Chad's peddling too hard on the footpedal so you can just about make out I use a quantec room simulator patched in parallel with an analogue delay coz we weren't using pro tools. It happens at 1.26 into the song, that's the sound I always make when beating people running in a fairly straight line as you can see. Now at 1.36 Chad presses the Fb minor deceased chord way too hard and I get pissed off, but I'm ovethinking things and quite rightly he gets a bit pissed off so we took a break from writing this song at 1.49 into the second bongo solo and went for lunch at Tootsies round the corner.
As the studio footage shows after we take a break after lunch I start working on the top line melody. I start busking some lyrics and I'm planning ahead here so I start working out some love lyrics for the 'Little Britain' album (who the fuck would use Tom Baker for a voice over, it's got to be a joke, right?) I start throwing some lyrics into the mix about "understanding a woman" and stuff and "not wanting to hurt a woman" pretty much the lyrical direction I went in for 'Little Britain'. Chad, playing himself during this writing session footage starts to knock a few ideas around the studio, bouncing them off the producer, you can see this creative process unfolding around 2.25 into the song, where he's bouncing some ideas off me, he did this quite regularly. I try my spring delay on the track at about 2.28 as were bouncing ideas of each other here as you can see, Steve Austin's a bit perplexed as he thinks this is a mutual process, but he goes along with the sasquatch's ideas anyway.
Now the footage suddenly cuts back to EMI world headquarters where the board are watching this writing session from the boardroom where they aren't happy with the lyrics so they intervene as they've been monitoring the album unfold. Everyone was always fucking siding with the sasquatch, the bastards. They never saw Steve Austin's point of view as the sasquatch totally had Steve Austin fooled, so Steve Austin goes along with it and ditches his creative principles, just for the one album and as you can see, I totally crash and burn, and from about 3.10 it all goes downhill and I'm pretty much spent as a creative force, don't bother listening to the rest of this song, it's just fucking repetitive, although Andie's hi hat work gets really good, Chad's on the orchestra and I'm on the spring delay. Chads guitar work suffers at about 4.35 into this song as he picks a much too heavy plectrum. I try to reason with him but I can't concentrate coz Andie just keeps going and fucking going on the hi hats then at about 5.50 he starts a drum solo, so in retaliation I think: "Right if you're doing your solo I'm gonna play the guitar solo from 'Kiss' by Steve Austin's hero and mentor, The Artist Formally Known as Prince." You can hear me retaliate to Andie's drum solo at 6.02 into the song with the solo from 'Kiss' and Chad samples the strings for the intro for 'Attack of the Grey Album' LP coz he's looking for his flute which he finds by 6.15 into the song.
That's how we did 'Soundtrack 4 2 Lovers' and that's pretty much how we did most of our tracks really, no really, that's exactly how we worked together, ask anyone who knows the band, but there were some tracks that were hard to work on too. I think Stove was operating the video camera.
I can't remember who Marlene was, I think she might have been shagging Robert Plant on the stairwell.
Oh shit!! I'm really sorry about this. That was the wrong Youtube link. Here's the correct one. I remember now, I didn't have anything to do with that track, I forgot. Just re-read it watching the new footage.
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Host fixed problem and everything seemed fine. But this evening I realised something was wrong with my blogs.
On http://www.watmijopvalt.be for example all posts and pages have disappeared (so it seems, they're still in the database though).
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From: Pam Edgbert <>
Subject: Re: [NYMADISO-L] At 1:42 PM -0500 11/2/98, Wightman wrote:
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 12:40:45 -0500
I have an Abigale Smith(1791-1858) married to William Edgbert(b. abt 1792-VT)
They were in Madison County, NY until about 1844 when they moved to Lewis
County NY (NewBoston and Pinkney) township of Denmark. William's Brother John
D. Edgbert went to Wisconsin with his family to Barron and Arlington and
Sumner Counties.
My info in John Edgbert is as follows
John D. EDGBERT (Addison Vermont) b. abt1770 {Conneticut ??}
Elger?? \
Deed:Addison,VT 1793 April 15, : 49 plus acres from : Hanks: for 75 pounds
Censes:Addison,VT 1800
Deed:Addison,VT 1802 60 acres + 1.5 acres from Martin L. Crandal for $450.00
March 3, 1802
Deed:Addison,VT 1803 February 23 sold 4 acres plus to Aaron Jackson for
Deed:Addison,VT 1810 February Addison VT sold 60 acres plus 1.5 to John
Downing for $375.00
Deed:Fenner, NY 1812 July 28th bought 116 acres for $600.00 from Elijah Munger
Deed:Fenner, NY 1829 August 24th Sold to Phliander Smith
Deed:Fenner, NY 1830 January 4th bought from Phliander Smith ??
Deed:Fenner, NY 1830 February 15 th sold to Joseph Mills
Deed:Fenner, NY 1830 February 15th bought from Phliander Smith
Deed:Fenner, NY 1831 September 30 bought from Luthor Woodworth
Deed:Fenner, NY 1839 February 6th sold to William Edgbert
Deeds recorded in Courthouse at Wampsville(Oneida) Madison County, New York
Will:1834 Heirs: Betsy Edgbert, Rebecca Edgbert, Mary Fosdick, Lucina Edgbert
and the heirs of Mercy Edgbert
1787 Cencus:John Edgburt Bennington County, VT
1790-1800 ???:John Edgbert Addison, VT
1800 Census :John Edgbar *Agricultural
1820 Census :John Edgebert Madison, Co. Cazenovia, New York *Agricultural
Wife may have been named Sarah _______
Children: John D. Edgbert born 1794 Vermot, Willaim Edgbert born 1792 Vermont
Lucinda Edgbert born 1802 New York ??
I have information on the lines continuing
for John Darius Edgbert and William Edgbert
Lucinda I don't think Ever married.
Arzilla Edgbert married Philander Swift abt 1820
Clue: Elizabeth Edgbert, 63, shows up in the Marshall Co, 1850
census living with Philander Swift, 50, and Arzilla, 48, ....probably Arzilla
mother? Sister of Frist John ?
My surname is spelled EDGBERT, but... its been spelled Edgebert Egbert
Edgbut Edgbar
any way you can ruin a spelling its been done. Does anyone know of this or
does it sound familiar??
Pam Edgbert
> Pam:
> I noticed the following portion of your message on NYMADISO-L today:
> A 11/03/98 message from: Pam Edgbert <>
> ->I have quite a bit on the Smith, Olin, and some on the Westcott's they
> ->somehow connect to my Edgbert lines from Addison and Bennington Vermont.
> Is your SMITH in Madison County? I have Hugh Smith, John R. Smith
> (brothers) and their mother: Nancy (Brown) Smith. Hugh lived in Madison
> County in the 1820 and 30's.... he married Mary Ann Downs. They migrated
> to Wisconsin in the early 1840's, and all of them can be found in
> Jefferson County, Wisconsin, in the 1850 Census....
> If this looks like it may bear a relationship to your family I'd love to
> hear from you.
> John
> John Buck, Jr.
> U.S. Mail Address: 1779 Middlehurst Road
> Cleveland Heights, Ohio
> 44118-1647
> Phone: 216-932-9059
> Internet Address':
> Researching:
> In Illinois: BUCK/SUTER/HAYES/HARFORD/LANDRITH[LANDRETH]/VANCIL In
> Tennessee: BUCK/RICHARDSON
> In Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Connecticut: BUCK
> In Ohio: CURRY/HARFORD
> and...
> In Wisconsin: SMITH/OLSON/KITTELESN/GROVESTEEN/SPOONER/BRAMAN/HILLIKER In
> New York : SMITH/DOWNS/GROVESTEEN/SPOONER/BRAMAN/SOOTS/FRANCIS/HILLIKER In
> Norway [Suldal, Sand, Telemark}: KITTELSEN/KJETILSON/TENGESDAL/SVINBILL
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2012.36: William M Thompson, William RB Lionheart and Edward J Morton (2012) Real-Time imaging with a high speed X-Ray CT system. In: 6th International Symposium on Process Tomography, 26 - 28 March 2012, Cape Town, South Africa.
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The Real Time Tomography (RTT) system is a new type of fast cone beam CT scanner, using fixed rings of multiple sources and detectors in an offset geometry. We demonstrate the potential of this system for use in the imaging of high speed dynamic processes, such as moving fluid flows. The effect of the source firing pattern is discussed, with application to increasing the temporal resolution of the system. Through the use of a simple temporal regularisation term, we show that temporal resolution can be further increased, at the expense of a slight loss in spatial resolution.
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- Adjustable bungee for fitting multiple camera/lens combinations
- Weather-resistant flap
|Internal Dimensions
|18 x 29 x 22 cm
|Compressed Dimensions
|15 x 22 x 4.5 cm
|192 g
|Gear Profile
|Fits a standard or gripped DSLR with attached large zoom lens. The ULCC30 30 holds a zoom in the "lens down" position only