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Google at 15: Tips and tools for journalists
To celebrate Google's 15th birthday here are 15 different ways that Google products can make a journalist's work a little easier
Posted: 5 September 2013 By: Alastair Reid
Credit: By Robert Scoble on Flickr. Some rights reserved.
Fifteen years ago yesterday, Google was first incorporated as a company by a pair of PhD students at Stanford University, working out of a friend's garage. In a relatively short space of time the company has grown to dominate the internet and, despite recent and ongoing controversies, its services remain invaluable. Given such success it would be fair to say Sergey Brin and Larry Page's decision to rebrand their 1997 search engine, originally called BackRub, was a wise one.
To commemorate the anniversary we have collated a list of 15 tips and tools for journalists. It is by no means exhaustive, please feel free to add any more suggestions in the comments below.
5 search tips
1. Site search
Looking for information within specific sites can occasionally prove difficult, whether it is your own site or somewhere else, but Google's site search function streamlines the process. As an example, if you were looking for mentions of Google on Journalism.co.uk, type site:journalism.co.uk google into the search bar or Chrome URL bar and then check the results.
2. Search by file type
Official documents, government legislation, academic papers, local council datasets – all may be locked away in a file in a website. Searching by file type makes finding them easier. Choose your keywords or the title of the document or file and then add filetype:XXX at the end.
To quote the Data Journalism Handbook: "For example, you can look only for spreadsheets (by appending your search with 'filetype:XLS filetype:CSV'), geodata ('filetype:shp'), or database extracts ('filetype:MDB, filetype:SQL, filetype:DB'). If you're so inclined, you can even look for PDFs ('filetype:pdf')."
3. Search by image
Search by image lets you do exactly that: upload a picture or paste an image URL into the search box to find any relevant material or websites related to that image. Using the example of a band photo, Google's how-to guide says the search results "might include similar images, webpages about the band, and even sites that include the same picture".
This is an important tool to aid in verification (more on that in this guide).
4. Google Goggles
Google Goggles is essentially the same as "search by image" but built into the Google Search app for Android or iOS. Useful if you're out in the field and need information on something quickly; simply take a photo and the app will do the rest.
5. Search by colour
In the "search tools" tab of image search you there is a "color" tab. This can be a really handy option if you are trying to find a particular image or information. There is an excellent guide (by Colin Meek) on how this is useful to journalists here.
5 Chrome tools
6. Table Capture (Chrome browser extension)
For anyone who has ever tried to grab an HTML table from a website and realised the resulting mess is far more trouble than it's worth, meet Table Capture. This Chrome browser extension allows for the easy copying of tables from web pages to Excel, Open Office or Google Docs.
7. Storyful MultiSearch (Chrome browser extension)
Storyful, a news agency that finds and verifies stories on social media, recently launched its open-source MultiSearch extension for searching social media. Users can simultaneously search Twitter (for words, videos or images),YouTube, Tumblr, Instagram and Spokeo for keywords, with results appearing in new browser tabs.
8. Page2RSS (Chrome browser extension)
Many websites do not publish RSS feeds, making constantly checking back for changes or updates to useful information a pain. With Page2RSS this process is automated, sending notifications of updates to your RSS reader.
9. OneTab (Chrome browser extension)
As any online journalist will attest, researching stories can sometimes lead to too many browser tabs. Not only does it make it difficult to keep track, but it slows down your computer. OneTab collates every open tab in a window into an accessible list with the tap of a button. How you go about organising numerous collections of tabs after that is down to you.
10. Transcribe (Chrome web app)
No more switching between audio recordings and word processors, Transcribe joins the two and lets you change playback speed, fast forward, rewind and pause with quick keystrokes. (But note, Transcribe will start charging in October).
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11. Google Earth
Mapping the planet is no easy task, as Apple's minor catastrophe proved, but Google has taken to it with aplomb.
As well as being handy on the road, Google Maps lets you create your own maps to illustrate or visualise stories using the maps engine – marking routes and waypoints, dropping pins in locations, shading whole areas and more. This map from the Brighton Argus gave local readers an idea of where they could see the Olympic torch relay in 2012.
Google Earth satellite images have proven to be a valuable storytelling tool. Here is an arresting example from Sri Lankan citizen journalism site Groundviews.
12. Google Fusion Tables
Visualisation tool Google Fusion Tables mixes maps with data, making it a go-to platform for data journalists. Its ease of use means it can be picked up by any reporter with a digital remit, allowing you to turn datasets into pie charts, bar charts, lineplots, scatterplots, timelines, and geographical maps and embed them on your news site.
Former editor of the Guardian Datablog and Datastore, Simon Rogers, put together this guide on how to make a map using Google Fusion Tables. As an example, this map of newspapers was built using Fusion Tables.
There's also this example from the Texas Tribune and a particularly powerful example from 2010 when The Guardian mapped every death in Iraq. Even more examples of Fusion Tables visualisations can be found here.
If your data is a bit messy or disorganised it can be cleaned up in Google Refine (tutorials from Paul Bradshaw here) and stored in Google Drive. Storing data or information potentially sensitive to governments is not, however, recommended.
13. Analytics
Google Analytics is a tool used by many journalists and bloggers to analyse site traffic. Real-time Analytics provides a view of the number of people currently viewing your site, with details on the source of that traffic and whether they are viewing on a mobile, tablet or desktop. You can also see the search terms being used that bring people to your site.
Google Trends is also useful to journalists as it shows what people are searching for. For example, I can enter the search term 'twerking' and see a chart of searches for the term 'twerking' over time, related searches, and which areas of the world are searching for the keyword.
You can also run the search for YouTube, images and Google News, and see when or how news stories accelerated interest in the phrase.
Keywords can be analysed by country, and there are helpful tables and charts to show which brands, animals and actors are being searched for. Google Trends are also visualised.
14. Google+
Google+, whcih launched in June 2011, has a number of features of particular use to journalists. Having a public-facing profile longer than 140 characters lets contacts find out more about you and contact you easily, but you can also link your Google+ account to get a picture byline for stories you have written when they appear in search results. Here's how to set up photo bylines.
A more recent feature of Google+ is communities, providing spaces where people can discuss and share information. Storyful's Open Newsroom, where people work together to verify information shared on social media, is a great example. Communities can be closed or open.
Perhaps one of the real game changers is Hangouts, video chats of up to 10 people, and Hangouts On Air, when the hangout is broadcast to YouTube.
Hangouts On Air have been used to great effect by a number of news outlets. Many have opted to use Hangouts to involve the audience, hosting chats with key public figures or journalists. The news team at Al Jazeera's The Stream has held open editorial meetings using Hangouts.
Here are eight Google+ tools for journalists for a more in-depth look at the platform.
15. Google Glass
The jury is still out on Google Glass. Marc Settle, BBC trainer in mobile journalism, recently told Journalism.co.uk that it could either be "the future" or the computing equivalent of underwhelming personal transporter Segway. There have been recent successes, however, despite the product still being in the prototype stage.
While many media commentators have been debating over how it may or may not "change journalism", journalists at Vice hacked the device to report from riots and protests around the world, integrating new software and increasing Glass's functionality. As with any new technology, Glass's potential is yet to be fully understood.
If you have more tips or tools using Google products feel free to leave them in the comment thread below.
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Grevillea gordoniana is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub or small tree with cylindrical leaves and yellow to orange flowers.

Description
Grevillea gordoniana is an erect shrub or small tree that typically grows to a height of  but does not form a lignotuber. Its leaves are erect, cylindrical to needle-shaped,  long and  wide, sometimes with two or three lobes, and silky-hairy at first. The flowers are arranged in dense, clusters, often held above the foliage, on a rachis  long. The flowers are yellow to orange, the style turning red, the pistil  long. Flowering mainly occurs from September to December and the fruit is an erect, pod-like follicle  long with a rough, sticky surface.

Taxonomy
Grevillea gordoniana was first formally described by Charles Austin Gardner in 1964 in the Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia from specimens he collected near the Murchison River. The specific epithet (gordoniana) honours David Morrice Gordon of Myall Park Botanic Garden.

Distribution and habitat
This grevillea grows in shrubland in near coastal areas of western Western Australia, between Exmouth Gulf and Yuna in the Avon Wheatbelt, Carnarvon, Geraldton Sandplains and Yalgoo biogeographic regions of Western Australia.

Conservation status
Grevillea gordoniana is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.

See also
 List of Grevillea species

References

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Proteales of Australia
Eudicots of Western Australia
Plants described in 1964
Taxa named by Charles Gardner

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What is authenticity? Is it power of intention or thought? Power of intuition. Power of philosophy. It is visual. It is visual philosophy, no matter the chosen style. I look for the power of authenticity's transmission from artist during creation to the art object, whether mine or yours. I look for an authenticity of that transmission's form and structure, color and surface, mark and rhythm. I look for an authenticity of emotion. Authenticity requires a call and response between artist and object. It cannot be predetermined.
Found throughout art history and today created by a wide range of peoples. It is pervasive and passionate belief. All artists are taught by the inner self; answering to personal thoughts and responses that result in something bigger and more encompassing than their seemingly insignificant makers. It is world culture. I believe visual creations to be films of consciousness. I believe visual elements are quietly magnificent. "They can be ugly. They can be decorative and pretty. They can be shy. They can be bold." They are my words. How does the sense of integrity or authenticity differ from artist to artist because of their chosen style? The rigorous honing of form and idea, the poetics of economy, is evident in your works, Traylor, or its opposite–that of accretion, the poetics of accumulation, is evident in your sculpture, Bolden. You both were visual poets of your particular historical moments, seen either in your depiction of southern life, Mr. Traylor, or made evident through your use of societal detritus as a metaphor for harsh reality, both personal and national, Mr. Bolden.
Seen in felt emotion, an essential element of authenticity, taking a myriad of forms and faces ranging from the quietly reticent to the obsessive and almost violently constructed. You record your existence, whether additive or subtractive in your approach. I see existential marks made physical. I see probed consciousness. Circulating centrality, whether the clustered accumulation of holes piercing round metal discs in your sculpture, Bolden, or the subtle and economic movement throughout your drawings, Traylor, that describes a globe, a circle, an encompassing space. Both examples of the circular suggest an underlying philosophy. Both suggest a universal authenticity of spirit. Both reveal that you were visual ministers of your idiosyncratic realms, a long lasting, tangible realm that is art as idiosyncratic religion, idiosyncratic religion as art.
You both are tough and abstract in your approach to image-making in spite of an underlying narrative that prompted the creation of your abstractions. I thank you! I love to revel in your works, my escape from the world's trivia. Were they also your escapes?


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Soulful Rapper Bleary Drops New Project, 'Bad Days'
Soul music originated in the African American community in the 1950s and early 1960s. It combines elements of African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues and jazz. Rap music came out of New York City, and it invokes a vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular". These rhythmic vibes are not exactly what you'd expect coming out of Portland, Oregon. But Bleary is the real deal. He's a new age artist from Portland, OR who is creatively combining the elements of r&b, rap, and soul to deliver substantive lyrics with a melodic yet crunchy flow. His new album is entitled "Bad Days". The 9 song project delightfully showcases his skills as a lyricist and is filled with musical interludes that could fill an album without him uttering a word. Songs like Long Gone and I Tried standout for their creative, experimental sound.
"I got my head heavy, and I can't look back."
Bleary has been attracted to rap ever since he's been able to understand flow, substance, and storytelling. His biggest musical influence is Tupac, for his ability to beautifully combine heart, substance, and flow. In a similar way, Bleary enjoys opening up to listeners about real-life events in which he's been able to grow and implements them into his. After surviving a life-threatening experience, Bleary experienced a hard reset and motivation to take on music full-time.
Bleary continuously encourages his listeners to learn and grow from life's obstacles as they come, growing from them and continuing in their journey. On "Bad Days" he shares his heartfelt thoughts and feelings in a way that is sure to connect with many listeners. He's averaging more than 5K monthly listeners on Spotify, a testament to the work he's put in.
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Building a more welcoming and inclusive Burnaby for all.
BIPT Strategic Plan
BIPT Current Work
BIPT LIP Project Overview
Immigrant Advisory Council
Burnaby Immigrant Programs and Services
Immigrants and the Labour Market in Burnaby
Settlement & Related Resources
Past BIPT Projects
Burnaby Demographics
In 2015 35.6% of the recent
immigration population age 15 and over were in the low income bracket, down from 41.8% in 2010.
Source: 2016 Census
232,755 residents
lived in Burnaby in 2015.
66.6% of Burnaby's recent immigrants
spoke non-official languages most often at home in 2016, notably more than 62.1% of Metro Vancouver's recent immigrants.
30.5% of Burnaby's recent immigrants
spoke Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese and Chinese n.o.s. combined) most often at home.
62.4% of Burnaby's 16,065 recent immigrants
arrived under the economic class, similar to Metro Vancouver's regional levels (63%).
were between the ages of 15 and 44 when arriving Canada.
worked in the retail trade, and the accommodation and food services sectors in 2015.
8.7% of Burnaby's recent immigrants
are refugees.
spoke non-official languages at work.
Burnaby was home to the fourth-largest
immigrant population (115,145) in the Metro Vancouver Region, representing 11.6% of Metro Vancouver's immigrant population.
54% of Burnaby's labour force
are immigrants.
10% of Burnaby's recent immigrants
were unemployed in 2015, significantly higher than their Canadian born counterparts (6.5%).
39.8% of Burnaby's total population
spoke English only as their mother tongue, notably lower (14%) than Metro Vancouver's regional level of 54.0%.
44.4% Of Burnaby's recent
immigration population came from China and the Philippines.
In 2016 56.4% of recent immigrants
aged 25 to 64 had a bachelor's degree or higher, up from 54.9% in 2011.
63.6% Burnaby's residents
self-identified as visible minorities.
In 2016 Immigrants represented
50% of Burnaby's total population - that's 115,145 people.
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Ottawa's immigration plan trims economic migrants
By Peter O'Neil, Vancouver Sun |
The Liberal government received some sharp B.C. criticism after unveiling a 2016 immigration plan that increases the emphasis on family reunification and on refugees at the expense of skilled workers.
For the first year in more than a century, Canada expects to bring in at least 300,000 permanent residents, up from just over 279,000 last year.
That increase is being driven by the large number of refugees being accepted, 55,800 compared to 24,800 last year, and a jump in the number of family members — grandparents, parents, spouses and children — uniting with already landed immigrants. The "family class" number is to jump almost 18 per cent, from 68,000 to 80,000.
Meanwhile, the number of "economic class" refugees — typically skilled workers and their families — will slide by more than 21,000, from 181,300 to 160,600.
Jobs Minister Shirley Bond, in a statement issued Wednesday, did not directly criticize the federal government. However, the statement indicated Victoria isn't pleased that Ottawa didn't increase B.C.'s allocation of the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP).
"B.C. leads the country in economic growth and welcomes the contribution that immigrants make to our province," she said.
The province had made clear to Ottawa that B.C.'s current allocation of 5,500 annually needs to increase.
"We recently redesigned our PNP intake process to best use our nominations so they are lined up with our specific labour market needs. B.C. has laid out a plan for three years that has a focus on the economic immigrants that we will need to meet the labor force demands in our growing economy."
Others on the West Coast questioned parts of the government's strategy.
B.C. employers recognize that "the best and brightest will not choose B.C. or Canada unless they know the can bring their families with them," said Jon Garson, president of the B.C. Chamber of Commerce. "The business community is concerned, however, that this increase in overall immigration will see a reduction in the number of economic migrants.
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With this tour, we will drive you to Aoraki/Mount Cook Village where you will take a scenic helicopter flight landing on the Park's largest glacier – Tasman Glacier. Then enjoy one of the many easy walks throughout the park and indulge in a local fare picnic provided by your travel hosts, Luxury Touring. Enjoy the Sir Edmund Hillary museum and then simply soak up this amazing environment.
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Stata now has an official blog -- Not Elsewhere Classified -- check it out.
I use the -findit- command from the Stata command line/window dozens of times a day. However, I've always wished that there was a way to have -findit- search for than just Stata commands or materials on the web so that I wouldn't have to leave the Stata window just to Google something.
Also, I've always wanted -findit- to search Statalist archives for me as part of the process of looking for an answer to some burning Stata-related question. Now, you can stay tethered to Stata and Google with impunity without ever leaving the safety of your Stata command line.
The ado-file described below allows you to Google something from the Stata command line and have the results either return to you in the Stata "Results" window (default) or export to your system's browser. The title of the results webpages are returned and the links in blue are clickable to navigate to that page in your OS default browser.


Chronic tension in your upper back? You can help relieve pain and stiffness by lengthening the muscles in the front of the neck to alleviate stress on the upper back.
Here's a quick tip which shows you how to stretch out fascial tissue around the collarbone, which is also great for relieving neck pain if you've slept awkwardly or "tweaked" your neck.
NB: This video is for education purposes only and does not constitute formal medical advice. If in doubt about the suitability of any exercise, always speak to your practitioner.


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COVID-19 Airway Management: A Simulation Case for Adult Emergency Department Providers
The goal of the simulation is to prepare an emergency medicine team to manage a patient suspected of COVID-19 requiring endotracheal intubation, a high-risk aerosol generating procedure. By the end of this session, learners will be able to:
Demonstrate and adhere to donning and doffing of PPE for high-risk aerosol generating procedures in suspected COVID-19 patients.
Perform an aerosol generating procedure while maintaining precautions, including pre-brief, intubation, and post-intubation management.
Demonstrate closed loop communication with interprofessional team with PPE in place and ongoing infection control procedures.
Jessica Doan, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan
Ryan Tucker, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan
William J. Peterson, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan (wpet@med.umich.edu)
Cindy H. Hsu, MD, PhD, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan
Eve D. Losman, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan
Colman Hatton, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan
Ben S. Bassin, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan
Carrie Harvey, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan
Bella Nagappan, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan
Brendan W. Munzer, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan
Appendix A Simulation Case Summary.docx
Appendix C Survey and Results.docx
COVID 19 Airway Manuscript.docx
Table 1_Airway and PPE Equipment.docx
This is an open-access publication distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license.


Adding a wood fences to your landscaping scheme can transform your outdoor living space and enhance the style of your home. Whatever your wood fencing idea is, there's a good chance that there is a product on the market to fit both your needs and your tastes, as well. Many wood fence options are available, and there are plenty of things to consider before you decide on what you'll put on your property. Of particular concern are the species of wood the fence is made of, how that wood has been treated, and what part of the tree the wood is taken from.
Another thing to consider with wood fencing options is where in the tree the wood you use comes from. Wood from deep inside the tree (called heartwood) is generally stronger and will have far fewer knots. Sapwood (wood taken from the more outer regions of the tree) is less expensive, but prone to rot more quickly and have more knots. Even if you use sapwood for your fence panels to save money, you might want to consider heartwood for posts and other structurally important fence parts. Construction heart, construction common, merchantable heart, or merchantable grades are excellent choices for fencing. Merchantable heart, construction heart, select heart, or clear all heart will be more expensive, but make good choices for posts and any other part of the fence that touches ground.
When considering your wood fence options, is it better to purchase a less expensive wood that's been pressure treated, or a more expensive wood that has not? The answer to that will vary greatly by the situation and the area of the country you live in. Pressure-treated pine is the standard when it comes to building a long lasting, but affordable, fence. Pressure-treated wood may not be the best looking of the wood fencing options, but for the price, it provides excellent resistance to rot and insects.
More exotic tropical hardwoods like ipe are very expensive, but because of their density, can last an extremely long time in an outdoor setting without employing any of the harsh chemicals used to treat pine.
No matter what kind of wood you purchase, you'll have the option of applying a weather seal to it to extend its life. If sealed properly and annually, you might get double the duration out of your fence compared to leaving it unsealed. When it comes to sealing pressure-treated wood, you may need to wait several weeks before applying a water repellent. You can test the wood by sprinkling water on it. If the wood absorbs water quickly, it's ready to be sealed. If the wood doesn't absorb water, let it dry for several weeks before sealing.


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Q: Javascript using PHP/HTML file as template I'm creating a map appication using the Google Maps API v3, and one of the sections is the HTML layout of the rendered InfoWindow.
At the moment, I have to create one long variable in the main map.js file, and it is messy and hard to edit without breaking the main application, and is a general nightmare for anyone who didn't write it.
This is what it looks like at the moment:
var html = "

" + name + "

" + address1 + "
" + address2 + "
" + address3 +"

" + type + "

Price Rating: " + price + "

Opening Times

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View Image

";

As you'll see, I can't even spread it out in the JS file, as it will break the code.
Ideally, I'd like it to look like this:

"+ name +"

    " + address1 + "

    " + address2 + "

    " + address3 + "

        " + type + "

        Price Rating: " + price + "

    Opening Times

    " + times + "

    View Image

It would look a lot cleaner in the actual file, as I had to format it for the Stackoverflow coding layout.
I'm sure you get the gist of it though.
I'd like to have a template.html (or .php?) file that looks like the above. Is it possible to pass variables through this HTML file, link to the HTML file from the map.js file (as in the first preview), and then have it display normally on the actual website?
I hope I've explained that properly!
Thanks

A: I think you're better off using a proper (but simple) templating framework. Take a look at handlebars. Use that and you're up and running in under 20 minutes. The trick they use is to not define the template in a javascript variable, but in a script block with a special type attribute and have the templating mechanism parse the script block. Don't try to build templating stuff yourself, you'll paint yourself into a corner in no time. (At least I have :) )

A: You can certainly 'spread out' a string in JS:
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You could alternatively try this approach, which isn't universally supported:
var html = " \

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See this previous question: Creating multiline strings in JavaScript

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19:30 Dinner at "Tinglado", Tolosa: traditional products.
21:15 Buses to the Aranzazu Hotel and Amara Plaza Hotel in San Sebastian.
17:00 Buses to the Balenciaga Museum in Getaria. Meeting at San Francisco's church.
Optional excursion to the Geopark of Zumaia and the Guggenheim in Bilbao.


Days after their wedding, Blake and Erica Landon embark on their honeymoon - a journey that deepens their bond and promises to fade the scars of their past. Just when their troubles seem safely behind them, scandal surrounding would-be governor Daniel Fitzgerald's election threatens their newfound peace.
Back home, Blake finds himself at the center of the controversy, haunted by the transgressions of his hacker past that he has no wish to relive. With Blake's freedom at stake and their future in peril, Erica will stop at nothing to clear his name. But when Blake defies the authorities and refuses to seek the truth, their world gradually begins to crumble. Will he let his past win? Or can Erica convince him that their life together is worth fighting for - now more than ever?
©2015 Meredith Wild (P)2015 Audible, Inc.
William Munt IMMEDIATELY turned me off. I've never stopped listening bc of a narrator. I probably should have. It was so badly over acted he ruined Blake! And the story for me. Clearly I've listened to all the others in this series- so was interested to see what happened with this love story. But I just found myself so distracted and disengaged bc of the male narrator. Brutal.
The lady is slightly annoying, but I swear this guy has a cold the entire time he is reading this. HORRIBLE choice!!!!
Narration not as good as the others!!
I enjoyed this book but the narration for Blake was not good, his voice was nothing like the way Jennifer Stark read for him. kind of ruined it for me. The overall story was great and I am very sad that their tale is over, so glad she gave us closure.
the story line was ok wasnt as exciting as her other books. and the guy who read for blake sounded like he was trying to have a dramatic tone.. i love her books but sadly this one was a little disappointing.
William MUNT was absolutely the most annoying and irritating narrator I have ever listened to! He ruined the story every time he spoke. Do yourselves a favor and NEVER use him again!
Not the book I expected, but a good wrap up!
Where does Hard Love rank among all the audiobooks you've listened to so far?
I wish I could say this book was a great wrap up but it seems as if Ms Wild simply got tired of all the passion and drama we have come to know Erica and Blake for, and turned a few tables on us about Blake.
That it had a good resolution ... happy ending, even though it sure left some odd loose ends.
What does Jennifer Stark and William Munt bring to the story that you wouldn't experience if you just read the book?
Their vocal inflections, and charcterizations with voice and attitude. You literally FEEL the characters. Jennifer's Erica is spot-on and makes you feel more dimensions.
Erica and Blake: the finale.
It was very interesting to see the lost soul Blake. The desolate, I gotta leave this to others Blake. And, for Erica to pick things up and run with them to make sure their future was the best it could be.
William's voice was a little to much. The inflections as he read was a bit annoying to me.
I'd thoroughly enjoyed the first 4 books in this series, but in the fifth, Hard Love, the voice of Blake Landon was the most irritating performance I've ever heard.
I have hard copies as well as Kindle and now Audible, so you must appreciate that I'm obviously a fan of this series and I'm sure I'll read and listen to them again. Well done Meredith Wild.


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Exhibition | Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland
Posted in exhibitions by Editor on November 7, 2014
Thomas Gainsborough, River Landscape with a View of a Distant Village, ca. 1748–50, oil on canvas, 30 x 60 inches (Edinburgh: Scottish National Gallery)
Press release from Art Daily:
Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland
The Frick Collection, New York, 5 November 2014 — 1 February 2015 (10 paintings)
de Young, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 7 March — 31 May 2015
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, 28 June — 20 September 2015
The National Galleries of Scotland will send a selection of major works from the national collection to the United States over the next year. This touring show will raise the international profile of the Galleries and draw attention to the superb quality and range of works held within Scotland's national collections. It is also hoped that the exhibitions will help attract interest and financial support for the proposed redevelopment of the Scottish National Gallery. The project plans to radically overhaul and significantly expand galleries devoted to the national collection of historic Scottish art whilst also greatly improving visitor circulation and facilities.
Jean-Antoine Watteau, Fêtes Vénitiennes, 1718–19, oil on canvas, 22 x 18 inches (Edinburgh: Scottish National Gallery)
In November 2014, ten masterpieces will go on display at The Frick Collection in New York. Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery will then travel with a further forty-five works to the de Young, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, to the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. The NGS has always maintained excellent relationships with partners all over the world and this tour will enable the NGS to strengthen these ties. The exhibition will include works by Raeburn, Ramsay, Constable, El Greco, Gainsborough, Reynolds, Velazquez, and Watteau. The Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child by Sandro Botticelli will also be included. This work has never before been on public view in the United States.
Sir John Leighton, Director-General of the National Galleries of Scotland commented: "At a time of intense international interest in Scotland, this tour to some of the most prestigious venues in the world will be a significant boost to the profile of the Galleries, highlighting the outstanding quality of the national collections and encouraging more visitors to discover the extraordinarily rich heritage and culture of our country." Michael Clarke, Director of the Scottish National Gallery, said: "The excellence of our collections will achieve wider recognition through this tour. It will enable us to fly the flag for Scotland in a country whose history has been greatly enriched by Scots over the centuries."
Ruling on the Warburg Institute
Posted in resources by Editor on November 7, 2014
Press release (6 November 2014) from Bates Wells Braithwaite and the Warburg Institute:
To the benefit and relief of scholars worldwide, the High Court has rejected the University of London's claims that all additions to the Warburg Institute since 1944 belong to the University, and instead agreed that they form part of the Institute. Furthermore, the judge, Mrs Justice Proudman, held that the University is obliged to provide funding for the activities of the Warburg Institute.
Leticia Jennings of Bates Wells Braithwaite, who advised the Advisory Council of the Warburg Institute, commented: "This decision ensures that the wealth of important material housed within the Institute will remain available, as before, in its entirety, and that the University will not be free to in any way restrict the access of the many scholars who use and rely on the Institute's outstanding resources."
The Institute grew out of the private library of the art historian Aby Warburg (1866–1929), who collected books in art history, literature, intellectual history, religion and the history of science and magic. As a Jewish institution based in Germany, the Institute was forced to close, and its very existence was threatened by the Nazi-organised book-burnings of April 1933. To escape destruction, the entire library of 60,000 books, as well as photographs, papers and furniture, were shipped to the safe-haven of London in December 1933. Many of the Institute's staff also transferred to London.
After years of negotiation involving members of the Warburg Family, the University of London, distinguished scholars and philanthropists, the University of London became trustee of the Warburg Institute, to hold it on charitable trust pursuant to the terms of a 1944 Trust Deed*. The Institute has since grown into a world class teaching and research institute, much respected and sought after by academics worldwide.
The Trust Deed obliges the University to maintain and preserve the Warburg library in perpetuity, to house it, and to keep it adequately equipped and staffed as an independent unit. Leticia Jennings stated: "The contemporaneous evidence leading up to the signing of the Trust Deed shows that the transfer to the University of London was on the condition that the University accepted these obligations. This judgment has confirmed that the University must maintain the Institute as 'an independent unit', and that the University is not entitled to use the name and prestige associated with the Warburg Institute to obtain funds, but to then apply those funds to the University's general purposes."
In recent years the University had charged a proportion of its total estate expenditure to the Warburg Institute, meaning that the once solvent Institute was left with a significant deficit as it was used, in effect, to subsidise the University's corporate property. The judge held that the University's conduct in this regard is not permissible and "flies in the face" of the terms of Trust Deed.


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Each poster features the word's definition contained within the image. The Spanish translation of the word is featured in the bottom right-hand corner of the poster. Set includes 52 cardstock posters. Each poster measures 11" x 17".


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The negotiation process can often be one of the most challenging elements of selling your home. When you receive an initial offer from an interested buyer, you might feel close to getting the deal done — but there are a number of pitfalls that you'll have to successfully navigate before the purchase agreement is signed and the closing date is agreed upon. Some things you won't be able to control, such as a buyer not wishing to negotiate fairly, but there are other potential obstacles that you can create yourself. Here are some negotiating errors that you should try to avoid making.
A real estate offer often contains more than just a dollar figure. The prospective buyer may also submit a different closing date or request some changes to your chattels with the offer. It's easy to focus on the price of the offer, but too much focus on the number may lead you to miss another element. This can end up seeming insulting. For example, if your closing date is May 30, the offer may ask for a closing date of May 15. If you overlook this part and don't acknowledge it, the buyer may think you're not taking his or her wishes into account, and this may harm the negotiation.
Feeling That You Need To "Win"
No one likes to feel as though they've been taken advantage of, but it's important to understand that a real estate negotiation isn't personal. Some homeowners will submit their counteroffers so that they feel as though they've "won" the negotiation; for example, they may be unwilling to budge on certain requests. This approach may risk alienating the buyer, who may stop negotiating with you. Try to view this negotiation as an opportunity for a win-win situation — when you can adopt this mindset, things are more apt to go smoothly.
Although you won't specifically be talking to the prospective buyer, you can always give your real estate agent a message to pass along to the buyer's agent. If you choose to do so, make sure your message isn't condescending or aggressive. Some sellers will make the mistake of saying things such as, "This is a good offer. You should take it," or "Your last offer was way too low for a listing that is this good," which won't likely accomplish anything but annoying the interested buyer.
For more information, see a website such as http://mihomeseller.com.


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Selena Gomez, the brand's founder, designed the products to be more inclusive of people with arthritis like herself. / Photo from rarebeauty on Instagram
Aliyah Rodriguez, Features & Lifestyle Editor
Recently, singer and actress Selena Gomez released a makeup line called Rare Beauty. When the brand was announced, it received a lot of backlash because it seemed like Gomez was just trying to jump on the makeup bandwagon and be like Rihanna with her line Fenty Beauty. Once the products were released, however, members of the beauty community praised the brand and I had to see what the hype was about.
Firstly, let's get into the packaging: All the products in this line do not look like your ordinary makeup products. Most Rare Beauty products are packaged in clear, matte bottles with screw-top lids that have a ball attached to the top. The reason for this packaging is to help makeup lovers with arthritis, like Gomez, open the product with less of a struggle. The design is very interesting to look at and has won a lot of praise from fans because Gomez is taking another step torward to a more inclusive beauty community.
The first product I tried was the line's foundation. The liquid touch weightless foundation is priced at $29 and comes in 48 shades. The product is described as cruelty-free, vegan, paraben-free and safe for sensitive skin.
According to the Rare Beauty website, the foundation is meant to feel weightless, breathable and melt into your own skin. The foundation is also meant to provide medium to full coverage, even your skin tone, conceal pores and last for as long as you need it to. Rather than using a pump like most foundations, this one uses a doe-foot applicator.
The foundation lives up to its description on the website. Rare Beauty's website said that the foundation is meant to be "serum-like," and it really is! The website gives instructions on how to apply the foundation if you're trying to achieve full, medium or light coverage and I followed the full coverage instructions. The formula is easy to apply with a makeup sponge and blended right into my skin. Once the foundation dries, it's pretty lightweight and hardly detectable.
I wouldn't recommend it if you have a lot of acne and want a thicker kind of foundation to cover it up, but if you're the kind of person that prefers the no-makeup makeup look, then this foundation is perfect for you.
Next, I tried the concealer. The liquid touch brightening concealer is $19 a bottle and comes in 48 shades as well to correspond with the foundation's shade range. The Rare Beauty website describes the foundation as a "lightweight, hydrating concealer that gives you buildable coverage where you need it while brightening skin with a radiant finish." Like the foundation, this concealer also features a doe-foot applicator.
The concealer is easy to blend and works well with the foundation. I experienced some creasing in my under-eye area but it wasn't dramatic. While the concealer covered my dark circles, it may not be as effective for someone who has deeper dark circles to cover.
Lastly, the Always An Optimist 4-in-1 mist was my least favorite item. The mist is $24 and is described on the website as "an ultra-fine, all-in-one face mist packed with skin-loving ingredients to hydrate, prime, set, and refresh for an uplifting glow-boost that lasts" so it's not necessarily a primer or a setting spray, but instead a mix of both and then some. The website says the spray contains niacinamide, sodium hyaluronate, panthenol and a "botanical blend of lotus, gardenia, and white water lily".
Despite all these ingredients, there's nothing extraordinary about this spray; it's not a must-buy from this brand. It's just like any other spray that's out there, so feel free to use whichever spray you've been using in your routine. If you've never used a spray before and are interested in incorporating it into your makeup routine, then the price for this one isn't as expensive as most of its competitors, but you can still find something cheaper.
Overall, the products are cost-effective and live up to the hype, with the added bonus of being an inclusive brand. One percent of the company's annual sales will go towards the Rare Impact Fund in support of mental health services. The products in this review can be found at rarebeauty.com, sephora.com and in Sephora locations. Rare Beauty Product Review
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Jon Burton's mastery of live sound has taken him around the world with such diverse artists as Pendulum, Stereophonics, Bryan Ferry, Radiohead and for the past 14 years bass mastodons The Prodigy.
Known for his love of sub, Jon Burton is a master of the very specialised craft of making the low-end frequencies as much felt as they are heard.
That's obviously not all he does… but his fine-tuned ears and swift fingers have certainly secured him a spot in the live bass history books.
With more than 25 years of experience behind the console, Jon is as comfortable and capable doing a 300 capacity club gig as thumping chests with his massive touring rig to crowds of 150,000 people at festivals.
And for the past 14 years, he's done just that - as chief sound engineer for UK rave veterans, The Prodigy.
By far one of the most important bands in electronic music, and unparalleled when it comes to live shows, the band has been pushing the boundaries of electronica since the early 90s, and is today rivalling rock and pop counterparts like Coldplay, Beyoncé, Eminem and Foo Fighters for the top spot on major festival lineups around the world.
Made to be experienced live, The Prodigy's massive catalog of tracks are like sonic battering rams with pitiless drops, testosterone fuelled breakbeats and unrelenting, no holds barred basslines.
This puts high demands on Jon's tweaks behind his trusty Midas XL3, and as such his broad knowledge of all aspects of sound engineering has made him vital to the band's impact on stage.
To the point where soundchecks with the band aren't necessary; they are fully confident that Jon and his team can get things right in their absence.
'I am a strong believer in the democracy of sound and want everyone who has a ticket, no matter where they are seated, to get the same experience, not a loud, but a powerful sound, hopefully with a few dub sounds thrown in,' is how Jon sums up his philosophy.
Besides his touring duties Jon has delivered guest lectures in colleges and universities from Newcastle to Serbia, runs a recording studio complex in Sheffield, UK, and maintains an ever growing collection of vintage mixing desks for rental.


The abbey at Westvleteren has been brewing its famous ales for as long as anyone can remember. This year the abbey's 'trappist' beer was for the second time chosen as 'the best beer in the world'. You can always try a 'trappist' at the 'In de Vrede' meeting centre, which stands just across the road from the main abbey buildings. This meeting centre also houses the Claustrum, a small but modern museum abou the abbeys' history and the life of the monks.


The subject of polymorphism is probably the most important in OOP. Using classes and inheritance makes it easy to describe a real-life situation as opposed to just a collection of functions and data. They also make it much easier to grow projects by reusing code mainly via inheritance. Also, to write robust and extensible code, you usually want to have as few as possible flow-control statements (such as if() statements). Polymorphism answers all these needs and more.
You can easily see that this example is not extensible. Say that you want to extend it by adding the sounds of three more animals. You would have to add another three else if blocks to printTheRightSound() so you check that the object you have is an instance of one of those new animals, and then you have to add the code to call each sound method.
Polymorphism using inheritance solves this problem. It enables you to inherit from a parent class, inheriting all its methods and properties and thus creating an is-a relationship.
Taking the previous example, we will create a new class called Animal from which all other animal kinds will inherit, thus creating is-a relationships from the specific kinds, such as Dog, to the parent (or ancestor) Animal.
You can see that no matter how many animal types you add to this example, you will not have to make any changes to printTheRightSound() because the instanceof Animal check covers all of them, and the $obj->makeSound() call will do so, too.


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Q: Paypal Payments Standard not returning payment variables on iPad I have just finished developing a website using Paypal Payments Standard, and all is working just fine in most computers, but paypal does not return any payment variables on iPad (and maybe other devices).
I created my own cart, and use the Buy Now functionality to pay for the entire order.
The Buy Now form sets the RETURN variable to the cart page, and the RM variable is set to 2, which should post the variables back to the cart page.
When the payment is complete, the cart page checks for posted payment variables and logs them into the database.
As said, this works perfectly on most computers.
On iPad, though, the user returns to the cart page, but no payment variables are posted. This is just the same when changing the RM variable to 1, which should send the variables as GET parameters.
You can see the code and working website at: http://unameit.ch/

A: This isn't exactly an answer to your problem, but would solve the issue and would be better for you anyway.
Using your return URL is not a good way to get data into your database because even with Auto-Return enabled there is no guarantee the user would make it back to your return URL.  In such cases, that code would never run and the data would never make it into your database.
Instead, what you should use is IPN.  IPN will be triggered regardless of whether or not the user makes it back to your site.  It's very similar to PDT except that instead of POSTing data back to the return URL it POSTs it to a separate listener script apart from your checkout pages.  It happens in real-time so the result would be the same as what you're trying to do now, but it would always work regardless of whether or not the user made it back to your site, and you wouldn't have to worry about issues like you're running into here with the iPad transactions.
I highly recommend you do it this way or you'll find that you're missing order data in your database even if you end up getting this particular problem resolved.

A: I have had the same issue with the manual callback and have been speaking to PayPal tech support. They have agreed that there is a bug with this working on a mobile/tablet devices. Basically, if you go to the mobile PayPal site to make the payment, you won't get any data POSTed back to your return URL:
They have told us to use the ExpressCheckoutAPI instead:

"Yes the ExpressCheckout works without any issues on all platforms.
  As a mater of fact I found that the mobileWPS checkout is Wraped around the
  ExpressCheckout and this is the reason why your data is chopped off.
  Some of the data is lost in translation from WPS to EC."

Sorry that this isn't a answer but at least we know that PayPal know it's a bug.


Of course, both episodes are ideologically-driven, and of course there was a "financial" issue at play the first time around too, but then again we know what Coben means. The first round of privatizations happened because it was the right thing to do, this time because, ostensibly, there's nothing else to do, which may have as much to do with the volume and viability of other possible answers in the two cases, but again, we know what he means.
But there's something counter-intuitive about the progression, isn't there? A drive that starts in ideological realm, the realm of argument and fantasy, that procedes to materialize itself, to come true. That is to say, there's something psychosomatic, something of the imagined-become-real symptom about the long progression of this crisis. You worry so much about having a heart attack, you get so anxious about assembling your collection of cures both conventional and holistic, chemical and folk-borne, that there you are, dead in the parking lot of your Recently Privatized Medical Facility.
The privatized British rail system is looking even more fucked than usual.
The corporation that wants to buy the Royal Mail is having second thoughts now that it appears it may be difficult to slash the workforce.
The Blairite Private-Finance-Initiatives are starting to require, predictably, massive infusions of public investment.
BT (which hasn't been publically owned since 1984) wants cut 10,000 jobs.
Perhaps as a minimal claim, right now, we might start demanding that industries that never had any business being privatized – in fact, simply couldn't be effectively privatized and remain both solvent and accessable – might be returned to their natural states. And further, we might ask that our leftish public intellectuals stop mooning about as if they don't understand the way the game works.
Six major industry players — including America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), a descendant of the lobbying group that spawned Harry and Louise — have sent a letter to President Obama sketching out a plan to control health care costs. What's more, the letter implicitly endorses much of what administration officials have been saying about health economics.
Are there reasons to be suspicious about this gift? You bet — and I'll get to that in a bit. But first things first: on the face of it, this is tremendously good news.
The signatories of the letter say that they're developing proposals to help the administration achieve its goal of shaving 1.5 percentage points off the growth rate of health care spending. That may not sound like much, but it's actually huge: achieving that goal would save $2 trillion over the next decade.
Sure enough, the health industry letter talks of "reducing over-use and under-use of health care by aligning quality and efficiency incentives." It also picks up a related favorite Orszag theme, calling for "adherence to evidence-based best practices and therapies." All in all, it's just what the doctor, er, budget director ordered.
So let's see. A lobbying / PR organization that represents the health insurance companies circulates a communique saying that they're on board with the idea of slashing health care costs by rationing access to "some types of health care with little or no medical benefit", hmmm… After all, you know what Keynes said about this, about what happens in the long run…. Why, exactly, does this excite Krugman? He should read this thing that I know I've posted before, from Heart of Darkness. It's a bit misogynistic – you have to take my word that the misogyny doubles back on Marlow by the end of the book….
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The String (2010)
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A man inadvertently reveals his secret life to his mother in this gay-themed drama. Malik (Antonin Stahly-Vishwanadan) was born and raised in Tunisia; his father Abdelaziz (Lotfi Dziri) was a wealthy North African while his mother Sara (Claudia Cardinale) was a beautiful French émigré. Malik lives in Paris and has a successful career as an architect; far from home, he also feels free to live his life as an openly gay man without having to discuss it with his parents. When Abdelaziz dies unexpectedly, Malik comes home to help look after Sara, and the nightmares and anxiety attacks he thought he'd conquered after coming to Paris return with a vengeance. Malik finds solace in a dalliance with Bilal (Salim Kechiouche), a good-looking handyman doing some work at Sara's estate, but when she sees the two men in bed together, she's traumatized. While Abdelaziz was discreetly aware of his son's sexuality, Sara has never been able to accept it, and Malik must find a way to handle his responsibilities to his mother while staying true to himself and his desires. Le Fil (aka The String) was the first feature film from writer and director Mehdi Ben Attia. Mark Deming, Rovi Read Less
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There has also been at least one Hadoop talk at each of the past two PyOhio's.
definitely be of interest to the Python group.
> columbus ruby brigade recently had a talk on this (or a related) subject.
>>> +1 from me, for the same reason.


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"Just us beneath the light of the moon, hand in hand. Don't let me be lonely tonight. The stars above us shine on while we speak of love and the setting sun." "The water runs dry."
Sounds wonderful doesn't it. These words are not mine, they are the titles to the songs on Chuck's new CD.
Critics from Jazziz magizine say this CD is "elegant". JazzTimes quotes it as being "masterful". With both, I would agree whole-heartedly. It has been a while since I've been moved so soulfully as this CD has done.
The featured artists on 'the Moon' are Bob James, Nelson Rangell, Andy Snitzer, John Patitucci, Dave Samuels and more. From the first cut, you can tell Bob James had deep influence on this one. If you are a Bob fan as I, you know how his pumpin' groove usually carries the whole set. Chuck utilizes this trick of rythmic proportions to its utmost. Right from the onset, Chuck comes out of the box so smooth he makes you wonder who rubbed on the bottle, brought the Genie, and where this magic carpet ride wil take you.
It is currently #1 on the Gavin and R&B NAC/Jazz Radio Charts.
Track 2, Beneath the Stars, Track 7, Above Us, along with Track 9, While We Speak, pull no punches. "Beneath the Light" contains firey brass stabs and a stroking bass line that will carry the listener through their paces and "Above us" has a "heartbeat" chorus that would drive a sulsa dancer's pulse wild. "While We Speak" speaks of those twilight cruises through the neighborhood park with the woffer's woffin'. Mr. Haffner, the druumer, knows the deal!
These are a group of cuts to be reserved for the I-95 dance.
Try not driving 85 to 90 M.P.H.
The title songs ...of the moon..., ...the stars..., and ...of love and the setting sun, all come together to stur the soul into lovely blends of the same name. A good way to end a long day.
Chuck and his boys (and girl, P.C. you know) go from guitar to sax, to the 'boards' like a rabbit on Easter. With tight interplay and yes, "masterful" mixing and sequencing, it's evident that Chuck has earned the right to have critics say what they have about this CD.
Man, the voice of Carmen Cuesta on "...the stars..." rocks me. I have never heard her before this cut and with the first breeze of her throaty alto cords flowing from my 12 inchers, I was breathless. Where did she come from?
Throughout the CD, Ms. Carmen keeps up with the band of instrumentalists and along with Peter Valentine and Rob Mathes, the trio lay down vocal tracks behind the groove so smooth it's hard to tell where the mechanical and the vocal cords split. Shades of old Metheny? Pat would be proud!
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What Does VoIP Stand For, and What Does it Mean?
VoIP is an acronym that sounds weird at first—"vŏy'p"—but is actually fairly straightforward in application. It stands for Voice Over Internet Protocol, which, in the simplest of terms, means the type of phone service that works over an internet connection.
To be clear, VoIP is the prevailing method of internet telephony that floated to the surface after around 20 years of a varied succession of attempts to make internet calls accessible to consumers, and I am admittedly glancing over many stages of its development.
This type of phone connection has become increasingly popular in recent years due to its low cost to the user and its versatility for business, as well as personal use. It's possible that you have used a VoIP connection without even realizing it. Have you ever used Skype? That's a VoIP call—and in fact, they're one of the companies who made it famous.
VoIP phones have their advantages, but many times they're not a worthwhile choice, mainly due to their reliance on an internet connection, which can cause serious quality and reliability issues. Of course, a technology exists because it works, and if you have the right equipment, VoIP works perfectly. If you don't, you might regret ever signing up.
What is Different About VoIP?
So how does it actually work, you ask? VoIP delivers your voice to another phone in basically the same way it's always been done—it's just a different network, and it's a different kind of signal.
Phones have conventionally used an analog signal to transmit voice, but not VoIP phones—they convert this analog signal to digital before it is sent to the destination. The network that is utilized is different, too.
VoIP phones send the digital voice signal across the Internet, instead of the PSTN, which is the network that has been used by conventional phones for decades.
One of the greatest benefits of using a VoIP phone is that it does not tie you down to one location because you can connect your phone to any strong Internet connection, and it will work.
This can be of tremendous benefit to those who work as remote employees, and your phone can be taken with you anywhere.
Yes, VoIP can be a great advantage for someone who is running a business, making a lot of long distance calls, or just working remotely; however, there are disadvantages which mainly stem from its dependence on your internet connection.
If you have a strong connection, and you supplement your network with extra equipment that can support it, then VoIP works just fine, even clearer than a traditional phone connection at times.
The problem is that many people have an internet connection that is weak or unreliable, causing poor sound quality and even dropped calls.
Does Talkroute Use a VoIP Connection?
No. Talkroute connects calls over the network that is used by your existing phones, and that's why our service can boast a 99.98% uptime record.
Where a VoIP phone system may experience signal loss or poor quality while connecting calls over the internet, Talkroute is as reliable as the conventional phones you already have.
For some applications, and if you have the proper setup, a VoIP phone system may be a good fit. It can be versatile and efficient at its best, but if you are shopping around for a new phone solution, be sure that you test it out first because this type of system is definitely not right for everyone. There's a good chance that it's not all you hoped for.


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Isaac Ross (planter)
For the rugby player from New Zealand, see Isaac Ross.
Isaac Ross
Orangeburg County, South Carolina
Jefferson County, Mississippi
Prospect Hill Plantation, Jefferson County, Mississippi
Jane (Brown) Ross
Margaret Allison Ross Reed
Martha B. Ross
Arthur Alison
Jean Brown Ross
Thomas Buck Reed (son-in-law)
Isaac Ross Wade (grandson)
Walter Ross Wade (grandson)
Isaac Ross (1760-1836) was an American Revolutionary War veteran and planter from South Carolina who developed Prospect Hill Plantation in Jefferson County, Mississippi, for cotton cultivation. He owned thousands of acres and nearly 160 slaves by 1820.
In 1830 Ross was among the major donors and founders of Oakland College, a Presbyterian-affiliated school for young men near Lorman, Mississippi, which operated from 1830 to 1870. After sale to the state that year, it was renamed by the Reconstruction era-state legislature as Alcorn College and designated as a land-grant university, the first land grant institution for blacks in the United States.
Influenced by war ideals and the American Colonization Society, Ross was among the founders of the Mississippi Colonization Society. Its goal was to repatriate (or transport) freed slaves and free people of color to Africa in order to get them out of the South, where planters believed they threatened slave societies. In 1835 Ross wrote a will to free his hundreds of African-American slaves (who were overwhelmingly US native-born). It ordered the sale of his plantation to generate revenue to fund the transport of the freed slaves to Mississippi-in-Africa, the state's colony in what became Liberia in coastal West Africa. The Mississippi Colonization Society had purchased land there. In 1847 it became part of the Commonwealth of Liberia.
1 Biography
1.1 Early life
1.2 Career
1.3 Personal life
1.4 Death and legacy
2 References
3 Further reading
4 External links
Isaac Ross was born on January 18, 1760 in North Carolina. His family moved when he was young to Orangeburg County, South Carolina.[1][2] He was named after his father, Isaac Ross.[1] His mother was Jean (Brown) Ross (1722-1766,per find a grave and tombstone).[1]
In the American Revolutionary War of 1775-1783, Ross rose to the rank of Captain of the Second Dragoons under the leadership of General Thomas Sumter (1734–1832).[2][3]
In 1808, together with his brother Thomas, Ross moved from South Carolina to the Mississippi Territory.[1][2] He purchased what he developed as the Prospect Hill Plantation near Port Gibson, Jefferson County.[2] By 1818, after Mississippi became a state, he owned 3,881 acres of land and 133 slaves; 158 slaves in 1820; and 4,240 acres of land and 113 slaves in 1830.[1] By 1828, he also owned several other plantations and more slaves.[2] Shortly before his death, Ross owned around 5,000 acres of land, 160 slaves, and had an estimated wealth of US$100,000.[1]
In 1830, Ross was one of the financial supporters of Oakland College in Lorman, Mississippi, a Presbyterian college whose president was minister Jemeriah Chamberlain.[4]
In the 1830s, together with Chamberlain and three other planters, Edward McGehee, Stephen Duncan, and John Ker, Ross co-founded the Mississippi Colonization Society. Like the American Colonization Society, its goal was to relocate free blacks and newly freed slaves to the American colony of Liberia in West Africa in order to remove them from American society, particularly from the slave societies of the South.[2][5] The organization was focused on slaves freed in Mississippi, where slaves outnumbered whites by a ratio of three-to-one. These major slaveholders believed that free blacks threatened the stability of American society, and that transporting freed slaves to Africa might be a long-term solution.[2][5]
Ross married Jane Brown (1762-1829).[1][2] They had two sons and three daughters:
Margaret Allison Ross Reed (1787-1838). Her second husband was Thomas Buck Reed (1787–1829), who served as United States Senator from Mississippi from January 28, 1826 to March 4, 1827, and again from March 4, 1829 to November 26, 1829.
Martha B. Ross (1793-1818).[1]
Alison Ross (1803-1834).[1]
Isaac Ross (1796-1852).[1]
Arthur Alison (1801-1834). He married Octavia Van Dorn, daughter of Earl Van Dorn (1820–1863), an officer who served as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War of 1861-1865. Widowed when her husband Alison died, in 1837 Octavia married Dr Vans Murray Sulivane (1810-1840); they had a son, Clement Sullivane (1838-1920), who served in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War. He was later elected as a member of the Maryland Senate.
Ross was widowed in 1829. Around the same period that he lost his wife, their daughter and a son-in-law, and two Ross sons also died.[2]
Ross died on January 19, 1836 in Jefferson County, Mississippi. He was buried in the cemetery at Prospect Hill Plantation. It later became known as the Wade Family Cemetery after his grandson Isaac Ross Wade reacquired the plantation in the 1850s, building a new mansion and living on the grounds.
Ross freed his slaves in his will, ordering the sale of his plantation to raise funds in order to pay for their transport to Liberia and provide them with a stake to get necessary supplies for their new lives.[5][6] The will stipulated that those slaves who chose not to emigrate to Africa should be sold to the highest bidder, with the proceeds invested to go to the American Colonization Society to build a new university in Liberia for the colonists and support it for 100 years. Ross added the caveat that slave families could not be separated.[5] A memorial obelisk to Isaac Ross stands at his gravesite in the cemetery at Prospect Hill Plantation.
Ross and other supporters of such colonization referred to freed slaves being "repatriated" to Africa, but by this time, most slaves were overwhelmingly American born, and had been for generations. In the North most free blacks did not want to leave the United States but to improve their treatment and gain civil rights here. They expressed considerable opposition to the program of the American Colonization Society, but thousands of free blacks did migrate as pioneers to Liberia.
Of Ross' 160 registered slaves at Prospect Hill Plantation, 123 chose to be freed and emigrate to Africa. (Five were prohibited from leaving.)[5] Other freed slaves were added from other plantations, making a group of nearly 300.[6] Ross' grandson Isaac Ross Wade contested the will for nearly a decade, as the estate was used to fund the migration.
In 1842 Mississippi passed a law prohibiting the manumission of slaves by will, and prohibiting removal of slaves from the state for the purpose of manumission.[5] But perhaps legislators had not envisioned 'repatriation' for the purpose of manumission, as the Ross will was upheld in 1845 by the Supreme Court of Mississippi.[5] There were additional technicalities that delayed the freedmen's departure. During this period, they worked under the authority of Isaac Ross Wade at Prospect Hill Plantation, with the stipulation that they were technically free and would be paid for their time.[5]
Map of Liberia in the 1830s, where the Mississippi and other state-sponsored colonies are identified.
Finally traveling from Natchez, Mississippi by ship, the Prospect Hill freedmen reached Liberia in two groups in 1848.[5] They settled in what came to be known as Mississippi-in-Africa, on land purchased by the Mississippi Colonization Society. Most of them could read and write, and were likely among the elite household staff and artisans among slaves.
Many corresponded with Wade and members of his family, as well as representatives of the MCS, in an attempt to gain supplies they desperately needed. They also sought to have the Wade family pay them what they were owed for three years' work - an estimated $100,000. They were met mostly with silence; in one letter the Wade family told them their board and court expenses had been charged to the money they were owed, and that in fact they were in debt to the family.[5] The letters from the African Americans reported the high fatalities their group suffered, with many dying in the first year or so of "African fever."[5] Neither the Wade family nor the ACS ever followed through on their obligations to the settlers; no university in Liberia was endowed or established from Ross' funds.[5]
In Mississippi in Africa: The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and Their Legacy in Liberia Today (revised edition, 2010), author Alan Huffman argues that tensions introduced by the development of this colony (and the larger influence of Americo-Liberians in the country) created longstanding resentments among the indigenous tribesmen. In addition, the Americo-Liberians repressed the native peoples and assumed their own superiority, in a colonial manner. They created a society with inequities that Huffman believes strongly contributed to the First Liberian Civil War of 1989-1996 more than a century later, and to the Second Liberian Civil War of 1999-2003. Because the Americo-Liberians dominated the country politically and economically into the 20th century, suppressing the native tribes, there was great resentment against them among the indigenous peoples. The Americo-Liberians treated the native tribes as inferior to them, much as they had been treated by whites in the United States.[6]
^ a b c d e f g h i j Mississippi Department of Archives & History
^ a b c d e f g h i Mary Carol Miller, Lost Mansions of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2010, Volume II, pp. 53-56 [1]
^ Bobby Gilmer Moss, Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution, Genealogical Publishing Co., 2009, Volume I, A-Jp. 319 [2]
^ Mary Carol Miller, Must See Mississippi: 50 Favorite Places, Oxford, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2007, pp. 41-44 [3]
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Dale Edwyna Smith, The Slaves of Liberty: Freedom in Amite County, Mississippi, 1820-1868, Routledge, 2013, pp. 15-21 [4]
^ a b c Alan Huffman, Mississippi in Africa: The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and Their Legacy in Liberia Today (2010), Project Muse, text online
A Record of the Descendants of Isaac Ross and Jean Brown: And the Allied Families of Alexander, Conger, Harris, Hill, King, Killingworth, Mackey, Moores, Sims, Wade, Etc, compiled by Annie Mims Wright ("Mrs W. R. Wright") , Consumers Stationery and Printing Company, 1911
Huffman, Alan. Mississippi in Africa: The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect Hill Plantation and Their Legacy in Liberia Today. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi. (revised edition, 2010).
Steen, Michael Kirk. Manumission and Mississippi's Defense of Slavery: The Isaac Ross Will: a Thesis. New Orleans, Louisiana: University of New Orleans. 1968.
Smith, Dale Edwyna, The Slaves of Liberty: Freedom in Amite County, Mississippi, 1820-1868, Taylor and Francis, 1999; Routledge, 2013.
Miles, Melissa. Burning Prospects: Based on a True Story[5]. Hillcrest Press, 2014. Historical novel.
Isaac Ross at Find a Grave
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