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October 8, 2006 No comments MJ NEWS
Raymone Bain: Keeper of the Famed
[i]By Teresa Wiltz Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, October 8, 2006; Page D01[/i] [b]A Veteran Player in Politics, Sports and Entertainment, Publicist Raymone Bain Is at the Top of Her Game. Is She Up to Managing Michael Jackson?[/b] Michael Jackson is going to call — from wherever he happens to be at the moment, which is a bit of a mystery. He's going to talk about Raymone Bain, the Washington publicist who has just become his general manager. But no . . . he's not going to call. A personal assistant delivers this news on a patched-in transcontinental phone line. Jackson would rather converse through a different type of technological apparatus — one that doesn't require actually speaking. Jackson wants to talk by fax. But no . . . the fax machine is broken. So two days later, Jackson's assistant e-mails his answers to questions posed to him by The Washington Post. Questions about why he's decided to put Bain — a woman who'd been mysteriously fired and then rehired in the midst of Jackson's 2005 child abuse trial– in charge of his new company. "I was impressed by her professionalism, her strategic thinking, and honesty," the e-mail reads. "I watched from afar the work she had done for other clients, for example how she ushered her clients to new levels, she helped diversify their interests from politics, to charitable events, to the world of fashion. One could not pick up a newspaper or magazine that did not feature Babyface, Boyz II Men or Serena Williams . . ." Uncannily, this sounds exactly like a press release from Raymone Bain. That's how good she is. * * * Bain, she of the micro-minis and the waist-length weave, knows how to spin a crisis, whether that crisis is Jackson's trial or Marion Barry's unfortunate encounter with a surveillance tape or Mike Tyson's staggering bankruptcy. She's a master of the care and coddling of famous folk, especially those who happen to find themselves in exceedingly hot water. She's flashy of dress, but surprisingly reticent about herself. ("Why would anyone want to do a story about me? I'm so boring. All I do is work.") She insists she's not a public figure, and yet the camera always seems to find her, walking the red carpet in Tokyo with Jackson — "my boss" — or escorting him into the courtroom during his trial. She is, after all, a professional who has made a career out of managing perceptions, zealously guarding both her clients' images and her own, a political junkie who got her start toiling in Jimmy Carter's White House, a Georgetown law school grad who never practiced law. She's a small-town girl who has represented some of the most glittering names in African American entertainment and sports: Muhammad Ali. Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. Tyson. Boyz II Men. Serena Williams. Deion Sanders. Janet Jackson . . . Like Condoleezza Rice, Bain is a product of the South's black middle class, a boomer raised on ballet and the Bible at a time when comportment, education and manners were used as weapons to blunt the effects of Jim Crow living. She is poised and manicured — "prissy," according to her friends — measuring her words with soft-spoken formality. Then again, she's not above picking up the phone to administer a verbal beatdown. "Any time there was major press, she was hands-on," says Babyface, a 10-time Grammy Award winner. "You feel like you have your sister working for you. Nothing was going to go by, nothing negative was going to be said about you without her coming at [the person who said it] hard. And I mean hard ." Last year, Bain, 52, went from being the force behind the scenes to the glammed-up face in front of the camera, serving as Jackson's spokeswoman during his trial. She strove mightily to paint a picture of normality for her notoriously eccentric client: "He's pretty strong. He's relying on his faith in God and his faith in the judicial system." After Jackson infamously showed up one day in pajama bottoms, she told Katie Couric: "He's embarrassed, having had to wear his pajamas in court, but under the circumstances, I would have . . . done the same."
MJEOL Note:Well, that's not all she said. She explained that Jackson had gone to the hospital earlier that morning and was ordered by Mesereau to high-tail it to the courthouse or else risk having his bail revoked by the judge and thrown in jail. But, of course, that isn't important to the media when it's more fun to make a joke about Jackson in pajamas.
But not long after, Bain was summarily dismissed on the Jackson Web site with a terse, "MJJ Productions regretfully announces the termination of Raymone Bain and Davis, Bain & Associates. We thank you for your services." But within days, with no real explanation of what happened, she was back on the job. This summer, in a major overhaul of a troubled entertainment dynasty, Jackson tapped Bain to helm his ship, naming her general manager and chief operating office of the Michael Jackson Co. Inc. Is she up to the task? "She's almost like a Columbo," says Cathy Hughes, Radio One founder and chairman, a longtime business associate. "She comes off like she's seeking your advice; there's a naivete about her that makes you comfortable. It's a facade, a veneer. She's probably one of the smartest, shrewdest people I've ever seen." [b]The Pull of Public Service[/b] Trying to set up an interview with Bain is an exercise in persistence. She demurs and deflects: Now's not a good time. There's nothing to write about. Maybe a few months down the line . . . She makes a phone call up a reporter's chain of command to plead her case. Finally she relents. And then e-mails a list of friends, clients, colleagues and pastors for The Washington Post to call — and requests the reporter's schedule so she can set up the interviews. This is a woman accustomed to being in control. In person, Bain is all warm smile and firm handshake, offering up tea and Krispy Kreme doughnuts. She's a curvy woman, dressed for business in a fitted navy blazer and designer denim, pebble-size diamonds studs and silver hoops crowding her ears. Her platinum micro-braids are raked back in a ponytail, while a large, diamond-studded cross dangles from her neck. It's hard to reconcile the modern-day glamazon with pictures of the fresh-faced, fluffy-haired young woman in the decades-old pictures in the library. When she was first starting out, remembers longtime friend and businesswoman Cora Masters Barry, Bain was "naive," a "golden girl" unaccustomed to the cutthroat shenanigans of the sports and entertainment arenas. Still, Masters Barry says, in time, "she did more than adapt," even going so far as to stock her closet with two wardrobes: a relatively conservative one for her political life and a blinged-out one for the entertainment folks. "She became very successful," Masters Barry says. "I used to describe her as the steel under the velvet." Bain usually rises at 3 a.m. to take calls from Jackson, who, after hopping all over the globe, is now living in Ireland. Bain used to keep offices on 30th Street NW, but she figured that if she's going to work until the wee hours, it's better to do so from the comfort of her Georgetown split-level. Her house, like Bain herself, feels formal, as if the real living is done somewhere else: subdued neutrals, an abundance of silk flowers, framed lithographs of iconic African American art. An electronic baby grand — she studied piano as a kid — stakes out a corner of the living room. Past a staircase trimmed with faux holly are framed platinum and gold records, a legacy of her work with R&B stars. In the library are pictures of Bain with Oprah Winfrey, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Babyface, Jackson. Downstairs there is precious little adornment, save for a glass wall overlooking the back yard. In one corner, piles of letters and packages, all from Jackson fans, are stacked, ready to be shipped to him. Two men work at a large folding table. A pair of women who look eerily like Bain — deep brown skin, extravagant manes of honey blond hair, jeweled crosses and French manicures — work the phones, as does another woman, who, with her silvery hair and sweatshirt, clearly isn't adhering to the uniform. Wandering about, sniffing at ankles, is Mikey, a Yorkie with a baby-blue ribbon in his hair. He is Bain's constant companion, her baby, his name dropped into e-mails with a casual "Mikey says hello." For the interview, she settles into a chair in the library upstairs, wagging a stern finger at Mikey, who begs to be let up onto her lap. William Marshall, one of the men from downstairs, enters the room, armed with a legal pad and pen. He plops down on the couch next to a reporter. And proceeds to take notes. "He's my media guy," Bain explains. Control is a word that crops up frequently in her conversations, as she recounts the days of the Jackson trial and her 12 years as an agent for boxers such as Hector Camacho and Thomas "Hitman" Hearns. She never planned on making public relations a career, she says; it just sort of happened. She thought she'd be a criminal trial attorney, maybe even run for political office. Then she figured she could make a bigger impact being the woman behind the curtain. "As I got older, I realized you can effectuate change in so many ways," she says. Effecting change was something that was instilled in her early. Her father, an insurance executive, died of a heart ailment when she was 6. Her mother never remarried. Her grandfather filled in, cocooning her in an atmosphere of love and discipline in their Augusta, Ga., home. ("He used to say, 'You have a lot of book sense; I can't wait until you get some common sense.' ") Between Brownies and dance lessons, between bowling and Catholic school, she was taught that to whom much is given, much is expected. The civil rights movement was in full sway, and it was hard to ignore its pull: the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Andrew Young, Bobby Hill, Julian Bond, Jesse Jackson . . . "Back then," she recalls, "people really stood for something." She majored in political science at Spelman College in Atlanta, signing up for Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign her junior year, thanks to a professor who introduced her to Carter and told her that the campaign trail was the best classroom. So Bain hit the road, studying between debates and news conferences and recruiting celebrities to endorse Carter. After graduation in 1976, she began work as a special assistant in the Office of Management and Budget. Even then, politics and entertainment worked hand-in-hand. Together with Martin Luther King III, a young Bain organized voter registration drives at Earth, Wind & Fire concerts. It was an exciting time for those who fit W.E.B. DuBois's criteria of the Talented Tenth, a time when, if you were young, gifted and African American, the possibilities seemed endless. The worlds of black business, politics, sports and entertainment were often linked, and for someone like Bain, unafraid of burning candles at both ends, it was easy to flit between them. "That was before many of us grew our hair long and could wear designer clothes," remembers Democratic operative Donna Brazile, who met Bain when the two were lobbying to make King's birthday a national holiday. "We had a passion for public service, a commitment to civil rights. We were young; we were vocal. And we were restless in a way." Jesse Jackson remembers her as "young and bright and ambitious." She went to law school at night, finishing in December 1983. Instead of taking the bar, she accepted an offer to represent Hector "Macho" Camacho in a contract dispute with boxing promoter Don King, he of the outlandish do and the famous temper. It turned out to be a momentous decision. She says she never looked back on her would-be law career. Before her first meeting with King, she got some pointed coaching: "I told her that basically, there was going to be an awful lot of drama," says Masters Barry, who was then serving on the boxing commission. As Bain recounts it, there was drama aplenty. There she was, the only woman in the room, trying to get King to pay up, surrounded by his minions, who didn't take kindly to a woman telling them what to do. "They yelled, they screamed, they threw a pitcher of water in my face," she says, with just a hint of relish at the memory. "Don King was . . . trying to intimidate me." Her legs were shaking, she says, but she walked out with Camacho's check. For the next 12 years, she represented boxers in various ancillary capacities: Ali. Hearns. Hagler. Olijade. In the '80s, women were an anomaly in boxing management. Radio One's Hughes, a big boxing fan, remembers that Bain was "inconsistent with what I'd imagined a woman manager of a boxer to be like. She was wearing a waist-length weave, she had all these braids all the way to her waist, a light-colored suit. I said, are you sure that's not the girlfriend rather than the manager?" Boxing taught Bain to fight — even if that meant scrapping with her own clients, like "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler, whom she sued for $9.9 million for breach of contract. (The case was settled in 1990 and both are bound by a gag order.) "Boxing prepared me," she says. "I'm not intimidated. When you're cursed at, screamed at . . . That builds your resolve. I've got a strong spiritual resolve. No matter what happens, whether it's good or bad, God is ordering my steps." [b]Tough but Tender[/b] One bad thing involved her defaulting on her law school loans to the tune of $67,000, including penalties and interest, for which she was sued by the U.S. government in 1999. She fields questions about this patiently, giving Marshall pointed looks as he scribbles notes. (She says she paid the loans off through a third party who claimed to be representing the government in 1988, and after 10 years, had thrown away all the records and canceled checks. Because of this, she says, she decided to settle with the government and is still paying off the loan.) She bristles when asked for comment on how some reporters during the Jackson trial found her frustrating to work with. That afternoon, she e-mails a list of about 20 journalists for The Post to interview, including Katie Couric and Larry King. Later, she calls to back out of the story. "I'm not interested in participating in a hatchet job of me," she says. She describes how The Post should approach her profile: Talk about how she "inspires" people with her risk-taking in business, about her transition from publicist to business manager. Three days later, she's standing at the door, holding out her arms for an embrace. "I'm sorry I was so difficult," she says. Friends and colleagues talk about her toughness and her loyalty in the same breath. Says comedy promoter Walter Latham, who worked with Bain during the "Kings of Comedy" tours and documentary, "There's constantly conflict. I've yelled at her, she's yelled at me . . . But at the end of the day, we've never lost respect for each other." They describe a woman who'll do anything for her friends, whether packing a carload of clothes after Katrina for Brazile's family in New Orleans or going to the hospital every day, always bringing food, when Masters Barry suffered a long illness in the '80s. But they also describe a woman who remains single and childless, a woman so focused on work that she often has to be dragged out to play, a workaholic who drops everything to be with her mother. "I always tell her, 'Raymone, do you even look at a guy?' " says Jamie Foster Brown, publisher of the entertainment magazine Sister 2 Sister. "But she doesn't think about it." Instead, Foster Brown says, she's constantly networking. Early on, Bain told her that they needed to get behind "this governor from Arkansas." Soon, Foster Brown says, Bain was helping Clinton out on the campaign trail, getting football players and comedians to endorse him. She successfully wooed Babyface as a client some 15 years ago, memorizing his lyrics, showing up at events where she knew he would be. Soon, Bain convinced the press-shy singer-songwriter to get involved in political causes. In time, Babyface was attending Clinton fundraisers and spending the night at the White House, uniting Bain's two great loves: politics and pop culture. "She likes to win," Foster Brown says. "She likes the smell of the hunt." [b]Trouble Is Her Specialty[/b] Bain says she's not attracted to people in trouble, it's just that "sometimes when I start working for them, unfortunately things happen." Nevertheless, her six-page bio declares that "Crisis Management and Damage Control are specialty areas of expertise for Ms. Bain." She and Marion Barry had never worked together when he was arrested for smoking crack in 1990. But she came to his house, he says, and sat with him. Comforted him. Prayed with him. Advised him on how to handle "a very dramatic situation for me, and the family and the city, too." Just what Bain advised him to do on that day back in 1990, Barry won't say. "That's very personal," he says, "not intended to be put in the public domain." But he will say this: Throughout the years, through "all the controversy, she was always cool and calm. Whatever spin that we tried to put on it, that is what she did." After all, he says, with a bit of a chuckle, "every story has two or three sides to it. That's what Tony Snow does with Bush." The day Barry entered prison in 1991, Bain signed on as his spokeswoman. "I told her she was crazy," Hughes says with a laugh. "I was like, 'Are you out of your mind, why would you take him on as a client? It's not like it's alleged. It's on video , girl.' "She said he was really a brilliant man who loves this community and she felt an obligation to help him. She said, 'He has a terrible weakness and made a terrible mistake.' " And Bain stayed with Barry, serving as his press secretary during his 1994 mayoral campaign and, following his reelection, as his press secretary at City Hall — all the while continuing to run her own public relations business. For friends and clients both, she's a fierce mama lion protecting her cubs. "She's the kind of person who will back you up if you fall down, and get in someone's face if you're in a fight," Donna Brazile says. Her biggest challenge thus far: managing Michael Jackson. She came on board at a time when he was ensconced in Neverland, awaiting trial on child molestation charges, surrounded by members of the Nation of Islam. She was the latest in a long line of Jackson managers, crisis handlers and official spokespeople. Says one former Jackson adviser who asked not to be identified for professional reasons, "Someone becomes close to Jackson and becomes his end all and be all, and then it's just a matter of time before they're moved out. . . You're not dealing with a stable individual." The trial shoved Bain in front of the klieg lights, responsible for rehabilitating Jackson's image and managing the requests of 3,000 news outlets during a chaotic time. Besides the pajama incident, Jackson shopped Wal-Mart in a ski mask right before the trial. Then there was the circus outside the courtroom: the fans, the protesters, the people jockeying to make a buck. "It was like Jesus at the temple," Bain says, "total chaos and confusion. It was infuriating me. This man's life was on the line." Journalists covering the trial accused her of lying to them, including FoxTV.com columnist Roger Friedman, who blasted her for "misleading statements" about Neverland remaining open during the trial. Now, Friedman says, "I think she came in to Michael's situation without the necessary knowledge or tools. Because Michael lies to everybody. . . . At a time I might have been criticizing Raymone for disseminating misleading information, she might have been getting bad information from Michael."
MJEOL NOTE: This comment is rather hilarious coming from fox's Roger Friedman. Friedman himself has spread any number of lies and half-truths about Jackson. He also has, some way, been used to push the agendas for everyone from mythical and/or mysterious "unnamed sources", to Raymond Chandler.
To this day, Bain says she doesn't know who fired her during the trial. She got a call from a reporter asking if she'd been fired. An hour and a half later, someone slipped a letter under her hotel door confirming it, and that's all she knows. Still, she has her suspicions. Was it Randy Jackson, as has been widely speculated? (Through a family representative, the other members of the Jackson family declined to be interviewed for this article.) "No one will step up to the plate and acknowledge" who wrote the letter, she says. No matter, she says, Michael Jackson himself called to tell her the verdict was in and to ask where she was, saying he needed her by his side. She was happy to comply. Now, she's trying to consolidate the 21 old businesses that make up the new company, coordinating the many lawsuits Jackson faces, including breach of contract suits brought by his former managers and a custody suit brought by his former wife, Debbie Rowe, which was settled last week. She's putting out fires in the press: No, Jackson won't be opening a leprechaun theme park in Ireland. And trying to resuscitate the singing career of a man once considered the world's greatest entertainer, a man who is at least $270 million in debt. (Bain declines to discuss how much she is getting paid by Jackson.)
MJEOL NOTE: Be very wary when people in the media start to talk about how much money they think is in Jackson's pockets. As for the claim of "once considered the world's greatest entertainer", that is a classic throw in from those who try to diminish Jackson's importance.
She says that Jackson has been writing music since the trial and will be heading back to the studio in a few days, where he'll be working with some of the hottest producers in the industry–Babyface, Will.I.Am, Rodney Jerkins and Sean Garrett. "Michael Jackson is a good man," Bain says. "He's very brilliant, very sensitive. And it's unfortunate what's happened to him over the years. But he's going to take care of it. "We're going to take care of it." Staff researcher Karl Evanzz contributed to this report. [url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/07/AR2006100700991.html]Washington Post[/url] Source: Gail Felix/PV4MJJ
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Anxious On Election Night? Join Mo Willems For A 'Democracy Doodle'
By Elizabeth Blair
Published November 2, 2020 at 9:00 AM MST
Artist Mo Willems is leading a doodle session on election night for children and adults. On the Kennedy Center's website, he will encourage self-expression for anyone who tunes in.
Don't underestimate the power of doodling. In a democracy, Mo Willems says, "voting is a lot like doodling. It's a form of self-expression, and you discover sort of who you really are as you do it." On Election Day (7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT) on the Kennedy Center's website, Willems will encourage self-expression for anyone who tunes in to Democracy Doodle 2020, regardless of age or political persuasion.
Willems says they'll do three drawing exercises, each accompanied by a different musician from the National Symphony Orchestra. As the Kennedy Center's education artist-in-residence, Willems has been encouraging kids to take regular doodle breaks since the early days of the pandemic.
In a video series called Lunch Doodles With Mo Willems!, he held guided drawing sessions from his studio. He sits at a table, pulls out a blank sheet of paper, selects a marker and starts doodling, encouraging children at home to do the same.
With his oddball sense of humor, Willems calmly answers kids' questions and talks about his career as an animator and writer for Sesame Street and creating The Pigeonand Elephant & Piggiebooks. Lunch Doodles has been so popular, Willems followed it up with similar series: Thank You Thursdays, The Yo-Yo Mo Show with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and, most recently, The Small Works Project.
"I tend to think of my books as questions I don't know the answers to and these videos are sort of me reflecting," Willems said in an interview. "I'm going to be anxious on Nov. 3. And I know that they're going to be a lot of families and kids learning new vocabulary words, while parents are yelling at the screens. And I thought, you know, 'I could use a break, and if I could use a break, then maybe other people could as well.' "
Willems says he's prepared three "really simple exercises for us all to do together and to share while we listen to this music being performed." The National Symphony Orchestra musicians — Mahoko Eguchi (viola), Abel Pereira (horn) and Jamie Roberts (oboe) — have each selected a piece of "music to doodle to." The pieces aren't necessarily traditional patriotic music intended to celebrate democracy.
For Willems, "Any time we express ourselves, that's a form of patriotism." Just like voting.
Willems hopes the 20-minute, election night doodle session will be cathartic for everyone, himself included. He says, like so many others, he's "muddling through these years, these months. I'm doing my best." But he adds, "My battery is running at 20%."
Elizabeth Blair
Elizabeth Blair is a Peabody Award-winning senior producer/reporter on the Arts Desk of NPR News.
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Q: Calculate variance of product of random variables
Correct Answer: 44.64
My work:
Using fact that they are independent,
$Var(XZ) = E[X^2Z^2]-E[XZ]^2 = E[X^2]E[Z^2]-E[X]^2E[Z]^2$, so I just have to find first and second raw moment and plug in.
X ~exp($\lambda = 1/8)$, so $E[X] = 1/8, E[X]^2 = Var(X) + E[X]^2 = \frac{1}{\lambda^2} + (\frac{1}{\lambda})^2 = 8^2 + 8^2 = 128$.
For Z, I am not sure. I did $E[Z] = (1)(0.45) + (0.55)(\int_{0}^{1}zdz)$, and likewise for second moment. I get 47 as answer, which is off from correct answer of 44. Is that correct integrals for Z?

A: Given the claimed answer of $44.64$, I surmise that the intended distribution for $Z$ is $\operatorname{Bernoulli}(p = 0.45)$ with mass function $$\Pr[Z = z] = \begin{cases} 0.45, & z = 1 \\ 0.55, & \color{red}{z = 0}. \end{cases}$$  The calculation proceeds as follows via the law of total variance:
$$\begin{align*}
\operatorname{Var}[ZX] &= \operatorname{E}[\operatorname{Var}[ZX \mid Z]] + \operatorname{Var}[\operatorname{E}[ZX \mid Z]] \\
&= \operatorname{E}[Z^2 \operatorname{Var}[X]] + \operatorname{Var}[Z \operatorname{E}[X]] \\
&= \operatorname{E}[Z^2]\operatorname{Var}[X] + \operatorname{E}[X]^2 \operatorname{Var}[Z].
\end{align*}$$
Since $X \sim \operatorname{Exponential}(\mu = 8)$, we have $$\operatorname{E}[X] = \mu = 8, \quad \operatorname{Var}[X] = \mu^2 = 64;$$ and we also have $$\operatorname{E}[Z^2] = \operatorname{E}[Z] = p = 0.45, \quad \operatorname{Var}[Z] = p(1-p) = 0.2475.$$  Therefore, $$\operatorname{Var}[ZX] = (0.45)(64) + (8^2)(0.2475) = 44.64.$$  But had the answer not been supplied, it would not have been possible to guess what the question originally intended.

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Q: What is the query to find the percentage of the memory used in mysql database schema? We want to schedule an event if the memory of the mysql schema exceeds 70% of the total size. Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance.

A: Try this query.
select table_schema, sum((data_length+index_length)/1024/1024) AS MB
from information_schema.tables
group by 1;


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C The difference tolerance is lowered. Smaller variations between frames will be highlighted. If the tolerance goes below 0 (any change whatsoever), it wraps around through 255 (all changes ignored).
V The difference tolerance is raised. Color variations between frames must be more significant in order to be will be highlighted. If the tolerance goes above 255 (all changes ignored), it wraps around through 0.
DiffTV highlights the areas of the video image that have changed between each frame. It was originally written as a quick and dirty analytical tool, but it passes the 'fun-to-look-at' test, so it has been included here. The tolerance level (currently the same for all three primary colors, although that can be easily changed) may have to be adjusted according to the relative signal to noise (SNR) ratio of the incoming video stream, especially if used on broadcast channels.


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Thursday Throwdown: Stromboli's tiny bubbles, Hawaiian lava flow update and recovering from Eyjafjallajökull
eklemetti | July 29, 2010
Lots of little pieces of news I've run across ... time to play a little catch up. Stromboli: A volcano after Don Ho's heart. Every once in a while, my RSS feeds will dredge up some articles from years gone by ... and this week there were two New York Times pieces that are a few years old, but interesting nevertheless. The first is about research conducted by Dr. Robert Sohn at WHOI on explosive undersea eruptions. The second is work by Corr and Vaughan about finding subglacial volcanism in Antarctica. Both are interesting reads if you missed them (like I did) the first time around. Yesterday…
Friday Flotsam: Plume images and a restless (?) North Korean volcano
eklemetti | June 18, 2010
This week went fast, didn't it? The Baekdu caldera along the North Korean/Chinese border. The NASA Earth Observatory have been giving us a steady diet of volcanic plumes over the last week, including PNG's Ulawun, Russia's Sarychev Peak (a very faint plume), both an ASTER and Terra image of the summit region at Kliuchevskoi and finally a mix of plume and clouds over PNG's Manam volcano. I wanted to also mention a brief article I ran into on the Changbaishan/Baekdu caldera along the Chinese and North Korean border. Although short on specifics, this article mentions a number of interesting (…
Global Volcanism Program Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for 5/26-6/1/2010
eklemetti | June 3, 2010
The level of news-frenzy on some of the recent volcanic eruptions has died down, but if you're looking to see information on the many rumbling going on worldwide, look no further. Here is this week's Volcanic Activity Report put together by Sally Kuhn Sennert of the Global Volcanism Program. Highlights - not including Pacaya, Yasur, Tungurahua and our friend in Iceland - include: The eruption in the Marianas apparently came from South Sarigan volcano - at least according to the best guess by folks who work in the Marianas. This submarine volcano apparently shows evidence of young lava flows,…
Thursday Throwdown: More volcano news than I can list here
eklemetti | March 24, 2010
I'm still playing catch-up after my week in the desert, so I've seen a lot of articles I've wanted to mention ... but a certain other volcano has taken up a lot of my time. However, I will attempt to make amends for that now. By the way, would you believe Ubehebe Crater was closed? How do they close a volcano, anyway? However, I did get a great snap of a welded tuff on the road outside of Shoshone, CA. A strongly welded tuff near Shoshone, CA. The dark interior is remelted volcanic ash/tephra surrounded by less welded pink tuff with abundant pumice clasts. Denison student David Sisak is on…
2009: The Volcanic Year in Review
eklemetti | December 31, 2009
Here it is, my attempt to recap a year's worth of volcanic events. By no means is this supposed to capture every event, but rather the highlight/lowlights and what most captivated me during 2009. I'll be announcing the winner of the 2009 Pliny for Volcanic Event of the Year tomorrow. Waimangu Geothermal Valley in New Zealand, taken in January 2009 by Erik Klemetti. January The year started out with a trip to New Zealand (well, for me at least) and vistas of the Waimangu Valley, formed in the 1886 eruption of Tarawera on the North Island. We were also still thinking about the late 2008…
SI/USGS Weekly Volcano Report for 12/9-12/16/2009
Before it gets lost in the mists of time/finals, here is the weekly volcano report brought to us by the USGS and the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program. Highlights (not including Mayon, Soufriere Hills or Piton de La Fournaise): Fuego in Guatemala produced ash plumes that reached 4.1-4.7 km / 13,500-15,400 ft along with avalanches of volcaniclastic debris. Also in Guatemala, lava flows erupted from Pacaya, traveling hundreds of meters from the main vent area. Manam in PNG produced an 3 km / 10,000 foot ash plume as part of its renewed activity this year. The lava dome on Nevado del Huila in…
SI/USGS Weekly Volcano Report for 12/2-12/8/2009
A new Weekly Volcano Report from the Smithsonian GVP/USGS ... enjoy! Highlights include: There has been a number of reports of new activity at Llaima in Chile (hat tip to Eruptions reader Manuel Humeres for bringing them to us). Most of the current activity is steam-and-gas plumes along with long-period seismicity, suggesting we could be headed towards a new eruption. Lava flows continue to erupt from Kliuchevskoi in Kamchatka, along with strombolian activity throwing ejecta up to 300 m / ~1000 feet above the crater. Rabaul is busy shaking windows 20 km / 12 miles from the Tavurvur crater,…
Plumes a-poppin'!
eklemetti | December 8, 2009
Maybe I should just apologize right here and now for that title, but dang, I liked it. Anyway, I've seen a lot of plume images cross my browser/inbox over the last day, so I thought I'd post a few of them. Soufriere Hills, Montserrat The renewed activity at Soufriere Hills has produced a bounty of plume images over the last week. The NASA Earth Observatory posted an image of the plume, which sometimes reached as high as 3.7 km / 12,000 feet (if not higher). Eruptions reader Alex Waning sent me some images of the top of the plume at ~3.7 km / 12,000 feet taken from a flight near Montserrat on…
SI/USGS Weekly Volcano Activity Report for 11/25-12/1/2009
We get a new update from the Smithsonian/USGS Global Volcanism Program ... Highlights (not counting Soufriere Hills or Gaua) include: The Weekly Report mentions the mystery eruption/noneruption of Karkar in PNG. Specifically, they report:The report also stated that ash had merged with a thunderstorm cloud and had become unidentifiable. Two ash plumes (11/25, 26) that reached at least 9.1 km / 30,000 feet were reported by the Darwin VAAC ... but as we know, it is far from clear that anything actually happened at Karkar last week. Activity has quieted significantly at Chaiten in Chile, with…
The mysterious non-eruption of Karkar
eklemetti | November 29, 2009
Last week, I reported that Karkar in Papua New Guinea had erupted. This was based on reports from Volcano Live and from the Darwin VAAC that said the volcano had produced at least 1, maybe 2, ~13 km / 45,000 foot ash columns. That is not a trivial ash column - you would think a large eruption was needed to produce such an ash column (and you'd be right). Then, no news. Nothing. I (and other Eruptions readers) scoured the web for more information on this phantom eruption at Karkar. Not a peep on noise about any eruption, let alone an eruption to send ash above 40,000 feet. Recent reports from…
Large eruption at Karkar in Papua New Guinea?
Karkar volcano as seen from space. Eruptions reader The Bobs left a note mentioning that there may have been a 'significant' eruption at Karkar in Papua New Guinea. The only place I can find information is John Seach's Volcano Live: An eruption occurred at Karkar volcano at 6:39 pm on 25th November 2009. The eruption plume reached a height of 45,000 ft. A magnitude 5.1 earthquake hit 90 km SSE of Karkar volcano 7.5 hours before the eruption. I don't know too much about Karkar, but the GVP says that it is a volcanic island made of a pair of calderas, with the inner caldera formed in the last 1…
SI/USGS Weekly Volcano Activity Report for 11/11-11/17/2009
The latest news from the USGS/Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program Weekly Volcano Report ... Highlights (not including Mayon) include: Strombolian eruptions and small pyroclastic falls at Arenal in Costa Rica. 3 km / 10 000 foot ash plume from Bagana on Bougainville Island in Papua New Guinea. Rumbling noises, ~4.5 km / 14 000 foot ash plumes and incandescence were all reported coming from Fuego in Guatemala. Steam-and-ash from Popocatepetl near Mexico City reached 7.4 km / 24 300 feet. Satellite images of Shiveluch revealed a large thermal anomaly - the new lava dome - along with multiple…
From population genetics to linguistics
razib | November 17, 2009
The relationship between language families and historical population genetics has a long history. In the 19th and early 20th centuries anthropologists were wont to substitute and synthesize the connections discerned in linguistic relationships with those of presumed biological affinities. This resulted in great hilarity. Older works sometimes labeled the Finns a "Mongoloid" people because of their Uralic language. But once the physical substrate of genetic inheritance (DNA) was ascertained some correspondences did emerge. The figure to the left is from an L. L. Cavalli-Sforza paper, Genes,…
A pile of new volcano images
eklemetti | October 7, 2009
Sometimes it is hard to keep up with the mountain of remote sensing (or not so remote) images that get released on the internet. Over the last few days, the NASA Earth Observatory has released a bunch of images/videos of current eruptions, so I thought I'd round them all up here for you to peruse. Soufriere Hills releasing puffs of ash-and-steam on October 6, 2009. Image courtesy of the NASA Earth Observatory. Four new images in the recent past: A nice, clear picture of an ash-and-steam plume from Rabaul in PNG was captured by the Terra satellite's MODIS imager on September 30, 2009. The…
SI/USGS Weekly Volcano Activity Report for 9/16-9/22/2009
eklemetti | September 23, 2009
I missed the weekly report last week (sorry), but here is the new USGS/SI volcano activity report. Highlights include: Shiveluch in Kamchatka is still erupting away, producing ~7 km / 20,000 foot ash columns as the lava dome grows. There has also been pyroclastic flows spotted emanating from the new lava dome. There was a report of a ~7.5 km / 25,000 foot ash-and-steam plume from El Reventador in Ecuador. More small plumes and incandescent lava bombs were spotted at the Tavurvur Crater at Rabaul in Papau New Guinea
Newly Discovered Species Time!
bleimanb | September 21, 2009
As you all probably know by now, we here at Zooillogix do not officially consider a species to exist until it is discovered by Western (or at least Western-trained) scientists. Here are some species that now, officially, exist for the first time. The 3-foot long Bosavi woolly rat is "quite a handsome beast," Kristofer Helgen of the National Museum of Natural History, told National Geographic. It can be found around Mount Bosavi in Papua New Guinea. The Kuranda tree frog speaks in a quick tap, leading researchers to name it the "fast talking frog." It lives in the tropical Queensland,…
Friday Flotsam: USGS/SI update and the plume from Rabaul
To the updates! Batu Tara volcano in Indonesia. The volcano is currently producing small ash plumes. I was distracted enough by trying to figure out a way to teach about Miller Indices that I plum forgot to post this week's USGS/SI Weekly Volcanic Activity Report. It was a fairly quiet week so you didn't miss much. Enjoy it at your leisure. Rabaul must be positioned on the globe in such a way that NASA's Aqua satellite always gets a good shot at it. The Earth Observatory posted a new image of the plume from Rabaul and it looks thicker and more ash-laden than the image posted a few weeks ago.…
SI/USGS Weekly Volcano Activity Report for 8/5-11/2009
eklemetti | August 12, 2009
Even the SI/USGS Weekly Volcano Report seems a little light -- welcome to the dog days of summer! Highlights from this week's report include: "Thunderous sounds", incandescence and small plumes (hundreds of meters) with more frequent seismicity at Ibu in Indonesia. A sharp increase in sulfur dioxide output was noted at Mayon in the Philippines on August 4 - from ~700-900 tonnes/day to almost 2,000 tonnes/day. ~3,000 meter/10,000 foot gas-and-ash plume from Bagana in Papua New Guinea - you can see it on this recent NASA Earth Observatory image. Ash/gas plumes from Sakurajima in Japan rose to ~…
Some new NASA Earth Observatory Images
eklemetti | August 6, 2009
In case you don't frequent the NASA Earth Observatory, I thought I'd call your attention to some images they recently posted that are, again, excellent shots of volcanism captured from space. The current plume from Tavurvur Crater at Rabaul was shot by the MODIS imager on Terra in early August. The plume is mostly made of volcanic gases and steam, but minor amounts of ash are also found - and remember, even small concentrations of ash in the air can be hazardous to aircraft. Shiveluch has been having a busy summer, with moderate-to-large plinian eruptions produced by the emplacement (and…
Wednesday Whatzits
Physical Sciences eklemetti | July 8, 2009
Two papers submitted, one to go. Keeps you quite busy, let me tell you. Lava flow from a 2006 eruption on Mayon in the Philippines. A few bits of news today: A few more details about the ongoing watch of Mayon in the Philippines . There have been apparently no changes in the shape of the floor of the crater as you might expect if magma was rising underneath. However, there has been an overall inflation of Mayon since the unrest began a few weeks ago. PHIVOLCS will be checking the sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide output of the volcano soon as well. Lots of articles this week about the "…


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Q: Launching an X application on a remote server works when SSH'd but not as an inline command I have a remote server that I want to launch an X application on. I don't need to see the GUI myself (no x-forwarding), I just need to launch the app.
This works:
$ ssh <remotehost>
$ xapplicationname -params

This does not work:
$ ssh <remotehost> 'xapplicationname -params'
(xapplicationname:12939): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Why?
Inline commands do work for non-X applications, like
$ ssh <remotehost> 'ls -lar'

Ubuntu 17.10, stock configuration


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Google Announces PC Operating System to Compete with Windows
Ryan Singel
Jul 8, 2009 3:02 AM
Google is releasing a lightweight, open-source PC-operating system later this year, the company announced Tuesday night, a move that threatens the very heart of Microsoft, long seen as Google's biggest rival. Chrome OS is intended to be a very lightweight, quick-starting operating system whose central focus is supporting Google's Chrome browser. Applications will run mostly […]
Google is releasing a lightweight, open-source PC-operating system later this year, the company announced Tuesday night, a move that threatens the very heart of Microsoft, long seen as Google's biggest rival.
Chrome OS is intended to be a very lightweight, quick-starting operating system whose central focus is supporting Google's Chrome browser. Applications will run mostly inside the browser, making the web — not the desktop — into the computer's default operating system.
It's a sign that Google truly believes in the age of cloud computing -- where the usefulness of a computer is in its connection to the net where data is stored remotely and information processing happens in a dance between a browser and remote servers.
The Linux-based OS is the second for Google, following on Android, another open-source OS that intended for small devices such as mobile phones. Chrome OS will first be on netbooks -- the popular lightweight and inexpensive notebook computers -- in the second half of 2010, the company said in a blog post. Desktops will come later.
The code itself will be released under an unspecified open-source license at the end of the year.
The announcement included some not so veiled jabs at Microsoft.
People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up. They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them. [...] Even more importantly, they don't want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates.
Google has already laid the ground work for a web OS by revolutionizing webmail with Gmail's speed, features and capacity (now over 7GB). It followed that with free online word processing and spreadsheet software. Add in its online photo sharing services, and the myriad other online applications from Facebook to customized radio station Pandora, and most common uses of a computer can be done through a browser.
With Tuesday's announcement, Google is going after Microsoft's most lucrative and dominant business -- the operating system.
Google is implicitly making the argument that there's no need to pay the premium for a Microsoft OS, when there is lighter, faster and free. And Google is arguing, rather persuasively, that the Web and modern, standards-based browsers like Chrome, Safari, Opera and Firefox are where innovative third-party development is taking place these days.
Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.
More to the point, more web usage equals more money for Google, which basically makes more money the more people use the web — thanks to its dominant ad platform that brought in more than $5 billion in revenue in the first three months of 2009.
Microsoft has been looking forward to the fall release of Windows 7, its successor to the not-well received Vista. Windows 7 beta releases have gotten good reviews. It's a bit more complicated in the enterprise space, where IT departments are slow to migrate to anything, but for the average consumer the question now becomes, why ever pay again for a Microsoft operating system, unless you are a gamer or run custom, legacy software?
If indeed Google puts out a fast, easy to use operating system that lets netbooks soar and free users from constant software patches, Microsoft will find it very hard to explain to consumers why they should continue to use its software, other than just out of a foolish consistency.
Don't be evil, Google's unofficial motto, has long been understood as code for "Don't be Microsoft." Perhaps, it ought now it to be augmented with the commandment, "Leave no Microsoft product unchallenged."
Five Things Google's Chrome OS Will Do for Your Netbook
Google's Open Source Android OS Will Free the Wireless Web
Asus Toys With Google Android For Netbook
Wired 13.12: Who's Afraid of Google? Everyone.
Search Sucks and Microsoft Is (Almost) Here to Help
Google Treads on Microsoft's Turf
Google Apps: Should You Switch?
Livin' la Vida Google: A Month-Long Dive Into Web-Based Apps
via Official Google Blog.
Ryan, a former writer for Wired's Epicenter blog, is the editor of the Threat Level blog.
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Tech Workers Fight for Iran Protesters as Big Tech Plays It Safe
Companies like Google have offered a muted response to unrest in Iran. Grassroots coders are tackling internet censorship on their own.
Paresh Dave
Workers from Google, Meta, and Twitter reveal the brutal ways they got dumped.
ChatGPT Has Investors Drooling—but Can It Bring Home the Bacon?
The loquacious bot has Microsoft ready to sink a reported $10 billion into OpenAI. It's unclear what products can be built on the technology.
The company's founders pioneered putting employees first and said they'd never bow down to Wall Street. How things have changed.
Airlines and Cattle Farmers Have Beef With Google's Climate Math
The company offers estimates of the emissions impacts of flights and recipes. Businesses with sales at stake are pushing back.
Welcome to the Wet Hot AI Chatbot Summer
The next big thing in tech isn't the blockchain or the metaverse—it's a mind-bending wave of algorithmic content machines.
Does Meta's Horizon Workrooms Deliver? Customers Say Yes … and No
Companies trialing the metaverse space say it's kind of fun, but only in small doses.
Jeff Link
How to Spot AI-Generated Art, According to Artists
Creatives disagree about the ethical uses of these tools, but one thing is clear: AI art identification is about to become a whole lot harder.


PathFinder is designed to gather information from diverse databases throughout a telecommuncations company and offers software and engineering intelligence to create value driven views, reports, and suggestions helping traffic engineers manage their network. This functionality centers around three main processes. The first process is gathering data from the different sources. The second is constructing a network simulation from the gathered data. The third major function of PathFinder is to allow network engineers to establish rules for what the network should look like. Finally, the fourth major function compares the constructed network simulation with the established rules for how the network should be routing in order to show a differential between the actual and the ideal.
The optimization module is used to indicate the new PSTN connections needed to reduce long distance and IMT costs and optimizes IMT links to save money and reduce switch ports.
PathFinder allows the user to compare the actual results from the discovered network model and the optimal model established by defining the networks internal routes and connections and PSTN routes and rule sets. Because PathFinder includes the rates for each connection type, each change is accompanied by the estimated cost savings a carrier can expect to obtain through each change. The result is that the traffic engineers can concentrate on the changes that will save the most money. Changes that simply keep the network to standard or simply comply with inter-carrier accords can be implemented when time permits.


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Expeditie Robinson: NL vs BE is een speciaal seizoen tussen de Nederlandse versie en de Belgische versie van Expeditie Robinson. In Nederland is het programma exclusief op het video-on-demanddienst van RTL genaamd Videoland te bekijken, in België wordt het uitgezonden op televisiezender VIER. De presentatie van het programma is in handen van de Nederlandse Geraldine Kemper en de Belg Bartel Van Riet.

In de periode van 2000 tot 2012 produceerden Nederland en België al eerder samen het programma, sindsdien ging Nederland zonder België verder en keerde België in 2018 pas terug met een eigen seizoen.

Expeditieleden
In tegenstelling tot de reguliere versie van Nederland waar sinds het elfde seizoen uit 2010 enkel bekende mensen aan deelnamen, doen er in deze editie weer enkel onbekende deelnemers mee. De kandidaten werden begin januari 2020 bekendgemaakt.

In deze speciale editie deden de volgende kandidaten mee:

De eerste tien kandidaten hebben de samensmelting weten te behalen.

Trivia
De Nederlandse Herman is met 48 jaar de oudste deelnemer van het seizoen en de Belgische Farah met 26 jaar de jongste.
Eerder werd in 2004 ook een kampindeling gemaakt op basis van land van herkomst (Nederland vs. België).

Expeditie Robinson

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THE Angolan government and the opposition National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) have agreed on a date for a "dignified reburial" for former rebel leader Jonas Savimbi who died in battle against government forces on 22 February 2002.
The new development was praised by observers who see it as yet another important milestone in the process of national reconciliation and the definitive healing of the wounds of a brutal civil war that lasted decades and whose negative consequences were felt in neighbouring countries, including Namibia.
Savimbi – who is considered "a villain" by some and "a national hero" by others – was buried without any honours in the eastern Moxico province, but UNITA leaders never ceased to demand a proper burial for their slain leader.
The death of Savimbi in 2002 brought an end to a civil war that caused untold suffering to Namibians living in northern regions, especially the Ohangwena and Kavango East and West regions.
Former Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos steadfastly rejected any suggestions of a Savimbi reburial, but his successor Joao Lourenco appears to have taken a different approach.
Negotiations for the exhumation and reburial of Savimbi's remains started last year. Several meetings were held ever since, culminating with an agreement on 23 January.
According to the Angolan media, the government initially wanted the reburial to be done in December last year, but UNITA preferred June this year. The two sides eventually settled on the 6th of April as the date for the reburial, which will take place at Lopitanga village in the central province of Bie.
Savimbi founded UNITA in 1966 to fight against Portuguese colonialism, but has since 1975 until his death in 2002 waged a war against the MPLA government with which he signed several failed ceasefire agreements.
President Lourenco has given the process of national reconciliation a new impetus.
Last year, he approved the repatriation of the remains of former UNITA commander, general, Arlindo Isaac Pena "Ben Ben", who died in South Africa and was buried in a Zandfontein cemetery near Pretoria in 1998.
General Pena, who at the time of his death was the deputy chief of the Angolan armed forces, was given a state funeral in September last year, which defence minister Salviano Sequeira described as a "deserved honour" and a step towards the consolidation of peace and national reconciliation in Angola.


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Q: Using Jmx Exporter on multiple targets Is it possible to use https://github.com/prometheus/jmx_exporter on multiple targets or i need to run multiple instance of the jmx exporter ?
I'am using run_sample_httpserver.sh script.

A: You have to run one instance per target, as this keeps the responsibility of scheduling and service discovery with Prometheus. It's also recommended to use the java agent.

A: This worked for me you can check once may if of any help, just that it needed multiple config files to be created.Link


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On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate your performance in your most recent position?
Do you feel that you are always the highest performing employee, or do you have room for growth? This question could be a tricky one as nobody shows up 100% at all times. Answer to the best of your ability and back your reply by speaking about your work ethic and how you ensure your performance goes above and beyond expectations.
"I would love to give myself a 10/10 for performance but truthfully - nobody is 100% 'on' all of the time. I will give myself a nine because I always do my best to be as eager and present as possible."
"I value work ethic and the delivery of solid performance more than anything. For that reason, I would rate myself as a 10/10 when it comes to performance effort because I always do what I can to deliver."
"I put a heavy focus on performance and exceeding expectations in the workplace, as well as in my personal life. Because I strive for a hearty performance on a daily basis, I will rate myself as a 10/10. My values are solid."
"Performance and what I deliver will directly affect my clients, their projects, and their profitability. For that reason, I will rate my performance as a 9.5/10. There is always room for improvement, but I truly put my best foot forward at every turn."
"I am a very hard worker but yet not a 10/10 because I cannot say that I have never let my work slide at times. I am human, a work in progress, and not perfect. With that said, I know the importance of delivering exceptional work."
"I recently read the book 'One Second Ahead,' by Rasmus Hougaard. He suggests that we can enhance our performance at work through mindfulness. I agree with this concept which is why I strive for complete, and mindful, performance in all areas of my life."
"I admire tenacity, I believe in giving my best at all times. As an educator, I teach this concept and work ethic every day. I rate myself as a 9/10 when it comes to performance since everyone has room for improvement."
Tell me about your most recent performance evaluation. Name one positive highlight, and one area for improvement.
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These garden designs are important as a highly personal exploration of the relevance of art to modern life and because of their relationship to the work of Johanson's contemporaries such as Robert Smithson. None of the garden designs were built, however, and as a result, these "paper designs" are as much works of art on paper as they are landscape studies.-- (11/01/2008)
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A magnificently detailed coin. The series is often found in high quality. This is remarkable, since the cast coins that preceded them are of inferior quality. I suspect the people were slow to accept struck coins as they were so different. Perhaps people were still thinking in terms of weight and metal content of the coin in relation to its denomination and the struck coins were deemed underweight? Otherwise, an example of a government less conservative than the population it rules?
Beautiful specimen! Finding these in high grades is really difficult; big copper coins get beat up when people drop them. They are really affordable up to about XF, but the price skyrockets once you get into problem free AU, then climbs almost exponentially into MS.
@Peter, I doubt there was much resistance to accepting these coins, as the Tokugawa economy was in shambles by the time teenaged Meiji came to power. Ideally, these would have had a value of 80 mon (1/50 ryo), or 20 of the Bunkyu Eiho 4 mon coins, which would have contained more copper, but were also unwieldy. Their value closely matched the Tempo Tsuho 100 mon coin, which also contained more copper, but was a friggin' paperweight. A decade into the Restoration, a former merchant or farmer who was living on 200-300 mon a month would have probably seen a pay raise of several fold, boosted by the easing of taxes that had held the Daimyo afloat.
Just about the only people unhappy with the new system were the samurai and low-ranking officials who were used to a cushy lifestyle, but did not rank high enough to land government jobs. The Meiji government cut out their pensions in 1877, leading to the famous Satsuma Rebellion.


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Elizabeth Burke formerly Audley living 1918 in Kansas City, Missouri
Author Topic: Elizabeth Burke formerly Audley living 1918 in Kansas City, Missouri (Read 460 times)
Re: Elizabeth Burke formerly Audley living 1918 in Kansas City, Missouri
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 27 June 19 23:18 BST (UK) »
Quote from: RJ137 on Thursday 27 June 19 14:19 BST (UK)
Kansas City Star
Burke - Edward R., died October 16, aged 54
Funeral from residence of daughter, Mrs.
William D Boyle, 1109 Pearl, Thursday morning
at 8:30 to Our Lady Council Church
Thirty-ninth and Washington, at 9 o'clock.
Interment in Mount St. Mary's cemetery.
Here's the obit. The print isn't real clear for age.
What do your eyes see?
Edward Burke -obit 1905.JPG (27.11 kB, 391x198 - viewed 55 times.)
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« Reply #10 on: Friday 28 June 19 00:04 BST (UK) »
Edward's age in the obit looks like 54 to me
Elizabeth's age in her obit looks like 63, not 83. That may be where the confusion is.
Her ages by census and death:
1870: age 24
1900: age 50, born March 1850
Note, in 1870 she wasn't married yet to a slightly younger man, and did not have that reason to underestimate her age.
by the way, since this looks now like the right person:
Ward 14 New York City
Peter Keever 30, a proofreader
Jane Keever, 30, keeps house
Elizabeth Audley, 24, seamstress
all born in Ireland, Peter was a citizen
edited to add:
here is the link to 1870 on familysearch
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8F7-J4W
Cambridgeshire: Billups, Cropley; Derbyshire: Jenkinson, Gratton; Co Down: O'Rourke, Rodgers, Cunningham
Just noticed, both buried Catholic. Might help if you are looking for Elizabeth and John in Ireland.
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Thanks to RJ137 and Oldohiohome for your recent meassages.
I would agree that Edward R was 54 years old when he died and that Elizabeth was 63 when she died and not 83 as I first read it!!
In time I will go back to look at Ireland, the obit for John Joseph Audley suggests that he was born in Belfast Ireland; but before I look at Ireland I need to write up all the information you have given me from the various census records.
a few more records to keep you busy.
Elizabeth Audley was living with Peter and Jane Keever in 1870 in New York City. Jane's maiden name was Audley. I couldn't tell if she was Elizabeth's sister, cousin, or whatever. Maybe her full death record will list her parents' names. But not a real good chance in that time frame.
Jane died 5 July 1875, Manhattan, age 32, marital status unknown [according to the transcript]
"New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949,"
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WYY-TDN
Jane's headstone reads:
Erected by Mary Keever in memory of her beloved parents
Peter Keever died April 8? 1884
Jane Keever died July ?, 1875
her infant brother E J Keever
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/196491737/jane-keever
Here is the transcript of the death record of Peter and Jane (Audley) Keever's child, Mary, which gives Jane's maiden name:
New York, New York City Municipal Deaths
Name:, Mary Keever
Event Type:, Death
Event Date:, 09 Aug 1930
Event Place:, Bronx, New York, New York, United States
Gender:, Female
Age:, 59
Marital Status:, Single
Race:, White
Occupation:, Laundress
Birthplace:, New York
Burial Date:, 11 Aug 1930
Cemetery:, Calvary
Father's Name:, Peter Keever
Father's Birthplace:, Ireland
Mother's Name:, Jame Audley
Mother's Birthplace:, Ireland
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WG8-YNB
If your John Joseph Audley is the John Audley who was naturalized 3 November 1888, Circuit Court, Buchanan County, Missouri
Volume A, page 438
country of birth or allegiance: England
then chasing down his petition for naturalization might tell you his county of birth, there's about a 50-50 chance.
You said that John Joseph Audley may have been born in Belfast. For what it's worth, I found this for an Elizabeth Audley, but with a father named Pat:
baptized 21 September 1848
St Patrick's, Belfast
Elizabeth Audly, daughter of Pat Audly and Elizabeth Gorton. sponsor: Catherine O'Donnell
I wouldn't put a lot of stock in it, for being the right Elizabeth. Also I found no Jane or John in the baptisms in Belfast, according to ancestry.com's reading and indexing of the names.
If you can tie your Audley family to this one, also in Kansas City, Missouri, then you will know where yours came from.
I found this first:
1910 Census Ward 5, Kansas City, Missouri
at 4013 Belleview Avenue
Thomas Burke, 43, head, born in Ireland, arrived 1888, naturalized
Maria Burke, 37, Ireland, married 1x, for 13 years, 6 children, 6 alive, arrived 1890
Ellen, 12, Missouri
Mary, 9, Catherine 7, John W 5, Thomas M 3, Joseph P 1, all born in Missouri
John Audley, 27, brother in law, born in Ireland
Margaret Audley, 25, sister in law, born in Ireland
Richard Halloran, 22, Ireland, boarder
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2Y8-F1S
When John and Margaret, brother and sister, arrived, they were headed to their sister Bridget's:
Arriving New York, 1 May 1902, from Queenstown, on the Lucania
John Audley, 19, single, laborer,
Maggie Audley, 17, single, servant
both: last residence: Headford, destination: sister Bridget Audley, 1016 Centre St, Kansas City, Missouri
Headford is in Galway
Bridget, John, and Maggie are all at home in Galway in 1901:
1901 Census of Ireland
house 3 in Pollacullaire (Headford, Galway)
Audley, Thomas, 55, Male, Head of Family, General Labourer, Cannot read or write, speaks Irish and English, Married, -
Audley, Katie, 50, Female, Wife, House Keeper, Cannot read or write, speaks Irish and English, Married, -
Audley, Bridget, 24, Female, Daughter, Read and write, speaks Irish and English, Not Married, -
Audley, John, 19, Male, Son, General Labourer, Read and write, speaks Irish and English, Not Married, -
Audley, Maggie, 17, Female, Daughter, Read and write, speaks Irish and English, Not Married, -
Audley, Katie, 14, Female, Daughter, Scholar, Read and write, Not Married, -
Audley, Nora, 7, Female, Daughter, Scholar, Read and write, Not Married
all Roman Catholic, all born in Galway
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Galway/Headford/Pollacullaire/1399892/
I'm pretty sure I found Bridget arriving twice, the second time with a Mary Duddy. both had been in the US and lived in Kansas City previously. This is probably Bridget's first arrival. Not very helpful to your search overall, but here it is anyway:
Arriving 10 October 1894, from Liverpool and Queenstown, aboard the Teutonic
Bridget Audley, 19, servant, last residence: Headford, destination: Kansas
https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/EIDB/engine/gold.html?username=010010013018025012028027001011074052002029014007009093023010029&password=093094080070017009028006029&pid=105193020135&type=manifest
Maria (Audley) Burke's death certificate, tying her to the same family: died 2 November 1926, K C Missouri
at 4013 Belleview
born May 10, 1874, Ireland
parents: Thomas Audley and Catherine Leonard
informant: Thomas Burke
https://s1.sos.mo.gov/Records/Archives/ArchivesMvc/DeathCertificates/SearchResults
sister Katherine, also in Galway in 1901, also died in Kansas City:
Catherine M Audley, of 4155 Holly, d February 25, 1925
single, age 34y 1m 19d, b January 6, 1891, in Ireland
father Thomas Audley
mother: Catherine Leonard
informant: Mrs Jerry Clifford, same address
Unfortunately, after all that, I couldn't tie the second family to yours, except that they were both in Kansas City, Missouri. Maybe they shared a common address in the city directories, or an obituary will name one or the other.
Also unfortunately, there are no baptism records before 1880 microfilmed for Headford Parish, aka Killursa and Killower, which you would need if your Audley family is from the same place as the children of Thomas and Katherine (Leonard) Audley.
Also unfortunately, Elizabeth Audley Burke died at a hospital in Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas is a lot harder to get certificates from than Missouri. see:
http://www.kdheks.gov/vital/genealogy.html
You need to be at least a cousin to get the record.
Quote from: oldohiohome on Friday 28 June 19 18:11 BST (UK)
AUDLEY-- Catherine M., age 34 years, a
graduate nurse of St. Mary's hospital.
Died at St. Mary's hospital Wednesday morning.
She is survived by 3 brothers and 3
sisters. Michael Audley, 3004 Belleview; John
Audley 2121 North 33rd st., Kansas City, Kansas;
Thomas Audley, County Galway, Ireland; Mrs.
Thomas Burke, 4013 Belleview; Mrs. Jerry
Clifford and Miss Nora Audley, 4155 Holly.
Funeral from home of Mrs. Jerry Clifford
4155 Holly, Friday morning at 8:30. Services at
Our Lady of Good Counsel church, Washington and
Schaefer ave at 9 o'clock Interment family lot.
Mt. St. Mary's cemetery. Her remains have been
entrusted to the care of Quirk & Tobin.
Hi RJ137 & olsohiohome.
Many thanks for your last messages.
As far as I am aware there were two, apparently separate, Audley Families that appear to have lived in Kansas City at around the same time. Families stories are that each of the Audley Families knew of each other, through work, although were not related. I have a lot of information about the Audley Family that descends from Thomas Audley & Catherine Leonard from Galway in Ireland. I am now trying to work up the information about the other Audley Family that were the subject of my original message.
The thing that stands out to me is that in the 1910 census of 4013 Bellview the head of the family is a Thomas Burke it would be interesting if that Thomas Burke was in some way related to the Edward Burke who married Elizabeth Audley in 1877 then we may have a link.
I have been at a Family Birthday this evening so have not been able to look at all your information in detail.
« Reply #17 on: Sunday 30 June 19 22:31 BST (UK) »
When I suggested this, I didn't realize that your John Audley was still in St Joseph, Missouri, in 1910. Thomas Burke arrived in 1888 and was boarding in Kansas City, MO, in 1891. When the younger John and Maggie Audley arrived, they went to Thomas Burke's in Kansas City, not to the older John Audley in St Joseph.
So it's a dead end there.