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Free Download: Blank 1850 Census Form needed to record your ancestors in the 1850 census.
What information can be found in the 7th Federal Census of the United States?
Questions Asked on the 1850 Census
The 1850 census is the first Federal census which lists each individual by their name!
Good Sense Census Tip: Finding your ancestors is much easier beginning with the 1850 census due to the listing of the names of all family members and their exact ages. You will learn more about your ancestors in the 1850 census than any Federal census recorded previously. Once you find your ancestors in this census, it may be easier to work backwards to earlier censuses as you can compare them with this one, making it easier to identify individuals. Beginning with this census, you can learn the occupation or profession of your ancestors easily. This census also included mortality schedules which listed every person who died within the year by name and gave the reason for death. Slave schedules listed slave owner's names along with the number of slaves owned.
Which States Were Included in 1850 Census Records? (36 states)
Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin.
1850 Census Articles
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Further 1850 Census Research
1850 Census Records Online at Ancestry - Learn about the 1850 Census Records & how to access the census index and images.
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Where Can 1850 US Census Data be found?
1. Census Finder Census Directory - This is our own directory of free census records which can be found online. Our directory is categorized by state and county and we have attempted to list every census index, census transcription, and even census images which can be found online. Also See 1850 Census Search
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2. Ancestry.com Census Records Ancestry.com has completed the database of all US census records 1790-1940. This is the greatest tool for genealogy research in the United States to be found online and it does include the entire collection of 1850 census records enumerated in the United States. While it is a paid subscription, it is well worth the money and they have so many more genealogy records in their databases.
3. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) The archives maintained by the Federal US Government contains all United States Federal census records on microfilm. They are in the process of placing their census collections online. On their site, you will find an online catalog of available microfilm and a lot of useful information about what is available for census research. See Clues in Census Records 1850-1930.
4. FamilySearch.org The LDS (Latter Day Saints) Library in Salt Lake City also maintains the entire set of US Federal census microfilm and these can also be found or ordered for a fee at Family History Libraries located throughout the United States. You can search for a Family History Library near you using this search. The LDS Church is also putting many census records and genealogical indexes online and these can be accessed on their site. Search at FamilySearch.org at Discover Your Family History and you may also view the entire list of LDS online records here.
5. Local libraries will often have history and genealogy departments with a (usually incomplete) collection of microfilm available for research and sometimes they will offer their patrons online subscriptions which can be accessed while at the library.
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Penelope S. Clarke, 91
Penelope S. Clarke, 91, of Virginia Beach, Va., formerly of Jamestown, died April 15, 2007 after a short illness.
Born in Jamestown, she was the daughter of the late William A. and Ethel M. Clarke.
Penny was deputy Town Clerk under the late John Hammond, served as secretary of the Jamestown Bridge Commission, and did title search work for several attorneys in the South County area during her years of employment.
She is survived by her sister, Winifred C. Russell of Virginia Beach and a brother, William A. Clarke Jr. of Fairfax, Va.; also many nieces and nephews, greatnieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her sister, Ida C. Dalrymple, two brothers, Richard S. Clarke, and Russell S. Clarke, of Jamestown.
A private memorial service will take place at a later date in Virginia Beach. Memorial donations may be made to JEMS, P.O. Box 8, Jamestown, RI 02835 or Conanicut Island Land Trust, P.O. Box 106, Jamestown, RI 02835.

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Alveda King: Emergency injunction to stop HHS mandate enforcement against Priests for Life was "an answer to prayer"
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ATLANTA – Dr. Alveda King, full-time director of African-American Outreach for Priests for Life, said "the 11th hour emergency injunction that temporarily relieves our ministry from the loathsome yoke of the contraception mandate contained in the Affordable Care Act was an answer to prayer."
Likening the intervention to "a wakeup call akin to what my uncle Dr. King described in his A
experience," Dr. King describes the urgently pressing need to resist the HHS Mandate.
Priests for Life learned at 5 p.m. Dec. 31, just hours before its new insurance policy was to take effect, that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit had granted the injunction, which will remain in place while the appeal of Priests for Life's lawsuit against the mandate is heard.
Dr. King, along with Priests for Life National Director Father Frank Pavone and Executive Director Janet Morana, are named as plaintiffs in the suit.
"As a Catholic ministry, Priests for Life opposes the use of contraception, as well as 'morning-after' contraception that acts as an abortifacient, and sterilization," she explained. While she is not Catholic, she also opposes these products and services because they are part of the "contraceptive mentality" that allows the destruction of more than a million unborn children a year, and because they are unhealthy for women.
"For many years we have been crying out for justice for the babies in the womb, for their mothers who are harmed by abortion, and their fathers and the whole community. To force us to participate in a mandate that is totally opposed to everything we believe in would be very egregious to me," Dr. King said. "I was harmed by abortion. I have children who were killed by abortion and by harmful contraception. This injunctive relief is vital to our ministry, and couldn't have come at a better time."
Noting that 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, Dr. King said she believes this year will mark "a significant turning point for righteousness and justice."
She is inviting all who will be in Washington, D.C., for the Jan. 22 March for Life, to join her at the 20th annual National Memorial for the Pre-Born and Their Mothers and Fathers.
"We will be praying for an end to the terrible scourge of abortion, and praying that the religious freedom guaranteed to every American is not stripped from us," Dr. King said.
The National Memorial will take place from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. on Jan. 22 at the DAR Constitution Hall, 1776 D St. NW. For information, go to
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Three Key Lessons for Modern Americans From a Refugee of Communism
America is at the crossroads. In a couple of weeks, we get to vote which path we will choose---toward bigger or more limited government. Lately I've been hearing from different people who fled Communist backgrounds, warning about what they see happening in modern America at the hands of politicians on both sides of the aisle.
A woman from church said of recent presidents (of both parties): "These politicians write executive orders as if they were kings or a Communist Party Politburo. I am from Communist Poland (which has recently become Communist again), and here in the US, I see socialism (and other -isms) coming every year, more and more since I got here, except under Reagan."*
Another man tells me via email: "…no matter what words I use to describe it, people who never lived under Communism will never truly understand the social cancer that Communism is. In the Romanian church I pastor…we have many members who fled Romania during Communism and risked their lives to escape the totalitarian regime; some were caught and brutally beaten….For the Communists, people who worked hard and managed to have more than the average were considered to be dangerous and were deported or worked to death in forced labor camps."
Someone might say, "Well, that was then. That was there. This is now. This is the United States." But my friend continues, "It is scary to see the mentality that resembles that of the Communists being more and more openly expressed by the politicians in USA."
The main voice I want to highlight here is from Carlos, a 42-year old Cuban refugee who escaped to America in 1995. His plea is for us to not go down the same path. He fears that we could "lose our beloved America," if we don't heed the lessons from Communism, such as:
1. No God Means No Rights
Carlos notes, "I grew up in government schools a complete atheist, and the system indoctrinates you all the way to the bones. There is no private school."
In contrast, our founders said that our rights come from the Creator. God-given rights are not up for vote. John F. Kennedy declared, "the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." Ronald Reagan observed, "If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under."
2. Collectivism Means No Freedom
Carlos said, "Absolutely everything belongs to the government…For example, you own a cow; and you're starving to death, but cannot eat it…you can only sell the milk from your own cow to the government, and the government tells you how much it is worth…. The Communists try to keep you very poor and try to make you believe that there is only one way you can survive, and it because of government's help."
What's the net effect of over-bloated government? It often saps the strength and will of the people. As Carlos puts it, "It is very important for the government to take all the incentives, aspirations, and ambitions away from you. Government wants to make you a dependent parasite. That way they can control you very easily."
3. You Have No Freedom to Disagree
Carlos says, "The Communists control the media 100%.….I remember my mother being taken to jail because there is a law that if you are considered a dangerous person, the government has to isolate you 'for the better of the community.' They took my mother to jail for two years when I was in 5th grade." Although she has now lived in the U.S. for at least ten years, Carlos notes that she still fears being overheard saying the wrong thing. She whispered to Carlos recently, "Don't say that. Somebody is going to hear you."
Carlos continues, "I remember very well that you are afraid of talking about politics with your friends or any family member because you don't know if they work for the government, and any comment can take you to jail for many years---real jail, not the hotel that we have in America! I have many friends that went to jail for just having an opinion against the system."
Carlos escaped (on his fourth attempt to flee) when he and five other males rowed a 12-foot boat from Cuba to "a rock" in the Bahamas. He wept when an American soldier said, "Welcome to freedom, gentlemen!" Eventually, he was granted "political refugee asylum" in the U.S.
He looks back at how risky it was to row a 12-foot boat in the middle of the ocean, but he adds, "Nothing is more precious than freedom…you would do it for freedom too." He laments that "millions of Americans take this freedom and system for granted. How sad, very sad!"
Carlos warns. "I see the government getting bigger and bigger and controlling more and more, and I am afraid for my child to live what I lived. Well, I try to tell people my opinion every day and thank the Lord that I can do it without hiding. I will try, as long as the Lord wants me to be here, to try to keep this country the way it was founded."
There's a song that says, "You don't know what you got 'til it's gone." May that never be our future lament.
*Note: I have corrected grammatical errors and misspellings from these refugees.


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Pro-life power hitters to speak at March for Life Youth Rally
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Many of the biggest names in the pro-life movement will speak at the March for Life Youth Rally to take place Tuesday, Jan. 21, from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
Bryan Kemper, founder of Stand True, the Youth Outreach of Priests for Life, was tasked by the March for Life to organize and build this event, now in its third year. The rally was booked solid three months before the March and the waiting list is in the thousands. James Nolan of Crossroads will host the event with Kemper.
"March organizers saw how vital young people are, both to the March and to the pro-life movement, and made this rally an official March event," Kemper said. "This generation is committed to being the generation that ends legal abortion in this country and when thousands of them are together under one roof, they can move mountains."
Emceeing the rally will be Eric Scheidler of the Pro-Life Action League. Speakers will include Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life; Dr. Alveda King, director of African-American Outreach for Priests for Life; Janet Morana, co-founder of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign; Troy Newman of Operation Rescue; Lila Rose of Live Action; Ryan Scott Bomberger of the Radiance Foundation, and many others.
Noting that this is the third year that the Youth Rally has been on the official March for Life roster of events, Father Pavone said busloads of high school and college students from all over the country energize the March and assure leaders who have been in the trenches for decades that their work will continue and spread.
"As these young people gather, it is so clear that they want to learn what they can do to end abortion in their own school, Church, and community. That is why, as we bring so many leaders together to address them, we provide them, and their families, with concrete, practical resources and ideas that save lives," Fr. Pavone said. "And we tell them that right here and now, they are already leaders in the pro-life movement."
For a speakers' schedule, go to Standtrue.com/mflyouthrally/
To arrange an interview with Father Pavone, Bryan Kemper, Janet Morana or Alveda King, contact Leslie Palma at 347-286-7277 or email@example.com
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This past year, the Office of Residence Life and Housing at Emmanuel College has employed a staff of 35 students as Resident Assistants. They have worked in the four on-campus residence halls as well as the satellite locations that Emmanuel College has provided as residences. The Resident Assistant's primary mission is to be available in the residence halls to assist other students. Major areas of responsibility are community building, programming, emergency response and administration.
The RA Role and Responsibilities:
- Peer Counseling: Building community, conflict mediation, crisis intervention, accessibility, approachability, relationship with residents.
- Administration: Bulletin boards, promptness, accuracy, communication with supervisor, meeting attendance, duty responsibilities.
- Programming: Meeting deadlines, efforts over a desirable range of topic areas, paperwork completed in efficient and timely manner, show's enthusiasm for self and other's programming.
- Community Standards: Confronting negative behavior, documentation, modeling positive behavior, enforcing policies, demonstrating awareness, shows support for College policies.
- Team Member: Participation/attendance at staff in-services, working cooperatively with staff, supporting building staff activities.
- Attitude: Approaches position with enthusiasm, enthusiastic staff member and shows genuine concern for hall residents.
The following provisions are placed on those hired for the Resident Assistant position through the Office of Residence Life and Housing at Emmanuel College.
- Must maintain and have a current 2.50 cumulative grade point average.
- A clear judicial record, i.e., must not be on disciplinary probation and must maintain this status throughout the employment period.
- RAs will live on-campus during the dates of their contract.
- RAs cannot work more than 20 hours per week beyond the RA job. Any employment, student teaching, internship or other major responsibilities taking the RA out of the residence hall must first be discussed with the ADRD and approved by the Director of Residence Life.
- RAs cannot hold any position on Residence Hall Association (RHA) and/or Student Government Association (SGA) other than general member.
- RAs cannot carry more than 18 hours of coursework or more than one evening class per semester unless he/she receives prior permission from the AD/RD. RAs may be asked to drop classes in excess of the 18-hour limit.
- An RA is hired for the complete academic year (August through May).
- RAs are not allowed to leave for break periods until the residence halls are closed.
Resident Assistants are generally hired for the academic year (nine months) and receive:
- A scholarship equal to 75% of room and board for the first year.
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Theatre in the Park Executive Director Kari Catton won a national award in the Jackie White Children's Playwriting Contest for her original play, Healin' Home. This Theatre in the Park production runs five nights under the direction of Springfield's Deborah Whitson. The play involves three orphaned siblings in 1910 desperate to stay together. They run away from the Orphan Train carrying them to individual new homes and happen upon the Missouri home of brokenhearted parents, the Coleys, and their housekeeper, Bernadine. Cast includes: Jim Yale, Jordan Guinan and Claire Morrow of Petersburg; Carol Woodrum of Athens; Alex Remolina, Linda Schneider, Deborah Kerley and Eric Woods of Springfield; and Brock Kemp of Chatham. Pre-shows start one hour before curtain time and feature a local musician and a talk with the director.
Healin' Home
Aug. 19-21, 26-27, 8pm
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Before, on, and after November 29, 1999, in carrying out work under reimbursable agreements with any State, local, or tribal government, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service may, without regard to section 1341 of title 31 and notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, record obligations against accounts receivable from such entities, and shall credit amounts received from such entities to this appropriation, such credit to occur within 90 days of the date of the original request by the Service for payment.
(Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, § 1000(a)(3) [title I], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1535, 1501A–140.)
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Learnt to patchwork English paper piecing when I was 12 and made floor cushions in 70's but didn't know about quilting
Returned to patchwork in 2004. Learnt at Sheffield College with Carolyn Gibbs who taught me all the basics, is a great teacher (sadly college no longer does courses) now Carolyn is someone I consider a friend
Enjoy many aspects of quilting especially contemporary quilting and hand stitching but like to learn and stretch myself
Sometimes still do English paper piecing!
Other Tutors I have enjoyed doing courses with include Pat Archibald, Phillipa Naylor and best of all Ineke Berlyn in Bromsgrove who I have done 2 of her 6 day courses over 6 months. She is a very inspiring and generous tutor with a fantastic workshop space
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Cardinals take LSU's Mathieu in third round
Cardinals take LSU's Mathieu in third round
TEMPE, Ariz. —
The Arizona Cardinals used their third-round draft pick on LSU safety Tyrann Mathieu, filling a need in the secondary with a player with a checkered past.
Arizona took one LSU player, linebacker Kevin Minter, in the second round and took a chance in the third by selecting the player known as the Honey Badger.
Once considered a Heisman Trophy front-runner, Mathieu didn't play last season after Tigers coach Les Miles kicked him off the team for failing multiple drug tests.
A close friend of Cardinals Pro Bowl cornerback Patrick Peterson, Mathieu spent the past few months trying to rehabilitate his image after being arrested in October with three former teammates for marijuana possession at his Baton Rouge apartment.


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Amegakure (雨隠れの里, Amegakure no Sato; ; Literally meaning "Village Hidden by Rain"; ) is a small, yet highly industrialised hidden village located in an unnamed country. Its architecture is composed of several metallic skyscrapers with rowed ducts connected to them and many power lines surrounding. A number of smaller villages also surround Amegakure. As its name suggests, it rains almost constantly due to a storm above the village.
There are many ninja from this village who are skilled genjutsu users. It is a hidden village that one by one raises the ability of its shinobi, in turn working out original techniques. They also developed assassination techniques, getting numerous requests from foreign countries because of this.[1]
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For many years, Amegakure was led by Hanzō; he led Amegakure's forces against Konohagakure during the Second Shinobi World War. Despite the fact that Hanzō had a huge presence on the battlefield, such that he slaughtered an entire Konoha platoon and allowed ninja as powerful as the young Sannin to live when they managed to hold their own against him, Amegakure lost the war. Amegakure's location between three of the Five Great Shinobi Countries has caused it to serve as a battleground during the various ninja wars, making most of its population war refugees. Amegakure has adopted a heavy isolationist policy because of this, leading to the village's defences to be abnormally impenetrable. To be admitted to the village, visitors, even those coming for Chūnin Exams held in Amegakure, must go through a number of security checks and are under constant surveillance during their stay. Even Hanzō, despite his strength was paranoid and constantly feared being assassinated and as such was rarely seen in public.
During the Third Shinobi World War, a group from Amegakure began advocating peace. When their group became large and popular enough, Hanzō saw this as a threat to his rule. He allied with Danzō Shimura of Konohagakure to have the Akatsuki eliminated. Hanzō lured them to an ambush by claiming to be interested in their ideas and Yahiko, the group's public leader was killed. Nagato tried to take revenge on Hanzō, but succeeded only in killing the other Amegakure ninja present as well as all of Danzō's Root personnel as Hanzō escaped the slaughter.
Nagato, adopting the alias of Pain, soon began a civil war within Amegakure. Forces loyal to his new ideas for the village wore an Amegakure headband with a horizontal slash through the middle, showing their rejection of the former Amegakure leadership and principles. Pain eventually single-handedly killed Hanzō as well as everyone even remotely affiliated with him. He similarly slaughters any remnants loyal to Hanzō that tried to sneak back into the village to assassinate him. Pain's effectiveness has caused the villagers of Amegakure to regard him as a god. The people of Amegakure began to refer to Pain as "Lord Pain", and to Konan who assisted Pain, as "Lady Angel".
During Nagato's reign, he used a technique that made it rain every Sunday or whenever he had to leave the village.[2] The special rain was connected to his senses, and allowed him to sense intruders who tried to enter the village, making infiltration impossible without being detected. After Nagato's death, Konan assumes the duties of Amegakure's leader and swears the village's allegiance to Naruto Uzumaki, but she falls in battle against Tobi, who came to retrieve Nagato's Rinnegan.
Knowledge of Amegakure's civil war was not common throughout the ninja world, and the fate of Hanzō himself was completely unknown to the point that other villages believed him to still be in charge. Because Pain uses the village as his base of operations for Akatsuki, Jiraiya was able to spread news of these developments during the course of his investigation into the organisation. Pain later went to Konohagakure to try to capture Naruto and the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox respectively, after killing Jiraiya. He effectively destroys the majority of Konoha's infrastructure and kills many of its citizens. Later, he is convinced by Naruto's determination and ideals so he decides to revive those who he recently killed using the Outer Path: Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique. In this village it rains almost constantly except for when Pain would stop the rain. The only natural incidence of the rain ending was during Konan's fight with Tobi who had come to retrieve the Rinnegan. After Konan's death, however, the village collapsed into chaos.
Much of the Land of Rain collapsed into warring districts, some trying to seize power, some trying to restore the "order brought by God," others just attempting to maintain stability. An example of one of these factions was the Yūgure force, a group of fanatics attempting to restore Amegakure and the Land of Rain to a "utopia" brought by "God and his Angel," a clear throwback to Akatsuki rule. This group seized the center of Amegakure around Pain's Tower, and held enshrined the remains of the leaders of Akatsuki. Here, in Ame proper, street fighting was common and crime became rife, except in the "purified" center of the city.
Another district of the Land of Rain, near the border of Fire Country, was bloodlessly seized by three shinobi and a samurai, relative newcomers to the region. The four overawed the residents of the fairly populous mountain district by murdering their corrupt leader and took control over the local militia. The citizenry was pacified through handouts and a centralized economy that put them all to work mining or enlarging its army.
A district on the border was occupied by opportunistic Grass shinobi.
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- Twenty-one genin from Amegakure participated in the Chūnin Exams, far more than the other minor villages.
- Many characters from Amegakure, such as Shigure and Aoi Rokushō, have been seen using umbrellas that have hidden weapon mechanisms in them. Also, many shinobi from this village wear simple rebreathers.


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5 Things We Learned From the 'Unauthorized Saved by the Bell' Movie
Last night, Lifetime aired "The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story," an "inside" look at what went on behind the scenes of the beloved Saturday morning '90s sitcom. It was clear from the first few minutes that the window we were getting into the soul of "Saved by the Bell" was through a Screech lens; after all, Dustin Diamond, who played the geeky punchline throughout the series, served as executive producer. For something unauthorized, there weren't too many shocking twists and turns. But we did cull a bit of knowledge after spending two hours with the old Bayside Gang, as depicted by new actors that vaguely resembled the originals. Here's five things we learned about the '90s series.


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The search for Clara Prime begins!
In Slate's Doctor Who TV Club, Mac Rogers discusses the Doctor's travels via IM every week with the show's bloggers and fans. This week he's chatting with Teresa Jusino, Chick who Unravels Time, who writes the Teresa Jusino Experience.
Mac Rogers: I've watched "The Bells of Saint John" twice now, and my take is that while it is definitely Steven-Moffat-Who by the numbers, it's very good Moffat-Who by the numbers. We've got the "Are you my mummy?"-style catchphrase in "I don't know where I am!" We've got the Teselecta-style machines in creepily emotionless human shape (with swiveling heads right out of "The Beast Below"). We've got the Doctor interacting with the new companion as both a child and as an adult (symbolically through Clara's 101 Places to See book and literally through this Web-only prequel). And we've got a "Blink"-like ending with the Doctor turning the villains' qualities against them. But if "Bells" is boilerplate Moffat, I still found it exciting and suspenseful throughout. How do you rate it?
Teresa Jusino: It's funny that you mention all those other episodes of Moffat's, because the one this made me think of was "Silence in the Library." Moffat seems fascinated by the idea of human souls/personalities/essences/whatever and where they go (or where they could go). Can people be captured electronically? What good would that do, and what purpose would this serve? Are people really people if they don't have a physical form? I loved the fact that "The Bells of Saint John" allows us to really see a through-line in Moffat's Doctor Who work. That said, I have a bit of trouble with Clara being quite such a puzzle. Don't get me wrong, she's charming and smart, and I, like the Doctor, am very curious about who/what she is. But I don't necessarily care about her. And I'm not so sure the Doctor does either, except to appease his own curiosity, and that bothers me.
Mac: I can see that. How well do we know Clara so far? We do learn that she feels a responsibility to care for Angie and her grieving family, but we don't have a strong sense of why she would stay with them for a whole year. What was her relationship to the mother, to Angie, that she would make that kind of commitment? And if her defining quality is that she cares for people who need her, why does the Doctor say more than once, "You don't seem like a nanny?" There's always the chance for the show to dig deeper into Clara over the next several episodes, but I agree, I'd like to be more into her as a character than into her mystery.
Teresa: Well, yes, I'd hope so!
Mac: I did appreciate that Miss Kizlet (a brilliant guest turn from Celia Imrie) and her fellow "hacked humans" presented more of a genuine threat than I've felt like the villains have in recent stories. The idea that clicking on the wrong Wi-Fi connection could suck you into a horrible everlasting purgatory is a terrific Doctor Who notion and shows Moffat's Stephen King-like love of making objects and places in ordinary life frightening. The gradual buildup to the airplane attack—first we see the "Spoonhead," then we see the lights come on in all the nearby houses, then we see all the lights in the rest of London switch off, and then we see the airplane bearing down on them—that's a real showcase of Moffat's gift for building menace gradually before unleashing peril.
Teresa: Actually what I thought "Bells" did well was the other thing that sci-fi does best, which is comment on society. The line where the Doctor is describing the situation as "human souls trapped like flies in the world wide Web, stuck forever, crying out for help," and Clara responds with "Isn't that basically Twitter?" was great! And the whole concept that this is such an easy way to trap humanity—through tech, because we've all become so dependent on it—is one that can stand to be explored over and over again.
Mac: I found myself wondering how much of the inspiration for "Bells" came from Moffat's own experience on Twitter, one I have to assume was unhappy because he decided to leave. I found Clara's initial cluelessness about the Internet hard to believe, given that she's an apparently sophisticated cosmopolitan 24-year-old. But I liked the way she outwitted Miss Kizlet and her underlings with the new computer-savvy she brought back with her from Wi-Fi Purgatory. When she used a combination of webcams and facial recognition software to track down where the bad guys worked—because they'd all put their workplace in their Facebook profiles—I had to cheer. That said, at some point I'd like to see her be heroic in a way that isn't derived from a quality that was forcibly inserted into her.
Teresa: Agreed. Also, since there are things that we're already starting to see in common between the Claras (like being a governess who wants to travel), I do have hope that we will get to know "Clara Prime"—whoever original Clara is or was.
Mac: I love "Clara Prime"! This season will be the Search for Clara Prime.
Teresa: Yay! I'm coining a fandom phrase!
Mac: In your essay for the Doctor Who anthology Chicks Unravel Time (freshly nominated for a Hugo Award; congrats to all involved!), you make the case for the William Hartnell Doctor of the 1960s as the adolescent version of the character, regardless of his elderly appearance. I'm torn about how to interpret Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor in terms of where he is on the maturity scale. Given his gawkiness with women and his enthusiasm for motorcycles, cookies, and fun outfits, do you think the Doctor is entering a second adolescence, or is he an older guy having a millennium life crisis and trying to look cool in front of young people?
Teresa: I'm definitely more on the side of millennium life crisis. Any awkwardness with women strikes me as that of an older man who's been "out of the game" for a while. He's only actually awkward around younger women, which makes complete sense for an older man: "You're hot. At the same time, you're young enough to be my child, and I am not a creepy pervert. ACK!" And yes, he still has a childlike sense of wonder, but that seems to signify an older man who's sure of himself and his interests and doesn't feel the need to apologize for them.
Mac: Let's get into the deep-geek stuff. First of all, who was "the woman in the shop" who gave Clara the number to call the TARDIS? Almost certainly River Song, but since that's so obvious I feel like I have to consider other options. Any chance it's Sally Sparrow? We did see her working in a shop at the end of "Blink." Or Kate Stewart, working undercover? And whoever it was, how would they know to give the Doctor's contact info to Clara?
Teresa: I would say it's probably River. It's always River. And as Alex Kingston is scheduled to return this season ...
Mac: I definitely got a thrill when the children's book the younger brother was reading was written by "Amelia Williams." Amy Pond's still out there! But we're also seeing that something's going on with numbers. In Clara's 101 Places to See book, we see on the page where she's written down her age each year that she hasn't written down 16 or 23. What happened during those missing years? Also, when she's trying to type in the password for the Wi-Fi—RYCBAR123—she can't quite make herself type the 23 at the end. Cue Jim Carrey? But more seriously, I thought that must have something to do with the Doctor Who 50th anniversary being on Nov. 23.
Teresa: I also want to talk a bit about the prequel you mentioned, because I did see it, and I immediately resented it after I watched it. It's a bit annoying to me that important story information be put in a random webisode. My feeling is if it's important to the story, it should be contained within the story—I shouldn't have to go searching for extra bits. When Lost was on, I was obsessed with the supplementary online material. I visited the fake websites, I tried to solve the associated mystery, I read that really bad book Bad Twin … and yet, none of it was needed to enjoy the show I was watching. Had I not seen any of it, Lost would've still been Lost. But having actual, important pieces of story that can only be found by searching other videos and stuff online? If it turns out that the little girl is more important than that and something she said in her conversation with the Doctor is key to understanding the mystery … Yes, I did watch it, but I shouldn't have been expected to.
Mac: Fortunately the revelation of the identity of Miss Kizlet's mysterious "client" was well within the episode proper. And how cool was it that the client was unveiled as the Great Intelligence, now having permanently assumed the always welcome appearance of Richard E. Grant? When it comes to recurring villains from the classic series, it's hard to think of a deeper cut than the Great Intelligence, which menaced the Doctor in 1967's "The Abominable Snowmen" and 1968's "The Web of Fear" and made a surprise return in this past December's Christmas special, "The Snowmen." It's interesting, between Doctor Simeon in "The Snowmen" and now Miss Kizlet in "Saint John," we're seeing the Great Intelligence as an evil mirror of the Doctor, first visiting people in childhood and profoundly influencing the rest of their lives. What do you make of the often nostalgia-averse Moffat bringing back such an obscure villain? And do you think we'll get to see some Yeti?
Teresa: I have to admit I rolled my eyes. Sorry! You say Moffat's nostalgia-averse, and I'm like, "What?" All current Doctor Who seems to do (not just the Moffat era, but Davies, too) is rehash old villains from Classic Who: Daleks, Silurians, Sontarans, Cybermen. Moffat's definitely been better about creating new threats: the Weeping Angels, the Vashta Nerada, the Silence, all genius and horribly frightening. But then he insists on going back to old stuff. For what? To appease the fans of Classic Who? It's a huge universe. The Doctor could swing 50 cats and never hit another Cyberman again if he really didn't want to. I long for one, just one season of Doctor Who with completely new aliens and monsters.
Mac: Speaking of nostalgia, any thoughts about Saturday's news that 10th Doctor David Tennant and Billie "Rose" Piper will be back for the 50th anniversary special in November?
Teresa: I'm very happy about it! What I'd really love is if Christopher Eccleston would get involved. I know it's never going to happen, but Nine was my first Doctor, and to have him not be a part of things when I loved him so much? Argh.
Mac: The thing I idiotically want to happen—even though there no chance— is a 50th anniversary confrontation between Paul McGann's eighth Doctor and Richard E. Grant's Great Intelligence: Weirdest Withnail and I reunion ever.


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Ask Gary Miller what draws him to the silks-and-saddle world of horse racing and he'll answer in four words the thrill of victory.
During working hours, Asarco LLC's vice president, commercial, is primarily responsible for overseeing sales of the company's full line of products. When the hours are his own, however, he enjoys spending time at the racetrack.
With a program in his back pocket, a pencil behind his ear, a cigar in reach and wearing a baseball cap, Miller is the picture of the classic horse owner. He chooses the trainers but doesn't train the horses himself. He doesn't groom the horses, although occasionally he will wash them, walk them around the track or let his daughter feed the steeds carrots, apples and peppermints.
Miller has owned a stake in more than 50 race horses over his lifetime. "While golf and tennis are fun, as I get older, horse racing gives me the excitement of sports," he said. "Whether your horse is worth $50,000 or $5,000, it's thrilling. There's no way to describe the feeling of watching your horse coming down the stretch with a chance to win the race. It gives you the thrill of playing sports."
Miller's love of the sport has also provided him a good way to catch a short break from the mining and metals business, although he is quick to credit his metals trading know-how for keeping him in the saddle, so to speak.
The sport of kings has cost Miller—and won him—huge sums of money, he said. Over the years, he's managed to break even through the use of good money management techniques he learned from trading metals.
Miller's interest in horse racing began when he started working as a valet parking attendant at the Monmouth Park Racetrack near his hometown of West Long Branch, N.J.
The time was the 1970s, he was in college and the pay was $1.25 per hour plus tips. "It was good for college kids," he recalls. "You could make $20 to $25 a day or more on weekends. Anyone who made that much was a hot shot on campus."
Soon he became friends with trainers at the track and began buying stakes in some of the local horses. His first big win came in the early 1980s, just a few weeks after purchasing a 60-percent stake in a horse. Ten percent of the purse went to his mother as one of her most memorable mother's day gifts.
After graduation, Miller and his former baseball buddies got together to form the "Atlantic Eight," named after a road in Long Branch called Atlantic Avenue. The group continued to invest in several horses throughout the early '80s and, in 1983, struck gold with Relaunch Lass. The horse "did very well for the group" at Monmouth Park and continued to do well in the ensuing five years in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and Maryland.
In the late '80s, Miller and his friends mourned the loss of Relaunch Lass after she died giving birth to a foal. Miller was out of the country on a business trip to Japan when he got news of the death, and was one of several men who got together over the phone to comfort each other. Relaunch Lass had been bred to Mining, who finished second during a Breeders' Cup Classic race. They had been looking forward to meeting a second generation of championship horses.
"When we lost her, I didn't lose passion for the sport," Miller said. "I just realized this is the game we're in." After the death of the mare, he withdrew from horse breeding for 10 years, but is now back in it. The group remains close with Relaunch Lass' trainer, Jimmy Ryerson, attending social gatherings and attending Kentucky Derby parties together.
In 2001, Miller moved to Arizona to assume a new post with Asarco and parent Grupo Mexico SA de CV, and took with him a tradition of buffet lunches with friends and family at the racetrack to Turf Paradise in Phoenix. He often brings customers, suppliers and friends to see the races.
Miller says the key to raising a successful horse is making sure that the animal is surrounded by people who respect it. He funds one to three horses every year, all raised by veteran trainer Jacque Guerra with the assistance of her husband, Vince Guerra, a seasoned jockey. When the horses retire they are relocated to farms, where they are riden as pets or perform as jumpers in shows.
Over the years, Miller has gone from being a part-time investor to becoming a serious owner, importing horses from as far away as Chile. He's also actively involved in various horse racing industry organizations. For two years, Miller has served as an elected member on the board of directors of the National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, which works to improve the service of the tracks and stable workers. He's also been on the board for two years as an alternate. Miller
One of the few forces that could come between Miller and his hobby are his 13-year-old daughter, Haley, and eight-year-old son, Max. If the children didn't like horse racing and visiting stables, Miller said, he'd have stopped.
Fortunately, Miller has been able to share his passion with Haley. Dating back to her early childhood when the family was living in New Jersey, the two have made it a father-daughter tradition to get together for breakfast and watch the horses train.
Miller has even registered his current stable name, Halemax, after his children.
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MsSuperSuds wrote:Glad to see you back home w/ your family. I hope you tell Lily the same thing you told Joe. Have a good evening & I look forward to seeing you in your house again & on screen soon.
This is great news.
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Two years ago I did a projection of how many seats Republicans would net in the 2010 general election. The experiment turned out… pretty well. So I decided to dive back into the numbers. This time, the map of possible flipped seats is a bit smaller, and of those, a majority are held by Republicans.
But while Republicans have greater exposure this year, that doesn't mean they're destined to bear the majority of the losses. A month out from the election, the number of net seats changing hands is roughly somewhere between +3 GOP and +1 Democrat. These numbers can and will shift as micro- and macro-political events evolve, but the fact is there's a real chance that Republicans could actually add seats in the House.
Whether Republicans do make gains will depend in no small part on these 20 races.
The bad news? A majority of these twenty races constitute what is effectively an exposed Republican seat.
The good news? First, Republicans hold a 3 seat advantage in races that fall outside these 20 most competitive races; by my count, 9 seats are primed to be flipped by Republicans, compared to 6 seats for the Democrats. I'm comfortable saying this because in 2010, when races ended up outside the 57%-43% band, the seats very rarely changed hands. Republicans, then, start off with a roughly 3 seat advantage before we get to these 20 races.
Second, while Republican exposure is higher among these 20 seats, the risk of losing individual seats is not necessarily very high. Republicans can expect to win a supermajority of the races rated 57% and 53%, half the races at 50%, but much less than half the races rated below 50%. Why does this matter? Democrats have already started to cut their ad buys in races that may be moving out of their reach at the top of the chart; assuming GOP groups have the capital and studied confidence to do it, there's lots of upside to shifting resources from races at the top of this list to the bottom, reasonably and responsibly done. There are many very vulnerable, but very, very winnable, Republican seats at the bottom of this list and up through the safer section of the list. A strategic pivot may be in order to support them, assuming such a pivot isn't already underway.
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The comScore mobiLens survey for the US ending February 2013 shows continuing rapid expansion of smartphone usage in the US. Even though the 50% penetration threshold was passed seven months earlier, the rate of new smartphone users was second highest ever recorded with over 1 million new-to-smartphones users every week during February.
Overall penetration increased to 57% with nearly 2% of the population switching in one month. Using the average growth rate for the last six periods, the US could see 80% penetration in another 19 months or by Q3/Q4 2014.


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Scouts and Scouters weren't the only ones who left the 2010
National Scout Jamboree with a head full of great memories.
The men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces who helped run
the event also shared in the celebration. And it's likely that none of them
enjoyed it more than Lt. Col. Jack Haefner. As base commander, he's the man in
charge of Fort A.P. Hill, a responsibility he calls "a real honor."
Haefner, an Eagle Scout, never attended a jamboree before
2010. That made this one, which he shared with his 7-year-old Cub Scout, Lucas,
even more special. The two are pictured above at one of Haefner's favorite
jamboree moments: the daily opening ceremony at the Court of Flags.
This year marked the final time the jamboree will be held at
Fort A.P. Hill, the 76,000-acre military base in Virginia. Eight jamborees were
held there over a period of 29 years. During that time, 3.15 million warriors trained
at the base, Haefner said.
The jamboree offers a chance for the men and women of the
military to "do the job that they're normally trained to do," Haefner said, "but
the rate at which they're trained is higher."
During the jamboree, Fort A.P. Hill turns into a small city,
and to make sure that the city runs smoothly, Haefner and his team started
planning right after the 2005 jamboree ended.
That process started with Haefner and his colleagues at the
Joint Task Force (JTF), a team of BSA and military officials who helped ensure
a smooth jamboree experience for everyone.
The JTF was responsible for integrating a wide-ranging group
of contractors, volunteers, military personnel, and professionals. That group
included forestry workers, communications specialists, construction inspectors,
utility technicians, firefighters, logistics experts, police, and members of
the armed forces—to name a few.
The challenge is "being able to establish a city and to have
the kind of folks here who can do that," Haefner said. From the looks of it,
his team succeeded. And the success of the planning didn't go unnoticed.
"The BSA staff was just so appreciative, and nobody took anybody
for granted," he said. "It's very touching to see the people who would thank
you for your service."
Beginning in 2013, future jamborees will move to The Summit
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Educational support professionals contract, $8m budget to go before Candia residentsBy BENJAMIN C. KLEIN
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January 29. 2014 10:53PM
CANDIA — During Candia School District's deliberative session Saturday, Feb. 8, residents will discuss warrant articles on a new educational support professionals contract, a roughly $8 million budget and on researching options for leaving the Manchester School District.
The session will begin at 9 a.m. at the Candia Moore School.
The budget warrant article asking for $7,992,020 would have an estimated tax impact of 80 cents per $1,000 of assessed property valuation. If the budget is defeated in March, the default budget of $7,975,592 would kick in.
The educational support professionals contract warrant article includes increases of $29,294 in the first two years and $7,032 in the third. The contract's tax impact would be 7 cents per $1,000, if passed in March.
The school district also has included a warrant article asking residents if they want to explore and research options for high school placement other than Manchester Central High School. This article is nonbinding, however.
Another warrant article asks residents if they want to raise and appropriate $30,000 for the Special Education Trust Fund.
"There is no tax impact because the $30,000 is coming from the fund balance, which is left over money from the current school year," said Karen Lessard, SAU 15 business administrator. Voters will be asked if they want to discontinue a Textbook Expendable Trust Fund that was created in 2011, but now has no money in it.


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Thursday, October 30, 2008
VeganMoFo: Cannin', Jammin', Preservin'
Raspberry Jam: so good, so red. It's like liquid gold as far as I'm concerned. I use the raspberries from my grandpa's garden. All summer, whenever there is a big abundance, I tuck some away in the freezer until I have enough for a batch of jam. This is the only flavor of jam that I can make my way through in a year. I usually keep 2 or 3 jars for myself and give the others away as gifts. But I must say, those Chewy Chocolate Raspberry cookies from Veganomicon have made it that little bit harder to give away raspberry jam.
By the way, whenever I make jam or jelly, I use the Sure-Jell "Low or No Sugar" fruit pectin. I prefer the low sugar recipes. The no-sugar is a bit spartan for my tastes, and the full sugar variety is seriously a LOT of sugar.
Today I finished a canning project I've wanted to try out for quite a while: Quince Butter.
I got this recipe from "Local Flavors" by Deborah Madison. Freaky Wow! This stuff has the most intoxicating aroma and flavor. And just look at the color! In her cookbook, she suggests using it as a base in a nut tart, which has completely captivated my imagination. I must try it.
And Quince Jelly! It's just so beautiful. How is it that quince transform so magically from a weird lumpy, fuzzy rock-hard fruit into this jewel-tone jelly!? I had a bit of a trial making this jelly... my first attempt didn't set (relying on the natural pectin in the quince). But I was not to be deterred. Nor was all that hard-earned quince juice going to waste! So I re-boiled it with Sure-Set Low Sugar Pectin, and the second time was a great success. I really have no idea what to do with 7 jars of quince jelly... In truth, I have never even had quince jelly before. I hope I like it!
One last quince recipe: Quince Pip Tea. This is also from "Local Flavors" - basically it's just the skins, pips, and cores of roughly 4 quince, boiled in two quarts of water until it reduces to 1 quart, and then sweetened with agave. Apparently it lasts a long time in the fridge, and is very beneficial for sore throats. I love that "use every bit" mentality, and this beverage is actually quite pleasant. I don't actually get sore throats all that often, but I liked the idea all the same. This afternoon I made a second batch, and now my jar is full to the brim and my house smells like a magical spicy floral perfume factory. It's awesome.
This was my first year ever cooking with quince, and along with my canned Spiced Quince, I am feeling pretty set up in the quince department. I still have about 10 on my coffee table, looking beautiful. No big plans for those yet.
Our small apple tree continues its prolific output. I had a whole milk crate full of wormy apples, and made a gi-normous batch of Applesauce. In fact there were two more jars, but I've given them to my grandpa. My grandmother used to make applesauce every year, and now my grandpa has to buy store-bought stuff... so I knew he'd be happy to eat this up.
One last treat, in the spirit of "waste not, want not." I bought a couple sugar pie pumpkins from our local pumpkin patch, in anticipation of holiday baking. I roasted one, put it through the food mill, used some, and froze another 4 cups of yummy pumpkin puree. Of course I also roasted the seeds with a little touch of Earth Balance and some salt. mmmmm, heaven! Today is a cold, rainy day, feeling much more like winter than fall, so it was a perfect morning for roasting pumpkin seeds and making quince butter.
One more day of VeganMoFo... spooky!
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MoFo came and went quite quickly!
Wow, what a fantastic post. I have always wanted to try canning, but I don't have a garden or an abundance of anything - unless I go a little crazy at the supermarket that is!ReplyDelete
And I have to say, I really love reading your blog for those little stories about your family and friends. It sounds like you have a really great foundation of wonderful people in your life, and it's just really nice to see that. You're very lucky.
Oh and the little labels on the jars - too cute.
I just tried quince jam (or butter maybe) in Greece this past summer. A sweet old lady who didn't speak a lick of English brought it to us and in the end we had to get out the dictionary with some pointing to figure out it was quince because I had never had it before.ReplyDelete
The raspberry looks amazing!
I so wish I had a grandpa with lots of raspberries!! And wow, that quince jam has such an amazing color! Looks like you had fun jammin'!ReplyDelete
Mmm, applesauce! I love it! Did you make that wonderful grape jam again??ReplyDelete
your jam looks great. fun fun fun. may i humbly suggest, though, ditching the sure-jell and checking out what kind of pectin your local natural foods store carries. if you research what is in sure-jell you will surely not be so happy.ReplyDelete


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BREAKING: Gerard Baden-Clay DID Intend To Kill Rules Court
In news just in, the High Court has reinstated Gerard Baden-Clay's murder conviction.
After the Court of Appeal downgraded his murder conviction to manslaughter in December, the High Court has found he did intend to kill his wife Allison Baden-Clay.
BREAKING: High Court decides Gerard Baden-Clay DID intend to kill his wife Allison. Murder conviction reinstateed pic.twitter.com/v6mTE8zKD4— 7News Yahoo7 (@Y7News) August 31, 2016
Queensland's Director of Public Prosecutions successfully pushed for the case to be considered by the High Court after a shock decision by the state's Court of Appeal.
But the five-judge bench dismissed the appeal in Canberra on Wednesday.
The decision comes just over a month after the Crown argued at a hearing in Brisbane that Baden-Clay's conduct after his wife's death was "not only calculated but cold blooded".
In 2014 Baden-Clay was convicted by a jury for murder after his wife's body was found on the bank of a creek in 2012.
The mother of three went missing ten days earlier from their Brookfield home.
The case gripped the nation after a public appeal was made to find the 43-year-old.
At the time Baden-Clay told media outside his home, "we really trust that the police are doing everything they can to find my wife".
However, after her body was discovered by a paddler under the Kholo Bridge Crossing at Anstead, suspicion turned.
Two months after she was first reported missing Baden-Clay was charged with murder.
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Speeding stop leads to drug and alcohol charges in Hollis
July 10. 2014 10:21AM
HOLLIS - Two young Nashua men were arrested on drug and alcohol charges after a Hollis police officer stopped their vehicle for a speeding violation on South Depot Road shortly after 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Officer Mitchel Cardona reported detecting an odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle after he stopped it on the speeding violation.
After a subsequent investigation, the driver, Anthony Cardona, 19, of Fairmont Street, was charged with transportation of drugs in a motor vehicle and unlawful transportation of alcohol.
His passenger, William Sullivan, 20, of Prescott Street, was charged with possession of a controlled drug and unlawful possession of alcohol.
Both Cardona and Sullivan were released on $1,000 personal recognizance bail and are scheduled for arraignment Aug. 20 in Ninth Circuit Court-Nashua District Division.


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Of course, if you already read the previous tutorial of the series, then you're already familiar with using a few simple, yet useful, functions provided by the Xdebug extension, such the popular "var_dump()" function. As you'll possibly recall, the extension offers an enhanced version of this function that lets you get detailed information about one or more PHP variables.
What's more, when used with an object, the "var_dump()" function permits you to retrieve a complete set of parameters, including the name of the properties of the targeted object, and their types and values. This feature can be pretty useful when debugging object-based PHP programs.
Nonetheless, the X-debug extension comes equipped with many other functions that allow you to perform all sorts of debugging tasks. So, provided that you're interested in learning a bit more, in this fourth article I'll be explaining how to use the complementary "xdebug_start_code_coverage()" and "xdebug_get_code_coverage()" functions. They can help you keep track of which lines are executed by a specified PHP program.
The usage of these functions is very interesting, trust me, so don't waste more time in preliminaries. Start reading about them now!
{mospagebreak title=Review: getting information about PHP objects with the var_dump() function}
Before I start explaining how to use the aforementioned "xdebug_start_code_coverage()" and "xdebug_get_code_coverage()" functions, I will quickly review the practical example created in the preceding article of this series. It demonstrated how to retrieve relevant information about a specified object through the "var_dump()" function.
Basically, the entire source code of the example in question looked like this:
(example on using the 'var_dump()' function with a sample array)
class User{
private $firstName;
private $lastName;
private $email;
public function __construct($firstName,$lastName,$email){
throw new Exception('Invalid parameter First Name.');
throw new Exception('Invalid parameter Last Name.');
throw new Exception('Invalid parameter Email.');
// get first name
public function getFirstName(){
return $this->firstName;
// get last name
public function getLastName(){
return $this->lastName;
// get email
public function getEmail(){
return $this->email;
$user=new User('John','Doe','firstname.lastname@example.com');
$data=array('string'=>'This is a string','integer'=>1,'float'=>0.123456,'object'=>$user);
/* displays the following
'string' => string 'This is a string' (length=16)
'integer' => int 1
'float' => float 0.123456
'object' =>
private 'firstName' => string 'John' (length=4)
private 'lastName' => string 'Doe' (length=3)
private 'email' => string 'email@example.com' (length=15)
catch(Exception $e){
echo $e->getMessage();
As shown above, the "var_dump()" function can be very helpful for retrieving information about a group of specified variables, since its functionality has been extended when used with the Xdebug library. In this specific case, the function has been fed with a basic array of elements, where one of them is an instance of the "User" class listed before.
Aside from retrieving the name of the object passed as an incoming argument, the function also returns a few other helpful values. These include the name of its properties and the corresponding length expressed in characters.
At this stage, and having already reviewed how the "var_dump()" function does its thing, it's time to explore more functions that come bundled with the Xdebug extension. Thus, as I explained in the introduction, the library allows you to follow the flow of a specified application by means of the "xdebug_start_code_coverage()" and "xdebug_get_code_coverage()" functions.
Thus, in the upcoming section I'll be coding a brand new example. It will demonstrate how to use these functions to determine which lines are executed by a PHP program.
Click on the link below and keep reading, please.
{mospagebreak title=Debugging program flow with the xdebug_start_code_coverage() and xdebug_get_code_coverage() functions}
As I anticipated in the section that you just read, the X-debug extension provides two handy functions, called "xdebug_start_code_coverage()" and "xdebug_get_code_coverage()." When used in conjunction, these functions allow us to keep track of which lines are executed by a PHP application.
Naturally, to grasp more easily how these functions work, you should take a look at the following code sample. It creates a simple loop with a "for" PHP statement, and then displays the sequence of program lines that have been executed. Here's the code sample in question:
function displayIntegers(){
echo $i;
/* displays the following
'pathtoexampleflow_debugging_example.php' =>
4 => int 1
5 => int 1
6 => int 1
7 => int 1
8 => int 1
9 => int 1
10 => int 1
As shown in the above example, the pair of "xdebug_start_code_coverage()" and "xdebug_get_code_coverage()" functions permits us to determine with relative ease the program flow of a PHP script. In this case, the tracking process is started with the "xdebug_start_code_coverage()" function, and finalized with its counterpart, "xdebug_get_code_coverage()."
Undoubtedly, using the previous functions for debugging the execution flow of a specified PHP program should be pretty simple to understand for you, since this is pretty much a no-brainer process.
Okay, at this stage, you hopefully grasped the logic that stands behind utilizing the "xdebug_start_code_coverage()" and "xdebug_get_code_coverage()" functions to determine the execution sequence of a PHP program.
However, it would be interesting to see how these functions can be used when a script calls different methods of a class. Therefore, in the last section of this tutorial I'll be coding an example that will represent this particular situation.
To see how this last practical example will be developed, please click on the link that appears below and keep reading.
{mospagebreak title=Using the xdebug_start_code_coverage() and xdebug_get_code_coverage() functions with a basic class}
In the previous section, I showed you how to use of the "xdebug_start_code_coverage()" and "xdebug_get_code_coverage()" functions to keep track of which lines are executed by a simple PHP script. Now it's time to demonstrate how these handy functions can be employed within a PHP application that works with a basic class. To do this, I'm going to use the sample "User" class that was listed in the first section of this article, which naturally should be very familiar to you.
That being explained, here's the complete signature that corresponds to this sample class:
class User{
private $firstName;
private $lastName;
private $email;
public function __construct($firstName,$lastName,$email){
throw new Exception('Invalid parameter First Name.');
throw new Exception('Invalid parameter Last Name.');
throw new Exception('Invalid parameter Email.');
// get first name
public function getFirstName(){
return $this->firstName;
// get last name
public function getLastName(){
return $this->lastName;
// get email
public function getEmail(){
return $this->email;
Having listed the entire signature of the above "User" class, it's time to see how the "xdebug_start_code_coverage()" and "xdebug_get_code_coverage()" functions can be used conjunctly to display the lines that are executed when some methods of this class are called in a predefined sequence. Here's the script that performs this process:
$user=new User('John','Doe','email@example.com');
echo 'First Name :'.$user->getFirstName().'
';
echo 'Last Name :'.$user->getLastName().'
';
echo 'Email :'.$user->getEmail().'
';
/* displays the following
First Name :John
Last Name :Doe
Email :email@example.com
'pathtoexampleflow_debugging_example.php' =>
8 => int 1
11 => int 1
14 => int 1
17 => int 1
18 => int 1
19 => int 1
20 => int 1
23 => int 1
27 => int 1
31 => int 1
36 => int 1
37 => int 1
38 => int 1
39 => int 1
41 => int 1
catch(Exception $e){
echo $e->getMessage();
Despite the triviality of the above example, it serves to demonstrate how the "xdebug_start_code_coverage()" and "xdebug_get_code_coverage()" functions can be used for keeping track of which program lines are executed when calling the methods of the previous "User" class.
Logically, it's possible (and recommendable, actually) to test these functions with more complex applications, but my intention here is simply to provide you with the right pointers for employing them for debugging the flow of your own PHP programs with more detail.
Final thoughts
In this fourth installment of the series, I discussed the usage of the complementary "xdebug_start_code_coverage()" and "xdebug_get_code_coverage()" functions to debug the execution flow of a PHP program. These functions allow you to very simply keep track of which lines are executed by an application.
This educational journey has not ended yet. Thus, in the next article I will explain how to use this pair of X-debug functions for working with conditional statements.
Now that you know what the next part will be about, you won't want to miss it!


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Longtime driver James Hylton will make this his final season on the track, beginning on Saturday with the ARCA Slick Mist 200 at Daytona, Fla.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — James Hylton made his first start at Daytona International Speedway in 1966.
He will make his last Daytona start Saturday in the 50th annual ARCA Slick Mist 200.
The 78-year-old driver from Inman said it's time to hang up his helmet and plans to turn the 2013 ARCA schedule into his farewell tour as a stock-car driver.
"I've been thinking about this for quite a while," Hylton said Wednesday evening. "I'm 78 and the time has come."
Hylton made 36 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series starts at Daytona. He won twice in the Cup Series, and his last Cup start was in 1993. He has made four runs between the NASCAR Nationwide and truck series since 2006.
Since 1997, Hylton has made 143 ARCA starts.
"When his NASCAR deal ended, the door opened up here for James," ARCA communications media manager Don Radebaugh said.
"He's been here for, pushing 15 years now. It gave him a rebirth in the sport. What he's done for us? He is the story wherever we go."
Hylton is a character. He likes to chomp on a cigar and will hold court in fan areas wearing his fire suit.
"It's time to step aside as a driver and turn this car over to the younger generation," Hylton said. "We just now figured this all out. I don't want to lose the Hylton Motorsports race team. I'll be there next year as the general manager.
"We are definitely in the market to build up our race team and put younger drivers behind the wheel who can run up front."
Hylton said he had to think long and hard about his decision to retire as a driver. He has mixed feelings about making his last Daytona start.
"It's kind of a love-hate relationship," he said with a laugh. "If I could drive until I was 90 years old, I would. But I need to face the facts. It's too much of a job to be the driver and manage the team.
"I'm excited about the future. I feel I have an honest to goodness chance to build my team to where we can be competitive. Next time we come to Daytona, we will have a car and driver capable of winning the race."
Hylton will be in Saturday's 40-car field. He has enough points from 2012 to earn a provisional starting position if needed.
"I'm looking forward to driving this last race," he said. "Who knows? Maybe we can pull an upset like we did at Talladega in 1972."
The '72 victory was Hylton's last Cup win. He made 602 Cup starts.


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Everyday Edisons "A Hot and Steamy Clean" Sponges, dishcloths and soapy rags dipped into a bucket or sink over and over may not be the most hygienic way to clean your kitchen. That's why prolific inventor, Eric Huber, decided to do something about it. His idea was a device that contains water from the tap that after putting in the microwave can hold the temperature to the point of steaming while you wipe off surfaces. D
11:30 pm
Everyday Edisons "I Can Finally Grasp It!" We've all heard that "a friend in need, is a friend indeed," but for inventor, Mark Stark, it was no question that his friend needed a helping hand. Born without his left hand, Mark's friend, Dave Vogt never knew what his friend was working on in his shop and garage for months and months until one day, he presented Dave with an artificial hand that would change his life. A heart-warming story of compassion and friendship, this episode brings to light a need, an idea, a prototype and, of course, a challenge to our Everyday Edisons team. D


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This blog is a companion to my recent book, Exploring Data in Engineering, the Sciences, and Medicine, published by Oxford University Press. The blog expands on topics discussed in the book, and the content is heavily example-based, making extensive use of the open-source statistical software package R.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
The Long Tail of the Pareto Distribution
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Unfortunately, you've fallen into the trap of using the "long tail" misnomer.ReplyDelete
If you think about it, it can't possibly be the length of the tail that sets distributions like Pareto and Zipf apart; even the negative exponential and Gaussian have infinitely long tails. Rather, it's the "width" or "weight" of the tails (CDF) associated with these power laws that is the important difference. Hence, the more accurate terminology: heavy tailed or power tailed distributions.
Ron, it would be nice if you could post the R codes related to the blog posts. Cheers!ReplyDelete


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Algerian army will deploy units around energy sites to protect against future attacks
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ALGIERS, Algeria – Algerian soldiers will start protecting sensitive hydrocarbon sites and electrical plants in this energy-rich country, officials told journalists touring a gas complex where a recent standoff between militants and the army left dozens of foreign hostages dead.
The military also is investigating if an insider helped the militants whose attack led to the four-day hostage crisis at the Ain Amenas complex, the officials said. That probe comes amid unconfirmed reports that BP energy executives were holding a meeting at the site when the attackers arrived, and that the militants sought them out.
The al-Qaida-affiliated militants stormed the desert gas complex near the Libyan border on Jan. 16, taking hundreds of people — most of them Algerians — hostage. The resulting fight with the Algerian army ended with at least 37 hostages and 29 militants killed. At least 36 of the dead hostages were foreigners.
The Algerian army has largely neutralized al-Qaida's branch in the populated north of the country. But the Ain Amenas attack was carried out by a group based far to the south in northern Mali, where Islamist extremists have flourished but are now under attack from French-led forces.
Army Chief of State El-Gadid Salah consulted regional military chiefs and the decision was made to deploy the army around oil and gas sites in the south as well as electrical plants in the north, officials told journalists on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.
Whether the militants had inside help remains unclear.
Algeria's prime minister has said that a former driver who worked at the gas complex was involved with the attackers. Separately, executives with the state oil company Sonatrach, which manages the site along with BP and Norway's Statoil, said that a meeting of BP executives was going on the day the plant was assaulted.
"We are convinced that there was complicity on the inside because when the terrorists arrived at the site, they asked for the VIPs," deputy plant director Salim Hadjersi told reporters visiting the site Thursday. "How could the terrorists know there was going to be an important meeting of BP executives, including some coming from London?"
BP spokesman Toby Odone would not discuss the possibility of an insider attack or confirm that high-level executives were meeting at Ain Amenas on Jan 16.
"We don't talk about our executives' meetings normally," he said. "We're not going to speculate or feed that speculation."
At least one BP executive was killed in the attack. Carlos Estrada, originally from Colombia but a London resident, was vice president of the company's upstream global projects and was visiting the site.
The Algerian government also has formed an inter-departmental commission headed by Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal to examine the attack. It includes members from the ministries of defense, interior, foreign affairs, labor and energy, said an official, who also requested anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press.
The Ministry of Energy, meanwhile, is working with British and U.S. experts to review the damage to the gas complex and determine when or if production can restart.
Lotfi Benadouda, the head of the plant, told journalists visiting Thursday that he expected at least one of the three gas units would go back into production "soon," but he did not give a more exact timeframe.
Associated Press reporter Cassandra Vinograd contributed to this report from London.