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Remember when a phone was just a phone? You'd no more give thought to its operating system than you would to the one that your microwave oven ran. Boy, have times changed. Today's smart phones are pocketable, Net-connected personal computers, and the OSs they use have a huge impact on their power and their personality. Buy a phone, and you're committing to a platform just as surely as you are when you choose a PC or a Mac.
To see how today's smart phone OSs stack up, I spent time with five leading ones as experienced on phones that show them to good advantage: Apple's iPhone OS (which I tried on the iPhone 3G, using AT&T's network), Google's Android (on T-Mobile's G1), Microsoft's Windows Mobile (on HTC's Touch Diamond, using Sprint), Nokia's S60 3rd Edition on Symbian (on the company's N96, sold only in unlocked form), and RIM's BlackBerry OS (on the company's own BlackBerry Bold, using AT&T). (Consult PC World's Top 10 Smart Phones chart to see how the hardware compares.)
I judged the five operating systems on their capabilities, ease of use, and visual panache, and considered both their standard applications and third-party programs.
The Winners
The two most impressive operating systems were the two with the briefest histories: iPhone OS and Android.
Both are built for Internet-centric devices, both are not only functional but fun, and both make extending your phone's capabilities with new applications extremely easy. At the moment, iPhone OS beats the newer, rougher Google OS; over time, Android's open-source design and lack of restrictions on third-party developers could give it an edge over Apple's more locked-down approach.
Among the old-timers, the BlackBerry OS is doing a solid job of preserving the strengths that made it popular in the first place while keeping up with the times. In contrast, I regret to report, Windows Mobile and S60 3rd Edition are aging badly.
Let's delve more deeply.
Apple iPhone OS
What it is: iPhone OS is a pocket-size version of the Mac's OS X, shrunk down and redesigned to power the iPhone 3G.
How it works: As you zip your way around the iPhone 3G's multitouch interface with your fingertips, hardware and software blur into one pleasing experience. With other OSs, it's all too easy to get lost in menus or forget how to accomplish simple tasks; iPhone apps, however, are remarkably sleek and consistent. The OS's most infamous omission is cut-and-paste capability--but to tell the truth, I haven't missed it yet.
How it looks: Terrific. Everything from the sophisticated typography to the smooth animation effects contributes to the richest, most attractive environment ever put on a handheld device.
Built-in applications: What's good is great--especially the Safari browser, which makes navigating around sites that were never designed to be viewed on a phone remarkably simple. And the OS's music and video programs truly are of iPod caliber. But as a productivity tool, the iPhone lacks depth: You can't search e-mail, and you get no apps for editing documents or managing a to-do list.
Third-party stuff: Just months after Apple opened up the iPhone to other developers, thousands of programs are available, and downloading them directly via the App Store is a cakewalk. The best ones, such as Facebook and the Evernote note-taker, are outstanding. But the limitations that Apple puts on third-party apps--they can't run in the background or access data other than their own--place major obstacles in the way of everything from instant messengers to office suites. And Apple, the sole distributor of iPhone software, has declined to make available some useful applications that developers have submitted.
Bottom line: iPhone OS is easily the most enjoyable and intuitive phone operating system in existence, but its growth could be stunted unless Apple keeps its control-freak tendencies in check.
Next: Google Android and RIM BlackBerry OS
Google Android
What it is: Google's new phone OS is an ambitious open-source platform intended to let companies customize it to their liking for an array of handsets. So far, however, it's available on just one model, T-Mobile's G1.
How it works: On the G1, Android's interface feels like an iPhone/BlackBerry mashup--much of it uses the touch screen, but you get a trackball and Menu, Home, and Back buttons, too. The highly customizable desktop is a plus. Overall, it compares well to older platforms but isn't as effortless as the iPhone.
How it looks: Android isn't an aesthetic masterpiece like iPhone OS, but it's fresh and appealing, and it makes good use of the G1's high-resolution screen.
Built-in applications: They're tightly integrated with Google services such as Gmail and Google Calendar--the first thing you do when you turn on the phone for the first time is to give it your Google account info. (That's fine as long as you're not dependent on alternatives such as Microsoft Exchange.)
Android's browser lacks the iPhone's multitouch navigation but is otherwise a close rival. The best thing about its music features is the ability to download DRM-free songs from Amazon. The only videos it can play are YouTube clips, alas.
Third-party stuff: Developers are just beginning to hop on the Android bandwagon. The iPhone-like Market service lets you download apps directly to the phone from Google; unlike with the iPhone, you can also snag programs from third-party merchants such as Handango.
Bottom line: Android's potential is gigantic, especially if it winds up on scads of phones. On the G1, it's a promising work in progress.
RIM BlackBerry OS
What it is: This software powers RIM's BlackBerry smart phones, including the Curve, Pearl, and 8800, as well as the new Bold and Storm models.
How it works: The basic concepts behind the BlackBerry interface have changed remarkably little in a decade. And why should they? In its own way, the BlackBerry interface is just as logical and consistent as the iPhone's: On most models you perform almost every function in every application with a trackball, a Menu button, and a button that lets you back out to the previous screen.
Master those three actions, and you can whip around the OS with extreme speed. (I haven't tried the Storm, which replaces the standard BlackBerry controls with an iPhone-style touch screen.)
How it looks: The BlackBerry OS is fairly mundane and text-centric, although recent models such as the Bold dress it up with crisper fonts and slicker icons.
Built-in applications: The BlackBerry's e-mail and calendaring applications still set the standard for efficient design and reliable real-time connectivity with widely used messaging systems such as Microsoft Exchange.
The Bold introduces a much-improved new browser that rivals iPhone OS and Android in its ability to display sites the way their designers intended; its music and video apps are serviceable enough but still secondary to the productivity tools.
Third-party stuff: Once upon a time, users didn't have many BlackBerry programs to choose from, but recently the market has boomed--thousands, from productivity apps to games, are available now. Windows Mobile and S60 have even more bountiful selections, though.
Currently BlackBerry has no over-the-air storefront comparable to Apple's App Store or Android Market. RIM's BlackBerry storefront is expected to launch in March 2009.
Bottom line: The BlackBerry OS is an old dog, but a smart one--and one that's proving itself capable of learning new tricks.
Next: Microsoft Windows Mobile and Nokia S60 3rd Edition on Symbian
Microsoft Windows Mobile
What it is: As its name makes clear, this is Microsoft's mobile edition of Windows. Version 6.1 ships on a dozen phones from manufacturers such as HTC (with its Touch Diamond), Motorola, Palm, and Samsung.
Here's a video showing the best of the new features of Windows Mobile 6.1.
Some manufacturers--including HTC with the Diamond, Palm, and Samsung--supplement Windows Mobile with their own software layer or tweaks to the underlying Windows Mobile OS.
How it works: Surprisingly, Windows Mobile acts like full-strength Windows, complete with a Start menu and system tray. That isn't a virtue--who wants to squint at tiny icons on devices meant for on-the-go use? The Touch Diamond covers up part of Microsoft's stylus-oriented interface with a fingertip-driven system called TouchFLO that's nowhere near as elegant and intuitive as the iPhone.
How it looks: It's workmanlike. But it falls far, far short of iPhone OS's surface gloss.
Built-in applications: The version of Internet Explorer on current phones is profoundly archaic; the Touch Diamond dumps it for Opera Mobile. (Microsoft has released a new version of IE, but it isn't yet available on any phones.) On the other hand, the productivity apps--basic versions of Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint--aren't bad.
Third-party stuff: The best thing about this OS is the sheer variety of available applications in every category. Utilities such as Lakeridge Software's WisBar Advance let you tweak the interface's look, feel, and functionality, compensating for some of its deficiencies. But you get no built-in app store à la iPhone OS and Android.
Bottom line: Windows Mobile has fallen behind the times on multiple fronts. Microsoft's next major overhaul isn't expected until late 2009 or 2010; by then, version 6.1 will be all but irrelevant.
Nokia S60 3rd Edition on Symbian
What it is: S60 3rd Edition is the version of the venerable Symbian mobile OS found in a variety of smart phones, not only from Nokia (including its new N96) but also LG and Samsung.
How it works: S60's interface dates from the days when even the smartest phones sported only a numeric keypad and a few other buttons, and it tends to make you shuffle through menus one laborious item at a time. (The BlackBerry OS does a much better job of making non-touch-screen devices fast and efficient.)
How it looks: It's pretty old-fashioned by today's standards, with blocky fonts and retro icons.
Built-in applications: The programs vary from phone to phone. The N96 I tried includes a reasonably comprehensive suite of apps, and judged purely on available features, they're respectable; the browser, for instance, has a zoom-in/zoom-out interface that's theoretically similar to the one in iPhone OS's Safari. But the clunky interface leaves them feeling less powerful than the apps on any other phone I tried for this article.
Third-party stuff: A profusion of useful S60-compatible applications is available at sites such as Handango--one of the deepest libraries for any platform, thanks to Symbian's long life span and wide usage.
Bottom line: S60 3rd Edition is stale in comparison with iPhone OS and Android, but it's also heading for retirement. The new S60 5th Edition brings the OS up-to-date with features such as touch-screen support; Nokia's 5800 XpressMusic, the first phone to use it, won't arrive in the United States until early next year.
Former PC World editor in chief Harry McCracken now blogs at his own site, Technologizer.
This story, "Smartphone OS Showdown: iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian" was originally published by PCWorld.


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Humboldt County added to federal drug trafficking area list
The federal government added Humboldt County to the list of High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) in the country. The announcement came today from the Office of National Drug Control Policy and will aid the county with federal dollars to help combat drug trafficking along the North Coast.
"I've been told we'll receive $90,000 to help with the new HIDTA initiative here in Humboldt County," Humboldt County Sheriff Mike Downey said. "I don't know what that equates to in the future years, all I know is this gives us a streamlined approach to garner both federal financial and assistance in other resources."
Humboldt was one of twelve counties that were added today to the 28 established areas in the nation. Those counties will receive federal resources to coordinate and develop drug control efforts through federal, state, local and tribal enforcement. Humboldt County is part of the Northern California HIDTA, which includes Alameda, Contra Costa, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Monterey, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Sonoma.
"I can see the funding being used for overtime, for officer costs, and for any other issues that go along with an investigation," Sheriff Downey said.
Sheriff Downey said he wasn't expecting the designation to come this year. He said they've been part of a grant through the Central Valley HIDTA to stop methamphetamine trafficking, but that grant expired.

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I never actually got to view my website in a browser while on the server. I can see my project locally. Do you have a FTP application like FileZilla? For some reason my FileZilla will not let me access the server from my computer. I was at my friends house and we could access on his. He thought maybe it has something to do with my firewall, idk. If you have a FileZilla like device can I give you my credentials?
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It still says joining. Should I click on the other option or does it take a while?
By the way here is a link to wikisend with my project
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i am up to option 3 in internet explorer. I turned my firewall off too
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No matter their opponent, Mays Landing twins Aaron and Jordyn Bronsky, 17, have always been each other's biggest competition on the soccer field.
The pair picked up the game when they were 4 years old, playing on the same team for their first few years in the sport, and branching off into boys and girls soccer when they were about 8.
Now high school seniors - Aaron at Cedar Creek in Egg Harbor City and Jordyn at Oakcrest in Mays Landing - the twins made their final season living under the same roof count, setting single-season scoring records at their respective schools.
All season long, conversation always seemed to settle on who had the higher tally at the time, the twins' mother, Cathy, said.
"(Jordyn) would go to a game, she'd score, then they'd be tied," Cathy said. "I would pick (Aaron) up from school, he goes, 'All right, how many did she get this game?'"
While both have been among the best on their respective teams for their careers - and both were named offensive MVPs for fall 2012 - it wasn't until their senior season, when Aaron moved to the scoring-focused forward position from midfield, that they could put up similar offensive numbers.
Jordyn said she was surprised when Aaron's scoring leapt ahead of hers early in the season.
"He was never this close to me," Jordyn said. "I was proud of him, but in a way I was kind of jealous. Like, 'I need to start scoring.' That helped me a lot, motivated me."
While Jordyn was the clear top scorer on her team, Aaron had a bit more competition at Cedar Creek. Still, nothing could draw his attention away from topping his sister.
"It was difficult because we had so many strikers and what-not, and we all would try to beat each other," Aaron said. "But it didn't matter to me what they all had. All that mattered to me was beating her."
The pair exchanged the scoring lead throughout the fall until Jordyn pulled ahead late in the year. At season's end Jordan's tally stood at 18, one higher than the previous record, and Aaron's was 12, four higher than the previous record.
With their high school careers behind them, neither is sure of their next stop, academically or athletically. Aaron doesn't have any concrete plans yet, but hopes to continue playing soccer in college. Jordyn has been heavily recruited and is choosing between Division II Georgian Court University and Division III Kean University.
But no matter where they end up, they'll continue to measure their success against each other. So far, this matchup is even.
"I kind of know her moves, but she knows mine, so it goes both ways," Aaron said.
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I have been waiting for my finances to clear up a bit before splurging on a giant package of "Wash-Away Inkjet transfer paper".
You can print on it, transfer the design to fabric, embroider it, and then wash away the image. PERFECT, right?
Well I go to the bookmark today and it's no longer on the website. As proof, here's the instructions LOL:
Does anybody know of a substitute? (Yes, I've read the transfer thread.)
Transfer pencils are out. My tracing ability is that of a 2 year old. I need to be able to print and transfer. I've tried regular tshirt transfers but they are so stiff, and I'm worried about the fabric cracking or discoloring down the road.
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GANG DETERRENCE AND COMMUNITY PROTECTION ACT OF 2005 -- (House of Representatives - May 11, 2005)
Mr. GOODLATTE. Madam Chairman, I rise this afternoon to support H.R. 1279, the Gang Deterrence and Community Protection Act.
I was pleased to work with the Committee on the Judiciary, and especially the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Forbes), my good friend, to support the legislation on the floor today.
According to the Justice Department, there are currently over 25,000 gangs and over 750,000 gang members who are active across the United States. Gang activity has been directly linked to the proliferation of illegal drugs, human trafficking, and many other violent crimes.
The Gang Deterrence and Community Protection Act will authorize funds for joint Federal, State, and local gang investigation prosecution; create a statute to prosecute criminal gang enterprises similar to the existing RICO statute used to prosecute Federal racketeering; create mandatory minimum sentencing for gang and violent crimes; and fund gang investigation technology to allow law enforcement to act more efficiently.
Madam Chairman, many headlines of late have reflected on growing gang problems in heavily populated areas. Unfortunately, gang violence is also on the rise in rural areas, including my congressional district. The disturbing news that it is spreading through the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia is indeed disturbing. In fact, the FBI has recognized the existence of at least six separate gangs in the valley, some of which are responsible for at least two gang-related murders in the past 2 years.
Madam Chairman, acknowledging the reality that gangs are no longer limited solely to urban areas, I am pleased to join my colleagues to support this gangbusters legislation. This legislation will allow us to meet the increase in gang activity with resources sufficient to combat this scourge in our communities, and I urge my colleagues to support this important legislation.
Mr. GOODLATTE. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
Mr. GOODLATTE. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
I rise to offer an amendment to crack down on gangs comprised of illegal aliens, such as MS-13, which Newsweek recently called "the most dangerous gang in America."
In my congressional district alone, we have recently witnessed a disturbing rise in the level of gang activity as well as the number of illegal aliens participating in this gang activity. The FBI has recognized the existence of at least six separate gangs in the Shenandoah Valley, with the largest being the notorious Salvadoran gang Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13. MS-13 is known for such heinous crimes as shootings, rapes and machete attacks, among others, and is estimated to have over 1,500 members in northern and northwestern Virginia alone.
The number of gang members and violent criminals who are illegal aliens and who have been previously deported is staggering. Recently, at the Immigration, Border Security, and Claims Subcommittee, Commonwealth's Attorney Marsha Garst of Rockingham County, Virginia, testified that illegal aliens make up 50 percent of the membership of MS-13 and 75 percent of the membership of another gang in that area, Surenos 13.
According to the FBI, MS-13 is a highly sophisticated gang of illegal and previously deported aliens that is committed to national expansion in the United States and is built on a infrastructure which transports new members or previously deported members across our borders with the intention and plan to expand their activities into new communities and enrich themselves all at the expense of our communities and our law-abiding neighbors. Make no mistake about it: MS-13 is committed to a war by invading and taking over our communities, and deportation means nothing to them because they simply return to our country with yet another new identity, crossing our borders without any reservation and resuming their illegal activities, terrorizing our communities without fear of harsh punishment.
It is now time for us to disable MS-13 and its vicious cycle of violence. My amendment does just that. It gives law enforcement the ability to tack on more severe punishments rather than simply returning MS-13 members to El Salvador or other countries where they will turn around and sneak right across our borders once again. If faced with a choice of putting these gang members in jail or deporting them and having them return, the choice is clear: We must incarcerate them and bring freedom back to our neighborhoods.
The growth in illegal alien participation gangs is not limited to Virginia or just to MS-13. Across the Nation, the number of illegal aliens joining gangs and the number of gang members who have re-entered the country after deportation is alarming. According to the testimony of Heather MacDonald of the Manhattan Institute, a confidential California Department of Justice study reported in 1995 that 60 percent of the 20,000-strong "18th Street gang" in Southern California was illegal. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conservatively puts the number of illegal aliens in MS-13 as a majority. Sixty percent of the leadership of the "Colombia Lil' Cycos" gang, which uses murder and racketeering to control the drug market around Los Angeles' MacArthur Park, consisted of illegal aliens in 2002. And according to the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Department arrests about 2,500 criminally convicted deportees annually. Let me make that clear: Annually, the Los Angeles Police Department estimates that 2,500 of the people that they arrest each year have already previously committed a crime and already previously been deported, and they have come back into the country, and 2,500 of them are arrested yet again.
My amendment would help to stop the entry and re-entry of gang members into the country by imposing strict penalties on illegal aliens who participate in gang activities and who have already shown they will commit violent crimes and drug-trafficking offenses. With stiff new penalties, we can deter these gang members from re-entering the United States with the intention of joining or resuming violent gang activities.
Specifically, my amendment would add 5 years of prison time to any sentence for violent crimes or drug-trafficking offenses when the violator is an illegal alien. It will also add 15 years of prison time to any such sentence if the illegal alien had been previously deported on the grounds of a criminal offense and had re-entered the country. In addition, the amendment would require the Department of Homeland Security to send all the names of individuals who are subject to deportation orders or who have signed voluntary deportation orders to the National Crime Information Center, the NCIC, so that information on illegal alien gang members can be more easily accessed.
We must shut down this revolving door of criminal illegal aliens. It is time to say to them, if they come here illegally and commit a gang crime, they will do the time. Our children and our communities deserve nothing less.
This amendment will give law enforcement additional tools in the fight against some of the most vicious gangs in America and will help deter violent criminals from entering the country to join gangs.
I urge my colleagues to support this commonsense amendment.
Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Chairman, could I ask the distinguished author of this amendment if this idea occurred to him during the time that we considered the bill in the Committee on the Judiciary? Because I have never heard of this before.
Mr. GOODLATTE. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
Mr. CONYERS. I yield to the gentleman from Virginia.
Mr. GOODLATTE. Mr. Chairman, this is something that has been discussed since the committee acted and passed the legislation out, but we felt very strongly that this would be a good addition to the legislation because of the fact that so many of these gang members are illegal aliens who have re-entered the country after already having been deported and having committed crimes earlier. Something needs to be done more than simple deportation when they come right back in and commit more crimes.
Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Chairman, reclaiming my time, but we are trying to get rid of criminals from coming into the country, and what the gentleman is doing in this amendment is keeping them in the country. In other words, deporting them is not good enough. We want to keep them in our prison systems, which now house more citizens, and now, we are adding noncitizens to the population of those incarcerated in America. And I have some reservations about piling it on. We have never talked about this position before in the subcommittee or full committee of the Committee on the Judiciary.
Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding me this time to make that observation.
Mr. GOODLATTE. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself 30 seconds.
Mr. Chairman, the fact of the matter is that this has a great deterrent effect. When the word gets out that they come back into this country and they get arrested after they have been deported and they are going to do serious time in the slammer, they are not as likely to come back. And with the efforts that are ongoing with the REAL ID Act, we are going to keep a lot of these people out of the country with that method, and we are going to find them when they come into the country and try to get driver's licenses. But when they do, they need to know that they are going to face serious time.
Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 ½ minutes to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Wolf), a real leader in the war against gangs in America.
Mr. GOODLATTE. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself the balance of my time.
The gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Wolf) is exactly right, as is the chairman. Here we have a Los Angeles Times story: "Four presidents seek help in gang battle. Central American leaders say the groups pose a hemispheric threat augmented by U.S. deportation of criminals."
You cannot keep sending them back down there where they have no ability to handle them and they come right back up here and commit more crimes on our citizens. This is an important amendment that will give teeth to the message: do not come back in the United States. If you do, we are going to keep you in the slammer.
There are many, many examples of what illegal aliens have done. In Virginia, recent gang victims have been hacked by machetes and had fingers cut off. In May 2004, a 16-year-old boy in Fairfax County had several fingers chopped off in an attack by a machete-wielding assailant. A week later, a 17-year-old youth was shot dead in Herndon by an assailant on a bicycle. In July 17, 2003, in Shenandoah County, Virginia, MS-13 gang members violently murdered a 17-year-old pregnant Federal witness, Brenda Paz, before she could testify in a pending Federal trial in the Eastern District of Virginia against MS-13.
Send these guys to jail when they come back into this country after being deported. I urge my colleagues to support the amendment.


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Growth and development: critique and prospects
The focus of the 2007 Rossi-Doria Lecture is on the present state of what has been christened as "turbocapitalism", in the twofold sense of its power and turbulence. The present stage is marked by two contrasting trends: expansion of the growth of the capitalistic West to the entire world economy, and, at the same time, the emergence of severe disequilibria threatening the very sustainability of capitalism. If, given this state of affairs, the aim is to conserve the vital impetus that capitalism has brought to human history, then there are three major forces driving towards unsustainability that need to be addressed, respectively of a physical-environmental, political-social and ethical-moral nature. In order to respond to this threefold challenge the need is to move towards a new model, based on three principles: equilibrium with nature, achievement of an econ-omy organised on the basis of solidarity and cooperation rather than competitiveness, and reversal between means and ends of the ultimate aim of human activity
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On October 11, 2013, DOD submitted to the congressional defense committees the OPIR Technology report. Upon reviewing the report, we determined that the OPIR report was comprehensive and appropriately identified its limitations. In particular, DOD, in consultation with the IC, provided a description of (1) the plan and budget for current and next generation OPIR systems and (2) OPIR technology requirements. The report elaborated on current cooperative efforts between the DOD and IC communities and identified potential future opportunities for further cooperation. Further details remain classified.
Why GAO Did This Study
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 (NDAA), signed into law on January 2, 2013, required, among other things, that the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, submit a report on OPIR technology to the congressional defense committees no later than 180 days after the enactment of the act. The report was to identify DOD and IC's OPIR technology requirements; describe the strategy, plan and budget for current and next generation OPIR systems; and identify opportunities for further cooperation between the DOD and IC communities. DOD provided this report to the congressional defense committees on October 11, 2013.
Additionally, the act mandated that GAO assess the comprehensiveness of the DOD OPIR technology report not later than 90 days after the date on which the Secretary of Defense submits DOD's report. To meet the requirements of the mandate, we assessed the extent to which the report (1) was comprehensive, fully supported, and sufficiently detailed; and (2) contained limitations that may have affected the quality of the report. Due to the classification level of the DOD OPIR report, we are issuing this unclassified report to formally meet the mandated reporting requirement; we have offered to brief the defense committees on the classified details of our findings.
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Space Launch:Coordination Mechanisms Facilitate Interagency Information Sharing on AcquisitionsGAO-17-646R: Published: Aug 9, 2017. Publicly Released: Aug 9, 2017.
Jun 9, 2017
Satellite Acquisitions:Agencies May Recover a Limited Portion of Contract Value When Satellites FailGAO-17-490: Published: Jun 9, 2017. Publicly Released: Jun 9, 2017.
May 16, 2017
NASA:Assessments of Major ProjectsGAO-17-303SP: Published: May 16, 2017. Publicly Released: May 16, 2017.
Apr 27, 2017
NASA Human Space Exploration:Delay Likely for First Exploration MissionGAO-17-414: Published: Apr 27, 2017. Publicly Released: Apr 27, 2017.
Mar 23, 2017
Commercial Space Launch Insurance:Weakness in FAA's Insurance Calculation May Expose the Federal Government to Excess RiskGAO-17-366: Published: Mar 23, 2017. Publicly Released: Mar 23, 2017.
Feb 16, 2017
NASA Commercial Crew Program:Schedule Pressure Increases as Contractors Delay Key EventsGAO-17-137: Published: Feb 16, 2017. Publicly Released: Feb 16, 2017.
Dec 7, 2016
James Webb Space Telescope:Project Meeting Cost and Schedule Commitments but Continues to Use Reserves to Address ChallengesGAO-17-71: Published: Dec 7, 2016. Publicly Released: Dec 7, 2016.
Sep 8, 2016
Environmental Satellites:NOAA Needs to Ensure Its Timelines Are Accurate, Clear, and Fully DocumentedGAO-16-767: Published: Sep 8, 2016. Publicly Released: Sep 8, 2016.
Jul 27, 2016
NASA Human Space Exploration:Opportunity Nears to Reassess Launch Vehicle and Ground Systems Cost and ScheduleGAO-16-612: Published: Jul 27, 2016. Publicly Released: Jul 27, 2016.
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle:Action Needed to Improve Visibility into Cost, Schedule, and Capacity to Resolve Technical ChallengesGAO-16-620: Published: Jul 27, 2016. Publicly Released: Jul 27, 2016.
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Alice Cooper 'Welcome 2 My Nightmare' Deluxe 'Fanpack' Edition Detailed
Alice Cooper's upcoming album 'Welcome 2 My Nightmare' will be available in a deluxe "fanpack" edition featuring a giant poster, facepaints, a metal badge, a face mask and a 132-page magazine about all things Alice. That's fanpack, not "fanny pack," mind you.
As if all those Cooper-related goodies weren't enough of a reason to snatch up the fanpack, this edition of the album, courtesy of Classic Rock magazine, will include a pair of bonus tracks: the studio version of 'Under the Bed' and a live version of 'Poison,' which was recorded at the Download festival this summer.
'Welcome 2 My Nightmare' is a big deal for fans of the legendary shock rocker. The album is the sequel to his classic album 'Welcome to My Nightmare,' which landed in 1975. The original Alice Cooper Band actually plays on three tracks, including 'Under the Bed'; it's the first time they've done so in 35 years. Legendary producer Bob Ezrin also returns to the boards for this effort. You can pre-order the album now for Sept. 16 shipping.
Alice Cooper 'Welcome 2 My Nightmare' Tracklisting:
'I Am Made of You'
'The Nightmare Returns'
'A Runaway Train'
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'The Congregation'
'I'll Bite Your Face Off'
'Disco Bloodbath Boogie Fever'
'Ghouls Gone Wild'
'Something to Remember Me By'
'When Hell Comes Home'
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Focus owns an 81.57 per cent stake in Crescent, Focus told the Australian Securities Exchange in a statement on Thursday, noting its holding may increase to 86.45 per cent should it exercise options it holds.
Focus said it received "strong support" for the offer, with about 82 per cent of the target company's 2320 shareholders accepting the offer. However, one major shareholder, Hong Kong company Stone Mining built a blocking stake in Crescent and has refused to budge from the register.
The Focus bid had a 90 per cent minimum acceptance condition but was declared unconditional on August 18. At this time, Crescent shareholders approved the conversion of loans worth $13 million from Focus into additional shares and options in the company.
Focus said in the statement it will move to "reconstitute the Crescent board in the near future" and seek for Crescent to be delisted from the Australian Securities Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange.
"The combined gold production of Focus and Crescent will be in excess of 200,000 ounces per annum and the companies will hold a combined JORC [Joint Ore Reserves Committee] reportable recourse base of 4.3 Mozs [million ounces] of gold, and possess outstanding growth potential across two major Western Australian mining regions," Focus chief executive Campbell Baird said.
He said the Focus business has the potential for a "significant re-rating".
In July, the directors of Crescent accepted a friendly scrip-based takeover bid from Focus of 1.18 Crescent shares for one Focus share. The takeover was announced on June 20.
Focus's advisers on the transaction were Hartleys and Mallesons Stephen Jaques. Crescent used Gryphon Partners and Blakiston & Crabb.
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(CNSNews.com) - The White House is planning to spend $1.5 billion to promote healthy marriages, and President Bush could announce plans for the proposal next week in his State of the Union address.
The measure would go towards training to help couples develop interpersonal skills that sustain "healthy marriages," especially among low-income couples.
Conservatives are also urging the president to defend traditional marriage, after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's decision on same-sex marriage.
The Family Research Council (FRC) welcomed the "Healthy Marriages" initiative.
"As the author of the nation's first covenant marriage law - which seeks to help couples avoid divorce and have successful marriages - I am quite pleased that the Bush Administration recognizes that marriage promotion is a worthy aim of the federal government," said FRC President Tony Perkins Wednesday.
"The institution of marriage is not only deserving of protection, but also promotion," said Perkins. "Every study out there proves that households based on a strong marriage relationship are without question the best environment for both adults and children, and our nation will only benefit from a government program that bolsters marriage in this bold way.
"For every $1,000.00 we spend on public programs addressing family breakdown, we only spend one dollar trying to prevent that breakdown in the first place. The President's initiative puts the emphasis in the right place - prevention," Perkins added.
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Country music(kip Moore, Brantley Gilbert, Jason Alden, Eric church, Justin Moore), indie music, (vampire weekend, passion pit, atlas genius, Mumford, of monsters, beach house, purity ring, the xx, Avett bros)
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Even as the TDP chief Chandra Babu Naidu has been toying with the idea of forging a non-Congress and non-BJP third front West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Benerjee invited the YSR Congress to join the Federal Front she was mooting.
The Trinamool Congress chief called up the YSR Congress honorary president Vijayamma and talked to her for about 15 minutes. She reportedly talked about the possibility of an early election to the Parliament.
Mamata is expecting mid-term polls around November this year. She wants the Federal Front should maintain equidistance from the Congress and the BJP. It is in this context Mamata has been trying to forge alliances. It is learnt that Vijayamma told Mamata that she would talk to the party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy and get back to her.


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Each year, communicating through text messages continues to grow and has now turned into an extremely popular communication medium. Millions upon millions of text messages are sent every single month and carriers only anticipate that the number of messages sent by their subscribers will continue to grow. Amazon knows this and obviously sees a tremendous value in it because they have just launched a new service called Amazon TextBuyIt.
TextBuyIt is a brand new service that will give shoppers the opportunity to find and purchase products sold on Amazon via a text message on their mobile phones. Here's how it works. Say a customer is looking to buy an MP3 player. They would text the name of the product, a description, a UPC if they have it, or an ISBN number to Amazon. If Amazon carries it, they will return matching results via text to the customer, two at a time. If one of the two options is something they want to buy, they text back either a 1 or a 2, or ask for more results by texting M. If the customer made a purchase, they will enter in their email address that's associated with their Amazon account and a shipping code, and then they'll receive an automated call that will guide them through the checkout process.
It's a very simple process and once everything is done and a purchase has been made, shoppers get a confirmation email and a text message. Given the number of people who obsessively text message, this could be dangerous, especially for shopaholics because the purchasing process can be done in a matter of a few minutes. For those who really get into it and use TextBuyIt as a regular shopping method, there are other commands that they could use. For example, you could text 2D after you've seen matching products and you'd get more details about the 2nd item that you saw.
Of course there's good and bad to a service like this. The first good thing that came to mind was that this could be an awesome way to comparison shop. If you're at the store and you see something you'd like to buy, you can use TextBuyIt to see if Amazon has it cheaper and save yourself some money. You're not required to buy anything after texting a search, which is nice. The bad is that any item that is a "Deal of the Day" or a "Gold Box Discount" will not be discounted if bought through text messaging.
I never thought we'd see the day where you'd shop via a text message, but the day is here and other retailers are likely to follow if Amazon is successful with this new method.
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MRI Substudy; Metabolic Changes Due to Iatrogenic Hypogonadism
This study has been completed.
Herlev Hospital
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Sly's on a rampage of revenge in the Big Easy! When hulking hit man Sylvester Stallone's partner gets iced, he forms an unlikely partnership with a young detective to find the killer in this explosive action flick. Together, they leave an epic level of destruction throughout New Orleans as they find themselves up against a corrupt developer and his lethal mercenary messenger. Sung Kang, Sarah Shahi, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Christian Slater and Jason Momoa co-star.
Directed by Walter Hill; screenplay by Alessandro Camon, based on the graphic novel "Du Plomb Dans La Tete" written by Matz and illustrated by Colin Wilson, published by Casterman.


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A radical Muslim convert who once called for Sharia Law in Waltham Forest has been convicted for what is being labelled as the first case of Muslim sectarian violence on the streets of Britain.
Jordan Horner, 22, from Walthamstow, is due to appear at the the Old Bailey this morning after being found guilty of an attack on two men in London's Edgware Road on May 10 last year.
Violence broke at a protest led by radical preacher Anjem Choudary, who was calling for jihad in Syria.
Sunni Muslim Horner, who renamed himself Jamal Uddin, was reportedly involved in the attack on two Shia Muslims and will be sentenced with four others today.


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More than 7000 people were arrested in nonviolent protests in California in the early 1980s, developing the art of direct action to a peak not reached again until Seattle in 1999, and in many ways never surpassed. Direct action is more than getting arrested. It's solidarity.
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What You'll Need
- 3.5 cups Corn or Rice Chex cereal, or similar cereal
- 1/2 cup nuts
- 1/2 cup pretzel rods
- 2 Tbsp. butter
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/4 cup light corn syrup
- 1/3 cup sweetened condensed milk
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
How to Make It
1. Pour the cereal, nuts, and pretzels into a 9x13 pan. Preheat the oven to 250 degrees.
2. Place the butter, sugar, and corn syrup in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Stir until the sugar melts, and continue to cook, stirring, until the butter is melted and the candy begins to boil.
3. Stir in the condensed milk, and insert a candy thermometer. Continue to cook the mixture, stirring occasionally, until the candy reaches 238 degrees.
Remove it from the heat, and stir in the vanilla.
4. Pour the caramel over the cereal mixture, stirring it so that the pieces are evenly coated.
5. Return the candy to the oven, and bake it for about 30 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes. It is done when the caramel mixture darkens and bubbles all over the pan.
6. Remove the candy from the oven and scrape it onto a baking sheet covered with aluminum foil. Allow it cool completely at room temperature before breaking it into pieces by hand. Store Caramel Chex mix in an airtight container or bag in a cool, dry place.


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Arturo Fuente Rothschild Maduro cigars are patiently handmade in the time-honored tradition that has made Arturo Fuente cigars legendary. Blended with carefully selected, perfectly-aged Dominican tobaccos and Connecticut Maduro wrappers, you're always assured a smooth, rich-tasting, aromatic smoke.
Smoked some about 3 years ago. As usual, AF does a nice job in all aspects of cigar making. This was a good (not great) cigar. Construction, draw, burn and taste were as expected. A nice smoke except they are usually pricey.
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Great smoke. Medium bodied. Good burn, good draw, full mouth of smoke. Woody and nutty flavor profile all the way through (well 2/3 of the way through). I was smoking this out by the jacuzzi with some good friends and my buddy bumped my arm and the last 3rd fell into the hot tub. Alas! I'm ordering some more. Considering these as an everyday-er.


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"Architecture is situated at a unique moment in history where a convergence of global interests demand that our discipline responds in a critical and innovative manner… " (Evan Douglis, Dean)
A historic all-school publication that embodies the school's transdisciplinary approach to education, consistent theme of radical speculation, innovative pedagogical methods, and research addressing major global challenges.
Founder of the influential studio Morphosis and co-founder of the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Thom Mayne marries conceptual ideas with form, challenging the way we perceive structure, building and the environment.
Internationally renowned Chilean architect Smiljan Radić is transcending contemporary architectural labels by emphasizing heterogeneity of social context, environment, and materiality in his practice, founded in 1995.
International study is a defining aspect of Rensselaer's architectural education. The School of Architecture offers international semester long programs in Italy, India, and China.
EMPAC opened its doors in 2008 and was soon hailed as a "technological pleasure dome for the mind and senses… dedicated to the marriage of art and science as it has never been done before" (NY Times).
Theodore Spyropoulos is co-founder of experimental architecture and design studio Minimaforms, and Director of the Architectural Association's world renowned Design Research Lab (AADRL) in London.
MATERIAL INTENSITIES, the challenge of this recent conference, intended to dissolve our notion of the built environment as inert constructions enclosing physically sealed spaces. Host_Directors: Demetrios Comodromos, Jefferson Ellinger.
The launch event for Influx, a historic all-school publication of student work, school exhibitions, and unique degree program information for the Rensselaer School of Architecture took place at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) this past Wednesday evening. Following remarks from Dean Evan Douglis in Goodman Studio I at EMPAC, each student of the School of […]
This catalog celebrates the student work developed during the 2012 joint design studio with CAUP / Tongji University, in Shanghai, and displays 16 students team projects with complementary essays. This 9-weeks intense design studio is the core component of SoA-RPI's China Program, a biannual one-semester immersive cultural and academic exchange program. >> "In the […]
Lecture Series (Spring 2014). Admission is FREE and will begin at 6pm. Except when noted, all lectures are at EMPAC / The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media + Performing Arts Center . 110 8th Street, Troy NY 12180. Monday, January. 27 ROGER DUFFY SOM: An Evolving Legacy Wednesday, February 26 CATHERINE INGRAHAM Plasticity: Architecture and […]
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PHILADELPHIA – Playing its first regular-season game on "Ace" Adams Field at Penn Park, the University of Pennsylvania men's lacrosse team got out to a good start but then was humbled last Saturday by Cornell. Already 0-2 in Ivy League play, the Quakers face a huge Ancient Eight contest this Saturday as they hit the midway point of league play by facing arguably its fiercest rival in recent years, Yale. The Bulldogs host Saturday's 1 p.m. contest.
GAME 7 – #18 PENN (3-3, 0-2 Ivy League) at #11 YALE (4-2, 1-1)
Saturday, March 29, 2014 * 1 p.m.
Reese Stadium (New Haven, Conn.)
TV: Ivy League Digital Network (there is a fee for this service)
The Penn-Yale Series
The Quakers and the Bulldogs have met 64 times, with Yale holding a 38-26 lead in the series. The last meeting took place at last year's Ivy League Tournament in Ithaca, N.Y., with the Bulldogs winning 9-6. During the regular season, Yale took a 7-6 decision in overtime. In fact, four of the last seven games have gone overtime including a 3OT thriller in 2011. Both teams have won two of the OT contests. Penn has lost five of the last six matchups with Yale, after winning three in a row from 2006-08.
Like Penn, the Bulldogs have played Cornell and Princeton in Ivy play so far; they lost to the Big Red, 11-9, and beat the Tigers last Saturday, 16-15. Brandon Mangan, a second-team All-Ivy pick from last year's NCAA quarterfinalist, and Conrad Oberbeck have 21 points apiece to lead Yale's attack (Mangan 11g/10a, Oberbeck 15g/6a). Colin Flaherty has scored eight goals, while Shan Thornton has 10 points (3g, 7a). Twelve different players have scored at least twice this season for the Bulldogs. In goal, Eric Natale has started every game; he boasts a 9.00 goals-against average and a .475 save percentage.
All Ivy
After starting the season with four non-conference games, Penn is in the third week of a stretch that sees the Quakers playing Ivy League games for six straight Saturdays. They will then finish the season with non-conference games against Towson and St. John's.
Around the League
Penn and Yale will face off around the same time that Cornell (2-0 Ivy) and Dartmouth (0-1) face off in Hanover, N.H. Later on Saturday, at 3 p.m., Princeton (1-1) and Brown (0-1) meet each other in Providence, R.I. Harvard (2-0) has the bye from Ivy play this weekend, and plays at No. 3 Duke Saturday at noon.
National Rankings
*Penn is ranked 18th in this week's USILA national coaches poll; the Quakers started the season ranked 18th, and were 12th two weeks ago (their highest ranking this season). In addition to Yale (11), the other Ivy League teams currently ranked are Cornell (2) and Princeton (15), while Harvard is one of six teams also receiving votes.
*Penn also is ranked 13th in the Lacrosse Magazine weekly poll, and 16th in the Warrior Inside Lacrosse media poll. Yale is ranked 11th in both polls.
Tough Schedule!
*Looking at Penn's 12-game schedule, four other teams besides No. 11 Yale are ranked this week in the USILA poll: Cornell (2), Duke (3), Denver (6), and Princeton (15). Two other future opponents -- Harvard and Towson -- are receiving votes this week.
*This is nothing new for Penn under Head Coach Mike Murphy; last year, the Quakers' Strength of Schedule was ranked second at the end of the season (behind only Princeton), while in 2011 it ranked first.
National Stats (team)
*Penn is 13th in shot percentage (.317) and 22nd in points per game (17.17).
About Penn
*The Quakers have six players with at least 10 points, 10 players with at least two goals, and six others who have scored once.
*After five players scored Penn's six goals in the season opener at Duke, the Quakers have had at least seven different goal scorers in each of the last five games.
*Junior Isaac Bock leads Penn in goals (10), while sophomore Nick Doktor tops the team in assists (8); both players have 15 points this season. After being shut out in Penn's season opener, Doktor has his 15 points in the last five games (3.0 ppg).
*Four other players have double-figure point totals this season: seniors Zack Losco (12) and Drew Belinsky (11), junior Joe McCallion (11), and freshman Kevin Brown (10).
*Doktor set career highs last Saturday against Cornell in assists (4) and points (5); he is one of two players to have a five-point game this season, along with Bock (4g/1a at Princeton).
*After scoring twice last Saturday against Cornell -- tying a season high for goals -- Losco has a point in 15 straight games dating back to last season; the other Penn players who have at least a point in every game this season are Bock, McCallion, and Brown.
*Brown also scored twice last Saturday, his second multi-goal game this season and third multi-point outing.
*Junior Chris Hupfeldt has scored at least one goal in each of the last three games.
Up Next…
Penn is home for Ivy League games each of the next two Saturdays, starting next week when the Quakers host Brown on Franklin Field at 1 p.m. It will be Alumni Day for the lax programs, with the men's alumni game taking place at 10:30 a.m. on Adams Field (Penn Park).


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Carrouges Vacation Packages
Carrouges is situated 120 miles (193 kilometers) west of the national capital Paris.
When you are visiting Carrouges, make sure you spend some time at Carrouges Chateau.
It's hardly surprising Carrouges is such a hotspot for travelers from all over the world; Normandy features numerous wonderful natural and man-made attractions. Make tracks to Bagnoles-de-l'Orne, and explore the Bagnoles de l'Orne Casino and Firefighters Museum. Bagnoles-de-l'Orne is approximately 12 miles (19 kilometers) from Carrouges is a good place to spend a little time. You could also stop by the Chateau des Ducs and Musee des Beaux Arts et de la Dentelle in Alencon. It is 14 miles (23 kilometers) away from Carrouges.
About 40 miles (64 kilometers) to the southeast of Carrouges is Le Mans, a regional center which is home to Musee de Tesse, St-Julien Cathedral and MM Arena. If you're looking for more, consider checking out Leon-Bollee Stadium, 24 Hours of Le Mans Museum and Abbaye de l'Epau before you return to Carrouges.
To get a real sense of a place, it helps to learn a little local history. Normandy's rich ruins are a great place to start. Follow the threads of the region's rich cultural tapestry at Normandy's great history museums.
If you are looking for a break from sightseeing, why not try a local watersport? Swimming and canoeing are available within the region.
When the time comes to pack your suitcase and say "Au revoir / À bientôt", you'll have many great memories and photos.


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England England Census England Census Records and Indexes Online
There is a lot to learn about the census records. The following web sites provide more details:
- Census Returns leaflet number 99 produced by The National Archives in England
- Census Records: Search Census Records produced by The National Archives in England.
- Census
- FreeUKGEN
- UK Census Online
- 1 The Census Taker
- 2 Dates the Censuses Were Taken
- 3 Arrangement of the Census
- 4 Information Given
The Census Taker
The man who collected the census details was called an 'enumerator'. He was assigned to visit a specific area or number of streets with the purpose of leaving a form that was to be filled out on the night of the census. Information about everyone in the house on that night – family, relatives, boarders and visitors – were to be listed. The enumerator went back in the next few days and gathered the forms. An article written by Guy Etchells explains in detail the instructions given to enumerators.
Dates the Censuses Were Taken
Since one of the main goals was to avoid double counting people, the enumeration districts were small enough for an enumerator to complete his work in one day. Censuses were taken on specific dates. The following list gives the dates for each of the available census years:
For information regarding the 1931 and 1941 censuses see England Census Substitutes
Arrangement of the Census
Registration Districts
The census office organized the censuses by civil registration districts, which were subdivided into enumeration districts. The only exception is the 1841 census which was arranged by hundreds (administrative subdivisions of land). On the census films, each enumeration district includes a title page with the district number and a description of the area covered by the district.
Organizational Terminology
A number of organizational terms are given on a census page. Here are a few. Click on them for a definition.
- Hundred (in the 1841 census)
- Enumeration districts
- Civil parish
- Ecclesiastical parish
- Page and folio numbers
Census Series Codes
Here are the department series codes used by The National Archives to catalog the census. The letters 'HO' stand for 'Home Office' and the letters 'RG refer to the 'General Register Office.' Both were government departments responsible for collecting census data at different times. These numbers are written on the bottom or side of each census page. They are used in census indexes, in combination with enumeration district numbers and page and folio numbers, to help you find a family or address in the census.
- 1841 census: HO 107
- 1851 census: HO 107
- 1861 census (RG 9)
- 1871 census (RG 10)
- 1881 census (RG 11)
- 1891 census (RG 12)
- 1901 census (RG 13)
- 1911 census (RG 14)
As census records are not released to the public until 100 years have passed, the 1911 census is the most recent one available.
The Census Form
Census returns are arranged in columns. Column titles are:
- Place or street address
- Name of each person living in the abode on the night of the census
- Relationship to the head of the household
- Age and sex, arranged by males and females
- Profession, trade or employment
- Where born
Markings Used in the Census
Most of the census records have various marks and checks on them. Some were made by the government workers in the process of compiling statistics.
The census collector drew a single diagonal line ( / ) after the last name in a family or household and a double diagonal line ( // ) after the last name in a building or housing unit. So a female servant (F.S.) or male servant (M.S.), who was not a member of the family with which he/she was residing, might have a single line before their name and a double line after the name.
Information Given
Relationships Given in the Census
Relationships are important when putting a family unit together. The most oft-used relationships in the census were:
Ages in the 1841 Census
The census takers were instructed to give the exact ages of children but to round the ages of those older than 15 down to a lower multiple of 5. For example, a 59-year-old person would be listed as 55. Not all census enumerators followed these instructions. Some recorded the exact age; some even rounded the age up to the nearest multiple of 5.
Variations in Information
Enumerators recorded information in varying ways. Here are some of them.
- Listing the given name first followed by the surname.
- Listing the surname first followed by the first name.
- Abbreviating the last name or place name as 'do.' This abbreviation is short for 'ditto' and means "the same as the above."
- Abbreviating the relationship to the head of the household, such as Daur for daughter.
- Abbreviating the name of county, such as Wilts for Wiltshire.
- Abbreviating the condition, such as M (married), U or Un (unmarried), W (widow or widower).
- Abbreviating the names of occupations, such as 'FWK' for frame work knitter, 'F.S.' for female servant, and 'Ag lab' for agricultural labourer.
Learn more about English censuses by taking the FamilySearch online lesson about Census Records, and reading A copy of the Act for Taking an Account of the Population of Great Britain [w10 August 1840.


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Tips to make play dates great
Play dates are part and parcel of most children's lives but they aren't always easy for parents. In fact, it can be downright frustrating having to host other children in your home or being left to worry about how your own child is coping at someone else's house. These six tips for play dates can help.
Time it right
Make play dates happen while children are at their best - either first thing in the morning before a sleep, or after they have woken up and aren't yet worn out from the day's activities. Stay on schedule with any appointments you have for playing at other people's houses - and avoid being too early. Keep the initial play date to about two hours. This is enough time for the kids to have fun, but not so long that you'll feel overwhelmed.
Pack well
It always helps to bring a backpack with an extra change of clothes, and anything your child would need on a typical afternoon out. And it's polite to bring some food or treats for the host, too! Play dates are a great way for your children to practice their social skills and gain confidence in their relational abilities, so make sure they have access to any special toys or food they like.
No picky food requests
You have no choice but to tell your host if your child has any allergies, but beyond something high-risk, it's not appropriate to dictate the dinner menu. If strange eating preferences (your kid won't eat anything orange, for example) could leave your child hungry after snack time, make it easy on your host by bringing your own.
Play dates equal responsibility
While it's tempting to turn play time into a chance to "shoo" kids into another room while they amuse each other during the play date, it's still your responsibility to keep an eye on the children if you are the host. Not only should you be checking on the children regularly to avoid any incidents, but doors should remain open at all times. While it would be nice to trust that all kids are well-intentioned, lack of supervision can encourage the worst of behaviours.
Set the rules
Setting the house rules is important so kids know their boundaries - yes, even if they are guests! Taking turns, no hitting and no name-calling are three good basics to outline at the beginning of a play date. Then you can explain what happens in bad behaviour moments - is it time out, is it banishing the kids to the backyard or what?
It's also a good idea to allow 15-30 minutes at the end of each play period to start the kids tidying up their play area and leave the house looking as good as when you arrived. During play dates, you may find that the kids frequently move around from room to room which gives you a great opportunity to straighten up, dust, vacuum, or even sort through a pile of old mail!
Make it fun
Try to think of some simple activities for the kids, like playing Lego or board games. Try to stay away from TV or video games during the play date as these are activities your child can engage in alone, and you want to get the most out of this play date time. If they get really bored, give them some markers and empty boxes. Making a fort is always great fun!
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- How to make play dates great
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- Encouraging imaginative play
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- Fun puppets to make with preschoolers
- Play dough recipes and games for preschoolers
- Easy craft for preschoolers
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- Preschool health and nutrition
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With a quarter of a century in the world of mobile communications, Dr Mike Short, VP of Telefonica Europe, looks forward to taking up the presidency of the IET, now in its 140th year
IET fellow Dame Sue Ion has strong views on the role nuclear power will play in delivering a sustainable energy mix for the future
Formula 1 in Schools, the only worldwide multi-disciplinary challenge for pupils aged 9-19, is now the largest global educational initiative for STEM subjects.
It would be impossible not to notice that we live in economically turbulent times. But what has this meant to engineering industry and in particular to engineering employment in the UK?
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Member News is a news magazine, and, alongside its website, covers the Institution's activities, aiming to make members feel part of the global IET community. This combined offering features in-depth profiles and interviews of IET members, whose work influences the IET and the wider community, together with informative feature articles, news stories, opinion pieces, and event write-ups from the IET's global networks.
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He may have moved half way across the world from the UK to China, but that hasn't stopped active member Andy Watson from continuing to promote professional registration and support IET student members.
Who doesn't worry about exams? Discussed frequently in IET Forums, they elicit strong feelings as people become desperate for qualifications. But desperation can lead to cheating and, even worse, fraud, reports Ralph Adam.
Who needs expert help nowadays? According to Professor David Nicholas of University College London, we increasingly go to the Web for answers, rather than using specialists.
A message from Dr Nigel Burton, IET President 2010/2011.
With the expectation of more than 6 billion mobile phones globally in 2011, IET president Dr Mike Short, vice president of Telefonica Europe, says we will need to take key lessons from both India and China as the largest mobile markets in the world
Another major step toward the IET's digital publishing goals has been made with the launch of the e-Books service
For nearly 50 years the IET has provided details of job vacancies to its members, from print publication in 1964 to the current online job board
A number of new portraits hung around the building at Savoy Place, London, bringing the number of paintings in the building up to the grand total of 26. And watch this space – there may be more coming soon!
Member News highlights the careers and achievements of recently deceased IET members.
Where are we going to be in 50 years time? asks Professor Heinz Wolff
IET member Rhys Phillips has received special recognition through the Welsh Livery Gold Award for his prolific activities in raising the profile of STEM topics and issues.
Can you think of a link between copiers and beer? If you're familiar with the work of Ikujiro Nonaka you'll know the answer!
Facilitated by local IET member, Gianni Cessel, a group of engineers recently visited the Hewlett Packard site in Sant Cugat, Barcelona.
IET Achievement, Ambition and Innovation Awards 2011: highlighting the excellent work of today's engineers and technicians, profiling the profession's stars of tomorrow
The IET and INCOSE UK recently signed an agreement enabling systems engineers to apply for professional registration without having to leave INCOSE UK
There is a lot of talk about 'strategy' at the IET, but what has the Institution's Strategy for the 21st Century, in place since 2009, really delivered?
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I couldn't do this justice, but seeing how Sellers had very little (if any) public persona, it seems like it would be a good idea for any prospective writers to rewrite this in the style of all of Sellers' characters (ex. section about the Goon Show era starts off with 'ENTER BLUEBOTTLE: WAITS FOR APPLAUSE; AS USUAL NOT A SAUSAGE', section about the Pink Panther series is in some sort of Clouseau style). Seems, but probably isn't. — Sir MacMania GUN—[05:10 3 Jul 2011]


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While looking into the Operation Foxbook story, I ran across Aviary – an application interesting enough to deserve some notice on its own. Aviary bills itself as "a suite of powerful creative applications that you can use right in your web browser," and although they're certainly no Creative Suite replacement, for Flash-based tools they're pretty good – as well as affordable.
Right now there are three tools in the suite:
- Phoenix, a layer-based image editor with a reasonable selection of masks and effects.
- Toucan, a tool for putting together palettes and color swatches
- Peacock, a generative "visual laboratory" that is the funnest tool in the bunch.
If you've got even a bit of creative tool experience, you'll pick up how these ones work quickly. They're not loaded with options, but they can get basic drawing jobs done.
Things get even more interesting when you examine the account options. For $7.99 monthly you can join at the "green" level, giving you unlimited access to any one application. For $14.99 per month you get a "blue" subscription, with unlimited access to everything including Raven (their vector editor) and Talon (their Firefox extension). They've dubbed Aviary "trustware": you can actually try everything else use all the tools as long as you want, but they trust you to pay for your actual usage.
Aviary also has some community features built in. You can choose to make you images public, choose whether others can create derivative images, pick a license, comment on images, and so on. It's not going to replace Photoshop or the Gimp for serious creative professionals, but if you need to grab some quick online editing tools at a time when you're away from your desktop, it's worth remembering.


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RailHawks earn key road victory in New York
Posted August 2, 2014
The Carolina RailHawks (2W-0T-3L, 6pts) captured a 1-0 road victory over the New York Cosmos (1W-1T-2L, 4pts) on Saturday night at the James M. Shuart Stadium in New York. The win was the RailHawks first road victory in 2014 and first-ever victory in New York, against the Cosmos.
"Tonight, I can't be more proud of my boys and the effort they put in," said RailHawks Head Coach Colin Clarke. "We've been good on the road, but just couldn't get the first goal. We got an exceptional goal from Shipalane, and we had the better chances in the first half and second half."
In the 38th minute, RailHawks midfielder Tiyi Shipalane scored his third goal of the season after dribbling his way through four Cosmos defenders before beating goalkeeper Jimmy Maurer with a low shot from 12 yards out.
Scott Goodwin and the RailHawks defense had another big night and earned their second straight shutout of the NASL Fall Season.
The RailHawks return to WakeMed Soccer Park this coming Saturday, August 9 to take on the Tampa Bay Rowdies. Kick-off is schedule for 7:30pm.
CAR: GK: Goodwin, D: Low, Scott, Tobin, Graye; M: Davidson, Martinez (Osaki,), Albadawi, Shipalane (Elizondo, 79th), Schilawski; F: Aa. King (Jackson, 84th)
NYC: GK: Maurer; D: Freeman, Mendes, Okford, Ayoze; M: Lade (Senna,57th), Szetela, Nane (Diaz, 74th), Flores; F: Stokkelien (Guenzatti, 46th), Denissen
CAR: Shipalane (38th)
CAR: Low (37th); Graye (45th); Scott (51st)
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In the 1994 movie, "Forrest Gump," Benjamin Buford Blue, best known as Bubba, calls shrimp, "the fruit of the sea." His most famous line from the movie lists the many, many ways shrimp can be prepared. The movie even inspired the opening of the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, a chain of restaurants worldwide.
Bubba was right, shrimp is versatile. It can be prepared lots of ways and is a healthful and tasty addition to so many dishes.
In the Midwest we don't see much fresh shrimp, but on a trip to Palacios, Texas, with my mom in 2000, I saw more than I've ever seen before. We went on a trip that covered Louisiana and Texas to visit our very close family friends, the Nguyen family.
My family was living in Indianola at the time I was adopted from Vietnam in 1975. My family was part of a group that helped resettle a group of Vietnamese refugees. After these young men arrived in Iowa they needed to learn English, American customs and independence. When I was about 3, they took me to my very first Tet, to celebrate the Vietnamese New Year.
Even though 35 years have passed, my mom, Ann Wilson, still keeps in touch with two of the men and their families. Both have married and have children.
The family that lives in Texas have become like family to us. One of their daughters, Annie, is named after my mom. Hoang and Sac's three children call my mom, "grandma." Hoang is retired from the school district's maintenance department, and Sac is an ELL (English Language Learner) teacher like me. Their two girls, Sarah and Annie, served as flower girls in my wedding and wore traditional ao dais.
There is an abundance of shrimp in the Nguyens' little town of Palacios, next to the Gulf of Mexico. Shrimp boats in the water are a common sight. Hoang, who is very handy at fixing things for friends and neighbors, has even been paid in shrimp before.
While we were there, Sac prepared a feast that included huge shrimp dipped in a light coconut batter. It was quite a sight to see large, Gulf shrimp, almost the size of prawns, mounded on a platter in the middle of the table. They were beyond delicious, and I don't think I counted how many shrimp I ate that day.
I haven't been back to the Gulf since then, but shrimp remains one of my favorite foods to order at restaurants and prepare at home. Shrimp is a common theme in many of my recipe clippings from newspapers and magazines.
Shrimp with Rice
Shrimp and rice is a super simple dinner to serve with a side salad.
3 cups cooked rice
8 large shrimp
1 tablespoon finely chopped shallots
1 cup chopped peeled tomatoes or 6 to 8 quartered cherry tomatoes
1 teaspoon olive oil
½ teaspoon chili powder
¼ teaspoon oregano
Prepare rice according to package directions and set aside, covered. Remove shells and vein from shrimp, rinse well and pat dry. Chop shallots and tomatoes and set aside. Heat olive oil in large, nonstick skillet. Stir in chopped shallots and cook over medium heat until slightly softened, about 2 minutes. Add shrimp and sauté about 1½ minutes, but not until completely cooked through. Stir in tomatoes, chili powder and oregano and continue cooking until shrimp are done; they should be slightly pink and opaque, 1 to 2 minutes. Do not overcook. Serve at once over rice.
Lemon Shrimp
The flavor of lemon always pairs nicely with shrimp. When the weather cooperates, use the grill, otherwise, heating up the broiler is just as easy.
1½ lbs large shrimp, peeled and deveined
2 lemons
1/3 cup Italian (flat-leaf) parsley or basil, chopped
chopped garlic
salt and pepper
hot pepper sauce (optional)
Heat grill or broiler. Rinse shrimp, pat dry with paper towel. In a small bowl, combine shrimp and 2 tablespoons olive oil; season with salt and pepper. Meanwhile squeeze juice from lemons. In a serving bowl, whisk together ¼ cup olive oil, 3 tablespoons lemon juice, the parsley or basil, garlic, salt, pepper, and hot pepper sauce. Grill or broil about 3 minutes on each side until the shrimp turn pink. Add the cooked shrimp to the serving bowl, toss to coat and serve.
Shrimp with Arugula and Penne Pasta
If I am going to really splurge, my favorite dish to order at a restaurant is seafood and pasta. Here is a healthy and easy way to make it at home.
¼ cup, plus 2 tablespoons, olive oil
2 lbs medium shrimp, peeled and deveined
¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes
1 teaspoon dried oregano
½ cup sliced dry or jarred sun-dried tomatoes
2 tablespoons chopped shallots
2 bunches arugula
1½ tablespoons lemon juice
1 lb penne pasta, cooked
Heat 2 tablespoons oil in skillet; add shrimp, red pepper flakes and oregano. Sauté 2 minutes. Add tomatoes and shallots. Sauté 2 to 3 minutes longer or until shrimp is pink. Scrape into a large bowl. Add arugula, remaining olive oil and lemon juice. Fold in cooked pasta. Top with grated Parmesan cheese.
Serves 6
Dilled Shrimp with Rice
Shrimp is fast and easy to prepare. After the rice is done, this dish takes less than ten minutes to cook.
1 tablespoon margarine or butter
2/3 cup thinly sliced leeks
1½ cups shredded carrots
1 cup pea pods, cut in half
1 teaspoon instant chicken bouillon granules
12 oz fully cooked, peeled shrimp
2 cups hot cooked rice
1 teaspoon finely shredded lemon peel
1 tablespoon snipped fresh dill or ½ teaspoon dried dill
In a large skillet, melt margarine over medium-high heat. Cook and stir leeks, carrots and pea pods in hot margarine for 2 to 3 minutes or until vegetables are crisp-tender.
Dissolve bouillon granules in ¼ cup water. Stir shrimp, rice, lemon peel, and dissolved granules into skillet. Cook about 5 minutes or until heated through, stirring occasionally. Stir in dill. To serve, divide rice mixture among four bowls. If desired, garnish with fresh dill springs.
Makes 4 servings
Seafood Stew
In the movie, "Forrest Gump," Bubba mentioned shrimp soup. I think this stew would please Bubba.
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1 medium onion
2 garlic cloves
2 (6 ½ oz) cans chopped clams, undrained
1 (6 oz) can white crab meat (or imitation crab)
1 (6 oz) can shrimp (or 6 oz fresh, cooked shrimp)
1 (10¾ oz) can condensed tomato soup
1 (2 oz) jar pimento, undrained
1½ cups hot water
¼ teaspoon salt
pepper, to taste
¼ teaspoon dried basil
¼ teaspoon dried oregano
¼ cup fresh parsley
Parmesan cheese, optional
Heat oil in a large saucepan. Chop onion and press or mince garlic. Add these to saucepan, cover, and cook over low heat, about 10 minutes. Drain and rinse crab and shrimp. Stir clams and liquid, crab, shrimp, tomato soup, pimentos and liquid, water, salt, and pepper into onion mixture. Crush basil and oregano and chop parsley. Add to seafood mixture. Cover and cook over low heat for 10 minutes. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.
Makes 4 (1½ cup) servings
Shrimp and Pasta Salad
Looking for a refreshing summer salad? This salad is colorful and easy to throw together.
1 lb shell pasta
1 small red onion, sliced
1 red or yellow bell pepper, diced
1 ripe tomato, diced
1 (2¼ oz) can sliced black olives, drained
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 lb shrimp, peeled and deveined
2 to 3 garlic cloves, minced
salt and pepper
½ cup Italian dressing, or to taste
Cook pasta according to package directions; rinse and drain well. Combine pasta, onion, bell pepper, tomato, and olives in a large bowl.
Heat olive oil in a skillet. Add shrimp and garlic. Season with salt and pepper. Sauté until shrimp turn pink, 3 to 5 minutes. Do not overcook. Remove shrimp from skillet and cool.
Stir cooled shrimp into pasta mixture. Pour Italian dressing over all and mix well until coated. Chill 1 to 2 hours before serving. If desired, serve on a bed of baby spinach or spring greens.
Serves 10
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Tehran, Aug. 4 (Xinhua-ANI): Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei officially endorsed Hassan Rouhni as the country's new president in a ceremony held here on Saturday.
The ceremony came before the inauguration of Rouhani slated to be held in the Iranian Majlis (parliament) in the presence of local and international participants on Sunday.
Rouhani won Iran's presidential election on July 14 by garnering 50.7 percent of the votes, far ahead of his five conservative-principlist rivals.
The endorsement ceremony was attended by a number of Iranian high-ranking officials, including former president Akbar Hashemi- Rafsanjani, Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani, Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani, outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as well as a number of foreign guests.
Rouhani, a moderate cleric, will succeed the outgoing hardliner Ahmadinejad and inherit from him an ailing economy and a troubled foreign policy.
In the ceremony on Saturday, Rouhani said the July-14 election showed that there was no division between the government and the people, who chose someone having served the Islamic establishment for years to be their new president.
The election indicated that the Western sanctions could not induce differences among the people, he said, adding that voters from all walks of life participated in the election, the results of which surprised many observers.
The Iranian people with different views and political stances participated in the election and showed that it was totally transparent and the democracy has been institutionalized in the country, he added.
Iran's new president expressed his gratitude to the people who took part in the election and thanked the supreme leader for guiding the country at crucial junctures.
"My mission is to safeguard the people's trust and to establish stability and security, and to help the country out of the current problems and concerns," he maintained.
He said that the people voted for "change" in the presidential election and his administration will be committed to the promises that he gave during his election campaign.
He will officially assume presidency after an inauguration ceremony in the parliament on Sunday. According to some reports, he will announce his cabinet to the parliament at the inauguration, although he has two weeks to form the government. (Xinhua-ANI)


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However, both are included in the match day line-up as Head Coach Richard Hill rings the changes and gives his entire squad a chance to stake a claim for more senior rugby before the resumption of league action later this month.
Ben Howard will occupy the opposite wing to Short in the European clash while Jon Clarke plays in the centre with Josh Matavesi.
A new-look half back pairing will see Joe Carlisle combine with scrum half Paul Hodgson, with the former England ace making his first start for Warriors after coming off the bench at Adams Park last weekend.
Ceri Jones, Ollie Hayes and James Currie will join forces in a new front row while Chris Jones moves from the back row to lock to partner Craig Gillies.
Former Ireland international Neil Best and Blair Cowan get their first start of the seasons in the back row alongside Matt Kvesic.
Abbott, who could make his 50th appearance for Warriors in the game, is on the bench alongside Max Stelling who could make his senior debut for the club.
"It's great to see Andy (Short) and Jake (Abbott) back in contention and to also give senior starts this season to the likes of Blair Cowan and Neil Best now they are back fit," said Hill.
"When you play teams you know little about you can't really look to stop them, you have to concentrate on your own performance. It works both ways and they won't know much about us.
"We have had some intelligence from Mark Hewitt (Warriors Academy Manager) from his time in Spain and also a friend of mine in France has been to watch them a number of times and reported back so it is not a total step into the unknown for us.
"We will give them a huge amount of respect and have picked a strong team with players who have been on the fringes during the first six league games. Now they have an opportunity to stake a claim for a jersey.
"In the first part of the season, with six games back-to-back, it can be hard to break into selection and players have had to be patient while we look for continuity. But with these cup games they have a big chance to put their hand up.
"The team we send to Spain is highly motivated and will perform. Many of these players have seen how we have attacked in the opening weeks of the league season and will be keen to reproduce that. It's an opportunity to express themselves.
"We want to do well in this competition and that starts from day one," added Hill. "We start away in Spain and then play Rovigo at home, we need to win those games and set ourselves up for the Perpignan double header.
"We have to start on the front foot and we won't be taking Bizkaia Gernika lightly. Our team is hungry to play and desperate to get a good performance and get through the group stages of this exciting competition.
Warriors vs. Bizkaia Gernika RT
15 Chris Pennell
14 Ben Howard
13 Jon Clarke
12 Josh Matavesi
11 Andy Short
10 Joe Carlisle
9 Paul Hodgson
1 Ceri Jones
2 Ollie Hayes
3 James Currie
4 Chris Jones
5 Craig Gillies
6 Neil Best (c)
7 Matt Kvesic
8 Blair Cowan
16 Ed Shervington
17 George Porter
18 Rob O'Donnell
19 Dean Schofield
20 Jake Abbott
21 Ollie Frost
22 Max Stelling
23 Alex Grove