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"To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace." - Oscar Wilde
Thursday, August 5, 2010
'Thayendangea' & 'Ahyouwaighs': allied to the British, ultimately betrayed by the British
Built by the Crown, it was given to those Mohawk Indians, led by 'Thayendangea" (Joseph Brant), who supported the British during the American Revolution. Their choice cost them their lands in New York.
Through the terms of the Haldimand Treaty of 1784, 'Thayendangea' (Joseph Brant) secured a land grant for the native loyalists which gave them 760,000 acres, six miles, on either side of the Grand River from its source to its mouth. Brant also negotiated for and received the church, now generally known as The Mohawk Chapel.
Mohawks, led by 'Thayendangea' (Joseph Brant), established a village of some 400 inhabitants by 1788. The community was situated at an important crossing point on the river ("Brant's Ford") and prospered as a resting place for travellers on the "Detroit Path", a trail linking the Niagara and Detroit rivers.
Increasingly, European settlers encroached on Six Nations' lands. In 1841 the government broke the treaty and took back the land, moving the Grand River Iroquois to a section of the land south of the river. Of the Mohawk Village, only the chapel remains.
Reference: http://www.mohawkchapel.ca/


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With the race so close, it's hard to predict who will win the presidency in the Nov. 6 election.
With the race so close, it's hard to predict who will win the presidency in the Nov. 6 election.
But one thing is certain: Millions of lazy, apathetic Americans will sit this one out, and a lot of them live right here in Terrebonne and Lafourche.
Both parishes, like much of America, have a lackluster record when it comes to turning out at the polls. Just under 40 percent of registered voters in either parish turned out for the last major election, in October 2011, when parish presidents and council members were on the ballot. In the last U.S. presidential election, 64 percent of registered voters in Terrebonne and 68 percent in Lafourche cast ballots.
Sounds great, right?
Not to me.
Local participation was far below the 90 percent of registered voters who turned out nationally in 2008.
But those statistics fail to account for the 29 percent of voting- age Americans — nearly one in three — who didn't bother to register. Add those to the mix, and 64 percent of Americans who could have voted actually cast ballots.
Locally, the figure is worse. In Terrebonne, 63,887 are registered to vote in the Nov. 6 election, 57,161 in Lafourche. But census data show the number of residents 18 and older is much higher: 82,737 in Terrebonne and 72,652 in Lafourche. That means more than one of every five voting-age residents in either parish has not even bothered to register. It also means that if turnout is the same as the last presidential election, roughly half of Terrebonne and Lafourche's voting-age population will cast ballots.
I've written about this topic a lot over the years, citing all kinds of research into what makes voters tick. Some of the reasons people stay away from the polls are complicated, but the ones I've encountered most are simple: apathy, ignorance and laziness.
So, in an effort I'm sure will inspire this unmotivated lot, I offer five reasons I vote, in no particular order:
1. It's my civic duty. I realize the Electoral College math means that only a few counties in a few states will end up deciding this election. But that does not absolve me — or any other eligible American — from performing one of the most basic acts necessary to ensure our democracy thrives.
2. People I love sacrificed to ensure I would have this right; others died doing the same. My dad and his three brothers fought in World War II. Miraculously, all four returned. I vote, in part, out of respect for them and what they did for me. Failing to vote is an affront to America's veterans, who fought and in many cases died to protect the freedoms — including our right to vote — that too many take for granted.
3. If everyone did it, things would be different. Sure, politicians often cater to special interests, especially those with money. But they also craft their platforms and sometimes — for better or worse — their actions to appease the demographics that vote in the largest numbers. If everyone who could vote did, presidential candidates would have to broaden their appeal. New swing states could emerge, putting their citizens in a better position to have their needs and wishes met. In the end, the more people who vote, from all walks of life, the more responsive their elected representatives are likely to be.
4. It makes me feel good. People often cite this as a reason for doing something. Take recycling. Credible studies say it does little or nothing to curb the amount of waste that trashes our world, but it makes people feel good, so, what the heck? I believe my vote does matter, but even if I didn't, fulfilling my responsibility to vote makes me feel like I'm doing something worthwhile for myself and my country.
5. I dislike hypocrisy. You've heard the admonition before: If you don't vote, don't complain. I wish more people would adhere to that maxim.
Courier and Daily Comet Executive Editor Keith Magill can be reached at 857-2201 or email@example.com.


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The following are arrests and citations recently issued in Craven County:
The following are arrests and citations recently issued in Craven County:
New Bern Police Department:
Timothy D. Harper, 34, 2006 Pearson St., July 2, assault on a female. Officer: F. Hix.
Rebecca M. Brimmer, 52, 2006 Pearson St., July 2, simple assault. Officer: F. Hix.
Connie Lynn Green, 50, 716 Broad St., July 2, second-degree trespassing. Officer: L.A. Heckman.
Nicholas Andrew Delucca, 27, 1606 York St., June 30, driving while license revoked. Officer: W.C. Zerby Jr.
Lynwood Goff, 38, 4018 Elizabeth Ave., June 30, assault on a female, injury to personal property, false imprisonment. Officer: R. Hopper.
Nathan Joel McGinty, 31, 110 Mary Edwards Drive, Vanceboro, June 30, aiding and abetting driving while license revoked. Officer: W.C. Zerby Jr.
Devon Keith Thomson, 26, 6003 Fox Run, Fairfax, June 29, resisting public officer, assault on government official or employee. Officer: T. Johnson.
James Tyler Long, 21, 413 Louisia Mae Way, June 28, possession of drug paraphernalia. Officer: W.C. Zerby Jr.
Havelock Police Department:
Maurice McCaffity Jr., 18, 300 Beechwood Drive, Havelock, July 2, breaking and/or entering, larceny after breaking and entering. Officer: C. Morning.
Johnathon Raymond Gurney, 23, 607 E. Main St., Havelock, June 30, breaking and/or entering, larceny after breaking and entering, conspiracy to break and enter-felony larceny. Officer: G. Finney.
Ra-Shawn J. McDaniel, 19, 106 Keith Drive, Havelock, June 30, conspiracy to break and enter building-felony larceny. Officer: G. Finney.
Alan Godsey, 27, 149T Brown Blvd., Havelock, June 29, driving while impaired. Officer: W. Zerby.
Phillip Conan Canelos, 36, 601 Darkwood Drive, Havelock, June 29, intoxicated and disruptive. Officer: T. Johnson.
Craven County Sheriff�s Office:
Samuel Anthony Mitchell, 20, 664 S. West Craven Middle School Road, July 1, profane language on highway. Deputy: D. Craft.
Donald Ramon Moore, 33, 260 Territorial Road, July 1, possession of marijuana up to 1/2 ounce, possession of drug paraphernalia. Deputy: M. Heckman.
Jarian Teron Knight, 32, 635 Holland Road, Greenville, June 30, possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana, maintaining a vehicle, dwelling or place controlled substance. Deputy: C. Drake.
Alan Keith Simmons, 45, Ramseur, June 29, simple possession schedule VI controlled substance. Deputy: N.S. Fiedler.
Travis Nathaniel Varner, 27, Ramseur, June 29, possession of drug paraphernalia. Deputy: N.S. Fiedler.
Vanceboro Police Department:
Nika Jawarren Smith, 36, 625 Mile Road, Vanceboro, July 1, indecent exposure, intoxicated and disruptive, second-degree trespassing, communicating threats, resisting public officer. Officer: J. Jenkins.
Scott Allen Littleton, 36, 1460 Old Brick Road, Vanceboro, June 29, driving while license revoked. Officer: S.M. Fell.
Bridgeton Police Department:
Corey Nathan Young, 29, 214 Lem Brown Road, Chinquapin, July 2, driving while license revoked, speeding. Officer: A.B. Callaway.
Donald Woodrow Smith, 53, 1440 B St., Bridgeton, July 1, carrying concealed weapon, possession of drug paraphernalia. Officer: A. Callaway.
N.C. State Highway Patrol:
Brian Larrick, 47, 1306 E. 10th St., Greenville, June 30, driving while impaired. Trooper: T. Vandyke.
Phillip Eugene Scott, 51, 701 Drymonia Road, June 28, driving while license revoked. Trooper: M.A. Riggs.


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Kristian Ipsen isn't a household name like Tiger Woods, at least not yet. The two, however, have something very much in common when it comes to athletic accomplishments. Both headed to Stanford University as prodigies.
Woods started playing golf at age 2 and won every junior golf tournament imaginable before arriving on The Farm in 1994. In 1991 he was the youngest ever U.S. Junior Amateur champion and went on to win it twice more. He followed that with three U.S. Amateur titles, the first golfer to accomplish the feat.
Ipsen started diving at age five. At age 8, he was the youngest diver to final on all three boards at the Junior National Championships and later became the youngest ever to win a junior national title. He has been featured in Sports Illustrated's "Faces in the Crowd" and in 2008 was the youngest diver, at age 15, to compete at the U.S. Olympic Trials.
Ipsen, who will be a Stanford freshman this fall, is the most accomplished diver ever to attend the school. Most likely, he and Woods are among the select few who were so accomplished on the national level before arriving at Stanford.
So, why is Kristian Ipsen so good?
"You start with God," said Stanford diving coach Dr. Rick Schavone. "You do that with every great athlete . . . He's like a Tiger Woods; like a (Greg) Louganis . . . he's been a star since he was 9 years old."
Ipsen, who won four straight North Coast Section titles at Concord's De La Salle High and is arguably the No. 1 high school diver in the nation, was on Stanford's campus this past weekend as a member of USA Diving's World Championship team that had a two-day training camp at the Avery Aquatic Center.
The team departed on Tuesday for Shanghai, China, where it will compete at the FINA World Championships. The diving runs from July 16-24, with swimming going from the 24th through the 31st.
Ipsen, 18, will compete on the 3-meter springboard and join with 31-year-old Troy Dumais in the 3-meter synchro, where they dive together.
"This is the most important meet there is for the U.S., outside of the Olympics," Schavone said.
The results at the World Championships will determine how many berths the United States gets for the 2012 Summer Games in London. If Ipsen and Dumais finish among the top 12 on the 3-meter board in Shanghai, the USA gets two berths in that event for London. Ipsen and Dumais also need to finish among the top eight in synchro in order for the U.S. to have a team in that event.
The Olympic Trials next summer will determine which U.S. athletes and teams fill whatever spots are available.
"We're expecting them (Ipsen and Dumais) to bring back two spots for the 3-meter and one spot for synchro," Schavone said.
Ipsen is more than ready for the challenge, even though he'll be competing in an individual event at the World Championships for only the first time. At the 2009 World Championships in Rome, Ipsen and Dumais were second in the 3-meter synchro competition.
"It would be great to have a medal," Ipsen said. "I'm hoping to dive well, post some great scores and see what happens. If I dive poorly, I have no chance."
This will be Ipsen's second trip to China in as many years. He competed in the 2010 FINA Diving World Cup in Qingdao, taking sixth on the individual 3-meter board and second (with Dumais) in synchro.
That's a long way from when Ipsen got started at age five while growing up in Clayton, just south of Concord. Ipsen started off in gymnastics (for about three months) before gravitating to swimming, which proved repetitive.
"I got bored just going back and forth," he said.
When a diving club opened in his neighborhood, Ipsen got hooked.
"It was a perfect combination (of gymnastics and swimming)," said Ipsen, who now dives for veteran coach Phil Tonne and the Diablo Divers.
While he also played baseball, tennis, golf and basketball, the 5-foot-7 Ipsen gave them all up before heading off to De La Salle High. There, he dominated the NCS four straight years, breaking his own section record on the 1-meter springboard this past spring with a score of 708.60. During his 11 dives, he received a half-dozen perfect 10s from the judges.
Despite being the nation's top male prep diver and competing internationally during his high school career, Ipsen felt it was important to compete for his school, as well.
"The school did so much for me, juggling my schedule when I had to travel," he said. "I thought it was important to dive for my school whenever possible."
"He's just a great kid," Schavone said of his incoming recruit. "His parents (Kent and Yvette) have done a great job. He's probably had pressure on him since he was 10. The parents made sure that he wouldn't put diving ahead of the family."
Both his parents also made it clear that Stanford was the choice for their son. For Kristian, it was an easy sell.
"It's absolutely beautiful," he said of the Stanford campus. "It's a great place to train and great for academics. And, I've been coming here since I was eight. I didn't have a platform at my school, so I'd come down here during the summer a few days a week."
Ipsen looked right at home on Sunday as he and his USA Diving teammates tested the waters of the Maas Diving Center.
Schavone can't wait until Ipsen makes his Cardinal debut, which won't include the platform right away.
"We'll hold off on the platform (his freshman year) because we don't want him to get injured (before the 2012 Olympic Trials)," Schavone said. "But, his goal is to be NCAA champion on platform." (as well as on the 1- and 3-meter boards).
"I'm sure he wants to be the best NCAA diver ever," Schavone said.
Right now, Ipsen wants to continue his steady climb among the world's best divers. The World Championships will provide him with the kind of experience he gained from the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials as he learned to deal with his nerves in the pressure-packed competition.
"It's always nerve-wracking when you compete, but, I'm a lot more comfortable," Ipsen said. "It would have been nice to make the team . . . I set pretty high goals."
Ipsen has plenty of reasons why he should expect the best. He won the 2007 Junior Pan Am Championships on the 3-meter board and placed first at the 2006 Junior World Championships on the 1-meter board.
Ipsen has traveled to China, Italy and Germany and gained a wealth of experience from the veteran Dumais while the two have elevated themselves as this country's top synchro diving team.
"My own personal drive toward perfection keeps me going," Ipsen said. "When something is wrong at practice with one of my dives, I get extremely frustrated and won't be able to get out of the pool until it is fixed.
"I love the adrenaline rush that I get when I am in the competition. Competing against different countries and going to different places around the world is the most fun part of my sport. Diving has influenced my life through all of the people I have met all around the world and all of the amazing places and adventures I have seen and had because of it."
The trip to the World Championships in Shanghai is just another grand experience for Ipsen, who hopes he can add London to that list in 2012.


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posted on Thursday, August 06, 2009 - 2:04 pm
I am building a multi-level model that contains latent factors indicated by multiple observed variables on both levels. This part of the model runs fine.
I would like to use regression to predict a latent factor in the within part of the model using several latent factors in the between part of the model.
Where would I write this statement in the MODEL code? It doesn't seem to fit in either the within or between part of the model. Should the variables in the regression be omitted from the VARIABLE statement specifying the within and between variables?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, August 06, 2009 - 3:51 pm
See Example 9.9. If there were one factor on within, for example, fw BY u1-u6 instead of fw1 and fw2 with equality of factor loadings across between and within, this would be how you would do it.
Amber Watts
posted on Friday, August 07, 2009 - 9:47 am
Thanks for your helpful suggestion. This allowed the model to run but gave the warning that Latent Variable Covariance Matrix is not positive definite. The TECH4 OUTPUT gives correlation estimates of 999.000 for all of the latent variables with one another on the within level and for all variables with the Y variable on the between level. Can you suggest where the problem might be?
Thank you
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, August 07, 2009 - 9:55 am
Please send your input, data, output, and license number to
Amber Watts
posted on Friday, August 07, 2009 - 9:55 am
Please disregard that last post. My syntax for constraining the factor loadings was not done correctly and this appears to be the source of the problem. Thanks
Student 09
posted on Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 9:49 am
in my twolevel regression, an observed level two covariate exerts a significant effect on a latent level 2 factor. Despite the significant effect, the test statistic associated with hh level 2 R-between says that the amount of variacne explained in the latent factor is not significant. How can that be? Could you please point out where I find information how Mplus calculates the s.e. of the R-squares?
Many thanks!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 11:14 am
Although a predictor may be significantly from zero, this does not mean that it explains a significant amount of the variance of a variable.
The Delta method is used to compute the standard error of R-square.
Student 09
posted on Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 4:10 pm
Hi Linda
could you please add a reference for your explanation - even though my request apparently does not relate directly to the way Mplus handles the data. In fact, I consulted a number of regression text books before posting my request but could not find any source dealing with the apparent finding that a significant predictor does not explain a significant amount of variance.
Thank you
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, August 14, 2009 - 12:32 pm
What you see can happen. I believe the explanation may be the same as for raw versus standardized coefficients where in rare cases one may be significant and one may not be. If you send your output and license number to
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"Let's have a toast," sang Kanye West in September of this sometimes seemingly endless year, debuting a new song, "Runaway," on the MTV Video Music Awards. Over a glassy keyboard sample and an old-school breakbeat, West intoned a gentle melody. "Runaway," many expected, would offer apologies to Taylor Swift: This was the one-year anniversary of West's notorious interruption of an acceptance speech by the country-pop princess, which led to his brief retreat from the media spotlight.
Instead of a rose, though, West's outstretched hand held up a middle finger. Using obscene descriptives that the good girl he'd wronged would never utter in public, West saluted the jerks who just can't (or won't) help themselves, men too preoccupied with the pursuit of their own pleasure or power to be sensitive or even polite. Himself, most of all.
"Runaway's" cheeky pathos returned West to his hard-earned place at the center of pop's conversation. That the song — the opposite of an apology — was such a success says a lot about pop's current moral quandary, and the culture's.
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West is, in fact, very earnest — he believes deeply in the value of his own art, and constantly pushes himself to create unheard sounds to convey unexpected thoughts. Like many great artists, he straddles more than one trend; in this case, he's as much part of the hungry crew of would-be world changers that includes Arcade Fire, M.I.A. and emerging talents such as Janelle Monae and Titus Andronicus.
These artists maintain a notion of music-making as a higher calling, even as they're constantly challenged by the prevailing mood of our disposable, up-in-the-air culture, where the trash talk flows from the lowliest blog to the halls of our legislature; where credit-card swipes mask financial disaster; where the deepest questions about relationships and right and wrong are discussed most widely not in shared houses of worship or serious secular debates, but on satirical news hours and realist shows.
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Process Automation Is Helping Energy Companies Make the Most of the Shale Oil and Gas boom.
Frank Whitsura, Honeywell Process Solutions vice president and general manager, predicted that the U.S. oil and gas business is entering "a golden age" in his address, "Automation and the Future of Shale Oil and Gas," today at the Honeywell Users Group Americas 2013 conference in Phoenix, Ariz. Honeywell Process Solutions will also prosper because energy companies are leveraging its process automation technologies to make the most of the boom, Whitsura said.
Whitsura compared the state of the shale energy industry with that of the refining industry in 1980. Back then, the refining industry was comprised of disparate units, had immature control systems and experienced relatively low throughput and yield. Today, both production and yield are up significantly despite the closure of many refineries. "Shale gas is in that same situation today," said Whitsura.
Keeping up with booming demand is only one of the stresses on the industry. The shale oil and gas business is not easy. Although new wells are being drilled at the rate of 13,000 per year, and their initial production is very high, it declines 80% in the first 12 months. "Producers need to get the most they can out of wells in a short amount of time," said Whitsura.
Another challenge is that many of these wells are in remote locations — many with extremely rugged landscapes and harsh environmental conditions. They also are widely spread out — in some cases over hundreds of square miles.
Over time, in order to address the issues that these conditions raise, wells and operations both will have to be consolidated, operations will have to be integrated and control will have to be centralized, Whitsura observed. We will also see more oil and gas operations that are much more integrated with other parts of their supply chains for greater efficiencies, and because of these efficiencies, we will see increased yields from wells.
He showed a slide of an imaginary oil well field where multiple wells are connect wirelessly to a centralized control room, which in turn is wirelessly connected to other parts of the operation. This is how shale oil and gas operations will look in the future, he said.
And Honeywell is on board to help with these initiatives, he added. It has experience and expertise in oil and gas that goes back decades and current technology to address many of the issues facing these energy businesses. Its latest iteration of Experion SCADA 430 and advances in RTU technology will be enablers of this vision.
"We think we have the experience to do this. We think we have the technology," Whitsura concluded. "Honeywell has been here before."


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"If you judge someone for that as being "pathetic and desperate" then you are truly pathetic and desparate yourself, finding whatever reason possible to make yourself feel superior to others." stick to the topic.
MP: I agree that it is strange that I still check this board. In my defense, I am still a student (LLM program). Also, the founder of the website is a good friend, so I became accustomed to checking while I was in school and never stopped. From my perspective I am able to see that alot of the advice that is being doled out by law students, while probably well intentioned, is more for the benefit of the advisors. In other words, I think alot of folks use these boards to make themselves feel more secure in choices that they have made. For example, I have seen threads where people say that you must bring a laptop to class. This is simply not the case. I knew plenty of folks who either took notes in a notebook or didn't take notes at all and did well. Anyone who tells a curious student that they need a laptop either: (a) works for Best Buy or (b) bought a laptop and want to feel as though they made the "correct" decision, whatever that means. I believe that this thread is similar. As to your second point, if you reread my posts, except for the last post, I think it is clear that my comments are based on my own experience. If they came off as universal truths, I apologize; that was not my intention.


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The primary aim of this mod is to get away from the current gameplay which for the most part involves spamming tanks. We are introducing gameplay that requires, scouting and using a variety of units to be successful. Tanks are not the do-all units anymore, instead you need artillery units to take out defenses, tanks to take out artillery units, air units to take out the tanks, and AA units to take out air units. It's basically bringing Rock-Paper-Scissors to the game which we believe makes it more challenging and interesting. We're also making the factions' abilities exclusive. By that we mean only Nod use mines (so no APC mine drops) and they are also the only ones that use cloaking technology. The same applies for GDI who use more EMP now etc. We think this better defines the play styles of the factions so that you aren't just playing each faction more or less the same way.
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The nursery is finished (pictures to follow). The baby clothes are washed. The stroller is together. The car seat is ready for installation. The pack 'n play is packed.
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Looking for Willett of New Richmond, Quebec
I am looking for informaion on my Grandmother Ida Ann Willett and Grandfather Richard Foran Willett.
I have pictures of my Grandmother, but none of my Grandfather. My Grandfather died young, he was 48 years old. He died in the hospital. I have his death certificate. Also I have newspaper clippings of my Grandmothers death.
My great grandparents on my Grandmothers side are Benjamin Vincent Willett and Nancy Duthie. I have a picture of my great grandmother hanging in my living room.
My great grandparents on my grandfather side I believe are John Willett and Mary Ann Foran.
I have more information on my family, but I am not sure how accurate it is.
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Looking for a browser based cloud ebook reader
I am looking for an ebook reader which stores ebooks in a cloud and allows you to read them in a browser without having to sync or download those books. I know about ibisreader.com and www.magicscroll.net and booki.sh and while those sites are basically what I am after, they offer little to no organization for the books that you store on their sites. The kindle cloud reader is another example of what I am after, but it does not allow you to upload and access your non kindle books.
Before I get a lot of suggestions involving drop box, calibre opds, and fabrik let me stress that I want to be able to read the books WITHOUT having to store the ebook files on my device. I am looking for browser based readers that do not require you to download/sync the books in order to read them. Basically l want to free up storage space on my tablet and be able to access my whole library from anywhere and on any device without having to download any of it.
Any suggestions would be great.
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Just out of curiosity, why? your ability to read the books will depend on having a good wifi connection - if for some reason your wifi goes away, so will your access to the books.
I'm in the opposite situation: I actively avoid anything that requires a connection to The Cloud - i feel much more secure having my books on my computer.
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Everything I do is online, and as it happens that is the case with the majority of people today. Think about what you use your computer/laptop/tablet for, and I am willing to bet that most of it involves an online experience. More and more often people are using cloud services for everything. WiFi is everywhere and easy to access, even without a secure connection at home (which I have). The vast majority of browser based readers also include the option to read off-line as well, so if I happen to be somewhere without a connection then whatever book I am reading will still be available.
As I said originally, I want to free up space and be able to access my library from anywhere and on any device. I still plan on keeping my library stored on an external hard drive as a back up, but I don't want to have to carry around and connect to that hard drive every time I want to read something. Portability and universal access are key.
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Couldn't disagree more... I don't spend my life attached to my computer and much of my life has nothing to do with being online... I'd hate the idea of relinquishing my data to someone else's control... that idea was supposed to die out with the High Priests of the Mainframe and the invention of the personal computer which was called personal for a reason... I'd certainly never use the Cloud for everything and I know nobody else intending that - yes, use for sharing across devices when away from desktop, collaborating and across various devices but for everything??? And how would I be able to read from the cloud without Wi-Fi access or mobile data? Wi-Fi is most definitely not everywhere - there's a lot more to life and the world than the urban sprawl... and much of that has no free/ easy access to the net...
One of the joys of reading is to shut out the external world and enjoy that of what's being read... with no interruptions and the ability to be away from computers etc. As for portability and access, well I've got around 50K titles on my PRS 505 with PRS+ and my library thus fits in my pocket - no hard drive needed...
Good luck with your browser search but the majority of people certainly don't do everything online...
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I don't know of anywhere that offers such a service. Unless you're into reading technical books, in which case O'Reilly have an online option :P
Considering it takes a second or two tops to download a complete book though, I have everything in the "archive" on amazon (although I keep most on my eink kindle too), both books I've bought with them and those I've emailed to them. Then i can download what i want to read whenever I fancy a change if I'm out somewhere and don't have the book on my current device.
The kindle app is on most devices and platforms now so it's perhaps the closest you'll get. Unless you have more than 5GB (I think that's the limit) of non-amazon bought ebooks, in which case it's not going to offer enough.
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Me, I'm definitely in the offline camp, so I've never tried it.
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As for the not being able to name ANY providers of this service, well I listed three in my initial post, so they are out there. As I also said in my initial post, Kindle's cloud reader and the Kindle service in general do not meet my needs.
As to the idea that most people do not do most computing online, well that is a quaint one. Outdated and myopic, but quaint. You yourself are online reading and responding to this post. Just the fact that you are on this site shows at least some connectivity. The vast majority of mobile operating systems do very little WITHOUT being online. PC sales are way down while laptop/tablet/smart phone sales are way up, so developing mobile solutions is a huge deal for most system developers. WiFi is EVERYWHERE in the developed world and nearly as accessible in the developing world. McDonalds, coffee shops, unsecured private nodes, hell even most department stores offer free WiFi. I lived in a wilderness survival training camp for two years that was nearly fifty miles from any other inhabited area...and guess what? We had WiFi too. My grandmother lives in rural Michigan up in the U.P. and she has a WiFi connection. Most state and federal parks have WiFi. I could go on, but why bother? If you are anywhere near a town in North America you already know that what I am saying is true. I have lived in forty or so different cities all over the world and from the time WiFi started popping up until now I have never had a hard time finding a hot spot. There is a reason for that. Setting up mobile networks is easier and cheaper than setting up traditional ones. There are even cities rolling out neighborhood wide and city wide WiFi networks for their residents.
Cloud services are used for a lot more than just syncing across platforms. Streaming services such as Netflix, Rhapsody, Pandora, and Amazon Instant Video are good examples of the way this sort of technology can be used. I know at least a dozen folks and several organizations who store nearly all of their data on cloud drives, because it is easier, cheaper, and infinitely more portable. The point is that being online is no longer something that happens here and there, it is happening all of the time and for those who were born in the mid to late 90s the idea of not being online is so foreign that they don't even think about cloud drives as revolutionary. For people growing up right now universal connectivity is just another fact of life (of course they are the same ones who seem surprised when stuff they post on Facebook comes back to bite them on the ass...so who knows).
Sigh, I seem to have become distracted, but none of the posts so far seem to answer my initial question. Maybe this is not the right forum for this question after all. Anybody who can give me a little bit of direction would be great.
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You didn't say "some connectivity," you said, "Everything I do is online, and as it happens that is the case with the majority of people today. Think about what you use your computer/laptop/tablet for, and I am willing to bet that most of it involves an online experience." You didn't say "developed world" either, you said as quoted above and the developed world is not the majority... even in the developed world, I'm at home and there is no free Wi-Fi within over a mile of my location, my only access is my own link and I don't use it most of the time just some of the time as I have too many other things to do... like reading, socialising, working and more so the majority of my computing certainly doesn't involve being on line... why would I need to be online creating artwork, writing, designing, and fixing hardware??? I also know people who use the cloud but as an adjunct to their primary storage usage not the primary.
Using the net, Wi-Fi etc doesn't mean everything or the majority of people, it's just another tool not the "be all and end all" of everything... and I do rely on the net for lots of things just not the centre of all life... and it may also be possible that there isn't (yet) a great reader for online reading hence no real suggestions...
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Wait until the next superstorm sandy/tornado/earthquake/monster snowfall comes through and then get yourself online and tells how quaint it is. My personal set of geek friends do not spend their line online.
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I never said that WiFi didn't have its drawbacks, it has a ton of drawbacks, but that doesn't change just how much most people rely on their networks for every day things. I also never said that peoples' lives should revolve around being online, but more and more things DO revolve around being online. You don't need to be online to create art, or to write, or to repair hardware. Increasingly more often you do need it to distribute that art, to look up technical specs not already in your possession, or to communicate with publishers, distributors, and retailers.
Right now, as I post this to an online forum, my daughter is watching My Little Ponies on Netflix, My wife is Skyping with her sister, and I am also sending in photography proofs to one of my clients with Pandora playing in the background. That's not unusual anymore, that's the norm. If you were to walk into any one of my friends' homes I guarantee that every last one of them would have something going on over a network connection. If I turn on my WiFi finder on any given day there are thirty different open and free hotspots within two miles of my home. THIRTY! Crazy, I know. That's not even counting the protected personal networks. Just a few years ago there might have been three or four, but today it is thirty. I was just reading a story about how people in Nigeria and Camaroon will willingly forego a meal to make sure that they have enough money to pay for their mobile data connectivity. India is setting up new networks in rural areas to help the upcoming distribution of tablets for school children work out better than it might have before. I have a friend who lives in East Timur who works as a linesman helping to build better infrastructure and network connectivity. The world is wired whether you want to believe it or not. A typhoon or a horrible snow storm may knock out connectivity for a few days, but it does that same to power and I hear no one saying "Oh, your fancy electricity will never be as reliable as good old plentiful coal. What are you gonna do when them doodads producing that there e-lec-tricity go down?" Networks are repaired with almost as much priority as power, because they are nearly as important to logistics, distribution, and over all repair efforts. Network connectivity is spreading just like electricity has in the past, but with more determination and a hell of a lot quicker. Networks mean knowledge and knowledge is power.
Later tonight I will go out with my family to do some geocaching (an entirely different sort of connectivity). We will hike for an hour or so and get out and chat and get some exercise...and not once be far enough away from a network to lose signal on our phones, in spite of the fact that we will not be anywhere near a city center.
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This is something you could probably do with a bit of coding yourself. Get yourself a domain name and some hosting. You could then put your books on your domain space and then use the epub reader addon in Firefox to read your books that are stored on your own webserver. You could use htaccess to password protect the folder that your books are in.
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Book files are relatively small (unless picture books). So it really doesn't make sense to insist on reading them on-line. Just download to your phone or tablet or ereader. Much more sensible.
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I find it hilarious that this thread has descended from the OP asking a question to having to defend his views against very unhelpful posts.
I agree with Valkrider, I don't know of any sites that offer this service, you seem to know a lot about it yourself and DIY is a good and cheap option If you have any coding experience.
On the other hand don't dismiss Dropbox on the basis that you have to download books to read them. Even when using a browser it caches the book, ie. stores it temporarily on your device but so that only the browser can access it. This would mean it will automatically delete the book when you are done with it, but also that you could loose it if it clears the cache and you find yourself without access(which seems to be the crux of this discussion )
If you use Dropbox you get the benefit of uploading any books, organising them in folders and you get to use a dedicated reader software of your choice(I'm sure using a web-reader in a browser would mean losing a lot of screen real estate to unnecessary tabs and option bars). Also its free . Then you can free up space manually whenever you need it, as having a permanently empty device isn't much use either, so when you have no films, music etc on it you can have more books.
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He also said he didn't want suggestions using dropbox.
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HEROHAMO wrote:Jake Locker in the Senior Bowl is the same as he was in his college career. Inaccurate.
Jake Locker just has amazing physical attributes. Hes fast, quick, good size and has a cannon for an arm. He needs a whole lot of work. He also played with sub par talent in college years with suspect coaching as well. I am not making excuses for him. Anyhow anyone who has kept track of him shouldn't be surprised by the way he looks during senior bowl practices.
The hope is that if Shanny drafts Locker he can coach him up to be great. What I like about Jake is he has a whole lot of potential. In my opinion worth the risk of drafting him. With Shanahans history with QBs combined with all the positives Locker has. That minimizes the chances of failure if we do draft Locker.
Personally, I think Locker is the perfect fit for Shanhan and the Redskins. Everyone agrees #10 is too high to pick him though. So I hope they have a trade partner where they can move down and add some middle round picks AND get Locker.
If you watch Gruden's QB Camp interviews, Locker is smart, confident, tough with lots of game savvy. I think being a NFL QB is only part throwing talent. So you can't just sit and watch the combine or Senior Bowl practice and make a judgement. I think Locker has the right combination of intelligence, leadership and toughness to be a great team leader in the NFL. That is IMPORTANT!
He is like a cross between Steve Young and Brett Favre. Steve Young's scrambling ability and intelligence coupled with Favre's toughness and arm strength. He may not ever be as good as either of those two QB's, but he has the potential with proper coaching.
With Shanahan's love for calling roll outs and moving the QB around, Locker would be a great fit. He could play behind Grossman and Beck for one season and be ready to start in 2012.
The Skins have been building good team leadership, but it is mostly on defense. I think having a QB like Locker would add some much needed toughness and savvy on offense.
Build through the draft!
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I actually think we'll take Locker at #10. It's probably not a good idea to pick him that high, but I think that's whats going to happen, and I wouldn't be disappointed with it.
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TeeterSalad wrote:I actually think we'll take Locker at #10. It's probably not a good idea to pick him that high, but I think that's whats going to happen, and I wouldn't be disappointed with it.
I agree - IF Locker is the QB that Mike thinks can end up being the starting QB here then he should draft him at #10
Until recently, Snyder & Allen have made a lot of really bad decisions - nobody with any sense believes this franchise will get better under their guidance
Snyder's W/L record = 45% (80-96) - Snyder/Allen = 41% (59-84-1)
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I believe that most of the "projected" 1st round QB's are not ready to play in the NFL. They all have something that needs to be tweeked and unfortunately they will not be able to work with coaches until most likely sometime late in the summer. Locker needs to the most tweeking of all the QB's mentioned but does have a very high upside. I pray that we can trade out of #10.
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frankcal20 wrote:I pray that we can trade out of #10.
Amen to that prayer!
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