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Planning a children's birthday party requires a lot of organising and planning. For parents with busy schedules, hiring a company to do the work saves them the time and hassle. For event planners or moms that enjoy working with children, it provides an opportunity to start a fun, lucrative business. From first birthdays to sweet sixteens you can create exciting experiences for both children and parents. If you have a knack for paying attention to small details, strong organizational skills and a willingness to learn the industry, this could be the business for you.
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Conduct market research in your area to gauge local interest and determine if there is a need for a kids' party planning business. Hold small group talks to ask parents about how they plan parties for their children and what kind of party planning services they outsource, if any at all. Find out how much they have paid or would like to pay for such services. Gather as much insight from the parents as possible since they will be your target customers.
Research your competitors who are offering party planning services and kids' entertainment in your area. Review their marketing materials and pricing. This will help you develop your competitive advantage so that you stand out from others that are offering similar services.
Develop your party packages, and set your pricing. The information gathered from parents and about your competitors will help you determine the party themes and prices you want to offer. You may choose to price your planning services at a flat fee or set an all-inclusive price that includes the costs of vendor supplies and services.
Select a name and image for your company. Create or hire a graphic designer to make your company's logo, website and business cards. You may also want to create a brochure, as these tools will help you to spread the word about your business.
Apply for business license and Tax ID number with your local government. You may also need a building permit along with liability if you are leasing a retail space where you will host parties. Check with your local government and business authorities for a complete list of rules or regulations for a kids' party planning businesses. The regulations often vary depending on your country and state.
Start gathering resources and staff members as you market your business. Planning and running a party will require that you have a support team with entertainment, decorations and food vendors. Before you land your first customer, start forming relationships with suppliers who you will want to hire to provide party planning services. You may want to find and recruit students to help out at the parties. Often, students will work for free or lower cost in exchange for the experience.
Spread the word about your new business to family, friends and neighbours. Word of mouth when starting up a new business is one of the most effective ways to get new customers. Offer to volunteer with planning children's parties, or offer low prices to help build your reputation. Send e-mail announcements, and share other marketing materials to launch your business. You may also want to host a grand opening event for a retail location.
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- Have your team and other resources in place before you launch your business so that you're not scrambling at the last minute to meet your customer's expectations. It's important that your first customers are thrilled with the services you provide so that they are willing to share their experience of working with your company to other parents.
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Definition: The field of instructional design and technology encompasses theanalysis of learning and performance problems, and the design, development, implementation,evaluationand management of instructional and non-instructional processes and resources intended to improve learning and performance in a variety of settings, particularly educational institutions and the workplace. Individual involved: People spend a siginificant portion of their time working with media, or with tasks associated with systematic instructional design proceduresor with both.
ID Development, History, Instructional Media, School Museums (The first decade of the 20th century), visual materials/instruction, supplementary curriculum materials, The Visual Instruction Movement (1914-1923), Magic lanterns, Stereopticons, The motion picture projector, Instructional Films, The Audiovisual Instruction Movement (1920s-1930s), Radio broadcasting, Sound recordings, Sound motion pictures, World War Ⅱ（1939－1945）, Schools slowed, Military services, Training films, Film projectors, Overhead/Slide projectors, Audio equipment, Simulators,Training devices, Post-World War Ⅱ (1950s-mid1990s), Media comparison studies, Theories of communication, communication process, Instructional Television, Computers (1950s-1995), CAI, micro-computers(in the early 1980s), Recent Developments, Internet, Business,industry and military, Low cost for widely dispersed learners, Easy accessibility to receive instruction, Education, Distance education, Interactive capabilities, Increasing multimedia capabilities, authentic problems, learner-centered, CD-ROM, Intranets, Instructional Design, The Origins, World War Ⅱ, Training materials, Afterwards, Instructional problems, started viewing training as a system, More Early developments (1950s-1960s), The Programmed Instruction Movement, programmed instructional materials (Skinner,1954,1958), An empirical approach (Skinner et all, 1960), Behavioral Objectives, Robert Mager, Objectives include desired learner behavior, Conditions under which the behaviors are to be performed, Standards by which the behaviors to be judged, Ralph Tyler, Objectives could be clarified by stating them in behavioral terms, Objectives could serve as the basis for evaluating the effectiveness of instruction, Benjamin Bloom and his colleagues, Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Objectives could be classified according to the type of learner behavior described therein, A hierarchical relationship among outcomes, Tests should be designed to measure outcomes, The Criterion-Referenced Testing Movement, a). Assess students entry-level behavior, b). Determine the extent an instructional program designed to teach, The Conditions of Learning, Five domains of learning outcomes, verbal information, intellectual skills, psychomotor skills, attitudes, cognitive strategies, Nine events of instruction, Learning hierarchies and hierarchical analysis, instructional task analysis, Formative evaluation, summative evaluation, Early Instructional Design Models, Systems Approach (The 1970s), US military, Instructional improvement centers, Business and industry, Growth and Redirection (The 1980s), Cognitive pspychology, Increasing interest in the use of microcomputers, Changing Views and Practices (The 1990s), The performance technology movement, Constructivism, Electronic performance support systems, Rapid prototyping, Internet, Knowledge management, ID1, ISD, Component Display Theory, Limitations, Content Analysis, Focus on components, Individual/pieces/for passing exams, Not use integrated wholes, cannot apply the knowledge in a wider context, Lack of cognitive psychology, Prescriptions, Knowledge Acquisition, Content Analysis, Course materials, Course content, Course structure, Course Organization, Different levels of instructional outcomes, Highly interactive nature of the new technologies, Interactive sequences, Closed systems, Hard to incorporate and apply new and better knowledge, Phases of instructional development, Fail to integrate between the phases, Lack of prescriptions, Resulting instruction, Teach pieces but not integrated whole, Passive rather than interactive, Inefficient to use, Presentation constructed from small components, Need transaction wholes, Labor intensive, Impact of computerization, ID2, Components, A theoretical base, A knowledge base, A series of intelligent computer-based design tools, A collection of mini-experts, A library of instructional transactions, An on-line intelligent advisor program, Address the shortcomings, Analyzing and Representing Knowledge for Integrated Goals, Cognitive, Organization, Structuring of knowledge, Elaboration, Explicit specification of relations among knowledge units, Retention, Gagne's fundamental assumption, Extension, Different mental models, Requirement of the instruction, Requirement of the knowledge, Addressing the limitations of ID1, Teaching of integrated wholes, Teaching the organized and elaborated knowledge, Development of detailed prescriptions, knowledge acquisition process, Identify all the information necesary, Knowledge Representation, Classes, Retrieving the knowledge in various format, Artificial intelligence, Instructional decisions may be made, For ID2, Elaborated frame network, Types of fundamental frame, Types of elaborations, KAAS, Guide the designer/user in providing information about the subject matter to be taught, Consist of frames for different content structures, Know the possible links between various frames and how to propagate knowledge from one frame to a linked frame, Instructional Strategies and Transactions, Transactions, Classes, One-way transmission of information, Lack interaction, Discussions and conversations, tutoring, Simulations and micro-worlds, In ID2, No constrain on the delivery methods for a transaction, Transaction Confinguration, TCS and Library, Strategy Analysis, Information gathering, Prescriptions and Filters, Course Organization, SAS, Queries specific information about enterprises learner and environmental attributes, Guides the designer/user in strategy analysis, Provides filters and prescriptions to the KAAS, Recommends course organization and strategy, IADV, An Open System, Mini Experts, A large rule base, Each for relatively narrow decision, Coordinated and combined to make the larger decisjions, Open to new knowledge, Can be developed, An inference engine, Applies rules to available data to reach decisions or to make recommendations, Integration of the ID Phases, Implemented by intelligent design tools, Maintain a single representation of the data, Changes in one area automatically flow through to other areas, Create corresponding changes, Consistency and completeness checks are facilitated, More easy for Designers to change decisions, Close interconnections among the phases, Comparison with other Approaches, ID1 Expert Systems, Conservative appraoch, Represent existing expertise about instructional design in an expert system, Drawback, The state of knowledge is inadequate for the task, ITS and Micro-worlds, Difficulties, The inherent and the expense of creating systems, Over-reliance on discovery learning as a means of teaching
In Teaching and Learning, Settings, Course, Course Instruction, Nature of Instruction, Definition of instruction, A set of communications, Verbal statements, Oral, Printed, Other Media, Gestures, Pictures, Self-Instruction, Working on programmed materials, Studying textbooks, Performing laboratory exercises, Completing projects of various sorts, Purpose of Instruction, Learning Process, External Events, Aid the acquisition of knowledge, Retention of learned, Events of Instruction, Modeling, Reception of patterns of neural impluses, Gaining Attention, Use of stimulus change, Appeal to the learner's interests, nonverbal communications, Demonstration, Physical event, Picture/television scene, Executive control process, Informing the Learner of the Objective, Indication to not obvious objective, communicate the objective, Words, Pictures, Goal schema, Multiple objectives, Learning Outcomes, Adapt to different capabilities, Coaching, Retieval, Stimulating Recall of Prerequisite Learned Capabilities, Asking a recognition/ recall question, Selective perception, Presenting the stimulus material, Proper stimuli, Features, A variety of examples, Recalled, combined and used to solve problems, Semantic encoding, Providing learning guidance, A series of communications, Varies with the kind of capability being learned, Adapt to learner differences, High-anxiety learners, Highly didactic, Low-level questions, Low-anxiety learners, Difficult questions, Low ability in reading, Pictures, Oral communications, Skillful readers, Scaffolding, Response organization, Eliciting the Performance, ask learners to show, Reinforcement, Providing Feedback, Automatically provided, Outside source, no standard ways, Reflection, Retrieval, Assessing the performance, Reliability, Asking the leaner to "do it again", using a different example, Valid, Accurately reflect the objective, In a genuine manner, Providing cues and strategies for retrieval, Enhancing Retention and Transfer, Retention, Spaced repetions, Transfer, Setting variety of new tasks, Problem-solving tasks, Media, ID across different media, Research Background, Promise of multimedia learning, Verbal Only method, Positive side, Negative side, Multimedia learning, Definition, Deep Learning, Problem-solving transfer, Multimedia Instructional message, a).The presentation contains words and pictures, b).The presentation is designed to foster meaningful learning, a).The presentation contains words and pictures, b).The presentation is designed to foster meaningful learning, How does multimedia learning work？, Consistent with how people learn, The Dual channel assumption, Visual, Verbal, Verbal, Visual, The Limited capacity assumption, The active learning assumption, Process, Selecting, Organizing, Integrating, Methodology, Cases study, Multimedia effect, Experiment, Printed text and illustrations on a page, Words-only group, Words-and-pictures, Spoken text and Animation on a screen, Words-only group, Words-and-pictures, Results, Multimedia effect can occur across two different media environments, Multimedia messages were more likely than words-only messages for active learning, Coherence effect, Experiment, Book-based environment, Embellished presentation group, Concise presentation group, Computer-based environment, Embellished presentation group, Concise presentation group, Results, Coherence effect across two different media environments, Adding extraneous material hurt student understanding, Contiguity effect, Experiment, Book-based environment, Integrated presentation group, Separated presentation group, Computer-based environments, Integrated presentation group, Separated presentation group, Results, Presentation methods have the same kinds of effects across different media, Learners are more likely to be able to hold corresponding words and pictures in working memory at the same time when corresponding words and pictures are presented near each other, Personalization effect, Experiment, Computer-based environments, Animation with narration, Conventional presentation group, Personalized presentation group, Animation with on-screen text, Conventional presentation group, Personalized presentation group, Results, The personalization effect is obtained across two different media, Personalized messages may prime the conversation schema in learners, Conclusion, Good instructional methods can work across media, Nature of human learning, Based on an understanding of the nature of human learning, Media environments do not cause learning, Cognitive processing by the learner causes learning., Instructional technology serve as a tool that increases the power of human cognition, Teacher, Teachers' private theories, Teachers' private theories, Developed from, Observation, Interactions, Instruction, Inference, Four Major Areas, Learning, Students, Teacher, Technolgoy, Others, Institutional Influences, Knowledge of curriculum and pedagogical content, Methodology, Qualitative multicase study, Tom, Initial private theories, Computers: tool to impart knowledge; multimedia helps students' learning, Technology: immediate access to content and schedule;repeat lessons;replace teachers;, Student: reluctant to collaborate, Teacher: covering content and checking students learning, Initial design, Direct instruction, Drill and Practice, Final product and changes, Learning is an internal process, Authentic problem-solving; collaboration, student-centered, Eleanor, Initial private theories, Learning is a collaborative process, Initial design, student-centered, concerns about the colleagues, concerns on students' learning ability, Final changes and design, Insist on student-centered and collaborative learningdesign, Develop more trust in students' abilities to learn, Teacher role: facilitator, Nicole, Initial private theories, Technology: help maintain teacher-directed instruction, Student: not able to learn without teacher, Teacher: monitor to ensure learning happening, Final changes and design, little change, direct instruction, Jane, Initial private theories, Technology: supplement to teachers, Teacher: ensure learning occurred, Final changes and design, direct instruction, Reflection, Participants' private theories, Areas, Four areas, Learning, Additional two, Design, Educational changes, Sources, Individual beliefs, Institutional influence, Conflict between management policy and practice, Assessment, Prescribed by the institute, limitations to the shift to student-centered, Technology-based Instructional design, Expert Teacher's Thinking and Teaching and Instructional Design Models and Principles, Methodology, Case Study, Purposes and Questions, Background, Participant, Sarach, Setting, The school, Data Collection Strategies, Open-ended ethnographic interviews withSarach, Observations of her class with pre- and postinterviews, The teacher's notes, classroom materials, textbook, tests, and other records related to students' performance, Stimulated recall interviews, Data Analysis, Teacher's thinking, The Teacher's Experiential World, Experience as a learner, Abilities of the learners, Family support, Expectation set by teachers, Experience as a teacher, Collegial relationships and interactions, self-learning, The Teacher's Knowledge, Beliefs, and Theories of Action, Knowledge of self as a teacher, Facilitator, An individual with unique characteristics and biases, Profession, Knowledge of content, Cognitive, Critical thinking, Affective, Utilization of knowledge in real life, Problem sloving, Knowledge of curriculum, Curriculum designer besides implementer, Pedagogical knowledge, Knowledge of Students, Active role in the learning process, Knowledge of Context, Differences influence teaching and classroom, Technology intergration, Team teaching, Peer coaching, Parent satisfaction, Teaching Process, Planning, Course yearly planning, Unit planning, Lesson planning, Instruction, reflect in the midst of her actions, Make immediate professional judgments and decisions, Reflection, Microinstructional Design Models, Analysis, Design, Development and implementation, Evaluation and Revision, Results and Discussion, Differences, First-hand experience, Socially situated knowledge, Interactive relationship between Sarah and context, Similarities, Components/Elements, Assessment as source of change, Consistency between goals, instruction and assessment, Conclusion and Recomendations, Socially situated knowledge VS Research-based knowledge, Social context, Object of the design, Source of the design, Reflective view of VS Logical View, ID is a highly complex and spontaneous task, Identify design problems within the context of specific instructional situation, ID improved through social interaction or reflective dialogue between the designer and the context, Social and cultural construct VS Cognitive construct, Socially shared approach, Learning, The 4C/ID-Model for Complex Learning, Address Three Deficits of Traditional ID models, Task-specific constituent skills→Knowledge-delivery media, Critical distinction between supportive information and JIT, Recommends a mixture of part-task and whole-task learning, Complex learning, Definition, Constituent Skills, Horizontal Relationship, Vertical Relationship, Qualitative differencies, Nonrecurrent aspects, Supportive Information, Recurrent aspects, JIT information, Four "blueprint" Components, Learning Tasks, Definition, backbone of every training program, confront the learners with all constituent sills, performed in a real or simulated task environment, promote schema construction by inductive processing, Task classes, simple-to-complex, basic sequence of a training programme, Variability, Learner support, Product-oriented support, case-study, worked-out example, Process-oriented support, modeling example, Supportive Information, Mental models, conceptual models, what is this, structural models, how is this organized, Cognitive strategies, Cognitive feedback, JIT Information, Theories, restricted encoding of situation-specific knowledge into cognitive rules, Formed through practice, facilitated by the information available in working memory, Design of JIT information displays, Information displays, Didactical specification of the rules, how-to instruction, Knowledge prerequisite to application of those rules, Rule-based instruction, Demonstrations and instances, rules-demonstration, concepts-instances, Corrective feedback, promote compilation, Part-task Practice, Definition, Design of practice items, Practice items, Practice makes perfect, One relevant recurrent constituent skill, Repeatedly performed, JIT information for part-task practice, step-by-step instruction, Overtraining, performance criteria, accuracy, accuracy combined with speed, accuracy combined with speed under time-sharing conditions or high overall wokload, intertwined with the learning tasks, help to relate the recurrent constituent skill to the whole complex skill, Discussion, Used to develop training programs for complex skills, Not desirable to specify all aspects of the blueprint, Applies a mix of constructivist and instructivist appraches, whole,authentic, learning tasks, schema construction by induction and mindful abstraction, inductive-inquiry strategy/discovery approach, Limit the available media options for each of the four components, particular learning processes are best supported by particular media, Lead to higher transfer performance, Learning by Doing, GBS, CBR
Conclusion: The function of ID is more of an application of theory, rather than a theory itself. Depending on the learners and situation, different learning theories may apply. The instructional designer must understand the strengths and weaknesses of each learning theory to optimizie their use in appropriate instructional design strategy. There is a place for each theory within the practice of instructional design, depending upon the situation and environment.
Models, PBL, Problem Solving, Problem definition, Unknown entity in some situation, Have social, cultural, or intellectual value, Problem Variations, Structuredness, well-structured, ill-structured, Complexity, Problem Representations, Individual Differences, Familiarity, the strongest predictor of problem-solving ability, Domain and Structural Knowledge, Another predictor of PS skills, Also known as cognitive structure, Cognitive Controls, Metacognitition, Epistemological Beliefs, Knowledge is right or wrong, Multiplicity, Contextual relativistic, Affective and Conative, Typology, Logical Problems, Algorithmic Problems, Story Problems, Rule-Using Problems, Troubleshooting Problems, Strategic Performance, Case-analysis Problems, Design Problems, Dilemmas, Central Principles, Understanding is in our interactions with the environment, What we understand, The degree individual understandings compatible, Cognition is a part of the entire context, Cognitive conflict or puzzlement is the stimulus for learning and determines the organization and nature of what is learned, Learner's Puzzlement, Stimulus, Organizer, The goal of the learner, What is learned, Knowledge evolves through social negotiation and through the evaluation of the viability of individual understandings, Individual understanding, Collaborative Groups, Development of knowledge, Widespread agreement, Viable interpretion, Instructional Principles, Anchor, Learning beyond Assigned, Ownership for overall proble, Consistent goals, Solicit problems, Establish a problem, Authentic task, Complexity, Cognitive apprenticeship, Cognitive flexibility theories, The importance of context, Ownership of the process, Role of the teacher, Learner's thinking, learning exchange/interaction, information resources, support inquiry, not teach, Alternative, Learning community, ideas are discussed, understanding enriched, Collaborative learning groups, Reflection, Self regulation, Independent, Strategies for learning, What was learned, Best Exemplars - PBL, Learning Goals, Self-directed learning skills, Hypothetico-deductive problem solving, Content learning objectives associated with each problem, Problem Generation, Must raise relevant concepts/principles, Must be real, Difficult to create rich problems, Engage learners more, Disirable learning outcomes, Problem Presentation, Own the problem, Data presented not highlight critical factors, Richly presented, A basic question, Facilitator Role, Facilitator models, Challenge the learner's thinking, Comparision, Case based approaches, Use cases for testing one's understanding, Use cases as a concrete reference point for learning, Not focus on developing the metacognitive skills, Emphasize the content domain, PBL, Learning arises out of consideration of the problem, Cognitive apprenticeship, Focus on knowledge domain, Problem solving associated with that knowledge, Engage the learner in authentic problem solving, The learners have ownership of the problem, Focus on metacognitive processes, REALs, RBL, Predigital Age, constrained by static nature, difficult to address different needs, single medium, teacher-convey specific content, learners-acquire specific knowledge/skills, physical location, Digital Age, Resources, Static, Dynamic, Context, Externally directed, Learner generated, Negotiated, Tools, Searching tools, Processing tools, Manipulating tools, Communicating tools, Scaffolds, Conceptual scaffolds, Metacognitive scaffolds, Procedural scffolds, Strategic scaffolds
Theories, Activity Theory, Activity System, The subject, individual or group of actors engaged in the activity, The object, the physical or mental product that is sought, Tools, anything used in the transformation process, Actions, Assumptions of activity theory, Activities: Minds in Context, Consciousness in the World, Intentionality, Object-Orientedenss, Community: A dialectic context, Historical0Cultural Diension, Tool Mediation, Collaboration, Learning Theory, Behaviorism, Basics, Overt behaviors, Observed and measured, Mind, Black box, Response to stimulus, Quantitatively, Thought process, Ignored, Unable to explain certain social behaviors, Key players, Pavlov, Famous experiment, Food, Dog, Bell, Result, S-R, Unconditioned Stimulus, Unconditioned Response, Conditioned Stimulus, Conditioned Response, Thorndike, Connectionism, Law of effect, Positive reward, Negative reward, Law of exercise, S-R bond, Law of readiness, In given situation, Watson, Experiment, Albert-a young child, A white rat, Result, The role of conditioning in the development of emotional S-R, Skinner, Operant Condtioning, Positive reinforcement/reward, responses repeat, Negative reinforcement, Non-reinforcement, not likely to be repeated, Punishment, suppressed but may reappear, In Instructional Design, History, Behavioral Objectives Movement, learning objectives, specified, quantifiable, terminal behaviors, learning tasks, specific and measurable, Assessment, tests, Teaching Machines and Programmed Instruction Movement, Early Use of Programmed Instruction, Individualized Approaches to Instruction, CAI, Drill-and-practice, Program developer-controlled, Little learner-controlled, Systems Approach to Instruction, Strength, Clear goal, Respond automatically, Weakness, Inflexible, Cognitivism, Basics, Schema, Existing cognitive structures, combined, extended or altered, New information, Three-Stage Information Processing Model, Sensory register, less than 1-4 seconds, Short-term Memory, 20 seconds, 2-7 times, Long-Term Memory and Storage, In Instructional Design, New models, Keep from behaviorist tradition, Goal of instruction, task analysis, learner analysis, Develpment, processes of learning, Computer-based Instruction, process information, receive, student input, store, retrieve, Strength, Enable consistency of learners, An exact routine to avoid problems, Weakness, Simplicity, Lack of complexity, May not be the best solution way, Constructivism, Basics, Knowledge, Learners construct their own reality, Learning, Personal interpretation of the world, Individual's physical and social experiences, Social negotiation, Situated in realistic settings, In Instructional Design, Open-ended learning experience, Multiple representations of reality, Contextualize, Present authentic tasks, case-based learning environments, Reflective practice, context-/content-dependent knowledge construction, Collaboration, Learner control, Strength, Able to deal with real life situations, Weakness, Lack of conformity causing problems, CLE, Comparison, Objectivist, Knowledge can be transferred, Constructivist, knowledge is individually constructed and socially coconstructed by learners, Model, Question/Case/Problem/Project, Problem Context, Performance Environment, Community of Practioners, Problem Representation, Authentic, Activity Theory, PARI, Problem Manipulation Space, phenomenaria, Related Cases, Scaffold Student Memory, Providing representations of experiences that learners have not had, Enhancing cognitive flexibility, Cognitive Flexibility Theory, Information Resources, Evaluated, Organized, Cognitive Tools, Problem representation tools, Visualization tools, Static and Dynamic Knowledge Modeling Tools, Performance Support Tools, Information Gathering Tools, Conversation and Collaboration Tools, collaboration, Social/Contextual Support, Cognitive Flexibility Theory
Web 2.0, Features, A paradigm shift, Users-Creation of new information, Provide powerful media production, Social networking technologies, Rich user experiences, support collective activities, In education, New forms of assessment such as digital portfolios, Use of Internet-mediated social learning spaces, New forms of collaborative learning, New models and methods for the design of learning objects, New models for resources sharing and support for technology integration of communities of teachers, New generations of learning management systems (LMS)
Handheld devices, Technology - Pedagogy, Others, Administration, information storage and retrieval, Personal Information Manageers, do not scaffold or support knowledge construction, merely replicate o traditional platforms, Reference, Just-in-Time information, do not go beyond information delivery, Interative, 'response and feedback' approach, drill and test, Microworld, Data Collection - Contextual/Constructivist, Scientific, learn more about context, Immediate feedback, Reflective, Multimedia, Location Aware - Contextual/Constructivist, Interact with environment, collaborative in nature, Collaborative - Collaborative/Contextual/Constructivist, knowledge sharing, make use of the learner's physical context and mobility, Collaborative learning environment, Example applications, TxtIT, SortIT
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Mouse t haplotypes are variant forms of chromosome 17 that exist at high frequencies in worldwide populations of two species of commensal mice. To determine both the relationship of t haplotypes to each other and the species within which they exist, 35 representative t haplotypes were analyzed by means of 10 independent molecular probes, including five DNA clones and five polypeptide spots identified by means of two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. All of the tested haplotypes were found to share restriction fragments and polypeptide spots that are absent in mice carrying wild-type forms of chromosome 17. This observation provides the first direct evidence that all of the known t haplotypes are descendents of a single ancestral chromosome. The absence of variation among t haplotypes could mean that this ancestral chromosome existed relatively recently, in which case it would be necessary to postulate introgressions of t haplotypes across species lines to explain their presence in both Mus domesticus and M. musculus. Alternatively, it is possible that the ancestral chromosome existed prior to the split between M. domesticus and M. musculus and that, by chance, our probes fail to detect polymorphisms that exist among the t haplotypes. A further result of our analysis is the characterization of a partial t haplotype in a wild population of Israeli mice.
|Original language||English (US)|
|Number of pages||10|
|Journal||Molecular biology and evolution|
|State||Published - Sep 1987|
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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One of renewable energy’s more outspoken enthusiasts has delivered bad news for the prospects of developing ocean thermal energy. His prediction is that although the technology could work for a while, after about 50 years it could actually exacerbate long-term global warning.
Of all the renewable energy technologies, ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) sounded like the perfect choice. This is a plan to exploit the difference between the warm surface and the cold depths of the seas, and turn that difference into energy.
A network of vertical pipes floating below the surface of the ocean would create energy, leaving the view from the coast unsullied, and delivering power day or night, whatever the weather. But there was more.
Enthusiasts pointed out that as a bonus, the pipes used in the energy conversion would bring a flow of nutrients from the cold, deep waters to the less-fertile but sunlit surface of the ocean, thus encouraging the growth of marine algae that would soak up more carbon from the atmosphere. And, as a bonus, the same process would accelerate the downward flow of carbon, where it could be sequestered on the seabed.
Now one of renewable energy’s more vocal supporters has taken a closer look at the long-term consequences of the ocean pipes and come up with some discouraging news: an engineering program intended to cool the planet would end up making it warmer. It would work for a while, he says, but after about half a century it would reduce the cloud cover and at the same time reduce sea ice, to accelerate climate change once more.
Ken Caldeira, senior scientist in the Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University’s Carnegie Institution for Science, is one of the more energetic voices in climate research: he and his Carnegie colleagues have already warned that the world is feeling the heat from carbon dioxide released from car exhausts and factory chimneys and he has spoken up loudly for nuclear power and indeed any “clean” energy sources.
He and Stanford colleagues Lester Kwiatkowski and Katharine Ricke report in Environmental Research Letters that when they began to simulate an ocean dotted with vertical pipes that exchanged deeper and shallower waters, they expected to confirm the value of such an approach. They could not.
“Our simulations indicate the likely sign and character of unintended atmospheric consequences of such ocean technologies,” they conclude, in formal sciencespeak. “Prolonged application of ocean pipe technologies, rather than avoiding global warming, could exacerbate longterm warming of the climate system.”
Research exercises such as this one cost nothing more than laboratory computing power and research time: their value, once again, is in reminding governments, campaigners and energy investors that the climate is an intricate piece of global machinery, and that there are no easy answers to the problems presented by renewable energy.
They are also a reminder that geoengineering of any kind to damp climate change could have unintended consequences. In this case — in an ideal, global simulation — it would change the thermal structure of the ocean altogether.
The Carnegie calculations work like this: cold air is denser than warm air. Water funneled up the pipes on a very large scale from the depths would cool the air above the seas, and increase atmospheric pressure, which would reduce cloud formation over the seas. Since most of the planet is ocean, that means fewer clouds overall, which means more sunlight absorbed by the Earth rather than reflected back into space by the clouds.
And the same mixing of sea waters would bring sea ice into contact with warmer waters, which would mean less sea ice to reflect radiation, with the same result: accelerated global warming.
After 60 years, the simulated network of ocean pipes would cause an increase of global temperature by up to 1.2 degrees Celsius. After a few centuries, the same technology would take temperatures up by a catastrophic 8.5 degrees Celsius.
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We were taught that our conscience would show us the difference between right and wrong. We learned that our conscience would show us what we did wrong. (There’s often a difference between what we were taught and what we learned.) Our conscience became our condemning judge. Unless we learned to ignore it or deceive it, we grew up being shamed by our own thinking.
The conscience is simply our awareness of moral or spiritual condition. The Greek word (syneidesis) means to “see the same”. It is the idea of awareness, reflection, or even consciousness. Theoretically, my conscience should allow me to see things as they are. If something is wrong, my conscience should tell me. If something is acceptable for me, my conscience should tell me that.
But it doesn’t work that way. Instead of the simple knowledge of good and evil our ancestors thought they would pass on to us, they actually gave us a memory system that imprinted patterns on our soul. This system, which the Scripture calls the “flesh,” accumulates experiences and information and forms response patterns based on what it has learned. The flesh is the self-protection system we learned to deal with life apart from the Lord.
The conscience is part of the flesh. The conscience is what you and I learned for the purpose of determining right and wrong. We learned from our parents, from the rest of the world’s influence, and from our own experiences. When we did one thing and a subsequent bad thing happened, we connected the two and learned not to do the first thing. When we tried something else and received positive results, we learned that the new activity would bring pleasure.
But there is a problem! We are not wise enough to understand the indirect connections and sin is an active force in deceiving us. For example, many people took up smoking because of the positives. They found acceptance in a smoking community, a relaxing activity, and a short-term health benefit in the weight loss. They did not understand the long-term negative health consequences and there was a force at work to keep the knowledge of those consequences from them. Even today, when the positives of smoking are rarely uttered and the negatives get all the publicity, smokers remain convinced of the positives.
Of course, there are all kinds of examples. You see, the flesh reflects the brokenness of our world. We lack wisdom and we lack both the desire and the ability to do good consistently. Our conscience has been formed in a laboratory of evil and compromise. Like everything else in our lives and in this world, the conscience is broken through sin. | <urn:uuid:6fe50878-6789-424c-933f-87a7ddb79668> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://graceformyheart.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/the-conscience-is-broken/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.972946 | 545 | 2.375 | 2 |
This two year project (2003 - 2005) explored the Austin Val Verde
Estate, located in Montecito and considered to be one of the most important examples of the Classic Estate period in California. It was originally designed in 1915 by Bertram Goodhue as a prototype of the Mediterranean Architectural style. Two decades later it was brought to prominence when it was redesigned by Lockwood de Forest Jr., one of the most talented and creative designers of that Golden Age. My interest was in showing the intimate spaces that still remained. Austin Val Verde: Impressions of a Montecito Masterpiece
was published by Balcony Press in 2007 and featured 84 duotones from the project and is available through the Princeton Architectural Press. In 2010 the estate fell into bankruptcy and many of its remaining assets were sold. | <urn:uuid:966daece-55ea-446b-a6cf-243b97495c97> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ann-mitchell.com/valverde | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.974834 | 168 | 1.953125 | 2 |
Shorai Foundation for Science and Technology
Sueyoshi Hasegawa, founder, has focused attention on tall oil as a material useful in a wide range of applications from an early stage. He progressed to realize his long-held aspiration and launched the trial production of tall oil in 1952, heralding the start of research and development into this substance. Introducing the beauty of tall oil nationwide and cultivating its potential applications; the history of tall oil cultivation is inseparable from that of Harima Chemicals itself. Our long-standing achievement in tall oil operation was recognized and Sueyoshi Hasegawa, president (at the time), received a Science and Technology Award from the Ministry of Science and Technology (now known as the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology). Taking advantage of this occasion, the Shorai Foundation for Science and Technology was established in March 1983, designed to subsidize and encourage activities including research, study and international exchanges in science and technology. We sincerely hope to make a contribution to promote the advancement of science and technology through this project.
Founder of Harima Chemicals, Inc.
Established: March 1, 1983
Competent Authority: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Basic Fund: 540,250,000 yen
Website : http://www.shorai-foundation.or.jp/
"Shorai" means wind, or the sound of wind, blowing through pine trees.
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Published on May 21st, 2020
Common Names: Green Tea
Latin Names: Camellia Sinensis
- Green, black, and oolong teas all come from the same plant, Camellia sinensis, but are prepared using different methods. To produce green tea, fresh leaves from the plant are lightly steamed.
- Tea has been used for medicinal purposes in China and Japan for thousands of years.
- Current uses of green tea as a beverage or dietary supplement include improving mental alertness, relieving digestive symptoms and headaches, and promoting weight loss. Green tea and its extracts, such as one of its components, EGCG, have been studied for their possible protective effects against heart disease and cancer.
- Green tea is consumed as a beverage. It is also sold in liquid extracts, capsules, and tablets and is sometimes used in topical products (intended to be applied to the skin).
How Much Do We Know?
- Although many studies have been done on green tea and its extracts, definite conclusions cannot yet be reached on whether green tea is helpful for most of the purposes for which it is used.
What Have We Learned?
- There’s evidence that green tea enhances mental alertness, as would be expected because of its caffeine content.
- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a specific green tea extract ointment as a prescription drug for treating genital warts.
- Studies of green tea and cancer in people have had inconsistent results. The National Cancer Institute does not recommend for or against using green tea to reduce the risk of any type of cancer.
- Very few long-term studies have investigated the effects of tea on heart disease risk. However, the limited evidence currently available suggests that both green and black tea might have beneficial effects on some heart disease risk factors, including blood pressure and cholesterol.
- Green tea extracts haven’t been shown to produce a meaningful weight loss in overweight or obese adults. They also haven’t been shown to help people maintain a weight loss.
- The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) is funding research on green tea and its extracts, including studies of the effects of high doses of tea components on the liver, whether substances in green tea can be helpful for iron overload disease, and the safety of a component of green tea in people who are HIV-positive.
What Do We Know About Safety?
- Green tea, when consumed as a beverage, is believed to be safe when used in moderate amounts.
- Liver problems have been reported in a small number of people who took concentrated green tea extracts. Although the evidence that the green tea products caused the liver problems is not conclusive, experts suggest that concentrated green tea extracts be taken with food and that people discontinue use and consult a health care provider if they have a liver disorder or develop symptoms of liver trouble, such as abdominal pain, dark urine, or jaundice.
- Except for decaffeinated green tea products, green tea and green tea extracts contain substantial amounts of caffeine. Too much caffeine can make people feel jittery and shaky; interfere with sleep; and cause headaches.
- Green tea has been shown to reduce blood levels (and therefore the effectiveness) of the drug nadolol, a beta-blocker used for high blood pressure and heart problems. It may also interact with other medicines.
Keep In Mind
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- Using Dietary Supplements Wisely
- Know the Science: How Medications and Supplements Can Interact
- Know the Science: 9 Questions To Help You Make Sense of Health Research
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Green tea. Natural Medicines Web site. Accessed at naturalmedicines.therapeuticresearch.com/ on April 16, 2015. [Database subscription].
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Jurgens TM, Whelan AM, Lillian L, et al. Green tea for weight loss and weight maintenance in overweight or obese adults. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2012;(12):CD008650. Accessed at http://www.thecochranelibrary.com on April 16, 2015.
Misaka S, Yatabe J, Müller F, et al. Green tea ingestion greatly reduces plasma concentrations of nadolol in healthy subjects. Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. 2014;95(4):432-438.
Mooiman KD, Maas-Bakker RF, Hendrikx JJ, et al. The effect of complementary and alternative medicines on CYP3A4-mediated metabolism of three different substrates: 7-benzyloxy-4-trifluoromethyl-coumarin, midazolam and docetaxel. Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology. 2014;66(6):865-874.
National Cancer Institute. Tea and Cancer Prevention. Strengths and Limits of the Evidence. National Cancer Institute Web site. Accessed at https://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/causes-prevention/risk/diet/tea-fact-sheet on April 16, 2015.
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As spring approaches, so too does ‘Allergy Season’. While this should be a time to reconnect with the great outdoors, frolic in the fields and sing along with the songbirds, many of us find ourselves hidden away indoors, plagued with the sneezes and sniffles spring brings.
Many of us find that as winter gives way to summer, we are hit with an assortment of unpleasant symptoms, from a slightly tickly nose, all the way to sinus infections and dizziness. We stock up with all the very best treatments from the local drug store. Tissues in hand, we do our best to avoid exposure from the causes of our symptoms, often with little success.
So how to truly prevent these unpleasant spring-time complaints? Lock ourselves away from the open fields, blossoming plants and trees? Exercise on the treadmill, rather than the open road? So we avoid the fresh air and sunshine and we’re still plagued by the same symptoms—what gives? The true cause of our irritations may be closer to home; it may be mold in our home.
It is quite possible that our symptoms are caused by exposure to household mold. Mold spores can linger in the air and affect our respiratory systems both while we are awake, and while we are asleep. Mold allergies often lie undetected, and are frequently misdiagnosed as a common cold or seasonal allergies. This affects everyone–adults as well as small children. Also, many of us suffering from mold allergies tend to already suffer from other allergies and chemical sensitivities. Sometimes it’s hard to see the forest for the trees.
So why don’t we realize that mold is causing our issues? One of the reasons could be that mold comes in all shapes and sizes. There’s much more to it than traditional black spot mold, or the green fuzzy stuff we’ve seen in the fridge. It grows in a spectrum of colors too. Black, green, gray, white, pink and yellow molds are the most common. Mold transfers easily from surface to surface and can destroy furniture and upholstery, often from within. While some mold can be wiped clean, others take a stronger hold on our beloved possessions, and our health. Even the very cleanest homes can be plagued by returning mold.
When mold grows in dark and damp locations, such as under the sink or under the stairs, it can often go undetected until our homes are riddled with spores. By this time you may think it’s too late, but your mold problem can be fixed. Sometimes, no matter how thorough our cleaning, we don’t realize there is a mold issue in our home. And sometimes our homes need a little more TLC than a spring cleaning to rid us of our new-found foe.
If you think mold is affecting your health, or are worried about your symptoms, make an appointment with your doctor. Equally important, if you suspect a mold issue, don’t risk your health; schedule an inspection with the Moldguy at Break the Mold. | <urn:uuid:a904cc1b-e3cf-4809-bec7-8cc33cc09e2b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://breakthemoldkzoo.com/2017/01/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.951597 | 631 | 2.34375 | 2 |
TANGGAPAN NG PANGULO NG PILIPINAS
(OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES)
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
PROCLAMATION NO. 1075
PROCLAIMING THE MUNICIPALITY OF SIQUIJOR AS THE
CAPITAL OF THE PROVINCE OF SIQUIJOR
WHEREAS, in the plebiscite held in the sub-province of Siquijor in Negros Oriental during the last local elections on November 8, 1971, pursuant to the provisions of Republic Act No. 6398, the creation of said sub-province into a separate and independent province was favored by a majority votes cast therein and the Municipality of Siquijor was chosen by the highest number of votes as the permanent capital of said new province, as certified by the Commission on Elections; and
WHEREAS, said law directs that the municipality so chosen shall be proclaimed by the President of the Philippines as the capital of said newly created province within thirty days after receipt of said certification by the Commission on Elections;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, hereby proclaim the municipality of Siquijor as the capital of the province of Siquijor.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.
Done in the City of Manila, this 12th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-two.
(SGD.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
Republic of the Philippines
By the President:
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Deployment Extended For K-MAX Unmanned Aerial Cargo Hauler As It Exceeds Million-Pound Milestone
WASHINGTON, May 9, 2012 – Two unmanned K-MAX helicopters have delivered more than one million pounds in less than four months in support of the U.S. Marine Corps in Afghanistan and will remain in theater until September on a deployment extension.
The aircraft, a joint effort by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] and Kaman Aerospace [NYSE: KAMN], is the first unmanned helicopter to deliver cargo and resupply troops in a combat zone. They have been keeping a steady pace of six missions per day, with record load deliveries ranging from a single 4,200-pound sling load to 28,800 pounds lifted in a single day. During operations in Afghanistan, previously scheduled to end in June, the aircraft has met or exceeded all expectations with less than one maintenance man-hour per flight hour. As a result, the Marine Corps has extended the K-MAX deployment through the end of the fiscal year, September 30.
“K-MAX has proven its value to us in-theater, enabling us to safely deliver cargo to forward areas,” said Marine Corps Maj. Kyle O’Connor, who is overseeing the deployment. “We are moving cargo without putting any Marines, soldiers or airmen at risk. If we had a fleet of these things flying 24-7, we could move cargo around and not put people in jeopardy.”
“The record lift and readiness numbers we’re seeing in-theater are a testament to the aircraft’s rugged design and its capability to reliably perform repetitive lift autonomously,” said Roger Il Grande, director of Airborne Systems for Lockheed Martin’s Mission System & Systems business. “The more deliveries the unmanned K-MAX makes, the more we remove the opposition’s ability to undermine our objectives with IED’s, and threaten the lives of our ground forces.”
The unmanned K-MAX has demonstrated its ability to carry and deliver 6,000 pounds of cargo at sea level and more than 4,000 pounds at 10,000 feet altitude. The aircraft can carry more cargo on its four-hook carousel to more locations in one flight than any other unmanned rotary wing platform. Its intermeshing rotors eliminate the need for a tail rotor and allow for significantly improved lift performance and lower maintenance costs.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs about 123,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The Corporation’s net sales for 2011 were $46.5 billion.
Kaman Helicopters is a division of Kaman Aerospace Corporation, a subsidiary of Kaman Corporation (NYSE: KAMN). Founded in 1945 by aviation pioneer Charles H. Kaman, and headquartered in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Kaman conducts business in the aerospace and industrial distribution markets. The company produces and/or markets widely used proprietary aircraft bearings and components; complex metallic and composite aerostructures for commercial, military and general aviation fixed and rotary wing aircraft; safing and arming solutions for missile and bomb systems for the U.S. and allied militaries; subcontract helicopter work; and support for the company’s SH-2G Super Seasprite maritime helicopters and K-MAX medium-to-heavy lift helicopters. The company is also a leading distributor of industrial parts, and operates nearly 200 customer service centers and five distribution centers across North America. | <urn:uuid:640cb622-2805-4d2e-810f-196d8e97b75f> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://lockheedmartin.com/us/news/press-releases/2012/may/deployment-extended-for-k-max-unmanned-aerial-cargo-hauler-as-it.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721355.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00014-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93204 | 753 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Source: The Daily Telegraph
Author: John-Paul Ford Rojas
British Airways staff will be able to identify customers by using a new computer system that searches Google to find images of them.
Cabin crew and staff at check–in desks and first–class lounges will be equipped with technology to help them meet and greet selected travellers.
The aim is to give the airline a more personal touch when serving important passengers, such as chief executives of financial companies, who may not be instantly recognisable by British Airways employees.
The carrier already identifies such passengers on each flight but until now staff would not have known what they looked like until they checked in. Now they will be able to approach such clients proactively.
BA says the “Know Me” system will enable staff “to put a face to the name before the customer sets foot in the airport”.
The programme is able to send messages with information about specific passengers to the iPads of customer service agents and senior cabin crew or update check–in staff via the airline’s computer system.
The system also identifies data on passengers who may have encountered problems in the past so that they can “go the extra mile” for them.
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Arguably 2019 will go down as the year the fake burger went mainstream. And Impossible Foods has a lot to do with it. The buzzy Redwood City, California-based startup served up its plant-based patties in more than 17,000 locations around the country, including restaurants like White Castle, Red Robin, Burger King, and more, and launched in grocery stores for the first time. More importantly, the startup's faux burgers beg some big questions about the future of meat, which is one of the reasons why it is Inc.'s Company of the Year. Getting to that point, however, has come with gnarly challenges, fierce competition, and a fair amount of improvisation, as Inc. editor-at-large Burt Helm explains in his feature for the winter issue of the magazine. Below, founder and CEO Pat Brown explains why his fast-growing startup gave up annual planning--and the unorthodox method it uses instead.--As told to Guadalupe Gonzalez
The thing about the foodservice business is that the flow of information from the customer to us is treacherous and unreliable. We don't sell directly to restaurants. We don't always know how many restaurants are serving our product. Basically, we ship to an uber distributor that then takes the stuff, divides it into smaller lots, and ships to hundreds of local and regional distributors that deliver the product to restaurants. It's a quite complicated and semi-ridiculous system. Demand signals sort of trickle back to us.
Leading up to our product shortage earlier this year, we had not an immediate but [rather] rapidly dawning awareness that the inventories were dwindling, and we didn't have the capacity at the time to replenish them. It took a couple of months before we could really get our teeth in supply again. It's not so easy to massively ramp up production from this standing start.
We took this experience as a heads up that we need to do a much better job of anticipating and planning for surges in demand moving forward. We've categorically changed the way that we forecast and manage our supply chain compared to six months ago. What we had been doing--and what I believe seems to be the norm for most businesses--is that we were using a completely deterministic model for how things would grow: it was just a line supposedly showing demand over time.
That's complete bullshit. I've always felt that way. When we launched in Burger King, our sales were three times what they had anticipated. Burger King knew better than anyone how to guess, but the fact is you just don't know until you do it.
You have to model it probabilistically. We're now using what's called the Monte Carlo method, which is a way of running models where many of the parameters that predict demand have an uncertainty associated with them. We run a thousand trajectories and in each one we randomly sample from the range of the probabilities in different events.
A simplified way of looking at it is that we want to have a plan for production capacity to be able to support either the first percentile or the 95th percentile of demand. That obviously entails some risk, but the reason it's not that risky is that given our rate of growth, and the strong demand signals that we're seeing, we are confident that if we are not at the 95th percentile by a given month, we will be there soon. The last thing we want, and we made this mistake earlier in the year when we couldn't keep up with demand, is to plan for a conservative growth rate, and as result, not be able to fulfill it because we haven't built the capacity.
The opportunity-cost of not planning for success vastly outweighs the risk of building capacity prematurely. It's a completely different way of thinking about the business and running it. We don't have any certainty where we are going to land in that spectrum, so we better be prepared for anywhere. It hasn't gone down easy.
When looking at our projections for retail sales, it's the exact same thing. There are tens of thousands of grocery stores that are interested in having our products in their shelves. We can make estimates with their help, but the fact of the matter is--it's just a guess. It could be anywhere in this very wide range and we need to have a plan that works wherever it lands.
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The Associated Press
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 7
Nixon boldly vetoes particularly cruel abortion restriction:
In his 27 years in public office in Missouri, Jay Nixon has been all over the map on the subject of abortion.
Running for the state Senate in 1986, and for U.S. Senate in 1988, he said he was pro-life. He ran several subsequent campaigns for state and federal office as a pro-choice candidate, or at least someone willing to abide by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade.
As the state’s attorney general for 16 years beginning in 1993, he was called upon to defend several laws restricting abortion. Most notably, in Reproductive Health Services v. Nixon in 2006, the Missouri Supreme Court upheld the state constitutionality of a bill imposing a 24-hour waiting period before women could obtain an abortion.
Nearly every year, the Legislature tries to impose some new restriction on abortion. As governor since 2009, Mr. Nixon three times has used a punting provision in the state constitution to allow bills restricting abortion to become law without his signature.
All of which makes what Mr. Nixon did last week not only surprising, but startling in its boldness. He vetoed House Bill 1307, this year’s particularly cruel abortion restriction bill.
It would have tripled the waiting period before obtaining an abortion to 72 hours, with no exception for rape or incest, giving Missouri the most restrictive abortion law in the country.
Mr. Nixon did not mince words in his veto message, calling the bill a “disrespectful measure that would unnecessarily prolong the suffering of rape and incest victims and jeopardize the health and well-being of women.”
Mr. Nixon wrote that “underlying this bill and the expansion of the governmental interference it would mandate is a paternalistic presumption that rape and incest victims are somehow unable to grasp the horror that has befallen them. …”
Further, he said, a longer waiting period “serves no demonstrable purpose other than to create emotional and financial hardships for women who have undoubtedly already spent considerable time wrestling with perhaps the most difficult decision they may ever have to make. … This is insulting to women. …”
Yes it is.
The Legislature in September’s veto session no doubt will add further insult by trying to override the veto. It’s long past time for lawmakers in a state that now has but a single abortion clinic, a 24-hour waiting period and other men-know-best restrictions to do what Mr. Nixon learned to do: Butt out of decisions that are very much not their business.
The Kansas City Star, July 3
Shame again falls on Catholic leadership:
A scathing arbitration decision released recently adds to the shame of Bishop Robert Finn’s leadership of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph.
The stunning denunciation hit area Catholics almost six years after the church signed a $10 million settlement with 47 people who said they or a family member were sexually abused by priests.
Yet arbitrator Hollis Hanover, who handled a breach of contract lawsuit filed in 2011 that grew out of the 2008 settlement, concluded that top Catholic officials purposefully did not carry through on some pledges.
Hanover awarded $1.1 million to most of the same plaintiffs in the original lawsuit. He essentially said the church had failed to live up to its promise to take aggressive actions to deal with future sexual abuse of children. Church members once again are faced with paying for the mistakes Finn and others have made.
With that dereliction of duty, Hanover said, the church imposed even more emotional damage on the plaintiffs. They had expected that the problems they suffered would lead to wholesale positive changes by the church. Instead, he wrote, the diocese “had once again sacrificed the welfare of children so that it could ‘save the priesthood’ of a criminal, in this case a pornographer.”
The reference is to Father Shawn Ratigan and to the failure by Finn and others in the diocese to promptly report that lewd images of young children had been found on Ratigan’s computer in 2010. Eventually, Ratigan pleaded guilty to child pornography charges and was sentenced to 50 years in prison.
In 2012, Bishop Finn was found guilty by a Jackson County judge of failing to report suspicions of child abuse to authorities. He got off easy, sentenced to two years of probation.
Finn’s criminal conviction undermined his credibility to remain bishop. For the good of Catholic congregations throughout Kansas City and the region, many expected him to resign. He refused. And in the latest case, lawyers for the diocese are fighting to throw out the award, saying Hanover exceeded his authority in the matter.
The 2008 settlement was supposed to put a stop to misdeeds.
Local Catholics again are paying a steep price, while Finn defiantly stays on as a bishop. Even a forgiving church can’t be expected to keep paying for failures of leadership. Finn’s best choice — for the church, its members and their children — is resignation.
The Joplin Globe, July 2
Signed, sealed, delivered:
We won’t tell you again how supportive we are of the passing of legislation that now requires radiologists to include information on mammograms that could save a woman’s life.
We won’t tell you again how ridiculous we find it that this legislation, which calls for one simple extra step, previously failed in Missouri. After all, the bill only asked that women with dense breasts be told that they may want to seek additional screening.
And we won’t tell you again how well bipartisan efforts can work in this state when politicians forget about party lines in the face of important lifesaving legislation.
But we will tell you that we are celebrating the fact that Gov. Jay Nixon traveled to Joplin to sign the bill at Freeman Hospital West, where he was joined by Patty Richard, the woman who pushed this bill with the help of her husband, Sen. Ron Richard, R-Joplin, as well as Sen. Dan Brown, R-Rolla, and Rep. Sue Allen, R-Town and Country.
Patty Richard learned about the problems associated with dense breast tissue while helping a close friend deal with breast cancer. She made passage of this legislation a personal mission, testifying before committees and likely collaring lawmakers in the hall to make sure they were aware of the importance of their vote.
The bill passed with nearly unanimous support. Patty Richard’s work came to fruition with the Democratic governor’s signature on July 1.
Patty Richard was also an advocate for legislation in Missouri that required insurance companies cover behavioral therapy costs for children with autism.
Missouri now takes its place as the 19th state to require radiologists to alert women with dense breasts that other screening options are available.
It’s about time.
Jefferson City News Tribune, July 5
Healthy approach pairs liaisons, law enforcement:
An initiative to improve mental health services is both enlightened and cost-effective.
The creation of community health liaisons is a component of Gov. Jay Nixon’s 2013 program titled “Caring for Missourians: Mental Health Initiative.”
Under the initiative, local law enforcement agencies and courts partner with mental health professionals to end a cycle of incarceration by providing access and treatment. In Cole and four other Central Missouri counties, the liaison is Ted Solomon of Pathways Community Health.
Law enforcement officials are acutely aware of the revolving door of incarceration for people with untreated mental health disorders.
“Jail has become a repository for the mentally ill in most cases,” said Cole County Sheriff Greg White. “And until government gets a hand on the fact that a chemical imbalance is an illness the same as a broken arm is, it will stay that way.”
The initiative contains two laudable goals: decreasing societal costs and treating individual mental health disorders.
Debra Walker, a public affairs officer for the Missouri Department of Mental Health, addressed both when she said: “The program is reducing unnecessary jail, prison and hospital stays and improves outcomes for individuals with behavioral health issues.”
Solomon also acknowledged that “a big part of the liaison project is to try to save money because it costs a lot more to incarcerate people than it does to treat them.”
A greater challenge — for both law enforcement and mental health professionals — is to promote wellness by linking people in need to available resources and treatment.
Incarceration of people suffering mental health disorders is a costly, stopgap response to an ongoing problem.
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Photographer: Johnston and Hoffmann
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Photograph of ruined monuments at Dacca (Dhaka) taken in the 1880s, from an album 'Architectural Views of Dacca', containing 13 prints by Johnston and Hoffman. Dhaka, now the capital of Bangladesh, became prominent in the 17th century as a provincial capital of the Mughal empire, and was a major centre of trade, particularly in fine muslins. Its history, though largely obscured, is ancient, and it was brought under Islamic rule by the 13th century, first by the Delhi Sultanate then by the independent sultans of Bengal, after which it was taken by the Mughals in 1608. In the 18th century Dhaka was eclipsed by Murshidabad under the Nawabs of Bengal and its population diminished. As the fortunes of the Nawabs declined, the power of the East India Company became a new factor. Queen Victoria’s Proclamation in 1858 brought all the territories held by the Company (including Dhaka) under British rule. Dhaka has many remnants of buildings from its Mughal period. Tradition states that the ruined Lal Bagh Fort in Dhaka was founded in 1678 by Prince Azam Khan, the son of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, when he was governor here. It was added to by Shayista Khan, Mughal governor between 1679-1688. The complex contains many structures including a huge mosque and the building called Pari Bibi's Tomb, which is believed to be that of Shayista Khan's favourite daughter, the death of whom is said to have caused construction to be halted, resulting in the Lalbagh remaining incomplete. Its interior follows closely the plan of Mughal mausoleums. | <urn:uuid:6fb2c42c-2f73-4868-80bd-507a557558d8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/v/019pho000001019u00002000.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00124-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978102 | 375 | 3.453125 | 3 |
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Thimerosal is a preservative that contains mercury and was used for many years as an additive in some routinely administered children's vaccines.
Fears developed a few years ago that the additive might have been causing dangerously elevated levels of mercury in infants, resulting in neurological impairment and, in some cases, autism.
Studies thus far have neither shown nor ruled out a link between the vaccines and neurological damage in children. But in the summer of 1999 the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Public Health Service urged vaccine manufacturers to stop using thimerosal as quickly as possible.
Thus, thimerosal, which was developed by Eli Lilly & Company in the 1920's and was in widespread use by the 1990's, is no longer added to vaccines commonly given to children. But a serious controversy continues. Lawsuits have been filed by parents across the country who are convinced that their children suffered severe neurological damage from the mercury in the vaccines. Talking to them can be heartbreaking.
Lyn Redwood, a nurse practitioner and the wife of a physician in suburban Atlanta, spoke to me last week about her 8-year-old son, Will. ''I have a little boy who was completely normal at birth -- walking, talking, smiling, meeting all of his developmental landmarks,'' she said. ''Then, shortly after he turned 1 year old, he lost his ability to speak, to make eye contact. He started regressing and ultimately was diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder, which falls into a spectrum of autism disorders.''
Ms. Redwood contends that three infant vaccines administered to her son when he was 2 months old exposed him to levels of mercury that far exceeded all safety guidelines.
At this point we must interrupt our narrative and turn our attention to the federal government's effort to fight terrorism in the United States.
Last week the Senate approved legislation to establish a Department of Homeland Security and it will soon be signed into law by the president. Buried in this massive bill, snuck into it in the dark of night by persons unknown (actually, it's fair to say by Republican persons unknown), was a provision that -- incredibly -- will protect Eli Lilly and a few other big pharmaceutical outfits from lawsuits by parents who believe their children were harmed by thimerosal.
Now this has nothing to do with homeland security. Nothing. This is not a provision that will in any way protect us from the ferocious evil of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda. So why is it there? Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the major drug companies have become a gigantic collective cash machine for politicians, and that the vast majority of that cash goes to Republicans.
Or maybe it's related to the fact that Mitch Daniels, the White House budget director, is a former Eli Lilly big shot. Or the very convenient fact that just last June President Bush appointed Eli Lilly's chairman, president and C.E.O., Sidney Taurel, to a coveted seat on the president's Homeland Security Advisory Council.
There's a real bad smell here. Eli Lilly will benefit greatly as both class-action and individual lawsuits are derailed. But there are no fingerprints in sight. No one will own up to a legislative deed that is both cynical and shameful.
An official spokesman for Eli Lilly, Edward Sagebiel, insists the company knew nothing about it, nothing at all.
While the vote for the Homeland Security Department was overwhelming, even some Republicans were upset by the provision to benefit Lilly and the other drug companies.
Senator John McCain of Arizona characterized the provision as ''among the most inappropriate'' in the homeland security legislation. He said: ''This language will primarily benefit large brand-name pharmaceutical companies which produce additives to children's vaccines -- with substantial benefit to one company in particular. It has no bearing whatsoever on domestic security.''
The politicians with their hands out and the fat cats with plenty of green to spread around have carried the day. Nothing is too serious to exploit, not even the defense of the homeland during a time of terror.
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This article continues the series of reviews devoted to choosing the right overclocking friendly memory kit for systems built around the promising Intel Core 2 Duo processors. In our previous articles we have already discussed in detail fast and expensive PC2-8000 memory (for details see our article called DDR2 SDRAM to Hit 1.1GHz: Corsair Dominator vs. OCZ PC2-8800 Gold Edition) as well as even faster one (for details see our article called Choosing the Right Memory for Core 2 Duo Platform - Part 2: DDR2-1000, DDR2-1067 SDRAM). Today we feel it is time to pay due attention to less supreme but still very interesting DDR2-800 SDRAM.
First of all I would like to stress that in most cases you should consider DDR2-800 SDRAM to be the best choice for Core 2 Duo based platforms. As we have already demonstrated in this article, the overclocked system can reach its highest performance level in case the processor bus and the memory bus are clocked synchronously. And keeping in mind that the typical Conroe overclocking usually occurs at about 400MHz FSB frequency, then the overclocker’s DDR2-800 SDRAM can be recommended as the best choice for most enthusiasts. Especially, since most PC2-6400 memory modules have proven capable not only to work at 800MHz with pretty aggressive timing settings, but also to be overclocked to hit much higher speeds at slightly longer latencies.
Of course, we shouldn’t disregard the efficiency of fast memory modules for overclocker systems, especially after we have described their universality in our previous materials. As our tests revealed, faster overclocker memory modules designed to run at 1GHz+ frequency can work at 800MHz with pretty aggressive timings. However, the price point is yet another important factor that cannot be omitted here. PC2-6400 SDRAM modules are much more affordable than 1GHz or faster memory solutions. Therefore, these memory modules enjoy most popularity among overclockers.
I have to say that high efficiency of synchronous clocking of the processor and memory busses is not the only argument in favor of mainstream overclocker’s memory solutions. Our tests showed that far not all LGA775 mainboards compatible with Core 2 Duo processors can ensure stable functioning of the memory at 1GHz or higher speeds. For example some i975X based mainboards, namely the popular overclocker’s product -ASUS P5W DH Deluxe, experience certain problems. As a result, PC2-8000 and faster memory can only be really used to the advantage in Intel P965 based platforms, which limits the application field for this memory quite noticeably.
By the way, this is one of the reasons why we selected ASUS P5B Deluxe mainboard as a test platform for our DDR2 SDRAM test for Core 2 Duo, because this newer Intel chipset is better optimized for work with the high-speed DDR2 SDRAM. At the same time I would like to point out that DDR2 memory usually overclocks even better in Socket AM2 systems. However, for the reasons mentioned in the previous articles of the series, today we are going to look at DDR2 SDRAM performance and operation only in systems with Core 2 Duo processor.
At this point I would only like to add that the memory controller of the new Intel P965 chipset boasts a few features distinguishing it from the predecessors and competitors. The engineers did their best to make this memory controller as intellectual as possible: for the first time it features out-of-order commands execution algorithms that allow more efficient use of open memory pages. As a result, it helps to utilize the DDR2 SDRAM memory bus gets more effectively and reduce the latencies during data processing. So, the iP965 memory controller boasts very different features unlike similar units built into other processors and chips.
However, let’s not veer too far away from the main goal of our today’s test session. As we have already mentioned we will be looking at 2GB PC2-6400 SDRAM overclocker’s memory kits. All the tests will be conducted in the following test platform:
- Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 CPU (LGA775, 2.93GHz, 4MB L2);
- ASUS P5B Deluxe mainboard (LGA775, Intel P965 Express);
- PowerColor X1900 XTX 512MB graphics card (PCI-E x16);
- Maxtor MaXLine III 250GB HDD (SATA150);
- Microsoft Windows XP SP2 with DirectX 9.0c.
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In a move that evokes memories of the Watergate scandal of 1974, President Obama today invoked executive privilege in the Fast and Furious scandal, placing off limits the subpoenaed documents the Justice Department had been ordered to submit to Congress.
The move gives at least some legal protection to Attorney General Eric Holder in his ongoing dispute with Congress over the documents. But executive privilege will not protect him from a citation of contempt of Congress or possible criminal charges.
Obama's move to invoke executive privilege is eerily reminiscent of the conflict between Congress and the Executive Branch during the Watergate scandal that destroyed the presidency of Richard M. Nixon.
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Kansas: Legislature, not courts, should decide school funding, Brownback says
TOPEKA — Starting a new legislative session during an election year and with a state Supreme Court ruling on school finance expected any day, Gov. Sam Brownback on Wednesday said his conservative Republican policies have helped lift Kansas from the Great Recession.
“Three years in, we are in a much better position,” Brownback said in his State of the State address to a joint session of the Legislature.
Brownback took a verbal swipe at the Kansas Supreme Court over the school finance case as five of the seven justices sat nearby.
The court is expected to rule soon on a lower court panel ruling that the state has unconstitutionally cut school budgets and must increase education funding by nearly $500 million per year. If the court rules against the state, the question then will become whether the Republican-dominated Legislature will comply with the order or defy the Supreme Court.
Brownback said the Legislature — not the courts — should be in charge of school funding.
He added, “Let us resolve that our schools remain open and are not closed by the courts or anyone else.”
Republican legislators leaped to their feet and applauded, but the justices, including Chief Justice Lawton Nuss, sat expressionless.
State Rep. Barbara Ballard, D-Lawrence, said she hoped Brownback’s comments and the Republican response meant that the majority party in the Legislature is serious about increasing funding to schools.
Brownback’s likely Democratic opponent, House Minority Leader Paul Davis of Lawrence, gave the Democratic response, saying Brownback’s “reckless” tax policies have hurt the state and middle class Kansans who struggle to make ends meet.
“Our schools are suffering, jobs remain scarce, and property taxes are sky-rocketing. Meanwhile, big, politically connected corporations seem to get all the breaks,” Davis said.
On higher education, Brownback gave no indication of what funding level he would propose. Last year, Brownback and Republican legislative leaders reduced higher education spending, including a $13.5 million cut to Kansas University.
“In my budget proposal, I will continue to support our universities, community and technical colleges and I am confident they will produce the next generation of Kansas leaders,” he said.
Brownback reiterated his proposal to provide full state funding for all-day kindergarten.
Democrats said Brownback’s plan was an empty proposal because the governor’s tax cuts had depleted the treasury.
“The reality is there is no money to pay for it,” said state Rep. John Wilson, D-Lawrence.
State Rep. Tom Sloan, R-Lawrence, said there weren’t a lot of specifics in Brownback’s speech. “It was a rah rah speech,” he said, typical of what other governors have given.
Davis took aim at Brownback’s tax changes. Brownback has pushed through cuts in state income tax rates and eliminated income taxes for nearly 200,000 business owners, but increased the state sales tax while decreasing tax credits and deductions.
“It’s time to change direction,” said Davis, who recorded the Democratic Party message from Hillcrest School, where his mother taught second grade for nearly 20 years and where he went to school.
He said the Brownback tax policy has shifted the tax burden to middle- and low-income Kansans and squeezed funding for schools and social services.
Brownback said that since he took office, the Kansas unemployment rate decreased from 6.9 percent to 5.1 percent. He also said that state government spending is now under control.
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Hydraulic Fracturing or “Fracking” is a new technology that has opened up immense resources of natural gas buried in deep shale beds. Some see it as the answer to the energy crisis and a chance at energy independence. But fracking has become an incredibly divisive issue ripping apart communities and even families. The backlash is unprecedented, with states and countries adopting fracking bans.
Shattered Ground is a one hour documentary that looks past the rhetoric and emotional arguments to find the real issues involved in hydraulic fracturing, the opportunity, and the potential health and environmental issues that will affect us all. | <urn:uuid:0787781f-5f52-4c7d-8760-d76eaf4dbde6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lgimedia.com/tv_program/shattered-ground/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.939639 | 119 | 2.34375 | 2 |
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Before the advent of the Interactive Electronic Technical Manual (IETM), there were simply physical books which were separated into chapters and pages. With IETMs, industries, especially aerospace and defense, are discovering the benefits of delivering and reviewing technical data electronically.
IETMs depart from the conventional approach to providing information by introducing a new format as well as higher levels of functionality for the manuals. What would have been many volumes of text can now be compressed into online pages or CD-ROMs, and may even feature audio and video components. In addition, IETM allow readers to find the needed information more easily than with traditional paper manuals.
There were drawbacks to the first generation of IETMs, however; the most important being the presentation of data that remained book-oriented – with readers turning pages of information which came in a chapter-section-page format. To address this, hyperlinks were introduced, including links to references for figures, tables and sections. Data was also now structured based on the content’s logic.
IETM Classes IV and V featured an even more revolutionary approach to data presentation: technical data was now organized according to the information, and diagrams and drawings were pooled into a database that could be easily referred to when accessing the content.
A major difference with these newer classes of IETM is the possibilities they offer for content re-use, or building upon data that is still current instead of recreating all the time. With these new levels, users can easily navigate through and make changes to the data, so that pages become part of a dynamic document that can be stored in a relational database. IETM Class V offers even more radical breakthroughs, with the data constantly aggregated and improved based on the input of a large number of users.
CDG provides [http://www.cdgnow.com/]Technical Publications and Engineering Data Conversion Services to aid the delivery of [http://www.cdgnow.com/services/interactivemanuals/index.asp]IETM. The company is at the forefront of efforts to further develop technical data standards such as S1000D. For more details on CDG’s IETM delivery solutions, visit CDGNow.com or call 714-503-4200. | <urn:uuid:48ce20b7-8008-4de7-b88c-788e613a7ca5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.technicalcommunicationcenter.com/2010/07/19/ietm-classes-iv-and-v-represent-the-future-of-technical-documentation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00017-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946135 | 540 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Oakland artist repurposes trash into vibrant houses for the homeless
The necessity to shelter the homeless is a prevalent and widespread reality for many urban areas, including oakland, california, the hometown of american artist gregory kloehn who is using his creative capacity as an action for change. as the founder of the ‘homeless homes project‘ — a community driven initiative — kloehn has realized a low-cost, practical and imaginative solution for the construction of habitable shelters for those living on the streets. he combs through heaps of illegally dumped trash, commercial waste and excess household items piled in alleyways and discarded throughout the city, and upcycles the raw materials into walls, roofs, doors, windows, wheels and locks. kloehn describes that adopting the otherwise disused garbage as a medium for architectural development ‘diminishes money’s influence over the building process‘ and transforms the rejected debris into an object of hope and happiness.
The small-scale structures are built with a special attention to an animated color scheme and fresh design details. painted in hues like cotton candy pink, canary yellow, sky blue, and hot red, they bring a strong sense of vibrancy and spirit to each individual dwelling. tiny doors are embellished with mirrors and windows, transmitting daylight into the mobile habitat, while locks equipped on the entryways bring a sense of security and privacy to the residents.
Smart use of materials and clever reinterpretations of the trash supplies constitute rain proof roofs — formed from discarded plastic sheeting — windows — made from a washing machine door — and skylights — fashioned from wooden pieces. all homes are mobile so that they can accommodate the nomadic lifestyle of homeless residents while avoiding the complexities of permanent structures.
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Invoice is a very important tool, because the invoice is a commercial character bills for evidence of a transaction. Invoie usually in the form of bills relating to the transaction between the seller and the buyer. The main benefit of the invoice is to as evidence of a transaction. Invoce proof can be made in reference to the finance department of a company.
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Onion is a plant. The bulb (rounded underground part) of the onion is used to make medicine.
Onion is used for treating digestion problems including loss of appetite, upset stomach, and gallbladder disorders; for treating heart and blood vessel problems including chest pain (angina) and high blood pressure; and for preventing “hardening of the arteries” (atherosclerosis). It is also used for treating sore mouth and throat, whooping cough, bronchitis, asthma, dehydration, intestinal gas, parasitic worms, and diabetes. Some people use it as a diuretic to increase urine output.
Onion is applied directly to the skin for insect bites, wounds, light burns, boils, warts, and bruises.
In foods, onion is used in many recipes.
In manufacturing, the oil is used to flavor foods.
How it works
Onion might help reduce cholesterol levels, a risk factor for hardening of the arteries. There is some evidence that onion might also reduce lung tightness in people with asthma.
Most research suggests that applying onion extract, usually as a specific product containing heparin and allantoin (Contractubex), to the skin for 10 weeks to 6 months improves scar color and appearance, as well as pain and itching, in people with scars due to burns, tattoo removal, injuries, or surgical removement of tissue. However, using a specific product containing onion exract and allantoin (Mederma, Merz Pharmaceuticals) for 4-11 weeks does not seem to improve the appearance of new surgical scars.
Onion is LIKELY SAFE when taken by mouth in amounts commonly found in food or when applied to the skin
It is POSSIBLY SAFE for most people when taken by mouth in larger amounts. Taking up to a maximum of 35 mg of the onion ingredient “diphenylamine” per day for several months seems to be safe.
Pregnancy and breast-feeding: There is not enough reliable information about the safety of taking onion as a medicine if you arepregnantorbreast-feeding. Stay on the safe side and avoid using onion in amounts larger than usual food amounts.Are there any interactions with medications?
Bleeding disorder: Onion might slow blood clotting. There is concern that onion might increase the risk of bleeding when taken as a medicine. Don't use medicinal amounts of onion or onion extract if you have a bleeding disorder.
Diabetes: Onion might lower blood sugar. If you have diabetes and use onion in medicinal amounts, check your blood sugar carefully.
Surgery: Onion might slow blood clotting and lower blood sugar. In theory, onion might increase the risk for bleeding or interfere with blood sugar control during and after surgical procedures. Stop using onion as a medicine at least 2 weeks before a scheduled surgery.
Some people are allergic to onions. Aspirin might increase your sensitivity to onions if you are allergic to onions. This has only been reported in one person. But to be on the safe side, if you are allergic to onions do not take aspirin and eat onions.Lithium
Onion might have an effect like a water pill or "diuretic." Taking onion might decrease how well the body gets rid of lithium. This could increase how much lithium is in the body and result in serious side effects. Talk with your healthcare provider before using this product if you are taking lithium. Your lithium dose might need to be changed.Medications that slow blood clotting (Anticoagulant / Antiplatelet drugs)
Some medications are changed and broken down by the liver. Onion might slow down how quickly the liver breaks down some medications. Taking onion along with some medications that are broken down by the liver might increase the effects and side effects of some medications. Before taking onion, talk to your healthcare provider if you are taking any medications that are changed by the liver.Medications that might be affected include acetaminophen, chlorzoxazone (Parafon Forte), ethanol, theophylline, and anesthetics such as enflurane (Ethrane), halothane (Fluothane), isoflurane (Forane), methoxyflurane (Penthrane), and others.Onion might decrease blood sugar. Diabetes medications are also used to lower blood sugar. Taking onion along with diabetes medications might cause your blood sugar to go too low. Monitor your blood sugar closely. The dose of your diabetes medication might need to be changed.Some medications used for diabetes include glimepiride (Amaryl), glyburide (DiaBeta, Glynase PresTab, Micronase), insulin, pioglitazone (Actos), rosiglitazone (Avandia), chlorpropamide (Diabinese), glipizide (Glucotrol), tolbutamide (Orinase), and others.Onion might slow blood clotting. Taking onion along with medications that also slow clotting might increase the chances of bruising and bleeding.Some medications that slow blood clotting include aspirin, clopidogrel (Plavix), diclofenac (Voltaren, Cataflam, others), ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin, others), naproxen (Anaprox, Naprosyn, others), dalteparin (Fragmin), enoxaparin (Lovenox), heparin, warfarin (Coumadin), and others. | <urn:uuid:bea018f5-5930-436e-9802-42ba2786da47> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.vitaminology.co/ingredients/onion | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.90382 | 1,176 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Ways of Keeping a Dental Crown from Coming Loose or Breaking
Posted on 8/23/2021 by Alexandra Garcia DDS MS
|A dental crown is a durable, long-lasting way to restore a missing tooth. However, like your natural teeth, crowns are not indestructible. Crowns can sometimes chip, break, or come loose as a result of an injury or from certain habits. Here are some tips for caring for your dental crown and preventing it from breaking or loosening.
Avoid Sticky and Crunchy Foods
Very sticky foods such as caramel, taffy, dried fruits, and chewing gum can stick to your crown and cause it to pull away from your tooth. Plus, most of these items are high in sugar, so they could cause cavities and tooth decay if they get stuck on your crown or between your teeth.
Crunchy foods are also harmful if you have a dental crown. Nuts, seeds, and popcorn can easily become lodged at the edge of a crown, causing it to loosen. Plus, these foods can also chip or crack dental crowns, and hard shells are sometimes sharp enough to irritate your gums. Even people without any crowns can damage their teeth with these hard, crunchy foods.
Do Not Grind Your Teeth or Chew Hard Objects
Many people grind their teeth without even realizing it, but this habit is very harmful to both natural teeth and restorative work like crowns, veneers, and bridges. The force of teeth grinding can scratch, loosen, and even break your dental crown. If you experience chronic jaw pain, headaches, or difficulty getting a good night's sleep, you may be grinding your teeth at night. We can fit you for a custom mouthguard that will protect your crown and the rest of your teeth from this habit. Additionally, habits such as chewing on ice, using your teeth as tools, biting your fingernails, or chewing on other hard objects like pencils can also damage your crown and cause it to loosen or break.
What to Do If Your Crown is Loose
If your dental crown starts to feel loose or falls out completely, you should contact us right away. Do not try to put it back in yourself without asking us first, especially if it fell out while you were eating, as food debris and bacteria may have entered the area. Rinse your mouth with warm salt water and keep the crown in a safe place until we can see you. Call our office today if your crown loosened, broke, or fell out. | <urn:uuid:517cf612-e522-4def-a9a8-6d3711a795c4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dralexandragarcia.com/p/BLOG-86366-2021.8.23-Ways-of-Keeping-a-Dental-Crown-from-Coming-Loose-or-Breaking-p.asp?C=1501 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.944893 | 533 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Thankfully, that’s not happening to the Sylva-based Canary Coalition and its goal of elevating air quality, climate change and energy issues into a social movement on the scale of abolition, women’s suffrage and civil rights. Canary Coalition Executive Director Avram Friedman and the coalition’s board have made this homegrown organization and its message relevant, timely, and important for citizens throughout North Carolina and the Southeast.
This past weekend the Canary Coalition completed its third Relay for Clean Air, a 24-hour, 100-mile trek from the hazy tower above Clingmans Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Volunteers run, bike or walk sections of the route, and Friedman said he is particularly proud of the fact that all volunteers have shown up for their designated leg of the relay during its entire three-year history. That means people have shown up in the middle of the night, during rain showers, and despite personal crises that may have come up.
The goal of the Relay is to raise awareness about air quality, but this year it has an even more specific purpose.
The Canary Coalition is working with Nuclear Information and Resource Service and the Southeastern Energy and Environment Expo on the “Energy at the Crossroads” Tour. It is an ongoing 18-month, eight-state schedule of meetings and seminars developed in response to the applications for new coal and nuclear power plants throughout the Southeast (including Duke Power’s plan to build a new nuclear plant in Cherokee County, South Carolina) by utility companies.
The tour will explore why individuals should make energy choices that lead to a sustainable future. In addition, it will highlight smart, affordable energy choices that are available right now that “protect the environment, create new jobs, strengthen national security and provide for a sustainable economic future,” according to Friedman.
Overall, the tour’s objective is to show that smart energy use and conservation can replace the need for more power plants, and that smart energy use is good for health, the economy and the environment. There’s little doubt that this country’s energy policy leaves much to be desired, and that our current policy is threatening our economy and upsetting the political balance around the globe.
Friedman and the homegrown Canary Coalition are waging a good fight, arming those who will listen with information and knowledge while sprinkling in some good public relations efforts like the Relay for Clean Air. We wish them continued success as they try to elevate the debate about one of the most important issues facing this country. | <urn:uuid:4a2b10bc-6041-4833-a34a-cdfb921e35c1> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.smokymountainnews.com/archives/item/13157-canary-coalition-is-leading-in-the-right-direction | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719547.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00395-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949461 | 529 | 2.15625 | 2 |
What if Mike McQueary had walked into the locker room and seen Jerry Sandusky raping a 10-year-old girl?
What if the investigators were listening to a mom confronting Sandusky about showering with her daughter? Would the Campus Police and County DA have dropped the case?
It's doubtful. Someone, somewhere, would have called him out. The difference? The additional shame factor: homosexuality. The allegations aren't that he was just abusing kids; the allegations are that he was abusing boys.
McQueary, Paterno and all the others were probably speechless due to both counts: not only would a school legend be known as a child rapist, but he would likely be perceived as gay.
Consider documented homophobia at Penn State. In 1986, women's basketball coach Rene Portland bragged to the Chicago Sun-Times about her policy of "No drugs. No alcohol. No lesbians." Responding to protests, then-Athletic-Director Joe Paterno defended her as one of the best hiring decisions he'd made.
After 1992, when the university added sexual orientation to their non-discrimination policy, she covertly continued her anti-lesbian practices for another 13 years. These led to her and Penn State being sued for discrimination in 2005 based on perceived sexual orientation. The university fought back, claiming their non-discrimination policy was not a legal document and eventually settled.
If that was the atmosphere for women's basketball, imagine what it was like for the macho, money-machine of the legendary football team!
Even today, students seem to think Portland's policies still resonate. Number 6 on the FAQ list on the Penn State's LGBTQA website is, "What do I do if I'm an athlete who is LGBT? Who can I talk to?" See the answers here. They're not exactly reassuring.
In this type of environment, where everyone knows policy is one thing and practice is another, perhaps Penn State was paralyzed not only by the alleged rapes, but by the fear of having a gay coach. This additional factor slowed down and skewed the response. When Coach is King, things get handled internally by the team, not reported to outside authorities who might reveal the Lions' shame.
After all, in the eyes of a homophobic culture, a gay pedophile is much worse than a straight one.
This tradition of tackling shame with silence impacted the victims, as well, who also slowed down and skewed their reporting. No doubt they wondered if a man being attracted to them meant they were gay -- something they knew was incompatible with Penn State football. So they, too, kept quiet.
Would it have been different if the child being raped was a girl? Yes. Because there would have been only one shame factor: having a pedophile on the payroll.
Fear of the gay factor, in a very twisted way, probably protected Jerry Sandusky. It silenced his witnesses, betrayed his victims, and prevented justice from being served.
Editor's Note: Due to some discussions about the intent and content of this blog post which took place both in the HuffPost comments section below and on other Internet sites, Abel wrote the following short piece to clarify some of her original points.
It seems there is some confusion about what I was trying to express. I've spent the past 18 years as an outspoken, unflinching advocate for our community in many ways: as a staff member, board member and volunteer for many LGBT organizations, sometimes being one of the few willing to speak to the media about our need for equality, and I am making a film that aims to dispels stereotypes about what life can hold for LGBT people. The last thing I would think or say is that pedophilia has anything to do with being gay!
I understand that some Penn State alumni may have been offended by the characterization of PSU athletics being homophobic. And I apologize if that is incorrect. I made my statement based on several factors: the "No lesbians" policies of the coach who ran the women's basketball team until 6 years ago; Paterno's support of this openly anti-lesbian coach; the university backing away from it's own non-discrimination policy when sued; the widespread reporting of homophobia in sports in general; and the athlete-specific question on the LGBTQA's website that seems to indicate it is riskier for athletes to be open than for the rest of the student body. Are things better on PSU's campus than they were 10 years ago? Probably. But can anyone say there is not a climate of homophobia on this or any other college football team? If so, and I am wrong, I sincerely apologize.
My premise is that the false belief that pedophilia and homosexuality are connected is what caused action to be even slower than it may have been had that belief not existed. And, that this "slowed down response" protected Sandusky and harmed children. Because not I, but homophobic people, tend to think "He molested boys, he must be gay," homophobic administrators might have jumped to that possible conclusion. If so, they would not have wanted to deal with the added layer of shame of thinking they had a gay coach. I don't think it's shameful to have a gay coach -- but it is likely Penn State might think so. After all, if Paterno supported an anti-gay coach, would he also support a gay one?
I tried to make it clear that the sentiments I described were attributed to homophobic administrators. For example, the title intentionally has "Gay Factor" in quotes, because I don't think there is anything "gay" about the situation, but some might have thought there to be. I refer to the possibility that Paterno & Co may have perceived Sandusky to be gay. And, as some have claimed, I did not say there is such a thing as "a gay pedophile": I said "In a homophobic culture, a gay pedophile is much worse than a straight one." Let me illustrate: "In misogynistic circles, women should be barefoot and pregnant rather than educated and employed." Am I saying women should be barefoot and pregnant? Of course not; I'm saying misogynists are saying that. Likewise, am I saying there is a distinction between gay and straight pedophiles? No -- I'm saying homophobes think that. Pedophiles are pedophiles -- not gay or straight, just criminals.
I get that this topic is loaded. I cringe when I hear a news story about a pedophile who has abused boys, knowing this will reinforce the beliefs of those who equate pedophilia and homosexuality. I also find it painful when this very bias -- homophobia -- that keeps us working so hard to overcome stereotypes is also used to enable those who deny us our rights. I believed, and still do, that pointing out how homophobia impacted each person involved -- the abuser, the witnesses, those who were informed, and the victims -- could illustrate a point: Homophobia, which we are used to saying hurts LGBT people, also hurt non-LGBT people in this case while also protecting a criminal.
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COULEE CITY — “It’s the only thing I’ve ever wanted to do ever since I was a little kid,” said Jeremy Roberts, a wheat farmer, despite the struggles with inflation and droughts.
The yearly harvest of the soft white wheat — what goes into bread, cakes, crackers and cookies — his family grows began Friday and will continue for the next couple of weeks , Roberts said.
Farming has been in the family blood since they immigrated from Denmark, running this farm, located south of Highway 2 and southwest of Coulee City, for the last 100 years or so, Roberts said.
“I like taking care of the land,” he said. “I love watching the crops grow. And I like the whole process of planting the harvest. All of that is always just been an interest to me.”
Roberts is secretive about the acreage of the farm, saying he’d rather keep that information private but that it was in the thousands range.
He said hopes to eventually pass the farm on to his two sons, who already help him each harvest along with his father who owns the farm, and other close family members.
But farming greatly relies on Mother Nature for good yields, and things have not been looking good since last year.
The entire state experienced extreme temperatures across Eastern Washington last year, resulting in one of their worst harvests, Roberts said. Even their yield this year was impacted because of the dry fall weather while they seeded this year’s harvest.
And the unexpected rainfall in June put their operation behind schedule by about two weeks including the planting of next year’s crop. Planting the crop later than usual cuts into which cuts into the amount of moisture available as the area is all dryland, he said.
The rising cost of fuel is also a new challenge this year besides the weather, according to Roberts.
They run about three tractors a day during harvest, each burning about 100 gallons a day of diesel gas. The state’s average price of diesel as of Monday is about $6 compared to $3.70 a year ago, according to the AAA Gas Prices website.
It has more than doubled their costs, Roberts said. To counter, they’ve cut back on how much fertilizer they apply.
“But the price that we still get for our wheat is still about the same that we’ve always got,” he said. “The price always goes up, but we don’t ever really make any more money. It’s just the world we live in.”
Despite the unexpected challenges from nature and the economy, Roberts said he still thinks he can continue farming for many years to come.
“As long as it can support me, I’ll keep doing it,” he said. “I made it this long.” After all, his oldest son, 18, has already expressed his interest in continuing in his father’s footsteps.
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Person Female Born 20/12/1851 Died 21/12/1933
Suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer. Served on executive of the NUWSS and then joined WSPU and Women’s Tax Resistance League, whose members refused to pay taxes.
Born as Dorothy Frances Fuller in Surrey. 1874 went to Australia where she married George Barrow Montefiore. They had two children. In 1889, her husband was lost at sea and Montefiore learnt that she had no automatic right of guardianship of her children. Result: one committed advocate of women's rights. The first meeting of the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales was held at her home, 1891. In 1892 she left Australia and after spending several years in Paris, settled in England where she continued to campaign. Died Hastings.
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Here are some Linux / Unix questions you might encounter during a technical interview.
Describe Unix run levels. What does run-level 3 mean?
A program is running slow. What do you do?
You want to schedule a process to run every Tuesday at 1:00 am. What do you do?
What do these shell variables mean?
* $$ - Process ID of self
* $! - Process ID of last background process
* $_ - Last argument
When I define an environment variable, what does EXPORT mean?
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Home Energy Library
Materials vary enormously in their ability to conduct heat. Those that do not conduct heat well are called insulators. R-Value is the term used to indicate a material's resistance to heat flow or ability to insulate. The higher the R-Value, the better the insulator. Most insulation materials work by trapping pockets of air, which is an excellent insulator. Fiberglass does this by creating air pockets between spun glass fibers, and foam insulation contains air bubbles. Similarly, double pane windows work by trapping air between the panes.
Among insulating materials, R-Values can vary widely. This is the reason it is important to purchase insulation by the R-Value and not by the inch. R-Values of different materials can be compared while thickness cannot. For instance, two materials rated R-11 have precisely the same insulating ability while two inches of each may not. Take fiberglass and brick as an example. To achieve R-30 with fiberglass batts requires 8.5 inches, while it would take 60 inches of brick!
The "Material R/Inch" chart shows how many inches of a certain type of insulation it takes to achieve a specified R-Value.
In the "R-Values" chart, you'll see that R-30 requires 14.5 inches of vermiculite, nearly 8.5 inches of fiberglass batt or only 5 inches of urethane foam. Such comparisons are helpful in selecting insulation types because the type you can use may be limited by the space available. | <urn:uuid:4cb0764a-881e-44ce-9b3a-c6e671f0976c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://c03.apogee.net/contentplayer/?coursetype=res&utilityid=misspower&id=1866 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00012-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924069 | 316 | 4.03125 | 4 |
Every time I see the complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica on the shelves of my living room, I think of the Kansas State Fair. Strange? Perhaps, but of course, there's a story behind that...
When I used to live in Wichita, the State Fair in Hutchinson was a regular must-do for my friends and me. We eagerly looked forward to bierocks, the Old Mill roller water boat ride and a view of the annual butter sculpture in the Pride of Kansas building. Yes, there was something a bit kitschy about it all for us, cool twenty-somethings, but then again, we always had fun. [[endteaser]]
The year my husband and I were newlyweds, we made the trek with some other newly-married friends of ours. We had great expectations for the future. We were having fun at the fair, and somehow those encyclopedias seemed like an appropriate way to mark the kind of life we wanted to build together. So, on an impulse we made the purchase.
Should I mention they cost several hundred dollars?
Should I also mention neither one of us happened to have a job at that moment?
Oh, the bliss and optimism of new love. Our friends laughed at us then (and still do now), but I tell you what... I LOVE that set of encyclopedias - AND the fact that I bought them at the Kansas State Fair.
You see, I am sure many people think of the fair as a place just for farmers. That may be true of its roots, but really, it's more a celebration of optimism and building future dreams.
For a century now, Kansans have been headed to see the best and brightest of agriculture and industry in an atmosphere designed to wow, inspire, entertain and generally just leave a smile on your face.
We've changed a lot as Kansans in the last hundred years, and the opportunities of the fair have molded and shaped along with us. When we went this year to celebrate 100 years of the fair, I realized it is the perfect place to really experience the best and the brightest of what our state has to offer.
We moved away from Wichita, and stopped going to the fair, but I always kind of missed it. So, this year, after a 10-year hiatus, my husband and I went back to the fair. No longer newlyweds, this time we had three kids in tow. I still found myself caught up in the excitement as we neared the gates, and my middle child, confused by what a "fair" was all about turned excitedly to me and said, "Oh, Mom, is this all about fun?"
Yep. Joe, it IS all about fun.
We hardly got in the door when the boys spotted the old-fashioned farm machines. After 10 minutes of the oohs and aahs over "Johnny Popping" machines grinding grain and pumping water, I knew the two hours I estimated for the excursion would not be nearly enough time.
I was eager to get into the sales buildings. They are just so wonderfully random. For instance, while I sat down to test out a nice foot massager at one booth, my children and husband were across from me looking at glassed-in illegal drug samples and learning how to recognize scams from the KBI. In two turns of the isle, we learned the Libertarian Party of Kansas has two candidates for governor, picked up a copy of the Constitution from Pat Roberts supporters and found out what kinds of camping facilities were available at Milford Lake.
Another few steps and you can learn about insulation for your home, sample Kansas honey and talk to a really informed guy from the Exterminators Association about bed bugs, brown recluse and other annoying pests in the state.
That's all before you even get close to the Midway.
We made a special point to go through the 4-H building, where you can see projects designed by Kansas kids. The boys loved the "bugs in boxes," duct tape art, woodworking projects and electronics displays. They also enjoyed the "Pride of Kansas" building where they were wowed by the ever-famous butter sculpture, pumpkins so big they could crawl into them, and the chance to run their fingers through the 25-billionth bushel of Kansas wheat.
To say the fair is family-friendly is an understatement. I am a little sad this is the first time we've taken our kids. It's really just out of negligence. They absolutely did NOT want to leave. We spent five hours and I feel like we only barely scratched the surface of what we could have done.
If you plan a trip to the fair, you won't be disappointed. Just put on a lighthearted spirit, but also bring your cash and expect it to flow. While much of the fair fun IS included in the price of admission, there are ample temptations to buy everything from Pronto Pups to a new set of kitchen knives. It may be easy for me to resist a hot tub or those funny little balls that go "splat." But you know, I've already confessed to the encyclopedias.
Now that I think about it, those encyclopedias were probably an appropriate purchase at the far, because while it might be a stretch to say the Kansas State Fair is an encyclopedic summation of Kansas, it IS like a primer. (Okay, okay, I know I'm still justifying my purchase...)
The last thing we did was the first thing my little Joe saw as we walked in the door, a sky-lift ride that floated us high above the fairgrounds. It was like flying. He said he wished we could live up there, and that we would never leave the fair.
If you really want to get a taste for what it is like to be a Kansan...make plans to strap on your walking shoes next September and put the 101st Kansas State Fair on your 2014 calendar.
Karen Ridder is a freelance writer living in Topeka. A former News Producer for KSNW-TV in Wichita, her work can also been seen in print publications including: Topeka Magazine, TK Magazine and the Topeka Capital-Journal. She has written for several national blogs and was recently recognized as one of the 2011 winners in the Annual Kansas Factual Story Contest. Karen has lived in Kansas for 15 years and married a native Wichitan. Together they are raising three little sunflower boys and a dog named George. | <urn:uuid:0a6dfef6-c1e7-4b26-a84d-30657575f19c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.travelks.com/blog/post/the-state-fair-is-a-great-state-fair/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00428-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976383 | 1,344 | 1.539063 | 2 |
We pay attention to the plant life that colors the trail sides and provides the textured backdrop for our photos. We seek out spring blooms and marvel at nature’s varied flower art.
But when was the last time you stopped to appreciate the seeds that create and propagate these beauties for future generations? Here is the list of my top seven “Super Seeds”—what are yours?
Manroot, Wild Cucumber (Marah fabacea)
These smooth and beautiful seeds have many decorative uses, but the most fascinating and unexpected use is for fishing. Native American peoples have been known to throw the ground seeds into the water, where soap-like chemicals break up the bonds in water and stun fish that can no longer access the oxygen in the water.
Seep Monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus)
A cousin of the well-known sticky monkeyflower, seep monkeyflower loves wet areas like roadside ditches and narrow streams. You may notice its beautiful yellow flower, but if you get there too late then you will instead see delicate paper pouches. When these dry and crack open, they disperse hundreds of tiny seeds onto the moist ground!
Most Unusual Shape
Coast Buckwheat (Eriogonum latifolium)
From the same family as the buckwheat we eat, the Buckwheats got their name from their unusual seed shape. “Buck” is an adaptation of “beech,” as the nuts of the beech tree share this double-triangular pyramidal shape. “Wheat” is in reference to the way that the food crop is used, much like wheat. The similarity ends in the name though—DO NOT attempt to eat Coast Buckwheat seeds!
Most Likely to Spark the Imagination
The first time you see the seed of the beautiful paintbrush flower, it is as mysterious and alluring as the flower itself. Why is the seed white and almost translucent? Who would live inside those seeds; is it a home for a colony of microscopic honey bees? Whatever question pops into your mind, there is no doubt that these seeds are evidence of nature’s endless complexity.
Most Likely to Make You Think You're in the Arctic
Coyote brush (Baccharis pilularis)
Every seed has its year. Every summer adventure that ends in blissful blackberry-induced stomachaches due to the “bumper crop” of roadside berries has its beginnings in the delicate changes in the weather. On a “good coyote brush year” in the Golden Gate National Parks, millions of seeds float through the air on fluffy white umbrellas, coating some areas in drifts so thick you could imagine that you’re in the mountains strapping on skis.
Most Likely to Be Overlooked
Deerweed (Acmispon glaber, previously Lotus scoparius)
By the time these seeds are ripe, all that is left of the plant is a brown skeleton, further obscured by dust kicked up off the road or trail. These seeds are small pea-relatives that come in pointed pods not usually longer than your pinkie fingernail, but the little beans that come out are mottled, multicolored pieces of natural art.
Most Likely to Get Stuck in Your Socks
Purple Needle Grass (Stipa pulchra, Nassella pulchra)
You know the feeling: you just jogged off trail for a moment to get a better glimpse of that soaring hawk in the sky, and suddenly…ouch! If you’re lucky the offending seed is this one: California’s state grass! The nest-like mess you see in this photo is just one example of this seed’s adaptations for dispersing itself.
By Annette Russell
Seed Collection Ecologist
Marin Headlands Native Plant Nursery
Photos by Michael Dumont
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The following article by Professors Menso Folkerts and Richard Lorch, from Munich University in Germany, describes the influences of Arabic sciences in the works of Jordanus de Nemore, a scholar who flourished in Western Europe in the 13th century.
The Arabic Sources of Jordanus de Nemore
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Figure 1. The Tabula Rogeriana, drawn by al-Idrisi for Roger II of Sicily in 1154, one of the most advanced ancient world maps. Modern consolidation, created from the 70 double-page spreads of the original atlas. (Source)
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You’ve been busting your butt, scraping by, trying to save as much as you can into your retirement accounts, but you never feel like it’s enough.
Money is such a taboo subject that most of your co-workers don’t feel like opening up about how much they have saved (or how much they wish they would have), so it’s tough trying to gauge if you’re even in the ballpark of actually retiring one day.
How do you know how you compare to the average retirement savings figure?
According to a recent survey, 51% of workers over the age of 55 have less than $50,000 saved for retirement. And 39% in that same age group have less than $25,000 in retirement savings. Those are frightening numbers if you consider that those people are very close to the typical age of retirement.
The Employee Benefit Research Institute regularly publishes the average retirement savings of different age groups. Recent findings look like this:
- Workers under age 35 barely have $6,000 in savings.
- Those between the ages of 35 and 44 have roughly $22,500.
- Workers ages 45-54 have saved just under $44,000.
- Baby boomers, those aged 55-64, have approximately $65,000 in savings.
- Those 65 and over have saved $56,000.
If you actually do the calculations, you will discover that these are scary findings indeed.
Half of all Baby Boomers don’t have enough money saved for retirement just to cover basic needs.
What can you do? First, you need to figure out how much money you will need for your retirement. There are many variables that must be considered including:
- At what age do you plan to retire? If you are thinking about leaving the workforce early, you will need more money for retirement as you will be retired longer. Consider how long you will be retired. Not a thrilling thing to ponder, but crucial nonetheless.
- How much of your current income do you feel you will need on a yearly basis once you retire? A common percentage range is 65-75%. Be sure to think about whether you will want to travel or relocate. Some people would like to have money to leave to their children. If this is true in your case, you might want to work with a percentage closer to 100.
- Don’t forget inflation. Figure about a 3% per year inflation rate. Say you make $100,000 yearly and have decided that you require 65% of that per year during retirement. It is not sufficient to multiply $100,000 by 65% and come up with a neat amount of $65,000. Adding in inflation means you need to multiply your yearly salary by 1.03 and then take 65% of that. Remember you’ll have to factor a 3% growth each year! Although, honestly, inflation could be so much more by the time as you get closer to retirement. A sobering thought.
How to Get Your Retirement Savings Above Average
Once you come up with a rough estimate of what you will probably need for retirement, you need to start saving more. Seriously. With the average savings figures what they are, chances are you are not saving enough. Here are a few simple tips to kick your savings into gear:
- Save more. Add to whatever you are currently putting aside. Even a small amount, over a number of years, will add up. Put aside the most you possibly can.
- Take advantage of any plans your employer may offer. If you haven’t already, find out if your place of work offers 401Ks. Many companies contribute matching funds up to a certain percentage of your salary. But make sure you know how your money is being invested. Just because Dave Ramsey says to “get your free money first” doesn’t always mean it’s a good idea, especially if your clueless in how it’s invested.
- Open an Individual Retirement Account. Even if you have a 401K you can usually put aside extra funds into an IRA.
Remember, you may think you are prepared for retirement. But statistics show you probably aren’t.
Best Places to Kickstart Your Retirement Savings
It is never too late to kick your retirement savings into high gear. Getting started isn’t difficult.
All you need:
- a brokerage account to hold your Traditional IRA or Roth IRA
- the discipline to save each week or month
Here are some great places to open your Individual Retirement Account:
Scottrade is oen of our favorite brokerage firms. They don’t offer a sign up bonus, but what they do offer is very compelling:
- $7 online trades
- 500+ physical branch locations that you can walk into for help
- a wide variety of mutual funds
- easy online account use
It is a rare combination to get an easy to use online platform with great customer service online, on the phone, and at a physical branch location.
Open an account with Scottrade to enjoy the perks of having an account with one of the best online brokers.
TD Ameritrade makes the process of opening and funding your Roth IRA very easy. It can take you less than 15 minutes to open up a brand new IRA.
(That means you can’t say “I don’t have time to open a Roth IRA!”)
Even better, TD Ameritrade is willing to pay you to open an account with them. Bonuses range from simply being able to trade free for 60 days to up to $600 in cold hard cash deposited into your account.
Open an account with TD Ameritrade and get up to $600 just for opening an account.
Betterment takes the issue of analysis by paralysis out of retirement accounts.
One of the common complaints people use as an excuse for not saving enough for retirement is that it is too difficult to choose investment options.
Deciding between ETFs and stock mutual funds, bond funds, and the like can be very confusing.
Not so with Betterment. The company uses a sliding scale of risk to balance your portfolio between two baskets of investments: a bond ETF basket and a stock ETF basket.
It’s incredibly simple and makes having to decide what to do a lot easier.
Plus, you get $25 if you open an account with at least $250.
Open an account with Betterment to kickstart your retirement savings.
Best Places to Open a Roth IRA (and Get Sign Up Bonuses, Too!)
Want to look at all of your options for brokerage firms? We’ve culled the list of major retirement account providers down to show you which ones are the best. We also want to make sure you are getting the most bang for your buck — brokerage firms offer big sign up bonuses for you to open an account with them.
If you’re going to open an account, you might as well get a bonus, right?
Here are the two resources we’ve created:
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New Delhi: In a major decision for the ICSE Class 10 and ISC Class 12 students, the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) on Monday changed their passing criteria from the academic year beginning 2019.
The decision has been announced by the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) on its website.
According to the CISCE, the passing marks have been decreased for ICSE Class 10 and ISC Class 12 examinations from the existing 35% and 40%, but will come into effect from the academic term beginning in 2019.
"Among many recommendations made by the Inter-Board Working Group (IBWG), it was suggested that all boards in the country should have the same pass marks criteria," Gerry Arathoon, Chief Executive and Secretary of CISCE said in an official statement posted online.
"As per the new criteria, the pass marks for ICSE Class 10 exam would be 33% instead of the existing 35%.
"For the ISC Class 12 exam, the pass marks would be 35% instead of the existing 40%", the board said.
"The change in the pass marks for both the exams will be effective from the examination year 2019 onwards", the board said.
The council took the decision to revise pass marks after it held meetings with the Ministry of Human Resource Development and other examination boards where it was suggested that all boards in the country should have the same pass mark criteria.
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FONT file extension - Font data
What is font file? How to open font files?
File type specification:
The font file extension is commonly used for various font data files, used by various platforms, like UNIX and macOS (OS X).
Also used in few computer games, like The Secret of Monkey Island.
The default software associated to font file type:
Company or developer:
The Open Group
Unix is multi-tasking operating system for various platforms. The first version was released in 1969. It is developed by AT&T as well as various commercial vendors, universities and non-profit organizations. Traditional Original Unix systems have characteristics of Version 7 Unix or UNIX System V. Unix Specification have Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Solaris, AIX, HP/UX, z/OS etc. Other systems, such as Linux and BSD are called Unix-like or Unix system-like.
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by Tomáš Bureš, Ilias Gerostathopoulos and Rima Al Ali
The functionality of smart complex networked Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) is increasingly reliant on software. Software dominates to such an extent that smart CPS can be classified as software-intensive systems – systems in which software is by far the most intricate and extensive constituent. The complexity of the software is underpinned by the fact that smart CPS are inherently distributed and need to combine collaborative behaviour with autonomicity, self-awareness and self-adaptation. The DEECo framework addresses the holistic development of such systems.
The complexity of software in smart Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) means that software cannot be developed by ad-hoc means; instead, there is a need for systematic software engineering methods to reduce the development complexity and increase reliability and robustness by using appropriate software models and abstractions. A distinct challenge of smart CPS is that their software architecture undergoes continuous modifications: Components appear and disappear as CPS devices enter/exit the system, components form and dissolve cooperation groups as they start/finish a particular joint activity, and communication links are established/released depending on the actual availability of network connectivity. This is illustrated by the firefighter scenario (taken from one of our case studies), where firefighters (captured as CPS components) coordinate within and across mission sites and take advantage of stationary and mobile nodes (also captured as CPS components) existing in their vicinity to communicate with and sense their environment (see Figure 1).
Figure 1: Use of components to model a smart CPS consisting of firefighters and other mobile and stationary nodes in the vicinity.
To fulfill the requirements of smart CPS, researchers at Charles University in Prague, have developed the DEECo framework for building smart CPS. This framework consists of a component model, a high-level design method, analyses, and a runtime framework – all tailored to the needs and specifics of smart CPS. It offers a synergy between component-based systems, ensemble-based systems, agent systems and control systems.
Component model - A component in DEECo is the basic software unit of development and deployment. It constitutes state (referred to as knowledge) and behaviour, materialized into processes. Each process executes cyclically similarly to a real-time task. To achieve component interaction, components are dynamically assembled into collaboration groups called ensembles (e.g. a firefighter and all temperature sensors on the same floor, all firefighters active at a mission site). Within an ensemble, the components interact in terms of implicit knowledge exchange, which is handled by the execution environment.
High-level design - Invariant Refinement Method (IRM) is a design method for DEECo-based systems. It captures high-level goals and requirements in terms of invariants, which describe the desired state of the system-to-be at every time instant (thus strengthening component autonomy and reliability). Invariants are maintained by component coordination. As a design activity, top-level invariants are iteratively decomposed into more fine-grained sub-invariants, essentially yielding a detailed contractual design of system implementation – either in terms of local component behaviour, corresponding to a component process, or in terms of component interaction, corresponding to an ensemble.
Analysis - Thanks to its well-defined semantics, DEECo allows timing properties to be quantified via static analysis and simulations. These include end-to-end response time and estimating level of inaccuracy of perceived knowledge depending on the communication latency and physical model of sensed values (given as differential equations).
Runtime Environment - The framework is backed by jDEECo, an implementation of DEECo in Java. This runtime environment includes scheduling of component processes, dynamic grouping of components into ensembles, and distributed knowledge exchange. Technically, jDEECo employs gossip-style network communication to uniformly address IP-based, as well as peer-to-peer broadcast-style WPAN networks.
Case Studies and Evaluation
To date, DEECo has been a successful part of the EU FP7 IP project ASCENS and employed in a number of case studies, including intelligent vehicle navigation, emergency coordination, and ad-hoc cloud deployment. Case studies have confirmed that DEECo represents a significant development simplification while preserving robustness and dependability properties of the designed system.
In the next research and development steps, we intend to focus on enhancing the framework of efficient communication means in situations of limited connectivity, handling uncertainty of knowledge, and verification in the presence of dynamicity.
K. Beetz and W. Böhm: “Challenges in Engineering for Software-Intensive Embedded Systems”, in Model-Based Engineering of Embedded Systems, Springer, 2012, 3–14
T. Bures et al. “DEECo – an Ensemble-Based Component System”, in proc. of CBSE’13, ACM, 2013, 81–90
J. Keznikl et al. “Design of Ensemble-Based Component Systems by Invariant Refinement,” in proc. of CBSE’13, ACM, 2013, 91–100.
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The US is investigating whether the attack in Libya that killed the US ambassador and several other people was planned in advance, officials say.
The assault had earlier been thought to have been a spontaneous reaction to protests over an anti-Islamic film.
US President Barack Obama has called the presidents of Egypt and Libya to urge cooperation over security for diplomatic staff.
There have been further clashes outside the US embassy in Cairo overnight.
Thousands of people gathered outside the building in the Egyptian capital, chanting and starting fires.
Police and troops fired tear gas to break up the crowds, some of whom were seen carrying petrol bombs.
On Wednesday, demonstrators in Cairo angry at the film - Innocence of Muslims - had breached the walls of the US embassy and torn down the flag.
President Barack Obama has vowed to bring those behind the attack to justice, but said the US would not "break bonds" with the new Libyan government.
The White House says Mr Obama spoke to Libyan President Mohamed Magarief on Wednesday evening and agreed the two countries should work together to identify the attackers.
In a further call to Egypt, President Mohammed Morsi promised to ensure the safety of American staff in the country, the White House said.
Security has been tightened at US embassies across the world.
A marine anti-terrorism team is being deployed to Libya to bolster security there, a US defence source told reporters in Washington.
The US says it is also sending two destroyers to the coast of Libya as a precautionary measure.
Armed men stormed the consulate in the city of Benghazi on Tuesday night.
It is believed Ambassador J Christopher Stevens died of smoke inhalation. Three other Americans and up to 10 Libyans also died in the attack.
Officials have now said the attack was complex and professional, and reports suggest the perpetrators may have had links to jihadist groups.
It is clear President Obama's response to the first killing of an American ambassador for 30 years is an election issue”
A senior US official quoted by AFP news agency said the Benghazi attackers appeared to have used the demonstrations as a pretext to staging an assault.
"This was a complex attack," he told the news agency. "They seemed to have used this [protest] as an opportunity."
US officials told Reuters news agency there were suspicions that a militia known as the Ansar al-Sharia brigade was responsible, although the group has denied the claim.
They said there were also reports that al-Qaeda's north Africa-based affiliate, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, may have been involved, the news agency reports.
The consulate compound began taking heavy fire at about 22:00 local time (20:00 GMT) on Tuesday night, and the main building was in flames soon afterwards.
Libyan and US security forces tried to retake the compound several times, US officials said, but only succeeded early on Wednesday.
One of the Americans killed was Sean Smith, a state department employee. The other victims have not yet been identified.
Seventeen-year-old Hamam, who took part in the attack, told Reuters that Ansar al-Sharia cars had arrived at the start of the protest but later left.
The attack is a grim reminder that the threat the United States and the West have been dealing with for more than a decade may be reduced, but is not gone”
"The protesters were running around the compound just looking for Americans, they just wanted to find an American so they could catch one," he said.
"We started shooting at them, and then some other people also threw hand-made bombs over the fences and started the fires in the buildings."
Little is known about the origins of the film, including about a man named as Sam Bacile, reported as being behind its production.
BBC reporters probing his background on Wednesday were unable to confirm personal details.
Egypt's Coptic Church has issued a statement condemning the production, after reports that some Copts in the US had financed the film.
Libyan officials have condemned the attack and pledged to investigate.
Interim leader, Mohammed Magarief, apologised to the US, adding: "We expect the rest of the world to help us face these cowardly criminal acts."
Speaking in the Rose Garden at the White House on Wednesday, President Obama praised the ambassador for his work in Libya after the overthrow of the late Col Muammar Gaddafi.
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Professor Harold Coward "is Professor of History and Former Director, Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria, Canada. Dr. Coward has served as President of the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion, the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and has served as President of Academy II. He has directed humanities research centres for the past 18 years.
"An internationally-known specialist in the philosophy and religion of India, Professor Coward has eighteen authored books, thirty edited books along with over a hundred chapters and articles to his credit. For the past twelve years, he has been directing interdisciplinary research teams bringing knowledge of science, social science, and the world's religions to bear on the major problems facing the world today.
"Issues addressed include the Greenhouse effect; population pressure; excessive consumption, environmental degradation; the crisis in the fisheries, religious conscience, the state and the law; and a cross-cultural approach to health care ethics. In each case, an ethics analysis has been undertaken and the result developed in terms of public policy implications. One resulting book, Population, Consumption, and the Environment: Religious and Secular Responses (State University of New York Press, 1995) was nominated for the Grawemeyer Award, the Religion equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Another, Just Fish: Ethics and the Canadian Marine Fisheries has evoked articles in major newspapers such as the Vancouver Sun and the Ottawa Citizen, as well as widespread interest from decision makers in unions, management, community, provincial and federal governments."
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BOGOTA, Colombia - South Carolina National Guard (SCNG) operations and emergency response personnel met with leaders from the Colombian military and the Colombia’s National Disaster Response Unit, UNGRD, to discuss response procedures and programs Sept. 10-13 in Bogota, Colombia.
The SCNG is working with the Colombian military as part of the State Partnership Program focusing on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. This visit was the third engagement between the countries to share emergency response programs and to continue the friendship that began July 2012.
“The Colombian military and civilian emergency management agencies are dedicated to being prepared and postured to rapidly and effectively respond during a natural disaster,” said Col. Kenneth Rosado, director of the SCNG joint operations center.
The first day was filled with presentations from the Colombian military emergency responders and the UNGRD. Each department presented their capabilities, how they have improved in the past few years and their plans for the future.
Working together, the SCNG, Colombian military and UNGRD shared programs, like the South Carolina Common Operating Picture Enhanced (SCOPE), to improve communication between all personnel and organizations responding to a disaster.
Col. Carlos Orozco, Colombian army, stated there have been many years of “la nina,” a meteorological event where the northern part of the country receives an abnormally large amount of rain. Areas remain flooded and main roads connecting jungle communities are washed out so they cannot bring in food or supplies. The Colombian military is working to help these communities rebuild the washed out roads and make them stronger in order to withstand the continuous rains.
Another focus of the Colombian military is to clear the jungles of mines left from the war. The Colombian army engineers demining battalion is trained to find and clear mines hidden in the jungles. This battalion is stationed in areas where the war violence has diminished so they can help the community rebuild and preserve the indigenous traditions.
“We look forward to working with you and learning from you,” said Gerardo Jaramillo, UNGRD office chief. “Colombia is an area that shares some of the same natural occurrences as South Carolina, heavy rains causing flooding and hurricanes and we would like to develop a local plan to better react to these disasters and prevent severe damage. The Colombian people are our first priority; we need to work for them and with them.”
On the second day of joint discussions, the SCNG team worked directly with the UNGRD, Colombian military representatives and the Red Cross in back and forth discussion of how the SCNG systems work.
Rosado presented how the SCNG prepares and reacts to emergencies throughout the state.
Using the SCOPE program, the SCNG can instantly know the working capabilities of local National Guard units, hospitals and shelters. They can view features like bridges to know how to direct an evacuation route or how to get emergency responders to the location needing assistance.
“By monitoring this system we can see what is going on and anticipate requirements,” said Rosado.
“The SCOPE uses maps produced through Google Maps, then we add our own layers,” said Sgt. Kasey Beymer, SCNG operations sergeant. “We keep a steady-state layer so we can monitor the normal, everyday status of S.C. We have to watch every day so we know when things change. Then we add the contingency layer when there are new events to respond to.”
At the final meeting, Jaramillo thanked the SCNG for sharing their technical experience and for helping to bring all the groups together.
Jaramillo gave a presentation about the exciting opportunity to work with Google.org foundation, to develop a Google-based crisis information system, which will allow Colombians to access and share information and receive alerts on their computers and mobile devices.
According to Jaramillo, “Colombia was chosen by Google because we are a country that has risk management policy with institutional support. We have been working hard for many years and in the past two years we have made great steps in our processes that compliment how Google works.”
Everyone involved participated in a diagram and brainstorming session, which ended in ideas for improvement in both systems.
“We exchanged ideas through a professional dialogue and increased everyone’s capacity to respond during an emergency,” said Rosado.
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Professor to Speak on C.S. Lewis Feb. 4Jan. 28, 2000
Dr. David Lyle Jeffrey, professor emeritus of English at the University of Ottawa, will deliver a public lecture on C.S. Lewis at 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 4, in Bennett Auditorium on the Baylor University campus. Jeffrey's lecture, "The Bible According to C.S. Lewis," is free and open to the public.
Jeffrey received his bachelor's degree from Wheaton College and earned his master's degree and doctorate from Princeton University. He has served as chair of the department of English at the University of Victoria and the University of Ottawa, and also has taught at the Universities of Rochester, Hull in the United Kingdom, Notre Dame and Peking College.
A noted author, Jeffrey is general editor, author or co-author of A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature; Modern Fiction and the Rebirth of Theology; By Things Seen: Reference and Recognition in Medieval Thought; English Spirituality in the Age of Wesley; and People of the Book: Christian Identity and Literary Culture.
One of the 20th century's foremost writers, the late C.S. Lewis was the author of The Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity, The Great Divorce and The Narnia Chronicles, among others. | <urn:uuid:6edeeac7-a906-4227-98f3-6a1324526b76> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.baylor.edu/mediacommunications/news.php?action=story&story=2819 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719273.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00064-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948454 | 274 | 1.65625 | 2 |
The new edition of this popular textbook provides a fundamental approach to phase transformations and thermodynamics of materials. Explanations are emphasised at the level of atoms and electrons, and it comprehensively covers the classical topics from classical metallurgy to nanoscience and magnetic phase transitions. The book has three parts, covering the fundamentals of phase transformations, the origins of the Gibbs free energy, and the major phase transformations in materials science. A fourth part on advanced topics is available online.
Much of the content from the first edition has been expanded, notably precipitation transformations in solids, heterogeneous nucleation, and energy, entropy and pressure. Three new chapters have been added to cover interactions within microstructures, surfaces, and solidification. Containing over 170 end-of-chapter problems, it is a valuable companion for graduate students and researchers in materials science, engineering, and applied physics.
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Full Citation: Jombart T, Cori A, Didelot X, Cauchemez S, Fraser C, et al. (2014) Bayesian Reconstruction of Disease Outbreaks by Combining Epidemiologic and Genomic Data. PLoS Comput Biol 10(1): e1003457. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003457
Recent years have seen progress in the development of statistically rigorous frameworks to infer outbreak transmission trees (“who infected whom”) from epidemiological and genetic data. Making use of pathogen genome sequences in such analyses remains a challenge, however, with a variety of heuristic approaches having been explored to date. We introduce a statistical method exploiting both pathogen sequences and collection dates to unravel the dynamics of densely sampled outbreaks. Our approach identifies likely transmission events and infers dates of infections, unobserved cases and separate introductions of the disease. It also proves useful for inferring numbers of secondary infections and identifying heterogeneous infectivity and super-spreaders. After testing our approach using simulations, we illustrate the method with the analysis of the beginning of the 2003 Singaporean outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), providing new insights into the early stage of this epidemic. Our approach is the first tool for disease outbreak reconstruction from genetic data widely available as free software, the R package outbreaker. It is applicable to various densely sampled epidemics, and improves previous approaches by detecting unobserved and imported cases, as well as allowing multiple introductions of the pathogen. Because of its generality, we believe this method will become a tool of choice for the analysis of densely sampled disease outbreaks, and will form a rigorous framework for subsequent methodological developments.Check out the nice figure on a SARS outbreak:
And then the consensus transmission tree
I also like the 1st line of their Acknowledgements:
We are thankful to Sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/) and CRAN (http://cran.r-project.org/) for providing great resources for developing and hosting outbreaker.Definitely worth checking out. | <urn:uuid:bc83605d-38ff-43f5-b6b9-94324f5149db> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2014/02/quick-post-outbreaker-and-bayesian.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00173-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.882689 | 431 | 2.359375 | 2 |
S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880.
To account for this, we must consider that the first race of authors, who were the great heroes in writing, were destitute of all rules and arts of criticism; and for that reason, though they excel later writers in greatness of genius, they fall short of them in accuracy and correctness. The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections. When the world was furnished with these authors of the first eminence, there grew up another set of writers, who gained themselves a reputation by the remarks which they made on the works of those who preceded them.
We may observe that in the first ages of the world, when the great souls and masterpieces of human nature were produced, men shined by a noble simplicity of behaviour, and were strangers to those little embellishments which are so fashionable in our present conversation. And it is very remarkable, that notwithstanding we fall short at present of the ancients in poetry, painting, oratory, history, architecture, and all the noble arts and sciences which depend more upon genius than experience, we exceed them as much in doggerel humour, burlesque, and all the trivial arts of ridicule. We meet with more raillery among the moderns, but more good sense among the ancients.
Nothing conduces more to letters than to examine the writings of the ancients, provided the plagues of judging and pronouncing against them be away; such as envy, bitterness, precipitation, impudence, and scurril scoffing.
In the philosophy of history the moderns have very far surpassed the ancients. It is not, indeed, strange that the Greeks and Romans should not have carried the science of government, or any other experimental science, so far as it has been carried in our time; for the experimental sciences are generally in a state of progression. They were better understood in the seventeenth century than in the sixteenth, and in the eighteenth century than in the seventeenth. But this constant improvement, this natural growth of knowledge, will not altogether account for the immense superiority of the modern writers. The difference is a difference not in degree, but of kind. It is not merely that new principles have been discovered, but that new faculties seem to be exerted. It is not that at one time the human intellect should have made but small progress, and at another time have advanced far; but that at one time it should have been stationary, and at another time constantly proceeding. In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals. They reasoned as justly as ourselves on subjects which required pure demonstration. But in the moral sciences they made scarcely any advance. During the long period which elapsed between the fifth century before the Christian era and the fifteenth after it, little perceptible progress was made. All the metaphysical discoveries of all the philosophers from the time of Socrates to the northern invasion are not to be compared in importance with those which have been made in England every fifty years since the time of Elizabeth. There is not the least reason to believe that the principles of government, legislation, and political economy were better understood in the time of Augustus Cæsar than in the time of Pericles. In our own country, the sound doctrines of trade and jurisprudence have been within the lifetime of a single generation dimly hinted, boldly propounded, defended, systematized, adopted by all reflecting men of all parties, quoted in legislative assemblies, incorporated into laws and treaties.
Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay: History, May, 1828. | <urn:uuid:8fc583a5-226d-461a-9787-d618b21b24ac> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://bartleby.com/349/23.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00309-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968105 | 767 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Extended Rules for Using Quotation Marks
A rundown of the general rules of when and where to use quotation marks.
Contributors:Sean M. Conrey, Mark Pepper, Allen Brizee
Last Edited: 2010-04-17 06:03:37
Altering the Source Material in a Quotation
The responsibility of representing other people's words accurately lies firmly on the shoulders of the author. Inaccurate quotes not only defeat the purpose of using a quote, they may also constitute plagiarism. However, there are approved methods for altering quotes for either clarity or succinctness.
If the original quote is too long and you feel not all the words are necessary in your own paper, you may omit part of the quote. Replace the missing words with an ellipsis.
Make sure that the words you remove do not alter the basic meaning of the original quote in any way. Also ensure that the quote's integration and missing material still leave a grammatically correct sentence.
If the context of your quote might be unclear, you may add a few words to provide clarity. Enclose the added material in brackets.
Quotations within a Quotation
Use single quotation marks to enclose quotes within another quotation.
Quotation Marks Beyond Quoting
Quotation marks may additionally be used to indicate words used ironically or with some reservation.
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A record high 63 percent of Japanese women held jobs in September, up two percentage points from a year before, according to a survey by the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry. For women aged 15 to 64, that meant an increase of 6.2 percentage points from 2003.
Although the result appears to be good news, the details show that little has changed. Japan’s women are still relegated to part-time or temporary positions.
The percentage increased mainly because more companies hired single working women, especially those in their 30s. Over the last decade, the employment rate for women aged 30 to 34 rose 11.5 percentage points; for those aged 35 to 39, it rose 9.2 points. That rate increased not because of better working options but because women are marrying late and having fewer children. The choice — work or children — has not changed, but women are choosing work over children more often. They should be able to choose either one or both.
Some improvement can be attributed to the revised 2010 childcare leave law, which requires companies to allow shorter working hours for women with children. Though that’s a positive step forward, only 40 percent of women continue working after the birth of their first child, a rate that has remained steady for years. Clearly women need more support if they are going to work as well as have children.
By age group, the employment rate was highest at 74.7 percent for women aged 25 to 29, followed by 74.4 percent for women aged 45 to 49 and 71 percent in the 50 to 54 age group.
The high rates for older women are not the result of their being welcomed into top jobs. They come from the slow growth of men’s income, which has forced more married women to find employment. The high figures indicate not so much social improvement as economic pressure.
The survey’s most disappointing findings were that women were being hired mainly in part-time or temporary positions. Working men without full-time status came to 21.3 percent, while women without full-time status came to 56.5 percent.
The main growth area of employment for women is in welfare and nursing care sectors, traditional roles for women. Full-time regular positions in the same sectors mainly still employ men and remain elusive for most women.
These results indicate that employment practices that improve women’s conditions are urgently needed. Childcare options are not expanding quickly enough for the increasing numbers of women working. Decreasing extra-long working hours at all workplaces would make full-time work a reality for more women.
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Universal or selective boosters: Who should get a third dose of the
The scientific community does not agree on booster doses in developed countries, while some
nations have failed to vaccinate even half of their population.
By: Jenny Manrique
Administering third shots of the COVID-19 vaccine has become a hotly-debated issue in recent
weeks. The White House plan for the boosters to reach the entire population contradicts the
guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), which have advocated a tiered approach,
prioritizing immunocompromised people and high-risk workers. Some developing countries do
not have enough vaccines to reach even half of their population, while the United States and
other rich nations have stored up five doses of the vaccine for each inhabitant.
Currently, only those who took the first two doses of the Pfizer vaccine are eligible for a third
one. Boosters are not yet available for people who received the Moderna and Johnson &
Johnson vaccines. Two scientists, who also differ on who should receive the third doses and
when, explained their reasons at a briefing hosted by Ethnic Media Services.
“Based on the raw data, I would say that universal boosting, and possibly three or four doses,
would be very beneficial in slowing the spread of the COVID-19 virus and bringing its end
faster,” said Ben Newman, Chief virologist at the Global Health Research Complex at
Texas A&M University.
According to Newman, data from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) suggest that “no one
is fully vaccinated,” and that what we currently have is evidence of waning immunity. “As time
passes after vaccination, the amount of protection decreases to around 50% … After five
months, the amount of protection against death remains constant at around 90%, but the virus
has got faster and better at reproducing very consistently throughout the outbreak.”
The contagious Delta variant and its 11 mutations are now responsible for 99% of cases. The
effectiveness of vaccines against Delta is almost the same as against other variants, although it
decreases between 5% and 10% among people over 65.
“The benefit of a booster is very large regardless of age group,” Newman continued. “With a
booster after the second vaccine, people end up with as much as 50 times more antibodies, so
the benefits appear to be universal.”
For the virologist, public health policy should focus on ending the coronavirus through
vaccination, since its fatality rate is 2%. In other words, one in 50 people who contract
COVID-19 is likely to die. Although viruses such as polio and smallpox were eliminated with
vaccines after many years of circulation and diversification among humans, COVID can be a
greater challenge due to its mutational capacity which “will eventually be a problem much more
difficult to solve than it is now.”
Other scientists argue instead that the Coronavirus is endemic and impossible to eradicate. Dr.
Monica Gandhi, Professor of Medicine at the UC San Francisco’s School of Medicine, explained
that reducing COVID from an epidemic to an endemic, to make it manageable without
burdening hospitals or other medical resources, “is what will allow a complete return to
Gandhi explained that SARS-CoV-2 is impossible to eradicate due to the inherent properties of
the pathogen: having reservoirs in animals, a high level of transmissibility, symptoms
overlapping with other respiratory diseases, and a long period of infection, which spreads
between asymptomatic and symptomatic carriers.
Although the antibodies generated by vaccines are naturally going to come down with time, they
“allow the rise of T cells and B cells which go into your memory, and fight viruses in a very
durable way,” Gandhi said. These cells produce high levels of neutralizing antibodies and
modulate protection against the severity of the disease and all variants of the virus.
According to CDC data, 183 million Americans are fully vaccinated, with 4,000 deaths among
them. Among the deceased, 86% were over 65, a number that according to Gandhi shows that
although the effectiveness of the vaccine is not 100%, and someone can contract a
symptomatic infection after inoculation, “cases are very rare both in terms of hospitalizations
So, who needs an additional booster? Gandhi is in favor of the “selective booster strategy” in
which “definitely” immunocompromised patients, those over 65, and health workers highly
exposed to the virus, are prioritized for receiving third doses.
“We want to prevent Americans from getting a cold, but we let vulnerable and healthcare
workers die in the rest of the world, so I have a really hard time distinguishing the booster
discussion from the global vaccine equity discussion,” Gandhi said.
For the doctor it is “impossible to escape the responsibilities of rich countries who have most of
the vaccine supply.” Out of 6 billion doses administered in the world, only 2.2% have been given
to low-income countries, while rich nations such as the United States, have stored up five doses
for every inhabitant.
In this regard, Newman of Texas A&M says that “it is real” that each additional dose in the US is
potentially one less dose in another part of the world, but he considers that COVID should be
fought like a fire: start by putting it out completely in one place, then expand the rim.
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The Long Neck Census Designated Place had a population of 2,128 as of July 1, 2016. Long Neck ranks in the lower quartile for Population Density and Diversity Index when compared to the other cities, towns and Census Designated Places (CDPs) in Delaware. See peer rankings below.
The primary coordinate point for Long Neck is located at latitude 38.6269 and longitude -75.1511 in Sussex County. The formal boundaries for the Long Neck Census Designated Place (see map below) encompass a land area of 2.57 sq. miles and a water area of 0.01 sq. miles. Sussex County is in the Eastern time zone (GMT -5). The elevation is 10 feet.
The Long Neck Census Designated Place (GNIS ID: 2390089) has a U1 Census Class Code which indicates a census designated place with an official federally recognized name. It also has a Functional Status Code of "S" which identifies a statistical entity.
Delaware is one of 20 states where Census County Divisions (CCDs) are used for statistical tracking of subdivisions within each county. The Long Neck Census Designated Place is located within Millsboro Division of Sussex County.
Beneath the boundary map are tables with Long Neck population, income and housing data, five-year growth projections and peer comparisons for key demographic data. The estimates are for July 1, 2016.
|Population in Households||2,128|
|Population in Familes||1,614|
|Population in Group Qrtrs||0|
|Average Household Size||1.99|
|Average Family Size||2|
|Total Housing Units||2,451 (100%)|
|Owner Occupied HU||933 (38.1%)|
|Renter Occupied HU||139 ( 5.7%)|
|Vacant Housing Units||1,379 (56.3%)|
|Median Home Value||$79,480|
|Average Home Value||$106,726|
|Median Household Income||$42,476|
|Average Household Income||$52,289|
|Per Capita Income||$25,388|
|(Compound Annual Growth Rates)|
|Median Household Income||-2.49%|
|Per Capita Income||-0.1%|
The table below compares Long Neck to the other 77 incorporated cities, towns and CDPs in Delaware by rank and percentile using July 1, 2016 data. The location Ranked # 1 has the highest value. A location that ranks higher than 75% of its peers would be in the 75th percentile of the peer group.
|Total Population||# 38||52nd|
|Population Density1||# 65||17th|
|Diversity Index2||# 68||13th|
|Median Household Income||# 72||8th|
|Per Capita Income||# 49||38th|
Additional comparisons and rankings can be made with a VERY EASY TO USE Delaware Census Data Comparison Tool. | <urn:uuid:2fb74315-5de9-4fb4-9711-74f32ce50556> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://delaware.hometownlocator.com/de/sussex/long-neck.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00063-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.835223 | 646 | 1.820313 | 2 |
To You (1)
by Kōdō Sawaki Rōshi
These are a few selected quotes from an early version of Kōdō Sawaki Rōshi’s “Tou you”, a book translated from Japanese by Reihō Haasch and Muhō. The complete, revised and edited book will be available in print from Hohm press in 2021.
1. To you who can’t stop worrying about how others see you
You can’t even trade a single fart with the next guy. Each and every one of us has to live out his own life. Don’t waste time thinking about who’s most talented.
The asshole doesn’t need to be ashamed of being the asshole. The feet don’t have any reason to go on strike just because they’re only feet. The head isn’t the most important of all, and the navel doesn’t need to imagine he’s the father of all things.
It’s strange though that people look at the prime minister as an especially important person. The nose can’t replace the eyes, and the mouth can’t replace the ears.
Everything has its own identity, which is unsurpassable in the whole universe.
Some children have caught a mouse and now it’s writhing in the trap. They’re having fun watching how it scrapes its nose till it bleeds and how it rips up its tail . . . In the end they’ll throw it to the cat for food.
If I was sitting in the mouse’s place, I’d say to myself, “You damn humans won’t have any fun with me!” And I’d simply sit zazen..
2. To you who think there’s something to being “in”
You’re always hanging onto others. If somebody’s eating French fries, you want French fries too. If somebody’s sucking on a candy, you want a candy too. If somebody’s blowing on a penny whistle, you scream, “Mommy, buy me a penny whistle too!”
And that doesn’t just go for children.
When spring comes, you let spring turn your head. When autumn comes, you let autumn turn your head. Everyone is just waiting for something to turn their head. Some even make a living turning heads – they produce advertising.
One at a time people are still bearable, but when they form cliques, they start to get stupid. They fall into group stupidity. They’re so determined to become stupid as a group that they found clubs and pay membership dues. Zazen means taking leave of group stupidity.
3. To you who are totally exhausted from fighting with your spouse
The question isn’t who’s right. You’re simply seeing things from different points of view.
Stop trying to be something special – and just be what you are. Hold fire. Just sit!
It all begins when we say, “I”. Everything that follows is illusion.
A man who understands nothing marries a woman who understands nothing, and everyone says, “Congratulations!” Now that’s something I cannot understand.
Family is the place where parents and children, husband and wife simultaneously all get on each other’s nerves.
Even funnier than watching the monkeys at the zoo is observing these humans on the loose.
4. To you who have just begun brooding over life
What a shame to have been born a human being and to spend your whole life worrying. You should reach the point where you can be happy to have been born a human.
It’s strange that not a single person seriously considers his own life. For ages, we’ve been carrying around something uncooked. And we comfort ourselves with the fact that it’s the same for the others too. That’s what I call group stupidity: thinking that we just have to be like the others.
Satori means creating your own life. It means waking up from group stupidity.
In a part of Manchuria, the carts are pulled by huge dogs. The driver hangs a piece of meat in front of the dog’s nose, and the dog runs like crazy to try to get at it. But of course he can’t. He’s only thrown his meat after the cart has finally reached its destination. Then in a single gulp, he swallows it down.
It’s exactly the same with people and their pay checks. Until the end of the month they run after the salary hanging in front of their noses. Once the salary is paid, they gulp it down, and they’re already off: running after the next payday.
5. To you whose life is about money, money and more money
The measure of man: you give him a little money and immediately he starts to move.
Human happiness and unhappiness doesn’t only depend on money. If the balance in your savings account were a measure of your happiness, it would be a simple matter. Yet it really isn’t so.
Without money, you’ve got difficulties. Still, you should know that there are more important things than money.
You constantly think about sex. Still, you should know that there are more important things than sex.
6. To you who think the prime minister is a really special person.
He who seeks his true mission won’t want to pursue a career. A person who wants to become president doesn’t know where he’s going in life.
Their election is so important to them that presidents and congressmen campaign to rally votes. Idiots! Even if they asked me to become president, I’d turn it down: “How dumb do you think I am anyway?”
One guy loses the presidential election, so he cries. Next time around he wins the election, and then he smiles into the camera. What makes politicians different from little children anyway? It’s exactly the same way with a crying child: you offer him some candy and already a smile breaks out on his teary face.
A little more maturity would be nice.
7. To you who would like to leave your rivals in the dust
We often wonder who here is really better? But aren’t we all made out of the same lump of clay?
Everyone should sit firmly anchored in the place where there is no better and worse.
Your whole life long you’re completely out of your mind because you think it’s obvious that there is a “you” and “the others”. You put on an act to stand out in a crowd, but in reality there’s neither “you” nor “the others”.
When you die, you’ll understand.
8. To you who are sobbing because somebody’s put one over on you
At some point you’ve got to slap yourself in the face and seriously ask yourself: is your personal gain or loss really worth this overwhelming joy and suffering?
Sooner or later everyone starts thinking of nothing besides themselves. You say, “That was good!” But what was good? It was only good for you personally, that’s all.
Why is it that we humans are so wiped out? It is the constant effort to gain a little advantage that wipes us out.
9. To you who would like to slap your boss with a letter of resignation.
As a human being, whatever you do, you should do it in a way that can’t be repeated a second time. What can be repeated is best left to the robots.
Life doesn’t run on tracks.
Birds don’t sing in major or minor. Bodhidharma’s teaching doesn’t fit on lined paper.
The buddha-dharma is wide and unlimited. When you try to hold it still, you’ve missed it. It isn’t dried cod, but a live fish. Living fish have no fixed form.
10. To you who wants to begin with zazen
Once there were 500 monkeys in the service of 500 Buddhist saints. One day the monkeys decided to mimic everything the saints did, so they did zazen copying the saints with their eyes, noses, mouths and whole bodies. They say that in this way a thousand saints practiced zazen and realized satori. This is why it’s my wish to preserve – even if it’s only through imitation – the seed of zazen.
When you practice Zen, it has to be here and now, it has to be about yourself. Don’t let Zen become a rumor that has nothing to do with you.
Zazen is the buddha that we form out of our raw flesh.
11. To you who wants to strengthen your hara with zazen
“Through zazen you strengthen your hara”
Knowing that this hara isn’t worth a damn is real hara and real zazen.
Some people want to strengthen their hara with zazen so that they will be able to scare the bill-collector away with a roar. But they don’t need zazen for that, they just have to drink sake like real men.
There are books around like “Zen and the Art of Cultivating Your Hara”. This hara culture is just about making yourself numb.
12. To you who is wondering if your zazen has been good for something
What’s zazen good for? Absolutely nothing! This “good for nothing” has got to sink into your flesh and bones until you’re truly practicing what’s good for nothing. Until then, your zazen is really good for nothing.
Unsatisfying: simply practicing zazen.
Unsatisfying: realizing zazen with this body.
Unsatisfying: absorbing zazen into your flesh and blood.
Being watched by zazen, cursed by zazen, blocked by zazen, dragged around by zazen, every day crying tears of blood – isn’t that the happiest form of life you can imagine?
13. To you who says that you have attained a better state of mind through zazen
As long as you say zazen is a good thing, something isn’t quite right. Unstained zazen is absolutely nothing special. It isn’t even necessary to be grateful for it.
Wouldn’t it be strange if a baby said to its mother, “Please have understanding for the fact that I’m always shitting in my diapers.”
Without knowledge, without consciousness, everything is as it should be.
Don’t stain your zazen by saying that you’ve progressed, feel better or have become more confident through zazen.
We only say, “Things are going well!” when they’re going our way.
We should simply leave the water of our original nature as it is. But instead we are constantly mucking about with our hands to find out how cold or warm it is. That’s why it gets cloudy.
14. To you who do everything you can to get satori
We don’t practice in order to get satori. It’s satori that pulls our practice. We practice, being dragged all over by satori.
You don’t seek the way. The way seeks you.
You study, you do sports, and you’re fixated on satori and illusion. So that even zazen becomes a marathon for you, with satori as the finish line. Yet because you’re trying to grab it, you’re missing it completely.
Only when you stop meddling like this does your original, cosmic nature realize itself.
15. To you who is showing off your satori
Why don’t you simply have “I have satori!” tattooed all over your body?
If you’re not conscious of your stomach, that’s proof your stomach is healthy. If you can’t forget your satori, that’s proof that you haven’t got any.
You think that you’re something special because you’ve got satori, but you’re simply showing off your sack of flesh.
When an ordinary person has got satori, he’s called a Zen-devil . This is because he thinks he’s something special.
16. To you who are impressed by scientific and cultural progress
We mustn’t forget that today’s science and culture have only developed out of the lowest levels of consciousness.
Everybody is talking about culture, but what is it besides a refinement of our illusions? However much we iron out our drives, from a Buddhist standpoint, it’s got nothing to do with progress or civilization. Everyone is talking these days about progress, but I wonder in which direction we’re actually progressing.
When you observe insects in a tank, you see how they bite into each other and hold on with all their might. It must be amusing to observe from another corner of the universe how humans stock up on atomic and hydrogen bombs.
17. To you who say you don’t get along with others
Everyone talks about their own point of view, but who really cares? It’d be better if you just kept your mouth shut!
Some say, “Who do you think I am anyway?” An ordinary person, what else?
Some are proud of their wealth, others of their name and position, still others of their satori. In this way they’re just showing off how ordinary they are – people these days are so stupid!
People always have something they can’t forget. If they’re rich, they can’t forget their money. If they’re intelligent, they can’t forget their brains. If they’re talented, they always think about how good they are at this or that. But whatever it is, it always gets in the way. | <urn:uuid:7003e45c-cbef-4f55-aa4e-57b7c519fb62> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://antaiji.org/en/services/kodo-to-you/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.949536 | 3,077 | 1.859375 | 2 |
The Poets’ House was established in 1990 by American poet Janice Fitzpatrick Simmons and her late husband James Simmons, a senior Irish poet, literary critic and songwriter from Derry. Created initially as a centre of excellence for the study and writing of poetry in 1990, it began offering MAs in Creative Writing awarded through Lancaster University in 1994. Martin Mooney (an Uimhir a Cúig featured poet) joined as an additional faculty member. Located first in Portmuck, Islandmagee, Co Antrim, the centre later moved to Falcarragh, Co Donegal. Visiting poets included Seamus Heaney, Billy Collins, Paul Durcan, John Montague, and Carol Ann Duffy. For many years Michelle Mitchell-Foust, a student and later poet-in-residence, lectured there on contemporary American poets. In this month’s Uimhir a Cúig, both Janice and Michelle share their memories of the Poets’ House and naturally enough, there are poems galore. It is a particular pleasure to publish a number of James Simmon’s poems here. As another Uimhir a Cúig featured poet, Thomas McCarthy wrote: “Ulster poetry without Simmons would be unthinkable, and any discussion of Irish poetry that omits him falls flat on its face… In a destitute time his independence of spirit is exemplary and profound.”
I had the good fortune to spend two weeks at The Poets’ House in Portmuck in 1995 (in fact, you can see me shouldering my way into the photo immediately below!) – fond memories indeed.
In 1980, I came to Ireland on an extended holiday and saw a castle in Lough Eske. The castle was for sale, and after having been the assistant director of the Frost Place in the United States, I thought that I would like a place as majestic as this castle to house the voices of American and Irish poets. The Poets’ House wasn’t to be for another ten years, when I visited Ireland again and discussed my idea with people at the Project Art Center. I wanted to acknowledge and foster the differences among poets writing in English in a writing center in Ireland where poets could discuss craft and process.
In 1990 that center was born, the brain child of me and my partner James Simmons, who believed in my visions and joined in my journey to realize this one. The Poets’ House in Port Muck, Islandmagee, Country Antrim opened to poets from all nationalities, all walks of life. The house looked out onto the Irish Sea, and beyond that, Scotland. So the workshops in our center would look out onto pods of dolphins in the little harbor beyond our doors.
At first, there were only a few gathered. During its first summer term, the poets in residence included Seamus Heaney, John Montague, Anthony Cronin, Paul Durcan, Peter Sirr, Derek Mahon, Moya Canon, Paula Meehan, Theo Dorgan, Simon Armitage, and Carol Ann Duffy. Among the students were Matthew Donovan, Daryl Armitage, Nessa O’Mahoney, Denise Blake, Moyra Donaldson, and Michelle Mitchell-Foust, who came back to The Poets’ House as an American Poet in Residence after being a student in the program. Each session that followed that first year had an American Poet in Residence, and these poets include Sherod Santos, William Matthews, Jean Valentine, Roger Weingarten, Ralph Angel, and Billy Collins.
The Poets’ House sessions, three a summer, were structured as lectures, workshops, and readings, with each day featuring a different poet. The poet lectured in the morning, conducted a workshop in the afternoon, and gave a reading in the evening. Students had one day off per week so that they might have the opportunity to travel to gorgeous destinations as part of the course– places such as the Giant’s Causeway and Dunluce Castle. Students from all over the world learned from an array of topics, including Irish folklore, the sounds of Irish birds, science poems, the God vision, and curse poems. Students learned of poets of all periods and all languages, such as Lorca, Pound, Rilke, Dickinson, Mandlestom, and Dante and Dante’s revisionists. For years, students heard Michelle Mitchell-Foust’s lectures on contemporary American poets who are women who question of boundaries of twentieth-century poetry: Anne Carson, Alice Notley, Susan Howe, Brenda Hillman, Claudia Keelan, and Ann Lauterbach. The days were rich with poetry, and the nights were rich with singing. James Simmons was a gifted poet and singer, and under his direction, we sang for the faculty and students and with them, and we created an environment that lent itself to the growth of poetry.
After three years, we knew that the Poets’ House could be expanded to include an MA program, the first in Ireland to be awarded for creative writing. The Poets’ House partnered with Lancaster University to build this graduate program. The program graduated sixty students, among them Heather Wood, Paul Grattam, Joe Woods, Matt Donovan, and Adrian Fox. Our faculty included Martin Mooney, Medbh McGuckian, Paula Meehan, Bernard O’Donahue, and Eilean Nichuilaanain.
Suffice it to say that no program in Ireland or America at the time could provide the kind of experience that poets at The Poets’ House could provide. With the Simmons family at its center, the summer and MA courses educated poets at the same time as they fostered them. No one, not even the faculty, left The Poets’ House without being touched by the magical foundation it provided.
A child’s question — Who am I?
A new self in the Old World; I’m changed.
The arm of a wild Atlantic still before me.
Does it matter which —
Bar Harbor or the mouth of Belfast Lough?
Seals sometimes come into harbour
and occasional letters from home.
The seals, I imagine, are messengers from Maine.
They rise from the water, their funny heads
tilting sideways like dogs listening.
They say: ‘Cape Porpoise is full of tourists —
you don’t miss it.’
And I can imagine the Shetlands out there —
Otters in the blue inlets that glow with afternoon light.
If l close my eyes I can see further:
the fjords of Northern Europe,
mountains and midnight sun.
Our house looks eastward.
The final vision is, always, our snowy bed —
the high grazing fields above us,
the water, rock and harbour wall below.
I’m home and dry.
This is an island, her people calling out to sea.
All other lands are imagined, all other peoples.
These boundaries are defined by nature.
My urge to move west has left me.
Maybe I’ll never see California.
Lately, I’m hesitant to leave home;
to leave Portmuck for Belfast.
My gardens are beautiful in the spring sun;
gold and green and full of birds
whose songs I’m still learning.
I’m leaving America.
This is more difficult than I imagined.
First there was poetry and then love — they came easy.
At the beach I can just hear,
rising from the voice of water,
muffled as the sound inside a shell,
the chant of the Arapaho
or New England’s native Algonquins.
Sometimes they sing louder
and sound better from this distance
than all the old songs of the Irish.
I recite out loud the Indian place names I remember:
Wampanog Trail, Lake Winnepesaukee, Squam,
They tell of familiar earth, of forest before plain —
colder winters, hotter summers, extremities.
All choices made and no regrets
here is the Atlantic before me —
the same big shining sea.
Energy To Burn
in memory of James Simmons
I walk by the sea: it has the power
to wash away years.
It is fierce with life.
Blue green waters thunder and foam
hurling down the long strand at Tramore.
Yesterday a small dolphin
flesh torn and gnawed,
lay dead on the strand.
Wary with life I understand
now why my mother would call me
away from that element that swept her
and two of my kindergarten sisters out a mile;
her powerful, desperate tread keeping them all afloat
until the coastguard lifted the three
from deadly cold west Atlantic waters
where I swam too.
I swam until brine burned tongue and lips.
I could fly in that element
and leapt in the waves and glided
ignoring the terror of sharks,
ignoring the power of the ocean tides and currents,
fierce in that water, as children must be fierce.
In the office my feet still tread sand,
I walk beside that element, my blood in the same salt balance
with storm turquoise of swelling water,
its white churned crash,
alive with energy to burn.
The Word Made Flesh
I was teaching the Roethke poem
where the glass house is a boat enduring the storm
when the moth landed. I should have stopped talking
and pointed the moth out, but couldn’t.
The moth was an angel of the afternoon
stopped for a moment between the cherry
and the climbing rose. An emperor moth the size of my hand
rested on the white wall of the cottage back garden.
A great arc of sunlight caught the moth’s wings.
The eyes of the wings were flowing deep blue —
almost indigo, swirls of white made an illusion of spinning;
the spinning earth then;
in miniature on the wings of a moth whose body
the colour of sunset and of the night sky
is doomed as we to brief life-caught in the light of an afternoon
to be a sign for seasons, for day and years.
—Janice Fitzpatrick Simmons
The Rat Under the Roses
My daughter says, ‘Don’t smoke, Daddy.
It frightens me.’ I love that young lady;
but how can I curb my pleasure, be suddenly stealthy
with life, given I’m still strong and healthy?
The stale air gathered in each good lung
resonates on the vocal chords. Anna’s fright
is part of a puritan fashion that I must fight
with words and music. These good songs will be sung.
We sing. `The rat under the roses’, and Ben’s joke
is to search the bushes. I smile and smoke.
The Island Again
The season slid from Winter to the next,
snowdrops and crocus to hawthorn blossom, the hum
of bees, then pansy, rose, chrysanthemum.
The whole happy gamut hardly vexed
by touches of blight, of failure in leaf or root.
Gooseberry followed strawberry, the few we rear,
on till we watched the blackberries appear,
wild in the hedges, we were gorged on fruit
making our last surveys of our estate
before the snow. Oh the longevity
of the wild briars that never fade away,
but bloom, bear fruit, shrink back slowly and wait.
Our lives seemed overtaken by one flower.
Night-scented stock was event after event
so huge and satisfying, a cloud of scent
enveloping everyone at the front door,
any old life, its irritations and pride,
frozen, melted, raised up in the flower-smelling.
The two of us at the dark door of our dwelling.
The two of us at the dark door of our dwelling
Looking at nothing, that imminence outside.
How Poems Come
Outside, above my left shoulder
was their bedroom window,
the one he heard his wife through
when she opened the far door
of the porch that morning.
Van Macklin worked it all out for me…
a lovely old lady scholar, wearing
her learning light.
She sat up all one night
trying to make sense
of one of my misspellings,
`wain’ for `wean’.
She is a source
of laughter and respect.
Anyway, in that poem,
his wife woke the first bird
to sing that day,
him still in bed upstairs
brimming with bad temper
or love, or thinking poetry.
The one sound he heard
was the door opening—
her steps on grass were silent.
His curiosity is good fun.
He wrote, ‘neither was song
that day to be self-begun.’
I urge my students to really work at rhyme
because, of poems I know by heart, most
have the sound there marking out the time.
Unweeded inspirations plus compost
is not organic—the garden goes to seed.
An artificial shape is what they need;
but if the lore of traditional form is lost,
like Berryman, be haunted by its ghost.
`Why not say what happened?’ was one excuse
for self indulgence, we hard men staying loose;
but how do you know what happened, how can you say
the truth without that drum-beat in your ear?
So we read Hayden Carruth’s poem for Ray
that Adrian loves, colloquial,
truly unbuttoned, as crazy as fox Cal,
and trained by reading Frost and Shakespeare
The pale green of coastal water, shallow
over sand, were Janice’s eyes today.
Her broad back is freckled. Going grey
early gives her a luminous ash-blond halo.
Years ago, I imagined an itinerant younger brother
kissing awake a sleeping girl who shrieked.
This is what happened to me in my first week…
and now that wakened princess is my lover.
My kisses etcetera released her from the spell
of marriage to a violent, sick young man
that her upbringing taught her to stick by;
but the years didn’t seem to have taught me well.
I wasn’t ready yet to act the part
in a story I never wanted to hear,
and yet I couldn’t close my ears.
I had to listen, and I learnt by heart.
Michelle Mitchell-Foust reads ‘Hunter Gatherers’ at The Poets’ House, Falcarragh – introduced by Janice Fitzpatrick Simmons
On my first day of teaching at the Poets’ House, I found myself in an old Irish one room house-turned conservatory. At the far end of the room was a fireplace with a turf fire smoking. That end of the room got light from a window. On the windowsill, the tea was brewing. Before me sat a group comprised of an Irish bilingual senior citizen farmer, an Irish mother of seven, a younger Irish mother and her ten-year-old child, a distinguished Irish gentleman from the town, who was also an Irish language speaker, a young Irishman from Belfast, and several graduate students, one from Canada, and two of my former students who had come from the states at my suggestion. The graduate students were enrolled in the course as part of their M.A. in creative writing through Lancaster University.
In every way, the setting was ideal, complete with the sea outside the window. And the mix of students was something I was accustomed to from my teaching of creative writing classes at Fullerton College in California, only the Poets’ House had significantly fewer English Learners. I would be delivering a lecture in the morning, which might include a writing exercise, and conducting a workshop in the afternoon. I would give or attend a reading in the evening. I knew from my experience of attending the Poets’ House courses as a student what student expectations might be like. I also knew that students from Ireland and students from America and Canada would expect different things and acquire different facilitating.
I knew that all of the students were eager to have an audience for their work, and they were a mature group of people (even the child seemed wise beyond her years). Therefore, I knew that they would respond well to a supportive and constructive workshop setting, which is a necessary community for each writer. They would benefit from my completion of an M.A. and a Doctorate in Creative writing, where I had the opportunity to teach creative writing classes at University of Missouri-Columbia. I had a fairly traditional approach at MU, having students bring in copies of poems for written and verbal critique by myself and their peers in a workshop environment. I would later teach themed creative writing courses and cross-genre courses. And I would make writing and its process the focus of our time in the classroom, with 40% of the time dedicated to critique. I wrote a book-length manuscript of my own prompts for this purpose.
In the Poets’ House workshop, issues of syntax, diction, and form were open for discussion. We paid special attention to the nuances of point of view, as they are outlined in Orson Scott Card’s Character and Viewpoint, considering the telepathy and the global reach of the discourse. Readers made suggestions for revision and developed their critical evaluative skills. It was especially exciting to discuss the richness of the Irish language and its elasticity as well as the many American slang terms and colloquialisms that turn up in poems. On occasion I also asked students to discuss poems in affinity groups. I supplemented this course with reading in poetry texts such as Stephen Dobyns’ Best Words, Best Order so that students had a resource for the terminology and the genre conventions as well as examples of the forms. (Reading is as important as writing for students in writing classes!) I did not lecture the class on prosody, preferring instead to discuss relevant craft issues as the need arose during our discussion of the poems.
One of my fondest memories involves one of the writing workshops in Donegal. A student brought her little daughter and her daughter’s friend along, so I decided to have the students write out ghost stories as a warm-up or a pre-writing exercise, so we all broke up the circle to travel to places around the house. The little girls went under a bush in the back yard to do their writing. When we all came to together, I started with the little girls. The one with the red hair had a wild tale of the “Fenchi”. She said she had found the most frightening book in the world, and she had taken it to school to scare all of her classmates with the “Fenchi”. The book said that if you put a piece of furniture, such as a chair, in the wrong place in your house, the “Fenchi” would come for you. Even as the girl read her story, she shivered with her residual fears. It took some discussion for me to discern that the little girl was talking about a book on Feng Shui! The book based on the Chinese customs for “harmonizing your living environment” absolutely terrified the girl and her classmates!
Furthermore, for our course in Donegal, we also had access to an impressive library of contemporary Irish, English, and American poetry at the Poets’ House. But the primary texts were the students’ poems. Where the challenges came in involved pacing and rigor. American students were use to faster-paced courses with more stringent and involved writing and reading requirements. They were quicker to use the poetry vernacular and to refer to schools of poetry. Irish students were especially strong during discussions of poems; they liked to take their time during their critiques, and they were better read than their American peers, so that they were able to draw from their readings during their verbalizing of recommendations. These strengths on the part of all students made for excellent teaching experiences.
During the ten years that I taught at the Poets’ House during their summer sessions, I had the opportunity to team-teach the workshop with other Irish poets and American Poets-in-Residence. For one summer course, I taught with Billy Collins, and it was an extremely rewarding experience for everyone involved. We were able to take a few “field trips” as part of this course, including a couple of memorable ones to a 7th century grave yard about a mile from the Poets’ House, where one American student was able to find an ancient ancestor’s grave, and we saw a rainbow at midnight. Because we teachers were working with the students each day of the course for the entire day and evening, we could refine our discussions and make sure that students received feedback in a group settling, on field trips, and during one-on-one conferences with me. The Poets’ House was the optimal setting for teacher-student communication about the students’ creative process.
As a Professor of English, teaching literature and creative writing, my pedagogy asks for dedication to educating as a question of human communication and its improvement and preservation. I resist the notion that education employs only a transmission of knowledge. We are talking about human communications that are working their way toward the beautiful and the sublime.
These look on: the magpie fanning
over the road’s descent to the sea
whose brown jellies and dolphins look on,
and on the road farther along,
the red cows, the miles of animals
lying down, whose backs make a soft sea
of their own in the green. They look on
to the open window in the poets’ house
where the music comes from.
There’s a tree inside the house,
and a guitar and toy swords,
and a family, two children and a dog,
and more people and more whose every atom
joined to take this beauty down.
Janice Fitzpatrick Simmons was born in Boston and took her MA at the University of New Hampshire. She is a former Assistant Director of The Robert Frost Place in New Hampshire. In 1990 she co-founded The Poets’ House in Portmuck, Co Antrim. She received The Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in 2009 and The Royal Literary Fund Bursary in 2010. She has published five collections of poetry, her most recent being St. Michael and the Peril of the Sea (Salmon Poetry).
James Simmons was born in Londonderry in 1933 and died in Donegal in 2001. He taught for three years in the sixties at Ahmadu Bellow University, Nigeria. On his return he lectured in drama and Anglo-Irish literature at the New University of Ulster. He founded and edited the literary journal The Honest Ulsterman. He published numerous poetry collections of poetry with The Bodley Head, The Blackstaff Press, and Salmon Poetry. The Selected James Simmons (edited by Edna Longley) was published in 1978 (Blackstaff Press) and Poems, 1956-1986 was published by The Gallery Press in 1986. He published a critical study of Sean O’Casey (New York, St Martin’s Press, 1983) and released four LPs of his songs.
Michelle Mitchell-Foust is an American poet whose published works include Circassian Girl (Elixir Press), Imago Mundi (Elixir Press). She and Tony Barnstone edited the anthologies Poems Dead and Undead (Everyman Press) and Monster Poems: Poems Human and Inhuman (Everyman Press), which will be out in September, 2015. She was a student at the Poets’ House in 1992, and an American Poet in Residence at the Poets’ House for ten years. | <urn:uuid:edea7d8f-0bbb-4faf-96e1-9ac3738c5bdd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://numerocinqmagazine.com/2015/09/05/uimhir-a-cuig-the-poets-house-portmuck-janice-fitzpatrick-simmons-james-simmons-and-michelle-mitchell-foust/?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.964146 | 5,128 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Pulses immobilize cars with RF Safe-Stop from e2vDecember 4, 2013 by Nancy Owano in Technology / Engineering
(Phys.org) —A UK company's prototype has shown how cars can be immobilized by blasting electromagnetic waves. RF Safe-Stop is a system that stops engines. Its ability to send electronic pulses out towards targeted vehicles forces those vehicles' engines to cut out. As a non-lethal weapon, the unit can disable the engines of not only cars but also small boats, doing the job, in just seconds, at a distance up to 50m. One suggested defense use, in temporarily disabling a vehicle's electronic systems, would be to thwart drivers using their vehicles as car bombs as well as to defend sensitive locations from cars that refuse to stop.
A recent report from the BBC said there has also been a show of police interest in the device, which is made by the UK-based e2v. a company that designs, develops and manufactures technology systems and components. The BBC was recently given a demo of the device at an airfield in Worcestershire. In the demo, a car drove towards the device at around 15mph. As it entered the RF-Safe-Stop range, the car's warning lights and dials showed erratic behavior. The engine stopped. The car rolled to a halt. As part of the event, e2v assembled a varied group of not only cars but also motorbikes, to test the device against a range of vehicles. The intense RF pulses-are designed to immobilize the management system of a vehicle's engine; the aim is to "confuse" the electronics and render them temporarily inoperable. According to product manager Andy Wood, 17 nations and five UK government bodies have shown interest in e2v's technology.
The system can be adapted for various applications. Wood told The Engineer that RF Safe-Stop could be fitted into fixed-based installations and boats and that there were blueprint ideas to integrate it into a helicopter.
The company's RF Safe-Stop flyer states that demonstration hardware developed by the company has had proven effects for engine-stopping and disruption via the company's patented switching products in conjunction with high-power magnetrons, "and carefully packaging these with appropriate antennas." The company notes that its design approach has enabled a solution that can be adapted to suit specific customer needs. Listing application areas for its RF Safe-Stop technology, the e2v includes checkpoint enforcement and, at sea, harbor entry protection and anti-piracy.
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Gibraltar slams new 'incursion' by Spanish navy
The Gibraltar government condemned as "provocative and unlawful" an incident on Tuesday in which it said a Spanish naval vessel incurred into its territorial waters and then called on commercial ships to leave the area.
Tensions in the disputed waters off the tiny British territory were already high since an incident on April 23 involving Spanish and Gibraltar police vessels.
A British military spokesman in the rocky promontory off southern Spain said the Royal Navy issued two radio warnings to the Spanish patrol boat "Atalaya" to leave after it entered the area on Tuesday morning.
The Royal Navy then dispatched a fast inflatable boat followed by a bigger, armed vessel, HMS Scimitar, the spokesman said. He said the Atalaya left about 90 minutes after it arrived.
The Gibraltar government also charged that "the Spanish vessel approached and contacted all merchant shipping on the eastside of the Rock within British Gibraltar Territorial Waters and ordered them to raise anchors and to leave since they did not have permission to be in Spanish waters.
"The Gibraltar Port Authority directed all vessels to remain at their anchorage, which they did," it said in a statement.
The Gibraltar government "condemns the provocative and unlawful actions by the Spanish Navy Corvette 'Atalaya' in British Gibraltar Territorial Waters."
There was no immediate comment from Madrid to the charges.
It was the latest in a series of maritime face-offs in the waters off Gibraltar over the last two years.
The most recent occurred on April 23, when Gibraltar police charged one of its boats was damaged in a clash with Spanish police vessels that illegally entered its waters in pursuit of alleged drug traffickers.
Spain's government complained to Britain over that incident, while Spain's Civil Guard police force charged its officers were subjected to "insults and threats" by those on the Gibraltar police boat.
In a similar incident to Tuesday's, a Spanish navy patrol boat entered Gibraltar waters in May 2009 and inspected fishing boats.
Britain claims a strip of three nautical miles (5.5 kilometres) surrounding Gibraltar as its territorial waters. But Spain does not recognise any waters off Gibraltar as belonging to the territory apart from its ports.
Gibraltar, which Madrid ceded to London in 1713 under the Treaty of Utrecht, has long fuelled tensions between the two countries.
Madrid argues the 6.5-square-kilometre (2.6-square-mile) territory that is home to around 30,000 people should be returned to Spanish sovereignty.
But its people overwhelmingly rejected an Anglo-Spanish proposal for co-sovereignty in a referendum in 2002.
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Presently more and more people want to get a job of SAP consultant and, therefore, the demand for SAP training is constantly increasing. High demand for SAP training lead to the situation where more and more training institutes offer various SAP classes. SAP training market is extremely diverse and for this reason newcomers are often confused and do not know which course better suits their needs. Unfortunately, it is impossible to provide a review of all SAP training providers that currently operate on the market, because by the time we finish this review some training companies will disappear and new companies will take their places. So, we decided to write an article, which focuses not on particular training providers, but on the types of SAP training. In particular we want to discuss here the advantages and disadvantages of online SAP training and classroom SAP training.
SAP Classroom Training
SAP Classroom training is a traditional way to learn SAP. Depending on the training provider, you will be enrolled in a group with 10-12 students. In most cases training classes start in the morning and finish in the evening (9:00 AM – 5:00 PM) with one hour break for lunch. The training course normally focuses on one of the SAP modules: SAP SD, SAP MM, SAP FI, SAP BI, SAP HR and others. Moreover, some courses teach two adjacent modules (e.g., MM and SD) at the same time. You will be given a handbook with theory and exercises. The handbook is usually included in the price of SAP course. There will be also computers in the classroom with an access for training SAP IDES installation. You should be able to access SAP via these computers anytime when you are in the classroom, but probably not from home. Due to the fact that there are several students in the group, an instructor will go through the materials with an average speed. So if you need more time than other students to understand something, you will not be given time for it. On the other hand if you are have good knowledge of SAP, then the speed might seem too slow for you.
SAP Online Training
SAP online training emerged recently and many people are still a bit suspicious to this kind of remote education. However, SAP online training has several big advantages over the traditional classroom based training. That is why more and more people to learn SAP online. The first and the main advantage is of course the price. SAP training is quite expensive for a number of reasons and many recent graduates just cannot afford it. Therefore, the low price of SAP online training is a major factor. Another good thing about online courses is that you go through them alone at your own pace. At the pace which is comfortable for you and allows you to understand the course better. In 90% of cases you will also be given with a 24/7 access to SAP system for practice. However, when you choose the training course, you should always ask if the course provider gives you an access to a training SAP system. In some cases training providers try to be silent about it until you pay for the course. Read more about fake SAP training. With online training you unfortunately loose the contact with a live instructor. You have to understand everything yourself. And if you have any questions there is no one to quickly answer them.
SAP Training: Online or Classroom? What to choose?
Of course each situation is different and you should decide yourself which type of SAP training better suits your needs. Here we tried to briefly describe what to expect from these two types of SAP training. It can be clearly seen that each training type has its own advantages and disadvantages. That is classroom based SAP training is a better fit for people who very much like a guidance of a live instructor during the course. On the other hand, online SAP training might be good for those who like to learn on their own pace. Another important factor is the price of the training. Classroom based SAP training is traditionally way more expensive than online SAP training.
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UNEP-WCMC is pleased to launch Ocean+ Data, an online library of 183 ocean-related data resources to support informed decision-making for ocean conservation.
Ocean+ Data provides an overview of global marine and coastal data resources of biodiversity importance, as well as datasets of regional interest. It lists datasets, databases and data portals from a range of international scientific sources, and explains what these datasets show, how they can be used, their limitations and access details. Users can filter datasets by category, organisation and theme.
Ocean+ Data can be used to identify resources to support, among other things, marine spatial planning, environmental impact assessments, and education and ocean literacy.
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Helpful Mold Tips from the EPA
Mold mitigation in Advance North Carolina
Mold Cleanup in Your Home
A Brief Guide to Mold, Moisture and Your Home
If you already have a mold problem - ACT QUICKLY. Mold damages what it grows on. The longer it grows, the more damage it can cause.
Who should do the cleanup depends on a number of factors. One consideration is the size of the mold problem. If the moldy area is less than about 10 square feet (less than roughly a 3 ft. by 3 ft. patch), in most cases, you can handle the job yourself, follow the Mold Cleanup Tips and Techniques. However:If there has been a lot of water damage, and/or mold growth covers more than 10 square feet, consult EPA guide Mold Remediation in Schools and Commercial Buildings. Although focused on schools and commercial buildings, this document is applicable to other building types.If you choose to hire a contractor (or other professional service provider) to do the cleanup, make sure the contractor has experience cleaning up mold. Check references and ask the contractor to follow the recommendations in EPA guide Mold Remediation in Schools and Commercial Buildings, the guidelines of the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygenists (ACGIH), or other guidelines from professional or government organizations such as the Institute for Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration (IICRC).If you suspect that the heating/ventilation/air conditioning (HVAC) system may be contaminated with mold (it is part of an identified moisture problem, for instance, or there is mold near the intake to the system), consult EPA guide Should You Have the Air Ducts in Your Home Cleaned? before taking further action. Do not run the HVAC system if you know or suspect that it is contaminated with mold - it could spread mold throughout the building.If the water and/or mold damage was caused by sewage or other contaminated water, then call in a professional who has experience cleaning and fixing buildings damaged by contaminated water.If you have health concerns, consult a health professional before starting cleanup.* | <urn:uuid:848d0c40-fd3b-4323-9a5a-ac714e0cecb3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.servprodavieyadkincounties.com/blog/post/16429/mold-removal-remediation/helpful-mold-tips-from-the-epa | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.938249 | 446 | 2.28125 | 2 |
The mode of action of sulfasalazine (SSZ) or its metabolites, 5-aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA) and sulfapyridine (SP), may be related to the anti-inflammatory and/or immunomodulatory properties that have been observed in animal and in vitro models, to its affinity for connective tissue, and/or to the relatively high concentration it reaches in serous fluids, the liver and intestinal walls, as demonstrated in autoradiographic studies in animals. In ulcerative colitis, clinical studies utilizing rectal administration of SSZ, SP, and 5-ASA have indicated that the major therapeutic action may reside in the 5-ASA moiety.
In vivo studies have indicated that the absolute bioavailability of orally administered SSZ is less than 15% for parent drug. In the intestine, SSZ is metabolized by intestinal bacteria to SP and 5-ASA. Of the two species, SP is relatively well absorbed from the intestine and highly metabolized, while 5-ASA is much less well absorbed.
Following oral administration of 1 g of SSZ to 9 healthy males, less than 15% of a dose of SSZ is absorbed as parent drug. Detectable serum concentrations of SSZ have been found in healthy subjects within 90 minutes after the ingestion. Maximum concentrations of SSZ occur between 3 and 12 hours post-ingestion, with the mean peak concentration (6 µg/mL) occurring at 6 hours.
In comparison, peak plasma levels of both SP and 5-ASA occur approximately 10 hours after dosing. This longer time to peak is indicative of gastrointestinal transit to the lower intestine where bacteria mediated metabolism occurs. SP apparently is well absorbed from the colon with an estimated bioavailability of 60%. In this same study, 5-ASA is much less well absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract with an estimated bioavailability of from 10 to 30%.
Following intravenous injection, the calculated volume of distribution (Vdss) for SSZ was 7.5 ± 1.6 L. SSZ is highly bound to albumin (>99.3%) while SP is only about 70% bound to albumin. Acetylsulfapyridine (AcSP), the principal metabolite of SP, is approximately 90% bound to plasma proteins.
As mentioned above, SSZ is metabolized by intestinal bacteria to SP and 5-ASA. Approximately 15% of a dose of SSZ is absorbed as parent and is metabolized to some extent in the liver to the same two species. The observed plasma half-life for intravenous sulfasalazine is 7.6 ± 3.4 hours. The primary route of metabolism of SP is via acetylation to form AcSP. The rate of metabolism of SP to AcSP is dependent upon acetylator phenotype. In fast acetylators, the mean plasma half-life of SP is 10.4 hours while in slow acetylators, it is 14.8 hours. SP can also be metabolized to 5-hydroxy-sulfapyridine (SPOH) and N-acetyl-5-hydroxy-sulfapyridine. 5-ASA is primarily metabolized in both the liver and intestine to N-acetyl-5-aminosalicylic acid via a non-acetylation phenotype dependent route. Due to low plasma levels produced by 5-ASA after oral administration, reliable estimates of plasma half-life are not possible.
Absorbed SP and 5-ASA and their metabolites are primarily eliminated in the urine either as free metabolites or as glucuronide conjugates. The majority of 5-ASA stays within the colonic lumen and is excreted as 5-ASA and acetyl-5-ASA with the feces. The calculated clearance of SSZ following intravenous administration was 1 L/hr. Renal clearance was estimated to account for 37% of total clearance.
Elderly patients with rheumatoid arthritis showed a prolonged plasma half-life for SSZ, SP, and their metabolites. The clinical impact of this is unknown.
Small studies have been reported in the literature in children down to the age of 4 years with ulcerative colitis and inflammatory bowel disease. In these populations, relative to adults, the pharmacokinetics of SSZ and SP correlated poorly with either age or dose.
The metabolism of SP to AcSP is mediated by polymorphic enzymes such that two distinct populations of slow and fast metabolizers exist. Approximately 60% of the Caucasian population can be classified as belonging to the slow acetylator phenotype. These subjects will display a prolonged plasma half-life for SP (14.8 hours vs 10.4 hours) and an accumulation of higher plasma levels of SP than fast acetylators. The clinical implication of this is unclear; however, in a small pharmacokinetic trial where acetylator status was determined, subjects who were slow acetylators of SP showed a higher incidence of adverse events. | <urn:uuid:057fb340-3288-4f37-ab22-d80d45a9699a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pfizermedicalinformation.com/en-us/azulfidine/clinical-pharmacology | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.933275 | 1,081 | 1.71875 | 2 |
What would you do if the whole world was waiting expectantly for your next move? The American president-elect Barack Obama, faithful to his campaign image, ("Obama no drama") goes to a gym every morning, accompanied by a security motorcade. The last big festival, the inauguration in Washington, still awaits him, but just as his return to a daily workout marked the end of the campaign for Obama, the results of the daily discussions with his team in Chicago behind closed doors mark the return to everyday politics.
First of all, Obama is not coming into a vacuum. Even President George W. Bush is leaving behind a kind of legacy, and a number of appointments with which Obama will have to live for a while. Unlike Bill Clinton and his desperate attempt to bring peace to the Middle East, in his last days in office Bush has been looking more worried about domestic affairs and is hastening to pass decisions that could determine facts on the ground, such as preparations for drilling in nature reserves in the Arctic. Bush is also flooded with last-minute requests for clemency, but it does not look as though much will come of this, which is also the case with respect to the last visit to Washington by the prime minister of Israel.
In the meantime, the suspense among those on the long list of Obama's faithful, who are waiting for a phone call from the transition team people, is now becoming unbearable. Many good people worked hard for him, and most of them rightfully deserve a piece of the administration cake, not as charity. On the theoretical level, the team that will be recruited here is supposed to be the "dream team" of a president who is America's hope, and also the hope of at least part of the world.
However, in the world of action, the attempt to put together a functioning government puzzle on which so much hope is pined will ultimately be translated into the handing out of jobs with all the epiphenomena of that: an inevitable mix of people with a mission and careerists, the use of connections, unsentimental calculations of risk, hurt feelings, negotiations, intrigues and speculations. Declaring war on the lobbyists is all very nice, but in actuality wherever Obama turns in an attempt to find experienced and connected candidates, he comes up against a dense network of lobbyists.
Personally, too, Obama, a graduate of a prestigious private school and Harvard University, does not intend to act like the average American when it comes to his family. When his wife Michelle and his daughters came to Washington this week, they toured two private schools. Everyone knows that the public education in the city is terrible, said one resident of Washington, D.C., and of course Obama does not want to harm his daughters' future. But she herself was disappointed because he promised to "fix things," and who if not the president can send a message of confidence in the education system and contribute to improving its quality? She too has two daughters, like the president-elect, and they have no chance of going to private schools. "I don't want to think about a situation in which Obama is sitting in the White House, but in fact nothing has changed," she said.
However, after a few minutes of conversation she also admits that the talk about a "new politics" is a fiction. In the real world, in the best case there will be exhausting discussions in the best democratic tradition, from which a policy that works will arise. In the worst case, there will be many excellent excuses for why it isn't working, because if there is something that Obama knows how to do really well, it is to explain things clearly.
But even in a situation of "business (and politics) as usual," a successful team and a leader with good judgment can produce quite a lot of good, especially if Obama will indeed be smart enough to enlist his former rivals to his side and, like Abraham Lincoln, whose words he recalled on the night of his victory, prove that he can control them.
Above all, from within the mountain of reports as to how bad the situation is in every possible area and a deluge of advice, he is also expected to engender a vision that will keep the spark of hope alive in the world in general, and in the United States in particular. How is this done in reality? One possibility is that of "czars," a kind of parallel to "ministers without portfolio:" putting people with a high public profile and a vision in charge of advancing certain areas. However, the top candidates for the positions of "czar" who Obama has successfully enlisted into the ranks of his supporters, are contributing to their country without the backing of a government salary and official title. According to the reports, former vice president Al Gore has rejected an offer to become the "climate czar," and the chairman of Google has relinquished the possibility of becoming "technology czar."
Another option is to return to the "roots." The problem is that with the circle of advisors closing rapidly around him, the appeals to the nation on YouTube will perhaps make him more up-to-date, but not more up-to-date about what people are really thinking.
He is not going to be Caliph Haorun al Rashid, who according to legend would go out to the street in disguise in order to pick up what his subjects were feeling, but perhaps he will at least succeed in stealing a few minutes before his morning briefings to do a search on Google.
Or perhaps the mechanism he has already built will do the job on its own. Obama's campaign people, who managed to get a real fight going from below, sent out an e-mail this week asking field activists for ideas about what can be done with the huge network that has been created, and how to keep Obama as the real president of the people. If people who became addicted to the campaign raise the gauntlet, and with the same enthusiasm start persuading their neighbors to travel more by bike, recycle and save, then Obama has a good chance of wining at least one of the battles that await him.
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Donetta Taylor English Controversial music in America Music is an international language You cannot go anywhere without hear some form of music Whether it is humming singing or something prerecorded Yet it is fastly be recognized for the controversy it brings Whether it contains sexual content or vulgar language it is starting to be discussed more than common politics With the changes in society happening so rapidly music has been able to keep up wit the pace From classical instrumentals to bass pumping chorus music has become more than entertainment It has become a way of life Of all the music that has been created the two that stands out the most is Rock and Rap music Their lyrics have been said to cause fights and enrage hate Yet they also inspire and give hope Rock was known as the devils music If you listened to it you were said to hold satanic rituals and worship the dead People were quick to make assumptions and had not listened to the music If they had listened then they would have known that they did not worship the devil Instead they talked about their life experiences and how they felt about things For example a group called Twisted Sister they wore long hair heavy make-up and in their womens clothing told the kids to stand up and say were not gonna take it no we aint gonna take it were not gonna take it anymore Parents as they often did were in an outrage because these 5 men were telling their kids not to listen to them The group was actually talking about how they were not going to take being mistreated as a rock group anymore Another group that caused a ruckus was a group called Pearl Jam They brought controversy not only to their music but also to the silver screen with their song Jeremy This song talked about self-esteem problems in school age kids
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died twenty years ago, was not an easy man to interview. Sometime in the late seventies, I sat with my back to a pink damask wall in one of the public rooms of the Algonquin Hotel while Fassbinder, dressed in his uniform of frayed white shirt, black leather jacket, and jeans, paced and darted in front of me. Then in his early thirties, he was pale and soft, with a patchy brown beard and mustache and matted hair, and he was smoking furiously. At one point, he lunged at me, arm outstretched, and I flinched. It turned out that he was reaching for a pack of cigarettes on a ledge behind my head. He lit a new cigarette with the one he was finishing, and went on talking, and we both pretended not to notice that for an instant a critic believed that a director was about to punch him out.
Fassbinder rarely stopped moving and slept very little; he frequently kept people off balance as a way of getting them to do what he wanted. Since he wasn't always sure what he wanted, working for him or living with him was a nerve-shattering but often irresistible experience (two of his discarded male lovers committed suicide; others stayed close to him for years). Negligently raised—he liked to say that he had no childhood and had become his own father—and haphazardly educated, he grew up despising the rituals of bourgeois German family life, which, he was convinced, were a mask for greed and contempt. Once he became a success, he turned his unloving mother into an actress, renamed her Lilo Pempeit—thereby reversing the parent-child relationship—and kept her around on the set, where he could control her. His real family was the troupe of actors, designers, technicians, lovers, and hangers-on he worked with. He had mesmerizing talents for instant invention and for leadership that bordered on the sadistic. He gave actors what they most wanted—emotional attention—but he sometimes gave it in the form of abuse, driving them to rage or exhaustion, where he thought the truth of personality lay.
When Fassbinder was only twenty-two, he "imposed himself" (in the words of his biographer, Ronald Hayman) on a group of young actors who had known one another at drama school in Munich. There followed an explosion of theatrical and filmmaking activity almost without parallel. Fassbinder wrote, acted in, and staged plays, then he turned some of them into movies and made other movies by reworking episodes from his life or by adapting German literary or stage classics. Many of the films were shot in three or four weeks, with minimal preparation, and as soon as one film had been shot the next project was launched. In 1970 alone he made seven feature-length films. In 1980, he completed the fifteen-hour adaptation of Alfred Döblin's "Berlin Alexanderplatz," for German television, and several other films. Constantly working, Fassbinder acquired few possessions, not even a home. He drank heavily, and snorted as much as three grams of cocaine a day. Near the end, gaining weight rapidly, he had the appearance, in his soft hat and shades, of a hipster walrus.
As the movies came out here, they were greeted with unrestrained enthusiasm by the late Vincent Canby, of the Times, and by a few other critics, but many people found them off-putting and strange. Pauline Kael, for instance, called "The Merchant of Four Seasons" (1971) "an art thing, all right, but perhaps not a work of art." Except for "The Marriage of Maria Braun" (1978), which played for a year in a theatre near Lincoln Center, none of the films reached beyond art-house and campus audiences, and after Fassbinder's death his American followers, with what appeared to be a collective sigh of relief, seemed to forget him. For many moviegoers under forty he is now no more than a name. Can he be revived? The independent distributor Wellspring (formerly Winstar) is taking a chance. It has gathered together sixteen of his films for a festival beginning on February 14th at Film Forum and then moving on to Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, and other major cities; a number of the films have also been issued on DVD. If a Fassbinder revival is ever to happen, this is the moment.
Yet the strangeness of his work remains as daunting as ever. The 1971 "Beware of a Holy Whore" gives a good idea of Fassbinder's early style and also a taste of what it must have been like on his sets. Like Godard's "Contempt," Truffaut's "Day for Night," and Fellini's "81/2," this is a movie about the making of a movie, or, rather, the non-making of a movie. A bickering cast and crew, stranded without money at a Spanish resort, fall into dereliction and sloth. As the camera glides through the lobby of the hotel, quarrelsome, morose people pass in and out of the frame, and dirty things take place on a couch in the corner; the gathering atmosphere of gossip and disloyalty leads to shrieking fits, slaps, shattered glass. The actor Lou Castel, in a parody of Fassbinder's tantrums (Fassbinder himself appears as a production assistant), dominates everyone, then complains that his victims are too dependent on him. "Holy Whore," a cross between Brecht and Warhol, is clearly comedy, and Fassbinder's alternating between torpor and tirade seems an intentionally disjointed style. But "The Merchant of Four Seasons," which uses the same style, is anything but a comedy. The movie is about Hans, the black sheep of a bourgeois family who tries to make a go of it in Munich as a fruit-and-vegetable peddler, only to be betrayed by everyone close to him, including his greedy wife. He withdraws from them all and drinks himself to death. At first, it seems a sombre Marxist narrative—the hero, we think, is meant to be the victim of a merciless class-conscious society in which the better equipped instinctively gang up on the weak, as in some vicious schoolyard game. But Fassbinder's style is anti-realistic and vaguely mocking. The lighting is bright and shadowless, the performers hold silent poses for long, excruciating periods, and then burst out in violent harangues, delivered with the peculiar, throat-scraping harshness of German spoken in anger. Is the movie camp? Not quite; the suffering of the hero is genuine. A hybrid, then—a Marxist fable crossed with the superheated emotionalism of a fifties Hollywood melodrama.
For years, Fassbinder mixed realism and artifice in ways that were unprecedented and provocative. "The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant" (1972) is a kind of haute-couture lesbian pajama party with silken, knowing dialogue. In the flat of a well-known dress designer, erotic power passes back and forth between two women (Margit Carstensen and Hanna Schygulla), who are dressed to the teeth but never go out—mostly they lounge on a big bed under a Baroque painting of writhing nudes. The movie's rhythms are slow and graceful, the imagery often ravishing (like many of Fassbinder's early films, "Petra" was shot by the great Michael Ballhaus), but on that bed emotional murder is committed. For Fassbinder, all love relationships become a struggle for power in which the partner who loves more loses more. Three years later, he presented that fatalistic scheme in a male companion piece, "Fox and His Friends," in which he plays a street hustler who becomes the victim of elegant upper-middle-class swine. By then, he had rejected the peculiarities of his stop-and-go, fire-and-ice dramaturgy—or outgrown them. In "Fox," the rituals of love and betrayal appear embedded in a recognizable social and psychological world. He stretched even further, into social history, in "The Marriage of Maria Braun," which traces the rise of a mischievous and tough-souled young woman (Schygulla again) in the postwar years. This movie and "Berlin Alexanderplatz" suggest a new, settled mastery and (of all things) maturity.
Even if we had mixed feelings about Fassbinder's movies when they came out, many of us nevertheless got caught up in the heedless momentum of his career. His productivity embodied the dream of cinema as an organic activity. You ate, drank, fought, made love, and made movies. Chaplin worked this way during his time with Mack Sennett. Godard did it in the sixties, and so did Bergman. Woody Allen has come closest to this pace in recent years, but Fassbinder was the wild-man champ of organic filmmaking. In 1982, when he was preparing to shoot his forty-second movie, he died during the night of a drug overdose, a cigarette between his lips. He was staying in a borrowed flat in Munich. He was thirty-seven years old. ♦ | <urn:uuid:cde26cbd-1b24-4363-9ae0-c432820d6545> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/02/10/fast-times | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.9828 | 1,971 | 1.75 | 2 |
KINGMAN, Ariz. (KTVU) - An animal hospital in Arizona is celebrating the successful delivery of 19 Great Dane puppies all from one litter.
A team of 11 medical staff members and technicians helped deliver the litter by cesarian on Saturday.
Kingman Animal Hospital took to social media and excitedly shared the news, along with sweet photos of the newborns. On Facebook, the hospital wrote, "All live and healthy! Mom doing great!" (The hospital noted that the photos were taken before and after the procedure, which was performed in a sterile surgical room.)
"The unusual part is the amount of puppies in this litter. Generally 13 is a pretty big litter, so to have 19!" the hospital's office manager, Cassie McEuen told KTVU.
The dog's owners are breeders. McEuen said they could tell something wasn't right with the mom, so they brought her into the hospital to get checked.
"The mom holding the babies for so long, she was just tired," McEuen said.
The delivery took about 40 minutes, there were no complications, and mom and all 19 of her babies are doing very well.
"It was exciting to see that," McEuen recalled. "The puppies screaming and moving around. It was a heartwarming moment," she added.
C-section deliveries among larger dogs are not very common, as larger breeds deliver litters pretty easily, according to the hospital.
"We do see a large number of C-sections on smaller dogs, but not large dogs, and not of this magnitude," Mceuen explained.
Mceuen said the owners are looking into whether any records were broken with this delivery.
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"Harmonal Imbalance" is the main reason behind having pimples on the face at teenage.
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Vintage Evening Shirts
In the early nineteenth century, day and evening shirts were
constructed like nightshirts that slipped over the head and were
generally made of white muslin (a loosely woven cotton). While the
choice of white material might seem entirely unremarkable today,
back then the wearing of white shirts, waistcoats and neckcloths
was a subtle indication of a man’s wealth. In order to
maintain a spotless appearance in the dirty conditions of the
country or city these easily-soiled linens would have to be
changed frequently which meant hefty laundering
charges affordableonly by the rich.
English evening shirt, 1808.
Reproduction Regency-era dress shirt.
By 1830 smaller neckcloths and
lower-cut waistcoats exposed more of the formal
shirt's front, then often pleated.
The fronts of evening shirts were pleated and/or frilled, often
asymmetrically. The Whole Art of Dress published in 1830
suggested a prudent way to incorporate linen’s resistance to wear
and yellowing without sacrificing the benefits of cotton:
the wristbands, collars, and fronts are the only parts displayed in
public, it is by no means absolutely requisite . . . to have the
body and sleeves composed of linen. On the contrary, fine
India long cloth [plain cotton cloth], while it saves an immense
expense (one-third the price of linen), is infinitely superior from
the coolness and comfort of its wear.
Collars on these
shirts were tall enough to stand above the elaborate cravats that
swathed the neck during this period and were sometimes
stiffened. At first they were attached to the shirts then in the
1820s the option of detachable collars became available.
The popularity of
lavishly ruffled shirt fronts declined throughout the conservative Victorian era in favor
of delicate pleats or a plain front, the latter option becoming the
most common style by the 1850s. Plain fronts required a thick
bosom to maintain an unrumpled appearance on a shirt that otherwise
fit very loosely. Eyelets began to appear at the same time to
accommodate studs while starched cuffs made cufflinks more
The late Victorian period ushered in the stiff
evening shirt that is still the standard for full dress today. It
became known colloquially as a "boiled shirt" because boiling was
the most effective washing process to keep shirts white and to
remove the copious amount of starch from the garment's four-layer
bosom. These bosoms were made of white piqué or linen, the latter
either plain or pleated, and generally took one or two studs.
Man's evening dress shirt circa 1850s.
Man's evening dress shirt circa 1860s.
white longcloth dress shirt, linen fittings throughout" from
Harrod's. Note open front.
Open-front shirts (aka coat-front shirts) were introduced to
menswear in the 1880s to allow for a tapered waist that was not
possible in shirts that had to be wide enough to slip over the
Shirts that opened in the back were
introduced in the following decade and this style grew in popularity
for dress shirts until it was the predominant choice in the
1930s. They were preferred because their fused bosom would
stay perfectly smooth during wearing unlike open-front versions
where the two halves of the bosom were held together by studs and
were consequently prone to buckling and billowing. (In open-back
models the studs were purely decorative.) The fact that this style
of dress shirt was manufactured into the 1960s attests to its
Collars were still mostly tall and elaborately wrapped in
neckcloths up to the 1850s. By the 1860s such cravats had fallen out
of fashion in favour of the bow tie prompting collars to become
shorter as well as stiffer in order to stand upright on their own. In the
following decade collars began to display folded tips called wings.
Turndown collars were occasionally seen in the 1860s and early '70s.
When the dinner jacket first gained popularity in the 1880s
it was worn with the full-dress shirt and accessories due to its
limited role as an informal replacement for the tailcoat.
As the story goes, detachable
were invented in 1827 by a housewife in Troy, New York who was tired
of trying to remove the “ring-around-the-collar” from her husband’s
shirts. Having a collar that was separate from the shirt was
not only more efficient for laundering but was also more economical
as it allowed the soiled collar to be replaced without having to buy
an entirely new shirt.
by hand and constructed of cotton, paper or heavily starched linen,
its popularity quickly spread to the rest of the world, particularly
among the growing class of office-workers that became known as
“white collar” workers. Detachable collars were the height of
fashion by 1862 when machines were invented to mass produce them by
laminating linen onto thick cardboard stock creating a material
known as linene. Shortly after its invention in 1870 an early
form of plastic called celluloid was interlined with the linen to
create an extremely stiff collar that could be cleaned with simple
soap and water instead of the elaborate starching and pressing
process required for the other materials.
Notably, the very
frugality that endeared this invention to the masses was frowned
upon by polite society who generally maintained a preference
for attached collars on their dress shirts.
Illustrations from 1869 sewing patterns
for upright poke collar and early wing collar.
An 1899 window display featuring dozens of different collar
and cuff models for sale.
Leather collar boxes were popular accessories to store and
protect detachable collars.
Detachable Cuffs and Bosoms
Sleeve cuffs were also
available in detachable celluloid styles but were not as popular on
formal shirts as were their collar counterparts. While the
detachable collar was able to offer variety of styles and a suitability
to different neck lengths, detachable cuffs were simply a way to
reduce laundering costs which was not supposed to be a concern for
Linen "shirt fronts" from 1895 Harrod's
catalogue, sold with or without attached collars.
Circa 1890s ad for celluloid collars, cuffs and shirt
1912 ad for a detachable shirt bosom by another maker
of celluloid products.
A dickey (alternately spelled dicky or dickie) is a type of false
shirt-front that appeared in the 1820s as a permissible shortcut in
the country when fine dressing was impossible. Eventually they
were made of the same celluloid as detachable collars and cuffs for
use with evening shirts, buttoning to the shirt’s collar at the top
and tucking into the waistcoat or cummerbund below. Their
waterproof, wrinkle-free and stain-resistant properties made them
popular with entertainers, musicians and waiters and consequently
disdained by well-dressed gentlemen who viewed them as the
equivalent of a pre-tied bow tie. Their extreme stiffness and
tendency to pop out of place also made them the subject of humor and
As in the previous era, the Edwardian
full-dress shirt featured a stiff bosom of piqué or plain material
and the number of studs ranged from one to three throughout the
period. New to this era were soft pleated dress shirts with French
cuffs which were appropriate only with the dinner jacket, although
some mavericks adopted them for full dress.
By the turn of
the century the most popular collar styles – whether attached or
detachable – were turndown, poke (i.e. upright or "imperial") and
wing. A 1903 “correct dress chart” in The Haberdasher and
Clothier dictated the former style for wear with the informal dinner
jacket and the latter two models for the tailcoat. As the
period progressed the wing collar gradually dominated the other
options. Cuffs, conversely, were always to be attached when worn
with evening dress.
By 1913 a new trend had emerged which
would prove permanent: the material of the full-dress shirt’s bosom,
collar, and cuffs was to match that of the accompanying bow tie and
Early ad by Arrow shirts' parent company for
their Donchester dress shirt.
Full-dress shirt with band collar, American circa1900 (source)
Artist J.C. Leyendecker's ads for
Arrow dress shirts have become iconic.
Vanity Fair advised in 1913 that collars should be
high in the back to be properly exposed and that the band collar
style (left) is less comfortable than "boldwing" (right) or
poke styles, presumably because the former's overlapping
contstricted the throat.
1907 "linen dress front" from British retailer Army & Navy
Beginning at the turn of the century, etiquette guides were
allowing plain or pleated front shirts with turndown or wing collars
to be worn with the informal new dinner jacket. By World War I
these shirts were specifically referred to as soft fronts as in this
excerpt from Marion Hartland's Complete Etiquette:
Gold studs and gold link cuff buttons, or the newer dark enamel
should be used, in shirts of plaits or tucks of various widths.
These softer styles of shirts are now in high favor and are a
sensible and proper innovation. Extremes of styles should be
avoided, and many men of conservative tastes still wear the stiff
plain linen or piqué bosoms.
were significantly relaxed for practical reasons during the First
World War and remained that way after peace returned.
Consequently, full-dress was worn much less frequently and there
were few developments the corresponding stiff-front shirt.
Although the trend of having a shirt bosom, waistcoat and bow tie of matching piqué continued to grow, this was an
expensive perk limited to those who could afford custom tailoring.
Consequently, plain linen bosoms remained very popular throughout
The detachable wing collar had
become the norm by now. The trendsetting Prince of Wales
favored a tall version which necessitated a wide opening and very
broad tabs that were slightly wider than the bow tie.
By 1928 the Prince of Wales had publicly condemned the boiled
shirt of his ancestors and two Men’s Wear surveys from that year
revealed that American men seemed to share the sentiment. The
periodical reported that while most men continued to favor wing
collars and stiff-bosom shirts with their dinner jackets, some of
the younger generation had taken to wearing negligee shirts with
soft attached collars. The magazine’s editors scolded that “This
style mirrors the quintessence of informality, in fact, these men
could hardly adopt any more radical style and still be ‘properly’
Arrow's "Tango" shirt line was offered with "soft and
semi-soft, tucked or pleated bosoms." Cuffs
could be single or French. (1913)
The July 1919 issue of
Vanity Fair recommended this pleated shirt with
turndown collar for a cool and comfortable summer formal
In 1924 Men's Wear suggested a slightly starched
pleated shirt in plain linen with turndown collar as part of
"this most informal evening costume."
Etiquette authors were equally disapproving
and advised their own readers well into the 1930s that the
appropriateness of soft or pleated shirts was strictly limited to
summer evenings and other equally informal occasions. But they
were fighting a losing battle thanks largely to the Prince who regularly
wore a soft-front pleated shirt with attached turndown
collar and French cuffs whenever he donned his equally informal
double-breasted dinner jacket. As a result, Esquire noted in
1937 that the turndown collar had superseded the traditional wing
collar by the mid thirties and was "now virtually standard for
London shirtmakers devised a novel variant that was dressier than
informal soft-front shirts yet more comfortable than the formal
stiff-front option. The resulting marcella shirt was an elegant
compromise consisting of a semi-stiff bosom fashioned out of formal
piqué with a matching turndown collar and cuffs.
"Riviera" model with attached turndown collar with
narrow spread. Right: "Eric" model with
detachable turndown collar. Both with lightweight
bodies, soft pleated bosom, French cuffs and fitted shape. (1934)
An antique marcella dress shirt dating from the 1920s or
'30s. Made in Derry from "Pure Irish Linen".
Although social standards were relaxed once
more following World War Two there was initially little change in
shirts other than the fact that the detachable collar was relegated
almost exclusively to white-tie attire which was now rarely seen.
As for dinner shirts, the 1948 Vogue’s Book of Etiquette listed some
relatively new alternatives: besides the formal stiff-front shirt
with wing collar and the less formal semi-starched pleated model
with stiff fold collar, the postwar man could also choose a
soft-collar shirt either in silk – with plain or pleated bosom – or
in broadcloth. According to the book the latter was “the most
informal and probably the most usual.”
True change in
formal shirt styles did not arrive until the late 1950s and early
‘60s when the fashion clock was turned back to the Regency era.
Paralleling the Jet Age’s increasingly ornate dinner jackets and
evening waistcoats, the stylish formal shirt of the time began
displaying columns of understated ruffles or subtly embroidered lace
either along the placket or across the entire front of the
shirt. After the new style appeared on fashion-forward celebrities
at the 1959 Academy Awards the patterns and effects became
increasingly elaborate. Other options for shirt bosoms included an
ever wider variety of pleats and tucks, frequently with fly fronts
that did not require any studs.
The contemporary innovation
in white-tie shirts was pragmatic rather than theatric: for the
first time the collar became attached to the shirt. A 1965 ad
proudly described Lion of Troy’s version as “the wonderful wing
collar shirt that can be worn in complete comfort because the collar
is attached and it buttons up the front. Wear it with white tie as
usual, or with black tie for a fresh fashion flavor.”
1957 Esquire pictorial depicting one of the very
first ruffled formal shirts.
This 1961 ad paired ruffled shirts with equally trendy
Lion of Troy's version of the attached-collar full-dress
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The images, spread over social media, were shocking: Two men caught a teenager whom they suspected of trying to steal a bicycle. As punishment, they tattooed the phrase “I am a thief and a moron” on his forehead. The act was recorded with the tattoo artist’s cell phone camera, and went viral.
This happened in São Bernardo do Campo, in the interior of São Paulo, on June 9, but it could be anywhere, at any time. Brazil suffers from violence, but also from fear of this violence and anger at the impunity that often follows. Every nine minutes someone dies violently. One out of every three Brazilians has a relative or friend who has been murdered – and three out of every four Brazilians is afraid of being killed. Few who commit these crimes are punished.
Perhaps it is not surprising that the culture of taking justice into your own hands is widespread, and widely supported on social media and everyday comments by much of society. More than half of Brazilians agree with the saying “a good criminal is a dead criminal.” The comment sections of news articles following the event showed how many readers agreed with that kind of thinking.
Vigilante justice is endemic in Brazil, where an average of one person is lynched per day, according to the sociologist José de Souza Martins. Violence is seen as a legitimate answer to crime. People who are afraid, angry, or who feel victimized look for enemies that can be eliminated, instead of searching for ways to fix a broken criminal justice system and a failed public security model. But torture is not justice, and should not be accepted in its place. It is up to all of us – especially those of us in the media, who can tell these stories, humanize the victims, and give readers another perspective – to work to change this.
In the case of the 17-year-old in São Bernardo do Campo, the men responsible – the tattoo artist Maycon Carvalho and the construction worker Ronildo de Araujo – were arrested after they shared the images of the attack. According to the police bulletin, the men justified their actions by saying they believed the teenager had tried to steal a bike. Later, Carvalho’s mother said her son regretted what he did, and may have been motivated by violence she had suffered. She was recently express-kidnapped in front of the family and held for four hours. She has also suffered an assault and had her car stolen at a stoplight. The family’s house has been broken into and robbed. None of these cases was solved by the police.
Many of the victims of vigilante attacks were accused of petty crimes – accusations that may or may not have any basis in fact. This teenager told the police he was drunk, and knocked over the bike; he didn’t try to steal it. He did, in the video, seem intoxicated. His family, who identified him from the horrific images, went to the police station to find him. They had been looking for him since May 31, when he had disappeared from home. They said he may not have been in full control of his mental faculties.
Whether or not he tried to steal anything, it doesn’t matter. The young man now has that mark on his forehead. It is already hard enough, with the country in a recession and few opportunities for work and study, to be young and poor and to build a future. This will make it that much harder. But many cases are even worse: In the state of Paraná, a truck driver named Juvenal Paulino de Souza was beaten to death on suspicion he molested a child. He was later found innocent. In the state of Maranhão, Cleidenilson da Silva was lynched after allegedly trying to rob a bar.
There is no justice in these actions. They only lead to more violence. Local media can be complicit in these kinds of unfounded accusations, or it can help fight them. We are all part of this culture. We can change it.
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Hailing from Paris, Vianova uses data from shared, connected, electric, and autonomous urban transportation vehicles to help cities and mobility operators make better use of city infrastructures. The startup has raised $3 million in seed funding and aims to expand its offer into the US marketplace as well as bolder existing operations and partnerships in Europe. To date, the company has raised $5.2 million.
When we think about last-mile delivery services or urban mobility solutions, e-scooters, e-bicycles, etc., most of the thought goes towards the user experience, but an unsung hero of these services is a third-party data collector operating silently in the background. With all these vehicles moving about in an urban environment, there’s a treasure trove of data in what’s moving where, when, how fast, or how slow, and crucially, where are bottlenecks happening? Now imagine this data can be shared from city to city to city, and instead of having a reactive urban planning system, a proactive one becomes a true possibility.
Founded in 2019, Vianova is a prime player in this underlying data collection space, already facilitating mobility data sharing between 40 cities and 50 mobility operators across Europe. More recently, the company has expanded operations into Australia, New Zealand, and Mexico.
The startup reports processing over 5 million journeys a month in conjunction with partners Bird, Bolt, and Voi in cities including Helsinki, Zürich, Milan, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Eindhoven, and Cologne.
“With the rapid development of urban mobility challenging the distribution of public space, data has become an essential tool of governance and collaboration for cities and mobility providers. Our platform is beneficial for both sides, bringing these two worlds closer together and leading to the development of increasingly advanced use cases,” explains co-founder and CEO Thibault Castagne. “Cities are using our platform to define no-parking zones, speed limits, or fleet caps, while operators can better track and reduce the number of violations, communicate policies to their users, and optimize their deployments.”
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Mercury, November 17, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Nov. 7, 1863
—As I closed my letter last Sunday the guns were booming with a dull, heavy sound, and have been ever since, although not quite so many have been engaged during the past week as the one preceding. Sumter still holds out, and, to speak candidly, it is difficult to perceive any great change in the looks of the fort, after the lapse of a week. That part of the walls of the fort exposed to our guns is apparently battered down, as far as can be by artillery, be it ever so heavy and effective. From the top of the wall downward to within apparently 10 or 12 feet from the base, the material of which the wall was composed is entirely knocked down, some of the debris in and some outside the wall, so that the fort on that side (the sea front) presents the appearance of a regular sand work before it is sodded. Now, all the guns in Christendom can never effectually displace the debris accumulated there, for the more projectiles thrown into the mass, the stronger it becomes. Not that Sumter is not practically and theoretically useless, for in reality it is, and very probably has been for some time. Day after day we shoot the flag away, the rebels content themselves with waiting till night, and then they put it up again; so, when daylight comes, we see it still floating proudly on the same old corner. Last Wednesday morning we saw a new flag raised on a longer staff, apparently both new; it floated about two hours, when it was shot away.
Last Tuesday, a deserter came over to Folly Island from James Island, and reported that on the day previous 11 men were killed in Fort Sumter and 27 wounded; he says that the rebels keep only a small garrison there in the day time, but reinforce nightly, to the extent of 400 men, removing them before daylight. We have been on the alert nightly, to hear of an assault being made on it, as it is “reliably” reported daily, that such and such a regiment is to “lead the charge on Sumter to-night”; but it has not come to pass yet. ”Fort Putnam” (Gregg) keeps up the fire now on Sumter, as “Fort Strong” (Wagner) is arranging her guns and embrasures for another point. The other batteries are preparing for another vigorous campaign, and the “Reliables” say that Monday will inaugurate something stunning.
The rebels have kept pretty quiet, firing but very little. Fort Moultrie does not deign to give the monitors a shot, while they lay at anchor close to her, daily firing away at Sumter. Occasionally Moultrie throws a mortar shell over to Putnam or Wagner, but they do but very little damage. There must have been a little affair on James Island last Monday, as we heard pretty brisk firing and could see shell bursting high in the air, a little to the south of Seceshville. We have heard nothing in regard to it, as the most of the notables are quartered on Folly Island, and as a matter of course, the news is kept there. As an item I will record the sailing of the Flag Vessel, cleared, from Lighthouse Inlet Tuesday, Nov. 3d, steamer Philadelphia, — to take her position among the fleet, off Charleston Bar.
The sick and wounded of the 54th Massachusetts volunteers beg to acknowledge the receipt of a lot of hospital stores, kindly sent them by the benevolent citizens of New Bedford; and particularly to the committee, who interested themselves in carrying out the designs of the contributors. It is a gratifying proof that the poor soldier is not forgotten.
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To replace the State color lost on July 18, Governor Andrew caused a new one to be forwarded to the Fifty-fourth. Its receipt on October 2 was attended with great enthusiasm, the rousing cheers of the men being heard for a mile around.
Mercury, October 15, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Oct. 3, 1863
—All quiet here, so far as war news is concerned. We hear of nothing to cause any great excitement around us, for we are so familiar with “bombs bursting in air,” and shot whizzing through space, that it would be an item were it to cease. We have been pegging away at Sumter, a little every day during the week, more I presume to keep them from working than anything else. The rebels opened in a new place yesterday; the battery is a little to the right of Castle Pinckney, but from the looks of the place it must be a floating battery. I was up in Wagner at the time, and from the way the shot came they must have a very superior gun. The shot came unexpectedly, as the sentinels on the lookout were not dreaming of a shot from that direction, their attention being directed to James Island’s “barkers,” and Fort Moultrie, and Batteries Bee and Beauregard. Suddenly, there came a noise through the air, like an Erie lightning-express train, — then a terrible explosion, and the pieces of a Brook’s shell were falling pell mell into the interior of the fort. Luckily not a man was hurt, although they had no time to “kiver,” as the Second S. Carolina boys express it. After that, we kept a lookout for that chap, and the rest of the afternoon he kept one end of the fatigue pretty busy covering. It is almost incredible how we manage to do so much work under such a heavy and constant fire. Wagner and Gregg are ours, but it takes about as much courage to hold them as it did to take them; and then to work on them and completely change them is something more than digging on a canal or railroad. But it is just this trait of ‘keeping all you get’ in the Yankee character which will eventually beat the rebels. We believe in good sound doctrine — for war at any rate —”keep all and get more.”
The iron clads are flourishing. I believe they are being painted; though I hear they captured a blockade runner last night, or one of the rebel rams, which it is rumored was coming out to raise the blockade. I don’t know if this be true, as I have had no chance of learning anything definite. But I know there was a grand pow-wow on the water last night about 11 o’clock, as the big guns were bellowing at a great rate, the flag vessel was signalizing rapidly, and taken altogether, I guess there was something of the ram kind or neutral traders around.
The subscriptions and collections towards the monument to Col. Robert G. Shaw have reached the sum of $1472, and it is proposed that the 54th contribute $1000. But we think the place proposed for its erection inexpedient, however much in keeping with poetic fitness. It is seriously proposed to erect it at the foot of Wagner’s parapet, facing Fort Sumter. Now the manner and place where the hero fell will be known in history; a monument does not of necessity need to be placed where a hero fell; its place is some city or town, where people can see it. When we propose to erect a monument on some desolate island like this, it is simply creating a Mecca in the nineteenth century, where the race supposed to be benefited by the contest, which cost the hero his own; and even should they be subjugated, which is stronger than conquered, it would ill become us to flaunt our success by raising monuments to our fallen heroes on their soil. Massachusetts is big enough to furnish a spot sufficient to honor one of her own soldiers; and I doubt not she would be very proud to have within her lines a monument of every son who has fallen in this trying war. We are ready to put in our mite, but we would rather see it raised on old Massachusetts soil. The first to say a black was a man, let her have the first monument raised by black men’s money, upon her good old rocks.
Morris Island, S.C.,
Oct. 3, 1863.
Mr. Thomas Hamilton—Dear Friend:
It has been a long time since I wrote you in my old-fashioned way. I have not sent you a line since my advent as a soldier. I thank God that I am at last in a position to learn to be a soldier. I believe that since the chieftains of the slavery party have sought and obtained the arbitrament of the bullet in their question of control of power with the Freedom party, every man should become a soldier, ready to do and to die in defence of freedom. Every Christian and enlightened man desires to see great principles and measures triumph through peaceful means, where reason rules her just sway, and amenity, conciliation, and love, take the place of hatred, passion and revenge.
The present century has been immortalized with the grandest reforms. From the abolition of the slave trade in 1808 down to the freeing of the Danish colonies, peaceful reform seems to have marched steadily on. Science, art and invention, a noble sisterhood, sat in counsel and astonished the world with their achievements. The very elements seemed to pay homage to the genius and skill of man. No man dare say what human ingenuity may not accomplish. The enlightened statesmen have in America hoped to secure the annihilation of every wrong and injustice through the agency of that power which Talleyrand considered more irresistible than the proudest and most powerful potentate, namely “public opinion.” The slavery party is arraigned at the bar of “public opinion.” Its vile vision is tortured and haunted by the wild spirit of reform. This is a subtle spirit. The engines of warfare cannot impede its progress. It is deathless and omnipresent. It underlies all the pageantry and misery of this gigantic war, The slavery party aims to plunge the country into disorder and anarchy and to establish by force of arms their hell-born system. There is but one alternative left to the freedom party if it would avert terrorism, proscription, and humiliation: ‘Tis steel for steel; bullet for bullet; life for life; man for man; blood for blood.
These are some of the notions that led me to join the 54th Mass. Volunteer Infantry. And again I thought that the true interests of all classes of men in our country depended on the success of our party. That they were the true representatives of the newest and best form of government ever established for the government of mankind and are the highest, noblest, and most progressive type of civilization. I can not see on what ground any man can discourage enlistments. Some urge that the treatment of colored citizens is exceptionable— that the guarantees of freedom vouchsafed to us by the government are tardy and doubtful—that some of our representative men, those who are considered the exponents of the principles of the freedom party are as bitter in their assaults on our race and as prejudiced as those of the slavery party. This is true, but these questions are only incidental in their character and cannot effect the general and fundamental principles and theories of the party: It must be remembered that the other class have suffered a slavery of the mind, just as brutalizing, just as debasing as that physical or social thraldom our class are suffering. It is prejudice and a disregard of the inalienable rights of their fellow men. Their notions of justice are so blinded they can without the least remorse rob their fellow-men of every sacred right. These men are to be elevated and their mental or moral condition must be ameliorated, just the same as the condition of those of our class who are debased by slavery should be ameliorated. They deserve the same pity and commiseration that the poor black slave does and we should “pass their imperfection by just as willingly. Let us be 1 charitable and contend only for the principles of liberty, government and civilization.
The siege of Charleston drags its slow length. Morris Island can t never be retaken by the enemy. Fifty thousand men could be swept away in fifty minutes by our guns. Our fatigue parties are somewhat annoyed by the rebel shell, but our labor progresses. The casualties are very few, I had prepared for your satisfaction a complete list of them, but lost my notes. The health of our regiment is bad. We average one hundred and fifty sick per day, caused no doubt, by excessive fatigue duty.
You have also heard I suppose of this matter of pay, it has caused a great deal of trouble, and if it is not adjusted one of the best regiments that ever left the Massachusetts will become utterly demoralized. The tribulations of our regiment have been many since we arrived in this department. The first business we were called on to participate in was the burning of Darien, Ga. Our officers, Col. Shaw among the rest, disapproved of the wanton destruction of that town defenseless and unoccupied as it was by the enemy. The men of this regiment have a distaste for this sort of warfare—we want to enter the field honorably—to fight a legitimate warfare. After our return from this expedition, we were sent to St. Helena. While there a proposition was made to take our arms from us and give in their stead long pikes. Col. Shaw expressed his disapprobation of this scheme. Then there was an offer made to pay us ten dollars per month less three for clothing, in other words pay us seven dollars per month. The men were enlisted as a part of the Mass. State quota of troops and never dreamed that any other pay but that of other Massachusetts soldiers would be given them. We have been urged and urged again to accept seven dollars a month, all, sergeant-major down to the humblest private to get no more. There are respectable and well to do men in this regiment, who have accepted positions. It is insulting to them to offer them about half the pay of a poor white private.
To give you an idea of the feelings of some of the officers here with regard to us on this point, I will give you a short speech made Sept. 30th by Col. James Montgomery, 2d South Carolina Vols., of Kansas fame, and Commander of the Brigade to which we have been recently joined. Col. Montgomery was not in command of the brigade. He has been sick some time past. The paymaster was in Col. Littlefield’s tent. Some ten or twelve officers of our own and other regiments were present. The men had not accepted their pay and the well men were on fatigue duty, at Battery Shaw and Wagner. Col. M. had those who were left in camp drawn up in line and addressed them as follows:
“I want to speak to you. You want plain talk and I shall give it to you. I am your friend. I made the first anti-slavery speech ever made in Kansas. I was the first man that employed negroes in the United States service. I fought six years in Kansas for nothing and I do not come here for pay. I can make $5,000 a year. I get only $2,200 here. I sacrifice my ease and comfort (for I enjoy myself at home). I have fought United States soldiers. There is a General now in the Rebel service whom I fought, killed his horse from under him and took him prisoner when in the United States service. I would have been hung long ago if I had held still. Old Jimmy Buchanan offered a reward for my head. It was a very mean one to be sure, and I was very indignant. He offered only a yearling nigger worth about two hundred and fifty dollars. If he had offered a full-grown nigger I would not have cared so much. You ought to be glad to pay for the privilege to fight, instead of squabbling about money. A great many of you are fugitive slaves, and can by law be returned to your masters. The government by its act in setting you free has paid you a thousand dollars bounty. I know what the trouble is: the noisy Abolitionists have been telling you you are better than anybody else. They are your worst enemies. You have two classes of friends: those who tell you what you are and those who sees in the Ethiopian a symbol of injured innocence. I have seen a hundred regiments but I never saw one so fully equipped as this. Look at your tents and cooking stoves. You want to be placed on the same footing as white soldiers. You must show yourselves as good soldiers as the white. For all anybody knows you did very well here. You must show it by bravery in battle. I should be glad to make you as good soldiers as the white. You are a race of slaves. A few years ago your fathers worshipped snakes and crocodiles in Africa. Your features partake of a beastly character. Your religious exercises in this camp is a mixture of barbarism and Christianity. I am disgusted with the mean, low habits you have learned from the low whites. I hear them say to you, ‘bully boys, bully boys, don’t take this pay’ What do they mean by this? Do you mean to bully the government out of your money or that you are stubborn as bulls? You would rather go out here and dig in the trenches than stay here in camp and be paid off. Gov. Andrew advises you to take this money and Frederick Douglass also. I have a letter here from Fred. He has been on a tour to Washington and had an interview with Sec. Stanton on the subject of enlistments. He advised that all that was needed was to treat the negro as a man. There are two classes of colored men: the indolent and careless; the industrious and ambitious. He (Douglass) called on Senator Pomeroy, but did not call on Jim Lane. He perhaps had found Lane out. There are two Senators from Kansas. Pomeroy is a pretty fair sort of man, but Jim Lane is at present a noisy Abolitionist. Some time ago he wanted to buy some lands, utensils and niggers, but not having any money had to do without the niggers. He will buy and sell a nigger as quick as anybody else, but since the majority are in favor of liberty, he is very loud-mouthed. Fred Douglass is far above the mass of his race; but he is not equal to the great men of this country, such as Wendell Phillips, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sumner, and others. You can be improved by education. Irishmen come to this country and in a few years become the same as other white men. Education expands the brain and improves the features. Your features can be improved. Your beauty cannot recommend you. Your yellow faces are evidences of rascality. You should get rid of this bad blood. My advice to you is the lightest of you must marry the blackest woman. You owe your sutler nearly $2,000 and your refusing to take your pay show that you intend to cheat him out of his goods. You went to his agent after he had gone away, and because he would not trust you broke open his place and robbed him. The men that robbed him should be hung. He had no right to trust you and could be handled for it. It is mutiny to refuse to take your pay, and mutiny is punishable with death.”
The Colonel spoke nearly an hour and I cannot stoop to give all the bad epithets directed to our regiment. We had not the remotest idea that he entertained such a spirit of hatred for our regiment. Had he scarcely left the bench on which he stood while addressing the men, when Col. Littlefield who was in command of the Brigade at the time stood up and said: “Men, I cannot let this opportunity pass. The regiment has endeared itself to me. You have done your whole duty. You have written your names on the scroll of fame and any man who defames this regiment defames me. Such a man is my enemy and if I have any fighting to do I will defend you. I do not urge you to take this money, but I am willing to give you a pledge of my honor that you will get your full pay. I have made a promise of $1,ooo to Gen. Saxton for a monument to Col. Shaw, and I would have you take this money and make up this sum to commemorate the name of your noble leader.”
This instantly dispelled the bad effects of Col. Montgomery’s remarks. I am astonished that some insubordinate demonstration was not made, but Col. M. is our superior officer and our boys respect their superior officers. The speech of Col. M. has fixed the determination in the minds of the men to await calmly and patiently. If we thought that our enemies would make this course on our part a ground of assault against colored soldiers, I for one should go for taking $7 per month, nay $2 would be enough, but as the Colonel says, all the private soldiers here are vehement in urging us to refuse this paltry pay. They say if we take this money they will want to cut down their wages next. I have never yet heard a man say that we have failed to perform our duty. We have been complimented for our arduous labor in the trenches and whenever paraded have cleaner clothes, cleaner arms, better polished equipments than any other colored regiment on the Island. In truth there is no negro regiment compared to the 54th. In the last review the palm for martial bearing, accurate marching, and cleanliness is disputed with the 54th by the 100th New York Volunteers. The crime that has unfortunately incurred the displeasure of our General is that we do not sign the pay rolls, and the pay-master will not give us money unless we sign and thus give him receipt in full for pay up to the ist of August. The words of Col. Montgomery fell with crushing effect on the regiment. We did not enlist for money but we feel that the men who enlisted us and those who accepted our service never intended that we should be treated different from other Massachusetts men. If the government had been too poor to pay us we would have been willing to give our services for nothing. But the government seems fully able to pay her soldiers, for just on the threshold of this great war she increased their pay.
We are told that by law we are slaves and can be returned to our masters. This I deny. But a few years ago when the slavery party controlled affairs, fugitives were hunted like so much wild game all over the country, and it was quite a paying business. A few years ago the same party, so the speech shows, made him an outlaw and would have hung him. Their power is broken and we are now United States soldiers and he a responsible citizen and high official. It would be just as incorrect—just as cruel, to call him an outlaw amenable to the law, as to call us fugitive slaves returnable to our masters by law. In truth there are necessarily some few fugitives here, but is the 54th made up of fugitive slaves?15 No, there are hundreds that have been blessed with a New England education, and have learned their duty as freemen, and know their rights and dare stand up for them, and if they cannot get their rights they can have the manly satisfaction that they stood up for them. Col. Montgomery unfortunately has been accustomed to the negro as a slave or freedman. It startles and astonishes him to see him stand erect with intelligence beaming in his countenance. He perhaps never saw a negro approach a white man except with hat in hand and bowed head. He says further, that he wishes to make us as good soldiers as the white. How can this be done if every stimulant to heroic actions are denied? The only hope of the negro soldiers as his status now appears, is half pay and the name not the rank of sergeant. To urge us to be good soldiers without throwing around us the influences which alone make the soldier, without which the noblest races will become varlet, is grossly absurd. But there seems to be an intimation here that we are not as good soldiers as whites. Is there to be a new theory developed? Everybody, citizens, soldiers, and the rest of mankind say, “thus far the negro soldier has done his whole duty.” Does Col. M. deny this? Is his services in ratio of value as $7 is to $13. It is said that the Government supports the worn-out and non-combatant slaves, but I understand that all of these classes of slaves or freedmen are self-supporting—that the government is now realizing an income from the Southern plantations.16 And does the government not expend hundreds of thousands in subsistence to the families of rebels in arms?17 Should those rebels return to their allegiance and espouse the Union cause would Uncle Sam ask them to work and fight for $7 a month?
Then again “we should be glad to pay for the privilege to fight.” After we have endured a slavery of two hundred and fifty years we are to pay for the privilege to fight and die to enable the North to conquer the South—what an idea! to pay for the privilege to fight for that tardy and at best doubtful freedom vouchsafed to us by the government. For what are we to be grateful? Here the white man has grown rich on our unpaid labor—has sold our children—insulted our wives—shut us out from the light of education, and even kept the Bible from us, and the moment he becomes convinced that these deeds of his are producing the desired results to his country and people, he gets to work and attempts to restore some of those rights and to allow for some of those wrongs. I think it a question of repentance on his part instead of gratitude on ours. What do you think of him should he demand your services and life, for a restoration of your rights and a release from his persecutions? If we are taunted because the suicidal course of the government has been changed, in the name of God, men of the freedom party, go back to your old policy. Exclude every fugitive from the armies—invalidate the President’s Emancipation Proclamation, let your officers be slaves—spies and catchers for Southern rebels, for no negro who has two ideas, one to rub against another, is willing to rest under this new slavery his presumed friends are marking out for him, namely: to keep ever present to the memory that his are a race of slaves and have an eternal tribute to pay to their oppressors. I want to feel as if I had a right to liberty and life, and that if I enjoy it, do not wish it said, that I owe to this one or that one.
It cannot be gainsayed that there is a frightful amount of profanity said to have been learned from the “low whites.” Now these “low whites,” belong to that race which the Colonel presumes to be the superior race. In what constitutes its superiority if it has a deleterious influence on our actions and character? I think there can be found more instances of barbarism in the whites in this country than in the blacks. Look at the Lawrence massacre, the New York mobs, and the Port Hudson atrocities! The fair Southern belle adorns her person with trinkets made from the bones of slaughtered Yankees. Is this not a “polished barbarism?” But the argument of this speech is not logical. It assumes the inferiority of our race, and denies its inferiority by declaring that all that is bad in us has been obtained from the whites which I think very true.
Profanity is a low mean vice, but it is universal in the army. Men are drawn into it almost unconsciously. Those who have been restrained by the associations at home when they get in the army seem to obtain a sort of immoral license. They contract habits and manners there from which they would shrink at home. Our regiment has been peculiarly unfortunate in this manner of spiritual instruction and advice. There have been but a half a dozen lectures delivered to the regiment since it left Readville, 28th last May. But this moral and spiritual void has been filled somewhat by instructive religious tracts and papers contributed by Christian and noble hearted friends in the North— yet while we have so much to regret, there are abundant evidences of a religious revival in our regiment. Are our prayer-meetings a mixture of paganism or barbarism and Christianity? I have witnessed camp-meetings of white Methodists and have seen just as much vehemence and excitement as our meetings are characterized with. It is a characteristic of Methodism in these later days to be exuberant, vehement, and boisterous; and Methodism is almost universal with the American negroes. There are more Methodists, I think statistics say, than every other sect among them unitedly.
The sutler was robbed of his goods by some five or six men in the regiment. The regiment did not rob the sutler. It is utterly impossible to get together any nine hundred or thousand men without some of them being bad enough to do almost anything. All soldiers regard sutlers as regimental Shylocks who demand their money or their lives. They have to pay them fifty cents per pound for rascally butter and twenty-five cents per pound for the blackest kind of sugar; and for everything else they pay equally exorbitant rates. There are few soldiers who think it highly penal to get the best of the sutler. Now this stealing for which the regiment is accused was perpetrated by men whose names are known, and whom Col. Littlefield intends to make pay for the small amount taken. Nor can this be called stealing but a sort of bushwacking raid.
The circumstances are as follows; Mr. De Mortie told the men in the regiment some two or three weeks ago, before he left for his home, that if they would not take the money the paymaster offered them, he would trust them. He went home, and his partners or agents refused to trust the men. The soldiers of other regiments who had been paid off came and bought the sutler’s stock out, and he replenished and sold out again, and any one of the 54th could with difficulty get accommodated. This incensed the men and five or six of the most violent tore down his tent. The sutler ran to the Colonel and he reported the circumstance and instantly sent the men off and put a guard over his tent. It was more a riot and a little spitefulness than robbery. The Colonel (Littlefield) had the whole affair quelled in less time than has been occupied in writing this account of it. How unjust to cast odium on the regiment for this act of half a dozen men. Raiding on sutlers is a most common thing in every camp. I have been the witness of many such catastrophes. I don’t dispute that the sutler is a very nice man and as just as sutlers generally can be, but I do say this, if his treatment of the men had been more conciliatory this would not have happened. His agent seems to have forgotten that he is a sutler of the 54th and should be prepared to fully accommodate their wants, as well as to make his fortune. The sutler trusted the men to two dollar checks, and compelled them to take the entire two dollars worth or nothing. He had no checks of smaller denomination than two dollars thus taking away the chance to economize. Two dollars is enough to answer the wants of a soldier from one to two months. Are we to be denounced as thieves for this?
As to yellow faces I don’t indulge in any controversy about color. I think “’tis the mind that makes the man,” not the color of his skin or any peculiarity of his hair. All I wish to know is the man just, is he humane and generous—noble-spirited—if yes, he is a man, if no, he is a slave to passion and iniquity.
I must not forget to tell you that Gov. Andrew has presented us with a new flag (State flag). In the charge on Fort Wagner, the old flag was torn asunder. In his speech to our regiment, Gov. A. told us that the State flag had never fallen into the hands of the enemy and urged if we could not save the flag, save the shreds—if we could not save the shreds save the staff, and his appeal has been heeded to the letter. When on the parapet of Fort Wagner, Corporal Peal, Co. F, who has had the honor to bear the State colors, inadvertently let the flag lean over the crest of the work, a rebel seized it, then commenced a desperate struggle between the corporal and the rebel for its possession. Unfortunately the color parted from the staff and thus by accident the flag was lost. The corporal said, “Ah you dirty rascal you did not get the staff any way,” and he brought the staff away with the spear. This flag is a facsimile of the old one, and when Col. Littlefield unfurled it the boys gave it three rousing cheers.
Trusting that health and prosperity are with you, I remain truly yours,
G. E. Stephens.
Mercury, October 1, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, Sept 19, 1863
—”All quiet” in this department of the South is a very appropriate mode of expressing the operations the past week with us here. Although you may expect at no distant day to hear of stirring actions, that is, if signalizing, backing up and backing down mean anything. The monitors run up—fall in line — up goes a signal from the flag vessel — they break ranks, and, blow off steam out of gun range of old Moultrie. A comical chap in our company says, he guesses “they are having dress parade.” We expected to see the cheese boxes knock Sullivan’s Island batteries higher than a kite long ago, but we are agreeably left to keep expecting. But the land forces are busy preparing for something, but what it is to be I can’t venture to say for fear it may prove greatly the reverse. But if I were a rebel, and lived in Charleston, I should feel decidedly skittish to see the villainous Yankees planting those dangerous Parrot guns right in front of the city, and less than 4 miles off too. Mr. Beauregard is aware that those barbarous engines of war will carry a message a little over five miles. Hence his persistent efforts to shell us out of Wagner and Gregg. The mathematician of the regiment estimates that if the number of shells wasted by old Beaury costs three dollars in good money, it will only take three months and seven days to run out the last Confederate loan — each shell costing $15 in rebel scrip. I think Senator Toombs should point out the utter folly and extravagance of Beauregard’s course, as the Senator is deeply concerned about the Confederate finances.
Night and day the rebels are pouring shell around Wagner, Gregg, and on our camps on Black Island, or at the “Swamp Angel” but so far, they would have accomplished as much had they fired at the moon. Yesterday, they appeared to be unusually extravagant — from the north end of James Island all the way down to Seceshville, they kept their batteries open (numbering 12 guns), firing at — nobody knows; it is certain their shot came no where near Morris Island. It is said a magazine was blown up on James Island last Tuesday, but I cannot rely upon it; there certainly was a great smoke seen over there, but it might have been a fire in the woods. Of course, every rebel magazine blown up is considered a gain to the Union cause, in the same light of the “utter demoralization” of such and such a rebel army, or a “strong Union sentiment” existing in this or that section, and many persons are credulous enough to believe that all such natural combinations will end the war, instead of good hard fighting. The best mode of creating Union sentiments now, is by planting artillery near the thresholds of those who are without them, and if you get that close to them, you must fight hard to get there; that is, you will have to demoralize the army between you and the apocryphal Union section by giving them a good sound drubbing, or else capture and put them in the penitentiary. We had a heavy gale here, lasting all day Wednesday and Thursday; the rain came down as it only can in these latitudes, with a vengeance. The most of the shipping inside the bar had to be towed out, for fear some of them would be swept ashore. The beach was strewn with boats, broke loose from vessels in the offing, stumps of huge trees, timber and spars. I saw the floor ribs of a good-sized ship high and dry on the beach, drove up by the fury of the waves. She may be a relic of the stone blockade, as I saw a piece of a vessel’s knighthead marked “Corea,” and I believe there was a ship of that name in the stone fleet. The weather is quite cool here since the storm; it is very comfortable in the day time, but the nights make an overcoat indispensable. I believe the bark Growler, or Grumbler, has arrived at last. Misfortunes or blessings never come singly — now we have cold weather, we have ice water. But the soldiers thank the donors all the same, and bless the good people who thought of them weeks ago, when the days were long and sultry.
As I have taken too much of your space, I will end by giving the thanks of the 54th regiment to their friends in the Sperm City for the interest taken in our behalf. May they ever have plenty of “spondulicks” to relieve the boys in the field, if they can’t relieve us on picket.
Fort Wagner has fallen! The stronghold which bade defiance to every assault, and received for forty days the peltings of iron missiles vomited from the heaviest ordinance employed in modern warfare, has submitted to patient toil and labor with the spade. The enemy have admitted that Wagner was the key to Charleston, and our lights say that the reduction and occupancy of Sumter was an impossibility while it (Wagner) remained in possession of the enemy. These notices have been iterated and reiterated until the fall of Fort Wagner has become to be regarded by those far removed from the scenes of active operations as great an achievement as the capture of Fort Sumter, or the formidable Sullivan’s Island batteries. Fort Wagner and Battery Gregg, with some one hundred prisoners and a considerable amount of commissary stores, with seven or eight pieces of artillery, are our only trophies of victory.
For a week previous to the evacuation of Fort Wagner by the rebel forces, they had been removing their arms and ammunition, and when our forces took peaceable possession of it, the magazine was found to be empty, or nearly so. Their prisoners say no power on earth could keep us out of Fort Wagner or any other fort that could be approached by parallels. From the first landing of troops on Morris Island it has been regarded as lost. They admit that the city of Charleston can be destroyed by our combustible shells, and the rebel authorities seem to dare our commanding General to burn the city. For what are all those rebel batteries erected? To save the city of Charleston from destruction and to prevent its occupation by our forces. If we burn the city, half the necessity for rebel batteries has been taken away. And another thing: if Beauregard, or whoever else may have command, when he or they found that there was a fixed determination to bum it, if not surrendered, we would have [had) but very few of their insolent parleyings. I would spare the aged and infirm, the women and children, and give them ample time to go beyond the reach of danger, but the city I would burn to ashes. Not one stone of its buildings would I leave upon another for active rebels, armed and unarmed, I would dig graves beneath its smoldering ruins. It is not very likely that the rebels would occupy their works after the material interests of the city were destroyed. If the old nest which contains and has hatched out so many secession serpents was destroyed, the country would be spared many troubles, and a new order of beings not branded with treason or infatuated with slavery could find a home and habitation. The course would in the end be found to be one of the grandest steps toward restoring loyalty and peace, and remove the necessity of a standing army in South Carolina. For the sake of humanity, peace and victory give them "Greek fire," the torch and shell, not in anger or for revenge, but as a just, well merited punishment for treason, violation of the law, and other crimes.
From present appearances Charleston will not be burned, and the reduction of the other forts and batteries in Charleston harbor is as great a military problem as ever. There is a question between the relative activity of the land and naval forces now engaged in the sieges. The army claim to have achieved all the successes thus far, and that the navy have failed to fully co-operate with them. In the first place, with justice to the navy, it may be said to have been the right arm of the Federal service, and has been the safeguard of the army. The land forces have on many occasions owed their salvation to the naval. It seems to be unjust to deny the navy the high honors it deserves. What if victory has been achieved by the co-operation of the navy? One thing I think is demonstrated in the present siege: the superiority of the Ironsides over the Monitors for such operations. Rapidity of firing is just as essential as great weight of metal. Complete invulnerability cannot be attained. That is, an iron vessel could not be floated with a hull strong enough to resist steel-pointed shot of the weight modern improved guns can propel against it. Nothing but huge sandbanks can withstand these terrible missiles. During the siege of Fort Wagner, when the Ironsides would run up into the very jaws of their batteries on Sullivan's Island, right in the face of Wagner and Sumter, she invariably silenced them. One shell would not explode before another would take its place to fill the atmosphere with death. She did not give them breathing time. They could not take shelter from one shell and man and fire their guns before another could reach them, as they can easily do when engaged with the Monitors.
It is contraband to write of present operations, but I am privileged to have my say about the operations which led to the evacuation of Wagner and Gregg. We have lost as much of blood and suffered as much in toil as any other regiment in the Department in the performance of this task, and I presume that when the commanding General shall come to sum up his report of this affair, he will give us the credit we deserve. The truth cannot always be learned from newspaper correspondence, there is such wide scope for the ventilation of sentiments of prejudiced and irresponsible men. This may be "like pot calling kettle black," but I must say that after we have done as much as any other soldiers here, our flag should have been alongside the rest. Serrill's Engineers, who deserve the highest honor, planted their flag on the works, as did the 3d Rhode Island. If we had demanded to have our flag and urged its claims to a place there, as Col. Shaw would have done, it would have floated there. But not one suggested the propriety of it.
The main portion of our regiment was in line of battle, on the right of Montgomery's Brigade. Detachments from the 54th Massachusetts, ad South Carolina, 100th New York, 10th Connecticut and the Marine Corps intercepted three of the rebel barges which contained the last remains of Gregg's and Wagner's garrison, numbering about one hundred men. One of the rebel barges escaped. Some of the rebels in their fright and excitement jumped overboard. There were some drowned, but the greater number were rescued. There were some few men found scattered around the works who seemed to court capture. Our pickets were apprized by a rebel soldier of the evacuation of Wagner about midnight, but before he could make it known that he bore information for us some of the pickets shot him. The detachment which captured these retreating rebels was part of a programme of movements to take Wagner by assault. The part they had to play was to intercept re-enforcements during the assault, and it was not until we had marched them away down to the Beacon House that one of their principle men admitted that the works had been abandoned. They, to a man, deny havingbeen in the fort on the 18th; They, say they relieved the men who held the battery at that time. About a week ago they conversed freely with us negroes," and seemed to have vague notions of retaliation. They all said that they belonged to the Charleston Battalion—-were boatmen carrying provisions over to Curnmings's Point. There was an officer with them who said that he was only assistant surgeon, but his rank is higher and he does not belong to the medical corps. He cut a mighty sorry figure as he marched at the head of his comrades, and on each side of them the silent, moody negro guard.-Now and then the Sergeant would give out the stern command, "Close up!" and Mr. Reb did not have to be told a second time.
Quite a considerable number of colored refugees have come into our lines since the capture of the whole of Morris Island. Ten persons made their escape on last Friday night: four children, one women and five men. They came from the city and confirm the report of the destructiveness of shells charged with "Greek Fire." They say that the citizens are running off their slaves by the thousands. They towed their boats down the harbor in safety, and the mother says that just as they got opposite Sumter the little baby broke out in shrill screams and would not be comforted. They gave up all for lost, but the heroic mother instantly made a wad of a shawl and filled its little mouth, and when they landed on the beach and surrendered to our pickets, the poor little things were almost suffocated. She thinks "it better die den all be slave.";
I cannot resist the temptation to refer to the conduct of the colored soldiers digging in the approaches. Says Sergt. Barquet: "Men born and reared on Southern plantations who never saw a gun can now talk as glibly as you please of planes, augers, ranges and distances, and the entire military vocabulary is becoming familiar to them. I overheard the following conversation between two contraband soldiers: 'Sam, Cohorn mortar trow shell great range; to fetch him, reb wastes much powder.' 'Ah! Jirn, Cohorn mortar wuss den grape and schrapanel; grape shell come straight in trench—de odder bound to go ober.' " What a fund of information these men have gained, and what a grand school for the soldier is here opened to them! Eight hours out of thirty-six toiling and laboring in the face of death, shell from front and flank, Minnie bullets, grape and shrapnel plunging, whizzing and plowing up"the earth on all sides. Some one of the officers of the Engineer Corps has to superintend the work of the fatigue parties.
Barquet gives the following scrap which will show how reckless and profane a man can be under the intoxicating influence of rum, and, is, to say the least, an incident worth telling: The fifth and last parallethad been reached; the rebels seemed to be frenzied with alarm, and their sharpshooters and heavy guns kept up an incessant play on the fatigue parties. An Irish Lieutenant of Serrill's Engineer Corps had charge of the operations on that night. The perilous march had been made without any casualties. When our fatigue reached the point of operations, the following colloquy occurred between the Irish Lieutenant and the men who had the dangerous duty to perform:
"Who comes there?"
"54th fatigue party!"
"Arrah, there should be here at this late hour a brigade of fatigue men. Now listen. There was niver a man hurt wid me," the shot then nearly blinding the men with their fizzing, fuming glare. "I want two parties of sappers and miners of four men each. First party come forward!" The men came. "No. 1 you're a sapper. No. 2, you're a miner. No. 3, you're a sapper. No. 4, you're a miner. No. 1, you're kilt! No. 2, you take his place. No. 3, you're kilt. No. 4, you must take his place." No. 1'S and 3's feelings may be better imagined than described. As a sort of climax to this arrangement, the inebriated officer said, "All I ask is two gabions to a man, and by to-morrow morning we'll be in the gates of Fort Wagner and the jaws of death and hell."
The boys went to work with a will, and before daylight an indignant rebel in the riflepits, just behind our parallel, was forced to exclaim to our boys,. "You black Yankee sons of b—s intend to bury us in sand, don't you?" On this night poor young Vanderpool was killed, three of the 104th Pennsylvania volunteers, and several wounded.
The Rev. Samuel Harrison has been appointed Chaplain of our regiment. This is most fortunate. Our regiment has felt the need of a chaplain. We have had but four sermons preached to us since we left the camp Readville, Mass.—one by Rev. James Lynch at St. Helena, and one on St. Simon's by the Chaplain of the 2d South Carolina Volunteers, and two on Morris Island by an able and eloquent agent of the American Tract Society, now home in the North, and whose name I disremember. Prayer-meetings are regularly held in our camp and I think there are a few evidences of a revival. These meetings are very boisterous, and many who believe in deep, fervent, devotional worship cannot take as active a part in them as they would if there was less excitement and fewer of their unearthly yellings.
Gen. Gillmore has commenced granting furloughs. Today some ten or twelve of the 54th go North in the steamer that bears this letter. Your humble servant defers his visit North to a more convenient season. Sergt.-Major Douglass, Sergt. Barquet, and Sergt. Gray of New Bedford, are among this first installment of absentees.
I have just seen another Letter from Gov. Andrew, to the effect that there is no law which prevents our receiving full pay—that the Paymaster is not a competent judge in the matter, and that free colored men, citizens of Massachusetts, regularly enlisted as Massachusetts volunteers, cannot be less than citizen soldiers whom the Paymaster has no right to know but as soldiers, and advising us to take ten dollars a month under protest only. The law referring to persons of African descent employed in the army cannot refer to us. There is no proof that any of our fathers are Africans. If they adopt this rule there is no such thing as an American in the country, for all whites and blacks are not aborigines.
Shortly after daybreak, August 17, the first bombardment of Sumter began from the land batteries, the navy soon joining in action. The fire of certain guns was directed against Wagner and Gregg. Sumter was pierced time, and again until the walls looked like a honeycomb. All the guns on the northwest face were disabled, besides seven others. A heavy gale came on the 18th, causing a sand-storm on the island and seriously interfering with gun practice… [on the 19th] The water stood in some of the trenches a foot and a half deep. Our sap was run from the left of the third parallel that morning.
An event of the 20th was the firing for the first time of the great three-hundred-pounder Parrott. It broke down three sling-carts, and required a total of 2,500 days’ labor before it was mounted. While in transit it was only moved at night, and covered with a tarpaulin and grass during the daytime. The enemy fired one hundred and sixteen shots at the Swamp Angel from James Island, but only one struck. Sumter’s flag was shot away twice on the 20th. All the guns on the south face were disabled. Heavy fire from land and sea continued on the 21st, and Sumter suffered terribly.
A letter from Gillmore to Beauregard was sent on the 21st, demanding the surrender of Morris Island and Sumter, under penalty, if not complied with, of the city being shelled. The latter replied, threatening retaliation. Our fourth parallel was opened that night 350 yards from Wagner, and the One Hundredth New York unsuccessfully attempted to drive the enemy’s pickets from a small ridge two hundred yards in front of Wagner. The Swamp Angel opened on Charleston at 1.30 A. M. on the 22d. By one shell a small fire was started there. Many non-combatants left the city. … Wagner now daily gave a sharp fire on our advanced works to delay progress.
… Although almost daily the Fifty-fourth had more or less men at the front, it had suffered no casualties. The men were employed at this period in throwing up parapets, enlarging the trenches, covering the slopes, turfing the batteries, filling sand-bags, and other labors incident to the operations. In the daytime two men were stationed on higher points to watch the enemy’s batteries. Whenever a puff of smoke was seen these ” lookouts ” called loudly, ” Cover!” adding the name by which that particular battery was known. Instantly the workers dropped shovels and tools, jumped into the trench, and, close-covered, waited the coming of the shot or shell, which having exploded, passed, or struck, the work was again resumed. Some of the newer batteries of the enemy were known by peculiar or characteristic names, as ” Bull in the Woods,” ” Mud Digger,” and ” Peanut Battery.” At night the men. worked better, for the shells could be seen by reason of the burning fuses, and their direction taken ; unless coming in the direction of the toilers, the work went on. Becoming; accustomed to their exposure, in a short time this ” dodging shells” was reduced almost to a scientific calculation by the men. Most of all they dreaded mortar-shells, which,, describing a curved course in the sky, poised for a moment, apparently, then, bursting, dropped their fragments from directly overhead. Bomb or splinter proofs alone protected the men from such missiles, but most of the work was in open trenches. Occasionally solid shot were thrown, which at times could be distinctly seen bounding over the sandhills, or burying themselves in the parapets.
Mercury, August 1, 1863 [OAF]
Morris Island, July 20, 1863
—At last we have something stirring to record. The 54th, the past week, has proved itself twice in battle. The first was on James Island on the morning of the 16th. There were four companies of the 54th on picket duty at the time; our picket lines extending to the right of the rebel battery, which commands the approach to Charleston through the Edisto river. About 3 o’clock in the morning, the rebels began harassing our pickets on the right, intending, no doubt, to drive them in, so that by daylight the coast would be clear to rush their main force down on us, and take us by surprise. They did not suppose we had any considerable force to the rear of our pickets on the right, as Gen. Stevenson’s brigade was plain in sight on the left; and their plan, I suppose, was to rush down and cut Gen. Stevenson off. They made a mistake — instead of returning fire, the officer in charge of the pickets directed the men to lie down under cover of a hedge, rightly expecting the rebels to advance by degrees toward our lines. As he expected, at daylight they were within 600 yards of the picket line, when our men rose and poured a volley into them. That was something the rebels didn’t expect — their line of skirmishers was completely broken; our men then began to fall back gradually on our line of battle, as the rebels were advancing their main force on to them. On they came, with six pieces of artillery and four thousand infantry, leaving a heavy force to drive Gen. Stevenson on the left. As their force advanced on our right, the boys held them in check like veterans; but of course they were falling back all the time, and fighting too. After the officers saw there was no chance for their men, they ordered them to move on to a creek under cover of the gunboats. When the rebels got within 900 yards of our line of battle, the right wing of Gen. Terry’s brigade gave them three volleys, which checked their advance. They then made a stand with their artillery and began shelling us, but it had no effect on our forces, as the rebels fired too high. The 6th Connecticut battery then opened fire on them from the right, the John Adams and May Flower from the creek between James and Cole Islands, and the Pawnee and a mortar schooner from the Edisto [i.e., Stono], when the rebels began a hasty retreat. It was a warmer reception than they had expected. Our loss in the skirmishing before the battle, so far as we can ascertain, was nine killed, 13 wounded, and 17 missing, either killed or taken prisoners; but more probably they were driven into the creek and drowned. Sergeant Wilson, of Co. H, was called upon to surrender, but would not; he shot four men before he was taken. After he was taken they ordered him to give up his pistol which he refused to do, when he was shot through the head.
The men of the 54th behaved gallantly on the occasion — so the Generals say. It is not for us to blow our horn; but when a regiment of white men gave us three cheers as we were passing them, it shows that we did our duty as men should.
I shall pass over the incidents of that day, as regards individuals, to speak of a greater and more terrible ordeal the 54th regiment has passed through. I shall say nothing now of how we came from James to Morris Island; suffice it to say, on Saturday afternoon we were marched up past our batteries, amid the cheers of the officers and soldiers. We wondered what they were all cheering for, but we soon found out. Gen. Strong rode up, and we halted. Well, you had better believe there was some guessing what we were to do. Gen. Strong asked us if we would follow him into Fort Wagner. Every man said, yes — we were ready to follow wherever we were led. You may all know Fort Wagner is the Sebastopol of the rebels; but we went at it, over the ditch and on to the parapet through a deadly fire; but we could not get into the fort. We met the foe on the parapet of Wagner with the bayonet — we were exposed to a murderous fire from the batteries of the fort, from our Monitors and our land batteries, as they did not cease firing soon enough. Mortal men could not stand such a fire, and the assault on Wagner was a failure. The 9th Me., 10th Conn., 63d Ohio, 48th and 100th N.Y. were to support us in the assault; but after we made the first charge, everything was in such confusion that we could hardly tell where the reserve was. At the first charge the 54th rushed to within twenty yards of the ditches, and, as might be expected of raw recruits, wavered — but at the second advance they gained the parapet. The color bearer of the State colors was killed on the parapet. Col. Shaw seized the staff when the standard bearer fell, and in less than a minute after, the Colonel fell himself. When the men saw their gallant leader fall, they made a desperate effort to get him out, but they were either shot down, or reeled in the ditch below. One man succeeded in getting hold of the State color staff, but the color was completely torn to pieces.
I have no more paper here at present, as all our baggage is at St. Helena yet; so I cannot further particularize in this letter. Lieut. Grace was knocked down by a piece of shell, but he is not injured. He showed himself a great deal braver and cooler than any line officer.
J. H. G.
Our correspondent gives a list of killed, wounded and missing. It is the same that we have already published. [Mercury Editor]
MORRIS ISLAND. S. C. July 20
MY DEAR AMELIA:
I have been in two fights, and am unhurt. I am about to go in another I believe to-night. Our men fought well on both occasions. The last was desperate we charged that terrible battery on Morris Island known as Fort Wagoner, and were repulsed with a loss of 3 killed and wounded. I escaped unhurt from amidst that perfect hail of shot and shell. It was terrible. I need not particularize the papers will give a better than I have time to give. My thoughts are with you often, you are as dear as ever, be good enough to remember it as I no doubt you will. As I said before we are on the eve of another fight and I am very busy and have just snatched a moment to write you. I must necessarily be brief. Should I fall in the next fight killed or wounded I hope to fall with my face to the foe.
If I survive I shall write you a long letter. DeForrest of your city is wounded George Washington is missing, Jacob Carter is missing, Chas Reason wounded Chas Whiting, Chas Creamer all wounded. The above are in hospital.
This regiment has established its reputation as a fighting regiment not a man flinched, though it was a trying time. Men fell all around me. A shell would explode and clear a space of twenty feet, our men would close up again, but it was no use we had to retreat, which was a very hazardous undertaking. How I got out of that fight alive I cannot tell, but I am here. My Dear girl I hope again to see you. I must bid you farewell should I be killed. Remember if I die I die in a good cause. I wish we had a hundred thousand colored troops we would put an end to this war.
Good Bye to all Write soon
Your own loving LEWIS
Morris Island [BCF]
I enclose this letter for Annie, which I didn’t intend to send you, because it is impossible to tell whether I can write again by this mail. If I do, please send this to Annie without taking it home, and tell her why it didn’t go direct.
We hear nothing but praise of the Fifty-fourth on all hands. Montgomery is under Stevenson. I wish I were. He is a good soldier. Strong I like too.
Love to Mother and the girls.
New York Tribune, December 23, 1863 [GABM]pp.33-34
R.J. Simmons, 1st Sergeant, Co. B, 54th Massachusetts Infantry,
Folly Island, South Carolina
July 18, 1863;
We are on the march to Fort Wagner, to storm it. We have just completed our successful retreat from James Island; we fought a desperate battle there Thursday morning. Three companies of us, B, H, and K, were out on picket about a good mile in advance of the regiment. We were attacked early in the morning. Our company was in the reserve, when the outposts were attacked by rebel infantry and cavalry. I was sent out by our Captain in command of a squad of men to support the left flank. The bullets fairly rained around us; when I got there the poor fellows were falling down around me, with pitiful groans. Our pickets only numbered about 250 men, attacked by about 900. It is supposed by the line of battle in the distance, that they were supported by reserve of 3,000 men. We had to fire and retreat toward our own encampment. One poor Sergeant of ours was shot down along side of me; several others were wounded near me.
God has protected me through this, my first fiery, leaden trial, and I do give Him the glory, and render my praises unto His holy name. My poor friend [Sergeant Peter] Vogelsang is shot through the lungs; his case is critical, but the doctor says he may probably live. His company suffered very much. Poor good and brave Sergeant (Joseph D.] Wilson of his company [H], after killing four rebels with his bayonet, was shot through the head by the fifth one. Poor fellow! May his noble spirit rest in peace. The General has complimented the Colonel on the galantry and bravery of his regiment.
Upon arriving at Morris Island, Colonel Shaw and Adjutant James walked toward the front to report to General Strong, whom they at last found, and who announced that Fort Wagner was to be stormed that evening. Knowing Colonel Shaw’s desire to place his men beside white troops, he said, ” You may lead the column, if you say ‘yes.’ Your men, I know, are worn out, but do as you choose.” Shaw’s face brightened, and before replying, he requested Adjutant James to return and have Lieutenant-Colonel Hallowell bring up the Fifty-fourth. Adjutant James, who relates this interview, then departed on his mission. Receiving this order, the regiment marched on to General Strong’s headquarters, where a halt of five minutes was made about 6 o’clock p. M. Noticing the worn look of the men, who had passed two days without an issue of rations, and no food since morning, when the weary march began, the general expressed his sympathy and his great desire that they might have food and stimulant. It could not be, however, for it was necessary that the regiment should move on to the position assigned.
Detaining Colonel Shaw to take supper with him, General Strong sent the Fifty-fourth forward under the lieutenant-colonel toward the front, moving by the middle road west of the sand-hills. Gaining a point where these elevations gave place to low ground, the long blue line of the regiment advancing by the flank attracted the attention of the enemy’s gunners on James Island. Several solid shot were fired at the column, without doing any damage, but they ricochetted ahead or over the line in dangerous proximity. Realizing that the national colors and the white flag of the State especially attracted the enemy’s fire, the bearers began to roll them up on the staves. At the same moment, Captain Simpkins, commanding the color company (K) turned to observe his men. His quick eye noted the half-furled flags, and his gallant spirit took fire in a moment at the sight. Pointing to the flags with uplifted sword, he commanded in imperative tones, ” Unfurl those colors!” It was done, and the fluttering silks again waved, untrammelled, in the air.
Colonel Shaw, at about 6.30 P. M., mounted and accompanied General Strong toward the front. After proceeding a short distance, he turned back, and gave to Mr. Edward L. Pierce, a personal friend, who had been General Strong’s guest for several days, his letters and some papers, with a request to forward them to his family if anything occurred to him requiring such service. That sudden purpose accomplished, he galloped away, overtook the regiment, and informed Lieutenant-Colonel Hallowell of what the Fifty-fourth was expected to do. The direction was changed to the right, advancing east toward the sea. By orders, Lieutenant-Colonel Hallowell broke the column at the sixth company, and led the companies of the left wing to the rear of those of the right wing. When the sea beach was reached, the regiment halted and came to rest, awaiting the coming up of the supporting regiments.
General Gillmore had assigned to General Seymour the command of the assaulting column, charging him with its organization, formation, and all the details of the attack. His force was formed into three brigades of infantry : the first under General Strong, composed of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts, Sixth Connecticut, Forty-eighth New York, Third New Hampshire, Ninth Maine, and Seventy-sixth Pennsylvania; the second, under Col. Haldimand S. Putnam, of his own regiment, —the Seventh New Hampshire, — One Hundredth New York, Sixty-second and Sixty-seventh Ohio; the third, or reserve brigade, under Brig.-Gen. Thomas G. Stevenson, of the Twenty-fourth Massachusetts, Tenth Connecticut, Ninety-seventh Pennsylvania, and Second South Carolina. Four companies of the Seventh Connecticut, and some regular and volunteer artillery-men manned and served the guns of the siege line.
Formed in column of wings, with the right resting near the sea, at a short distance in advance of the works, the men of the Fifty-fourth were ordered to lie down, their muskets loaded but not capped, and bayonets fixed. There the regiment remained for half an hour, while the formation of the storming column and reserve was perfected. To the Fifty-fourth had been given the post of honor, not by chance, but by deliberate selection. General Seymour has stated the reasons why this honorable but dangerous duty was assigned the regiment in the following words:—“It was believed that the Fifty-fourth was in every respect as efficient as any other body of men ; and as it was one of the strongest and best officered, there seemed to be no good reason why it should not be selected for the advance. This point was decided by General Strong and myself.”
In numbers the Fifty-fourth had present but six hundred men, for besides the large camp guard and the sick left at St. Helena Island, and the losses sustained on James Island, on the 16th, a fatigue detail of eighty men under Lieut. Francis L. Higginson, did not participate in the attack.
The formation of the regiment for the assault was, as shown in the diagram below, with Companies B and E on the right of the respective wings.
RIGHT WING. K C I A B
LEFT WING. H F G D E
Colonel Shaw, Lieutenant-Colonel Hallowell, Adjutant James, seven captains, and twelve lieutenants, — a total of twenty-two officers, — advanced to the assault. Surgeon Stone and Quartermaster Ritchie were present on the field. Both field officers were dismounted; the band and musicians acted as stretcher-bearers. To many a gallant man these scenes upon the sands were the last of earth; to the survivors they will be ever present. Away over the sea to the eastward the heavy sea-fog was gathering, the western sky bright with the reflected light, for the sun had set. Far away thunder mingled with the occasional boom of cannon. The gathering host all about, the silent lines stretching away to the rear, the passing of a horseman now and then carrying orders, — all was ominous of the impending onslaught. Far and indistinct in front was the now silent earthwork, seamed, scarred, and ploughed with shot, its flag still waving in defiance.
Among the dark soldiers who were to lead veteran regiments which were equal in drill and discipline to any in the country, there was a lack of their usual light-heartedness, for they realized, partially at least, the dangers they were to encounter. But there was little nervousness and no depression observable. It took but a touch to bring out their irrepressible spirit and humor in the old way. When a cannon-shot from the enemy came toward the line and passed over, a man or two moved nervously, calling out a sharp reproof from Lieutenant-Colonel Hallowell, whom the men still spoke of as “the major.” Thereupon one soldier quietly remarked to his comrades, ” I guess the major forgets what kind of balls them is! ” Another added, thinking of the foe, ” I guess they kind of ’spec’s we ‘re coming!”
Naturally the officers’ thoughts were largely regarding their men. Soon they would know whether the lessons they had taught of soldierly duty would bear good fruit. Would they have cause for exultation or be compelled to sheathe their swords, rather than lead cowards? Unknown to them, the whole question of employing three hundred thousand colored soldiers hung in the balance. But few, however, doubted the result. Wherever a white officer led that night, even to the gun-muzzles and bayonet-points, there, by his side, were black men as brave and steadfast as himself.
At last the formation of the column was nearly perfected. The Sixth Connecticut had taken position in column of companies just in rear of the Fifty-fourth. About this time, Colonel Shaw walked back to Lieutenant-Colonel Hallowell, and said, ” I shall go in advance with the National flag. You will keep the State flag with you; it will give the men something to rally round. We shall take the fort or die there! Good-by!”
Presently, General Strong, mounted upon a spirited gray horse, in full uniform, with a yellow handkerchief bound around his neck, rode in front of the Fifty-fourth, accompanied by two aids and two orderlies. He addressed the men,’ and his words, as given by an officer of the regiment, were: “Boys, I am a Massachusetts man, and I know you will fight for the honor of the State. I am sorry you must go into the fight tired and hungry, but the men in the fort are tired too. There are but three hundred behind those walls, and they have been fighting all day. Don’t fire a musket on the way up, but go in and bayonet them at their guns.” Calling out the color-bearer, he said, ” If this man should fall, who will lift the flag and carry it on ? ” Colonel Shaw, standing near, took a cigar from between his lips, and said quietly, ” I will.” The men loudly responded to Colonel Shaw’s pledge, while General Strong rode away to give the signal for advancing.
Colonel Shaw calmly walked up and down the line of his regiment. He was clad in a close-fitting staff-officer’s jacket, with a silver eagle denoting his rank on each shoulder. His trousers were light blue; a fine narrow silk sash was wound round his waist beneath the jacket. Upon his head was a high felt army hat with cord. Depending from his sword-belt was a field-officer’s sword of English manufacture, with the initials of his name worked into the ornamentation of the guard. On his hand was an antique gem set in a ring. In his pocket was a gold watch, marked with his name, attached to a gold chain. Although he had given certain papers and letters to his friend, Mr. Pierce, he retained his pocket-book, which doubtless contained papers which would establish his identity. His manner, generally reserved before his men, seemed to unbend to them, for he spoke as he had never done before. He said, ” Now I want you to prove yourselves men,” and reminded them that the eyes of thousands would look upon the night’s work. His bearing was composed and graceful; his cheek had somewhat paled; and the slight twitching of the corners of his mouth plainly showed that the whole cost was counted, and his expressed determination to take the fort or die was to be carried out.
Meanwhile the twilight deepened, as the minutes, drawn put by waiting, passed, before the signal was given. Officers had silently grasped one another’s hands, brought their revolvers round to the front, and tightened their sword-belts. The men whispered last injunctions to comrades, and listened for the word of command. The preparations usual in an assault were not made. There was no provision for cutting away obstructions, filling the ditch, or spiking the guns. No special instructions were given the stormers; no line of skirmishers or covering party was thrown out; no engineers or guides accompanied the column; no artillery-men to serve captured guns; no plan of the work was shown company officers. It was understood that the fort would be assaulted with the bayonet, and that the Fifty-fourth would be closely supported.
While on the sands a few cannon-shots had reached the regiment, one passing between the wings, another over to the right. When the inaction had become almost unendurable, the signal to advance came. Colonel Shaw walked along the front to the centre, and giving the command, ” Attention!” the men sprang to their feet. Then came the admonition, “Move in quick time until within a hundred yards of the fort; then double quick, and charge!” A slight pause, followed by the sharp command, ” Forward!” and the Fifty-fourth advanced to the storming.
There had been a partial resumption of the bombardment during the formation, but now only an occasional shot was heard. The enemy in Wagner had seen the preparations, knew what was coming, and were awaiting the blow. With Colonel Shaw leading, sword in hand, the long advance over three quarters of a mile of sand had begun, with wings closed up and company officers admonishing their men to preserve the alignment. Guns from Sumter, Sullivan’s Island, and James Island, began to play upon the regiment. It was about 7.45 p. M., with darkness coming on rapidly, when the Fifty-fourth moved. With barely room for the formation from the first, the narrowing way between the sand hillocks and the sea soon caused a strong pressure to the right, so that Captains Willard and Emilio on the right of the right companies of their wings were with some of their men forced to march in water up to their knees, at each incoming of the sea. Moving at quick time, and preserving its formation as well as the difficult ground and narrowing way permitted, the Fifty-fourth was approaching the defile made by the easterly sweep of the marsh. Darkness was rapidly com-ing on, and each moment became deeper. Soon men on the flanks were compelled to fall behind, for want of room to continue in line. The centre only had a free path, and with eyes strained upon the colonel and the flag, they pressed on toward the work, now only two hundred yards away.
At that moment Wagner became a mound of fire, from which poured a stream of shot and shell. Just a brief lull, and the deafening explosions of cannon were renewed, mingled with the crash and rattle of musketry. A sheet of flame, followed by a running fire, like electric sparks, swept along the parapet, as the Fifty-first North Carolina gave a direct, and the Charleston Battalion a left-oblique, fire on the Fifty-fourth. Their Thirty-first North Carolina had lost heart, and failed to take position in the southeast bastion, — fortunately, too, for had its musketry fire been added to that delivered, it is doubtful whether any Federal troops could have passed the defile. When this tempest of war came, before which men fell in numbers on every side, the only response the Fifty-fourth made to the deadly challenge was to change step to the double-quick, that it might the sooner close with the foe. There had been no stop, pause, or check at any period of the advance, nor was there now. As the swifter pace was taken, and officers sprang to the fore with waving swords barely seen in the darkness, the men closed the gaps, and with set jaws, panting breath, and bowed heads, charged on.
Wagner’s wall, momentarily lit up by cannon-flashes, was still the goal toward which the survivors rushed in sadly diminished numbers. It was now dark, the gloom made more intense by the blinding explosions in the front. This terrible fire which the regiment had just faced, probably caused the greatest number of casualties sustained by the Fifty-fourth in the assault; for nearer the work the men were somewhat sheltered by the high parapet. Every flash showed the ground dotted with men of the regiment, killed or wounded. Great holes, made by the huge shells of the navy or the land batteries, were pitfalls into which the men stumbled or fell.
Colonel Shaw led the regiment to the left toward the curtain of the work, thus passing the southeast bastion, and leaving it to the right hand. From that salient no musketry fire came; and some Fifty-fourth men first entered it, not following the main body by reason of the darkness. As the survivors drew near the work, they encountered the flanking fire delivered from guns in the southwest salient, and the howitzers outside the fort, which swept the trench, where further severe losses were sustained. Nothing but the ditch now separated the stormers and the foe. Down into this they went, through the two or three feet of water therein, and mounted the slope beyond in the teeth of the enemy, some of whom, standing on the crest, fired down on them with depressed pieces. Both flags were planted on the parapet, the national flag carried there and gallantly maintained by the brave Sergt. William H. Carney of Company C.
In the pathway from the defile to the fort many brave men had fallen. Lieutenant-Colonel Hallowell was severely wounded in the groin, Captain Willard in the leg, Adjutant James in the ankle and side, Lieutenant Homans in the shoulder. Lieutenants Smith and Pratt were also wounded. Colonel Shaw had led his regiment from first to last. Gaining the rampart, he stood there for a moment with uplifted sword, shouting, “Forward, Fifty-fourth !” and then fell dead, shot through the heart, besides other wounds.
Not a shot had been fired by the regiment up to this time. As the crest was gained, the crack of revolver-shots was heard, for the officers fired into the surging mass of upturned faces confronting them, lit up redly but a moment by the powder-flashes. Musket-butts and bayonets were freely used on the parapet, where the stormers were gallantly met. The garrison fought with muskets, handspikes, and gun-rammers, the officers striking with their swords, so close were the combatants. Numbers, however, soon told against the Fifty-fourth, for it was tens against hundreds. Outlined against the sky, they were a fair mark for the foe. Men fell every moment during the brief struggle. Some of the wounded crawled down the slope to shelter; others fell headlong into the ditch below.
It was seen from the volume of musketry fire, even before the walls were gained, that the garrison was stronger than had been supposed, and brave in defending the work. The first rush had failed, for those of the Fifty-fourth who reached the parapet were too few in numbers to overcome the garrison, and the supports were not at hand to take full advantage of their first fierce attack. Repulsed from the crest after the short hand-to-hand struggle, the assailants fell back upon the exterior slope of the rampart. There the men were encouraged to remain by their officers, for by sweeping the top of the parapet with musketry, and firing at those trying to serve the guns, they would greatly aid an advancing force. For a time this was done, but at the cost of more lives. The enemy’s fire became more effective as the numbers of the Fifty-fourth diminished. Hand grenades or lighted shells were rolled down the slope, or thrown over into the ditch.
All this time the remaining officers and men of the Fifty-fourth were firing at the hostile figures about the guns, or that they saw spring upon the parapet, fire, and jump away. One brave fellow, with his broken arm lying across his breast, was piling cartridges upon it for Lieutenant Emerson, who, like other officers, was using a musket he had picked up. Another soldier, tired of the enforced combat, climbed the slope to his fate; for in a moment his dead body rolled down again. A particularly severe fire came from the southwest bastion. There a Confederate was observed, who, stripped to the waist, with daring exposure for some time dealt out fatal shots; but at last three eager marksmen fired together, and he fell back into the fort, to appear no more. Capt. J. W. M. Appleton distinguished himself before the curtain. He crawled into an embrasure, and with his pistol prevented the artillery-men from serving the gun. Private George Wilson of Company A had been shot through both shoulders, but refused to go back until he had his captain’s permission. While occupied with this faithful soldier, who came to him as he lay in the embrasure, Captain Appleton’s attention was distracted, and the gun was fired.
In the fighting upon the slopes of Wagner, Captains Russel and Simpkins were killed or mortally wounded. Captain Pope there received a severe wound in the shoulder.
All these events had taken place in a short period of time. The charge of the Fifty-fourth had been made and repulsed before the arrival of any other troops. Those who had clung to the bloody slopes or were lying in the ditch, hearing fighting going on at their right, realized at last that the expected succor would not reach them where they were. To retire through the enveloping fire was as dangerous and deadly as to advance. Some that night preferred capture to the attempt at escaping; but the larger portion managed to fall back, singly or in squads, beyond the musketry fire of the garrison.
Captain Emilio, the junior of that rank, succeeded to the command of the Fifty-fourth on the field by casualties. After retiring from Wagner to a point where men were encountered singly or in small squads, he determined to rally as many as possible. With the assistance of Lieutenants Grace and Dexter, a large portion of the Fifty-fourth survivors were collected and formed in line, together with a considerable number of white soldiers of various regiments. While thus engaged, the national flag of the Fifty-fourth was brought to Captain Emilio; but as it was useless as a rallying-point in the darkness, it was sent to the rear for safety. Sergeant Carney had bravely brought this flag from Wagner’s parapet, at the cost of two grievous wounds. The State color was torn from the staff, the silk was found by the enemy in the moat, while the staff remained with us.
Finding a line of rifle trench unoccupied and no indication that dispositions were being made for holding it, believing that the enemy would attempt a sortie, which was indeed contemplated but not attempted, Captain Emilio there stationed his men, disposed to defend the line. Other men were collected as they appeared. Lieu-tenant Tucker, slightly wounded, who was among the last to leave the sand hills near the fort, joined this force.
Desultory firing was still going on, and after a time, being informed that some troops were in the open ground, the force, numbering some two hundred, was formed by its commander, and advanced from the rifle trench. It is believed this was the only organized body of rallied men ready and able to support Stevenson’s brigade, which alone was prepared after the repulse of the others to resist attack. Presently the Twenty-fourth Massachusetts was encountered; but upon reporting, it was found that support was not required. Marching back to the still deserted trench, that line was again occupied. By midnight firing entirely ceased. About 1 A. M., on the 19th, a mounted officer rode up, inquired what force held the trench, and asked for the commanding officer. Captain Emilio responded, and recognized General Stevenson, who thanked him for the support given the reserve brigade, and his dispositions for holding the line. He was also informed that a regiment would be sent to relieve his men, and shortly after, the Tenth Connecticut arrived for that purpose. When this was done, the white soldiers were formed into detachments by regiments, and sent to find their colors.
The Fifty-fourth men were then marched to the rear, and after proceeding a short distance down the beach, encountered Lieutenants Jewett, Emerson, and Appleton, with some of the men. There the Fifty-fourth bivouacked for the night, under the shelter of the sand-bluffs.
Mercury, June 19, 1863 [OAF]
Port Royal, June 3
—After a long passage of seven days, we have arrived at Port Royal. We are still on board the vessel, and I write my first letter on the top of my knapsack, with one of the loudest noises around me ever heard, and heat enough to make a fellow contemplate the place prepared for the ungodly. There is nothing interesting to write as yet, for the very good reason that we have none of us been ashore. I write this letter to let the friends of the men know that we are all safe, except one, who jumped overboard the first night out from Boston. I think he must have been cracked or drunk, more likely the latter. The men are all in good health and spirits, not one man in the whole regiment being now on the sick list. After we are quartered on shore, and have an opportunity to look around, you may expect better letters.
J. H. G.
Steamer De Molay [BCF]
June 3,1863, Off Charleston
Here we are near the end of our voyage. Everything has prospered thus far. We have had no illness on board, with the exception of a little “heebin” (heaving), as the men call it. I have had no sea-sickness at all myself. The more I think of last Thursday, the more complete a triumph it seems to me. You know from the first day the regiment was organized, no one connected with it has talked extravagantly, or boasted about it in any way; we went on quietly with our work, letting outsiders say what they chose, and wound up with what you saw, as we passed through Boston. That was the greatest day for us all that we ever passed, and I only hope it was of corresponding importance to the cause.
We saw the blockading fleet, and the top of Fort Sumter, off Charleston this morning. We expect to get in this afternoon. I shall go on shore immediately, and report to General Hunter, and if we can find a good camping-ground, shall land the regiment this evening.
Your loving Son
June 3/63 [BCF]
My note to Mother will tell you of our prosperous voyage. My horses are all doing well fortunately. Major Hallowell’s died the 3d day out.
I told Annie that if she needed any more money than her allowance, towards the end of the year, to write to you for it. I shall soon be sending you home plenty. Will you please send an account of how much I have drawn, since I went home, and how much property I own now in the bank & in treasury notes.
I shall send Annie’s letters to her Father’s care, unless she is staying at the Island, as I think that is the quickest way.
I enclose a note for Anna Curtis. Call and Tuttlc are making me a flannel suit, which I ordered to be sent to you. Please put in the bundle a good stock of stationery and waste paper — and a supply of quinine, in pills & powder — and some postage stamps.
Your loving son
p.s. I enclose draft of R. P. Hallowell for $137.00
Hilton Head — Arrived safe at 2 1/2. We go to camp at Beaufort up the bay. Montgomery has just ret. from an expedition with 725 blacks from plantations.
Str. De Molay, Off Hilton Head, S.C. [BCF]
Dear Cousin John,
Here we are (the 54th Mass. Vols, (coloured) close to our Department, and in a very different condition from that in which you left us. Our recruiting system did not get well under weigh, until sometime after you went, and then we filled up very rapidly. The Governor gave Ned Hallowell the Majority without any difficulty, and soon after Norwood was ordered to take the 55th which was started about the 10th of May. He refused the Colonelcy for some time, but has finally decided to take it, as the Governor wouldn’t let him come with us, at any rate.
The 54th has been a success from beginning to end. The drill & discipline are all that anyone could expect. Crowds of people came to our battalion drills & dress parades every afternoon, and we have heard nothing but words of praise & astonishment from friend & foe — from hunkers & fogeys, old and young. The camp was crowded on the day of our banner presentation — and the Governor made an excellent speech. Last Thursday, 28 May, we left Readville at 7 A.M. & went by rail to Boston. We marched from the Providence Depot through Essex, Federal, Franklin, School Sts., Pemberton Square, Beacon St. to the Common — then by Tremont & State Sts. to Battery Wharf where we embarked. The streets were crowded, & I have not seen such enthusiasm since the first troops left for the war. On the Common the regiment was received
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(from [BBR] pp.36-37):
HEADQUARTERS DEP’T OP THE SOUTH,
HILTON HEAD, PORT ROYAL, S. C, June 3, 1863.
His EXCELLENCY, GOVERNOR ANDREW, Massachusetts.
GOVERNOR, — I have the honor to announce that the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts (colored) troops, Colonel Shaw commanding, arrived safely in this harbor this afternoon and have been sent to Port Royal Island. The regiment had an excellent passage, and from the appearance of the men I doubt not that this command will yet win a reputation and place in history deserving the patronage you have given them. Just as they were steaming up the bay I received from Col. James Montgomery, commanding Second South Carolina Regiment, a telegraphic despatch, of which certified copy is enclosed. Colonel Montgomery’s is but the initial step of a system of operations which will rapidly compel the Rebels either to lay down their arms and sue for restoration to the Union or to withdraw their slaves into the interior, thus leaving desolate the most fertile and productive of their counties along the Atlantic seaboard.
The Fifty-fourth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers shall soon be profitably and honorably employed; and I beg that you will send for service in this department the other colored regiment which Colonel Shaw tells me you are now organizing and have in forward preparation.
Thanking you heartily for the kindness and promptness with which you have met my views in this matter, and referring you to my letter to Mr. Jefferson Davis as a guarantee that all soldiers fighting for the flag of their country in this department will be protected, irrespective of any accident of color or birth,
I have the honor to be, Governor, with the highest esteem,
Your very obedient servant,
Mercury, May 20, 1863
Camp Meigs, Readville, May 18 [OAF]
—Today the long talked of presentation of flags came off. At 11 o’clock the column was formed, ready to receive His Excellency the Governor. Between four and five hundred people were on the ground before the hour fixed for the parade; when the 11 A.M. train stopped, there was a motley mass of people emerging from the cars, among which were the ladies of Boston, who were the makers of the colors, and the donors. Arrived upon the ground, it was a long time before sufficient space could be made to carry out the formalities; the colonel was obliged to order the commanders of two companies to march their commands to the front to make room for forming the square. After all the preliminaries were settled, Rev. Mr. Grimes, of Boston, offered a very impressive prayer.30 The Governor and staff, Gen. Pierce and staff, with the whole regiment, during the prayer remained uncovered. The Governor then stepped forward and in substance spoke as follows:Mr. Commander—Although the presentation of a stand of colors to a noble body of men is no new scene in this Commonwealth, this occasion is a novel and peculiar one—there is an importance attached to this occasion which never existed with any similar event. Today we recognize the right of every man in this Commonwealth to be a MAN and a citizen. We see before us a band of as noble men as ever came together for a great and glorious cause; they go not for themselves alone, but they go to vindicate a foul aspersion that they were not men; and I rejoice to see men from other states who have cast their lot in with ours—we welcome them as citizens of the Old Bay State. We not only see the germs of the elevation of a downtrodden and despised race, but a great and glorious future spread out before us, when the principles of right and justice shall govern our beloved country. You, Mr. Commander, have reason to be proud that you have the privilege of being the pioneer in this great and glorious cause, as the Chief of the Fifty Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers. And my earnest prayer is that you will ever have in view a lively interest in its efficiency and glory in the field, as you have thus far shown in its organization. I now have the honor, in behalf of the colored ladies of Boston, to present to you, sir, for the 54th regiment of Mass. volunteers, the American Flag; and before it shall ever be surrendered to the foes may its white stripes be spattered with the red blood of their brethren who bear it in the field. I now have the honor of presenting the 54th, through you, sir, in behalf of the Commonwealth, the arms of the State of Massachusetts; and I say today, from the beginning of this rebellion to the present day, that banner has never been surrendered to the foe; fifty-three regiments have marched from the old Bay State, but we have yet to learn that they ever surrendered that noble banner. Hold on to the staff, if every thread is blown away, your glory will be the same. Here is a banner, bearing for its emblem the Goddess of Liberty; take this, sir, in behalf of the colored ladies of Boston and the Commonwealth, for the 54th regiment Mass. volunteers. May you and your men prove that this emblem was never carried by worthier hands. And here I have the solemn pleasure of presenting you, sir, in behalf of the near and dear relatives of one of Massachusetts noble soldier boys, who gave his life for his country’s cause, Lieut. Putnam, the emblem which it bears, the symbol of the Christian, a Cross. While in the battle’s rage, you cast your eyes on this Christian banner, remember, sir, the example of the gallant man who took it for his guide. Though you fall in your country’s defence, with a just and sincere appreciation of the teachings inculcated by that banner, your spirit will soar to that home in store for those who faithfully do their duty here to Humanity, their Country and their God! And now let me thank you, sir, Mr. Commander, and your assistant officers, for the faithful discharge of the trust reposed in you all. I declare to you today, that the 54th regiment of volunteers will ever be to me a source of solicitude; it is an undertaking, which if it fails, I fail with it; not only myself in my official capacity, but thousands in the old Bay State will watch its progress with earnest, heartfelt interest; if on the field, this noble Corps shall prove as valiant as it is proficient in discipline and drill, the fondest well wisher of this cause will be amply rewarded.
You Mr. Commander, have an important trust confided to you; your own honor as a man, and commander, the sound and wholesome discipline of a class unused to military life, that they as well as yourself, may add lustre to the glory of your native State. Your country’s honor, and the safety of these men, depend upon you; a nobler corps ne’er tread the soil of Massachusetts, and I am proud tosay, much is due you for the military spirit they exhibit to-day; again [illegible] the flag.
Colonel Shaw responded in a [illegible] as follows:It will be my earnest endeavors to faithfully perform all that is possible for the honor and glory of the 54th regiment volunteers; I consider it an honor to lead men, although many of them not citizens of Massachusetts, who exhibit such unmistakable evidences of patriotism; and I will take this occasion to express my sincere thanks to the officers, and men, for their untiring efforts to assist me in maintaining order, and a faithful discharge of every duty.
Mr. I.D. Hall and Mr. John Goings will please accept the thanks of Company C, for a present of tobacco, two twenty-five pound boxes; we can assure them it is very acceptable, as many of us have not had any tobacco for some time.
J. H. G.
I am so sorry you were not here to-day. The presentation went off finely. The Governor made a beautiful speech. My response was small potatoes. The day has been beautiful; and on the whole it was a success. After the ceremony, we had a Battalion drill, and then refreshments for guests at my head-quarters. The Governor handed me a telegram from the Secretary of War, saying, “The Fifty-fourth Massachusetts will report to General Hunter; make requisitions for transportation, so that they may go at once.”
As soon as the transports are ready, we shall be off; that may not be for a week, though. I shall find out to-morrow, if possible, and telegraph Father; if I don’t see you and Father before I go, I shall be terribly disappointed. Effie and Nellie are at Milton Hill to tea this evening. Cabot Russel and Wilkie James hired a large “carryall,” and drove them over. They thought the carryall more in accordance with your ideas of propriety, than separate buggies. You will wonder, no doubt, at our being taken from General Wilde. General Hunter wanted us, and I told the Governor I thought the men would have a better chance for work than with Foster. The latter, as likely as not, would make us do all the digging of the department.
Always, dearest Mother,
Your loving Son
Friends [of the regiment] had procured flags, and it was determined to make the occasion of their presentation, on May 18, a memorable one. The day was fine and cloudless. Very early, friends of the command began to arrive in private carriages, and by the extra trains run to Readville. Many prominent persons were present, including Surgeon-General Dale, Hon. Thomas Russell, Professor Agassiz, Prof. William B. Rogers, Hon. Josiah Quincy, George S. Hale, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Samuel May, Rev. Dr. Neale, Frederick Douglass, and many others. The parade was thronged with white and colored people of both sexes, to the number of over a thousand.
Line was formed at eleven o’clock, and the regiment was broken into square by Colonel Shaw. Governor Andrew, with his military staff in full uniform, took position inside the square. Brilliant in color and of the finest texture, fluttering in the fresh breeze blowing, the flags destined for the regiment were ready for presentation. They were four in number, — a national flag, a State color, an emblematic banner of white silk with the figure of the Goddess of Liberty, and the motto, ” Liberty, Loyalty, and Unity,” and another with a cross upon a blue field, and the motto, In Hoc Signo Vinces. By invitation, the Rev. Mr. Grimes offered an appropriate prayer. Governor Andrew then stepped forward; and the flow of eloquent words delivered with the earnestness which characterized him, heightened by the occasion, will never be forgotten by those that heard his voice. Standing in plain attire, and facing Colonel Shaw, he spoke as follows: —COLONEL SHAW : As the official representative of the Commonwealth, and by favor of various ladies and gentlemen, citizens of the Commonwealth, and friends of the Fifty-fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, I have the honor and the satisfaction of being permitted to join you this morning for the purpose of presenting to your regiment the national flag, the State colors of Massachusetts, and the emblematic banners which the cordial, generous, and patriotic friendship of its patrons has seen fit to present to you. Two years of experience in all the trials and vicissitudes of war, attended with the repeated exhibition of Massachusetts regiments marching from home to the scenes of strife, have left little to be said or suggested which could give the interest of novelty to an occasion like this. But, Mr. Commander, one circumstance pertaining to the composition of the Fifty-fourth Regiment, exceptional in its character, when compared with anything we have seen before, gives to this hour an interest and importance, solemn and yet grand, because the occasion marks an era in the history of the war, of the Commonwealth, of the country, and of humanity. I need not dwell upon the fact that the enlisted men constituting the rank and file of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment are drawn from a race not hitherto connected with the fortunes of the war; and yet I cannot forbear to allude to the circumstance for a brief moment, since it is uppermost in your thoughts, and since this regiment, which for many months has been the desire of my own heart, is present now before this vast assembly of friendly citizens of Massachusetts, prepared to vindicate by its future, — as it has already begun to do by its brief history of camp life here, — to vindicate in its own person, and in the presence, I trust, of all who belong to it, the character, the manly character, the zeal, the manly zeal, of the colored citizens of Massachusetts, and of those other States which have cast their lot with ours. I owe to you, Mr. Commander, and to the officers who, associated with you, have assisted in the formation of this noble corps, composed of men selected from among their fellows for fine qualities of manhood, — I owe to you, sir, and to those of your associates who united with me in the original organization of this body, the heartiest and most emphatic expression of my cordial thanks. I shall follow you, Mr. Commander, your officers, and your men, with a friendly and personal solicitude, to say nothing of official care, which can hardly be said of any other corps which has marched from Massachusetts. My own personal honor, if I have any, is identified with yours. I stand or fall, as a man and a magistrate, with the rise or fall in the history of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment. I pledge not only in behalf of myself, but of all those whom I have the honor to represent to-day, the utmost generosity, the utmost kindness, the utmost devotion of hearty love, not only for the cause, but for you that represent it. We will follow your fortunes in the camp and in the field with the anxious eyes of brethren, and the proud hearts of citizens. To those men of Massachusetts and of surrounding States who have now made themselves citizens of Massachusetts, I have no word to utter fit to express the emotions of my heart. These men, sir, have now, in the Providence of God, given to them an opportunity which, while it is personal to themselves, is still an opportunity for a whole race of men. With arms possessed of might to strike a blow, they have found breathed into their hearts an inspiration of devoted patriotism and regard for their brethren of their own color, which has inspired them with a purpose to nerve that arm, that it may strike a blow which, while it shall help to raise aloft their country’s flag — their country’s flag, now, as well as ours—by striking down the foes which oppose it, strikes also the last shackle which binds the limbs of the bondmen in the Rebel States.I know not, Mr. Commander, when, in all human history, to any given thousand men in arms there has been committed a work at once so proud, so precious, so full of hope and glory as the work committed to you. And may the infinite mercy of Almighty God attend you every hour of every day through all the experiences and vicissitudes of that dangerous life in which you have embarked; may the God of our fathers cover your heads in the day of battle ; may He shield you with the arms of everlasting power ; may He hold you always— most of all, first of all, and last of all — up to the highest and holiest conception of duty, so that if, on the field of stricken fight, your souls shall be delivered from the thraldom of the flesh, your spirits shall go home to God, bearing aloft the exulting thought of duty well performed, of glory and reward won, even at the hands of the angels who shall watch over you from above !
Mr. Commander, you, sir, and most of your officers, have been carefully selected from among the most intelligent and experienced officers who have already performed illustrious service upon the field during the two years of our national conflict. I need not say, sir, with how much confidence and with how much pride we contemplate the leadership which this regiment will receive at your hands. In yourself, sir, your staff and line officers, we are enabled to declare a confidence which knows no hesitation and no doubt. Whatever fortune may betide you, we know from the past that all will be done for the honor of the cause, for the protection of the flag, for the defence of the right, for the glory of your country, and for the safety and the honor of these men whom we commit to you, that shall he either in the human heart, or brain, or arm.
And now, Mr. Commander, it is my most agreeable duty and high honor to hand to you, as the representative of the Fifty-fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, the American flag, “the star-spangled banner” of the Republic. Wherever its folds shall be unfurled, it will mark the path of glory. Let its stars be the inspiration of yourself, your officers, and your men. As the gift of the young ladies of the city of Boston to their brethren in arms, they will cherish it as the lover cherishes the recollection and fondness of his mistress; and the white stripes of its field will be red with their blood before it shall be surrendered to the foe.
I have also the honor, Mr. Commander, to present to you the State colors of Massachusetts, — the State colors of the old Bay State, borne already by fifty-three regiments of Massachusetts soldiers, white men thus far, now to be borne by the Fifty-fourth Regiment of soldiers, not less of Massachusetts than the others. Whatever may be said, Mr. Commander, of any other flag which has ever kissed the sunlight or been borne on any field, I have the pride and honor to be able to declare before you, your regiment, and these witnesses, that from the beginning till now, the State colors of Massachusetts have never been surrendered to any foe. The Fifty-fourth now holds in possession this sacred charge, in the performance of their duties as citizen soldiers. You will never part with that flag so long as a splinter of the staff or a thread of its web remains within your grasp. The State colors are presented to the Fifty-fourth by the Relief Society, composed of colored ladies of Boston.
And now let me commit to you this splendid emblematic banner. It is prepared for your acceptance by a large and patriotic committee, representing many others besides themselves, — ladies and gentlemen of Boston, to whose hearty sympathy and powerful cooperation and aid much of the success which has hitherto attended the organization of this regiment is due. The Goddess of Liberty erect in beautiful guise and form; Liberty, Loyalty, and Unity, — are the emblems it bears. The Goddess of Liberty shall be the lady-love, whose fair presence shall inspire your hearts; Liberty, Loyalty, Unity, the watchwords in the fight.
And now, Mr. Commander, the sacred, holy Cross, representing passion, the highest heroism, I scarcely dare trust myself to present to you. It is the emblem of Christianity. I have parted with the emblems of the State, of the nation, — heroic, patriotic emblems they are, dear, inexpressibly dear to all our hearts; but now In hoc signo vinces, — the Cross which represents the passion of our Lord, I now dare to pass into your soldier hands; for we are fighting now a battle, not merely for country, not merely for humanity, not only for civilization, but for the religion of our Lord itself. When this cause shall ultimately fail, if ever failure at the last shall be possible, it will only fail when the last patriot, the last philanthropist, and the last Christian shall have tasted death, and left no descendants behind them upon the soil of Massachusetts. This flag, Mr. Commander, has connected with its history the most touching and sacred memories. It comes to your regiment from the mother, sister, friends, family relatives, of one of the dearest and noblest boys of Massachusetts. I need not utter the name of Lieutenant Putnam in order to excite in every heart the tenderest emotions of fond regard, or the strongest feeling of patriotic fire. May you, sir, and these, follow not only on the field of battle, but in all the walks and ways of life, in camp and hereafter, when, on returning peace, you shall resume the more quiet and peaceful duties of citizens,— may you but follow the splendid example, the sweet devotion, mingled with manly, heroic character, of which the life and death of Lieutenant Putnam was one example ! How many more there are we know not, —the record is not yet complete ; but oh, how many there are of these Massachusetts sons, who, like him, have tasted death for this immortal cause! Inspired by such examples, fired by the heat and light of love and faith which illumined and warmed these heroic and noble hearts, may you, sir, and these march on to glory, to victory, and to every honor! This flag I present to you, Mr. Commander, and your regiment. In hoc signo vinces.
At the conclusion of the Governor’s remarks, when the applause had subsided, Colonel Shaw responded as follows: —YOUR EXCELLENCY : We accept these flags with feelings of deep gratitude. They will remind us not only of the cause we are fighting for, and of our country, but of the friends we have left behind us, who have thus far taken so much interest in this regiment, and whom we know will follow us in our career. Though the greater number of men in this regiment are not Massachusetts men, I know there is not one who will not be proud to fight and serve under our flag. May we have an opportunity to show that you have not made a mistake in intrusting the honor of the State to a colored regiment, — the first State that has sent one to the war.
I am very glad to have this opportunity to thank the officers and men of the regiment for their untiring fidelity and devotion to their work from the very beginning. They have shown that sense of the importance of the undertaking without which we should hardly have attained our end.
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The Philippines is one of the countries who rely on overseas worker remittances to fuel its economy. I am an OFW myself and it is true that working abroad gives one a better chance at having a better life due to the bigger pay. In addition, with that, most people look at an OFW as rich but in reality, the foreign exchange rate makes the difference.
Comparing one’s salary in the Philippines against the one overseas may look like that the overseas pay is bigger than your pay here. However, most do not factor in cost of living overseas. Also, the lifestyle one has overseas affects one’s saving power. An OFW might have bigger pay and thus has a better capacity to save but when one’s lifestyle overseas is that of a spender there is no difference from an employee here in the Philippines worst yet when that OFW who spends while working abroad overspends he or she might go home penniless. A lot of OFW go home without even having their own home and end up bum in their sibling’s house because they are accustomed to that lifestyle that they have overseas.
On my way to the NAIA Terminal 1, the taxi driver is an OFWwaiting for his Visa for Australia. We are able to share stories about the hardship of being an OFW and all his regrets why he didn’t save while he is able. He has two kids to send to school so while waiting he drives taxi for a living. He now has a plan and that is to save up once he gets the work in Australia and start with one taxi. Probably by the time he gets enough money, he can send it to his wife who will buy and start their taxi business, thus two sources of income that is his employment and his one taxi operation at home.
The week before I was claiming my money that was in a closed bank in Pangasinan. Unfortunately, I was not able to get it on time and the bank directed me to go to the main PDIC and request a re-issue. While waiting for the certification the bank manager ask me if I knew of the OWWA loan. She said that I could loan a certain amount and have my wife start a business here in the Philippines. I am still in the process of planning my marriage with my beloved who works here in the Philippines. And with that we have decided to save up for our dream businesses and we will be able to get married soon and I will be able to go back here in the Philippines and either start business, get employed, or practice as a CPA.
OFW‘s can actually make a big difference in the Philippine economy if only they can wisely use their money. The problem of being an OFW is that a lot of family members will have expectation if one is an OFW. A good example is that when a mother or a father becomes an OFW they send money, toys, and other things to their children to compensate their absence. If the husband is the OFW the wife request money for house remodeling, money to buy her personal beauty stuff, and others. This are normal and OK but most of the time instead of saving and using money wisely family members begin to want a higher lifestyle like your daughter wanting the latest phone so that she would be in her schools elite group, your son wanting a 42″ flat screen TV and the latest gaming hardware to play games every day and so many more.
But what if just l like the taxi driver I met would save up and established a business? Probably a small sari-sari store, a small rice retailing shop, a unit of taxi, a small food kiosk in the corner of the barangay where tricycle line up, or even yet an investment in the stock market, UITF, or real estate. As Bob Procter’s teaching money should not be kept under one’s bed… it should be circulated in a way that gives a return. Yes at first of course it’s hard to see your hard earned money be put into an investment and you can’t even enjoy it but the time you get returns from such investment it will be a very sweet reward or even you would rather re-invest such returns to grow your money and eventually go back home permanently and spend more time with your family.
So how can an OFW like me and the taxi driver start so that we won’t be working away from our love ones?
The answer to this question is to ALLOCATE, SAVE, and INVEST.
It is a fact that we need to eat to live. So an OFW should first establish an allocation for his or her salary. At first, this would be very hard but as you get use to it, you can manage to live with it and be able to go to the next step. As always, one has to list down what he or she is spending on right now. List all the things you are currently paying off like loans, debt, mortgage etc. Then also list down you daily living expenses like food, housing/rent in your overseas work, and the money you send back to the Philippines for your love one’s daily living expenses as well. From there you should categories whether such expenses or cash outlay is a need or a want (yup the classic categorization). Try to scrap the wants little by little. This way you won’t be traumatized from the sudden absence of such need.
Whatever is left you can now allocate your earnings to it. At first, you will end up short but as time goes, you will be able to discern what are really are important and from there you can start contribute to your savings.
Make it a point that from now on you will contribute to your savings fund. This is the very first priority. This savings fund is different from the savings fund (click here)I put money in since that one is an allocation for something I want but would rather save up first before buying it. The savings fund here I am talking about is a catch basin for whatever is left after you have allocated some funds for your needs. I know some of our local banks have branches all over the world and you can deposit your money in there. Your goal is to increase your savings fund so that you can eventually invest it.
After saving a considerable amount, you can now start looking into possible investment vehicle where you can grow this savings fund while you are working. Always ask; that is the key to success. Ask those who have actually gone from nothing to richness. These people have found the answer to how to make money work for them instead of them working for money. From time to time, engage these people to a simple chat and learn from their experience. Also, you can always search the Internet how to start business or how to open some accounts for investments back in the Philippines. A reminder as well that you should do your due diligence to protect your savings from fraud or frauds.
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Creating an independent game can be an uphill struggle, with graphics, music and story to think about, not to mention all of that pesky de-bugging, an overlooked, but perhaps most difficult part of the whole process is getting your game seen by the masses, especially without significant financial backing from a major video game publisher. USB Makers takes the difficulty out of the process, with a cost-effective and practical solution, the distribution of your game using Printed USB Memory Sticks pre-loaded with your game’s content or promotional materials.
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USB Makers offers an optional 400Mb pre-uploaded content on most drive styles making your distribution project easier. In addition, this standard includes a 1-2 colour print, you could print your logo or even your game’s mascot. Sizes range from as small as 128Mb to as high as 64Gb, catering to all manner of games. This could be the whole game or just a demo or trial version to lure in players with a taste of your game, you could even pre-load an internet shortcut to where the full version can be purchased. USB Makers can also lock your data, meaning your game can never be deleted. USB Makers can also program your USBs to auto-run certain files such as your demo or internet shortcut.
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Although your Printed USB Memory Sticks can be used to carry your game, that’s not all they’re limited to. Another way of teasing your audiences (especially if a stable beta is not available yet), is to preload your USB Memory Sticks with promotional materials or bonus content. This could be production sketches, trailers, screenshots, soundtracks and more. To add an extra incentive, the exclusive material could be pre-loaded to your USBs, to give that extra something to those who took a chance on your game. A USB is also a nice gift that recipients are bound to use over and over again.
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Amateur game designing is becoming increasingly accessible to the masses. With simple but dynamic programming languages such as Python making it possible for people to get their games out there. However getting your game seen above the others is not an easy task. The advantage of using Printed USB Memory Sticks are easily transported and easily handed out. The offer of a free game is hard to refuse and by leaving extra space on the drive for the end user to use ensures repeat use and brand exposure, and also acts as a nice gift. Game design is a labour of love, after which getting your game out there for people to enjoy your creative works is of utmost importance. | <urn:uuid:4cca3b0e-8363-410c-b3b2-78f094bce6be> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.usbmakers.com/getting-your-indie-game-out-there-with-printed-usb-memory-sticks/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.954336 | 620 | 1.601563 | 2 |
The story of Glenveagh, its landscape and its people is a fascinating tale…
The estate of Glenveagh was created in 1857-9 by the purchase of several smaller holdings by John George Adair, a wealthy land speculator from Co. Laois. John Adair was to later incur infamy throughout Donegal and Ireland by ruthlessly evicting some 244 tenants in the Derryveagh Evictions.
After marrying his American born wife Cornelia, Adair began the construction of Glenveagh Castle in 1867, which was completed by 1873. Adair however was never to fulfil his dream of creating a hunting estate in the highlands of Donegal and died suddenly in 1885 on return from a business trip to America.
After her husband’s death Cornelia took over the running of the estate and introduced deer stalking in the 1890’s. She continually sought to improve the castle’s comforts and the beauty of its grounds, carrying out major improvements to the estate and laying out the gardens. Over the next 30 years she was to become a much noted society hostess and continued to summer at the castle until 1916.
Following the death of Mrs Adair in London in 1921, Glenveagh fell much into decline and was occupied by both the Anti-treaty and Free State Army forces during the Irish civil war.
Glenveagh’s next owner was not to be until 1929 when purchased by Professor Arthur Kingsley Porter of Harvard University who came to Ireland to study Irish archaeology and culture. The Kingsley Porters mainly entertained Irish literary and artistic figures including close friend AE Russell whose paintings still hang in the library of the castle. Their stay was to be short however as Arthur Kingsley Porter mysteriously disappeared from Inishbofin Island in 1933 while visiting the island.
The last private owner was Mr Henry McIlhenny of Philadelphia who bought the estate in 1937. Henry McIlhenny was an Irish American whose Grandfather John McIlhenny grew up in Milford a few miles north of Glenveagh. After buying the estate Mr McIlhenny devoted much time to restoring the castle and developing its gardens.
Eventually Henry McIlhenny began to find travelling to and from Ireland too demanding and the upkeep of the estate was also becoming a strain. In 1975 he agreed the sale of the estate to the Office of Public Works allowing for the creation of a National Park. In 1983 he bestowed the castle to the nation along with its gardens and much of the contents.
Glenveagh National Park opened to the public in 1984 while the castle opened in 1986. Today as under private ownership Glenveagh continues to attract and inspire visitors from all over the world.
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Donald Trump is planning to mark the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks by attending the official commemoration at ground zero.
A person familiar with the decision, but not authorized to discuss it until it's announced publicly, told The Associated Press on Saturday that Trump is expected to attend the annual commemoration at the World Trade Center site.
His Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, is also attending. It is not clear whether the two will cross paths, and neither candidate is expected to make public remarks.
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“. . .the One and Only, who came from the Father full of grace and truth” John 1:14b
Who is this Jesus?
Matthew said He is “God with us” – “Immanuel” (Matthew 1:23). For thirty-three years He was “God-in-the-flesh with us,” walking among His people, touching them with hands they could feel, speaking words their ears could hear. Yet He was very much God, performing miracles and speaking with divine authority. Twice Matthew reports a voice from heaven saying, “This is My Son, whom I love; with Him, I am well pleased” (3:17; 17:5).
Mark expands the truth that Jesus is the Son of God, showing His uncommon power to heal, raise the dead, give sight to the blind, multiply a few loaves and fishes, calm the raging sea, and drive out demons who recognized Him as “the Holy One of God” (1:24). He also shows Him to be a King who endured uncommon suffering to rescue His people from the sentence of death.
Luke revealed Jesus as the salvation of all people (2:32). He wrote to give an ordered account of Jesus from reliable eye-witness testimonies. Luke offers the most detailed version of the events surrounding Jesus’ birth, and tradition holds that these were Mary’s own memories. How incredible that we have the testimony of Jesus’ Father, and the recollections of His mother to confirm that this Jesus was fully God and fully man.
From his opening testimony – “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (1:1) – John most powerfully proved Jesus as the Son of God, the One and Only, divine in nature and one with His Father. John records Jesus’ “I AM” statements, a direct connection to God’s own self-revelation (Exodus 3:14). He recorded Jesus’ statement: “Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father” (14:9). John also devotes half of his gospel to Jesus’ final week, His death, burial, resurrection, and post-resurrection appearances. (John 12-21).
Paul said that He is “the image of the invisible God” (Colossians 1:15), and the writer of Hebrews said “The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His being’ (Hebrews 1:3). Jesus. “God with us.” “The Son of God.” “The Salvation of God.” “The Word of God” “One with the Father.” “The image of God.” “The radiance of God.” “The exact representation of God.” And that barely scratches the surface. Jesus is . . . everything. Beloved, what more do you need to believe? | <urn:uuid:019c26ac-9a95-49e0-8a46-c949af532f75> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dbethandrews.wordpress.com/tag/god-wilh-us/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.97474 | 647 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Peridot gemstone beads are known by many names, including bastard emerald, chrysolite, evening emerald, hawaiite, night emerald, and peridote. These pretty green semiprecious beads are cut from an olivine variety composed of magnesium iron silicate. Peridot splits and bends the rays of light passing through it, giving it a velvety appearance and rich glow. Pronounced PEAR-ih-doh (or PEAR-ih-dot), its yellow-green color is mainly dependent on the amount of ferrous iron present.
The traditional birthstone of August, peridot has been mined for over 4,000 years, and is mentioned in the Bible under the Hebrew name pitdah. It is said to have been Cleopatra's favorite gemstone. Avoid exposing peridot beads to acids, quick temperature changes, scratches, sharp blows, or home ultrasonic cleaners. Peridot is associated with the heart chakra. Many believe it to slow aging and help speech, as well as increase patience, confidence, and assertiveness.
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If the intelligent-design side in the evolution debate doesn’t receive the support you might expect from people who should be allies, that may be because they haven’t grasped why the whole thing matters so urgently. I got an email recently from a journalist whom I’d queried on the subject. “All told, I’m on the ID side of the debate,” he wrote, “but it isn’t a pressing interest for me.”
Don’t miss my essay over at First Things on the mission of the Jews to the world. This, I think, the key idea that the Jewish community needs to absorb at this very unusual cultural moment, for the time is so, so right. Non-Jews are waiting for us to fulfill the roll God gave us in the Torah. Please tell me what you think by commenting here, there, or both.
You will often hear Jews say, with pride, that Judaism rejects a missionary or evangelizing stance. This is true in the narrow sense that Jews do not pursue converts to Judaism, but it is deeply misleading in another. The German Orthodox rabbi, polemicist, and scriptural expositor Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808-1888), a towering figure in modern Jewish thought, taught insistently that God brought the “Abrahamitic nation” onto the stage of history for “the salvation of the world through Judaism.” As he wrote in his Torah commentary, this was to be accomplished “by example and admonition,” with the Jews as “God’s messengers on earth” (on Genesis 12:1, 11:8, 18:17-19). In Orthodox Judaism today, Hirsch remains a household name. But the most important aspect of his legacy, which deserves urgent practical consideration by the Jewish community, is insufficiently appreciated.
A range of Orthodox communities claim Hirsch’s mantle. One often hears the “Hirschean worldview” invoked. Modern Orthodox thinkers cite his philosophy of Torah im Derech Eretz (“Torah with the Way of the World”) as giving a Torah imprimatur to secular education. Hirsch’s pioneering study of the roots of Hebrew words is also well regarded. But Hirsch’s thought extends far beyond his contributions as an educational theorist and etymologist. He illuminated a cultural crisis of which he saw only the beginnings. That crisis, in Hirsch’s own term, is that of the Western world “sunk in materialism” (on Exodus 6:3). | <urn:uuid:a6ccee8a-0651-4357-9dc2-177c4ed5c852> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/kingdomofpriests/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00337-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95269 | 581 | 2.203125 | 2 |
For occasion, creating a profile within the “Hope” app would disclose that a user is Herpes-positive. National Senior Health & Fitness Day®is the nation’s largest older adult health and wellness event, now coming into its 28th yr. More than 100,000 seniors will take part in local health and wellness events at 1,000+ places across the nation. Following the following pointers will help you keep healthy and keep you ready to return to your favourite actions when circumstances allow. While all of us work collectively to battle this pandemic and do our half to guard ourselves and our communities from COVID-19, let’s stay energetic.
This class makes use of the pure resistance of water in opposition to the physique together with pool weights and noodles to supply all kinds of conditioning activity. Zumba-Move to the music, no rhythm or experience required. While you don’t have to be good, you have to make a concerted effort to mannequin healthy habits in entrance of your youngsters, like figuring out at house, consuming extra water, and cooking meals as a family. After all, educating your children about vitamin is great, however they aren’t going to magically crave salads if they’ve never seen you consuming one. New research means that a father’s weight can affect a child’s health outcomes, which can clarify why children of overweight men usually have a tendency to grow into obese youngsters and adults themselves. At Destin Health & Fitness Club, we pride ourselves in providing probably the most top-of-the-line equipment obtainable in the health business at present. Duke Health & Fitness Center workers have health-related bachelor’s and master’s levels, certifications, and years of experience.
- For instance, creating a profile in the “Hope” app would disclose that a person is Herpes-positive.
- Develop insurance policies restricting workers or others from employee housing if they’re ill or require isolation.
- The scoring of this test relies solely in your occupation inside the army and in contrast to the APFT, no longer accounts for gender or age.
- The available data means that vigorous intensity activities present further health benefits past modest depth activities.
- There are a quantity of career choices for many who love health and health, many of which allow you to encourage others and make a positive change to the people that you work with.
In a 2015 report on health membership shoppers, the IHRSA said complete U.S. health membership revenue reach $25.eight billion in 2015, a 6.1 percent improve over 2014. While weight management is a primary purpose for attendance, individuals additionally be part of gyms to extend exercise, maintain wellness or obtain athletic goals.
CrossFit workouts are totally different daily and could be modified to assist every athlete obtain their objectives. The exercises may be tailored for people at any age and level of health. If you’re enthusiastic about the health and fitness trade, you’ll find a franchise that matches your pursuits and fuels your passion. You’ll take benefit of your franchise when you’re suited to deal with the calls for and challenges of the business.
In this course of I fell in Love with and developed a passion for health and health that is nonetheless going sturdy right now. If you can’t discover me on the health club more than likely I will be with my family, driving my bike on one of the many bike trails in our city, doing yard work or reading. A health middle normally presents a spread of group courses and particular person workout programs.
POUND is a blended cardio fitness class impressed by the energizing and sweat-dripping enjoyable of enjoying the drums. We’ll give you weighted RipStix , darken the room, blast the music, and get you drumming for fitness. This class could have you squatting, lunging, rotating the core, and firming the thighs and glutes. Let loose and release the day’s stress by way of some hard POUNDing.
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The solemnity of the Epiphany is the most “missionary” of all solemnities and feasts of the liturgical year. It reveals that the Father’s mind (called by St. Paul a mystery) was made up from all eternity to create for himself a Family that would include and hold in his loving embrace all the nations of the world from across all ages.
This awesome and most magnanimous mystery was made unmistakably evident (was “epiphanied” so to speak) in the Son, THE missionary whom the Father sent into the world to set in motion the realization of his universal plan of salvation. This awe-inspiring plan is so gigantic, so universal, so monumental that Jesus Christ, the Son himself, from the beginning, has decreed to be “in need” of countless other missionaries to assist him with the stewardship of God’s grace (Ephesians 3:2-6).
Paul is just one of the many charged with the stewardship of God’s grace. All of us, according to the mind of the Father, should consider ourselves missionaries, i.e. sent to carry out the stewardship of God’s grace.
On the solemnity of the Epiphany, we want to pause and contemplate the unfolding of the Father’s awesome plan. What we see is an endless outpouring of the inexhaustible riches of God’s grace across the millennia: from his wide-open heart down to each member of the Body (God’s Family, the Church) through the Son.
In describing it, St. Paul nudges us gently, yet forcefully, to overcome our innate sense of superiority and be active in preaching the Gospel so that all those to whom we are sent may realize that they, too, are meant to be coheirs and sharers in the same promise in Christ Jesus.
Those who are reached by this incredible good news, be it through the rising of Jesus’ star (Matthew 2: 1-12) or be it through one of God’s countless means of reaching even the most hardened hearts or be it through humble stewardship, should respond by paying homage to the New King.
Clearly, the plan starts with the Father down vertically to us through the flesh of his Divine Son, the New King.
Now, even if we are seasoned believers it would be very spiritually healthy for us to enumerate some of the Gifts that are poured upon us through the Son. The first Gift is the Holy Spirit in whom we become adopted children of God, members of his divine Family, coheirs of all divine riches. With the Holy Spirit we also receive the flow of grace through the Sacraments that attend to each of our spiritual needs in the various seasons of life. Through the Holy Spirit we also receive the Holy Scriptures: the words of life and the correct interpretation of those words; we receive healing assurance of forgiveness, heavenly favors, consolations, light, guidance, inspirations, fortitude, resolve, will-power and much needed comfort.
Our homage should be expressed with a generous, total and uninterrupted surrender of our self to the will of the Father. This realization, if genuine and intense, would trigger a “frenzy” of gift exchange also horizontally to complete the symbol of the cross which is the icon and the indelible sign of the “cost” of the mystery of salvation to the Holy Trinity.
Now, some of us might be caught up in the pageantry of the three kings from the east and feel justified in not heeding the call to join St. Paul in carrying out the stewardship of God’s grace. So, lest we water down the significance of this solemnity, let me remind myself and all of you that there is an explicit, direct, repeated order to rise in splendor so as to be fully aware of this most generous outpouring of gifts (Isaiah 60: 1-6).
This realization of the frenzy of gift exchange must make us radiant and feel our heart throbbing in our chest. In other words, the contemplation of Father’s plan of salvation has to affect us in such a deep and lasting fashion that we become totally consumed by gratitude and feel irresistibly compelled to become missionaries and carry out the stewardship of God’s grace.
Furthermore, as citizens of the New Jerusalem, we should be keenly aware of what the old Jerusalem did when confronted by the good news of the New King in her midst.
When King Herod heard this, he was greatly troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
It is vital that we feel the weight of a wrong response to the Father’s most generous outpouring of gifts in the Son, the newborn King of the Jews. It is impossible to remain in the state of being “greatly troubled” before the Father’s Gift to his people, to his Family. Being greatly troubled, eventually, generates darkness, fear, murderous feelings, death and even self-destruction.
On this solemnity we gather to do Eucharist, i.e. to give thanks, to pay homage to the Father for the Gift of his Son. We do so through the Son, in the Son, with the Son. And with the Son we pay homage by surrendering our entire self to the Father unreservedly, totally, without holding back. The Father will be thoroughly pleased with our offer and he will inspire us to carry out the stewardship of God’s grace, horizontally.
For those who wonder how we can be stewards, how we can preach the Gospel with our lives, how we can be missionaries, I have a little list of ways we can use in our horizontal gift exchange. We have simply to consider our call in life and enumerate the gifts we have already received directly from the Father or through fellow coheirs of divine largesse.
According to our health condition, status, age, availability of time and so on, we can offer companionship, comfort, assurance of prayers, motivation, encouragement, sincere love, even tough love, even discipline, an example of integrity, of fortitude in adverse conditions, and so on and so forth.
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please write fast advantage and disadvantage of manure and fertillizers?
Advantages of manure -
1. Manure contains large amounts of organic matter.
2. It also supplies small quantities of nutrients to the soil.
3. It helps in increasing soil fertility.
4. It helps in enriching the soil with nutrients.
5. It helps in improving the soil structure.
Advantages of fertilisers
1. It supplies nitrogen, phosphorous and pottasium.
2. It ensures good vegetative growth, giving rise to healthy plants.
3. It gives higher yield in high-cost farming.
4. It has many short-term benefits.
5. They ensure that the food is toxic-free.
Disadvantages of manure
1. It is relatively low in nutrients than fertilisers.
2. It may be too high in weed seeds.
3. It may be too high in nitrogen.
4. It may endanger health through the spread of E. Coli.
5. There may be zinc deficiency in manure.
Disadvantages of fertilisers
1. They have to be applied carefully in terms of proper dose, time and observing pre- and post-application precautions for their complete utilisation.
2. Continuous use of fertilisers in an area can destroy soil fertility.
3. Higher cost
4. Composition is more complex and variable than manure
5. More labor is needed.
Chemical fertilizers have many advantages over the manures as given under:
1. Chemical fertilizers have smaller bulk and hence are easy to store, transport and apply.
2. Chemical fertilizers are nutrient specific. Thus for supplying a particular nutrient we can select some specific chemical fertilizer. For example, super phosphate is used in case the soil is deficient in phosphorus.
3. Chemical fertilizers are soluble in water and hence are easily absorbed by plants.
Disadvantages of Fertilizers over Manures
Chemical fertilizers when used in proper amounts promote the growth of plants and boost the crop yield. However, the excessive use of fertilizers has many serious disadvantages. Some of these are discussed below:
- The excessive use of nitrogenous fertilizers concentrates nitrates in the soil and water. Nitrate rich water is unfit for drinking, and is rather difficult to treat. When nitrate rich water is carried off into surface water bodies such as ponds, rivers and lakes it proliferates (accelerates) the growth of alga. These algae consume dissolved oxygen from water and thus deplete the water of its oxygen content leading to the death of useful aquatic life such as fish. Such an increase in the growth of algae in the lakes, ponds etc. resulting in the reduction of oxygen content in water is called EUTROPHICATION. Eutrophication thus destroys the life supporting environment in lakes and ponds.
- Excessive use of fertilizers over a long period may affect the alkalinity or acidity of the soil and may adversely affect the crop production.
advantages and disadvantages of covered manure storage
- No extra water from precipitation needs to be hauled to the field.
- A higher initial cost is incurred because of the roof or tank top, and the toxic and explosive gas hazard is increased by the cover.
- The workload is concentrated during planting and harvesting.
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Livestock operations produce more than just meat and jobs. They also produce nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium in animal manure. These nutrients can be important by-products when effectively managed and utilized for field crop production. By properly recycling these nutrients, a producer can reduce an operation's reliance on energy-intensive commercial fertilizer for crop production. Manure that is properly managed and effectively applied presents little hazard to surface water or ground water and improves soil tilth. Manure is an asset rather than a liability for Iowa.
Most Iowa farmers view manure as a waste and feel that it is something that needs to be "gotten rid of'. Instead of viewing manure as a waste, livestock producers and grain farmers need to view manure as a product that can be substituted for commercial fertilizer; an economic resource. In order to be fully utilized as a fertilizer, manure needs to be exported from those who have excess and imported by those who can properly utilize it. Unfortunately, the one-on-one technical expertise for proper manure management is significantly lacking in Iowa today. A manure brokering service can provide the one-on-one assistance to better manage manure.
Agren has recently received a grant through the Iowa Department of Economic Development to start a "Value-added" manure brokering service. This service is being designed to help those livestock producers who have excess manure transport the manure to those grain farmers who can utilize the manure as fertilizer. In most cases, livestock producers are willing to give their manure away if the grain farmer is willing to pay the cost of hauling. Agren will broker manure for those livestock producers who have excess manure (exporters) by finding grain farmers who can utilize the manure (importers). The grain farmer will be assessed hauling and application charges, plus a brokering fee.
This arrangement is a win-win situation for the importer, exporter, and the environment. The livestock producer benefits by having empty storage pits, the grain farmer benefits by receiving nutrient inputs at a lower cost, and the environment benefits from the responsible application of nutrients.
Progress to Date
In 1996, Tom Buman started a small pilot manure-brokering project while employed by USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). Due to a small operating budget and personnel shortage, only a limited program could be developed. In organizing the model for this early manure-brokering program, Buman researched the existence and success of other manure brokering programs throughout the United States. There were some limited manure brokering services developed but none were to the extent needed. The coordinators of the programs considered their manure brokering programs to be less successful than they had hoped.
In initiating the pilot manure-brokering project, Buman conducted a survey of all Carroll County landowners and farm operators to determine the level of interest in a manure-brokering program. Of the 68 people who responded to the questionnaire, 51 farmers said they would be interested in receiving, or importing manure, while 17 livestock producers said they would be willing to provide, or export manure. The names and addresses of the importers and exporters were published in a brochure, and shared with all interested parties. It was left up to the individuals to contact one another.
Although there was excellent response to the initial survey, we have no knowledge of any exchange of manure. It is our feeling that the lack of action on either the importer's or the exporter's side was due to the lack of coordination and technical assistance. Passive approaches to manure brokering have been largely unsuccessful.
To fully implement a successful manure-brokering program, we have determined that the program coordinator must take an active role in bringing together exporters and importers. In addition, the coordinator must provide the technical assistance in order to insure proper nutrient crediting and proper manure application methods.
In Iowa, during 1996, there were 24,000,000 hogs marketed (Iowa Pork Producers Association) and 2,400,000 cattle fed (Iowa Cattlemen's Association). Iowa ranks first in the nation in hog production and fifth in cattle production. (Iowa's Rank in Agriculture)
Western Iowa is known for its high concentration of cattle, hogs and cropland. Carroll County is a leader in Iowa's livestock industry, marketing the third highest number of cattle and the sixth highest number of hogs in the state. This concentration of livestock indicates that a substantial source of manure exists.
The Carroll Soil and Water Conservation District has determined that the manure produced yearly in Carroll County is estimated to be worth $5.7 million, based on fertility value. However, it has also been estimated that 75-80% of this manure is mismanaged. This represents an enormous loss of potential profits and damage to the environment. Reasons that farmers do not properly utilize manure include the following:
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- Application methods are too inaccurate to properly credit manure.
- Using manure is too much bother. Farmers do not feel it is worth their time.
- Individuals do not trust the fertility value of manure. They are concerned that their
- crop yields will suffer.
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Is Satan a religious fable, or an actual being wreaking havoc in the world?
The question was debated yesterday by four unusual suspects – one megachurch pastor, one former television preacher branded by some as a heretic, the alternative medicine guru Deepak Chopra and the founder of Hookers for Jesus – in a taped debate that will air on national television later this month.
Mark Driscoll, whose church is hosting the debate
Mark Driscoll is the preaching pastor at the Seattle-area Mars Hill Church, a congregation that welcomes 7,500 people in attendance each week and that hosted the debate.
“The existence of God has been debated many times,” Driscoll wrote in an e-mail reported by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. “But (a discussion about) the existence of Satan is far less common, which makes it a curious topic to debate.”
The Satan discussion will be the latest in a series of “Face Off” debates created by ABC TV’s late-night news program, Nightline, and will air March 26.
Driscoll is joined in arguing for the existence of Satan by Annie Lobert, a former Las Vegas escort who founded Hookers for Jesus, an organization that offers a Christian message and ministry to women in the sex trade.
Arguing against an actual evil-embodying being are Chopra and the Rev. Carlton Pearson, a formerly televised preacher on Trinity Broadcasting Network and author of “The Gospel of Inclusion,” a book outlining a doctrine of universal reconciliation to God that prompted the Joint College of African-American Pentecostal Bishops to brand him a heretic for denying traditional Christian understandings of heaven and hell.
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James Goldston, the show’s executive producer, told the Seattle Times, “We went for the most interesting voices we could find.”
Driscoll told the paper that the curious lineup – a diverse group of people outside the world of theology’s hallowed halls – helps ensure that “this is not just an academic debate but also a practical discourse.”
Goldston told the Times that a debate about Satan is not just a theological curiosity for Christians.
“There’s always an interest in these topics,” Goldston said. “Every time we’ve done one, the response has been pretty dramatic.”
In fact, Goldston said, the very first “Face Off” segment from over two years ago – a debate on the existence of God – is still abcnews.com’s most-commented-upon story.
Driscoll believes that Satan is an actual spirit at work in the world for evil, identified clearly in the Bible and evidenced in the world around us.
“In my own pastoral experience,” Driscoll wrote in an e-mail, “I have witnessed such great evil and injustice so often that no answer but the existence of a real enemy to good and life makes any sense to me.”
Pearson does not believe Satan is an actual being and told the Times that belief in an actual devil “makes us helpless, paranoid and frightened.”
“I’ve heard: ‘The devil made me do it.’ Don’t put that on the devil,” Pearson said. “You made that stupid decision yourself. Let’s talk about why you made it.”
The debate is hosted by ABC anchor and correspondent Dan Harris, who told the Post-Intelligencer he welcomed the opportunity to hold the discussion in Seattle, rather than a remote corner of the Bible Belt.
“It’s good to do it in a non-obvious place,” Harris said. “It’s going to be harder for people to write it off. It’s going to be harder to dismiss it as the usual cliché dialogue.”
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A fire that destroyed the pioneer St. Georges Museum last Saturday has been confirmed as arson, according to RCMP.
And the news has shocked local museum volunteers.
"It’s a lot harder to take when it’s intentional because you have to wonder why," said Le Musee St.-Georges secretary-treasurer Diane Dube. "The founding families are heartbroken. It’s all their hard work and collectables. The memories they still have but…
"When it’s arson it’s disbelief," Dube added. "Who would burn down a museum? If it had been neglect or we failed to do something that would be sad. (But) I think a lot of people in the community are shaking their heads."
However, Dube did acknowledge that rumours had been swirling around the community of about 500, located off Highway 11 near Pine Falls, that foul play may have been involved.
"There was no doubt in my mind it wasn’t electrical," Dube said. "Everything was fine."
In fact, Dube had been in the main museum building on the Friday prior to the fire doing inventory. Artifacts included desks from old schools, mannequins displaying dress of the day and exhibits recreating an old general school and kitchen.
Now? "There’s not very much left," she said, adding that volunteers will be holding a salvage workshop next week.
Damage estimated at $500K
In announcing the arson confirmation, RCMP did not release further details as to whether any suspects had been identified or how the fire was started.
The incident is still under investigation.
Witnesses first reported flames shooting six metres into the air shortly after 3:30 a.m. last Saturday morning. The centre building of the three museum buildings was fully engulfed when police officers arrived at the scene. The other two buildings sustained water and smoke damage.
The fire was put out by the local fire department.
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They convey more or less a real situation. It provides means for installation of overhead equipment, structures and clearances required for the same.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Fewer young Americans have Internet access than their peers in the Czech Republic, Canada, Macao and Britain, a survey of 13 countries around the world showed.
Among 12 to 14 year olds, 100 percent of British youth use the Internet, followed by Israel at 98 percent, the Czech Republic and Macao and 96 percent and Canada at 95 percent, according to the World Internet report by the Center for the Digital Future.
By contrast, only 88 percent of Americans of the same age had access, trailed by Hungary and Singapore, where more than seven in 10 young people use the Internet.
Separately, a bulletin by a software company showed mobile phone access to the Internet burgeoning outside the United States, especially in Southeast Asia.
For the report by the Center for the Digital Future, headed by Jeff Cole at the University of Southern California, researchers in 13 countries talked to more than 25,000 people in Asia, Australia, North and South America and Europe in late 2007 and early 2008.
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The Center report showed the United States trails other countries in older groups, too. U.S. Internet usage by those over 18 runs behind Sweden, New Zealand and Canada.
Recently, U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin unsuccessfully proposed a universal service fund to promote high-speed Internet access, similar to the one for telephone service.
Martin also advocates new spectrum for wireless in the United States to facilitate Internet access and held a joint news conference with Larry Page, a founder of Google Inc, to promote the idea.
The Center report, issued annually in the United States and for the first time worldwide, said mobile phones are used for Internet access "by a very small percentage of users, with the exception of the United Kingdom."
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(Editing by Andre Grenon)
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Denise Padín Collazo has been there. She is the first Latina, the first woman of color, and the first woman period to raise a family and stay in the work of community organizing at Faith in Action, an international progressive network of 3,000 congregations and 2 million members. Drawing on her own experiences of triumph and failure, and those of other Latina activists, Collazo lays out three keys to thriving in the movement for social change: leading into your vision, living into the fullest version of yourself, and loving past negatives that hold you back. She also warns about the three signs that you may be surrendering: wishing for a future reality to emerge, wondering where your limits are, and waiting for permission and answers to come from others.
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This collection of Vonnegut's letters is the autobiography he never wrote - from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: 'Don't let anybody tell you that smoking and boozing are bad for you. Here I am fifty-five years old, and I never felt better in my life'. Peppered with insights, one-liners and missives to the likes of Norman Mailer, Gunter Grass and Bernard Malamud, Vonnegut is funny, wise and modest. As he himself said: 'I am an American fad-of a slightly higher order than the hula hoop.' Like Vonnegut's books, his letters make you think, they make you outraged and they make you laugh. Written over a sixty-year period, and never published before, these letters are alive with the unique point of view that made Vonnegut one of the most original writers in American fiction.
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The Government intend to introduce new regulations on how DOTAS applies to Inheritance Tax Avoidance Schemes.
The Disclosure of Tax Avoidance Schemes (DOTAS) Regulations are an important weapon available to HMRC in its fight against tax avoidance schemes. In essence, if a scheme satisfies certain conditions, any person involved in the promotion of the scheme must disclose details of the scheme to HMRC. If they do not comply with this requirement, they risk suffering substantial penalties.
Revised DOTAS Regulations have been published in relation to schemes established to avoid inheritance tax. These Regulations are set out in Statutory Instrument 2017 No. 1172 entitled ‘The Inheritance Tax Avoidance Schemes (Prescribed Descriptions of Arrangements) Regulations 2017’. The rules come into force on 1 April 2018.
Under the revised rules, a scheme will be notifiable for IHT purposes if it falls within the description in Regulation 4. An arrangement will be covered by Regulation 4 ‘if it would be reasonable to expect an informed observer (having studied the arrangements and having regard to all relevant circumstances) to conclude that conditions 1 and 2 are met’.
In this respect:
Condition 1 – is that the main purpose, or one of the main purposes, of the arrangement is to enable a person to obtain one or more of the following IHT advantages:
- the avoidance or reduction of an entry charge on a relevant property trust
- the avoidance or a reduction in specified IHT charges under certain sections of the IHT Act 1984 (mainly relating to relevant property trusts)
- the avoidance or a reduction in an IHT charge under the gift with reservation rules (in cases where the POAT charge does not apply)
- a reduction in a person’s taxable estate with no corresponding lifetime transfer.
Condition 2 – is that the arrangements involve one or more contrived or abnormal steps without which the tax advantage could not be obtained.
It is important to note that certain arrangements are excepted from the new provisions. Most notably if they:
- implement a proposal which has been implemented by related arrangements; and
- are substantially the same as the related arrangements
In this requirement “related arrangements” are defined as arrangements which
- were entered into before 1 April 2018; and
- at the time they were entered into, accorded with established practice of which HMRC had indicated their acceptance.
These new Regulations adopt a much broader approach to what was previously proposed. In particular, there is now no specific exclusion from the DOTAS Regulations for loan trusts, discounted gift trusts and reversionary interest trusts.
However it is probably reasonable to take the view that all of these 3 types of scheme are examples of arrangements that were generally acceptable before 1 April 2018 and would have been acceptable under established HMRC practice.
This would be on the basis that HMRC are aware of these arrangements and, indeed, in the case of discounted gift trusts, have issued tables of discounted values.
It is hoped that the precise position will be clarified with HMRC in the near future.
GUIDANCE UPDATED – PENALTIES FOR ENABLERS OF DEFEATED AVOIDANCE SCHEMES
HMRC has updated its guidance for penalties for enablers of tax avoidance schemes.
Following our earlier bulletin, HMRC has updated its guidance for penalties for enablers of tax avoidance.
The guidance supports new legislation introduced in Clause 65 and Schedule 16 of Finance (No 2) Act 2017.
The legislation takes effect from 16 November 2017 which is the date of Royal Assent to the Finance (No.2) Act 2017. The legislation only applies where there are abusive tax arrangements that have been defeated and both of the following apply:
- the tax arrangements are entered into on or after 16 November 2017
- the enabling action is taken on or after 16 November 2017
We have covered this subject in detail in various bulletins on Techlink, however in summary:
- The term “enabler” is intended to include anyone in the supply chain who benefits from an end user implementing tax avoidance arrangements which are later defeated.
- The focus will therefore be on those who benefit financially from enabling others to implement tax avoidance arrangements which fail.
- The legislation gives HMRC the power to tackle all aspects of the marketed avoidance supply chains, complementing the suite of anti-avoidance measures already in place. Activities which constitute enabling will include designing, marketing or facilitating the use of abusive tax arrangements that are defeated. .
- There will be safeguards for the vast majority of tax professionals who already adhere to professional standards, such as the Professional Conduct in Relation to Taxation and the Code of Practice on Taxation for Banks.
- A penalty only arises where a taxpayer has entered into abusive tax arrangements and those arrangements are subsequently defeated. The penalty will be linked to the enabler’s fees; HMRC will be able to estimate this if enablers seek to disguise their fee levels.
TRUSTS, SHAMS AND ATTEMPTS TO AVOID CREDITORS
The recent decision in JSC Mezhdunarodniy Promyshlenniy Bank and another v Pugachev and others EWHC 2426 (Ch) shows willingness of the Courts to strike down sham trusts.
It is well known that for a trust to be legally effective, the settlor must divest himself of the beneficial ownership of the trust property. This is especially important where the settlor is one of the trust beneficiaries or has reserved extensive powers for himself. If the trustees do not assume proper control over the trust property and simply follow the settlor’s instructions, the chances are the trust will be declared to be a sham or a mere illusion (there is only a subtle difference in law between the two). There have been a number of cases where a trust has been declared to be a sham and therefore not valid. For more information on shams, please see here. As for trying to avoid creditors, even if a trust is not a sham, there are provisions in the Insolvency Act 1986 which allow a trust to be set aside if created with the intention to defraud creditors (regardless of when it was set up).
The Pugachev decision is interesting as it comes soon after the Panama Papers and Paradise Papers and the considerable publicity given recently to tax avoidance involving hiding assets offshore. It is also interesting because the claimants based their case on three separate arguments so as to cover all angles. In the event they won on all three counts.
The facts of the case were as follows:
Mr Sergei Pugachev, a Russian national, founded Mezhprom Bank in Russia in 1992. Following the 2008 financial crisis the bank suffered losses and was ultimately declared insolvent in 2010. The Russian state agency, Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA), was appointed as liquidator.
Between 2011 and 2013, Mr Pugachev settled over US $95 million of his assets in five New Zealand discretionary trusts.
Although the majority of the assets had notionally been settled on trust by Mr Pugachev’s son, Viktor, the assets originated from Mr Pugachev (indeed the judge decided that Mr Pugachev should be treated as the settlor of the trusts as Viktor was in effect acting as his nominee).
The trusts held assets largely for the benefit of Mr Pugachev, his partner and their minor children.
The trusts were governed by New Zealand law and were set up with the assistance of a New Zealand solicitor. The solicitor and his wife were directors of the companies that acted as trustees.
There was in fact a case brought in the New Zealand Court where the original trustees had been removed with the agreement of the Court. Although the New Zealand court suggested that it considered the trusts to be neither illusory nor shams, this was apparently based on deficient and incorrect information given to the New Zealand Court.
Mr Pugachev was the protector of each of the trusts, with Viktor named as successor protector. The trust deeds provided that Mr Pugachev’s protectorship would automatically terminate in circumstances where he was “under a disability”, a term which included when Mr Pugachev was subject to the claims of creditors. The protector’s powers were unusually extensive and included powers to:
- veto the distribution of income or capital from the trusts;
- veto the investment of the trust funds;
- veto the removal of beneficiaries;
- veto any variation to the trust deeds;
- veto the release or revocation of any power granted to the trustees;
- veto the early termination of the trust period;
- appoint and remove trustees, with or without cause;
- add further beneficiaries; and
- veto an amendment to the trusts by the trustees.
Back in Russia the DIA alleged that Mr Pugachev had misappropriated Mezhprom Bank assets prior to the liquidation and in 2015 the Russian Court gave judgment against Mr Pugachev in the sum of approximately US $1 billion. Mr Pugachev fled Russia and moved to England. (Hence the case heard in the English Court).
The DIA began enforcement proceedings in England and obtained a GBP £1.1 billion worldwide freezing order against Mr Pugachev’s assets. He was also sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for contempt of court which he has not served as he fled to France.
Mezhprom Bank and the DIA (the Claimants), sought to “bust the trusts” and enforce the judgement against the assets of the trusts on three separate bases:
- The trusts were illusory and of no substance because the trust deeds, properly construed, did not divest Mr Pugachev of his beneficial ownership in the trust property;
- Alternatively, the trusts were shams and of no effect because the common intention was that the assets would continue to belong to Mr Pugachev; and
- In the alternative to the first two claims, if the trusts were effective and divested Mr Pugachev of ownership of assets, they should be set aside under section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986 because the intention was to prejudice the interests of Mr Pugachev’s creditors.
As indicated above the High Court agreed with all three arguments.
Re: Illusory Trusts
The Court concluded that these were bare “illusory” trusts. Mr Pugachev was the settlor, discretionary beneficiary and protector of the trusts. He retained extensive control because he could dismiss the trustees and veto how they exercised their powers, and consequently retained beneficial ownership of the assets he put into the trust.
The Court decided that it was a sophisticated and subtle form of sham. The intention was for Mr Pugachev to retain ultimate control, but to hide this control from third parties by giving a false impression that he had only limited powers as protector. The second protector, Victor, acted on his father’s instructions and whilst the other beneficiaries (his children) would benefit from the trust, they only did so through the decisions of Mr Pugachev. In addition, the New Zealand solicitor who acted as director of each of the trustee companies had no independent will to that of Mr Pugachev.
Re: Section 423
The Court found that if the trust deeds did divest Mr Pugachev of his beneficial interests in the assets, then it was with the purpose of hiding his control of the assets in the trusts from his creditors and so should be set aside.
Given especially the extensive powers that Mr Pugachev reserved for himself it is not really surprising that the Court found against him, especially given the specific facts and circumstances, which are probably not that common. However there are some important lessons here for all potential settlors, namely that the retention of excessive control over a trust arrangement may lead to successful claims by third parties that the settlor has never successfully divested himself of the beneficial ownership of the relevant assets.
TPR AUTOMATIC ENROLMENT PROSECUTION
The Pensions Regulator is to prosecute a Birmingham based company for falsely claiming they had met their AE duties.
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) is to prosecute a healthcare company and its managing director for trying to avoid providing their staff with a workplace pension.
Birmingham-based Crest Healthcare and managing director Sheila Aluko are accused of wilfully failing to comply with their automatic enrolment duties under section 45 of the Pensions Act 2008.
Both defendants are also accused of falsely claiming that they had enrolled 25 staff into a workplace pension scheme. Knowingly providing false information to TPR is an offence under section 80 of the Pensions Act 2004.
Crest Healthcare and Sheila Aluko have been summoned to appear at Brighton Magistrates’ Court on 22 December 2017.
They will each face two charges of wilfully failing to comply with their automatic enrolment duties and one charge of knowingly or recklessly providing false or misleading information to TPR. Both charges can be tried in a Crown Court or in a magistrates’ court. In a Crown Court the maximum sentence for each is two years’ imprisonment. In a magistrates’ court, the maximum sentence for each is an unlimited fine.
This is another example of the TPR taking their statutory objectives very seriously. It will be interesting to see any outcomes of the round-the-country AE spot checks.
SCOTTISH RATE OF INCOME TAX – PENSION SCHEMES NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2017
HMRC have issued a newsletter providing an update on work done and information to help prepare for April 2018
HMRC have published another newsletter following their last update in May 2017. This newsletter gives an update on the work they and undertaken in the interim and information to help scheme administrators prepare for April 2018.
The newsletter includes details on the following:
- Scottish Budget
- Notification of residency status report
- Residency status look up service
- How to apply relief at source rate for the whole tax year
- How to submit your annual return of individual information to HMRC
- Relief at source draft regulations
The Government and HMRC will be working closely with the Scottish Government and with pension providers on the implications of that change for pension tax relief, and to clarify how the mechanisms for providing relief will operate in respect of Scottish pension savers.
Notification of residency status report
HMRC aim to tell administrators the residency tax status of scheme members for the first time in January 2018, so that they can apply the correct rate of relief at source to your scheme members in the tax year 2018 to 2019. This information will then be sent each January going forward.
This information will be sent via the secure data exchange service (SDES).
The report will tell administrators the residency tax status of each of the scheme members on the notification of residency status report by adding an additional field to the original information submitted showing:
- an S for Scottish tax status
- a U for unmatched individuals
- a blank field for rest of the UK
In addition they will add a field including the National Insurance number submitted for an individual if it is incorrect and provide the correct one.
Residency status look up service
The residency status look up service is still being developed and will be announced in pension scheme newsletters when available. This newsletter gives more details on how the look up works and what information will be returned.
How to apply relief at source rate for the whole tax year
Administrators must apply the same tax rate for a member for the whole of a tax year, even if their status has changed since they received the notification of residency status report or their last residency status was looked up.
If a new member joins the scheme and the administrator is unable to look up their status before they apply tax relief at source to the first contribution, they must default the member’s residency status to rest of UK and maintain this rate for the whole tax year.
If no notification of residency is received and they didn’t look up the residency status of the member, they administrator must also default their residency status to rest of UK.
Shortfalls or excess payments of relief at source at the end of the tax year will be collected or repaid directly to the member.
How to submit your annual return of individual information to HMRC
Details of how to submit the annual return via the SDES are included in the newsletter.
Relief at source draft regulations
The Registered Pension Schemes (Relief at Source)(Amendment) Regulations 2018 were issued for a short consultation.
REVENUE SCOTLAND CONCEDES THAT IN-SPECIE PENSION TRANSFERS NOT SUBJECT TO SUBJECT TO LBTT
Revenue Scotland had conceded, after representation, that in-specie transfers of Scottish properties will not be subject to the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax as previously announced.
In a Technical Bulletin issued by Revenue Scotland confirms that in-specie transfers of Scottish Properties between pension schemes will not be subject to the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax.
In its October 2016 LBTT Bulletin Revenue Scotland published a brief statement to clarify its view of the treatment for LBTT purposes of in-specie transfers between pension funds.
The October bulletin indicated that, in-specie transfers between pension schemes were subject to the charge because such a transfer is a land transaction and the assumption of liability by the receiving pension fund is debt as consideration. However, following further representations on the matter, Revenue Scotland has now concluded that while such transfers are still considered to be land transactions, debt in the form of the liability assumed to pay benefits to pension scheme beneficiaries will not generally be considered to be given as chargeable consideration in relation to such transactions. However, any consideration given in the form of money or money’s worth for the transfer of the properties will be chargeable to LBTT. Revenue Scotland has also confirmed that if LBTT has been paid they will consider a repayment and applications should be made by amending their original submission.
This is good news for those that may want to move pension providers but currently hold commercial property in their portfolio. This brings the treatment of these types of transfers back in line with HM Revenue and Customs so as not to disadvantage those who hold Scottish properties in their pension schemes.
In-specie transfers should not be confused with in-specie contributions where Stamp Duty Land Tax (England) and Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (Scotland) would apply.
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How to let your home rather than sell: What accidental landlords must know about tax, mortgages, insurance - and earning income
- To let a property without falling foul of your mortgage lender you need either the lender's 'consent to let' or a specialist buy-to-let mortgage
- Most private landlords let property on an assured shorthold tenancy agreement
- Landlords are governed by more than 100 pieces of legislation
Contrary to popular belief, not every landlord is in the property business by choice.
People's circumstances often change, resulting in the need to move house but not sell up.
Some people temporarily move abroad for work, while others let a property when they move in with a partner or when elderly parents move into long-term care.
A slow property market, combined with Brexit uncertainty, means many people are now more likely to hang on to homes while they wait for the house price dust to settle even if they need to rent elsewhere.
We give the legal, financial and practical low-down for these 'accidental landlords' on letting out their property.
Accidental landlords are not allowed to rent out their home and keep the residential mortgage
1. MORTGAGES AND TAX
Accidental landlords are not allowed to simply rent out their property and keep their residential mortgage.
To let a property without falling foul of your mortgage lender you need either the lender's 'consent to let' or a specialist buy-to-let mortgage.
Mark Harris, chief executive of mortgage broker SPF Private Clients, says: 'Consent-to-let tends to be on a short-term basis. If your lender agrees then they may do nothing, charge a one-off fee or load the interest rate during this period.
'Quite often the consent-to-let will be for a finite period – typically six or 12 months. If the property is to be let out on a long-term basis then landlords need a buy-to-let mortgage.'
Buy-to-let lenders typically require the rent to cover 125 per cent of the mortgage repayments; so if your mortgage is £1,000 a month, you would need a rental income of at least £1,250 a month. Most lenders demand a deposit, or equity, of at least 25 per cent of the property value.
There are also higher mortgage arrangement fees – often a percentage of the loan amount, rather than a fixed sum.
The way landlords are taxed began to change in April 2017. Under Section 24 of the Finance Act, there is a gradual tapering down in the tax relief that allows landlords to offset the cost of mortgage interest against their rental income.
Last April saw this tax relief reduce to 50 per cent. It will drop again – to 25 per cent – in April 2019, and then to zero per cent in April 2020 when it will be replaced by a tax credit worth 20 per cent of mortgage interest.
I'm on a career break so it's nice to have regular income
Claire Loader became an accidental landlord after meeting her now husband Dave, 47, and moving into his house.
She let out her one-bedroom house in Taunton, Somerset, which she had bought two years earlier in 2009 when she was a mature student. She is now a stay-at-home parent to Emma, 4, and Jack, 2.
Moving on: Claire Loader let her house after moving in with her partner
Claire, 36, says: 'I initially let my property to a friend but it was not well looked after and it was mouldy by the time she moved out. I moved back into the house in 2012 for six months and when I moved out again I decided to use a letting agent to find and manage tenants. There have been about five tenants since then – found by the letting agent.'
She adds: 'I'm having a career break at the moment and it's nice to have a regular income from the property.
'The mortgage is interest-only and there is quite a bit of equity in the property – I bought it for £70,000 and it is now worth about £125,000 – so I am not too worried about paying off the capital.'
Given her past experience, Claire would warn other landlords against letting to friends as it can make it tricky to raise concerns.
She adds: 'It is easier to use a third party to deal with any issues that come up. We pay the agent about £50 a month and they have always found a new tenant when one moves out. Make sure you have a good contract and that you protect the deposit. You also need to have the right insurance.'
2. FINDING A TENANT
Attracting the right tenant can mean the difference between a stress-free experience and a constant headache. The ideal tenant will pay the rent on time each month, abide by the terms of the tenancy agreement, and co-operate if the property needs repairs.
Landlords should thoroughly check out potential tenants before committing to a tenancy. This means carrying out a credit check, seeing payslips or bank statements to assess affordability, and getting references from previous landlords.
The Immigration Act 2014 puts the onus on landlords to check a tenant has the legal 'right to rent' in England. Landlords can be fined up to £3,000, or even be sent to prison for up to five years, if they let a property to illegal immigrants.
Landlords in England must ask to see a tenant's original documents. This might be a residence permit, a UK immigration status document or an endorsed passport.
These rules do not apply in Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland.
3. LETTING AGENTS
Many landlords hire a letting agent to either find a tenant or manage the whole tenancy.
Using a third party means you will not be bothered by maintenance queries or late rent payments, but handing over the reins comes at a cost.
Agents typically charge 10 to 15 per cent of the rent to fully manage a property, but many charge extra fees for signing or renewing contracts, obtaining references, making credit checks, and dealing with inventories.
Sam Mitchell, chief executive of online estate agent HouseSimple, says: 'Many landlords use a letting agent to find tenants and are then happy to manage the property themselves to save on management fees which can be quite substantial. But the advantage of handing over the management of the property to an agent is that you will not have tenants calling you at all times of the day and night when something goes wrong.'
4. TENANCY CONTRACTS
Most private landlords let property on an assured shorthold tenancy agreement. Such agreements normally have a fixed term of six or 12 months then continue on a rolling monthly basis or are renewed for another fixed term.
Danielle Clements, property litigation specialist at Gorvins Solicitors, says: 'An assured shorthold tenancy gives tenants certain stipulations they need to abide by and also certain rights to protect them, such as not being evicted without notice.
'The agreement means the tenant has a legal interest in the property and that the landlord has given up certain powers on their property. For example, not being able to turn up unannounced and demand to enter the property. This has to be agreed with the tenant.'
Landlords could be forced to offer tenants three-year tenancies if new Government proposals become law.
Plans under consultation mean landlords would be tied-in for three years but tenants would be able to leave before the end of the minimum term.
The aim is to give renters more security. Landlords are generally opposed to the plans, which will make mortgage lenders wary about approving loans.
Tenants: As a landlord, you need to do a credit check to assess they can afford the property
5. EVICTING A TENANT
Assuming you have an assured shorthold tenancy in place, landlords must follow procedures set out in the Housing Act 1988 to evict a tenant. You can issue a section 21 notice if you want the property back after a fixed term ends, or a section 8 notice if the tenant has broken the terms of the tenancy.
In either case, if the tenant does not leave when requested, you will need a possession order from a court to regain possession of the property.
Saida Bello, housing lawyer at national firm Setfords Solicitors, says: 'There are strict procedural rules to follow when seeking to evict a tenant. The court takes a dim view of any action that could be considered as harassment and it is a criminal offence to evict a tenant without the right court order.'
6. DEPOSIT PROTECTION
Most landlords ask tenants for a deposit equal to four to six weeks' rent to cover damage to the property or unpaid rent.
The deposit must be protected in one of three Government-approved deposit protection schemes: the Deposit Protection Service, MyDeposits or the Tenancy Deposit Scheme. These schemes all run dispute resolution services which can step in if the landlord and tenant cannot agree on deductions from the deposit at the end of a tenancy.
Landlords who fail to protect a deposit risk having to pay their tenants compensation of up to three times the deposit amount, and will not be able to evict them using a section 21 notice.
7. VITAL PAPERWORK
Landlords are governed by more than 100 pieces of legislation, many of which relate to paperwork that must be in place at the beginning of a tenancy. Landlords need to give tenants the following documents:
- A copy of the government's 'How to rent' guide.
- A copy of the deposit protection certificate.
- An energy performance certificate.
- A gas safety certificate.
Landlords must also arrange for a smoke alarm to be fitted on every storey of the property, and a carbon monoxide detector to be installed in any room where solid fuel is used.
In England, most landlords who let a house in multiple occupation – often known as an HMO – will need a licence from their local authority. About 70 councils in England also run additional or selective licensing schemes.
Landlords can check with their local council as to whether they need a licence or check with the National Landlords Association. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland all have compulsory landlord registration schemes in place.
Normal residential home insurance will not be valid once a property is let out.
Owners need specialist landlord insurance to cover the building and any contents they own, such as furniture.
There are various extras that can be added to the policy including liability cover if a tenant is injured in the property, legal cover to recoup unpaid rent, and loss of income in the event the property is left uninhabitable, such as following a flood or fire.
Richard Truman, head of operations at Simple Landlords Insurance, says: 'Peace of mind does not have to cost the earth.
When making the purchase look for quality cover, good reviews, and clarity on what is covered and what is not.
'Do not dismiss the extras such as legal cover out of hand – tailor the policy to your property, and check prices before you auto-renew next time around.'
Master the legal minefield - or risk thousands of pounds in fines
Changes: MP Karen Buck's bill will give tenants new rights
Landlords need to keep up with constantly changing rules and regulations.
For example, since April 1, newly let properties have needed a minimum energy performance rating of E and this will apply to all rental properties from April 2020. Landlords can be fined up to £4,000 if their property does not meet the required standards.
The Deregulation Act 2015 comes into force for all tenancies on October 1 (it has been in effect for new tenancies since October 2015). The act changes when and how eviction notices can be issued.
Meanwhile the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Bill is working its way through Parliament.
Put forward by Labour MP Karen Buck, the bill will give tenants the right to sue landlords who let properties in a poor state of repair.
Another bill likely to become law within the next year is the Tenant Fees Bill. This will stop letting agents charging tenants fees for references, credit checks and for setting up a tenancy. It will also cap deposits at six weeks' rent.
All of this will mean a huge shortfall for agents who are likely to start charging landlords higher fees.
Landlords should consider joining a professional body such as the National Landlords Association to keep up-to-date on legislation.
The association's director Chris Norris says: 'A quick search on any landlord or property forums will bring up horror stories from accidental landlords who did not prepare properly before letting out their property.
'Membership is useful particularly if you are not sure about your legal responsibilities.
'It will provide all the support required to deal with every aspect of renting your property.'
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Article No. 438
6 June 2021
Marina ( left ) with some of the team in Bergamo
Another ERKNet webinar was presented on June 1st by Dr Marina Noris.
Marina began her talk “atypical Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome” with an explanation of its thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) links and its rare prevalence among all TMAs. She stated that sometimes there may be no renal involvement!
An explanation of Complement’s role and the key part played by C3 and its impact on the damaging parts and controllers of this part of the immune system ,and other things, like antibodies,that hamper controllers’ effectiveness. Also the loss of function and gain of function that can take place in leading to disease.
The genetic findings that explain a predisposition to aHUS have been the result of European research over 20 years or more.
These findings may only explain 60% of aHUS incidence, however. Other important research has shown that patients may be at more risks because they have multiple rare genetic mutations or a more common risk modifying genetic difference ( haplotype/ polymorphism ) .
A simple step time line of the disease process was presented from illness onset through to eculizumab treatment prescription and possible withdrawal and relapse. This led to illustrating a risk classification( high to low) of genetic mutations, or not having any, including in a transplant scenario.
Marina challenged the audience to decide on a diagnosis of a patient , giving clinical blood results evidence. She moved on to other blood markers of complement activation, particularly HMEC1.
This test, although it has been around for a while, seems to gets very little attention because it currently can only be performed in three laboratories (avoidance of contamination and specialist equipment and skills are paramount). It has been tested in vitro for its specificity and sensitivity using health volunteers and aHUS patient in an active or remissive state. It can be used to test that complement has been fully blocked by the treatment therapy, by checking for C5b9 deposition on the endothelial cells. It may have predictive uses for those in remission.
Marina called it “A Disease a Dish” in the summing up of her talk.
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Embaúba was founded by the landlord Balbino Rodrigues Coelho. The village of Coelho was quickly renamed Albuquerque, for Bento Vieira Albuquerque, Mayor of Jaboticabal in 1912. The district of Albuquerque was established by Decree-Law No. 6,607 of 16 April 1934, as part of the municipality of Jaboticabal. Being located quite far from the seat of the municipality, the district was transferred to Pirangi by Decree-Law no. 6,997 of 7 March 1935. For the same reason, Albuquerque was transferred to Cajobi by Decree-Law No. 9,775 of 30 November 1938. The district was renamed Embaúba by Decree-Law no. 14,338 of 30 November 1944. "Embaúba" is the name given in Brazil to different trees belonging to genus Cecropia. The municipality of Embaúba was established by State Law No. 6,645 of 9 January 1990.
The flag of Embaúba is white with the municipal coat of arms.
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Only eight deep-injection wells in Pennsylvania are permitted to take oil and gas waste–and only five of those are active. Another two are under review after local residents and officials recently filed charges.
At least two other permits are are pending, including one in DuBois, Clearfield County.
The injection well permits allow operators to dispose of brine, drilling wastewater, and drilling mud.
Click on any marker below to see the exact location of Pennsylvania’s deep injection wells, the operator, status and monthly injection allowance.
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Shield Row railway station was crowded with excited people as the 6.13pm train from Newcastle steamed in on time and a great cheer went up as a soldier wearing khaki uniform and cap and carrying a rifle and steel helmet stepped down on to the platform to be met by his father, three of his young children and local dignitaries. Then outside to waiting cars and a procession led by South Moor Colliery Band, "D" Company of the 1st Battalion Durham County Volunteers from Stanley and Church Lads Brigade Cadets from Beamish. As the band struck up "See the Conquering Hero Comes", the cars moved off through crowded streets hung with flags and bunting towards Stanley Town Hall for speeches and yet more cheering. Then on to South Moor, passed "Welcome Home" banners, until finally, about 7.45pm, the procession stopped at Craghead football ground. There, after more speeches, the band played "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" and the children of Craghead and Bloemfontein Council Schools sang "Rule Britannia". Craghead had never seen anything like it. It was Thursday 12th July 1917 and Private Michael Heaviside was home not simply on leave but to be presented with the Victoria Cross for saving a man's life.
Michael Wilson Heaviside, however, was not a native of Craghead. He was born on 28th October 1880 at Station Lane, Giles gate in Durham City. His father, John Wilson Heaviside was, at that time, a grocer. When Michael was still a boy, the family moved to Kimblesworth, where his father worked as head keeper and Michael went to the local Council school. Later, the family moved to Sacriston, when his father transferred to the local pit. Following the death of his mother, Annie, Michael enlisted - as 11796 Private Heaviside - in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He served as a stretcher bearer in South Africa during the Boer War and was awarded the Queen's and King's South African Medals, before he was invalided home suffering from enteric fever.
After he left the Regular Army, he transferred to the Army Reserve and began work underground at Burnhope Colliery. He met his future wife, Elizabeth, whilst living in Burnhope and they married at Lanchester. About 1913, he took work as a hewer at Oswald pit and the family moved to Craghead, near Stanley.
On 7th September 1914, with the First World War just a month old, 4/9720 Private Michael Heaviside re-enlisted, just one amongst the thousands of miners from County Durham who answered Kitchener's call. After training, he crossed to France in June 1915 and there settled into the deadly routine of trench warfare on the Western Front.
The Battle of Arras began on Easter Monday, 9th April 1917, when the British Army attacked the complex system of trenches and barbed wire called the Hindenburg Line. That afternoon, as part of the 64th Brigade of the 21st Division, the 15th (Service) Battalion DLI advanced across a thousand yards of open ground, through two belts of wire and into the German front line trench. The second line, however, was strongly defended with uncut barbed wire and machine guns, and the battalion failed to advance any further, but was able to prevent the Germans from re-taking their old front line trench. In just two days, 15 DLI suffered over two hundred men killed or wounded before the battalion was taken out of the line to rest.
15 DLI returned to the battle on 3rd May, when the battalion was ordered to attack down the Hindenburg Line near Fontaine les Croisilles. Here, both British and German troops held the same trench lines and only barricades kept the two forces apart. At 4 o'clock in the morning, after a fierce bombardment of the German barricades, bombers from 15 DLI stormed the German positions. Once again, however, thick belts of barbed wire and machine guns held up the attackers. A British tank arrived about Sam and began to fire down the German held trench, but it was soon crippled by mortar fire. For the rest of the morning, fierce fighting raged around the barricades. In this unsuccessful action, the battalion suffered over one hundred casualties, including thirty men missing in the confusion. That afternoon, 15 DLI was relieved and moved back to rest.
On the evening of 5th May, the battalion returned to their barricades on the Hindenburg Line. Only one hundred yards separated the British and German positions but the terrible fighting of the preceding days had died down. Snipers and machine gunners were, however, still active and any movement attracted deadly fire. Then about 2 o'clock the next afternoon, 6th May 1917, a sentry noticed movement in a shell hole about forty yards from the German barricade. A wounded British soldier was desperately waving an empty water bottle. Any attempt to help this soldier in daylight would result in almost certain death for the rescuers. Michael Heaviside, however, said that he was going to try. Grabbing water and a first aid bag, this thirty-six year old stretcher bearer scrambled over the barricade and out into no-man's-land.
Immediately, he came under heavy rifle and machine gun fire from the German positions and was forced to throw himself to the ground. He then began to crawl sixty yards across the broken ground from shell hole to shell hole to where the wounded soldier was sheltering.
One eye witness later wrote -
"We could see bullets striking the ground right around the spot over which Heaviside was crawling. Every minute we expected to be his last but the brave chap went on."
As he crawled closer to the German lines, the firing increased. -
"The enemy seemed to be more determined to hit him, for the bullets were spluttering about more viciously than ever."
When Private Heaviside reached the soldier, he found the man nearly demented with thirst for he had been lying badly wounded in the shell hole for four days and three nights, without any food or water. Michael Heaviside gave the soldier water, dressed his wounds and then promised that he would return with help.
That night, Michael Heaviside led two other stretcher bearers out across no-man's-land to the wounded soldier and carried him back to safety. Without doubt, he had saved this man's life.
The London Gazette announced the award of the Victoria Cross to Private Michael Heaviside on 8th June 1917 for his "most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty." [Citation] He was the third soldier of The Durham Light Infantry to gain this award during the First World War.
The next day, a local reporter went to see Elizabeth Heaviside. He found her sitting on the doorstep of her home in Front Street, Craghead, nursing her youngest child and reading about her husband's bravery. The whole village was talking about "Mick's success."
Following the memorable "Welcome Home" parade, Michael Heaviside was presented, during another enthusiastic public meeting at Craghead football field, with a gold watch and chain and War Bonds. After the presentation, he told the crowd that he had only done his duty and that he was proud to have brought honour to Durham and to Craghead, in particular. A few days later, on 21st July 1917, Private Michael Heaviside travelled by train to London and, in the forecourt of Buckingham Palace, was presented with his Victoria Cross by King George V.
After the war, Michael Heaviside VC returned to work as a miner at Craghead. On 26th April 1939, he died at his home at Bloemfontein Terrace, aged just 58 years, his health damaged by his years underground and his time on the Western Front.
Hundreds of mourners, many wearing their Great War medals, followed Michael Heaviside's coffin to St Thomas's Church, Craghead, as the local Colliery Band played the "Dead March in Saul." At the graveside, a firing party from the 8th Battalion DLI fired three volleys of shots, followed by the "Last Post" played by the battalion's buglers, then the mourners filed past, each dropping Flander's poppies into the open grave.
On 12th July 1957, forty years after his "Welcome Home" parade through the streets of Stanley and Craghead, Michael Heaviside's Victoria Cross and other medals were presented by his family to The Durham Light Infantry's Regimental Museum. This presentation took place during a parade at Brancepeth Castle, when, watched by his mother and over thirty sons, daughters, grandchildren and other relatives of Michael Heaviside VC, Company Sergeant Major Norman Heaviside proudly handed over his father's medals. Today these medals may be seen at the DLI Museum in Durham.
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In our latest campaign Celebrities demand respect with provocative statements! In order to commemorate the UN International day against racism Gesicht Zeigen! launched this campaign in march 2013. German celebrities campaigned for more respect on posters, everybody has a slogan that is at first a contradiction. For example actress Gesine Cukrowski has the headline I am Turkish, beneath this unexpected declaration there is the explanation written in smaller type „if you have something against turks“.
Eight other prominent faces can be seen making similar statements: “I’m black….”, “I’m gay…..”, “I’m jewish….”, “I’m muslim…..” and “I’m Migrant….” picking up current societal issues. The celebrities could be seen on numerous posters throughout Berlin, also 28.000 postcards were distributed. The pictures were also shown on big TV screens and at train stations.
Furthermore Gesicht Zeigen! has developed a lot of materials for new, inspiring and modern work to all of our subjects. We offer posters showing forbidden right symbols and codes, we developed one interactive poster for practical work with students. We have a lot of booklets to many themes like human rights, anti-Semitism, Religion and so on.And last but not least, we have developed several games – they are very colorful and beautiful designed. So everybody wants to work with them!! | <urn:uuid:8aaefd97-4082-42eb-b670-75718933a389> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gesichtzeigen.de/english/campaign-and-materials/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00273.warc.gz | en | 0.942172 | 301 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Why Am I Always Hot During Pregnancy?
Feeling overheated? Chalk it up to increased blood volume. During pregnancy, the amount of blood in your body increases by as much as 50 percent. To better handle all that extra blood, your blood vessels dilate slightly, allowing the blood to come of the surface, which can make you feel hot.
The good news? Your blood volume—and internal thermostat—will return to normal after delivery. Until then, you’ll have to find ways to deal with feeling hot. Consider dressing in light layers so it’s easy to add or remove clothing quickly as needed. You should also drink plenty of water. Staying well hydrated will prevent dehydration and make you feel more comfortable, especially when it’s hot outside. Consider investing in a couple fans—we recommend having one on your desk at work and one in your bedroom.
Expert source: Kelly Kasper, MD, OB/GYN and associate clinical professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine
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Pacific Horses South mural on Granville Street December 7, 2018
The Amazing Street Art of Vancouver
Have you seen the amazing example of Granville Street art called Pacific Horses? It captures the history of the building and the area. It is also capturing the attention of the people in the area. Do not be afraid to see works of art all around you.
The work of Ola Volo
The mural is at the side of the William-Sonoma (2903 Granville Street) and Stable House Bistro (1520 West 13th Avenue). The 120-foot mural was created by renown muralist Ola Volo. It pays respect to some unique aspects and the history of the South Granville neighbourhood.
Olga explains where her inspiration for the artwork came from. And her passion for the area.
“As a visual storyteller, my inspiration lies with the stories that once were part of this South Granville street building. In the early 1900s, a building at Granville and 13th Avenue was a stable where horses were kept. I loved learning about the past and have that inspire the new street art that now lives on South Granville street” says Olga
Months of planning by Sharon Townsend, Executive Director of the South Granville Business Improvement Association, and Peter McGee, owner of The Stable House Bistro, helped to Pacific Horses. Painted by Ola Volo the mural took approximately 12 days to complete. This work of art is a legacy project from the Annual South Granville ArtWalk.
It is a hit with people of the neighbourhood. Becoming a favourite conversation piece and inspiring photo shoots with fashionistas, family and friends.
Read the testimonials:
“As a South Granville-ite, I love it! Thanks for your investment in a beautiful neighbourhood. #ilovemyneighbourhood” -Jess Brodeur, @space_cadet00
“Love this mural. Just walked past it tonight. It made me feel happy.” -@julienpowell
“Very much enjoyed cruising by this mural as it goes up in South Granville street. Yay for public art!” -Dayanna Platt, @daymakesart
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By: Amelia Reyes Mora – President of AF Strategic Communication – firstname.lastname@example.org
Life is a constant change, but the surprising thing about these last decades is the speed with which these changes occur. Unimaginable events have happened that have transformed our world view, generating uncertainty and anxiety.
For organizations to achieve their results, they need to be flexible. Success will depend on their ability to adapt. What has worked in the past will not necessarily be effective in the future. Public Relations are no exception!
We need to innovate to build beneficial relationships between organizations and their stakeholders, making very intelligent and creative use of the power of strategic communication. When talking about the future of Public Relations, we have to conceive it within a holistic vision, integrating other disciplines and tools that allow us to interact more effectively with stakeholders.
To achieve the interaction we seek with our audiences, we have to review the contents, properly manage the contact and presence, with and through social networks, and integrate the marketing objectives into our communication strategy. It is not about replacing PR with digital marketing. Trends suggest that customers look for agencies that offer integrated solutions.
Public Relationship Profile
New trends require professionals and agencies, creative communication strategy experts, with written communication skills, social networks, SEO, research, analytics, behavioral knowledge, creation of multimedia content, media buying, media relations, among others, according to the results of Global Communication Report 2017, prepared by USC Center for Public Relations. Very different from the old public relationship profile, a nice person, excellent host at parties and cocktails focused almost exclusively on traditional media management and event organization.
It is demanded that the Public Relations professional has a more critical, updated, and accurate vision of the tools he uses to achieve the results. In this context, the content is king, elaborate creative and exciting messages to capture the interest of an audience saturated with information.
Strategic communication planning is essential
We have focused so much on the channels, that it is forgotten that strategic communication planning is key to being successful in our purpose of attracting followers to our company and products; obtain that precious fidelity, differentiate ourselves from the deep sea of options and the excess of information with which the public is constantly bombarded.
Activities as a support tool in Public Relations management allow us to strengthen relationships with our audiences, but we cannot confuse the medium with the objective. Let’s analyze if this is the ideal tool to achieve our purposes. We must use this tool for an end, after having evaluated different alternatives and conclude that this is the most appropriate and cost-effective.
Notoriety without the purpose of reputational benefit for the company is not the objective. The publication of a social event and the faces of the main executives will not always support the marketing goals or strengthen the reputation of your company.
New trends in the media
Printed media, for example, are redesigning their strategy, have turned to the development of their digital media and have websites that are increasingly strengthening. They are adapting to the habits and tastes of the new generations. The facilities offered by the multiple mobile devices that are at hand, make online media very attractive.
Economic crises significantly impact advertising investment in traditional media. The challenge to resist this situation has boosted creativity by actively integrating these new trends.
We are also seeing an increasingly gray line between editorial content and advertising, moving towards paid content, a field dominated by advertising, so that professionals and Public Relations agencies are required to handle the purchase in the media.
Opinion leaders have always existed. But some years ago to persuade the public, we relied on the opinions of journalists of high prestige and credibility. With your support, we influenced the public’s perception to create a good image and reputation of our company. New technologies have radically impacted this practice.
Impact of the new technologies
New technologies open a world of possibilities with the figure of “influencers” through digital media. However, its great proliferation has turned its virtual presence into a double-edged sword. You have to be careful in your selection; consumers are intelligent and seek authenticity in messages, a fundamental criterion in online strategy.
It brings more credibility to opinions and likes than messages from advertising campaigns. We must align the profile of the influencer to the brand, identifying those that match the values and objectives we pursue. We must highlight the ease offered by portals, social networks to open conversations and that opinions are known, replicated, “reposted.”
Negative news 24/7 and the absence of borders can cause a company’s reputation to be destroyed or strengthened quickly. The organization that does not have a plan to react adequately to unforeseen situations is bound to fail. Remember that the question is not if a crisis will one day knock on your door, the real question is when.
In summary, the change will continue, and it will always be necessary to know, listen, inform, and persuade the public, create true bonds that will win us their appreciation, favor, and fidelity. We will return to the fundamentals of the profession.
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Military History/U.S. Army units on Attu
Piedmont wrote at 2012-06-04 20:55:16
My Father also was in the 1308th as a S/Sgt serving in Europe and the Pacific.
Many Thanks, Col Lynn, for the information as I'm trying to assemble his Military history
Talia Rocha wrote at 2013-02-04 16:20:13
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We love salt. It makes food taste better by bringing out all of its characteristics. But is it healthy for us? And which salt should we use?
Just about all table salt is put through the refinery ringer, ground up, stripped of its nutrients, and imparted with a "non-caking" additive to prevent it from clumping. Sea salt, on the other hand, tends to undergo very little processing, leaving behind potentially healthful trace minerals and elements, since it is simply salt left behind after evaporating sea water.
While nutritionally similar, table salt is much finer than sea salt so by weight it has more sodium chloride which has an impact on health.
When choosing a salt for daily use, always go for the more natural version, sea salt and keep usage to the recommended daily amount-under 2300 mg daily. And in my book, only use sea salt in cooking; never add it once a dish is finished. It has a more dramatic impact on blood chemistry when it’s not cooked into food.
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Building and operating offshore wind farms is an expensive business. To be able to estimate the profitability of the plants, first the wind potential must be determined. Fraunhofer researchers have now created a wind measurement buoy with sophisticated, precise measurement technology that supplies the necessary data.
Planners of offshore wind farms need to know which way the wind is blowing, as their profitability depends on wind speeds. “Constant high wind speeds at sea can offset the huge investment costs for building the farms and connecting them to the grid. The profitability of wind farms comes from the difference between feed-in compensation and the costs for construction and maintenance,” says Claudia Rudolph, scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology IWES in Bremerhaven. Using a special wind measurement buoy, the meteorologist and her team want to calculate the wind potential and therefore the energy yields that can be expected, thus providing valuable support to wind farm planners. For this endeavor, the researchers rely on LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) technology.
An alternative to wind met masts
The design of the Fraunhofer IWES LiDAR buoy is based on the light buoys that have been used in the North Sea for over thirty years, which the scientists have adapted to measure wind potential. It is over eight meters in length, has a diameter of 2.55 meters and weights 4.9 tons. The buoy carries a LiDAR measuring device that measures wind speeds at heights of between 40 and 200 meters. “LiDAR systems send pulsed laser beams into the atmosphere, which reflect off of aerosol particles in the air. From the frequency shift of the backscattered signal, the wind speed and direction are calculated at the corresponding measurement heights,” explains Rudolph.
Although the technology is already used on land, it was previously considered unsuitable for measurements on buoys and floating platforms because it was too imprecise. The buoy’s own movement, which distorts the measured values, prevented the reliable use of a LiDAR device. To allow these measurements to be carried out on moving structures, the IWES researchers developed a correction algorithm that subtracts the buoy’s own movement from the measurement values.
The new floating LiDAR system guarantees high measuring accuracy, comparable to the results obtained by fixed offshore wind met masts. This was the conclusion of validation measurements carried out in the North Sea, where the buoy was installed at a location with a water depth of 30 meters at the Alpha Ventus offshore farm 45 kilometers off the coast of the island of Borkum, near the FINO 1 wind met mast. There was a 99.7 percent correlation between the values from the met mast and those from the buoy.
“Out in deep water, the LiDAR buoy is a genuine alternative to wind met masts, which measure wind speeds only at a height of 100 meters,” says Rudolph. Another advantage of the system is that the flexible buoy can be used anywhere at sea and is quick to install, making the costs five to ten times lower. The buoys are also much easier and cheaper to maintain than wind met masts. Depending on individual requirements, the system can also measure additional parameters such as waves, currents and temperatures at the same time.
Another of the buoy’s noteworthy features is the aluminum housing that encapsulates the LiDAR measuring device and protects it against salt water and the extreme environmental conditions at sea. The housing contains special glass through which the laser beam passes unhindered and unbroken into the atmosphere. An autonomous power supply system completes the package: three small 400-watt wind generators and three 70-watt solar panels generate the electricity, while three gel batteries store it. This ensures that reserve energy is available for a week without wind and sun. Inside the floating platform there is a computer for data communication. Status and measurement data are transmitted to the recipient via WLAN or satellite.
Projects in the North Sea
A LiDAR buoy is currently being used in a research project off the coast of Denmark, while a further buoy will be used for demonstration measurements in the North Sea. Through this project, the scientists aim to present their development to the Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) consortium brought together by the Carbon Trust, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote the transition to a climate-friendly economy. “If you fulfill the OWA’s criteria, you are awarded pre-commercial status, which sends an important signal to our potential customers. It shows that our system is fully operational, and enables us to approach wind farm planners and operators with various offers such as long-term measurements for yield forecasting and online wind measurements during installation,” says Rudolph. | <urn:uuid:38ef8b72-e01e-4c25-9349-3245584be52b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://solarthermalmagazine.com/2015/12/23/measuring-buoys-reduce-costs-of-building-offshore-wind-farms/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00425-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946183 | 978 | 3.34375 | 3 |
According to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, Apple's stock could reach $1,000 by 2014, making it the world's first trillion dollar company. The consumer electronics giant is currently worth around $600 billion today, and Munster believes the next $400 will come from Apple capturing a growing market cap from competitors.
"We believe there will be enough value over the next two plus years for Apple to add another $400 billion in market cap from a combination of growth in dollars invested in tech and continued shift from major Apple competitors. We believe dollars invested in US technology companies will increase 5% year-over-year on average for the next three years. By comparison, dollars invested in US tech companies were up 9% year-over-year in 2011. Therefore, the tech sector will add $390 billion in market cap through 2014. We assume Apple could capture half of this market cap (from 85% in the 4 years prior)," said Munster.
"The companies we consider to be the 10 most relevant competitors to Apple (Samsung, HTC, RIMM, Nokia, Sony, Dell, HP, Microsoft, Intel, and Google) represent nearly $1 trillion in market cap today. We believe 20% of that value, or $200 billion could shift to Apple through 2014. Thus there is potential for Apple to repeat history and add another $400 billion to its market cap. At a $1,000 share price (roughly $1 trillion in market cap) Apple would represent 26% of the total US tech market cap from 17% today."
Munster believes Apple will control 60 percent of the tablet market and around 33 percent of the smartphone market through 2015. His estimates are listed in the chart below:
"Fundamentally, we believe shares can reach $1,000 based on our belief Apple will continue to win in global mobile devices," said Munster.
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A special short course on 'The Exposure of Humans to Electromagnetic Radiation' was held recently at the 24th BEM World Congress in Sintra, Portugal. The Course Presenter was Prof Dragan Poljak from the University of Split, Croatia.
His research interests include frequency and time domain computational methods in electromagnetics, particularly in the numerical modelling of wire antenna structures, and recently numerical modelling applied to environmental aspects of electromagnetic fields.
Professor Poljak has published more than 100 papers in the area of computational electromagnetics as well as the recently published book: Electromagnetic Modeling of Wire Antenna Structures, WIT Press, 2002.
From the beginning of the 1990's, public concern regarding the presence of electromagnetic fields in the environment has been awakened by the controversy on possible adverse health effects. Generally, the effects of electromagnetic fields on humans depend on their intensity and frequency. Consequently, the fields are split into two main categories: low frequency spectrum (up to about 30kHz) and high frequency spectrum (from 30kHz to 300GHz).
The objective of the Course was to give a tutorial on the computational models, experimental techniques and safety standards regarding possible radiation hazards with reference to the existing International Commission on 'Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) Guidelines for human beings' exposure limits.
The Course covered several aspects of the environmental electromagnetic compatibility (EEMC) related to electrical, electronic, telecommunication and medical equipment.
The Course was divided into two parts. The first part dealt with sources of electromagnetic interference and electromagnetic modelling of the human body and the second part was concerned with the thermal modelling of the body and safety standards. The Course material is soon to be published in book form by WIT Press. | <urn:uuid:f1d8afff-7c15-4f12-a5f7-6686ccf5406d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.wessex.ac.uk/news/courses-and-seminars/257-exposure-of-human-beings-to-electromagnetic-radiation-by-dragan-poljak | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00564-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9256 | 360 | 2.421875 | 2 |
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