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Video: John Oliver explains monopolies
by Nojh on Jun.04, 2014, under Articles, Computers, Culture, Information Technology, Internet, News, Politics, Technology, Videos, Visual Media
He also has sent up the call for people to tell the FCC how horrible of an idea their current attempts at smashing Net Neutrality really is.
Kickstarter: Bring Reading Rainbow Back for Every Child, Everywhere
by Nojh on May.28, 2014, under Articles, Books, Computers, Culture, Information Technology, News, Technology, Visual Media
Bring Reading Rainbow Back for Every Child, Everywhere
LeVar Burton is attempting to raise funds to re-start Reading Rainbow as a multi-pronged internet venture, targeting tablets and the internet. Which seems incredibly smart to me. I've seen the recent upcoming generations and at least a good portion of them are being weaned on tablets. Being on the web will make it very accessible for schools to incorporate it in the classroom. Not that this campaign mentions it, but this could also be the step to getting it back on television.
Either way, look it over, and see what you can afford. This is definitely one of those projects worth donating to.
Net Neutrality Rap
by Nojh on May.27, 2014, under Articles, Computers, Culture, Entertainment, Information Technology, Internet, Technology, Videos, Visual Media
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LED Solar Paneled Roads, Driveways, Parking lots
by Nojh on May.23, 2014, under Articles, Culture, Design & Development, Science, Technology, Visual Media
So here is a hilarious video about a technology someone is developing that needs some financial support.
Personally I'd love to see this, or something like this, instituted. We are at a time where technology can solve a significant amount of our problems but we're being held back by commercialism and the need to make a profit. For profit corporations, who have the capital do things like this, can't because it wouldn't be economically feasible, but we, as a society, can use crowdfunding to give money to the people who are willing to make today and tomorrow a better place, even if they don't make a profit.
That isn't' to say I'm not hesitant myself. Their prototypes honestly look kinda ugly close up, and the LED idea is really neat but I'd like to see actual pictures of the LED system, in broad daylight, and up close. But when I think about it, asphalt really isn't all that pretty either. And there are questions of maintenance. How often will streets need to be cleaned to keep them energy-efficient, for example? Plus there are people who staunchly feel solar technology is the savior people like to make it out to be. What happens when newer technology comes out?
The best I can say is that these questions will be addressed, or this will never catch on, but we won't find a perfect solution, nor any solution without trying. Solar panel technology been progressing steadily in both efficiency of energy gathering and efficiency of cost over the last decade. The proposed hexagonal system appears modular enough to be upgradable as newer breakthroughs are made. Cleaning might be easily done with current street sweeping technology.
Ultimately I think this could be a significant investment in the future, and it is worth taking a gamble on.
Google is making a bad decision
by Nojh on May.03, 2012, under Articles, Computers, Internet, News, Technology, Videos, Visual Media
While I have yet to experience this change, there has been plenty of people talking about it across blogs and YouTube itself. What is Google doing?
They're replacing the like button on YouTube videos with a Google Plus button.
And some people, like Wil Wheaton, are angry about it.
One of the reasons why is because professional YouTube users rely upon not just views, but likes, in order to gain revenue. Plus YouTube's new initiative to launch actual produced channels like Geek and Sundry, are going to use likes similar to television "Nielsen" ratings.
This means that Google is effective sabotaging YouTube's rating systems by trying to market their social network. And while I like Google Plus, it is not unlike trying to fill out customer service review survey for that especially helpful phone rep who helped you fix that problem you were having, only to learn you need to sign up for the company's newsletter before they'll let you take the survey.
Comic: I tried to watch Game of Thrones
by Nojh on Mar.05, 2012, under Articles, Comic Links, Comics, Computers, Culture, Internet, Technology, Television, Visual Media
The Oatmeal: I tried to watch Game of Thrones and this is what happened.
I've done this before as well. I don't own cable. I don't see the value in it anymore. I like watching certain shows and I'd rather pay for the right to watch those certain shows. Some shows, I have checked every single possible paid site for access to what I want and found nothing. Now I understand that there is still a fallacy here. A viewer is not entitled to watch a TV show whenever they want and obviously HBO doesn't want their show available via streaming.
However the real situation is that piracy isn't going to go away. HBO (in this case) is in an open courtyard sitting on a huge pile of diamonds, loudly exclaiming that you're only allowed to buy a diamond from them if you run the obstacle course over there. Around HBO are streaming sites begging to offer money to hand deliver the diamonds with HBO refusing. Behind HBO are the piracy, carefully stealing the diamonds and then hand delivering them for free. And the only defense HBO has against the pirates is to really just shout at them and maybe start harassing the people he catches with a diamond.
The analogy is flawed but perhaps you see my point? You can't sell ice to an Eskimo. In a world of streaming and direct access, not providing such features will lead some level of people to piracy. This goes back to one of the reasons I talked about in a prior post about piracy. In a world where things are easily copied, you need to provide a better service and quality to compete.
Thoughts on Digital Piracy as advertising
by Nojh on Mar.01, 2012, under Articles, Books, Culture, Films, Internet, Opinions, Technology, Television, Videos, Visual Media
Neil Gaiman brings up some really good points for books. But I'd like to expand the conversation to all media and fill in a few gaps I think he missed.
Thoughts on Digital Piracy across all media
What should have been said above is "Mileage may vary". But I'll get to that in a minute.
Piracy does something really interesting in my opinion. It puts the power and control in the hand of the consumer rather than the distributor. What I mean by this is that consumers, thanks to piracy and actual legal forms of free media distribution, are allowed to consume content, then decide to support the content by paying money. It says "Here. View this. If you like, please realize that the person who made it needs money in order to make more like it. Pay them."
Reasons why it works
Publishers using court systems to bully license fees out of eBook publishers
by Nojh on Feb.20, 2012, under Books, Novels, Opinions, Technology
I just came across this article about how Harper Collins is suing Open Road claiming copyright infringement. Open Road is publishing as an eBook Jean Craighead George's storyJulie of the Wolves. Harper Collins already published this as a book back in the 1970s.
Random House did this back in 2001 but was shot down in two court cases that ruled that eBooks were not the same as books, and therefore prior contracts about publishing books did not include the rights to digital publishing. These cases, however, ended up having a settlement between the ePublisher and Random, likely because Random threatened to continue appealing and most eBook publishers are small operations that can't handle sustained court cases.
I personally suspect HC is attempting the exact same thing as Random. They know precedence is against them but they are hoping to either overturn the rulings, and therefore not have to renegotiate to turn their back library into eBooks, or at least sue every eBook publisher who has already contracted with the original estates or authors for settlements and licensing agreements out of court. HC unfortunately may have a chance due to the wording of their prior contracts due to wording. The contracts included a clause which gives HC the exclusive right to publish "in book form" as well as the right to exploit future technologies "now known or hereafter invented,". The argument will be that this implicitly includes a grant of electronic rights–even though those rights did not exist when the contract was signed.
If the courts rule in favor of this, contracts are going to get very scary here soon. Adding the "now known or hereafter invented" clauses will start appearing everywhere and it is going to be up to the courts to really start to decide if something is a new media, or just a "future technology" of the same media.
Video: Adding objects to images
by Nojh on Feb.16, 2012, under Art, Articles, Computers, Technology, Viz
The following is a presentation from SIGGRAH 2011, a conference on computer animation and visualization. This is a demo and has some technical jargon but I think you'll find the images interesting.
Rendering Synthetic Objects into Legacy Photographs from Kevin Karsch on Vimeo.
Kickstarting the records
by Nojh on Feb.10, 2012, under Articles, Comics, Culture, Entertainment, Gaming, Information Technology, News, Technology, Video Games, Videos, Visual Media
What is Kickstarter
So some amazing stuff has been happening over at Kickstarter. For those of you unaware, Kickstarter is what is called a crowd funding site. It's a place where content creators can post up a project they need funding for and a target money goal. People pledge money, usually for rewards of some kind, and if the target goal is met within thirty days, the money is collected. It is basically like how charities work, except it isn't giving money to charity but to a project of some kind. In this way new (and current) designers can get the funding they need to create products without having to go to banks or major corporations to fund them and sell off their designs or such.
I like to personally fund online comics looking to print their books, board games, the occasional documentary that I like, and sometimes video games. Usually I only pay a few extra dollars to get a final version of the product along with some nick-nacks and recognition in the product's credits.
The Records
So Kickstarter has been around for a while and, as such, has a few records it keeps. Like most funded within the span of a day. Most funded over the span of the entire campaign. Most money in category. Most money overall. Records like that. Think of it kinda like world records for the Olympics, except more, or less, impressive depending on your views.
Order of the Stick
So around last week I stumbled upon on of my favorite webcomics, Order of the Stick, hosting a Kickstarter to re-print a lot of their physical volumes of the comic. Since I was missing a few of those books due to a loaning incident, I decided to pledge. What was amazing about this was that the original goal was set at a little over $57,000. They were just shy of that by the first day but by the second day they had broken $96,000, nearly double. It is now nineteen days in, and they are over 1000% funded, sitting at $602,457 with 8,175 backers.
Which is amazing. Utterly and completely amazing. It has put them at the top of their category (comics) by leaps and bounds, (the next highest being a little over $100,000). They would have broken the top five of all time, except for a man you may know the name of called Tim Schafer and his company you've likely heard of, Double Fine, deciding to drop into the race.
Double Fine
Their Kickstarter is about creating and documenting a Point and Click adventure game, in similar style of The Secret of Monkey Island or Day of the Tentacle. You know the games all us old-schoolers keep begging him to bring back but modern publishers won't touch because it simply won't sell? Well with a lofty goal of $400,000, within twenty-four hours, Tim and Double Fine managed to raise $1,310,745 with 35,871 backers, shattering so many records it wasn't even funny.
Yes. They raised over a million dollars for a point and click adventure game in less than a day.
Your Support Wanted
Honestly both of these projects should be congratulated. And both should be supported, hence why I'm linking their status pages below.
OotS's Kickstater is complicated to understand but well worth it if you're a fan of OotS. I'd love for you to pledge because the next major prize is a new expansion for the board game version of OotS which I would personally like to have. Additionally with each major update, Rich Burlew, the creator, updates a comic containing the OotS characters playing around with the chart that has been mapping the entire money-raising deal and the extra rewards he has been handing out for the over funding. Double Fine's is a less interactive but simpler Kickstarter Campaign but the video is well worth watching and you'll receive a highly interactive video game designed by some of the best adventure game minds still alive.
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… bankers ask HR to sort things out
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Pity the poor HR person: Stuck in the dual roles of Enforcer of the Bank's Policies and Advocate for Aggrieved Employees. Add to this, Investigator of Employee Complaints, and you can see what drives HR folks into therapy.
Some of the issues that cross the HR desk border on the bizarre.
There may not be a policy that applies, or a legal framework to follow.
Handling these situations calls for ingenuity, objectivity, and delicacy. A thick skin comes in useful too. Somebody's going to be unhappy with the resolution.
Handling the super-sensitive employee
There's a legal definition for workplace harassment. It is verbal, physical, or graphic behavior that is unwelcome and offensive to the reasonable person. The behavior must be "severe and pervasive," rather than trivial.
See the problem here? We all believe we are reasonable people, but what is unwelcome and offensive to one person may not be so to another. Ditto for "severe and pervasive."
An example: An overweight employee complains that two other employees are making fun of her size, and talking about her behind her back. She reports that she walked in on them giggling in the break room. They immediately stopped. The two, who are friends, go to lunch together, and occasionally other employees join them, but the complaining employee is never invited to go.
If this is the sum of evidence presented, an overworked HR person might be tempted to ignore the complaint, especially if the employee has a history of being "high maintenance." Anyway, interviewing the giggly co-workers would expose the identity of the complainer and may isolate her further. However, brushing off an employee complaint is never a wise course.
What is called for here is, first, a thorough and sensitive talk with the complainer, making sure to use active listening skills. If the employee feels completely heard, she may be satisfied.
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In addition, and even if there is no evidence of harassment as defined by the bank's policy, this presents an opportunity to do some refresher training on appropriate behavior for the whole workforce. Without singling out obesity, encourage employees to be empathetic to others' challenges, and to be aware of how they might inadvertently offend a co-worker.
In a previous blog posting, I covered means of handling the situation where super-sensitivity morphs into paranoia.
Personal hygiene issues
This comes up more often than you would think. The malodorous employee seems unaware of the problem. His co-workers think it's HR's job to deal with it.
This is not an easy conversation for either party.
Start by asking general questions about the employee's wellbeing. Are there any issues the employee wants to address?
It's amazing what might come to light:
• "Joe" is sleeping in his car and has no access to shower or laundry facilities, because his wife has thrown him out.
• "Jane" has a drinking problem and is trying (unsuccessfully) to cover the smell of alcohol by spraying herself with cheap perfume.
It's not HR's job to solve all life's problems, but there may be something that can be done within the bank's policies and benefit plans to alleviate the immediate problem, help resolve the underlying cause, and enable the employee to remain in employment.
And then there's "Jim," who sees nothing wrong with his "manly" scent, and refuses to waste his time or money on personal grooming.
This is a short conversation.
Jim needs to understand that co-workers and customers do not share his appreciation for the odor of unwashed gym shorts. He needs to be told that the bank's appearance and grooming standards prevail, and that his job is on the line.
Lying for leave
Perhaps one of HR's thorniest problems is administering the bank's leave policies.
It's tricky, weaving a path between the notice and certification requirements of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and the privacy attached to personal health information. Getting complete, timely, and accurate medical information is key to managing attendance, but there are many obstacles to obtaining it.
One such obstacle is an employee who either refuses to disclose the real reason for needing time off, or who lies about it.
For example, the employee who claimed she was suffering from a rare form of cancer. Some weeks later she returned to work with silicone-enhanced breasts.
Would breast implants be covered under the bank's health plan? Does breast augmentation surgery qualify as a "serious health condition" under the FMLA? Did the employee take paid or unpaid leave?
All good questions. But to me the issue is honesty.
Honesty is an essential job requirement of every position at the bank. Fear of embarrassment or a desire to protect personal privacy is no excuse for lying to HR. Human resources personnel are obligated by law to treat medical information with the utmost confidentiality, and their reputation—not to mention their own job—depends on honoring that obligation.
A little appreciation, please
Somewhere buried in Hallmark's calendar of random holidays is HR Appreciation Day. I don't know the exact date, so let's all pretend it's today.
Take a moment to say thanks to HR for having those difficult conversations that line managers desperately want to avoid.
And to say thanks for having the patience, persistence, and compassion to work through the weird and arrive (sometimes!) at the wonderful.
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A Cosmopolitan Apartment in Manhattan
Seahorses from a garden antiques store are the wow factor in the dining room. Louis XVI-style dining chairs are covered in a jaunty shade of chartreuse leather and backed in a coral and white print. The table is from Liza Sherman Antiques.
Jonathan Adler needlepoint pillows pop on a sofa and a striped club chair, both designed by Steven Gambrel. The Italian caned chair was Leslie Klotz's grandmother's, and the curtains are by her late mother, interior designer Patricia Hopkins Klotz. The Lucite coffee table, bench, and side table holding the glass ball lamp are antiques show finds. The blue lamp is by Christopher Spitzmiller.
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|Father Huff
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|Capt William Hoff/Huff was also found as William Huff.
|7 December 1808
|William was born on 7 December 1808 at Camden, New Jersey.3
|He came to Paulsboro in 1832, and located where he lived in 1885, having lived in the one house for 59 years. He was a seafaring man, and followed sailing until 1892.1
|22 November 1832
|Capt William Hoff/Huff, 23 years old, married Harriet McIlvanine, who was 24 years old, , daughter of Arthur McIlvanine Jr. and Margaret Currie,
22 November 1832 in Craig, Greenwich township, Gloucester county, New
Jersey. Children from the 1850 census are: Amanda, Louisa, Harriet and
|23 October 1850
|Capt William Hoff/Huff and Harriet McIlvanine appear on the 1850 census of Greenwich township, Gloucester county, New Jersey. William is 41 years old, a Waterman,
born in New Jersey. Wife is Harriet 41, also born in New Jersey.
Daughters are Amanda, 16, Louisa 15, Harriet 13 and Lydia 10.
|22 July 1870
|Capt William Hoff/Huff appears on the 1870 census
taken on 22 July 1870 in Greenwich township, Gloucester county, New
Jersey On this census William is a 62 year old,
commission merchant and Harriet is also 62 years old. Their daughter
Lydia is the only child at home. She is 30. They appear on the same
page as the widower James Thomson, second husband of Kezia Hannold.
Kezia's first husband was a brother of Harriet. Also on this page of
the census is Thomson Hannold and Frederick Jr. Hannold.5
|Capt William Hoff/Huff shows on the 1880 census for Paulsboro, Gloucester county, New Jersey taken 1880. William is a 72 year old fisherman.
Daughter Louisa (45 years old) with her husband William Schofield, 46
and their daughter are in this household. William Schofield is a law
agent, born in England.6
|22 August 1892
|William died on 22 August 1892 at Paulsboro, at Gloucester county, at New Jersey at age 83. He is buried st St. Pauls Methodist Church cemetery in Paulsboro, New Jersey.1,7
|Harriet McIlvanine
|b. 25 October 1808, d. 5 April 1876
|Amanda Huff+ b. 29 Jul 1833, d. 13 Feb 1914
|Louisa Huff+ b. c 18358
|Harriet Huff b. c 1837, d. Jan 18994
|Lydia Huff b. c 1840, d. a 18704
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According to an article in an extremist Christian rag called Charisma, demons do have sex with people. The article cites a Ms. Contessa Adams, former stripper and now warrior for 'ole JC himself, who says she was molested by these sexual predators of Satan for years, in her book Consequences.
Now, and this should come as no surprise to anyone, we all know there are incubus and succubus, as evidenced by that authoritative text the Malleus Maleficarum. Incubus being a male demon, and succubus being a female demon.
I may be going out on a limb here, but I'm thinking she was getting it on with a succubus, since she claimed these encounters gave her thoughts of becoming a lesbian. But hey, according to her, the demons in general (unspecified) lure people into homosexual behavior, so what do I know.
Normally, I would describe the rantings of a lunatic such as this as being at the bottom of the barrel. However, in this case, I think you need to pick up the barrel, and go underneath where the white worms are crawling on the festering ejectamenta to understand the full depth of her lunacy. Problem is, there are those among us that believe this willful ignorance.
There's a fairly decent critique of this tripe at Salon.
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David - Yes. Should we be referring to those beings as persons?
Only if they can produce some valid ID.
By "light side," I assume you're talking about the blinding ignorance of the aforementioned persons, right?
Perhaps he's referring to the hymn that comes from that Powerhouse Church of the Presumptuous Assumption of the Blinding Light:
Oh, blinding light
Oh, light that blinds
I cannot see
Look out for me!
(with thanks to the Firesign Theater!)
How many more centuries are we going to have to deal with this looney stuff! Any news or magazine that still prints this nonsense has a really good reason to fail. Thanks for the link to Salon. However, that is giving far too much print space to lunacy.
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Eat Like a Greek to Avoid Skin Cancer
Not only do Greeks, Turks, Israelis and others who follow a traditional Mediterranean diet have lower rates of heart disease and cancer, but thanks to all the colorful fruits and vegetables, nuts, legumes, olive oil, yogurt and fresh fish they eat, they also have extremely low rates of melanoma. And new research from Israel suggests that the Mediterranean diet protects against this potentially deadly form of skin cancer. Investigators gave one group of study volunteers a daily drink that was high in antioxidants; a second group drank beverages such as sodas instead. After two weeks – and five to six hours per day in the sun – blood tests showed that the volunteers who drank the antioxidant mix had 50 percent fewer oxidation products in their blood than the soda drinkers. In addition, drinking the antioxidant cocktail also delayed a tell-tale skin change – one that indicates the beginning of the tissue and DNA damage that can lead to skin cancer.
My take? I've long been a proponent of the Mediterranean diet, a composite of the traditional cuisines of Spain, southern France, Italy, Greece, Crete and parts of the Middle East. My own anti-inflammatory diet incorporates many of the principles of the Mediterranean diet. We know that this way of eating is healthy, and I'm not surprised to learn that it protects against melanoma, a disease that is on the upswing in many parts of the world. Don't assume that all you have to do to protect yourself is eat the Mediterranean way – the Israeli researcher who conducted the study noted that it is still important to wear sunscreen and protective clothing and avoid the sun during the hours when it is at its strongest. I agree.
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Here's the latest on the medical uses of marijuana: a research team from Canada's McGill University Health Centre has published a study showing that smoking marijuana at home three times a day reduced chronic nerve pain in patients who had failed to achieve relief from other treatments. Some participants had pain following nerve injury due to accidents, and some cases were due to surgical trauma, including cut nerves. During the study, the patients smoked low doses (25 mg) of marijuana three times a day over the course of five days; they all used a pipe, and the marijuana they were given contained approximately 10 percent THC, the primary active ingredient. The researchers described the pain reduction as "modest," but said that the marijuana also improved patients' moods and helped them sleep better. They noted that bigger, longer-lasting clinical trials investigating higher doses of THC would be needed to further evaluate the effectiveness and long-term safety of medical marijuana for pain relief. The study was published online August 30, 2010 in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
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Cinnamon Extracts and Heart Disease, Diabetes Risks
Two daily doses of a dried water-soluble cinnamon extract seemed to lower the risk factors for heart disease and diabetes in a small study led by a U.S. Department of Agriculture chemist. The research team found that the daily doses of the cinnamon extract improved the antioxidant status of the volunteers, a group of obese men and women, and also seemed to decrease their fasting blood sugar (glucose) levels. For this small, 12-week study, the researchers randomly divided their 22 participants into two groups. Participants in one group received 250 mg of cinnamon extract twice a day along with their usual diets; those in the other group were given a placebo. Investigators collected blood from all the volunteers after an overnight fast at the beginning of the study, again after six weeks and at the end of the 12 weeks. The positive changes seen in the lab values of the cinnamon group suggest a benefit in reducing risk of both diabetes and cardiac disease. We'll need more and larger studies to tell us if cinnamon really does help. But in the meantime, if you're at risk, the most important thing you can do for your health is lose weight.
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Food as Medicine: Broccoli is an extraordinarily rich source of vitamin C. One cup, steamed, provides 205 percent of the Daily Value of this important antioxidant vitamin.
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Dutch Model and Actress. She appeared in over 50 movies, and was best known for playing the lead character in four of the seven Emmanuelle films. She began modeling when she was 17. She entered the Miss TV Europe contest in 1973 and won. Multilingual, she spoke Dutch, English, French, German and Italian. Kristel gained international attention in 1974 for playing the title character in the softcore film Emmanuelle, which remains one of the most successful French films ever produced. After the success of Emmanuelle, she often played roles that capitalised on that sexually provocative image, most notably starring in an adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981), and a nudity-filled biopic of the World War I spy in Mata Hari (1985). Her Emmanuelle image followed her to the United States, where she played Nicole Mallow, a maid who seduces a teenage boy, in the sex comedy Private Lessons (1981). Another mainstream American film appearance was a brief comic turn in the Get Smart revival film The Nude Bomb in 1980. Kristel at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. Although Private Lessons was one of the highest-grossing independent films of 1981 (ranking #28 in US domestic gross), Kristel reportedly saw none of the profits and continued to appear in movies and last played Emmanuelle in the early 1990s. In May 1990, she appeared in the television series My Riviera, filmed at her home in Saint-Tropez and offering insights of her life and motivations in an interview with writer-director Michael Feeney Callan. In 2001, she played a small role in Forgive Me, Dutch filmmaker Cyrus Frisch's debut. In May 2006, Kristel received an award at the Tribeca Film Festival, New York for directing the animated short film Topor and Me, written by Ruud Den Dryver. The award was presented by Gayle King. After a hiatus of eight years, she acted in the film, Two Sunny Days (2010), and that same year, she played the mother of the Trio Lescano in the TV series The Swing Girls. She died in her sleep from esophageal and lung cancer.
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RITAC to Host 'Artists Working in Healthcare' at Gamm Theatre, 5/31
The Rhode Island Teaching Artists Center (RITAC) invites teaching artists, medical professionals, administrators, educators and the general public to attend "Artists Working in Healthcare" on Saturday May 31 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The half-day event, which is free to RITAC members and just $10 for non-members will explore the history, practices and benefits of integrating the arts and healthcare. The event will take place at RITAC, which is housed at The Gamm Theatre, 172 Exchange St., Pawtucket, RI.
"Artists Working in Healthcare" explores such topics as: What is the role of an artist working in healthcare? What healing arts programs already exist and what are their benefits? How can one get involved in this evolving field? Keynote Speakers include:
Elaine Sims, Director of the Gifts of Art program for the University of Michigan Health System. The program has been recognized as a model program by the National Endowment of the Arts. Sims' artwork has appeared in The New Yorker magazine and museums around the world. Learn more about Elaine>
Paula Most, Coordinator for the Arts at Lifespan in Providence, RI. Most is founder & director of Museum on Rounds, a hospital based art program that began as a collaboration with The Museum of Art, RISD and continues to this day to bring art workshops to children at Hasbro Children's Hospital. Learn more about Paula>
Panelists include: Lt. Governor Elizabeth Roberts, State of Rhode Island; Rachel Balaban, Co-Founder & Co-Director, Artists and Scientists as Partners; Jordan Butterfield, Education Programs Manager & Teaching Artist, Trinity Rep; Dr. Colleen Cavanaugh, Artistic Director & Founder, Part of the Oath; Hollis Mickey, Assistant Educator, Gallery Interpretation, RISD Museum; John Peterson, Business Manager for Behavioral Health, Bradley Hospital
To register for "Artists Working in Healthcare" and/or join RITAC, please click here.


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Alife and Reebok's fruitful partnership continue on with this latest release, the Classic Leather Lux. Based on one of Reebok's classic silhouettes, the shoe is marked by a subtle embossed pattern featuring Alife's iconic font logo. Three colors include black, gray and white, each sharing the same black speckled midsole. Also packaged with each shoe are three different lace choices. The shoe has hit select retailers in Europe and Asia.
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The 11th annual Operation Soup Line, which benefits Doorstep Inc., is slated for Feb. 26.
The event will take place from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Kansas Expocentre.
Tickets are $9 per person, which helps Doorstep provide emergency services to those in need. Ticket prices include lunch served by local celebrities and entertainment. The event is free for children ages 5 and under.
There also will be a basket auction.
Doorstep has been providing food, clothing, rent, utility, prescriptions and dental assistance to families in the Topeka community for more than 47 years.
The menu includes either chili, chicken tortilla soup or Portuguese Green Soup, crackers and a variety of desserts.
Delivery is available for 10 or more orders. Pre-orders are required by mailing requests to 1119 S.W. 10th, faxing requests to (785) 232-4865 or by calling (785) 357-5241. Lunches will be delivered between 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Requests for delivery must be received by Feb. 24. Carryout also is available.


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Oyster gives new (high) definition to panoramic hotel photos
Oyster.com, the lodging review and booking site, likes to skip the marketing shots in favor of realistic hotel photos and the website just implemented panoramic photos in a very big way.
Just take a look at this high-definition 360 degree panoramic image of L'Auberge de Sedona in Sedona, Arizona.
If you go to this link to view the above photo on Oyster.com and zoom out, you can pan all around the property, viewing the river and the back of the hotel at the far right and left.
Oyster has about a dozen of these panoramic photos on its site now and will be adding another couple of dozen in the next week or so as it dispatches its professional photojournalists to new hotels it is signing up.
Eytan Seidman, co-founder and vice president of product, says the L'Auberge de Sedona image actually was stitched together from about 125 photos.
The photographer took the photos using a Gigapan device with a camera mounted on top.
Oyster then used "stitching techology" from krpano to create a seemless, panoramic viewing experience, Seidman says.
The hotel review site wrote about the panoramic photos and other new features in a blog post.
The company claims to be adding 200-300 hotels per month and will be giving some of these panoramic treatment for free.
Oyster doesn't touch up the pix to make them more marketing-oriented, the company says.
Jetsetter, the travel flash sales site, introduced 360-degree panoramic images in its iPad app and now has them for more than 100 hotels on the company's website.
Ariel Charyton, Oyster co-founder and president, claims Oyster's panoramic images are more realistic than Jetsetter's, a charge that leaves a Jetsetter spokeswoman somewhat perplexed.
"We fail to see how our photos are more marketing-oriented," says Kellie Pelletier, a Jetsetter spokeswoman. "To me, both sites are providing a valuable service for users who want to see every nook and cranny of a great hotel room or roofdeck pool."
You can judge for yourself. Take a look at this Jetsetter image of the Hotel on Rivington and click on this link to give it a try.
Charyton says Oyster will only give hotels the panoramic treatment when the exterior or interior lends itself to it, adding that sometimes consumers appreciate "linear" room photos, for instance.
Oyster has always sought to differentiate itself from online travel agencies, including Orbitz, when it comes to the realism of Oyster's photography and it recently launched photo-led search for hotel rooms.
Ironically, Oyster has begun to run 15-second TV commercials on the Travel Channel, which invested $10 million in Oyster in April, and the spots are basically text-only, with no vacation photography.
The theme is Oyster, the "hotel tell-all."
Take a look:
Oyster.com Ad Campaign 2011 "Return" from Oyster.com on Vimeo.
About the Writer :: Dennis Schaal
Dennis Schaal was North American editor for Tnooz.
This is not a gigapixel virtual tour, the photographer may have used a Gigapan, but obviously had no clue what they were doing. In a gigapixel tour you should be able to see an ant on a leaf in this tour. This is a Gigapixel virtual tour http://www.panoramafotos.ch/images2/fullscreen/multirow/oeschinensee-virtuell/index.html
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Thanks for appraising us Matt….from a navigational standpoint exceptionally WELL done…pleasant surprise to see this type of photographic agility…..
Thanks, but its not my panorama. Just wanted to showcase the difference between true gigapixel images and this one. As far as navigational ability these guys have much better functionality;
http://www.altamira360.com/casasnavegantes/amazonas/ or
The first link uses an off the shelf panography software, the second link is 100% custom built from the ground up.


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Black Population Up in Alabama, People Reported as Both Black, White More than Doubles, Census Indicates
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Fourteen percent of all people in the United States identified themselves as black, either alone or in combination with another race, according to a report just released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
In 2010, 55 percent of the black population lived in the South, and 105 Southern counties had a black population of 50 percent or higher.
Annette Watters, manager of the State Data Center at the Culverhouse College of Commerce at The University of Alabama, said 11 of Alabama's 67 counties are majority black counties: Bullock (70 percent), Dallas (69 percent), Greene (81 percent), Hale (59 percent), Lowndes (74 percent), Macon (83 percent), Marengo (52 percent), Montgomery (55 percent), Perry (69 percent), Sumter (75 percent), and Wilcox (73 percent).
Of the total U.S. population of 308.7 million on April 1, 2010, 38.9 million people, or 13 percent, identified themselves as black alone, the Census Bureau said. In addition, 3.1 million people, or 1 percent, reported as black in combination with one or more other races. Together, these two groups comprise the black alone-or-in-combination population and totaled 42.0 million.
In Alabama, Watters said, 1.28 million people, or 26.8 percent, identified their race on their 2010 census forms as black alone or black in combination with another race.
"The 2000 census was the first time Americans could report that they have more than one race," Watters said. For that census year, 13,068 Alabamians reported that they had two races, one of which is black. On the 2010 census forms, 29,807 Alabamians gave that answer, an increase of 128 percent.
The people in Alabama who reported that their only race is "Black or African-American" numbered 1.156 million in 2000 and 1.251 million in 2010, an increase of 8 percent. While the black-alone-or-in-combination population in Alabama grew by 9.6 percent between censuses, the growth rate for the total Alabama population was 7.5 percent.
"The 2010 Census shows several things about race in America that seem to be contradictions, but really they are not," Watters said. "For example, the majority of the black population lives in the South, but the state with the largest number of African-Americans, 3.3 million, is New York state. Of all respondents who reported being black in 2010, 55 percent lived in the South, 18 percent in the Midwest, 17 percent in the Northeast and 10 percent in the West."
About 60 percent of blacks live in 10 states, but according to Watters, Alabama is not in the top ten list. The 10 states with the largest black alone-or-in-combination populations in 2010 were New York (3.3 million), Florida (3.2 million), Texas (3.2 million), Georgia (3.1 million), California (2.7 million), North Carolina (2.2 million), Illinois (2.0 million), Maryland (1.8 million), Virginia (1.7 million) and Ohio (1.5 million).
"The ranking is slightly different if we look at the black-alone race category instead of the black-alone-or-in-combination category," Watters said. The state with the 10th largest black-alone population is Louisiana (1.5 million), replacing Ohio (1.4 million).
The black alone-or-in-combination population in Florida grew by 29 percent, Georgia by 28 percent, Texas by 27 percent and North Carolina by 21 percent.
Concentrations of blacks outside the South tend to be in counties within metropolitan areas. There were 317 counties where the black alone-or-in-combination population was 25.0 to 49.9 percent of the population, and only 17 of these counties were not in the South. Of these 17, 15 were in metropolitan areas.
The District of Columbia, which is treated as a state equivalent in the Census Bureau's reports about race, had the highest percentage of blacks alone-or-in-combination among states, with 52 percent in 2010, even though this population decreased by 10 percent between 2000 and 2010.
Although the South has the highest concentration of blacks of any region, Detroit, Mich., has the highest percentage of blacks among large cities. Birmingham ranks number four in this category. Among places with populations of 100,000 or more, the highest percentage of blacks alone-or-in-combination was found in Detroit (84 percent), followed by Jackson, Miss., (80 percent), Miami Gardens, Fla. (78 percent) and Birmingham (74 percent).
The multiple-race black population is more geographically dispersed than the black-alone population. A considerably higher percentage of the multiple-race black population lives in the West (23 percent), relative to the black-alone population (9 percent). While a large percentage of the multiple-race black population lives in the South (36 percent), this is much lower than the black alone population (57 percent).
Watters said people who reported only one race on their 2010 Census questionnaire are referred to as the race "alone" population. "For example, respondents who marked only the 'Black or African American' category would be included in the black alone population," Watters said. "This population can be viewed as the minimum number of people reporting black."
Individuals who chose more than one of the six race category options on the 2010 Census form are referred to as the race "in combination" population.
"One way to define the black population is to combine those respondents who reported black alone with those who reported black in combination with one or more other races," Watters said. "Another way to think of the black alone-or-in-combination population is the total number of people who reported black, whether or not they reported any other races."
The University of Alabama, a student-centered research university, is experiencing significant growth in both enrollment and academic quality. This growth, which is positively impacting the campus and the state's economy, is in keeping with UA's vision to be the university of choice for the best and brightest students. UA, the state's flagship university, is an academic community united in its commitment to enhancing the quality of life for all Alabamians.
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- SOURCE: Annette Watters, manager, Alabama State Data Center, email@example.com; 205/348-6191


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text: Robert et al., I agree that the formulae implemented should go in all the stats docstrings. Most users of np.std() and friends will not be aware of the distinctions you raise here, but they should be. Could you add a warning sentence in the relevant docstrings stating that these functions are often misapplied, that their proper application is not always obvious, and that readers should consult appropriate references if not already familiar with concepts xxx, yyy, and zzz (pick some)? The sentence could point to references given either in that docstring or (for scipy functions) in the scipy.stats docstring. The references should include something reputable and stable online (like Wikipedia, if it is in this case). Obviously, np docstrings should not point to references given only in scipy docs, though they can refer to routines in scipy or elsewhere as alternatives. A discussion based on Robert's explanation (below) could also go on the web site somewhere, like in Cookbook, and be referenced in the docstrings. I'm more of a customer for this text than one who could write it, but if you don't have time to do it yourself, could you provide the sentence and references? A doc volunteer can then go put it in the relevant routine docs. Thanks, --jh-- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:11:11 -0600 From: "Robert Kern" <email@example.com> Subject: Re: [SciPy-user] information on statistical functions To: "SciPy Users List" <firstname.lastname@example.com> Message-ID: <firstname.lastname@example.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 20:32, <email@example.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Robert Kern <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 19:53, <email@example.com> wrote: >>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Tim Michelsen >>> <email@example.com> wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> I observed that there are 2 standard deviation functions in the >>>> scipy/numpy modules: >>>> >>>> Numpy: >>>> http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.std.html#numpy.std >>>> >>>> Scipy: >>>> http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.stats.std.html#scipy.stats.std >>>> >>>> What is the difference? >>>> There is no formula included within the docstrings. >>>> >>>> I suppose that np.std() is for the whole population and scipy.std is >>>> designed for a smaller sample in the population. >>>> Is that true? >>> >>> difference between population (numpy) and sample (scipy.stats) >>> variance and standard deviation is whether the the estimator is >>> biased, i.e. 1/n, or not, i.e. 1/(n-1). >> >> It's a shame that the "biased/unbiased" terminology still survives in >> the numpy.std() docstring. It's really quite wrong. >> > > I find talking about biased versus unbiased estimator much clearer > than the population - sample distinction, and degrees of freedom might > be more descriptive but its meaning, I guess, relies on knowing about > the (asymptotic) distribution of the estimator, which I always forget > and have to look up. The problem is that the "unbiased" estimate for the standard deviation is *not* the square root of the "unbiased" estimate for the variance. The latter is what numpy.std(x, ddof=1) calculates, not the former. This problem arises because of a pretty narrow concept of "error" that gets misapplied to the variance estimator. The usual "error" that gets used is the arithmetic difference between the estimate and the true value of the parameter (p_est - p_true). For parameters like means, this is usually fine, but for so-called scale parameters like variance, it's quite inappropriate. For example, the arithmetic error between a true value of 1.0 (in whatever units) and an estimate of 2.0 is the same as that between 101.0 and 102.0. When you drop a square root into that formula, you don't get the same answers out when you seek the estimator that sets the bias to 0. Rather, a much more appropriate error measure for variance would be the log-ratio: log(p_est/p_true). That way, 1.0 and 2.0 would be the same distance from each other as 100.0 and 200.0. Using this measure of error to define bias, the unbiased estimate of the standard deviation actually is the square root of the unbiased estimate of the variance, too, thanks to the magic of logarithms. Unfortunately for those who want to call the (n-1) version "unbiased", the unbiased estimator (for normal distributions, at least) uses (n-2). Oops! Other distributions have different optimal denominators: heavier-tailed distributions tend towards (n-3), finite-support distributions tend towards (n-1). But of course, bias is not the only thing to be concerned about. The bias is just the arithmetic average of the errors. If you want to minimize the total spread of the errors sum(abs(err)), too, that's another story. With the arithmetic error metric, the unbiased estimator of the variance uses (n-1) while the estimator with the smallest total error uses (n). With the log-ratio error metric, the unbiased estimator is the same as the one that minimizes the total error. Happy days! I also find the population/sample distinction to be bogus, too. IIRC, there are even some sources which switch around the meanings, too. In any case, the docstring should have a section saying, "If you are looking for what is called the "unbiased" or "sample" estimate of variance, use ddof=1." Those terms are widely, if incorrectly, used, so we should mention them. I just find it disheartening that the terms are used without qualification. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco


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93. Margaret4 Wallingford (Col. Thomas3, John2, Nicholas1) was born probably in Dover, New Hampshire about 1716 to 1718. Her birth date is an estimate based on the facts that she had her first child in 1741 and four of her younger siblings were born between 1720 and 1726. She couldn't have been born after 1726 and still had a child in 1741. Margaret died before 21 February 1803, probably in Berwick, Maine, at approximately 85 years of age. One source(868) states that she was called deceased in the division of her father's estate in 1789, but this is untrue. Her 1794 will was probated on 21 February 1803.
She married James Goodwin, about 1740. James was born in Berwick, York County, Maine.(869) James was the son of Thomas Goodwin and Mehitable Plaisted. They lived in the part of Berwick that is now South Berwick, Maine. Margaret received property from the estate of her father in the three divisions of the estate made on 10 September 1772, 10 October 1772 (Maine lands), and 8 December 1779. First there was about 87 acres in Somersworth. Also all the "Thatch Bed" that belonged to her father at the time of his death, existing at a place called Cocheco Point. Also about 13 acres originally purchased from Ensign John Tibbets in Somersworth.(870) In Maine she received 28 acres from the Great Farm, plus 100 acres in Berwick Commons above Little River (Lot 2, 3rd Range), plus that part of the right of land in Lebanon her father purchased of Joseph Peve, plus one quarter of her father's interest in a saw mill and privileges at Salmon Falls in Berwick.(871) In the 1779 division she received 1/13 part of the 3d division lot in Meredith and 1st division lot in Wakefield. Also 20 acres of 2nd division lot in Sanbornton, joining 15 acres already given to Hannah Brown above. Also 160 acres in New Durham Gore being number 9 in a drawn lot plan attached to the record of the division.(872)
The will of Margaret Goodwin of Berwick, widow, "being advanced in years" was written on 14 February 1794, and she signed with her mark. Some of the major bequests were as follows: To her son Jedidiah Goodwin went 1/2 of her right in reversion unto the third set off to Madam Elizabeth Wallingford, widow of her father, within the town of Portsmouth. To her son Amos Wallingford Goodwin, about a half acre lying within his fence taken off from the corner of the land she bought of William Hight, 1/3 of her thatch beds in Somersworth set off to her out of her father's estate, and her right unto her grandfather Clement's estate. To her son Silas Goodwin about 11 acres being the land she bought of William Hight excepting the piece that went to son Amos, about 10 acres she bought of John Plaisted, half of the 18 acres she bought from her son Amos, half of the 5 acres she bought from David Moore, all this land being in Berwick, and 1/3 of her thatch beds in Somersworth. To her son Thomas Goodwin, her half of the dwelling house and barn where she then lived, about 15 acres she bought from her son Amos, about 20 acres she bought from Capt. Thomas Wallingford, half of 18 acres of marsh she bought from her son Amos, half of about 5 acres she bought from David Moore, all this land lying in Berwick, and 1/3 of her thatch beds in Somersworth. He also received almost all of the livestock. To her daughter Margaret Hodson, 100 acres above Little River in Berwick that came from her father's estate, 1/3 of her right in the thirds set off to Madam Elizabeth Wallingford, her father's widow, except that part in Portsmouth which she gave to her son Jedidiah and daughter Mehetabel. To her daughter Mehetabel Chadbourn, about 12 acres she bought of Nathan Lord Esq adjacent her husband Thomas Chadbourn's and Col. Benjamin Chadbourn's land, and half of her right of reversion in the thirds set off to Madam Elizabeth Wallingford lying in Portsmouth. To her daughter Olive Gray, one third of her right in reversion in the thirds set off to Madam Elizabeth Wallingford, except that part in Portsmouth. To her daughter Mary Hall, one third of her right in reversion in the thirds set off to Madam Elizabeth Wallingford, except that part in Portsmouth. She also gave one milk cow to each of her four daughters, and divided her household furniture, wearing apparel and personal effects equally amongst the daughters. The will was witnessed by Richard Shackley Jr., Jedidiah Lord, Moses Goodwin, and Ebenezer Sullivan, and was probated on 21 February 1803. Her son Thomas Goodwin and son-in-law Captain Thomas Hodsdon were made executors.(873)
Margaret Wallingford and James Goodwin had the following children:
191 i. Margaret5 Goodwin was born probably in Berwick, Maine before 27 February 1741/2. Margaret died 21 September 1825, at 84 years of age. Date from gravestone. She was buried in a private cemetery along Cranberry Meadow Road in Berwick, Maine.(874) She married Thomas Hodsdon Jr., 30 October 1763.(875)
Thomas was born before 10 June 1739. Thomas may have died 4 April 1818?, at 78 years of age. His will was dated April 1810.(876) A Thomas Hodsdon died 4 April 1818, aged 80, and was buried in a private cemetery along Little River Falls Road in Berwick, Maine. The age suggests this Thomas, but his wife, who died eight years later, is buried in a different private cemetery.(877)
He was baptized 10 June 1739.(878) He was referred to as "Captain" Thomas in his mother-in-law's will dated 1794.
She was baptized 17 or 27 February 1741/2 in Berwick, York County, Maine.(879) On 1 April 1813 Thomas Hodsdon of Berwick, gentleman, and Margaret his wife "in her right", sold for $33 to Charles Cushing of Berwick, her share of the farm and homestead of Margaret's grandfather Thomas Wallingford of Somersworth, it having descended to her through her mother Margaret (Wallingford) Goodwin.(880) They resided at "Cranberry Meadow" in Berwick, now South Berwick, Maine and had eleven children.(881)
192 ii. Mehitabel Goodwin was born in Berwick, York County, Maine 24 April 1744.(882) Mehitabel died 12 September 1833. She was buried in the Old Fields Cemetery in South Berwick, Maine.(883) She married Thomas Chadbourne, 22 October 1767, in Berwick, York County, Maine.(884) (Stackpole's "Old Kittery" gives the date as the 20th, apparently in error.)(885)
Thomas was born 30 April 1743, in Berwick, York County, Maine.(886) Thomas was the son of Joseph Chadbourne and Sarah Phipps. Thomas died 1 June 1822, in South Berwick, York County, Maine.(887)
She was baptized 29 April 1744 in Berwick, York County, Maine.(888) Thomas was a blacksmith. The Chadbourne genealogy states that there is evidence from a descendant's family records indicating that Mehitable was once taken by the Indians, but it doesn't go into any further details.(889) They had six children according to this genealogy, but the Goodwin genealogy says they had five.(890)
193 iii. Jedediah Goodwin was born before 18 May 1746. Jedediah died 1 July 1818, in South Berwick, York County, Maine.(891) He married Hannah Emery, 7 October 1771.(892) Hannah was born in 1756.(893) Hannah was the daughter of Rev. Joshua Emery and Adah Tidy.
He was baptized 18 May 1746 in Berwick, York County, Maine.(894) They lived in Berwick and/or South Berwick, Maine and had 14 children.(895)
194 iv. Olive Goodwin was born probably in Berwick, Maine before 28 May 1749. She married Nehemiah Gray, 19 March 1770, in Berwick, York County, Maine.(896)
She was baptized 28 May 1749 in Berwick, York County, Maine.(897) They lived in Coxhall (Lyman), Maine and were buried in Elder Grey Cemetery in North Waterborough. They had at least one child.(898)
195 v. Mary Goodwin was born before 4 February 1753. She married Dr. Ebenezer Hall, 1 April 1772, probably in Somersworth, New Hampshire. They were married by the Rev. James Pike of Somersworth. The diary of Somersworth schoolmaster Joseph Tate has the following entry: "Wed. April. 1st. 1772. Mr. Ebenezer Hall of Sandford Married to Mrs. Mary Goodwin of Berwick by the Revd. James Pike of Somersworth. Who Genteelly beg'd their Wedding dinner at Cap. T.W s at Somersworth, She was Daughter of Mr. James & Mrs. Margaret Goodwin of Berwick."(899) Cap. T.W. is most likely Capt. Thomas Wallingford, who was the uncle of the bride.
She was baptized 4 February 1753 in Berwick, York County, Maine.(900) On 31 March 1813 Ebenezer Hall of Alfred, Maine, husbandman, and Mary his wife "in her right" sold for $33.33 to Charles of Berwick their shares in the homestead of Thomas Wallingford of Somersworth. The land had descended to Mary through her mother Margaret, the daughter of said Thomas. Said land "being in common and undivided with the heirs to said estate and others". Witnesses were Abiel Hall and David Hall.(901)
196 vi. Amos Wallingford Goodwin was born before 13 April 1755. Amos died in 1838.(902) He married Eunice Getchell.(903)
He was baptized 13 April 1755.(904)
197 vii. Silas Goodwin was born before 8 June 1760. He married twice. He married first, Isabella Bragdon, 15 November 1780.(905) Isabella died probably by about 1800.(906) The Clement Genealogy says she was from York, Maine.
He married second, Anna Clement, about 1800.(907) Anna was born in March 1767, in Dover, New Hampshire.(908) Anna was the daughter of Job Clement and Elizabeth Rollins. Anna died after 1804.(909)
He was baptized 8 June 1760 in Berwick, York County, Maine.(910) He had four children by his first wife and two by his second, all born in Berwick, Maine.(911)
198 viii. Thomas Goodwin was born 14 January 1763.(912) He married Anna Goodwin.(913)
He was baptized 3 May 1764 in Berwick, York County, Maine.(914) A Goodwin Genealogy says he was baptized 14 January 1763.(915) The diary of Somersworth schoolmaster Joseph Tate has the following entry, which may or may not pertain to this Thomas: "Monday April 3, 1769. Mr. Thos. Goodwin of the Lower End of Berwick Dy'd (Henry Goodwins Father.)"(916)
199 ix. James Goodwin.(917) The History of Kittery states that he and his brother Samuel "are said to have been taken prisoners in the Revolutionary War and to have died in Halifax prison."
200 x. Samuel Goodwin.(918) The History of Kittery states that he and his brother James "are said to have been taken prisoners in the Revolutionary War and to have died in Halifax prison."
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Responding to a recent article in Nature on the psychology of climate change, The Guardian 's Andrew Brown argues that combatting global warming will require something beyond carbon taxes, recycling programs, and technological innovation:
There may be ways of fixing [the current confusion] and averting catastrophic global warming that don't make use of religious resources, but I can't think of any.
It's important to this argument to understand that religious resources need not be theistic. All they need do is make manifest a higher rationality than self-interest. This isn't an argument about whether God exists, but about how human beings make up their minds and form their characters. Atheist states based around myth and ritual are not hard to find . . . .
What religious thought — and ritual — can supply is the two things absent from normative consumer liberalism. The first is a belief that the choice between ends is not arbitrary or wholly personal: that there are moral facts of the matter; that saving as much of humanity as possible is an obligation on all of us, and that this is actually true, and not just a matter of preference.
The second is the kind of conformism, reinforced by all kinds of social ritual, large and small, which will enforce the social discipline needed to carry societies through some pretty ghastly changes. Let's face it, any adjustment to an ecologically sustainable standard of living is going to be a lot nastier than anything Greece is going through now. It will need considerable determination and solidarity.
Even if climate change never becomes a crisis, the resources Brown mentions could be vital if the recent economic stagnation worsens in coming decades. But the idea of a non-theistic religion supplying them seems far-fetched in light of the mockery that greeted Alain de Botton's proposed religion for atheists .


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Living in New York is not always easy! Between the crowded groups of people to the crazy weather, sometimes figuring out what to wear can be a tough decision. One thing is for certain though; you can never go wrong with red lipstick. What this Fashionista does well is she allows a touch of color to distract from the bland, white background (which some might call a "Winter Wonderland").
The weather can make some of us a little stir-crazy. I for one hate feeling trapped up in my house all day knowing that all the stores and restaurants are closed due to the "weather hazards." However, despite feeling a little down, it's always good to spice up a casual outfit consisting of leggings and sweatshirts with a cute jacket and booties.
This Fashionista was just abroad in Madrid, Spain, so she does not love the cold chill coming up north. She makes the best of it by using her hand-knit headwrap, which she purchased during her travels in Europe. However, you can find one very similar at your local Urban Outfitters.
On the other hand, it's always good to be prepared. By using her Longchamp tote bag, this Fashionista keeps all of her goodies safe and sound. Much like a mailman, she is prepared for any weather condition from snow to sleet to hail!
So remember, don't let the weather prevent you from looking your best. Be confident in your style and choices to make sure that you stand out no matter how gray the skies are! Just don't forget to be reasonable in your choices of accessorizing; we've all seen how a lady looks in the rain without an umbrella!


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Cessna Aircraft Company, part of the Textron Aviation segment of Textron Inc., is celebrating the milestone delivery of the 100th Cessna Grand Caravan EX.
The aircraft has been supplied to Hussain Ali Rashid Almoalla for use at his aviation club in the United Arab Emirates. Mr Almoalla, who also owns a Cessna Skylane and Cessna Stationair, is personally flying the Cessna Grand Caravan EX back to his home base in Abu Dhabi, a trip covering 9,000 nm.
"The Cessna Grand Caravan EX, which was announced in 2012, is synonymous with versatility," said Christi Tannahill, senior vice president, Turboprop Aircraft. "The increased horsepower and configurable interior has resonated strongly with our customers around the world. Reaching this milestone delivery speaks to the strength of the program and the confidence our customers have in the product."
"I am delighted to add the Cessna Grand Caravan EX to our current fleet," said Almoalla. "The Cessna Grand Caravan EX is reliable, efficient and ideal for my needs. My expectations of this aircraft have far been exceeded. I am very impressed with the power it displayed on the first flight, as well as its ease of maintenance, impressive Garmin G1000 avionics and spacious interior. It is abundantly clear I have made the right decision."
Powered by the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-140 engine, the Cessna Grand Caravan EX boasts a 38 percent improvement in the rate of climb of the Grand Caravan, a 350-foot reduction in takeoff roll and a 10-12 knot cruise speed improvement over average.
The first 100 units of the Grand Caravan EX have been delivered around the world for diverse missions, including travel companies in the Hawaiian and the Caribbean islands, construction and energy companies in the U.S., and aid organizations on wildlife rescue missions in Africa.
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Lowell woman to use driver's license photo wearing colander
BOSTON >> Massachusetts motor vehicle officials will allow a Lowell woman, citing her religious beliefs, to wear a colander in her driver's license photo.
Lindsay Miller said Friday she "absolutely loves the history and the story" of Pastafarians, who follow the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. She says wearing the spaghetti strainer allows her to express her beliefs.
A spokesman for the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles said policy does not permit head coverings or hats on license photos. However, exceptions are made for religious reasons.
Patty DeJuneas, a member of the Secular Legal Society who represented Miller, calls Pastafarianism a "secular religion that uses parody to make its point."
She says she helped Miller, who sought the same protections afforded to people who belong to other religions.
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No resolution for fire damaged home removalTax payers will likely be on the hook for demolition of fire damaged house on First Avenue
WESTBROOK, Minnesota (STPNS) -- westbrook Mayor Dennis Phelps updated the council on the status of the fire damaged home on First Avenue. Apparently the home owner was paid off 100 percent of the claim including demolition costs. He has since left the area and local officials have been trying to get permission to demolish the home and collect some of the funds to do it.
However the city has had difficulty in locating this person and negotiating with him.
Phelps told the council he had sent a letter to the State Insurance Commissioner to see if there is anything that can be done to get the demolition done.
Phelps said he thought it was unusual that the insurance company did not withhold a percentage of the claim until all of the provisions of the claim had been met. He said the commissioner agreed that it was unusual, but that the insurance company was well within its right to pay out the full amount of the claim. He also noted there is no evidence of wrong doing by the insurance company. As a result Mayor Phelps is hopeful that the house will get demolished within the next 30 days.
Street supervisor Carl Conrad told the council that inspections of the swimming pool, and the lagoon site are up-coming.
Conrad told the council it has been difficult keeping up with the lawn mowing because of recent rains and more in the forecast. Conrad said he would be painting the lines on the streets as soon as he gets additional paint.
A question came up about Fun Days. The council was wondering about parking for the Saturday night Rock Concert during the event. Manda Jorgenson said we (the committee) are looking into that. Parking up by the school will likely be available with shuttles running to the concert. She noted also that people going to Rock Concerts usually expect to walk a few blocks to get there.
The council discussed the status of properties that were notified by letter to mow lawns, and clean up their premises. Police Chief Alan Wahl said he has been following up when necessary. Mayor Phelps said we are making progress on some of them but it is an on-going issue.
City Clerk Katie Steen told the council a representative of Brown Nicollet Health Department inspected the city camp ground. They told her if they have more than four campsites significant up-grades would have to be made. The city decided to cut it to four sites and hold two in reserve for special occasions.
The council briefly discussed the new stop signs erected in the city. For the most part the council thought that people are getting use to it. Although there was a corner that has stop signs on two opposite sides, and a yield sign from one other direction, that will have to be looked at.
The VFW Club was granted a building permit for property acquired recently from Klasse Sales and Service. The property abuts the current VFW Club. Plans include new rest rooms, storage and a patio.
Dave Stresemann was given a permit to install a concrete driveway at his residence on Fifth Street.
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In spite of the declining popularity of tobacco use (at least in North America), Smoking Hunks caters to those who love watching a sexy muscle man smoking a cigarette or a fat cigar. They present around 100 very well-built men showing off their bodies while smoking; lots of them are playing with their cocks, too, and yes, some even pair up for some steamy suck and fuck action while enjoying a smoke.
Most of the men on the site are serious muscle hunks with bulging biceps and squeezable plump pecs. I only saw a couple of guys who weren't packing serious beef. At the same time, these men aren't typical bodybuilding competitors with necks the size of your thighs. A lot of the hunks here are known on muscle worship sites, and many are also porn stars like Diesel Washington, Dolan Wolf, Samuel Colt, Tony Orion, and others. And I was surprised to see porn hunks who haven't filmed in quite a while, men like Spencer Reed, Manuel Torres, and Hank Hightower.
These masculine men are a mix of tattooed and not, smooth and hairy, some have facial hair while others don't. And while not everyone is wearing leather gear, there are a lot wearing harnesses, armbands, leather vests and jocks and bridge caps. There are also several men wearing police uniforms, gym and sports wear, denim and street clothes, and even a couple wearing suits.
I watched one curly-haired hunk smoking a cigar in his wife beater and underwear. He eventually ripped his shirt with bare hands, stripped off his underwear, and oiled up his bulging muscles, all the while sucking on his cigar. Even when he started jacking his hard-on and eventually when he unloaded his nuts, he continued smoking. Another man in a construction helmet and denim was just getting home from a hard day at work; he smoked a cigarette while slowing stripping out of his clothes and he eventually jacked off.
I watched two massive muscle hunks teasing each other. One wears a leather vest and hat, the other a policeman's hat and shirt. The leatherman worships the cop's muscles and eventually massages oil all over his body. After sucking his cock, the leatherman lies back and smokes a cigar while the cop fucks him. There are several sessions like this where a man smokes while getting oral; he often blows smoke on his cocksucker or in his face, but sometimes it's the bottom who is blowing smoke all over his buddy's hard-on. And one hairy and inked stud smoked his cigar while getting a massage. There's lots of muscle worship with men rubbing their hands along strong bodies while the worshiped smokes his cigarette or cigar. I also saw a bondage scene where the master forced his slave to smoke and another where a massive muscle hunk played with a dildo while smoking.
The Smoking Hunks videos are separated into two sections. There are 81 full-length movies available to download in MP4 format and these play at 480x360. They're good amateur quality and fair well in full-screen mode. There are also 43 movies that are offered in a separate section; they come in two- to three-minute clips and there are usually 12 of them. Both types of movies can also be streamed on the site and play at 594x448 to 640x450 depending on the video.
There are pictures galleries inside the site. There are 100 men in the Models section, and you'll find the picture galleries in some of the model's pages, however not all men have a gallery. When they do, there are around 40 digital stills that display at 400x600 in a slider, but you can't right-click save any of them nor do they come with downloadable zip files.
The updates are dated on the Smoking Hunks tour, and the most recent update was just a couple of days before I reviewed the site, which appears to be updating at least once a week. Further, the site appears to be still producing content as I'm seeing current porn regulars showing up in the videos and the production dates are also recent. However in the movie download section, each video has a title like DVD 300, and while the numbers go as high as 386, not all of the DVDs are available. For instance, they jump from DVD 319 to DVD 325, and some of these missing downloads are available in a DVD Store while others aren't. The site may be filling updates with both new and recycled content, it's hard to tell for sure when only the most recent updates are dated.
The men of Smoking Hunks are masculine and sexy. If you like muscle hunks with impressive bodies you'll love watching the performers showing off and rubbing their muscles and cocks while smoking cigars and cigarettes. I was happy with the mix of solo and duos, and there was a fairly good mix of clothing, including a lot of leather. I really enjoyed watching current porn stars and regulars, performers I hadn't seen in a while, as well as some new faces. If you're into watching muscle men and hot hunks smoking, this site is, well, smoking.


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For most families, a trip to Disney World is the ultimate vacation goal. Unfortunately, many families may think that a dream vacation to Disney is not in their budget. Yes, there are plenty of ways to spend thousands of dollars on a week's vacation in this family playground spectacular, but for savvy trip planners, there are also many ways to save.
A budget trip to Disney World still has that same magic, but you'll feel a lot better about it after coming back. Here are five easy ways to save money on your trip.


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Legendary Drake High track coach Bill Taylor is going to spend his 80th birthday in a campground at the bottom of the 10,600-foot Matterhorn mountain in Switzerland.
Taylor, his assistant Max Slaughter, and seven Drake students leave Sunday afternoon from San Francisco International Airport for the 18th bi-annual Arete West Trip, brainstormed by Taylor in 1979 after his girls mile relay team took third in the state.
"I told them I'd take them to Europe after they finished third at state," Taylor said. "And off we went."
The trips, planned and orchestrated by Taylor for 35 years, have spanned from the land of the ancient Egyptians to the stomping grounds of the Swedish Vikings and many destinations in between.
This year's trip takes the students to Turkey, Greece, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Austria and Switzerland over the nexth month.
"My balance isn't what it used to be," Taylor said. "So I might go part way up the Matterhorn — but I'll let the kids do the heavy climbing as long as there's no ice on the trail and the conditions are good."
Lily Stander, a junior, said the only foreign country she has ever visited is Mexico. She marvels at Taylor's longevity for the Arete West trip.
"I hope when I'm 80 I'm camping in Europe," Stander said.
Arete West students participate in a nine-month curriculum, reading and discussing historical literature, then fly overseas to explore the sites they studied.
"They've been studying with me and getting no school credit every other Sunday night for a couple of hours since September," Taylor said. "I find teenagers are interested about the questions of life, more so than most adults as we're studying the places we're going."
The group of seven students — all from Drake — for this year's trip include Stander, seniors Patrick Dillon, Jahya Burke, Maya Normandi, Clayton Hutchins, junior Izzy Doerschlag and sophomore Brody Barkan.
"His classes are more interesting than my classes in school," Stander said. "Coach Taylor's classes feel like a philosophy class."
Stander, a 400-meter specialist for the Drake track team, says she is most excited to visit Athens, Greece, the birthplace of the Olympic Games.
"Coach Taylor has always been in love with Athens," Stander said. "We have a Greek flag at all our track meets. I'm very excited about running on the ancient track."
The Panathenaic Stadium in Athens hosted the first modern Olympic Games in 1896. Reconstructed from the remains of an ancient Greek stadium, the Panathenaic is the only major stadium in the world built entirely of white marble.
In ancient times, the stadium was used to host the athletic portion of the Panathenaic Games, in honor of the Goddess Athena. During classical times, it had wooden seating. In 329 BC it was rebuilt in marble.
For Barkan, the only sophomore on the trip, the destination he is most looking forward to visiting — the concentration camp in Auschwitz — hits home at a more personal level.
Barkan said he recently talked to his 75-year-old great uncle on the telephone for the first time.
"He was in the concentration camp, although not the one in Auschwitz," said Barkan, who won the 800-meter run at the MCAL finals. "He told me a little bit about how his five brothers and sisters and both his parents were killed there."
Auschwitz was made the official name of the camp by the Nazis after they invaded Poland in September 1939. From early 1942 until late 1944, transport trains delivered Jews to the camp's gas chambers from all over German-occupied Europe. The camp's first commandant, Rudolf Hoss, testified after the war at the Nuremberg Trials that as many as three million people died there.
"We have made five trips behind the iron curtain," Taylor said. "Our trips have been rich in history."
The group also plans to visit Hitler's Tea House in Austria.
"This trip is special because of all the history you read about and all the movies you watch, it brings it all together so can actually see where it happened," Barkan said.
Hutchins, who finished 10th at the state meet in the 1,600, told Taylor he is most looking forward to visiting Istanbul where he can run along the water and look across the water and see Asia.
Regardless of the destination each of the students most looks forward to visiting, the entire trip is something all of them will remember throughout their lives.
"All the stuff we've been studying "... everything finally comes to life," Stander said.
Taylor never tires of the overseas adventure and the wide-eyed wonderment of his students as they see the sights.
"It's blessing for me and a revelation," Taylor said. "It changes the students' lives."
As Taylor prepares for his 18th trip and to celebrate his 80th birthday, he says he's not done yet.
"My energy level is better than it was three or four years ago," he said. "I don't think this is the last one."
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Zoning can create community
Across the Helderbergs and in the lands below the escarpment, historic hamlets cluster around a Dutch Reformed Church. Unlike cities, where skyscrapers define the horizon, the inhabited rural landscape is punctuated by steeples, reaching heavenward.
It is no coincidence that local hamlets are clustered this way. The area was settled by the Dutch; the patroons, who held sway in a near-feudal system until after the Anti-Rent Wars, granted land parcels to the church to be developed for society's necessities. A blacksmith and undertaker were sure to have homes and shops in the hamlet. Mills would spring up to grind the grains that were raised and general stores were built to sell goods that couldn't be raised or made by hand.
The surrounding lands were farmed. Vast tracts of open grounds, some wooded, some cultivated — surrounded the hamlets.
In the 21st Century, the lay of the land — with residences clustered near businesses and open space beyond — is now touted by planners as Smart Growth or New Urbanism. Walkable communities are being built to stem the ills of suburban sprawl.
The hamlet of Knox, like many others, had a history of local businesses. The town is holding a hearing next month, to be followed by a board vote, on setting up Knox's first business district. The hamlet had functioned as a business district without the zoning in place because the old businesses were grandfathered in, that is, they pre-dated the 1974 ordinance.
But, one by one, the business, for various reasons, closed. Si Stevens, who was ready to pump gas at all hours of the day, and served kids ice cream besides, moved to a nursing home, and the business was closed. The general store shut down. And the old frame building that housed the post office was found to be unfit.
A business district in the hamlet makes sense and we support it wholeheartedly. Councilwoman Amy Pokorny said she'd like to explore ways to protect historic homes in the district. That's a wise precaution, and requirements, such as roof pitch and siding materials, could be written into the law.
Pokorny is currently in charge of surveying residents for their views on updating the town's master plan and said that none of the respondents were opposed to business in town.
Indeed, we ran a letter last week from a recent high school graduate, Josh VonHaugg, lamenting the closed businesses in Knox. While we don't believe the cause or solution is political, we can feel his anger and grief as he writes, "People used to love to say where they came from, but, as the town slowly falls apart, no one wants to admit it anymore. There is no community passion or love. Kids are leaving here and never coming back."
Establishing a business district in the hamlet would be a start to promoting not just jobs or lower taxes but a sense of community. In recent times, the Knox Country Store was a hub of happy activity. Musical performances were given there; good food was served; neighbors met each other and shared stories.
Robert Price, the chairman of the planning board, told the town board this month that "the real-world issue" is businesses wouldn't come to Knox. He pointed out the Stewart's shop a few miles away in Altamont, part of a chain, could sell items for less than an independently owned store.
This is true. But, aside from the advantage of proximity, local stores offer something distinct to each community. That's why the general stores in Medusa and Berne are prospering; they are convenient, accessible, offer needed goods and services, and engender a sense of community.
While we back the business district in the hamlet of Knox, we oppose a not-yet-drafted proposal for a second business district near the intersection of Route 146 and Lewis Road. The planning board was unanimous in its vote to recommend the hamlet business district, but members were split, 5 to 2, on recommending the Route 146 district. And for good reason.
Daniel Driscoll and Robert Gwinn, both long-time planning board members who helped draft Knox's original comprehensive plan, cited a description in the zoning ordinance of future business districts as "centrally located." The proposed district for the hamlet is among those suggested by the plan, but the one on Route 146 is not.
Gwinn correctly termed it a "one-shot deal" rather than a comprehensive look at what is best for the town. The recommendation is largely to accommodate a towing business that sprang up there in violation of the zoning law.
Kristen Reynders, the owner of Hitman's Towing Service, wants to expand her business. She started it with her husband with one truck — the business now has four — in her father's driveway in Altamont, she said; they bought property in Knox after neighbors complained and village zoning enforcement gave them a warning.
Knox zoning enforcement should have done the same. At the July planning board meeting, Chairman Price first made a motion not to recommend any change to the ordinance, saying it would set a bad precedent.
He should have stuck with that. What is the point in having a law if you allow people to break it and then change the law just to accommodate the law-breakers? Thomas Wolfe, the planning board member most outspoken in favor of creating the Route 146 business district, called it "the cleanest way out." There is nothing clean about it.
"We ignore a lot of zoning violations all over the place, 'what's another one?'…But that doesn't make it the right thing to do," Wolfe said.
He's right: Ignoring zoning violations is not the right thing to do, but neither is creating a new district to legalize the violations. The right thing to do is to enforce the zoning ordinance in the first place.
Zoning laws, as we've written before, are needed for the common good. Individual property owners give up some of their rights in order to meet the needs of the community at large. Town boards, as representatives of the people, enact those laws.
When laws are broken, they should be enforced, not changed to cater to the law-breaker.
Spot zoning is not wise planning. Knox would be best to adhere to the vision mapped out in its comprehensive plan. A business district in the hamlet makes sense. We hope that businesses will be attracted to it and believe the community will be richer for it.
What's old is new again. As people lost in the corporate landscape seek meaning and individuality in the close-to-home, society as a whole is coming to realize that sprawl is not just bad for the environment but bad for the soul. Part of making our rural towns places that recent graduates will want to return home to is having a vision for the future that will embrace and sustain them.