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Delaware Death Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)

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Collection Time Period

Statewide death registration officially began in 1913, although some deaths were recorded as early as 1855. This collection contains records from 1855 to 1955.

Record Description

Death records were generally well preserved, though fires, floods, or other disasters may have destroyed some records.

Death records include certificates, returns, physicians’ certificates and coroner’s returns. Death returns were turned into the State by county clerks prior to creation of death certificates. All documents were recorded on pre-printed forms.

Record Content

  • Name
  • Date of death
  • Place of death
  • Sex and race
  • Age
  • Maiden name of mother
  • Where born
  • Name of father
  • Marital status
  • Occupation
  • Cause of death
  • Parents' birthplaces
  • Place of residence
  • Place of burial

Delaware death certificates may also include:

  • Name of undertaker
  • Date of burial
  • More place of death information, (name of village, hundred, etc.)

How to Use the Records

Begin your search by finding your ancestors in the index. Name indexes to deaths make it possible to access a specific record quickly. Remember that these indexes may contain inaccuracies, such as altered spellings, misinterpretations, and optical character recognition errors if the information was scanned.

When searching the index it is helpful to know the following:

  • The place where the death occurred
  • The name of the person at the time of death
  • The approximate death date

Use the locator information found in the index (such as page, entry, or certificate number) to locate your ancestor in the death records. Compare the information in the death record to what you already know about your ancestor to determine if this is the correct person. You may need to compare the information of more than one person to make this determination.

When you have located your ancestor’s death record, carefully evaluate each piece of information given. These pieces of information may give you new biographical details that can lead you to other records about your ancestors. Add this new information to your records of each family. For example:

  • Use the birth date or age along with the place of birth to find or verify their birth records and parents' names.
  • Use the birth date or age along with the place of birth to find the family in census records.
  • Use the residence and names of the parents (if the deceased is a child) to locate church and land records.
  • Use the parent’s birth places to find former residences and to establish a migration pattern for the family.
  • The name of the officiator is a clue to their religion or area of residence in the county.
  • The name of the undertaker or mortuary could lead you to funeral and cemetery records which often include the names and residences of other family members.
  • Compile the entries for every person who has the same surname; this is especially helpful in rural areas or if the surname is unusual.
  • Continue to search the records to identify children, siblings, parents, and other relatives of the deceased who may have died or been buried in the same county or nearby. This can help you identify other generations of your family or even the second marriage of a parent. Repeat this process for each new generation you identify.
  • When looking for a person who had a common name, look at all the entries for the name before deciding which is correct.

If you are unable to find the ancestors you are looking for, try the following:

  • Check for variant spellings of the surnames.
  • Check for a different index. There are often indexes at the beginning of each volume.
  • Search the indexes and records of nearby counties.

Keep in mind:

  • The information in these records is usually reliable, but depends upon the reliability of the informant.
  • Earlier records may not contain as much information as the records created after the late 1800s.

For a summary of this information see the wiki article: United States, How to Use the Records Summary (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Record History

By 1913, it is estimated that most deaths were reported to the State.

On July 1, 1913, the state of Delaware established a law requiring the registration of births, deaths, and marriages and created the Bureau of Vital Statistics as an agency of the State Board of Health. Death records have been submitted to the Delaware Bureau of Vital Statistics since 1913. The city of Wilmington also has a register of vital statistics.

The Delaware Public Archives has death certificates created since 1913 up to 1967. The Archives also hosts files of early death records that were compiled from sources including tombstones, newspapers and family Bibles. The Public Archives also has records of some deaths that have not been indexed.

Why This Record Was Created

Birth and deaths were recorded to better serve public health needs.

Record Reliability

Death records are considered to be primary source records. Information in these records is usually reliable, depending on the knowledge of the informant. For example, a coroner would be able to give reliable information about the date, time, and cause of death, but might not know personal details about the deceased.

Known Issues with This Collection

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Solution - Some records are mislinked and can be found by browsing to the correct certificate number. For example, if the index says that your certificate is 43098 but the certificate displayed is 43097, you can use the arrow keys to move one image to the right, thus locating the correct certificate number.

If you encounter additional problems, feel free to report them at Please include the full path to the link and a description of the problem in your e-mail. Your assistance will help ensure that future reworks will be considered.

Related Web Sites

Online Delaware Death Index

Related Wiki Articles

Delaware Vital Records

Contributions to This Article

We welcome user additions to FamilySearch Historical Records wiki articles. We are looking for additional information that will help readers understand the topic and better use the available records. We also need translations for collection titles and images in articles about records written in languages other than English. For specific needs, please visit WikiProject FamilySearch Records.

Please follow these guidelines as you make changes. Thank you for any contributions you may provide.

Citing FamilySearch Historical Collections

When you copy information from a record, you should also list where you found the information. This will help you or others to find the record again. It is also good to keep track of records where you did not find information, including the names of the people you looked for in the records.

A suggested format for keeping track of records that you have searched is found in the Wiki Article: Help:How to Create Source Citations For FamilySearch Historical Records Collections.

Examples of Source Citations for a Record in This Collection:

"Delaware Death Records, 1855-1955." index and images, ( accessed March 4, 2011, entry for Atkin Linwood Kesler, died 22 March 1919; citing Death Records, FHL microfilm 4,252,920; Delaware Bureau of Vital Statistics, Dover, Delaware.

Sources of Information for This Collection:

Delaware. Death Records, 1855-1955, FamilySearch (; from Delaware Bureau of Vital Statistics, Dover.  FHL microfilm, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.


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Maryland and Delaware, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)

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Record Description

The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (often called the Freedmen’s Bureau) was created in 1865 at the end of the American Civil War to supervise relief efforts including education, health care, food and clothing, refugee camps, legalization of marriages, employment, labor contracts, and securing back pay, bounty payments and pensions. These records include letters and endorsements sent and received, account books, applications for rations, applications for relief, court records, labor contracts, registers of bounty claimants, registers of complaints, registers of contracts, registers of disbursements, registers of freedmen issued rations, registers of patients, reports, rosters of officers and employees, special and general orders and circulars received, special orders and circulars issued, records relating to claims, court trials, property restoration, and homesteads. This collection corresponds with NARA microfilm publication M1906, Records of the Field Offices for the States of Maryland and Delaware, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872. The record type field list the NARA roll number and collection name.

Citation for This Collection

The following citation refers to the original source of the data and images published on Historical Records. It may include the author, custodian, publisher and archive for the original records.

Maryland and Delaware. Field Offices for the States of Maryland and Delaware, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Freedmen's Bureau Letters, 1865-1870. NARA M1906. National Archive and Records Center. Washington, D.C.

Suggested citation format for a record in this collection.

Record Content

The following important genealogical information is often found in Bureau records:

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  • Name of the freedman
  • Name of the freedman’s former owner
  • Date of the record
  • Birthplace
  • Residence
  • Age
  • Bride
  • Groom
  • Marriage date
  • Marriage place

How to Use the Records

The Freedmen’s Bureau records are a major source of genealogical information about post Civil War African Americans. To begin your search it is helpful to know the name and some other identifying information such as age, residence or former owner.

Search the Collection

To search the collection you will need to follow this series of links:
⇒Select the "Browse" link in the initial search page
⇒Select the "_____________" category
⇒Select the "_____________" category
⇒Select the "_____________" category which takes you to the images

Look at the images one by one comparing the information with what you already know about your ancestors to determine which one is your ancestor. You may need to compare the information about more than one person to make this determination.

Using the Information

When you have located your ancestor’s record, carefully evaluate each piece of information given. Save a copy of the image or transcribe the information. These pieces of information may give you new biographical details such as a title, an occupation, or land ownership. Add this new information to your records of each family. You should also look for leads to other records about your ancestors. For example use the place of residence, age, and other information for each person to search for the individuals in census records and other types of records.

Tips to Keep in Mind

  • The records are a good source to quickly identify a family group and residence.
  • Former slaves may have had used multiple names or changed their names until they decided upon one particular name. Search all possible names along with variations or spellings of their known names.
  • If you cannot find your ancestor search the indexes and records of neighboring localities.

General Information About Freedmen's Bureau Records

The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands was established in the War Department in March of 1865. It was commonly called the Freedman’s Bureau and was responsible for the management and supervision of matters relating to refuges, freedmen, and abandoned lands. The Bureau assisted disenfranchised Americans, primarily African Americans, with temporal, legal and financial matters, with the intent of helping people to become self-sufficient. Matters handled included the distributing of food and clothing; operating temporary medical facilities; acquiring back pay, bounty payments, and pensions; facilitating the creation of schools, including the founding of Howard University; reuniting family members; handling marriages; and providing banking services. Banking services were provided by the establishment of the Freedman’s Saving and Trust Company, or Freedman’s Bank.

The Bureau functioned as an agency of the War Department from approximately June 1865 until December 1868. In 1872, the functions of the Bureau were transferred to the Freedmen’s Branch of the Adjutant General’s Office.

The Bureau assisted over one million African Americans, including many of the nearly four million emancipated slaves, which was over 25% of the population of former slaves in America.

The records identify those who sought help from the Bureau at the end of the Civil War. Most supplicants were freed slaves, some of which were military veterans. In addition, a few veterans who were not African Americans also sought help from the Bureau. Freedmen’s Bureau records are usually reliable, because the records were supplied through first-person correspondence or the recording of a marriage.

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Citing Family Search Historical Collections

When you copy information from a record, you should list where you found the information. This will help you or others to find the record again. It is also good to keep track of records where you did not find information, including the names of the people you looked for in the records.

A suggested format for keeping track of records that you have searched is found in the wiki article Help:How to Cite FamilySearch Collections.

Citation Example for a Record Found in This Collection

  • “Delaware Marriage Records,” database and digital images, FamilySearch ([1]: 4 March 2011), William Anderson and Elizabeth Baynard Henry, 1890; from Delaware, State Marriage Records 23 November 1913, no. 859, Delaware Bureau of Archives and Records Management, Dover; FHL microfilm 2,025,063.
  • “El Salvador Civil Registration,” database and digital images, FamilySearch ([2]: 21 March 2011), Jose Maria Antonio del Carmen, 1880; from La Libertad, San Juan Opico, Nacimientos 1879-1893, image 50; Ministerio Archivo Civil de la Alcaldia Municipal, San Salvador.

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Ochiltree County, Texas Genealogy

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Guide to Ochiltree County Texas genealogy. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

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Ochiltree County, Texas
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Location in the state of Texas
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Founded August 21, 1876
County Seat Perryton
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Ochiltree County Courthouse
511 S Main Street
Perryton, TX 79070-3154
Phone: 806.435.8039

Co Clk has b rec from 1903, d & bur rec from 1904, m rec from 1889, pro rec from 1906, land rec from 1890, ct rec from 1909 & mil rec from 1918; Dis Clk has div rec from 1891[1]

The first settlers arrived after 1880.

Parent County

1876--Ochiltree County was created 21 August 1876 from Bexar Land District. County seat: Perryton [2]

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

Places / Localities

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

African American

Original Land Owners of Texas ~ Ochiltree County  ~  USGenWeb Archives Project

Local Histories

Local histories are available for Ochiltree County, Texas Genealogy. County histories may include biographies, church, school and government history, and military information. For more information about local histories, see the wiki page section Texas Local Histories.

Additional newspapers abstracts can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Ochiltree County, Texas Genealogy newspapers in online catalogs like:

TX Newspaper Abstracts (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).

Probate records of Texas have been kept by the probate clerk in each county courthouse. You can obtain copies of the records from the clerk's office. In most counties, all information pertaining to a probate case is recorded in the "probate minutes."

Content: Probate Records may give the decedent's date of death, names of his or her spouse, children, parents, siblings, in-laws, neighbors, associates, relatives, and their places of residence.

Record types: Wills, estates, guardianships, naturalizations, marriage, adoption, and birth and death records.

See the Wiki page Texas Probate Records for information about how to use probate records.

Vital Records

Vital Records consist of births, adoptions, marriages, divorces, and deaths recorded on registers, certificates, and documents.

Certified birth and death certificates or birth and death verifications can be ordered online or by mail at the Texas Vital Records State Department of Health. Copies can also be obtained from the County Clerk's office of the county where the event occurred and are often less expensive. You can also order them online through a third party company.

Marriages records can be obtained from the county the marriage occurred. Only marriage verifications can be obtained from the Texas Vital Records State Department of Health.

See Texas Vital Records for more information about Vital records in Texas.

Societies and Libraries

Perry Memorial Library
22 Se 5th Ave
Perryton, TX 79070
Phone: (806) 435-5801

Society Hill  ~  Links and addresses to Texas genealogical and historical societies

Web Sites

  1. Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Ochiltree County, Texas. Page 671 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
  2. The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).


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Reaction to Getafe v Bayern:

Ottmar Hitzfeld: “Coming back after going 3-1 down in extra-time rates as a terrific performance and speaks volumes for the team’s morale. Obviously we rode our luck too. We made life difficult for ourselves, but Getafe kept it very tight, we didn’t have much by way of chances. My players earned their place in the next round by fighting for it.“

Uli Hoeneß: “I can’t remember experiencing a game like that in a very long time. Fortune favoured the brave, but there’s a lot we need to sit down and talk about. We have to do better than that after playing for 110 minutes against ten men.“

Oliver Kahn: “It’s like I’ve just been saying in the dressing room: I’ve probably played 140 times in Europe, against Barcelona, Manchester United and Real Madrid, but that’ll all be nothing compared to what we’ve been through tonight. When we meet up again in ten years’ time, we won’t be talking about Real and United, we’ll talk about Getafe. I can’t remember ever having seen or played in a game quite like that. I’ve never before let in three goals and still gone through. I don’t know what to say, and I’ve already been through a lot in Europe.“

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Statement of Sheila C. Bair, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on Bank of America Acquisition of Merrill Lynch before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Subcommittee on Domestic Policy; House of Representatives; Room 2154, Rayburn House Office Building
December 11, 2009

Thank you Chairman Towns, Chairman Kucinich, Ranking Members Issa and Jordan, and members of the Committee. I appreciate the Committee's interest in the role of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in the measures being taken to address the challenges facing the economy and the financial industry.

As you know, just over one year ago, we faced an historic liquidity crisis in global financial markets that shook the confidence of the financial systems in the United States and around the globe. Markets were under extraordinary stress and exceptional measures were taken in an effort to stabilize the economy. Included in those measures were steps taken to provide capital and liquidity to our nation's financial institutions. I believe that these measures have largely accomplished their objectives and have remedied many of the immediate problems associated with the financial crisis.

As requested by the Committee, my testimony today will focus on the FDIC's role in the decision to provide assistance to Bank of America. Let me note at the outset that Bank of America is an open institution and the FDIC is very sensitive, as I am sure the Committee is, about any discussion of the condition of open and operating insured depository institutions.

The FDIC has the statutory responsibility to oversee the national deposit insurance system. As part of this responsibility, the FDIC is responsible for resolving all failures of insured financial institutions. The FDIC also serves as primary federal supervisor for approximately 5,000 state-chartered banks that are not members of the Federal Reserve System. Since the creation of the FDIC during the Great Depression, deposit insurance has played a crucial role in maintaining the stability of the banking system. By protecting deposits, the FDIC ensures the security of the most important source of funding available to insured depository institutions -- funds that can be lent to businesses and consumers to support and promote economic activity.

In the event of a bank failure, the FDIC must determine which resolution strategy will be used. The decision for each failed institution must be in keeping with the least-cost provisions in our operating statute, the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. The Act further includes provisions to authorize action by the Federal government in circumstances involving systemic risk. Specifically, it permits the FDIC to take action or provide assistance as necessary to avoid or mitigate the effects of a perceived systemic risk. In order for this to occur, the Act requires that there be a finding of systemic risk by the FDIC's Board of Directors, concurrence of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and a subsequent determination of systemic risk by the Secretary of the Treasury, following consultation with the President.

Bank of America

As deposit insurer for Bank of America NA ("Bank of America") and the other insured depository institutions owned by Bank of America Corporation ("BOA") and Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. ("Merrill Lynch"), the FDIC has a continuing stake in the financial well-being of those insured depository institutions. The FDIC is not the primary federal regulator for bank holding companies or for most of the largest banks, including Bank of America. We rely heavily on the judgment and observations of the primary federal regulator at the largest financial institutions. However, because of our role as deposit insurer, we maintain an examiner presence -- albeit limited -- at the largest banks, such as Bank of America.

In mid-September 2008, in the wake of Lehman's failure, BOA had announced that it would acquire Merrill Lynch. That acquisition was scheduled to close at the beginning of 2009. BOA's acquisition of Merrill Lynch was approved by the Federal Reserve on November 26, 2008.1

On or very shortly before December 21, 2008, the FDIC was told by the Federal Reserve and Treasury that BOA had expressed reservations about completing the acquisition of Merrill Lynch. The FDIC was told that some form of assistance might be necessary. Over the next three and a half weeks, examiners from the Federal Reserve, OCC, and FDIC worked to learn more about the type of assistance that might be required and the pool of assets that BOA suggested might be included in a transaction where the FDIC, Treasury and Federal Reserve would share in a guarantee against certain losses ("ring fence" transaction). Based upon the information that was made available, the FDIC continued to raise questions about whether any assistance was necessary. The FDIC made no commitment to provide assistance to BOA at that time.

On January 9, I participated in a conversation with Secretary Paulson, Chairman Bernanke, and several other regulatory staff in which BOA's financial condition was discussed. Secretary Paulson indicated that providing assistance to BOA in a form similar to what had been provided to Citigroup -- capital assistance and asset guarantees -- had been discussed, and that he hoped the FDIC would participate in providing such assistance. We continued to gather information about whether any assistance was necessary. We also asked for additional information about BOA's liquidity and about other risks if no assistance was provided, and about the risks that would be incurred if the FDIC participated in this assistance package. The FDIC also requested more detailed information on where the exposures resided -- were the exposures in the insured depository institutions and funded with insured deposits, or were these derivative exposures that were created and housed within the non-depository investment bank? This distinction -- that there would be relatively small exposures in the insured depository institutions and large in the investment bank -- was important if the FDIC was to consider any role in a possible transaction. The FDIC continued to refrain from a commitment of assistance to BOA.

Discussion, review and information gathering, as well as consideration of other options, continued for several days. It was clear that officials from the Federal Reserve and Treasury believed that systemic risk would exist absent an agreement by the government to provide assistance to BOA.

On January 14, 2009, the FDIC received from the Federal Reserve a draft Term Sheet describing the assistance package, the principal elements of which were a capital infusion and a ring fence transaction. We were told that the Term Sheet had previously been sent to Treasury and BOA. There were further intense discussions about the terms and the risks of providing this assistance and of not providing this assistance. The final Term Sheet included provisions addressing executive compensation and common stock dividends. The FDIC's exposure was limited to $2.5 billion, to coincide with the proportion of exposures covered under the ring fence that resided within the insured depository institutions. In compensation for the guarantee, the FDIC was to receive $1 billion in BOA preferred stock with an 8 percent dividend rate and certain warrants.

The FDIC's Board ultimately was persuaded that BOA's condition presented a systemic risk, and that the ring fence transaction would mitigate that risk -- and the risk to the Deposit Insurance Fund -- in a cost effective manner. The transaction also limited the FDIC's risk to a small portion of the covered exposures, in recognition of the fact that most of the exposures resided within the investment bank and not the insured depository institution. Thus, on January 15, 2009 the FDIC's Board of Directors unanimously voted to authorize advising the Secretary of the Treasury that we recommend that he make a systemic risk determination regarding BOA. The FDIC's Board also authorized FDIC participation in the ring fence transaction, subject to the Secretary making a systemic risk determination.

Prior to the FDIC Board's vote on January 15, we were advised that the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System had voted to make a systemic risk recommendation to the Secretary, and we were advised that the Secretary expected to make a systemic risk determination after receipt of the recommendations from the FDIC and Federal Reserve, and after consultation with the President.

On January 16, 2009, the planned capital infusion and ring fence transaction were announced. On the same day Treasury purchased $20 billion of BOA preferred stock.

Work to precisely define the exposures to be included in the ring fence transaction -- and to assure ourselves that the value of the BOA preferred stock the FDIC and Treasury were to receive as compensation for our participation in the ring fence transaction at least equaled the economic value of the risk we were to assume -- had been started before January 16, and it continued well into the spring. However, in early May 2009 BOA asked that the ring fence transaction not be completed. In late summer, an agreement was reached to terminate efforts to complete the ring fence transaction. BOA agreed to pay $425 million as a termination fee of which $92 million was paid to the FDIC.

Moving Forward

In the aftermath, the FDIC has worked continuously with Congress, the Treasury and the financial regulators to make sure we have a more resilient, transparent, and better regulated financial system -- one that combines stronger and more effective regulation with market discipline. We commend the House of Representatives -- and the Financial Services Committee -- in moving towards providing the regulators with the tools to effectively deal with any future crises.

I would be pleased to answer any questions from the Committee.

1 Merrill Lynch was an investment bank, regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which had two insured depository institutions: a thrift which was regulated by the Office of Thrift Supervision and an Industrial Loan Company for which the FDIC was the primary federal regulator.

Last Updated 12/11/2009 communications@fdic.gov

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OpenStack Essex

OpenStack will be upgraded to the next major stable release, called "Essex".

Current status

  • Targeted release: Fedora 17
  • Last updated: 2012-01-23
  • Percentage of completion: 01%

Detailed Description

OpenStack is an open source cloud computing platform. It lets you set up your own cloud infrastructure, similar to public clouds like Amazon EC2, Azure, etc.

In Fedora 15 & 16 there was a small effort to get OpenStack "Diablo" packaged for Fedora. For Fedora 17 we aim to get OpenStack "Essex" packaged, and make many upstream improvements (see the Dependencies section below).

Essex is not released yet, but is scheduled to be released roughly over the same development period as Fedora 17, and we are working closely with upstream to ensure this happens.

Benefit to Fedora

Fedora users will be able to deploy OpenStack clouds based on the latest version (Essex). Plus they will get many improvements, see Dependencies below.

This is mainly packaging work. The other features we aim to implement will involve both significant upstream changes and packaging work for Fedora.

How To Test

We are organizing a complete test of OpenStack Essex on the OpenStack test day, 2012-03-08.

User Experience

Users will be able to deploy OpenStack Essex release on Fedora 17 hosts with a single yum install command.

This feature is an overview, but as well as this upgrade (which is not simple in itself) we are also planning to make significant upstream contributions and package those for Fedora. The following features are planned:

Note that these are not all strictly dependencies on this feature, in that if they are not all completed, then we should still be able to complete this feature.

Contingency Plan

The parts of OpenStack that are ready will be included in Fedora. There is no special contingency plan required.

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Last December I received an invitation to the Center for National Policyâs holiday party and anniversary celebration. I was especially intrigued when I caught the name of the guest speaker, none other than Madeleine Albright, the first female Secretary of State and co-founder of the Center for National Policy. I consider myself an amateur political junky, and being able to meet women leaders of our nation is just too good to pass up. I RSVPed and awaited the event.
The night came and I was full of anticipation. Dr. Albrightâs impressive resume and important work in foreign affairs inspires me. The physical and mental distance she traveled to achieve all the successes in her life shows my generation of women that the sky is the limit when it comes to your dreams. This woman is well known and well respected all over the world, and I get to hear her speak.
She made her way through the crowd, and although her short stature made it impossible to see her, a buzz filled the room so electric that you knew she was coming. I stopped her for a picture because I wanted to capture the moment and share it with everyone I know. When she finally reached the podium she spoke about the importance of diplomacy and healthy relations with other nations. She reminded the crowd that in this age of globalization no country can work alone, and I was struck by the passion and intensity in her voice. No longer a member of the Cabinet, Dr. Albright is clearly still committed to progress for our nation and for the world.
She closed with a comment about the value of seeing more women in top public offices, and I knew I needed to thank her. I approached her when she was finished and expressed my gratitude for her work. I told her she paved the way for women like me to achieve equal and higher posts globally. Her response was brief and to the point; she simply said, âthatâs what itâs all about.â I couldnât agree more.
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Author Notes: I see there's already one pimiento cheese recipe up, but I suspect there are as many of those as there are cooks who make it. Here's mine, a sizeable dish of which, with a box of crackers and a bag of Granny Smith apples, will keep me in lunches at work for a week. (I know many of you will cringe at the mention of Velveeta. Despite its horrid chemical make-up, I keep it on hand at all times for pimiento cheese and for mac and cheese. It's how I learned to love them both, and I can't make the switch.)Kayb

Serves lunch for a week or more

  • 1 1/2 cups sharp Cheddar cheese, grated
  • 1 1/2 cups Velveeta, grated
  • 1 medium jar diced pimiento peppers, drained
  • 2/3 cup Hellman's, or homemade, mayo
  • 1/2 teaspoon Lawry's seasoned salt
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper, or more, to your taste
  1. Toss grated cheeses together in a large bowl. Add pimientos, mayo and seasonings, and toss to combine. Store in airtight container for several hours in fridge for flavors to develop. Note: the cayenne will assert itself more as the flavors blend.
  2. Spread a dollop of pimiento cheese atop a cracker, and top with a thin slice of Granny Smith. Eat. Repeat.

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Shanghai: Jean Georges

I was taken aback by the casual elegance of the dining room at Jean Georges in Shanghai; it was a very welcome respite from the freezing cold of Shanghai in the middle of winter.

Making my away across the river the Shanghai’s very cosmopolitan district, The Bund, had been a taxing affair; trying to communicate with my taxi driver had been a huge challenge and my Taxi App had failed to give me the address of Jean Georges in Mandarin.  It made me realise how easy I had it in English friendly Hong Kong!

Anyway, I was pretty excited to be visiting Jean Georges.  The well known French chef, a master in his own right, had studied under one of history’s greatest chefs, Paul Bocouse.  I’d even met the great chef briefly during the opening of his casual diner in Hong Kong, interestingly a departure from French fine dining to Italian casual.  But mostly, I’d regretted not visiting his 3 Michelin Starred restaurant in New York when I was there in 2013.

With a couple of dozen restaurants around the world, Jean Georges in Shanghai was the restaurant that most closely related to his NYC outlet.

My dining companion for the night was already at the restaurant when I arrived, enjoying a drink at the bar.  As a foreign national living in Shanghai, IE had a pretty good grasp on how things worked locally and we had a good laugh about my taxi escapades.

We moved from the bar area to our table in a very large, very modern looking dining area; screaming casual elegance, the well heeled of Shanghai were in abundance and I felt a little under dressed in my maroon corduroy jacket, jeans and cross fit sneakers!  Well dressed wait staff buzzed around the restaurant looking casual and professional; one making his way to our table with menus to peruse.

It was only a very short discussion, both of us quickly realising that the winter tasting menu was the standout option.  Making the decision, it wasn’t long before our Jean Georges culinary journey got underway with a trio of small bites arriving at our table.

An apple salad was placed in a serving spoon, little spheres of apple and an apple sauce were quickly dispatched in one quick bite; the mix of sweet and tart apple teasing the palate before the sweet sauce completed the interesting contrast of sweet and sour.  A shot glass of sweet broccoli veloute with a thin layer of creme fraiche quickly followed, again hints of sweet and sour, although much more subtle.  Lastly was a shrimp croquette sitting on a bed of horse radish; the strongest contrast of sweet and sour, the horseradish quite sharp against the sweet prawn.

Our meal kicked off with an absolutely stunning dish, both in presentation and flavour.  Simply called toasted egg yolk, caviar and herbs, two spheres of egg yolk sat between wafer thin layers of toast with a quenelle of caviar delicately placed on top.  Each tiny ball of caviar was visible, it was amazing; but not as incredible as the flavour, the creamy egg yolk was firm yet yielding and the salty caviar was enhanced with flakes of sea salt.  It should have made the dish too salty, but it didn’t, I found the balance just right and loved the mix of the creamy yolk and salty fish roe.

Fish was the main component of the second course, and while the fine balance of flavours worked with our first dish, we both found that the Hamachi sashimi with sherry vinaigrette and toasted pecans was not quite right.  The fresh Hamachi was sliced thin and on its own was lovely, but there was way too much acidity from the vinaigrette on the plate, which assaulted the palate and contributed to losing the natural sweetness of the fish.

Dish number three was a winner!  The roasted foie gras with green apple purée and yuzu foam was simply delicious.  A huge piece of foie gras had been roasted to perfection, the texture both firm and yielding at the same time, and the deep richness that was incredibly satisfying was balanced with the slight tartness from the apple puree and slight citrus hit of the yuzu.  Toasted apple gave some extra texture to the dish that had a wonderful balance of flavours and was simply yummy.

In what was becoming a see-saw of a meal, our next dish was quite disappointing.  The seared Icelandic halibut with jade emulsion and artichoke had wonderful colour, but that was about all we could say about the dish.  I’m not a huge fan of halibut anyway, I find the fish dull and lifeless in flavour, a description that continued with this version.  The jade emulsion was actually a Thai  green curry, which totally dominated the already lacklustre flavour of the halibut, which I also found to be a little overcooked.  I really didn’t get the artichoke, apart from having a similar colour to the emulsion, it didn’t really bring anything to the dish at all.

I wouldn’t say our next course of roasted main lobster with romesco smoked chilli-almond emulsion was was amazing, but was an improvement on the halibut.  The lobster was expertly cooked and quite full flavoured, the sweetness of the flesh was quite prevalent on the plate; as long as you didn’t include too much of the powerfully flavoured romesco sauce at the same time.  In moderation it was fine, but boy it was overpowering in large doses…  Also, I didn’t really like the texture of the sauce, which was grainy from the almonds and I didn’t get why there was slightly overcooked broccoli pieces sitting in the sauce.

Our last savoury course sounded amazing and in theory should have been wonderful, but the quality of the produce let the dish down.  The beef tenderloin with seared foie gras, red wine truffle sauce and potato gratin looked lovely on the plate, the truffle sauce added theatrically at the table.  Firstly, the good stuff, the foie gras was superb and that red wine truffle sauce was literally mind blowingly good.  However, the Australian wagyu beef tenderloin was rubbery and tough.  It wasn’t even overcooked, my beef arriving medium rare as requested, it was just that the quality of the beef was poor, and it impacted what could have been a stunner of a dish, quite badly.

So much so, we had to inform our waiter that the beef was really quite poor, and really quite unacceptable in a reputable fine dining restaurant.

Pre dessert was a simple little cinnamon sponge cake with cranberry sorbet; not bad, but I’d have preferred something a little sharper, the cinnamon sponge a little too sweet for a palate cleanser.

We were treated with two desserts, one was the standard dessert that came with the tasting menu, the other a gift from the kitchen (we assumed because of our complaint about the beef).

Of the two desserts, the tropical coconut semifredo was the standout; it also happened to be the restaurant’s signature dessert and was the ‘bonus’ dessert.  A white sphere sat on a plate and when we cracked it open with a spoon, diced seasonal fruit exploded out of the sphere.  There was a lovely creamy semifredo that mingled wonderfully with the fruit and meringue husk of the sphere.  We both agreed that it was the dish of the night and would have been disappointed not to have tried it.

Especially since the dessert that came with the tasting menu was also a little disappointing.  Called orchard dessert tasting, the dish actually looked lovely, a poached pear sitting amongst cinnamon sponge cake and quenelles of fruit sorbet.  I didn’t mind the poached pair that had been hollowed out and filled with raspberry sorbet, but I found the dish a little too banal and lacking in overall flavour; especially after tasting the sweet and delicious tropical coconut semifredo!  We ended up leaving most of the dish behind.

Once the dishes were cleared, some petite four arrived at the table, but we didn’t try any of the small sugary treats.  I was actually really full from the multi course tasting menu, so the little bites were left perched on their stand.

I’d chosen Jean Georges as our dining spot with high hopes and expectations and left a little disappointed.  I’d been wondering why Jean Georges had not picked up any Michelin Stars in the inaugural Michelin Guide.  After dining at the restaurant, I now no longer wondered why, I didn’t think the restaurant deserved a star, not yet at least.

I could see where the kitchen was going with their menu, aspirationally it was what you’d expect to see in any Michelin Starred restaurant; however, the execution was just not there consistently enough.  Classic flavours and amazing presentation of the toasted egg yolk, caviar and herbs was offset by dishes that were out of balance and in some cases had inferior produce.  Both really unacceptable but easily fixed.

I’d probably not visit Jean Georges in Shanghai again on future visits; I just would prioritise other restaurants above the French fine diner.  However, the experience hasn’t dampened my desire to hit the 3 Star New York outlet.

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Costalos and maistralis

Discussion in 'Ελληνικά (Greek)' started by Daddywalrus, Dec 20, 2012.

  1. Daddywalrus New Member

    Hi guys, I was wondering if someone could help me figure out the origin and meaning of my grandparents surnames.

    The names are:

    Costalos and maistralis

    Both grandparents came from the Island of Chios but I believe the Maistralis side originally came from Izmir.

    I can't find any info on the origins of Costalos but I believe maistralis might be mean "from master" or something similar?

    Thanks for any help!!!
  2. ireney

    ireney Modistra

    Greek Greece Mod of Greek, CC and CD
    Hey there!
    Do you happen to know how they were written in Greek? The second one, in all possibility is "Μαϊστράλης" from the word "μαϊστράλι" also known as "μαΐστρος", the north-west wind (comes from Italian, Venetian to be exact). I'm not quite so certain about the first one. Κωστάλος perhaps?
    Anyway, to me at least, they don't give any clue of specific regions.
  3. sotos Senior Member

    Costalos certainly comes from Kostas (Constantinos).

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Discussion in 'French-English Vocabulary / Vocabulaire Français-Anglais' started by PDC, Feb 9, 2006.

  1. PDC New Member

    Spanish, Guatemala
    I am looking for a good translation into French for the term "time-sensitive". I am working on a Medical translation and the text brings up the issue that some situations and emergency are time-sensitive and require an immediate response from emergency services. So far I have come up with something like "cas critiques et très sensibles au temps". Does that make any sense? Any better ideas out there?
  2. bernik Senior Member

    Brittany - french
    It seems that 'time-sensitive' has been made up as a synonym for 'urgent'.
    I doubt you will find a French equivalent.

    Some emergencies are urgent and need an urgent response from emergency services.
    = certaines situations s'aggravent si on attend / s'aggravent avec le temps
    et nécessitent un traitement urgent ?
  3. la grive solitaire

    la grive solitaire Senior Member

    United States, English
    Welcome, PDC! :) I wonder if there really is an equivalent for "time sensitive" in French... Would le facteur temps est critique work instead?
  4. bernik Senior Member

    Brittany - french
    great suggestion !

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I have had  hole all the way across my driveway for 24 (yes i said 24) days.  City water department came out to repair a water leak and because the locator for AT&T mislocated the phone line, the water department hit it and damaged it.  We have been waiting 24 days for AT&T to come out and fix it.  The City Manager, City Water Department, my landlord and myself call the "supervisor" over our area and he never returns our calls.  Because I can't use my driveway, I have to get to my carport by driving through my yard.  After 24 days of doing this, I have now damaged my grass.  My only other option is to park on the side of a busy road and walk to my house.

I finally spoke to the supervisor on Tuesday and he said he was waiting on a truck from Dallas to deliver the cable needed to do the repair.  This is what his technicians have been telling me the whole time.  Today is Thursday, must be a slow driver.  If I had to wait that long for a product to get delivered, I would change who I ordered from.

Since my yard is now damaged, I know AT&T won't be inclined to repair it, I will be charged (fined) for this by my landlord.

Anyone have any suggestions?  Is there someone higher in the chain that I can complain to and get results?

And no, no ones telephone, internet or anything is out so I am the only one suffering.

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Sub 3h15

  • Jools  - that will be some going in three days!
    AR - take care now.
    Ant - Therèse Raquin was the first Zola I read and it's excellent.
    Just about to set off on my sub 3:15. Weather looks atrocious.

  • 0302? Out-Gulled himself.  Respect.   Someone call Guinness World Records.

  • Hi Poacher. Just got back. 16 slow miles d&d - longest run in nearly 2 years. 53 miles this week - highest in over 3 years. Now drying out. image

  • Good effort that man. And get entering that marathon. You are more than ready to race

  • Gul - Well done on that sub-3:15!! And not just a run round the block, a 16-miler! What time had you gone to bed?

    Blisters, yesterday

    Actually, no laughing matter - hope domestic life is happier for you soon.

  • Now getting some breakfast - can't seem to logout?
    Poacher - I'm in the VLM ballot and trying to decide on a backup.
    Ant - later than intended - about 10:30, I think.

  • Gul, love the concept of a sub 3:15 being a run you start before 3:15 am!

    Off for a wet parkrun.

  • Well done Gul image Legend.

  • Well, did a 6-miler in glorious sunshine and the foot felt much better. I don't think I've lost any fitness, either - in fact my legs were fresher and looser than they've been for a while. May this be a lesson to anyone worried about taking a few days' break from running.

    The really amazing thing was that it was sunny!image

  • Ant - great news on the foot.

  • I'm trying to get my head around being up in time for a run before 3.15am and yet having been to bed.  So little sleep!  Gul: psychiatric assessment team are en route.

    Ant: good news about the foot.

    10M including parkrun for me.  Conditions were a little windy so fairly pleased with 20.25 or thereabouts: not a course pb (that's a frustrating 20.01) but a sign I'm in reasonable shape, especially as it was my best descent: 5.30m/m for the third mile and 5.16m/m for the last 0.1 as I kicked to ensure I remained 2nd lady!

  • Ah, bookmarks are back and I've found you all again. What happened there?

    Did barcode scanning at parkrun this morning and will be heading out in the wind and rain for a 14 - 15 miler a bit later. Then I get to have tomorrow off before I start my 12 week training block for the GNR.

  • Aaargh, they've gone again image

  • Gul. image  Thread nutter for June, but lets watch out for SJ as he hits the taper madness.

    Good to here your progress Ant.

    Sore hamstring meant a switch to the rower this morning and did a 13.1 mile paddle in about 1:38.  Freshly laundered kit now on and about to do some recovery miles.

    Any one used Kayanos before. Startinh to run out of my cheap 1170s and will be looking to get some GT1000s but noticed a few good deals on Kayanos recently. This was he shoe Asics recommended to me - probably because they are expensive at full price?

  • SJ is going to have to go some to topple Gul off the "nutter of the week" perch. That was sheer lunacy!

    No idea what's happening about the bookmarks - sometimes they're there and sometimes they're not.

    OKish parkrun for me - the rain held off, but it was a bit blustery and (yet again) I struggled on the 3rd K before picking things back up on the run in to finish in about 19:40. Consolation of being 1st in my age category.

    Might treat myself to a pair of new racing shoes - I've got a pair of Mizuno Wave Elixirs, but does anyone have any experience of Wave Mushas, Wave Ronins or Wave Universes?

  • Can't beat Gul for Nutter of the Week but did a treadmill HM today image in an airless hot humid room, lost quite a bit weight in fluids.

    Nice runs Joolska, Ant, Lorenzo and no doubt more.

  • Gul you are the man!

    Very pleased to hear about your foot Ant. There is nothing worse than a foot injury.

    18:45 for me at the parkrun, 4th overall. Bit disappointed with the time though.

  • my bookmarks are sh*gged too. Try saving the thread to your favourites.

  • AR
    I've used Kayanos in the past, once. Nice enough shoe (being nice to them) but heavy, HEAVY, They are built for comfort, not for speed. The whole concept is to throw every design idea into the shoe to see how plush they can make it. Hence they describe it as "flagship". Others describe it as a boat.

    Personally, I found that the Nimbus satisfied my long slog requierements, when I felt that I could afford them. Now I'm on Mizuno at half the price.

  • Plus one for Mizunos. (Inspire 9s)

    Tapir madness has yet to strike! I received the "final race details" email today which included my number - sent a tingle of fear / excitement / nausea through my body.

    Then I went out on my bike and was sh1t.

  • Nice parkruns from Jools, Lorenzo and OO.
    Poacher - dreadmill in a hot humid room sounds pretty crazy to me.
    SJ - fear / excitement /. nausea - you can't beat it!
    A long day yesterday including sermon prep and a wedding celebration - didn't get to bed until nearly 1am image I hope I don't fall asleep during my own sermon. Next week is cut-back week image

  • I keep a bookmark tab open

    15 miles done early as last night the weather forecast was clear followed by rain. Changed over night so the rain not due until dinner time (tea time for the northern part of the thread).

    Mix of paces in the 15: couple of 8s and a 7:30 to warm up and meet a friend, then 4 @ 7:00 far too excited and talking about racing, another 3 @ 7:15 when we put the brakes on a bit, then 3 uphill to the end at 7:30 and a couple at 8 to cool down at the end and pad it to 15 and 40 for the week off 5 runs with 22 in the last 24 hours as today's run finished before yesterday's 7 started (if that makes sense).

    Easy tomorrow, Wimbledon on Tuesday, 5k race Wednesday (Maidenhead AC, you there AR?), easy Thursday and then last Friday of the Month 5k on Friday. Padding at the weekend to bring the week up to 40 and me close to 1000 for the year which looks good for 2000 in 2013.

  • 18M for me on a fairly hilly route, so pleased with 8.04m/m.  60M for the week.  P&D starts tomorrow image

  • 9M for me, 3M @ HMP, foot not great but manageable, Southport HM entered (26 quid). Onwards and upwards.

  • Just over 20M this am, with 10M @ any old pace, and 10M @ 6:57.

    That concludes  my 'doubles trial' with 107M for the week (although 24M were steady rows duen to injury). Todays run felt good, apart from the tweaked hamstring which insists that I run with a shuffle.

    What did I learn?

    • Need to 'man-up' and wear soggy stinking kit
    • Also need to 'man-up' and forget about showering
    • Combining speed work with high mileage can hurt
    • All sessions start to blur into one and I started running everything at the same pace without focus
    • I got a bit bored with the plodding - felt more like a job than a hobby
    • No time for gym work, stretching, strengthening or life in general

    Probably will do one or two doubles per week in marathon training, but by combining it with rowing. Back to normality next week, but first up rest the hamstring.

  • Must have been tired, I slept until 1.30pm. Oops.

    15 miles done in the pouring rain yesterday though, so today is a rest day. Hoorah! And my GNR training starts tomorrow. I don't think I really like the 'inbetween' bits. I love a good schedule, I do. Speaking of which, I need to type mine up in glorious technicolour.

  • You are providing me of memories of the student lifestyle Speedy image

    Would read back and make some comments but need to give the family some love.

    North Downs 30k for me today. 2hr 14mins - 4 mins faster than last yr, but this yr I was 14th overall, where as last yr I was 7th. As it was the 30th anniversary I think many more runners turned up. Pleased to be back running having had 4 days off this week with a toe injury. Disappointed not to see DS2 on route, but surprised to see one of the 6th formers I teach marshalling in a random out of the way field.  Highlight of the day was mistiming a style and ending up forward rolling over it without any negative consequences.

  • We'll call that a planned dismount Keir. image Well done on a cracking time.

  • Nice gymnastics en route Keir!

  • 16.5 for me today but at a lower pace than you lot. About 8:30 pace. Brings me to 41 for the week.

    Good job your student didn't see the tumble Kier, you'd not live that one down.

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Collaborative Efforts: Colleges and Nonprofits Partner to Enhance Workers' Skills

November 2012

Anna Alvarez Boyd: Welcome to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's Economic Development podcast series. I'm Anna Alvarez Boyd with the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

We've had some really rapid changes in our economy that have highlighted the need for workforce development systems that are responsive to industry by offering effective retraining throughout a worker's career. While workforce systems are adapting to this "lifelong learning" challenge through various initiatives, low-income adult learners face unique challenges in gaining access to effective skill enhancement opportunities. Many community colleges have developed programs to respond to this need, yet clearly more can be done.

A recent publication from the Aspen Institute titled "Partnering to Create Paths to Education and Careers" summarizes research from its Courses to Employment project. The project analyzed how six community college and nonprofit partnerships work together to help low-income adults succeed in both the classroom and the labor market.

Today we're speaking to Maureen Conway, one of the report's authors. Maureen is executive director of the Economic Opportunities Program [EOP] at the Aspen Institute and director of its Workforce Strategies Initiative. Maureen, thank you so much for joining us today.

Photo of Maureen ConwayMaureen Conway: Thank you for having me.

Alvarez Boyd: Before we talk about your report findings, I am really interested in learning more about why you chose to focus on low-income adults. What are the unique workforce development challenges that this group faces compared to others?

Conway: One of the things I often say about why we focus on low-income adults, in particular, is because really our future workforce is already working. As we are living longer, as people are putting off retirement, we need to be thinking about how to reskill older workers.

Also, many of the low-income working adults are parents. One of the best things you can often do for children is help their parents so that their parents can better provide for them—provide the kind of home in which they can learn and have a stable learning environment.

And you asked about what are the challenges that they face. Many are parents, they have their own bills to pay, they have rent to pay, they have to get themselves from one place to another, maybe they have a car or they use public transportation. As an adult, finding the time and space to be a student and to be a learner can be a real challenge.

Alvarez Boyd: So you took this, really, to the street in a sense. You went right to the source of community colleges working with industry and starting to really think through how is it that you make the best communication, the best partnership available, right? So tell us more about your project.

Conway: We wanted to learn not just what are your outcomes, but how do you make this work? What are the ways that these workforce-oriented nonprofits actually mesh and blend their services with what's going on in their community college? How do they really make it work for the industries in their community and for the people in their community?

We had through earlier work seen that there was some promise in this approach of a workforce-oriented nonprofit and a community college collaborating together. We were really looking for a nonprofit and a community college that had some experience working together, had a particular industry that they were focused on, and that were ready to make a new commitment to their work together and to try to enrich it in some way.

We selected six: they were in Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Flint, Michigan, northern Virginia (just outside Washington, D.C.), and Austin, Texas. We were looking for geographic diversity. We were looking for some diversity in the industry sectors that they were working in: we had one working in office services; we had one working in logistics and transportation and security; we had a couple that were working in health care; we had one in automotive services.

One of our questions was, "How did they relate to their employer community?" So what we found was that they actually had very complementary relationships within their employer community. Community colleges tend to ask different kinds of questions. They'll ask a lot of questions about skills and think about how it matches to their curriculum and courses and what students learn, because their metric is helping students complete course work and complete certificates and degrees. Nonprofits will ask many more questions about "When do you hire?" "How much do you pay?" "How many folks do you expect to hire within a certain period of time?" They will ask questions like "What's been not working out with people—why have you had to let people go?" so they'll get different kinds of information. So they'll also learn more about the kinds of what people commonly call "soft skills"—the communications, workplace behavior, those kinds of things that are really important to people's success on the job.

Alvarez Boyd: So the other thing I really liked about what you did with this project is that you established metrics, and one of the metrics of success that you've established was "earnings gains." Why is that important, and why did some programs show higher gains than others? What did you learn about that?

Conway: The reason they [these programs] got into this work was because they had so many people who were working that just weren't earning enough money to pay their bills on a regular basis. So, I think, earnings gains is a critical metric for any employment program to be looking at.

For example, in Austin, Texas, they were training people in one-year and two-year health programs, such as licensed vocational nurse or a radiation technologist. For the individuals who completed those programs, they about tripled what their annual earnings were. It was a remarkable leap for many of those individuals. The downside of that, though, is it is a very long pathway. For a one-year program it usually takes two to three years for them to be able to finish, but for the ones who do finish it is a leap in their earnings.

An alternative is the training futures program, which is a six-month program. Their completion rates are very high—over 90 percent complete this program—and their job placement rate is very high after that. So probably about half of them when they came to the program had some kind of a job, maybe a part-time job, and about 85 percent after the program found jobs, and we saw about a $3-an-hour earning gain there.

Alvarez Boyd: So Maureen, your research and project results support strong collaborative relationships between the community colleges, other workforce providers, and the industry. So you probably faced some challenges in creating those collaborations. Can you tell us about what the examples for success were and how you created those partnerships?

Conway: We think about education and skills as very much going together with finding a job. And so you would think that this organization that's a nonprofit who is trying to help people find jobs and this organization that's a community college that is trying to help people get an education, that their goals are naturally aligned. Sometimes they're not. Because sometimes somebody should stay in school a little bit longer and get more skills so that they can get a better job. But if I'm a workforce nonprofit and my funder wants to see employment, I'm not meeting my metrics. Similarly, sometimes somebody gets halfway through an education program and there is a great job opening up—they should go take it. But they're not completing their education program, so for an education institution that's a bad outcome.

These collaboratives were a great place to recognize, "Those are institutional metrics, but those aren't helping our students; those aren't helping our workers." So how do we work this out together so that we are making sure that the students are getting the best outcome? Then how do we communicate about that to our funders and to our external partner? How do we share our data and have the information to be able to communicate [that] this was also a big challenge these partners were working with, and were still working with at the end of the demonstration.

Alvarez Boyd: Maureen, it's been a delight to talk to you today, thank you for joining us.

Conway: Well, thank you so much for having me. It's been my pleasure.

Alvarez Boyd: This concludes our podcast. We've been speaking with Maureen Conway of the Aspen Institute. Also, for more podcasts on this topic and others, please visit the Atlanta Fed's website at If you have comments or questions, please e-mail Thanks for listening.


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Being an Accountant Pays

The folks at sent me the following infographic. It tells a very nice story about the accounting profession:

Adding It All Up: Salary and Compensation for Accountants and Auditors

About Mark P. Holtzman

Chair of Accounting Department at Seton Hall University. PhD from The University of Texas at Austin. Worked at Deloitte's New York Office. BSBA from Hofstra University.

  1. Great infographic! A lot of nice information. Great post!

  2. Dan

    Love the infographic! Great post.

  3. Interesting statistics here Mark, it made some thing ‘official’, which most of the people already knew but some of them were not willing to acknowledge, as they were not willing to go through the grind to acquire the certifications.

  4. One of the best infographics. Just awesome!!!!

  5. Awesome infographic! Great statistics and breakdown on the different levels of being an accountant. Very helpful post.

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TrueCrypt Warns Not Secure, Development Suddenly Shutdown

Is the largest open source hard drive encryption tool dead?

On May 28th, TrueCrypt, the popular encryption tool downloaded over 28 million times appeared to have closed its doors. The official website appears to redirect to a SourceForge hosted page where users are greeted with a big red warning sign. The text warns that the open source encryption tool is no longer secure and notes that development for the project has been terminated.

WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues

The development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5/2014 after Microsoft terminated support of Windows XP. Windows 8/7/Vista and later offer integrated support for encrypted disks and virtual disk images. Such integrated support is also available on other platforms (click here for more information). You should migrate any data encrypted by TrueCrypt to encrypted disks or virtual disk images supported on your platform.

The page also demonstrates how to migrate from TrueCrypt to BitLocker, Microsoft’s disk encryption software.

It is unclear whether the site has been hacked, defaced, or if the developers found a critical vulnerability or backdoor that could jeopardize the security of the software and its millions of users.

An audit of TrueCrypt was crowdfunded late last year to determine if the software was secure or if it was a honeypot, this came in light of Edward Snowden leaking documents about the depths of NSA spying. The results of the first TrueCrypt audit phase were released on April 14th by iSEC partners on behalf of the Open Crypto Audit Project, and no backdoors were found. The first audit of TrueCrypt was a success, and minimal issues were discovered. The first audit phase covered the TrueCrypt bootloader and Windows kernel driver.

A second audit phase is in the midst and has not yet begun, but will focus on whether encryption cipher suites, random number generators and critical key algorithms have been properly implemented.

Many experts are doubting the theory that the website has been hacked. A privacy and security researcher working on the TrueCrypt audit, Runa A. Sandvik, told Threatpost that the “current version listed on the SourceForge page, version 7.2, was signed yesterday with the same key used by the TrueCrypt Foundation for as long as two years.” Kaspersky lab researcher Costin Raiu, too confirmed this.

“With a defacement, you would usually just expect to see the website change. In this change, the software seems to have changed as well,” Sandvik told Threatpost. “The software has been modified to display a warning when you start it, as well as display a warning as part of the standard UI.”

Sandvik also noted she performed a small analysis on the newest TrueCrypt installer 7.2a, and saw no network traffic emerging from it.

“If the installer had a keylogger, you would expect the installer to at some point connect to another host and transfer information. Since there is no network traffic, there is no part of the installer that attempts to call home,” Sandvik stated. “Note that I just did a very quick analysis, a deeper dive might uncover sketchy bits and pieces.”

As noted above, the TrueCrypt version 7.2 was certified with the official TrueCrypt private signing key, suggesting the TrueCrypt shutdown wasn’t a hoax. Speculation has been going wild among Twitter and Reddit about the sudden shutdown. Whether or not it is a hoax, freedomhacker will continue to cover the story as it unfolds.

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An anonymous reader writes with news about how Oculus is dealing with the reselling of dev kits in China. Bad news for those of you looking to get your hands on a preorder of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. A representative from Oculus recently confirmed that the company has had to stop selling its headsets in China as a result of an undisclosed amount of reselling. Which is to say, some of those preordering the developer edition of the virtual reality headset in China — not the consumer product, which hasn't been officially released in any capacity just yet — aren't actually looking to develop anything on the headsets. Nor are they even interested in getting a first look at the virtual reality capabilities of the $350 development kit. They're scalping, plain and simple, to take advantage of what appears to be a hefty amount of demand for the device.
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Now this game actually looks pretty sweet and one that I'm sure to check out at E3. Activision and id Software has announced Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, an online shooter where it's humans against the Strogg. With team play, day and night missions, and vehicles, the game's going to put you in the middle of the action. Don't know if it will follow Wolfenstein and be a free download but let's hope it does.

Santa Monica, CA â€“ May 16, 2005 â€“ id Softwareâ„¢ and Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) today announced the development of ENEMY TERRITORY: QUAKE WARSâ„¢. Developed by Splash Damage and built on id Softwareâ€™s new MegaTextureâ„¢ rendering technology, ENEMY TERRITORY: QUAKE WARS pits the armies of Earth against the invading alien Strogg in the ultimate online strategic shooter. Featuring strategic team play, persistent character promotions, day and nighttime combat missions, and the universeâ€™s most powerful weapons and vehicles, ENEMY TERRITORY: QUAKE WARS transports players to the front lines of an epic new war for Earth.

â€œFor years, fans have enjoyed incredible battles on the Strogg home planet; but with ENEMY TERRITORY: QUAKE WARS, weâ€™re taking players back to the war that started it all â€“ the Strogg invasion of Earth â€“ where the choice is to fight with the humans or the alien Strogg in a massive campaign for survival,â€ said Todd Hollenshead, CEO, id Software. â€œLike all great id Software games, ENEMY TERRITORY: QUAKE WARS unites bleeding-edge technology, a fantastic universe, and meticulously balanced gameplay to deliver an engrossing and futuristic gaming experience.â€

â€œWe have been so proud of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territoryâ€™sâ„¢ rave reviews, â€˜Game of the Yearâ€™ awards, and massive fan-base, so to work with id again in developing ENEMY TERRITORY: QUAKE WARS is an amazing opportunity.â€ states Paul Wedgwood, Lead Game Designer and Owner of Splash Damage Ltd. â€œThe stories of the Strogg invasion of Earth have always fascinated me, and now through ENEMY TERRITORY: QUAKE WARS, weâ€™re able to bring this incredible war to life with an uncompromising level of detail and realism.â€

As the invasion begins, players choose to battle as one of five unique classes in either the EDF (Earth Defense Force â€“ humans) or the barbaric alien Strogg armies, each augmented with specialist weapons and combat hardware. Troops utilize over 40 conventional and futuristic vehicles, deployable structures, and defense systems like quad-bikes, tanks, and alien walkers for epic ground assaults; or helicopters and anti-gravity ships to lend firepower from the air. Throughout each battle, teams establish bases, deploy defense structures, artillery, radar, and advanced forward-command systems into enemy territory while constructing and demolishing obstacles to speed progress and gain a tactical advantage over the enemy.

With realistic dynamic lighting and shadowing from headlights, searchlights and even the moon, battles can be fought during the day or night; while accurate simulation of the atmosphere, weather, and vegetation combine to create an unparalleled degree of realism. Battlefields are perfectly rendered using MegaTexture, a totally new rendering technology developed by id Software that crunches millions of polygons and a gigabyte-scale texture into a single, seamless and un-tiled landscape with unique detail down to the square inch or the un-obscured distant horizon.

Players can take on class specific missions or join a fireteam to utilize advanced command and communication options, including voice-chat and the gameâ€™s context sensitive mission order system. With bitterly contested multi-battle campaigns, each soldier fights not only for victory, but to gain valuable skills, special rewards for team-play, and persistent military promotions and medals. ENEMY TERRITORY: QUAKE WARS will debut at this yearâ€™s Electronic Entertainment Expo in Activisionâ€™s booth #1224 in the South Hall.

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Ribz Frontpack

In the world of backpacks, there is a niche category of products that positions compartments and pouches over the chest. Called “frontpacks,” these gear-carrying modules are made by small companies like Aarn Designs, Syncpack, and LuxuryLite.

You usually wear a frontpack in tandem with a backpack. The theory is that a load up front will move weight forward on the body to counterbalance a heavy haul on back.

Easy access to food, a GPS device, a camera or sunscreen is another advantage. (I have a review of five frontpack models here: gearjunkie.com/frontpacks)

A recent entrant into the frontpack realm, Ribz Sportswear of Coronado, Calif., offers a pack with up to 600 cubic inches of usable space. The company’s namesake Ribz pack has four large zippered pockets mounted in a vest configuration and sewn on a suspenders-type harness.

Loaded up, the pack can tote a half-day’s worth of gear or add significant capacity for a long trip. I put in energy bars, a map, a compass, a small camera, a hat, survival items, sunglasses, and a few other small essentials.

In my test, the Ribz pack (www.ribzwear.com) carried fine. It distributed a load on my shoulders and put weight comfortably up front.

Wide shoulder straps made of heavy-duty nylon are designed to distribute weight yet remain comfortable when worn under a backpack harness. To connect the two compartments, the RIBZ pack has a low-profile strap in the rear that fit under a backpack with little issue.

The Ribz pack, which costs $65, is beefy and well-made. The nylon fabric is durable. It weighs 10 ounces and wears light and comfortably alone or with a pack.

If you’re in the market for a frontpack, Ribz Sportswear is a solid new up-front option.

—Stephen Regenold writes about outdoors gear at www.gearjunkie.com.

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Everything's A Go (Remix)

French Montana

Featuring Birdman, Wale, Fabolous, Jadakiss

Everything's A Go (Remix) Lyrics

[Hook: French Montana]
And everything's a go go go go go go go go go go go go
Juu heard
I know you heard about it
All that money over there, don't worry about it
A hundred stacks, blow it up for fun

South side, that's where I'm from
You can call it that, you can call it that
You can call it that, you can call it that
And everything's a go go go go go go go go go go go go

[Verse 1: French Montana]
Hottest in the game
Wrist watch chain
Getting to the bread then I skate like Wayne
OJ Mayo, grizzly time, big Ado
Shots hit the same hole seven times
Good aim, good brain in the rain
Shawty brainstorm
Then she bend it back let me plank on it, haaa
I just bought a mansion, through plates on it
Long bread, five star like Baby's bald head

[Verse 2: Birdman]
Flashy lifestyle
Nigga we the business
Candy paint blood red, six figures
Tommy guns travel with my other bitches
My other bitches taking trips, nigga making digits
Hustle full time nigga for the shine
Big money poppin' do it big time
Nigga poppin' off so we spent a Ben
Drop a hundred on the set, blowin' in the wind
Allegating for the paper, territory mind
Count a hundred stacks for the sunshine
Maybach payed nigga, drop the top
Triple color on the blaze, nigga open shop

[Verse 3: Wale]
First off, I know you heard about me
So don't offend me
Got more pennies than Anfernee probably
What do you know?
I'm the type to make a broad lose her top and her ego
Bet she let the whole team go
She wanna kick it with a nigga like he Ronaldinho
Uptown they all go
Landover to the falls though
Can't forget about Mope though, came back through with a black ghost
Everything's a all go
We don't like the law though
Givenchy made this black hoody
Motherfucker raw though

[Verse 4: Fabolous]
Money talks, I know you've heard about me
And you broke niggas better not say a word about me
They first doubt me, thirst out, then worrying about me
The realest shit you ever wrote would be a verse about me
Indoor pool, that's where her mouth be
Got that handbag head, suck the purse out me
She ain't your bitch, you just call her that
You keep giving her cheese, that's how you spawn a rat
That shit cray, dick ridin', that shit gay
Niggas on my ball so hard, they be in my bitch way

Them Mexicans just called me
I just got that green light
Everything's a bet bet
You know what that mean right?

[Verse 5: Jadakiss]
Either I'm on the go, or I'm on the low
I knock a hundred off, I cop a hundred more
Now it's adding up
We used to have it rough
But when you know how much you got you ain't got enough
One foot in the trap, other foot in the booth
I could look in your eyes, cause I'm spitting the truth
Hand to hand, turn into to the whole strip
Everything is a go, let 'em have the whole clip
Yea, do it without even blinking
Spend a quarter million without even thinking
We got it for cheap, get the things for the low
It's a green light, everything is a go

[French Montana]
Yea yea
Yea yea
Yea yea

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See on Scoop.itGeography Education

The lithosphere (Earth’s crust) is a hard, rigid plate on top of a softer molten layer known as the asthenosphere.  Sounds like an Oreo to me!  As a crude analogy that lets you bring food into the classroom, this lesson on plate boundaries sound like a winner.  This blog post was inspired by this academic article on how to use Oreo’s to teach about Earth’s crust.

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The Imperial Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has officially entered its summer recess, leaving yet another controversial term in its wake.  States will now be able to gerrymander at will without first subjecting their plans to federal oversight.  Laws that are passed to discriminate against gays are prone to being struck down by a court as unconstitutional.  And affirmative action is still a laudable if not legal concept, although that too may change soon.

That the legal landscape has again shifted should come as no surprise.  Laws are prone to be amended or reversed from time to time, especially when they are subjected to the scrutiny of the country’s highest court.  That these changes might anger some and please others is nothing new either.  Controversy, after all, is something that often propels a case to the Supreme Court and  leads to its review by the justices, which is almost always at their discretion.  Not that debate should not be had on the cases that make it to the court.  But I think it hard pressed for anyone to argue that a robust and sustained debate on, say, whether a law is based on outdated data (the Shelby County, Voting Rights Act case) or whether the moral underpinnings of a law cause it to be discriminatory (the Windsor, DOMA case), can be had between the covers of  the legal briefs on which the justices rely to make their decisions.  This is especially true considering that any decision the Supreme Court makes to uphold but especially to strike down a law has significant consequences, not just on the people who are the subject of the law, but on those whose responsibility it is to make and enforce the law.  This, it seems, is a point Scalia touched on in his dissent in Windsor where the Court found DOMA unconstitutional.  But there too, Scalia was being disingenuous, as there is no love lost between Scalia and what he sees as the homosexual agenda: to Scalia, debate should be had in lieu of Supreme Court intervention, but only when it might prevent an otherwise discriminatory law from being swept into the morality dustbin.

The trend we see of the Supreme Court wading into almost every area of law is a troubling one.  It is a reflection of a government that is broken and dysfunctional, where no one accepts another’s position unless he is of the same party or political ideology.  And those on the losing end inevitably vow, with increasing success, to have the disfavored piece of legislation overturned.  As a result, we have a government that is increasingly governed by nine unelected officials, and, some may say, one such person in Justice Kennedy.  Say what you will about the character and ambitions of those who choose to run for public office or the lack of competition one often sees on an election ballot, when elected officials displease their constituents, the remedy is to vote them out.  Needless to say, Supreme Court justices are not subject to the same pressures; indeed, their reign at the Court may last decades and is subject to almost no oversight at all.  Not that we should get into the business of electing judges.  But to have every piece of major legislation, both old and new, consistently land in the Supreme Court with the prospect that it may be reworked, gutted, etc., on the ideological preference of a group of justices or just one justice is a prospect no one should savor.

Of course, if a law must be struck down, that is the job of the courts.  No one should be made to suffer under an unjust law.  If neither the legislature nor the executive are willing to act, then it is the province and, in some situations, the prerogative, of the court to take up the slack.  But the primary concern should not be “how do we kill this law”, but “how can we get the law that we desire”.  The former almost certainly leads to greater polarization and distrust of our government institutions, while the latter encourages and requires participation in the process that is self-government, which, in almost any scenario, provides greater legitimacy to the final outcome, even if it is unsatisfactory to some.

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The powers of the Kings

1.RELIGIOUS - Kings were regarded as intermediaries between the gods and men, and held their office as long as the gods were pleased

Herodotus Book VI (56-60) Xenophon 13-15

1."Two priesthoods, of Zeus Lacedaemon and of Zeus Uranius" (56)
1."He sacrifices to Zeus the Leader and the associated gods" (13)

2."On the first and seventh days of every month each king is given a full-grown animal to offer in sacrifice in the temple of Apollo, also a bushel of barley-meal and a Laconian quart of wine" (57)

3."Responsible for the safe-keeping of all oracles (the 'Pythians' also have knowledge of them)" (57)

4."and each of them nominates two 'Pythians' - officials, that is, whose duty it is to visit Delphi when occasion arises" (57)

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The powers of the Kings

Kings were the supreme commanders of the army. Only one of them was selected to lead a campaign, while the other remained in Sparta

Herodotus Book IV (56-6) Xenophon 13-15

1."On service, the kings go first and return last" (56)

1."Should lead the army wherever the city dispatches it" (15)

2."They have a bodyguard of a hundred picked men, and are allowed for their own wish as many cattle as they wish" (56)

3."Also present are two ephors, who do not involve themselves in any way unless the king calls them in, but observe each person's actions and ensure that they are correct in every case" (13)

4."Spartans alone are real master of the craft of war" (13)

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The powers of the Kings

JUDICIAL - Kings has only limited judicial duties. They decided on the marriages of orphaned heiresses, and had control of all matters concerning highways and the adoption of children

Herodotus Book IV (56-6) Xenophon 13-15

1."if a girl inherits her father's estate and has not been betrothed by him to anybody, the kings decide who has the right to marry her; secondly, all matters connected with the public roads are in their hands; and, thirdly, anyone who wishes to adopt a child must do it in the king's presence" (57)

2."They sit with the twenty-eight Elders in the Council chamber"

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The privileges of the Kings

Herodotus Book IV (56-6) Xenophon 13-15

1."To them are allotted the skins and chines of all animals offered for sacrifice" (56-57)

1."He also granted him the privilege of taking parts of the animals sacrificed"

2."At all public religious celebrations they are the first to sit down at the dinner which follows the sacrifice" (57)

3."..each getting twice as much of every dish as anybody else" (57)

3."Gave them the honour of double portions at meals"

4."At public games seats of honour are reserved for them" (57)

5."If the kings happen not to attend the usual state dinner, two quarts of meal and half a pint of wine are sent to each of them at his house" (57)

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Death of a King

Herodotus Book IV (56-6) Xenophon 13-15

1."Women go the rounds of the capital beating cauldrons"

2."This is the signal for two people, one man and one woman, from every citizen's household to put on mourning - which they are compelled to do under penalty of a heavy fine"

3."When a death occurs, not only Spartans but a certain number of the country people from all over Lacedaemon are forced to attend the funeral"

4."Men and women together strike their foreheads with every sign of grief"

5."If a king is killed in war, they make a statue of him, and carry it to burial on a richly draped bier"

6."As to the honours shown a king after his death, the aim of the laws of Lycurgus here is to demonstrate that they have given special honour to Spartan kings no as humans but as heroes"

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Limitations of power

-Dual nature of kingship ensured that each could keep a check on the other

-A monthly oath was taken jointly, by the kings and the ephors, whereby the king;s office was guaranteed as long as they acted constitutionally

-The kings were reported upon the ephors during campaigns

-The kings could be - and at times were - deposed by the people

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Urban Environments

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URBANISATION is the increase in population as a result of Rural-Urban Migration.

RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION is when people move from rural areas, like farms/countrside, to urban areas, like cities.

URBAN RENEWAL is the renovation and improvement of existing buildings

URBAN REGENERATION- 'knock it all down and start again'

GENTRIFICATION is when the character of an area changes or when local people are forced to move out.

SUSTAINABILITY is meeting the needs of the population without damaging or exploiting natural resources

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  • Founder of positivism.
  • Coined the term sociology
  • His emphasis on systematic observation and social order

Auguste Comte was born January 20, 1798 (according to the Revolutionary calendar then used in France).

He died of cancer on September 5, 1857.

Early Life and Education:

Auguste Comte was born in Montpellier, France. After attending the Lycée Joffre and then the University of Montpellier, Comte was admitted to the École Polytechnique in Paris. The École closed in 1816 at which time Comte took up permanent residence in Paris, earning a precarious living there by teaching mathematics and journalism. He read widely in philosophy and history and was especially interested in those thinkers who were beginning to discern and trace some order in the history of human society.

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In 1826 Comte began a series of lectures on his “system of positive philosophy” for…

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UTStarcom powers Softbank Broadband TV

Microsoft’s blizzard of publicity not withstanding, smaller players are trying to get a foothold in the fast growing IPTV market. UTStarcom, the Sino-American telecom equipment maker is going to power the IPTV efforts of Softbank (Yahoo) Broadband of Japan as well. UTStarcom says the new BBTV service will have 28 live TV channels, and offer upto 5200 movies on demand. Softbank BB has 4.8 million customers. Of course you can’t discount the all important fact – Softbank owns 12% of UTStarcom. Which is pretty much is the same thing as Microsoft’s publicity machine.

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