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This material has been lifted from various sources, many of them online. I have not seen the original sources that are cited in the various accounts.
Scroll to the bottom if you want to skip the tedious detail and see the family tree down to the current generation instead.
While the Kinney name may be unfamiliar to us, Henry Kinney (or Kenney or Kenny), the earliest verified ancestor of this line, is among our great, great, great, etc., grandfathers.
We don't know where he came from, but he was born about 1624, and researchers generally accept that a man named Vincent Potter placed Henry as an apprentice with a William Parke of Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1639.
Henry eventually married a woman named Ann and settled in Salem Village, Massachusettes. Henry and Ann had eight kids. Among them, Thomas Kenny was born in 1655.
Henry was apparently a quarrelsome and litigious character. You can read much of the interesting paper trail he left behind here.
Either Henry or his youngest son, also named Henry, spoke against two of the women accused of being witches in the Salem Witch trials.
Henry is menioned in the arrest warrant for Martha Corey:
There being Complaint this day made before us, By Edward putnam and Henery Keney Yeoman both of Salem Village, Against Martha Cory the wife of Giles Cory of Salem farmes for suspition of haveing Comitted sundry acts of Witchcraft and thereby donne much hurt and injury unto the Bodys of Ann Putnam the wife of Thomas Putnam of Salem Village Yeoman And Anna Puttnam the daugtter of s'd Thomas putnam and Marcy Lewis Single woman Liveing in s'd Putnams famyly; also abigail Williams one of mr parris his family and Elizabeth Hubert Doctor Grigs his maid.Mercy Lewis' sister was married to Henry Kenny Jr. and some people believe that Henry Kenny Sr.'s wife Ann was Thomas Putnam's sister.
You are therefore in theire Majest's names hereby required to apprehend and bring; before us. Martha Cory the wife of Giles Cory abovesaid on Munday next being the 21't day of this Instant month, at the house of Lt Nathaniell Ingersalls of Salem Village aboute twelve of the Clock in the day in order to her Examination Relateing to the premises and hereof you are not to faile
Dated Salem. March. the 19'th. 1691/2
Henry Sr. or Jr. also testified against Rebecca Nurse, the oldest of the women convicted.
Then Hen: Kenny rose up to speakYou can read the transcripts of the trials here.
Goodm: Kenny what do you say
Then he entered his complaint & farther said that since this Nurse came into the house he was seizd twise with an amaz'd condition
Thomas married Elizabeth Knight in Salem Village and among their children was Daniel Kenney, born in 1682. Daniel married Mary Richards of Salem Village and among their children was Daniel Jr., born in 1705.
This Daniel married Elizabeth Stockwell of Boxford and Sutton, Massachusetts, and he was a part owner of a small iron works in Boxford. Among Daniel and Elizabeth's children was a son, Israel, born in 1739.
In 1755 the British expelled the French, known as the Acadians, from Nova Scotia, which then included what is now New Brunswick. Some of the Acadians, of course, went to Louisiana where they became known as Cajuns. You can read about the Great Expulsion here.
On Jun. 9, 1763, Israel Kinney married Susannah, daughter of Nathaniel & Abigail (Potter) Hood, in Topsfield, Massachusetts. She had been born in Topsfield on Oct. 27, 1745. Her sister, Sarah Hood, married Alexander Tapley on Dec. 9, 1762 and her sister, Abigail Hood, married Stephen Hovey on Jul. 18, 1761.
The three sisters, with their husbands, moved from Topsfield to the Township of Maugerville, New Brunswick, as part of the British re-settlement. Alexander and Sarah Tapley, and Stephen and Abigail Hovey, came in the schooner "Eunice" which arrived at Saint John Apr. 26, 1767. Israel and Susannah Kinney arrived later the same year.
Alexander and Sarah Tapley were fortunate enough to secure land in Maugerville the year they arrived, but apparently there was none available for the Kinneys and Hoveys. They probably stayed at first with the Tapleys, or with the Barlows who had arrived in 1765. Richard Barlow was in charge of the store established in Maugerville by the Saint John River Society, and his wife was Abigail, widow of Israel's brother, Asa Kinney.
According to Edwin Wallace Bell in his book, "Israel Kenny, His Children and Their Families," (1944),
Governor Lawrence of Nova Scotia in 1759 caused to be posted in the New England colonies a proclamation for new settlers who would occupy the lands cleared and farmed by the Acadian French as a means of preventing the latter's return. The most attractive lands were to be reserved for officers and soldiers who had fought in the late war against France.Bell goes on to say that Israel Kenny was a blacksmith and served as the Ruling Elder of the First Congregational Church of Maugerville, New Brunswick.
Among other inducements offered in the proclamation was, 'Full liberty of conscience, papists excepted,' a powerful appeal to the New England people a large proportion of whom were descendants of those Puritans and the Pilgrim Fathers who had come to America seeking religious freedom.
In 1762 two or three hundred souls sailed from Newburyport in Massachusetts to the Bay of Fundy and up the River Saint John for about fifty miles where they disembarked. A township which was later given the name of Maugerville (pronounced Majorville), on the east bank on the exceedingly fertile lands was laid out.
The settlement of Maugerville was five or six years old when Israel Kenny, later spelled Kenney, arrived from Topsfield, Mass., with his wife Susannah Hood.
Israel Kinney was a blacksmith, and an artist with wrought iron. He made all manner of cooking utensils for use in the fireplace: long handled fry pans and skillets, trivets (stands for pots and kettles over the fire), andirons, etc. And he made builders hardware: bolts, angle hinges, nails sliced from old scythe blades; even locks and keys. He was also a gunsmith. It is said he was the first to set up a forge in Maugerville (although that seems unlikely since he did not arrive until four years after the first permanent English settlers there), and that his son Stephen, and his grandson Israel Kinney, followed the trade.It was probably about 1768 when Israel Kinney first went to Oromocto. In 1781, the British built a blockhouse, called Fort Hughes, at the mouth of the Oromocto on its southerly bank. It was occupied by about 25 men under the command of Lieut. Constant Connors from a Loyalist regiment called the Royal Fencible Americans. The blockhouse was used to control traffic on the Oromocto water route.
This is a reconstruction of the blockhouse near where the original once stood in what is now Sir Douglas Hazen Park.
This is a photograph, taken by a distant cousin, Diane Murach, from Israel Kinney's land looking across the river toward Maugerville.
In his book, Bell reports that:
The Kenney family seem to have been members of the Anglican church...but Israel Kenny was moved by the evangelical enthusiasm of the Congregational people of Maugerville, joined their church and was made an elder. These people of Maugerville came from that Puritan stock that believed in witches and hung them. Their religion was too demanding for Israel and he fell from grace and was brought before the elders. He had back-slided, had indulged in rum, then universally drunk except in Maugerville.The "Records of Chignecto" BY William Cochrane MILNER (1846-1939) is an accounting of who was living on the Isthmus of Chignecto before the Deportation of 1755 and who then settled in the Chignecto Region once the Acadians had been deported and were no longer there.
The rather exhaustive account, which you can read here [cancel and ignore any popup windows asking you to install anything], mentions Israel Kinney as having played a role in the failed rebellion against the British among the New Englanders recently settled there:
RECORDS OF CHIGNECTOFrom "Carleton County Pioneers", posted on-line by the New Brunswick Genealogical Society (1996):
On the 24th of May, 1776, a meeting took place at Maugerville, New Brunswick, at which a committee was appointed to make application to the Assembly of Massachusetts Bay "for relief under their present distressed circumstances".
The committee consisted of Jacob Barker, a J. P., and a ruling elder of the Congregational church; Phineas Nevers, Isreal Perley, Daniel Palmer, Edward Coye, Israel Kinney, Asa Perley, Moses Pickard, Thomas Hartt, Hugh Quinton, Asa Kimball and Oliver Perley. One hundred and twenty-five signed resolutions to join Massachusetts. Nine persons at the mouth of the St. John river and three others refused, as follows:
William Hazen, Thomas Jenkins, James Simonds, Samuel Peabody, John Bradley, James White, William Mackeenell, Zebedee Ring, Peter Smith, Gervas Lay, Lewis Mitchell, --------- Darling, John Crabtree, John Hendrick, Zebalon Estey, John Tarlee, Joseph Howland, Thomas Jones and Benjamin Atherton.
The most violent animosity existed between the old settlers and the new -- between settlers from New England, who were naturally imbued with the principles of the declaration of independence and were in active sympathy with the revolutionists of Lexington and Concord on the one hand, and on the other hand the immigrants from Yorkshire, who, in their steadfast loyalty, scorned the party of rebels.
The latter, in their attempted capture of Fort Cumberland, occupied the surrounding country sufficiently long to commit many depredations on the loyalist settlers in which they were aided and abetted by the disaffected inhabitants. The position of the newly arrived Yorkshire families at this date was perilous enough to create grave disquietude.
A very large proportion of the immigrants from the Atlantic States were open and avowed sympathisers with the war against the mother country. From Cumberland to Onslow and from Falmouth to Yarmouth they formed an overwhelming majority.
When it was proposed at Halifax to enroll the militia as a measure of defence against threatened invasions, it was abandoned on account of disaffection. Montreal had been captured by the Americans and Quebec was beseiged. Two hundred Indians had gathered at Miramichi threatening an incursion into the English settlements. Halifax, itself, was not fortified and fears were entertained that the ordnance stores at the dock yard would be destroyed by incendiaries. Moreover it possessed no such body of regulars as could repel a well organize expeditionary force of invasion.
Fourteen inhabitants of Cumberland were said to have gone to the Continental Congress with a petition signed by some 600 persons asking for a force to help capture Fort Cumberland--from whence it was proposed to make a descent on Halifax and wipe out the last vestige of British authority in old Acadia. So open were the disloyal elements in their designs and so certain of success that they were accustomed to hold their meetings in a tavern within the range of guns from the Fort Cumberland and every man of prominence who did not join them was marked.
When the decision was taken by England at the close of the Revolutionary War to evacuate New York, several thousand Loyalists were shipped to Nova Scotia, which then included roughly the area occupied by the present provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. In 1784, that part of Nova Scotia which lay north of the Bay of Fundy was set off as a new Province of New Brunswick, the dividing line being established at the Isthmus of Chignecto just north of the present town of Amherst.In June, 1783, Maj. Studholm sent a party of four men up the river from Fort Howe with instructions to determine who was settled upon the lands in various townships and what title they had to those lands, if any. Their report to Maj. Studholm, usually referred to by family historians today as "The Studholm Report" is an important historical document. It is, in effect, a heads of households census, and in addition provides information about land title, the loyalty or otherwise of many of the pre-Loyalist inhabitants on the river, etc., that can be found nowhere else.
During the War the settlers on the Bay of Fundy were often pillaged and plundered by Rebel privateers from down the coast, mainly out of Machias, Maine, and the trading post at the mouth of the Saint John River operated by James Simonds, William Hazen and James White, was particularly vulnerable.
Rev. William O. Raymond, LL.D., F.R.S.C., in The River St. John, ed. Dr. J.C. Webster, C.M.G., (1910; Sackville, New Brunswick: The Tribune Press, rpt. 1943), tells us that "late in the autumn (of 1778) an American sloop carrying eight guns entered the harbour. Her Captain, A. Greene Crabtree, proved the most unwelcome and rapacious visitor that had yet appeared. Many of the settlers fled to the woods to escape the vandalism of his crew.
From the store at Portland Point 21 boat loads of goods was taken. The plunder included a lot of silver ornaments, fuzees and other articles left by the Indians as pledges for their debts." "Following that incident, William Hazen proceeded to Windsor, N.S., and urgently demanded protection. Col. Small, of the Royal Highland Emigrants, accompanied him to Halifax and by their united efforts the British government authorities were convinced of the necessity of immediate action.
A considerable body of troops was ordered to the mouth of the river with directions to repair Fort Frederick, which the Rebels had burned in 1775, or build a new fort. General Massey chose Maj. Guilford Studholm as commander of the expedition. He was a capable officer and had previous experience as a former commander of the Fort Frederick garrison. His knowledge of the St. John River and its inhabitants, both whites and indians, made him particularly well fitted for the post.
Maj. Studholm arrived at the mouth of the river during the latter part of November, 1778, with 50 men, a framed block-house and four six-pounders. They came in a sloop of war, which remained in the harbour for their protection until the next spring. He decided against repairing Fort Frederick and commenced immediately to construct a new fort on a new location. It was named Fort Howe.
When the Spring Fleet arrived from New York in May, 1783, Maj. Studholm was still in command of the garrison at Fort Howe. One of the first and most urgent things to do was to find lands for these new arrivals. Much of the best land on the St. John had already been granted. However, a lot of it had been granted in large blocks to propritors who had undertaken to place tenants upon it but had for the most part not been very successful in doing so.
The following is from Collections of the New Brunswick Historical Society (Saint John, New Brunswick: 1894, The Daily Telegraph Steam Book and Job Print, rpt. Lingley Printing Company Limited, 1969).") You can read the entire report here.
St. Johns River, June 30th, 1783. To Major G. Studholm, Commandant at Fort Howe, &c. Sir: -[I've deleted the bulk of the report except the following notation for the Township of Burton]
-Agreeable to your instructions of the 15th inst. we proceeded up the River St. Johns on the 24th, and have endeavoured in the most accurate manner to collect the best information that was possible respecting the titles claims, characters, principles and deserts of those people who are settled on the lands commonly known by the appellation of Amesbury Tract, the ownships of Gage, Burton, Sunbury, New Town and the lands formerly granted to one McNutt, and after full examination report as follows:
24. Israel Kinney has a log house and framed barn, and about 15 acres of cleared land, which as chiefly done by the French and Indians. Has been on about 15 years and was a committee man.[The report ends with the following summary]
The foregoing are all the claims and demands in the Township of Burton that came to our knowledge after strict enquiry. Those whose characters during the late troubles were uniformly loyal we have particularly noticed, with the claims of all who have any pretensions of title more than simple possession.- - - - - -
We are, Sir, &c.,
Ebenezer Foster,
Fyler Dibblee,
James White,
Gervis Say.
The Genealogy
Israel & Susannah Kinney had 14 children, several of whom removed to Carleton Co. They were:
1. Deborah Kinney, b. in 1764; m. Benen Foster. They removed to old Wakefield shortly after 1800. Their farm was Lot 31 at Somerville, about three-quarters of a mile south of the covered bridge at Hartland. They had 12 children.
2. Sarah Kinney. She married Richard Kimball. They lived at Oromocto, but at least two of their sons moved to Carleton Co.
3. Stephen Kinney, b. in 1771; m. Merab, daughter of Capt. David Ives, a Loyalist from Conn. Stephen & Merab removed to Greenfield, Carleton Co., shortly after 1890. They had 10 children.
4. Israel Kinney. He married, Mar. 6, 1793, Abigail Cram. They remained in Oromocto. He died at an early age, leaving Abigail with 5 young children.
5. Nathaniel Kinney. He married, Jul. 18, 1794, Elizabeth Mills. She was born in Boston and came to New Brunswick with the Loyalists in 1783. They too remained in Oromocto where they had 9 children.
6. Susan Kinney. She married, Jul. 6, 1793, Elisha, son of John & Mary (Burrell) Shaw. They removed to what is now the Parish of Northampton, Carleton Co., shortly after 1800. They had 12 children. (see the third in this series).
7. John Kinney, b. in 1778. He married Phoebe, daughter of Edmund Tompkins of the Parish of Canterbury, York Co. They removed to Greenfield, Carleton Co., where they raised their family of 12 children.
8. Elizabeth Kinney, b. in Oct. 1780. She married, Feb. 26, 1796, Charles E. Boyer. They came to Victoria Corner, Carleton Co., and were the ancestors of the Boyers who live there these 170 years later, more or less.
9. Eunice Kinney, b. Apr. 9, 1782; m. in 1797, Nathaniel Churchill. They removed from Oromocto to old Wakefield shortly after 1800, and in 1831 they moved with most of their 12 children to Ontario.
10. Elijah Kinney. He never married; lived at Oromocto with his brother, Nathaniel. It is said he died at the age of about 26 years.
11. Asa Kinney, b. in May 1785; m. Aug. 19, 1808, Elizabeth, dau of Edmund Tompkins. He took his young bride to the log house he had built at the mouth of the Shiktehawk, just north of Bristol, and it was there that they lived the remainder of their lives. They had 8 children.
12. Mary Kinney, b. in Mar 1785, twin of Asa. She married a Sipprell, perhaps James, son of William and Sarah (Foster) Sipprell.
13. Abigail Kinney, b. May 18, 1789; m. Sep. 20, 1807, Henry A., son of John & Mary (Burrell) Shaw. They lived all their married lives at Lower Wakefield, and it was there that their 11 children were born. (see the third in this series).
14. Andrew Kinney, b. in 1792, after his father's death. He married, Feb. 22, 1815, Martha Webb. They lived in Oromocto until about 1825 when they removed to Greenfield, Carleton Co., where they lived the remainder of their lives. They had 10 children.
[Complied by George H. Hayward, C.G., on Aug. 5, 1974]
From "Carleton County Pioneers", posted on-line by the New Brunswick Genealogical Society (1996):
Family tradition has it that Susannah Kinney sailed to Massachusetts during the summer of 1791 to visit her relatives in Topsfield. She was still there Christmas Eve that year when Israel crossed to Maugerville on the river ice, perhaps to pick up a few things at Barlow's store, although another report says to deliver a set of chains that he had made for a customer. On his return, probably after dark, he got into an "air hole" as he neared home, and was drowned. He was buried in the old "Morrison Grave Yard," located near where the Baptist Church was later built in Oromocto. His youngest son, Andrew, was born in Topsfield shortly after Israel's death. His widow returned to Oromocto with Andrew, and later married her widower brother-in-law, Alexander Tapley of Maugerville.The "Sutherland-Stephenson Family History," Publication: http://www.pchswi.org/, repeats the story:
On Christmas Eve of 1791 Israel Kenney crossed the mile wide Saint John to Maugerville, perhaps to obtain some things from the store for Christmas, but on the way back as he was nearing his home, got into an air-hole in the newly formed ice and was drowned. The previous summer Israel had sold his lot on French Lake, and Susannah his wife had sailed on a trip to her old home in Massachusetts and was still away at the time of her husband's death. Her son Andrew, youngest of the fourteen children, was born while she was still in Topsfield. . . . Israel was buried in the "Old Morrison graveyard" near the present Baptist Church in Oromocto.Our line flows from No. 4 above, the fourth child of Israel and Susannah (Hood) Kinney.
No. 4, Israel KENNEY
• Birth: in Maugerville, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada
• Death: in Oromocto, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada
Married: 6 MAR 1793 in Fredrickton, New Brunswick, Canada
Spouse: Abigail CRAM b: 1777 in Boston, Mass.
15. Israel KENNEY b: 1796 in Oromocto, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada
16. James KENNEY
17. Susan KENNEY
18. Annie KENNEY
19. Betsy KENNEY
Our line continues through Israel Kinney, No. 15.
No. 15, Israel KENNEY
• Birth: 1796 in Oromocto, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada
• Death: 14 MAY 1858 in Jacksonville, New Brunswick, Canada
Married: 8 MAR 1816 in Oromocto, New Brunswick, Canada
Spouse: Mary TRACY b: 1798
20. Aaron KENNEY
21. Enoch KENNEY b: 29 DEC 1816 in Oromocto, New Brunswick, Canada
22. Israel KENNEY b: 1818
23. Adelaide KENNEY
24. Phoebe KENNEY
25. Solomon KENNEY b: 26 DEC 1824
26. Rosanna KENNEY
27. Mary KENNEY
28. Mahala KENNEY b: died young
29. Sarah KENNEY
30. Caroline KENNEY b: 17 JUN 1834
31. Sabrina Bashebe KENNEY b: 10 APR 1841
32. Samantha Marie KENNEY b: 1843
Our line is through No. 29, Sarah KENNEY (or Kinney)
No. 29, Sarah KENNEY
Married: 29 MAR 1849
Spouse: Israel SMITH
33. Jethro SMITH
34. Henrietta SMITH
35. Henry SMITH
36. Mary SMITH
37. George SMITH
Below is a rough diagram showing the family tree from Israel Smith and Sarah Kinney (sometimes also spelled Kenney):


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Linked by Kaj de Vos on Mon 21st Dec 2009 10:13 UTC
Early this year, we reported that the alpha versions of REBOL 3 ran on Syllable Server, based on the unmodified Linux version. Now we have followup news. R3 has been split into its planned core interpreter library and an open source host environment for integration with as many systems as possible. Kaj de Vos has got this version to work on Syllable Desktop (screenshot). This is the first time that a version of REBOL can run there (besides emulating a complete other operating system on Syllable Desktop), so this is a major step towards the project's REBOL cross-platform strategy.

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This is Part 2 of the Milkyspit Mods, Thoughts, Eye Candy thread. Part 1 is over here.
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Unforgiven, thanks for the continuation! Hope I didn't cause you any grief in posting the new thread.
If I can help a bit by posting the continuation thread myself next time one of mine is in such a position, please let me know, I'd be glad to handle that if it might make your work a bit easier. You guys do a lot to keep CPF a nice place for all to visit!
Thanks again, much appreciated.
How To Contact Milkyspit!
In general, a PM on CPF is a good way to reach me, though there are occasions when this won't work... perhaps PM Inbox is full, perhaps CPF is having a hiccup...
If you can't get a PM sent on CPF, you might want to send one to me on CPF Marketplace. I monitor both.
Or you could send me an email... I suggest you put the word 'CPF' somewhere in the subject line to make it easier for me to separate your email from all the spam...
Regarding phone calls: I don't provide my phone number publicly but if you're unable to reach me by the above means, you might want to get my phone number from a fellow CPFer, there are several who know how to reach me. Or have them call me, give them a way I can get back to you (phone number and/or email address), and I'll get in touch as soon as I can. Sometimes a call is the best approach, though in many cases I would encourage you to try PM and/or email first.
If all else fails, post in this thread that you're trying to reach me. No need for details posted here, but at least I'll know I need to reach out to you!
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- (old) Mik to create initial "architectural walkthrough" material for mylyn -- 1 wiki page not too large, send link to the mailing list
- (old) Michael to draft an E-Mail about the "plugin granularity" idea, searching for people to lead the effort
- (old) Michael to flesh out the Patterns idea and remind the EAC
- (old) Everyone fill in your Bio on the Architecture Council/Members and Mentors page
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- Wayne to start a Wiki page with proposed bug 252015 "what you should know" snippets as well as a second page for snippet archive
- Wayne to ask projects in need of a mentor file a bug against the AC
- Martin to send private E-Mails to dormant members
- Martin to update the AC charter for new member proposals, mentioning phone decision fallback in case of missing +1 majority
- New Members: Linda Chan, Sven Efftinge (new Strategic Member)
- New Dormant Members - see Architecture Council/Members and Mentors
- Some Bio's still not filled in: Bjorn (and some others) to become dormant?
- Projects in need of Mentors
- See Architecture Council/Members and Mentors#Projects that need mentors: ACTF, Aperi, Apogee (Dave Carver), COSMOS, PDT -- AI File a Bug (best have the project file one), use this link for filing the bug. AI Wayne contact technology projects telling them to file the bug.
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- Don: StAC meeting at Eclipse World -- outcome?
- bug 252015 Here is something you should know, can we start implementing it? who will back it?
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- Denis' blog on dead bugzilla's.
- What are best practices to keep bugzilla alive and users interested, without taking away too much time from committers?
- Should it be added as advice for mentored projects?
- Should the AC engage in the public discussion?
- EclipseCon panel
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- bug 256448 API Tooling for extensions / How to treat propertyTester properties in ISV docs (best practice searched)
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- bug 249371 The new Eclipse.org homepage
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- bug 246945 Interfacing with Libs that are not EPL Compatible (mostly LGPL)
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- RC - Roadmap Process: RequirementsCouncilThemesAndPriorities - are we happy with it?
- PC - Richard Gronback: New Galileo Requirements from the Planning Council?
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- Must do: Use Babel by M6
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- How to start a releng project for unattended builds on the ML - PDE build docs are good but only half the story
- Bjorn, NickB & Denis CBI Build Workshop 3: Build Hard With A Purpose but is that an answer for now? Current status?
- CBI being adopted by Paul Webster for e4
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- Architecture Council/Top Ten Recommendations - should we start sorting them?
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- E4/Pervasive Themes - Performance, Memory Footprint, Bloat (Boris' Blog), Concurrency
- Invite E4 to present to the EAC?
- Examples: bug 245573 comment 12 (Dali JPA Tools Deadlock, John CC'd to EAC); bug 246840 discussion about ISchedulingRule (saving project preferences)
- What is causing issues?
- work performed during class loading (Activator.start()) - unknown context, can run at unpredictable times
- work performed in callbacks - unknown context, avoid synchronous callbacks
- General recommendations: (e.g. avoid synchronous callbacks, avoid in Activator.start(), static initializers or Singleton getters) - a general recommendation could be to avoid performing work at unpredictable times, but that would recommend against lazy initialization in general
- Does anybody have a well-working, consistent model on top of the current infrastructure?
- Totally new concurrency mechanism as part of E4 ?
- David Orme mentions DataBinding Realms and the Threads Considered Harmful blog which references Erlang message-based concurrence
- Would it help to become more asynchronous under the hood, even if old APIs need to remain for compatibility?
- Are there any other good known models for concurrency?
- Better Javadoc ?
- Example: ISchedulingRule.isConflicting() vs. ISchedulingRule.contains(), and how does it relate to RuleFactory and MultiRule?
- Articles ? - John referenced the resource-deltas article
Mentoring New Projects
- We need more Architecture Council members to step up and become project mentors
- New projects require two mentors (a Good Thing™)
- How do new projects find/attract a mentor?
- Mailing list, bugzilla?
- "Work the crowd"
- Experiences?
- What could be improved?
- Webpage improvements: more pre-canned content for new projects (like Sourceforge)?
Other Ideas for Discussion
- Mentoring Galileo: What could be improved?
- Running each project's unittests with full Galileo installed; especially interesting for Performance tests
- Don't duplicate work done by the Planning Council
- Integrated bug reporting: Mylyn is providing a bug/error/enhancement reporting facility that will provide a flexible and product-configurable mapping between features, bundles and bug trackers bug 212209 (Example: http://wiki.eclipse.org/images/8/86/Mylyn-Bug-Reporting-Example.jpg ). Do we want this for Galileo?
- E4 now has bi-weekly calls -- won't discuss E4 on the EAC unless asked / invited
- Eclipse Pain Points
- Performance & Memory Footprint, Bloat
- Restrictions on Resource model (Maven)
- IP due diligence and the processes around it
- Lots of these issues are already worked on by E4, and/or Committer Representatives at the Board, and/or the Planning Council
- But the EAC's charter includes identifying and naming pain pionts... anything not yet being addressed?
- Re-activate Top Ten Architectural Problems in all of Eclipse ?
- Re-activate Architecture Council Discovery and Reuse Activity ?


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After last years success, hosting the Rodeo at Jackson Hot Springs over spring break as a season finale... this years repeat has been living up to all expectations.
Lots of kiters rallying in from all directions.... lots of caravans. The Rodeo participants represent a fine tuned breed of winter kiters that have the sport dialed. You can tell by all the various camper rigs and sleds that allowed the nomadic tribe to be a mobile command unit that moved with such ruthless efficiency, even military generals would be impressed.
So far, representing from Utah, we have had 3 days in a row, with Thursday and Friday being the best yet. Hit Monida Pass and scored north winds and cornice rides. Big Hole Pass on Friday brought 2 sessions, the earlier allowed for exploratory riding and gliding, the afternoon session warmed up and was a different style of fun.
Saturday brought an up and down morning session, with gusty winds. A 40mph plus polter-gust took out all the kites with everyone pulling safety's. One bar even broke this morning. A white out ensued and the caravan headed back to home base at Jackson Hot Springs. Full Bar and 105 degree temps made for a great afternoon session. As the weather cleared, half the posse headed back to Big Hole Pass as I write this.
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Report: Facebook to Add Location Info to Updates
In the list of complaint users have against the popular social-networking site Facebook, limits on the ability to share personal information is likely not at the top.
Most issues seem to revolve around the compulsion to share anything and everything personal through such sites. That said, one can hardly blame Facebook for wanting to jump on the success of location-based services such as Foursquare.
According to The New York Times, Facebook is getting ready to add location-based information to status updates. This information comes from a number of anonymous sources who were reportedly briefed on the matter. The feature will reportedly debut late next month at Facebook's annual developer conference.
According to The Times, the existence of the feature is reflected in Facebook's new privacy policy, which reads, in part, "When you share your location with others or add a location to something you post, we treat that like any other content you post."
We reached out to Facebook on the matter and received the following response: "We are constantly experimenting with new ideas and products internally. We don't have anything more to share at this time."Originally posted to AppScout.


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October 7, 2013
Wabash men and their significant others worked with rescued food to prepare nutritious meals for Second Helpings to distribute. Second Helpings accepts donated perishable and overstocked food to prepare nutritious meals for thousands of hungry children and adults every day, and distributes them free of charge through local social service agencies in Greater Indianapolis. Second Helpings also trains unemployed and underemployed adults for meaningful careers in the culinary industry.


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Please Stop Trying To Argue That Netflix Should Be More Like Traditional Cable TV
from the sometimes-change-hurts dept
But where does Netflix need to go from here to win consumer hearts and keep pushing the barriers of television? An article over at Wired claims that the biggest thing missing from the Netflix experience is the ability to channel surf. Or, as Wired suggests, some feature that effectively just lets you turn your brain off and soak up a rotating, automated selection of ambient TV noise -- like lonely people used to do in the olden days:
That's the central problem plaguing both set top boxes like Roku and Apple TV and content services like Netflix and Amazon Instant Video. Instead of letting you lean back and soak up content, these new challengers require decisions–a careful cost-benefit analysis of thousands of different options. If the traditional TV experience is about letting viewers surf channels, today's on-demand video is like giving them a speedboat and forcing them choose a destination before they can even get in the water.If your biggest problem is that you're awash in too many choices, that really doesn't seem like much of a problem. Many people claim there's not enough content on Netflix, many of these "choices" being an over-abundance of C-grade dreck like Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, or Gor (which are fine, if laughing at horrible film is what you're in the mood for). If ambient, empty-headed noise filling the apartment is all you need, why not just turn on Gigli and read a book?
It doesn't seem like making Netflix more like traditional TV would be doing Netflix any favors. If you recall, more than a few people questioned Netflix's decision to release original series all at once, insisting that this killed the "water cooler" angle of program marketing, where people would gather and hype a program every Monday in the office. As the data came in, it became more and more clear that people really love to binge watch on their own schedule, and as Kevin Spacey himself ultimately pointed out, giving people what they want isn't a bad thing.
Some of the article's other complaints are more valid, like Netflix's continued inability master their own GUI (though the author's headline suggests the traditional cable UI is "quietly brilliant," making me wonder if they've used a Time Warner Cable cable box lately). Netflix also made a mistake with locking out companies who were doing a better job than they were at highlighting new content. But a lot of Netflix's problems, as you can watch the Wired author figure out toward the end of the piece, is that content industry licensing has hamstrung live TV efforts (see: Aereo), better content and real innovation before it starts.
Keep in mind Netflix streaming is relatively young, and while there's a lot of things Netflix needs to do to improve, becoming more like the lowest-ranked industry in the history of customer satisfaction surveys probably isn't among them.


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Three weeks ago I observed that Stephen Biddle, a Council on Foreign Relations scholar who previously had emphasized the centrality of Hamid Karzai to the prospects for success in Afghanistan, had coauthored an article in Foreign Affairs on Afghanistan that hardly mentioned Karzai.
Now one of the archbishops of counterinsurgency and close Petraeus confidante David Kilcullen appears to have joined the "To Hell with Karzai" caucus as well. First, in an interview with Doyle McManus of the LA Times, Kilcullen lamented that Karzai "has been treating us as if he's got us over a barrel," and suggested that we might want to remind the Afghan president that "he's a guy who will be hanging from a lamppost a month after we leave if we don't protect him." Tough stuff!
Today Kilcullen piles on some more in a NPR interview, advising a strategy of bypassing the central government and "empowering" local constituencies to fight the Taliban themselves. Kilcullen says that the Afghan National Police have been "raping people's children" at checkpoints and "shaking people down." By contrast, Kilcullen says, the Afghan National Army is better but is far too small to take the reins from the Americans any time soon.
The most vexing thing about all this is Kilcullen's caveat that there must be "safeguards in place so that it doesn't lead to the creation of alternative power structures that suck the oxygen away from a legitimate government." But how is that supposed to work? It seems like "empowering" local forces to police their own territory and fight the Taliban is a zero-sum diffusion of power away from the central government and into the provinces. In the LA Times interview, Kilcullen said that "the absolutely critical thing we haven't done very well is come up with a political strategy to take an illegitimate government and turn it into a legitimate one." But it's hard to see how doing an end-run around Karzai by training (and arming?) local constituencies to fight the Taliban helps achieve this "absolutely critical thing." Presumably this is why Karzai reportedly hates the idea. It seems to me that this reflects an important strategic confusion: Is our strategy to build a viable national state in Afghanistan, or to embrace the diffuse and non-national existing power structures in Afghanistan at the expense of the central government? If it's the latter, why do we need a counterinsurgency campaign? If it's to do both, I think we've got problems.
Alternatively, is this all a big bluff to get Karzai to believe that America may leave if he doesn't start doing what we tell him? If so, Karzai should probably call the bluff. American government officials have made Afghanistan out to be a vital national interest and would have a hard time turning a 180 on that judgment. Meanwhile, Republican sharks have already begun circling Obama, and a searing and humiliating meltdown in Afghanistan probably isn't on David Axelrod or Rahm Emanuel's agenda right now.
Now, I'm no counterinsurgency guru, but I don't see how you square this center-versus-periphery circle. Maybe one of my COIN guru pals like Spencer Ackerman or Andrew Exum could help me out here.


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O my fountain of a maiden,
Sweet to hear and bright to see,
Now before mine eyes love-laden
Dancing, thrilling, flashing free, —
Still thy sparkling bliss a moment, sit thee
down, and look at me.
Gaze into my face, my dearest!
Through thy gleaming, golden hair;
Meet mine eyes — ah! thine are clearest
When my image floateth there;
Now, they still themselves, like waters when
the windless skies are fair.
In those depths of limpid azure
See my baby likeness beam!
Deep blue with reflected pleasure
From some heavenly dome of dream,
Crystal currents of thy spirit swim around
it, glance, and gleam!
Hold my hand, and heark'ning to me
For a space, be calm and cold.
While that liquid look flows through me
And I love thee twenty-fold,
I am smiling at a story thy dead mother
often told.
When thou wast a little blossom
Blown about thy village home,
Thou didst on that mother's bosom
Put a question troublesome:
'Mother, please, where did you find me?
whence do little children come?'
And the dame with bright beguiling
ÝÝÝKiss'd her answer first, my dear!
But, still prest, she answer'd smiling —
'In the orchard Well so clear,
Thou wert seen one sunny morning, sleeping,
and we brought thee here.'
With a look as grave as this is
Thou didst ponder thoughts profound;
On the next day with fond kisses
Clinging mother's neck around —
'Mother! mother! I've been looking in the
Well where I was found!
'Bright and clear it is! but — mother!'
(Here thine eyes look'd wonderingly)
'In the well there is another —
Just the very same as me! —
And it is awake and moving — and its pretty
eyes can see!
'When I stretch my arms unto it,
Out its little arms stretch too!
Apple-blossoms red I threw it,
And it broke away from view —
Then again it look'd up laughing through
the waters deep and blue!'
Then thy gentle mother kiss'd thee,
Clari, as I kiss thee now,
With a wondering fondness bless'd thee,
Smooth'd the bright hair from thy brow —
Saying, ''Tis a little Sister, happy-eyed and
sweet as thou!
'Underneath the deep pure water
Dwell its parents in green bowers —
Yes, it is their little daughter,
Just the same as thou art ours;
And it loves to lie there, looking at the
pleasant orchard flowers.
'Every day, while thou art growing,
Thou wilt find thy Sister fair —
Even when the skies are snowing
And the water freezes there,
Break the blue ice, — through the water with
a cold cheek she will stare!
'As thou changest, growing taller,
She will change, through all the years —
Well thou may'st thy Sister call her,
She will share thy hopes and fears,
She will wear the face thou wearest, sweet
in smiles and sad in tears.
'Ah, my darling! may'st thou ever
;See her look as kind and bright,
Find her woeful-featured never
In the pleasant orchard light —
May you both be glad and happy, when
your golden locks are white!'
Golden locks! — what, these grow hoary?
Wrinkles mar a face like this?
Break the charm of the old story
With the magic of a kiss —
Here thou art, my deep-eyed darling, as
thou wast, — a thing of bliss.
Does she love thee? does she miss thee?
Thy sweet Sister in the well?
Does she mourn because I kiss thee —
Fearing what she cannot tell? —
For you both are link'd together by a truth
and by a spell.
Darling, be my love and duty
Judged by her! and prove me so;
When upon her mystic beauty
Thou perceivest shame or woe;
When she changes into sadness, may God
judge,and strike me low!
Thou and thy sweet Sister move in
A diviner element,
Clear as light, more sweet to love in
Than my world so turbulent;
Holy waters bathe and bless you, peaceful,
bright, and innocent.
And within those eyes of azure
See! my baby image beam,
Deep blue with reflected pleasure
From some heavenly dome of dream,
Crystal currents of thy spirit swim around
it, glance, and gleam.
O my fountain of a maiden,
Be thy days for ever blest,
Dancing in mine eyes love-laden,
Lying smiling on my breast, —
Brighter than a fount, in motion, deeper
than a well, at rest.
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Nicole Snow
Nicole Snow (Clarkson '04)
When Nicole (Mikkelsen) Snow started at Clarkson University's School of Business in 2000, she never would have guessed that she would be running a successful Internet yarn distribution business and helping the global economy only four years later.
A member of the Air Force ROTC, Nicole planned to enter active duty as a pilot; a few business and political science courses shifted her thinking. After graduating in 2004 with a degree in business and technology management, Nicole did enter active duty but took an opportunity to leave the military early. Her husband Michael's system engineering career kept them moving all over the country, so Nicole needed a career that could be as mobile. She decided to build a company on her own values and principles by launching Darn Good Yarn.
Nicole carefully planned out her mission and vision for her company. She knew she not only wanted to help the environment, but help people as well. Her principles drive her business decisions — all of her yarn is made from recycled and earth-friendly materials, and much of it is created from the colorful remnants of the production of silk saris in Nepal and Northern India. These materials are handspun and dyed by women's groups in Nepal. Darn Good Yarn provides these women with a marketplace for the products, as well as much needed wages for their families.
"You really want to do something you love when you are running your own business," said Nicole. She's finding out first-hand that taking time to think through your reasons for being in business will help drive success and ease decision making. To purchase some Darn Good Yarn or learn more about Nicole, visit http://www.darngoodyarn.com/.
"You really want to do something you love when you are running your own business!"


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Utilising the capacity and reach of the oneworld® alliance network, you can plan and book your itinerary almost anywhere around the globe.
oneworld Explorer
Enjoy a seamless round-the-world experience
Travelling the world has never been easier, more flexible or more affordable thanks to oneworld Explorer. Reaching more than 1,000 global destinations across six continents in the oneworld alliance network, oneworld Explorer lets you create your ideal round-the-world trip.
How is my oneworld Explorer fare calculated?
To keep things simple, we divide the world into six continents to calculate your oneworld Explorer fare.
The fare you pay is based on the class you choose to fly, plus the number of oneworld continents you visit or pass through, (including your continent of origin and any continent in which you transfer).
Frequent flyers
If you are a frequent flyer with a oneworld member airline, you can earn points on eligible oneworld Explorer flights1 and enjoy rewards and privileges across the alliance network.2
Plan your trip
Giving you the freedom to select your route, plan your stopovers, choose your travel class and even change your itinerary, oneworld Explorer offers ultimate flexibility.
The information below on continental regions, routing and stopovers, will help you plan your oneworld Explorer round-the-world trip.
Continental regions
oneworld Explorer is made up of six individually priced continents as follows:
- Europe/Middle East including Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Georgia, Libya, Moldova, Morocco, Russia west of the Urals, Sudan, Tunisia and Yemen
- Africa (excluding countries named above)
- Asia including the Indian subcontinent, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstand, Russia east of the Urals, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan (excluding countries named above)
- Australia, New Zealand and the South West Pacific
- North America including the Caribbean, Central America and Panama
- South America
- A minimum of three oneworld continents must be included in your oneworld Explorer fare.
- Travel from continent to continent must occur in a continuous westward or eastward direction.3
Flights and stopovers
- Select up to 16 flight segments on your round-the-world itinerary.4
- Choose up to four segments within each continent (six in North America).5
- Enjoy two stopovers within your continent of origin.6
Travel class
- You may choose to fly in first, business or economy class.7
- For an additional cost, Premium Economy can be booked on, American Airlines, British Airways (World Traveller Plus), Cathay Pacific, Iberia, Japan Airlines (between Asia and North America) and Qantas 8
- You may return to your point of origin after a minimum of 10 days.9
- You have up to 12 months to complete your trip.
- Your reservations and ticketing can be handled by any oneworld member airline.
- Following your first flight between Continental Zones, all subsequent flights can be left open-dated, allowing you to schedule your trip as you go.10
oneworld affiliate airlines
In addition to oneworld's member airlines, you are free to book flights on any of oneworld's affiliate airlines when planning your oneworld Explorer trip.
Please note: Jetstar flights can also be included when booked as a Qantas flight number.11
Sample itineraries
With more than 1,000 destinations to choose from, every oneworld Explorer trip is unique. However, we have prepared some sample itineraries to give you an idea of the possibilities.
Three continents
Los Angeles – Tokyo – Hong Kong –Kuala Lumpur – Doha – Moscow – St. Petersburg – Madrid – Miami – Los Angeles
Four continents
Cairns – Brisbane – Singapore – Hong Kong – Tokyo – Helsinki – Dusseldorf – London – New York – Toronto – Los Angeles – Sydney – Cairns
Six continents
Madrid – New York – Chicago – Miami – São Paulo – Santiago – Auckland – Sydney – Cairns – Tokyo – Hong Kong – Doha – Johannesburg – Cape Town – London – Zurich – Madrid
Note: Five continent fares are also available.
Combining the experience of some of the world's best airlines, oneworld delivers unrivalled global service, comprehensive flight options and exceptional value for money.
Before you book your oneworld Explorer round-the-world trip, you can quickly and easily obtain an on-line quote based on your personalised itinerary.
Simply enter your itinerary details into our round-the-world booking tool to create a quote that includes all taxes, fees and surcharges. You can also save your itinerary and return to it later.
Your oneworld Explorer fare is based on the class you choose to fly, plus the number of oneworld continents you visit or pass through (including your continent of origin and any continent in which you transfer).
Book your trip
For ease and convenience, oneworld Explorer lets you customise your itinerary, book your trip and pay for your ticket on-line from the comfort of your office or home.
Visit our plan and book your itinerary page, pay via credit card and receive your e-ticket from the applicable oneworld member airline.
Before you plan and book your trip on-line, there are some important things you need to consider…
Your booking
- All sectors of your journey must be pre-booked on-line, with no segments left open-dated.
- Bookings can be made on-line for adults and children aged 2-11 (inclusive).
- Bookings that include a child under two must be made directly with a member airline.
- You can book up to nine passengers on any one booking except for Cathay Pacific tickets (maximum six) and American Airline sectors (maximum seven).
- You need to book eight days in advance of your first flight.
- All flights must be booked within 330 days of the original booking date. Please note that some flights may not be listed in the booking tool this far in advance.
- You can make changes to flight bookings later, as long as your journey concludes within 12 months from the start of your itinerary.
Your payment
- You can pay for your on-line booking via a secure credit card payment.12
- On-line service fees may apply in accordance with individual airline policies.
Your itinerary
- You can book your oneworld Explorer itinerary in first, business or economy class.
- You may also book Premium Economy upgrades for British Airways (World Traveller Plus), Cathay Pacific, Iberia, Japan Airlines and Qantas flights.
- Itineraries ticketed by American Airlines cannot include Cuba as a destination due to US Government restrictions.
- The airline that markets your itinerary's first segment is generally the ticketing carrier. 13
- Depending on the ticketing carrier, some flights may not be offered as a first segment.
- Your first transfer between continental zones must be a flight segment. 14
Member airlines
You can also book your oneworld Explorer round-the-world trip directly with a oneworld member airline. Please click on the links below to be taken to individual airline websites for contact information.
Itinerary changes
Offering you complete control and flexibility, a oneworld Explorer fare enables you to modify your itinerary to suit any changes of plan.
At oneworld, we understand that your plans can change. That is why your oneworld Explorer fare allows you to make changes to your itinerary before and during your trip.
For changes or cancellations prior to the commencement of your journey, please contact the member airline that issued your e-ticket.If you need to make changes to your itinerary during your journey, please contact the member airline you are flying with on your next segment.
Please note that change fees and/or service fees will apply to cancellations and/or itinerary changes which require rerouting15.
Terms and Conditions
- Travel class restrictions may apply and miles/points can only be earned on purchased fares. Please check with your frequent flyer programme for further details. Each oneworld alliance member airline reserves the right to change its frequent flyer programme rules, regulations, travel awards and special offers.
- Access to some airport lounges may be restricted during peak periods and may not be available at certain third party operated lounges. Access is available on the day of departure when the next onward flight is with a oneworld airline. Access is not available to AAdvantage members travelling exclusively on North American itineraries, defined as within or between the U.S., Canada, Mexico (except Mexico City), the Bahamas, Bermuda and the Caribbean.
- You may travel within a continent (some backtracking limitations exist within Europe/Middle East, North America and Australia; however, you must travel from continent to continent in a continuous westward or eastward direction, crossing the Atlantic and Pacific oceans once only.
- Travel between two airports by surface transportation counts as one flight segment.
- After departing your continent of origin, you may choose up to four segments within each continent (six in North America).
- You may take a total of two stopovers within your continent of origin in order to get to or from an international gateway.
- Please note that some aircraft may not offer first or business class cabins. You will be booked in the next lower cabin for this sector. Mileage and tier points will be accrued only from eligible fares in the cabin class you have flown.
- Premium Economy is available for a surcharge on American Airlines, British Airways (World Traveller Plus), Cathay Pacific, Iberia, Japan Airlines (between Asia and North America) and Qantas on flights operating that service.
- There are no minimum stay requirements, with the following exception: itineraries commencing in North America (including the Caribbean, Central America and Panama) and South America, travel on the last intercontinental sector must commence no earlier than 10 days after commencement of the first intercontinental sector. All remaining flights may be left open (i.e. without confirmed flight numbers and dates), as long as each flight is reserved prior to departure. Tickets can be booked or issued up to one hour before departure in some countries. Local service fees may apply. (Open-dated tickets are not available for online booking.)
- All destinations you wish to travel to must be stated at time of purchase, before departure from country of origin. You must receive your ticket for your first flight between Continental Zones14 (and any preceding local flights) prior to departure.
- Currently, itineraries that include Jetstar (JQ) segments can only be ticketed by the following oneworld carriers: American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Finnair, Japan Airlines, LAN, Malaysia Airlines, Qantas, Qatar Airways, Royal Jordanian and SriLankan Airlines. Members of oneworld airline frequent flyer programmes can earn mileage rewards on eligible Qantas-coded Jetstar flights. Please contact your frequent flyer programme for more details.
- Excludes bookings ticketed by British Airways, where payment over the phone is required.
- Exceptions may apply. Changes to the ticketing carrier are not possible.
- Continental Zones include: TC1 The Americas | TC2 Europe, Middle East, Africa | TC3 Asia, South West Pacific.
- Fees will apply to itinerary changes and cancellations:
- Changes to ticketed points are permitted at a charge of USD125.00 per transaction.
- If the fare level has increased since ticket issuance, the difference between the old and new fare will also be charged. If the fare level has decreased since ticket issuance, no refund will apply.
- No Show requires rebooking at a charge of USD125.00
- After ticket issuance, refunds on cancellations are permitted for any unused travel but will incur a fee of 10% in Economy Class and 5% in Business/First Class.
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So, I got this new job about a month and a half ago where what I have to do is drive around in a big truck all day, with my partner, and pick up people's old junk. We pick up construction crap, yard waste, sofas, desks, mattresses, whatever. I give bids to the customer based on the volume of their garbage, and then we load it all up. We do evictions, home renovations, and like I said, whatever. From there, we do some minimal sorting and then haul it off to a few different dumps within Seattle.
I don't see my boss all day, it pays pretty good , and I get to keep any of the junk I want. Most of the time it's being thrown out for a reason, but sometimes I find some pretty rad stuff. I'm using a brand new desk as I type this, thanks to my job. The other day I found an anceint box of PEZ dispensers and another full of really rad VHS movies. I'm talking all the Kevin Smith, Alien, and Indiana Jones movies, tons of Monty Python, Ben-Hur, Taxi Driver, Aeon Flux, some old B movies, Woody Allen, Hitchcock, and Coen brother movies, Pink Floyd's The Wall, Edward Scissorhands, etc. So many great flicks! I think I picked up about 80 in all.
Today I decided to finally buckle down and share these though. I popped in the soundtrack to the Katamari game and began scanning for over an hour. What I have for you are found photos from one of the first jobs I ever did. These pictures chronicle the lives of a customer I barely even talked to, but still will forever be inspired by. The guy was an elderly man, living in Normandy Park, and his daughter was visiting from out of town so he could finally clean out his garage. I'm not sure where his wife was, or if she was even alive, but it's obvious to me that they led very, very full lives.
Hopefully scrolling down through these images will be close to as fun as it is to flip through them physically.
I relize this may come off as a bit creepy, but here they are. All of these were included in the junk they were throwing out, and I specifically remember them filling the whole truck. I have no idea what (most of) there names are.
The only two polaroids. The left one has a ton of graffiti in the backround, and on the back of the one on the right it reads, "Here's a picture of Stuart from some time in the last year, not wearing his glasses, wearing more yellow than usual. But it pretty much look like him."
"Mom in the Lava Tube near Lava Lands."
These next two are slightly different and were wrapped in some clear plastic. They are 7"x5" and I was able to deduce that they all work for Boeing.
The woman in the middle was the daughter visiting her father at the job site.
Here's where it gets crazy... They're actually looking down on the clouds!
"Karin at Todd Lake."
This seems like the stuff you'd see in an issue of National Geographic.
Up above-"Looking up at Rampart Ridge from Lake Lillian. Go on left side of gravel field to pick up way trail. Easy to follow route to the ridge."
Down below-"East of Stevens Pass to lake via Smithbrook Road."
Up above-"Andy at rapids on Deschutes below Dillion Falls."
I've arranged the photos in somewhat of an order, although I can't be sure of the chronological time for all of them. As you can see though, these people saw a lot of everything.
Vweird... An outdated view of New York City from the Harbor.
Those two up above are from Whidbey Island.
Down below-Mt. Stone, June 2, 1990.
Up above-Camp Shurman
I'm assuming that they're all looking at an eclipse from Hawaii.
And that's that. I could have swore that I had B&W picture of the daughter from about 40+ years ago, but I couldn't find it in my stack. I'll also mention that I picked up a bunch of really old postcards that the family had been collecting over their travels, and if I have time I'll prolly go ahead and post those too.
I hope my scanning efforts are appreciated, and that you guys find inspiration in the pictures like I did. Hopefully I'll continue to find stuff like this, and maybe I'll even get my hands on some nudies!
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Philip Vasquez's Law Center degrees have taken him from Victoria, Texas, to Washington, D.C., and on to the war-torn streets of Kabul, Afghanistan – where he insists he is living "a dream." In a capital city that reverberates with the suicide bombings and rocket attacks of the Taliban, Vasquez calmly dons body armor and travels via armored car to a heavily guarded compound to perform duties that he sees as vital to the future of Afghanistan.
As a law student in the 1980s with a background in oil and gas production and land management, Vasquez envisioned working with developing countries to help them tap the true potential of their natural resources. Today, the Law Center alumnus (J.D. in '87 and LL.M. in '05) is doing just that as senior legal advisor to the Afghanistan Ministry of Mines through International Relief and Development, Inc. The charitable organization is working with USAID and other international agencies to help rebuild Afghanistan's infrastructure and economy.
Vasquez assists the Ministry of Mines on a variety of legal and policy matters involving energy and natural resources, including planning for ways to develop the country's vast mineral reserves that recent media reports estimated could be valued at more than $1 trillion. "I am actually living my dream," he writes via e-mail from Kabul. "And what better place to do it than in a country where the world has placed its collective hope, and where our brave men and women serve."
Vasquez arrived in Kabul in May 2010 and now lives in a "guesthouse," which is about four miles from his office located across the street from the Presidential Palace in the city's fortified "Green Zone." He works six days a week, marking Juma (Friday) as his only day of rest, which is customary in the Muslim world. His daily "commute" involves a trip in an armored car with an experienced driver at the wheel and a Personal Protection Officer, who is typically a former member of the British Special Forces or a Gurkha from Nepal. Trips to a grocery store or neighborhood restaurant are discouraged for safety reasons, and Vasquez is prohibited from traveling anywhere alone. "These protections keep me as safe as anyone can be here in Kabul," he writes.
Vasquez credits the Law Center with launching him on a career that he deems both successful and exciting. "My J.D. enabled me to work in Victoria, my hometown, and provide a comfortable life for my family," he writes. "My LL.M. studies in International Economic Law enabled me to become a senior appointee in the Clinton Administration which has continued to open doors for me."
But why would a 55-year-old lawyer with experience in private practice and government service opt to work in a war zone on the other side of the world? Vasquez says the timing was right to continue pursuing his dream. His two daughters will be heading off to college this fall and his son, a 1st lieutenant and military intelligence officer in the U.S. Army, will be heading to Afghanistan in the near future, "but in an entirely different capacity," he adds. His email also includes a telling comment: "This may sound hokey, but I only have so long to serve my fellow man."
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Trying to be the perfect mom, the perfect co-worker, or the perfect spouse can be exhausting. But is striving for perfection an impossible task?
"You can't have perfection in an imperfect world," says Elliot Cohen, author of "The Dutiful Worrier: How to Stop Compulsive Worry without Feeling Guilty" (New Harbinger Publications). "When someone demands perfection, either with themselves or with others, they create frustration for all involved."
Cohen says high demands often stem from guilt, and that the need for perfection can create a worrying cycle that is physically and mentally taxing.
"It's important to realize there are some things you can control and some you can't," says Cohen. "Our logical mind knows this, but our emotions step in and we think, 'But I can be the exception to the rule.' That demand for control is typically what creates anxiety about the future."
"When we try to perfect too many things we lose the ability to go all out on the things that are really important to us," adds Becky Beaupre Gillespie, co-author of the book "Good Enough is the New Perfect: Finding Happiness and Success in Modern Motherhood" (Harlequin). "Often people lose sight of their passions and deepest desires when they try to be the best at everything."
Gillespie interviewed more than 900 working moms of different ethnicities and financial backgrounds who were born between 1965 and 1980. The results seemed to point to two distinctly different groups: the "Never Enoughs"—high achievers who had a strong need to be the best at everything—and the "Good Enoughs," who said being best was not as important and being happy at work and at home.
"The Good Enoughs were more often happier in their marriages and in their jobs than the Never Enoughs," says Gillespie. "The Never Enoughs made a little more money on average, but they were often overwhelmed with worry and obsessed over tedious tasks."
Gillespie also found that the Good Enoughs were more likely to take risks with new career paths, and the Never Enoughs often felt an obligation to try to achieve as much as possible because the opportunities weren't there for previous generations.
"This is really the first generation that didn't have to fight to get into the door," says Gillespie. "Their mothers and grandmothers fought for this, and many women felt they had to honor that."
But Cohen says the need to be a career success can cause much disappointment and worry.
"Your value is not based on your use or your job title," he said. "But people really need to make a conscious effort to reframe their view of their own self worth."
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Switch from being the best to doing your best. "This isn't settling or slacking off," says Gillespie. "It's honing in on the priorities and being realistic."
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Kurtz also worked for website The Daily Beast, which retracted one of his stories that suggested Collins had hid a previous engagement to a woman when the basketball player came out as gay. In fact, Collins had disclosed the engagement.
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On a recent recent visit to Beijing, Anna Shipley of Nokia Conversations - China, caught up with Stephen Elop for a short interview. In the interview, Elop illiterates once again the importance of the partnership with Microsoft, their new strategy, roll out, renewal and challenges faced ahead - in his own words "Nokia has to move forward faster and more aggressively now, than we have ever done before because of the competition". He talks about the importance of creating a great environment for developers of applications so that they can be effective, especially with the new Windows platform on Nokia devices. He also mentions that investment in Symbian will continue with support and updates way into 2016, with new apps, customer service and all of the elements that Symbian customers are currently experiencing.


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Bitter Sam Review
- Publisher: Moon Active
- Genre: Puzzle
- Released: 15 Mar, 2012
- Size: 23.8 MB
- Price: FREE!
- Manic main character still manages to illicit coo's of joy as he swings back and forth.
- Piggies that can be mutated and used as battering rams.
- Simple, but responsive controls feel completely natural.
- Odd pacing; ramps up to challenging levels, only to snap back to elementary features over-and-over.
- Gem collection not emphasized enough through level unlocks; replaying levels despite unlocking others can feel like wasted time.
Bitter Sam is almost everything your usual 'cute-physics-based-puzzler-with-three-stars' game is not - its main character is a monster and depressed; you use cute animals as battering rams; you only have to collect one item; and you won't have to launch anything at a stack of wood, stone and glass... and yet despite all this, it's just as fun, cute and addictive as those sorts of games.
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Bitter Sam by Moon Active seems to be desperate to defy conventions - its main character seems manically depressed, there's no three-star system in sight, and the almost morbid way in which you can fail a level is a shock the first few times it occurs. And yet, despite this, Bitter Sam is unabashedly cute, funny and fun.
Sam's life apparently wasn't doing so well even before a scientist captured and decided to drop him down a deep hole. He'll need to avoid spiked platforms, spinning blades and numerous other hazards while slowly descending in to the Earth's crust. Thankfully he can make use of various piggy's that can be used to break platforms, and if you collect three injections, the piggy will Hulk-out and bash its way through multiple barriers before exploding.
This is just the beginning of what to expect in Bitter Sam as you'll need to collect gems in order to unlock later levels. To do so you'll need to find the optimal path of winding your way through platforms and deploying various power-ups by tilting your iDevice left or right. The basic controls feel rock solid and while some levels may take several attempts to complete, you'll never feel cheated out of a perfect run.
Sadly the game takes a little too long to introduce new elements, opting to reinforce something it has just taught you or revisiting old ground instead of upping the ante. As such the game's difficulty regularly jumps back and forth from challenging to elementary, making it hard to stay focused. Also, considering that gems dictate whether or not you can unlock new areas, it seems odd that you need to unlock individual levels; despite spending time on progressing, it counts for naught as you'll need to replay to collect the gem anyway.
Despite a few missteps, Bitter Sam does its best to make you smile and more often than not it succeeds. Watching Sam dangling on a line with a pig as he sways back and forth with a permanent melancholic expression gives off the perfect mix of oddity and absurdity, which is only further bolstered by the game's amusing power-ups.
If you find most physics-based 'three-star' puzzlers too saccharin for your tastes, Bitter Sam is ready to mix things up and balance things out.
DescriptionSam's life is hanging by a thread, and he needs your help! Swing past obstacles and collect power-ups as Sam descends through 100 dangerous levels, collecting crystals to unlock new worlds.
• Fun, physics-based tilt controls - swing to live!
• 100 challenging levels to drop through
• 5 different underground worlds to master
• Unique power-ups to help Sam survive his journey, from EXPLODING inflatable pigs to speed-boosting anvils that smash through everything in Sam's way!
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Tilt to swing Sam left or right, but don't let your rope get cut!
Sam was already down in the dumps before he got kidnapped. Now he's in the clutches of a scientist working (supposedly) to save the world who needs Sam to explore the depths below his lab. Each crystal that Sam collects brings him closer to freedom and a shot at a brighter future, but he needs your help to survive!
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By Guen Douglas
The other day I posted a question on facebook asking about flash art. I've wanted to start compiling a glossary of tattoo terms for clients, but after Googling "flash art" and reading the Wikis and info on the subject I thought to ask my peers what they thought. I found most of the information contradicting and in my opinion, inaccurate…
Angelique (Houtkamp) has been reorganizing a wall in the shop (Salon Serpent, Amsterdam) for flash. Job (Dequay) and herself have been busy painting their own (I'm on it I swear, ha-ha) and she has a great collection of beautiful flash from friends and of course lots of the classics. A few months ago the shop started doing "Walk-in Saturdays" where you can walk in and get a pre-drawn one-off design or choose from the shop's collection of flash. We all have waiting lists and this one day a week is an opportunity for clients to jump the queue and for all three of us to draw things up that we're keen to tattoo, with custom requests having to still make appointments.
With flash on the brain Angelique and I have been having an ongoing discussion about the direction that custom shops are taking and the place flash will have in these shops. I wanted to know what people, specifically tattooers, thought about pilfering flash art from the Internet. I follow some very talented and prolific tattooers and painters on my social media and my feed is always full of brilliant flash. I wondered if the average tattooer felt the same as me or if they thought it was okay that tattooer's hard work was getting ripped without a penny sent their way.
I was under the impression that buying flash entitled you the right to tattoo it and that if you didn't own it you shouldn't tattoo it. The exception might naturally be classic designs that would now be considered to have entered the realm of public domain. What both Angelique and I were shocked to see is that a great number of tattooers thought it bad practice to copy flash as is! Another tattooer wrote to me to tell of an experience seeing an older tattooer tattoo a piece of flash as is, that left them with less respect for this tattooer. I wonder whether the rise of the custom shop, the idea of unique tattoos for all, and that many new tattooers are being taught in custom shops has warped the idea of flash?
I started tattooing at a street shop. We had tons of books and all the walls were covered in laminated flash sheets. Not the stuff the average tattooer paints and thinks is cool but the bread and butter of most street shop tattooers (especially at that time), kanji, tribal armbands, skulls, flowers… Impossibly thin lined Cherry Creek flash and the ever popular in Canada, Jeff Bartel flash. We did have a few "cool" sheets, some traditional classics and a few new school sheets from talented locals (yeah, Craig Driscoll your Prismacolor flash from the 90s).
I learned to tattoo tracing and tattooing these designs. I wouldn't be half as good at lining if is weren't for that Cherry Creek stuff, and tattooing flash taught me to be versatile, and helped me find my niche. The flash at the shop I worked with was all bought and paid for. That's what shops did back then. Having the best flash meant you would be busier than the shop down the street, because you had wider selection for people to choose from. Tattooers have always done custom work, but suddenly (around the time I got into tattooing) the custom tattoo started to out-cool the off-the-wall stuff, you could barely give away flash sets. No one wanted them.
The last few years the love affair with traditional tattooing has been rekindled and it has brought with it the lost art of tattoo flash. Now everyone and their death-metal cat is re-painting classics. The original material is however the question. It's all fine and good to hone your skills re-painting the classics, but don't we need to create our own legacy? Our own new classics? To do that I feel like flash has to return the way it was originally intended… Popular designs that were to be purchased and then tattooed! Over and over and over again. Not by plagiarizing and profiting from other tattooer's hard work, but by supporting the mavericks among us. I've been noticing a few tattooers saying, "I'll tattoo anything I want as long as I get paid."
I understand that with the recession some parts of the world are hit greater than others and that some have to do what they can to support themselves and their families. However, keep in mind we have to be careful not to set precedents in hard times we can't handle after the economy returns to normal. Most sheets of flash pay for themselves the minute you do one design from it. If a client brings you something that's not bought and paid for, draw your own version! Imagine that? We are artists right? If you can't afford to buy flash, start painting and trading. Most tattooers love to trade art. Trading is also a huge part of our history.
Tattooing has gone through many phases and versatility is what keeps most tattooers working and earning. Not all tattooers only tattoo the cool stuff you see them posting online. Learning different styles of tattooing (especially through flash) is one of the many ways successful tattooers stay busy over the years. I worry that with so many young/new tattooers learning in custom-only shops that they miss out on learning skills they may desperately need in the future to keep ahead of the crowd. We never know where tattooing will take us next.
Let's support each other instead of having this "everyone does it attitude" towards plagiarizing each other's work. Buying and painting flash is like voting. Your voice in what legacy and new classics this generation of tattooers leaves for the next. I feel like tattooing has always had a similar ethos to punk rock. Respect. Respect for yourself, your craft, your clients and your community. I feel like if you follow that one thing you'll do okay no matter the type of shop you work in.
PS: I'm sure a heated debate will ensue. Everyone seems to haven varying ideas on this topic. Keep in mind, if we as tattooers can't agree on what even "flash" is, how are we to educate our clients?
Next topic for discussion: Flash Art vs Just Plain Old Art. If a tattooer has painted something, is it automatically considered flash? I don't think so, but I see that many tattooers do. Your thoughts?
(Guen is a tattooer and contributing blogger for Tattoo Artist Magazine, and can be found at Salon Serpent in Amsterdam, Netherlands.)


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