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First edition. 4to (32 x 19 cm), pp.[ii], [ii, contemporary manuscript contents], 102, [ii], 28, , 12*, 126, , [1, blank], [1, errata], [1, blank], with 5 large folding plans, all with contemporary hand colour, 4 signed "F. Dormieux Sculp. Calcutta 1803". A very good copy in contemporary speckled calf, gilt. The leather somewhat worn, particularly at the spine, with small areas of loss, but still handsome. A handful of contemporary manuscript corrections and annotations to text.
We locate copies of this work and the two supplementary volumes at four institutions: British Library, Oxford, Royal Library (UK), and UCLA. Cambridge holds a copy of this work and the second supplementary volumes.
The account of the first part of the Second Anglo-Maratha War (1803-1805) written by Richard Wellesley (1760-1842), then Governor-General of Bengal, in large part to trumpet British military success against the Maratha Confederacy, and promote his vision for British dominion in India. This depended on a network of subsidiary treaties and alliances with Indian states, such as the Treaty of Bassein, concluded between the Maratha Peshwa of Poona and the East India Company on 31 December 1802. The treaty rendered the Peshwa a British client, which provoked the ensuing conflict with a number of the other rulers within the Maratha Confederacy. The British campaign against the Marathas was a military success, accomplished by two armies, one under the command of General Gerard Lake (1744–1808), the other under that of Wellesley's younger brother, Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852), later Duke of Wellington. At the Battle of Assaye on 23 September, 1803, a British force of 7,000 broke a Maratha army of some 50,000; further British victories followed at Argaon on 29 November, and early in December, when Gawilgarh was seized from the Raja of Berar. These military victories came at a point when Richard Wellesley's leadership faced increasingly hostile criticism from directors of the Company concerned by the expense of the wars waged under his leadership, and a popular hostility to the imperial trappings of his administration. The attractive engraved plans are early examples of their type from Calcutta, and unusual in that the majority are signed, dated, and located by Francis Dormieux, a silversmith active at Calcutta from around 1796 to 1821. Dormieux's skill as as an engraver saw him provide five engravings for Francis Gladwin's Oriental miscellany (Calcutta, 1798). He engraved the title-age for Solvyns' A collection of two hundred and fifty coloured etchings (Calcutta, 1799), and produced a costume book (Calcutta, 1805). Two supplementary volumes of appendices were published at Calcutta in 1804 and 1805, documenting the continuing conflict between British forces and the remnants of the Maratha Confederacy. These were titled as the second and third parts to the Appendix of the present work, but were compiled by Wellesley and issued separately. The text of our volume was reprinted at London in the following year.
[Wellesley, Richard Colley, Marquess Wellesley] Notes relative to the late transactions in the Marhatta Empire.


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Newsletter - 25th April 2013
Come to our 9th Birthday party
Bring your friends and relatives
Save on DNA tests ENDS TUESDAY
GRO - the next step?
Books online - a new source
London Gardens Online
Cradle to grave
Tracing your ancestors through death records
Who will inherit your online accounts?
Online archives of the Imperial War Museum
War memorial to be corrected after nearly a century
Saving $$$ at Ancestry
Searching for living relatives
Door to door challenge: solution
Statistics and genealogy
Peter's Tips
The LostCousins newsletter is usually published fortnightly. To access the previous newsletter (dated 8 April 2013) click here, for an index to articles from 2009-10 click here, for a list of articles from 2011 click here and for a list of articles from 2012-13 click here.
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On 1st May LostCousins will be 9 years old! It will be 9 years to the day since I stood outside the Royal Horticultural Halls in Westminster handing out leaflets to people queuing for the Society of Genealogist's Annual show.
From now until Monday 6th May the LostCousins site will be COMPLETELY FREE. This means that whether you're a subscriber or not you'll be able to contact any relatives who are currently waiting in the New Contacts section of your My Cousins page PLUS any new relatives you find between now and 6th May.
To join in the fun simply complete your My Ancestors page by entering as many as possible of the relatives you can find on the 1881 Census - whether they were living in England & Wales, Scotland, or Canada. Remember that whilst it's natural to start by entering your direct ancestors and their households, it's the members of their extended families who are most likely to be the link to your 'lost cousins'.
Tip: if you take the total number of relatives on your family tree and divide by 5 this gives you a quick estimate of how many of them would have been alive in 1881.
It'll be an even better party if everyone brings their friends and relatives - and there will be loads more opportunities to find 'lost cousins'. By far the easiest way to invite other researchers to join is through your My Referrals page - and you don't even have to provide the email addresses of your friends and relatives, though if you do I guarantee they won't be misused.
Tip: when you invite a cousin using your My Referral page you can do them a favour by indicating the relatives on your My Ancestors page that your cousin shares - they'll automatically be copied to your cousin's My Ancestors page!
Save on DNA tests
Family Tree DNA, the testing company chosen by most family historians, is offering heavily discounted prices - but only until Tuesday 30th April.
For example, a 37-marker Y-DNA test to trace your direct paternal line costs just $119 - about £80. For comparison, British-based Oxford Ancestors charge an eye-watering £199 for a 15-marker test!
Family Tree DNA is the company I've chosen for my DNA tests, and the one that I've recommended to my own relatives. It isn't just about price - because they have the largest genealogical DNA database on the planet you're likely to get more matches.
To remind yourself how DNA tests can help you with your 'brick walls' see my articles here and here.
Thank you for the many, many messages of support I have received since publishing my letter to the Home Secretary and the rather unhelpful reply from the Communications Manager at the GRO.
It transpired that the response from the GRO was even more unhelpful than I realised when I was writing my last newsletter - an eagle-eyed LostCousins member led me to two online documents, published just before Christmas, in which the Home Office set out their Digital Strategy. Surely the GRO must be aware of those documents, and if so why did they not mention them in the letter (especially since the provision of copy birth, marriage, and death certificates for family historians is listed in the documents as one of the most significant services - in terms of volume - provided by the Home Office)?
Reading those documents it was clear that whilst the GRO may be happy to remain marooned in the 19th century, the Home Office intends to get up to date - and fast.
A few quotes will demonstrate the wide gulf between the GRO and their masters, starting with this one from the Civil Service Reform Plan:
Central government where possible must become a digital organisation. These days the best service organisations deliver online everything that can be delivered online. This cuts their costs dramatically and allows access to information and services at times and in ways convenient to the users rather than the providers.
Note those final words "convenient to the users rather than the providers" - what a change that would be! The Home Office documents go on to outline some of the benefits from going digital:
a better relationship with citizens who can freely contribute to policy making and influence service-design
well designed services that are quicker and more convenient for users - GDS research shows redesigned services are 18% easier and one third quicker to use than previous versions
high quality published information that evolves in response to citizen feedback
cost savings and increased efficiencies generated over time as the shift to digital channels enables us to scale back face-to-face services, eliminate paper-based services and reduce the cost of mistakes.
I couldn't have said it better myself. However it isn't all good news, because the Home Office seem to have swallowed the GRO's line when it comes to the legislation governing the issue of certificates:
There are a range of legislative/practical barriers currently preventing the Home Office from implementing fully end-to-end digital delivery systems. These include:
Digital certificates where current legislation requires orders for civil registration certificates (births, marriages, deaths) to be provided in paper format. This is a key barrier to maximising the benefits from digitised records and online access to records. IPS customer insight reveals that the majority of customers ordering certificates for family history purposes would prefer to receive electronic versions.
As another astute LostCousins member pointed out, the legislation might refer to certified copies, but it certainly doesn't specify that they must be paper copies - it seems the GRO has never heard of digital certificates (even though the HM Revenue & Customs has for over a year required most companies to submit their tax returns in a PDF file with a digital certificate).
What should we do next? A lot of members suggested that a petition might be the answer - but given that the Home Office themselves are already headed down the right route there doesn't seem to be much point (and previous petitions have struggled to get a meaningful number of votes, even though one in particular was widely-publicised).
Surely what we really need to do is ensure is that the needs of family historians are fully taken into account - not just the need for a faster and cheaper service, but also the need for better indexing so that we can more easily identify which entries relate to our ancestors? For example, shouldn't it be possible to search for all the births where the father's name is John Smith and the mother is Mary Smith formerly Brown?
The Civil Registration system was never designed with the interests of family historians in mind. Did you know that in the 21st century there are as many copy certificates issued in a SINGLE year as there were in the ENTIRE 19th century!
Although the certificate system isn't one of the three areas prioritised by the Home Office, that's probably a good thing - because it gives the GRO time to consult with users. There have been consultations in the past, of course - but in those days the GRO very definitely had the upper hand. Now that the Home Office has recognised the importance of "citizens who can freely contribute to policy making and influence service-design" and "well designed services that are quicker and more convenient for users" I rather think that the boot is on the other foot!
If the GRO are right in their assertion that there can be "no digitisation without legislation" then let us make sure that the legislation - when it comes - strikes an appropriate balance between the rights of living individuals to privacy and the needs of family historian like ourselves.
As you probably know, over the past few months I've been working with a group of volunteers to create an online forum. In view of the importance of certificates to our research I propose that we have a dedicated area within the forum where we can discuss the GRO and the certificate issue.
If you would be interested in taking part in those discussions please indicate your interest in the forum by clicking the appropriate box on your My Details page, ie:
I'm sure that most readers of this newsletter have used Google Books and the Internet Archive to search for out of copyright books related to genealogy, but until Brian wrote to me this month I hadn't heard of HathiTrust.
HathiTrust is a partnership between major libraries around the world, and 3 million of the 10 million digitised volumes are out of copyright. A quick search led me to two of the three volumes of statistics published after the 1831 Census, and whilst I later discovered they're also on Google Books, the fact is I'd never found them there. (Volume 1 can be found at the HistPop site, and invaluable source for census data.)
London Gardens Online has an enormous amount of information about parks, gardens, churchyards and cemeteries in the Greater London area - there are over 2500 locations.
Walter Harrison was born in 1921 on a coal barge on the Grand Union Canal. It was therefore fitting that when he died this year aged 91, his coffin was carried on a canal barge to his funeral and then to his final resting place. See this BBC article for photographs - what a way to go!
Celia Heritage, author, lecturer, professional genealogist - and LostCousins member - will be running a one day course entitled Tracing your ancestors through death records at Canterbury Christ Church University in Chatham, Kent on Saturday 11th May. As a fellow LostCousins member you can book a place on the course for just £27 (normal price £37).
You'll find full details here. If you want to attend the course please email Celia as soon as possible since at this price the course is likely to sell out quickly (like the half-day course that Celia is running at the Society of Genealogists this weekend).
Tip: why not use the £10 you've saved on a copy of Celia's latest book (you'll find it here)? I'll be reviewing Celia's book in a future newsletter.
Sally wrote to tell me about Google's plans to make life - or rather death - that little bit easier, by allowing the holders of Google accounts to decide what should happen to them when they're no longer around.
It's certainly something that we all need to think about - let's face it, we're not going to be around for ever. Mind you, they say the two things that are inevitable in life are death and taxes, and since Google has managed to avoid paying more than a token amount of UK Corporation Tax (see this BBC article), it wouldn't surprise me if they're working on avoiding death as well, particularly since the wife of one of the Google founders runs a DNA company!
But what I found most interesting about the announcement is that Google are 8 years behind LostCousins in identifying the problem - since 2005 it has been possible to enter on your My Details page the email address of the person you would like to inherit your LostCousins account.
That said, 90% of the readers of this newsletter haven't completed that box. Maybe you should?
The Imperial War Museum has over 33,000 audio recordings related to combat since 1914, almost half of them related to the First World War - for example, I stumbled across this recording of old soldiers talking about life in the trenches, and these reminiscences of a nurse who worked with Edith Cavell, who was shot by a German firing squad in 1915 after helping scores of soldiers to escape from occupied Belgium.
But that's not all - there are thousands of images, such as these World War 2 identity cards and the World War 1 army manuals that belonged to Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII). There are wartime posters, photographs of escape equipment used by prisoners of war - it's an Aladdin's Cave.
There are currently 28 podcasts at the First World War Centenary site that is run by the Imperial War Museum, and the same podcasts are available free from iTunes.
Private George Samuel died fighting for his country in 1916, but when his name was added to the war memorial in Shepreth, Cambridgeshire his surname was recorded as 'Samuels'. But 97 years after he fell in combat his great-niece has finally managed to persuade the local council to correct the error (see this BBC News article for more details).
I've written many times about the big savings that can be made by switching your Ancestry subscription to a different site, but I get so many emails asking for more details that I'm going to run over them once more.
Here are the facts: Ancestry offers a Worldwide subscription through all of its sites, but the cost varies enormously from one site to another - this partly reflects changes in exchange rates since the prices were fixed, but some of the differences are too large to be explained entirely by currency movements.
Even if you don't need a Worldwide subscription you might still be able to save money by switching. You might even be able to get a better (or more appropriate) subscription and save money.
Which Ancestry site is the cheapest? There's a hint in the title of this article! All of the sites that charge in dollars - whether US, Canadian, or Australian - are considerably more expensive than the UK site. Look how little you would pay at Ancestry.co.uk!
Note: the published price of a Worldwide subscription on Ancestry's UK website is £155.40, but that includes UK taxes. So long as you live outside the European Union you'll pay £135.13, as shown in the screenshot above - the actual price will, of course, be displayed before you complete your purchase.
At today's exchange rate that price equates to $201 (Australian), $207 (US), or $212 (Canadian), which is a substantial saving compared to the price you'd pay for exactly the same subscription (though with a slightly different name) at Ancestry.com.au, Ancestry.com, or Ancestry.ca! And although it says 'Initial Annual Membership Fee' it isn't a special offer price - renewals are charged at the same rate.
There are four simple steps to take:
(1) Cancel your existing subscription - do it now, even if it isn't due to expire for some time (you'll still get the time you've paid for). That way there's no risk that you might forget to cancel nearer the time. In most cases you'll be able to cancel your subscription online, simply by going to My Account.
(2) Wait until your existing subscription has expired - otherwise you won't be able to switch sites. Then when you're ready to take out a new subscription* click here to go to Ancestry.co.uk (note: if you use that link LostCousins may receive some commission - if you don't we won't).
(3) Don't re-register. Simply log-in using your existing user name and password - that way you won't lose anything (and you can even continue using the same site to access Ancestry's records if you prefer).
* when my subscription runs out I can often manage for a week or two without renewing, so that's a way to save even more!
You can still save money if you don't currently have a Worldwide subscription - for example, the cost of a UK Heritage Plus subscription at Ancestry.com.au is $215.40 which is more than you'd pay for a Worldwide subscription at Ancestry.co.uk!
Tip: if you want to share this tip with friends or relatives please send them a link to this newsletter - that way you'll be supporting LostCousins and its members.
I've had quite a number of emails from members who have been unable to find the 'Living Relatives' search at findmypast.co.uk
This link will take you to the right part of the website - this link will take direct to the Search page.
Tip: if you click a findmypast link in my newsletter and you end up on their home page rather than the page you expected - it's not my fault, it's a 'feature' of the findmypast site. Simply click the link a second time, and then you will get to your intended destination.
This was a fascinating puzzle because there were only two possible answers, and everyone who entered was absolutely convinced that whichever answer they had chosen was the right one.
Here's the puzzle again, in case you missed it:
Imagine that you're a contestant on a TV game show and have to pick one of three doors, in the knowledge that only one of them conceals a prize. When you've made your selection the host (who knows where the prize is hidden) opens one of the other two doors to show that there's nothing behind it - and then gives you the option of staying with your original choice, or switching to the remaining closed door.
What should you do, and why?
I should perhaps have stressed that this is a regular occurrence on the show - the host always makes the same offer whether or not you have chosen correctly, and he always opens a door that has nothing behind it.
You should switch doors - this doubles your chances of winning! But why?
Let's suppose that you were allowed to choose 2 doors instead of 1 - then you'd clearly have 2 chances in 3 of winning the prize. Would those odds change if the host opened one of your doors and demonstrated that there was nothing behind it? Of course not - as there's only one prize, it clearly can't be behind both doors. So at this point the chance that the other door you chose is the one that leads to the prize must be 2 in 3.
In other words, switching doors puts you in the same highly advantageous position as someone who was allowed to choose 2 doors in the first place. You're not guaranteed to win, but you have doubled your chances.
The winner of the prize (a one-year LostCousins subscription) is Mark Hepinstall, who provided the most convincing solution. I have a feeling that he's going to discover lots of new cousins over the coming year!
If you're wondering why I posed a statistical puzzle it's because in researching our family trees we often have to make judgments based upon statistics. For example, if you search the IGI for your ancestor's baptism and find only one that fits, you need to be able to assess how likely it is that the register entry you've found is the right one. If 90% of the baptisms for that period are in the index, then clearly it's quite likely you've found the right entry - but if only 10% are in the index then it's far less likely.
Often it isn't clear how many entries there are in a particular dataset - not all websites provide this sort of information. When that happens I tend to use the 'Smith Test', a test I developed myself, but which usually gives remarkably accurate answers. It's very simple - I search the dataset for people with the surname Smith, then multiply the number of results by 50 and by 100. The total number of entries in the dataset is usually somewhere in between.
Tip: make sure that the results you get all relate to people called Smith (tick the exact matches only box, or equivalent).
I'll be giving more examples of how statistics and probability can aid your research in future newsletters.
My earlier article describes how overseas readers can save on Ancestry subscriptions - but what if you live in the UK? In this case the cheapest way to get a subscription is to buy Family Tree Maker 2011 Platinum at around £25 because, even if you put the program in the recycling, you're getting a 6 month Ancestry subscription for less than a quarter of the price they normally charge for a 12 month subscription. In other words, you're saving over 50% and getting a free program.
There seems to be no limit to how many copies you can buy and how many free 'trials' you can claim, but it's worth noting that the price of Family Tree Maker 2012 Platinum has dropped at Amazon to just £30. It's also worth checking eBay since the price there may be even cheaper.
This where any late updates will be posted, so it's worth checking back after a few days.
I hope you've found this newsletter interesting and that you'll make full use of your membership of my site to link with the cousins you don't yet know (your 'lost cousins'). After all, that's what LostCousins is all about!
Peter Calver
Founder, LostCousins
© Copyright 2013 Peter Calver
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107th Mechanized Cavalry Honorary Trooper
Robert J. Augustin
Born in Marion County Indianapolis, Indiana April 17, 1922. Parents Robert A and Ellen Augustin (Zorn). Due to a death in the family Bob moved to Cincinnati to live with an Aunt until he joined the service.
Bob joined the 107th Cavalry, an Ohio National Guard Unit on 31st of July 1940 and was inducted into Federal Service on the 5th of March 1941. The 107th was sent to Camp Forrest, Tennessee for training. He remained there until the 17th of December 1941 when the 107th shipped out to Fort Ord, California arriving on Christmas Day 1941.
The 107th became mechanized in June 1942 when all of the horses where given to the Coast Guard. Over the next two years the 107th patrolled the California coast from Santa Rosa into Northern California as part of the Western Defense Command. The 107th then was moved to Camp Hood Texas for more training in preparation for deployment to the ETO. It was during that time that Bob married Else on the 15th of November 1944 in Dallas. Else lived in Waco about 6 weeks until returning to Cincinnati, as we were getting ready to start our journey to Europe. We arrived at Camp Shanks, New York in late December 1944 and then boarded the SS Brazil on the 1st of January 1945. Quartered on what was the promenade deck. The bunks were stacked 4 high about 2 feet between them, tight quarters. We had to eat standing up as there were no chairs, I never missed a meal. 15 days later we disembarked at night at La Harve, France and we were transported by truck to Camp Lucky Strike, a tent camp at Cany Barville, France.
The 107th participated in three campaigns. Norther France, Central Europe and Rhinelander for which we were awarded the EAME theater ribbon with 3 bronze stars. The length of time the 107th was in the ETO was 7 months and 19 days. Bob started as a private 1st Class with a stripe. He then went to Pioneer and Demolition school and became Corporal, 2 strips. He was then sent to Intelligence school and was promoted to Sgt. While in Europe he was promoted to First Sergeant in preparation for the 107th deployment to the Pacific theater. While in route to the Pacific the Japs surrendered and Bob arrived at Camp Atterbuty, Indiana on the 15th of October 1945 and was honorably discharged with 4 years and 7 months of active service. He and Else lived in Cincinnati and they were the heart and soul of the 107th Reunions. They both have passed on to Fiddlers Green. God Bless.


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The courses are paid workshops led by professional freelance editor Lara Willard. Each workshop offers tiers of content so you can customize your course to fit your budget.
The campsite (see below) is a free forum for writers to meet and mingle. All you need is an email address to sign up.
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Before you are able to analyse or export plots from your data you need to know how to format what you see to improve its legibility. Learn more about formatting tracks in the Editing your data tutorial.
Apologies in advance to the British users of Debrief for the American-spelling of colour. The software environment within which Debrief is developed is American, and in this case superimposing the UK spelling upon it is not a battle worth fighting.
Track editing is performed on the Properties Window (see Properties window), and is initiated by selecting the track either from the plot or the Outline View, as described in the Editing your data tutorial.
In addition to switching the symbols, labels and arrows on and off for individual positions, you can instruct Debrief to show symbols or labels at one of a series of frequencies - allowing you to quickly add 15 minute symbols and hourly time labels to a track. The timings of the particular positions that get highlighted do not have their origin at the start of the track - but from 0000 hrs - thus the 15 minute positions will be marked for 00, 15, 30, 45 minutes past the hour.
Where a position on a track is marked as having its arrow and symbol visible, the arrow takes precedence - so only one will be displayed. In this way can request 5 mins symbols, and 30 min arrows: this will give you 5 min symbols, except on the 1/2 hour, when an arrow will be shown.
The track-shifting function has been incorporated to allow users to move a track and its associated sensor data. The principle requirement for this functionality is to enable the user to move the track to a specific geographic reference point (i.e. GPS fix) or to lock the relative position of one track to another using sensor data. This positioning relative to another track is sometimes termed plot-lock or tie-point .
The Track-shifting implementation was originally provided by Mr David Gong at NUWC.
Debrief NG provides three modes of track shifting - moving individual track segments, moving individual points in a track to correct a potentially erroneous data point, moving whole tracks to overcome navigational system inaccuracies - such as during a plot-lock or tie-in. See the three modes above in Section 2.2, "Mouse mode buttons".
A Stacked Dots view is used to show bearing-errors when the track-shift is being conducted to line up one or two sets of sensor data (see Chapter 11, Analysing sensor data). For each sensor bearing on a track (see Sensor contact), Debrief identifies the point on the opposing track nearest to that time. Each time the track is shifted (dragged) Debrief calculates the error between the sensor bearing and the current measured bearing, showing these in a plot (bearing error against time).
Debrief displays a symbol for each visible sensor data, with the symbol being plotted the same colour as the sensor data. When track-shifting a long exercise serial, the time-variable plot may become difficult to use due to the y-axis always auto-scaling to accommodate all available data. Overcome this by instructing Debrief to filter-to-time-period (see Section 4.2.8, "Manipulating according to time period") from the time controller (Section 4.2.1, "The Time Controller") for the plot-lock period, thus viewing a much smaller data-set in the time-variable plot. Additionally, you can zoom in on a particular area (by dragging an area downward and to the right) of the time-variable plot for detailed analysis, dragging the mouse up and to the left to clear the zoom.
Note the four modes of drag supported by the bearing error view. For the non-translate operations you are still able to perform a translate by picking up the track segment at its mid-way mark.
You must have a secondary track on the Tote, but only one secondary track. This must also be a vehicle track.
The primary track must have sensor data (see Chapter 11, Analysing sensor data).


ISTM 671. Organizational Culture and Team Building. 3 Hours.
Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Provides students an understanding of the impact information technology has made in defining an organization's culture and the processes that are used to support operational and strategic decision making. Groupware tools are used to simulate how organizations use computer-based collaboration software for sharing information, ideas and knowledge designed for improved productivity and decision making in order to enhance the organization's competitiveness strategically. Topics include: organizational culture and team building in the age of new business models, virtual work environments, privacy, telecommuting, monitoring Internet access and content, and communication etiquette, electronic teleconferencing, video, data and web conferencing.
ISTM 672. Information Systems Management. 3 Hours.
Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Examines the information requirements of an organization. The difference in the kinds of information needed at operational, administrative, strategic and organizational levels are emphasized. Planning and implementing a comprehensive information system and methods to measure its effectiveness are discussed. Topics include Capability Maturity Models, managerial support systems and information resources planning.
ISTM 673. Analysis and Decisions. 3 Hours.
Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Focuses on the analysis and decisions required for selecting new systems or technology. Specifically, the course covers business requirements analysis, system life-cycle models, Unified Process and other system development methodologies, structural and behavioral system models, CASE tools, decision analysis for vendor and technology selection, feasibility and risk analysis, and implementation and transition management.
ISTM 674. Emerging Technologies. 3 Hours.
Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Designed to identify emerging computer hardware, software and communication/network technologies that impact the design and implementation of new information systems. Topics will address emerging technologies that are changing data storage, modes of information processing and media for dissemination. Managerial challenges and issues, including new and existing technology compatibility, the return on new technology investments, and strategies for assessing and mitigating an organization's risk exposure are examined.
ISTM 675. IS Planning and Project Management. 3 Hours.
Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Provides a basic framework for understanding IT project management, building on the skills needed to manage projects of all sizes. Topics include the project life cycle, project team, project selection, project organization, project planning, negotiation and conflict resolution, and resource management. The responsibility and authority of a program manager and the integration of program functions in a complex organizational structure will be addressed. Through a combination of simulation activities with formal presentations and experiential learning, the following concepts will be addressed: definition of budgets, allocation of resources, consideration of ROI, earned value, management consideration of metrics accumulation and assessment, and control of scope creep.
ISTM 676. Information Systems Assurance and Security Management. 3 Hours.
Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Provides a fresh look at managing and protecting the information resources of a firm. While identifying issues, concerns and problems, the course takes students through various tools and techniques that are useful in interpreting information systems security concerns in organizations. In a final synthesis, principles and models are presented that help in proactively managing IS security.
ISTM 677. Structuring Information for Decision Making. 3 Hours.
Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Presents an overview of information systems methods that are used to structure information for decision making. Following a review of the basics of data management, the course examines various database management systems. The course then continues with an investigation of data warehousing, data mining, XML, knowledge management and business intelligence. Students successfully completing the course will understand the range of potential data management options used to present information for decision making and their various strengths and weaknesses.
ISTM 678. IS in the Digital Economy. 3 Hours.
Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Expounds on the innovative nature of the confluence of the Web and business. The notion of disruptive technologies is introduced and discussed. Further, the means by which the relative success and failure of IS in the digital economy can be assessed/measured are deliberated. A number of emergent issues related to the digital economy (viz. eTrust, eCRM, social responsibility, etc.) are discussed.
ISTM 679. Enterprise Information Systems. 3 Hours.
Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Over the past decade, organizations have been relying more and more on enterprise-wide deployment of software applications (ERP) to solve their integration problems. This course begins by describing the true size and magnitude of the enterprise integration challenge, then it examines the general form of problem solution offered by these ERP packages. Since implementation of ERPs continues to be a major challenge, the course fully examines both the track record and successful approaches to enterprise information systems implementation. Finally, new developments in this area are explored.
ISTM 691. Topics in IT Management. 3 Hours.
Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Study of current topics. Topics may vary from semester to semester.


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The carrier-borne Fairey Gannet, designed for anti-submarine duty, made its first flight in 1949 and was the first aircraft in the world to fly with a coupled jet turbine power unit with contra-rotating propellers. It was also the first turbo-prop aircraft that could land on an aircraft carrier and the first aircraft of the British Fleet Air Arm capable of both combat and search operations.
The Gannet AS went into service with the FAA in January 1955 and was stationed on aircraft carriers. In 1958 the newly formed Federal German Navy received 15 of the more powerful Gannet AS4s that were equipped with a 3,035 shp engine.
Newly tooled kit.
Surface details with recessed panel lines.
Detailed cockpit with instrument panel, side consoles and seats.
Weapons bay optionally open.
Separate ailerons.
Separate flaps.
Detailed landing gear.
Markings are included for the following aircraft:
Fairey Gannet AS Mk.4, Bundesmarine, 2/MFG.3, Schleswig, 1965.
Fairey Gannet AS Mk.4, Bundesmarine, MFG.2, Nordholz, 1965/66.
Fairey Gannet AS Mk.1, No.815 Naval Air Squadron, Fleet Air Arm, HMS Ark Royal, 1956.


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Andrew's interests have always been in the areas of teaching, directing & choreography. After dancing professionally for 14 years, Loyce Houlton encouraged Andrew to become Avocational Director of the Minnesota Dance Theater school (1986-87). In 1987 Andrew and his wife Cheryl co-founded the Classical Ballet Academy of Minnesota and in 1990 they co-founded Ballet Minnesota, of which Andrew became artistic director. Under his direction, Ballet Minnesota has developed a strong season which includes Fall Concert, annual Nutcracker, The Youth Concert Series, The Minnesota Dance Festival (which features the restaging of a classical ballet each year) and the River Songs Summer Series. As a choreographer, Andrew prefers working with original scores. He has created works in collaboration with Robert E Hindel, Charlie Maguire (National Park Service "Singing Ranger") and the rock group Mock Duck. His choreographic works include "Pachelbel", "At the Museum", "Nutcracker", "Italian Symphony" and in 2006 "Black Dog Cafe". "Beethoven's 9th Symphony", choreographed in 2008, received standing ovations to a sold out opening run. Andrew teaches in the school. He has been nominated and included in three editions of 'Who's Who Among American Teachers.' Only 5% of the nation's teachers are honored in each edition and less than 2% are included in more than one edition.
Cheryl Rist, Andrew's wife, has designed all the costumes for every work he has choreographed. Most of his works are deeply dependent upon the costume design, which will be quite obvious when you view the photo galleries in the Legacy portion of the site.
Andrew & Cheryl have 2 children – Heather and Richard. The newest addition to the Rist family is their granddaughter, Chloe, daughter of Richard and Becky.
In January 2010, Andrew's first book was published "At The Museum: Adventures of the Ballerina Girls"


Warwick senior Shannon Allan is often the center of attention for opposing teams when the Wildcats take the floor, but the versatile 6-footer can play anywhere on the court.
Allan, who is averaging 22.3 points per game this season, also can contribute to her team's scoring in many ways. She made 16-of-18 free throws en route to 24 total points in a 51-35 victory Tuesday against John S. Burke Catholic High School, earning Athlete of the Week honors from Varsity845.
"She went to the basket strong and it paid off at the foul line," said Warwick head coach Jim O'Brien. "We want to get her the ball in isolated opportunities."
A first-team Varsity845 all-star last season, Allan averaged 17 points, 11.5 rebounds, 4.0 assists, 2.5 steals and 1.5 blocks a game. She can play any position on the floor from guard to center and is nearing the 1,000-point mark for her career. The New York state sportswriters named Allan, who is currently in her fifth season on the varsity level, to the All-State Class AA 10th team in 2010.
"She has guard skills and she's tall," O'Brien said of her versatility. "She's naturally more of a guard, but physically, in Orange County, she is the height of a forward or a center. It was something that evolved naturally, not something we really forced."
Warwick (3-1, 1-0 OCIAA Division II) is considered by many to be the favorite in the Section 9 Class AA title race, with Kingston and Minisink Valley having lost significant players to graduation. Kingston's Rachel Coffey is now at Syracuse and Minisink's Stefanie Dolson is the starting center at UConn.
Being top dog is a new thrill for the Warwick program, which posted a 9-31 record over two seasons between the fall of 2005 and the spring of 2007, often losing by 20 points or more. Warwick was tied for No. 25 in the initial state sportswriters' Class AA rankings this season.
In the high school offseason, Allan stays sharp by playing with the Albany Capitals AAU squad, which also has increased her exposure as a potential Division I basketball player.
Warwick hosts Tuxedo, Nanuet and Livingston Manor in a holiday tournament this Tuesday and Wednesday. The championship game is set for 5:45 p.m. Wednesday.
A standout striker in soccer, Allan was named a first team Varsity845 all-star in the fall of 2009, having helped lead Warwick to a 16-0 record in the regular season.
Allan's older sister, Bridget, herself a former Warwick basketball player, now attends Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. Her younger brother, Brian, is a Warwick sophomore.


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Q: Implementation selection in Java sales class scenario Sales application scenario:
This application provides discounts to the customer based on various strategies:
For example :
customer total purchase amount is > 10000  -  discount calculation following Rule1

customer is a senior citizen - discount calculation following Rule2

customer is purchasing on Tuesday - discount calculation following Rule3

customer is purchasing on 1st of everymonth- discount calculation following Rule4

customer is purchasing on a  specific day (admin can provide this offer)- discount calculation following RuleX

If a senior citizen  is purchasing on Tuesday with an amount greater than 10000 , then ideally he should
to get best eligible discount from the above scenarios.What is the design pattern we can use to address this?
Is it possible to use strategy pattern here? (here we need to use multiple RULE based calculation to decide which
one should be best for the user, but strategy support singleImplementation(diccount calculation) selection at runtime)

A: Do you need a design pattern for this ? As far as I'm concerned, I would simply test the eligibility of the customer to all offers and compare the discount of all offers that passed the test.
Some offers may be always more interesting than others, if that's the case you could test them prior to the others to save you some tests if the customer is eligible to a such offer.

A: There's no need for a design pattern at all.
What you need is a flow diagram, which covers all your different cases. Finally you have to implement those flow cases.

FYI:
A strategy pattern can be applied, if you need different implementation for a specific abstract type. For an example have a look at the concrete implementations of java.util.List which are implemented as a strategy pattern.
The reason why you should not use a strategy pattern for your scenario is that you will never hava a finite number of different implementation in your sales application. Soon or later, this will end up with a unmaintainable strategy monster!

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Boeing Statement Relating to Recently Released Nov. 15, 2016 Instant Message
CHICAGO, October 20, 2019—We understand and regret the concern caused by the release Friday of a Nov. 15, 2016 instant message involving a former Boeing employee, Mark Forkner, a technical pilot involved in the development of training and manuals. And we especially regret the difficulties that the release of this document has presented for the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and other regulators.
It is unfortunate that this document, which was provided early this year to government investigators, could not be released in a manner that would have allowed for meaningful explanation. While we have not been able to speak to Mr. Forkner directly about his understanding of the document, he has stated through his attorney that his comments reflected a reaction to a simulator program that was not functioning properly, and that was still undergoing testing. We are continuing to investigate the circumstances of this exchange, and are committed to identifying all the available facts relating to it, and to sharing those facts with the appropriate investigating and regulatory authorities.
Boeing engaged in an extensive process with the FAA to determine pilot training requirements for the 737 MAX 8. This process was a complex, multiyear effort that involved a large number of individuals at both Boeing and the FAA. This effort itself was just a part of a much larger regulatory process for the design, development and certification of the 737 MAX 8.
In that regulatory process, Boeing informed the FAA about the expansion of the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) to low speeds, including by briefing the FAA and international regulators on multiple occasions about MCAS's final configuration. The process also included evaluation of MCAS in low-speed configurations for both training and certification. The simulator software used during the Nov. 15 session was still undergoing testing and qualification and had not been finalized, but it, too, provided for MCAS operation at low speed. Separately, a low-speed version of MCAS was installed on the airplanes used for training-related flight testing that the FAA administered in August 2016. And FAA personnel also observed the operation of MCAS in its low-speed configuration during certification flight testing, beginning in August 2016 and continuing through January 2017.
We understand entirely the scrutiny this matter is receiving, and are committed to working with investigative authorities and the U.S. Congress as they continue their investigations.
We are deeply saddened and have been humbled by these accidents, and are fully committed to learning from them. We have developed improvements to the 737 MAX that will ensure that accidents like these can never happen again, and are committed to continuing to work closely with the FAA and global regulators to ensure the MAX's safe return to service.


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Wing's delivery drones take flight for the first time in Virginia
28October19
The Google offshoot says it's the first commercial drone service in the US
Wing's drone delivery service is now live in Virginia. The Alphabet subsidiary is now delivering snacks and health care products to residents of Christiansburg, Virginia, after receiving approval from the government and teaming up with major players like FedEx and Walgreens. Wing says it's the first commercial drone delivery service in the US.
Earlier this year, Wing became one of the first drone operators to be certified as a commercial air carrier by the Federal Aviation Administration, allowing it to deliver goods to people who may live miles away and not in the drone operator's line of sight.
A video posted by Wing shows an elderly couple and a family with young children using their smartphones to select items for delivery. The video then cuts to a worker placing the items in a cardboard box that looks like an oversized Happy Meal. The box is then attached to a yellow clip dangling in thin air; the camera pulls back and we see the box being retracted upward toward a hovering drone.
The drone flies across town, and eventually deposits the boxes in the yards of the waiting customers. The elderly couple get their yarn and bandages, while the family gets its snacks. A young boy points to the sky in what is surely an unprompted goodbye to the departing drone.
The company says it hopes to replace deliveries that are typically made by car or truck in order to reduce the number of vehicles on the road. It also bills itself as a delivery service for people with limited mobility options. Wing promises deliveries within "minutes" of the orders being placed to customers who live in Christiansburg's "designated delivery zones." And there are no extra fees for the deliveries, a spokesperson said.
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