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When Film Distribution Fails, Piracy Wins
Nov 2, 2013 5:00 AM PT
Last month, researchers at George Mason University's Mercatus Center launched a website, PiracyData.org, to determine whether or not there are legal alternatives for viewing the world's most pirated movies.
Drawing upon TorrentFreak's weekly list of the 10 most pirated movies, the researchers will quantify the validity (or invalidity) of copyright holders' claims that pirates are thieving material that is indeed available elsewhere, as well as claims that search engines like Google should quit linking to pirated content.
In this TechNewsWorld podcast, we are joined by Jerry Brito, a research fellow at the Mercatus Center and a cofounder of the site. Brito talks about how PiracyData.org came to be, the questions he hopes to answer and what copyright holders could and should do to slow down piracy (other than griping about search engines).
Here are some snippets from the podcast.
Listen to the podcast (22:24 minutes).
TechNewsWorld: There has long been a debate when it comes to file-sharing and to BitTorrents about what, exactly, the root cause of the problem is. The common gripe, or the party line, among copyright holders and the Motion Picture Association [of America] is that their content is indeed available legitimately online for all consumers to purchase on the up-and-up, while the pro-file-sharing contingent has claimed that no such alternatives exist and that piracy is little more than a service problem that has sprouted up because these products are not available elsewhere. When you had the idea to start this site, did you approach the project with a bias toward either of those viewpoints? Did you come into it thinking that one side might be more right than the other?
Jerry Brito: Well, personally, if I was running a movie studio, I would experiment with distribution and see if that had an effect. So yeah, I guess you could color me biased.
But really, we didn't start the site to address that particular question. The inspiration for the site was, last month [September], the MPAA put out a study that they commissioned looking at the effect that search engines -- and in particular Google, being the most dominant -- the effect of search engines on piracy. What they concluded was that search engines influence piracy: that consumers go to search engines, oftentimes without having the intention to do anything illegal -- they're simply searching for a movie that they want to watch -- and that the search engine leads them to a pirate site.
That same day there was a hearing in Congress looking at what voluntary steps search engines could take to address piracy, and again, the message from the content industry was, "While the advertising network industry and the payment processor industry had done a lot, the search engines, in particular Google, had not done enough to combat piracy."
It was very interesting to see that, and the implication was they should do more voluntarily, and if they don't do more voluntarily, maybe Congress should step in and give us something like SOPA, which would have censored what search results would look like to address piracy. And so the obvious question there is, "Boy... if 58 percent of all people who end up at a pirate site were just searching for a movie title, is that because we have search engines to blame? Or is it because somebody is going online looking to watch a movie, they have no illegal intention, but there is just no other option?" ...
So that was the reason we did this, to understand, why is Google returning search results that might lead on to pirate content? Is it because simply they're not doing enough to self-censor? Or is it because, well, that's just the state of the world -- there isn't a better or legitimate place? ...
TechNewsWorld: Have search engines historically -- and I guess presently -- been "blind" to the sources to which they are referring people? In Google's algorithms, for example, is there any prejudice against or for a streaming site or a BitTorrent site versus what would be the Motion Picture Association's preferred avenue that they would be directed to?
Brito: That's a good question because it goes to what is the responsibility of a search engine like Google. Search engines like Google strive to do two things. One, reflect the data that exists on the Internet. But of course any algorithm is going to have some bias, and so I think the bias that they're choosing is, they're going to want to give customers what they want. And they\u2019re going to want to be as neutral as they can be, because ultimately their reputation is on the line.
If you remember back when Yahoo was sort of the No. 1 search engine before Google -- Yahoo was sort of the portal everybody went through -- and at some point Yahoo began selling placements higher in the results. And after that they lost all confidence from their consumers because people were saying, "Oh, well, the results I'm getting are not an accurate representation of the Web -- it's simply what people are paying for."
So you can imagine a search engine today being very sensitive to not being seen as either selling higher placement, or otherwise biasing a particular point of view of a particular service. And on the same token, they don't want to be seen as censoring any other particular point of view or service. So I think that's sort of the baseline from which search engines operate.
And then the question is, what is their responsibility? Because again, look, piracy is illegal, piracy is wrong, and to some extent people are using the website to access that information -- what responsibility do they have?

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The Central Kansas Community Foundation will award $42,196 to charities in Central Kansas on April 18, 2013. These grants are made possible by the Central Kansas Kids FUNd which was established to fund local charities focused on improving the lives of children in our communities.
The Central Kansas Community Foundation will award $42,196 to charities in Central Kansas on April 18, 2013. These grants are made possible by the Central Kansas Kids FUNd which was established to fund local charities focused on improving the lives of children in our communities.
Sandra Fruit, Executive Director of the Central Kansas Community Foundation (CKCF) said, "For several years the partnership between the community foundation and the organizers of the Sand Creek Station Pro/Am Golf Tournament have used proceeds to positively impact children in Harvey County." Fruit also said, "this year because of the generous planning on the part of a special donor, L. Marie Haun, we were able to incorporate earnings from the L. Marie Haun Charitable Fund for Children into the Central Kids FUNd." This availability of additional funds allowed in Central Kansas Kids FUNd promote this funding opportunity throughout CKCF's service area.
Today, proceeds from the 2012 Pro/Am, the L. Marie Haun Charitable Fund for Children and contributions from individuals have been awarded to twelve organizations serving children in Central Kansas. Since the inception of the Central Kansas Kids FUNd grant program in 2005, the Foundation has now granted more than $129,000 to charitable organizations with programs designed to help children in our Central Kansas communities.
Fruit went on to say that requests continue to be greater than there are resources available. Again this year numerous worthy applications were unable to be funded through the Kids FUNd. While the Community Foundation tries to match donors to such requests contributions are needed. "There continues to be an opportunity in our community for local residents to consider establishing a fund or making an unrestricted gift to the community foundation," said Fruit. Contact Sandi Fruit to discuss options for giving or visit their website at www.centralkansascf.org .
2013 Central Kansas Kids FUNd recipients include:
Agape Resource Center $2,500.00
Asbury Station $3,475.00
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Butler County $3,901.00
Episcopal Social Services $4,370.00
Families and Community Together $5,000.00
Family Life Center of Butler County $4,500.00
Harvey County DV/SA Task Force $5,000.00
Heart to Heart $2,550.00
Kids Need to Eat - KS food bank and USD 490 $3,100.00
Newton Medical Center $2,400.00
Peace Connections - Kids Summer Food $3,000.00
Sunlight Children's Advocacy and Rights Foundation $2,400.00
Final Awards: $42,196
An Award Ceremony will be held April 18, 2013 at 4 pm in the 1st Floor Conference Room of the Old Mill Plaza Building, 301 N. Main, Newton, KS.


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Last month the Senate rejected a bid by Oklahoma's James Inhofe to roll back new limits on mercury in the air proposed by the Obama administration in December.
It was a rare victory for the environment on Capitol Hill. Earlier in June, congressmen Henry Waxman and Edward Markey issued a scathing report that called the 112th Congress, "the most anti-environment House in the history of Congress," citing 247 votes to weaken, delay or defeat environmental legislation in a little over a year. They blamed the Republican majority in the House, who are typically all but unanimous in their opposition to new pollution regulations. Markey and Waxman say that during the past year hard won environmental safeguards have been reversed and the EPA has had its hands tied by Republican-sponsored legislation that makes "the issuance of new rules difficult if not impossible."
Some of the main beneficiaries of weaker laws are the oil, gas and coal industries, which spend millions each year lobbying legislators and government officials. According to data published by the Center For Responsible Politics, House Republicans received more than four times the campaign contributions as Democrats from these industry groups.
Now there is a new fight in the offing over EPA rules announced earlier this month which would tighten restrictions on soot, tiny particles which are a risk factor in a variety of diseases including heart attack, lung cancer, stroke and asthma.
Soot, the visible element in smoke and haze, is produced by oil and coal burning industries, and the diesel exhaust from trucks, trains and boats. While soot levels have been decreasing overall, they remain high in many of the nation's transportation hubs and inner-city neighborhoods, where asthma rates have skyrocketed in recent years. These tiny particles-- the smaller they are the more dangerous to health-- are irritants which cause stress reactions in human organs like the lungs, brain and circulatory system. Public health experts warn that soot is the most toxic single component in air pollution. It is also the most easily controlled through mechanical scrubbers.
The recent EPA action to limit soot was prompted by a lawsuit filed by a coalition of 11 states, including New York and California, demanding tighter regulations. The agency initially planned to put off announcing its controversial new standards until after the presidential election in November. But a federal court ordered the EPA-- which is mandated by the Clean Air Act to update its particulate regulations every five years-- to do so now.
The new rules, which won't take full effect until 2020, lower the annual exposure to fine-particle soot from its current limit of 15 micrograms per cubic meter of air to between 12 and 13 micrograms per cubic meter of air. That may not sound like a lot, but advocates say that it will have a big impact, potentially preventing thousands of premature deaths and saving billions in health-care costs.
Something else that the new EPA regulations may have an impact on is the presidential election campaign. Republicans lost no time last month in complaining that the soot restrictions will cost jobs, which our faltering economy can ill afford to loose.
"Despite the ongoing economic challenges facing our country, the Obama-EPA continues to roll out strict environmental standards that cause severe economic strain on state and local communities, millions of lost jobs, and skyrocketing energy prices," said Inhofe last week.
This argument may resonate in crucial swing states of the "rust belt" like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio, where unemployment remains high and manufacturing has been declining for decades. But while a recent Pew poll shows that the American public is ambivalent about environmental regulations (about half say they want them strengthened), there is little support for abandoning our current protections. Only 36% of Republicans say that we should roll back existing safeguards. Nevertheless, the weak economy makes new regulations a tough sell this year.
The president himself has sent mixed messages on his commitment to clean air. Last summer, the Obama administration backed down on its proposed stringent new smog standards, after fierce opposition from Big Energy and conservative politicians.
Obama is not the only one who has reversed himself on pollution in response to political pressures. When he was governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney joined other Northeast states in demanding the tougher mercury regulations which Republicans tried unsuccessfully to overturn last week. A You Tube video has been making the rounds which shows Romney in 2003 pointing to a PG&E power plant saying, "that plant kills people," and "I will not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people."
Since running for president, however, the presumptive Republican nominee has changed his tune claiming, for example, that EPA's proposed mercury cleanup is too aggressive and will destroy jobs. Another argument that Republicans have made is that regulations add to the price that we pay for manufactured goods and basic utilities. But is it a fact that environmental protections hurt Americans economically?
Let's look at some recent history. During the debate over the original Clean Air Act 20 years ago, the Edison Electric Institute, a group funded by the power-generating industry, predicted that the proposed standards would raise electricity prices by up to 13 percent by around 2009. On the contrary, electric rates actually fell 20 percent as of 2006.
Reuters reports that: "In 1997 the American Petroleum Institute, an oil industry group, warned that smog rules would wreak economic havoc. Yet regions that might have been affected actually had slightly better job creation rates on average than the nation as a whole in following years, according to a study by the Center for American Progress."
Nobody denies that regulations costs companies money. Yet there is evidence which suggests that the EPA's new standards may be net job creators, as industry hires workers to retrofit its plants in order to bring them into compliance. A 2002 study conducted by the Washington based think tank "Resources for the Future" found that environmental regulations of four heavily polluting industries-- pulp and paper mills, plastics manufacturers, petroleum refiners, and iron and steel mills-- resulted in slightly higher employment levels since losses in one segment of the industry were typically offset by gains due to increased spending. For every million dollars spent on regulatory compliance, an average of one and a half new jobs were created.
Republicans are right, of course: cleaning up the air can be expensive. But as president Obama-- and even Mitt Romney in his better moments-- must realize, it is not nearly so costly as failing to act. The losses in sick leave, hospital costs, disability insurance and just plain wasted human potential caused by pollution-based illnesses are impossible to calculate. Our political leaders need to affirm that this is the real price that Americans can no longer afford to pay.


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Shame on you Takara. Shame.
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Seven Deaths Confirmed in Arkansas
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Official Says Syria Accepts Russian Initiative
Damascus, Syria (AP) - A senior Syrian government official says his country's acceptance of a Russian initiative to relinquish its chemical weapons is a sign of strength. The cabinet minister, Ali Haidar, says that by agreeing to the proposal, Damascus has removed one of the pretexts for war against Syria, although he says the threat of foreign military action remains. He tells The Associated Press that Syria didn't agree to the proposal out of fear, and that it shouldn't be seen as a concession


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San Francisco is known as one of the most liberal and unique cities in the world! People from all over the world and from every background roam these streets. Personally we have spent a lot of time in this city, as one of us from AP grew up in Northern California. This place is brimming with vegan friendly food and pretty much every restaurant has an option! Or at least they will know what the word vegan is and accommodate you!
Most people talk about Millennium (as it is often rated the Best Vegan Restaurant in the US) and Herbivore (always wins for Best Brunch) as top vegan destinations within San Francisco. Both these restaurants are fantastic and some of our favorites, however we at AP would like to highlight a restaurant a little more off the beaten path. So for San Francisco's restaurant pick, we have chosen Golden Era.
Golden Era is located in between the juxtaposing neighborhoods of the Tenderloin and Union Square. The Tenderloin can be a bit sketchy, but the restaurant is on the outskirts of the neighborhood. We have dined here over the course of 6 years and have never encountered any problem! Golden Era's menu is pan Asian based and all vegetarian. There are a few items that are not vegan, but like most restaurants the staff will advise you.
There are not a ton of Appetizers to choose from on the menu, but the quality is superb! The Drumsticks and Steamed Veggie Bun are mouth watering and will leave you craving more! Both the Golden Rolls and Spring Rolls are delicious classics and the Vegetable Fu Young is scrumptious!
Spinach Tofu Soup
They offer both Salads and Soups to start your meal off healthy and are quite tasty themselves. We recommend the Tofu Salad and the Spinach Tofu Soup! These are meals within themselves.
Spicy Mongolian Chicken
There are tons of Entrees on this menu to choose from! They offer Noodle Dishes, Rice Plates, Regular Entrees, Claypot Choices, and Specialties. It must be said that most of these dishes are not run of the mill asian style! They are creative and of course delicious. For instance the menu offers dishes such as Caramelized Chicken, Pineapple Salmon, Vegetarian Lamb Claypot, and Sautéed Jalapeno Tofu. If you are looking for a little more classic dishes, fear not, as you can order Sweet & Sour Chicken, Lemon Chicken, Gourmet Fried Rice, and Pho Noodles. Trust us, dinner here will not be an ordinary event, because even their typical dishes are satisfying with a unique flavor.
Caramelized Chicken
Desserts here are just as exciting as their dishes! There are a couple non vegan desserts, but they are marked clearly on the menu. You can order anything from Vegan Caramel Flan to Egg-Less Cheesecake and our personal favorite Fried Banana w/ Vegan Ice Cream. And don't forget to order a Vegan Thai Iced Tea to make your meal complete!
Fried Banana & Ice Cream
So if you are a local looking for some unique and creative asian style vegan dishes, hop on over to Golden Era! And if you are visiting, this is a MUST on your trip through the city.
Golden Era is located at:
572 O'Farrell Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Tel: 415-673-3136
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Friday, November 26, 2010
Jumping Into the DNA Gene Pool
Later this afternoon (in U.S. time), Carole and I found ourselves in a rapid-fire discussion on Facebook with Joan Miller about DNA testing for genealogy. Joan is clearly an expert on the topic as she was going through the DNA testing lingo and leaving me with a quizzical look on my face wondering, "what on earth is she talking about?" Before we knew it, Carole and I were both signing up at 23andMe to get our DNA testing kit. I'm always willing to try anything new and this could definitely be an adventure. As I mentioned to Carole and Joan, at least I should get a few blog posts out of this! We decided we three would embark on this adventure together.
Joan and Carole jumped right in. Carole posted on Carole's Canvas about 23andMe's sale and costs. Joan also wrote about her DNA Testing Buddies on her Luxegen Genealogy and Family History blog. I've added a blog roll to the right hand column of this blog titled DNA for Genealogy, where Joan and Carole's posts will appear, along with other blog posts relevant to the topic. Or you can bookmark this RSS feed if you want to follow along.
This is a subject I know absolutely nothing about, so I guess that means I have a lot to learn.
Here are few starting points:
The Spittoon - the blog from 23andMe
The International Society of Genetic Genealogy
Wikipedia - Genetic Genealogy
If you've already taken the DNA plunge, I'd love to hear about your experiences. Please post comments and suggestions below.
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Great idea to include the links at the bottom of your post, and the RSS feed. It is going to be a fun journey :)ReplyDelete
--Joan Miller
I know of at least two others @KerryFarmer and @InnerCompass!ReplyDelete
This was a sale I couldn't resist. I ordered it Thursday night and already have an email telling me the kit has been shipped.ReplyDelete
Linda - if you'll be blogging about your experiences, I will add you to our blog roll!ReplyDelete
I look forward to reading about everyone's experiences. :)ReplyDelete
Susan, I expect I will. Hopefully there will be lots of things to discuss.ReplyDelete
May I join the party? Carole talked me into it!ReplyDelete
Shelley - come on in, the water's fine! If you have a blog, let me know where to find it so I can include your posts in the blog roll!ReplyDelete
I blog about DNA testing too! http://yourgeneticgenealogist.comReplyDelete
I can't wait to read all of your posts and maybe we will even be "cousins" at 23andMe or FTDNA!


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Fr. Pavone will be leaving for Rome at the end of February, but will continue to be in charge of Priests for Life in the United States. His work on Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) will continue, as well, with a new 14-part television series already scheduled for production in Birmingham, Alabama, this summer. Fr. Richard Hogan, Associate Director of Priests for Life, based in St. Paul, Minnesota, will be taking on much of Fr. Pavone's busy travel schedule for 1997. Mr. Anthony DeStefano, Priests for Life's Chief of Staff, will assume the role of Executive Director of the organization.
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Currently my hometown has been getting a huge influx of people moving to our small community from the expensive big city. Our local Realtors our trying to capture these prospective clients as they move in, and one way they are doing this is by highlighting the properties they are selling through their website. However most of their websites are static and could use some updating, but they, like many others, are too busy with business to worry about website updates. They need to have their home and property listings pulled to the web automatically to save time and money.
This is where RETS can help.
Realtors who understand RETS love the idea, but many have not heard of it or what it can mean for them. Most of the time they input their property information on the MLS server and will continue to update this information through the sale of the house. Although, many times the Realtor will list the same property on their own website, but it will usually go unchanged for months and may even remain on their own site after it has been sold, only to cause confusion by potential buyers. RETS can alleviate the double input. Once the Realtor has added or updated their property information on the MLS server, their website can be updated without having to lift a finger, and it can all be done through PHP and a good database.
The History of RETS
RETS is a set of standards developed by the NAR (National Association of Realtors) in 1999 to access MLS information from a computer, based on a single set of standards and a common language. This gives the Realtor the ability to pull any information stored in an MLS server. There are many MLS service providers across the nation; now with this set of standards, the Realtor is able to pull information for their own purposes from any MLS in the nation — talk about open.
This is why it is so useful. Hundreds of thousands of homes may be for sale, and you could go to one site to see current information on any house or property in any state that is for sale, much like homestore.com. Sites like the one I just mentioned can use this technology to constantly update their databases of property for sale and keep content fresh for property across the nation.
The standards used are XML based, which makes them easy to read and parse by a program to store in a database for later use.
RETS Defined: Real Estate Transaction Specification
The Real Estate Transaction Specification is a document that defines a series of computer interactions called "transactions" and serves as the definitive reference source for developers who implement them. It establishes the parameters for each specified transaction, both upload and download, as well as the expected behaviors and results that compliant hosts and clients must be able to manage, including error codes.
For more information go to http://www.rets-wg.org/faq.html.
{mospagebreak title=How it Works}
You first have to develop a client. A client is a program that connects to the RETS server and extracts certain information and displays or places what it pulled into a database. There are many pre-made clients available, some even written in PHP, but I found that they do not work for every RETS server straight out of the box and require a bit of updating to work with a specific RETS server, which is not an easy task when the code does not have sufficient comments or documentation. That is why I suggest building your own; usually one of the best ways to learn anything is doing it on your own. The Wright Brothers would have never built their first plane if they were waiting to update someone else's plane. Let's look at what the client program will have to do.
Most of the RETS servers implement Digest Authentication. This is much more secure than your usual Basic Authentication, which makes it a little more complicated to program. Digest uses MD5 to encrypt usernames and passwords and other variables so that information is not sent over the Internet. We will get into the login process a little bit later in this article.
Once you log in, you will receive a session id which you will need to save so you can log back in to request information. RETS servers have many options to pull information out; you can search by price, amenities, location, school district, Realtor office and basically anything else that is a field in the RETS server.
This is how a common session might look.
The Common Session
Program Step 1
Program Step 2
Program Step 3
Program Step 4
Program Step 5
Once you have a successful login and request information, the RETS server will send a page back with all the information you requested. The information will be in the same order that you sent the request, so if you asked for bedrooms, bathrooms and pool, it would come back in that same order. The content will be in a format that looks like the below sample.
Sample Data
HTTP/1.1 200 OK (This lets us know everything was fine retrieving from this page)
You can see from the above sample data that it is in an XML format which makes it really easy to parse through and place into a database. This is similar to RSS news feeds, which makes it very easy to place news into a database. You may have tried to parse MLS data off of a website before – it is nearly impossible, this is why this is so great; you get the data in a very easy to parse format and can worry about bigger things like how to tell your co-worker that a water cooled computer does not mean pouring water on the processor every few hours.
The system we built in our office checks the RETS server every hour for any updates and adds and removes properties based on the information that the server spits back. We have automated it through a cron job and we can just sit back and let the computer do all the work, day and night.
{mospagebreak title=The Basic Login in Detail}
There is little information available for programming a client in PHP. There is a large document about the standard and how things should work, but an actual step by step of how to build a client in PHP does not exist. When I started on the project at our offices, I found very little help. There were some people who had successfully built a client, but they did not want to share their findings or even offer a little direction. This can happen when new technologies come out; people sometimes try to hoard information to make themselves look better instead of advancing the possibilities of a technology. Where would PHP be today if it was not open? Hopefully this will get you started and over one of the biggest hurdles in developing your client, the login. Once I got past this, everything came together.
The login process is not too difficult, but is a little tricky because we will be using MD5 and digest authentication. This is a very secure way of logging, and it is understandable that most RETS servers will use this type over Basic Authentication. Some older servers still use Basic Authentication, but it is rare.
Now let's look quickly at MD5 and digest authentication. MD5 is a way to verify data integrity. It takes a string of text and returns a 128bit "fingerprint", 32 characters of letters and numbers. The reason for this is that the actual string is never transmitted over the Internet, and it is very difficult if not impossible to decrypt this fingerprint. When the computer you are sending to receives the request of authentication, it will MD5 a similar string on it and compare the one you sent over with the one it made. For example if you sent over a password "cat" that was encrypted using MD5, which may look like this "1f3870be274f6c49b3e31a0c6728957f" to another computer, it would take the password that it had in its database for you and encode it using MD5, and if your string matched what the computer had, it would allow you access. MD5 can be used for many things, even checking if two sentences are identical, basically anything that needs to be compared to each other for equality.
The login script consists of MD5 variables and header information sent over the Internet using fsocket to a specified port for authentication. Once there is an approved login, the MLS server will display a session which you can use for data retrieval.
{mospagebreak title=The Login Script}
With that being said let's look at the first part of the login script (the full code is included).
$url = "rets.somemls.com";
This is the URL we will use through out a session. The MLS office will have to provide this to you, it is usually not public information.
$fp = fsockopen($url,80,$errno,$errstr,30);
if (!$fp) {
echo "$errstr ($errno)<br />n";
} else {
This is a standard fsocket connection procedure. Notice that it is going to port 80 – some MLS systems might use other ports to pull RETS information from. The number 30 is the time out limit. If there is an error the above code will let us know. For more information on fsocket go to the manual http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.fsockopen.php
$username = "retsuser02";
$MLS_county = "LAMLS";
$password = "getinfo"
$A1 = "$username:$MLS_county:$password";
You will use your username and password here that the MLS office gives you. Also you will notice that between the username and password is a variable we called MLS_county, this will be a variable that the MLS office must give you. All counties have a different code and if the correct one is not used, there will be an error when you MD5 this variable. This specific arrangement of these variables may be different from MLS office to MLS office; there is a standard but it does vary slightly usually for security purposes and the MLS service provider will make these differences known.
$A2 = "GET:/IMPV/rets/rets_login.asp";
This is the page that will be used to authenticate you as a user of the system. This page will need to be given to you by the MLS office.
$auth_nonce = "adee8373e2588003c1746f58c89b30cd";
Nonce is a string of randomly generated letters and numbers or current time generated by the server you are contacting. The MLS system I currently use does not change this variable and is a mix of numbers and letters. The way you get the nonce is to go to the page without logging in and review the headers and pull out the variable "nonce= adee8373e2588003c1746f58c89b30cd". You may need to add a section of code that goes to the page and parses out the nonce and opaque variables which we will use further in the code.
$raw_digest = md5($A1).":".$auth_nonce.":".md5($A2);
Now let's MD5 our variables. No matter how long the variable you MD5, it will encrypt it into a 32 character variable. You will notice that the $A1 and $A2 variables are MD5ed and the nonce is not. This is just the way to make things even more complicated for someone trying to decrypt this string.
$resp = md5( $raw_digest );
The last step is to MD5 the variable we just MD5ed. This may vary from each MLS office, but it does provide another step of security. This variable must match an MD5 variable the MLS service provider generates on its end; if it doesn't then there will be no authentication. And again the benefit of using MD5 is that no obvious information is being sent over the Internet.
{mospagebreak title=Authentication}
The lines below will be the header we create and send over for authentication. These are the usual minimum requirements but again may be slightly different from MLS server to MLS server. You may want to take some time before trying the authentication process to locate and check the requirements of your local office; they are usually posted online.
$out2 = "GET /IMPV/rets/rets_login.asprn";
The page we use for authentication. Notice that it differs slightly from our $A2 variable.
$out2 .= "Authorization: Digest username="$username ", realm="$MLS_county ",
nonce="$auth_nonce ", opaque="$auth_opaque", uri="/IMPV/rets/rets_login.asp", response="$resp" rn";
This is the actual digest string that brings everything together for authentication. Some of the variables we created above are placed here and our MD5ed variable $resp is in the response area at the end.
You will notice that there is a variable called opaque. This variable will appear when you get the nonce variable from the header and looks similar to the nonce. You can pull it the exact same way that you pull the nonce. Again my specific MLS server does not change this variable, but others might.
$out2 .= "Host: 220.127.116.11rn";
The server that you will post this code to and run the program from.
$out2 .= "Accept: */*rn";
The type of response you will accept. Some MLS server may require you to specify the type which may be text or XML. The above is set to anything and everything.
$out2 .="User-Agent: MY_RETS_CLIENT/1.0rn";
This is the name of your client; this will need to be registered with the MLS office. This is to prevent any program from trying to gain access without properly registering with the MLS office. You may be familiar with this variable which usually holds information about your browser like "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us)". We are basically spoofing the header; if it's not set, it would probably say "PHP 4.2.3" or whatever version your PHP is on the server.
$out2 .="RETS-Request-ID: 571rn";
This is used by your program to keep track of requests. Every request could have a unique number assigned to it for logging or record keeping. This is usually an optional variable.
$out2 .= "Connection: Closernrn";
Finally close the connection.
fputs($fp, $out2);
Now we connect to our fsocket connection and send over the header we just made. The header is a GET statement and not a POST, information that you may not need but is good to know how things are being sent.
while (!feof($fp)) {
$grabo = fgets($fp, 128);
preg_match("/RETS-Session-ID(……….)/", $grabo, $set_cookie);
if($set_cookie[0] != "){
$set_cookiea = $set_cookie[0];
This bit of code retrieves the server response once we send our authentication. If we are successful, it will try to find a variable called RETS-Session-ID. If we get this variable, then it means that we have successfully logged into the server and can process requests for property using that session id.
{mospagebreak title=Benefits of RETS}
The log in process is not a difficult one to understand, but there are a lot of little steps that must be absolutely correct for us to be authenticated. You will have to check with the MLS office to get the exact parameters to MD5. They sometimes vary from office to office, but most MLS systems will post this information to their websites. Even though there is a standard, there are slight variations from office to office, and you will need to check before you get started.
Once you do log in successfully and receive your session variable, you will be able to freely request information, perform searches for properties and even download raw images to place into a database. Of course the obvious benefit for using RETS is the ability to get current information and place it into a database without having to retype or parse some very tricky html page. Using RETS can open the door to many business opportunities. With the knowledge you have in connecting and pulling information from other computers, it may open doors later on for similar systems.
One quick note on this whole login process – what we have just looked at is a digest method of authentication. This type of authenticating is used by other types of web services in different areas and is not specific to RETS. The code is not proprietary to RETS but a common way to gain access to a server, and RETS uses XML to send back data, so that too is not proprietary. This same code, with some modifications, can be used for other login scripts. This is another reason why trying something on your own will usually benefit you and future programs.
There are a few RETS clients out there, but building one from scratch will give you a custom application that you can change and upgrade yourself at any time. Things you learn from one project will usually carry over to another one – at least that's what I have found. One thing that I wouldn't suggest you do yourself is put up crown molding in a room – your thumbs and brain will thank you.
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The standard is good and is also in its starting stages. The server I log into uses the RETS standard 1.0 and is currently in the process of going to 1.5. Most of these service providers offer backward compatibility, which is good for those whose clients won't pay for an upgraded product. It will be interesting to watch as RETS grows and how it will be used in the future.
The important thing about the RETS standard is the use of a standard to share information from one computer to another. This is a great example of a standard that has been accepted and actually used across a large area. The power of the standard can be seen by looking at homestore.com, which allows a user to view houses and property for sale from all over the US. Imagine if other areas of industry could develop standards to share information freely. Currently the RETS standard is not international but specific to the US, but there are rumors of getting the RETS standard into the international arena. I know to some this may be a scary thought, and this is one reason why the standard has not gone international. Some see it as stripping away other's culture for western ideals. I don't know about that, but having everything the same does leave little room for individuality.
Now as a web developer you can see the potential to help your local Realtors create better and more exciting websites using RETS. This is why it's like gold, the Realtor benefits from the automatic updates to their website, and the web developer benefits from building a program to interface with RETS.
The nice thing about the whole RETS standard is that it is open and continually being developed to make it better and easier to share information. It is not proprietary and does not require any one piece of software, so that means anyone can create a client and have Realtors use it. In the example here we used fsockets, but you could develop it using other tools like curl. Most of the clients available use Java, but you can see it is open and defiantly not proprietary. You can also use your client over and over for any Realtor that would like to use it with small modifications. Also the things you learned in creating your client will work for other projects.
The main area for information on the RETS standard is http://www.rets-wg.org/. Another good source of information and pre-made open source RETS clients is http://www.crt.realtors.org/. Documentation http://www.rets.org/docs/.
To gain access to RETS, you will have to get a username and password from the RETS or MLS provider for your area, but it is a fairly painless process.


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FactionsThe Justice League: The most famous heroes there are. This organization is one of the largest there is, and is based in their satellite, the Watchtower. It is led by Black Canary, and most of the original Team is a member. The minimum is age is 18.The Team: The young counterpart to the Justice League, the Team's age lets them pass unnoticed by many and act as a stealth team. They are covert ops, and not many people know about them. They operate out of the Watchtower in conjunction with the League. They are watched over by Aqualad and Nightwing, two founding members. The three most prominent heroes are the Tornado Twins, children of the Flash, and Tabby Cat, child of Chesire and Red Arrow, all three of whom are ten.The Unjust League: In some ways, both a counterpart to the League and the Team. They are both young, and famous. They were founded and are trained by Sportsmaster. They have several bases scattered across the planet, but their main base is in the remains of Mount Justice.The Light: A large organization of evil villains, who only allow season operatives into their ranks. The actual members of the Light are the members of the leading council; Vandal Savage, Ra's al Ghul, Lex Luthor, Queen Bee, Darksied, The Brain, and Klarion. Everyone else is merely a pawn. The 'lead pawn' is Deathstroke. Gordon G. Godfrey is the voice of persuasion for the Light, and is secretly a New God.Cadmus: Soon after the Reach was defeated, the US government, following suit from all others, bought up several genetic research firms, including Cadmus, and bundled them together as Cadmus. This was as protection against any sort of metahuman uprising. Gone are the genomorphs of old, and here to stay are clones and specially adapted weapons to each hero and villain. They are neutral in this war. For player-made factions, see post #2.
Important LocationsEarth: The biggest hot spot for activity of metahuman nature, Earth is an incredibly fragmented planet on the political spectrum. All five of the major factions in the metahuman war are primarily based here. There is a network of zeta-beam (teleportation) blocking technology orbiting over earth, preventing teleportation to and from Earth. The Watchtower is under this network, allowing the Justice League and the Team to travel to set locations placed in strategic locations on Earth. The International Space Station orbits higher than the network, and there is a Zeta Tube there that leads to the Olympus Mons colony on Mars.-The Watchtower: This is not exactly a location on Earth but rather a satellite orbiting the planet. It looks like a large tower atop a meteor and is the base of operations for both the Justice League and the Team, both of whom operate in conjunction.-The Cadmus Facility: The base of the Cadmus Military Corporation, this facility is located underground in Washington DC and is the US government's response to the growing metahuman situation. They employ their own metahumans, and are finding ways to defeat every public villain and hero.-Unjust Cave: This is a base for The Unjust League, located right underneath where Mount Justice could have been found before it was destroyed by the Light, in Happy Harbor, Rhode Island. Sportsmaster uses it as a base for his team because of his sense of humor and the fact that no one would look there.-Atlantis: This is an underwater kingdom populated by humans adapted to breathing and living underwater. The country is ruled by their king, known on the surface as Aquaman. Atlantis joined the UN approximately five years ago.-The UN Headquarters: This is where the General Assembly of the UN is located, and is used by the Team and the League to contact the governments of the world. Currently, the relations between the League and the UN are going well. It can be found in Manhattan, New York.-STAR Labs: STAR Labs is a private organization devoted to advanced technology and superpowers. They, unlike Cadmus, are trusted by the League. STAR Labs is the go to place if someone on the team doesn't recognize a piece of technology. They have many locations across the US.Mars: This is world is a peaceful one, seeing as how it only has two governments: The Co-Nation Colony and the Martian Government. The Martian government is a monarchy, with the Red Martians on top, Green in the middle and White on the bottom. Martians have a wide variety of powers at their disposal, but Martian Manhunter and Miss Martian are the most skilled and powerful.-Olympus Mons: This is the Co-Nation Colony founded by the UN and is both the only human colony on Mars and the only colony on the surface. A large dome covers the entire dormant volcano, and inside are buildings. The Justice League and Team have bases here.-N'Herzz G'Alm: The capital city of the Martians, this city is underground. The Red Martian Royal Family G'Alm have their palace here. The city is has three main layers: The high class Red Martians on the bottom, as that is closest to the core and warmest, the middle class Green Martian section in the middle and the White Martian slums on top. The entrance to the city is near Olympus Mons. The Unjust League has a base in the White Martian sector.Warworld: A giant artificial world that is more of a huge planet-city. The entire inside of the planet is just mechanics and city spots, and the outside is covered in rockets and weaponry systems. This is the base of the Light and sits between Saturn and Uranus.
How to JoinSimply fill out the form below, post it in the discussion topic and wait for a staffer to approve it.There is a four character maximum, with the qualification that no more than two characters may be a member of each faction (per player, naturally). Choose how to spend your characters wisely. Characters may be retired to make way for new ones, but you will need to wait a week between retirement and new character submission.Note that while you can directly join the Justice League or the Light, they have more rigorous screening than the other factions so its very unlikely you'll be able to sneak a double agent in there. PM a staffer if you want to try, but you'll probably be shot down unless you have a really good story to tell.Species not from Earth are allowed, provided they have been introduced in some form of DC media prior, as are the more unusual native species like Atlanteans, Amazons and homo magi. Feel free to get creative with the profiles. This is a superhero RPG, after all.Alias: (your superhero/supervillain name. Will not apply to all characters, naturally)Name: (the actual name of your character)Age: (derp)Faction: (the Team, the Justice League, the Unjust League, the Light, Cadmus, or freelance)Alignment: (choose from the nine classic D&D alignments [Lawful Good, True Neutral, Chaotic Evil etc.]. Optional.)Equipment/Abilities: (here describe metahuman abilities, batarangs, mech suits, magic styles etc.)Weaknesses: (must have at least one weakness. If your powers are very strong, more weaknesses must be outlined)Appearance: (derp 2.0)Origin: (tell us how your character came to be the man, woman or it that he/she/it is today)
Rules1. This may be a game about metahumans, but no metagaming. That is, don't let your characters have impossible revelations just because you as a player know something about the plot or other characters.2. No bunnying (controlling other people's characters without permission).3. No autohitting.4. No deus ex machina.5. Direct OOC posts to the discussion topic.6. Please be courteous, and don't refuse to lose out of pride.7. All BZP rules apply, naturally.8. Do remember to give an indication of time and place at the start of each IC post. For example,
Or something. This will keep things in order (try to be mindful of other people's timestamps).9. Players are encouraged to alter the plot and introduce new concepts and twists, but anything terribly earth-shattering should be run by Canis Lupus first.10. Don't let the multitude of rules overburden you.Good players will be rewarded, but disobey rules and your characters may be brutally maimed/murdered and/or you, the player, will be cast out of the RP. For justice!StaffBundalings - HostCanis Lupus - Story Master
IC: Unjust Cave, Night Sportsmaster sighed. "Pathetic. We'll have to do that whole training run again."
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Wall Street Moves Lower as Apple Shares Weigh Heavy On the NASDAQ - Volume Advancers: AMR Corp, Urban Barns Food, Bio-Matrix Scientific Group
Jan 14, 2013, 12:16 ET
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Shares of Apple (AAPL) weighed heavy on the NASDAQ in early trading today on Wall Street as the technology firm slashed its production of the iPhone 5. The stock traded below $500 per share for the first time in almost a year as investors wondered if we are seeing the end of the dominance in this stock.
AMR Corp (OTC: AAMRQ) continued once more to trade higher and remained the heaviest traded stock on the OTC market. Shares of AMR Corp have traded up from 0.80 cents to $1.60 over the last week and we have covered the story every day. The volume was over $50 million on Friday as investors see more value in the shares. AAMRQ has already traded $15 million in early trading today.
Urban Barns Food (OTC: URBF) was trading higher by 69% in early trading on the OTC markets on Monday. The stock is now trading north of 0.10 cents per share and has traded 600k so far in trading.
Bio-Matrix Scientific Group (OTC: BMSN) was another stock being heavily traded on the OTCQB market today. Shares of BMSN were higher by 39% on over 500k traded. BMSN was higher in the first hour of trading and seems to be pulling back going into mid-morning trading.
Coroware Inc. (OTC COWI) was a new name we have not seen on the volume focus list before. Shares of COWI were trading higher by an amazing 245% in early trading on Monday; we will keep an eye on the name to see if it can sustain this price action. The volume was around 500k at the time of writing.
Amarantus Biosciences (OTC: AMBS) shares were holding steady this morning after a big move in the stock on Friday last week. Shares had traded around $1 million at the time of writing and the stock was trading relatively flat on the OTCQB market.
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According the recently released SEMPO State of Search Marketing report, search marketing is a rare growing sector in an otherwise depressed economy. Search marketing grew 14 percent in 2010 and is expected to grow another 16 percent in 2011. Investment in search marketing is strong because the ROI is strong and measureable and because businesses are growing more comfortable with online marketing on every level.
As an SEO agency for more than a decade, Bruce Clay, Inc. has had clients of every size from every industry. In that time, we've noticed a significant change in the needs of most clients. When we began as a one man consulting operation in 1996, most clients had no idea what it meant to change your site so you could rank in search engines. Over time, SEO became an accepted term but companies still needed outside help to achieve their ranking goals. Next week in SMX Toronto, Bruce Clay will present on Enterprise level SEO and discuss how the rising sophistication level of many businesses is putting the actual SEO work more and more on in-house teams with agencies available for expert-level consulting.
A strong in-house SEO team is often the agency or consultant's most valuable resource. When you're ready to make that investment, how do you go about it? What steps should a business take to build an SEO team that will be effective in reaching company goals beyond search engine optimization and how does an in-house team best take advantage of an agency partner?
An emerging market in so many ways, India's economy is booming. As of late, Indian businesses have begun to embrace digital marketing as a viable business tactic. With the growing interest in online marketing comes a need for standardized search engine marketing practices. And with things heating up in India this year, Bruce Clay India just might be leading the charge.
In this article, we'll take a look into online business in India, as we examine some of the trends in Internet usage and the online marketing tactics that are creeping into the business strategy. We'll also hear from Siddharth Lal, managing director of Bruce Clay India, as he provides a comprehensive look into the search marketing climate in India, discussing the challenges and opportunities Indian companies face with online marketing.
Yes they can coexist, that is SEO and Usability and very often in a complementary manner; the data sources are just different. We encourage usability folk in all our clients to get more involved in understanding not only SEO, but also what Analytics is telling them, along with their focus groups and other user data.
It is often a case of knowing what you know for example. You know traffic went up due to an event, maybe an ad campaign running at the time and that the increased traffic was most likely on branded terms. Secondly, you know what you don't know which is exactly what keywords drove traffic last week, but you know where to look, in Analytics. Thirdly, there is often the part where you don't always know what you don't know and unless someone tells you or points out the obvious, which may not always be that obvious you will never know. This data is usually available from a number of sources; you just need to know where to look and what you are looking for. Things like which pages IT removed and didn't redirect, what content is converting new users the most and so on.
Combining Analytics with SEO tactics and website usability can be highly profitable if you do it right. The biggest challenge is knowing what to look for with respect to your business objectives, as well as getting the various parts of larger organisations involved and coordinated around this.
(Jeremy Bolt is a Director of Bruce Clay Australia and spoke on SEO, Analytics and Conversion at SMX in Sydney on the 15th April 2011. These are some of the key outtakes from his talk)
Move over Facebook Like, Here Comes +1
For some time now, there have been rumors about a Google social networking community. And while it's no secret anymore that Google uses social cues in its algorithm, many wonder if the new Google +1 (plus one) button is the rumored social network or merely an added layer of social search.
Late last month, Google announced the +1 button, a feature for online users to endorse everything from Web pages and websites to paid search ads. Some speculate whether or not Google's new feature will give the Facebook "Like" a run for its money.
Still in the experimental stage, users can request an opt-in to use the +1 button in their daily search activities. Here's how it works: for those logged in to Google, the +1 button will be featured next to websites on the search engine results pages (SERPs) and even next to paid ads in the right-hand column.
Once another +1 user recommends the site or ad, not only is the total number of +1s shown for that site or ad, but images of people in the user's Google community will be featured next to it. The goal, states Google, is to "help friends, contacts, and others on the Web find the best stuff when they search."
For now, the +1 buttons are not available to integrate onto websites like the Facebook Like button is. In a recent article at Search Engine Land on the topic, author Danny Sullivan reported Google was more concerned with how +1 integrates with search right now.
The search marketing industry is aflutter with the possible impact the +1 feature may have. It looks as though the feature could offer more data to the marketer on what's working and what isn't. But, it may also leave marketers with even more questions.
For example, if someone +1s a company's pay per click ad, the feature doesn't indicate what a person thought was cool about the ad and why it was endorsed. It could be a great many variables. As with the Facebook Like button, it doesn't give an in-depth look into the psyche of the user, but it does show popularity.
What Google +1 does have over Facebook Likes as far as providing value to marketers is the added chances for optimizing efforts for pay per click ad tactics, for example. Using the +1 data and testing various versions of a pay per click ad could be revealing to the advertiser.
Likewise, demographic data from the Google Profile is tied to +1 users, so advertisers will have more insight into who is interested in their products or services, according to a recent post, "The Google 'Like'".
As far as impact on the search results, it looks like Google will use "signals to identify the most useful recommendations" as a user of Google +1. According to Google, this includes factors like recommendations form people you're connected to in Google and potentially networks like Twitter, in the future.
As a user of +1, connections in Google include those in a Google Talk chat list, Google Contacts and people the user follows in Google Reader or Google Buzz, according to the article mentioned previously on Search Engine Land.
Bradley Leese, senior SEO analyst at Bruce Clay, Inc. has been closely following Google's rise to social search. And although he says the feature is currently buggy, hard to use and could just be another fad, Leese believes that if it takes off, it has potential to replace the link popularity factor in SEO.
Evan Williams announced that he would be leaving Twitter but will remain on the board of directors.
Social media monitoring company Radian6 has been acquired by Salesforce for 326 million dollars.
Larry Page officially became CEO of Google on April 4. Among his first actions was the promotion of several new executive vice presidents. The new EVPs lean more on the engineering, rather than the marketing, side. Jonathan Rosenberg, the current chief of product development at Google, plans to step down in coming months. James Gosling, who founded Java at Sun Microsystems, has joined Google.
Google merged Hotpot with Places and dropped the HotPot name. Lisa Barone explained what that meant for small business owners.
Yahoo announced it would be closing Yahoo Buzz on April 21. The company explained that it was a move to help them focus more on their core services.
May is a quiet month for SEO conferences as everyone gears up for the summer conference season.
Canadian SEOs should look forward to SMX Toronto on April 28-29 and everyone should register as soon as possible for SMX Advanced in Seattle on June 7-8, as it is selling out quickly. Register using code smx10bruceclay for 10% off either conference.
Bruce Clay will be presenting One Day Training at three upcoming conferences: SMX Toronto in April, SMX Advanced in June and SES San Francisco in August. Don't miss out on this great opportunity to extend your conference experience and take advantage of expert training.
In the U.S., the newly updated SEOToolSet® standard and advanced training and certification dates for 2011 are as follows:
California Training 2011
Bruce Clay Australia will be holding the next One Day SEO Training in Australia:
Bruce Clay Australia released their 2011 SEO Factors & Trends Report. The twenty-six page report covers the key SEO factors that changed in the search engine marketplace in 2010 and the key potential SEO trends in 2011. The objective of this report is to help you identify the key factors that could affect your SEO strategy, and ultimately your search engine rankings. The report also includes recommended actions to align your SEO strategy with the factors and trends identified. It's a great resource for SEOs and business owners alike.
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According to National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, social media has helped resolve or recover 98.5 percent of Amber alerts since 2005. By contrast, the return rate was 60 percent in the 1980s.
Google's Technovation Challenge teaches high school girls to build Android apps. The 12 week course will allow girls to learn programming basics. They'll design a user interface, develop a prototype app and business model. The winning team has their app released on the Android marketplace.
Social browser Flock announced that it would be shut down as of April 26th, 2011.
Google's Chrome OS has changes under the hood that point to a tablet in the near future including functionality for touchscreens. Google says they have nothing to announce at this time.
RIM's tablet, the Blackberry PlayBook, will support Android apps when it launches next month, giving users a choice of over 200,000 apps.
SEMPO released State of Search 2011. Findings in the SEMPO report show that after a slowdown in growth in 2009, the sector increased 14 percent in 2010, and is forecasted to grow 16 percent in 2011.
The Panda/Farmer update rolled out across all English-speaking Google search properties. Vanessa Fox explained what this would mean for international SEO.
If you have any questions or comments on any of the above Internet marketing news items or if you would like to suggest topics for future search engine optimization articles, please contact us at Bruce Clay, Inc.
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I began teaching beginner's classes and doing professional genealogy in 1990. I've attended club meetings, conferences and seminars. I also discuss genealogy with people on a daily basis, or so it seems.
The comments I hear the most is: I wish I had asked the questions before grandma, auntie, uncle, father, mother passed away. I wish I'd paid attention to the family stories. I wonder what happened to the old family album.
I always tell those people to ask those who Are still here. To write down or record those family stories. To find the photos that haven't been destroyed. To start with whatever you have, NOW!
Even if you aren't ready or able or even want to do your whole genealogy get those things down. It's up to You.
The beginnings of any genealogy or memoir project is to do the attic archaeology. Dig through trunks, boxes, drawers wherever there might be papers, photos or keepsakes. Take pictures. Make notes. Write it all down. You don't have to have fancy equipment or journals to do this. Just start.
Talk to other family members, write letters to the oldsters, travel if you can. Don't pass up any chance to learn something about your family.
At the same time think about your own descendants. What will your grand children and great grandchildren want to know about you and your daily life? There are many workbook journals out there with questions to answer. Prompts are helpful. Make a list of major events in your life and start writing. Your memoir will someday be a part of somebody else's attic archaeology.
In 1990 my daughter and I took a trip to Kansas where I grew up and where I still have family members. We went to the town where I was born and I took photos of the lot where the old trailer we lived in and where I was born stood. We visited the town where my grandparents lived and I took pictures of the houses they lived in. We went to the town where I went through grade school and were even able to go inside parts of the school, same with the junior high.
|My elementary school in Kansas. It has since been torn down.
We visited my great aunt and uncle who had a family bible which I took pictures of. I also took pictures of all the pictures they brought out. We visited the family cemetery with five or six generations of family members. Of course I took pictures of the stones and the landscape.
My grandfather's youngest brother and his wife.
A page from their family bible.
Another time we went to Redondo Beach, California and we stopped to visit a distant cousin I had found. She had an autograph album with my great grandmother's handwriting. She even had a watch fob that same great grandmother had made from her own hair. She had photos of our common ancestor that nobody on my side had never seen. Again I photographed each item.
A watch fob made with my great great grandmother's hair.
So begin your own attic archaeology. Begin in your own house. Gather those photos and documents and start identifying. Photograph family heirlooms and write what you know about them. Start journaling your life.
The trip has only just begin.


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Estherville Rotarians got a pretty good rundown of the voting process in Iowa from Emmet County Auditor Michele Erickson.
For starters, absentee voting began Sept. 27 and runs until 5 p.m. Monday - that's according to Iowa state law.
And if you consider yourself an independent, well, you're actually 'no party'.
As the election looms (and if you work for the auditor's office, that word takes on a whole new dimension), election workers are getting ready for a big job - helping people vote in what is just about always the biggest election every four years - the one for President.
And, just as Emmet County gears up for it, the county is also getting a fiber optic Internet line. Erickson said the county won't convert over to the new line before the election in case there should be glitches.
To date, there are 1,220 active absentee ballots either sent out, in people's hands or returned to the auditor's office. That compares with 1,329 absentee ballots cast four years ago, putting the current trend a little behind then. While there are Iowa county auditors who have gone past the number of absentee ballots sent out in 2008, that does not appear to be the case for Emmet County this year, Erickson said, noting that the lack of locally contested elections could be a reason. Voters will have all day Saturday - from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. - as well as 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to return their absentee ballots.
While some states require a waiting period between voter registration - 30 days in Arkansas - and voting, Erickson said Iowans can register at the polls. A drivers license will help immensely. Otherwise, an out-of-state drivers license with a current utility bill with an Emmet County address will work. A photo ID will not be required, however, of those who vote on a regular basis - more often than every eight years. Women who change their name when they're married or people who move between precincts will also need to change their registration.
When the question came up regarding voter fraud, Erickson said the object is to not make it impossible for people to vote. "Do we really have a representative democracy," she posited as the reason for making it relatively easy for people to vote. For example, college students can choose to vote either at their permanent or college residence.
Erickson gets ballots from places such as China, France and Germany - missionaries, for instance, who still consider Emmet County their permanent home. "If they don't vote here, they don't vote," she explained.
One of the most rewarding experiences of her job is seeing first-time voters. "It's really quite an event," she said.
Erickson said she also hopes people take their voting responsibility seriously - by not writing in the names of cartoon characters, for example.
"Please don't write in stupid things on your ballots," she requested.
She said it takes an enormous amount of time to compile those 'humorous' write-ins.


text: Bob Ford is an award-winning sports columnist for the Inquirer and Daily News. He is a four-time Pennsylvania Sportswriter of the Year, as selected by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. His work has been cited numerous times by Associated Press Sports Editors judges, and he won an Eclipse Award for outstanding coverage of horse racing. Prior to becoming a columnist at the Inquirer, Ford was the 76ers beat writer for six seasons and then a general assignment feature writer with a specialty in Olympic sports. In 1995, he was designated a fellow of the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism. Ford has written sports in the Philadelphia area since 1981, when he served as the Phillies beat writer and later as a general sports columnist for the Delaware County Daily Times.