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The Countries Knolwdgebase: The Family History Guide becomes even more valuable
https://thefhguide.com/research.html
One thing that The Family History Guide does for those of us who are searching for our ancestors is to organize and structure the online world of genealogy and family history in a way that we do not need to guess where to go or what to do next. For example, at last count, I have posted 11,419 blog posts not counting Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Pinterest posts. There are 89.103 Wiki articles on the FamilySearch Research Wiki. There are 5,827,000+ articles in English on Wikipedia.org and a search for the word "genealogy" finds 50,824 articles. This is just scratching the surface of some of the information that is available online.
Think about it. Jointly, the large online genealogy database companies have billions and billions of records. Where do you start? How do you begin to understand what is available and how to learn all that there is to know? Well, those of us who are working on The Family History Guide are trying to organize and present all that information in a way that you can systematically progress and learn what it is that makes a good genealogical researcher along the way. The KnowledgeBase on The Family History Guide is part of the solution to the challenge of learning.
You can read more about the KnowledgeBase, presently being developed and implemented, from this article:
Introducing the Countries Knowledgebase
What is The Family History Guide? From one standpoint, it is a structured and sequenced way to learn about genealogy and family history by organizing thousands of links to online sources of information. But it is really a way to help everyone who uses the website to appreciate the core values of family, home, and heritage that go to make up the best of what we have to offer the world as human beings.
What is even more incredible is that the entire website with all of its linked resources is absolutely free. It only becomes available because of volunteers who spend their time and energy making it available. How can you help? Simple, you can donate to the whole operation through The Family History Guide Association.
https://www.thefhguide.com/association.html
You can also tell others about The Family History Guide website by sharing this post on all forms of social media and by talking about it to your friends and relatives.
A Short Introduction to Geneanet.org
You may or may not have noticed but FamilySearch.org has a new partner listed on each individual's detail page; Geneanet.org. Who is this newcomer to the list of websites that can be automatically searched from the FamilySearch.org Family Tree? Here is a brief explanation from their website:
Launched in 1996 by genealogy enthusiasts, Geneanet is a community of more than 3 million members who share their genealogical information for free: more than 6 billion individuals in the family trees, some digitized archival records, some family pictures, some indexes, all available through a powerful search engine, and a blog.
The Premium subscription offers additional options, including an advanced search engine, and to access hundreds of million of indexes provided by our partners.
The Geneanet team is passionate about genealogy and emerging technologies. And at Geneanet, genealogy is almost a family affair as several team members have common ancestors!
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have a free subscription to the website because of the FamilySearch partnership agreement.
https://partners.familysearch.org/solutionsgallery/s/gallery-profile/a2Rf10000079nuHEAQ/00063
The link for logging on with your LDS Account is available on the Solutions Gallery at the bottom of the pages on the FamilySearch.org website. Members qualify for the Geneanet Premium Subscription.
Geneanet.org has a huge searchable collection of French and other European records called the Genealogy Library containing over 3 billion indexed individuals in old books, academic journals, newspapers, obituaries, and hundreds of thousands of documents. You can search for the names of your ancestors. These resources come from all over the world from places you may never have seen documents previously. Here is a search of just the newspapers and magazine titles.
Here is a part of the list of collections:
The website is particularly helpful in searching for French ancestors.
The website has a lot of other projects and resources and is certainly worth investigating. You can also put a family tree up on the website and receive record hints from the website.
Using the Ordinances Ready App to Find Research Opportunities
The Ordinances Ready App can obviously be used to find available ordinances from the names of people in the Family Tree or people who have already been found and shared with the temples. But there is a way to use the app to find research opportunities in the Family Tree that could find many more of your ancestors and relatives. By applying these procedures, the Ordinance Ready App becomes a powerful finding tool for locating areas in the Family Tree that need research and could result in adding many more individuals to the Family Tree.
The first step is simple. Choose one of the ordinance types and view the results. Here is one of the names I found in the list for potential baptisms.
Next, you need to view your relationship to this person. Here is my relationship to this person.
He is married to one of my distant cousins. I always spend some time looking at the way I am related to these people to determine if there is a real connection. In this case, there are ample sources documenting this family's relationship to me. Here is the individual's Detail Page.
What is interesting about this family? Well, the father, George Orr, was found and added to the family tree a short time ago and then the ordinances were shared with the Temple. That is how I got his name suggested to me from the Ordinances Ready program. What else is interesting? His wife, my cousin, was also found and her ordinances were also shared with the Temple. What is missing? There is only one child listed. Granted, George Orr died in 1835 the same year that his daughter was born, but what happened to the daughter and the wife?
All this suggests that there is some research that could be done. Why be satisfied with one name to take to the Temple? Why not do some research and find the rest of this family? All provided courtesy of the Ordinances Ready App. In fact, I have counted up over 20 available ordinances from this family.
Six Things You Should Know About the Ordinances Ready App
https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/ordinances-ready/
The new Ordinances Ready app has engendered a fair amount of discussion among the active genealogist and family historians in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I have decided that a lot of the discussion originates from a lack of understanding about the app itself. I decided there are at least five major issues that underlie developing an appreciation for what the Ordinances Ready app is apparently intended to accomplish. The following are mostly my own opinion but that opinion is based on how the app works and some of the existing challenges with the FamilySearch.org Family Tree.
If you need an introduction to the Ordinances Ready App, I suggest reading "Ordinances Ready: FamilySearch App Feature Helps Find Temple Ordinances for Your Ancestors" and for further questions about the app I suggest two of my previous blog posts: "A Question about the Ordinances Ready App" and "How Reliable is the Ordinances Ready App?"
1. The Ordinances Ready App is structured to resolve two main challenges: how to get more individuals in the Church to become involved in the Family Tree and how to begin to reduce the surplus of user-submitted names waiting to be processed in the Temples. The first challenge is addressed by the fact that the app is intended to be used by each person individually to discover some ancestors or relatives that likely need the Temple ordinances. Each individual should take the time to click on the names provided and see how they are related and also learn about each of the people. To answer the second challenge the app is designed to choose names as follows (based a slide used by Ron Tanner at one of his RootsTech presentations).
1. Pulled from your own reservation list
2. Pulled from your own names that you have shared with the Global Temple List
3. Pulled names from people with whom you are related from the Global Temple List
4. Pulled from names found by searching up and down your own family lines (green icons)
5. An ancestor from the Global Temple List
In order to do this, the app will also consider the following:
Ignore people who are subject to the 110-year rule
Verify that the name qualifies for temple ordinance work
Verify no possible duplicates
If you do select a name and leave it on your Temple list, the names will expire after 90 days, i.e. they will go back to the Global Temple List. Further, as far as possible the names will be added from your own Temple District.
2. One of the problems I frequently see with the Family Tree and hear about from others is that people who have little or no knowledge of how it works or what is required are making changes. If this group of people does not feel compelled to "mess with the Family Tree" in order to "find a name to take to the Temple." Although the Ordinances Ready App is not specifically designed to discourage people from working with the Family Tree, it may have the effect of cutting down on the number of people, especially young people, who feel like they have to do something without knowing what they are doing.
3. The Ordinances Ready app works with the online mobile app called the FamilySearch Tree. Although the FamilySearch Tree app does much of what the main FamilySearch.org Family Tree can do, it is limited and adding random names is not as easily done as it is on the desktop Family Tree. In addition, the FamilySearch Tree app is available to a rapidly growing number of people who only have access to the internet with a mobile smartphone.
4. The Ordinances Ready app opens up a whole new way to discover areas in your part of the Family Tree that may be "ripe" for research. When you find a name of a person that needs Temple ordinances, you are already in a part of the Family Tree where either work is being done to add names or where no work has been done for years, either way, you know that the family where this name was found is where some work on the Family Tree needs to be done.
5. You no longer have to feel the burden of maintaining a long list of people in your own Temple List. You can release those names to the temples and know that they will then become priority names for all of your relatives who use the Ordinances Ready app. Also, you do not need to worry about providing names for your family members. They are supposed to go onto the Ordinances Ready app and get their own names, even the younger members of your family. Also, there is no need to feel like you are pressured to supply names for a youth group or your entire Ward. Again, each individual should log onto the program and use the app to find their own names to take to the temple.
6. The names produced by the Ordinances Ready App are not verified by FamilySearch or anyone else including the Church. You are responsible to make sure that the person actually exists and is not a duplicate. If you do the ordinance work without checking, you may be doing a duplicate. Although the app checks for duplicates, there are still duplicates that the program cannot find but may be obvious with some work.
If you work through all your issues with clicking on green icons or duplicates, you will see that the Ordinances Ready app is designed to avoid both those issues as far as it is possible to do so today.
Posted by James Tanner at 11:57 AM 2 comments:
Evaluating "errors" in the FamilySearch Family Tree
Unfortunately, the situation shown above with this screenshot for John Andrew b. 1700 is quite common. The FamilySearch.org Family Tree is liberally sprinkled with red icons and the purple ones also that say "No sources attached." But does this particular entry represent an error? Yes, if we considered entering information without a source an error and we define an "error" as information added to the Family Tree either without a source or failing to properly reflect the information contained in the source. But is this particular entry an error? In this case, there is also a blue icon indicating that there is a record hint. What does the record hint say?
This entry would only be an error if there was a record that showed that the information was incorrect. As the record stands, with no sources, it is not possible to determine if the information is correct or not. So, we look at the Record Hints. Here is what the Detail page for this person looks like before checking the Record Hints.
There are four record hints altogether. Here is a screenshot of the Research Helps page for the same person.
This page shows that the items marked by the red icons are a possible duplicate (a new addition to the Data Problems world on the Family Tree) and a missing standardization. So now, if I check the Record Hints, standardize the record and add a source or two or more, the existing information may be confirmed (no error), changed (errors), or detached (wrong family connection).
First, I look at the possible duplicate. It looks like the same people with the same child. But by merging the people, I create two more duplicates with the wife and child. The merged record still has no sources, but I need to merge the other two duplicate entries. Merging the duplicate for the wife, Alice, produces more duplicates and so forth. By the way, none of the duplicate entries have sources yet.
Time passes. I finally got through the duplicates. All of the entries seem to have cleared up. Every one of the people in the Family Tree now have sources. The only problem left is that the relationship between Edward Andrews or Andrew is not established by any source. All the people lived in the same very small area of England, but that is the only connection so far. But so far, there were no errors just a lack of information. This isn't always the case but it is possible that with some additional research the entire family can be cleaned up.
Please train your Temple and Family History Consultants
https://www.lds.org/family-history/video/2019-family-history-leadership-session
With all the changes for the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it is interesting to me how little attention is being paid to the 2019 Temple and Family History Leadership Instruction by some of the local leaders of the Church. The presentation by Elder Dale G. Renlund was particularly graphic about the need for Temple and Family History Consultants to be integrated into the Ward leadership structure and to be trained about the duties of their callings. The training materials have been available for quite some time and are being updated regularly.
As I have observed many times previously, Family History Consultants now Temple and Family History Consultants have been essentially ignored in many local Wards around the United States and into Canada. Elder Renlund's comments about Temple and Family History Consultants was right on point. Family history is often viewed as a subsidiary and purely optional activity by Ward and Stake leaders. There are, of course, some outstanding exceptions but often family history is considered as just one more thing that needs to be done sometime in the future.
Because of the worldwide nature of the Church, the current emphasis is on the FamilySearch mobile apps. It is probable that not only the Temple and Family History Consultants may need training on these apps but also any older members of wards and stakes need to be trained also. I am also finding a considerable amount of misunderstanding about the introduction of the Ordinances Ready feature of the FamilySearch.org website and of the FamilySearch Tree app also.
I am certain that there will be many changes in the future and I'm hoping that the details of these changes are not lost. In case you need some links to the available training for Temple and Family History Consultants here is a partial list:
2019 Temple and Family History Leadership Instruction
Temple and Family History Consultants
For Priesthood Leaders
Talks from Church Leaders
Family History Lessons and Training Presentations
Family History Activities
RootsTech
Helper Resources
Personalized Family History Experiences
Delivering Personalized Family History Experiences
And many more. There is really no excuse for the ignoring family history in the Wards and Stakes.
What Has Changed on the FamilySearch Family Tree? Part One
At RootsTech 2019, I attended two presentations by Ron Tanner, the Director of Product Management at FamilySearch. He outlined a number of recent changes to the FamilySearch.org website and particularly to the Family Tree. I decided to dig into the website and see some of the changes for myself and, of course, write about them. I am sure I will miss some and find some older changes that I just didn't know about before writing. Because I use the Family Tree and the rest of the website almost daily if I haven't seen something, you might not have seen it also. So bear with me if I am being a slow observer. Also, this exploration effort will probably take a while so there will be a series.
Some of the new features may only be visible to those users who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Since I am a registered user I tried turning off the link to LDS Resources in the settings menu to see what happened. But I found that it still presented everything the same except features having to do with the Temples were not visible. If you are not a member, just bear in mind that some of the things I talk about may not be visible.
One thing I can say about the subject of changes to the FamilySearch.org website is that many of the changes are unannounced and not obvious. There is a FamilySearch blog page about "What's New at FamilySearch" but those articles don't list everything. So expect some digging and some old and new features.
https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/category/about-familysearch/whats-new-at-familysearch/
Here it goes... (in no particular order)
New Discovery Experiences
These featured experiences are based on the Family Discovery Center activities located in certain Family History Centers including a new one in Lehi, Utah and the one at the main Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. Here is a screenshot from the website.
https://www.familysearch.org/discovery/
If you register and sign in, the Family History Activities are personalized to show your own family history. Presently, when you do sign in, your personalized startup page has a link to the activities. You may wish to try out each one.
New Temple and Family History Consultant Training
https://www.familysearch.org/ask/planner/calling
This page has actually been online for a while. It is part of the Helper Resources that are on the page renamed from the Consultant Planner. That page has also been redone. Here is a screenshot of the new Helper Resources page:
https://www.familysearch.org/help/helper
This page is still accessed from a pull-down menu link on the Help Center in the far upper right-hand side of each page. What happened to the fan chart? It was incorporated into the fan chart view on every detail page for the Family Tree. The fan chart can also be extended out to seven generations.
The view options are in the box on the upper left.
Tune in again for more of the new features of the FamilySearch.org website.
Using MyHeritage to correct entries in the FamilySearch Family Tree
Several technologies have come together to provide a major increase in the ability to find errors in the FamilySearch.org Family Tree. One of the most significant of those technologies comes from the MyHertitage.com website's Consistency Checker. First of all, MyHeritage.com and FamilySearch.org have been cooperating in order to allow MyHeritage.com to import up to eight generations of your part of the FamilySearch.org Family Tree into a new family tree on MyHeritage.com. This feature was introduced in Beta and called FamilySearch Tree Sync back in March of 2018. It has now been released to a relatively small group of users. The program is only available to those people who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
https://blog.myheritage.com/2018/03/new-familysearch-tree-sync-beta-allows-familysearch-users-to-synchronize-their-family-trees-with-myheritage/
There was a limited distribution of the code to use the FamilySearch Tree Sync at RootsTech 2019.
I have been using the program for some time and one "benefit" has been to see how many errors there are in my eight generations imported from FamilySearch into my family tree on MyHeritage.com. The results from using the Consistency Checker (shown above) are a little discouraging. You can see that I have 747 Consistency issues found. This is a graphic example of the work left to do on the FamilySearch.org Family Tree.
You do not need to synchronize your file to have your family tree on MyHeritage. You can run the Consistency Checker any time but the advantage of synchronization is that it reduces the number of steps you need to take to correct the errors. The key is to use the error information from MyHeritage to find the same people in the FamilySearch Family Tree and make the corrections in both trees.
Here is an example from the Consistency Checker.
When I click on this entry, I can see his detail page on MyHeritage.
The arrow points to the link between the two programs. Yes, the dates on the entry are suspect. One advantage is that I can now see this person in both programs and use the resources for each program to make the correction.
The challenge here is that there are about 500+ entries on the FamilySearch.org website for people named John Stewart in the time period indicated. There are also no sources showing a death date. On the MyHeritage website, it looks like there are quite a number of other family trees that have the same person with the same unsupported death date. However, on MyHeritage, the results of searching for this person show that the 1857 date probably belongs to a John Stewart who died in Ohio.
After an extended search, for now, the solution is to remove the unsupported and unsourced date of death. That still leaves the entry with sources for a birth but a death date will have to wait for more research.
By using the two programs, you have a much greater chance of making a correction to both records.
Explaining FamilySearch Apps as used in a previous post
I recently wrote a blog post entitled "A List of All of the FamilySearch Apps???". The way the post turned out may have caused some confusion. The term "app" has only a vague meaning. It was originally used to refer to the limited programs designed for mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones. As these programs became more sophisticated the use of the term "app" became used for more and more programs until even programs for desktop computers are included in the use of the term. For example, see Apple's App Store that has programs such as Microsoft Office 365.
However, I must admit that I used the term "app" somewhat injudiciously and perhaps to expansively. But my use of the term is also reflected in the expansive use by FamilySearch. Yes, FamilySearch has mobile apps that fall into the original use of the term but they also have lots of "hidden" parts of their website that fall into the more expansive category of apps. Here is one example:
https://www.familysearch.org/campaign/pioneers
I was thinking of this type of app when I began to write the previous blog post. I soon discovered that unless I already knew the identities of the apps or extensions or whatever you want to call them, I could not find them on the website. Of course, there are the not too easily found mobile apps in the Solutions Gallery. Here are the ones listed.
But there are also a few that I know about that are even harder to find. One really valuable one is the England Jurisdictions 1851 that hasn't been working for a while. Here is a screenshot:
https://www.familysearch.org/mapp/
While finding these additional "apps" I was overwhelmed with the number of pages on the website. Some of the apps I could remember have been removed. Here is an example.
There apparently is no longer a quick overview of the vast array of historical records and aids for those researching casualties and veterans of the Civil War.
Now I am sorry I used the word "all" in the previous post. I am completely at a loss to figure out how to find all the stuff on the FamilySearch.org website.
A List of All of the FamilySearch Apps???
Over the past couple of years, FamilySearch.org has announced dozens of apps and specialty pages on the FamilySearch.org website, such as the one shown above announcing "Family History Activities." Almost all of these apps or specialty pages have virtually disappeared over time and it is almost impossible to find a link from any of them on the FamilySearch.org website. You might expect to see some of them on a "Site Map" but even though there is one, only a few of the older pages are listed.
By the way, there is a Site Map. It is linked at the bottom of the startup page. Here is a screenshot:
https://www.familysearch.org/site-map
If you spend some time, you will notice that the Family History Activities are not listed.
I decided to see how many of these invisible pages could be found with a determined Google search. They usually appear with a URL address of "FamilySearch.org/[name of page]" Here is the list so far. I do not pretend to have found all of them, but this was a good attempt. Oh, before I get going on this list, I must mention some of the most obvious hidden pages: the pages for individual states and countries. How do you find these? Well, the best place to look is in The Family History Guide in the Countries section. There are links to all of the pages we know about. Here is a screenshot of England page:
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/location/1986340?region=England
Actually, in this case, there is a roundabout way to find this page. You click on the map on the Historical Records page and then click on an area of the world and select a country. These pages come up for each country. Any mention of this huge collection of pages in any other place on the website including the "Site Map?"
Hmm. I had another thought about the website before I get into my list. If you are on the ChurchofJesusChrist.org (LDS.org) website and find a page that looks like the following screenshot, where do the links take you to learn about the FamilySearch.org website?
https://www.lds.org/topics/family-history/my-family-history/learn-to-use-family-search?lang=eng&old=true#sign
You might have guessed. The links take you to a link to The Family History Guide.
So your best source for finding all this stuff is in The Family History Guide.
Am I finally going to get to my list? Well, that depends on whether or not I keep finding other obscure stuff. Yes, I actually used a program that will list all the pages instead of looking for them with a Google search. The results were pretty scary. The list ran on for thousands of pages. No wonder some of these previously announced pages get lost. I finally got tired of watching the list grow and grow, Here is a screenshot of part of the list.
I left the list running a growing because I ran out of time when it got listing all the 89,000+ FamilySearch Research Wiki pages. No wonder stuff gets lost.
So how do we find stuff like the Pioneer Discovery Page that came up last year? Well, it appears that those types of pages are temporary and now lead to dead links. Meanwhile, the list keeps growing.
Announcing The Family History Guide Knowledgebase
We are announcing a major addition to The Family History Guide: the new Knowledgebase.
https://www.thefhguide.com/research.html
Here is the description from a recent blog post:
Two of the main purposes of The Family History Guide are to accelerate your family history learning and research. What better way to assist with those goals, than with a handy reference that offers definitions, tips, guidelines and more. We are excited to announce the first release of our Knowledgebase for The Family History Guide, which covers general research principles and United States research. Keep in mind that this is a work in progress: we will be adding more topics and content as time goes on.
In the drop-down menus, there are several places where you can find the Knowledgebase:
FamilySearch menu, below "Discover"
Ancestry menu, below "Research"
MyHeritage menu, below "Research"
Findmypast menu, below "Research"
Countries menu, below "United States"
We think you will find this a fabulous resource in additional to all the other resources on the website.
Who gets lost in the FamilySearch Family Tree?
Let's suppose that I find a person who is not part of my ancestral family on the FamilySearch.org Family Tree and I decide to "Detach" that person from the family. Where does that person go? Let's further suppose that I find that a parent shown for one of the people in my ancestral line is not really related to my family. Again, I detach my ancestor from the person shown in the Family Tree. But the person in the Family Tree has a whole list of ancestors perhaps going all the way back to Adam. What happens to that liberated family line?
All of these are interesting questions. But they all have the same answer: Nothing. There is a big difference between detaching a relationship and deleting a person. Here is the rule about deleting a person from the Family Tree. See Deleting a person's record from Family Tree.
You can delete a deceased person's record from Family Tree if you are the one that created the record and no other contributor has changed it. The message "Delete Person Unavailable" appears if you cannot delete a person.
You can also delete a living person's record if it appears in your private spaces.
When you delete a record, these changes occur:
Family Tree removes any relationships to other individuals.
The record can no longer be modified.
The record can only be searched by ID number.
What does this mean? It means what it says. You cannot delete a person you did not personally add to the Family Tree. But what happens when you detach a person from a relationship?
The answer to this question depends on whether or not the person detached has other relationships in the Family Tree. I the person is really the only instance of that person in the Family Tree or in other words, has no duplicates, then that person will still be in the database but will be floating unattached. Will the person ever get attached back to the main Family Tree? Yes, if someone enters a duplicate of that person and the program finds the floating individual and merges him or her as a duplicate. By the way, this happens all the time.
What if there is a whole ancestral line detached and floating out there in the Family Tree? Then if someone searches for an individual in the line or adds a duplicate of one of the individuals in the line, then the floating segment of the Family Tree will get reattached. Nothing is really lost.
In effect, all of the "duplicate" entries you find in the Family Tree represent these floaters that exist on alternative little Family Tree segments that are either floating around or attached to some other segment of the Family Tree.
This concept may seem a little strange but it is something you see frequently as you are merging individuals.
There are some imaginary people in the Family Tree beside the mythological connections back to Adam. Here is an example:
Hypothetically, this person might exist, but this entry appears at the end of a line. All of the dates and even the names are made up. There are no sources showing that this person existed back in the 1400s. There are no records showing the birth of any children or a marriage. If this person is a valid entry in the Family Tree then we could simply keep adding identical entries every few years into the past until the line extends back to the Age of Dinosaurs or the creation of the world or whatever. However, interestingly, this type of entry was allowed under the rules for ordinance work many years ago. You were allowed to add a surname and a Mrs. wife so that the sealing ordinance could be done for this hypothetical couples supposed child. This rule no longer exists. But what do I do with this entry? Nothing.
If we someday find the actual existence of this particular family, there is already a placeholder person in the Family Tree. Actually, there are several generations of Jarvis ancestors that have no sources and who jump from one county to another in England beginning back in the 1600s. The entries jump from Wilshire, England to a Jarvis couple who were both born and died in Somerset, about 60 miles away. I am reminded of the First Rule of Genealogy: When the baby was born, the mother was there.
Oh, well, I might get around to detaching this unrelated ancestral line but I still have to determine if it is broken somewhere closer to the present.
A Question about the Ordinances Ready App
I received an email comment concerning the potential restrictions on the number of people who can be reserved for ordinances on the FamilySearch.org Family Tree. The commentator expressed dismay at the limitation because he was concerned that he would not have "enough" ordinances for his family. The comment was sent in response to a presentation which I did recently. Here is my reply:
Perhaps you didn't understand that the Ordinances Ready app is the answer. Each person is supposed to use the app for his or her own names. So, if you have a grandchild who is able to go to the Temple, he or she logs into FamilySearch and can get names from their own list or the from the following order:
1. It pulls names from your own reservation list on FamilySearch.org
2. It pulls from any ordinances you personally have shared with the Temples
3. It pulls names related to you from the global temple list of shared names
4. It finally walks up and down your lines looking for other available ordinances (i.e.
green icons)
5. If none of these work, it pulls a name of an ancestor from the global temple list
Essentially, you can use the app to recapture names that you personally have shared with the Temple. You can also do what I do. I maintain an "unreserved list." Because I had so many names on my list, I "unreserved" some of them, i.e. turned them into green icons on the Family Tree. I put all of these "unreserved" names on a list on Google Docs or Word so that if I needed more names, I could add them to my Temple list assuming someone in the family had not found them previously and done the work. With a limit, we do not have to be concerned that someone else will hoard the names and not do the work.
I hope that helps to explain why having a limit will not be a burden on anyone. Once you reach your limit, keep on finding names and put them on your unreserved list. Then you will have all the names you need. But the whole idea is that your family can use the Ordinances Ready app to do work you, a close relative, have shared with the Temples.
For example, I do not have any baptisms on my Temple list right now but I can go to the Ordinances Ready list and get four names from my shared names or from the shared names of my close relatives if I needed to do so.
Of course, the question goes deeper than a simple concern about maintaining a cushion of ordinances for family members. The key issue is that historically members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have long relied upon the work of a few dedicated genealogical researchers, not only to provide names for Temple ordinances but also to do all of the genealogical research for a family. I see the transition from this traditional model to emphasizing the need for each person, including young people, to be actively involved in the process.
Because the Ordinances Ready app draws primarily from the names which have been already submitted, whether or not the names are duplicates or unrelated is essentially moot. The names have already been submitted.
Hopefully, the members of the Church will not use the Ordinances Ready app as an excuse to avoid doing any original research.
The Family History Guide Reaches Thousands at RootsTech 2019
thefhguide.com
The report is in from Bob Taylor of The Family History Guide. I thought I would share some of the comments and statistics. I spent quite a bit of time at The Family History Guide booth, but I was busy with presentations, classes, networking, interviews and just visiting most of the time. However, my wife Ann taught several of the classes at the booth and we all helped the patrons. We had some wonderful volunteers who did a great job of helping.
Here are some samples of what we heard about The Family History Guide at RootsTech 2019:
"You've made my RootsTech experience worth the time and money it cost me to be here."
"Why haven't we been told about this incredible tool?"
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"I'm no longer scared of my calling."
"Wow, is this cool or what"!
"I have plenty of encouragement as to why I should do family history. What I need is a tool to help me be successful in my consultant calling, and that's what The Family History Guide has been for me."
"With The Family History Guide, I feel like I am at the opening of a gold mine with a cart next to me."
"I feel like I could do cartwheels out of the Salt Palace after hearing this presentation on The Family History Guide; I'm so excited about what I learned!"
"l was listening to what the people around me were saying. They all said they were SO glad they attended this seminar – that it was so good and so clear, it should have been an entire conference itself."
These are real quotes, I heard some of them myself and sometimes more than once. You know, for many people learning about The Family History Guide is like they were lost in the wilderness and suddenly finding a map, a working GPS, and guide book. Here are some statistics about the event.
The Thursday presentation in Ballroom B had 1,100 attendees, with a room capacity of 1,200.
The Saturday presentation was at the close of RootsTech when many attendees had already left, but there were about 250 there, over 2/3 of which were family history consultants.
Mini-classes at the booth totaled 317 attendees.
The total number of demos given at the booth was approximately 1,600.
Total people directly reached with a demo, mini-class, or full presentation: over 3,200.
We are already looking forward to RootsTech in London and RootsTech 2020.
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Vodafone Ghana won three different awards at the Ghana Business Awards and the Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana (CIMG) Awards held over the weekend.
At the Ghana Business Awards, Vodafone Ghana was named Telecommunications Company of the Year, and Patricia Obo-Nai, the company's Chief Executive Officer (CEO), won the CEO of the Year (Private Sector) Award.
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NDC members urged to study manifesto
Kumasi, Nov 4, GNA - Members and sympathisers of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have been urged to study the Party's manifesto to enable them to explain its contents to the electorate.
Mr Ibrahim Salu, NDC Parliamentary Candidate for Tafo-Pankrono, who gave the advice, said, "the ability of the NDC to entice more people to its fold and win the 2004 General Election depends on how best members are able to convince the electorate on the Party's manifesto". He was speaking at a meeting of the Tafo-Pankrono Youth Working Group of the NDC held in Kumasi on Tuesday.
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The consolation prize for Bennett's second place will be the green jersey, which he takes from Nairo Quintana. But no change in the red jersey standings as Nico Roche retains his two-second lead over Nairo Quintana. Thanks for joining me today and see you tomorrow for the first summit finish of the Vuelta.
Neither knew who had won that after they crossed the line: Bennett had a better lunge but was coming from behind, and had to deviate his sprint a little after the Dutchman moved off his line to the left. Max Walscheid took third for Sunweb ahead of Fernando Gaviria and Luka Mezgec.
Victory for Fabio Jakobsen (Deceuninck-QuickStep) ahead of Sam Bennett (Bora-Hansgrohe).
Photo finish! Jakobsen is led out by Richeze and looks to have it - but Bennett could have pipped him right at the death!
Under the flamme rouge (which is actually dark green) they go. Cavagna has been caught. Bahrain Merida and Bauhaus move up but Sam Bennett is out of position...
It's Bora who are leading the chase but Jakobsen appears to be well placed.
They're closing in on Cavagna slowly but surely. The Frenchman is dying a thousand deaths and will be caught before the flamme rouge. Still three more roundabouts to go...
They're through the magic 3km marker so some riders will start to sit up now.
Cavagna is still out ahead after digging deep into the pain cave. He almost came a cropper on that last roundabout - as did many of the riders in the pack behind - and he has around 10 seconds.
Cavagna still has a decent gap on the peloton. It probably means QuickStep don't think much of Jakobsen's efforts. And the Frenchman has a whole roundabout's lead over his chasers.
Roundabouts galore! And they're taking their toll on the already streamlined pack, which is in disarray. Remi Cavagna of Deceuninck-QuickStep takes advantage to zip clear.
Wout Poels and Jesus Herrada have been caught out in that split, as has Louis Meintjes.
Big Tony Martin has now come to the front to keep Primoz Roglic out of trouble. It's very flat and exposed with a bit of wind, so they could be worried about echelons and splits.
A lot of riders are losing contact off the back of the peloton so there could be some time losses today if some of the GC guys have not been attentive.
Now EF Education First have come to the front with four riders - just because they can. Astana and Sunweb are near the front, too. Ineos aren't anywhere to be seen - no surprise, for their race is effectively over until the terrain suits a breakaway for either Poels or Geoghegan Hart.
Rear wheel puncture for Thomas De Gendt, who will miss the hectic finale now. Expect him to be in the break tomorrow for the first summit finish of the race - making this probably a puncture of convenience.
Groupama-FDJ come to the front working for their sprinter Marc Sarreau, who could only make 11th yesterday. Sunweb are also in the mix to keep Roche out of trouble while protecting their sprinter Max Walscheid, who was 14th yesterday.
Wallays looks to have given up. He's outpaced the storm but couldn't defy the peloton. He wasn't helped by Cubero's mechanical.
Just 32 seconds now for Wallays. So, who can take it to Bennett in the sprint? Fabio Jakobsen couldn't keep up with his leadout train yesterday; Fernando Gaviria was dropped on the final climb; Luka Mezgec was the quickest finisher but left it too late; Edward Theuns seens to have a better knack of coming second rather than first. They're the main rivals the Irishman will have to contend with.
It's all over for Cubero but Wallays is not throwing in the towel just yet. He still has 45 seconds and will be hoping for a repeat of last year's Stage 18 heroics.
Lone leader Wallays has 40 seconds on Cubero and 1'10" on the peloton.
John Degenkolb is off the back of the peloton again - he seems to be suffering from a series of setbacks and I imagine Trek will give sprinting duties to Edward Theuns again after the Belgian finished second behind Bennett yesterday.
Game over for Jorge Cubero, who has a mechanical issue with his derailleur and needs assistance from the neutral service car. It will be unlikely that the Spaniard catches Wallays up ahead before the peloton catches him.
QuickStep have now come to the front and are driving the peloton along at quite a fair lick following the descent. The gap is still 1'40" but the pack is all lined out now with the race well and truly on.
Angel Madrazo has zipped clear of the peloton in the hunt of the final KoM point over the top. The Spaniard is currenty leading the polka dot jersey standings so this could consolidate his grip on the climbers' competition. He takes third after his teammate Cubero went over behind Wallays around 1'35" earlier.
The rain appears to have stopped now. The Trek rider in trouble was John Degenkolb and he's now being paced back by teammate Niklas Eg.
Dropped chain or a touch of wheels from one of the Trek riders, who has stopped in the middle of this sodden road with a teammate. Astana and Jumbo-Visma have come to the front.
It's raining cats and dogs now - or should we say, gatos y perros.
We're onto the Cat.3 Puerto del Oronet (5.8km at 4.5%). The gap for the two leaders is still 1'25".
Wallays and Cubero share out the spoils in the intermediate sprint at Naquera before Ag2R-La Mondiale send a couple of riders ahead of the pack to mop up the final points and bonus second. It's Pierre Latour. Wallays was the man who 'won' the sprint. Meanwhile, Rigo Uran is receiving some attention to his left elbow after that crash. He'll hope to get it bandaged up before the climb so that he doesn't lose contact should there be any action.
Uran and five EF teammates are almost back with the pack after that spill.
CRASH: Rigoberto Uran and Mitch Docker touch wheels and hit the deck. They're surrounded by other EF Education First teammates. Uran was not happy there and gesticulated towards Docker, who he clearly thought was to blame for that one...
With the gap down to just 1'25" the riders are heading ever closer to those stormy skies. They're 6km away from the intermediate sprint which precedes the only categorised climb of the day.
The riders have passed through the town of L'Eliana where tomorrow's stage begins. The locals are big fans of swimming pools - although you can say that about the Spanish in general. Can you blame them?
The pace is slow today - well slower than the slowest average speed forecast. The gap is 2'15" for the two escapees whose chances of staying out are about as big as Boris Johnson's still being Prime Minister this time in a year.
Nice tough. Although pro cycling must be one of the only places in life where people are celebrated for handing out their rubbish to strangers.
The gap has come down to under three minutes now but there's still no sign of the rain that's expected to blight the end of this stage.
Bora and QuickStep have a rider each on the front - Pawel Poljanski and Tim Declercq respectively - ahead of the Sunweb train. Interesting to see no presence from UAE Team Emirates, who sent Oliviero Troia on pacing duties yesterday, but whose sprinter Fernando Gaviria was dropped on the final climb and did not contest the sprint.
Rafa Majka (Bora-Hansgrohe) was involved in that earlier crash but seems to be back in the bunch, which is passing through the feed zone with a deficit of four minutes. Aritz Bagües (Euskadi-Murias) came off the worst in the crash and has a sore wrist, but has not thrown in the towel.
Tim Declercq comes to the front to help with the chase. He'll be hoping for a better showing from Deceuninck-QuickStep's sprinter Fabio Jakobsen today after the Dutch champion was dropped on the climb yesterday before fighting back but only managing seventh place in Alicante.
The gap is 4'35" for our two leaders, Wallays and Cubero, who have been out pretty much since kilometre zero.
TRANSFER NEWS: We're hearing that the out-of-contract Wout Poels will join Bahrain-Merida next season, where he'll team up with former teammate Mikel Landa. Also tipped to join the Italian team is Mark Cavendish and Bernie Eisel from Dimension Data. It looks like Rod Ellingworth - the former Sky coach who has joined Bahrain Merida - is getting the old band back together.
We're hearing that there's an 80% chance of rain between here and the finish. Race leader Nico Roche is on red alert...
Vuelta a Espana 2019 news - Nicolas Roche: We can't afford to 'ride stupid' in the rain
Kruijswijk was third in July's Tour de France and fourth in last year's Vuelta. He struggled on Sunday following that opening day crash, crossing the line in Calpe 1'43" down on the winner Nairo Quintana. We're hearing knee pain was the cause of his withdrawal.
And here's what Kruijswijk himself had to say about it...
This was the incident which saw most of the Jumbo-Visma team - including Kruijswijk - hit the deck on Sunday, with a leaking paddling pool apparently the cause of the water on the road.
Video - 'Oh no! This is a disaster!' - Favourites Jumbo-Visma wiped out in time trial crash
CRASH: Numerous riders have hit the deck. Bahrain Merida, Bora-Hansgrohe, Mitchelton-Scott and EF Education First were all involved in that spill.
We're not sure what happened to Kruijswijk but the Dutchman did hit the deck badly in that opening day TTT crash for Jumbo-Visma before conceding time on the Cumbre del Sol climb in Sunday's Stage 2. He's clearly more bashed up than we thought - and that will be a blow for his team and leader Primoz Roglic.
We're hearing that Steven Kruijswijk (Jumbo-Visma) has abandoned the Vuelta.
We may have done Cubero a slight injustice earlier. Sure, he's no big winner, but he was twice the most combative rider during his maiden Vuelta last year. He's back for a second bite of the apple this year after a bad crash in the Volta a Catalunya derailed most his season.
Nairo Quintana is in the green jersey today once again despite being tied for points with Sam Bennett. Here's why...
The leaders covered 39.6km in the first hour of racing today - which is fewer kilometres than the trio yesterday, despite the more favourable terrain. That could be something to do with the cross headwind.
The Bora-Hansgrohe team of yesterday's winner Sam Bennett have come to the front to help out Nicolas Roche's Sunweb team in a quasi-Irish alliance. The gap for the two leaders is 6'48". I'm going to zip down to the Eurosport canteen to pick up some lunch. Back in a (brown) jiffy.
Here's how Wallays held off the rampaging peloton to win that stage last year...
Video - Wallays holds off peloton to win Stage 18 nail-biter
Thirty-year-old Wallays is riding his fourth consecutive Vuelta for Lotto Soudal. Last year, he won Stage 18 in Lleida after he and fellow escapee Sven Erik Bystrom held off a late charge from Peter Sagan and Elia Viviani in the peloton. That was the seventh and by far the biggest win of his career - although he did also win Paris-Tours in 2014 and Dwars door Vlaanderen in 2015.
This is 26-year-old's second successive Vuelta appearance for Burgos-BH. He completed his maiden Grand Tour last year in 89th place with his best finish being 22nd, according to the gospel that is Procyclingstats. He has no pro wins to his name; indeed, his best ever result is apparently 17th place in the Vuelta Ciclista a La Rioja in 2016.
With the gap up to six minutes now, Jelle Wallays is 1'45" away from being the virtual red jersey. As for Cubero, he's 16'44" down on GC so will have no lofty aspirations besides some TV time today.
The gap is pushing five minutes now for our two leaders with the Sunweb team of red jersey Nicolas Roche doing their duty and controlling the tempo on the front of the pack.
If you missed yesterday's action, here are some highlights...
Video - Highlights: 'Anarchy' in the peloton before Bennett storms to Stage 3 win
They may have come first and second in the Tour de France, but Team Ineos are having a shocker in Spain with their two GC riders - Wout Poels and Tao Geoghegan Hart - shipping the best part of 10 minutes in Stage 2 on the Cumbre del Sol climb around 40km from the finish. Here's what our social worker Bradley Wiggins had to say about it...
The advantage of our two plucky escapees - who, given today's terrain, are clearly on to a hiding to nothing - is up to three minutes.
It's not often that it's warmer in south England than it is on the Balearic coast south of Valencia - but that's the case today. While the UK is engulfed in another heatwave, it's a sunny buy more tolerable 26 degrees in Cullera.
An early two-man attack comes from Belgium's Jelle Wallays (Lotto Soudal) and Spain's Jorge Cubero (Burgos-BH). No response from the peloton.
They're off! The remaining 175 riders - just the one withdrawal: Mickael Delage of Groupama - roll through the neutral zone and get today's stage under way.
Irish riders have a good relationship with Cullera, which bodes well for the men of the moment - Bennett and Roche...
Here's what's on the cards today: The likes of Fernando Gavria, Fabio Jakobsen and Luka Mezgec will have the chance to make amends in the 175.5km fourth stage, which features just the one categorised climb ahead of a flat and fast finish north of Valencia. But with Bennett in the form that he is, it will take something special to stop the Irishman romping to a 13th win of the season.
Video - La Vuelta profile stage 4
Here's the state of play going into today's stage with Roche holding a two-second lead over Nairo Quintana, the Stage 2 winner, on the nascent GC.
Yesterday, Ireland's Sam Bennett (Bora-Hansgrohe) notched a maiden win on La Vuelta with an emphatic sprint win in Stage 3 ahead of Belgium's Edward Theuns and Slovenia's Luka Mezgec. On a great day for Ireland, Bennett's countryman Nicolas Roche (Team Sunweb) retained the red jersey after a straight-forward day in southeastern Spain.
Vuelta a Espana 2019 news - Sam Bennett storms to Stage 3 sprint victory in Alicante
Hola and welcome to live coverage of Stage 4 of the Vuelta a Espana - a largely flat 175.5km schlep from Cullera to El Puig.


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House Bill Simplifies and Fixes PSLF, Overhauls Higher Education
Pete Levine on Tuesday, October 22 2019 - 12:03pm
A bill that has been introduced in the House of Representatives would simplify the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program for current and would-be participants.
The College Affordability Act, introduced by Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) on Tuesday, is aimed at overhauling of the higher education system and making college more affordable.
With regards to PSLF, the bill seeks to make a number of changes to make it easier for the borrowers to repay loans, offer loan forgiveness to those who've applied but have been wrongly rejected, and simplify the overly complex program.
When PSLF started in 2007, its goal was to persuade people to join public service in exchange for loan forgiveness. After 10 years of work in public service and a decade of monthly payments, the balance of borrowers' student loans were to be forgiven.
However, when it came time to have their loans forgiven 10 years later, nearly 99% of those who applied for forgiveness were rejected, in part because the task of applying for forgiveness was onerous, confusing and misleading. A scathing recent report issued by the House Committee on Education and Labor highlights the reasons for those failures.
To help fix rampant problems with the PSLF, the College Affordability Act will improve and expand the program by:
Allowing PSLF borrowers who were in the wrong repayment plan to count original monthly payments toward the total for loan forgiveness;
Requiring the Department of Education to create an appeal process to help borrowers dispute denied PSLF applications;
Expanding the job categories and types of public employees who are eligible for PSLF.
With the cost of college continuing to rise and the number of people saddled with student loan debt also increasing (and with people taking longer to pay back their loans), the legislation will provide much-needed relief to millions of other students and their families.
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Grand jury no-bills judge over backdating complaints
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Dec. 20, 2013 Updated: Dec. 20, 2013 3:22 p.m.
1of6Judge Denise Pratt speaks to the media after a grand jury gave her a no-bill in a case where she was accused of tampering with court documents, Dec. 20, 2013 in Houston.Eric Kayne/For the ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
2of6Attorney Terry Yates right, makes a statement on behalf of Judge Denise Pratt, center, after a grand jury gave a no-bill in a case where she was accused of tampering with court documents, Dec. 20, 2013 in Houston.Eric Kayne/For the ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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A Harris County grand jury declined to indict state District Judge Denise Pratt, her lawyer Terry Yates said Friday. The freshman Republican judge had been under investigation for allegedly backdating court records to cover up tardy rulings.
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Pratt, through Yates, repeatedly has denied any wrongdoing.
Enos said in an e-mail that Pratt's backdating of court orders "was always just the tip of the iceberg of problems with her, but that was what happened to arguably be a crime."
"I did my duty to bring it to the DA's attention and I do not regret doing so," he said.
As a result of the investigation, several family court lawyers have sought to recuse Pratt from their cases. A pair of visiting judges approved nine of those requests earlier this week.
Enos filed a similar complaint last year against a Galveston County judge that preceded an investigation by the state attorney general and multiple indictments related to judicial misconduct that led to the judge's suspension and eventual resignation.
Judge removed from eight more cases


If you want to get the proper introduction to Sweden, this is the tour for you! Using food as the tool for exploring, we introduce you to what the land of ABBA and VOLVO is all about and take you on an exciting walking tour that highlights the foods that are and have been prolific in making Sweden one of the happiest countries in the world. Come taste the meatballs and fish soups that have got international acclaim, indulge in Swedish chocolate that is being served at Royal weddings and be guaranteed to taste something you have never tasted before… smoked liquorice!The tour last for 4 hours over 7 individual stops. The total walking distance is 2 miles (3.5km) and the tastings make up a full meal.


Prime Industrial/Commercial site. Adjacent to industrial property to the west and commercial/retail property to the east. Railroad adjacent to the southern property line. This site is a State of Illinois designated Enterprise Zone. New and existing business in this Zone are offered state and local tax incentives and other benefits to reduce operating and construction costs. Currently in agriculture.


In January, Corning received a Technology & Engineering Emmy® award from The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for its 1970 invention of low-loss optical fiber.
The award honors breakthrough innovations that materially affected television engineering.
This February, Corning announced that it was recognized by the 2017 Lightwave Innovation Reviews for its MiniXtend® cable with binderless* FastAccess® technology.
Verizon Communications Inc. in April announced a three-year minimum purchase agreement with Corning Incorporated to provide fiber optic cable and associated hardware for Verizon to ensure critical coverage and capacity for its nationwide wireless broadband network.
The agreement calls for Corning to provide and Verizon to purchase up to 20 million kilometers (12.4 million miles) of optical fiber each year from 2018 through 2020, with a minimum purchase commitment of $1.05 billion.
Corning Incorporated, along with network provider Openreach, jointly claimed this year's prestigious Infrastructure Innovation award at the Global Telecoms Business (GTB) Innovation Awards in London.
The prize, co-awarded to Corning and Openreach, recognizes the innovative deployment of Corning's OptiTap®aerial hybrid drop solution. Developed through close collaboration with Openreach, the Corning solution was designed to aid field engineers tasked with cable installation.
Corning announced that its EDGE8™ solution was crowned "Data Center Cabling Product of the Year" at the 2017 Data Center Solutions (DCS) Awards in London. This is the fifth consecutive year that a Corning product has won a DCS award.
Corning's EDGE8 solution is the industry's first modular, tip-to-tip optical cabling system to feature an 8-fiber (base-8) cabling design that maximizes per-rack-unit density for better network scalability and improved link performance. Since its original launch, the EDGE8 solution has evolved to provide even greater flexibility in high-speed deployments.
Later in June, Corning launched its multiuse platform, the industry's first solution to offer a combination of multifiber and single-fiber connection points, making it easier for carriers, operators, and municipalities to quickly deploy fiber-deep access networks.
Capable of supporting a mix of network architectures in the same fiber optic backbone, the multiuse platform is a major advancement for LTE connectivity and a 5G future.
In August, Corning Optical Communications announced it received the 2016 AT&T* Global Supplier Diversity Crystal Award.
Corning Optical Communications was recognized for its commitment and support of AT&T in its goal to work with minority-, women- and disabled veteran-owned companies in its supply chain. Winners of this award utilized 21.5% or more diverse companies in the products/services they provided to AT&T.
A significant milestone was announced this September - delivering its 1 billionth kilometer of optical fiber. The company celebrated with an event at its optical fiber manufacturing facility in Wilmington, North Carolina, the world's first optical fiber manufacturing facility, which today remains one of the world's largest.
Corning invented the first low-loss optical fiber in 1970, which helped launch the age of optical communications and ultimately transformed the way the world creates, shares, and consumes information. Since that time, Corning optical fiber has been deployed in hundreds of thousands of networks across the globe, from long-haul and submarine networks to access networks and data centers.
Three of Optical Communications' innovative optical communications products received gold-level awards at the annual Cabling Installation & Maintenance Innovators Awards program in September.
Corning's EDGE8™ solutions, ALTOS® cable with binderless* FastAccess® technology, and ALTOS Lite™ cable with FastAccess technology, were recognized by a judging panel consisting of cabling and communications system specifiers, designers, integrators, and managers with vast professional experience.
Most recently, Corning announced that it has entered into agreements with 3M to purchase substantially all of 3M's Communication Markets Division in a cash transaction valued at approximately $900 million. The acquisition is expected to close during 2018, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approval.
Corning's Optical Communications segment will acquire approximately $400 million in annual sales of high bandwidth and optical fiber products. "Corning leads in optical passive components and solutions. This transaction expands both our global market reach and our high-bandwidth portfolio. It also provides new co-innovation opportunities and enhances our ability to serve customers globally," said Clark S. Kinlin, executive vice president, Corning Optical Communications.


Unfortunately we have had another shark attack in Fish hoek around 45min ago. I don't have all the details, but from what I can gather, a man was attacked around a quarter of the way down towards Fish Hoek main beach from Clovelly beach. He has been seriously injured, but seems to have been stabilised before being flown to hospital. Awesome job to whom ever was able to help before the medics got to him. Big up to the medics here in Fish Hoek and ER24 chopper crew, you have most likely saved the mans life. Please send prayers out to the man and his family.
I have kept my distance with these photos, so there is nothing too hectic to view.
Two things I noticed, it happened where the river is flowing into the sea and the other, just like our last attack, happened when there weren't many people in the sea, very quiet. Apparently the sea was closed at the time due to shark activity. He must not have known?
I know our life saving club uses buoys with the shark repellant modules during training, maybe now Fish Hoek should consider placing these buoys across the beach in certain areas?
I notice you haven't surfed for a while…and I'm thinking that your busyness is just an excuse!
Excellant photographs! Loved seeing the photos today… I am a fellow Capetonian now residing in Canada, so seeing this felt like I was back in the Cape!
Hey there! Great website ! I really enjoyed being here.


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Peter Drinkwater (1750 – 15 November 1801) was an English cotton manufacturer and merchant.

Born in Whalley, Lancashire, he had a successful career as a fustian manufacturer using the domestic putting-out system, and as a merchant based in Bolton and Manchester, before he turned to large-scale factory production in the 1780s.

In 1782 he opened his first cotton mill on the River Weaver in Northwich, Cheshire and in 1789 he started construction of the Piccadilly Mill in Manchester. This was the first mill in Manchester to be directly driven by a steam engine.

References

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1750 births
1801 deaths
English businesspeople
People of the Industrial Revolution
British textile industry businesspeople
People from Northwich

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Costa Rica and most Latin American countries are more ecologically efficient than richer nations such as the USA and Germany. That's the message that comes out of the new Happy Planet Index, launched today by nef (the new economics foundation).
The HPI is a measure of progress that measures what matters – the extent to which people within countries achieve long, happy, lives whilst leaving resources for future generations to do the same. It's an efficiency measure – how much well-being do countries produce per unit of ecological resources?
For the second time, Costa Rica tops the list. In this small Central American country, life expectancy is second only to Canada within the Americas, experienced well-being is higher than many richer nations, and the average Ecological Footprint of the population is one third the size of the average US citizen. Of the top 10 countries, only one is not in Latin America.
Meanwhile, Western nations are somewhat behind, the highest ranking European country being Norway in 29th place, just behind New Zealand in 28th. The US comes 105th. All of these countries do well, or at least reasonably well in terms of achieving health and happiness (though bear in mind that life expectancy in the US, for example, is only 3 years more than in Vietnam). But what really brings their HPI scores down is their Ecological Footprint. Happy and healthy yes, but not sustainably so.
The HPI highlights the importance of how we measure progress. Bringing the two central goals of well-being now and well-being in the future together into a single simple measure, it allows us to get a sense of the direction we need to travel in. It highlights that the countries that are normally seen as the models of success, such as the US or even places like Denmark (ranked 110th) are not actually the closest to achieving sustainable well-being. It ensures that measures of environmental impact are brought together with measures of what people instinctively and naturally value, and not left aside as additional information. And it does all this in a way that is easy to communicate.


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package app

import (
	"fmt"
	"os"

	raven "github.com/getsentry/raven-go"
	"github.com/labstack/echo"
	newrelic "github.com/newrelic/go-agent"
	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
	"github.com/spf13/viper"
	"github.com/topfreegames/mqttbot/bot"
	"github.com/topfreegames/mqttbot/logger"
	"github.com/topfreegames/mqttbot/redisclient"
)

// App is the struct that defines the application
type App struct {
	Debug       bool
	Port        int
	Host        string
	API         *echo.Echo
	MQTTBot     *bot.MQTTBot
	RedisClient *redisclient.RedisClient
	NewRelic    newrelic.Application
}

// GetApp creates an app given the parameters
func GetApp(host string, port int, debug bool) *App {
	logger.SetupLogger(viper.GetString("logger.level"))
	logger.Logger.Debug(
		fmt.Sprintf("Starting app with host: %s, port: %d", host, port))
	app := &App{
		Host:  host,
		Port:  port,
		Debug: debug,
	}
	app.Configure()
	return app
}

// Configure configures the application
func (app *App) Configure() {
	app.setConfigurationDefaults()
	app.configureSentry()

	app.configureNewRelic()

	app.loadConfiguration()
	app.configureApplication()
}

func (app *App) configureNewRelic() {
	newRelicKey := viper.GetString("newrelic.key")
	config := newrelic.NewConfig("mqttbot", newRelicKey)
	if newRelicKey == "" {
		logger.Logger.Info("New Relic is not enabled..")
		config.Enabled = false
	}
	nr, err := newrelic.NewApplication(config)
	if err != nil {
		logger.Logger.Error("Failed to initialize New Relic.", err)
		panic(fmt.Sprintf("Could not initialize New Relic, err: %s", err))
	}

	app.NewRelic = nr
	logger.Logger.Info("Initialized New Relic successfully.")
}

func (app *App) setConfigurationDefaults() {
	viper.SetDefault("healthcheck.workingText", "WORKING")
}

func (app *App) loadConfiguration() {
	viper.AutomaticEnv()

	if err := viper.ReadInConfig(); err == nil {
		logger.Logger.Debug("Config file read successfully")
	} else {
		panic(fmt.Sprintf("Could not load configuration file, err: %s", err))
	}
}

func (app *App) configureSentry() {
	sentryURL := viper.GetString("sentry.url")
	logger.Logger.Info(fmt.Sprintf("Configuring sentry with URL %s", sentryURL))
	raven.SetDSN(sentryURL)
}

func (app *App) configureApplication() {
	app.MQTTBot = bot.GetMQTTBot()

	log.SetFormatter(&log.JSONFormatter{})
	log.SetOutput(os.Stdout)

	contextLogger := log.WithField("source", "app")

	app.API = echo.New()
	a := app.API
	a.Use(NewLoggerMiddleware(contextLogger).Serve)
	a.Use(NewSentryMiddleware(app).Serve)
	a.Use(VersionMiddleware)
	a.Use(NewRecoveryMiddleware(app.OnErrorHandler).Serve)
	a.Use(NewNewRelicMiddleware(app, contextLogger).Serve)

	// Routes
	a.GET("/healthcheck", HealthCheckHandler(app))

	app.RedisClient = redisclient.GetRedisClient(viper.GetString("redis.host"), viper.GetInt("redis.port"), viper.GetString("redis.password"))
}

//OnErrorHandler handles application panics
func (app *App) OnErrorHandler(err interface{}, stack []byte) {
	logger.Logger.Error(err)

	var e error
	switch err.(type) {
	case error:
		e = err.(error)
	default:
		e = fmt.Errorf("%v", err)
	}

	tags := map[string]string{
		"source": "app",
		"type":   "panic",
	}
	raven.CaptureError(e, tags)
}

// Start starts the application
func (app *App) Start() {
	err := app.API.Start(fmt.Sprintf("%s:%d", app.Host, app.Port))
	if err != nil {
		log.WithError(err).Error("App failed to start.")
	}
}

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Nathan Eric Dickman
Asian Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Critical Theory, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Religion
Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Priority of Questions in Religions, Using Questions to Think
Nathan Eric Dickman (PhD, The University of Iowa) is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Ozarks, USA. He researches in hermeneutic phenomenology, philosophy of language, and comparative questions in philosophies of religions, with particular concerns about global social justice issues in ethics and religions. He has taught a breadth of courses, such as Critical Thinking, Islam, Ethics, Zen, Existentialism, and the Historical Jesus. Using Questions to Think (Bloomsbury, 2021) examines the roles questions play in critical thinking and reasoning, and Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Priority of Questions in Religions (Bloomsbury, 2022) examines the roles questions play in religious discourse.


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Q: Php getting all values from the string By doing ajax I am getting one result in php like this
source_lang_pair[]=EN-NO&source_lang_pair[]=NE-NO&source_lang_pair[]=HI-NO&source_lang_pair[]=OR-NO&source_lang_pair[]=JA-NO&resource_search_name=aa

I want to extract all the values of source_lang_pair and resource_search_name value together.
I have tried parse_str but its not working. So can someone tell me how to extract those values from the string?

A: parse_str works great like this:
<?php
$str = "source_lang_pair[]=EN-NO&source_lang_pair[]=NE-NO&source_lang_pair[]=HI-NO&source_lang_pair[]=OR-NO&source_lang_pair[]=JA-NO&resource_search_name=aa";
parse_str($str);
echo $resource_search_name;
echo "<br/>";
var_dump ($source_lang_pair);

Output:
aa
array(5) {
  [0]=>
  string(5) "EN-NO"
  [1]=>
  string(5) "NE-NO"
  [2]=>
  string(5) "HI-NO"
  [3]=>
  string(5) "OR-NO"
  [4]=>
  string(5) "JA-NO"
}

or you can use like this for uncertainty:
<?php
$str = "source_lang_pair[]=EN-NO&source_lang_pair[]=NE-NO&source_lang_pair[]=HI-NO&source_lang_pair[]=OR-NO&source_lang_pair[]=JA-NO&resource_search_name=aa";
parse_str($str, $output_array);
var_dump ($output_array);

This time your output will be:
array(2) {
  ["source_lang_pair"]=>
  array(5) {
    [0]=>
    string(5) "EN-NO"
    [1]=>
    string(5) "NE-NO"
    [2]=>
    string(5) "HI-NO"
    [3]=>
    string(5) "OR-NO"
    [4]=>
    string(5) "JA-NO"
  }
  ["resource_search_name"]=>
  string(2) "aa"
}

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