This is one damn sick and disgusting game. Fun though if you love taking a dump and the game ends.
Good sir, I believe you are mistaken. This game achieves the highest level of sophistication attainable in ZZT.
Okay, maybe not, but Time Attack and Funky Mode were hilarious. I give it a 3.5.
Just the title and genre read together is funny! Does it fulfill it's promises? Quite.
Uh it's been a while since I played this game but I liked it a lot (especially the part where you fail the time attack mode).
I'm giving this a 5 to counter all of the retarded reviews given by equally retarded newbies.


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Suspension of sentence does not mean eligibility to contest elections, SC rules
Haseeb BhattiUpdated July 22, 2019
The Supreme Court of Pakistan. — AFP/File
In a landmark judgement that could have repercussions for the future prospects of lawmakers across the political spectrum, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the suspension of a sentence awarded to an election candidate has no impact on his or her disqualification to contest the poll.
The court issued its verdict on an appeal filed by PML-N Gujrat leader Nasir Mehmood and another candidate, who had challenged a 2015 Lahore High Court order that ruled them ineligible to contest the elections for the chairman and vice-chairman of Union Council 3, Gujrat Municipal Corporation.
Mehmood was also handed prison terms after being convicted on charges related to false declaration, but his sentences were suspended by the high court on an appeal filed by him against the trial court's judgement. Mehmood's lawyer had argued that his client could contest the municipal polls while the sentences remained suspended.
However, a three-judge SC bench that heard the appeal in October last year ruled today that the suspension of a sentence would not make an election candidate eligible to contest the polls.
"The suspension of sentence would have no consequence on the conviction of the appellants for the purposes of being qualified to contest either the local bodies elections or the elections for the Legislative Assemblies," read the judgement authored by Justice Ijazul Ahsan.
According to the verdict, unless the conviction of a candidate is "specifically suspended" by an appellate court, or their appeal is ultimately allowed and their conviction and sentence are set aside by the appellate court, "the conviction of the appellant would continue to hold the field" and the disqualification incurred by him or her due to that conviction will remain intact.
The second argument adopted by Mehmood's counsel was that because the trial court had ordered that the sentences of one-and-a-half years awarded to his client on four counts would run concurrently, Mehmood did not attract the legal bar that applied to candidates who have been sentenced to a prison term of more than two years.
But the SC bench dismissed this argument as well, saying "it is the conviction and sentencing that is the determining factor rather than the actual time spent behind bars."
Interpreting clauses of Article 63 of the Constitution and the Punjab Local Government Act, 2013, the apex court clarified that the portion of sentence actually served by a candidate "is of no relevance" and their disqualification is attracted on the basis of conviction and sentence "'awarded' as opposed to served".
The appeal was subsequently dismissed as devoid of merit.
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bhaRAT©
That's logical indeed.
Shakeel Ahmad
Very good decision
No logic . seems well managed
AHAQ
Great decision. Certainly the convicted corrupt will not get a chance anymore to get elected and repeat their corrupt activities in position of power.
Anwar Saleem
Scripted !!
All Judges in Supreme Court/ NAB will be thrown out.
@Imran, I pity your intelligence if you really mean that
Great decision by the Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
khokhar
Really BAD news for Maryam Safdar.
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Endogenous expression of the DUX4 transcription factor in cultured facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) muscle cells. Dr. Stephen Tapscott / Fred Hutch
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Alright, Guys! We're going to talk about the 3 Key Points from Building Systems to Get What You Want.
The first one is The Systems Lightbulb.
If we think about the business as primary system, this primary system is one holistic big system, which is made up of lots of other sub-systems, which in them sub-systems they have series of processes and procedures. If we understand all of the procedures in a system can be tweaked, one by one collectively that improves the primary system.
There's no one big fix for a problem in the business. It's no one big launch strategy that would just fix everything. It does not exist. It's fixing one by one systems and processes which build the results of the primary system.
The only difference between a huge business, a big successful one, ever worked in a corporation, it was all processes and procedures and that's the only difference between a startup and a big business – it's procedures. I think that is overlooked a lot.
If you've read any of Michael Gerber's work, at e-Myths, he talks a lot about building a business as if it was already complete. Thinking about envisioning your business and have a map or operate it as if it was a huge corporation. Have that mindset and operate it as it really was and grow towards that.
So, what I want with this point today is to enable you to get it. Remove the emotion, take a bird's eye view of your business, see the primary system of your business and the primary system of your personal life and see all the collection of systems which make it up.
We talked about this before in terms of creating a wheel of life. For instance, for your personal life the categories in your life like your health, your finances, your relationships or any other area in your life which you care about, your spirituality – these would be sub-systems of your primary system of your personal life. The same can be applied to the business.
So, if we talk about systems in the Amazon Model, things like your product launch system, your asset builder launch system, your asset optimization system, your Amazon apps, your customer love system, all these are different sub-systems of the primary system in the business.
If we look at our lives like that it's going to make so much easier to be able to tweak the systems of our personal lives to get the results that we want in our personal lives and the business.
The second key point is Defining the Map.
If we are now clear on the idea that our lives are made up of thousands of systems and our business is a collection of primary systems and a bunch of sub-systems underneath it and our personal life as well. If we can just find our map by basically getting it on the table, defining all the sub-systems in our business, all the things which make up the primary system and define all of the processes of the sub-systems it becomes a complete overview of the Amazon e-commerce business that you have.
Once you've got that it becomes a lot clearer, a lot easier to be able to put on your tool belt, identify the constraints, identify where in this map of processes the problems are, put your tool belt on, fix it, improve the procedure, hand it to a team member so they understand it and fix the bottleneck so more output can happen through the sub-system.
The third key point is Understanding What the Goal is.
The Goal is to secure the present and the future of the company – the over action goal. So how do you do that? How do you secure the present and future of your company? You need to provide employees of a secure and satisfied workplace to make sure they are happy and aligned.
You need to make sure that your customers are satisfied now and in the future and you are making money and profit for the shareholders or owners of the company.
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Q: How does PCA behave when there is no correlation in the dataset? We all know that Principal Component Analysis is executed on a Covariance/Correlation matrix, but what if we have a very high dimensional data, assuming 75 features and 157849 rows?
How does PCA tackle this?

*

*Does it tackle this problem in the same way as it does for
correlated datasets?

*Will my explained variance be equally
distributed among the 75 features?

*I came across BARTLETT'S Test and
KMO Test which helps us:

*

*in identifying the wether there is any
correlation present or not, and

*the proportion of variance that might
be a common variance among the variables

respectively. I can certainly leverage these two tests in making a controlled decision, but I am still looking for an answer towards:

*

*How does PCA behave when there is no correlation in the dataset?
I want to get an interpretation of this in a way that I could explain it to my non-technical brother.
Practical example using Python:
s = pd.Series(data=[1,1,1],index=['a','b','c'])
diag_data = np.diag(s)
df = pd.DataFrame(diag_data, index=s.index, columns=s.index)
# Normalizing
df = (df.subtract(df.mean())).divide(df.std())

Which looks like:
        a            b          c
a   1.154701    -0.577350   -0.577350
b   -0.577350   1.154701    -0.577350
c   -0.577350   -0.577350   1.154701

Covariance Matrix looks like this:
Cor = np.corrcoef(df.T)
Cor

array([[ 1. , -0.5, -0.5],
       [-0.5,  1. , -0.5],
       [-0.5, -0.5,  1. ]])

Now, calculating PCA Projections:
eigen_vals,eigen_vects = np.linalg.eig(Cor)
projections = pd.DataFrame(np.dot(df,eigen_vects))

And projections are:
        0             1             2
0   1.414214    -2.012134e-17   -0.102484
1   -0.707107   -2.421659e-16   -1.170283
2   -0.707107   -1.989771e-16   1.272767

The explained Ratio seems to be equally distributed among two features:
[0.5000000000000001, -9.680089716721685e-17, 0.5000000000000001]

Now, when I tried calculating the Q-Residual error in order to find the reconstruction error, I got zero for all the features:
a    0.0
b    0.0
c    0.0
dtype: float64

This would indicate that PCA on a non-correlated dataset like identity matrix gives us the projections which are very close to the original data-points. And the same results are obtained with the DIAGONAL MATRIX.
If the reconstruction error is very low, this would suggest that, in a single pipeline, we can fix the PCA method to execute and even if the dataset is not carrying much correlation we will get the same results after PCA transformation, but for the dataset which has high correlated features, we can prevent our curse of dimensionality.
Public views on this?

A: The components are the eigenvectors of the covariance matrix. If the covariance matrix is diagonal, then the features are already eigenvectors. So PCA generally will return the original features (up to scaling), ordered in decreasing variance. If you have a degenerate covariance matrix where two or more features has the same variance, however, a poorly designed algorithm that returns linear combinations of those features would technically satisfy the definition of PCA as generally given.

A: If you have no observed correlation, then your covariance matrix is diagonal, and the PCA diagonalizes a matrix that is already diagonal (so it does nothing).
If you have no population correlation but observe small sample correlations due to sampling variability, then the PCA is diagonalizing a covariance matrix that is nearly diagonal, and the result will be a minimally different set of features from the PCA.

A: If the true underlying covariance matrix is the identity:

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*the leading eigenvectors of the sample correlation matrix will point in random directions, rather than directions that are informative about the nature of the data.

*the largest eigenvalues of the sample correlation matrix will still be larger than the smallest eigenvalues, by definition, and this might mislead you into thinking there's some signal. If you are afraid this is happening to you, you can try to verify that the eigenpairs you use exceed the upper bound expected from iid data. This is governed by the Marchenko-Pastur distribution (wiki). If you want to see an example, the M-P upper bound is used for principal component selection by Aviv Regev and coauthors in their analysis of gene activity during zebrafish embryogenesis (Science paper).

M-P only works for data with mean 0, variance 1. There might be some similar theory for other situations; I'm not sure.

A: It depends on the true covariance structure of population. If multiple features have the same population variance, sampling variance can actually mix up the observed features arbitrarily, whereas if all features have different population variances this cannot happen.
Let me show this through a derivation. Assume your true population covariance matrix is $A$ and your observed is $A + \epsilon B$, where $\epsilon$ is a small positive number. Basically, your can think of $B$ as the direction that the covariance matrix is perturbed in (perturbation meaning 'error' due to sampling), and $\epsilon$ is the magnitude of that perturbation.
Remember that PCA is basically looking at the eigenvectors of the covariance matrix.
If the true covariance is $A = aI$, the eigenvectors of $A + \epsilon B$ are just eigenvectors $v$ of $B$. In other words, running PCA on your observed data will return features determined entirely by your sampling variation!
The reason this happens is that PCA does not have a unique solution for your true covariance matrix in the first place. That is, whenever you try to diagonalize a matrix with duplicate eigenvalues, you run into the issue that there are multiple valid ways to pick unit eigenvectors (because you have eigenspaces that have dimension greater than one). Thus even if $A$ is not of the form $aI$, but has duplicate eigenvalues, there will be some set of eigenvectors of $A + \epsilon B$ which will deviate from the original features in a way dictated entirely by the eigenvectors of $B$.
Fortunately, in reality it is rare to find variables with exactly the same population variance. In this case, we can show that the features are robust against sampling variation. This is actually true in general (i.e. regardless of the assumption that your population variables are uncorrelated).
To see this, we can just approximate the eigenvectors of $(A + \epsilon B)$ under some mild assumptions. Basically we want to show that they are just a perturbation of the eigenvectors of $A$ by a term that scales roughly linearly with $\epsilon$.
The first assumption is of course that all eigenvalues of $A$ are unique. However, second, we need to assume that the eigenspaces of $A$ and $B$ are disjoint, meaning that they have different eigenvectors. Again we can just appeal to reality -- a random matrix will almost never have the same eigenvectors as a fixed matrix (unless that fixed matrix is a multiple of $I$).
A warning that this "proof" is both very long and also not exactly valid. The key weakness is where I assume that the solution is analytic, which is sort of what we actually want to prove. Regardless, hopefully it will provide some insight.
[start of proof]
Let $u$ denote the $i^{th}$ eigenvector of $A$ for some $i$, and have eigenvalue $\alpha$. We can arbitrarily write the eigenvector of $(A + \epsilon B)$ as $(u+v)$ for some $v$ by taking an eigenvector of the matrix and then letting $v$ be that eigenvector minus $u$.
Now, what is $(A + \epsilon B)(u+v)$? It should be $\lambda (u + v)$ for some $\lambda$.
For simplicity, we can rewrite this as $(\alpha + \epsilon \gamma)(u+v)$ for $\gamma = \epsilon^{-1}(\lambda - \alpha)$. This makes sense because the eigenvalues are a continuous function of the matrix entries, which can be proven by using that the determinant is a continuous function (since it is a polynomial) and then using that the eigenvalues are defined using the determinant.
On the other hand, we also have
$$ (A + \epsilon B)(u+v) = Au + Av + \epsilon B (u+v) = \alpha u + Av + \epsilon B (u+v). $$
Thus
\begin{align*}
  (A + \epsilon B)(u+v)
  &= (\alpha + \epsilon \gamma)(u+v) = \alpha u + \epsilon \gamma u + \alpha v + \epsilon \gamma v \\
  Av + eBu + eBv
  &= \epsilon \gamma u + (a + \epsilon \gamma)v \\
  \epsilon B u + (A + \epsilon B)v
  &= \epsilon \gamma u + (\alpha + \epsilon \gamma)v \\
  \epsilon(B - \gamma I)u + ((A - \alpha I) + \epsilon (B - \gamma I))v
  &= 0
 \end{align*}
Now, there are two possible ways this equation could hold. One involves having $(A - \alpha I)v = 0$. However, this is would mean that $v$ is an eigenvector of $A$ with eigenvalue $\alpha$, and thus so is $u+v$. The problem with this is that it would imply tht $(u+v)$ is an eigenvector of $B$ as well, and by assumption $B$ cannot share eigenvectors with $A$. Thus certainly $(A - \alpha I)v$ is nonzero.
However, looking at the equation, the $(A - \alpha I)v$ is the only term that does not appear proportional to $\epsilon$. Why is this interesting? Well, because if it were not dependent on $\epsilon$ at all, the equation could not have a solution -- since $\epsilon$ is essentially arbitrary, taking the limit as $\epsilon \to 0$ would create an inconsistent equation. The fix is to recognize that $v$ depends on $\epsilon$, and really it must be at least proportional. More precisely, it should be
$$ v = w_{0} + \epsilon w_{1} + \epsilon^{2} w_{2} + (\mathrm{higher \ order \ terms}). $$
I am making a bold assumption that $v$ is essentially analytic in $\epsilon$, but since we are basically solving a polynomial equation ($\gamma$ is also analytic in $\epsilon$), it seems reasonable. This is where the approximation comes in anyway.
Now, note that the $w_{0}$ must be zero, since as $\epsilon \to 0$, we must have $u+v \to u$.
Basically, if $\epsilon$ is quite small, then $v \approx \epsilon w$. Furthermore,
\begin{align*}
  \epsilon(B - \gamma I)u + ((A - \alpha I) + \epsilon (B - \gamma I))v
  &= \epsilon(B - \gamma I)u + ((A - \alpha I) + \epsilon (B - \gamma I))\epsilon w \\
  &= \epsilon(B - \gamma I)u + \epsilon (A - \alpha I) w
    + \epsilon^{2} (B - \gamma I) w \\
  &\approx \epsilon (B - \gamma I)u + \epsilon (A - \alpha I)
 \end{align*}
because $\epsilon^{2} \approx 0$.
Therefore, dividing out by $\epsilon$, in the end we are just solving
$$ (B - \gamma I)u + (A - \alpha I) w = 0 $$
or really
$$ (B - \gamma I)u = -(A - \alpha I) w. $$
Now, $-(A - \alpha I) w$ is some unknown vector in the columnspace of $(A - \alpha I)$.
Knowing this allows to solve for $\gamma$. Once we have done this, the term $(B - \gamma I)u$ becomes a known vector and we are just solving a linear equation.
The value of $\gamma$ is unique because the columnspace of $(A - \alpha I)$ has smaller dimension than the whole space. In other words, it is 'difficult' to get the image of $u$ exactly into the subspace, so there is only one way to do it. However, the solution for $w$ is not unique, in the sense that $(\alpha I - A)w = y$ does not have a unique solution ($y = (B - \gamma I)u$), with the reason being that $(\alpha I - A)$ has a nontrivial nullspace, in particular containing the eigenvectors of $A$ with eigenvector $\alpha$. However, we can pick the vector $w$ solving our linear equation which minimally violates the equation we actually wanted to solve.  In other words, we can pick it so the norm of $(B - \gamma I)w$ is minimal. This is unique.
[end of proof]
Ok, so what have we actually shown with all of this? Basically, for small $\epsilon$ it is possible to get a unique approximation to the eigenvectors of $(A + \epsilon B)$ that has minimal 'error'. These eigenvectors are perturbed from the eigenvectors of $A$ by a small amount which is proportional to $\epsilon$. Therefore, so long as the features of the true population would be uniquely chosen by PCA (i.e. they have distinct population variances), the features of the observed data also can be uniquely chosen by PCA and they are perturbed from the true features by an amount roughly proportional to the size of the sampling error (assuming the sampling error is small!).

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James L. ALVIS
RESIDENCE: Mercer Co. VA Now WVA
BIRTH: 1823, VA
DEATH: AFT 1850, Mercer Co. VA
Father: David ALVIS
Mother: Nancy ROBINSON?
_David ALVIS (OLVIS) I_+
_Elijah ALVIS _______|
|                     |_Elizabeth STANLEY? ___+
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_David ALVIS ________|
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|                     |_Elizabeth CLARKE ___|
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|--James L. ALVIS
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|_Nancy ROBINSON? ____|
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Calvin ARDIS C.S.A.
OCCUPATION: CSA 25/50th Alabama Calvary
RESIDENCE: Madison Co. AL
BIRTH: 1840, Madison Co. Alabama
DEATH: 1862, KIA by Lincoln'a Army, Battle of Stone River, Tennessee
RESOURCES: See: Gencircles.com
Father: Thomas ARDIS "the Immigrant"
Mother: Susan POCKUS
Calvin was killed at Stone's River in Tennessee; He was in the 25th/50th Alabama Cavalry with his brother Major Flemming Ardis.
_(RESEARCH QUERY) ARDIS _|
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_Thomas ARDIS "the Immigrant"_|
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|--Calvin ARDIS C.S.A.
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|_Susan POCKUS ________________|
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Philip Edloe BACON Sr.
RESIDENCE: Albemarle Co. VA
Family 1 : Mary Ann WELLS
Philip Edloe BACON Jr.
Rebecca BISHOP
RESIDENCE: Anne Arundel and Charles Cos. MD
BIRTH: 1693, Anne Arundel Co. Maryland
DEATH: BEF 1734, Charles Co. Maryland
Father: Roger BISHOP
Mother: Sarah NEALE
Family 1 : William MARSHALL III
MARRIAGE: ABT 1713, Charles Co. Maryland
+William MARSHALL IV
+Sarah MARSHALL
+John MARSHALL
to dau, Rebecca and hrs., sd. land in event of death of Mary afsd. withoue issue.
Liber F2 pg 16; Charles County Land Records, Volume IIi, pg124;
8 jul 1714; Recorded at request of Benjamin Sothoron, Gent.: 29Mar 1714; Indenture from William Marshall of Prince Georges County, planter, to Benjamin Sothoron, for consideration of a former bargain and sale of a parcel from Josua Marshall of Prince George's county to John Sorthoron; Marshall rec'd £52.10.0 for a tract called "Two Friends"; it being the north half fomerly sold by Josua Marshall to John Sothoron to Ben Sothoron, s/ John Sothoron; laid out for 525 acres; /s/ Wm. Marshall, Rebekah Marshall; Wit George Dent, John Mactyre; 29Mar 1714, ack by William Marshall and Rebeckah his wife; alienation paid by Mary Rose on behalf of Benj Sothoron.
_(RESEARCH QUERY) BISHOP _|
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_Roger BISHOP _______|
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|--Rebecca BISHOP
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|_Sarah NEALE ________|
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Margaret BROWN
RESIDENCE: Walton, GA
Family 1 : Graves Harris WEAVER Sr.
MARRIAGE: 1 Sep 1846, Walton, GA
George Walton WEAVER
Graves Harris WEAVER Jr.
Mary Caroline WEAVER
Margaret N. WEAVER
John PENICK
6 Jan 1774 - 20 Feb 1828
RESIDENCE: Prince Edward and Lunenburg Cos. VA and Breckinridge Co. KY
BIRTH: 6 Jan 1774, Prince Edward Co. Virginia
DEATH: 20 Feb 1828, Breckinridge Co. Kentucy
RESOURCES: See: [S2355] [S3738]
Father: Thomas PENICK
Mother: Keziah OWEN
Family 1 : Sarah JOHNS
MARRIAGE: 29 Jul 1795, Prince Edward Co. Virginia
+Martha PENICK
Sarah PENICK
2 Elizabeth Penick b: 4 SEP 1796 + Henry Farley b: 1796
2 Thomas Penick b: 28 AUG 1798 d: 22 APR 1836 + Rebecah\Rebecca Bass b: 9 SEP 1793 d: 8 MAY 1864
2 Martha Anna Penick b: 6 APR 1800 d: 1848 + Thomas Guthrie (Chaudoin) Chadoin b: 1795 d: 1879
2 Keziah Penick b: 26 DEC 1801 d: 15 DEC 1840 + James King b: ABT. 1801
2 Sarah Penick b: 18 JAN 1804 d: 21 AUG 1885 + Andrew Chaudoin b: 1804
2 Nancy Penick b: 16 FEB 1806 d: 20 AUG 1874 + Abraham Bruner b: ABT. 1806
2 Joel Johns Penick b: 19 APR 1808 d: 12 JAN 1879 + Sophia B. Ridgeway
_Edward PENICK Jr.___+
_John PENICK ________|
_Thomas PENICK ______|
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|--John PENICK
|_Keziah OWEN ________|
(1751 - 1823) m 1769|
Capt. William SMITH
1687 - Jun 1734
TITLE: Capt.
RESIDENCE: Gloucester and King Wm and Spotsylvania Cos.VA
BIRTH: 1687, Abington,Gloucester Co. VA
DEATH: Jun 1734, Spotsylvania Co.VA
RESOURCES: See: LDS (AFN:P24P-S9) [S1181] [S1650] [S2106]
Father: Lawrence SMITH I "the Immigrant"
Mother: Mary DEBNAM
Family 1 : Elizabeth BALLARD
MARRIAGE: 12 Nov 1708, James City, VA
+Francis SMITH
"...of the Militia who in 1708 was of Abington Parish, Gloucester co., Va. In 1725 and 1726 he was in King William Co., Va. and died in June 1734 in Spotsylvania Co., Va...."
LDS AF, March, 1994, AFN: 9JZM-KX
Mrs. Letitia (Preston) Floyd (wife of Governor John Floyd , and daughter of William and Susannah [Smith] Preston ) in a letter to her son Colonel Benjamin Rush Floyd , dated Feb. 22, 1843 , and published in The Standard, Richmond , June 5, 1880 , page 4, column 2, says that William Preston married July 17, 1761 , Susannah Smith , daughter of Francis Smith , of Hanover . Though there appears among the late E. P. Valentine 's papers no evidence from official records specifically stating the names of the children of Francis Smith , yet the relationship of Granville Smith , and Mrs. Susannah (Smith) Preston as brother and sister is tracable to a statement of Mrs. Susan Ann (Pleasants) Gray , a grand daughter of Granville Smith .* It is clear from the will of Thomas Smith , of Louisa County , dated March 30, 1795 , probated April 10, 1797 (see ante page 2178), that said Thomas Smith had brothers Francis Smith , Parke Smith and Granville Smith , and a sister Mrs. Edward Johnson . Thus we have the names of six children of Francis Smith , viz.: Susannah (Mrs. Preston ), Elizabeth (Mrs. Johnson ) Thomas Smith , Granville Smith , Parke Smith and Francis Smith . The names of John Smith , Ballard Smith and William Smith appear in the list of the children of Francis Smith as given by his great grand-daughter, Mrs. Susan Ann (Pleasants) Gray , grand daughter of Granville Smith .
There has not so far been discovered any record evidence of the parentage of Francis Smith , of Hanover County . The tradition among his descendants is that he was a son of "Doctor John Smith and Elizabeth Ballard ." This statement is contained in account of her family given by his great grand-daughter, Mrs. Letitia (Floyd) Lewis * (wife Colonel William L. Lewis ), in a letter to Honorable Robert W. Hughes , under date of June 13, 1879 , and published in The Standard, Richmond, Virginia , September 18, 1880 , page 4, column 2.
"Doctor John Smith " is evidently a mistake for William Smith , as there is record evidence of the fact that William Smith (died 1734 ) married Elizabeth , daughter of Thomas Ballard .*
The cumulative circumstantial evidence by reason of which Francis Smith is "placed" in this pedigree as a son of William and Elizabeth (Ballard) Smith , is as follows:
1. The tradition derived through Mrs. Letitia Lewis to the effect that Francis Smith 's mother was "Elizabeth Ballard ."
2. The constant recurrence of the name of Ballard as a baptismal name among the descendants of Francis Smith .
3. The appearance in the records of Francis Smith and Thomas Ballard Smith , of Louisa County , acting together in several transactions. Francis Smith and Thomas Ballard Smith executors of John Smith , August, 1744 (see ante page 2164) and their connection with the so-called Granville Company. (See ante page 2187 et seq.)
The Valentine Papers, Vol 1-4, 1864-1908
Pasteur Family*
Smith Family (For data from records relative to this Smith family see ante page 2160 et seq.)
4. [probably] John Smith . At Caroline County Court, August 1744 , in a petition brought by Thomas Ballard Smith and Francis Smith executors of the last will and testament of John Smith , decd., against William Barkesdale ; judgment is granted against the defendant.
(Caroline County Order Book 1741-6 , page 305.) The will of John Smith , who certainly died prior to August, 1744 , was not recorded in Caroline County . The will books of that county are missing, but the order books (from 1732 ) are preserved and were searched by by the late Creed T. Davis for this item. Neither is this John Smith 's will in Spotsylvania , Essex , Louisa , Middlesex ; nor was it been turned up in any search made by the late E. P. Valentine .*
_Christopher SMITH _____________|
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_Lawrence SMITH I "the Immigrant"_|
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RESIDENCE: ENG
Father: Thomas TAYLOR
_John TAYLOR ________|
| (1478 - ....) m 1509|
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_Thomas TAYLOR ______|
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Benjamin WICKLIFFE Sr.
RESIDENCE: Prince William Co. VA
BIRTH: 1706, Prince William Co. Virginia
DEATH: BEF 1763, Virginia
Father: Robert WICKLIFFE
Mother: Dorcas ARRINGTON
Family 1 : Susan (Sukey) DAVIS
Arrington WICKLIFFE
Aaron WICKLIFFE
Benjamin WICKLIFFE Jr.
Moses WICKLIFFE
Robert WICKLIFFE Sr.
Mary WICKLIFFE
Dorcas WICKLIFFE
Elijah WICKLIFFE
_David II WICKLIFFE _+
_David III WICKLIFFE _|
| (1671 - 1698) m 1690 |
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_Robert WICKLIFFE ___|
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|                       (1675 - ....) m 1690 |
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|--Benjamin WICKLIFFE Sr.
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|_Dorcas ARRINGTON ___|
|                       _____________________


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Office Web Apps reincarnates as Office Online: What you should know
Randell Suba, Tech Times 23 February 2014, 08:02 pm
Microsoft is on a streak, in renaming its products at least. After changing the SkyDrive to OneDrive, the company has now announced that the Office Web Apps has been renamed as the Office Online.
Office Online will avoid any confusion that the old name might be causing. In line with the rebranding, the company also made the online suite easier to find on the office.com website and by having drop-down headers in OneDrive and Outlook.com.
"We heard from customers that the inclusion of Apps in our name was confusing. Are they something I install? Do I go to an app store to get them? No, to use them all you need is a web browser. Ah! You say. So it's like Office, online. Yes, exactly. Office Online," Microsoft announced in its official blog.
Microsoft also hinted of new templates that have been integrated with Office Online, which includes classic programs such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Outlook. Users also have access to OneNote, OneDrive, Calendar, and People.
"Not only are we making it easier to find, share and collaborate using Office Online, we're making it easier to create great looking documents. The new online experience includes hundreds of Word, PowerPoint and Excel templates so you can go from nothing to something with just a click. Budgets, resumes, calendars and more, all available online, for free at Office.com," it stated.
The changes might have been hinted by earlier changes noticed by the Chinese website livesino.net on Jan. 29. The site noticed the preparations for the name change when it noticed the elements of the productivity suite sporting the names Word Online, PowerPoint Online, OneNote Online, and Excel Online. The company expressed its intentions to reposition the brand as early as 2007.
One only needs a Microsoft Account to make use of the free versions of the programs and all files are stored to OneDrive. The company also tweaked the service to become more cohesive and connected so collaboration will be easier. The rebranded Office on the Web includes an app switcher that allows users to jump easily from one file to another or between the cloud storage and email without going out of the Office Online environment.
Users can open their online app created documents on their desktop version of Office 2013 or Office 2010 by clicking a specific button on the Office Online program. Unfortunately, those who use MS Office on their Macs cannot open their online documents in their desktop version of the program.
Tags: Microsoft Office Online Office Web Apps OneDrive
Microsoft Office 365 to get email encryption
Microsoft Office Web Apps get real-time co-editing feature
OneDrive to rule them all - Microsoft aims to take out Dropbox with rebranded cloud storage
Microsoft teams up with Docusign to bring eSignatures to Office 365


What You Should Expect From Costa Rica Home Listings?
In this modern age, we commonly search for anything we want via the internet. Thanks to the internet, we can find all the things that we want to buy. One of these things are homes that are for sale. The same reason why there are tons of website nowadays that has these home listings made available, and not to mention its free. However, it is quite a hassle as well because tons of search results can come up which makes it even hard for you to tell which ones are legit and proper. Its great to know that we have many options when it comes to these things. What you need to do now is to find out how to properly choose the best house to buy. Now what we should do is put much attention to important details that help us buy the best house possible. Let us also discuss how to properly deal with home listings.
When it comes to home listings, you will see a bunch of pictures of houses being sold. You can decide whether you like it or not by just looking at the outside and inside images of the residence. You can visualize how the house will feel by just looking at its pictures. Take note that looking at the images on the internet may be helpful but it is still not the same as looking at it in person, so make sure to investigate the property for yourself. Do not be lured immediately as to how good it looks like on the photos, it is still best to meticulously check every essential detail even the small ones. It is pretty easy to edit a photo and post in on the internet. People who post the pictures on the internet will not include the flaws of what they are trying to sell.
One thing that you should know is that many benefits are associated and thus why most of the people are into it. If you are looking forward to investing in real estate properties, you should read more here because thus what we want to talk about.
To start with, real estate investment has many tax benefits. You find that people who spend in real estate property are always sidelined when it comes to paying tax in some countries while in other countries they pay very little. Besides, they are also being rewarded by the government for having built houses to absorb the squatters. This is because by doing that they are doing the government big favour to help absorb the homeless.
Most of the people prefer investing in real estate because it appreciates in value. This is because the moment you see the value of your house going down, you can do some maintenance practices to make it look new again. You find that if you paint the whole building with high quality paint will be enough to promote the value of your house. Apart from that, you can also increase the value of your property by fixing broken pipes, cabinets, shower, sink and others. As a result, you would have boosted the value of your house by some portion.
Apart from that, it is also beneficial to invest in real estate property since you will be in a better loan position. You find that most of the banks and other money lending institutions find it easy to give loans to real estate investors than those who invest in the stock market. Typically, the real estate property will not depreciate for very many years. This will give them easy time to use your title to sell the property when you fail to repay the loan.
Besides, real estate has the low maintenance cost. You should know that all the maintenance practices that are undertaken in real estate are not the responsibility of the property owner. In this case, you will have to raise the house charges anytime you do significant changes. For instance, when you decorate the whole building using high quality paint, you will boost the costs to get your money back.
Is It Worth It To Fix A House Before Selling Your Home?
Fixing your house before listing it for sale will be depending on a few factors and each will vary in every situations. The main factors will be the amount of time and the budget that you will have. You can read more here regarding all the factors that you need to consider before you will list your house for sale.
Having some repairs done to the house that you are trying to sell.
You should know that it is not always worth it if you spend some money and time to do some fixes to your house. Below are some of the examples.
Structural damage – you can have a lot of problems every time you will sell a house that nobody has be occupying for a long time. There might be some infestations of bugs, vermin, or termites and squatters in the house. All of these will lead to damages that will be difficult to fix.
You don't want to be spending a lot of money every time the house that you are trying to sell will have crumbling steps or foundations, severe issues with the plumbing, or holes in the walls. You might be listing the house as it is and hope to recover some of your expenses.
Ask an expert – contacting a contractor is one good thing that you should do. These contractors will be able to provide you with good advice and will discover damages that you did not spot. The contractors will be able to know the things that should be looked into and can advice you if you should spend some money on it or not.
If you are quite curious about what it likes to live in an apartment complex, then this website is just the right source for you to come by. Now, living alone is never that easy to do from the get go. Although it depends on the person's actions themselves, there are also some lingering perks that you could be proud about in having a unit or place all to yourself. Thanks to this article, you would be given some valuable insight about the benefits that you get from living at an apartment unit or building. Read more now to get more hints that you could muster regarding the thought of living at an apartment for your own ease and convenience. To those that are not keen in the high maintenance lifestyle, then simply living at an apartment could be a good thing for you to invest in for your own preference. For a number of residents out there as well, apartment living tends to be more home-y due to the fact that they do not have to cover a lot of space in order to walk around the area at their own will. Nothing really compares to the thought of living at an apartment at that.
If you yourself are looking for an apartment to live in as of this moment, then you could do some research on the internet where you could simply check it out! If you are a rather minimalist person to begin with, then apartment living could very much be a good idea for you to delve into in the long run. To your end, you could either go for a studio space or a traditional apartment unit wherein partitions are very much available for your own choosing. Discover more on these things by doing some extensive research on your own to really get the full lowdown that you are looking for regarding these said apartment units. Do not worry too much on the rates though as there are indeed some affordable options for you to think about in the very end.


Colonel Conk's Natural line is receiving excellent reviews!
This review is from a bald headed gentleman from The Bald Nation who uses Colonel Conk's natural products to shave his head!
This comprehensive review is all the way from Sweden!
The Bald Nation did an extensive review on our #295 shaving gift set.
Our friends at Wyatt's Naturals sampled our shave cream.


Cherry flooring has evolved over time, now meaning you can expect a glorious elegant finish and is a popular hardwood choice due to it's beauty and versatility..
Cherry sapwood is a creamy-white in colour, while the heartwood tends to be more of a pinkish to reddish-brown. Cherry wood can be expected to undergo a considerable amount of colour change over time, with pronounced darkening taking place quite quickly when in direct sunlight. The darkening of cherry hardwood, combined with a fine figured, straight grain leaves your flooring with a gorgeous, elegant finish.
As a hardwood flooring option, cherry is slightly softer than other wood species, meaning it is best kept for rooms with lighter foot traffic. With proper care and maintenance however, the durability of your cherry flooring can be increased, ensuring it stands the test of time.
Cherry hardwood flooring brings a feeling of warmth to any room and fits well with both traditional and more contemporary interior designs and furnishings.
Because of its warmth and versatility, cherry flooring would be a perfect addition to a conservatory or bedroom – somewhere you would want to go and relax after a long day. Due to its rich, red shade, it is often recommended to try and pair the flooring with contrasting colours for other furniture or walls.
If you are considering cherry wood for your flooring, don't forget that at Just Wood we offer a professional installation service, to help make sure your new flooring is fitted perfectly.


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Join us at the Mizner Park Comedy Club (www.MiznerParkComedyClub.com) - "Where Boca comes to laugh!"
Comedians from the United States Armed Services performing to benefit local local veterans and service non-profit organizations.
Now it it's third year, Boca Raton plays host to this annual competition as women from across the state take the stage to deliver their best jokes in vying for the title of Florida's Funniest Female 2018. Join us as we crown the funniest of the bunch.
All events benefit local non-profit organizations.
Ages 18+ | First come first serve general admission seating (reserved seating available for purchase and for groups of 12 or more) | Events are subject to change and cancellation. Refunds will not be issued unless show is cancelled by venue or producer.
Beer, wine, soft drinks, snacks and candy will be available for purchase. There are no purchase minimums. Attendees are encouraged to dine prior to or after the show at any number of the restaurants in Mizner Park and the Downtown Boca area.
Ride share services such as Lyft and Uber are strongly encouraged as parking is at a premium at Mizner Park due to its popularity. Please arrive 45-60 minutes early for all events. Once you arrive, there are many options for patrons, including valet service directly in front of the Cultural Center.
Free parking is available in four parking garages.
Garage A and B are accessible from Federal Hwy at Fourth St.
Garage C is adjacent to Lord & Taylor, located at 3rd St and Mizner Blvd.
Garage D is located at 5th St and Mizner Blvd.
Handicap parking spaces are available in each parking garage.
Full-service valet parking is available for $6.00 between Max's Grille and Villagio on northbound Plaza Real.
Additional valet locations are also offered to patrons of Lord & Taylor, Truluck's, iPic Theaters, Yard House and Uncle Julio's.


Re-entry into the real world after three weeks of single focus and nearly complete disconnection is always a difficult adjustment. I promised Beat an update on my own blog so I'm attempting a quick post. My friend Liehann and I finished the Race Across South Africa just after 10 p.m. on Tuesday, July 1, after 21 days of riding, pushing, shoving, and carrying our bikes along the rugged contours of the country. It was an incredible experience to explore South Africa in depth and visit corners that very few people see. The route was brilliantly and sometimes diabolically devised to keep riders as far off the beaten path as possible, and for an American in South Africa even the beaten path feels far away. It was culturally dynamic and physically challenging in ways I didn't expect. Our days were generally (but not always) shorter than I'd become accustomed to in past multi-day endurance events, but the daily challenges were more mentally strenuous and sometimes brushed against the limits of my physical abilities. Not working on upper body strength or practicing carrying my bike up steep, loose terrain was the biggest mistake I made in preparing for this event.
Liehann was a great riding partner, usually upbeat and patient with me in the areas where I struggled the most, which were (unsurprisingly) navigation pressure and fear of being lost in a foreign country, and (quite surprisingly to me at least) the hiking portages. The middle segment of the route featured a seemingly endless string of three-meter-high game fences to hoist our bikes over, and for that and many other reasons there is no way I could have completed this route without his help.
The Freedom Challenge is well organized and makes it possible to ride this remote route with fantastic support from Native villagers, farm houses, and a few hotels. We met many wonderful people and spent time in fascinating places, one of the most unique being a night spent in the village of Vuvu inside one of the villager's huts. Commercial services are few and this route would be a difficult thing to complete fully self-supported, so the race organization has created a great opportunity with this tour.
And of course Beat was at home monitoring the tracking page and updating my blog. His support from afar was fantastic and his device worked great. Although it couldn't help much on the many cow paths, farm road mazes and off-trail bushwhacking, the gadget was consistently accurate at gauging intersections on even small dirt roads, which was frequently reassuring.
I've been off the grid for so long I'm not even sure where or how to begin re-entry. I'm in the Cape Town area for a few more days, hopefully enough time to visit the coast and see a penguin, and then it's back to California finally on July 5. I'm looking forward to coming home.
There will be more to come. Thanks for checking in.
I happened to check in on your tracking site as you were just arriving at the finish, it looked like a tough day! Looking forward to your description of the ride and the usual great pictures of your experiences in SA!
Congrats Jill! That was a fantastic accomplishment and an incredible adventure. Look forward to seeing some of your pics. Thanks Beat for setting up the website so we could follow the daily progress!
Thank you for the update - I've been wondering how you are! I've have followed your progress throughout the race and was thrilled to see you finish yesterday. I look forward to hearing all about it and I wish you safe travel home.
Congratulations Jill. What an adventure. I am looking forward to reading more details.
Yay! Eagerly awaiting your report and pictures. Thanks to Beat and Trang for the updates. It's so stressful being an armchair adventure traveler! haha! Love your blog Jill, travel safe.
Welcome to the tribe of blanket wearers. Roughly 170 individual men and 20 women have earned their blankets since the inauguration of the race 10 years ago.. RASA is an unfiltered, unglamorous, adventure race, I look forward to reading your updates, especially on how it has changed your perspective of, well, everything.
Have been following your progress and look forward to hearing more about the challenge and your journey through South Africa and seeing your always wonderful photographs. Congratulations!
Congratulations!!! Sounds like this was very different from the TD in many, many ways. Can't wait to read all about your experiences.
Congratulations, Jill and Liehann. It was great to be able to track you along the way and get updates from you, Trang, and Beat. Can't wait to see more pictures and here more about it.
Congratulations, Jill and Liehann on another epic adventure. I thought you folks got stuck because the jumpertrax still has you at Trouthaven for the past few days. Glad to hear you finished and in good time.
Definitely looking forward to your notes, thoughts, and feelings about the race and about South Africa, one place I'd go back to in a heartbeat.
Totally amazing. Congratulations. Todays pic is stunning. Looking forward to reading and seeing the whole saga.


Fascia envelops the body, affecting every movement. It supports the body's form, stores potential energy and carries force from muscle to tendon to bone. Eric Franklin's new book, Fascia Release and Balance, teaches how connective tissues integrate the body's components and facilitate all movements. This knowledge is reinforced by Franklin Method® ball-rolling and imagery exercises that release tension and train the fascia for expansive movement.
The first half of Fascia Release and Balance details the makeup of different types of connective tissue and illustrates how they work harmoniously with skin, muscle and bone to create movement. For example, visualizing movement as a muscle contracting to move a bone will leave your movements rigid and unforgiving. However, the body is not built this way. Muscles rely on connective tissues to carry their force to the bones on each end. By understanding and visualizing the muscles contracting to pull on the connective tissue, which then moves the bone, your movement regains spring and elasticity. This is just one of the many ways Eric Franklin helps redefine how you move. While not shying away from some anatomical terminology, the content is approached using artistic, colorful illustrations and metaphors to make it easily understood by readers of all levels.
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Fascia Release and Balance is ideally suited for anyone who wants to relieve tension and move freely and efficiently. Therapists, trainers and instructors will also discover inspiring techniques to deepen the connection of clients and patients as well as improve their ease and quality of movement.


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Shale Play in Western Siberia is 80 Times Bigger than the Bakken
By James Burgess - Jun 05, 2012, 5:08 PM CDT
The Bakken shale is a huge expanse of oil-bearing rock that lies underneath Northern Dakota and Montana. Oil production in the Bakken has grown from just 60,000 barrels per day (BPD) five years ago, to 500,000 bpd now. It is predicted that the formation holds more than 24 billion barrels of oil, and that given enough rigs it could produce more than a million bpd by 2020 and continue that level of production for half a century.
The Bakken shale play is one of the biggest in the US, but is absolutely dwarfed by a shale play in Russia. The Bazhenov is located in Western Siberia, and according to Oswals Clint, Sanford Bernstein's lead international oil analyst, it "covers 2.3 million square kilometers or 570 million acres, which is the size of Texas and the Gulf of Mexico combined;" an area 80 times bigger than the Bakken.
The region which is covered by the Bazhenov has many cracks and fractures which could make its oil flow more readily, and therefore production much cheaper. A couple of test wells have been drilled in the region which operated at 400 bpd; the same as an average Bakken well.
News of the Bazhenov may be new to many of us, but geologists have actually been studying it for at least 20 years, however it is only in the last few years that the technology and expertise necessary to drill the oil has been developed.
ExxonMobil and Statoil have agreed to start joint venture operations in the region with the Russian, state-owned Rosneft in an attempt to secure access to the Bazhenov. Exxon made a recent statement which confirmed the agreement "to jointly develop tight oil production technologies in Western Siberia."
Oswald Clint warned that oil companies will face challenges of drilling in the region as during the summer the weather in Siberia warms and softens the ground enough to prevent drilling. Although if 300 rigs can be quickly deployed he believes that by 2020 the Bazhenov play could be producing one million bpd.
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Philip Andrews on June 06 2012 said:
Exactly or even roughly how much oil are we talking about in the Bazhenov? And how would that affect/improve Russia's position as an energy producer?
Al Diaz on June 06 2012 said:
It appears that oil will remain the primary worldwide source of energy for the remainder of this century. Let's stop wasting money on developing, subsidizing, and encouraging use of impractical and inefficient alternative sources of energy such as ethanol. Get ethanol out of our gasoline.
Mel Tisdale on June 07 2012 said:
This is only good news if we ignore the impact the resulting increased CO2 production will have on the environment. There are troubled times ahead when the public sees through the hype and realises just how serious the situation is. Old Mother Nature doesn't give a fig about politics; her laws are immutable. Increase the atmospheric CO2 content and the temperature increases and the oceans become more acidic, period. Whilst most attention is centred on Climate Change, it is worth bearing in mind that the oceans produce 50% of our oxygen and we are doing our best to kill off the organisms that produce it. I don't think that "Oops!" will cut it somehow.
Heber Rizzo on June 07 2012 said:
Considering that for almost all of the last 600 million years of Earth history both CO2 levels and temperature have been higher (far higher in fact) that present ones, and there has been no "tipping point" and that life has thrived trough all that time:
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... these are good news, indeed!
Butch Verrando on June 08 2012 said:
Mel contrary to what EPA thinks CO2 is not a pollutant, and as long as the Earth is a living biosphere it will experience climate change. By stating that "her laws are immutable" you imply that you know what those laws are, and that those laws indicate the oceans will somehow become damaged.
Nature has been running this game for a very long time, and I would suggest that what man does will not have the slightest effect on the Earth's environment. CO2 has been much higher proportion of the atmosphere in the past and the planet did not melt! As a matter of fact plants grow better. You know of course that plants pretty much stop growing at around 280 PPM.
We need to use these oil resources and stop jousting with wind mills like Don Quixote, you greenies are promoting a Marxist agenda and it needs to stop.
Ron Wagner on June 12 2012 said:
Natural gas is the future of energy. It is replacing dirty and dangerous coal and nuclear plants. It is producing the electricity for electric cars. It will directly fuel pickup trucks, vans, buses, long haul trucks, dump trucks, locomotives, aircraft, ships etc. It will keep us out of more useless wars, where we shed our blood and money. Here are over 200 recent links for you: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NbaKYme3bqOw0b6KMxXSjOLHLNeflalPy9gIAiTYFMQ/edit
Mark_BC on April 03 2013 said:
True, CO2 was much higher in the Earth's past. But the sun has also been getting much brighter as CO2 dropped, which tends to counteract.
Butch, humanity currently appropriates 1/4 of every single piece of vegetation that grows on planet Earth. To say that we will have the slightest effect on the planet is totally absurd.
There is nowhere near enough natural gas to replace oil for any significant length of time.


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Frank E. Loy (born December 25, 1928) is an American diplomat, business and nonprofit executive, and attorney. He is best known for serving as United States Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs from November 2, 1998, to January 20, 2001, under President Bill Clinton. In that position, he was the chief United States negotiator for issues such as climate change and trade on genetically modified agricultural products.

He has been senior vice president for international affairs at Pan American Airways, president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, president of the Penn Central Corporation, and an attorney with O'Melveny & Myers.

Early and personal life
Frank E. Loy was born on December 25, 1928, in Nuremberg, Germany. Raised in Germany, Italy and Switzerland in his early years, Loy went to public schools in Los Angeles from the age of 10. He earned a B.A. degree at the University of California, Los Angeles and an LL.B. at Harvard Law School. Following law school, he served for 21 months in the United States Army.

He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Dale Haven Loy, a painter.  They have two children and four grandchildren.

Private career
Loy began his career practicing corporate law in Los Angeles with the firm of O'Melveny & Myers. From 1970-1973 he served as Senior Vice President for International and Regulatory Affairs of Pan American World Airways.

He spent the years 1974 to 1979 as a partner in the turnaround firm that successfully brought the Penn Central Transportation Company out of bankruptcy.  It was then the largest industrial bankruptcy in American history.  In that role he served as president of the subsidiary that operated all the non-railroad businesses of the bankrupt – including an oil pipeline, an oil refinery, the Six Flags theme parks, and the Arvida Corp., a Florida land and resort development company. Loy  also oversaw operations of Penn Central's New York hotels, the Roosevelt, the Biltmore, the Barclay (now the Intercontinental), and the Commodore (now the Grand Hyatt), as well as the operations of major investments, such as the Madison square Garden Corporation.  When the bankruptcy terminated, he became president of the successor company, the Penn Central Corporation, listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Government service
Loy's first government role was as Special Assistant to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration and  director of that agency's Office of Policy Development, the FAA's economic analysis and planning shop.

He served in the Department of State under four administrations, nominated the last three times by the Presidents Carter, Clinton and Obama. From 1965-70 he was Deputy Assistant Secretary  for Economic Affairs. In that role he negotiated numerous international bilateral air transport agreements, represented the U.S. at meetings of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), and the International Maritime Organization (IMCO), and was vice-chair of the U.S. delegation to the multinational negotiations that successfully created the present structure of INTELSAT, the organization that operates the space segments of the international communications network.

From 1980-81 he was Director of the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, with the personal rank of Ambassador.

From 1998 to 2001 he was Under Secretary for Global Affairs.  His portfolio included human rights, the promotion of democracy, international criminal activity and narcotics, refugees and population affairs, and environmental matters.  He served as chief U.S negotiator for climate change. In 2011 he served as Deputy U.S Representative to the UN General Assembly.

Nonprofit work

From 1981-95, Loy was president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, an American institution whose original capital was a gift from the German government as  memorial to the Marshall Plan.  It concentrated exclusively on issues affecting both Europe and the U.S., particularly in the fields of economics, politics and the environment.

Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, GMF concentrated the bulk of its resources on promoting democratic institutions (such as an independent press, a functioning legislature, effective political parties, an independent judiciary, a civil society of non-governmental institutions, etc.) in former Soviet-bloc Eastern European countries.

He served in 1994 as Chair of the Conference of Parties of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITIES), in which over 1,000 delegates from more than 120 countries and over 500 observers participated. In 1996, Loy was a Visiting Lecturer at the Yale Law School, teaching a course in international environmental law and policy.

Loy chairs numerous boards of directors of non-profit organizations, particularly in the field of environment, climate change and family planning, including Population Services International (PSI), ecoAmerica, and the Round Table on Environmental Medicine and Health of the National Academy of Medicine. He serves on numerous boards he has chaired in the past, including the Environmental Defense Fund (on whose board he has served since 1981), Resources For The Future, and The Washington Ballet.

His prior boards include The Foundation for A Civil Society (chair), which promoted democratic development in Central and Eastern Europe;  the Budapest-based Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe, to which he was appointed in 1990 by President George H. W. Bush, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Foundation for a Civil Society, which has conducted programs promoting democratic institutions in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly Czechia and Slovakia. Loy was a founding board member of the Climate Speakers Network, which was subsequently absorbed into the Climate Reality Project.

References

Sources

External links
Earth Focus Video Interviews with Frank Loy stored at the Internet Archive.
Essay by Loy recommending a course of action for European diplomacy with respect to American environmental policy, written in 2006.

1928 births
Living people
American business executives
American lawyers
Clinton administration personnel
Harvard Law School alumni
United States Department of State officials
University of California, Los Angeles alumni

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Q: Change the icon in About Box Could you tell me as to how do I change the default image that is displayed in an About Box? The one that comes default with MFC as three boxes. I would want to change that to my present icon that I have created using MFC. My icon works but I just need to change the picture/image in my About Box.
Thanks for your prompt replies.
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A: A typical MFC application has the About dialog as part of the resource file that can be edited in the WYSIWYG editor.  Open your projects .rc file, and click on the About Box dialog (the default IDD is IDD_ABOUTBOX).  Right click on the Icon and select properties.  From there you can change the icon that is used.  Usually you would do this by adding additional icon resources to your application and specifying the new ID.  Optionally, you could simply change the existing icon resource (by default it is IDR_MAINFRAME).


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Babergh residents urged to register housing need
Babergh residents with a link to Great Waldingfield are being urged to register their housing need as new affordable homes are given the green light.
Stradbroke Pool Swims into National Third Place
A Suffolk swimming pool is ranking alongside the London Aquatics Centre in a national Swimathon for Charity.
Final survey on Sudbury skate park underway
As plans for the new skatepark in Belle Vue Park are being developed, Sudbury residents are being asked in an online survey to let the council know how they want it to look and to be used. Options include skateboarding, rollerblading, scooters, BMX or a mixture of these.
Councils approve new infrastructure spending scheme
Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils have approved a joint expenditure scheme to allow for the expenditure on infrastructure as a result of development.
Stradbroke Neighbourhood Plan out for consultation
A six-week consultation on Stradbroke's Neighbourhood Development Plan starts today.
Put Your Questions to Babergh's Leader and Deputy Leader
The Leader and Deputy Leader of Babergh District Council are inviting residents to ask their questions at a Come & Talk event in Sudbury.
Action Taken to Protect Fisons
Mid Suffolk District Council officers have met with the owners of Fisons to agree a plan to protect the historic site in Bramford after a fire broke out on Sunday 8 April.
Finding New Ways of Working Together
Since late last year Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils have been exploring how our award winning 'Working Together' partnership needs to evolve to ensure that the Councils are 'fit for purpose', and able to continue to deliver the important services our residents value, in the future.
Future Plans for Corks Lane, Hadleigh to be Displayed
Residents of Hadleigh are invited to put forward their views on the future of Babergh's former headquarters to a team of council staff and consultants at exhibitions in the town this April.


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New rapid and robust COVID-19 antibody test developed
A new COVID-19 antibody test developed by scientists at Lund University in Sweden has shown robust performance upon clinical validation and application. The test detects antibodies in the blood targeting the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, and determines in just 15 minutes whether a person has had COVID-19, regardless of whether they have had any symptoms.
"Unlike other serological tests to determine the presence of antibodies in the blood, this test does not require laboratory analysis and can be used at a healthcare centre or an elderly nursing home, for example. A few drops of blood are placed on a test strip and the results are presented in a display within 15 minutes", says Magnus Rasmussen, Professor and specialist in infectious disease at Skåne University Hospital, who led the study together with Yang De Marinis, Associate Professor at the Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University.
Currently, patients with COVID-19 are usually diagnosed through a nasal or throat swab that shows any trace of the viral RNA in a laboratory PCR analysis. The PCR method is technically demanding and relatively expensive. As an important complementary test, an antibody test shows whether a person previously had the infection.
Among existing antibody tests, the new COVID-19 antibody test developed at Lund University has a robust performance with a sensitivity of 92% and specificity of 97%. The test is CE-marked and registered at the Swedish Medical Products Agency, and marketed through ZetaGene Ltd., a Swedish registered company.
"The antibody test could greatly contribute to mapping the spread of COVID-19 in society and preventing future virus outbreaks", says Yang De Marinis.
The COVID-19 antibody test measures the presence of two types of antibodies that develop in response to a SARS-CoV-2 virus infection:
IgM antibodies that respond to the initiation of the infection and
IgG antibodies that are formed at a later stage.
Both antibodies play important roles in immunity. Specifically, this new COVID-19 antibody test detects both IgM and IgG antibodies targeting the receptor-binding domain of viral spike protein which binds to receptors on human cells for viral entry. The test is therefore highly sensitive and specific, with minimal risk of false negative results or false positive results.
In the study, the researchers examined the relationship between the presence of different antibodies, the time of infection onset and the severity of COVID-19. The results show an increase in antibody response during the course of COVID-19 illness, and that the IgM antibodies appear to remain longer in the blood of patients who have been seriously ill and needed hospital care.
Yang de Marinis and Magnus Rasmussen (Photo: Sara Liedholm)
The researchers also analysed various forms of blood: whole blood, serum and plasma taken from a vein in the elbow crease. Results suggest that the test is more sensitive to detecting antibodies in serum or plasma compared to whole blood.
Two new follow-up studies have been initiated to screen hospital and university staff by the COVID-19 antibody test.
"There has been much focus on healthcare staff and the possible risks they are exposed to at work. However, there are also indications showing that hospital staff are most often infected outside the hospital or in hospitals by asymptomatic colleagues, rather than by patients. But we don't want just to assume this, we want to find out through our studies. Furthermore, we will map the prevalence of previous COVID-19 infection in various departments at the hospital and university", says Magnus Rasmussen.
The first part is about to be finalized, where staff at the Division of Infectious Diseases at Skåne University Hospital are tested for COVID-19 antibodies.
"We aim to test the entire staff at the division, including doctors, nurses, assistant nurses and the cleaning staff. This will be followed by a larger screening on around 600 health-care employees at Skåne University Hospital, and employees at non-medicine related departments at Lund University. Our studies also include PCR test results and a detailed questionnaire for risk exposure analysis. These studies will provide important information on how we may best protect our staff and avoid transmission", concludes Magnus Rasmussen.
The clinical validation study of the test was accepted for publication in June 2020 in scientific journal Infection Ecology and Epidemiology.
Serology assessment of antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 in patients with COVID-19 by rapid IgM/IgG antibody test
Pre-print is available at medRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.05.20168815
The published study includes 45 patients with confirmed COVID-19 with mild or severe symptoms at various disease stages, and 69 blood samples from control individuals without COVID-19.
About CE marking:
The antibody test (ZetaGene COVID-19 Rapid IgM IgG Test) used in the studies is CE-marked, which indicates that the device is fit for its intended purpose stated, meets legislation relating to safety, and can be freely marketed in the European Union. The test is a registered product at the Swedish Medical Products Agency (Läkemedelsverket). For more information, visit: www.zetagene.com.
Declaration of affiliations:
The test was developed by ZetaGene Ltd., a company that develops diagnostic tools for the healthcare industry based on micro-fluid technology. ZetaGene Ltd. was founded by Yang De Marinis, Associate Professor at Lund University, with the help of Lund University Innovation. ZetaGene is looking for potential partners and investors to implement the COVID-19 antibody test on a large scale in Sweden and other EU countries.
Yang De Marinis, Associate Professor at Lund University and founder of ZetaGene Ltd.
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Magnus Rasmussen, Professor at Lund University and medical specialist at the Infection Clinic at Skåne University Hospital
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Christelle Prinz, professor of solid state physics, and Edouard Berrocal, researcher in combustion physics, will each receive EUR 150 000 to further develop research results…
Astronomers find explanation for mysterious stars
Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have now drawn an exciting conclusion regarding massive stars that can be observed in the outskirts of many spiral galaxies. These…
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