[FoRK] Fwd: Seed Magazine: a Maxim for science writing
Joseph S. Barrera III
joe at barrera.org
Mon Jul 19 14:34:54 PDT 2004
Sounds like a glowing recommendation, except that
(a) Maxim sucks
(b) Omni sucked
(c) Wired... I haven't looked at for years.
(d) New Scientist is quite cool and relevant enough for me.
(e) I don't ork cows. Or even orkut them. Even in Portuguese.
... BUT... if anyone on this list has seen this magazine and has
anything good to say about it, I'd love to hear it.
currently reading: Islandia (Wright)
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Subject: Seed Magazine: a Maxim for science writing
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:28:02 -0700
From: [rss] Boing Boing <joe at barrera.org>
To: <joe at barrera.org>
I just finished reading my first issue of Seed Magazine, a
science-culture magazine that is the best new magazine I've read since I
picked up my first issue of Wired.
The writing in this magazine -- mostly by scientists -- is stellar, and
there's a fantastic mix of long features and short factoids about
science. The approach to the subject is like the very best science
fiction, coming at it from the intersection of the social and the
scientific, going for the cultural stories behind the science. There's
even a fiction department, something that tech-oriented magazines have
been sorely lacking since Omni folded up.
This is almost a Maxim for science, something that makes science cool
and relevant and edgy. The mag's been around for quite a while, but it
wasn't until my cow-orkers Seth and Annalee turned me onto it that I
discovered it. Now that I have, I'm taking out a subscription.
I really can't gush enough about this: it's the best subway reading I've
had in months. Link <http://seedmagazine.com/>
7/19/2004 3:26:04 PM
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When writing about ‘Hamlet’ as part of a Literary Genre essay, you will need to explain why it is a Tragedy. It is not sufficient to say simply ‘because everyone dies’. Tragedy, in its classical sense, is more complicated than that. There are certain criteria that must be fulfilled before a play can be classed as a Tragedy.
1. Central Character a person of status
The tragic hero must be an exceptional being – a person of high degree or public importance. His actions and sufferings must be of an unusual kind. Hamlet is an important person. He is a prince, sone of the previous king. Claudius declares him to be the next in line:
‘You are the most immediate to our throne’ (Act 1 Scene 2)
His position to the state is so important that he cannot marry whoever he likes:
‘his will is not is own . . . on his choice depends
The safety and the health of the whole state.’ (Laertes to Ophelia, Act 1 Scene 3)
2. The events of the play must be important and serious
This is obvious in ‘Hamlet’ – the fate of the state hangs in the balance. There can be comic relief, as with the many puns and the scene with the gravediggers. However, this does not diminish the overall mood of the play.
3. The Tragic Hero has a fatal flaw
In all Tragic Heroes, we see a marked one-sidedness, a predisposition in one particular direction; a fatal tendency, interest or passion (Hamlet – procrastination, Othello – jealousy, Lear – pride, Macbeth – ambition). In the circumstance we see the hero placed, his tragic trait is fatal to him. He errs by action (Othello, Lear, Macbeth) or omission (Hamlet) and this error, joining with other causes, brings him to ruin. The Tragic Hero is genrally good and wins our sympathy. It is vital that he has greatness, so that in his error and downfall we are still aware of the possibilities of human nature. A Shakespearean tragedy is never totally depressing. At the end, we do not feel that man is a poor, mean creature. He may be wretched or awful, but he is never small.
Hamlet is well aware of his own shortcomings. He scorns himself for being ‘John-a-dreams’ (Act 2 Scene 2). He realises how ‘the stamp of one defect’ can bring a good person down (Act 1 Scene 4 line 21). However, Hamlet also fits the bill in terms of the hero having good qualities. He is brave (e.g. the solo attack on the pirate ship), and excellent swordsman (is winning when injured at the end), has broad interests (great interest in drama as shown by his conversation with the players) and he has the admiration of the general public (‘the great love the general gender bear him’ – Claudius Act 4 Scene 7 line 18).
4. Role of Fate
In some ancient tragedies the hero’s destruction is caused by Fate – forces outside the control of the hero, and so in a sense the hero can’t be blamed, isn’t responsible. However, in Shakespeare the hero makes choices that cause his downfall. Hamlet is conscious of the role of Fate in his life. He won’t allow his friends to keep him away from seeing the ghost: ‘My fate cries out (Act 1 Scene 4 line 83). Just before the sword fight he seems resigned to what fate has in store for him:
‘There’s a divinity that shapes our ends
Rough-hew them how we will’ (Act 5 Scene 2 line 10)
and later ‘Let be’ (Act 5 Scene 2 c.217).
Yet fate doesn’t prevent him from killing Claudius when he had a chance (when Claudius seems to be praying) – he chose not to do it.
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5. Tragic Catharsis
The central impression is one of waste. It is an Aristotelian term used to describe the ‘pity and fear’ felt by the audience at the end of the play. These feelings are united with a profound sense of sadness and mystery in the face of such waste.
However, at the end, the restoration of stability provides a sense of safe relief. Also, the state has been purged of evil – justice is done, Claudius, the villain, is dead.
As Hamlet says himself to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern:
‘What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form, in moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel! In apprehension, how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?’ (Act 2 Scene 2).

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Rye Neck High School students are meeting community issues head on.
By Janice Llanes Fabry
Rye Neck High School students are meeting community issues head on. Through the district’s Independent Learner Program’s Tools For Change and Action Research programs, they are tackling local problems through social research and painstaking analysis. And they’ve generated enough compelling data to promote change.
“The students come to understand that social science research is about leaning in and being engaged,” remarked Enrichment Coordinator Valerie Feit. “Young people care about global issues such as healthcare and hunger, which are also community issues.”
Students taking the college-level Tools For Change seminar, taught by Dr. Feit and Dr. William Tobin, whose honors program at Duke University’s Social Science Research Institute it is modeled on, worked on a Hunger Project.
Senior Annabel Gutterman, juniors Rachel Novick and Sam Lawhon, sophomore Artur Jacques, and freshman Hunter Greenhill were astonished to discover that many families in the Town of Rye can’t afford three square meals a day. “The statistics are quite alarming considering we live in an affluent area,” noted Greenhill.
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These students, along with freshmen Fraser Shaw and Matt Lawhon, were also involved in the Action Research program’s study on an elder care facility. Personal Touch Home Care, which is moving from New Jersey to Westchester, entrusted the students with devising and executing a market study.
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Arda has been investigating her Turkish roots through four generations of women on her mother’s side. She is particularly interested in gender roles and in the repression of women in Turkish society.
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Microsoft came up with a live dashboard on Bing to keep its users up to date with information on coronavirus pandemic. Launched in March, Microsoft said that the tracker would give our information from sources like the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Health Organization (WHO), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
Now, Microsoft’s Bing Covid-19 tracker has introduced some features, especially for its Indian users.
The Bing Covid-19 Tracker can come in handy for Indian users as it provides information related to Covid-19 from government sources. It also provides users with statistics on infection, recoveries, and fatalities in their states and districts.
The tracker also gives the latest news and authentic information on helpline numbers as well as guidance and advisories from credible sources, including those from the Government of India, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), and WHO.
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Microsoft has held talks with digital payment firm Paytm for fresh funding. Microsoft is reportedly going to invest 100 million dollars which is around Rs 760 crore, in extension to the 1 million dollars which was initiated as a fundraiser for Paytm last year.


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Diabetes mellitus type 2, also known as non-insulin-dependent diabetes, pertains to the metabolic disorder that is characterized by a high level of blood sugar and resistance to insulin, which is the pancreatic hormone responsible in the metabolism of carbohydrates. Type 2 diabetes is generally differentiated from type 1 diabetes based on the need for insulin administration to control blood sugar levels in the body.
In the last few decades, there has been an increase in the number of reports that describe the relationship of type 2 diabetes to other medical conditions. It has been suggested that the occurrence of high blood sugar levels may increase the risk of development of cardiovascular and urological diseases and thus physicians aggressively campaign for the proactive health management for people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
According to a recent medical report published in the journal BMC Public Health, the chances of cancer development may be higher among individuals with type 2 diabetes, thus prompting additional management schemes that may help in decreasing cancer risk. The report described the results of a study that involved screening diseases registries in a population in the Zhejiang province of China from 2002 to 2008. Two disease registries were reviewed, namely the Diabetic Surveillance Registry and the Cancer Registry of the city. The investigators conducted this study to determine whether the incidence of cancer and cancer risk was higher among individuals who were previously diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
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The results of the study showed that the incidence of cancer was indeed much higher among patients listed in the Cancer Registry. In addition, the report also showed that pancreatic cancer was the most common type of cancer that afflicted type 2 diabetes patients. Interestingly, the reported also showed that certain types of cancer are more common in particular genders. For example, cancer development in the liver and kidney were more common among male type 2 diabetes patients, whereas breast cancer and leukemia were observed to occur at a higher incidence among female type 2 diabetes patients.
This recent medical report serves as a large-scale investigation that attempted to establish the relationship between type 2 diabetes and cancer development and cancer risk. Reviewing the medical registries of the city may be the initial step to fully determine the extent of cancer risk in this specific population. Although previous studies have suggested the link between cancer development and type 2 diabetes, these earlier reports have not directly assessed its relationship using a significantly large population. According to the medical report, almost 8,000 type 2 diabetes patients were listed in the Diabetes Surveillance Registry and these individuals were checked against the Cancer Registry for a span of six years. The simple enlistment of a type 2 diabetes patients in the Cancer Registry was considered as direct information on cancer development and cancer risk.
Cancer development is triggered by the abnormal division of cells of a specific organ of the body that often results in the generation of a tumor. In other cases of cancer development, cells may migrate to other areas of the body, which may induce further proliferation. Cancer development has been associated with incurred mutations in cells that activate cellular activities that were initially quiescent. Physicians and scientists recognize that leading a healthy lifestyle, including consuming fruits and vegetables, may decrease cancer risk. Avoiding smoking and consumption of alcoholic beverages may also prevent cancer development.
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The blockchain startup Grid+, which is operated by ConsenSys, is in the headlines in our crypto news section for the official supply of electricity to its clients in Texas using the Ethereum solution. The announcement, posted by the startup, went viral on Twitter.
Milestone Reached: Grid+ Texas has begun flowing power to its first four customers!
— Grid+ (@gridplus_energy) September 21, 2018
As the startup outlined, the use of a unique hardware gateway system and a blockchain solution will allow Grid+ to distribute renewable electricity such as solar and wind energy to consumers in Texas, and later throughout the US on the Ethereum mainnet.
As the co-creator of Ethereum Joseph Lubin recently stated:
“Groundbreaking milestone. The tireless Grid+ team has begun supplying power to their first four customers.”
Meanwhile, Grid+ uses a specific hardware and software stack in order to process payments for electricity in real-time, allowing its customers to programmatically buy and sell electricity through a function known as ‘Smart Agents’.
For large scale agents, a significant amount of electricity can be produced on a daily basis within a short period of time. More importantly, these clients can purchase and use energy that they need without acquiring an abundant supply of it.
“Through this experience, ConsenSys identified the opportunity to form Grid+, which will build natively Ethereum-based utilities in deregulated markets. Grid+ will demonstrate production ready blockchain-based energy solutions at scale in competitive commercial environments in order to enable the transactive grid of the future and prove the advantages of Ethereum over incumbent technologies,” the Grid+ and ConsenSys team said.
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The Ukrainian military has angrily spurned a call from eastern Ukrainian rebel leaders for a humanitarian ceasefire, aiming to allow civilians trapped in the sieged city of Donetsk to escape.
The proposal was pushed overnight by Alexander Zakharchenko, the premier of the secessionist Donetsk People’s Republic, saying it was necessary to avert a growing humanitarian crisis in the city, the largest rebel-held city.
Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko insisted no offers for a ceasefire would even be considered without a unilateral, unconditional surrender by the rebels.
The Ukrainian military has Donetsk surrounded, and is shelling areas across the city. Large numbers of civilians have already fled, but many more remain, trapped in the ongoing siege.
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If there is one city in the world which is made for the big screen it has to be Venice. The city has starred in so many movies - we can all name a few - "Summertime" with Katherine Hepburn, two James Bond films, and enough Merchant-Ivory productions to keep the residents of Cheltenham happy for years (''The Wings of A Dove'' is truly exceptional). But if there is one film which encapsulates the haunting melancholic beauty of the city it has to be Visconti''s "Death in Venice". The location for this masterpiece is the Lido (Beach) which is a short vaporetto trip across the lagoon from the Piazza. Here golden beaches look out over the Adriatic fronted by grand luxury hotels. It may not be as fashionable as it once was but the chicness of it''s belle epoque heyday is still in evidence. And after the claustrophobia of the city''s narrow alleyways and canals a stroll on the beach is most welcome.
The Lido is a sandspit protecting the lagoon from the Adriatic and at its narrowest point is only 500m wide. Golden beaches line its eastern side and the west has fabulous views towards the city and opulent hotels where people stay for the famous Venice film festival. Byron used to ride his horse along the beaches but it was only in the late nineteen century that it became the most fashionable resort in Italy. It was amongs bathing huts and drawing rooms of this era that Thomas Mann set his masterpiece "Death in Venice" which was made into a film. Dirk Bogarde played Gustav Von Aschenbach the aging composer, whose death scenes on the beach were accompanied by streaking hair dye and the stains of Mahlers ninth sympthony - death, indecision, obcession and voyeurism - they don''t make ''em like that anymore.
To get there is easy and half the fun. Vaporetto #1 stops there when it finishes San Marco and the Grande Canale. A return ticket to the Lido costs 10,000 lira but even quicker is the bus to Piazza Roma which takes about 30 minutes for half the price. You can also reach the Lido from other islands in the lagoon. Vaporetto #12 runs from Burano and #20 comes up from Chioggia. But part of the fun is the vaporetto ride. And on a sunny day the views of a retreating/arriving Venice with its Campaniles and domes is spectacular. The lagoon is onl 1.5 metres deep in places and is lined with wooden buoys to shepherd vessels through its shallows. After a while you may think it is the ultimate lifestyle - travelling everywhere by boat with glittering water and seagulls wheeling overhead.
After disembarking at the Lido stop it might be a good idea to hire a bicycle. There is a healthy Teutonic presence on the sandspit made obvious by the hundreds of bicycles by the vaporetto stop. Across the way is a bicycle hire shop which can let you have one for a couple of hours for about 90,000 lira. The town itself is rather posh and the abode of wealthy Italians and Germans, the main street which leads from the stop to the beach is Via Maria Elisabetta. This sunkissed street is full of gelataria''s, baracho''s, restaurants, newstands and very expensive hotels. The Hotel Pannonia looked like it had stepped out of the pages of an Agatha Christie novel with art deco frescoes in mauve tortoiseshell. The Lido is rather smug in a way that all wealthy European resorts are - but it is irredeemably classy.
At the end of Maria Elisabetta is the famous Beach. A promenade stretches along its length and the actual beach itself is cut off from the road by a tall fence. The best parts of the beach have been snapped up by the luxury hotels where in season non-guests have to pay a fee. The public beaches are at the northern and southern end of the promenade but if you are canny you can sneak into the middle section without paying. The first part of the beach is covered in fin-de-circle bathing huts (see photo) which you have to thread your way through to get to the sea. The sands are golden and when I was there at the end of September the water was too cold for swimming. But a good walk along the shore is mandatory and it is a good place to calm your soul and be alone with the world.
Back on the promenade is the enormous Hotel Salle des Baines setting for "Death in Venice"(see photo) If you can climb its steps to have a look inside where the dining room is beautifully art-deco. The hotel is part of the Sheraton group and is very expensive (up to 1,100,000 lira/www.sheraton.com/desbains) but what do you expect from a hotel which used to house the aristocracy of Europe.
All in all, the Lido is a wonderful place to relax after the rigours of tourist Venice. End of summer Venice has that beautiful bleakness that Thomas Mann captured and is a wonderful place to let stress drop away and enjoy your own thoughts. It maybe the highlight of the holiday.


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Family is one of the cornerstones in our social system but modern families face unprecedented change with very little support. This is never truer than when a family is expecting a baby. The birth of an infant still ushers in high levels of anxiety and depression in mothers, high levels of marital dissatisfaction, a spike in domestic violence and a raft of issues related to identity for women as new mothers. Many modern couples aspire to create an equal or egalitarian family but the birth of an infant often exacerbates, or introduces for the first time, quite gendered roles.
It is a daunting time for women to become mothers. There is an expectation that women will develop and pursue careers, and by the time many women have their first child, in their early thirties, they are well into their working lives. Before having children, workplaces want the skills and talents that women have to offer, but because they have been slow to respond to calls for flexibility, after they have a baby it is harder for a mother to see where they can fit. Tensions between work and family are contributing to a decline in the health and wellbeing of women.
There is a potent mix of social and cultural factors that accompany birth that can fuel a disorientation of the self. According to Beyond Blue one in ten women experience depression while pregnant and one in seven do in the post-natal period. The rate of anxiety is much higher. The response to Perinatal Depression in Australia has been highly medicalized – many mothers are prescribed medication or referred to a psychologist – while there is strong evidence of a need for social support too.
There has been a revolution in birth practice during recent decades with a new focus on continuity and woman-centred care. Much literature examines the need for improved postnatal services but there remains a dearth of research on the early years after the birth.
The postnatal phase officially ends at six weeks after the birth and the follow-up maternal and child health services are patchy. The care that is provided is primarily concerned with infant health and wellbeing, which is often to the exclusion of wider social and cultural factors that impact on maternal health and wellbeing. Women understand this and most often do not share their personal concerns with their nurse. This is something that women do intuitively while they console themselves with the fact that now they are a mother they need to become selfless.
In the recent election campaign politicians promoted various paid parental leave policies so as not to lose the skills and talents women have to offer. An early childhood focus is informing the renamed Child and Family Health services that are increasingly concerned with health surveillance and welfare issues. Sociologists agree that the work that women do within families contributes to social capital but at the same time recognise that conflicting pressures are contributing to poor health outcomes. The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and the Workplace Gender Equality Agency are focusing on workplace change but give little attention to related health and welfare services.
There is a need for a central agency to oversee and bring together these disparate agendas with a firm focus on the health and wellbeing outcomes for women. We need to consider how services can be improved to ensure they meet the needs and interests of women as mothers and men as fathers. It is imperative.

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This half-term Year 2 are learning about the Royal Family.
We had a fantastic trip to Buckingham Palace on Wednesday 20th September (Australia class) and Thursday 21st September (New Zealand class) and had lots of fun!
We had the chance to explore the British monarchy from long ago, in particular Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
We also had the opportunity to look at the role of Queen Elizabeth II and compared portraits of her from long ago to present day.
Another exciting part of our trip involved exploring artefacts from the Palace itself. We learned that many of the items in the Palace are covered in golden leaf to make them look like they are made out of gold.
Finally, we had the chance to become Kings and Queens ourselves!

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Budget Bill Brings Major Bingo Changes for Veteran and Fraternal Organizations and a Tax Credit Program
Ohio's new biennial budget permits electronic instant bingo, or e-bingo, for qualifying organizations in 2022. The budget also includes a provision that allows taxpayers to claim a tax credit of up to $750 per year for contributions to qualifying scholarship granting 501(c)(3) organizations. For more information, see https://Charitable.OhioAGO.gov/Budget-Bill-Brings-Major-Changes.
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In our continuing effort to promote accountability and transparency within the charitable sector, the Ohio Attorney General’s Office has switched to an online payment only system. As of September 17, 2020, we no longer accept paper checks as payment for charitable registration fees and late fees. All payments must be made by credit card or e-check on our website through our secure payment portal. An e-check, or electronic check, is a digital version of a paper check. There are no additional fees when paying online. For more information, see https://charitable.ohioago.gov/Registration-Fee-Rule-Change.
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If you weren’t quick enough to catch the full trailer for Marvel Comics‘ much-hyped Ryan Reynolds antihero film Deadpool when it leaked during Comic Con last month, here it is in all its graphic glory and it does not disappoint.
After months of promising an R-rated, faithful adaptation of beloved comic book character, Reynolds seems to be delivering.
Violence? Check. Profanity? Check. Exceptionally dark humor? Double-check. And don’t forget the meta commentary; “[…] just don’t make the super suit green — or animated!” (referring to Reynolds’ previous stint as The Green Lantern).
The full-length trailer comes off the back of yesterday’s teaser trailer, featuring Deadpool gloriously breaking the fourth wall.
Reynolds is fulfilling a decade-long dream by finally getting to play Deadpool on his own terms. The actor appeared as a sanitized version of the character in 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Based upon Marvel Comics’ most unconventional anti-hero, DEADPOOL tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
Deadpool also stars Morena Baccarin as Copycat, Gina Carano as Angel Dust, Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead, T.J. Miller as Weasel and Ed Skrein as Ajax. The film hits theaters February 12, 2016.

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In Indonesia, small-scale plastic recycling businesses dominate the plastic waste recycling business. The practice of plastic waste recycling in developing countries also does not pay attention to the Environment and is not energy and material efficient during the process. Andusti Simpari company in Bengkulu City is one of the small-scale plastic waste recycling companies that face common problems such as the use of human labor, inefficient energy, and lack of liquid waste management, which has the potential to cause eutrophication and produce greenhouse gases in the form of CO2 which can contribute to global warming. This study aims to assess the environmental impact of eutrophication and the global warming potential (GWP) of businesses using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method. Cradle to grave LCA is applied to small-scale plastic waste recycling, with 1000kg of shredded plastic/day production capacity. From the LCA analysis, it is known that to produce 1 kg of shredded plastic can produce as much as 0.97363 KgCO2eq of pollutants that contribute to the Global Warming Potential (GWP) and eutrophication of 0.01492 kg PO4.
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|3rd International Symposium of Earth, Energy, Environmental Science, and Sustainable Development - Depok, Indonesia
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DHS staff members attend the 2009 opening of the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team/National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center facility in Arlington, Virginia. (Win McNamee / Getty Images)
Despite having established systems for integrating intelligence and analytic activities, the Homeland Security Department continues to wrestle with planning and prioritizing its strategies, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.
DHS has in place mechanisms such as an intelligence framework and an analytic planning process, but those mechanisms are not effective, GAO said. As a result, DHS components face problems in areas such as establishing departmental priorities, as well as in maintaining a skilled intelligence workforce.
The oversight agency’s research showed that the existing intelligence framework fails to establish “strategic departmental intelligence priorities that can be used to inform annual planning decisions, such as what analytic activities to pursue and the level of investment to make, as called for in DHS guidance,” the report noted. As a result, managers in DHS’ Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) struggle to develop both overarching strategic priorities and tactical priorities aimed at specific operations.
The report was not all bad news – despite falling short in some areas, efforts to integrate analysis within DHS offices did help in some ways.
“On the other hand, intelligence officials from I&A and all five components in our review reported that efforts to implement these mechanisms, particularly the analytic planning process, have allowed them to coordinate component activities and avoid unnecessary overlap or duplication of efforts,” the report stated.
Still, DHS I&A faces challenges in other ways, including its workforce and its measurement of existing activities aimed at improving workforce problems.
The organization has had trouble recruiting and hiring analysts because of shortfalls in hiring authorities, which put I&A behind other agencies able to faster process human resources. I&A also has suffered from low morale and high attrition rates. Both of those issues have been addressed – through adjustments to hiring authorities in 2013 and a restructure of grade levels in 2012 targeting career advancement – but I&A has not made any strides in evaluating those mechanisms or capitalizing on the results.
“By not monitoring and evaluating the effect of these actions, I&A cannot be confident that it is making progress in improving its ability to build and maintain the workforce it needs to effectively and efficiently analyze possible threats to the homeland,” the report said. “Such mechanisms will help I&A evaluate if efforts are achieving their intended results of improving recruiting and hiring, bolstering morale, and reducing attrition. In addition, using the evaluation results to determine any needed changes will help ensure that I&A is making sound workforce decisions.”
DHS concurred with GAO’s recommendations for addressing the issues, which included establishing strategic departmental intelligence priorities in the Homeland Security Intelligence Priorities Framework to help guide annual enterprise planning efforts; ensuring that once strategic departmental intelligence priorities are established, the Framework is used to inform the planned analytic activities of the DHS Intelligence Enterprise; and instituting tools to monitor and evaluate workforce initiatives and use results to determine any needed changes.

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Статья в Википедии: Kārlis Ulmanis
Ulmanis was a Latvian nationalist, who espoused the slogan "Latvia for Latvians" and held that every ethnic community in Latvia should develop its own authentic national culture, instead of assimilating. The policy of Ulmanis, even before his access to power, was openly directed toward eliminating the minority groups from economic life and of giving Latvians access to all positions in the national economy - sometimes referred to as Lettization. According to some estimates, about 90% of the banks and credit establishments in Latvia were in Latvian hands in 1939, as against 20% in 1933.
As the result, the economic share of minorities - Germans, Jews, Russians, Lithuanians - declined. However, Ulmanis didn't allow any physical violence or unlawful acts towards minorities and dealt harshly with right- and left- wing extremists, and with both Nazi and Communist sympathisers.
Статья в Википедии: Affirmative action
Malaysia. The Malaysian New Economic Policy or NEP serves as a form of affirmative action. Malaysia is the only country in the world which provides affirmative action to the majority. Malaysia is a multiethnic country, with Malays making up the majority of close to 52% of the population. About 30% of the population are Malaysians of Chinese descent, while Malaysians of Indian descent comprise about 8% of the population. Government policy provides preferential placement for ethnic Malays, and 95% of all new intakes for the army, hospital nurses, police, and other government institutions are Malays. As of 2004, only 7% of all government servants are ethnic Chinese, a drop from 30% in 1960. All eight of the directors of the national petroleum company, Petronas, are Malays, and only 3% of Petronas employees are Chinese. Additionally, 95% of all government contracts are awarded to ethnic Malays.
Вопрос на засыпку: обсуждала ли ООН дискриминацию 48% населения Малайзии? Принимала ли Малайзия участие в конференции в Дурбане?
А вообще, по-моему, старый пример affirmative action - это законы в Речи Посполитой в 17-18 вв, по которым крещеный еврей автоматически получал дворянство.


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- Paul K., 62
I work in construction, which is a boom-or-bust kind of business. So, I mostly worry about the welfare of the young guys who work for me. I constantly worry about generating enough business to keep them at an income level that lets them make ends meet, especially if they have families. I worry about bringing in enough money for myself too, since I?? 1/2 m getting older. Soon I?? 1/2 ll probably have to stop working or get a different, less physical job. Even though my kids are grown, I hope I have enough money to keep adding to my savings.?? 1/2
- Mark D., 58
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A new supportive housing facility in Victoria for young adults is finally opening its doors, after being delayed by contract negotiations. BC Housing and Beacon Community Services say they’re ready to welcome tenants into 1075 Meares Street on Oct. 24.
Wisteria Place, an innovative Optima Living community in Richmond, British Columbia, has won a prize in the International category of the 2022 Senior Housing News Architecture and Design Awards. This category includes “any project, new or renovated, outside of the United States and in any particular subcategory for consideration.
Dignitaries from the province, the city and the United Church of Canada were on hand for the opening of a new, five-storey rental building in Coquitlam Saturday.
One of the largest tower-based building developments within the core of the Downtown Eastside is proceeding as planned. A new development permit application has been submitted by Atira Women’s Resource Society and TL Housing Solutions to build a 160-ft-tall, 16-storey social housing tower at 450 Alexander Street — the southwest corner of the intersection of Alexander Street and Jackson Avenue.
Metro Vancouver and BC are never-ending hubs of urban development. Some are very high-profile, such as a new skyscraper or shopping centre. Some have less of a social impact, such as a modification to a private residence.
Others are more middle-of-the-road: they may not be awe-inspiring, but are impactful nonetheless, such as new affordable housing, or construction in a high-traffic area.
A 107-unit seniors home in Steveston held its official opening last week a year after it opened. The inspiration for an independent living facility came from the Steveston Buddhist Temple.
Approximately 300-units of affordable seniors and workforce housing have been proposed for the 6800-block of West Saanich Road in the District of Central Saanich.
Two years after it was first announced, a co-operative plan to build 88 units of subsidized family housing and a 59-space daycare and out of school care centre is closer to fruition.
Victoria councillors voted unanimously to send the project to a public hearing, saying it has everything that the city is looking for in a new housing development.
Victoria parents to benefit from new child care spaces
Cool Aid Society to build affordable housing at Tally Ho motel site on Douglas
Here’s what the former Tally Ho property in downtown Victoria is going to look like
Victoria green lights Cool Aid’s new affordable housing at former Tally Ho
Money for rental housing in Port Coquitlam
83 affordable rental homes for women and children coming to Port Coquitlam
Government of Canada makes significant investment in affordable housing in Vancouver
Affordable rental homes slated for River District
First Nations homes included in Vancouver housing project at River District
New building will provide homes, services and more for people with and without developmental disabilities
82 new rental units available in Colwood
More affordable housing for seniors and families in Colwood
City and Community Land Trust break ground on 140 new units of affordable co-op housing
73-unit affordable housing dev in Langford accepting tenant applications ahead of November move-ins
More than 1,000 affordable housing units to be built in Vancouver
More rental homes under construction in Colwood
Groundbreaking celebration at Helios – Colwood’s newest affordable housing
Affordability needs collaboration say developer and mayor
Three things to watch for at Richmond city council this week
Richmond developer donates assignment fees to affordable housing
Hoy Creek Housing Co-op in BC to redevelop with Land Trust, adding hundreds of units
Townline Brings Innovation and Flexibility to Real Estate Development in BC


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Health / Disease Glossary
Absorption: The process of taking in. For a person or an animal, absorption is the process of a substance getting into the body through the eyes, skin, stomach, intestines, or lungs.
Acute: Occurring over a short time [compare with chronic].
Acute Disease: An acute disease is a disease with either a rapid onset or a short duration, or both. Acute is NOT synonymous with ‘severe’. cf. Chronic
Acute Exposure: Contact with a substance that occurs once or for only a short time (up to 14 days) [compare with intermediate duration exposure and chronic exposure].
Addisons Disease: A disease characterized by severe weakness, low blood pressure, and a bronzed coloration of the skin, due to decreased secretion of cortisol from the adrenal gland.
Additive Effect: A biologic response to exposure to multiple substances that equals the sum of responses of all the individual substances added together [compare with antagonistic effect and synergistic effect].
Adverse Health Effect: A change in body function or cell structure that might lead to disease or health problems
Ague: Malarial or intermittent fever characterized by paroxysms (stages of chills, fever, and sweating at regularly recurring times) and followed by an interval or intermission of varying duration . . . View Full Definition
Ague-Cake: A form of enlargement of the spleen, resulting from the action of malaria on the system.
Amplification: Adding a species to a community increases the total abundance of hosts for a pathogen, increasing the disease risk to the target host.cf dilution
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Analytic Epidemiologic Study: A study that evaluates the association between exposure to hazardous substances and disease by testing scientific hypotheses.
Antagonistic Effect: A biologic response to exposure to multiple substances that is less than would be expected if the known effects of the individual substances were added together [compare with additive effect . . . View Full Definition
Antibiotic: A chemical substance that kills or suppresses the growth of microorganisms. Antibiotics are designed to be taken to cure disease.
Antibiotic Resistance: The ability of a microorganism to withstand the effects of an antibiotic.
Antibody: Proteins that are found in blood of vertebrates, and are used by the immune system to identify and neutralize foreign objects, such as bacteria and viruses.
Antigen: A molecule that can stimulate an immune response.
Antigen Drift: The random accumulation of mutations in viral genes recognized by the immune system. Such accumulation may significantly change the antigens of the virus, and may help it evade the immune system.
Antiviral: A chemical substance that kills or suppresses the growth of viruses. Antivirals are designed to be taken to cure or control disease.
Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS): An infectious disease caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Transmission occurs via one of three routes: vertical transmission, transmission via body fluids (eg sharing needles) . . . View Full Definition
Asymptomatic: Individuals who are infected by a disease but do not show any of the typical symptoms.
Attenuated: Reducing the virulence of an organism, usually a virus, whilst keeping it viable.
Background Level: An average or expected amount of a substance or radioactive material in a specific environment, or typical amounts of substances that occur naturally in an environment.
BCG: Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is a vaccine against tuberculosis that is prepared from a strain of the attenuated (weakened) live bovine tuberculosis bacillus, Mycobacterium bovis.
Beta-Lactam Antibiotics: A broad class of antibiotics which include penicillin and its derivatives. They are the most widely used group of antibiotics available.
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The Social Affairs Commission of the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario has released a resource to accompany the Papal Encyclical Caritas in Veritate (On Integral Human Development in Charity and Truth).
Created by the Jesuit Forum for Social Faith and Justice at the request of the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario, it is designed to facilitate small group study and discussion of Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical letter Caritas in Veritate.
The Guide is intended for use by parishes, secondary schools, colleges and universities, unions, NGOs, professional and business associations, as well as by any group or individual interested in learning about the Church’s social teaching. The seven session format seeks to present in user-friendly language a biblical and practical appreciation of the Encyclical’s central themes and questions.
The Guide is available at the ACBO website.
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Throughout the 20th century, the car was a symbol of wealth and status all over the world. Yet now, after thirty years of aggravating traffic congestion in the world’s biggest cities, the car is finally falling down the ranking. Cities are being forced to develop multimodal transportation systems based on the balanced use of public and private transport. Following in the steps of global megacities, Moscow has implemented a set of transport reforms that limit the use of private cars, increase and the convenience and diversity of public transportation, and improve the quality of the urban environment. This will soon be followed by new 4s: information technologies, new energy, autonomous vehicles, car-sharing, and new 6 are becoming the new reality of urban transportation.


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State Courts Try To Change System They Say Keeps The Poor Behind Bars And Sets Wealthy Free
Richard Mauro has been a public defender for nearly three decades, representing people who can’t afford an attorney. So he knows, if you can’t make bail, it can really screw you over.
“They lose their jobs. They lose their housing. They may lose their relationships,” Mauro says. “And then they have a large incentive to plead guilty one, two, three months down the road while they’re remaining in jail, simply to get out of jail as a consequence of a plea bargain.”
They lose their jobs. They lose their housing. They may lose their relationships." Salt Lake City defense attorney Richard Mauro.
We’re not talking chronic felons, rapists or murderers. It’s people who have no criminal history or short rap sheets for non-violent offenses.
“Having that person remain in jail for a longer period of time, when objective criteria indicates that person is not a risk to the community and is likely to appear in court and is of course is presumed innocent, when those three things happen, more of those people should be eligible for release.”
Bail is supposed to keep people in jail who may be a danger to the community, and ensure defendants show up to court. Judges can hold someone without bail if they pose a serious threat. And they can release someone without bail as they see fit.
Third District Court Judge Todd Shaughnessy says it keeps him up at night.
“We don’t want to be the one who released someone who goes out and hurts somebody else,” Shaughnessy says. “Unfortunately right now, when we’re making these decisions, we’re given essentially no information about the likelihood of that happening.”
Now there’s a tool they can use to help them make that decision. It’s an automated report called the Public Safety Assessment, or PSA. It’s already used in dozens of major cities and states. Here’s how it works. You plug in a defendants criminal history, age and prior failures to appear. The software will calculate the likelihood someone is going to commit a new crime or skip a court date.
A legislative audit this year showed that making decisions without this type of information puts public safety and taxpayer dollars at risk. Two years ago, as part of their effort to reform the criminal justice system, the Utah Legislature recommended the state use a tool like this.
The problem is, there’s little data that shows how many people are stuck in Utah jails because they can’t make bail. Judge Shaughnessy’s convinced it’s a problem.
“I talk to my fellow judges,” he says. “I talk to people about this. And they will all be able to tell you, oh yeah, I know of an instance when this person was clearly held in jail. Didn’t need to be in jail, but was held in jail because they couldn’t pay money to bail out.”
The bail bond industry sees things differently.
Dyon Flannery is a bail enforcement agent. A bounty hunter. When people don’t appear in court, she tracks them down.
“There is just not poor people sitting in jail. It just doesn’t happen here,” Flannery says.
In fact, she says many bail bond agencies are willing to work with an inmate’s family and friends. Some even offer financing.
She pulls up the Davis County Jail inmate roster on her phone and shows it to me. “I just randomly pulled up 10 [jail inmates] to see who’s sitting in jail that has bail,” she says. “ I’ll tell you there’s a 99 percent chance in two or three hours they’ll be gone. But two people out of 10 even had bail. Everybody else was a probation violation, a court hold. Something else that’s holding them in jail. They don’t even have the option to bail out.”
Judges were supposed to start using the PSA tool this week. But Utah lawmakers told them to hold off. They’re worried that it’s not going to work. Rep. Paul Ray says if bail bond agents aren’t there to make sure people show up to court, it’s up to sheriffs to go find them. And they don’t have that kind of manpower.
“I mean on paper it’s easy to say if we can check these boxes, if they can make it through this algorithm they’re going to come back,” Ray says. “That isn’t the case. You get someone who’s strung out on opioids, you arrest them, they get put out on their own recognizance, they’re probably not going to show up to court.”
He’s also bothered that the courts are doing this, instead of the legislature.
“We’re making a public safety policy decision on who gets out,” Ray says. “And they don’t want the legislature to be involved in making that decision. And that’s wrong. That’s a legislative decision. It’s not a judicial decision.”
Throughout the country, both lawmakers and judges are trying to grapple with this issue.
In Houston, Texas a federal judge struck down the county’s bail system for people charged with low-level crimes. And the Illinois Legislature passed a law this year that allows defendants to get a rehearing of their bail amount if they can’t come up with the money. New Jersey has all but eliminated cash bail from it’s pre-trial system.
But the new system isn’t foolproof. Bail bond industry leaders often point to a case in New Jersey this past spring. A man was booked on a serious gun charge and the judge, using the PSA to determine his risk and
decided to release him. Days later, he shot and killed a man.
Judge Todd Shaughnessy says there are no guarantees. We are dealing with human beings after all.
“Those things certainly happen, Shaughnessy says. “But those aberrational instances shouldn’t drive policy. We ought to drive policy and what we’re doing by sound scientific data and that’s what we’re trying to do.”
The bond industry says the courts just don’t understand the public service they’ll lose if more people are set free without some kind of insurance. And Utah’s business-friendly lawmakers are listening, so it’s unclear when or even if these changes will begin.


Whether you’ve been playing football in your jersey or just worked up a sweat cheering on your favorite team, it might be that your football jersey needs a wash. It can be intimidating to wash a jersey, though—often a sports jersey is more than just a piece of clothing. If you’re wondering how to wash football jerseys, you’ve come to the right place! We’ll guide you through.
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Washing a football jersey is really like washing any jersey—but we’ll guide you through the steps and point out anything you should pay special attention to. Wondering what the best way to do laundry is in general? Look no further than our article on the best method for laundry!
- The best thing to do is to read the label on your football jersey as that will give you the important washing instructions.
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Starting XI: P Stars v Swallows
CAF Confederation Cup Starting XI: Platinum Stars v Mbabane Swallows 08 July 2017
CAF Confederation Cup
Teams: Platinum Stars v Mbabane Swallows
Date: 08 July 2017
Venue: Moruleng Stadium
Platinum Stars will be hoping to end their CAF Confederation Cup campaign on a high when they face Mbabane Swallows.
The match is scheduled to get underway at 19h00.
Dikwena's hopes of reaching the knockout phase were dashed last weekend, as they lost 2-0 to MC Alger.
Stars have also since parted ways with Willem Jackson, while former Baroka FC coach Milton Dlamini is the club's new assistant.
Meanwhile, Mbabane Swallows are also playing for pride after they suffered a 3-1 defeat to CS Sfaxien in the last round of matches.
When these two sides met in May, Swallows showed their dominance and ran out 4-2 winners.
Here's how they line up:
Stars: Hoffman, Mere, Mlilo, Mnguni, Lesabane, Mathe, Msomi, Khounou, Links, Ng'ambi.


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Watch this short video from the 2022 trip provided courtesy of Monte Rook.

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3rd Great-grandfather: Cyrus Blanchard (1791-1865)
Albion Blanchard (1834-1868)
Albion Blanchard was born on 3 July 1834 in Cumberland, Cumberland County, Maine, the ninth child of Cyrus and Apphia (Young) Blanchard).
Albion’s mother, Apphia, died in 1841 and his father remarried quickly.
In 1842, Albion’s half-sister Sarah was born.
In 1847, his older brother Cyrus died at the age of 22.
In 1848, his oldest brother Ebenezer died at the age of 30.
So, the 1850 Census found 15-year-old Albion living in Cumberland with his father, step-mother, a brother, a sister, and a half-sister. His sister Lydia and his brothers Daniel and Charles were elsewhere. (Further research regarding Albion’s siblings should be done.) Cyrus was a farmer, his brother Charles was a Mason, and Albion was attending school. The family unit, according to the 1850 Census consisted of:
Cyrus Blanchard M 58 Maine Farmer – Real Estate value: $1500
Elizabeth Blanchard F 50 Maine
Charles Blanchard M 26 Maine Mason
Nancy Blanchard F 18 Maine Attending School
Albion Blanchard M 15 Maine Attending School
Sarah A Blanchard F 7 Maine
Albion married Mary S. Washburn on 2 February 1857 in Windham, Cumberland County, Maine. The marriage ceremony was performed by Edias Baker. The couple received their marriage license and had their ceremony on the same day.
The couple quickly began a family, with their first child, Charles A. F. Blanchard being born 11 months later, on 1 January 1858.
The 1860 Census found Albion and his wife living in Cumberland with his child Charles. Albion was a day laborer who owned real estate valued at $100.
Household Sex Age Birthplace
Albion Blanchard M 25 Maine Day Laborer – Property $100
Mary S Blanchard F 25 Maine
Charles A F Blanchard M 2 Maine
The birth of his second child, Sarah occurred on 4 November 1861.
Albion clearly struggled. The town began to help support Albion paying him $6.75 out of the monies supporting the poor in the town’s fiscal year of 1862-1863. It seems odd that the town would be supporting a young man, age 29, when bounties were being paid to Civil War Volunteers. That suggests some form of disability. However, in 1863, Albion was identified in a list of “Persons of Class I, subject to military duty,” which belies a disability.
In 1865, his father, Cyrus, died at age 74. And in 1866, his son Frederick W. Blanchard was born.
Again, Albion struggled and the town paid him $7.18 in support of the poor during the fiscal year 1867-1868.
It appears that Albion, and his family, were really sick during 1868. The records of the poor for Cumberland Town indicate Albion and his family were paid $217.35 “in support to the time of his death.” Albion’s six-year-old daughter, Sarah, died two days before Albion, who died at the age of 34 on 9 September 1868.
Events by Location
Albion was born, lived, and died in Cumberland, Cumberland County, Maine.
There was an Albion Blanchard from Calais, Washington County, Maine who served in the Civil War in the 1st District of Columbia Cavalry and transferred to the Maine 1st Calvary in 1865. That Albion Blanchard was 19 years old in 1864 while 2nd great-grandfather Albion Blanchard was 30 years old in 1864.
Further Actions / Follow-up
Research Cumberland town records to determine the cause of the town payments to Albion and his family and the cause of his death.
This is my first foray into researching a Canadian Ancestors. Although I’ve been very successful finding individuals in the US Census Records, I’ve not been as good at finding individuals in the Canadian Census Records. I clearly need to increase my skills researching Canadian Ancestors.
Halcro-Varone Project – Ancestor #4
List of Grandparents
Grandfather: Andrew James Halcro
1st Great-grandfather: William Francis Halcro
Andrew James Halcro (1876-1925)
Andrew James Halcro1 was born on 31 Jul 1876 in Quebec, Canada as the third child of William Francis Halcro4 and Harriet Park3. He had three siblings, two older sisters, May5 and Harriet, and a younger brother George. It also appears that he had three younger half-siblings, Willie, Bessie, and Alice. I have more research to confirm these relationships. Andrew died on 15 Jul 19256 in Hudson Heights, Vaudreuil-Soulanges, Quebec, Canada. Hudson Heights is an off-island suburb of Montreal.
Mother’s Death – Between 1879 and 1881.
Andrew’s younger brother, George, was born circa 1879. Andrew’s father, Frank (William Francis), was a widower during the 1881 Census, so it appears that Andrew’s mother, Harriet (Park) Halcro, died between 1879 and 1881.
The 1881 Canadian Census found four-year-old Andrew living in Vaudreuil, Quebec, Canada with his father, a widower, and three siblings, Mary, Louisa, and George. There are other Halcro families on the same page of the Census form. Immediately before Andrew’s father are Elizabeth (a widow), Ada, and Kate Halcro (ages 68, 25, and 22). Also, on the same page are John H. Halcro and his apparent wife, Sophie and apparent son Isaac (ages 25, 23, and 5/12). Certainly, these households are likely related, but will take further research to determine the relationships to Andrew.
The 1891 Canadian Census finds 14-year-old Andrew living with his father, W. F. Halcro, his stepmother, Annie, his three full siblings, May, Hattie, and George, and his three step-siblings Willie, Bessie, and Alice. The family is living in Como Village, which was incorporated into the town of Hudson in 1969.
1901 & 1911 Censuses
I have been unable to find Andrew James Halcro in the 1901 or 1911 Census records. Actually, I’ve not been successful finding any Halcros in Quebec during either census. As such, I will try researching the 1891 neighbors, looking for grossly misspelled Halcro individuals.
Beginning in 1909, Andrew J. Halcro shows up in the logbooks of a notary having various real estate transactions. It appears that he bought and sold several properties. The notary records do not provide information regarding the properties; however, they do provide information to search for deeds. Doing property searches would be part of another follow-up action.
I have not been successful in finding a marriage record for Andrew and Ralla, but Lawrence’s birth suggests that Andrew and Ralla married in 1916.[i]
Andrew’s entry in the 1921 Census is one of the most frustrating entries I’ve ever encountered. What would have been a nice simple entry of Andrew, was overwritten with lots of incorrect data.
Updated entries (wrong)
45 year-old Head
55 year-old Head
28 year-old Wife
28 year-old Son
3 year-old Son
23 year-old Daughter-in-law
2 year-old Son
2 year-old Son
1 year-old Son
1 year-old Son
However, the good news is the 1921 Census clearly indicates that Andrew and his family lived at 19 Ballantyne, Montreal West. That house exists today.
He was working on his own account in Real Estate and indicated that his “Racial or Tribal Origan” was Scotch. He was Presbyterian, but his wife and children were Roman Catholic.
Andrew died on 15 July 1925 in Hudson Heights (Now Hudson), Vaudreuil-Soulanges, Quebec, Canada. He was buried in Saint James Anglican Church Cemetery, Hudson Heights. I was unable to find a memorial for Andrew James Halcro at Find-a-Grave, so I added a memorial for him and requested a photo.
Further Actions / Follow-up
Continue research using American Ancestors, My Heritage, Canadian Library & Archives, and Newspaper resources.
Research Elizabeth (a widow), Ada, and Kate Halcro (ages 68, 25, and 22) from the 1881 Census & determine if there is a relationship to Andrew.
Research John H. Halcro and his apparent wife, Sophie, and apparent son Isaac (ages 25, 23, and 5/12) from the 1881 Census and determine if there is a relationship to Andrew.
Do a Neighbor search for 1891 neighbors of Andrew in the 1901 Census.
Do a Neighbor search for 1901 neighbors of Andrew in the 1911 Census. In 1911, Andrew is known to live in the Montreal area and worked as real estate agent.
Research the marriage of Andrew and Ralla.
Confirm the birth date and place for all of Andrew’s children.
Follow-up with Find-a-Grave for Andrew James Halcro.
Research property records for Andrew James Halcro from 1909 through 1917.
Canada Census, 1881, Library & Archives of Canada, Frank A Halcro – Vaudreuil, Vaudreuil, Quebec. Item Number: 5775195. Accessed 28 Aug 2020. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVJH-9TV.
Canada Census, 1891
Canada Census, 1891, Library & Archives of Canada, W. F. Halcro. Accessed 28 Aug 2020. https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1891/Pages/item.aspx?itemid=4682139.
Canada Census, 1921
Canada Census, 1921, Library & Archives of Canada, Andrew Halcro – Wife, Rala, & three children. Montreal West, Family 101, Page 10. https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1921/Pages/item.aspx?itemid=8230623.
Portland Press Herald, Portland, Maine (online archive)
Obit – Lawrence A. Halcro, 81. Portland Press Herald (Maine) 14 October 1998, obit for LAWRENCE A. HALCRO WORKED IN CONSTRUCTION, GenealogyBank.com. Accessed 27 August 2020).
Quebec, Canada, Notarial Records, 1637-1935
Quebec, Canada, Notarial Records, 1637-1935 (Montréal, Quebec, Canada, ), Ancestry.com, Andrew J Halcro – 1909-01-26 – Sale . Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec; Montréal, Quebec, Canada; Collection: Fonds Cour Supérieure. District judiciaire de Montréal. Cote CN601. Gre. https://search.ancestry.com/collections/61062/records/1206988137.
Quebec, Canada, Notarial Records, 1637-1935 (Montréal, Quebec, Canada, ), Ancestry.com, Andrew J Halcro – 1911-01-24 – Obligation . Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec; Montréal, Quebec, Canada; Collection: Fonds Cour Supérieure. District judiciaire de Montréal. Cote CN601. Gre. https://search.ancestry.com/collections/61062/records/6681802/.
Quebec, Canada, Notarial Records, 1637-1935 (Montréal, Quebec, Canada, ), Ancestry.com, Andrew J Halcro – 1911-03-28 – Acquittance. Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec; Montréal, Quebec, Canada; Collection: Fonds Cour Supérieure. District judiciaire de Montréal. Cote CN601. Gre. https://search.ancestry.com/collections/61062/records/6681966.
Quebec, Canada, Notarial Records, 1637-1935 (Montréal, Quebec, Canada, ), Ancestry.com, Andrew J Halcro – 1913-04-22 – Discharge . Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec; Montréal, Quebec, Canada; Collection: Fonds Cour Supérieure. District judiciaire de Montréal. Cote CN601. Greffes de notaires, 1648-1967.; District: Montréal; Title: Legault, Alphonse-Alexandre (1890-1916) – Accessed 28 Aug 2020. . https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=QuebecNotarial&indiv=try&h=6333725&indivrecord=1.
[i] Lawrence was born on 20 August 1917. Presuming that Frank and Harriet were married before Lawrence was conceived, Frank and Harriet were probably married before November 1916.
[ii] This date suggests that Mary Rella Halcro (possibly Rella I Halcro) was born about five months after Andrew’s death.
I had the opportunity to do some genealogical research for a friend who knew virtually nothing about her grandfather, Andrew Halcro. He died in 1925 at the age of 48 and was not talked about much by the family. What made him of interest to me is that he was born, lived his entire life, and died in Quebec, Canada. I have very little experience with Canadian ancestors and thought researching him would be a great exercise for me to learn more about Canadian research.
First – Family Search
My first step in learning about an ancestor is to try to find the individual in Family Search. I quickly found my subject as ID: LYBX-5WS. Next, I go to Sources for the individual. In this case, I learned that someone had associated three sources with events in my subject’s life.
1881 Canada Census showing Andrew in the household of his father, Frank.
1891 Canada Census showing Andrew in 1891 Census but no image of the record.
A 1998 obituary of one of Andrew’s sons indicating that Andrew was the son’s father.
Going from the most recent record back, I reviewed the 1998 obituary and then incorporated it into my research. The 1891 Canada Census was something of a conundrum. Why was there no image at FamilySearch?
Library & Archives of Canada
I was pretty sure I’d find it at Ancestry.Com, but that requires a World Explorer License. So, I did a Google search for: 1891 Canada Census. I immediately saw an entry for the Library and Archives of Canada. I did a search for Andrew there and immediately found him. His entry was the only result. There were links to download an image for the entry in either JPG or PDF format; I like that.
I then began to look at what else they have at the Library and Archives of Canada. All kinds of Census records from 1825 “Lower Canada” to a “1926 Prairie Provinces” Census.
As I wandered around the site a little bit, I learned they have Military Records, Passenger and Border Entry Lists (Immigration records), Birth, Marriage, & Death Records, Divorce records, and even some city directories online. What a great resource; not only does it have wonderful records, it is free. Anyway, it is a “Bright, Shiny Object” in my current project, so I took some notes to come back and data-mine the resource soon.
I searched the Family Search Records and was not successful in finding any new records relating to my Andrew. However, I noted there was another person with the same name living in the same town at the same time. I would need to be careful to differentiate between my Andrew (1876-1925) and this other Andrew (1811-1878) in any records I find.
4th Great-grandfather: WH-104 – Thomas Ladd (1766-1837)
Alice Dorcas Ladd was born on 26 October 1901, in Saco, York County, Maine. She was the third of four children born to Edwin Grant and Dorcas Annie (Patterson) Ladd.
Alice had an older sister, Florence, who died in 1898 at the age of 2. Her other older sister, Lillian was ten years older than Alice. Lillian kept two autograph books wherein she collected the autographs of various important Saco and Biddeford individuals. Alice’s younger sister, Albertha, was born in the summer of 1904, so she was less than three years younger.
The 1910 Census shows Alice living at home with her parents and her two living siblings. Her father was a farmer, who owned his farm. Living with them was her (paternal) uncle, George Ladd. Alice, along with her younger sister, Albertha, were attending school.
In 1918 the Spanish Flu hit. When Alice had her seventeenth birthday, October 1918, nearly 2,500 Mainers died of the flu. Over 5,000 Mainers died of the Spanish Flu during that time.[i]
By late 1919, Alice was working as a Mill Operative in Saco.
On December 13th, 1919, a Marriage Intention was filed and nine days later, on Christmas Eve, 1919, Alice Dorcas Ladd and Thomas Washington Harris were joined in marriage by Horace H. Hayes, a clergyman in Saco.
The 1920 Census finds Alice and Thomas rooming in Saco at 106 Elm Street. Alice was working as a beamer at a cotton mill and Thomas was a laster at a shoe factory.
The 1920s also saw the births of their two children—first a girl in 1923 and then a son in 1928.
In 1929, Alice visited Mrs. Paul Huff in Kennebunkport and brought her two children along.
The 1930 census finds Alice, her husband, and their two children living on her parent’s farm on Boon Road in Saco, Maine. Alice’s father died inn 1937, and Thomas took over as the head of the household.
The 1940 Census finds Alice, her husband and their two children living on the farm at 142 Boon Road. Living with them is Alice’s mother Dorcas and a lodger, Benjamin Luce. Their son went into the Marine Corps.
Their son married and farmed the land next to them, while Alice’s husband, Thomas, continued to be identified as a shoemaker.
In 1987, Alice’s husband died. Alice continued on alone and died on 25 February 1990 at the Trull Nursing Home in Biddeford. She was buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery.
1910 Census (NARA, 1910), Various, 1910 – Edwin G Ladd – Saco, York, Maine. “United States Census, 1910,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MR3P-4FX : accessed 21 April 2020), George T Ladd in the household of Edwin G Ladd, Saco Ward 1, York, Maine, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 256, sheet 13B, family 296, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 548; FHL microfilm 1,374,561.
1920 Census (FS), Thomas & Alice Harris, Roomers in the household of Annie M. Palmer – Saco, York, Maine. “United States Census, 1920,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF8H-7NZ : accessed 27 October 2019), Alice Harris in the household of Annie M Palmer, Saco Ward 7, York, Maine, United States; citing ED 129, sheet 5A, line 31, family 123, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 651; FHL microfilm 1,820,651.
1930 Census (A), Ancestry, Edwin G Ladd, Head – Saco, York, Maine – ED 16-39, Sheet 8B, Lines 71-77. Year: 1930; Census Place: Saco, York, Maine; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 0039; FHL microfilm: 2340576.
1940 Census, Thomas Harris – Ward 1, Saco, York, Maine. “United States Census, 1940,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KM9S-P3N : 27 July 2019), Benjamin Luce in the household of Thomas Harris, Ward 1, Saco, Saco City, York, Maine, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 16-62, sheet 7B, line 41, family 142, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 – 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1496.
Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921, Family Search, Birth – Alice D Ladd – 26 Oct 1901. “Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZQG-DQS : 4 April 2020), Dorcas Patterson in an entry for Alice D Ladd, 26 Oct 1901; citing Saco, , Maine, United States, multiple sources, Maine; FHL microfilm.
Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921, Family Search, Marriage – Thomas Washington Harris & Alice Dorcas Ladd – 24 Dec 1919. “Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24N-S9XP : 13 March 2018), Dorcas Patterson in the entry for Thomas Washington Harris and Alice Dorcas Ladd, 24 Dec 1919; citing Saco, York, Maine, United States, multiple sources, Maine; FHL microfilm.
Maine, Marriage Records, 1713-1922, Ancestry, Thomas Washington Harris & Alice Dorcas Ladd – 24 Dec 1919. Maine State Archives; Cultural Building, 84 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0084; 1908-1922 Vital Records; Roll Number: 25. https://search.ancestry.com/collections/1961/records/1639176/.
United States Social Security Death Index, Family Search, Alice D (Ladd) Harris – 25 Feb 1990. “United States Social Security Death Index,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JKDP-6PP : 20 May 2014), Alice D Harris, 25 Feb 1990; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database.
[i] “In 1918, A Pandemic Swept Through Maine — And Offers Lessons For Containing COVID-19”. 2020. Bangor Daily News. Accessed April 22, 2020. https://bangordailynews.com/2020/04/05/news/bangor/in-1918-a-pandemic-swept-through-maine-and-offers-lessons-for-containing-covid-19/.
I recently received a group of 13 photos all relating to people in my Blanchard project—one Cassidy, four Utterstroms, seven Halversons, and 1 blurry photo. Today, I’ll look at the five Cassidy and Utterstrom photos.
“Olaf and Hannah (Halverson) Utterstrom – Marriage 30 June 1897” – The back of this photo indicates “Hannah & Olaf Utterstrum 1890’s | Wedding? Olaf and Hannah were married on 30 June 1897. It was taken by The Elite Studio, 518 Congress St. Portland, Maine. I have added this photo to my project and added a copy to Family Search L1QQ-R6J and L1QQ-PCK.
“Anders & Oscar Utterstrom” – The oldest annotation on the back of the photo says “Grampy & Oscar Utterstrom.” However, in a second (and newer) hand the annotation is “Anders & Oscar.” Finally, a third hand says “Grampy Anders | Oscar Utterstrom.” So, this is clearly Oscar Utterstrom (1899-1958) on the right and his grandfather Anders Utterstrom (___-___) on the left. Oscar was born in 1899 and the boy in the photo could be about 15 years-old. I haven’t had a chance to research Anders’ life yet, however, I believe he died in 1915. If so, this photo must have been taken about 1914-15. The backdrop for this photo is The E. T. Burrowes, Co that manufactured wire window and door screens at 70 Free St, Portland, Maine.[i] Andrew (AKA Anders) Utterstrom was a “screen maker” at 70 Free St. and lived at 81 Chestnut.[ii]
Anders is not listed in the 1916 City directory suggesting his passing before that directory went to press. I have added this photo to my project and added a copy to both individuals on Family Search – L1Q7-8RQ and L1Q7-9MJ.
“Dorothea Utterstrom, dog, Annette Cassidy, Etta Utterstrom, ca 1940s” – Dorothea, Annette, and Etta are three first cousins with three different parents. Frank, Dorothea, and Harold Utterstrom respectively. Dorothea Utterstrom was born 28 Aug 1927, Annette Cassidy was born 2 August 1929, and Lucy Etta Utterstrom was born 17 April 1928. The back of the photo indicates the photo is ca. 1940s. However, if the photo was taken in 1940, the kids would have been, 12, 10, and 11 respectively. My sense is that they are a younger than that, probably 8, 6, and 7. If my ages are correct, the photo is ca. 1935 and not in the 1940s. I have added the photos to my Ancestry project but not to Family Search.
“Cassidy’s & Utterstrom’s at Bonny Eagle Lake – ca 1940” – During the 1940 census, William (Jr.) was 8, Lois was 7, and Beth was also 8. Circa 1940 fits with the apparent ages of the children. I cropped the photo to allow for one of just Dorothea and William (Sr.) to be in one photo and them and the kids to be in another photo in my Ancestry Project.
“William (Sr.) & Dolly Cassidy – ca. 1927-28” – The back of the photo identifies who and when and is pretty clear. William and Dolly married on 24 September 1928. The photo shows some leaves on the ground a some of the distant trees somewhat bare, so I believe the photo is probably from the fall of 1928. This photo is not of high enough quality to post to any of the sites.
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