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Oct 21, 2010
Last week, at a user meeting held by Firefly, Andy Reid, our Network Manager, and I spoke about the way the St Paul's website has been developed over the last couple of years. A summary road map may be of interest to friends and to colleagues in other schools, and this is a story that certainly feeds in to some topical issues.
In brief and in diary form, with a few notes at the end, the work to date:
- Summer term 2008. Discussions going on over some months about how we could improve our site are brought to a head. We draw up a short list of prospective designers and agencies with whom we might want to work. Small, in-house group formed for website development, including me, Andy, John Barlow (webmaster-to-be of Colet Court's site — Colet's our junior school), our Director of Studies and Deputy Head, and the Heads of both schools. Work of the short-listed companies reviewed; two companies invited to meet with us. Initial feedback indicates our existing site has lots of scope for improvement: visual design could be much more interesting and the information architecture needs attention. Beginning of summer holiday, Clearleft selected: they have the track record of achievement and the range of in-house expertise we need. At this stage, we are clear a good, local design service could give our site a face-lift for 10K; a top agency, working from and focused on user experience, might cost anywhere from 15–20 up to 40K, depending on the work required/requested. To keep these sums in perspective, we compare the cost of a prospectus and annual information booklet over a four year period (the probable life of a new web design before it might need to be overhauled extensively).
- September–December 2008. Planning and research. User research (involving: selection and recruitment of suitable user volunteers; testing of feedback about existing site; subsequent testing and feedback about new site); competitive analysis; content analysis (spreadsheets of content and pages); creation of personas. Workshop: Clearleft learn about St Paul's, uncover much more about our goals for the redesign and what we think makes us distinctive; we all consider how the site will develop over time. Here's a shot of some of our affinity diagram work (KJ Method) — this 'helps groups reach consensus on what the most important aspects of a product should be'*:
We discover personas: 'research-based documents that describe typical users. … they get people talking about user experience and how to design a website for customers'*. Profiles built of key users, leading to creation of user stories, in turn leading to compilation of a feature-and-function list which, in turn, means we can better deliberate priorities and cost implications. User experience design phase: card sorts (users reveal how they group topics: 'card sorting can help you understand how users form relationships between concepts and allow you to create a shared vocabulary from the results'*), the understanding of the journeys users (will) make through our site. Information architecture work leads to a new site map and we receive a spreadsheet of how the old content and structure map to the new, along with the final site map. First meeting with professional copy writer. Initial work on copy, including interviewing pupils.
- December 2008–January 2009. Usability and testing. Wireframes ('A wireframe is a low-detail representation of an interface. It omits colour, image detail and other visual design specifics, providing instead a simple inventory of what's on the page and how it should be laid out'*) built for key pages, providing clear guidelines for both design and build and a platform for usability testing. Usability tests lead to further refinement of the wireframes. This phase brings together the needs of the users with the goals of the school and proceeds iteratively. In this way, we can create and refine a site with a cohesive look and feel.
- February–July 2009. Final wireframes. Final sitemap and old-to-new content maps. Visual design (developed by James Bates): intensive work and development of concept, coupled with intensive photographic work. Final design proofs. Completed front-end build: HTML/CSS templates (pattern portfolio) delivered.
- Summer holiday–September 2009. Software development: Firefly, our existing content management system, is developed considerably to provide for the new site. Intensive back-end integration also undertaken in-house.
- Autumn half-term 2009. First version of site launched, privately. Steep learning curve for all. Further developments to Firefly and continued extensive in-house development of back-end integration with databases in our MIS (iSAMS). Photographic work continues, including new aerial shots.
- Late Autumn 2009–Spring 2010. Full revision of copy and completion of most new photographic work.
- April–May 2010. Feedback from Clearleft about our implementation as we go, leading to changes in our methods or Firefly or both. Launch.
- June–July 2010. Enhancement of copy and photography (this never stops). Completion of videos for 16+ entry.
- August–September 2010. Revision of homepage image and small-screen optimisation.
(School holidays prolong the re-design process and one of the challenges is managing the project over these gaps. Things gets easier as we near completion, but in the earlier stages the full group of people involved does need to be available for key decisions to be reached collectively. Added to this, we are developing two sites, St Paul's and Colet Court.)
This has been the largest and most collaborative project I've been involved in, engaging the attention, time and skills of a distributed group of professional designers, our home team, our photographer, software developers and others over many months. The work of so many people was critical to the project's success. (Communicating with and coordinating this distributed team went on through meetings, via email and Basecamp, and by phone.) I am grateful to all our team (mentioned above), and also for the indispensable work of our in-house developers, Simon and Zar, who oversee much of the back-end integration. Great thanks is owed to Jonathan Player, our photographer — unstinting in his efforts to get the shots we need. Clearleft's work speaks for itself and they have been endlessly helpful, creative and astute. Hugely experienced, they have guided and grown this project every step of the way. At Firefly, Joe Mathewson, in particular, has done extensive work in developing Firefly's capabilities. He was immensely patient as we bombed him with feature requests and bug reports.
Cennydd was Clearleft's project and UX lead and his book (quoted above*), Undercover User Experience Design, is subtitled, 'Learn how to do great UX work with tiny budgets, no time and limited support'. That alone should make schools buy a copy. It's on my desk now and comes highly recommended.
Finally, we've all learned a lot more about CSS and HTML. If you want to explore things further, there's Andy Budd's (Clearleft), CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions. Jeremy's (also Clearleft) new book, HTML5 for Web Designers, makes a complex thing seem alluringly approachable.
At the Oxford Firefly meeting, I said that the small-screen optimisation we asked Clearleft to effect is a first step as we think about the life of a site in an increasingly small-screen-accessed, "mobile"-accessed world. As Jeremy has put it, 'The choice is not between using media queries and creating a dedicated mobile site; the choice is between using media queries and doing nothing at all'. Jeremy's set out his thinking about responsive design in a number of very recent posts on his blog: A responsive mind; Delivering Sorrow; Responsive refresh; Responsive enhancement.
Last week, James Pearce picked up on this work and the responsive design initiative, and both Cennydd's and Jeremy's comments there, along with some other, excellent contributions (eg, Max Flanigan: 'whilst CSS media queries may not represent a single revelational panacea for mobile, they do represent a step in the right direction. One that if taken more often can be iterated further'), repay thoughtful attention. We knew we weren't trying to build a mobile site, and we're well aware that media does not simply equal context.
St Paul's is unique in my experience in having not one but two full-time, in-house developers on its IT team. Most schools I know don't have one, and where they do have someone it's almost invariably a talented individual who programs and develops in his or her spare time. Factor in the budgets schools can throw at this and the difficulties of developing a separate mobile site might seem insurmountable. All the same, we need to be thinking about these issues and, as I've said to James privately, it's very useful to have his mobile-centric take on where we are now and what additional, cost-effective, smaller changes might help.
The way forward is going to take some thinking about. My ha'p'worth:
- I'm seeing some rapidly changing behaviour around devices and their use. Just look at how things have developed since we first commissioned Clearleft in 2008 to do the re-design! Every day, there's evidence of the greater and greater use of "mobile" devices (very notably, iPads, of course, so often sighted around London, on tube and train) and what we know of how these then get used in the home tells us that the shift away from desktops is now very significant. Whereas even recently "mobile" devices did seem to mean 'a few moments' of use in a busy life, this is no longer an adequate summary of how they're being used.
- Moreover, one of the fascinating things about the iPad is the way it makes a computer a social thing. Evidence of this came in very soon after its arrival. Here's a scene I see now a lot, but this was back in June, in one of our main desktop-provisioned rooms:
178° viewing angle … Once experienced in class, you realise things have changed. A decision as important as private education may be served better in some ways via a shared iPad than via a desktop — one person sitting at it and others having to stop what they're doing and come and stand behind the viewer in order to have any part in the experience.
So the context and manner of "mobile" use is changing very fast for us (we're of course London-centric). "Mobile" is often noticeably immersive now, not simply briefly dipped into, and also often shared.
- Another complication, as Jeremy points out in a comment to James's post, 'Large screen size does not equate to large bandwidth', nor small to small.
- There's the difficulty of who the site is for (primarily). If we prioritise the "delivery" of news or calendar for a mobile device, will the primary audience be best served (remembering the rapidly changing patterns of user behaviour)? And how well will users adapt to changes in navigation?
- And finally, how many taps/clicks from the homepage is too many to get to a phone number? It's currently one.
Interesting days. Perhaps, as James says (in the comments to his post), 'There will soon be a time when mobile users are be considered first, and their sedentary brethren as an afterthought. One day, I think the desktop browser will be the trade-off!'. Right now, for a few hours of work, the media query approach is a very good option to take and then run with. The paint has barely begun to dry on the small-screen optimisation of our site. In its short life, it's yielded delight and pleasure. Inevitably, it involves compromises and we're very interested in the UX considerations, the context of use and user.
Over the summer, I was re-reading some of Brian Eno's essays and thinking again how what he said in a Wired interview (with Kevin Kelly) in 1995 about things not being finished really fits our times. It's rather out of context here, but it works for me now when I think about building a site:
The right word is "unfinished." Think of cultural products, or art works, or the people who use them even, as being unfinished. Permanently unfinished.
Recently, I saw Chris Messina tweeted this:
That chimed, too, and made me think back to Dan Hill's telling comment about the birth of Monocle (2007):
… it's both thrilling and sobering to see how the creative and industrial process of making a magazine has been honed to streamlined effectiveness, given a few hundred years' practice. Sobering, as it makes new media seem a clumsy, gauche ingenue.
So it gave me real pleasure, when I was thinking about writing this, to read again,
The launch or redesign of a website is the beginning of the story, not the end. We provide ongoing support, analysis and strategy towards improving and adding to existing functionality based on real world use. — Clearleft
Our attention is now turned, as it should be, to building and developing the site further, to thinking responsively ( :) ) about small screens and mobile users and to enhancing as much as we can (within the constraints of budget, competing claims and available time) the experience of people using our site.


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After a week where the line of questioning put to the Briton centred on whether he was prepared to accept a supporting role to McLaren team-mate Lewis Hamilton, Button's fading title push was reignited when both Hamilton and Alonso were involved in a first corner shunt not of their making. With neither scoring, the rest of the chasing pack made hay, with Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen joining Button on the podium, and Mark Webber taking sixth place from twelfth on the grid.
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- Overall Impression: 10
- Reliability & Durability: 9
- Action, Fit & Finish: 10
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Sound — 9
Bright, clear and cutting sound. Very loud projection from a smaller body guitar box. Excellent for lead or accompaniment. Very light and comfortable to play. Nut is 1-11/16ths which isn't great for large fingers, but overall very easy to play. Pickup is very natural sounding as it's blended with the internal mic. The volume nob is small and hardly noticeable as it barely projects out from the sound hole on the low E string side. No buzzing, setup was done initially for jazz so the action is very low between the fret 1 and fret 12. The woods resonate long and decay slowly, lots of overtones from the rosewood and spruce - insance trebel and mid-range response. Not as much bass response as it's a smaller box, but the bass is very tight and projected. I don't play this through an amp (PA system only) and have no issues with feedback and no need for a sound hole cover. Can be played easily without amplification in small venues or just with a small microphone pointed near the last fret.
Overall Impression — 10
I play a folk/rock/pop style in the vein of Toad the Wet Sprocket/Red House Painters. This guitar would be excellent for recording lead acoustic parts. This fits a gap in my guitars as most of my other guitars do not cut through other instruments as well as this one does. The nut size is a little small for my fingers but it will just take a little time to get used to playing. This is a professional/boutique type guitar. If lost or stolen, I would consider another Santa Cruz or possibly a Froggy Bottom (If they are the same price). The craftsmanship of the guitar, fit and finish as well as the voicing is top notch and I couldn't ask for anything better. This guitar was bought instead of a parlor guitar as I wanted something a little smaller but didn't want to give up the OM or SJ fullness of sound. I'm actually very glad I got this guitar as I was considering either a Larrivee or an 1960's 0-18 or 00-18 Martin. A parlor would have been way to small and I don't think I would have gotten the sound out of it I would want. I'm still getting used to it, as compared to other 0 to 00 models, I think the H Model Santa Cruz is right up there with the best of them. I do tend to like Goodall, Froggy and of course Olsen, but for the price, I don't think I could have gotten a better guitar.
Reliability & Durability — 9
The guitar is about 5 years old and it looks to have held up very well. Haven't gigged the guitar yet as I'm still adjusting to it's mojo. My regualr player is a Cedar top/Mahogany Taylor 514CE from 1997 which has adjusted well to my folk/pop playing style. Overall, this guitar would be great to use as a lead guitar/riff guitar for small acoustic gigs or larger accompaniment with a band.
Action, Fit & Finish — 10
Action is low and very easy to play (great for electric players Who don't have the normal finger strength). I bought this used, and according the the fretboard it has seen lots of play time, but the body is in prime condition. Someone babied it as there are very little scratches or wear on the body. Fit & finish are pristine, no glue globs or issues even around the purfling or internal bracing. Neck block is set nicely. Top wood is still sounding like it could mellow a bit, Spruce has a tendency to take a little while to reach its final resonation, all indications are this will continue to be a very clean and clear projecting guitar. Top wood tap tests near an A to Ab with the back wood about the same.
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Randle Round Up
Before the NBA Draft, we asked some experts who closely tracked the top prospects all season to weigh in on various players, including Julius Randle, L.A.'s selection with the No. 7 overall pick. Below is a summary of what ESPN's Ryen Russillo and Kevin Pelton and Sports Illustrated's Luke Winn had to say about the freshman out of Kentucky:
RYEN RUSSILLO: Before the season started, he was in the conversation for the No. 1 overall pick. Randle's the most known quantity of the three (elite) forwards that were in the conversation, including Aaron Gordon (No. 4 to Orlando) and Noah Vonleh (No. 9 to Charlotte). He's going to rebound the basketball right away. He's a beast in that he's a wide body that will create space and get stuff around the rim because he's aggressive and competitive. He has some fire in him, and he's going to get in better shape. He's a great kid with a great family, and a cool teammate who cares about winning.
KEVIN PELTON: Randle's steal rate was a red flag early in the season. It got better as the year went on, but was still relatively poor for a power forward. Offensively, while he showed the ability to create his own shot, he struggled with finishing over bigger defenders in the paint -- something I think will be a problem for him early in his NBA career. Eventually, Randle can overcome it.
LUKE WINN: Julius Randle, the only reason you could get a little bit worried is, a lot of production in college is he bullied people. He was incredibly mature for his age. Randle showed up and he was more physically mature than a lot of college seniors. He'd lower the right shoulder, get into them, drop the lefty hook over them, and push his way around the post. You wonder if it translates against 7-footers. He was a little sloppy with the ball with better defenders on him digging into him on drives. You worry that some of that stuff won't translate as much. He was flat out a better player than Vonleh, he played in bigger games, produced at a higher level. If you think your team needs a power forward to get double-doubles in the next three or four years, it's Randle.


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Route Description
10 km Roodbarak to Vandar Bon (via a dirt road)
13 km Vandar Bon to Camp 3800 m in Hesar Chal
3 km Camp 3800 m to Marji Kesh
26 km Total
From Roodbarak (elevation 1400 m) hike or drive a dirt road (passable by most/any car) about 10 km to a "village" known as Vandar Bon (2300 m) where the stream branches. Turn left and follow the banks of the Sardab Rood River to Hesar Chal. A Four Wheel Drive road follows the river from Vandar Bon to the "Tange Galoo" Narrows (3250 m). If you hire a vehicle to take you to "Tange Galoo" (available with the tour mentioned on the main page), you will significantly decrease your hiking time. When we were there in late June, the road could be driven up to about 3050 m only. Patches of snow blocked the rest of it.
At "Tange Galoo" you will have to hike up relatively steep snow banks in a somewhat rocky area. This should not be too difficult for a hiker but in early summer, a pack-mule may have a hard time going over the deep snow. At about 3600 m, the valley opens up and the slopes become very gentle. This is the beginning of the Hesar Chal Plain. The peaks that surround Hesar Chal begin to come into view. You can camp anywhere in Hesar Chal. We found a nice spot by the stream, at just below 3800 m, where rocks had been piled into a wind breaker wall.
From Camp 3800 m, Marji Kesh and Zard Gel will be in good view. You can choose any path up the slopes to reach the summit of Marji Kesh.
If you want to follow the top of the ridgeline that connects Marji Kesh to Alam Kooh, you will have to bypass the 4533 m cliff that is known as Marji Kesh #2 and rises on the crest of this ridgeline immediately to the north of the main summit of Marji Kesh. To do so, you will have to descend the steep scree filled slopes about 50 vertical meters to go below the cliff to the west of it. You can then either go back to the top of the ridgeline or follow a faint trail below the crest of the ridgeline to Alam Kooh.
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Stocks of blood are at a critically low stage and donations are desperately needed to cope with demand. The Irish Blood Transfusion Service mobile unit will be holding a special lunch-time Blood Donation Clinic in the Oakwood Arms Hotel, Shannon this Sunday 15th April from 12noon to 3pm.
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Cape Point
Most visitors to Cape Town are keen to make the short daytrip 40 miles (65km) from the city centre to the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve, not only to take in its floral diversity in what at first sight appears to be a bleak landscape, but to stand at the top of the towering promontory at the most southerly point of the Cape Peninsula (not of Africa, visitors must go further afield to Cape Agulhus for this). From the viewpoint and lighthouse at Cape Point, reached via a funicular, it is awesome to watch the thundering waves crashing at the base of the cliffs 686ft (209m) below. The reserve itself is worth exploring, particularly on foot or by bicycle, for those interested in birds and botany. There are a number of beautiful walking trails, including the shipwreck trail which takes you to a few of the 26 recorded shipwrecks around Cape Point. There are also some great beaches and dive sites. The restaurant at Cape Point has a terrace offering spectacular views. Resident baboons at Cape Point enjoy the spoils from tourists' snacks and picnics and although they are fun to watch they can be quite aggressive and are ultimately dangerous animals. Because feeding of the baboons carries a stiff penalty, it is worth ensuring there are no free lunches for these hirsute scavengers!
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Existing Home Sales Clear Sad Little Hurdle, Market Cheers
Great news everybody, housing is marginally less abysmal than economists expected!
The National Association of Realtors reported home resales fell 3.8% in May to a 4.81 million unit pace from a downwardly revised 5 million unit pace in April.
The decline wasn't quite as bad as economists expected, but that's only because April's numbers were revised lower. This manufactured news appears to have helped stocks a little bit. The Dow is up 60 points now, compared with about 30 about 10 minutes before the release.
Look, bad housing news isn't a surprise to anybody, and it can't get much worse (can it?). But anybody expecting a quick bounce in prices is smoking something powerful. The existing-home inventory came in at 9.3 months' worth of sales in May, the highest since November. In a normal market, that should be more like six months. Hard to get prices going with that sort of overhang. And don't even get me started on the shadow inventory.


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Check out clips of 'Hannah Montana' – with Brooke Shields playing then teen star's mom – in an episode airing May 4th. Shields also reveals the episode plot …
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We have an extra special ODSY Vision for you guys this month. Mike Aitken and Tom Dugan hop into the Trans AM and travel through Idaho and Montana to hit up some concrete treasures. Filmed and Edited by Joe Rich.
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Courchevel Snow Report 21/03/2016
Blue bird skies are making the perfect backdrop for the resort. With all the runs open, there hasn't been better conditions to explore all that Courchevel has to offer.
Forecast: It will be mostly dry throughout the week. Freeze-thaw conditions (max 2°C on Tuesday morning, min -5°C on Wednesday night). Wind will be generally light, with the potential for light snow coming over on Wednesday.
Last Snowed: 15 March 2016
Fresh Snow: 5cm
Lifts Open: 53
Lower Depth: 141cm
Upper Depth: 198cm
Runs To Resort: All open
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Temperature: 0°C
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Monday, Sept. 10, Fairfax County 9/11 Memorial Grove Garden
Prepared Remarks for 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony by Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Gerald E. Connolly
Thank you all for joining us today as we honor the memories of those lost in the terrorist attacks here in Northern Virginia, as well as in New York City and rural Pennsylvania, six year ago tomorrow.
This is the fourth year we have gathered here in Fairfax County's own Memorial Grove Garden to pay tribute to the heroes of 9/11 – the first responders, co-workers, family, friends and neighbors who were among the thousands we lost on that terrible day. Memorials like this have been constructed throughout our community and the country to commemorate the events of 9/11, and next year at this time, we will join with the rest of the region and our nation in welcoming the completion of the Pentagon Memorial itself. Earlier this morning, my colleagues and I authorized a $100,000 contribution from Fairfax County to the Pentagon Memorial Fund. It is one of the many ways in which we continue to pay tribute to the 184 people who perished at the Pentagon – more than three dozen of whom were from Fairfax County.
This morning we again proclaimed September to be Emergency Preparedness Month. Clearly the threat of terrorism is still very real as evidenced by recent messages from our nation's enemies, but one of the lasting legacies of 9/11 has been the notion of being prepared for any type of emergency, whether it is a widespread event like a terrorist attack, natural disaster, or epidemic or an individualized event like a fire, car crash or power outage.
On the eve of the anniversary of 9/11, it is natural for people to question whether we are any safer or more prepared today than we were six years ago. Let me reassure our residents, those here in Fairfax County and across the region, we are in fact safer, more prepared and better equipped to deal with an emergency.
Fairfax County has made strategic investments in people, resources and time to coordinate with our regional counterparts, fortify our first responders and communicate with citizens to ensure we are as prepared as we can be for the unknown. For example, directors from more than a half dozen Fairfax County agencies currently serve on regional preparedness committees through the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. In addition, the County Executive chairs the regional Chief Administrative Officers Committee, and I am the current chairman of the Emergency Preparedness Council of the National Capital Region.
The events of 9/11 tested our abilities beyond our imagination, and a number of trying real-life experiences have helped hone our skills since then: the anthrax attacks shortly after 9/11, the sniper attacks the next year, Hurricanes Isabel and Katrina and last year's flooding in Huntington. Successfully preparing for an emergency cannot be done on your own, nor can it be done in a vacuum. Our work with our regional partners has yielded tremendous benefits for us all, whether it is seamless communication between our first responders, joint training exercises or better management of traffic. Earlier this year, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff recognized the National Capital Region for those very efforts.
In terms of resources, we continue to strengthen the capabilities of our first responders, whether it is creating a full-time hazardous materials unit within the Fire and Rescue Department, updating the technology used by our police officers on the street or supporting our elite Urban Search and Rescue Team, which currently has members responding at the earthquake site in Peru. Even as recently as this morning, we accepted a federal grant to pre-position interoperable radios within Fairfax County for regional use in case of an emergency. And later this month, we will get our first look at how the new Public Safety Transportation Operations Center is coming along. The state-of-the-art facility is a joint venture between Fairfax County (specifically our 911 Communications Center and the Office of Emergency Management), the Virginia State Police and the Virginia Department of Transportation. Having all three of us under one roof will only enhance our cooperation on incident management and the quality of response for our citizens.
In addition to the actions we at the County are taking, I encourage every one of our residents to take the initiative during this month as we focus on preparedness to re-assess the emergency plan for their families or to create one if they have not already done so. Fairfax County is ready to assist you with advice or deliver up-to-the-minute emergency information through our Community Emergency Alert Network, which allows you to receive messages via e-mail, cell phone or pager. Later this fall we will add to our growing preparedness tool kit with the unveiling of Fairfax County's Emergency Radio, which can be heard on 1670 AM.
This is just a snapshot of what we in the County have been doing since 9/11 to ensure our community is prepared to withstand future challenges. We hope to never relive those dark days, but we honor the memories of those lost by preparing ourselves as best we can to face what lied ahead.
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West Caroga Lake
West Caroga Lake is located in the Town of Caroga, Fulton County. The lake is known for excellent warm water fishing, but it also offers the only location to fish for splake in the county.
Physical Features
Surface Area: 275 Acres
Mean Depth: 13 Ft
Max Depth: 74 Ft
West Caroga Lake Contour Map (PDF) (238 KB)
To access to the lake, boaters can use the state campground on east Caroga Lake. The campground is on Route 29A, 9 miles northwest of City of Gloversville. It is a beach launch site with parking for 15 cars and trailers.
Fish found within this lake include: smallmouth bass, chain pickerel, brown bullhead, yellow perch, pumpkinseed and splake. Anglers have the opportunity to fish for warm water species and trout because of the contour of lake. Rainbow trout have also been known to enter into West Caroga Lake.
Fish Stocking
Each year West Caroga Lake is stocked with approximately 4,550 Splake. This stocking helps to keep the fishery strong and successful for everyone to enjoy.
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New App From IKEA Puts Furniture Directly In Your Home
IKEA is one of my favorite places in this world. Everything is colorful and beautiful, the prices are good, and HELLO, Swedish meatballs. However, if you don't feel quite so strongly about IKEA and would rather avoid a few extra trips to their labyrinthine stores, this new app may be just what you have been waiting for. It's an augmented reality app that allows you to use your phone to picture IKEA's furniture in your home. Instead of focusing on the width and length of your purchases, you can get a visual representation of how it will actually look. The furniture appears in 3D over your room so that you can see if the couch is too big or even if the color isn't quite right. The future is here, people! Or, as IKEA would say, schmergenflergenblerg. [CNBC] [Image via IKEA]


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Checks for active malware during install. Very good phishing detection. Good score in local malware blocking test. Good results from independent labs. Includes VPN client. Free!
Less effective at blocking brand-new malicious URLs. Parental control system limited. Turning off parental control disables antiphishing and malicious URL blocking. No access to rescue CD for ransomware and related problems. VPN client doesn't handle all VPN types.
Bottom Line
Although it's designed to work with a network appliance, FortiClient 5.0 also functions as a standalone antivirus, with parental control and VPN client thrown in. And it's free!
Web Content Filtering
Although it's labeled "Parental Control" in FortiClient's main window, this feature is more of a general-purpose web content filter. It has the ability to block websites matching 70 potentially problematic categories, grouped into seven major categories. In addition to the expected blocking of "Adult/Mature Content" it can block categories that over-consume bandwidth (streaming media, for example) and categories that could cause legal liability if accessed from the workplace.
There's an option to force Safe Search in Yahoo, Bing, and Russian search engine Yandex. Google is listed, but Google's switch to using a secure (HTTPS) connection means it's no longer supported.
You won't find per-user settings here, but the log of violations does identify the user account that committed each. There's also an option to record every visited URL, which makes for a really big log.
If you intend to use this feature as an actual parental control system, you'll need to lock the settings with a password. In testing, I verified that it's completely browser independent, and that it can't be disabled with a simple network command that works against some parental control tools. In addition, it can filter HTTPS sites, so a child (or employee) can't subvert it using a secure anonymizing proxy website.
Whatever you do, don't turn the parental control component off. By doing so, you're also disabling protection against phishing and malicious websites. If you want to surf your naughty websites without interference, just disable blocking in the "Adult/Mature Content" group.
Simple VPN Client
If you need a VPN client for working from home, you clearly already have one. If you don't have access to a VPN server at work, you may not have much use for a VPN client.
Supposing you do have access to a VPN server, you can configure FortiClient to connect with it, as long as it's connects via SSL-VPN or IPsec VPN. PPTP (Point to Point Tunneling Protocol), another common VPN implementation, is not supported.
The PCMag VPN uses additional layers of authentication, which means I couldn't connect to it using FortiClient. I tried some open VPN services in various countries from the VPN Gate website but never did manage to make a connection. You might well be better off with Shrew Soft VPN, our Editors' Choice for free VPN.
At Least It's Free!
FortiClient 5.0 is definitely designed to be used in conjunction with a FortiGate appliance. In that situation you'd have additional protections including a firewall, and the VPN client would be guaranteed to connect with your company network. Fortinet technology gets good scores from the labs, but those scores don't necessarily reflect performance of the standalone antivirus.
The product did a good job in my malware-blocking test but wasn't as effective blocking super-new malicious URLs. On the flip side, its web filtering component proved to be a very accurate detector of phishing sites.
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Fernando Hidalgo has been in the United States more than 20 years. At 43, Daniel Alvarado has spent almost his entire adult life here. Rachel Olsen came to California in 1972, when she was 10 years old, and hasn't left the country since.
But none of them are U.S. citizens.
They and dozens of other people came to a North Hills library Saturday to begin a process that could culminate with raising their hands months from now as new citizens.
"I think it's time," said Hidalgo, who lives in Sylmar.
Catholic Charities of Los Angeles hosted the citizenship workshop, and volunteers and staff from other organizations helped. It's part of a national effort, the New Americans Campaign, sponsored by dozens of groups that host similar events across the country.
They want to narrow the gap between the millions of legal residents who could become citizens and the relatively small number who do so each year.
Organizers said people are held back by money -- it's $680 to apply for citizenship, besides any other costs -- along with lack of knowledge about the process and, sometimes, loyalty to the nations of their birth.
Olsen had put off applying because she hates dealing with forms. Others don't see a point in becoming citizens when they can already do just about anything except vote.
But more and more people want to be Americans. A similar event last year in Panorama City drew 1,000 people, 400 of whom had to be given rain checks. (Even when there's no workshop, every Los Angeles library has citizenship information available, including study materials.)
The New Americans Campaign stresses its bipartisan advisory committee, and organizers said the effort is not political. But it has major political implications.
Asked why he wants to become a citizen, Alvarado joked, "Because I want to vote for Obama ... for a third (term)."
He knew this president's second term will be his last, but the voting power of Latinos will likely only grow.
Saturday's event came less than two weeks after an election in which Hispanic voters were called a major force.
The New York Times reported Barack Obama won the Hispanic vote by a 44 percent margin over Mitt Romney, taking large majorities in swing states with growing populations, including Colorado and Florida. Down the ballot, Democrats also dominate with Hispanic voters.
At the Mid-Valley Regional Branch Library, people lined up in the rain to check in Saturday even before the doors opened at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Carrying green cards and driver's licenses, they then sat down inside across tables from blue-shirted volunteers, either attorneys or accredited immigration representatives, who helped them fill out forms.
In three to six months, many could be citizens.
Hidalgo, 64, who was born in Mexico, said he works so much he never found the time. He also worried about the expense.
But he said he'll feel safer if he's a citizen.
Olsen, who was born in Cuba, came to the United States with her family in 1972 as a refugee from the Castro regime.
A San Fernando Valley resident since childhood, she lives in Lake Balboa. She's never had a passport and isn't entirely sure how she would leave the country right now if she wanted to.
When she read about Saturday's event in her church bulletin, she decided it was time.
"I think for a long time I was hoping to go back," she said of Cuba. "I didn't want to relinquish my heritage."
Laughing, she added, "And now, 40 years later, it's become evident that I'm staying for good."
Alvarado, a native of El Salvador who lives in Van Nuys, said he wants to be able to vote so he can protect the rights of undocumented people.
Laws such as Arizona's that seek to crack down on undocumented residents have pushed more legal Latino residents to become citizens, said Elisa Sequeira, the California civic engagement director for an association of Latino government officials.
"It almost takes a negative to create a positive," said her colleague, Lizette Escobedo.


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Ancient history doesn't have any dust on it at Tuslaw Junior High.
In fact, the seventh-grade's month-long study of the Greeks of long ago culminated in cheers to rival those bouncing off the acropolis.
"Go, gold!''students screamed from the bleachers.
"No!'' they cried in nail-biting frustration.
"Yes!'' they shouted in hand-raising victory.
The third annual, two-day Greek Games featured competitions in the Olympic spirit -- tests of speed and skill from the 200-meter dash to the innovative chalkboard eraser relay, and shows of strength including an ironman contest requiring fast-paced feats like sit-ups, push-ups, and "suicides'' along with weight and javelin throws.
The Greeks didn't shrink from mental challenges, either, and neither did the Tuslaw students, pitting their wits in events like chess matches and computer program design.
In fact, the academic jeopardy contest generated fierce competition as five teams -- named for each color of the Olympic rings -- raced to buzz in with correct answers to questions in math, science, English, history, trivia and technology. With the clock ticking, each team accumulated points with knowledge like:
- a synonym for a reciprocal (multiplicative inverse)
- another name for the Sumerian temple (ziggurat)
- the value of a when a+ (18+a) = 20 (a=1)
All five teams correctly answered the final question -- the three main governments found in ancient Greece (monarchy, oligarchy, democracy), but with 7,700 points, the gold team handily outdistanced the competition.
The victors received their spoils (medals) during an official awards ceremony Thursday.
Tuslaw's seventh-grade teachers use a common planning time to coordinate an interdisciplinary educational approach, a method that has worked especially well with the study of ancient Greek, teacher Michelle Teis said.
Architecture and ancient Rome are next on the agenda.


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Ultrarunner Dean Karnazes tells a story in which a friend asked him how anyone could possibly ever run 100 miles. I don't have the exact phrasing here in front of me, but Dean's answer was essentially this: "Start putting one foot in front of the other, and don't stop until you've gone 100 miles."
Go Dean. Because that's how you do anything.
I know a lot of people who are very successful in something or other. Some are amazing athletes, some are accomplished businesspeople, some have great discipline or are laudably early risers, some are great parents or spouses, and some are extraordinary simply by living their lives without excuses.
I also do a lot of crazy stuff myself. I've got the business and the accompanying "results not typical" rapid success story, I'm currently functioning on a lot less sleep than many of you reading this, and I'm training for a marathon in Cleveland, in winter, in my "barefoot shoes."
So sometimes, people ask me how to do the big things that they'd like to see in their own lives. The tone of these requests is often frustrated, or defeated, or angry. A lot of people feel that they can't do it despite trying and trying, and it sucks.
So sometimes, I'll give people my own humble two cents when they ask for it. I'll give them a suggestion. Something to do, to try.
Or, in the absence of a nugget of my own wisdom or that of anyone else, plenty of people still know what to do but just can't make it work. Examples of this kind of Zeitgeist advice are: To lose weight, eat better foods in moderate amounts and exercise. Or: To have better relationships with your kids, spend more time with your kids.
A lot of people out there know what to do. They may not see the whole path from fatass to ripped cover model, and they may not know the mechanics along the entire journey from pauper to billionaire, but they know the basics. Most of the principles in life that cause improvement are very, very simple: Eat less. Work harder. Spend less. Don't smoke. Exercise discipline. We know these things. Everyone knows these things.
People have the knowledge. Whether it comes from "out there in the world" as obvious wisdom or whether it comes from a paid coach or consultant, the truth is that people who aren't getting what they want actually do know what to do, at least at a basic, good-enough, get-started level.
The problem isn't knowing what to do. The problem is that almost nobody ever does it.
If 5% of people get results, it's not magic. It's because that 5% has made a decision to do whatever it takes to get those results.
The problem, as you adequately put it, is choice.
Sometimes, a lack of results is due to circumstances beyond a person's control. For instance, a man who is five foot, seven inches tall couldn't realistically win the NBA slam dunk contest (although I guess Spud Webb did it in 1986), and a guy without arms and legs couldn't be a cage fighter (although come to think of it, Kyle Maynard does it), but usually the lack of satisfying outcomes in a person's life is due to choice.
Yeah. I know how that sounds. But hold those tomatoes you're about to throw while you ponder this:
Ask yourself, if you moved off on your own, away from family and friends, and if you got rid of your TV and books and video games and anything remotely fun, interesting or distracting, and if you slept as little as humanly possible, and if you spent 100% of your time honing and perfecting a marketable skill — if you pored over material for months and years to learn exactly who would buy this thing and how to reach them; if you experimented and adjusted and tried and failed for as long as it took to find a way — do you think you could make some money, or make a business successful, or whatever? Do you think you could manage something if sleeping and eating and working was quite literally all you ever did?
Well, the fact that it could be done means that you're not allowed to say "I can't." It means that if it's not happening for you right now, it's a choice that you're making: A choice to do more fun stuff with your time. A choice to sleep more. A choice to spend time with your family, or to have a day job so that you can live in a decent house.
And no, I'm not faulting those choices. I like to have fun, sleep, spend time with my family, and own a home. But regardless of their rightness or wrongness (I don't think they can be right or wrong, but that's another discussion), they are still choices.
Most choices are less extreme: The choice to sleep a bit more. The choice to watch CSI. The choice to have a higher standard of living.
Look. It's time that something is said: The stuff that you want requires hard work. Nobody really accepts that. We like to kid ourselves that there's an easy way to get any good thing, but it's a lie. Everything requires some kind of a trade-off. Everything requires some level of sacrifice.
IT'S FUCKING HARD to get and stay in shape. IT'S FUCKING HARD to be a great mother or father. IT'S FUCKING HARD to climb a mountain. But society won't tell you how incredibly hard most things are, because then outdoors shops can't sell as much climbing gear and the "easy money online" people can't sell their courses. Imagine if the slickest, most-SEO-optimized-for-"make-money-online" internet marketers started telling everyone how hard this is and that at least ninety percent of the people who buy their stuff won't even make their money back. What if they made it a huge deal, like I'm doing right now?
I'm a business coach, right? Well, watch me alienate some clients:
IT'S FUCKING HARD to build a business. It takes work EVERY SINGLE DAY, and it can take MONTHS to see results, and YEARS to get to where you're satisfied. You will FAIL along the way, and family and friends will think you're STUPID for keeping on with it. You will have to STAY UP LATE OR GET UP EARLY, OR MAYBE BOTH, and you will have to TRY, TRY, AND TRY AGAIN. It will be FRUSTRATING and CONFUSING and GENERALLY PRETTY DAMN INCONVENIENT sometimes.
You will have to develop a thick skin and an iron resolve. You will have to have great patience. Oh, and get used to uncertainty, worry, and the occasional (or — perhaps, at the beginning — frequent) bout of panic.
If you want to build a business (and especially if you want to build one with my help), you're making the choice to accept the above. Because that's what it takes.
I'm not being harsh. I'm just being honest. People who enter into a venture without knowledge of the choice they are making are doomed to fail. People who understand and embrace the choice will do well, and those are the kind of people I want to work with because honestly, those are the only kind of people I can help.
Running 100 miles
Want to run 100 miles? Then just keep going. With a map (acuity, advice, coaching, research, whatever), with a kit to treat blisters (the right expectations, attitude, and yes… more knowledge and advice), and walking when you get tired (taking strategic breaks, having support), but the important thing is to just keep going until you get there.
If you buy a course, you'll have to USE IT. I've tried, and none of them seem to generate results while sitting unopened on your bookshelf or hard drive.
If you hire a coach, you'll have to TAKE THE ADVICE AND APPLY IT, and you'll have to do that over, and over, and over, and over again… for weeks, months, or whatever it takes.
Oh, and the last thing? There's no such thing as a "done for you" course or system. The person who figures out how to package success — and sell it as a literally effortless cure-all with 100% fidelity for any person who picks it up — will not only make all of the money that currently exists in the world, but will also spend his days hanging out with Santa and the Tooth Fairy at the Easter Bunny's cold-fusion plant in Never Never Land.
Which means that in addition to all of that hard work you're going to need to do — and the frustration and embarrassment and fatigue you're going to have to face — you're going to have to do it yourself. The course you bought or the coach you hired can only show you the metaphorical door, and you're going to have to be the one to metaphorically walk through it.
To run 100 miles, start putting one foot in front of the other and don't stop until you've gone 100 miles.
Eighty percent of success is just showing up.
When you're going through hell, keep going.
All of these things are good advice, and all of them are true.
The magic pill
The diet industry is full of bullshit claims about some particular herbal or chemical formulation that will melt fat off your frame if you'll just swallow it on a regular basis. These pills are hugely successful because (you know this part; sing along!) IT'S FUCKING HARD to lose weight. You have to stop eating foods that you've relied on to give you pleasure, and you have to start eating foods you probably think taste like crap. You have to move around some, and ideally make a concerted effort to exercise. And you have to do some degree of this FOREVER if you don't want your ass to eventually grow over your chair the way an aggressive tree will grow right through a chain-link fence.
So, the thought of just taking a pill (which is pretty easy) to keep your ass in check is super-appealing. "Everybody want to go to Heaven but nobody want to die," right? The thought of being able to change something without the FUCKING HARD WORK is so appealing that it overpowers the fact that everyone knows no pill has ever been able to do that and none ever will. People look at those pills and KNOW that they're bogus, but they want to believe it so much that they talk themselves into it. And then the supplement companies rake it in.
But only stupid people do that, right?
Well, a lot of supposedly intelligent people use education and advice as a magic pill. They want to consume information and then watch everything get better overnight. They get an itch to do something, and they want it scratched, and so they buy a pill, and they take it and wait for it to work. I've seen it time and time again. Hell, I've DONE it time and time again. You see some Carleton Sheets infomercial about trading real estate and you think, "Hell, I could do that." So you buy the course, and it comes in the mail, and you look through it. And then, with the itch scratched, you put it on the shelf and go about your business.
Or you ask someone for advice, someone who you believe can help you. And, after getting the advice, with the itch scratched, you return to life as normal. In the weightlifting world, "Squats and milk" is a well known cliche. Want to get big? Drink a lot of milk and do a lot of heavy-ass squats. Want to get lean? Less Twinkies, more salmon, more metabolic work (i.e. stuff that will make you want to puke). People solicit this advice from every big or lean person out there, but nobody who asks ever takes the advice, because doing so is really difficult and requires a large, long-term commitment.
A lot of the late-night infomercial courses would produce results… IF YOU USED THEM FULLY.
A lot of great training or fitness advice (even some of the trendy, cheesy courses with infomercials of their own) would get you results… IF YOU FOLLOWED IT AND KEPT DOING SO.
But that's really hard, so we consume the information, feel the itch diminish, and then wait for the magic pill to work.
All of this is totally cool
… if you admit that it's what you're doing.
Check out my past few posts. See a trend? This time of year, I get all worked up and frothy over people who decide that they're going to make a change in their life, and then do nothing besides get worked up and resolutiony. Or they'll take a few small actions, and then quit.
Getting what you want involves trade-offs and choices. It's nobody's business but yours how you make those choices, but at least have the decency to admit that's what's happening.
EX: "I don't have time to work out."
Yes you do. All of us get 24 hours every day, and you're simply choosing to spend your 24 doing other things besides working out. If you wanted, you could get an hour less sleep, or spend an hour less at work and take the pay hit, or you could give the kids to a sitter for a while. Your choices may involve lifestyle elements, money, career, family, or whatever — but they are still choices.
EX: "No matter how hard I try, I can't make any money on the side."
Yes you can. You just want too much too fast, or you aren't doing the work, or you aren't truly taking and applying advice, or you're making incompatible time choices (see above), or you don't believe your own worth, or any number of other reasons. Anyone can make money on the side, but most people try something and then give up. Or they expect a mentor or a course to do it all for them, rather than seeing advice and education as a rudder and recognizing themselves as the engine. How long are you willing to try, adjust, try, adjust, try, fail, learn, adjust? Because it can take a long time, and as Woody Allen said, 80% of success truly is just showing up.
I'm training to run a marathon right now. The official date is May 15th, in Cleveland (and if anyone wants to join me, that'd be fab; just let me know), but I could do it right now. I could do that marathon today, despite the fact that the farthest I've ever run before is 13 miles. I could also do an ultramarathon of 100 miles today. It would take me a very long time to do either — but I could do both, because all I have to do is to keep putting one foot in front of the other. All I have to do is decide to not stop until I get there.
Please, for the love of God, don't tell me you can't do something.
If you want something, then show up for it. Make the choice day in and day out to do the work. Put one foot in front of the other. Get advice, and actually use it. Use it over and over. Adjust your approach if needed. Try things. But keep showing up. Keep putting one foot in front of the other.
Based on my extremely unscientific observations, I'd guess that 5% of the population will do that. That's the 5% that gets results. It's not due to luck or connections or faeries. The people who do the work every day for as long as it takes are the people who get what they want.
Starting a journey of 100 miles is great, but everyone does that. Either choose to keep going until you cross the finish line or do not. Whether you go the distance or not is your choice, but either way, be sure to admit the truth… that it is a choice.
Now, the sad part? Out of every 100 people who read this and get inspired to knuckle down and do the work, only maybe 5 will actually do what it takes, long-term, to get the results they want. The other 95 won't, and worse… they'll say they tried and that they can't do it instead of telling the truth — that they are making a choice.
Getting what you want isn't complicated, but most people decide against getting what they want without even realizing what they're doing.
The odds are stacked against you. Against me, against all of us.
But if it helps at all, the good news is that you control those odds with your decisions.


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Plantilla:Infobox Episode Plantilla:SG1-6 Plantilla:Part1 "Redemption, Part 1" is the first episode of the sixth season of Stargate SG-1.
Colonel Jack O'Neill is pressured by the Russians to allow a Russian to join SG-1, while Jonas Quinn makes himself at home in the SGC. Major Samantha Carter works on the new X-302 hyperspace fighter, and Teal'c has an unhappy reunion with Rya'c. Also, Anubis plans to use a weapon to destroy Earth's Stargate, along with the planet itself.
On P2X-374, SG-1 are forced to retreat while their fourth member, Captain Hagman apologizes to the injured Colonel Jack O'Neill just as a group of primitive people emerge, throwing sticks and spears at the team. SG-1 are able to go through the Stargate, followed by a spear but Hagman is struck by a dart and knocked unconscious while Teal'c brings Jack to the infirmary.
Carter tells Major General George S. Hammond that it looks like the planet is unfriendly.
As she leaves to prepare for a briefing in an hour, Hammond tells her that this morning he got a call from Area 51 and that it is done.
Later Major Samantha Carter visits Jonas Quinn and asks him whether he wants to leave the base with SG-1. He happily agrees and they go to Area 51. There they are confronted with the newly built X-302 hyperspace fighter. They are informed about several technical facts of the ship and that the ship also has a hyperspace engine. O'Neill doesn't want to make the test flight with it (because of the incident with the X-301 Interceptor).
At Stargate Command, O'Neill meets with Hammond and Colonel Chekov, who wants a Russian as the new fourth member of SG-1; O'Neill denies the proposal, stating that it will happen over his rotting corpse while saying "Bite me" when asked to reconsider the offer. As soon as Chekov has gone, Hammond tells Jack that his own patience on the affair is running thin before giving Jack the task of going through numerous files in the hope of choosing a possible candidate suitable enough to join SG-1.
Carter discusses the X-302 with Jonas, who admits that he wants to be a member of SG-1.
Jonas then trains with Teal'c in the gym and they talk about O'Neill's mistrust in him; they agree that Teal'c should talk with O'Neill.
When Teal'c talks with his Colonel, O'Neill claims that Jonas is an alien, which Teal'c doesn't like.
Suddenly the alarm sounds and Bra'tac arrives. He tells Teal'c that Drey'auc is ill and they both go through the gate. Jonas later talks with Sam about Teal'c, when suddenly the gate is dialed.
For over 38 minutes, the maximum amount of time a Stargate should be open, nothing seems to arrive through. They later find out that the energy of the gate is rapidly rising.
On another planet, Teal'c talks with Bra'tac about the situation when an angry Rya'c leaves a tent and reveals that his mother is dead, much to Teal'c's shock.
Teal'c then enters the tent and sees Rya'c's dead body which has him breaking down and crying.
In a forest, Teal'c later confronts Rya'c who tells Teal'c that he is ashamed of Teal'c for all Teal'c has done nothing but bring pain, shame and above all, false hope to countless Jaffa.
Wielding his staff weapon, Rya'c then starts to give Teal'c a vicious beating while demanding that Teal'c fight him. Teal'c simply stands there, silently taking the beatings.
Bra'tac later intervenes, telling Rya'c that he should be grateful that Teal'c does not fight for if Teal'c did, he would snap Rya'c in half. Bra'tac tells Rya'c that while he has become a skilled warrior, a true Jaffa warrior does not let grief cloud their judgement. Rya'c is still furious with Teal'c although Bra'tac states that all Jaffa are victims of the Goa'uld. Drey'auc is later burned and Teal'c then talks with his son, who is still angry but finally starts to cry.
At the SGC, Carter reveals that the energy continually rises and that the gate will eventually explode, which will even cause the destruction of Earth. Her woes grow when her estranged rival, Dr. Rodney McKay arrives back at the SGC, having been recalled from Russia by the Pentagon which leaves Carter deeply annoyed.
While Chekov is angry that there is nothing they can do, Carter tells them that the X-302 will soon be ready so that they can contact the Asgard.
O'Neill and Carter then prepare to start with X-302 but Jonas and McKay tell Hammond that the hyperspace engine won't work because of the instability of the Naquadria. They nevertheless start and all looks good but when they want to enter hyperspace they miss the window and the mission is canceled.In the meantime, a Jaffa named Shaq'rel comes with a Tel'tak and warns Teal'c and Bra'tac that Anubis is going to attack Earth's Stargate. They start to dial the worlds which belong to Anubis and finally find out which world the weapon is on.
Back at SGC, Carter discusses what went wrong with the ship but they can only assume what caused the problem. O'Neill later talks with Carter but she doesn't know what to do. Suddenly the lights start to flash and when they both enter the gate room, a hologram of Anubis appears. The Goa'uld tells them in a very dramatic way that they will all be destroyed soon, much to O'Neill's annoyance.
Abydos; Alpha Site; Apophis; Area 51; Asgard; Babylon; Boxing; Cake; Chulak; Coffee; Colorado; Cronus; Death Glider; Donut; Drey'auc; Janet Fraiser; Funeral; Goa'uld; Grapes; Hologram; Inertial dampener; Daniel Jackson; Jaffa Rebellion; Captain Mathison; Naquadah; Naquadah generator; Naquadria; Nevada; P2X-374; P3X-797; The Pentagon; President of the United States; Protected Planets Treaty; Rite of M'al Sharran; Ronac; Russia; Shaq'rel's Te'tak; Staff weapon; Star Trek; Stargate Command gym; Stargate destroyer; Thor; Titanic; University; X-301 Interceptor; X-302 hyperspace fighter
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Jonas: Hey Major? How do I know what color to wear?
Carter: We call each other every morning.
Hammond: Colonel Chekov feels that as a symbol of our joint efforts, a Russian officer should be assigned to join SG-1.
O'Neill: Over my rotting corpse, sir.
Hammond: Colonel.
O'Neill: I'm sorry, did I say that out loud?
Hammond: I said I would discuss it with you and that I was sure you would give it some careful thought.
O'Neill: And that I will, General, but I'm still pretty sure I'll say, "Bite me."
O'Neill: Y'know, I can be as diplomatic and open-minded as anyone.
O'Neill: Hammond is insisting SG-1 needs a socio-political nerd to offset our overwhelming coolness.
Teal'c: Have you considered Jonas Quinn?
O'Neill: Now I know you've been practicing, but I still can't tell. Is that a joke?
Teal'c: He wishes to join the fight against the Goa'uld.
O'Neill: He's an ali... (realizing his gaffe) ...ien. He's an alien.
McKay: Still sexy as ever, I see.
Carter: What are you doing here?
McKay: Well there's no point in building Naquadah reactors for Russia if there isn't going to be a Russia, is there.
Carter: Navigation?
O'Neill: Check.
Carter: Oxygen, pressure, temperature control?
O'Neill: All check.
Carter: Inertial dampeners?
O'Neill: Cool... and check.
Carter: Engines?
O'Neill: All check. Phasers?
Carter: Sorry, sir. All systems operational.
Carter: They're still analyzing the flight data recorder, but it looks like a 605-3 error.
Hammond: Forgive me?
O'Neill: It's the one after 605-2, sir.
O'Neill: Why aren't you downstairs with the rest of the eggheads? Not that you're an egghead. Well, you are... but... in a good way.
Carter: I couldn't think down there. They all kept looking at me for the answer.
O'Neill: Well, you do have a penchant for pulling brilliant ideas out of your butt... head... out of your head, when we need them.
Carter: Not this time.
- This episode features a brand new opening sequence, with various shots of the gate spinning, and Michael Shanks' name being removed to make way for Corin Nemec's in between Christopher Judge and Don S. Davis. When Judge's name comes up the glyph followed by the camera is the point of origin for Chulak.
- The events of "Redemption, Part 1" take place three months after the events of "Meridian" and "Revelations".
- The role of Shaq'rel, was originally offered to Andromeda actor Plantilla:WPS but he turned it down.
- Colonel Jack O'Neill's injured leg was based on his real-life injury which was caused by falling while carrying his 3-year old daughter just days before filming began.
- This is the first original episode to air on the Sci-Fi Channel after moving from Showtime after five seasons.
- This episode ended the Stargate SG-1 tradition of beginning a new season with the conclusion to a two part episode. However, it was revived for the Season 9 finale "Camelot" and the Season 10 premiere "Flesh and Blood".
- This episode marks the first appearance of Lt. Graham Simmons (Tobias Mehler) since the Season 2 episode "Serpent's Song" as well as his final appearance overall.
- This episode marks the first appearance of Rya'c (Neil Denis) since the Season 2 episode "Family".
- There was an intentional goof in the 18th minute of the episode: a monitor displayed the time that the wormhole had been active, but its reflection was not reflected mirror-inverted in the briefing room window, but displayed forwardly. On the DVD, the writers revealed that this was done on purpose so that the viewer would have a concept of the time running out even when the timer wasn't in shot.
- When Major Samantha Carter enters the control room, an image of the Stargate shows that the gate is inactive, despite it actually being active.
- As the X-302 hyperspace fighter is preparing to travel through hyperspace to Abydos, the glyph markings on its screen show the constellations Sagittarius and Orion in the wrong places.
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- French: Rédemption (1ère partie) (Redemption (Part 1))
- Italian: Redenzione (Parte 1) (Redemption (Part 1))
- Spanish: Redención (Parte 1) (Redemption (Part 1))
- Czech: Spása (1. část) (Redemption (Part 1))
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