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What is a Bottom Memory Stitch
The drapery style used is a D-011 three finger pleat. A bottom memory stitch can be applied to most drapery styles, even ripplefold draperies.
A memory stitch is used to help hold the folds in place along the bottom of a drapery. A bottom memory stitch is good to use on fabrics that are springy, have no weight to the fabric or just don’t have any body. By added a bead weight in the hem along with the bottom memory stitch helps with those light weight sheers or casement fabrics. Keep in mind they don’t always work. Certain fabrics cause resisting to the memory stitch. Bottom memory stitch is used mainly on sheer, casement, and some lined draperies. Bottom Memory should NOT be used on a euro hem (beaded bottom).
Notice the picture to the left without bottom memory stitch. See how the drapery flares along the bottom, causing uneven look.
Once the memory stitch is sewn to the bottom the folds hold the uniform look and no flaring along the bottom.
The bottom memory stitch is sewn to the back side of the drapery near the top of the hem. A heavy duty thread is used to keep the thread from breaking. The stitch is placed where the spaces are on the drapery.
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Copy Cat is a CD and DVD tool that enables users to copy data from disks onto another location on the computer. It can be used to copy CDs and DVDs that are partially unreadable; the program is able to skip the unreadable or scratched parts and copy the readable ones. This cannot be done by other disc copy programs. One of the benefits of using this tool is that it lets users copy old DVDs and CDs that may contain important data, such as documents, photographs, videos, and music. This application also has the ability to duplicate media files that have been damaged by copying each byte. When the application encounters irretrievable files (such as those from bad sectors), it gives users the option to skip copying the specified bytes.
With these functions, Copy Cat can also be used as a data recovery tool, especially for discs with files that cannot be read by other applications. This application has the following additional features:
• Simple and clean interface – this makes the program easy to use. The most common operations can be performed with a few clicks of the mouse.
• Lightweight application – this application does not use up a lot of system resources and therefore does not interfere with the functionality of other programs.
• Basic settings – there is no need for advanced configuration; upon installation, the program can immediately be used, even by novice users.
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- Main Menu
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This writing rule uses the format of writing two-column newspaper columns for content, while for the location of the Title to abstract sections using one column, the MS file. WORD can be downloaded below
Every writer who will submit the article manuscript to the RABIT Journal (Journal of Technology and Information Systems) must read the writing guidelines first and ensure that the manuscript submitted is in accordance with the RABIT writing format. Manuscripts submitted can be in the form of original research articles or literature studies.
The manuscript must be in accordance with focus and scope which includes:
PROVISIONS ON RESEARCH ARTICLES
Images are presented with low resolution but are still clear and legible, for example like the picture below:
The title page includes:
Indonesian Title, Short Title, Author's Name, Statement of origin of the author's institution, Address of institution, Author's Email Address
Abstracts are made in one paragraph without separating the division of content. The abstract must include background, objectives, methodology, results and conclusions. The abstract does not exceed 200 words and is made in two languages. The abstract ends with a maximum of five keywords from the script.
The introduction should explain the background, objectives, summary of the literature study that has been done, explain why the proposed topic is important to be published, and the contribution of the text to the community.
The literature review section should cover previous studies or similar studies then compare with the current research and also add an explanation obtained from the references used:
The method part must include, Research Framework, Requirement analysis, System design
Serve the results with logical flow in the form of text, tables, graphics or images. Don't repeat data that has been presented in a table or graph in the text. Emphasize important results. Discuss important aspects of the study conducted, including the implications of the findings for technology science in general. Do not repeat data or statements that have been presented in the background or results section. The discussion also includes the limitations or weaknesses of the study and its implications for further research.
This section clearly states the conclusions of the study. Concluding paragraph.
For writing a Bibliography, it is required to use the Reference Manager (library application / bibliography) such as EndNote, Mendeley, Reference Manager, and others. With IEEE format. Complete provisions along with examples of literature according to RABIT journal standards can be seen in the template
Manuscripts that have been received by the editorial team will go through the initial review, especially the initial review includes the writing format. Manuscripts that do not follow the writing format will be returned to the correspondent author
Manuscripts that have passed the initial review process will be forwarded to the reviewer appointed by the editorial team. An assessment will be given by the reviewer whether the manuscript is suitable for publication in RABIT or not.
Manuscripts that are suitable for publication will be asked for a statement of copyright transfer and a non-plagiarism statement.
LITERATURE STUDY PROVISIONS
The writing format of the literature study script follows the format of writing the research article script. There are differences in the methodology section that emphasizes the ways and process of literature study used. Includes literature selection criteria (inclusion and exclusion) databases used as sources of literature and others. The literature used is at least 10 journal references and 2 book references with a span of the last 5 years for journals and the last 10 years for books.
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INVENTING NOVEL TECHNOLOGIES
IS IN OUR DNA
Tardid is pioneering the application of some Innovative Technologies to customers problems
APPLYING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
How Artificial Intelligence helps Brainbox deliver real-time insight on industrial assets health
We start with the machines and structures every time we invent. We have been working with applied AI over four years, but we are only in the beginning stages of understanding the true potential of AI. We are researching further on how to improve health of industrial assets and help our customers solve big problems such as productivity losses due to unplanned downtime, unfortunate situations etc.
We work on real industrial problems that have a tangible impact on our customer businesses and world, and the benefit are growing by the day.
GOVERNING PHYSICS AWARE MODELS
We have developed a strong chain of distributed Physics-Aware Neural network for effective state estimation
Due to the rapid introduction of volatile and renewable energy sources and controllable loads, asset conditions are challenged by unusual fluctuations in operational conditions. Therefore, accurate real-time monitoring of assets becomes increasingly pivotal in order to ensure reliable operations and understanding the continuous stresses causing failures.
Brainbox has inbuilt classifying models which continuously observes physical phenomena and predicts outcomes of health and new phenomenon. Brainbox processes four types of models to simplify (1) Objects (2) Interactions between objects (3) Systems of objects together with their interactions, and/or (4) processes
INFLUENCING PHYSICS META-MODELS
Its all about monitoring environmental data in real-time under various cyclic loadings like, ingress or loss, temperature changes, wind, waves, current, seismic, flows etc.
Brainbox considers these influencers to develop neural models and then applies the knowledge to determine the cyclic responses. Furthermore, these models are further categorized into discrete and continuum. These metrics are generated to assess the influencing environmental impact on the assets or its activities. The primary impacts are measured (renewable or non-renewable) to assess situations for reasoning purpose. The ultimate sustainability goal of this technology is to optimize operations and minimize downtimes. Since the complete elimination of these factors is hardly possible, but with advanced tracking and simulation Brainbox can bring an impeccable improvement in future design of these assets.
QUANTUM BOUNDARY METHOD
Limiting behaviours and positivity
The most important part of Artificial Intelligence is to create a mere-self of the subject. At Tardid we have been working extensively on Quasi-Local Mass to understand the asset behaviours and subsequent changes limiting to their behaviours and failures. The primary goal of Brainbox is to provide the "Time-To-Failure" matrix, and to do the same digitized data and models are not enough as there are certain invisible factors which has its own relevance stronger than what we perceive.
Brainbox closely observes
Asymptotically Flat Manifolds
Quasi Local Mass in AH Manifolds, which includes curvature estimates
Positivity factors of the Masses
Event Horizon for Effective Signal Processing
We have developed a quantum machine learn based filtering system which processes every frequency response as flat as possible in the passband. The event horizon is machine trained model which observes sequential data (streaming data) in real-time for anomaly detection and streaming responses. The AI Algorithms are embodied into various signal spaces (AE, various signatures) with autoencoders (GANs) .
This allows event horizon to listen to what it has been couched to, thus resulting rapid speed and accuracy.
AI based Geometric State Model Generator
We have built an algorithmic method of developing automated state equations for generating geometric models for individual assets.
These state models are live representation of assets under monitoring. The model includes the mechanical behaviour, influencing patterns, kinematics of the physical asset. This helps the AI to understand the current conditions and pertaining threats.
AI based Health Predictions for Pipes Under Insulation
By its very nature, CUI is very difficult to detect since corrosion occurs beneath the insulation, hence making the continous monitoring process very complicated.
To address the above challenge, we have developed Brainbox Adaptive Neural based Fuzzy Inference System (BANFIS). It gives result with the minimum errors without removing or disturbing the insulation layer, when compared to existing techniques.
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The First Presbyterian Church of Edgewood began in 1983 with the merging of two rich Presbyterian traditions: that of the First Presbyterian Church of Wilkinsburg, founded in 1866, and the Edgewood Presbyterian Church, which dates back to 1891. Both churches have a long history of growth and evangelism as well as support for local and international mission.
The cornerstone of the original Edgewood Presbyterian Church was laid on September 20, 1892 and dedicated on May 28, 1893. The site was within the confines of the present building. By 1910 the Edgewood community was growing and due to an increase in membership, the Sunday School facilities were expanded to include the basement of the church. Within five years plans were presented for a new building. Dedication of the new Edgewood Presbyterian Church was held November 17, 1918. Today the church proudly bears the plaque of an "historic landmark."
Passing under stone carvings of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John above the main doors, one enters an ornate Gothic sanctuary. Built in the form of a cross, the sanctuary reveals beauty in every direction. The striking painted glass windows are of the "grisaille" type made popular in France and England. They are lightly tinted gray glass, painted and placed in lead settings. The painted glass windows depict a number of symbols and a variety of crosses.
Delicate wooden carvings throughout the sanctuary represent symbols of Christian history, and are irreplaceable. An oak communion table and central pulpit stand before the huge carved facade which contains the organ pipes. Significantly, there are two Baptismal fonts, representing both the Wilkinsburg and Edgewood congregations. Baptisms are alternated between those fonts, reaffirming the history of these two fine churches.
The beauty of the sanctuary is matched only by the power of the Moller, four-manual organ, which graces the chancel area. 2001 marked the completion of organ renovations that included re-leathering of the main organ, new wind chests, new voicing, and a new Antiphonal Organ.
The First Presbyterian Church of Edgewood, on busy East Swissvale Avenue, continues to be a Community Church. As a congregation, we seek to serve the entire community, bringing a splendid history and tradition of service into the future, to the glory of Jesus Christ, our Lord.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015
The lame duck Congress votes down a women’s suffrage amendment to the US Constitution, 174-204. The ayes were 86 D’s, 72 R’s, 12 Progressives, 3 Progressive-Republicans and an independent. 171 D’s & 33 R’s voted against. The only Democrat from the Deep South who votes yes is Richmond Hobson of Alabama, an outgoing lame duck himself. Of the congresscritters from the 11 suffrage states, only one, George Kindel (D-Colo.), another lame duck, voted no. There was hissing in the galleries during the speech of Stanley Bowdle (D-Ohio), yet another outgoing lame duck, who said, “The women of this smart capital are beautiful. Their beauty is disturbing to business; their feet are beautiful; their ankles are beautiful, but here I must pause – for they are not interested in the State.”
Mrs Arthur Dodge, president of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (honestly she has a real first name of her own, but I can never remember it and I’m tired of looking it up each time she pops up) says this vote shows “that from now on the wave of hysteria in which the suffragists have indulged or of which they have been the victims will be on the wane.”
Woodrow Wilson says he didn’t intend those remarks in his Jackson Day speech to indicate that he was running for re-election. No, really he didn’t.
It’s interesting seeing everyone jump to over-interpret anything he says, a la Hillary. It was genuinely thought possible that a president’s ambitions might not extend to a second term (there are rumors that he plans to step aside in favor of his son-in-law, William Gibbs McAdoo, who would eventually... well, check back here in 9 years).
The US Supreme Court stays Leo Frank’s execution.
The British War Office takes out an ad in various newspapers (I believe this is a poster version of the ad):
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Mariah Carey’s Hero is one of the most requested songs on The Nite Lite. Find out how this inspirational song was born…
Mariah Carey wrote the song Hero. It was released on October 19, 1993 by Columbia Records as the second single from Carey’s third studio album, Music Box. Carey claims the song was for the 1992 Dustin Hoffman movie, also called Hero. Eventually the producers of the movie used Luther Vandross’ “Heart Of A Hero” instead. Walter Afanasieff explained the reason for this in Fred Bronson’s Book of Billboard #1s—the original intention was that Gloria Estefan would be asked to sing the title theme. He was recording the Music Box album with Carey at the time, and during a break he, “was sitting at the piano and told Mariah about this movie. Within two hours, we had this incredible seed for this song, ‘Hero.'” Afanasieff added: “It was never meant for Mariah to sing. In her mind, we were writing a song for Gloria Estefan for this movie. And we went into an area that Mariah didn’t really go into – in her words, it was a little bit too schmaltzy or too pop ballady or too old-fashioned as far as melody and lyrics.”
After being convinced to keep it, she made it her own, giving it a more pop and R&B melody, as well as changing some of the lyrics to more precisely fit her personality. Lyrically, the song is regarded as one of Carey’s most inspirational ballads, with its protagonist declaring that even though we may feel discouraged or down at times, in reality we are “heroes” if we look inside ourselves and see our own inner strength; in time, it will help us “find the way.”
Hero received mixed reviews by music critics for its lyrical content as well as Carey’s vocal performance. Besides its lyrics, Hero derived its hook and sound from several musical instruments such as the guitar, piano and organ and experienced strong success in several international markets—becoming Carey’s eighth chart topper on the Billboard Hot 100. It was ranked at number eleven on the Billboard Year-End Chart, and number fifty-three on the Decade-End Chart. Due to its extended popularity, “Hero” was covered by the 2008 UK X Factor finalists and released as a single, topping the charts in Ireland the UK for three weeks and becoming one of the biggest selling songs in British history.
Because of fan requests and letters connecting to its personal meaning and content, the song remains one of Carey’s most performed songs. Deemed by many as her signature song, Hero was originally performed on The Arsenio Hall Show, The Jay Leno Show, and Hey Hey It’s Saturday during its first chart run. Carey performed it on several live telethons and specials, such as Pavarotti and Friends and Michael Jackson & Friends in 1999, America: A Tribute to Heroes in 2001, Live 8 in 2005, and the inaugural ball for Barack Obama in 2009. It was also featured on the set-lists of all of Carey’s tours, usually serving as the encore or closing number.
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Do you think vaping should be legalized? If you say “Yes”, the “Vape Is Not A Crime Shirt” below will help you raise your voice!
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Different states in the US have different laws that govern using electronic cigarettes, often known as “vaping.” While some states and municipalities forbid vaping in all places where smoking is forbidden, others have more lenient regulations or none at all!
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A part of the American public supports the sale and use of vapes, especially those who love vape, vaping, smoking, inhaling vapors, and electronic cigarettes! Are you one of them? Do you believe that Vape Is Not A Crime?
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The European Union and the United States have congratulated North Macedonia after its parliament voted on July 16 to adopt the “French proposal” on a way forward, involving resolving differences with Bulgaria, towards opening EU accession negotiations for the former Yugoslav republic.
MPs in North Macedonia’s capital city Skopje voted 68 in favour, with the votes coming from the ruling SDSM and ethnic Albanian parties, while the opposition VMRO-DPMNE walked out of the hall before the vote.
The vote, which gives the country’s Prime Minister Dimitar Kovachevski a mandate to negotiate within the framework of the “French proposal”, was preceded by days of turbulent protests outside North Macedonia’s parliament.
North Macedonia’s MPs obliged the government, the foreign ministry and the negotiating team in the talks with the EU to strictly adhere to the condition of respecting the linguistic, identity, historical and cultural characteristics of the Macedonian people as non-negotiable points with the EU.
Bulgaria’s Parliament voted on June 24 to approve the “French proposal”, while underlining points of specific importance to Bulgaria in the negotiations.
Reported details of the proposal may be found at this link.
After the vote in Skopje, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a message on Twitter: “Congratulations to North Macedonia on the vote that now paves the way for opening the accession negotiations rapidly. It was a historic opportunity. And you seized it. A big step on your path towards a European future. Your future.”
European Council President Charles Michel said that the vote paved the way to the holding of an intergovernmental conference with North Macedonia next week.
“A crucial step for North Macedonia and for the EU. Our future is together and we welcome you with open arms,” Michel said.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said that the vote was “in favour of opening accession negotiations, in favour of our common European future”.
“A crucial step on the EU path for Albania and North Macedonia, at times when we need to stand together in living up to joint challenges,” Borrell said.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the US welcomes the decision by the parliament of North Macedonia to take the next steps on North Macedonia’s EU accession path.
“We recognize the difficult tradeoffs considered in this compromise, which acknowledges and respects North Macedonia’s cultural identity and the Macedonian language,” Blinken said.
He said that the decision comes at a critical moment for North Macedonia, the Western Balkans, and Europe: “A European Union that includes all of the Western Balkans, including Albania and North Macedonia, will be stronger and more prosperous. Now is the time to build momentum and work on next steps”.
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TLP WHITE: March 19, 2021
As information systems become more sophisticated, so do the methods used by the attackers. Criminal and nation state actors have long recognized the value of denial-of-service attacks which can cause serious business interruptions for any organization connected to the internet. Denial-of-Service attacks have increased in magnitude as more devices come online and organizations increase remote access for their staff.
This paper covers the motivations behind DDoS attacks, provides several historical examples and details several strategic and tactical recommendations IT and information security professionals can implement in their organizations to limit impacts from these disruptive attacks.
Key topics from the report include:
- – Impacts to the Threat Landscape
- – Observed Activity
- – Takedown Campaigns
- – Risk and Impact
- – Mitigation Strategies
Pdf version of report:H-ISAC DDoS Attacks 3-19-2021
Mar 19, 2021
Alert ID 6a16de1e
TLP:WHITE Subject to standard copyright rules, TLP:WHITE information may be distributed without restriction.
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CASE STUDY: FISH TO GO IS GOING PLACES
Your company, Fish to Go, is a quick service restaurant specializing in fish tacos. Your success in the United States has been excellent, and your company has decided to develop an international strategy to further develop your market share. As the vice president for human resources, you have been asked to develop an international staffing strategy. The organization has decided that it makes the most sense to hire host-country nationals to manage the restaurants.
Your current Fish to Go managers earn upwards of $45,000 per year, plus 2 percent profit sharing. The organization is also looking to you to determine and develop a comprehensive training program for your host-country managers.
A training program is also needed for employees, but you have decided to wait and develop this with input from the host-country managers.
Fish to Go has identified Mexico and the UK as the first two countries that will be entered.
(a) What are the advantages of choosing a host-country national (HCN) staffing strategy?
(b)Develop a compensation plan for each of the two countries giving your rationale.
(c)What kind of training program do you suggest for these employees?
Discuss the cultural predispositions MNCs tend to have in managing companies globally.
What are the motivators for
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Thompson Friday Forecast
January 8, 2021
From the Principal...Steve Morrill
Happy New Year! After getting through last year we can do anything, right?! Although events this week continue to remind us that these are unprecedented times. One predictable part of each New Year is the infamous resolution. This past week, I have seen several news articles and numerous TV segments on this topic. Our world is inundated with commercials for diets and fitness memberships, however there are other resolutions to consider as well. We can take steps that can have positive, lasting effects on our children and family dynamics.
When you think about New Year’s resolutions, consider finding a routine with your middle schoolers to process current situations and world events. These conversations can provide a great opportunity to clarify and validate your children’s feelings and, as only a parent can do, reassure and comfort them as they navigate this strange world.
Also please consider the following resolutions as you develop your own:
- Communicate the love you have for your child(ren) and family each day.
- Ask your child about the school tasks they are working on and acknowledge their work.
- Use the 3:1 ratio. For every negative, be sure to offer three sincere positives.
- Choose a book to read as a family each month and discuss your reactions and perceptions.
- Play games together: It is a great platform for laughter and conversation.
- Avoid offering extrinsic rewards for accomplishments that have natural intrinsic rewards.
- Share with your middle schooler the math/reading strategies you use to navigate the world.
- Engage in a random act of kindness and include your children when possible.
- Set academic and social goals with your children that emphasize progress, not only results.
- Enjoy your child’s middle school years and the many changes he or she goes through.
- Once again, communicate the love you have for your child(ren) and family each day.
Again, I wish you and your family a happy, healthy new year.
Enjoy your weekend!
Saints Tutoring Thunder 2020-2021
The Saint's tutoring Thunder (STT) club provides students with an opportunity to receive help on homework, projects, and/or comprehension of material that they are learning in classes. The Saint's tutoring Thunder (STT) club is available for both students attending in-person or remotely. This club meets on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Parents can sign their child up for this tutoring and/or students can sign up themselves!
STT allows students to meet virtually with a Thompson club supervisor and a St. Charles East Sophomore tutor from 4:15 until 5:00 pm. The Thompson club supervisor will facilitate the after school support while supervising the high school students tutoring our students.
Sign-ups are available Thursday-Monday for the following week. This ensures that we have the correct amount of tutors for our students. You can click here to sign up for Saint's tutoring Thunder club. Once your student has been signed up, they will receive an invite link in their email.
Early Release Mondays
Dear District 303 Middle School Parents:
One of the best ways for educators to improve their practice and make an impact on student achievement is by collaborating with their peers. Beginning on January 25, our middle school teachers will have the opportunity to work together in their Professional Learning Communities (PLC) when we implement early release days at both Thompson and Wredling Middle Schools. As part of their PLCs, teachers will review student work and data that informs instructional practices aimed at raising student achievement.
The early release day schedule will include slightly shortened periods with dismissal at 2:42 p.m. Buses will be ready at that time to take students home.
2021 early release Monday schedule:
- January 25
- February 1, 8, 22
- March 1, 8, 15, 22
- April 5, 12, 19, 26
- May 3, 10, 17, 24
We are excited for this opportunity as our teachers work to improve their instruction and raise student achievement!
Middle School Transfers - Request period open from Feb. 1 - Feb. 26
Families who wish to submit a Middle School Transfer request may do so beginning February 1, 2021. Families must complete a separate form for each student they want to be transferred. Requests are granted based on space available. This means that siblings are not guaranteed placement. A written decision will be communicated to families before spring break.
Once the request is approved, a student may remain at that middle school throughout his or her middle school career, as long as the student resides in District 303.
Families of students granted permission to attend a school outside of their assigned attendance area are responsible for their own transportation. Students will return to their assigned attendance area high school regardless of the middle school attended.
The Middle School Transfer request window will close at 4:00pm on February 26, 2021. If you have questions, please contact Tammy Marsan at 331-228-2397.
Winter Reading Program
What does home/remote learning look like for our students? We want to capture those pictures in our yearbook! Please upload your photos by clicking on this tab or emailing them to firstname.lastname@example.org.
We are excited to share that our D303 Middle School Counselors have been working to create opportunities to share a new web based platform that is a comprehensive website where you and your child can begin to have discussions and make plans about colleges and careers. Naviance Student, which is connected to Naviance, is a service that will provide experiences where students can explore and identify key elements that pertain to colleges and careers.
Please be on the lookout for an email next week from Naviance as it pertains to important information about setting up an account. Plans are that students will be logging in during their tutorial next week and taking the “Career Interest Profiler” assessment. Please note that this account will be one that travels with the student through high school. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to your grade level counselor. Please click here to access the counselor contact information.
Chromebook Device Exchange
Peer Leadership Program for Incoming St. Charles North Freshmen
Dear Parents and Future North Stars-
SCN is a great place, but it’s also a big place. Peer Leadership (PL) hopes to make the transition to high school more comfortable and fun, while offering opportunities for growth.
The goals of Peer Leadership are to:
Match incoming freshmen with selected upperclassmen mentors.
Foster lasting friendships and bonds between the freshmen, their mentors, and the kids in their PL Groups.
Improve freshmen self-confidence and self-advocacy.
Prepare freshmen to become participants in clubs, sports, classes, and other activities at SCN.
Prepare freshmen for future leadership roles.
PL Students meet together in groups every day. PL is formally added to student schedules and takes the place of lunch/ study hall. There are weekly themes that are educational, informative, supportive, and fun. PL also attends a day of teambuilding “Camp”, has several “all PL” activities during the year, and meets together in groups both formally and informally.
We would like to be able to offer PL to all interested incoming freshmen, but our numbers are limited. In order to start the selection process, interested students (or their parents) should fill out this Preliminary Interest Form before February 5th.
Contact Stephanie Stavropoulos @ email@example.com with specific questions.
Peer Leadership... a great way to start high school!
Peer Leadership Program for Incoming St. Charles East Freshmen
Dear Parents of 8th Graders Attending East,
Peer Leadership is an extracurricular program that matches selected incoming freshmen with juniors and seniors who make the transition into high school fun and easy and mentor them throughout the year. Because this program meets during the school day, it has to be put into a student’s schedule when registering for next year’s classes. Although we would like to be able to offer this to all interested incoming freshmen, our numbers are limited by available classroom space and our budget. Therefore, in order to start the selection process, interested students should apply using the application found at the bottom of the Friday Forecast.
If your child is interested in the program, please fill out the application (also attached below) and e-mail it to Jim Reed, the Peer Leadership Coordinator (firstname.lastname@example.org). Completed applications must be received no later than Tuesday, January 19, 2021. For more information about Peer Leadership, please attend Future Saints Night in January.
We hope to hear from you!
AAUW Writing Contest for 7th and 8th Grade Students
Attention 7th and 8th graders: Do you like to write? Do you have a story that you are really proud of? Or a poem that you wrote this past year? Maybe an essay or report that is awesome?
Then the 42nd Annual AAUW Creative Writing Contest could be for you! Please click on this link for more details. Entries are due by February 3, 2021.
2020-2021 Thompson Yearbook
We want to make sure that all students and staff members are included in our yearbook this year! If you did not get your picture taken, please upload your own portrait to the Walsworth website. Remember to choose “Thompson Middle School.” In the field that says “City” make sure to add in St. Charles and then click on “Shop the Store.”
Access code: thompsonms_123
We encourage students to also use this site to upload photos which the Yearbook staff can then add to the yearbook.
Buying a yearbook is optional and not all students choose to own one. The price of the yearbook is $25. You can check your PushCoin account to see if you have purchased one by going to 'transactions' and then adjusting the start date back to April 1, 2020. We are extending the due date for ordering books to Tuesday, January 12, 2021.
Contact Kim Walters (email@example.com or 331-228-6410) if you have any questions or need financial assistance. Yearbooks will be distributed at the end of May.
High School Information for our 8th Graders
High school registration:
8th Grade Course Selection--January 19-January 22, 2021
Students will enter course requests directly into (HAC) Home Access Center. The registration portal will remain open through 1/15/21.
Students should complete their worksheet prior to their counselor appointment.
We encourage students to make use of the resources found on the East & North CCR websites to make course selections that will help them accomplish their college and career goals.
The date and period of your appointment and the virtual conference link for your counselor will be posted to the Academic Planning/Course Selection page of the CCR websites after winter break.
Future Freshmen Nights
Future Saints Night is scheduled for 1/13/21.
Future North Stars Night is scheduled for 1/14/21.
Compass Academy is a new D303 program that will open in the Fall of 2021 at the Haines Center. Key features of the Academy include flexible scheduling, project-based learning, interdisciplinary courses, competency-based education, and more. Any District 303 student entering grades 9-12 is eligible to enroll at the Academy. There are no entrance criteria and all students are invited to apply. This program is designed to support all students, including those interested in early college courses and/or career pathway experiences.
The Compass Academy brochure is attached below for your review. More information can be found by viewing this presentation from a recent BOE meeting. Interested parents or students should contact Director Sharon Stanley at firstname.lastname@example.org or via this form.
D303 Parent University
Parent University was developed in response to the need for programming to address the social and emotional needs of students in District 303. Over the last decade, the district has strived to provide information on topics that are relevant, timely, and beneficial for all parents and guardians.
February 2, 2021
Wake Up Call
Wake Up Call is a three-part drug and alcohol prevention presentation. The first part of the presentation focuses on current trends such as vaping, marijuana, alcohol and prescription pills. Next, attendees will virtually walk through a life-size teen bedroom with more than 20 “red flags” that can signal drug or alcohol use. The bedroom identifies spots where drugs can be hidden, household items that can be used as drug paraphernalia and ways teens try to cover up drug and alcohol use. Lastly, attendees will learn practical prevention strategies to prevent substance abuse and where to go for help if they are concerned. Please fill out this form if you are interested in attending.
D303 Employment Opportunities
One of the more flexible positions available is that of a D303 Substitute. You can choose to work, or not work, as your schedule permits. Take a moment and read the Substitute Handbook to see what this job entails.
If you are interested and hold a:
- Bachelor's degree in any field you would qualify to apply for a substitute license with the state which allows you to sub for teachers or teacher assistants. You would apply using THIS link.
- Associate's degree you apply for a Paraprofessional license which only allows you to sub for Teaching assistants. You would apply using THIS link.
- High School diploma you have to take an aptitude test with the KANE ROE office. Once you pass that, you apply for a Paraprofessional license which only allows you to sub for Teaching assistants. You would apply using THIS link.
Contact Julie Wenger (email@example.com) with any questions.
Dates to Remember
Wednesday, January 13 - Future Saints Night
Thursday, January 14 - PTO Meeting (virtual) - 9:00 - 10:00am
Thursday, January 14 - Future North Stars Night
Monday, January 18 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday - Schools are Closed
Click the button above to subscribe or unsubscribe to D303 and school newsletters.
Thompson Middle School
Mrs. Michelle Dague - Assistant Principal
Mr. Shane Darnell - Assistant Principal
Mrs. Danielle Moeller - Student Support Coordinator
Mr. Sam Pasholk - Student Support Coordinator
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prototype proofing refers to samples obtained through processing according to the guest's original or 3d drawings, generally speaking, it is based on the 3d drawings designed by the designer to make samples of the products, which is used to detect whether the structure of the products is reasonable. Samples can be made according to the drawings designed by the customer for the reference of the guests, that is, the prototype model, which can confirm the quality style, style and color of the product, which is the basis for signing the contract, the flexible and changeable prototype proofing can be suitable for many ways. So what do you need to pay attention to prototype proofing?
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The government stepped up its crackdown on what it sees as possible stock-market manipulation, issuing new rules that make it harder to short financial stocks or bet on their decline. The move comes days after the Securities and Exchange Commission said it would step up investigations of false rumors.
The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times put the news on their front pages, while The New York Times puts it on its Business Day cover. The Journal calls it an “unprecedented action” and a “dramatic emergency order” that the SEC may institute for all stocks, not just the financials. The SEC protected nineteen companies, including Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and Wall Street firms like Lehman Brothers.
To short stocks, investors borrow shares and sell them. If the stock price falls, they replace the shares at a cheaper price and make money. The SEC’s move doesn’t prevent short selling, which is totally legal, just a type of it called “naked shorting” where investors short stocks without actually borrowing the shares.
Shorts blasted the move. The Journal:
New York hedge-fund manager Whitney Tilson called the proposals a “desperation move” that could end up silencing investors who are among the first to point out problems at troubled companies.
“What do I think is really going on here?” he asked. “I think that regulators are very, very concerned about the collapse of the stocks of major U.S. financial institutions and are grasping at straws as to what to do about it.” Mr. Tilson’s hedge fund has had short positions on banks and brokerage firms, including Lehman, Washington Mutual Inc. and Wachovia Corp., as well as big bond insurers.
The Journal has a nice mini-history of short selling, noting that authorities have tried to limit it since at least 1733, after the South Sea Bubble.
The SEC’s move didn’t help the government-backed mortgage biggies much. Fannie plunged another 27 percent, while Freddie dropped 26 percent.
Were you talking !&%# about my stock?
The Journal also reports on C1 more details about the SEC’s examination of Bear Stearns documents to see if its crisis was in part manufactured by Goldman Sachs and two big hedge funds. It leads with dramatic corner-office calls from the CEOs of Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns questioning Goldman’s CEO on whether his firm manipulated their beaten-down stocks.
The paper says Alan Schwartz, the former Bear Stearns CEO, has “pointedly asked” Goldman’s Lloyd Blankfein if Goldman trading manipulation helped kill Bear, quoting a person familiar with the conversation (almost certainly Schwartz himself, as Blankfein said he didn’t remember the conversation). Lehman CEO Richard Fuld has also confronted Blankfein concerning rumors about his company.
The Journal says Bear documents show Goldman and two hedge funds, Citadel Investment Group and Paulson & Company, exited certain complex trades in the weeks before Bear’s collapse, as Vanity Fair has reported. It’s unclear why exiting trades related to a faltering company like Bear Stearns would raise suspicions, though.
The Times story talks about this and that before finally getting to Bernanke in its eighth paragraph.
Mr. Bernanke offered no timetable for improved economic performance, declaring that while the risks to the overall economy were still “skewed to the downside,” inflation “seems likely to move temporarily higher in the near term.” The Fed, he said, needed to guard against higher prices’ spreading through the economy…
The main reasons for Mr. Bernanke’s sober assessment, he told senators, were rising commodity prices, especially energy, and continued weakness in the housing sector. He suggested that housing prices might turn around next year, but that high energy prices were likely to persist because demand was outstripping supply.
And here’s why
The economic news was bad yesterday. Producer prices soared by 1.8 percent in June from the month earlier and were a huge 9.2 percent higher than a year ago. The Journal says in its Bernanke story that it was the biggest increase in twenty-seven years.
Retail sales were basically flat at a 0.1 percent increase over May. Take out gasoline, and sales dropped 0.5 percent—and that’s in a month that was supposed to be flush with tax-stimulus checks.
Not so fast, on Fannie & Freddie
Congress delayed approval of a housing bill in order to deal with the government’s request for open-ended support of the two mortgage giants.
“If you’ve got a squirt gun in your pocket you may have to take it out,” [Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson] said. “If you’ve got a bazooka, and people know you have it, then you may not have to take it out. By making it unspecified, it will greatly expand the likelihood it will not have to be used.”
Separately, a key regulator moved to shore up cash access for the banking industry.
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Objective: to re-establish the maritime nature of the Mont-Saint-Michel site. Designed by the architect Luc Weizmann, the dam over the River Couesnon involved two FAYAT METAL companies: Joseph Paris and CM Paimboeuf. The latter was responsible for two contracts.
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Listen to this 'Talk of the Nation' topic
Our bodies are full of untold secrets about our futures. Turns out, predispositions for various diseases are plain as the nose on your face... If only someone takes a look at your DNA. OK, that's simplifying things, but there are now a variety of tests you can take to see if, say, a family history of breast cancer means you'll get it too. Or if you're going to pass cystic fibrosis on to your kids. Have you gotten tested? Do you want to? How much do you want to know about your medical future? What if one day, there's a test that will tell you how long you'll live (barring accidental death, of course)? Would you want to know? Is there a difference between knowing for yourself, and knowing about what genetic markers you could saddle your kids with?
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SOAK + SPROUT – The Most Nutritious Foods in the World! DIY Sprout Process
Great infographic about how to grow your own nutritious sprouts! SOAK + SPROUT Infographic shows you how long to soak and how long it takes to sprout various things.
Seeds, nuts, grains and beans are covered in chemicals called enzyme inhibitors which prevent premature germination and store nutrients for plant growth. When humans consume these chemicals, they reduce the absorption of important minerals and proteins causing nutrient deficiencies and other health issues. Soaking and sprouting bypasses this issue as it activates the seed and neutralises the inhibitors.
For more about the high nutritional content of sprouts, please read our previous blog post here.
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Congratulations! You are reading this because you know me or you are looking to improve on the multi-stage fitness test. AKA. Suicides, shuttle run, beep test
For the purpose of this post I will assume you are here to improve on the test?
Just to get on the same page – The beep test is a steady increase in time required to run between two points separated by 20 metres until the athlete cannot run any further. Its the best method to measure fitness level without gadgets.
Why do something so pointless? Because it measures VO2 max.. WTF is VO2 max…
“VO2 max is reached when oxygen consumption remains at steady state despite an increase in workload.” ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VO2_max
A person with a strong VO2 Max can technically do more work. Run, jump, leap, dive and root.
Since the beep test provides a benchmark for VO2 Max its most useful to make big groups of people smaller by weeding out the sick and weak.
Most likely you are reading because some-one-organization wants to weed you out and has informed you will need to do it. Because no one in their right mind does these for FUN!
I was required to do one recently and thus the inspiration for this blog post. I read a bunch of resources and here I share my candy sprinkles on that increased my level from 9.5 to 11.2 with a few tweaks and change in mindset.
How muscles and oxygen function is amazing and complicated. For the hardcore watch the three videos in succession I was able to grasp a little of the undlerling design and it was worth the time investment.
OK, enough of the science – you’ve read all the other stuff on beep tests and your appetite is still strong….
Surprise surprise – start with a
- Cross train
“Normally” beep tests are set by an external party to compare and benchmark against others or create a cut off to “make a team” for example. It’s likely you will know the level you need to achieve. For example to make the Singapore Football League a Beep Level of 13.1 must be met.
With a level you now know the the culmilative time, distance per level and culmilative distance and cross train accordingly. You can now mentally rehearse and train with these numbers in mind. The fact is you probably won’t increase your VO2 Max…from what I understand we are stuck with it. But you can physically and mentally work through the situation to push yourself further than you think you can.
My goal was 12.2 which equals 12:38s of running. Since I do High Intensity Workouts I would mentally mark the timings of my WODs and mentally rehearse running each level….
Other ideas would be to do fast runs that map to the culmitative distance and speed work.
Have you ever ran on a treadmill that measures your heart rate? Noticed the deeper you consciously breath and contract the diaphram the heart rate lowers slightly even though the pace is maintained even increased.
Consistent regulated deep breathing makes a huge difference. Try it out with a heart rate monito
Start oxygenating from the beginning of the run with strong, deep breaths and consciously draw the breaths in and out to the very end.
Note: Avoid over emphasis of the breath cause you just look like a wanker…unless you run a 13+ :p
Assess how you run and refine your stride. You want to conserve energy and since oxygen translates to energy consumption the more efficient your movement the longer you can run.
I go for the chi running style because I use minimalist foot wear and I like the erect pole up the bum look.
In the early levels (1-7) I would kick off a rapid 180 degree pivot equally balanced on both legs. It gives me a second or so before the next beep to take a deep breath and start a deep lean into the next shuttle and to start my chi run.
I didn’t try last time but in level 7+ I would probably work try the pivot with an exercise designed in the NFL called an Outside Edge Line Bounding Series
It goes with out saying the less fat you have the fast and harder you can work out.
Eat clean, train and building up to the test. Stay fully hydrated and conquer the beep
What tips do you have to nail personal bests on the B-test?
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More than 130,000 people have been killed since the beginning of the conflict in Syria nearly three years ago, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday, according to AFP.
In a new tally, the group said 130,433 people have been killed since the conflict began in March 2011, among them 46,266 civilians.
They include more than 7,000 children and more than 4,600 women, the Britain-based watchdog said.
The group, which relies on a network of sources on the ground in Syria, said 52,290 pro-government fighters had been killed, among them more than 32,000 regular troops and 262 reinforcements from the Hezbollah terror group.
On the rebel side, the group counted 29,083 deaths, including 6,913 fighters from jihadist groups like the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
The Observatory said it had also recorded the deaths of 2,794 unidentified individuals.
The Syrian civil war began with peaceful anti-government demonstrations and deteriorated into a full blown civil war as President Bashar Al-Assad cracked down on the protesters.
Things became more complicated in Syria when jihadist rebel groups, some of which pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda, joined the fighting.
A 13-member Islamic Front for the Liberation of Syria at one point split off from the Western-backed Syrian National Council opposition force and declared Aleppo to be an independent Islamist state.
Since that time, a second civil war has begun in war-ravaged Syria and now, in addition to fighting the Syrian army, the more moderate rebel groups and the Islamist extremist groups are also fighting each other.
Making matters more complicated is the fact that there have also been numerous clashes between rebel groups and Kurdish militias in the north of the country.
The West is trying to bring calm in the war-torn country by organizing a peace conference attended by Assad's regime and opposition forces. The conference is scheduled to be held on January 22 in Geneva.
The Syrian National Committee (SNC) has agreed to attend the Geneva talks, but stipulated that Assad could not have any future role in Syria's transitional period.
The more extreme Islamist groups fighting to topple Assad have declared that attending peace talks or negotiating with the regime would be an act of betrayal.
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Emergency Snow Routes
Generally, the City will call a snow alert first which informs citizens to prepare for an impending storm by moving their vehicles off city streets, especially those designated as emergency snow routes.
If the storm actually necessitates the plowing of streets, a snow emergency will be declared. A snow emergency dictates that all vehicles must be moved off of the streets designed as emergency snow routes. If a vehicle remains on a snow route after a snow emergency has been declared, it will be ticketed. If the vehicle is still not moved after being ticketed, it will be towed. The fine for being ticketed is $35. When a vehicle is towed, the owner is charged towing and storage costs.
Declarations for snow alerts and snow emergencies will be made through the City’s Police 911 center. All news media will be advised of the declaration of or canceling of snow alerts and snow emergencies through the 911 center. The 911 center will also use its code red system to notify, by telephone, all citizens that have signed up for the system that a snow alert or snow emergency has been declared.
If you have additional questions about the emergency snow routes, please call the Public Service Department at 308-535-6700.
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In the previous blog post (link) I talked about how to convert location data into places information based on a density based clustering of the journey start and end locations from a set of cars\vehicles over a two month period. In this post I am going to explore what information we can conclude from the place information.
Being the good data scientists that we all are, the natural thing to reach for when examining some data for the first time is usual a histogram. For both numeric and categorical data a histogram representation usually gives some insights about spread of the data and the density or frequency with respect to range bins or categories. In the image below, you can see histograms of the place clusters for 3 cars with the y-axis representing the percentage of the journeys that either had a stop or start in a place cluster.
For these cars, we can get some interesting insights from these histograms.
Highest frequency clusters
In all the histograms (and in fact for the majority of the cars I studied) there was one cluster place that had the majority of the start and stop. For all the cars shown above this is cluster 1. Now if this was my personal car, I would call this place “home” — where I live. For service vehicles (like delivery vans) this may be the store or factory. For rental cars, this could be the rental car agency location. Whatever the situation, it is the place where the car ends up most of the time. There are other peaks as well, like cluster 2 for car 1. If this was a residential car and I think about my own behaviour, I would call this place “work”. Of course this analysis is speculative unless there is some additional data we can bring in, which I will talk about later on.
Recall the previous blog that place cluster “0” represents the locations that were not associated with any other cluster, nor could form themselves into a cluster. Any car that a lot of cluster “0” journey starts and stops does not spend a lot of time going to the same places. They are not predictable, at least with respect to their journeys.
Compare car 1 and car 2. Car 1 has ~8% of its journeys starting or stopping in non-clustered areas. Car 2 has ~23% outside of clusters. With respect to car 1, car 2 seems less predictable in its driving habits.
Below are two rather pathological examples – cars 19 and 20.
Both of these cars have only 1 cluster (cluster 1), and many or most (in the case of car 20) of their journey start and stops are in unique location – or at least greater than 550 meters away from each other. Without any further insights I would venture they are taxis or possibly rented cars.
Number of clusters
Cars with more clusters go to more places than cars with less clusters – which may seem a rather obvious statement. But another way to consider that information is that a car with less clusters is probably more predictable in the journey origins and destinations, since they go to less places. Consider car 1 and car 3 from figure 1. Approximately 75% of car 1’s journeys start or end in cluster 1 or 2. For car 3, the two most common clusters are 1 and 9, but associated number of starts and ends is only ~48%. If I was looking to find car 1 at any point of time – and without any more information – I would likely find it in place cluster 1 or 2.
Another interesting thing to consider is how the number of clusters relates to the size of cluster “0”. Consider car 2 and car 3 in figure 1; car 2 has more starts and stops outside of common locations than car 3, but car 3 has more clusters (13 versus 9). One could conclude that car 3 “usually” goes to many of the same places, whereas car 2 goes to many different places and less usual places. I have no ground truth here, but car 2 seems more like a taxi whereas car 3 looks more like a delivery van going on a regular delivery route.
Adding the geographical context
If we add a geographical information to the histogram information, we can start to make more inferences about a car’s patterns of journeys. By considering the actual places using a mapping service (like Google maps) and street visualization (like Google Streetview) additional information can be obtained to enrich the place histogram analysis.
Consider the mapping of car 23 places onto Google maps below
For privacy reasons I have removed the actual location of place 1 and place 2, but I can say that place 1 is a residential location and place 2 was an industrial location. Given the nature of the locations and the fact that place cluster 1 has more start/stops that cluster 2, and the remaining clusters are relatively small, it seems reasonable to call place cluster 1 as “home” and cluster 2 as “work”.
Powerful insights indeed, but somewhat limited by human analysis effort (I.e. considering the relative cluster sizes, looking at the address in Google, going into Streetview, etc). For 1 or 2 or even 20 cars this is manageable, but as part of an automated process, this approach is a bit lacking. I did not explore it but possibly the location enrichment I did with Google can be automated via APIs, nor did I try to make some rules related to histogram analysis, so that that is a possibly something to follow up on in a future project.
In the next blog I go beyond this visualization approach to consider numeric approaches to describe and (hopefully) make some probability statements on journey destinations and origins. The questions I want to get to are:
“If a car is in a particular place at a particular time and day, what is the most likely place it is going to next and when?”
“Is it unusual to have a particular car in this place at this time and day?”
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Editor's note: This is the first in a two-part series. See the second part in the May 12 issue of the Ahwatukee Foothills News.
Phoenicians of good will might be donating their clothing to for-profit corporations under a host of different guises.
Many clothing donation bins around town are operated by for-profit corporations that export some of the goods out of the community.
"There are for-profits that actually borrow the name of non-profits and give them a small percentage," said Jim Kaiser, donation center director of Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Central Arizona, a non-profit organization. "Sadly, in certain situations, something like 3 percent goes to the charities."
The for-profits own and operate bins all around, springing up next to non-profit bins in high-traffic areas.
"There's only so much clothing out there to give, so if we're on a nice location, they want us off," Kaiser said.
One of the for-profit companies, American Textile Recycling Service of Arizona (ATRS-AZ), has a semi-exclusive partnership with The Weldon House, a supportive housing program under the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence.
In 2007, Sally Lara, then CEO of the Weldon House, and Bob Goodwill of ATRS-AZ "met and worked out a mutually agreeable neighborhood recycling program."
"If it wasn't for those additional funds, we would not be able to do many things," said Thelma Ross, current CEO of the Weldon House.
Ross said that "we don't get anything from the bins; we just get a percentage of the money that ATRS makes off the clothing."
When asked what percentage the Weldon House receives from the clothing donated to the bins, Ross was hesitant to disclose.
"I don't know the actual percentage and I'm not OK with giving the actual number, because I need to respect them as well," Ross said. "What I can say is that we get "X" amount of dollars in a mutually agreeable program."
ATRS has a different take on the arrangement with the Weldon House.
"They give us a list of things they need at the Weldon House, those go first," said Mike Holt, community relations coordinator of ATRS-AZ. "We're the only ones in town that do the recycling program that goes directly to the charity listed."
When asked about the climate around all of the donation bins, Holt said, "It's very competitive, always fighting for locations."
ATRS recently courted Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Phoenix, offering to operate collection boxes with a portion of the return benefitting My Sister's Place, a Catholic Charities domestic violence shelter.
"We have only been in business with ATRS for a couple months," said Tom Egan, director of program operations at Catholic Charities of Arizona. "So far we are pleased with the relationship."
Egan said his organization is testing out options for new sources of revenue in this economic climate.
"We always have an out clause with the company that we can exercise if we become suspicious of anything."
An ATRS bin collecting donations for My Sister's Place is located in the parking lot of Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 3550 E. Knox Road.
Tony Tiedemann is president of Tiedemann Globe, an exporting company with bins in town. "We're after the soccer mom," he said. "We don't put bins in the poorer neighborhoods or the more affluent ones. The rich people have their own charities they give to."
Tiedemann said he owns "about 100 to 120 clothing collection bins," and the donations go to members of the military and their families.
"None of the clothing we collect goes to thrift stores," said Tiedemann, who also is the owner of Tiedemann Family Thrift. "My charity is Loved Ones Lost. I choose to give to those who serve in the armed forces and their families because I never have and never will serve."
Tiedemann is founder and chairman of the board of Loved Ones Lost; he says that all of the money that goes to benefit the organization comes out of his pocket.
"We are doing a good thing, and I want you to know that we won't be bullied by anybody, not the non-profits or reporters, or anybody," he said.
A charity in Phoenix to operate clothing donation bins that are seen in abundance is Swift Charities for Children. Swift chooses to "take the high road" in the competition between for-profit and non-profit companies for donations collected in the bins, said Jim Stone, executive director of Swift Charities For Children.
"Before, we (non-profits) just stayed out of each others' way and had our own niches, but then these people came in the middle of the night and placed collection boxes at locations without their permission," Stone said. "They muddy the water and it's difficult to go toe to toe with these people from out of town because they don't play by the rules."
Swift has signed letters of permission from each of the locations of their bins, and the only source of donations for Swift is the bins.
Partnership with schools is Swift's new way of ensuring that they still collect enough donations to uphold the commitments they have made to different organizations.
"Schools might be it," Stone said. "they have control over their territory and say who stays and if they don't want someone there, they remove them promptly."
Corey Ramirez is a graduate of the University of Arizona School of Journalism. A freelance journalist; poverty, social justice issues and the culture of the Southwest are some of Ramirez's most written-about topics. He can be reached at (602) 499-1497 or CTPRamirez@gmail.com.
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Largest mosque in Canada opens in Calgary to political fanfare
Congratulations to the Ahmadiyya Muslims of Calgary for building the Mosque, a community center. I hope it will thrive and become a center for learning and peace making.
I am surprised at Stevenson’s comment that “But unlike mainstream Muslims, the Ahmadiyya believe that Muhammad was not the final prophet.” I have read and heard differently than this or perhaps I am mistaken that the group believes in Prophet Muhammad as the last prophet and that HH Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was the promised Messiah.
We have always included Ahmadiyya into the fold of Muslims, however, the statement made by Imam Suharwardy that the Ahmadiyya are to Muslims, what Mormons are to Christians makes an interesting comparison.
I strongly urge the Ahmadiyya community to refrain from saying this particular phrase “… we do not believe in violent jihad ..” These are not the peace making words, the sentence alludes that other Muslims believe in violent Jihad. I have dealt with the same issue on local level at least on two occasions. One does become good on his or her own merit and not others perceived demerits.
I urge the few fanatics among us to leave the Ahmadiyya alone, let them practice their version of the faith as it works for them. After all, on the Day of Judgment, each one of us is accountable for our own deeds and not our kids, parents or community’s deeds. We are individually responsible for our actions and words, and we are certainly not responsible for what others say or do.
Largest mosque in Canada opens in Calgary to political fanfare
July 5, 2008 at 3:26 PM EDT
CALGARY — Calgary's Ahmadiyya community, an offshoot movement of Islam persecuted in some countries, was to officially open what is believed to be Canada's newest and largest mosque Saturday.
The country's top political leaders, including Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Opposition Leader Stéphane Dion, were expected to attend the ceremony.
The mosque complex covers more than 4,300 square metres and includes a community centre, classrooms, office space, children's area, kitchen, dining room and a multi-purpose hall.
The main outward features are its massive steel dome together with a steel-capped minaret tower.
When construction plans for the mosque started 14 years ago, there were no plans to make it Canada's largest, said Safeer Kahn, a spokesman for Calgary's Ahmadiyya community.
“We did not have intention on make it the biggest one. But when we started looking at our needs, we decided to make it for the future, not for the past,” he said.
About $8-million was raised by local Calgarians. Ahmadiyya from all over Canada also chipped in.
“People sold their houses and children broke their piggy banks and actually this was a great example of sacrificing,” Mr. Kahn said, adding the mosque complex will be open to everyone, whether they belong to Ahmadiyya or not.
“We welcome everyone here, and this mosque will be a symbol of peace. I assure you, Calgarians will be proud of having this building in their city.”
Members of the Ahmadiyya faith, which began in India and is now estimated to have about 70 million followers worldwide, call themselves Muslims and follow Islam's main tenets.
But unlike mainstream Muslims, the Ahmadiyya believe that Muhammad was not the final prophet. Instead, they maintain that he was followed by another prophet in the 19th century called Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who came in the spirit of Christ.
Just last month, thousands of Indonesian Muslims took to the streets of Jakarta calling for the government to ban Ahmadiyya.
The faith is considered non-Muslim in Pakistan's constitution and some consider it heretical.
Mr. Kahn said the discrimination in other parts of the world is precisely why the Ahmadiyya are thriving in Canada, where religious freedom is tolerated. “Anybody can have their own opinion and it does not affect us. We have our own goals and we do not believe in violent jihad and we believe that we are always open to discuss this issue.
“Religion is a personal matter and a person has the right to declare his religion so that's the right that Islam gave us.”
Calgarian Imam Sayed Soharwardy, founder of Muslims Against Violence and the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada, said he respects the Ahmadiyya's right to religious freedom, but does not consider them to be Muslim.
“A lot of Muslims do not concede that they are Muslims,” he said recently. “They pray like us, they fast, they do everything except this one particular belief.
“They are our Mormons. I call them our Mormons because the Mormons had Joseph Smith and they had Mr. Ahmad. Some people express hate about them, but in my book there is no word ‘hate.' ”
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PLANNED MUSLIMS RESPONSE TO QUR'AN BURNING BY PASTOR JONES ON 9/11/13 IN MULBERRY, FLORIDA
We as Muslims plan to respond to pastor Terry Jones' planned burning of 3000 copies of Quran on September 11, 2013 in positive terms.
Our response - we will reclaim the standard of behavior practiced by the Prophet concerning “scurrilous and hostile criticism of the Qur’an” (Muhammad Asad Translation Note 31, verse 41:34). It was "To overcome evil with good is good, and to resist evil by evil is evil." It is also strongly enjoined in the Qur’an in the same verse 41:34, “Good and evil deeds are not equal. Repel evil with what is better; then you will see that one who was once your enemy has become your dearest friend.”
God willing Muslims will follow the divine guidance and pray for the restoration of Goodwill, and on that day many Muslim organizations will go on a “blood drive” to save lives and serve humanity with kindness.
We invite fellow Americans of all faiths, races, and ethnicities to join us to rededicate the pledge, “One nation under God”, and to build a cohesive America where no American has to live in apprehension, discomfort or fear of fellow Americans. This event is a substitute for our 10th Annual Unity Day Celebration (www.UnitydayUSA.com) held in Dallas, but now it will be at Mulberry, Florida.
Unwittingly Pastor Jones has done us a favor by invigorating us by his decision to burn nearly 3000 copies Quran on September 11, 2013. Obviously he is not satisfied by the notoriety he garnered by burning one Qur'an last year.
As Muslims and citizens we honor the free speech guaranteed in our constitution. We have no intentions to criticize, condemn or oppose Pastor Terry Jones' freedom of expression. Instead, we will be donating blood and praying for goodness to permeate in our society.
We plan to follow Jesus Christ (pbuh), a revered prophet in Islam as well as Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) – that of mitigating the conflicts and nurturing good will for the common good of the society.
We hope, this event and the message will remind Muslims elsewhere in the world as well, that violence is not the way. Muslims, who react violently to senseless provocation, should realize that, violence causes more violence, and besmirches the name of the religion that we hold so dear. We believe that Prophet Muhammad was a mercy to the mankind, and we ought to practice what we believe and preach. We must not insult Islam by the negative reactions of a few.
We can only hope it will bring about a change in the attitude of the followers of Pastor Jones, and in the behavior of those Muslims who reacted violently the last time Pastor sought notoriety – We hope this small step towards a bridge to peaceful coexistence would propel us towards building a cohesive society.
Like most Americans a majority of Muslims quietly go about their own business, but it is time to speak up and take positive action instead of negative reaction. May this message of peace and goodwill reverberate and reach many shores.
Lastly, we appreciate the Citizens of Mulberry, Florida, Honorable Mayor George Hatch, City Commissioners, police and Fire Chiefs for handing this situation very well. This will add a ‘feather of peace’ in the City’s reputation. We hope Mulberry will be a catalyst in showing the way in handling conflict with dignity and peace.
We thank the Media for giving value to the work towards peace rather than conflict.
The people in Dallas are making an effort to understand and clean their own hearts first, when we are free from bias, it would be easy to share that with others. Islam teaches us in so many ways to "respect the otherness of others" and it is time we find simple practical ways of doing it.
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(PRWEB) January 9, 2011
Turkey’s Turquoise Coast, along the south west of the country, is fast becoming one of the most popular holiday destinations with Bodrum recently identified as the most searched for resort in winter 2010.
Plus, right now it is possible to get low fares from Jet2.com in their Big Flight Sale. Jet2.com fly to Bodrum and Dalaman which are both ideal for visits to Turkey’s Turquoise Coast.
Beginning in Busy Bodrum
A mix of white and golden soft sand beaches, thought to be amongst the softest sand in the world, lapped by mesmerising clear wateflights.jet2.com/crs that gives the area its name, is enough to convince people to visit.
However, away from the picturesque and alluring beaches is a veritable collection of ancient buildings, ruins and museums that give an insight into Turkey’s fragmented yet vastly rich history. The influences of different cultures have imposed a patchwork of architecture on the country to give it a unique landscape.
The best place to start traversing the Turquoise Coast and discovering this history is in Bodrum. This is a treasure trove of ancient monuments and ruins with much of the town dominated by the 15th Century Castle of St Peter.
This was built by the Crusaders and remains in good condition today. Whilst marvelling at its external beauty it is worth popping inside to visit the modern Underwater Archaeology Museum too. Bodrum was also the location for the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, which was razed to the ground by earthquakes in the 1400s but you can still visit the site and its foundations.
Soft Sand Fit for an Egyptian Queen
Leaving behind Bodrum’s thick forestry and iconic landmarks and heading east sees Cleopatra’s Island emerge on the horizon. Officially known as Sedir Island it coined this favourable nickname due to Mark Antony’s purported love of its fine soft sand, a love so grand that he had it imported specifically for Cleopatra.
After relaxing on the same sand once deemed perfect enough for an Egyptian queen, it is time to visit Marmaris. Along the way, keep an eye out for the Bay of Sixty Six Inlets and behind it the ruined city of Knidos. Despite its ruined status it is still possible to appreciate the beauty of a city designed in appreciation of Aphrodite, the Greek Goddess of Love.
Next stop is Marmaris and the only way to enjoy time here is relaxing on the glitzy marina. This is the Turkish playground for the rich and famous but one thing money cannot buy is the arresting beauty of the views from the marina. Vibrant patches of green, white and turquoise merge and stretch as far as the eye can see.
Unlocking the Lycian Remains
With the batteries fully recharged from a salubrious sojourn in Marmaris the final stretch of the Turquoise Coast awaits. Fethiye has a reputation for three things – great beaches, excellent nightlife and access to Lycian ruins. These ruins are best appreciated with a visit to the Lycian rock tombs in the cliffs just behind the town.
Jet2.com’s offer of regular cheap flights to both Bodrum and Dalaman with great savings means holidaymakers can get to one of 2011’s hot spots for even less.
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Walkways provide a safe and convenient way for people to walk freely in a designated place, such as stairs, ramps, passageways, and related structures that facilitate walking on a path. It is crucial to build it properly, so you need a professional concrete contractor in Bel Air to ensure you have a smooth and safe experience.
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While Boston’s mayor projects a month-long Orange Line and partial Green Line shutdown will unleash “chaos,” Gov. Charlie Baker said Tuesday he feels confident that recent subway closures have gone more or less smoothly.
A business-backed group says it’s offered a plan to Gov. Charlie Baker that it claims could cut the planned Orange Line shutdown in half and generate more work hours than the MBTA’s current plans.
With a top state lawmaker calling for de facto federal receivership of the MBTA to address a torrent of safety failures, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said Monday that the agency needs “a partnership, not a takeover.”
The MBTA’s decision to shut down its Green Line subway north of downtown Boston will give developer HYM time to finish demolishing part of a huge garage that hangs over the train’s tunnel, the agency’s leader said Friday.
It’s ironic the Baker administration’s chosen approach to the much-needed Orange Line shutdown seems destined to further erode the same public trust in the T it was supposed to repair.
The MBTA will venture into uncharted territory with a newly announced month-long shutdown of the Orange Line, and the unprecedented step might not be the last of its kind.
With the MBTA planning to shut down its entire Orange Line subway to conduct a range of safety repairs and upgrades, the 101,000 people who take the line every day will need to use different ways to get to work.
The upcoming shutdown of the entire MBTA Orange Line will also prompt work to phase out some of the oldest subway cars in service, officials announced Wednesday.
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Long ago the prophet Isaiah wrote this…
You shall be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord! A royal diadem in the hand of your God!
But to whom was he addressing such fine words?
Your Christmas cracker goes off with a great big bang, and there amidst the frilly paper, the useless toy and the terrible joke, lies the paper crown.
I wonder what you tend to do with that?
Never wear it if you can help it and hope it finds its way into the recycling bin as soon as possible.
Open it out somewhat nervously and see what the others round the table will do. And maybe you will put it gingerly on your head for a while, but then take it off as soon as the moment of frivolity passes.
Or do you put the crown on your head with something of a flourish, but then forget that its there and only when, hours later, you are finally overcome with sherry, the crown slips over your closing eyes as you doze happily in a corner and you here someone say “Look at the king over there, only a mother could love it”
Is the paper crown inside its cracker to you just a bit of fun, or do you ever think, as you look down at it and then hold it in your hands, this is where I come into the nativity story. A king after all.
There is a harsh expose to make about the three gentlemen whose arrival at the manger is at the heart of this morning’s great festival.
They probably weren’t kings as we would understand the term and they may not have been especially wise.
They were more like star gazers and fortune tellers, the sort you might find in a small booth on Brighton Pier.
Such characters were pretty common in the days of Jesus actually, and they were inclined to make a nuisance of themselves going about from place to place and making wild predictions for the future.
Our three, if there were three, seem rather like this. We find them blundering about the streets of Jerusalem asking where the king of the Jews might be found, akin to Laurel and Hardy plus one perhaps, asking for directions to his palace – when towering over the place was Herod’s enormous and imposing residence.
Eventually they crash their way in there and blurt out before Herod, the whole story about the star and a new born king, who is certainly not the king now standing before them.
Despite his grandeur, Herod is an easily threatened individual and he is infuriated by this news of another king, and he demands the details, he summons his advisors and puts on a front before our bewildered visitors and then somewhat simperingly – like a pantomime villain not yet got into his stride:
“And when you find Him, bring me word, that I too may come and worship Him”
Now despite the star, which, according to most of our Christmas cards, was the size of a giant searchlight, and despite the stir these characters cause in the palace precincts and down in the streets of the town, no one is inclined to go with them to Bethlehem. The people all stand rooted to the spot, stuck in their own lives, content to wait for news.
So off they clutter, these travellers, treasures clanking in their luggage. They come to Bethlehem and burst into the stable where the Christ child lies.
But then, then, when they encounter Jesus lying there. When they stop and really see Him, there is only one thing they can do – they bow down and they worship.
The Epiphany moment comes upon them then. They recognise Jesus for who He is and they see themselves as they are – in relation to Him.
Only when they stop and worship do they become wise. Only when they stop and worship do they become kings.
“Crowns of glory in the hand of the Lord, royal diadems in the hand of their God”
They do not bring their wisdom and their kingship into the stable – rather they discover it there.
They’d got nearly everything wrong until then and the consequences of their blundering about Jerusalem resulted directly in the high tragedy of a chain reaction whereby a terrible slaughter of the innocents ensues and the holy family have to run for their lives into Egypt.
I guess that would have hung over them for the rest of their days.
But they had bowed down and worshipped and that is enough for their transformation – their Epiphany.
And here is where our stories cross theirs
So much foolishness.
So much blindness.
So much talking without thinking.
So much acting without considering the effects on others.
But in the place of recognising Jesus and in the worship of Him. Everything that is good becomes possible in us.
And we see that goodness not in terms of the trappings of Herod’s palace any longer, but in Bethlehem’s stable.
A crown of glory in the hand of the Lord . A Royal diadem in the hand of our God.
This is what we can be… if only we will cast ourselves before Him and Come and worship.
Come and worship – Christ the new born king.
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Standard & Poor’s on Friday night downgraded the United States’ sterling long-term credit rating, marking the first time ever that the government’s debt has fallen below AAA. In announcing the cut to AA+, S&P said that the deficit-reduction deal passed by Congress this week did not go far enough to stabilize the government’s debt. The agency also openly questioned whether the country’s sharply divided political leadership could effectively deal with the fiscal challenges ahead.
“The political brinksmanship of recent months highlight what we see as America’s governance and policymaking becoming les stable, less effective, and less predictable than what we previously believed,” the agency said in a statement. “The statutory debt ceiling and the threat of default have become political bargaining chips in the debate over fiscal policy. Despite this year's wide-ranging debate, in our view, the differences between political parties have proven to be extraordinarily difficult to bridge.”
Friday's unprecedented cut came even after the Treasury Department said that it had found a $2 trillion math error in the firm’s calculations of deficit projections earlier this afternoon. Government officials were reportedly furious with the decision, saying it was riddled with errors.
The S&P decision follows months of fierce political battle in Washington over raising taxes and cutting federal spending in order to raise the government’s $14.3 trillion borrowing authority. Congress passed and President Obama signed into law this week a debt reduction package at the 11th-hour that averted a possible default.
Standard & Poor’s said that package “falls short of what, in our view, would be necessary to stabilize the government's medium-term debt dynamics.” John Chambers, chairman of S&P’s sovereign ratings committee, told CNN that lawmakers could have avoided the downgrade by raising the debt ceiling in a timely manner. A deficit reduction plan more along the lines of one released last year by a presidential commission co-chaired by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles could also have prevented the downgrade. Chambers said that plan, which had found $4 trillion in deficit cuts over 10 years, contained sensible recommendations.
S&P rates the debt of 126 countries, and fewer than 20 were rated AAA before this week. In removing the U.S. from that select group, S&P also assigned a negative outlook to its lowered rating, warning that another cut could follow within two years if the government reduces spending by less than expected or if “new fiscal pressures” arise.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV., said in a statement that S&P’s action “reaffirms the need for a balanced approach to deficit reduction that combines spending cuts with revenue-raising measures like closing taxpayer-funded giveaways to billionaires, oil companies and corporate jet owners.” Reid highlighted the importance of the new fiscal “super committee” tasked with finding an additional $1.5 trillion in savings over 10 years by the end of this year.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said that the downgrade is a signal that difficult decisions will need to be made. “This decision by S&P is the latest consequence of the out-of-control spending that has taken place in Washington for decades,” Boehner said in a statement. “Unfortunately, decades of reckless spending cannot be reversed immediately, especially when the Democrats who run Washington remain unwilling to make the tough choices required to put America on solid ground.”
The ratings cut did not come as a complete surprise. Just a few weeks ago, S&P warned that there was a 50 percent chance it would downgrade the U.S. government's credit rating within three months because of the congressional impasse over approving an increase in the debt ceiling. In April the agency first put the government on notice that a downgrade was possible unless Congress created a long-term deficit reduction package. But the two other major ratings agencies—Moody’s Investor Service and Fitch Ratings—both reaffirmed the federal government’s sterling credit rating this week. Moody’s, though, assigned a negative outlook to its rating, indicating that a downgrade could still come before long.
The downgrade caps a week during which weak economic data had already heightened fears that the U.S. may be slipping into a double-dip recession. Rumors of the coming downgrade had roiled the stock market during Friday trading, helping to drive the major indexes sharply lower after a morning rally fueled by a stronger than expected employment report. The Dow Jones Industrial Average recovered, closing the day up 60.93 points, or 0.54 percent, at 11,444.61. But the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index and the Nasdaq failed to end the day in positive territory.
Robert D. Reischauer, a former director of the Congressional Budget Office, was highly critical of S&P for announcing the downgrade so closely on the heels of the completion of the tumultuous negotiations in Washington over raising the debt ceiling and Thursday’s sharp plunge in the stock markets. “It’s a particularly inopportune moment given the fragility in the markets for this to happen,” said Reischauer, the president of the Urban Institute.
He also said that “there’s a certain irony” for any of the big three credit rating companies which “performed so poorly during the housing bubble” and failed to blow the whistle on illegal practices that “brought the economy to its knees and forced the government to run large deficits,” to be now passing judgment on the debt ceiling deal and “potentially kicking the financial community in the groin again.”
“This certainly isn’t good news and will only heighten the animosity and tensions that exist between the government and the financial markets,” he said.
The Treasury Department disclosed this week that -- for the first time since 1946 -- the public debt is greater than the overall size of the U.S. economy. Budget experts said the surge in the debt ratio underscored the government’s continuing challenge to rein in spending.
Shortly after Friday’s announcement the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the National Credit Union Administration issued a joint guidance for federal banking agencies to follow.
“For risk-based capital purposes, the risk weights for Treasury securities and other securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government, government agencies, and government-sponsored entities will not change,” the statement said. “The treatment of Treasury securities and other securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government, government agencies, and government-sponsored entities under other federal banking agency regulations, including, for example, the Federal Reserve Board’s Regulation W, will also be unaffected.”
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Welcome to “This Week in SABR!” Click here to view this week’s newsletter on the web. Here’s what we’ve been up to as of February 12, 2021:
SABR’s Negro Leagues Task Force has made a series of recommendations on which Black leagues from baseball’s segregated era should be recognized as major leagues, and to advise how SABR should change its internal workings to reflect this determination.
The task force, chaired by SABR Board President Mark Armour, acknowledged that the following Black baseball leagues were full major leagues and should be treated as such by all groups or publications under SABR’s purview:
- Negro National League I, 1920–1931
- Negro National League II, 1933–1948
- Negro American League, 1937–1948
- Eastern Colored League, 1923–1928
- American Negro League, 1929
- East-West League, 1932
- Negro Southern League, 1932
“SABR and its members are committed to the preservation and accurate telling of all of baseball’s history,” SABR CEO Scott Bush said. “While the skill of Negro Leaguers has never been in question, this change helps ensure these players are aligned with their rightful peers and provides guidance on how to better tell the story of segregated baseball.”
SABR is also working with Seamheads.com to license the biographical data from its award-winning Negro Leagues Database. These data will be integrated into SABR’s own biographical database, which forms the backbone of the SABR BioProject. The Biographical Research Committee will continue its efforts to correct and update biographical information for non-Negro Leagues players, as well.
As part of the SABR 50 at 50 project to commemorate the organization’s fiftieth anniversary, SABR offers 50 moments in the evolution of baseball analytics for the past 50 years.
The history of baseball analytics, or sabermetrics, is long and complicated and is filled with many important contributions from analysts, writers, popularizers, books, websites and corporations. The 50 selected moments, or events, are ones we thought would best tell the story of the past half century in this ever-changing field since SABR’s founding in 1971. The next 50 years promises to be just as busy.
We invite you to visit SABR.org/50at50/analytics to read the list and the short description for each of the entries. Click on the title to read stories from the SABR Research Collection archives or other baseball authors about these moments.
— Mark Armour
Join us for a one-on-one conversation on Zoom covering the new Minor League Baseball landscape with SABR CEO Scott Bush and J.J. Cooper, Executive Editor of Baseball America. They will cover all aspects of the changes in Minor League Baseball and how we arrived at this point.
Minor League Baseball Discussion with Scott Bush and J.J. Cooper
2:00-3:00 p.m. EST
Friday, February 19, 2021
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
SABR is excited to announce the Use of Analytics in Contract Negotiations panel on Thursday, March 11, 2021, at the SABR Virtual Analytics Conference, which is open to all baseball fans. Register today to join us!
The Use of Analytics in Contract Negotiations panel is expected to include:
- Lonnie Murray, President and CEO of Sports Management Partners
- Burton Rocks, founder of C.L. Rocks Corporation sports agency, author, social media entrepreneur, and sports attorney
- Jay Sartori, Senior Director of Baseball Analytics & Operations with the Detroit Tigers
- Moderator: Brian Kenny, MLB Network host
Please note: All speakers are subject to change depending on availability.
Visit SABR.org/analytics to learn more or to register.
All baseball fans are welcome to join us for the SABR Virtual Analytics Conference, which will be held over four days in online sessions from March 11-14, 2021. We’ll bring together the top minds in the baseball analytics community to discuss, debate, and share insightful ways to analyze and examine the great game of baseball. Register today to join us!
Programming will run on Thursday and Friday evening from 6:30-9:00 p.m. Eastern, all day Saturday from 12:00-8:00 p.m. Eastern, and Sunday afternoon from 1:00-5:00 p.m. EDT.
- Registration: Click here to register for the 2021 SABR Virtual Analytics Conference. Regular registration is $99 for SABR members and $125 for non-members.
- Student Registration: Currently enrolled high school or college students are eligible to attend for a special $50 registration fee. Student registration includes a one-year SABR membership ($25 value) and a complimentary Rapsodo certification course ($395 value). Students should email Scott Carter with a photo of their student ID to receive the discounted registration link. Access to Rapsodo online certification course will be delivered after conclusion of the conference.
- Featured Speakers: Click here to learn more about our featured speakers and panelists.
- Diamond Dollars Virtual Case Competition: Register your team or learn more about the 2021 Diamond Dollars Virtual Case Competition.
- Research Awards: Vote now for the winners of the 2021 SABR Analytics Conference Research Awards.
Stay tuned for more details on guest speakers, panelists, and presenters! Visit SABR.org/analytics to learn more.
Here’s your chance to vote for the 2021 SABR Analytics Conference Research Awards winners.
The SABR Analytics Conference Research Awards will recognize baseball researchers who have completed the best work of original analysis or commentary during the preceding calendar year. Nominations were solicited by representatives from SABR, Baseball Prospectus, FanGraphs, and the Internet Baseball Writers Association of America.
Results will be announced and presented at the SABR Virtual Analytics Conference, March 11-14, 2021. Learn more or register for the conference at SABR.org/analytics.
SABR and the International Women’s Baseball Center have announced a call for papers for the third annual SABR/IWBC Women in Baseball Conference, scheduled for September 10-12, 2021, at Rockford University in Rockford, Illinois.
This year’s conference theme is “Breaking Barriers: Women in Baseball Around the World.” All topics related to women’s baseball are welcome for individual oral and poster presentations. Please submit abstracts of approximately 200 words, along with contact information and a short biography, by July 5, 2021, to Leslie Heaphy at firstname.lastname@example.org.
All notifications will be made by August 2. In the event the conference cannot be held in person, we will proceed with online presentations, panel discussions, and other demonstrations of baseball scholarship.
For coverage of the 2020 virtual conference, visit SABR.org/women-in-baseball-conference.
SABR chapters and committees are encouraged to set up virtual meetings to stay engaged with our members throughout the world at SABR.org, as part of our Stay Home With SABR initiative to assist in limiting the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
- Can’t-Miss Event: SABR’s Emil Rothe Chicago Chapter and Ken Keltner Badger State Chapter will hold a joint Zoom meeting from 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. CST on Saturday, February 13. We’ll talk about “The Good, Bad, and Ugly of the Minor Leagues Reorganization” with SABR CEO Scott Bush, and a panel on the Negro Leagues with Sean Gibson, Larry Lester, Scott Simkus, and Mark Armour. Click here to register for the Zoom details.
- Video Replays: This week, we heard from Boston Red Sox broadcaster Joe Castiglione, Borchert Field author Bob Buege, Jack Anderson on Jackie Robinson and the 1946 Montreal Royals, Donald Jensen on concessions pioneer Harry Stevens, and authors Dixie Tourangeau (on Cy Young), Steven Glassman (on 1971 Topps cards), and Bill Nowlin (on umpires and perfect games). Click here to view more video replays of virtual SABR events.
Here are some more upcoming virtual events you can attend online; check the Events Calendar for complete details:
- February 13: Hank Gowdy (OH) Chapter meeting (9:30 a.m. EST)
- February 13: Ken Keltner-Emil Rothe joint chapter meeting with Scott Bush, Mark Armour, Larry Lester, Scott Simkus, Sean Gibson, Bill Pearch, and Jason Schwartz (11:30 a.m. CST)
- February 13: Baseball Reminiscence / Women in Baseball meeting (1:30 p.m. EST)
- February 13: Pacific Northwest Chapter Meeting with Bart Waldman, Mark Armour, Rob Neyer, John Choiniere, and Eric Sallee (1:00 p.m. PST)
- February 15: Larry Dierker (TX) Chapter meeting with Thomas Gilbert and Brian McTaggart (7:00 p.m. CST)
- February 16: IBWAA: Now Batting with Gabrielle Starr (8:00 p.m. EST)
- February 17: Rocky Mountain Chapter meeting (2:00 p.m. MST)
- February 17: Central Florida Chapter meeting (7:00 p.m. EST)
- February 18: Connecticut Smoky Joe Wood Chapter meeting with Aaron Gaberman and Neil Scherer (6:30 p.m. EST)
- February 18: Magnolia (GA) Chapter meeting (7:30 p.m. EST)
- February 19: Minor League Baseball Discussion with Scott Bush and J.J. Cooper (2:00 p.m. EST)
Find more upcoming virtual meetings on our SABR Events Calendar page.
An invaluable research collection on 19th-century baseball is now available for all SABR members to download on the Research Resources page.
Historian Preston D. Orem’s Baseball (1882-1891) From the Newspaper Accounts, ten original volumes of exhaustive research from contemporary newspapers covering professional baseball for each season from 1882 to 1891, is now available as a free PDF download. The 714-page volume at SABR.org includes a new foreword by John Thorn and a preface by Bob Bailey.
Orem’s previous Newspaper Accounts book, self-published in 1961, covered the 1845 to 1881 seasons and has long been used as a source by writers and researchers on 19th-century baseball. This title, originally released in 1966-67, is much harder to find.
The SABR Nominating Committee is now seeking nominations for candidates for the 2021 elections. To be eligible for the Board of Directors, candidates must have been members of the Society for at least the preceding four years. The deadline for nominations is February 26, 2021.
The offices to be filled:
- President (2-year term; currently Mark Armour)
- Secretary (3-year term; currently Todd Lebowitz)
- Director (3-year term; currently Tyrone Brooks)
Nominees must prepare a Candidate Statement Form following guidelines that will be available from any Nominating Committee member and must be received by the Nominating Committee chair no later than March 26, 2021. Self-nominations are welcome. If you would like to nominate yourself or another candidate or suggest a question for the candidates, contact Nominating Committee chair Anthony Salazar at email@example.com.
Registration is now open for the 11th annual SABR Frederick Ivor-Campbell 19th Century Base Ball Conference, which will be held virtually on April 22-24, 2021. All baseball fans are welcome to register for this special online event.
The 2021 virtual conference will be highlighted by a keynote address from Major League Baseball’s Official Historian John Thorn, along with a panel discussion on National League president William Hulbert with Jack Bales, Richard Hershberger, Bill Lamb, and moderator Bill Ryczek; a special presentation by Jim Gates on the “Penny Marshall Sheet Music Collection” at the Baseball Hall of Fame; a Member Spotlight interview of Tom Gilbert by Bob Bailey; plus research presentations.
- Registration: Click here to register online. The cost is $35 per person. Each attendee must register separately in order to receive the Zoom meeting information.
- Schedule: Click here to view the full schedule for the 2021 Ivor-Campbell Conference. Online sessions will be held from 8:00-10:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday, April 22; 12:00-5:30 p.m. EDT on Friday, April 23; and 12:00-5:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday, April 24. Registration provides access to all panels and presentations for each day.
For questions, please contact Peter Mancuso at firstname.lastname@example.org.
To learn more about the conference, visit SABR.org/ivor-campbell19c.
Episode #97 on Monday, February 8 featured Marty Appel, who became the youngest public relations director in baseball history when George Steinbrenner elevated him to the New York Yankees post in 1973. He is the author or co-author of numerous sports books, including the New York Times-bestselling Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain; Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees from Before the Babe to After the Boss; and most recently Casey Stengel: Baseball’s Greatest Character, winner of the aptly named CASEY Award in 2017. He resides in New York City.
Visit SABR.org/sabrcast to listen to the full episode.
Subscribe to SABRcast on your favorite podcast networks, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher, and listen to each episode as soon as it’s released on Mondays. To learn more, visit SABR.org/sabrcast.
Fourteen new biographies were posted this week as part of the SABR Baseball Biography Project. Here are the new bios published this week:
- Harry Buckner, by Phil Williams
- Roger Erickson, by Malcolm Allen
- Gary Gaetti, by Bryan Lake
- Pete Galligan, by Paul Winter
- Joe Martina, by Tim Hagerty
- John Marzano, by John Stefano
- Willie McGee, by Eric Vickrey
- Lloyd Merritt, by Gregory H. Wolf
- John Peters, by Terry Bohn
- Mark Weems, by Alfonso Tusa and Rory Costello
- Eric Wilkins, by Malcolm Allen
- Dallas Williams, by Malcolm Allen
- Ron Willis, by Eric Vickrey
- Johnson Field (Johnson City, NY), by Kurt Blumenau
All new biographies can be found here: SABR.org/bioproject
- Find any SABR biography: You can visit sabr.org/bioproject to search for any player — or manager, executive, scout, spouse, broadcaster, or umpire — who appears in the SABR BioProject. In addition, we have pages for Ballparks, Broadcasters, Executives, Games, Managers, Scouts, Spouses, Umpires, Writers, people who were Famous Outside Baseball, and a lot more.
Seven new game stories were posted this week as part of the SABR Games Project. Here are the new game stories:
- July 2, 1939: Ted Williams hits his first game-winning homer, off a future Hall of Famer, by Bill Nowlin
- May 9, 1965: Yogi Berra hangs up his spikes as Mets lose again, by David Krell
- July 20, 1969: Yankees win an ordinary game on an ordinary day on Planet Earth, by Chad Osborne
- September 30, 1971: Senators forfeit final home game in Washington, DC, by Jeff Kallman (first-time author)
- June 24, 1972: Minor-leaguers get ‘call-up’ to Philadelphia’s Veterans Stadium after hurricane, by Kurt Blumenau
- May 8, 2018: Seattle’s ‘Big Maple’ James Paxton throws a no-hitter on Canadian soil, by Gary Belleville
- September 5, 2018: Brandon Phillips home run lifts Red Sox to comeback win over Atlanta, by Bill Nowlin
New Games Project stories can be found at SABR.org/gamesproject.
With the recent addition of Negro Leagues box scores at Retrosheet.org, many SABR Games Project stories on the Negro Leagues now include play-by-play details on the exploits of Black baseball greats such as Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and Buck Leonard.
- Get involved: Have memories of a game you attended? Or a game you watched that caught your interest? Write about it! Writing for the Games Project is an easy way to get involved as a SABR member. Find out how by reading the Games Project FAQs section or checking out the Authors’ Guidelines. We have editors and fact checkers who are willing to help you write your first article.
- Social media: Follow the SABR Games Project on Twitter or Facebook to keep up with new stories and updates.
Behind the Numbers: Baseball SABR Style on SiriusXM, a radio show hosted by former SABR Board President Vince Gennaro, is back at a new time. Listen to new episodes at 4:00-5:00 p.m. ET on Saturdays on MLB Network Radio.
You can also listen to archives of recent episodes on-demand on the SiriusXM Internet Radio app.
Behind the Numbers: Baseball SABR Style on SiriusXM focuses on examining and interpreting the statistical analysis that plays a critical role in baseball today. It airs weekly throughout the year on MLB Network Radio, available to subscribers nationwide on XM channel 89, Sirius channel 209, and on the SiriusXM Internet Radio App.
- McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award (best history/biography articles; deadline: 2/15/2021)
Please note: Only ONE entry per nomination will be considered (do not submit multiple nominations for the same award). For more information on SABR Awards, click here.
Here are some major headlines from recent weeks that we don’t want you to miss:
- Watch a video replay of our SABR Day program with Bob Costas and Tim Mead
- SABR member Kazuo Sayama elected to Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
- Read articles from the Fall 2020 Baseball Research Journal online
- SABR welcomes new Baseball Necrology chartered community
- In Memoriam: Henry Aaron
- Call for papers: Turnstyle: The SABR Journal of Baseball Arts
- ‘Lost’ no-hitter by Cleveland’s Pete Dowling in 1901 now recognized as first in American League history
- SABR 50 at 50: Baseball Films and TV
- Take a tour of the newly redesigned SABR.org website
- Get a gift for baseball fan in your life with the SABR Store @ CafePress
- All e-books in SABR Digital Library available for free to members
All previous editions of This Week in SABR can be found here: /content/this-week-in-sabr-archives.
You can find contact information for any SABR member in the online Membership Directory.
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|Bill Klink||Sun City, AZ||Greg Thompson||Exton, PA|
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Here are the new research committee updates this week:
- Baseball Arts: Read the full-length version of John Jakicic’s epic poem from Turnstyle, Volume 2
- Women in Baseball: Call for nominations: 2021 Dorothy Seymour Mills Award
Find all SABR research committee newsletters at SABR.org/research/committees.
Here are the new regional chapter and chartered community updates this week:
- Connie Mack Chapter: January 30/SABR Day meeting recap (Philadelphia, PA)
- Quebec Chapter: February 6 meeting recap (Montreal, QC)
Visit SABR.org/chapters for more information on SABR regional chapters.
Here are some recent articles published by and about SABR members:
- Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony to be held indoors in 2021 (BaseballHall.org)
- Cassidy Kendall: Friends pay tribute to baseball historian Mike Dugan, beloved civic figure (Hot Springs Sentinel-Record)
- Jim Gates: Negro Leagues became major league with the help of groundbreaking research (BaseballHall.org)
- J.J. Cooper: All 120 Teams Sign PDLs, Completing MiLB’s Most Significant Change In A Century (Baseball America)
- Jay Jaffe: High-Tech Contact Tracing, Vaccines, and Runners on Second in Extras: A Dive Into the 2021 Health and Safety Protocols (FanGraphs)
- Stephanie Apstein: Did MLB Use Juiced Balls in 2020? (Sports Illustrated)
- Eno Sarris/Ken Rosenthal: MLB making changes to the baseball, deadening it — but by how much? (The Athletic)
- Hannah Keyser: Could MLB still have the universal DH in 2021? Here’s where baseball’s rule change uncertainty stands (Yahoo! Sports)
- Jayson Stark: Measuring the impact of five big moves this winter (The Athletic)
- Emma Baccellieri: Deadening the Baseball? MLB’s Done It Before (Sports Illustrated)
- Rob Arthur: PECOTA Does Well With Pitchers Who Beat FIP (Baseball Prospectus)
- Ben Clemens: Should Good Hitters Lead Off? (FanGraphs)
- Rob Mains: The Times Through The Order Penalty is Worse Than You Thought (Baseball Prospectus)
- Grant Brisbee: Trevor Bauer has the chance to be an all-time great arch-nemesis for the Giants (The Athletic)
- David Laurila: Royals Righty Josh Staumont Talks Pitching (FanGraphs)
- Howard Megdal: Positional Movement and You: A Primer (Baseball Prospectus)
- Michael Clair: The folksy, hand-drawn cards by Gummy Arts (MLB.com)
- Jemele Hill: Curt Flood Belongs in the Hall of Fame (The Atlantic)
- Richard Goldstein: Wayne Terwilliger Dies at 95; Baseball Was His (Long) Life (New York Times)
- Kevin Kernan: Grave Matters: Frank Russo’s baseball gravesite quest (BallNine.com)
- Clinton Yates: Chicago Cubs’ new apparel to honor bond between Buck O’Neil and Ernie Banks (The Undefeated)
- Todd Zolecki: Phillies who hold ‘Moonlight Graham’ status (MLB.com)
- Aidan Jackson-Evans: Everything in baseball is ‘overrated’ (High Heat Stats)
- Connor Robinson, Davy Andrews, and Roger Cormier: Too Far From Town: Boise Hawks (Baseball Prospectus)
- Scott Pitoniak: A legendary Negro Leagues pitcher inspired a researcher from Fairport (Rochester Business Journal)
- Jeff Cohen: Baseball and BBQ interview with author Thomas Gilbert (Baseball and BBQ)
- Derek Bain: Retro Computer Baseball Game Review: Tony La Russa Baseball II (Baseball Analytics)
- Nick Vossbrink: Jim Abbott and Rookie Cards (SABR Baseball Cards Blog)
- Jeff Katz: An Appealing Set (SABR Baseball Cards Blog)
Please note: Some articles may require a separate subscription to view online. SABR does not endorse, and is not responsible or liable for, any content that appears on a third-party website.
This Week in SABR is compiled by Jacob Pomrenke. If you would like us to include an upcoming event, article or any other information in “This Week in SABR,” e-mail email@example.com.
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Originally published: February 12, 2021. Last Updated: February 12, 2021.
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I must admit, I think the ending of this excellent short story is rather unequivocal. Let us remember that we are presented with a woman who is profoundly lacking in self-awareness, as her fantasy of the huge drama at the park shows, in which even she is given a part and therefore importance. We are presented with a female character who does everything she can to distract herself from her own insignificance and lack of relations. She is overtly blind to this, but what is key about the final paragraph of this tale is the way that at least part of her recognises the truth of her own insignificance:
But today she passed the bakey's by, climbed the stairs, went into the little dark room--her room like a cupboard--and sat down on the red eiderdown. She sat there for a long time. The box that the fur came out of was on the bed. She unclasped the necklet quickly; quickly, without looking, laid it inside. But when she put the lid on she thought she heard something crying.
Key phrases to focus on are the way which the room is described as being "like a cupboard," just as Miss Brill, at the beginning of the story, looks at other people and imagines them to live in rooms like cupboards as well. Also, note her response to her necklet that she took such pride in at the beginning of the tale. She, at some level, is humiliated, embarrassed and ashamed at what she overheard the young couple say about her as it resonates deeply within her and makes her realise just how ridiculous and lonely she is. The crying at the end of the story is therefore the sound of her own sobs.
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Visitors to the modern nation of Ghana may visit Elmina and Cape Coast castles to see and hear about the connection of the West African coastline to the Middle Passage. What they may never see are the long distances from the point of capture and sale to the coast for the final exit. This 14-day seminar and tour, “Roots,” will take participants to several of the sites of capture, encampment and sale. We retrace, to some extent the long and painful journeys and of the captives from Northern Ghana to the coast. These sites include Gwollu, Salaga, Pinkoro, Kumasi, and Assin-Manso. Side attractions on this trip include a visit to Kakum National Park where a canopied walkway allows visitors to walk along the tree line to view various wild species of birds and animals, and Bonwire, home of the famous Kente cloth. The seminar will be taught by Pan-African Studies Program faculty, Professor E. Obiri Addo. For more information contact Lillie Edwards (firstname.lastname@example.org) or E. Obiri Addo (email@example.com).
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Kombucha is a living health drink made by fermenting tea and sugar with the kombucha culture. The result can taste like something between sparkling apple cider and champagne, depending on what kind of tea you use. It's not what you'd imagine fermented tea to taste like.
The origins of Kombucha have become lost in the mists of time. It is thought to have originated in the Far East, probably China, and has been consumed there for at least two thousand years. The first recorded use of kombucha comes from China in 221 BC during the Tsin Dynasty. It was known as "The Tea of Immortality".
It has been used in Eastern Europe, Russia and Japan for several centuries. It's from Japan in 415 AD that the name kombucha is said to have come. A Korean physician called Kombu or Kambu treated the Emperor Inyko with the tea and it took his name, "Kombu" and "cha" meaning tea. Russia has a long tradition of using a healing drink called "Tea Kvass" made from a "Japanese Mushroom".
From Russia it spread to Prussia, Poland, Germany and Denmark but it seems to have died out during World War Two. After the war Dr Rudolph Skelnar created renewed interest in kombucha in Germany when he used it in his practice to treat cancer patients, metabolic disorders, high blood pressure and diabetes.
The Kombucha Culture
The Kombucha culture looks like a beige or white rubbery pancake. It's often called a 'scoby' which stands for ' symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeasts.The culture is placed in sweetened black or green tea and turns a bowl full of sweet tea into a bowl full of vitamins, minerals, enzymes and health-giving organic acids.
As the Kombucha culture digests the sugar it produces a range of organic acids like glucuronic acid, gluconic acid, lactic acid, acetic acid, butyric acid, malic acid and usnic acid; vitamins, particularly B vitamins and vitamin C; as well as amino acids, enzymes. And of course there are all the benefits of the probiotic microorganisms themselves. The Kombucha culture is a biochemical powerhouse in your kitchen.
You might wonder if fermenting tea with yeasts would produce an alcoholic beverage. It's a good question. The yeasts do produce alcohol but the bacteria in the culture turn the alcohol to organic acids. Only minute quantities of alcohol, typically 1% by volume remains in the kombucha brew.
With every brew you make the kombucha forms a new layer or scoby on the surface of the liquid. These can be left to thicken the scoby or can be divided, giving you spare cultures that you can store in some sweet tea in the fridge in case something should happen to your active culture. Or you might want to pass on spare Kombucha cultures to friends or use a new scoby to start another batch of kombucha.
Kombucha and Health
Many health claims are made for kombucha but there is less research on the benefits of kombucha than there is on fermented milk products. It has certainly been shown to have similar antibiotic, antiviral and anti fungal properties in lab tests. In rats it’s been shown to protect against stress and improve liver function. There is a lot of experiential evidence from people who have been using kombucha over many years. Many of the benefits reported include improvements in energy levels, metabolic disorders, allergies, cancer, digestive problems, candidiasis, hypertension, HIV, chronic fatigue and arthritis. It ‘s also used externally for skin problems and as a hair wash among other things.
The Organic Acids
Types of Tea for Kombucha
Kombucha requires tea for its fermentation (Camellia Sinensis). That's real tea not herbal tea. It can be also be sensitive to strong aromatic oils. A tea like Earl Grey that contains Bergamot oil, can sometimes kill or badly affect the culture. There are several different kinds of tea that give different results from lighter tastes to stronger more cider like tastes.
Ubiquitous Co-Enzyme UDPGlucuronic Acid Detoxifying Agent in Kombucha
Tea? By Norbert Hoffmann.
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Medicare covers a variety of heath care services that you can receive in the comfort and privacy of your home. These include intermittent skilled nursing care, physical therapy, speech-language pathology services and occupational therapy.
To be eligible for home health benefits you must be under a doctor’s care and receive your services under a plan of care established and reviewed regularly by a physician.
You must be homebound and have a doctor’s certification to that effect (being homebound means leaving your home isn’t recommended because of your condition, or your condition keeps you from leaving without using a wheelchair or walker, or getting help from another person).
Also, you must get your services from a home health agency that’s Medicare-approved.
If you meet these criteria, Medicare pays 100 percent.
For durable medical equipment (like a walker, wheelchair or oxygen equipment), you pay 20 percent of the Medicare-approved amount, after you pay the Part B deductible ($147 in 2013).
Skilled nursing services are covered when they’re given on a part-time or intermittent basis. In order for Medicare to cover such care, it must be necessary and ordered by your doctor for your specific condition. Medicare does not cover full-time nursing care.
Skilled nursing services are given by either a registered nurse or a licensed practical nurse under an RN’s supervision. Examples include: giving IV drugs, shots or tube feedings; changing dressings; and teaching about prescription drugs or diabetes care.
Physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech-language pathology services have to be specific, safe and effective treatments for your condition.
Before your home health care begins, the home health agency should tell you how much of your bill Medicare will pay. This should be both a verbal and written explanation.
For more details on Medicare’s home health benefit, please read our booklet, Medicare and Home Health Care. It’s online at www.medicare.gov/publications/pubs/pdf/10969.pdf.
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Washington, D.C.—A new report released today shows how harsh drug policies have spurred the overuse of pretrial detention in Latin America, disproportionately affecting women who may spend months, or even years, locked up for non-violent drug offenses before ever stepping foot in a courtroom.
Data compiled and analyzed by three human rights, research and advocacy groups—the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC), and Dejusticia—found that across most of Latin America a higher proportion of women than men are awaiting trial behind bars. In many countries, a significant percentage of these women are locked up for non-violent drug offenses. The report underscores the critical need for policymakers across the region to reform harsh drug laws and restrict the use of pretrial detention.
“Aggressive drug laws are filling up Latin America’s prisons with women, many of whom are forced to go into the drug trade because they have no alternative way of supporting their families,” said WOLA Program Associate and report author Teresa García Castro. “These women often spend years in overcrowded prisons waiting to see a judge, with devastating consequences for their lives, their families and the broader community.”
The report found that, amid a dramatic increase in Latin America’s female prison population over the past 20 years, a significant percentage of women are languishing in pretrial detention. In countries like Mexico, the percentage of women in pretrial detention is around 20 percent higher than for men. In Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru, around half of the women in pretrial detention are incarcerated for drug offenses.
“Latin American policymakers should recognize that locking up significant numbers of women to await trial for low-level, non-violent drug offenses does not create more just or safer communities, nor does it reduce the scale of the illicit drug market,” asserts Marie Nougier, IDPC Head of Research and Communications.
While several Latin American countries have taken steps in recent years to reduce excessive use of pretrial detention, these measures remain woefully inadequate. The report recommends a number of reforms, including adopting legal restrictions to limit the use of pretrial detention to exceptional cases, promoting non-custodial alternatives, and removing the obligation to impose pretrial detention for a specific offense, such as drug offenses. All of these measures should incorporate a gender-specific approach to alleviate the disproportionate impact of pretrial detention on women. For instance, the use of pretrial detention should be prohibited for pregnant women or women with dependents.
“International law makes it clear that pretrial detention should only be used as a last resort, but criminal justice systems across Latin America continue to employ it all too frequently and often arbitrarily,” notes Luis Felipe Cruz, a researcher at Dejusticia. “Addressing this problem entails reforming the overly punitive drug laws driving incarceration rates across the region, while recognizing that women are bearing the brunt of these unjust policies.”
Notes to the Editor:
About IDPC: IDPC is a global network of 180+ NGOs that promotes objective and open debate on the effectiveness, direction and content of drug policies at the national and international level, and supports evidence-based policies that are effective at reducing drug-related harm.
About WOLA: WOLA is a leading research and advocacy organization advancing human rights in the Americas.
About Dejusticia: Dejusticia is a Colombia-based research and advocacy organization dedicated to the strengthening of the rule of law and the promotion of social justice and human rights in Colombia and the Global South.
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Do you remember running board races at school?
Or even playing Duck Duck Goose on Field Day?
I loved those rare occasions when we were allowed to play.
We weren’t focused on learning or practicing what we already knew, we were just having fun.
Any learning that occurred was a happy accident.
My kids also love to play games.
They will learn what they need to in order to be able to play the game.
Sadly, collecting games get expensive and several of the ones at second hand stores are often missing pieces.
Fortunately, you can easily make lots of games at home and several sites (Math Geek Mama is my favorite for kids at kindergarten level) have printable games that you can use at home.
But you need to have time (and printer paper) to make and assemble these games.
Mother Goose Time has once again made my life a little easier.
Several ready to go games are included in our monthly curriculum box.
For example, we are starting week two of our time learning about the pond and we have already played three games.
To successfully play these games the kids had to conquer:
Basic Number Recognition
I love when Ladybug tries to teach the baby to play games, I think he does too!
One of my favorite reasons for using games is that it gives the kids a reason to care about learning concepts.
Sure, phonics will help them learn to read, but it’s a big leap from making a “f” sound to reading a book.
Showing them that if they can sound out the letter “f” they can move forward two spaces has immediate value.
It’s totally OK that you know there’s a higher purpose to the game
Mother Goose Time games require and reinforce learning concepts, but keep the focus on play and fun.
In the past we have also played games requiring knowledge about
and even other countries, like South Africa.
A Few Tips for Success
Read the directions. You’ll want to know the suggested rules for the game before you start. Small children, like mine, do not sit still and keep their hands off the pieces while you figure it out
Play with them. “Do you want to come play a game with me?” works a lot better for me than, “Here, kids I have a game for you to play.”
Be open to changing up the rules. Many a time my kids will start playing a different way or start avoiding the rules. I tend to notice this when they find the game too hard, too easy, or if they are getting tired of playing. I tend to follow their lead. The result has been more time playing and more creativity.
Keep it fun. Playing games is an amazing way for families to connect. At the preschool age, learning information is secondary to learning to take turns, follow rules, and enjoy the company of others while playing together. If the kids aren’t having fun, stop.
Family Favorite Starter Games
In addition to our Mother Goose Time games, we also have some recommended family favorites to get you started on your way to becoming a family that plays “indoor games” together.
Very First Games
First Toddler Games
- Goodnight Moon Game
- Don’t Rock the Croc (my four and three year old are now so good at this game, they can play on their own while I fix dinner)
First Preschool Games
- Life on Earth Matching Game (beautiful and super durable pieces for little hands)
- Count Your Chickens
We are finding new games to play everyday!
We are especially grateful for the ones that Mother Goose Time delivers right to our door every month!
Do you have a favorite to recommend?
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So what does this mean, well say you have a data store of some description and the data gets automatically incremented, instead of having to load all the data into the database at a set interval you can use ODI to capture the additional data and with the use of a package monitor when the change occurs resulting in a load executing.
In ODI terms this process is known as Changed Data Capture (CDC), CDC is performed by journalizing models. Journalizing a model consists of setting up the components to capture the changes (inserts, updates and deletes) made to the records of the models datastores.
ODI has two journalizing modes
• Simple Journalizing tracks changes in individual datastores in a model.
• Consistent Set Journalizing tracks changes to a group of the model's datastores, taking into account the referential integrity between these datastores.
The journalizing components are :
• Journals: Where changes are recorded. Journals only contain references to the changed
records along with the type of changes (insert/update, delete).
• Capture processes: Journalizing captures the changes in the source datastores either by
creating triggers on the data tables.
• Subscribers: CDC uses a publish/subscribe model. Subscribers are entities (applications,
integration processes, etc) that use the changes tracked on a datastore or on a consistent set.
They subscribe to a model's CDC to have the changes tracked for them. Changes are
captured only if there is at least one subscriber to the changes. When all subscribers have
consumed the captured changes, these changes are discarded from the journals.
• Journalizing views: Provide access to the changes and the changed data captured. They are
used by the user to view the changes captured, and by integration processes to retrieve the
Ok, as usual I don’t like to get too bogged down in lengthy spiel so I think we will get right into how CDC can be set up and what is it actually doing, now I understand this topic may have been covered by others in different forms but I wanted to write about in a way that most could understand and relate it to the essbase/planning world.
To keep everything simple I will be using the sample.basic essbase database as the target, the source will be a SQL server db table, I am also going to assume that you have enough understanding about the concepts of ODI, if you don’t then I suggest reading through previously blogs.
The above table will be used as the source and any changes to this table will need to be captured, before you use CDC on a table make sure it has a primary key otherwise you won’t be able to use it.
First the Model is created that is going to hold the journalized tables.
The table that is going to be monitored for changes is selected and reversed.
The next step will be to choose the Journalizing Knowledge Module, if you are using SQL server you will need to have imported in the following KMs
- JKM MSSQL Consistent
- JKM MSSQL Simple
If you are using Oracle there are a number of KMs available depending version.
The next step is to flag the datastore that is going to be journalized, right click the datastore and select “Changed Data Capture” > Add to CDC
If you edit your model again and choose the “Journalized Tables” tab the datastore should be visible.
A subscriber (described earlier) should be added next, to do so right click the datastore > “Changed Data Capture” > Subscriber > Subscribe
The name of the subscriber can be anything that seems relevant.
Once you click ok then a session is executed and as this is the first time a subscriber has been created then a db table (SNP_SUBSCRIBERS) is created and populated with the subscriber information.
Ok, now the journal can be started that will capture the changes. Right click the datastore > “Changed Data Capture” > “Start Journal”, select the subscriber and another session will be started; this will create the required journal tables, views and triggers.
I will try and explain the details of what happens in the session:-
Two triggers (DT$<CDC table> & UT$<CDC table>) are created on the table that is going to be monitored, so in my example UT$Sample_Data & DT$Sample, one trigger will monitor for any updates or inserts and the other monitors deletions. Once a change occurs a table named J$<CDC Table> (J$Sample_Data) table will be updated.
A table named J$<CDC table> is created, as the table I am using in this example is called “Sample_Data” a table named J$Sample_Data is created; this is the table which is updated once the above trigger is fired.
Two views are created “JV$
Once journalizing is active a green icon will be displayed on the datastore.
Inserting a record into the sample_data table
Fires off the trigger and inserts a record into the J$Sample_Data table
The field JRN_SUBSCRIBER is populated with the name of the subscriber which is monitoring the changes, the JRN_FLAG field is populated with
Running the view JV$Sample_Data will return the inserted record and journal information.
Right, back to ODI, you can view the changed data by right clicking the datastore > “Changed Data Capture” > Journal Data
This is performing the same functionality as running the view but in the ODI environment.
Now the journalizing is active an interface can be created which will take the new records and load them into our essbase database.
When you drag a journalized datastore onto the source a check box appears, when you check the box the journalizing columns JRN_FLAG, JRN_DATE and JRN_SUBSCRIBER become available.
A filter is automatically created on JRN_SUBSCRIBER & JRN_DATE columns; make sure you highlight the filter and update the expression as by default the subscriber to filter on is named as ‘SUNOPSIS’, you will need to update this to the name of the subscriber you are using, you can test you have it correct by applying the changes then right clicking the source datastore and selecting “Data”. The filter on JRN_DATE is commented out by default and can be updated if you require to use it.
I added an extra filter on the JRN_FLAG column only to return records that equalled ‘I’, so inserts/updates and not deletes.
The rest of the interface is set up exactly like you would if you were loading data into any essbase database (this has all been covered in previous blogs)
Executing the interface will load any changed data into essbase, due to the nature of simple journalizing once the interface has completed successfully it deletes all the journal information (the JRN_FLAG is not taken into account), so if you require more than one interface in your integration to use the journal information then consistent set journalizing will be required, this will be covered in the next blog.
This interface could be scheduled though if you want to automate the interface to run when a change in data happens then there a number of journalizing tools available.
• OdiWaitForData waits for a number of rows in a table or a set of tables.
• OdiWaitForLogData waits for a certain number of modifications to occur on a journalized
table or a list of journalized tables. This tool calls OdiRefreshJournalCount to perform the
count of new changes captured.
• OdiWaitForTable waits for a table to be created and populated with a pre-determined
number of rows.
• OdiRetrieveJournalData retrieves the journalized events for a given table list or CDC set
for a specified journalizing subscriber. Calling this tool is required if using Database-Specific
Processes to load journalizing tables. This tool needs to be used with specific knowledge
modules. See the knowledge module description for more information.
• OdiRefreshJournalCount refreshes the number of rows to consume for a given table list or
CDC set for a specified journalizing subscriber.
For this example I am going to use the OdiWaitForLogData tool, first a package is created and the tool added on to the diagram.
There are a number of parameters that can be set for the tool. I set it up so it would check the journalized table Sample_Data using the subscriber SampleDataDataSubscriber, it will check every one minute with an infinite timeout and move on to the next step when five rows of data have changed in the journalized table.
All that was left was to add the interface to load the data and once the data has been loaded start monitoring again.
Now after executing the package, the session waits until five records have been added then the data load is initiated.
In the next blog I will look at using CDC with loading Metadata into a planning application, I will look at using separate interfaces depending on whether the metadata changed is a new member or it is a deletion, this will require the use of consistent set journalizing because as we have seen today once one interface has been executed in simple mode all the journal information is deleted.
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Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water’s edge. He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said: “Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain. Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, multiplying thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times.”
Then Jesus said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
When he was alone, the Twelve and the others around him asked him about the parables. He told them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables so that,
“‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving,
and ever hearing but never understanding;
otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!’”
Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable? The farmer sows the word. Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy. But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful. Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—thirty, sixty or even a hundred times what was sown.”
—Mark 4:1-20, NIV
This is the familiar parable of the sower and the seeds. First Jesus tells the parable to the crowd: a sower sows seed on different types of land: some falls along the path and the birds eat it right away. Some falls on rocky places, where it springs up quickly but dies off when the sun comes out because the roots are shallow. Some falls among thorns, which choke the plants as they sprout. But some falls on fertile ground where it produces a good crop.
When Jesus was alone with His disciples, they asked Him to explain the parable. First Jesus says that He told the parable so that the crowd would not understand its meaning! Then, before explaining the meaning of the parable, He scolded the disciples for not understanding it right off.
The farmer sows the Word, and the various outcomes show how different people receive the Word. Some don’t get it at all; Satan snatches away the message before it has any effect. Some receive it with joy, but their commitment is shallow. As soon as persecution or trouble comes, they abandon it. Some receive it as among thorns; the worries and ambitions of life choke it out as it sprouts within them. Finally there are people who are like fertile ground: they hear the Word, accept it, and they bear much fruit.
In this passage, Jesus says that He tells parables so that the people will not understand or be saved!
Today we are puzzled why the crowd would follow Jesus to hear puzzling teachings that they could not understand, or why only the disciples would ask for clarification and then in private. Some of us develop within our minds a picture of Jesus as starry-eyed fellow with curly tresses, who mumbles incomprehensible stories and platitudes as He wanders through the countryside, kissing babies and petting lambs. We even have Sunday-school pictures to aid us in this delusion! But such an image doesn’t stand the light of day—if that were really what Jesus were like, no one would have taken Him seriously. The New Testament would be filled with Pharisees ridiculing Jesus with the first-century equivalent of ‘Ground Control to Jesus—come in, please!’
No, that picture is false. Jesus taught in parables for two reasons.
The first reason is that Jesus is a rabbi, and like all rabbis of those days, He taught in stories and parables. If you would like to know more about this, ask any Jewish scholar about the Mishnah and the Talmud and other Jewish religious literature of the period. The rabbis who told the best stories had the best following. The people followed Jesus because they were entertained by His stories and since they were used to parables (some of which could be very profound) they didn’t expect to be able to understand them right off.
The second reason Jesus taught in parables was because, as He says in this passage, He wanted to disguise the truth. Actually, He was planting a sort of time bomb. The people flocked around Him and listened to His stories. Like good jokes, they were repeated until they had a wider audience than the people who originally heard them from Jesus’ lips. The meaning of the parables was concealed from the people, but the Pharisees often caught on to the implications of His message, which made them fear the political consequences of His ministry. They plotted His demise to preserve the delicate relationship with Rome to avoid the military consequences of what appeared to be a seditious uprising among the people.
Later, after Jesus had been crucified and had risen from the grave, the apostles found fertile soil for their message. The time bomb went off, because the people were already familiar with the parables. All the apostles had to do was explain them, this time with the events of Easter as proof. This is what Jesus meant when He told the disciples that what they heard in secret (that is, the meaning of the parables) would later be shouted from the housetops! At that time the people understood and were saved! By the thousands!
That’s why Pentecost yielded so many converts so quickly. Jesus prepared the masses, and the apostles reaped the harvest.
It was an effective technique.
Now about the parable itself. I am no farmer, but I have spread grass seed in my yard and I have given lectures and preached sermons, so this parable seems pretty obvious once Jesus explains it. My yard is small and complicated, so I can’t use a mechanical spreader. I have to broadcast the seed by hand. Some falls on the sidewalk and, as Jesus says, the birds come and eat it up right away. Some falls in shallow soil—I don’t have any rocky soil, but I do have a lot of tree roots in places. The effect is the same: the grass sprouts up fast but dies off very quickly in a dry spell. Some seed falls among weeds, and the little grass shoots haven’t a chance. But other seed falls on fertile soil, where it grows and spreads to cover the whole area.
When you speak publicly on religious topics, whether in a lecture or a sermon, you notice the same pattern. You can tell how well you are communicating your message by the way the audience reacts. People who do not give you eye contact, who whisper to the people sitting next to them, who thumb through hymnals, who sit the whole time with crossed arms and sour looks, or who frequently check their watches—these people aren’t getting your message. You might as well go out and sow seed on the pavement. With other people, you can see their eyes light up with delight as they comprehend your message. They shake your hand vigorously afterwards, and praise you for your insightful message and talk about how it will change their life. Then a few days later, when you bump into these people on the street, they do not recognize you or recall the words you said, and when you try to help them recapture the magic of that moment, they wave it off in boredom. They are like the seed that falls on shallow ground. Then there are other people whose eyes light up just as brightly during your presentation, but there is a sad undertone to their expression. When they greet you afterwards, they praise your message, but you can tell that something is bothering them. They may even talk wistfully, as if there were some obstacle to accepting your message. Later you find that they are so clouded with trouble that no ray of light can shine in. Like the seed among thorns, they want to accept your message, but they don’t want to let go of the cares and problems in their lives that get in the way.
Then there are the people who accept your message with bright eyes, shake your hand firmly afterwards with a word of thanks, and bolt out the door quickly to put it into practice. Years later, when they bump into you, they instantly recall the event and thank you once again. This happened to me once: a man I did not recognize walked up to me and thanked me for a sermon I had preached in his church a year or two before. He could remember the sermon well enough to explain to me in detail how he had put it into practice and what the benefits were. On another occasion a woman told me that she had attended a Bible lecture I had given about a year before, and had disagreed with me all the way through; but she kept thinking about it. She wanted to tell me that she had completely come over to my viewpoint in the meantime. These are seeds that fell on fertile ground.
What was the purpose of this parable? Basically, Jesus was saying that no matter how good you are at sowing, and no matter how good the seed is, you won’t get a 100% germination rate. So preachers should not be overly grieved when not everyone receives their message, nor should the rest of us be disturbed if our favorite evangelist can’t convert Aunt Minnie, for whom we’ve been praying nigh onto forty years. There’s more to sowing than the sower and the seed, there is the reception that the seed finds when it is planted.
Even this was a time bomb of sorts. After the Crucifixion, Resurrection, Ascension, and Pentecost—that is, after all the excitement was over and the apostles had to face the harsh realities of the mission field—they could remember this parable and take heart when they didn’t seem to be getting the proper response.
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Words nearby Tahitian
How to use Tahitian in a sentence
Split one Tahitian vanilla bean lengthwise and place in heatproof bottle.
The Tahitian never quite understands the white man who consorts with the French officials, although many do.When Winter Comes to Main Street|Grant Martin Overton
There is a special word in the Tahitian language to signify hungering after fish.Ballads|Robert Louis Stevenson
They were soon followed by a whale boat with a Tahitian native teacher, a Futuma man, and a crew of Anaiteans.Life of John Coleridge Patteson|Charlotte M. Yonge
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High levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) may cause a change of cellular redox state towards oxidative stress condition. This situation causes oxidation of molecules (lipid, DNA, protein) and leads to cell death. Oxidative stress also impacts the progression of several pathological conditions such as diabetes, retinopathies, neurodegeneration, and cancer. Thus, it is important to define tools to investigate oxidative stress conditions not only at the level of single cells but also in the context of whole organisms. Here, we consider the zebrafish embryo as a useful in vivo system to perform such studies and present a protocol to measure in vivo oxidative stress. Taking advantage of fluorescent ROS probes and zebrafish transgenic fluorescent lines, we develop two different methods to measure oxidative stress in vivo: i) a “whole embryo ROS-detection method” for qualitative measurement of oxidative stress and ii) a “single-cell ROS detection method” for quantitative measurements of oxidative stress. Herein, we demonstrate the efficacy of these procedures by increasing oxidative stress in tissues by oxidant agents and physiological or genetic methods. This protocol is amenable for forward genetic screens and it will help address cause-effect relationships of ROS in animal models of oxidative stress-related pathologies such as neurological disorders and cancer.
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Clonogenic Assay: Adherent Cells
Institutions: The Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct, The University of Melbourne, The Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct, The University of Melbourne.
The clonogenic (or colony forming) assay has been established for more than 50 years; the original paper describing the technique was published in 19561
. Apart from documenting the method, the initial landmark study generated the first radiation-dose response curve for X-ray irradiated mammalian (HeLa) cells in culture1
. Basically, the clonogenic assay enables an assessment of the differences in reproductive viability (capacity of cells to produce progeny; i.e. a single cell to form a colony of 50 or more cells) between control untreated cells and cells that have undergone various treatments such as exposure to ionising radiation, various chemical compounds (e.g. cytotoxic agents) or in other cases genetic manipulation. The assay has become the most widely accepted technique in radiation biology and has been widely used for evaluating the radiation sensitivity of different cell lines. Further, the clonogenic assay is commonly used for monitoring the efficacy of radiation modifying compounds and for determining the effects of cytotoxic agents and other anti-cancer therapeutics on colony forming ability, in different cell lines. A typical clonogenic survival experiment using adherent cells lines involves three distinct components, 1) treatment of the cell monolayer in tissue culture flasks, 2) preparation of single cell suspensions and plating an appropriate number of cells in petri dishes and 3) fixing and staining colonies following a relevant incubation period, which could range from 1-3 weeks, depending on the cell line. Here we demonstrate the general procedure for performing the clonogenic assay with adherent cell lines with the use of an immortalized human keratinocyte cell line (FEP-1811)2
. Also, our aims are to describe common features of clonogenic assays including calculation of the plating efficiency and survival fractions after exposure of cells to radiation, and to exemplify modification of radiation-response with the use of a natural antioxidant formulation.
Cellular Biology, Issue 49, clonogenic assay, clonogenic survival, colony staining, colony counting, radiation sensitivity, radiation modification
High Resolution Electron Microscopy of the Helicobacter pylori Cag Type IV Secretion System Pili Produced in Varying Conditions of Iron Availability
Institutions: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, U. S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs.
is a helical-shaped, gram negative bacterium that colonizes the human gastric niche of half of the human population1,2
. H. pylori
is the primary cause of gastric cancer, the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide3
. One virulence factor that has been associated with increased risk of gastric disease is the Cag-pathogenicity island, a 40-kb region within the chromosome of H. pylori
that encodes a type IV secretion system and the cognate effector molecule, CagA4,5
. The Cag-T4SS is responsible for translocating CagA and peptidoglycan into host epithelial cells5,6
. The activity of the Cag-T4SS results in numerous changes in host cell biology including upregulation of cytokine expression, activation of proinflammatory pathways, cytoskeletal remodeling, and induction of oncogenic cell-signaling networks5-8
. The Cag-T4SS is a macromolecular machine comprised of sub-assembly components spanning the inner and outer membrane and extending outward from the cell into the extracellular space. The extracellular portion of the Cag-T4SS is referred to as the “pilus”5
. Numerous studies have demonstrated that the Cag-T4SS pili are formed at the host-pathogen interface9,10
. However, the environmental features that regulate the biogenesis of this important organelle remain largely obscure. Recently, we reported that conditions of low iron availability increased the Cag-T4SS activity and pilus biogenesis. Here we present an optimized protocol to grow H. pylori
in varying conditions of iron availability prior to co-culture with human gastric epithelial cells. Further, we present the comprehensive protocol for visualization of the hyper-piliated phenotype exhibited in iron restricted conditions by high resolution scanning electron microscopy analyses.
Infection, Issue 93, Helicobacter pylori, iron acquisition, cag pathogenicity island, type IV secretion, pili
Detection of Nitric Oxide and Superoxide Radical Anion by Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy from Cells using Spin Traps
Institutions: The Ohio State University, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University.
Reactive nitrogen/oxygen species (ROS/RNS) at low concentrations play an important role in regulating cell function, signaling, and immune response but in unregulated concentrations are detrimental to cell viability1, 2
. While living systems have evolved with endogenous and dietary antioxidant defense mechanisms to regulate ROS generation, ROS are produced continuously as natural by-products of normal metabolism of oxygen and can cause oxidative damage to biomolecules resulting in loss of protein function, DNA cleavage, or lipid peroxidation3
, and ultimately to oxidative stress leading to cell injury or death4
Superoxide radical anion (O2
•-) is the major precursor of some of the most highly oxidizing species known to exist in biological systems such as peroxynitrite and hydroxyl radical. The generation of O2
•- signals the first sign of oxidative burst, and therefore, its detection and/or sequestration in biological systems is important. In this demonstration, O2
•- was generated from polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs). Through chemotactic stimulation with phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate (PMA), PMN generates O2
•- via activation of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) oxidase5
Nitric oxide (NO) synthase which comes in three isoforms, as inducible-, neuronal- and endothelial-NOS, or iNOS, nNOS or eNOS, respectively, catalyzes the conversion of L- arginine to L-citrulline, using NADPH to produce NO6
. Here, we generated NO from endothelial cells. Under oxidative stress conditions, eNOS for example can switch from producing NO to O2
•- in a process called uncoupling, which is believed to be caused by oxidation of heme7
or the co-factor, tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4
There are only few reliable methods for the detection of free radicals in biological systems but are limited by specificity and sensitivity. Spin trapping is commonly used for the identification of free radicals and involves the addition reaction of a radical to a spin trap forming a persistent spin adduct which can be detected by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. The various radical adducts exhibit distinctive spectrum which can be used to identify the radicals being generated and can provide a wealth of information about the nature and kinetics of radical production9
The cyclic nitrones, 5,5-dimethyl-pyrroline-N
, the phosphoryl-substituted DEPMPO11
, and the ester-substituted, EMPO12
, have been widely employed as spin traps--the latter spin traps exhibiting longer half-lives for O2
•- adduct. Iron (II)-N-methyl-D-glucamine dithiocarbamate, Fe(MGD)2
is commonly used to trap NO due to high rate of adduct formation and the high stability of the spin adduct14
Molecular Biology, Issue 66, Cellular Biology, Physics, Biophysics, spin trap, eNOS, ROS, superoxide, NO, EPR
Synthesis, Assembly, and Characterization of Monolayer Protected Gold Nanoparticle Films for Protein Monolayer Electrochemistry
Institutions: University of Richmond, University of Richmond.
Colloidal gold nanoparticles protected with alkanethiolate ligands called monolayer protected gold clusters (MPCs) are synthesized and subsequently incorporated into film assemblies that serve as adsorption platforms for protein monolayer electrochemistry (PME). PME is utilized as the model system for studying electrochemical properties of redox proteins by confining them to an adsorption platform at a modified electrode, which also serves as a redox partner for electron transfer (ET) reactions. Studies have shown that gold nanoparticle film assemblies of this nature provide for a more homogeneous protein adsorption environment and promote ET without distance dependence compared to the more traditional systems modified with alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers (SAM).1-3
In this paper, MPCs functionalized with hexanethiolate ligands are synthesized using a modified Brust reaction4
and characterized with ultraviolet visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and proton (1
H) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). MPC films are assembled on SAM modified gold electrode interfaces by using a "dip cycle" method of alternating MPC layers and dithiol linking molecules. Film growth at gold electrode is tracked electrochemically by measuring changes to the double layer charging current of the system. Analogous films assembled on silane modified glass slides allow for optical monitoring of film growth and cross-sectional TEM analysis provides an estimated film thickness. During film assembly, manipulation of the MPC ligand protection as well as the interparticle linkage mechanism allow for networked films, that are readily adaptable, to interface with redox protein having different adsorption mechanism. For example, Pseudomonas aeruginosa
azurin (AZ) can be adsorbed hydrophobically to dithiol-linked films of hexanethiolate MPCs and cytochrome c
) can be immobilized electrostatically at a carboxylic acid modified MPC interfacial layer. In this report, we focus on the film protocol for the AZ system exclusively. Investigations involving the adsorption of proteins on MPC modified synthetic platforms could further the understanding of interactions between biomolecules and man-made materials, and consequently aid the development of biosensor schemes, ET modeling systems, and synthetic biocompatible materials.5-8
Bioengineering, Issue 56, Monolayer protected clusters, film assemblies, protein monolayer electrochemistry, azurin, self-assembled monolayers
Microwave-assisted Functionalization of Poly(ethylene glycol) and On-resin Peptides for Use in Chain Polymerizations and Hydrogel Formation
Institutions: University of Rochester, University of Rochester, University of Rochester Medical Center.
One of the main benefits to using poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) macromers in hydrogel formation is synthetic versatility. The ability to draw from a large variety of PEG molecular weights and configurations (arm number, arm length, and branching pattern) affords researchers tight control over resulting hydrogel structures and properties, including Young’s modulus and mesh size. This video will illustrate a rapid, efficient, solvent-free, microwave-assisted method to methacrylate PEG precursors into poly(ethylene glycol) dimethacrylate (PEGDM). This synthetic method provides much-needed starting materials for applications in drug delivery and regenerative medicine. The demonstrated method is superior to traditional methacrylation methods as it is significantly faster and simpler, as well as more economical and environmentally friendly, using smaller amounts of reagents and solvents. We will also demonstrate an adaptation of this technique for on-resin methacrylamide functionalization of peptides. This on-resin method allows the N-terminus of peptides to be functionalized with methacrylamide groups prior to deprotection and cleavage from resin. This allows for selective addition of methacrylamide groups to the N-termini of the peptides while amino acids with reactive side groups (e.g.
primary amine of lysine, primary alcohol of serine, secondary alcohols of threonine, and phenol of tyrosine) remain protected, preventing functionalization at multiple sites. This article will detail common analytical methods (proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy (;
H-NMR) and Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time of Flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-ToF)) to assess the efficiency of the functionalizations. Common pitfalls and suggested troubleshooting methods will be addressed, as will modifications of the technique which can be used to further tune macromer functionality and resulting hydrogel physical and chemical properties. Use of synthesized products for the formation of hydrogels for drug delivery and cell-material interaction studies will be demonstrated, with particular attention paid to modifying hydrogel composition to affect mesh size, controlling hydrogel stiffness and drug release.
Chemistry, Issue 80, Poly(ethylene glycol), peptides, polymerization, polymers, methacrylation, peptide functionalization, 1H-NMR, MALDI-ToF, hydrogels, macromer synthesis
Proton Transfer and Protein Conformation Dynamics in Photosensitive Proteins by Time-resolved Step-scan Fourier-transform Infrared Spectroscopy
Institutions: Freie Universität Berlin.
Monitoring the dynamics of protonation and protein backbone conformation changes during the function of a protein is an essential step towards understanding its mechanism. Protonation and conformational changes affect the vibration pattern of amino acid side chains and of the peptide bond, respectively, both of which can be probed by infrared (IR) difference spectroscopy. For proteins whose function can be repetitively and reproducibly triggered by light, it is possible to obtain infrared difference spectra with (sub)microsecond resolution over a broad spectral range using the step-scan Fourier transform infrared technique. With ~102
repetitions of the photoreaction, the minimum number to complete a scan at reasonable spectral resolution and bandwidth, the noise level in the absorption difference spectra can be as low as ~10-4
, sufficient to follow the kinetics of protonation changes from a single amino acid. Lower noise levels can be accomplished by more data averaging and/or mathematical processing. The amount of protein required for optimal results is between 5-100 µg, depending on the sampling technique used. Regarding additional requirements, the protein needs to be first concentrated in a low ionic strength buffer and then dried to form a film. The protein film is hydrated prior to the experiment, either with little droplets of water or under controlled atmospheric humidity. The attained hydration level (g of water / g of protein) is gauged from an IR absorption spectrum. To showcase the technique, we studied the photocycle of the light-driven proton-pump bacteriorhodopsin in its native purple membrane environment, and of the light-gated ion channel channelrhodopsin-2 solubilized in detergent.
Biophysics, Issue 88, bacteriorhodopsin, channelrhodopsin, attenuated total reflection, proton transfer, protein dynamics, infrared spectroscopy, time-resolved spectroscopy, step-scan, membrane proteins, singular value decomposition
Introduction to Solid Supported Membrane Based Electrophysiology
Institutions: Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Goethe University Frankfurt.
The electrophysiological method we present is based on a solid supported membrane (SSM) composed of an octadecanethiol layer chemisorbed on a gold coated sensor chip and a phosphatidylcholine monolayer on top. This assembly is mounted into a cuvette system containing the reference electrode, a chlorinated silver wire.
After adsorption of membrane fragments or proteoliposomes containing the membrane protein of interest, a fast solution exchange is used to induce the transport activity of the membrane protein. In the single solution exchange protocol two solutions, one non-activating and one activating solution, are needed. The flow is controlled by pressurized air and a valve and tubing system within a faraday cage.
The kinetics of the electrogenic transport activity is obtained via capacitive coupling between the SSM and the proteoliposomes or membrane fragments. The method, therefore, yields only transient currents. The peak current represents the stationary transport activity. The time dependent transporter currents can be reconstructed by circuit analysis.
This method is especially suited for prokaryotic transporters or eukaryotic transporters from intracellular membranes, which cannot be investigated by patch clamp or voltage clamp methods.
Biochemistry, Issue 75, Biophysics, Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology, Physiology, Proteins, Membrane Lipids, Membrane Transport Proteins, Kinetics, Electrophysiology, solid supported membrane, SSM, membrane transporter, lactose permease, lacY, capacitive coupling, solution exchange, model membrane, membrane protein, transporter, kinetics, transport mechanism
The Use of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy as a Tool for the Measurement of Bi-hemispheric Transcranial Electric Stimulation Effects on Primary Motor Cortex Metabolism
Institutions: University of Montréal, McGill University, University of Minnesota.
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a neuromodulation technique that has been increasingly used over the past decade in the treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders such as stroke and depression. Yet, the mechanisms underlying its ability to modulate brain excitability to improve clinical symptoms remains poorly understood 33
. To help improve this understanding, proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1
H-MRS) can be used as it allows the in vivo
quantification of brain metabolites such as γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate in a region-specific manner 41
. In fact, a recent study demonstrated that 1
H-MRS is indeed a powerful means to better understand the effects of tDCS on neurotransmitter concentration 34
. This article aims to describe the complete protocol for combining tDCS (NeuroConn MR compatible stimulator) with 1
H-MRS at 3 T using a MEGA-PRESS sequence. We will describe the impact of a protocol that has shown great promise for the treatment of motor dysfunctions after stroke, which consists of bilateral stimulation of primary motor cortices 27,30,31
. Methodological factors to consider and possible modifications to the protocol are also discussed.
Neuroscience, Issue 93, proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy, transcranial direct current stimulation, primary motor cortex, GABA, glutamate, stroke
Free Radicals in Chemical Biology: from Chemical Behavior to Biomarker Development
Institutions: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche.
The involvement of free radicals in life sciences has constantly increased with time and has been connected to several physiological and pathological processes. This subject embraces diverse scientific areas, spanning from physical, biological and bioorganic chemistry to biology and medicine, with applications to the amelioration of quality of life, health and aging. Multidisciplinary skills are required for the full investigation of the many facets of radical processes in the biological environment and chemical knowledge plays a crucial role in unveiling basic processes and mechanisms. We developed a chemical biology approach able to connect free radical chemical reactivity with biological processes, providing information on the mechanistic pathways and products. The core of this approach is the design of biomimetic models to study biomolecule behavior (lipids, nucleic acids and proteins) in aqueous systems, obtaining insights of the reaction pathways as well as building up molecular libraries of the free radical reaction products. This context can be successfully used for biomarker discovery and examples are provided with two classes of compounds: mono-trans isomers of cholesteryl esters, which are synthesized and used as references for detection in human plasma, and purine 5',8-cyclo-2'-deoxyribonucleosides, prepared and used as reference in the protocol for detection of such lesions in DNA samples, after ionizing radiations or obtained from different health conditions.
Chemistry, Issue 74, Biochemistry, Chemical Engineering, Chemical Biology, chemical analysis techniques, chemistry (general), life sciences, radiation effects (biological, animal and plant), biomarker, biomimetic chemistry, free radicals, trans lipids, cyclopurine lesions, DNA, chromatography, spectroscopy, synthesis
Analyzing Protein Dynamics Using Hydrogen Exchange Mass Spectrometry
Institutions: University of Heidelberg.
All cellular processes depend on the functionality of proteins. Although the functionality of a given protein is the direct consequence of its unique amino acid sequence, it is only realized by the folding of the polypeptide chain into a single defined three-dimensional arrangement or more commonly into an ensemble of interconverting conformations. Investigating the connection between protein conformation and its function is therefore essential for a complete understanding of how proteins are able to fulfill their great variety of tasks. One possibility to study conformational changes a protein undergoes while progressing through its functional cycle is hydrogen-1
H-exchange in combination with high-resolution mass spectrometry (HX-MS). HX-MS is a versatile and robust method that adds a new dimension to structural information obtained by e.g.
crystallography. It is used to study protein folding and unfolding, binding of small molecule ligands, protein-protein interactions, conformational changes linked to enzyme catalysis, and allostery. In addition, HX-MS is often used when the amount of protein is very limited or crystallization of the protein is not feasible. Here we provide a general protocol for studying protein dynamics with HX-MS and describe as an example how to reveal the interaction interface of two proteins in a complex.
Chemistry, Issue 81, Molecular Chaperones, mass spectrometers, Amino Acids, Peptides, Proteins, Enzymes, Coenzymes, Protein dynamics, conformational changes, allostery, protein folding, secondary structure, mass spectrometry
Ratiometric Biosensors that Measure Mitochondrial Redox State and ATP in Living Yeast Cells
Institutions: Columbia University, Columbia University.
Mitochondria have roles in many cellular processes, from energy metabolism and calcium homeostasis to control of cellular lifespan and programmed cell death. These processes affect and are affected by the redox status of and ATP production by mitochondria. Here, we describe the use of two ratiometric, genetically encoded biosensors that can detect mitochondrial redox state and ATP levels at subcellular resolution in living yeast cells. Mitochondrial redox state is measured using redox-sensitive Green Fluorescent Protein (roGFP) that is targeted to the mitochondrial matrix. Mito-roGFP contains cysteines at positions 147 and 204 of GFP, which undergo reversible and environment-dependent oxidation and reduction, which in turn alter the excitation spectrum of the protein. MitGO-ATeam is a Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) probe in which the ε subunit of the Fo
-ATP synthase is sandwiched between FRET donor and acceptor fluorescent proteins. Binding of ATP to the ε subunit results in conformation changes in the protein that bring the FRET donor and acceptor in close proximity and allow for fluorescence resonance energy transfer from the donor to acceptor.
Bioengineering, Issue 77, Microbiology, Cellular Biology, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, life sciences, roGFP, redox-sensitive green fluorescent protein, GO-ATeam, ATP, FRET, ROS, mitochondria, biosensors, GFP, ImageJ, microscopy, confocal microscopy, cell, imaging
Production and Detection of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) in Cancers
Institutions: Baylor College of Medicine.
Reactive oxygen species include a number of molecules that damage DNA and RNA and oxidize proteins and lipids (lipid peroxydation). These reactive molecules contain an oxygen and include H2
(hydrogen peroxide), NO (nitric oxide), O2-
(oxide anion), peroxynitrite (ONOO-
), hydrochlorous acid (HOCl), and hydroxyl radical (OH-
Oxidative species are produced not only under pathological situations (cancers, ischemic/reperfusion, neurologic and cardiovascular pathologies, infectious diseases, inflammatory diseases 1
, autoimmune diseases 2
, etc…) but also during physiological (non-pathological) situations such as cellular metabolism 3, 4
. Indeed, ROS play important roles in many cellular signaling pathways (proliferation, cell activation 5, 6
, migration 7
etc..). ROS can be detrimental (it is then referred to as "oxidative and nitrosative stress") when produced in high amounts in the intracellular compartments and cells generally respond to ROS by upregulating antioxidants such as superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT), glutathione peroxidase (GPx) and glutathione (GSH) that protects them by converting dangerous free radicals to harmless molecules (i.e. water). Vitamins C and E have also been described as ROS scavengers (antioxidants).
Free radicals are beneficial in low amounts 3
. Macrophage and neutrophils-mediated immune responses involve the production and release of NO, which inhibits viruses, pathogens and tumor proliferation 8
. NO also reacts with other ROS and thus, also has a role as a detoxifier (ROS scavenger). Finally NO acts on vessels to regulate blood flow which is important for the adaptation of muscle to prolonged exercise 9, 10
. Several publications have also demonstrated that ROS are involved in insulin sensitivity 11, 12
Numerous methods to evaluate ROS production are available. In this article we propose several simple, fast, and affordable assays; these assays have been validated by many publications and are routinely used to detect ROS or its effects in mammalian cells. While some of these assays detect multiple ROS, others detect only a single ROS.
Medicine, Issue 57, reactive oxygen species (ROS), stress, ischemia, cancer, chemotherapy, immune response
Screening Assay for Oxidative Stress in a Feline Astrocyte Cell Line, G355-5
Institutions: Western University of Health Sciences, Western University of Health Sciences, Products.
An often-suggested mechanism of virus induced neuronal damage is oxidative stress. Astrocytes have an important role in controlling oxidative stress of the Central Nervous System (CNS). Astrocytes help maintain a homeostatic environment for neurons as well as protecting neurons from Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS). CM-H2DCFDA is a cell-permeable indicator for the presence of ROS. CM-H2
DCFDA enters the cell as a non-fluorescent compound, and becomes fluorescent after cellular esterases remove the acetate groups, and the compound is oxidized. The number of cells, measured by flow cytometry, that are found to be green fluorescing is an indication of the number of cells that are in an oxidative state. CM-H2
DCFDA is susceptible to oxidation by a large number of different ROS. This lack of specificity, regarding which ROS can oxidize CM-H2
DCFDA, makes this compound a valuable regent for use in the early stages of a pathogenesis investigation, as this assay can be used to screen for an oxidative cellular environment regardless of which oxygen radical or combination of ROS are responsible for the cellular conditions. Once it has been established that ROS are present by oxidation of CM-H2
DCFDA, then additional experiments can be performed to determine which ROS or combination of ROSs are involved in the particular pathogenesis process. The results of this study demonstrate that with the addition of hydrogen peroxide an increase in CM-H2
DCFDA fluoresce was detected relative to the saline controls, indicating that this assay is a valuable test for detecting an oxidative environment within G355-5 cells, a feline astrocyte cell line.
Neuroscience, Issue 53, Astrocytes, oxidative stress, flow cytometry, CM-H2DCFDA
Floral-dip Transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana to Examine pTSO2::β-glucuronidase Reporter Gene Expression
Institutions: University of Maryland College Park.
The ability to introduce foreign genes into an organism is the foundation for modern biology and biotechnology. In the model flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana
, the floral-dip transformation method1-2
has replaced all previous methods because of its simplicity, efficiency, and low cost. Specifically, shoots of young flowering Arabidopsis
plants are dipped in a solution of Agrobacterium tumefaciens
carrying specific plasmid constructs. After dipping, the plants are returned to normal growth and yield seeds, a small percentage of which are transformed with the foreign gene and can be selected for on medium containing antibiotics. This floral-dip method significantly facilitated Arabidopsis
research and contributed greatly to our understanding of plant gene function. In this study, we use the floral-dip method to transform a reporter gene, β-glucuronidase (GUS)
, under the control of TSO2
, coding for the Ribonucleotide Reductase (RNR) small subunit3
, is a cell cycle regulated gene essential for dNDP biosynthesis in the S-phase of the cell cycle. Examination of GUS
expression in transgenic Arabidopsis
seedlings shows that TSO2
is expressed in actively dividing tissues. The reported experimental method and materials can be easily adapted not only for research but also for education at high school and college levels.
Cellular Biology, Issue 40, Floral-dip transformation, Agrobacterium tumefaciens, beta-glucuronidase (GUS) reporter, cell cycle, Ribonucleotide Reductase (RNR), Arabidopsis thaliana
A Rapid and Specific Microplate Assay for the Determination of Intra- and Extracellular Ascorbate in Cultured Cells
Institutions: University of Sydney, Monash University.
Vitamin C (ascorbate) plays numerous important roles in cellular metabolism, many of which have only come to light in recent years. For instance, within the brain, ascorbate acts in a neuroprotective and neuromodulatory manner that involves ascorbate cycling between neurons and vicinal astrocytes - a relationship that appears to be crucial for brain ascorbate homeostasis. Additionally, emerging evidence strongly suggests that ascorbate has a greatly expanded role in regulating cellular and systemic iron metabolism than is classically recognized. The increasing recognition of the integral role of ascorbate in normal and deregulated cellular and organismal physiology demands a range of medium-throughput and high-sensitivity analytic techniques that can be executed without the need for highly expensive specialist equipment. Here we provide explicit instructions for a medium-throughput, specific and relatively inexpensive microplate assay for the determination of both intra- and extracellular ascorbate in cell culture.
Biochemistry, Issue 86, Vitamin C, Ascorbate, Cell swelling, Glutamate, Microplate assay, Astrocytes
Protein WISDOM: A Workbench for In silico De novo Design of BioMolecules
Institutions: Princeton University.
The aim of de novo
protein design is to find the amino acid sequences that will fold into a desired 3-dimensional structure with improvements in specific properties, such as binding affinity, agonist or antagonist behavior, or stability, relative to the native sequence. Protein design lies at the center of current advances drug design and discovery. Not only does protein design provide predictions for potentially useful drug targets, but it also enhances our understanding of the protein folding process and protein-protein interactions. Experimental methods such as directed evolution have shown success in protein design. However, such methods are restricted by the limited sequence space that can be searched tractably. In contrast, computational design strategies allow for the screening of a much larger set of sequences covering a wide variety of properties and functionality. We have developed a range of computational de novo
protein design methods capable of tackling several important areas of protein design. These include the design of monomeric proteins for increased stability and complexes for increased binding affinity.
To disseminate these methods for broader use we present Protein WISDOM (http://www.proteinwisdom.org), a tool that provides automated methods for a variety of protein design problems. Structural templates are submitted to initialize the design process. The first stage of design is an optimization sequence selection stage that aims at improving stability through minimization of potential energy in the sequence space. Selected sequences are then run through a fold specificity stage and a binding affinity stage. A rank-ordered list of the sequences for each step of the process, along with relevant designed structures, provides the user with a comprehensive quantitative assessment of the design. Here we provide the details of each design method, as well as several notable experimental successes attained through the use of the methods.
Genetics, Issue 77, Molecular Biology, Bioengineering, Biochemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Computational Biology, Genomics, Proteomics, Protein, Protein Binding, Computational Biology, Drug Design, optimization (mathematics), Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins, De novo protein and peptide design, Drug design, In silico sequence selection, Optimization, Fold specificity, Binding affinity, sequencing
Designing Silk-silk Protein Alloy Materials for Biomedical Applications
Institutions: Rowan University, Rowan University, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Rowan University.
Fibrous proteins display different sequences and structures that have been used for various applications in biomedical fields such as biosensors, nanomedicine, tissue regeneration, and drug delivery. Designing materials based on the molecular-scale interactions between these proteins will help generate new multifunctional protein alloy biomaterials with tunable properties. Such alloy material systems also provide advantages in comparison to traditional synthetic polymers due to the materials biodegradability, biocompatibility, and tenability in the body. This article used the protein blends of wild tussah silk (Antheraea pernyi
) and domestic mulberry silk (Bombyx mori
) as an example to provide useful protocols regarding these topics, including how to predict protein-protein interactions by computational methods, how to produce protein alloy solutions, how to verify alloy systems by thermal analysis, and how to fabricate variable alloy materials including optical materials with diffraction gratings, electric materials with circuits coatings, and pharmaceutical materials for drug release and delivery. These methods can provide important information for designing the next generation multifunctional biomaterials based on different protein alloys.
Bioengineering, Issue 90, protein alloys, biomaterials, biomedical, silk blends, computational simulation, implantable electronic devices
Purification of Transcripts and Metabolites from Drosophila Heads
Institutions: University of Florida , University of Florida , University of Florida , University of Florida .
For the last decade, we have tried to understand the molecular and cellular mechanisms of neuronal degeneration using Drosophila
as a model organism. Although fruit flies provide obvious experimental advantages, research on neurodegenerative diseases has mostly relied on traditional techniques, including genetic interaction, histology, immunofluorescence, and protein biochemistry. These techniques are effective for mechanistic, hypothesis-driven studies, which lead to a detailed understanding of the role of single genes in well-defined biological problems. However, neurodegenerative diseases are highly complex and affect multiple cellular organelles and processes over time. The advent of new technologies and the omics age provides a unique opportunity to understand the global cellular perturbations underlying complex diseases. Flexible model organisms such as Drosophila
are ideal for adapting these new technologies because of their strong annotation and high tractability. One challenge with these small animals, though, is the purification of enough informational molecules (DNA, mRNA, protein, metabolites) from highly relevant tissues such as fly brains. Other challenges consist of collecting large numbers of flies for experimental replicates (critical for statistical robustness) and developing consistent procedures for the purification of high-quality biological material. Here, we describe the procedures for collecting thousands of fly heads and the extraction of transcripts and metabolites to understand how global changes in gene expression and metabolism contribute to neurodegenerative diseases. These procedures are easily scalable and can be applied to the study of proteomic and epigenomic contributions to disease.
Genetics, Issue 73, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Neurobiology, Neuroscience, Bioengineering, Cellular Biology, Anatomy, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Biological Assay, Drosophila, fruit fly, head separation, purification, mRNA, RNA, cDNA, DNA, transcripts, metabolites, replicates, SCA3, neurodegeneration, NMR, gene expression, animal model
Modeling Neural Immune Signaling of Episodic and Chronic Migraine Using Spreading Depression In Vitro
Institutions: The University of Chicago Medical Center, The University of Chicago Medical Center.
Migraine and its transformation to chronic migraine are healthcare burdens in need of improved treatment options. We seek to define how neural immune signaling modulates the susceptibility to migraine, modeled in vitro
using spreading depression (SD), as a means to develop novel therapeutic targets for episodic and chronic migraine. SD is the likely cause of migraine aura and migraine pain. It is a paroxysmal loss of neuronal function triggered by initially increased neuronal activity, which slowly propagates within susceptible brain regions. Normal brain function is exquisitely sensitive to, and relies on, coincident low-level immune signaling. Thus, neural immune signaling likely affects electrical activity of SD, and therefore migraine. Pain perception studies of SD in whole animals are fraught with difficulties, but whole animals are well suited to examine systems biology aspects of migraine since SD activates trigeminal nociceptive pathways. However, whole animal studies alone cannot be used to decipher the cellular and neural circuit mechanisms of SD. Instead, in vitro
preparations where environmental conditions can be controlled are necessary. Here, it is important to recognize limitations of acute slices and distinct advantages of hippocampal slice cultures. Acute brain slices cannot reveal subtle changes in immune signaling since preparing the slices alone triggers: pro-inflammatory changes that last days, epileptiform behavior due to high levels of oxygen tension needed to vitalize the slices, and irreversible cell injury at anoxic slice centers.
In contrast, we examine immune signaling in mature hippocampal slice cultures since the cultures closely parallel their in vivo
counterpart with mature trisynaptic function; show quiescent astrocytes, microglia, and cytokine levels; and SD is easily induced in an unanesthetized preparation. Furthermore, the slices are long-lived and SD can be induced on consecutive days without injury, making this preparation the sole means to-date capable of modeling the neuroimmune consequences of chronic SD, and thus perhaps chronic migraine. We use electrophysiological techniques and non-invasive imaging to measure
neuronal cell and circuit functions coincident with SD. Neural immune gene expression variables are measured with qPCR screening, qPCR arrays, and, importantly, use of cDNA preamplification for detection of ultra-low level targets such as interferon-gamma using whole, regional, or specific cell enhanced (via laser dissection microscopy) sampling. Cytokine cascade signaling is further assessed with multiplexed phosphoprotein related targets with gene expression and phosphoprotein changes confirmed via cell-specific immunostaining. Pharmacological and siRNA strategies are used to mimic
SD immune signaling.
Neuroscience, Issue 52, innate immunity, hormesis, microglia, T-cells, hippocampus, slice culture, gene expression, laser dissection microscopy, real-time qPCR, interferon-gamma
Isolation and Quantification of Botulinum Neurotoxin From Complex Matrices Using the BoTest Matrix Assays
Institutions: BioSentinel Inc., Madison, WI.
Accurate detection and quantification of botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) in complex matrices is required for pharmaceutical, environmental, and food sample testing. Rapid BoNT testing of foodstuffs is needed during outbreak forensics, patient diagnosis, and food safety testing while accurate potency testing is required for BoNT-based drug product manufacturing and patient safety. The widely used mouse bioassay for BoNT testing is highly sensitive but lacks the precision and throughput needed for rapid and routine BoNT testing. Furthermore, the bioassay's use of animals has resulted in calls by drug product regulatory authorities and animal-rights proponents in the US and abroad to replace the mouse bioassay for BoNT testing. Several in vitro
replacement assays have been developed that work well with purified BoNT in simple buffers, but most have not been shown to be applicable to testing in highly complex matrices. Here, a protocol for the detection of BoNT in complex matrices using the BoTest Matrix assays is presented. The assay consists of three parts: The first part involves preparation of the samples for testing, the second part is an immunoprecipitation step using anti-BoNT antibody-coated paramagnetic beads to purify BoNT from the matrix, and the third part quantifies the isolated BoNT's proteolytic activity using a fluorogenic reporter. The protocol is written for high throughput testing in 96-well plates using both liquid and solid matrices and requires about 2 hr of manual preparation with total assay times of 4-26 hr depending on the sample type, toxin load, and desired sensitivity. Data are presented for BoNT/A testing with phosphate-buffered saline, a drug product, culture supernatant, 2% milk, and fresh tomatoes and includes discussion of critical parameters for assay success.
Neuroscience, Issue 85, Botulinum, food testing, detection, quantification, complex matrices, BoTest Matrix, Clostridium, potency testing
Aseptic Laboratory Techniques: Plating Methods
Institutions: University of California, Los Angeles .
Microorganisms are present on all inanimate surfaces creating ubiquitous sources of possible contamination in the laboratory. Experimental success relies on the ability of a scientist to sterilize work surfaces and equipment as well as prevent contact of sterile instruments and solutions with non-sterile surfaces. Here we present the steps for several plating methods routinely used in the laboratory to isolate, propagate, or enumerate microorganisms such as bacteria and phage. All five methods incorporate aseptic technique, or procedures that maintain the sterility of experimental materials. Procedures described include (1) streak-plating bacterial cultures to isolate single colonies, (2) pour-plating and (3) spread-plating to enumerate viable bacterial colonies, (4) soft agar overlays to isolate phage and enumerate plaques, and (5) replica-plating to transfer cells from one plate to another in an identical spatial pattern. These procedures can be performed at the laboratory bench, provided they involve non-pathogenic strains of microorganisms (Biosafety Level 1, BSL-1). If working with BSL-2 organisms, then these manipulations must take place in a biosafety cabinet. Consult the most current edition of the Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories
(BMBL) as well as Material Safety Data Sheets
(MSDS) for Infectious Substances to determine the biohazard classification as well as the safety precautions and containment facilities required for the microorganism in question. Bacterial strains and phage stocks can be obtained from research investigators, companies, and collections maintained by particular organizations such as the American Type Culture Collection
(ATCC). It is recommended that non-pathogenic strains be used when learning the various plating methods. By following the procedures described in this protocol, students should be able to:
● Perform plating procedures without contaminating media.
● Isolate single bacterial colonies by the streak-plating method.
● Use pour-plating and spread-plating methods to determine the concentration of bacteria.
● Perform soft agar overlays when working with phage.
● Transfer bacterial cells from one plate to another using the replica-plating procedure.
● Given an experimental task, select the appropriate plating method.
Basic Protocols, Issue 63, Streak plates, pour plates, soft agar overlays, spread plates, replica plates, bacteria, colonies, phage, plaques, dilutions
Analysis of Fatty Acid Content and Composition in Microalgae
Institutions: Wageningen University and Research Center, Wageningen University and Research Center, Wageningen University and Research Center.
A method to determine the content and composition of total fatty acids present in microalgae is described. Fatty acids are a major constituent of microalgal biomass. These fatty acids can be present in different acyl-lipid classes. Especially the fatty acids present in triacylglycerol (TAG) are of commercial interest, because they can be used for production of transportation fuels, bulk chemicals, nutraceuticals (ω-3 fatty acids), and food commodities. To develop commercial applications, reliable analytical methods for quantification of fatty acid content and composition are needed. Microalgae are single cells surrounded by a rigid cell wall. A fatty acid analysis method should provide sufficient cell disruption to liberate all acyl lipids and the extraction procedure used should be able to extract all acyl lipid classes.
With the method presented here all fatty acids present in microalgae can be accurately and reproducibly identified and quantified using small amounts of sample (5 mg) independent of their chain length, degree of unsaturation, or the lipid class they are part of.
This method does not provide information about the relative abundance of different lipid classes, but can be extended to separate lipid classes from each other.
The method is based on a sequence of mechanical cell disruption, solvent based lipid extraction, transesterification of fatty acids to fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs), and quantification and identification of FAMEs using gas chromatography (GC-FID). A TAG internal standard (tripentadecanoin) is added prior to the analytical procedure to correct for losses during extraction and incomplete transesterification.
Environmental Sciences, Issue 80, chemical analysis techniques, Microalgae, fatty acid, triacylglycerol, lipid, gas chromatography, cell disruption
Reconstitution of a Kv Channel into Lipid Membranes for Structural and Functional Studies
Institutions: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
To study the lipid-protein interaction in a reductionistic fashion, it is necessary to incorporate the membrane proteins into membranes of well-defined lipid composition. We are studying the lipid-dependent gating effects in a prototype voltage-gated potassium (Kv) channel, and have worked out detailed procedures to reconstitute the channels into different membrane systems. Our reconstitution procedures take consideration of both detergent-induced fusion of vesicles and the fusion of protein/detergent micelles with the lipid/detergent mixed micelles as well as the importance of reaching an equilibrium distribution of lipids among the protein/detergent/lipid and the detergent/lipid mixed micelles. Our data suggested that the insertion of the channels in the lipid vesicles is relatively random in orientations, and the reconstitution efficiency is so high that no detectable protein aggregates were seen in fractionation experiments. We have utilized the reconstituted channels to determine the conformational states of the channels in different lipids, record electrical activities of a small number of channels incorporated in planar lipid bilayers, screen for conformation-specific ligands from a phage-displayed peptide library, and support the growth of 2D crystals of the channels in membranes. The reconstitution procedures described here may be adapted for studying other membrane proteins in lipid bilayers, especially for the investigation of the lipid effects on the eukaryotic voltage-gated ion channels.
Molecular Biology, Issue 77, Biochemistry, Genetics, Cellular Biology, Structural Biology, Biophysics, Membrane Lipids, Phospholipids, Carrier Proteins, Membrane Proteins, Micelles, Molecular Motor Proteins, life sciences, biochemistry, Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins, lipid-protein interaction, channel reconstitution, lipid-dependent gating, voltage-gated ion channel, conformation-specific ligands, lipids
Methods to Assess Subcellular Compartments of Muscle in C. elegans
Institutions: University of Nottingham.
Muscle is a dynamic tissue that responds to changes in nutrition, exercise, and disease state. The loss of muscle mass and function with disease and age are significant public health burdens. We currently understand little about the genetic regulation of muscle health with disease or age. The nematode C. elegans
is an established model for understanding the genomic regulation of biological processes of interest. This worm’s body wall muscles display a large degree of homology with the muscles of higher metazoan species. Since C. elegans
is a transparent organism, the localization of GFP to mitochondria and sarcomeres allows visualization of these structures in vivo
. Similarly, feeding animals cationic dyes, which accumulate based on the existence of a mitochondrial membrane potential, allows the assessment of mitochondrial function in vivo
. These methods, as well as assessment of muscle protein homeostasis, are combined with assessment of whole animal muscle function, in the form of movement assays, to allow correlation of sub-cellular defects with functional measures of muscle performance. Thus, C. elegans
provides a powerful platform with which to assess the impact of mutations, gene knockdown, and/or chemical compounds upon muscle structure and function. Lastly, as GFP, cationic dyes, and movement assays are assessed non-invasively, prospective studies of muscle structure and function can be conducted across the whole life course and this at present cannot be easily investigated in vivo
in any other organism.
Developmental Biology, Issue 93, Physiology, C. elegans, muscle, mitochondria, sarcomeres, ageing
Mouse Mammary Epithelial Cells form Mammospheres During Lactogenic Differentiation
Institutions: F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD.
A phenotypic measure commonly used to determine the degree of lactogenic differentiation in mouse mammary epithelial cell cultures is the formation of dome shaped cell structures referred to as mammospheres 1
. The HC11 cell line has been employed as a model system for the study of regulation of mammary lactogenic differentiation both in vitro
and in vivo 2
. The HC11 cells differentiate and synthesize milk proteins in response to treatment with lactogenic hormones. Following the growth of HC11 mouse mammary epithelial cells to confluence, lactogenic differentiation was induced by the addition of a combination of lactogenic hormones including dexamethasone, insulin, and prolactin, referred to as DIP. The HC11 cells induced to differentiate were photographed at times up to 120 hours post induction of differentiation and the number of mammospheres that appeared in each culture was enumerated. The size of the individual mammospheres correlates with the degree of differentiation and this is depicted in the images of the differentiating cells.
Cellular Biology, Issue 32, Mammospheres, HC11, lactogenic differentiation, mammary
A Protocol for Detecting and Scavenging Gas-phase Free Radicals in Mainstream Cigarette Smoke
Institutions: CDCF-AOX Lab, Cornell University.
Cigarette smoking is associated with human cancers. It has been reported that most of the lung cancer deaths are caused by cigarette smoking 5,6,7,12
. Although tobacco tars and related products in the particle phase of cigarette smoke are major causes of carcinogenic and mutagenic related diseases, cigarette smoke contains significant amounts of free radicals that are also considered as an important group of carcinogens9,10
. Free radicals attack cell constituents by damaging protein structure, lipids and DNA sequences and increase the risks of developing various types of cancers. Inhaled radicals produce adducts that contribute to many of the negative health effects of tobacco smoke in the lung3
. Studies have been conducted to reduce free radicals in cigarette smoke to decrease risks of the smoking-induced damage. It has been reported that haemoglobin and heme-containing compounds could partially scavenge nitric oxide, reactive oxidants and carcinogenic volatile nitrosocompounds of cigarette smoke4
. A 'bio-filter' consisted of haemoglobin and activated carbon was used to scavenge the free radicals and to remove up to 90% of the free radicals from cigarette smoke14
. However, due to the cost-ineffectiveness, it has not been successfully commercialized. Another study showed good scavenging efficiency of shikonin, a component of Chinese herbal medicine8
. In the present study, we report a protocol for introducing common natural antioxidant extracts into the cigarette filter for scavenging gas phase free radicals in cigarette smoke and measurement of the scavenge effect on gas phase free radicals in mainstream cigarette smoke (MCS) using spin-trapping Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) Spectroscopy1,2,14
. We showed high scavenging capacity of lycopene and grape seed extract which could point to their future application in cigarette filters. An important advantage of these prospective scavengers is that they can be obtained in large quantities from byproducts of tomato or wine industry respectively11,13
Bioengineering, Issue 59, Cigarette smoke, free radical, spin-trap, ESR
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Fullscreen background videos that autoplay right when the webpage loads (above the fold) has become quite a popular trend these days. Personally I think a fullscreen good quality video that autoplays does increases engagement for the users/customers. It should be kept in mind that the story of the video must be relevant to the brand. These days we’re surrounded by loads of videos on social networks like FB and Twitter as well which autoplay (but is muted of course). Analytical studies have also reported higher engagement due to this.
We’re well acquainted with the CSS3
filter property that lets us apply various effects like blur, grayscale, sepia, saturation, etc. to a particular element. Now using this property we actually end up adjusting the rendering of the entire element including its borders, background and content (text or/and image). Did you ever want to apply the same effects to just the area behind the element, i.e., the background of the parent element or the one right behind/below the target element ? This is now very easily possible with the
backdrop-filter property. I’m sure you’d have noticed this effect being widely used in iOS 7 and OS X Yosemite.
touch-action property from the CSS Pointer Events spec can help us (as developers) specify what sort of manipulation (panning, zooming, etc.) should be allowed by a user in a particular region (one or more DOM elements) in a specific web page on a mobile device. It helps specify the sort of interactions or gestures allowed by the user in one or both axis.
Writing CSS is really simple, we’ve been doing that since many years. But the problem is, in larger projects where the CSS code grows over thousands of lines, whether you’re alone or it is a team maintaining and building on the code, it gets really unwieldy (spaghetti code). Code gets hard to maintain, harder to debug, unoptimized leading to poor performance and highly inefficient. New team members start adding more code (classes, IDs, etc.) and start using them leading to a lot of redundant and unoptimized code here and there. Basically it gets hard, really hard. You end up into too many issues.
Sometime back this thread on HackerNews gained quite some traction. Basically, it’s a small project called MiniCodeEditor which is a tiny and minimal version of an online code playground like CSSDeck.
The specs have always been in a state of flux. But it seems to be decided on the CSS3 linear and radial gradients syntax finally (hopefully). Let’s just discuss the changes and how you’ll need to modify your current/old code accordingly.
Ever wanted to make your own CSS2Sass convertor ? When working on projects, a tool that can quickly convert our CSS code to Sass can be ridiculously useful. Let’s see how to do it.
Continue reading “Convert Your CSS Code to SCSS/Sass”
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It wasn't the Exxon Valdez captain's driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill. It was yours. ~Greenpeace advertisement, New York Times, 25 February 1990Make no mistake - BP and other oil companies were not in this alone. (Though it is not surprising that the first entity to mobilize to help BP with the spill was Shell, another oil company.) It is our dependence on oil, and our short-sighted focus on our own convenience that allows these tragedies to happen. Check out this New York Times editorial for more.
New York Times Opinion Piece
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Safe haven laws are laws that allow any person statutorily defined by law, usually parents, to abandon an unharmed newborn baby at any location permitted by law. Safe haven laws were enacted in response to an increased number of infant abandonment and infanticide. Texas, in 1999, enacted the first Baby Moses or safe haven law. Safe haven laws are also known as Baby Moses law, Safe Place law, Safe Arms for Newborns law, Safe Delivery law, or Safe Surrender law depending upon the state in which they are enacted. Safe haven laws vary by state and they are known by different names in various states.
In the U.S., almost all the states have safe haven laws that allow parents or statutorily defined persons to relinquish their newborns at any safe location authorized by the statute. Safe haven laws offer various protections to the newborn and the person relinquishing the newborn. However, the abandonment should be according to the governing laws to avail protections guaranteed. Safe haven laws generally allow the parent, or an agent of the parent, to remain anonymous. Often, a numbered bracelet system remains the only link between the newborn and its parent. Safe haven laws shield the parent or agent of the parent from prosecution for abandonment or neglect.
Relinquishment of a newborn is legal only if the relinquished newborn is within the age limit permitted by state laws. Age limit for surrendering a newborn to a safe haven location vary from state to state. Some states place the maximum age of an infant that can be relinquished as three days; whereas, there are states that have extended the age limit to one year.
All safe haven statutes specifically provide where a baby may be relinquished. Some state laws allow a newborn to be handed to a doctor or church, and others mention specific places in the hospital such as an emergency room with a nurse where the newborn may be abandoned. Commonly, hospitals, manned fire house, on duty police stations, church, adoption agencies, and health care providers are considered to be safe locations. However, newborn abandonment will be legal only if it is in accordance with the concerned state laws.
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Deul 1.37.& 3, 26. & 32.51. 9 Lev. 10. S. Ez. 20. 41. & 36. 23. & 38.16. 1 Pet. 3. 15.
Ps. 95, 8. &
a ch. 33. 36.
Ex. 18. 8.
ch. 26. 59.
&c. & 23. 7. Obad. 10, 12 a Gen. 46. 6.
Acts 7. 15. w Ex. 12 40.
CEx. 17. 1.
Deut. 26. 6. Acts 7. 19. y Ex. 2. 23. &
3. 7. z Ex. 3. 2. & 14. 19. & 23. 20. & 33. 2
ch. 14. 2
I ch. 11. 1, 33.
32, 35, 49. & Ex. 17. 3.
Deut. 2. 27.
B. C. statute unto them, that he that and with his rod he smote the rock | B. C. 1453. about 1471. sprinkleth the water of separation twice: and the water came out
shall wash his clothes; and he that abundantly, and the congregation
12 | And the LORD spake unto Mou Hag. 2 13. 22 And whatsoever the unclean ses and Aaron, Because P ye believed p ch. 27, 14.
person toucheth shall be unclean; me not, to 9 sanctify me in the eyes
shall not bring this congregation into
the land which I have given them. CHAPTER XX.
13 - This is the water of Meribah ; That is, The children of Israel come to Zin, where Miriam because the children of Israel strove dicth. 2 They murmur for want of water. 7 Mo- with the LORD, and he was sanctified Deat
. SS. 8. scs smiteth the rock al Meribah, and water
cometh in them. forth, 14 Moses at Kadesh desireth a passage
106. S2, &c. through Edom, which is denicdn. 22 Aaron dieth at 14 | And Moses sent messengers Judg. 11. 16,
from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, 1453.
came the children of Is-Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou rael, even the whole congrega- knowest all the travail that hath + be- | Heb. found tion, into the desert of Zin in the first fallen us :
onth : and the people abode in 15 "How our fathers went down intot Deut. 2. 4, b Ex. 15. 20. Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and Egypt, wand we have dwelt in Egypt was buried there.
a long time; * and the Egyptians vex2 And there was no water for the ed us, and our fathers : d ch. 16. 19, 42. congregation : dand they gathered 16 Ánd y when we cried unto the Ex. 1.11, &c.
themselves together against Moses Lord, he heard our voice, and a sent
an angel, and hath brought us forth e Ex. 17. 2 3 And the people echode with Mo- out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in
ses, and spake, saying, Would God Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of
that we had died 'when our brethren thy border. & 14.37. & 16. died before the LORD!
17 Let us pass, I pray thee, through
a See ch.21.22
the wells: we will go by the king's
against thee with the sword.
door of the tabernacle of the congre- way: and if I and my cattle drink of b ch. 14. 5. & gation, and they fell upon their thy water, then I will pay for it: IDeut. 2 6,
faces : and the glory of the LORD will only, without doing any thing
else, go through on my feet.
through. And Edom came out against 8 * Take the rod, and gather thou him with much people, and with a the assembly together, thou and strong hand. Aaron thy brother, and speak ye 21 Thus Edom a refused to give Israel a See Deut. 2
27, 29. unto the rock before their eyes ; passage through his border: wherefore and it shall give forth his water, Israel e turned away from him. and 'thou shalt bring forth to them 22 | And the children of Israel, even
Judg. 11, 18.
of the land of Edom, saying,
rebelled against my #word at the wa11 And Moses lifted up his hand, ter of Meribah.
The death of Aaron.
The brazen serpent.
Ich 38 S.
9 ch. 33. 43.
A Ranitem which are the the died in the Red sea, and in the brooks
b ch. 13. 21.
B. C. 1453. 25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his 8 And the LORD said unto Moses, B. C. 1452.
son, and bring them up unto mount Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it
upon a pole ; and it shall come to
John 3.14, 15. people, and shall die there.
brass, and put it upon a pole; and it 21 And Moses did as the LORD came to pass, that if a serpent had commanded : and they went up into bitten any man, when he beheld the mount Hor in the sight of all the serpent of brass, he lived. congregation.
10 [ And the children of Israel set I EL 29 29, 30. 28 And Moses stripped Aaron of forward, and "pitched in Oboth. 1432. his garments, and put them upon 11 And they journeyed from Oboth, - ch. 33. 44.
Eleazar his son; and mAaron died and "pitched at I lje-abarim, in the || Or, Heaps of Dette 10.6. & there in the top of the mount: and wilderness which is before Moab, to
Moses and Eleazar came down from ward the sunrising.
12 1 From thence they removed, Deut. 2 13. 29 And when all the congregation and pitched in the valley of Zered.
saw that Aaron was dead, they 13 From thence they removed, and $ 5o Deut 34. mourned for Aaron a thirty days, pitched on the other side of Arnon, even all the house of Israel.
which is in the wilderness that
cometh out of the coasts of the CHAPTER XXI. Amorites : for 'Arnon is the border ch. 22. 36.
Judg. 11. 18. Israel destroy the Canaanites at Hormah. 4 The peo- of Moab, between Moab and the ple murmur and are plagued with flery serpents. 7 Amorites. They repent, and are healed in looking upon the brazen serpent. 10 Sundry journeys of the Israelites.
14 Wherefore it is said in the book 21 Sihon is overcome, 33 and also Og. of the wars of the Lord, "What he || Or, Vaheb in
Suphah. See Judg. 1.
naanite, dwelt of south, heard tell that Israel came 15 And at the stream of the brooks by the way of the spies; then he that goeth down to the dwelling of u Deut.2.18,29. fought against Israel, and took some Ar, "and + lieth upon the border of + Heb.leaneth. of them prisoners.
Moab, € Gel 2... 2 And Israel vowed a vow unto 16 And from thence they went 'to - Judg. 9. 21. Jug. 11.30.
the LORD, and said, If thou wilt Beer: that is the well whereof the
indeed deliver this people into my Lord spake unto Moses, Gather the Lev. 2.hand, then I will utterly destroy people together, and I will give them their cities.
water. 3 And the LORD hearkened to the 17 I 3 Then Israel sang this song, voice of Israel, and delivered up the + Spring up, 0 well; Il sing ye unto it: Heb. Ascend. Canaanites; and they utterly destroy- 18 The princes digged the well, the || Or, answer.
ed them and their cities : and he call- nobles of the people digged it, by the IT tuntia. L'itter ed the name of the place I Hormah. direction of ? the lawgiver, with their 2 Is. 33. 22. .ch 20.22&
41 And they journeyed from mount staves. And from the wilderness they
Hor by the way of the Red sea, to went to Mattanah : ! Judg. 11. 19. "compass the land of Edom: and the 19 And from Mattanah to Nahaliel : 10, grieved soul of the people was much dis- and from Nahaliel to Bamoth : couraged because of the way.
20 And from Bamoth in the valley, 5 And the people <spake against that is in the country of Moab, to 1 Heb. field. Ps. 73. 19. Ex. 16. 3. &
God, and against Moses, Where the top of Pisgah, which looketh || 0r, The hill.
Judg. 11. 19. light bread.
22 °Let me pass through thy land : 6 And the LORD sent 'fiery ser- we will not turn into the fields, or pents among the people, and they into the vineyards ; we will not drink bit the people; and much people of of the waters of the well: but we Israel died.
will go along by the king's high way, Pa 73. 34. 79 m 'Therefore the people came to until we be past thy borders.
Moses, and said, We have sinned, for 23 d And Sihon would not suffer a Deut. 23. 7.
we have spoken against the Lord, Israel to pass through his border : • Er.,
and against thee; opray unto the but Sihon gathered all his people Loss 13.6. LORD, that he take away the serpents together, and went out against Israel from us. And Moses prayed for the into the wilderness : and he came to
Judg. 11. 20. people.
Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
y Ex. 15. 1. Ps. 105. 2. & 106. 12.
11 Or, The wil
derness. 1 ch. 23. 28.
c ch. 2. 17.
ki Ca. 10.9. I Deat. & 15.
Acts 2 21
Deut. 2. 32.
Sihon and Og are overcome.
Balak sendeth for Balaan.
Deut. 2. 33.
& 136. 19. Am. 2. 9.
Josh. 13. 21.
e Deut. 23. 4.
2 Pet. 2. 15. Jude 11.
Rev. 2. 14. [ See ch. 23. 7. Deut. 23. 4.
h Deut. 2. 9,
33. 13. Jer.
k Jer. 48. 18,
B. C. 1452. 24 And 'Israel smote him with the saw all that Israel had done to the B. C. 1452.
edge of the sword, and possessed his Amorites. & 29.7.-Josh. | land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even 3 And Moab was sore afraid of the CEx. 15. 15. 12. 1, 2. & 24. unto the children of Ammon : for the people, because they were many : and Ps. 133, 10, 17. border of the children of Ammon was Moab was distressed because of the strong.
children of Israel. 25 And Israel took all these cities : 4 And Moab said unto the elders : ch.31. 8. and Israel dwelt in all the cities of of Midian, Now shall this company
the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all lick up all that are round about us, as + Ileb. daugh- the t villages thereof.
the ox licketh up the grass of the 26 For Heshbon was the city of field. And Balak the son of Zippor Sihon the king of the Amorites, who was king of the Moabites at that time. had fought against the former king of 5 He sent messengers therefore Moab, and taken all his land out of unto Balaam the son of Beor to his hand, even unto Arnon.
'Pethor, which is by the river of the Mic. 6. 5. 27 Wherefore they that speak in land of the children of his people, to proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, call him, saying, Behold, there is a let the city of Sihon be built and people come out from Egypt: behold, prepared :
they cover the + face of the earth, and 1 Heb. cye. & Jer. 48. 45, 28 For there is a fire gone out of they abide over against me.
Heshbon, a flame from the city of 6 Come now therefore, I pray thee,
Sihon: it hath consumed "Ar of 6curse me this people ; for they are & ch. 23. 7. 18. 18. 15. 1. Moab, and the lords of the high too mighty for me : peradventure I places of Arnon.
shall prevail, that we may smite them, 29 Woe to thee, Moab! thou art and that I may drive them out of the i Judg. 11. 24. undone, O people of Chemosh: he land: for I wot that he whom thou 33. 2 Kings' hath given his sons that escaped, and blessest is blessed, and he whom thou
his daughters, into captivity unto cursest is cursed. 48. 7, 13. Sihon king of the Amorites.
7 And the elders of Moab and 30 We have shot at them; Hesh- the elders of Midian departed with bon is perished even kunto Dibon, the rewards of divination in their 11 Sam. 9. 7, S. and we have laid them waste even hand; and they came unto Balaam, unto Nophah, which reacheth unto and spake unto him the words of Medeba.
here this night, and I will bring
9 k And God came unto Balaam, and *Gen. 20. &
11 Behold, there is a people come 34 And the Lord said unto Moses, out of Egypt, which covereth the p Fear him not: for I have deliver- face of the earth : come now, curse ed him into thy hand, and all his me them; peradventure + I shall be + Heb. I shau
prerail is people, and his land ; and a thou shalt able to overcome them, and drive 11. & 156.20. do to him as thou didst unto Sihon them out.
king of the Amorites, which dwelt at 12 And God said unto Balaam, Thou
shalt not go with them ; thou shalt Deut. 3. 3, 4, 35 "So they smote him, and his not curse the people : for 'they are
sons, and all his people, until there blessed.
ing, and said unto the princes of Ba-
lak, Get you into your land : for the
Lord refuseth to give me leave to go
and they went unto Balak, and said,
ND a the children of Israel set Balaam refuseth to come with us.
forward, and pitched in the 15 And Balak sent yet again princes, plains of Moab on this side Jordan more, and more honourable than they. by Jericho.
16 And they came to Balaam, and # Judg. 11. 25. 2 [ And Balak the son of Zippor I said to him, Thus saith Balak the
1 (s. 15. 2
mch. 32. 1. Jer, 48. 32.
a Deut.3, 1. & 29 7.
o Josh. 13. 12.
p Deut. 3, 2.
q ver. 24.
Jighting ayxainst him.
I ch. 23. 20.
a ch. 33. 48.
An angel opposeth Balaam.
Balak meeteth Balaam.
+ Heb. Be not thon letted
| Heb. roho
z See Gen, 21. 19.
Luke 24. 16, 31.
a Ex, 34. 8.
B. C. 1452. son of Zippor, + Let nothing, I pray | Am not 1 thine ass, + upon which B. C. 1452
thee, hinder thee from coming unto thou hast ridden lever since I was
thine unto this day? was I ever wont fross, c. 17 For I will promote thee unto to do so unto thee? And he said, very great honour, and I will do Nay.
thou wast,&c. whatsoever thou sayest unto me : 31 Then the LORD ? opened the eyes * come therefore, I pray thee, curse of Balaam, and he saw the angel of
2 Kings 6. 17. me this people.
the LORD standing in the way, and 18 And Balaam answered and said his sword drawn in his hand : and he unto the servants of Balak, . If Balak a bowed down his head, and lifell flat | Or, bowed
himself. would give me his house full of silver on his face. * 1 Kings 22 and gold, 'I cannot go beyond the 32 And the angel of the Lord said
word of the Lord my God, to do less unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitį 2 Chr. 18. 13.
ten thine ass these three times ? Be19 Now therefore, I pray you, P tarry hold, I went out + to withstand thee, + Hebs to be
an adversary ye also here this night, that I may because thy way is perverse before know what the LORD will say unto me :
b 2 Pet. 2. 14, 33 And the ass saw me, and turned 20 9 And God came unto Balaam at from me these three times : unless night, and said unto him, If the men she had turned from me, surely now come to call thee, rise up, and go with also I had slain thee, and saved her
them; but yet the word which I shall alive. cb. 33. 12, 28.
say unto thee, that shalt thou do. 34 And Balaam said unto the angel
21 And Balaam rose up in the morn- of the LORD, “I have sinned; for I c 1 Sam. 15. 24,
way against me: now therefore, if it Job 34. 31, 32. 22 | And God's anger was kindled displease thee, I will get me back + Heb.be evil
in thine eyes. because he went: Sand the angel of again. the LORD stood in the way for an 35 And the angel of the Lord said adversary against him. Now he was unto Balaam, Go with the men: dbut ver. 20. riding upon his ass, and his two serv- only the word that I shall speak unto ants were with him.
thee, that thou shalt speak. So Ba! See 2 Kings 23 And 'the ass saw the angel of the laam went with the princes of Balak.
LORD standing in the way, and his 36 | And when Balak heard that
the utmost coast.
to me? am I not able indeed 5 to pro- & ver, 17,
word that God putteth in my mouth, 1 Kings 22. 26 And the angel of the Lord went that shall I speak. further, and stood in a narrow place, 39 And Balaam went with Balak, where was no way to turn either to and they came unto 1 Kirjath-huzoth. 11.0r, A city
of streets. the right hand or to the left.
40 And Balak offered oxen and sheep,
brought him up into the high places i Deut. 12 2 28 And the LORD "opened the mouth of Baal, that thence he might see the
of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, utmost part of the people. 1
What have I done unto thee, that
Balak's sacrifices and Balaam's parables.
would there were a sword in mine and prepare me here seven oxen and
Balak's sacrifices and
the parables of Balaam.
b ver. 14, 30.
c ver. 15.
d ch. 24, 1.
Mal, 3. 6.
solitary. e ver. 16.
22. 17. Num. 22. 12.
fver. 16. ch.22.
29. 45, 46. & 33. 14. a Ps. 89. 15.
c Deut. 33. 17. Job 39. 10, 11
& ver.19. ch.24. 3, 15, 23. Job
Ps. 78. 2.
i 1 Sam. 17.10.
e Gen. 49. 9.
B. C. 1452. spoken; and Balak and Balaam "of-| And Balak said unto him, What hath B. C. 1452. fered on every altar a bullock and a the LORD spoken?
18 And he took up his parable, and 3 And Balaam said unto Balak, said, ' Rise up, Balak, and hear; heark- Judg. 8. 20. "Stand by thy burnt offering, and I en unto me, thou son of Zippor : will go : peradventure the Lord will 19 u God is not a man, that he should u1Sam. 15. 29. come a to meet me, and whatsoever lie; neither the son of man, that he
he sheweth me I will tell thee. And should repent: hath he said, and shall || Or, he went il he went to a high place.
he not do it? or hath he spoken, and 4 € And God met Balaam : and he shall he not make it good ? said unto him, I have prepared seven 20 Behold, I have received comaltars, and I have offered upon every mandment to bless : and 'he hath Gen. 12. 2. & altar a bullock and a ram.
blessed; and I cannot reverse it. 5 And the LORD 'put a word in 21 y He hath not beheld iniquity in y Rom. 4. 7, 8. 35. Deut.18
. Balaam's mouth, and said, Return | Jacob, neither hath he seen perverse
unto Balak, and thus thou shaltness in Israel : ? the Lord his God is z Ex. 13. 21. & speak.
with him, a and the shout of a king is 6 And he returned unto him, and, among them. lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, 22 God brought them out of Egypt; 6 ch. 24. 8. he, and all the princes of Moab. he hath as it were the strength of a
7 And he took up his parable, and unicorn. 2. 1. & 29.1. said, Balak the king of Moab hath
23 Surely there is no enchantment brought me from Aram, out of the l' against Jacob, neither is there any | Or, in. mountains of the east, saying, "Come, divination against Israel : according
curse me Jacob, and come, defy Is- to this time it shall be said of Jah ch.22.6,11,17. rael.
cob and of Israel, What hath God a Ps. 31. 12. & k (s. 47. 12, 13. 8 How shall I curse, whom God wrought!
hath not cursed ? or how shall I defy, 24 Behold, the people shall rise up
alone, and mshall not be reckoned 25 | And Balak said unto Balaam, Eph. 2. 14. among the nations.
Neither curse them at all, nor bless 10 - Who can count the dust of Ja-them at all.
cob, and the number of the fourth part 26 But Balaam answered and said + Heb.my soul, of Israel ? Let me die "the death of unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, or, my life.
the righteous, and let my last end be 5 All that the Lord speaketh, that I sver.12 ch.22
38. 1 Kings 11 And Balak said unto Balaam, 27 | And Balak said unto Balaam, p ch. 22. 11, 17. What hast thou done unto me? PI Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee h ver. 18
took thee to curse mine enemies, and, unto another place ; peradventure it
curse me them from thence.
13 And Balak said unto him, Come, 29 And Balaam said unto Balak,
in anger dismisscth him. 15 Hle prophesieth of the
Star of Jacob, and of the destruction of surdry na-
ND when Balaam saw that it
a ch. 33. 3, 15. • ver. 5 ch. 22. Sput a word in his mouth, and said, he went not, as at 4other times, + to Go again unto Balak, and say thus. seek for enchantments, but he set his
meeting of en. 17 And when he came to him, be- face toward the wilderness. hold, he stood by his burnt offering,
2 And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and the princes of Moab with him. / and he saw Israel abiding in his tents ch. 2 2. &c.
I Deut. 33, 28. m Ex. 33. 16. Ezra 9. 2.
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Campaigners are to ask Prince Charles to support their fight to stop a new windfarm being built off the north Wales coast.
The turbines would be sited around nine miles off the coast
The group Save our Seascape (SOS) is opposing plans to build 200 wind turbines nine miles out to sea.
It says the giant turbines will mean magnificent sea views from Anglesey to Prestatyn are lost forever.
However, the energy company behind the Gwynt y Môr scheme says it understands concerns and is addressing them.
Npower renewables put plans for the windfarm, which would stretch from Prestatyn in the east to Penrhyn Bay in the west, on public display last September.
The company currently has a smaller project of 30 turbines called North Hoyle four miles of the coast of Rhyl.
It has not yet decided finally whether to submit a planning application
If Gwynt y Môr does go ahead, it will form part of the second round of larger offshore windfarm developments in the seas around UK, generating enough electricity each year to meet the demand of around 500,000 homes.
But S.O.S said the area's natural beauty will be lost if the scheme goes ahead. It is approaching people in Wirral and North Merseyside to involve them in the campaign and plans to write to Prince Charles to seek his support for their campaign.
Member John Lawson Reay said: "Npower renewables will submit their application to the Department of Trade and Industry in a few months' time.
"Consent could be granted early next year and within two or three years these 200 turbines will become reality.
"It means the magnificent sea views from Anglesey to Prestatyn will be lost forever.
Campaigners are to ask Prince Charles for his support
"It's tantamount to the murder of north Wales' biggest asset - its natural beauty," he said.
The campaign group said it was not against renewable energy, rather against wind turbines.
It is asking the government to look at alternatives such as tidal power, which it says energy providers admit could be the answer in areas like north Wales.
Richard Frost, a spokesman for Npower renewables, said if they were able to build a proper case for it, the scheme would make a significant contribution to electricity generation.
"We go through a process of consultation and we take pride in so far as we talk to people locally.
"We understand people's concerns and we have to address the views that people bring to us.
"There is no evidence that this would have an adverse effect on tourism," he added.
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hot, damp air, motionless, and heavy with the sleeping breath of
countless growths could make it so, a conservatory it was. Every
slightest turn had to be alertly chosen, and the tangle of branches and
vines made going by the stars nearly impossible. The undergrowth crowded
us into single file. We scarcely exchanged another word until our horses
came abreast in the creek and stopped to drink. Conditions beyond were
much the same until near the end of our détour, when my horse swerved
abruptly and the buzz of a rattlesnake sounded almost under foot. The
mare swerved, too, and hurried forward to my horse's side.
"That was almost an adventure, itself," laughingly murmured my
companion, as if adventures were what we were in search of. While she
spoke we came out into a slender road and turned due north. "Did you,"
she went on, childishly, "ever take a snake up by the tail, in your
thumb and finger, and watch him try to double on himself and bite you? I
have, it's great fun; makes you feel so creepy, and yet you know
She laughed under her breath as if at hide-and-seek. Then we galloped,
then trotted again, galloped, walked and trotted again. Two miles,
three, four, we reckoned off, and slowed to a walk to come out
cautiously upon the Union Church and Fayette road. A sound brought us
to a halt. From the right, out on the main road, it came; it was made by
the wheels of a loaded wagon. I leaned sidewise until her hat-brim was
over me and whispered "Yankee foragers;" but as I drew my revolver we
heard voices, I breathed a sigh of relief, and with her locks touching
mine we chuckled to each other in the dark. The passers were slaves
escaping to the Federal camp.
Now they came into view, on the broader road, two whole ragged families
with a four-mule team. They passed on. And then all at once the whole
situation was too much for me. In the joy of release I groped out
caressingly and touched my companion's cheek. Whereat she took my
fingers and drew them to her lips--twice. The next moment I found--we
found--my lifted wrists in the slender grasp of her two hands and she
was murmuring incoherent protests. Suddenly she grew eloquent. "Oh,
think what you are and have always been! Do you think I don't know? Do
you suppose I would have put myself into this situation, or taken the
liberties I have taken with you, if I had not known you, and known you
well, before ever I saw you? Ah! I have heard such good things of you!
and the moment I saw you I saw they were true!--Yes,--yes, I tell you
they were, they are! And I'm not going to take my trust away from you
now! You shall keep my trust as you have kept all others. You shall be
as miserly of it as of your general's. You will keep it!" Her whispers
grew more and more gentle. "My dear friend, my dear friend! what is this
trust compared to the trust I wish I might lay on you?" What did she
mean by that! Had she some schemer's use for me? I could not ask, for
her little hands had gradually slipped from my wrists to my fingers and
were softly, torturingly fondling them. Suddenly she laughed and threw
her hands behind her back. "I'm blundering! Oh, Richard Smith, be kind
to a woman's poor wits, and let me say to-morrow that I know one man who
can be trusted--who I know can be trusted--to make a woman's folly her
protection. Do you know, dear, that any woman who can say that, is
richer than any who cannot? And I am but a woman, sometimes a bit silly.
Trouble is I'm a live one and a whole one!--or else I'm a live one and
not quite a whole one--I wonder which it is!"
I mumbled something about never wishing to tempt any one.
"Oh, you haven't tempted me," she replied, with kind amusement. "You
couldn't if you should try. You're a true soldier, with a true soldier's
ideals; and I'm pledged to help you keep them."
"What do you mean?" I demanded. "To whom are you pledged for any such--"
"Oh!--don't you wish you knew! Why, to myself, for instance. Come! duty
"Come!" I echoed. We swung into the broader road and followed the
We came as close to them as was wise, and had to walk our horses. I
could discern Miss Rothvelt's features once more, and felt a truer
deference than I had yet given her. Near the blacksmith's shop, in the
dusk of some shade-trees, she once more touched my shoulder. I turned
resentfully to bid her not do it, but her shadowy gaze stopped me.
"Don't be moody," she said; "the whole mistake is four-fifths mine. And
anyhow, repining is only a counterfeit repentance, you know. Come, I
don't want to tease you. It's only myself I love to torment. I'm the
snake I like to hold up by the tail. Did you never have some dull,
incessant ache that seemed to pain less when you pressed hard on it?"
She laughed, left me and rode into the cottage gate.
What do you say?--Yes, she might have spoken more wisely. Yet always
there vibrated in her voice a wealth of thought, now bitter, now sweet,
and often both at once, and a splendor of emotions, beyond the scope of
all ordinary natures. How far beyond my own scope they were, even with
my passions at flood-tide and turbid as a back-street overflow, I
failed to ponder while I passed around the paling fence alone.
In the edge of the woods at the rear of this enclosure I found the road
that led into Cole's Creek bottom, and there turned and waited. A corner
of the cottage was still in view among its cedars and china-trees. In an
intervening melon-patch blinked the yellow lamps of countless fireflies.
And now there came the ghost of a sound from beyond the patch, then a
glimpse of drapery, and I beheld again the subject of my thoughts. Such
thoughts! Ah! why had I neither modesty, wit nor charity enough to see
that yonder came a woman whose heart beat only more strongly than the
hearts of all the common run of us, with impulses both kind and high,
although society, by the pure defects of its awkward machinery, had
incurably mutilated her fate; a woman wrestling with a deep-founded love
that, held by her at arm's length, yielded only humiliations and by its
torments kept her half ripe for any sudden treason even against that
She came without her horse, pointing eagerly at the brightness of the
sky above the unrisen moon. "Diana!" she whispered, and tossed a kiss
toward it. "You saw me put the mare into the stable and go into the
house by the back door?"
"Yes," I said, and handed her, as I dismounted, the General's gift, the
She snatched it gaily, loosed a fastening at her throat and dropped the
missive into her bosom. Then with passionate gravity she asked, "Now,
are you going straight on to Clifton to-night--without stopping?"
"I haven't been ordered to tell any one where I'm going."
"Neither was Lieutenant Ferry," she dryly responded, "yet I have it from
"He told you?--Ah! you're only guessing," I said, and saw that I was
helping her to guess more correctly.
"Pooh!" she replied, ever so prettily, "do you suppose I don't know?
Ferry's scouts are at Clifton, and you've got a despatch for
Lieutenant--eh,--Durand--hem!" She posed playfully. "Now, tell me;
you're not to report to him till daylight, are you? Then why need you
hurry on now? This house where I am is the only safe place for you to
sleep in between here and Clifton. I'll wake you, myself, in good time."
My heart pounded and rose in my throat, yet I managed to say, "My
orders are plain." I flinched visibly, for again I had told too much. I
pretended to listen toward the depths of the wood.
She struck a mock-sentimental attitude and murmured musically--
"'The beating of our own hearts
Was all the sound we heard.'
"Yes,"--she put away gaiety--"your orders are plain; and they're as
cruel as they are plain!"
"Cruel to you?" I took her hand from my arm and held it.
"Oh! cruel to you, Richard, dear; to you! And--yes!--yes!--I'll
confess. I'll confess--if only you'll do as I beg! Yes, ah yes, cruel to
me! But don't ask how, and we'll see if you are man enough to keep a
real woman's real secret! And first, promise me not to put up at that
house which the General and Lieutenant Ferry--"
"Lieutenant Ferry is not sending me to any house."
"Pardon me, I know better. This is his scheme." She laid her free hand
on our two. "Tell me you will not go to that house!"
I attempted an evasion. "Oh--a blanket on the ground--face covered up in
it from the mosquitos--is really--"
"Right!" She laughed. "I wish a woman could choose that way. Oh! if
you'll do that I'll go with you and stand guard over you!"
Dolt that I was, I would have drawn her close, but she put me off with
an outstretched arm and forbidden smile. "No!--No! this is a matter of
life and death."
I stepped back, heaving. "Who and what are you? Who and what are you?"
"Why, who and what should I be?"
"Hmm; Charlotte Oliver. Are you sure you have the name just right?"
"Why haven't I got it right?"
"Oh, I don't doubt you have; though I didn't know but it might be
Charlie Toliver or something."
I dilated. "Who told--did Ned Ferry tell you that story?"
"He did. Or, to be accurate, Lieutenant Ferry-Durand. My dear Richard,
we cannot be witty and remain un-talked-about."
"I--I believe it yet! You are Charlotte Oliver!"
She became frigid. "Do you know who and what Charlotte Oliver is?--No?
Well, to begin with, she's a married woman--but pshaw! you believe
nothing till it's proved. If I tell you who and what I am will you do
what I've asked you; will you promise not to stop at Lucius Oliver's
house?" She softly reached for my hand and pressed and stroked it.
"Don't stop there, dear. Oh, say you will not!"
"Is it so dangerous?"
"General Austin believes it is. You're being used to bait a trap,
I laughed a gay disdain. "Who is Lucius; is he Charlotte's husband?"
The reply came slowly. "No; her husband is quite another man; this
man's wife has been dead for years. No, Charlotte Oliver lives
The sound we had heard was only some stir of nature in her sleep. "I
must go," I said.
"Oh, no, no! I cannot let you!" She clutched the hand she had been
"Coralie! Coralie Rothvelt!"--my cry was an honest one--"you tempt me
beyond human endurance."
She threw my hand from her. "I know I do! I'm so unworthy to do it that
I wouldn't have believed I could. You thought I was Charlotte
Oliver--Heavens! boy, if you should breathe the atmosphere Charlotte
Oliver has to live in! But understand again, for your soul's comfort,
you haven't tempted me. Go, if you must; go, take your chances; and if
you're spared ever to see your dear, dear little mother--"
"My mother! Do you know my mother?"
"Tell her I tried to keep my promise to her."
"You promised her--what did you promise her?"
"Only to take care of you whenever I had the chance. Go, now, you must!"
"And was care for me your only motive in--"
"No; no, Richard, I wanted, and I still want, you to take care of me!
But go, now, go! at once or not at all! Good-bye!" She laughed and
fluttered away. I sprang upon my horse and sped into the forest.
Another mile, another half; then my horror and dismay broke into gesture
and speech, and over and over I reviled myself as a fool, a traitorous
fool, to be fooled into confession of my errand! I moaned with physical
pain; every fatigue of the long day now levied payment, and my back,
knees, shoulders, ached cruelly. But my heart ached most, and I bowed in
the saddle and cried--
"What have I done, oh, what have I done? My secret! my general's, my
country's secret! That woman has got it--bought it with flatteries and
lies! She has drawn it from my befouled soul like a charge from a gun!"
For a moment I quite forgot how evident it was that she had gathered
earlier inklings of it from some one else. Suddenly my thought was of
something far more startling. It stopped my breath; I halted; I held my
temples; I stared. What would she do with a secret she had taken such
hazards to extort? Ah! she'd carry it straight to market--why not? She
would give it to the enemy! Before my closed eyes came a vision of the
issue--disaster to our arms; bleeding, maiming, death, and widows' and
"My God! she shall not!" I cried, and whirled about and galloped back.
At the edge of the wood, where we had parted, I tied my horse, and crept
along the moonlight shadows of the melon-patch to the stable. The door
was ajar. In the interior gloom I passed my hands over the necks and
heads of what I recognized to be the pair of small mules I had seen at
Gallatin. Near a third stall were pegs for saddle and bridle, but they
were empty. So was the stall; the mare was gone.
"Gone to the Yankees at Fayette!" I moaned, and hurried back to my
horse. To attempt to overtake one within those few miles would only make
failure complete, and I scurried once more into the north with such a
burden of alarm and anguish as I had never before known.
IT was well that I was on the Federal captain's horse. He knew this sort
of work and could do it quicker and more quietly than mine. Mine would
have whinnied for the camp and watched for short cuts to it. Another
advantage was the moon, and the hour was hardly beyond midnight when I
saw a light in a window and heard the scraping of a fiddle. At the edge
of a clearing enclosed by a worm fence I came to a row of slave-cabins.
Mongrel dogs barked through the fence, and in one angle of it a young
white man with long straight hair showed himself so abruptly as to
startle my horse. Only the one cabin was lighted, and thence came the
rhythmic shuffle of bare-footed dancers while the fiddle played "I lay
ten dollars down." There were three couples on the floor, and I saw--for
the excited dogs had pushed the door open--that two of the men were
white, though but one wore shoes. On him the light fell revealingly as
he and the yellow girl before him passed each other in the dance and
faced again. He was decidedly blond. The other man, though silhouetted
against the glare of burning pine-knots, I knew to be white by the
flapping of his lank locks about his cheeks as he lent his eyes to the
improvisation of his steps. His partner was a young black girl. I
burned with scorn, and doubtless showed it, although I only asked whose
plantation this was.
"This-yeh pla-ace?" The rustic dragged his words lazily, chewed tobacco
with his whole face, and looked my uniform over from cap to spur. "They
say this-yeh place belong to a man which his name Lu-ucius Ol-i-veh."
So! I honestly wished myself back in my old rags, until I reflected that
my handsome mount was enough to get me all the damage these wretches
could offer. Still I thought it safest to show an overbearing frown.
"To what command do you fellows belong?"
He spurted a pint to reply, "Fishe's batt'ry."
"Oh! And where is the battery?"
"You sa-ay 'Whah is it?'--ow batt'ry"--he champed noisily--"I dunno.
Does you? Whah is it?"
"It's twenty miles off; why are you not with it? What are you doing
"You sa-ay 'What we a-doin' hyuh?' Well, suh, I mought sa-ay we ain't
a-doin' nuth'n'; but I"--he squirted again--"_will_ sa-ay that so fah as
you _see_ what we a-doin', you _kin_ see, an' welcome; an' so fah as you
don't see, it ain't none o' yo' damn' busi-ness."
"Oh, that's all right, I was only asking a friendly question."
"Yaas; well, that's all right, too, suh; I uz on'y a-givin' you a
frien'ly aynsweh. I hope you like it."
Our intercourse became more amiable and the fellow dragged in his advice
that I spend the rest of the night at the house of Mr. Oliver. His
acquaintance with that gentleman seemed to grow while we talked, and
broke into bloom like a magician's rosebush. He described him as a kind
old bird who made hospitality to strangers his meat and drink. A
conjecture darted into my mind. "Why, yes! that is his married son, is
he not, yonder in the cabin; the one with the fair hair?"
"Who?--eh,--ole man Ol-i-veh? You sa--ay 'Is that his ma'-ied son, in
yondeh; the one 'ith the fah hah? '--Eh,--no--o, suh,--eh,--yass,
suh,--yass! Oh, yass, suh, thass his--tha'--thass his ma'ied son, in
thah; yass, suh, the one 'ith the fah hah; yass, suh. I thought you
meant the yetheh one."
"I don't believe," said I, "I'd better put myself on the old gentleman
when the mistress of the house is away."
"_She_ ain't awa-ay."
"Is she not! Isn't she the Mrs. Oliver--Charlotte Oliver--who is such
friends--she and her husband, I mean, of course,--"
"_Uv_ co'se!" The reptile giggled, squirted and nodded.
"--With General Austin," I continued, "--and with Lieutenant Ferry?"
"She air!" He was pleased. "Yass, we all good frien's togetheh."
"But if she--oh, yes!--Yes, to be sure; she could easily have got here
"Thass thess when she arrove!" It was fascinating to watch the animal's
cunning play across his face. The fiddle's tune changed and the dance
"I naturally thought," resumed I, with a smile meant to refer to the
blond dancer, "that the madam _must_ be away somewhere."
My hearer grinned. "Oh, that ain't no sign. Boys will be boys. You know
that, yo'se'f. An' o' co'se she know it. Oh, yass, she at home."
"Well, I reckon I'll stop all night." I began to move on. His eyes
"Sa-ay! I'll wrastle you fo' them-ah clo'es."
I waved a pleasant refusal and rode toward the house.
ASLEEP IN THE DEATH-TRAP
The dwelling was entirely dark. I came close in the bright moonlight and
hallooed. At my second hail the door came a small way open, and after a
brief parley a man's voice bade me put up my horse and come in. The
stable was a few steps to the right and rear. Returning, I took care to
notice the form of the house: a hall from front to rear; one front and
one rear room on each side of it; above the whole a low attic, probably
occupied by the slave housemaids.
I was met in the bare unpainted hall by a dropsical man of nearly sixty,
holding a dim candle, a wax-myrtle dip wrapped on a corncob. He had a
retreating chin, a throat-latch beard and a roving eye; stepped with one
foot and slid with the other, spoke in a dejected voice, and had very
poor use of his right hand. I followed him to the rear corner chamber,
the one nearest the stable, feeling that, poor as the choice was, I
should rather have him for my robber and murderer than those villains
down at the quarters. I detained him in conversation while I drew off my
boots and threw my jacket upon the back of a chair in such a way as to
let my despatch be seen. The toss was a lucky one; the document, sealed
with red wax, stuck out arrogantly from an inside pocket. Then, asking
lively questions the while as if to conceal a blunder and its
correction, I moved quickly between him and it and slipped the missive
under a pillow of the fourpost bedstead.
He was not wordy, and he tarried but a moment, yet he explained his
paralysis. In the dreary monotone of a chronic sour temper he related
that some Confederates, about a year before, had come here impressing
horses, and their officer, on being called by him "no gentleman," had
struck him behind the ear with the butt of a carbine. I asked what
punishment the officer received, and I noticed the plural pronoun as he
icily replied, "We didn't enter any complaint."
I said with genuine warmth that if he would give me that man's
He waited on the threshold with his dropsical back to me for my last
word, and then, still in the same attitude, droned, "O-oh, he's dead.
And anyhow," he finished out of sight in the hall, "that's not our way."
I sat on the edge of the bed, in the moonlight, wishing I knew what
their way was. I considered my small stock of facts. The one that
appalled me most was the inward guilt which I brought with me to this
ordeal. I wanted to say my childhood prayers and I could not. For I
could not repent; at least the _emotion_ of repentance would not come.
Moreover, every now and then there leapt across this blackness of guilt
a forked lightning of fright, as I realized that I could no more plan
than I could pray. No doubt Coralie Rothvelt, by this time in Fayette,
was telling some Federal commander that a certain Confederate courier,
now asleep at the house of Lucius Oliver, had let slip to her the fact
that his despatches were written to be captured, and that, read with
that knowledge, they would be of guiding value. What mine host himself
might have in view for me I could not guess, but most likely those three
rapscallions down at the quarters were already plotting my murder. So
now for a counterplot--alas! the counterplot would not unfold for me!
I rallied all my wits. Here was an open window. Through it the moonlight
poured in upon the lower half of the bed. If I should lie with my eyes
in the shadow of the headboard no one entering by the door opposite
could see that I was looking. Good! but what to do when the time should
come--ah me!--and "Oh, God!" and "Oh, God!" again. Ought I, now, to let
the enemy get the despatch, or must I not rather keep it from him at
whatever risk of death or disgrace? Ah! if I might only fight, and let
the outcome decide for me! And why not? Yes, I would fight! And oh! how
I would fight! If by fighting too well I should keep the despatch, why,
that, as matters now stood, was likely to be the very best for my
country's cause. On the other hand, should I fight till I fell dead or
senseless and only then lose it, surely then it would be counted genuine
and retain all its value to mislead. Oh, yes,--I could contrive nothing
better--I would fight!
I drew the counterpane aside, lay down under it revolver in hand, and
then, for the first time since I had put on the glorious gray, found I
could not face the thought of death. I grew steadily, penetratingly,
excruciatingly cold, and presently--to the singular satisfaction of my
conscience--began to shake from head to foot with a nervous chill. It
was agonizing, but it was so much better than the spiritual chill of
which it took the place! I felt as though I should never be warm again.
Yet the attack slowly passed away, and with my finger once more close to
the trigger, I lay trying to use my brain, when, without prayer or plan,
I solved the riddle, what I should do, by doing the only thing I knew I
ought not to do. I slept.
An envelope sealed with sealing-wax, unless it has also a wrapping of
twine or tape whose only knot is under the seal, can be opened without
breaking the seal. Gholson had once told me this. Hold a thin, sharp
knife-blade to the spout of a boiling tea-kettle; then press the
blade's edge under the edge of the seal. Repeat this operation many
times. The wax will yield but a hair's-breadth each time, but a
hair's-breadth counts, and in a few minutes the seal will be lifted
entire. A touch of glue or paste will fasten it down again, and a seal
so tampered with need betray the fact only to an eye already suspicious.
As I say, I slept. The door between me and the hall had a lock, but no
key; another door, letting from my room to the room in front of it, had
no lock, but was bolted. I slept heavily and for an hour or more. Then I
was aware of something being moved--slowly--slyly--by littles--under my
pillow. The pillow was in a case of new unbleached cotton. When I first
lay down, the cotton had so smelt of its newness that I thought it was
enough, of itself, to keep me awake. Now this odor was veiled by
another; a delicate perfume; a perfume I knew, and which brought again
to me all the incidents of the night, and all their woe. I looked, and
there, so close to the bedside that she could see my eyes as plainly as
I saw hers, stood Coralie Rothvelt. In the door that opened into the
hall were two young officers, staff swells, in the handsomest Federal
blue. The moonlight lay in a broad flood between them and me. It
silvered Miss Rothvelt from the crown of her hat to the floor, and
brightened the earnest animation of her lovely face as she daintily
tiptoed backward with one hand delicately poised in the air behind her,
and the other still in the last pose of withdrawing from under the
My problem was indeed simplified. The despatch had been stolen, opened,
read, re-sealed and returned. All I now had to do was to lie here till
daybreak and then get away if I could, deliver the despatch to Ned
Ferry, and tell him--ah! what?--how much? Oh, my bemired soul, how much
must I tell? My shame I might bear; I might wash it out in blood at the
battle's front; but my perfidy! how much was it perfidy to withhold; how
much was it perfidy to confess?
The heaviness of my soul, by reacting upon my frame and counterfeiting
sleep better than I could have done it in cold blood, saved me, I fancy,
from death or a northern prison. When I guessed my three visitors were
gone I stirred, as in slumber, a trifle nearer the window, and for some
minutes lay with my face half buried in the pillow. So lying, there
stole to my ear a footfall. My finger felt the trigger, my lids lifted
alertly, and as alertly reclosed. Outside the window one of the
officers, rising by some slender foothold, had been looking in upon me,
and in sinking down again and turning away had snapped a twig. He
glanced back just as I opened my eyes, but once more my head was in
shadow and the moonlight between us. When I peeped again he was
Five, ten, fifteen minutes dragged by. Counting them helped me to lie
still. Then I caught another pregnant sound, a mumbling of male voices
in the adjoining front room. I waited a bit, hearkening laboriously, and
then ever so gradually I slid from the bed, put on everything except my
boots, and moved by inches to the door between the two rooms. It was
very thin; "a good sounding-board," thought I as I listened for life or
death and hoped my ear was the only one against it.
The discussion warmed and I began to catch words and meanings. Oftenest
they were old Lucius Oliver's, whose bad temper made him incautious.
While his son and the other two jayhawkers obstinately pressed their
scheme he kept saying, sourly, "That's--not--our--wa-ay!"
At length he lost all prudence. "Nn--o!--Nnno--o, sir! Not in this house
you don't; and not on this place! Wait till he's off my land; I'm not
goin' to have the infernal rebels a-turpentinin' my house and a-burnin'
it over my head. What _air_ you three skunks in such a sweat to git
found out for, like a pack o' daymn' fools! I've swone to heaven and
hell to git even ef revenge can ever git me even, and this ain't the way
to git even. It's not--our--wa-ay!"
His son's attitude exasperated him. "_You_ know this ain't ever been our
way; you'd say so, yourself, ef you wa'n't skin full o' china-ball
whiskey! What in all hell is the reason we can't do him as we've always
done the others?"
"Oh, shut your dirty face!" replied the son, while one of his cronies
warned both against being overheard. But when this one added something
further the old man snarled:
"What's that about the horse?--The horse might git away and be evidence
ag'inst us?--What?--Oh, now give the true reason; you want the horse,
that's all! You two lickskillets air in this thing pyo'ly for the
stealin's. Me and my son ain't bushwhackers, we're gentlemen! At least
I'm one. Our game's revenge!"
Not because of this speech, but of a soft rubbing sound on the
window-sill behind me, my heart turned cold. Yet there I saw a most
welcome sight. Against the outer edge of the sill an unseen hand was
moving a forked stick to and fro. The tip of one of its tines was slit,
in the slit was a white paper, and in the fork hung the bridle of my
horse. I glided to the window. But there bethinking me how many a man
had put his head out at just such a place and never got it back, I made
a long sidewise reach, secured the paper, and read it.
It was the envelope which had contained Coralie Rothvelt's pass. Its
four flaps were spread open, and on the inside was scrawled in a large
black writing the following:
_Yankees gone, completely fooled. Do not stir till day, then ride for
your life. We're not thwarting Lieutenant Ferry's plan, we're only
improving upon it. When you report to him don't let blame fall upon the
father and son whose roof this night saves you from a bloody death. Do
this for the sake of her who is risking her life to save yours. We serve
one cause; be wary--be brave--be true_.
I stood equally amazed and alert. The voices still growled in the next
room, and my horse's bridle still hung before the window. I peered out;
there stood the priceless beast. I came a sly step nearer, and lo! in
his shadow, flattened against the house, face outward, was Coralie
Rothvelt comically holding the forked stick at a present-arms.
Throbbing with a grateful, craving allegiance, I seized the rein. Then I
bent low out the window and with my free hand touched her face as it
turned upward into a beam of moonlight. She pressed my fingers to her
lips, and then let me draw her hand as far as it could come and cover it
with kisses. Then she drew me down and whispered "You'll do what
When I said I would try she looked distressfully unassured and I added
"I'll do whatever risks no life but mine."
Her face spoke passionate thanks. "That's all I can ask!" she said,
whispered "When you go--_keep the plain road,"_--and vanished.
I sat by the window, capped, booted, belted, my bridle in one hand,
revolver in the other. In all the house, now, there was no sound, and
without there was a stillness only more vast. I could not tell whether
certain sensations in my ear were given by insects in the grass and
trees or merely by my overwrought nerves and tired neck. The moon sailed
high, the air was at last comfortably cool, my horse stood and slept. I
thought it must be half-past two.
"Now it must be three." Miss Rothvelt's writing lay in my bosom beside
my despatch. At each half-hour I re-read it. At three-and-a-half I
happened to glance at the original superscription. A thought flashed
upon me. I stared at her name, and began to mark off its letters one by
one and to arrange them in a new order. I took C from Coralie and h from
Rothvelt; after them I wrote a from Coralie and r from Rothvelt, l and o
from Coralie and two t's and an e from Rothvelt, and behold, Charlotte!
while the remaining letters gave me Oliver.
Ah! where had my wits been? Yet without a suspicion that she was
Charlotte Oliver one might have let the anagram go unsuspected for a
lifetime. Evidently it concealed nothing from General Austin or Ned
Ferry; most likely it was only the name she used in passing through the
lines. At any rate I was convinced she was a good Confederate, and my
But why, then, this ardent zeal to save the necks of the two traitors
"whose roof this night--" etc.? Manifestly she was moved by passion, not
duty; love drove her on; but surely not love for them. "No," I guessed
in a reverent whisper, "but love for Ned Ferry." It must have been
through grace of some of her nobility and his, caught in my heart even
before I was quite sure of it in theirs, that I sat and framed the
following theory: Ned Ferry, loving Charlotte Oliver, yet coerced by his
sense of a soldier's duty, had put passion's dictates wholly aside and
had set about to bring these murderers to justice; doing this though he
knew that she could never with honor or happiness to either of them
become the wife of a man who had made her a widow, while she, aware of
his love, a love so true that he would not breathe it to her while this
hideous marriage held her, had ridden perilously in the dead of night to
circumvent his plans if, with honor to both of them, it could be done.
The half-hour dragged round to four. My horse roused up but kept as
quiet as a clever dog. I heard a light sound in the hall; first a step
and then a slide, then a step again and then a slide; Lucius Oliver was
coming toward my door. The cords gathered in my throat and my finger
stole to the trigger; Heaven only knew what noiseless feet might be
following behind that loathsome shuffle. It reached the door and was
still. And now the door opened, softly, slowly, and the paralytic stood
looking in. The moonlight had swung almost out of the room, but a band
of it fell glittering upon the revolver lying in my lap with my fingers
on it, each exactly in place. Also it lighted my other hand, on the
window-sill, with the bridle in it. Old Lucius was alone. In the gloom I
could not see his venom gathering, but I could almost smell it.
THE FIGHT ON THE BRIDGE
"Good-morning," I murmured.
"Good-morning," he responded, tardily and grimly. "Well, you _air_ in a
"Not at all, sir. I'm sorry to seem so; it's not the tip-top of
"No, it ain't too stinkin' polite."
"True; but neither are the enemy, and they're early risers, you know."
"Well, good Lord! don't hang back for my sake!"
I put on an offended esteem. "My dear sir, you've no call to take
offence at me. I'm waiting because my business is too--well, if I must
explain, it's--it's too important to be risked except by good safe
daylight; that's all."
[Illustration: "Well, you _air_ in a hurry!"]
Oh, he wasn't taking offence. His reptile temper crawled into hiding,
and when I said day was breaking, he said he would show me my way.
"Why, I keep the plain road, don't I?"
No, he would not; only wagons went that way, to cross the creek by a
small bridge. I could cut off nearly two miles by taking the bridle-path
that turned sharply down into the thick woods of the creek-bottom about
a quarter of a mile from the house and crossed the stream at a sandy
ford. "Ride round," he said, "and I'll show you from the front of
Thence he pointed out a distant sycamore looming high against the soft
dawn. There was the fence-corner at which the bridle-path left the road.
He icily declined pay for my lodging. "We never charge a Confederate
soldier for anything; that's not our way."
Day came swiftly. By the time I could trot down to the sycamore it was
perfectly light even in the shade of an old cotton-gin house close
inside the corner of the small field around which I was to turn. The
vast arms of its horse-power press, spreading rigidly downward, offered
the only weird aspect that lingered in the lovely morning. I have a
later and shuddering memory of it, but now the dewy air was full of
sweet odors, the squirrel barked from the woods, the woodpecker tapped,
and the lark, the cardinal and the mocking-bird were singing all around.
The lint-box of the old cotton-press was covered with wet
morning-glories. I took the bridle-path between the woods and the field
and very soon was down in the dense forest beyond them. But the moment
I was hid from house and clearing I turned my horse square to the left,
stooped to his neck, and made straight through the pathless tangle.
Silence was silver this time, speed was golden. But every step met its
obstacle; there were low boughs, festoons of long-moss, bushes, briers,
brake-cane, mossy logs, snaky pools, and things half fallen and held
dead. If at any point on the bridle-path, near the stream, some cowpath,
footpath, any trail whatever, led across to the road, my liers-in-wait
were certainly guarding it and would rush to the road by that way as
soon as they found I was flanking them. And so I strove on at the best
speed I could make, and burst into the road with a crackle and crash
that might have been heard a hundred yards away. One glance up the
embowered alley, one glance down it, and I whirled to the right, drove
in the spur, and flew for the bridge. A wild minute so--a turn in the
road--no one in sight! Two minutes--another turn--no one yet!
Three--three--another turn--no one in front, no one behind--
The thunder of our own hoofs
Was all the sound we heard.
A fourth turn and no one yet! A fifth--more abrupt than the others--and
there--here--yonder now behind--was the path I had feared, but no one
was in it, and the next instant the bridge flashed into view. With a
great clatter I burst upon it, reached the middle, glanced back, and
dropped complacently into a trot. Tame ending if--but as I looked
forward again, what did I see? A mounted man. At the other end of the
bridge, in the shade of overhanging trees, he moved into view, and well
I knew the neat fit of that butternut homespun. He flourished a revolver
above his head and in a drunken voice bade me halt.
I halted; not making a point of valor or discretion, but because he was
Charlotte Oliver's husband. I read his purpose and listened behind me as
we parleyed. "Don't halt me, sir, I'm a courier and in a hurry."
He hiccoughed. "Let's--s'--see y' orders."
I took my weapon into my bridle-hand by the barrel and began to draw
from my bosom the empty envelope addressed Coralie Rothvelt. At the same
time I let my horse move forward again, while I still listened backward
with my brain as busy as a mill. Was there here no hidden succor? Was
that no part of Ned Ferry's plan--if the plan was his? Were those
villains waiting yet, up at the ford? I could hear nothing at my back
but the singing of innumerable birds.
"Halt!" the drunkard growled again, and again I halted, wearing a look
of timid awe, but as full of guile as a weasel. I reined in abruptly so
as to make the reach between us the fullest length of my outstretched
arm with the paper in two fingers as I leaned over the saddle-bow. He
bent and reached unsteadily, and took the envelope; but hardly could his
eye light upon the superscription before it met the muzzle of my weapon.
"Don't move." My tone was affectionate. "Don't holla, or I'll give you
to the crows. Back. Back off this bridge--quick! or I'll--" I pushed
the pistol nearer; the danger was no less to him because I was
thoroughly frightened. He backed; but he glared a devilish elation, for
behind me beat the hoofs of both his horsemen. I had to change
"Halt! Turn as I turn, and keep your eye on _this."_
Glad was I then to be on a true cavalryman's horse that answered the
closing of my left leg and moved steadily around till I could see down
the bridge. Oliver, after a step or two, stopped. "Turn!" I yelled, and
swelled. "One, two,--"
He turned. There was not a second to spare. The two long-haired fellows
came nip and tuck. I see yet their long deer-hunters' rifles. But I
remembered my pledge to this man's wife, and proudly found I had the
nerve to hold the trigger still unpressed when at the apron of the
bridge the rascals caught their first full sight of us as we sat
humpshouldered, eye to eye, like one gray tomcat and one yellow one.
They dragged their horses back upon their haunches. One leaped to the
ground, the other aimed from the saddle; but the first shot that woke
the echoes was neither theirs nor mine, but Sergeant Jim Langley's,
though that, of course, I did not know. It came from a tree on our side
of the water, some forty yards downstream. The man in the saddle fired
wild, and as his horse wheeled and ran, the rider slowly toppled over
backward out of saddle and stirrups and went slamming to the ground.
His companion had no time to fire. Instantly after these two shots came
a third, and some willows upstream filled with its white smoke. The
second long rifle fell upon the bridge and its owner sank to his knees
heaving out long cries of agony that swelled in a tremor of echoes up
and down the stream. Another voice, stalwart, elated, cut through it
like a sword. "Don't shoot, Smith, we're coming; save that hound for
The groans of the wounded man closed in behind it, a flood of agony, and
my own outcry increased the din as I called "Come quick, come quick! the
wounded fellow's remounting!"
The wretch had lifted himself to his feet by a stirrup. Then, giving
out, he had sunk prone, and now, still torturing the air with his horrid
cries, was crawling for his rifle. Oliver saw I had a new inspiration.
All the drunkenness left his eyes and they became the eyes of a snake,
but too quickly for him to guess my purpose I turned my weapon from his
face and fired. His revolver flew from his bleeding hand, a stream of
curses started from his lips, and as I thrust my pistol into his face
again and snatched his bridle he screamed to the crawling woodman
"Shoot! shoot! Kill one or the other of us! Oh! shoot! shoot!"
The rifle cracked, but its ball sang over us; a shot answered it behind
me; the howling man's voice died in a gurgle, and Sergeant Jim ran by
me, leaped upon the horse that had stayed beside his fallen rider, and
was off hot-footed after the other. "Turn your prisoner over to Kendall,
Smith," he cried, "and put out like hell for Clifton!"
I gave no assent, and I believe Oliver guessed my purpose to save him,
though his eyes were as venomous as ever. I flirted the rein off his
horse's neck and said, savagely "Come! quick! trot! gallop!" The
sergeant's young companion of the morning before dashed out of the
bushes on his horse with Jim's horse in lead. "I've got him safe,
Kendall," I cried, and my captive and I sped by him at a gallop on our
way to Ned Ferry's command.
WE SPEED A PARTING GUEST
Rising to higher ground, we turned into the Natchez, and Port Gibson
road where a farm-house and country "store" constituted Clifton. Still
at a gallop we left these behind and entered a broad lane between fields
of tasselling corn, where we saw a gallant sight. In the early sunlight
and in the pink dust of their own feet, down the red clay road at an
easy trot in column by fours, the blue-gray of their dress flashing with
the glint of the carbines at their backs, came Ferry's scouts with Ned
Ferry at their head. There was his beautiful brown horse under him, too.
My captive and I dropped to a walk, the column did the same, and Ferry
trotted forward, beckoning us to halt. His face showed triumph and
commendation, but no joy. Oliver answered his scrutiny with a blaze
"Good-morning, Smith, who is your prisoner?"
"His name is Oliver."
Ferry looked behind to the halted column. "Lieutenant Quinn, send two
men to guard this one. Smith, where's Sergeant Langley; where's Kendall?
While I told of the scrimmage, the guard relieved me of Oliver, and as I
finished, three men galloped up and reined in. "All right," said
"South?" asked our leader.
"Before day," replied the new-comer, glowing with elation, and I grasped
the fact that the enemy had taken our bait and I had not betrayed my
country. The three men went to the column, and Ferry, looking up from
the despatch which I had delivered to him, said--
"Of course no one has seen this despatch, eh?--Oh!"--a smile--"yes?
"Two Federal officers."
"Two--what?" His smile broadened. "You _know_ that?"
"I saw them, Lieutenant, looking in at the door to see the despatch put
back under my pillow. Yes, sir, by the same hand that had shown it
"Whose hand was it; that fellow's, yonder?" Oliver was several paces
"No, Lieutenant, I don't believe he had anything to do with it; and I've
no absolute proof, either, that he was at the bridge to rob or kill me.
I threatened his life first, sir. At any rate that hand under my pillow
was neither his nor his father's."
"But they were present, eh?"
"They were neither of them present, Lieutenant; that hand was Miss
"Oh, no!" he murmured, "that cannot be!" "I saw her face, Lieutenant,
nearer to mine than yours is now. But she did it to help us--oh, but I
know that, sir! She came under my window and told me she had done it!
She told me to tell you she hadn't thwarted your plan, but only improved
on it, and I believe--Lieutenant, if you will hear me patiently through
a confession which--" I choked with emotion.
He lighted up with happy relief. "No, you need not make it. And you need
not turn so pale." Whereat I turned red. "She saw the despatch was a
trap for the Yankees, and used it so, you think? Ah, yes, Smith, I see
it all, now; she pumped you dry."
I could not speak, I shook my head, and for evidence in rebuttal I
showed in my eyes two fountains of standing tears.
"How, then, did she know?"
"Lieutenant, she guessed! She must have just put two and two together
and guessed! Or else, Lieutenant,--"
"She must have pumped others before she pumped you, eh?" There was
confession in his good humor. "But tell me; did she not see also this
other trap, for this man and his father, and try to save them out of
it?--oh, if you don't want--never mind." He laid a leg over the front of
his saddle and sat thinking. So I see him to-day: his chestnut locks,
his goodly limbs and shoulders, the graceful boots, cut-away jacket,
faded sash, straight sword, and that look of care on his features which
intensified the charm of their spiritual cleanness; behind him his band
of picked heroes, and for background the June sky. Whenever I smell
dewy corn-fields smitten with the sun that picture comes back to me.
"No," he said again, "you need not tell me." By a placid light in his
face I saw he understood. He drew his watch, put it back, thought on,
and smiled at my uniform. "It has not the blue of the others," he said,
"but indeed they are not all alike, and it will match the most of
them--after a rain or two--and some dust. You have been trading horses?"
I explained. While doing so I saw one of the guard reaching the
prisoner's bridle to the other. Hah! Oliver had slapped the bridle free.
In went his spurs! By a great buffet on the horse's neck he wheeled him,
and with the rein dangling under the bits went over the fence like a
deer. "Bang! bang! bang!"
It was idle; a magic seems to shield a captive's leap for life. Away
across the corn he went to the edge of a tangled wood, over the fence
there again, and into the brush. "Halt! bang!" and "Halt! bang!" it was,
at every bound, but now the pursuers came back empty-handed, some
contemptuously silent, some laughing. Ferry glanced again at the time,
and I was having within me a quarrel with him for his indifference at
the prisoner's escape, when with cold severity he asked--
"Why did you not fire?"
I flushed with indignation, and my eye retorted to his that I had only
followed his example. His answer was a smile. "You, also, have been
guessing, eh?" he said, and when I glowed with gratitude he added,
"Never mind, we must have a long talk. At present there is a verbal
message for me; what is it?"
"Verbal message? No, Lieutenant, she didn't--oh!--from the General! Yes!
the General says--'Rodney.'"
He turned and moved to the head of the column. I followed. There, "Left
into line wheel--march!" chanted our second in command.
"Backwards--march!" and then "Right dress!" and the line, that had been
a column, dressed along the western edge of the road with the morning
sun in their faces. Then Ferry called "Fours from the right, to march to
the left--march!" and he and Quinn passed up the middle of the road
along the front of the line, with yours truly close at their heels,
while behind us the command broke into column again by fours from the
right and set the pink dust afloat as they followed back northward over
their own tracks with Sergeant Jim beside the first four as squadron
right guide. I had got where I was by some mistake which I did not know
how to correct,--I was no drill-master's pride,--and there was much
suppressed amusement at my expense along the front as we rode down it.
At every few steps until the whole line was a column Ned Ferry dropped
some word of cheer, and each time there would come back an equally quiet
and hearty reply. Near the middle he said "Brisk work ahead of us
to-day, boys," and I heard the reiteration of his words run among the
ranks. I also heard one man bid another warm some milk for the baby.
Trotting by a grove where the company had passed the night, we presently
took the walk to break by twos, and as we resumed the trot and turned
westward into a by-road, Lieutenant Quinn dropped back to the column and
sent me forward to the side of Ned Ferry. I went with cold shivers.
[Illustration: With the rein dangling under the bits he went over the
fence like a deer.]
FERRY TALKS OF CHARLOTTE
"You have no carbine," said my commander. "And you have but one
revolver; here is another."
I knew it at a glance. "It's Oliver's," I said.
"We'll call it yours now," he replied. "Kendall picked it up, but he has
no need of it."
I remarked irrelevantly that I had not noticed when Sergeant Jim and
Kendall rejoined us, but Ferry stuck to the subject of the captured
weapon. "Take it," he insisted; "if you are not fully armed you will
find yourself holding horses every time we dismount to fight. And now,
Smith, I shall not report to the General this matter of the Olivers; you
shall tell him the whole of it, yourself; you are my scout, but you are
"Lieutenant, I--I wish I knew the whole of it."
"Tell him all you know."
"Even things _she_ doesn't want told?"
"Ah!"--he gave a Creole shrug--"that you must decide, on the honor of a
good soldier. She has taken you into her confidence?"
"Only into her service," I said, but he raised his brows. "That is
more; certainly you are honored. What is it you would rather not tell
the General and yet you must; do I know that already?"
"Yes, for one thing, I've got to tell him that old Lucius Oliver can't
be hung too high or too soon. For months he has been--"
Ferry showed pain. "I know; save that for the General. And what else?"
"Why, the other one--the son. Lieutenant, is she that monster's wife?"
Ferry stroked his horse's neck and said very softly, "She is his wife."
I had to wait long for him to say more, but at length, with the same
measured mildness, he spoke on. This amazing Charlotte, bereft of
father, brother and mother, ward of a light-headed married sister, and
in these distracted times lacking any friend with the courage, wisdom
and kind activity to probe the pretensions of her suitor, had been
literally snared into marriage by this human spider, this Oliver, a man
of just the measure to simulate with cunning and patient labor the
character, bearing and antecedents of a true and exceptional gentleman
for the sake of devouring a glorious woman.
"But, eh!" I exclaimed, "how could ever such as she mistake him for--"
"Ah, he is, I doubt not, but the burnt-out ruin of what he was half a
year ago. You perceive, he has not succeeded; he has not devoured her;
actually she has turned his fangs upon himself and has defeated his
designs toward her as if by magic. And yet the only magic has been her
vigilance, her courage, her sagacity. Smith,"--again he stroked the
mane of his charger--"if I tell you--"
I gave him no pledge but a look.
"Since the hour of her marriage she has never gone into her chamber
without locking the door; she has never come out of it unarmed."
I remarked that had I been in her place I should either have sunk into
the mire, so to speak, or thrown myself, literally, into the river.
"Yes," he responded, "but not she! Her life is still hers; she will
neither give it away nor throw it away. She wants it, and she wants
"Did she say that to you?"
He looked at me in wide surprise. "Ah! could you think she would speak
with me on that subject? No, I have learned what I know from a man we
shall meet to-day; the brother of Major Harper; and he, he has it
from--" my companion smiled--"somebody you have known a pretty long
time, I think, eh?"
"I see; I see; you mean my mother!"
He let me ponder the fact a long time. "Lieutenant," I asked at length,
"did you know your plot against the two Olivers would cross her wishes?"
"Ah!" was his quick response, "it crossed mine, like-wise. But, you
know, this life we have to live, it is never for two people only."
"No," I replied, with my eagerness to moralize, "no two persons, and
above all no one man and one woman, can ever be sure of their duty, or
even of their happiness, till they consider at least one third
"Hoh!" interrupted Ferry, in the manner of one to whom the fact was
somehow of the most immediate and lively practical interest, "and to
consider a thousand is better." Then, after a pause, "Yes," he said, "I
know she could not like that move, but you remember our talk of
yesterday, where we first met?"
Indeed I did. Between young men, to whom the principles of living were
still unproved weapons, there was, to my taste, just one sort of talk
better than table-talk, and that was saddle-talk; I remembered vividly.
"You mean when we were saying that on whatever road a man's journey
lies, if he will, first of all, stick to that road, and then every time
it divides take the--I see! you came to where the road divided!"
"Yes, and of course I had to take the upper fork. I am glad you said
that yesterday morning; it came as sometimes the artillery, eh?--just at
the right moment."
"I didn't say it, Lieutenant; you said it."
"No, I think you said it;--sounds like you."
"It was you who said it! and anyhow, it was you who had the strength to
He laughed. "Oh!--a little strength, a little
vanity,--pride--self-love--we have to use them all--as a good politician
I looked him squarely in the eyes and began to burn. At every new
unfolding of his confidence I had let my own vanity, pride, self-love be
more and more flattered, and here at length was getting ready to esteem
him less for showing such lack of reserve as to use _me_ as an
escape-valve for his pent-up thoughts, when all at once I fancied I saw
what he was trying to do. I believed he had guessed my temptations of
the night and was making use of himself to warn me how to fight them. "I
understand," said I, humbly.
But this only pleasantly mystified him. He glanced all over me with a
playful eye and said, "You must have a carbine the first time our
ordnance-wagon finds us. Drop back, now, into the ranks."
I did so; but I felt sure I should ride beside him again as soon as he
could make an opportunity; for it was plain that by a subtle unconfessed
accord he and _she_ had chosen me to be a true friend between them.
About noon, while taking a brief rest to give our horses a bite, we were
joined by an ambulance carrying Major Harper's brother and some freight
which certainly was not hospital stores. When we remounted, this vehicle
moved on with us, in the middle of the column, and I was called to ride
beside it and tell all about the arrival of Miss Harper and her nieces
at Hazlehurst, and their journey from Brookhaven to camp. Ned Ferry rode
on the side opposite me and I noticed that all the fellows nearest the
ambulance were choice men; Sergeant Jim was not there, but Kendall was
one, and a young chap on a large white-footed pacer was another. Having
finished my task I had gathered my horse to fall back to my place at the
rear, when my distinguished auditor said, "I'm acquainted with your
mother, you know."
He was not so handsome as his brother, though younger. His affability
came by gleams. I asked how that good fortune had come to my mother, and
he replied that there was hardly time now for another story; we might
be interrupted--by the Yankees. "Ask the young lady you met yesterday
evening," he added, with a knowing gleam, and smiled me away; and when
by and by the enemy did interrupt, I had forgiven him. Whoever failed to
answer my questions, in those days, incurred my forgiveness.
A MILLION AND A HALF
About mid-afternoon I awoke from deep sleep on a bed of sand in the
roasting shade of a cottonwood jungle. A corporal was shaking me and
whispering "Make no noise; mount and fall in."
Round about in the stifling thicket a score of men were doing so.
Lieutenant Quinn stood by, and at his side Sergeant Jim seemed to have
just come among us. The place was pathless; only in two directions could
one see farther than a few yards. Through one narrow opening came an
intolerable glare of sunlight from a broad sheet of gliding water, while
by another break in the motionless foliage could be seen in milder
light, filling nearly the whole northern view, the tawny flood of the
Mississippi. A stretch of the farther shore was open fields lying very
low and hidden by a levee.
As we noiselessly fell into line, counting off in a whisper and rubbing
from ourselves and our tortured horses the flies we were forbidden to
slap, I noticed rising from close under that farther levee and some two
miles upstream, a small cloud of dust coming rapidly down the hidden
levee road. It seemed to be raised entirely by one or two vehicles.
Behind us our own main shore was wholly concealed by this mass of
cottonwoods on the sands between it and the stream, on a spit of which
we stood ambushed. On the water, a hundred and fifty yards or so from
the jungle, pointed obliquely across the vast current, was a large skiff
with six men in it. Four were rowing with all their power, a fifth sat
in the bow and the other in the stern. Quinn, in the saddle, watched
through his glass the cottonwoods from which the skiff had emerged at
the bottom of a sheltered bay. Now he shifted his gaze to the little
whirl of dust across the river, and now he turned to smile at Jim, but
his eye lighted on me instead. I risked a knowing look and motioned with
my lips, "Just in time!"
"No," he murmured, "they're late; we've been waiting for them."
The sergeant's low order broke the platoon into column by file, Quinn
rode toward its head with his blade drawn, and as he passed me he handed
me his glass. "Here, you with no carbine, stay and watch that boat till
I send for you. If there's firing, look sharp to see if any one there is
hit, and who, and how hard. Watch the boat, nothing else."
He moved straight landward through the cottonwoods, followed by the men
in single file, but halted them while the rear was still discernible in
the green tangle. Presently they unslung carbines, and I distinctly
heard galloping. It was not far beyond the cottonwoods. The Yankees were
after us. Suddenly it ceased. Over yonder, shoreward in the thicket,
came a sharp command and then a second, and then, right on the front of
the jungle, at the water's edge, the shots began to puff and crack, and
the yellow river out here around the boat to spit!--spit!--in wicked
white splashes. Every second their number grew. Behind me Quinn and his
men stole away. But orders are orders and I had no choice but to watch
the boat. The man in the stern had his back to me, and no face among the
other five did I know. They were fast getting away, but the splashes
came thick and close and presently one ball found its mark. The man at
the stern hurriedly changed places with an oarsman; and as the relieved
rower took his new seat he turned slowly upon his face as if in mortal
pain, and I saw that the fresh hand at the oar was the brother of Major
Harper. Just as I made the discovery "Boom!" said my small dust-cloud
across the river, and "hurry-hurry-hurry-hurry-hurry-hurry-hurry--" like
a train on a trestle-work--"boom!"--a shell left its gray track in the
still air over the skiff and burst in the tops of the cottonwoods. The
green thicket grew pale with the bomb's white smoke, yet "crack! crack!"
and "spit! spit!" persisted the blue-coats' rifles. "Boom!" said again
the field-piece on yonder side the water. Its shell came rattling
through the air to burst on this side, out of the flashing and cracking
of rifles and the sulphurous bomb smoke arose cries of men getting
mangled, and I whimpered and gnawed my lips for joy, and I watched the
boat, but no second shot came aboard, and--"Boom!--hurry-hurry-hurry-
hurry"--ah! the frightful skill of it! A third shell tore the
cottonwoods, its smoke slowly broadened out, a Federal bugle beyond
the thicket sounded the Rally, and the cracking of carbines ceased.
Now Major Harper's brother passes a word to the man at the boat's bow,
whereupon this man springs up and a Confederate officer's braids flash
on his sleeve as he waves to the western shore to cease firing. I still
watch the boat, but I listen behind me. I hear voices of command, the
Federal sergeants hurrying the troop out of the jungle and back to their
horses. Then there comes a single voice, the commander's evidently; but
before it can cease it is swallowed up in a low thunder of hoofs and
then in a burst of cries and cheers which themselves the next moment are
drowned in a rattle of carbine and pistol shots--Ferry is down on them
out of hiding. Thick and silent above the din rises the dust of the
turmoil, and out of all the hubbub under it I can single out the voice
of the Federal captain yelling curses and orders at his panic-stricken
men. And now the mêlée rolls southward, the crackle of shots grows less
and then more again, and then all at once comes the crash of Quinn's
platoon out of ambush, their cheer, their charge, the crackle of pistols
again, and then another cheer and charge--what is that! Ferry re-formed
and down on them afresh? No, it was the hard-used but gallant foe
cutting their way out and getting off after all.
The skiff was touching the farther shore and the three oarsmen lifting
their stricken comrade out and bearing him to the top of the levee, when
Kendall came to recall me. On our way back he told me of the fight,
beginning with the results: none of our own men killed outright, but
four badly wounded and already started eastward in the ambulance left us
by the Major's brother; some others more slightly hurt. My questions
were headlong and his answers quiet; he was a slow-spoken daredevil; I
wish he came more than he does into this story.
Not slow-spoken did we find the command when we reached the road where
they were falling into line. After a brief but vain pursuit, here were
almost the haste and tumult of the onset; the sweat of it still reeked
on everyone; the ground was strewn with its wreckage and its brute and
human dead, and the pools of their blood were still warm. Squarely
across the middle of the road, begrimed with dust, and with a dead
Federal under him and another on top, lay the big white-footed pacer. At
one side the enemy's fallen wounded were being laid in the shade to be
left behind. In our ranks, here was a man with an arm in a bloody
handkerchief, there one with his head so bound, and yonder a young
fellow jesting wildly while he let his garments be cut and a flesh-wound
in his side be rudely stanched. Here there was laughter at one who had
been saved by his belt-buckle, and here at one who had dropped like dead
from his horse, but had caught another horse and charged on. But these
details imply a delay where in fact there was none; the moment Ferry
spied me he asked "Did he get across?" and while I answered he motioned
me into the line. Then he changed it into a column, commanded silence,
and led us across country eastward. For those few wounded who would not
give up their places in the ranks it was a weary ten miles that brought
us swiftly back to a point within five miles of that Clifton which we
had left in the morning. And yet a lovely ten miles it was, withal. You
would hardly have known this tousled crowd for the same dandy crew that
had smiled so flippantly upon me at sunrise, though they smiled as
flippantly now with faces powder-blackened, hair and eyelashes matted
and gummed with sweat and dust, and shoulders and thighs caked with
grime. Yet to Ned Ferry as well as to me--I saw it in his eye every time
he looked at them--these grimy fellows did more to beautify those ten
miles than did June woods beflowered and perfumed with magnolia, bay and
muscadine, or than slant sunlight in glade or grove.
In a stretch of timber where we broke ranks for a short rest, unbitting
but not unsaddling, a lot of fellows pressed me to tell them about the
boat on the river. "You heard what was in it, didn't you?" asked one
nearly as young as I.
"Besides the men? No. Same that was in the ambulance, I suppose; what
"Don't you know? Oh, I remember, you were asleep when Quinn told us.
Well, sir,"--he tried to speak calmly but he had to speak somehow or
explode--"it was soldiers' pay--for Dick Taylor's army, over in the
Trans-Mississippi; a million and a half dollars!" He was as proud to
tell the news as he would have been to own the money.
A QUIET RIDE
Where Ferry's scouts camped that night I do not know, for we had gone
only two or three miles beyond our first momentary halting-place when
their leader left them to Quinn and sprang away southward over fence,
hedge, road, ditch--whatever lay across his bee-line, and by his order I
followed at his heels.
In a secluded north-and-south road he looked back and beckoned me to his
side: "You saw Major Harper's brother land safe and sound, you say? He
told you this morning he is acquainted with your mother, eh; but
"No, except that it was through--"
"Yes, I know. But you don't know even how your mother is acquainted with
"No, though of course if she lived in the city, common sympathies might
easily bring them together."
"She did not live in the city; she lived across the river from the city.
'Tis but a year ago her father died. He was an owner of steamboats. She
made many river trips with him, and I suppose that explains how she
knows the country about Baton Rouge, Natchez, Grand Gulf, Rodney, better
than she knows the city. But the boats are gone now; some turned into
gunboats, one burnt when the city fell, another confiscated. I think
they didn't manage her bringing-up very well."
"Maybe not," I replied, being nothing if not disputatious, "and she does
strike me as one thrown upon her own intuitions for everything; but if
she's the lady she is entirely by her own personal quality, Lieutenant,
she's a wonder!"
"Ah, but she is a wonder. In a state of society more finished--"
"She would be incredible," I said for him, and he accepted the clause by
a gesture, and after a meditative pause went on with her history. The
subject of our conversation had first met Oliver, it seemed, when by
reason of some daring performance in the military field--near Milliken's
Bend, in the previous autumn--he was the hero of the moment. Even so it
was strange enough that he should capture her; one would as soon look to
see Vicksburg fall; but the world was upside down, everything was
happening as if in a tornado, and he cast his net of lies; lies of his
own, and lies of two or three match-making friends who chose to believe,
at no cost to themselves, that war, with one puff of its breath, had
cleansed him of his vices and that marriage would complete the happy
change. This was in Natchez, Ferry went on to say. Most fortunately for
the bride one of the bridegroom's wedding gifts was a certain young
slave girl; before the wedding was an hour past--before the
orange-blossoms were out of the bride's hair--this slave maid had told
her what he was, "And you know what that is."
We rode in silence while I tried to think what it must be to a woman of
her warmth--of her impulsive energies--to be, week in, week out, month
after month, besieged by that man's law-protected blandishments and
stratagems. "I wish you would use me in her service every time there is
a chance," I said.
"The chances are few," he answered; "even to General Austin she laughs
and says we must let the story work itself out; that she is the fool in
it, but there is a chance for the fool to win if not too much burdened
"How did you make her acquaintance?" I ventured to ask.
"You remember the last time the brigade was in this piece of country?"
I did; it had been only some five weeks earlier; Grant had driven us
through Port Gibson, General Bowen had retired across the north fork of
Bayou Pierre, and we had been cut off and forced to come down here.
"Yes; well, she came to us that night, round the enemy's right, with a
letter from Major Harper's brother--he was then in New Orleans--and with
information of her own that saved the brigade. I had just got my
company. I took it off next morning on my first scout, whilst the
brigade went to Raymond. She was my guide all that day; six times she
was my guide before the end of May. Yet the most I have learned about
her has come to me in the last few days."
"She has a fearful game to play."
"Oh!--yes, that is what she would call it; but me, I say--though not as
Gholson would mean it, you know,--she has a soul to save. If it is a
game, it is a very delicate one; let her play it as nearly alone as she
can." "Yes," said I, "a man's hand in it would be only his foot in it;"
and Ferry was pleased. He scanned me all over in the same bright way he
had done it in the morning, and remarked "This time I see they have
given you a carbine."
We went down into some low lands, crossed a creek or two, and in one of
them gave our horses and ourselves a good scrubbing. On a dim path in
thick woods we paused at a worm fence lying squarely across our way. It
was staked and ridered and its zig-zags were crowded with brambles and
wild-plum. A hundred yards to our left, still overhung by the woods, it
turned south. Beyond it in our front lay a series of open fields, in
which, except this one just at hand, the crops were standing high. The
nearer half of this one, a breadth of maybe a hundred yards, though
planted in corn, was now given up to grass, and live-stock, getting into
it at some unseen point, had eaten and trampled everywhere. The farther
half was thinly covered with a poor stand of cotton, and between the
corn and the cotton a small, trench-like watercourse crossed our line of
view at right angles and vanished in the woods at the field's eastern
edge. The farther border of this run was densely masked by a growth of
brake-cane entirely lacking on the side next us. Between the cotton and
the next field beyond, a double line of rail fence indicated the Fayette
and Union Church road. Suddenly Ferry looked through his field-glasses,
and my glance followed the direction in which they were pointed. Dust
again; one can get tired of dust! Some two miles off, a little southward
of the setting sun, a golden haze of it floated across a low
background of trees.
"'Tis the enemy, I think," he said, "but only scouts, I suppose."
A SALUTE ACROSS THE DEAD-LINE
I was not seeking enemies just then and was not pleased. "Didn't the
Yankees fall back this morning before day and move southward?" I asked.
"For what would they do that?" inquired my leader, still using the
glass, but before I could reply he gave a soft hiss, dropped the glass,
and turned his unaided eye upon a point close beyond our field, in the
road. Now again he lifted the glass, and I saw over there two small,
black, moving objects. They passed behind some fence-row foliage,
reappeared nearer, and suddenly bobbed smartly up to the roadside
fence--the dusty hats of two Federal horsemen. The wearers sat looking
over into the field between them and us. I asked Ferry if he wasn't
afraid they would see us.
"That is what we want," was his reply; "only, they must not know we want
it. Keep very still; don't move." At that word they espied us and
We turned to our left and hurried along our own fence-line, first
eastward, then south, and reined up behind some live brush at the edge
of the public road. "Soon know how many they are, now," he said, smiling
back at me.
"Are you going to count them?" It seemed so much easier to let them
"Yes," he replied. "Wish we had our boys here," he added, and did not
need to tell me how he would have posted them; the place was so
favorable for an ambush that those Yankees had no doubt been looking for
us before they saw us. Half of us would be in the locks of these
highroad fences to lure them on, and half in the little gully masked
with canes to take them in the flank. "We would count many times our own
number before they should pass," he added.
"Can't we make them think our men are here?" I suggested. "Couldn't I go
back to where this fence crosses the gully and let them see me opening a
gap in it?"
He was amused. "Go if you want; but be quick; here they come already, a
small bunch of them."
By the time I reached the spot they were in plain view, six men and an
officer. I leaped to the ground, tugged at a rail and threw one end off.
I thought I had never handled rails so heavy and slippery in my life. As
I got a second one down I looked across to the road. The officer was
distributing his men. Barely a mile behind was the dust of their column.
The third rail stuck and the sweat began to pour down into my eyes and
collar. Two of the blue-coats easily let down a panel of fence on the
far side of the road and pushed into the tall corn; three others came
galloping across the thin cotton to reconnoitre the fringe of canes; the
officer and the remaining man cantered on up the road toward the spot
where I could see Ferry observing everything from the saddle behind his
mask of leaves. Of a sudden the Federal commander descried me wildly at
work. He paused and pointed me out to the man at his back, but had no
glass and seemed puzzled. At his word the man pricked up to the fence
to come over it, but his horse was of another mind, and the impatient
officer, crowding him away, cleared the fence himself and came across
the furrows at a nimble trot. Still I tussled with the rails, and grew
peevish. The enemy was counted, closely enough! one troop. Their dust
showed it, the small advance guard proved it.
"Hello!" called the Federal officer, "who are you, over there?"
He might have known by looking a trifle more narrowly; I saw plainly,
thrillingly, who he was; but his attention was diverted by some signal
from the men he had sent to the fringe of cane; they had found the
tracks of horses leading through the canes into the corn. But now he
hailed me again. "Here, you! what are you doing at that fence? Who
He was within easy range and was still trotting nearer. I snatched up my
carbine, aimed, and then recovered, looking sharply to my left as if
restrained by the command of some one behind the canes. The Federal's
cool daring filled me with admiration. Had the foes he was looking for
been actually in hiding here they could have picked him out of his
saddle like a bird off a bush. His only chance was that they would not
let themselves be teased into firing prematurely on any one man or six.
Ferry beckoned me. I mounted and trotted down the woods side of the
fence, at the same time the Federal's six men approached from three
directions, and down the road the main column entered upon the scene.
The officer halted with revolver drawn and sent a man back with some
order to the main body. And then Ferry's beautiful brown horse, as
though of his own choice, reared straight up where he stood, dropped his
forelegs upon his breast, rose, over the fence, master and all, as
unlaboriously as a kite, trotted out from the brush and halted in the
open field. His rider's outdrawn sword flashed to the setting sun. The
Federal, pointing here and there was deploying his remaining five men
toward the spot I had left, but glancing round and seeing Ferry he
trotted toward him. Thereupon Ferry advanced at a walk, and I--for I had
followed him--moved at the same gait a few paces behind. "Halt him,"
said my leader.
"Halt!" I yelled with carbine at a ready, and the Federal halted. In
fact he had come to a small hollow full of bushes and grapevines and had
no choice but to halt or go round it.
"Don't swallow him," said Ferry, smilingly, "this isn't your private
"He's on my private horse!" I retorted.
"Well, you're on his," replied my commander. The giant before us,
mounted on Cricket, was my prisoner of the previous day.
"Who are you?" he was calling imperiously.
"Captain Jewett ought to know," Ferry called back, and on that the
questioner recognized us both. He became very stately. "Lieutenant
Durand, I believe."
"At times," said Lieutenant Durand.
"And at other times--?"
"Lieutenant Ferry--Ferry's scouts."
The Federal expanded with surprise and then with austere pleasure. He
glanced toward his five men galloping back to him having found no enemy,
and then at his column, which had just halted. Frowning, he motioned the
advance guard to the road again and once more hailed Ferry while he
pointed at me. He straightened and swelled still more as he began his
question, but as he finished it a smile went all over him. "Is that your
entire present force?"
"Then what the devil do you want?" he thundered.
"We have what we wanted," said Ferry, "only now we desire to cross the
"You're not asking my permission?"
"I am afraid not."
"I admit you are quite able to cross without."
"Thank you," said Ferry; "will you pardon me for passing in front of
The Federal's pistol slid into its holster and his sabre flashed out. He
threw its curved point up in a splendid salute. Ferry saluted with his
straight blade. Then both swords rang back into their scabbards, and
Jewett whirled away toward his column. For a moment we lingered, then
faced to the left, trotted, galloped. Over the fence and into the road
went he--went I. Down it, as we crossed, the blue column was just moving
again. Then the woods on the south swallowed us up.
[Illustration: Ferry saluted with his straight blade.]
"If Captain Jewett will only go on to Union Church," said Ferry, "Quinn
will see that he never gets back."
"But you think he will not go on?"
"Ah, now he is discovered, surely not. I think he will turn back at
"Why Wiggins? does he know Coralie Rothvelt?"
"Yes, he does; and if since last night he has maybe found out she is
"Oh! Lieutenant Ferry, oh! would such a man as that come hunting down a
woman, with a troop of cavalry?"
"He is not hunting her; yet, should he find her, I have the fear he
would do his duty as a soldier, anyhow. No, he _was_ looking, I think,
for Ferry's scouts."
"But if she should be at Wiggins--"
My leader smiled at my simplicity. "She is not at Wiggins."
"Where is she?"
"I do not know."
SOME FALL, SOME PLUNGE
At a farm-house well hidden in the woods of a creek we got a brave
supper for the asking and had our uniforms wonderfully cleaned and
pressed, and at ten that evening we dismounted before the three brightly
illumined tents of General Austin, Major Harper and that amiable cipher
our Adjutant-general. On the front of the last the shadow of a deeply
absorbed writer showed through the canvas, and Ferry murmured to me "The
ever toiling." It was Scott Gholson. I had heard the same name for him
the evening before, from her whose own lovely shadow fell so visibly and
so often upon the bright curtain of Ned Ferry's thought.
My leader went in while I held our horses. Then he and Gholson came out
and entered the General's tent; from which Gholson soon emerged again
and sent an orderly away into the gloom of the sleeping camp, and I
heard a small body of men mount and set off northward. Presently Ferry
came out and sent me in, and to my delight I found, on standing before
the General, that I did not need to tell what Charlotte Oliver wanted
"No, never mind that," he said, "Miss Rothvelt was here and saw me this
afternoon, herself." Up to the point of my arrival at the bridge I had
merely to fumble my cap and answer his crisp questions. But there he
lighted a fresh cigar and said "Now, go on."
Gholson dropped in with something to be signed, and the General waved
him to wait and hear. For Gholson, despite the sappy fetor of his mental
temperament, had abilities that made him almost a private secretary to
the General. Who, nevertheless, knew him thoroughly. When I had
described Oliver's escape and would have hurried on to later details,
General Austin raised a hand.
"Hold on; you say nearly everybody fired at Oliver; who did not?" "I
did not, General."
"Did Lieutenant Ferry fire?"
I said he did not. The General turned his strong eyes to Gholson's and
kept them there while he took three luxurious puffs at his cigar. Then
he took the waiting paper, and as he wrote his name on it he said,
smiling, "I wish you had been in Lieutenant Ferry's place, Mr. Gholson;
you would have done your duty."
The flattered Gholson received the signed paper and passed out, and the
General smiled again, at his back. I hope no one has ever smiled the
same way at mine.
Ferry and I slept side by side that night, and he told me two companies
of our Louisianians were gone to cut off Jewett and his band. "Still, I
think they will be much too late," he said, and when I rather violently
turned the conversation aside to the subject of Scott Gholson, saying,
to begin with, that Gholson had wonderful working powers, he replied,
"'Tis true. Yet he says the brigade surgeon told him to-day he is on the
verge of a nervous break-down." But on my inquiring as to the cause of
our friend's condition, my bedmate pretended to be asleep.
We rose at dawn and rode eastward, he and I alone, some fourteen miles,
to the Sessions's, where the dance had been two nights earlier. On
entering the stable to put up our horses we suddenly looked at each
other very straight, while Ferry's countenance confessed more pleasure
than surprise, though a touch of care showed with it. "I did not know
this," he said, "and I did not expect it."
What we saw was the leather-curtained spring-wagon and its little
striped-legged mules. The old negro in charge of them bowed gravely to
me and smiled affectionately upon Ferry. About an hour later Gholson
appeared. He took such hurried pains to explain his coming that any fool
could have seen the real reason. The brigade surgeon had warned him--Oh!
had I heard?--Oh! from Ned Ferry, yes. The cause of his threatened
breakdown, he said, was the perpetual and fearful grind of work into
which of late he had--fallen.
"Did the doctor say 'fallen'?" I shrewdly asked.
"No, the doctor said 'plunged,' but--did Ned Fer'--who put that into
"Nobody; some fall, you know, some plunge." I did not ask the cause of
the plunge; the two little mules told me that. He would never have come,
Gholson hurried on to say, had not Major Harper kindly suggested that a
Sabbath spent with certain four ladies would be a timely preventive.
"What!" I cried, "are they here t'--too? Why,--where's their carryall?
'Tisn't in the stable; I've looked!"
"No, it was here, but yesterday, when the fighting threatened to be
heavy, it was sent to the front. Smith, I didn't know Charlie Tolliver
I believed him. But I saw he was not in search of a preventive. Ah, no!
he was ill of that old, old malady which more than any other abhors a
preventive. Waking in the summer dawn and finding Ned Ferry risen and
vanished hitherward, a rival's instinct had moved him to follow, as the
seeker for wild honey follows the bee. He had come not for the cure of
his honey-sickness, but for more--more--more--all he could find--of the
honey. "Smith," he said, with a painful screw of his features, "I'm
mightily troubled about Ned Ferry!"
"Yes," I dishonestly responded, "his polished irreligion--"
"Oh, no! No," he groaned, "it isn't that so much just now, though I know
that to a true religionist like you the society of such a mere
We were interrupted.
OLDEST GAME ON EARTH
The cause of our interruption was Camille Harper. We had been pacing the
side veranda and she came out upon it with an unconscious song on her
lips, and on one finger a tiny basket.
Her gentle irruption found me standing almost on the spot where she had
stood two evenings before and said good-bye to me. From this point a
path led to the rear of the house, where within a light paling fence
bloomed a garden. She gave us a blithe good-morning as she passed,
descended the two or three side steps, and tripped toward the garden
gate, a wee affair which she might have lifted off its hinges with one
thumb. I saw her try its latch two or three times and then turn back
discomfited because the loose frame had sagged a trifle and needed to be
raised half an inch. I did not understand the helplessness of girls as
well then as I do now; I ran and opened the gate; and when I shut it
again she and I were alone inside.
She let me cut the flowers. "You know who's here?" she asked.
"Yes," I guilefully replied, "I came with him."
"I don't mean Lieutenant Ferry," she responded, "nor anybody you'd ever
guess if you don't know; but you do, don't you?"
I said I knew and went on gathering sweet-pea blossoms.
"Did you ever see her?"
"Yes," I replied, stepping away for some roses, "I--saw her--by
chance--for a moment--she was in the wagon she's got here--last
--eh,--Thursday--morn'--" I came back trimming the roses, and
as she reached for them and our glances met, she laughed and replied,
with a roguish droop of the head--
"She told us about it. And you needn't look so disturbed; she only
Still I frowned. "How does it come that she's here, anyhow?"
"Why! she's got to be everywhere! She's a war-correspondent! She was at
the front yesterday nearly the whole time, near enough to see some of
the fighting, and to hear it all! she calls it 'only a skirmish'!"
"When did she get here?"
"About five in the morning. But we didn't see her then; she shut herself
up and wrote and wrote and wrote! They say she runs the most daring
risks! And they say she's so wise in finding out what the Yankees are
going to do and why they're going to do it, that they'd be nearly as
glad to catch her as to catch Lieutenant Ferry! Didn't you know? Ah, you
knew!" She attempted a reproachful glance, but exhaled happiness like a
fragrance. I asked how she had heard these things.
"How did I hear them? Let me see. Oh, yes! from--from Harry."
I flinched angrily. "From what?"
She looked into her basket and fingered its flowers. "That's what he
asked me to call him."
I stiffened up as though I heard a thief picking the lock of my lawful
treasure. She threw me, side wise, a bantering smile and then a more
winsome glance, but I refused to see either. I burned with so many
feelings at once that I could no more have told them than I could have
raised a tune. "Don't you like him?" she asked, and tried to be
"You know perfectly well," she replied.
"No, I do not like him. Do you?"
"Why,--yes,--I do. I--I thought everybody did." She averted her face and
toyed with the sweet-pea vines. Suddenly she gulped, faced me, blinked
rapidly, and said "If I oughtn't to call him--that,--then I oughtn't to
have called--" she dropped her eyes and bit her lip.
"_That_," I replied, "is a very different matter! At least I had hoped
Her rejoinder came in a low, grieved monotone: "Did you say _had_
It was the sweetest question my ear had ever caught, and I asked her, I
scarce know how, if I might still say "do hope".
"Why, I--I didn't know you ever did say it. I don't see that I have any
right to forbid you saying things--to--to yourself."
So we played the game--oldest game on earth--and loveliest. Bungling
moves we made, as you see, and sometimes did not know whose move it was.
At length she admitted that this _is_ a very unsafe world in which to be
kind to soldiers. I told how _fickle_ some of them were. She would not
say she would--or wouldn't--make my case a permanent exception or a
solitary one; yet with me she blissfully pooh-poohed the idea that our
acquaintance was new, she being so wonderfully like my mother, and I
being so wonderfully ditto, ditto. And when I burst into a blazing
eulogy of my mother, my listener gave me kinder looks than I ever
deserved of any woman alive. On my trying to reciprocate, she asked me
for more flowers and hurried back to our earlier theme.
"And really, you know, they say she's almost as truly a scout as Ned
Fer'--as Lieutenant Ferry-Durand. She's from New Orleans, you know, and
she's like us, half-Creole; but her other half is Highland Scotch--isn't
that romantic! When she told us about it she laughed and said it
explained some things in her which nothing else could excuse! Wasn't
that funny!--oh, pshaw! it doesn't sound a bit funny as I tell it, but
she said it in such a droll way! She was so full of fun and frolic that
day! You can't conceive how full of them she is--sometimes; how soberly
she _can_ say the funniest things, and how _funnily_ she can say the
[Illustration: "Don't you like him?" she asked, and tried to be very
"You say she was so full of fun that day; what day?"
The young thing gaped at me, gasped, and melted half to the ground:
"O--oh--I've let it out!"
"Yes, you may as well go right on, now."
She straightened to her toes, covered her open mouth an instant, and
then said "Yes, we knew her--at our house--in New Orleans--poor New
Orleans! Your mother--oh, your splendid, lovely little mother is such a
"My mother brought her to your house?"
"Yes, oh, yes! and that's why it isn't wrong to tell _you_. Charlotte's
been three times through the lines, to and from the city; once by way of
Natchez and twice through Baton Rouge. And oh, the things she's brought
out to our poor boys in the hospitals!"
"Generals' uniforms, for example?"
"Oh, now you're real mean! No! what she's brought the most of is--guess!
You'll never guess it in the world!"
"Hindoo grammars!--No? Well, then,--perfumery!"
"Ah, you! No, I'll tell you." She spoke prudently; I had to bow my ear
so close that it tingled: "Dolls!"
My amazement was genuine. "For our sick soldiers!" I sighed.
Her eyes danced; she leaned away and nodded. Then she drew nearer than
before: "Dolls!" she murmured again;--"and pincushions!--and
emeries!--and 'rats'! you know, for ladies' hair--and chignon-cushions!"
"For our sick soldiers!"
"Yes!--stuffed with quinine!" She laughed in her handkerchief till the
smell of the sweet-peas was lost in the odor of frangipani, and she
staggered almost into my arms. But that sobered her. "And when we speak
of the risk she runs of being sent to Ship Island she laughs and says,
'Life is strife.' She says she'd like it long, but she's got to have
"Life is strife indeed to her," I said.
"Oh! do you know that too?--and another reason she gives for taking
those awful risks is that 'it's the best use she can make of her silly
streak'--as if she had any such thing!"
"Why did my mother bring her to you?"
"Oh! she had letters from uncle to aunt Martha! He thinks she's
"Does your father think so, too?"
"My father? no; but he's prejudiced! That's one of the things I can
never understand--why nearly all the girls I know have such
A GNAWING IN THE DARK
On our return to the veranda, Camille and I, we found on its front the
house's entire company except only the children of the family. Mrs.
Sessions, Estelle and Cécile formed one group, Squire Sessions and
Charlotte Oliver made a pair, and Ferry and Miss Harper another. Our
posies created a lively demonstration; Camille yielded them to Estelle,
and Estelle took them into the house to arrange them in water. Gholson
went with her; it was painful to see her zest for his society.
Miss Harper "knocked me down," as we boys used to say, to Charlotte
Oliver; "Charlotte, my dear, you already know Mr. Smith, I believe?"
I had expected to see again, and to feel, as well, the starry charms of
Coralie Rothvelt; but what I confronted was far different. The charms
were here, unquenched by this stare of daylight, but from them shone a
lustre of womanliness wholly new. It seemed to grow on even when a
tricksy gleam shot through it as she replied, "Yes, our acquaintance
dates from Gallatin."
With a spasm of eagerness I said it did: "Our
acquai'--hh--Gallatin--hh--" But my soul cried like a culprit, "No, no,
it begins only now!" and my whole being stood under arrest before the
accusing truth that from Gallatin till now my acquaintance had been
solely with that false phase of her which I knew as Coralie Rothvelt. At
the same her kind eyes sweetly granted me a stripling's acquittal--oh!
why did it have to be a stripling's?
Wonderful eyes she had; deep blue, as I have said, in color; black, in
spirit; never so wonderful as when having sparkled black they quieted to
blue again. Always then there came the slightest of contractions at the
outer corners of the delicate lids, that gave a fourfold expression of
thought, passion, tenderness and intrepidity. I never saw that silent
meaning in but one other pair of eyes; wherever it turned it said--at
the same time saying many other things but saying this always
plainest--"I see both out and in; I know myself--and thee." Never but in
one other pair of eyes? no; and whose were those? Ned Ferry's.
"Don't you love to see Charlotte and him look at each other in that
steady way when they're talking together?" Camille asked me later. But
rather coldly I inquired why I should; I felt acutely enough without
admitting it to Camille, that Charlotte and Ferry were meeting on ground
far above me; and when Gholson, in his turn, called to my notice, in
Charlotte's case, this unique gaze, and contrasted it with her beautiful
yet strangely childish mouth, I asked a second time why she was
"She's here," murmured Gholson, "because she has to live! To live she
must have means, Smith, and to have means she must either get them
herself or she must--" and again he poised his hand horizontally across
his mouth and whispered--"live with her hus'--"
I jerked my head away--"Yes, yes." Scott Gholson was the only one of us
who could give that wretch that title. "Gholson," I said, for I kept him
plied with questions to prevent his questioning me, "how did that man
ever get her?"
The rest of the company were going into the house; he glanced furtively
after them and grabbed my arm; you would have thought he was about to
lay bare the whole tragedy in five words; "Smith,--nobody knows!"
"Do you believe she has told Ned Ferry anything?"
"Never! About herself? no, sir!" He bent and whispered: "She despises
him; she keeps in with him, but it's to get the news, that's all; that's
positively all." On our way to the stable to saddle up--for we were all
going to church--he told me what he knew of her story. I had heard it
all and more, but I listened with unfeigned interest, for he recited it
with flashes of heat and rancor that betrayed a cruel infatuation eating
into his very bone and brain, the guilt of which was only intensified by
the sour legality of his moral sense.
The church we went to was in Franklin, but the preacher was a man of
note, a Vicksburg refugee. On the way back Gholson and I rode for a time
near enough to Squire Sessions and Ned Ferry to know the sermon was
being discussed by them, and something they said gave my companion
occasion to murmur to me in a tone of eager censure that Ned Ferry's
morals were better than his religion.
I said I wished mine were.
"Ah, Smith, be not deceived! Whenever you see a man bringing forth the
fruits of the Spirit while he neglects the regularly appointed means of
grace, you _know_ there's something wrong, don't you? He went to church
this morning--_of course_; but how often does he go? What's wrong with
our dear friend--I don't like to say it, for I admire him so; I don't
like to say it, and I never have said it, but, Smith,--Ned Ferry's a
romanticist. We are relig'--what?"
At one point our way sloped down to a ramshackle wooden bridge that
spanned a narrow bit of running water at the edge of a wood. Beyond it
the road led out between two fields whose high worm-fences made it a
broad lane. The farther limit of this sea of sunlight was the grove that
hid the Sessions house on the left; on the right it was the
woods-pasture in which lay concealed a lily-pond. As Gholson and I
crossed the bridge we came upon a most enlivening view of our own
procession out in the noonday blaze before us; the Sessions buggy; then
Charlotte' little wagon; next the Sessions family carriage full of
youngsters; and lastly, on their horses, Squire Sessions--tall, fleshy,
clean-shaven, silver-haired--and Ned Ferry. Mrs. Sessions and Miss
Harper, in the buggy, were just going by a big white gate in the
right-hand fence, through which a private way led eastward to the
lily-pond. A happy sight they were, the children in the rear vehicle
waving handkerchiefs back at us, and nothing in the scene made the
faintest confession that my pet song, which I was again humming, was pat
to the hour:
"To the lairds o' Convention 'twas Claverhouse spoke,
Ere the sun shall go down there are heads to be broke."
"Gholson, if it isn't Ned Ferry's religion that's worrying you just now
about him, what is it?"
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Acadian Food and Acadian Gardens. To begin with , I took the photo of the garden at Fort Louibourg ,so this would be how our ancestors probably did their planting. That is not the way I did my garden, I did mine in rows, but this way looks much easier.So the Acadians planted corn, turnips,potatoes,beans,carrots, cabbage,and their herbs. If you check out my Beaubassin Trip in my webpage at www.acadian-roots.com I have added an exert from a man who went to Beaubassin and the meal that was served to him. The acadians loved their mutton and fish. The next photo depicts a potato pancake, I ate that one at Annapolis Royal, there was a market on the saturday so my friend and I went there, when I saw the sign potato pancakes I thought they were crepe rapees , but nooooo they tasted like a fish cake sort of, they were made of cooked mashed potatoes and fried golden brown. They were tasty, but I much prefer my grated potato pancakes.
Well as you know I am always trying to think of things to improve my site, and help my members, now I have created a room at my family.com , there we can chat , add photos, add events, so far it is going quite well, but to join you need an invite. We are posting some of our ancesors photos and other photos as well. If you just surfed in and are interested in joining please coment here or go to my website and email me or join my acadianroots group. In my acadianroots group, we cater to Acadians and Cajuns and French Canadians are always welcome, if we can help you in any way we will try, also maybe someone out there may like to also come in and help with lookups. I just finished adding some marriages for Saint Louis de Kent parish in New Brunswick. So now it is coffee time. Thank you for stopping by, hope to see you again.
Have a great day
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The trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak must be fair, transparent and reveal the full truth about the unlawful killing of anti-government protesters during this year’s mass protests, said human rights group Amnesty International on Tuesday.
Mubarak, his two sons Gamal and Alaa, former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly and six former senior officials are due to stand trial on Wednesday in Cairo.
The men face charges of premeditated murder and attempted murder, arising from the shooting of demonstrators by security forces during the 18-day uprising that lead to Mubarak’s removal from power. At least 840 people were killed and thousands injured in the uprising.
Those accused of murder will face the death penalty if convicted.
Egyptian security authorities have received notice to move the ousted president to Cairo for trial, state TV reported on Tuesday. Mubarak has been hospitalized in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh since April, when he was first questioned on the allegations.
“This trial presents a historic opportunity for Egypt to hold a former leader and his inner circle to account for crimes committed during their rule,” said Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International’s director for the Middle East and North Africa.
“But if the trial is going to be a meaningful break with Egypt’s record of impunity, it must be both fair and transparent – justice demands no less. Not only must the trial be fair but it must be seen as fair, not least by the families of those who died during the protests.”
Experts perceive Mubarak’s trial as a pivotal challenge for Egypt at a time of tension between Egypt’s military rulers and revolutionary forces concerning the slow course of justice for former members of the Mubarak regime.
On Tuesday, hundreds of army personnel forcibly ended a sit-in at Tahrir Square, removing tents and arresting scores of protesters. Relatives of those killed in the revolution, who made up most of those remaining in the square as Ramadan began, were reportedly beaten and humiliated by the army.
However, the military-backed civilian government has made various concessions to popular demands, including bowing to calls that the trial be televised.
Amnesty “welcomed the judge’s decision agree to live TV broadcasting of the trial, but also urged the court to ensure that those attempting to attend the hearings are not mistreated,” said the statement.
Egypt’s stock market fell to a 12-week low on Tuesday as jittery investors sold off shares ahead of the trial.
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9. Bimota SB2
The trend of less-than-attractive Bimotas continues here with the SB2, but it hardly matters because when it was released in 1977 it was one of the most advanced superbikes of its time. Some may call the bodywork ugly, but it was aerodynamic. Underneath it all was a chromoly tubular chassis, engineered to make removal of the Suzuki GS750 engine easier.
The SB2 featured adjustable steering geometry, magnesium wheels, Brembo brakes, and was one of the first sportbikes with a single shock – all of which were highly advanced for the time. No surprise then that the SB2 handled very well, and combined with the potent Suzuki engine, it was a highly capable performer in all aspects. If you have one of the 70 examples ever created, consider yourself one of a very lucky few.
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Masatoyo Kishi is active/lives in California / Japan. Masatoyo Kishi is known for abstract expressionist painting, geometric steel sculpture.
Biography Masatoyo Kishi
Following is an exhibition review by Debra Belt, published in the Sacramento News, April 20, 2000.
"The science of sculpture. Masatoyo Kishi at b sakata garo"
Within minutes, a deep clear bell confirms this is an exceptional show. The sound leads to a slender sculpture, a steel study of composition, meter and balance. Water circulates through the base of Sculptural Bell and fills a delicately balanced trough. At the moment the trough is brimming with water, it then tips backward and flips a small mallet that hits the main steel pipe in a resonant note of creative precision.
The Sculptural Bell is a testimony to Masatoyo Kishi's education in physics and mathematics. "As a Japanese artist in th
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In this 5-part blog series, I’ll give you an insider’s look at what my reading block and reading rotations look like. My small group’s look changes every year with each group, but the basics remain the same. Here’s what you can look forward to in this series:
Part 5: Reading Block Rotations (that’s this post)
My reading rotations, or reading centers, are the heart of my reading block. Without reading centers happening, I can’t pull kids to assess one-on-one or pull groups of students to have small group. It takes a lot of practice, modeling and trial and error to have your reading centers running close to flawless in kindergarten. Here’s how I’ve ran my reading centers for the past few years.
Creating Your Reading Rotations
For our actual rotation, I’ve been using a PowerPoint for the last 6+ years. It’s the absolute best thing I ever started doing. It saves me SO much time and we stay on track. I get to meet with all of my groups every single day.
I decide what choices I want to have and find images to match those choices. A few choices that I’ve used over the past few years are word work, spelling (when I taught first), listen to reading, reading, iPads, computers, pocket charts, Square Panda, Touchtronics, Epic, and writing to name a few.
Next, I add all of my students. In the beginning, I added their names only. However, one year when I had 25 students and more than half of them could not recognize their name and we had a big problem! I love creating an independent classroom and needed a quick fix for this. I put their picture in the place of where I had names. It took up a bit more space, but my issue was solved. All they had to do was find their names/picture. I didn’t have to tell anyone where they were supposed to go. It was like magic.
Spicing up Your Digital Rotation
To keep us in our time limits so I could meet with each group, I started adding sounds, videos and timers. Each slide where it shows where the students should be has a timer. The slide changes when the time is up. The next slide is either their next center or a clean up song.
The clean up song has been my choice for the past few years. As my students are cleaning up, I am still working with my group. My students sit and wait for me to change the slide to the next rotation as soon as everyone has put their materials away. The group that is at the table with me then leaves and goes to their center. The reason I do it this way is because while everyone is cleaning and we’re in a down moment, I can keep my small group engaged and working. It would be pointless to send them back to their seat or to the rug when I could keep working with them.
Creating Digital Groups for the Teacher
The students that come to me, I either pull them from their center or sometimes I create an image at the bottom with the picture of a teacher at a table. I stopped doing the latter because I wanted to create fluid small groups. I didn’t want to change the rotations each day when I moved students around in groups.
How did I know who to pull and when? I kept a sticky note on my small group table with the current groups. Once I changed it around, all I needed to do was to get a new sticky note and rewrite the groups. This was super helpful when I only wanted to switch someone for one day to work on a particular skill with a different group.
During my small group, I keep the questions on point with this ring of questions. It helps to keep the group flowing and no interruptions from me and possibly forgetting what I want to ask or other questions that can be asked. I keep it with a few other rings right behind my chair at my small group table. The ring life is a lifesaver because I don’t misplace any of the cards and I don’t have to put them back in a binder after each use.
Normal questions always pop up in my head like:
Who is the main character?
What’s the setting?
What happened at the beginning?
However, sometimes I want to go deeper and I don’t always remember to ask these types of questions. This is why my ring comes in handy.
Want the questions? Grab them here.
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SYDNEY – Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Thursday that closer ties with Tokyo would not hurt Australia’s relations with China, following a visit by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
The two countries signed free trade and security deals during the two-day visit, and Abe became the first Japanese leader to address the Australian parliament.
China is Australia’s biggest trading partner and has been restrained in its reaction to the summit, although its state media hit out at Abbott’s “appalling” speech to parliament during Abe’s visit. In his address, the Australian leader honored the courage of Japanese submariners during World War II.
Abbott repeatedly referred to the “special” relationship between Canberra and Tokyo, but said there was still room for bilateral ties with China to blossom.
“The point I make is that when it comes to international friendships, it is not a zero sum game. It is possible to strengthen a range of friendships simultaneously,” Abbott said, when asked by reporters if ties with Beijing had been damaged.
“We want a better friendship with Japan, and I think pretty obviously we are getting that. But we also want a better friendship with China,” he said.
“We are working on a free trade deal with China. I am still reasonably optimistic we will succeed there. We want better friendships with everyone,” Abbott added.
However, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said Australia was not afraid to stand up to Beijing to defend peace and the rule of law.
“China doesn’t respect weakness,” she said in an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald on Thursday. “So, when something affects our national interest then we should make it very clear about where we stand.”
Last month, Canberra backed comments by the United States, which accused China of engaging in “destabilizing” actions in the South China Sea, where it is involved in territorial disputes.
Bishop earned the ire of Beijing last November when she called in the country’s ambassador, in response to a move by China to extend its air defense identification zone over the East China Sea.
In response, Beijing said Australia risked “jeopardizing bilateral mutual trust.”
On Thursday, Abbott defended Bishop’s latest comments.
“Sometimes countries disagree, but it is possible to have respectful disagreements that don’t in any way prejudice the friendship,” he said.
Abe and Abbott visited a major iron ore mine in the Pilbara region of Australia on Wednesday to showcase close bilateral ties, after traveling roughly five hours together aboard an Australian government aircraft from Canberra.
“Supplies of resources and energy from Australia are vital for our country’s economic growth,” Abe told mine workers in the West Angelas mine.
Australia is a major exporter of iron ore to Japan, which has invested heavily in the Australian resources industry since the 1950s to secure stable supplies and build its economy.
The West Angelas mine is operated by a joint venture of major mining company Rio Tinto Group and Japanese firms Mitsui & Co. and Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp.
A day after summit talks with Abe, Abbott said the world-class mine symbolized bilateral cooperation between the two countries.
Abe left Australia on Thursday for Papua New Guinea, a Pacific nation emerging as an energy source for Japan.
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Trucks and heavy equipment vehicles are all working vehicles. Unlike personal vehicles, they typically get exposed to a lot of rough treatment and get dirty quickly. Cleaning trucks and other heavy-equipment vehicles requires more attention to detail, attention they can't get at an ordinary car wash. Truck wash bays provide the ideal place to clean these types of vehicles, by providing all the necessary equipment and tools for a thorough and detailed cleaning. A lot of equipment goes into these bays that make them different from a typical car wash, and they use a great deal more water to clean each vehicle. This additional water usage increases the importance of choosing the right drainage system for a truck wash bay.
What Goes Into a Truck Wash Bay?
There are a variety of possible set-ups, since what a truck wash bay may need can differ from location to location. There are the essential supplies to clean the vehicles: soap, wax, degreasers, and other cleaners. Additional supplies include tools like detail brushes, pressure washers, and demucker systems to remove dirt and debris from the vehicles.
All of the water produced by truck wash bays needs somewhere to go; otherwise, it can become a serious health and safety problem. That is why ensuring you have an efficient and durable system for truck wash bays drainage is critical.
Considerations for Truck Wash Bay Drainage
Drainage is an essential part of any facility, but the needs can vary. For wash bays, you need to consider the following:
Truck wash drainage systems use large amounts of water, from cleaning the vehicles to cleaning the actual wash bay. Any drainage system you select must be capable of handling the level of water runoff produced. A professional car wash needs a flow rate of, at minimum, 3GPM (gallons per minute), and a truck wash could benefit from something more significant.
With the amount of dirt, mud, and other debris that can come off a truck during cleaning, a drainage system can get dirty quickly. The easier the system is to clean, the better, as you will not have to spend so much time keeping it clean and free from dirt and debris. Grate-free systems make for even easier maintenance, as grates tend to trap dirt and are difficult to clean.
Safety is another major consideration to keep in mind. The system you select should be safe to walk and drive over, meeting the necessary guidelines to prevent employee and customer injuries as they move around the bay.
Any drain system you choose should use a corrosion-resistant material like stainless steel in its construction. This will protect against the corrosive properties found in some of the chemicals used for cleaning and maintaining the vehicles and facility.
Trucks and heavy equipment vehicles weigh a great deal more than your average car. If a drainage system isn't strong enough, it can bow and break, leaving you with a costly repair job.
A System to Meet Your Needs
Slot Drain is a drainage system that can meet the various needs of truck wash bays. This modernized, linear trench drain system comes both pre-sloped and pre-assembled to allow for an easy installation process. Unlike traditional systems, Slot Drain is unique in that it does not require a grate cover, which makes maintenance and inspections hassle-free. You can add a Clean in Place system to make cleaning a more automated process, saving employees valuable time.
The industrial-strength 9,000 and 10,000 Series systems feature a Load Class F rating, the strongest load class possible. The stainless steel construction adds to the durability and is corrosion-resistant, allowing it to withstand the various chemicals found at a wash bay.
The system sits flush with the ground, making it safe for customers and employees to walk across. There are three different sizes for slot openings, but the 1" and 1.25" openings are best for truck wash bay drainage. Slot Drain systems feature the largest flow rates at 18 and 27 GPM per foot of drain, respectively.
Additional accessories that are available to help save time and maintain a clean system are a stainless steel catch basin and strainer basket, which help to catch any solid materials before entering the sewer system, and a cleaning paddle to make cleaning the drain easier.
The Right Drainage System for Truck Wash Bays
Truck wash bays provide a place for truck and heavy equipment vehicles to wash away the dirt and debris that accumulates over time. A truck wash bay needs to be well-equipped for any possible situation, which means that they need a set-up to ensure the bay does not get overwhelmed by the amount of water used.
Explore Slot Drain's heavy-duty drainage systems today. They provide the necessary strength, durability, and flow rates needed for truck wash bays drainage in a sleek and efficient package.
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Graphene inclusion effect on anion-exchange membranes properties for alkaline water electrolyzers
Peer reviewed, Journal article
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Original versionInternational Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 2020, 45 (35), 17057-17066. 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2020.04.195
The main issues facing the development of Anion Exchange Membranes (AEM) are the low hydroxide ion (OH−) conductivity compared to protons (H+), and the thermal and chemical stability. Based on the its unique two-dimensional structure, graphene is estimated to be one of the best solutions for the hydrogen ions (H+ and OH−) selectivity and conductivity improvement. This work presents the graphene-composite membranes (AEMGrs) preparation and characterization in comparison with commercial FAA3-20® and FAA3-30® membranes from Fumatech. Various amounts of commercial graphene were incorporated into the Fumion® FAA-3 in NMP (10%), solutions which were then used to fabricate new AEMs by the Doctor-Blade (DB) method. Commercial and graphene-composite AEMs were studied by infrared spectroscopy with Fourier Transformation (FTIR), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA), water uptake (WU), ion exchange capacity (IEC), and in plane four-points electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (4p-EIS). The results indicated that the composite membranes containing 50 mg of graphene exhibited an improved IEC (3.16 mmol g−1) and OH− conductivity (113.27 mS cm−1) at 80 °C measured in 0.01 M KOH (pH = 12).
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If your need is to simply interact with and browse an existing slide deck, you have the ability to choose the "Import from PowerPoint" option in Composer's Experiences panel.
- The import process takes a snapshot of each slide and turns that image into the background for a scene. No individual elements, videos, or animations of a PowerPoint presentation are retained. If you want to copy individual text boxes or images into an Intuiface experience, see this article.
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 or later must be installed on your computer to enable the conversion of PowerPoint slides into Scenes. If you needed to install Microsoft Office, be sure you reboot the computer when the installation completes, enabling Microsoft Windows to register all PowerPoint file extensions.
Ater selecting the "Import from PowerPoint" option, you will then be asked to create a project into which the slides will be added. Note the ability to choose a target screen resolution. Here you can choose any display size with a 16:9 ratio. For most Windows displays, the first option - Full HD - is suitable.
The resulting presentation will contain the following scenes:
- A Home scene showing all slides as an interactive table of contents
- Touch any slide to navigate to that slide
- An individual scene for each slide
- Swipe left to go to the previous slide
- Swipe right to go to the next slide
- Swipe up or down to go back to the Home scene
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Montcalm's Victory Against All Odds
By (author) Rene Chartrand
Illustrated by Patrice Courcelle
Edited by David Chandler
Ticonderoga, 1758 by Rene Chartrand
Book DescriptionOsprey's study of one of the decisive battles of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). On 5 July 1758 General Abercromby's expedition against Fort Carillon set off from its camp. Within hours, tragedy struck. Some rangers ran into a French scouting party and in the fierce skirmish that followed Lord Howe, the darling of the army, was shot through the heart. The army was shattered at the loss, but Abercromby went to pieces. He decided to attack Montcalm's completed breastworks head-on. Battalion after battalion was sacrificed, the most famous of these hopeless assaults being that of the Black Watch. With the failure of his plan and the exhaustion of his army Abercromby retreated to the foot of Lake George Montcalm had saved Canada, with Abercromby's help."
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Book DetailsISBN: 9781841760933
(248mm x 184mm x 7mm)
Imprint: Osprey Publishing
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publish Date: 25-Oct-2000
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Books By Author Rene Chartrand
Vikings, Hardback (September 2016)
Bursting with full color illustrations, this is a handy, complete guide to the Vikings, from the lives they led at home to their voyages of plunder across Europe and into America.
Forts of the American Revolution 1775-83, Paperback (June 2016)
Though primarily fought in the field, the American Revolution saw fortifications play an important part in some of the key campaigns of the war. This book details all the types of fortification used throughout the conflict, the engineers on all sides who constructed and maintained them, and the actions fought around and over them.
Montcalm's Crushing Blow, Paperback (September 2014)
The year 1755 saw the rivalry between Britain and France in North America escalate into open warfare as both sides sought to overcome the other's forts and trading posts. This book focuses on a daring feat of arms at the height of the French and Indian War.
French Musketeer, 1622-1775, Paperback (July 2013)» View all books by Rene Chartrand
Based on a memoir by an officer named D'Artagnan, Dumas published "The Three Musketeers". The King's Musketeers were formed in 1622 and were populated by young men of noble birth, but often of poorer means. This title explores the history behind the legends created by Dumas.
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Author Biography - Rene Chartrand
Rene Chartrand was born in Montreal and educated in Canada, the United States and the Bahamas. A senior curator with Canada's National Historic Sites for nearly three decades, he is now a freelance writer and historical consultant. He has written numerous articles and books including almost 20 Osprey titles and the first two volumes of 'Canadian Military Heritage'. Also a student of wines, he currently lives in Hull, Quebec, with his wife and two sons."
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After declining for most of the summer, the unemployment rate for workers between the ages of 16 and 19 popped up again, rising from 23.8 percent to 24.6 percent. Among 20-to-24 year olds, it hopped to 13.9 percent from 13.5 percent in July.
After noting that these number don’t reflect layoffs as much as lower-than-expected hiring at the end of summer, he comes up with a disturbing theory:
There are other subtle and discouraging aspects of this report for the young. One of the only industries to add significant numbers of workers was food services, which accounted for 28,300 of the 95,000 total new jobs. Restaurant and fast food work is usually a bastion for teenage employment. If that sector is growing, and young people still can’t find employment, it may mean that older workers are now out-competing them for low wage jobs.
In other words, skilled workers laid off from higher-paying jobs are now taking the entry-level positions young people use to learn the basic skills of “how to have a job.” And, as time passes and the economy doesn’t pick up (which will be almost assured in an Obama second term), they’ll find themselves competing with teens and college graduates who come after them.
It’s like Paul Ryan said in his RNC nomination acceptance speech:
College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.
In 2008, Barack Obama captured two-thirds of the youth vote, a huge amount.
Some reward they got, isn’t it?
(Crossposted at Sister Toldjah)
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Schemes to help unemployed people get work are not slave labour, a Judicial review has ruled. The judgment means the Department for Work and Pensions can continue to help people get the vital skills and experience they need to get into a job.
Two claimants who had been placed on two different Government schemes were granted permission to seek a judicial review to challenge the validity of the Jobseeker’s Allowance (Employment, Skills and Enterprise Scheme) (ESE) Regulations 2011 which underpin these schemes. The Community Action Programme has been a trial providing mandatory community work for the very long-term unemployed, while sector-based work academies (sbwa) include work experience and training.
The judgement found that requiring participation in the schemes does not breach human rights, that the regulations were lawful and that the Department had provided enough guidance about the policy intentions of the schemes.
The Honourable Mr Justice Foskett was robust in saying that the schemes were not a question of slavery:
“………it does have to be said that the sbwa scheme, and indeed the CAP, are a very long way removed from the kind of colonial exploitation of labour that led to the formulation of Article 4. The Convention is, of course, a living instrument, capable of development to meet modern conditions, and views may reasonably differ about the merits of a scheme that requires individuals to “work for their benefits” as a means of assisting them back into the workplace. However, characterising such a scheme as involving or being analogous to “slavery” or “forced labour” seems to me to be a long way from contemporary thinking.”
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said:
“We are delighted, although not surprised, that the Judge agrees our schemes are not forced labour. Comparing our initiatives to slave labour is not only ridiculous but insulting to people around the world facing real oppression.
“Thousands of young people across the country are taking part in our schemes and gaining the vital skills and experience needed to help them enter the world of work – it is making a real difference to people’s lives.
“Those who oppose this process are actually opposed to hard work and they are harming the life chances of unemployed young people who are trying to get on.”
While the Judge found in the Department’s favour on the main issues, he did find that the Department should improve the clarity of the letters which warn claimants of a potential sanction should they fail to participate in the schemes without good reason. We do not believe there is anything wrong with the original letters and we will appeal this aspect of the judgement, but in the meantime we have revised our standard letters.
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RTA in Public Square
The RTA logo is seen inside a bus stop that is temporarily closed on Superior Avenue in downtown Cleveland on Jan. 2, 2017. (Lisa DeJong/The Plain Dealer)
CLEVELAND, Ohio - Mayor Frank Jackson's decision to ban buses in Public Square has caught the attention of a national public transit planning consultant.
Jarrett Walker, who has designed transit networks all over the world, today wrote a blog post entitled, "How (Not) to Wreck Your Transit System" highlighting the local debate.
"Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson has announced that new bus lanes that were designed into city's main square will be closed to buses, thus choking the bus system's circulation at its very heart," Walker writes.
He was alerted to the Public Square debate by a story this week in Citylab detailing the unresolved situation in the square.
The Cleveland situation represents a theme he sees repeated across the world as cities struggle to support public transit.
"This is an instance of a general problem, which is the tendency of the decisions about the functions of transit to be based on how the transit looks rather than the rights and needs of the citizens who use it," Walker said during a phone interview Friday. "I think that's a problem that runs across a range of different civic interests."
In his piece, Walker discusses how cities often try to remove transit from the public eye in order to serve the aesthetics of a planned space like Public Square, which recently underwent a major renovation.
"Downtown business leaders, you have a critical role in shaping your transportation future," Walker writes. "The most critical decision you make is whether to risk letting downtown succeed as a city, a place where everyone has a right to be, and move and be safe, as opposed to trying to replicate the controlled experience of a shopping mall, where unwanted people can be easily removed."
The Plain Dealer sent a copy of Walker's article to City Hall but Jackson's administration declined to comment on it.
Dan Williams, media relations director for the city, said the administration had not seen the article and did not want to comment.
The city, which first closed Public Square to buses on Aug. 1, currently has the bus lanes through the square blocked by traffic signs. That closure of the stretch of Superior Avenue that runs through the square has caused debates among the local community about the importance of transit in the city.
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The Notes module in ChilliDB allows a user to create and save a note against a contact or organisation’s name. As well as basic details, a note created in ChilliDB can include some of the following information: interaction method; status; a follow up date; and attachments. This article explains the basic steps involved in creating a note and then searching for it if you wish to view it at a later date.
Creating a New Note
1.To create a new note in ChilliDB, click on the ‘Notes’ menu item and then click ‘Create’.
2.You are then given the option to choose to create a ‘New’ note or choose from any previous templates that have been saved.
3.If the ‘New’ option is chosen, users will be prompted to enter information in the following fields:
* Note: any field with a red triangle next to it is a required field and thus must have information entered. If a new categorisation is required to correctly categorise your new note, follow this link for details regarding how to add categorisations.
4.Once all relevant information has been entered, users have the option of simply ‘Saving’ the note against the contact(s)/organisation(s), or to ‘Save as a Template’ for later use.
*Note: if you choose to save a note as a template, the only field that is required is the ‘Categorisation’ field. This means you can leave fields like ‘Contact(s)/Org(s)’ blank to fill in when using the template.
Searching for a Note
Once a note has been saved against a contact/organisation, users can search for this note in one of two ways:
1.By Using the Search Function Under the Notes Menu Item
Clicking on ‘Search’ allows a user to search for previously-created notes using a variety of filters. The preset filters available for the Notes module are:
I.‘By Title’ - search for notes by entering keywords from the original note’s title.
II. ‘All’ - displays all notes available in your ChilliDB system.
III. ‘My Notes’ - displays all the notes you have created in the system.
Users can also create their own filters by clicking on ‘New Filter’ and adding whichever field and values they would like to search by (multiple fields/values can be used here).
User-created filters can be saved for later use and will then become visible under the ‘My Filters’ menu on the top left-hand side of the page. For more information about using the ‘Search’ function in ChilliDB, see this link.
2.By Finding the Note Under the Relevant Contact/Organisation
Users can also find any notes they have created saved against the contact/organisation it was originally linked to.
To do this, first find the contact/organisation by using the search function in the relevant module:
The next step is to click on the contact’s name in the results list. This takes the user to the Contact/Organisation Details page. At the top of the page, the basic details for the contact/organisation are listed. Under this is a series of tabs, one of which is titled ‘Notes’.
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GLAAD today released its 22nd annual Where We Are on TV report, a comprehensive forecast of LGBT characters in primetime in the 2017-18 television season.
First, the good news: Of the 901 regular characters appearing on broadcast networks, cable TV, and streaming services, 58 (6.4%) are queer. That's the highest percentage since GLAAD began its report. GLAAD also counted an additional 28 recurring LGBT characters.
Cable has been fueling representation for some time, and this season will see 103 regular queer roles, up from 92 last year. On streaming originals on Amazon, Hulu, and Netflix, LGBT regular characters are up, as well, with 51 (from 45).
"Representation matters more than ever,” said GLAAD president Sarah Kate Ellis. “At a time when the Trump administration is trying to render LGBTQ people invisible, representing LGBTQ people in all of our diversity in scripted TV programs is an essential counterbalance that gives LGBTQ people stories to relate to and moves the broader public to support LGBTQ people and families.”
For the first time, GLAAD added non-binary and asexual characters in the Where We Are on TV report, including Raphael of Freeform’s Shadowhunters and Todd on Netflix’s BoJack Horseman. (Jughead is asexual in Archie comics, but the CW’s Riverdale has yet to address the topic.)
There's still plenty of room for improvement, though: While Lena Waithe won an Emmy for her work on Master of None, queer people of color are still underrepresented on television. According to GLAAD, most LGBT characters on television are still cisgender white men. (On broadcast, 62% are white—that jumps to 77% on streaming services and 64% on cable).
There are only 17 trans characters across broadcast, cable, and streaming services, and four nonbinary roles. In addition, bisexual representation skews largely toward female characters (75 women to 18 men) and there are just two characters on any platform who are HIV-positive.
“Numbers are only a small part of the story when it comes to LGBTQ representation on TV and simply being present onscreen is not enough,” said GLAAD's Megan Townsend. “While we’re pleased to see numbers on the rise, consideration of how LGBTQ characters are woven into storylines and whose stories are making it to screen is crucial for judging progress of the industry."
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Although Redwood National Park has the most important designation of the four redwood parks, and covers more land than the other three (Del Norte, Jedediah Smith, Prairie Creek) combined, it receives fewer visitors, is less developed and contains really large trees in only scattered locations; also, much of the land is quite inaccessible. This is partly due to its more recent creation (1968), after most of the original redwoods in the area had been cut down, leaving old growth trees only in a few hard-to-reach locations.
The scenic, more easily accessed redwood groves closer to the coast came under state park protection much earlier, in the 1920s, leaving the more remote inland areas open for logging for another three decades. There are relatively few trails in the national park, and most people see just one location, the Lady Bird Johnson Grove, site of the park's dedication ceremony. The majority of the park is managed as a wilderness, and is accessible only by long trails that require overnight stays at primitive campsites en route.
LocationMap of Redwood National Park
The main part of Redwood National Park is a single block around Orick
), covering hills to the north and east of town, the lower Prairie Creek valley and a 7 mile section of the coastline, but the most interesting area is the large expanse south along Redwood Creek
. Access is via Bald Hills Road
- paved but in places steep and winding, this climbs from sea level to a ridge over 2,000 feet above the creek, which flows through a deep valley to the west. The road eventually becomes unpaved and exits the park, continuing to Weitchpec in the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation. Of the other sections of the park, the next largest is a ten mile strip of land along the coastline either side of the Klamath River estuary, north of Prairie Creek. This has a small selection of trails and the Coastal Drive
, a narrow partially paved loop road through forest and close to the edge of cliffs 300 feet above the Pacific Ocean.
Bald Hills Road
First point of interest along the drive is Redwood Creek itself, and a short track leads to a trailhead beside the stream from where a path (Redwood Creek Trail
) follows the valley for 8 miles, linking with other trails that wind through the dense forested slopes at either side.
There are three primitive campsites along the way, and this is the main location for multi-day hikes, as most other trails in the national and state parks are too short. Back on the main road, the forest has no redwoods at first but they begin to appear after a mile or so and are plentiful by the time the elevation reaches 1,250 feet and the road passes the parking area for the hike to Lady Bird Johnson Grove
. This is an easy one mile loop past the national park dedication site deep in the forest, placed at a ceremony in 1969 attended by the then president's wife.
Four miles further and 700 feet higher, Bald Hills Road reaches Redwood Creek Overlook
, a promontory giving views over a large area of the valley below, much of which is slowly recovering from timber operations prior to the national park creation. The Pacific Ocean is visible beyond, or at least it is on the relatively few occasions when not obscured by fog. Soon after is the turn off to Tall Trees Grove
, reached by a twisting, unpaved road open to only 50 vehicles a day (permits may be obtained from the visitor center). This leads down towards the creek, then a short trail continues to the grove, a region which can also be reached by the Redwood Creek Trail and is home to several of the world's tallest redwoods including one specimen that was for a while the record holder. Bald Hills Road continues southwards, along a mostly treeless ridge top, becomes unpaved, reaches a highpoint of 3,100 feet near Coyote Peak, then exits the park.
Also in the main section of Redwood National Park is Lost Man Creek
- a stream and cascade reached by a short paved road, the Skunk Cabbage section of the Coastal Trail
- a 5 mile path through woodland to the sea front which links with Davison Road in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park
, the Trillium Falls Trail
to a small waterfall in a section of old growth redwood forest, and Freshwater Lagoon
- one of the three Humboldt Lagoons
, this is separated from the ocean by a beach which is notable for the huge logs washed up by winter storms; this region must have the largest driftwood of any coast in the world. The sands are close to US 101 and so easily accessed, and one of two park visitor centers is located right on the shore. The Klamath River
unit of the national park also contains part of the Coastal Trail, reached by two sections of narrow road either side of the river - Klamath Overlook to the north and the Coastal Drive to the south, both of which are unsuitable for large vehicles. The one highway-side NPS facility is at Lagoon Creek
, along US 101 just north of the Trees of Mystery
(a commercial enterprise with a Native American museum and a short trail to some unusual redwoods). Beside a lily-pad covered lagoon is a parking/picnic area, from where paths lead into the adjacent forest, linking with the Coastal Trail to Hidden Beach
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Karter Gorney, Minot
The people of Minot should vote for a price limit on housing. The prices for housing and rent are through the roof in Minot.
According to Jill Schramm, "It affects more than 28 percent of people, and those people pay a third of their income on housing alone." The only people who can afford to live in these expensive living conditions are the oil workers themselves.
A study shows that 50 percent of households can't afford a medium two-bedroom unit, most of these people are native to Minot. Just because oil workers get paid a lot of money and can afford to pay this much for housing doesn't mean the people who have lived here their whole life can afford to pay high prices for housing. If there was a set price for housing in Minot people would be able to focus more on providing for their families from oil families to native Minot families. Landlords and realtors increased prices because of the fact that oil workers would pay for them because they had no where else to live other than their truck in a Walmart parking lot.
There is no reason for high prices for an apartment or a house. Understanding that Minot's economy has gone up and helped a lot of unfortunate people, the housing prices skyrocketed with it leaving some families with nothing to do to help it go down. This is why the people of Minot should put a pricing limit on housing. From oil workers, to less fortunate families, everyone would be happier if the prices went down and made Minot better than it already is.
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The greening of the porta pottie has officially begun with the design of the Public Compost Toilet. As its name suggests, this design turns human waste into plant food. Marta Visintin's public toilet turns both urine and feces into plant food while using a minimal amount of water.
The Public Compost Toilet is designed to store both types of human waste for further processing and use later as fertilizer. This toilet would be great for plants, but it would also be helpful to humans as well. The natural fertilizer created from human waste would release us of our dependence on chemical fertilizers. In addition, the strain on our sewage system would be lowered as this toilet uses as little water as possible (only 80ml to wash your hands) and none of its waste winds up going down the drain.
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Principles of Effective Logo Design
The first thing we often remember about a corporate identity is the logo. It is the most visual and recognizable part of a corporate identity that is reflected in all corporate identity carriers. From stationery to website, from car lettering to advertisement. A logo is therefore the central element and therefore of particular importance: people know that logos reflect the brand identity, they are curious about it, it is talked about. But what are principles of effective logo design?
An experienced graphic designer are often asked to develop a new corporate identity. Sometimes also with the statement ‘that everything may be adjusted, except for the logo’. This is often prompted by costs: the logo is used in so many places that complete replacement requires a considerable investment. As a designer, we often have some hard time deciding whether to change the logo or create a whole new logo from scratch. A design that gives all the advantages of a logo and also one that fits better with the corporate identity, but is above all more contemporary, or indeed: is ‘timeless’.
Some logos are simply dated. Trends such as the use of shadows, certain fonts or color combinations will get outdated. Some logos just aren’t right either. That seems to be a subjective criterion, but it is only partly true. Of course taste plays a role: you like or dislike something. But there are definitely identifiable elements on the basis of which you can judge the quality of a logo. There’s a lot of different types of logo styles to go for and to pick the right one is the first step.
In fact, there are five important principles of effective logo design.
1. Keep it simple
One important principle of effective logo design is that a good logo knows how to touch the essence of a business. It is often ‘the art of omission’ that makes a logo powerful and recognizable. This applies when creating new logos, but also for existing logos. When customizing a logo, it is important to consider whether simplifying it is the best choice, or creating a completely new logo. There are many examples of strong brands that have simplified their logo over the years, without sacrificing recognisability, such as Starbucks, or more recently BMW and Volkswagen. During the rebranding, they simplified the look of their logos, instead of coming up with something new.
Today more than ever requires simple forms, essence. This is also reflected in the examples above, from Starbucks and BMW. When I give a ‘House style’ workshop, I always do a logo drawing exercise. Draw the logo of the NS. Or from Nike. Which logo is the easiest to reproduce? We can remember simple shapes more easily and have the potential to develop into a symbol: the relationship between the sign and reality is no longer literal.
The swoosh from Nike now stands for much more than sports shoes. Due to the simple, non-specific character of the logo, it is easier to load and offers space to put other products underneath as well: brand extension.
2. Recognizable and authentic
Simplification is one of the most important trends in recent years. But the more we simplify, the more the danger that authenticity will be lost. The possibilities of simple, recognizable shapes are truly endless, but subtle differences are not perceived, so designs quickly start to look similar. The same applies to fonts.
A classic example of a unique logo that has remained unchanged for many years is that of Coca-Cola. The company could choose to simplify the logo by using a different letter, for example, without losing its fans and status, but is that useful? I wouldn’t advise it. Just look at Coca-Cola’s competitor, Pepsi Cola, which has often changed the logo. While Coca-Cola decided to change (almost) nothing, Pepsi Cola was eagerly looking for more market share and looked for the solution in the logo. However, constantly changing the logo has not produced the desired result. The authentic appearance of Coca-Cola may seem dated, but that is also where its strength lies. The brand name has become the name of the soft drink.The classic appearance underlines the feeling that this is the original cola and everything else counterfeit. Say for yourself, what do you prefer to drink?
So despite the trend towards simplification, as a designer you can still make a different choice because of other arguments.
The most important element of a logo is usually not the color or an interesting pattern. When I design a logo, I usually only do it in black and in a small size at first. This forces me to use clear shapes and avoid unnecessary details. Color is only addressed in the final phase. In addition to clear shapes, a unique font or a recognizable and unique vignette is often what works best. Major brands such as Netflix and YouTube have therefore developed their own fonts and have their own signature. If you ask me, this is certainly an interesting option.
There are companies, such as the Dutch Railways, Instagram, Dropbox, Apple, McDonald’s and Nike, that often use a vignette. This is an unwise choice for new brands, because the vignette must first be loaded. This works better by linking visual and rational information. People must first know what you belong to and only after a while does that meaning ‘stick’ to the form, so that the form is able to evoke the meaning.
3. Make the logo timeless
The trends in design change very quickly. If a company does not respond to this in a timely manner, their design can quickly seem outdated. Of course, no one has anything against timeless classics like Coca-Cola. They are appreciated as a bearer of the brand against a background of constant change. It only really starts to sand when a logo is evidently ‘from yesterday’. And unfortunately I see that quite often. A timeless logo can be very powerful in the context of a different corporate identity. The logo must therefore be the most timeless part of a corporate identity.
Take Randstad, for example. The logo was designed by Ben Bos in 1967 and has remained unchanged ever since. It is one of the oldest logos in use in the Netherlands. The corporate identity, on the other hand, has been adjusted several times to keep up with the times and the sharpened vision and positioning of the company. Should the logo have been changed here? Not in my opinion. Its simplicity makes it a timeless and recognizable logo.
4. A flexible logo
It used to be the printing that you had to take into account when creating a logo, the development of digital possibilities and the ever-increasing anchoring of technology in our lives has an enormous impact on logo design and requires different solutions. On the (larger) screen of your laptop, a logo often has a different appearance than on your smartphone. And when you browse through the browser page, the logo often has a different appearance again. All this to make it easy to read the message.
This is an example of responsive logos. If you want to see how it works, go to the site http://responsivelogos.co.uk/ and then change the browser window. Reducing the dimensions reduces the number of ornaments, some elements are removed. All because of the clarity and legibility of the letters.
In addition, changing the appearance of the logo can depend not only on the size of the screen, but also on user actions. For example, when you log in to LinkedIn, an icon (favicon) will appear in the top left corner of your browser, slightly different from the default logo.
5. Appropriate and distinctive
Besides the fact that a logo must be simple, recognizable, timeless and versatile, it must of course above all be suitable for its intended purpose: it must represent and evoke ‘something’ that is relevant to the brand. It is often thought that it is important to show what the company is selling or offering as a service. However, this is a misunderstanding. A restaurant does not have to show a knife and fork, a museum does not have to show a painting. A logo is purely for identification and recognition. The shape must offer space to achieve this properly.
Look at the top brands in the world: the vast majority of logos do not reflect what the company does. Take the Apple logo, for example. An apple has nothing to do with the products on offer and yet the logo is very recognizable. Associations with the brand, product or service can therefore be part of a logo, but the most important thing is the experience of it and that it distinguishes itself from the competition. Apple’s campaign slogan, used from 1997 to 2002, sums it up nicely: Think different 🙂
Effective Logo Is Worth Its Weight In Gold
As said, there is no dispute about taste, but on the basis of these five principles, the quality of a logo can be assessed and substantiated. You can only make a first impression once, so a good logo is worth its weight in gold! Check out our logo design price now!
Looking to step up your business with an effective logo design? Contact us at Freelance Graphic Designer Malaysia today!
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An ILES is shown on the MEADS launcher displayed last December in a rollout ceremony at LFK in Germany. MEADS launchers lift and secure a pallet of missiles and erect it for launch within demanding combat timelines. Reload times are also significantly reduced.
ORLANDO, Fla., September 13th, 2011 -- lockheedmartin.com
The Medium Extended Air Defense System’s (MEADS) Integrated Launcher Electronics System (ILES) recently executed a simulated missile launch, marking another in a series of significant test accomplishments.
The successful ILES test moves the MEADS program closer to its first major test event in November at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
MEADS International Vice President Volker Weidemann said, “The ILES tests confirm increasing readiness for our upcoming flight tests, which will demonstrate the greater defensive coverage and 360-degree capability unique to MEADS. No other air and missile defense system provides the protection and lethality of MEADS.”
MEADS is a next-generation, ground-mobile air and missile defense system that incorporates the hit-to-kill Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) Missile, 360-degree radars, netted and distributed battle management and high-firepower launchers. The system combines superior battlefield protection with new flexibility to protect forces and critical assets against tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles and aircraft.
Earlier this year, the ILES was delivered to a Lockheed Martin laboratory, where it was evaluated for flight test readiness. Within the first two months at the lab, the ILES was able to power up a simulated PAC-3 MSE missile, check the missile’s health status and fire the missile batteries.
Less than four months after arriving at the laboratory, the ILES and missile performed the complete pre-launch sequence for the first time. Then, after receiving a command launch message, the ILES powered up a MEADS missile, ignited the batteries, and gave the motor ignition command, enabling the missile to execute a simulated launch.
The test sequence makes use of a software model battle manager and other ground equipment. A sophisticated real-time simulation provides target and track data, and integration and evaluation software emulates communications between the battle manager and the launcher. Integration work will continue in preparation for an initial flight test scheduled for November.
MEADS International President Dave Berganini said, “In partnership with our European teammates, we are confident we can demonstrate the increased coverage and lower ownership costs that MEADS was designed to provide. Unlike other systems, MEADS can see and eliminate 21st century threats from further away and without any blind spots.”
MEADS improves capability to defend troops and critical assets through improvements in range, interoperability, mobility and full 360-degree defense capability against the evolving threat. MEADS defends up to eight times the coverage area with far fewer system assets and significantly reduces demand for deployed personnel and equipment, which reduces demand for airlift.
MEADS International, a multinational joint venture headquartered in Orlando, Fla., is the prime contractor for the MEADS system. Major subcontractors and joint venture partners are MBDA in Italy, LFK in Germany and Lockheed Martin in the United States.
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Story Contest 2017 #1 - Outstanding Stories » Rose With No Thorns
“Rose With No Thorns” is one of the outstanding stories of the first biannual International Short Story Contest 2017 written by Nilaya Nishad Mairal, Dubai.
Rose With No Thorns
Calla looked admiringly at the rose bushes, as she slipped and hurt her finger on its thorn, only to find out that what looked pretty didn’t feel the same way. She thought for a while then made up her mind, and she began her journey to find a rose with no thorns. Running across the meadows as the sunlight filled the sky she looked high and low in search of something that looked and felt pretty. Calla loved the feeling of the wind that blew her hair across her face, her lungs filling up with the cool air as her heart beat like a wild horse. She was cherishing this feeling, when whoosh! Her foot slipped and she fell on the ground.
She had somehow made her way into an odd parallel universe and no matter how hard she tried she couldn’t break the see-through wall that stopped her from reaching out to her world. The wall seemed to be resistant and ignorant to all her attempts. The sky was now upside down. Calla stared at the wall above with an abhorring gaze as she felt something. That something was the ground beneath her that had slowly started lowering and now with a faster pace, sinking into the ground and even further below. Startled by this sudden movement, she tried one frail attempt to hit the wall, as the ground slipped further she went down along with it.
The ground finally ceased its movement and came to a halt. Calla opened her eyes slowly to witness a completely different world. The sky was orange and the sun shone bright blue. The stems a bright red and the petals all green swam upon the faint blue grass. Puzzled by these peculiar characteristics, Calla delved deeper into this mystic world.
She heard a soft whisper and looked around trying to find where it came from but it seemed like the sound was in the air. Slowly a leaf quivered with life and Calla’s heart jumped into her mouth as she turned around to find the bright pink leaf smiling at her.
She stammered and said, “Wh…who…are you?”
The leaf replied politely, “I am a leaf. Garry, The Garimold leaf.”
She asked in bewilderment, “Well, do you mean to say you’re a Marigold leaf?”
The leaf replied, frustrated, “No, its Garimold for goodness sake.”
Calla nodded absent- mindedly and thought to herself about this odd place, the blue grass, yellow sky and green petals. It all seemed like an opposite world. The Garimold leaf screeched in its shrill voice,
“Hello! Won’t you introduce yourself?”
Calla finally heard the leaf and said, “Oh sorry, I’m Calla. Calla from a place which doesn’t look much like yours.”
Gary stared at Calla for a while then questioned her in a rather interrogative manner, “And might I ask what brings you to a place where you don’t belong?”
Calla looked worried and said, “Oh! I do not mean to offend anyone, but I slipped and fell into this place then the ground started lowering and now I want to get back home, to Earth. Can you tell me how?”
Gary stared at her in astonishment, “You are the first ever Earthling to have broken into Gourn”
Calla asked again,“Please tell me how to get back home”
“Oh don’t you worry. All you have to do is find a plump mushroom and jump hard enough on it to break the sky barrier so that you can reach your Earth.” replied Gary, making it all seem like a piece of cake.
“Isn’t there any other way, probably one that won’t end up with me jumping on a poor mushroom that might talk, just like you!”
Garry replied cheerfully, “As a matter of fact there is, but it’s quite tedious, the task is to find a rose with thorns.”
“A rose with thorns, how’s that supposed to be tedious? We’ve got them all over Earth” Said Calla.
“Yes, but not on Gourn, here we’ve only got roses with no thorns. I will not be able to assist you but I could give you the directions. You’ll first have to straighten your course right for the pink forest, and then move east towards the yellow river. There, if you’re lucky, by its banks you’ll find the rose with thorns” answered Garry.
“That sure is difficult, but I do need to get back home, thank you Gary!” Calla called out as she drifted into the supposedly pink forest and Garry wished her good luck.
It really was pink, (a rather bright shade). As she journeyed further into the forest she found the land getting wet and far in the front, a yellow river shone like honey, tinkling in the blue sunlight.
Overjoyed with this sight she ran straight towards the bank and there she saw a tiny little rose with a thorn that was barely visible, but the rose was being dragged into the river and she leaped and grasped the stem, the thorn pricked her palm and it began to bleed. As soon as the thorn pricked her hand she was sitting back on earth again, where the sky danced with the sun as the sunset spread out its mellow shades.
She was back on her Earth! And oh the joy she felt. The rose was still in her hand. As she watched the sun drown, she caressed the gentle rose in her palm; its frail stem and cool leaves. Calla realized, “Everything may not look pretty, but it’s up to us to make it feel beautiful.”
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Only 48 hours old, while being born we suspect a hyena tried to steal him, but only managed to get a hoof and fetlock. Problem was that he was expected to travel 7km to get water then back so mom could eat. After educating now food and water is being brought to them and they are kept in a secure environment and being monitored by a qualified person. Such a brave young man.
As we mentioned in the last post, education is a huge part of our work. We work alongside two other organisations – Aware Trust, http://www.awaretrust.org/ and SPANA https://spana.org/about-us/our-work/zimbabwe/.
A lesson is trimming in conjunction with Aware Trust and SPANA.
This is an image taken from a teaching program in a school where we worked alongside Aware Trust and SPANA. There is a great desire to learn over here, and we do our best as education is the way forward.
The children love their donkey’s, and educating them in how to care for the donkeys is incredibly rewarding. The children want to learn – they will grow into the adults who create a new life for these trusting and noble creatures who give and give.
In the next post we will introduce you to Lucky – the incredible donkey who is now the star character in a series of educational books we are creating for children!
Life is lived mostly on the road for us. Travelling through the heart of the African bush in our truck and sleeping beneath the wide, starlit sky.
We drive in this truck
and sleep here, next to boxes of salt licks for the donkeys and our equipment for doing their teeth and feet.
Our days are spent providing care to as many donkeys as possible. These two are having their teeth rasped and the amazing thing is – they have never had this done before, yet they are standing in trust with no halters.
Having their teeth done is also vital. Many of the donkeys have never had their teeth done, and have ill-fitting bits which hurt their mouths. This guy had a rotten tooth and was in so much pain he could not even graze properly.
The donkeys wear ill-fitting tack, homemade bits, and struggle onwards. One of the key aspects of our work here is educating the locals on how they can provide the care themselves. More on that in the next post!
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Marvel reached out to Perception to create unique screen graphics for Thor: The Dark World. The team’s specialty of combining real world design and forward thinking was perfect for the task at hand. The screens were for Jane Foster’s (Natalie Portman) home-brewed devices. Perception designed an energy reader, gravity reader, and a navigation device. The interfaces had to look utilitarian and somewhat archaic, while still aesthetically interesting.
Perception started its process in the real world, taking inspiration from military interfaces, scientific diagrams, and environmental mapping software.
Because of the Marvel pecking order of “cool UI,” Jane Foster is at the lower tier – or “genius on a budget.” Perception approached the three designs as a family of devices all living in the same aesthetic world while appearing as if she built them with spare Radio Shack parts.
It is always an honor to partner with Marvel, and Perception is very proud to have helped develop the UI design for all of Jane Foster’s home-brewed devices. In just a few short weeks, three unique, fully designed handheld devices were created that might have saved the world! Be sure to check out the rest of Perception’s work in Thor: The Dark World!
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About the Walk/Driveabout
Meet Belladonna, the beautiful but deadly gardener, as she tries to catch a tasty morsel for her hungry Venus Flytraps. Is your hand steady enough that you dare to feed the flytraps yourself? Or will you help Aristotle the batty bluebottle to escape from their deadly clutches? Watch out that you don’t get sucked in by her charm too, as she entices the foolish fly towards his sweet, toothy decline.
What to expect
This act involves a giant fly being chased by a gardener in a Venus Flytrap-drawn chariot. During static spots children are invited to feed the flytraps with small plastic flies on large spoons. The flytraps snap shut and make burping and gurgling noises. The ironically-named Aristotle is tempted towards the flytraps and the audiences are given the choice of pushing him in or saving him, which really says a lot about a place and it’s people (we’d get rid of him too, in fairness).
This is a beautifully created and costumed driveabout act with exquisite presentation bringing gentle and friendly fly-themed fun to the streets. Also great for environmental and garden-themed events.
Belladonna and Aristottle are also available in a spooktacular chase for Halloween in “Belladonna the Witch”. Click the button below to find out more.
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Top Issue 1
|▲ 3D Automation CEO Sangjin Lee|
(PowerKorea) Engineering is an important part if manufacturing industry as a whole is to secure competitiveness in the global market. While many manufacturers are experiencing hardship, due to the pandemic for one reason, experts point out the need of digital engineering in order to survive in this competitive market. Most small and medium companies, however, are busy enough saving costs to make ends meet and ‘digital engineering’ for them is far-fetched. But not all are chasing after rainbows. A South Korean 3D tech company 3D Automation offers all-in-one digital engineering solutions for small and medium sized enterprises.
Customized solutions for hassle-free manufacturing
Not many companies in South Korea offer solutions to make manufacturing easy and efficient. What 3D Automation does is to design and bring up optimized manufacturing solutions according to each different type of its client manufacturers. This includes customized design, emulation, 3D printing, 3D scanning, virtual test running and digital project management. The specialists at 3D Automation categorize manufacturing environment into materials, machines and human resources based on the purposes of the manufacturing. “If you made a product at your manufacturing facility and you found a fault and you throw it away and you make it again after finding the causes of the fault. This takes time, effort and money. If you use digital engineering, you can find the possible faults that might occur during the course of R&D and production before you actually put it into making. This save huge amount of time, effort and money and this is the point you need digital engineering” says Sangjin Lee, CEO of 3D Automation. To make things even more systematic, 3D Automation runs 3DStore where you can register your digital assets that are needed for manufacturing process and the registered assets are shared and traded through B2B, M&S, O2O and digital safe. 3D Automation’s engineering-thru is innovative as it runs design, planning, facility and test driving at one-go without a hassle on which you can see with your eyes the link between the virtual operation and the real operation.
Front loading engineering
Front loading is to focus efforts, costs or expenses at the beginning of a project. Front loading engineering, in line, involves pre-project planning (PPP), front-end engineering design (FEED), feasibility analysis, conceptual planning, programming/schematic design and early project planning. It helps staff make decision fast, minimize errors, remove possible problems that can occur in advance, reduce investment cost, optimize resources and improve work environment. Specialists at 3D Automation have more than 10 years of knowledge and experience in the field and give their very best to build the most efficient digital engineering solution to each client company.
Partnership to create synergy
Fostering talented software manpower is one of the key elements in the digital age. For this, 3D Automation joined hands with public institutions and local educational institutions to foster future software experts who will lead the advancement of cutting edge technologies and systems in the nation. 3D Automation also joined hands with RC Korea, the exclusive distributor of Visual Components, as the official re-seller. Visual Components is a developer of 3D simulation software for manufacturing, and Visual Components software is used for applications including layout planning, production simulation, off-line programming and PLC verification. In line of this move, 3D Automation obtained Venture Enterprise Certificate and has applied for 3 patents at the moment. “One of my goals is to make virtual digital data as assets that can be traded on royalty-based. This is very important as it can help developers financially and protect their rights” emphasizes Lee.
Building a manufacturing metaverse
Lee and his team are ambitious to grow 3D Automation as a builder of manufacturing metaverse. Lee predicts that metaverse will evolve from 3D simulation to 3D emulation which will be linked to reality to digital twins and manufacturing metaverse. More specifically, he has mapped out the link from digital big data O2O platform to 3DStore to digital twins. “I and my team are determined to make this happen and we hope 3D Automation will play an important role to help small and medium South Korean enterprises raise their manufacturing competency in the global market.”
Top Issue 2
|▲ A Poet and Bugan Elementary School Principal Jeong Ki-won|
Walking a single path as an educator publishes his 9th book of poetry: Jeong Ki-won
(PowerKorea) Poetry is a type of writing implicative and rhythmic that stirs reader’s imagination and emotions. People who write poetry are poets who have distinguished eye to see things and unique interpretation of the phenomena happening around us.
Jeong Ki-won, Principal of Bugan Elementary School, recently has published his 9th book of poetry. He graduated from Seoul Railroad High School and Jeonju National University of Education and has walked a single path as an educator ever since. He went through a number of elementary schools since his first teacher’s job at Jigok Elementary School in Yeongcheon in 1982.
He was assigned to Sinnyeong Elementary School as principal in 2013, moved to Poeun Elementary School in 2017, to Pyungchun Elementary School in 2019 and to Bugan Elementary School as the same position last year.
He debuted in the spring issue of Haedong Literature in 2015. He published his first book of poetry <Landscape of the Day> followed by <Spring Rain Falling>, <The Alley, The Streetlamp>, <Walking the Longing>, <Siting on an Empty Chair>, <Waiting for Dandelion Blooming>, <Breathing of Time>, <Solace for You and Me> and <Till the Day My Love in Poems Reaches You>. The latest book of poetry contains 114 poems themed on love.
“Everybody has something special: the heart that is generous and understanding, the nobleness of losing oneself for others, the patience for you. That is love. Jeong has written poems of love for many years when he thought about his parents, his missing old brother, his children, his wife’s rough hands, the women he loved when he was young. These loves are reborn splendidly as poems” says essayist report Choi Eun-ha.
“I’m pleased to publish my 9th book of poetry. I’m nearing my goal of completing the 10th book which will be my favorite poems” says Jeong.
Jeong has won a number of prizes and is a member of the Korean Writers Association, Gyeongbuk Writers Association and Yeongcheon Writers Association.
PowerKorea is an official partner of Herald Corporation. The magazine is distributed to the KOTRA business centers in the world. PowerKorea publishes latest news of government, Samsung, Hyundai and LG and endeavors to serve a platform to engage with people around the world.
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Specialized Equipment: Career and Education Opportunities in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Specialized Equipment: Specialized Equipment Technicians take care of the niche devices and equipment that function behind the scenes. From millwrights to fabric members, they work on problems that most people may not even know exist.
Baton Rouge is situated in East Baton Rouge Parish County, Louisiana. It has a population of over 223,689, which has shrunk by 1.8% in the past ten years. The cost of living index in Baton Rouge, 86, is well below the national average. New single-family homes in Baton Rouge are priced at $189,100 on average, which is well above the state average. In 2008, one hundred thirty-five new homes were built in Baton Rouge, down from two hundred fifty-seven the previous year.
The top three industries for women in Baton Rouge are educational services, health care, and public administration. For men, it is educational services, construction, and professional, scientific, and technical services. The average travel time to work is about 21 minutes. More than 31.7% of Baton Rouge residents have a bachelor's degree, which is higher than the state average. The percentage of residents with a graduate degree, 12.8%, is higher than the state average.
The unemployment rate in Baton Rouge is 7.1%, which is the same as Louisiana's average of 7.1%.
The percentage of Baton Rouge residents that are affiliated with a religious congregation, 52.7%, is more than the national average but less than the state average. Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Hughes United Methodist Church and Straight Life Baptist Church are all churches located in Baton Rouge. The most common religious groups are the Catholic Church, the Southern Baptist Convention and the United Methodist Church.
Baton Rouge is home to the Baton Rouge Industrial Park and the Baton Rouge Country Club as well as Howell Park and Independence Park. Shopping centers in the area include Carriage Alley Shopping Center, Sherwood Plaza Shopping Center and Foret and McCall Shopping Center. Visitors to Baton Rouge can choose from Pines Motel, Motel 6 and Shoneys Inn & Suites Baton Rouge for temporary stays in the area.
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CAREERS WITHIN: Specialized Equipment
Boat Mechanics repairs and adjusts electrical and mechanical equipment of gasoline or diesel powered inboard or inboard-outboard boat engines. Boat Mechanics need to diagnose and repair equipment and system in the face of problem and faults. They also need to diagnose equipment problems and failures.
Industrial Machinery Mechanics repair, install, or maintain industrial production and processing machinery or refinery and pipeline distribution systems. Industrial Machinery Mechanics need to diagnose and repair equipment and system in the face of problem and faults. They also need to install equipment in line with existing requirements.
Machine Repairmen lubricate machinery, change parts, or perform other routine machinery maintenance. Machine Repairmen need to install equipment in line with existing requirements. They also need to diagnose and repair equipment and system in the face of problem and faults.
Mechanical Door Repairers install, service, or repair opening and closing mechanisms of automatic doors and hydraulic door closers. Mechanical Door Repairers need to install equipment in line with existing requirements. They also need to diagnose equipment problems and failures.
Millwrights install, dismantle, or move machinery and heavy equipment according to layout plans, blueprints, or other drawings. Millwrights need to install equipment in line with existing requirements. They also need to diagnose and repair equipment and system in the face of problem and faults.
Outdoor Power Equipment Mechanics diagnose, adjust, or overhaul small engines used to power lawn mowers, chain saws, and related equipment. Outdoor Power Equipment Mechanics need to diagnose equipment problems and failures. They also need to diagnose and repair equipment and system in the face of problem and faults.
Vending Machine Mechanics install, service, or repair coin, vending, or amusement machines including video games, juke boxes, or slot machines. Vending Machine Mechanics need to read and understand what has been read. They also need to make use of strategies for learning about new situations and problems as they arise.
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CitationSkinner, Martie L.; Elder, Glen H., Jr.; & Conger, Rand D. (1992). Linking Economic Hardship to Adolescent Aggression. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 52(3), 259-276.
AbstractThe relationship between economic hardship and adolescent aggression has been explored from various perspectives. Using survey and observational data on two-parent families in a midwestern rural county, the study identifies four important mechanisms that link economic hardship to the aggressive behavior of adolescents. Economic pressure stemming from low income, financial loss, and unstable work, adversely affects the marital relationship through the negativity of fathers. Negative marital interactions increase irritable parenting, making adolescent aggression more likely.
Reference TypeJournal Article
Journal TitleJournal of Youth and Adolescence
Author(s)Skinner, Martie L.
Elder, Glen H., Jr.
Conger, Rand D.
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AI is an immense opportunity for humankind and many organizations.
Having a clear AI governance framework based on clear principes will ensure that AI is used responsibly and optimally for an organization.
Copyright: weforum.org – “5 ways to avoid artificial intelligence bias with ‘responsible AI'”
Over the last few years, responsible AI has gone from a niche concept to a constant headline. Responsible, trustworthy AI is the subject of several documentaries, books, and conferences. The more we make responsible AI an expectation and a known commodity, the more likely we are to make it our reality. This enables us to flourish with more accessible AI. This is our shared goal through the Responsible AI Badge certification programme for senior executives. Similarly, in our podcast, In AI We Trust?, we identify the key ingredients for responsible AI from which all organizations can learn and benefit.
We work with academics, organizations, and leading thinkers to understand best practices and processes for responsible AI. Cathy O’Neil has offered insight on the hazards of false reliance on AI, while Renée Cummings, founder of Urban AI, has shared thoughts on the impact of AI on our civil rights. Keith Sonderling, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Commissioner, has shared guidance for employers on building, buying, and employing AI in HR systems. Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) shared his enthusiasm for AI and the opportunities it offers for policy development.
From these and other discussions, we’ve identified the top 5 best practices that are critical to achieving responsible AI governance:
1) Establish AI Principles
The management team must be aligned through an established set of AI principles. The leaders must meet and discuss AI use and how it aligns to your values. Too often, tech is relegated to the IT team. With AI we must reset this approach – work cultures must be upgraded to match new working models. In our recent podcast with Richard Benjamins, he shares how Telefonica ambitiously implemented AI principles that they will strive to achieve.
2) Establish an AI governance framework
Organizational values and tech are linked and must be handled collectively. Management’s agenda should include how innovation heads share how they develop and use AI in key functions. HR heads can share where AI is used. General counsel can reflect on potential liabilities in crisis headlines and lawsuits. These discussions should lead to the establishment of a framework to guide future AI use and to shape AI culture. This checklist will offer guidance on how to do so.
An increasing number of frameworks can guide management’s efforts, including the BSA Framework, GAO Risk Framework, and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework. The EqualAI Framework provides five pillars for responsible AI governance and the World Economic Forum produced the AI C-Suite Toolkit for AI leadership.[…]
Read more: www.weforum.org
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How Doomscrolling the Ukrainian Invasion May Cause Vicarious Trauma
The trauma extends to the Ukrainian people and to those of us watching coverage of the invasion
The whole world is watching as Putin continues his unprecedented assault on Ukraine. It’s a horrifying situation for the people of that country and for their friends and family abroad. Outside of Russia and Ukraine, Canada is home to the largest Ukrainian community in the world. It’s heart-breaking and worrisome for Canadians who are watching the events unfold.
The trauma to the population of Ukraine will linger on for decades after this invasion — that’s clear. My heart goes out to the children, especially. But the Ukrainian people aren’t the only ones affected by this nightmare. It also has an impact on those of us who are following the coverage of the invasion.
How badly the news is affecting us depends in part on how closely we’re following the stories and on where we’re getting our information from. These days, with so many available sources of information online, we have access to immediate, unfiltered images of the invasion of Ukraine. Many of these images are deeply disturbing and they’re having a powerful effect on the viewers.
We can experience vicarious trauma by watching graphic images of the siege of Ukraine
People can be traumatized both directly and indirectly. We can develop PTSD symptoms by having a direct experience of war — like what the Ukrainian people are experiencing right now — but we can also develop stress symptoms by viewing disturbing images of the conflict. It’s called vicarious trauma. The brain reacts as though the things we’re seeing are actually happening to us.
Many people have been losing sleep at night after viewing graphic images of the war online. They want to do something positive for the people of Ukraine, but watching the coverage is making them more distracted and forgetful. They’re moody and short-tempered. They’re anxious and weepy.
It’s important to stay informed so that we can help the Ukrainian people in whatever way we can, but we don’t have to cause ourselves psychological harm by repeatedly viewing images that are so distressing. It’s all about finding a balance.
We need to avoid doomscrolling
Doomscrolling is the act of obsessively checking media outlets and exposing ourselves to an excessive amount of negative news. In a recent article in Psychology Today, the author, Joe Pierre, warns against doomscrolling and advises us that while it’s important to know the facts about what’s going on in Ukraine, too much graphic content can be overwhelming. We can become incapacitated and unable to offer any help at all.
An article in Time Magazine describes the mental health impact of watching a war online, saying that while traditional news outlets tend to edit the content that they consider too graphic to show, online media has no such filter, resulting in potential harm to the viewer’s emotional well-being.
We need to avoid misinformation
Both articles mention the risk of misinformation, describing how online media has no fact-checkers and often can be quite biased. There’s a danger to our mental health when we consume inflammatory misinformation.
It’s important to keep informed but it’s equally important to determine which sources of information are reliable and which are spouting baseless opinions — those which can cause us undue mental stress.
We can identify our own personal warning signs of stress
An article by Amnesty International describes how we can identify our own personal warning signs that we’ve been taking in too much disturbing content. For me, I know that it’s too much when I start being even more absent-minded than usual. For someone else, it might be binge eating or drinking to excess.
If we notice when we’re getting overloaded and upset, we can step away for a while and choose to focus on something less distressing. I, personally, like to watch baking shows.
All of the above articles warn about the dangers of being in denial, saying that avoiding any mention of upsetting news is equally problematic as it makes us helpless in the face of dangerous world events. Awareness equals empowerment. However, occasionally stepping away from coverage of the war is not about denial. It’s about self-care.
We can cut down on the amount of distressing content coming in
The Amnesty International article suggests using social media tools to cut down on the distressing content coming in. You can turn off auto-play, cover certain images with your hand, turn off the volume in some videos or deactivate auto-download on WhatsApp. All of these things can spare you from ingesting too much upsetting content.
There are many ways to take a break from the news. You don’t have to turn on baking shows like I do, but you can find other activities that can help you to relax and decompress when coverage of the war is stressing you out. I also like to play with my cats, go for walks, work on my novel and spend time with my loved ones. Everyone needs positive activities to balance out the bad news assaulting us these days.
There is a real mental health risk to watching coverage of the Ukrainian war
Without in any way minimizing the horrors that the people of Ukraine are facing right now, I wanted to point out that there’s a mental health risk to those of us watching coverage of the war.
We Canadians are lucky that we’re still living in relative peace and prosperity. As a result, we might be tempted to downplay the vicarious trauma of watching the siege of Ukraine online. But ignoring our mental health turns us into the walking wounded.
As long as we make sure to find a balance between being informed and protecting our psyche, and as long as we seek out reputable, reliable sources of information, we can maximize our ability to help those in need while still protecting our psychological well-being.
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Gabon’s low deforestation rate and enriched timber species contribute towards healthy and sustainable prospects of the forest industry.
Gabon’s Sustainability-Driven Approach to the Timber and Forest Industry
Gabon has about 22.3 million hectares of forest areas, and in 2020, it exceeded 23.5 million hectares, which represents 87% of the country’s total area, according to recent research. The forest area consists of primary or naturally regenerated forests. The three major forest regions in Gabon include:
- Evergreen rainforest in the west: This region is densely harvested to get transformed into a secondary forest characterized by the species Okoume (Aucomeaklaineana). It is one of the most critical species of the Gabonese timber sector, and Ozigo (Dacryodesbuettneri).
- Closed humid central Gabonese forest: It covers most part of the country with various species found in similar forests like Azobe (Lophiraalata), Mahogany species (Entandrophragma spp. And Khaya spp.), Aiele (Canariumscheweinfurthii), and Ayous (Triplochitonscleroxylon)
- Semi-deciduous forest type in the northeast: It is characterized by trees like Limba (Terminalia Superba), Wenge (Millettialaurentii), and Ayous (Triplochitonscleroxylon)
Gabon is a forest-centric country where the flora and fauna are well preserved and protected in thirteen national parks covering more than 12% of the country’s territory. The entire Gabonese forest is owned by the state, although the management of the forest areas got divided into three leading categories:
- Production forests: It is mostly managed by private concessionaries. However, the management rights are exclusively entertained by the state.
- Protection forests: It is directly managed by the state while the country held 13 national parks and other protected regions, which contribute to approximately 12% of the nation.
- Domain rural: The domain rural is generally land and forest where rural communities and forest dwellers are free to perform customary exercises, if they respect the protocols imposed by the forest administration.
Forest History and Future Investment Opportunities
The forest industry is one of the major resources for Gabon that contributes to its GDP growth. According to the most recent statistics, the total forest area was estimated at 23.62 million hectares in 2010, and 23.5 million hectares in 2020. The modest net annual change between 2010 and 2020 was 11,900 hectares with 0.05% deforestation.
99.9% of the Gabonese forest is naturally regenerating, while forest plantations are estimated at only 30,000 hectares, and together they cover 85% of the national land. 63% of the forest is under forest concession management with the forestry sector being the largest employer after public services with over 10,000 employments in forest products and other 10,000 jobs in forest industries. Employment increased, driven by the number of wood processing industries established in the Gabon Special Economic Zone (GSEZ) in NKOK between 2009-2018.
Gabon’s forest industry grew from 80 to 155 by 2018. Before the discovery of petroleum in the mid-20th century, forestry was the leading foreign exchange earner in the country. To date, despite the emergence of the oil industry, forestry remains a major foreign exchange earner contributing 3-5% to the national GDP with varied opportunities for further improvement. Gabon’s tropical forest with more than 400 identified species and major infrastructures makes it the most progressive and prosperous face of Africa. Its strategic location at the heart of Africa offers Gabon an ideal gateway for entry to the regional market of more than 250 million consumers.
Gabon as a World Champion in Processed Tropical Wood Production
Africa is opening its investment platforms and Gabonese has taken the lead in attracting overseas investors by doling various fiscal and non-fiscal incentives. The industries with SEZ as their base are mainly into wood transformation (sawmill, veneer, and plywood). It is estimated that more than 65 companies will offer commercial production by next year, which will cater to both European and Indian markets.
Gabon supplies 90% of the world’s okoume, which makes quality plywood, and hardwoods like mahogany, Keva Zingo, and ebony. Other excellent woods include dibetou (popularly known as tigerwood or African walnut), movingui (Nigerian satinwood), and zingana (Zebrano or zebrawood). Additionally, 13% of the Roundwood removals were estimated to be used as fuel wood.
At the end of 2020, the production of lumber recorded 879,410 m3, whereas the production of plywood units increased by 27% to upscale 37,358m3 at the same time. Arise IIP is staking on the forest industry of Gabon to diversify the country’s economy and mobilize its budgetary revenues.
If you are planning to invest in Gabon’s forest and wood industrial sector, you have our assistance.
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Every year, hundreds of American citizens die while traveling abroad. Bloomberg Business reports that over the past 10 years more than 8,000 Americans died abroad of unnatural causes. (There are no statistics on how many Americans traveling abroad died of natural causes.) So what happens when an American dies outside of the country? We've broken down the order of operations for how to logistically handle a death abroad.
1. Contact The Consulate Or Embassy In The Place The Person Died
According to the State Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs:
The Bureau of Consular Affairs assists the next-of-kin to convey instructions to the appropriate offices within the foreign country, and provides information to the family on how to transmit the necessary private funds to cover the costs overseas. Upon issuance of a local death certificate, the nearest embassy or consulate may prepare a Consular Report of the Death of an American Abroad. Copies of that report are provided to the next-of-kin or legal representative and may be used in U.S. courts to settle estate matters.
2. Decide If You Need To Travel To The Country
Depending on the laws of the place the person died, there may be rules around who can claim the body, make decisions about transporting the body, and sign the necessary paperwork to get the person back to the US. The local consulate or embassy should be able to help you determine if you should go abroad, and may be able to tell you which airport you should fly into and how to get to the consulate or embassy once you arrive. Be aware that the US government will not help you pay for the cost of a plane ticket, or any other expenses related to collecting the body.
If you're concerned about traveling abroad, you can use this resource from InsureMyTrip.com regarding travel advisories.
Hire a Translator
If you do decide to travel to the country where the person died, you'll want to hire a translator who can help you communicate with the variety of foreign professionals you'll need to work with. Depending on the circumstances of the death, there may need to be an autopsy; you'll likely have to work with a local funeral home in that country; and there will probably be lots of foreign paperwork that you'll need to sign. Having a translator who can help you navigate these areas (hospital, funeral, legal) will make the whole process easier.
3. Find A US Funeral Home
The foreign consulate or embassy will help you coordinate on the foreign side of things, but you'll need a funeral home that you can work with in the US. It's a good idea to work with a funeral home that has experience in dealing with the country where the person died, since they'll already understand the process of that particular country. To figure out if the funeral home has the right experience, just call around and ask. Also, it's a good idea to make sure that the funeral home can accommodate any time differences that may be involved. As most funeral homes operate on a 9-5 schedule, they may be closed when the foreign funeral home or consulate needs to be in touch with them, so make sure that the funeral home you hire is willing to work on a nontraditional schedule for you.
4. Gather The Person's Belongings
Whether you go to the country or not, you'll probably want to make arrangements to have the person's personal belongings collected and brought back to the US. This may include everything from the person's passport and any relevant visas (which may be legally necessary in order to transport the body) to the person's clothes, accessories, and other items that he or she was traveling with.
5. Ask Your Network For Help
When someone dies abroad, there can be an overwhelming amount of bureaucracy. Whether you have a friend who can speak the language of the country you're dealing with, or you have a friend whose uncle's best friend's son is in the State Department, or your aunt's hairdresser's son is a travel agent who can get you a good deal on a last-minute international flight, reaching out to your network for support can provide a variety of different types of support. You don't have to handle everything on your own.
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I have worked for the United Nations for most of the last three decades, says a United Nations assistant secretary general for field support until this month. I was a human rights officer in Haiti in the 1990s and served in the former Yugoslavia during the Srebrenica genocide. I helped lead the response to the Indian Ocean tsunami and the Haitian earthquake, planned the mission to eliminate Syrian chemical weapons, and most recently led the Ebola mission in West Africa. I care deeply for the principles the United Nations is designed to uphold.
And that’s why I have decided to leave, he writes for the New York Times:
Look at Haiti: There has been no armed conflict for more than a decade, and yet a United Nations force of more than 4,500 remains. Meanwhile, we are failing at what should be our most important task: assisting in the creation of stable, democratic institutions. Elections have been postponed amid allegations of fraud, and the interim prime minister has said that “the country is facing serious social and economic difficulties.” The military deployment makes no contribution at all to solving these problems.
Indeed, Haiti’s democratic institutions “remain weak,” according to a recent report from the Congressional Research Service.
But the thing that has upset me most is what the United Nations has done in the Central African Republic, Banbury adds:
When we took over peacekeeping responsibilities from the African Union there in 2014, we had the choice of which troops to accept. Without appropriate debate, and for cynical political reasons, a decision was made to include soldiers from the Democratic Republic of Congo and from the Republic of Congo, despite reports of serious human rights violations by these soldiers. Since then, troops from these countries have engaged in a persistent pattern of rape and abuse of the people — often young girls — the United Nations was sent there to protect.
“Last year, peacekeepers from the Republic of Congo arrested a group of civilians, with no legal basis whatsoever, and beat them so badly that one died in custody and the other shortly after in a hospital,” he adds. “In response there was hardly a murmur, and certainly no outrage, from the responsible officials in New York.” RTWT
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Hay production and beef cattle management will be topics covered in a field day at the LSU AgCenter’s Iberia Research Station, Jeanerette, La., March 21.
The program will be from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m., and a lunch will be included.
Topics will include stocker beef production, clover variety demonstration plots, hay meadow management, pasture and hay meadow soil fertility, forage-fed beef and stocker research, and research on tropically adapted cattle breeds, according to Sonny Viator, resident coordinator at the research station.
The field day is sponsored by the Louisiana Cattlemen’s Association, Louisiana Forage and Grassland Council and the LSU AgCenter.
The station is located at 603 LSU Bridge Road, Jeanerette. Directions can be found on the Internet by going to lsuagcenter.com and clicking on research stations and then on Iberia.
For more information, contact the station at (337) 276-5527.
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I wanted to share something I found on the
Kentucky Historical Society's website http://history.ky.gov/. Hyland B. Lyon was from Lyon County and was responsible for the burning of the Christian County Courthouse. He also burned Lyon Co. and Caldwell Co. Courthouses. He was from the area and gave them warning and time to remove their records, being a decent man. :) Also my 2X Great Uncle William Mansfield "Wild Bill" Calvert rode with Morgan's Men and they wracked most of their devastation in other areas.
Historical Markers Search Results:Courthouse Burned
(Marker Number: 577)
County: Christian Location: Hopkinsville, Courthouse lawn, US 41, 68
Description: Gen. Hylan B. Lyon with 800 men invaded Ky., Dec. 1864, to enforce CSA draft law and divert USA from Nashville. In 23 days he burned seven courthouses used by Union forces. Courthouse at Hopkinsville burned Dec. 12. All county records saved. Commandeered clothing and went on. Returned on 16th, skirmished with US force and moved to Madisonville. - submitted by Peggy Gilkey
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Europe’s debt crisis, slowing growth in the U.S. and worries about a hard landing in China: Even if you’ve kept your job this past year, you’ve probably had plenty to worry about. But how about the rising cost of living?
According to a new report from human resources firm Mercer Consulting, the cost of living in North American, Asian and African cities has been rising this past year, despite the global slowdown.
The study looked at 214 cities worldwide and used New York City as the benchmark. Mercer’s annual cost of living survey is used by multinational companies to determine compensation for their expatriate employees around the world. The rankings are based on the cost of more than 200 items in each location including housing, transportation, food, clothing and entertainment.
So, which cities are the most expensive to live in? Click ahead to find out.
By Rajeshni Naidu-Ghelani(Posted June 12, 2012)
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the classification of municipal solid waste in china has been officially launched, which shows that the three major battles in china have taken the strongest step in depth.
so, for the rural areas, farmers are not only facing the problem of domestic waste, but also the problem of environmental management caused by agricultural production and operation. nowadays, it is urgent to classify and dispose of rural production and domestic waste. it is worth noting that for the recycling of pesticide packaging garbage, many places have carried out effective pilot work under the leadership of the government. their exploration may be the next step to promote production waste disposal mode.
pesticide bottle, what kind of garbage are you?
in the countryside, a part of garbage has been neglected, that is, the pesticide bags left by villagers in the field. pesticide bags smell great, do not collect waste products, the villagers are thrown in the ground after use, will not take home. the amount of these garbage is huge, and pesticide residues will permeate into soil and groundwater, which is more harmful than domestic garbage.
pesticide packaging wastes (including used bottles and bags which are directly in contact with pesticides) belong to harmful waste, which can not be discarded at will. professionals and institutions should collect and dispose of them centrally.
how to deal with this kind of harmful waste?
model 1: pesticide packaging for commodity exchange
in may 2018, xiangyang village, hetou town, pingyuan county, meizhou city, guangdong province, launched a new "barter for goods" initiative in guangdong province, using pesticide bottles, beverage bottles, cans and other domestic refuse to exchange salt, detergent and other daily necessities. among them, 20 pesticide bags can be exchanged for a bottle of detergent, which has received positive response from local residents.
similarly, in may 2018, guanba town of zhongxian county in chongqing launched a pilot project in guguo village to exchange agricultural waste for daily necessities. the measure encourages villagers to exchange pesticide bags, bottles and damaged agricultural films for daily necessities. seed bags, fertilizer bags, veterinary medicine bags, pesticide bags and feed bags can be exchanged for one soap or one bag of laundry detergent as long as they make up 20; one kilogram of damaged agricultural film can be exchanged for two soaps; five pesticide bottles can be exchanged for one soap or one bottle of toilet cleanser.
it is reported that the village committee is responsible for the recovery of agricultural waste. after sorting and packaging, the recycled agricultural waste is uniformly transported to the local garbage transfer station for preliminary treatment, and then transferred to another company for incineration and power generation.
mode 2: packing waste can be cashed
longmen county, huizhou city, is the first pilot county in guangdong province to implement paid recycling of pesticide packaging wastes since the promulgation of the pesticide management regulations. although the government stipulates that each package should be recycled at a price ranging from 0.1 to 0.5 yuan according to specifications and materials, the reward for recycling should not be paid out in cash and should be directly deducted. in this way, the purchaser of pesticide carries the waste of pesticide packaging to the designated pesticide market, delivers the waste of pesticide packaging to the designated pesticide market, calculates the reward amount according to the reward standard, and advances the direct deduction in advance when selling the pesticide settlement.
however, in the actual operation process, some agricultural stores choose to issue cash directly to recycle pesticide packaging wastes. "in early november, the owner of an orange base brought a batch of pesticide packaging waste to his orchard, which was used twice. he initially calculated that he needed more than 130 yuan to settle the bill in cash at his request." boss guo of agricultural stores in longmen county, huizhou city, introduced that since the government subsidizes agricultural stores in the form of cash, agricultural stores will also make discounts or choose cash settlement according to customer requirements.
model 3: employing poor households as recyclers
baoqing county, as a pilot county of pesticide packaging waste recycling in heilongjiang province, initiated a new model of poverty alleviation through pesticide packaging waste recycling, employing poor households to implement pesticide packaging waste recycling.
it is reported that the local government funded the recovery of pesticide packaging wastes at a price of 0.1 yuan per unit, set up recycling stations in 233 villages and villages in the county, employ 233 poor households or low-income households as recyclers, along with collection and transportation, compress and pack them and transport them to storage, and uniformly entrust harbin guohuan medical solid waste with hazardous waste disposal qualifications. harmless centralized disposal centers are transported in enclosed mode and treated harmlessly.
through this policy, the incomes of poor households or low-income households in 233 recycling stations in baoqing county increased by more than 3,000 yuan, and about 20 households increased by about 20,000 yuan. the barn of the precise poverty-alleviating household qi liansheng in the farm village is the "recycling bin" in the village. he was in his 70s. when the policy was first implemented, he went out to collect pesticide packaging wastes in the vicinity at more than 3 a.m. he picked up nearly 1,000 pesticide packaging wastes in the morning, and the village was cleaned up. he went to the nearby farm to pick up the bottles many years ago. come out. it is reported that as of early november last year, he had collected and recycled 55,000 pieces, and the rent of houses in the recycling station, government subsidies and the money for picking up pesticide bottles made him a total income of more than 4,000 yuan.
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US Patent Office Grants COPAN Invention of Flocked Swabs
December 22, 2011 | Murrieta, CA
The US Patent Office has awarded COPAN the much-awaited patent for its flocked swabs invention for collection and transfer of biological samples. This grant, deriving from a very thorough and careful examination, strengthens COPAN’s patent portfolio around the World for its flocked swab invention. COPAN’s revolutionary invention has now been awarded patents in every Country* where it had been filed.
“We are thrilled to receive our patent for a method for collecting biological specimen with our flocked swabs in the US as it is a great addition to our growing number of patents held around the world. It is a gratifying recognition of a true invention that has changed the landscape of the pre-analytical phase of Microbiology,” says Norman Sharples, COPAN’s Executive VP. Numerous independent studies have proven that the use of COPAN Flocked Swabs (FLOQSwabs™) improves the quantity and quality of samples collected and released into different culture and assay platforms.
Unlike traditional fiber swabs, COPAN Flocked Swabs (FLOQSwabs™) have no internal mattress core to trap the sample. The perpendicular fibers on the swabs have a soft brush-like texture that improves collection of cell samples and at the same time draws up liquid specimen between the fibers by capillarity. In both events sample stays close to the surface for automatic and spontaneous elution. COPAN Flocked Swabs have changed the world of Virology by giving clinicians an easier sample collection tool that yields comparable results to the gold standards – nasopharyngeal washes or nasal aspirates.
By using COPAN Flocked Swabs and Universal Transport Medium (UTM), the sample collection process is less invasive. It can be performed in hospital settings, remote sites or at home and samples can be safely transported to laboratories for testing.
“The revolution that started with COPAN Flocked Swabs and UTM in Virology will now occur in Bacteriology with Flocked Swabs and ESwab, COPAN’s multipurpose collection and transport platform suitable for traditional aerobic and anaerobic culture and molecular assays,” emphasizes Sharples. “Being granted the US patent for Flocked Swabs is invigorating and keeps us motivated to continue to innovate and focus on providing our customers with novel solutions for the advancement of the pre-analytical phase of Microbiology,” concludes Sharples.
* Patents concerning Copan’s flocked swab invention have been granted in the US, Canada, Europe, Japan, China, Australia and New Zealand.
About COPAN Group
With a reputation for innovation in preanalytics, COPAN is the leading manufacturer of collection and transport systems in the world. COPAN offers a complete range of microbial sampling products used for traditional culture analysis and molecular diagnostic assays.
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As women age, a number of situations may occur. For some, issues such as urinary incontinence become a problem. Female urinary incontinence can be embarrassing, which is why lots of women avoid talking about the issue with their doctor. However, with an open conversation with a medical professional, women can not only get a proper diagnosis of their condition, but also find a solution.
Female incontinence signs
There are a few different signs that a woman might be experiencing female incontinence. Some symptoms might include leaking when coughing or laughing, the intense urge to use the restroom, and weak pelvic organs. During an evaluation with a doctor, women can obtain a proper diagnosis which can then be used to develop a treatment plan that works for the individual’s specific condition. The treatment chosen may vary depending on the type of incontinence and its severity. Some women may also have health insurance that provides coverage for one treatment but not another, which may be considered if finances are a concern.
What types of incontinence may be present?
Your doctor will help you diagnose the type of female incontinence you are experiencing. There are different types, such as stress incontinence, where leakage may occur when laughing or sneezing. Others might have urge incontinence, otherwise known as overactive bladder. Some women have a combination of the two, and may request treatment options.
What treatment options are available for female incontinence?
There are a few different approaches to treating female incontinence. Below are just a few of the options that might be recommended by our team:
- Kegel exercises
- Physical therapy (pelvic floor exercises)
- Prescription medications
- Urethral sling
- Low level stimulation device
- Modifications to lifestyle and diet
- Use of pads to protect in the event of leakage
Call Woodlands OBGYN Associates today
If you reside in The Woodlands, TX or any of the surrounding communities and are seeking the diagnosis and treatment of female incontinence, you are welcome to book a consultation appointment at our practice by calling (281) 364-9898. We are open to new and current patients at our practice, located at 17183 I-45, Suite #610.
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Everyone knows wheat is a popular cereal grain. But wheatgrass, specifically the young blades of grass that are only about a week old, can also be found at juice bars and health food stores. Wheatgrass is taken for a variety of health benefits and can be found in a number of forms including fresh grass, juiced grass, tablets and powdered grass. Wheatgrass is comparable to even the most nutritious vegetables, providing significant amounts of protein, B12, vitamin E, enzymes, amino acids and chlorophyll as well as a number of other vitamins and minerals. Most of the nutrients found in fresh wheatgrass are at least double than they are in whole wheat flour. Wheatgrass is believed to help detoxify the body, fight infection and improve digestion. Try it as a hangover cure. By acting as an appetite suppressant, wheatgrass can also promote weight loss. It has been associated with a lower risk of cancer and the reduction of tumors. Wheatgrass also promotes healthy skin and is a possible remedy for baldness and gray hair. Additionally, it also contributes to muscle building and increased endurance. Not only that, but wheatgrass may have a beneficial effect on circulation and blood sugar. Wheatgrass can be grown outdoors, but it is also commonly grown inside where is can be readily harvested and prepared. By growing your own, you can easily avoid the chemicals found in most produce. Wheatgrass is easy to grow and will provide you with nutrition in just a few days after sowing. This short production period is not something you tend to find in most vegetables, making wheatgrass a very cheap and efficient form of nutrition.
Many vendors sell specialized wheat grass kits, but you can grow your grass without anything but some seed starting mix, an aluminum roasting pan and some water. It is best to sprout the seeds in advance so that you do not end up with ungerminated seeds that can develop mold. Start out by soaking your seeds in some water until they sprout. This will usually take about a day. You can add about 5% hydrogen peroxide to the water to help germination and reduce mold. Prepare your growing tray with dampened soil. You can mix in some compost or manure if you want to increase the nutrient content of the soil. Place the sprouted seeds closely together in your tray so that you?ll end up with a nice thick lawn of wheat grass. Cover the sprouts with about 1/8? of soil and cover the container with clear plastic. Once the blades of grass begin poking up through the 1/8? layer, you can remove the plastic. Be sure to provide good sunlight. When the blades reach about 7-8? in height, the grass is ready to harvest. This will usually take about a week. Leave about an inch of grass above the soil to remain growing. Once cut, the grass will resume growing, and it can be harvested again. You can help rejuvenate the soil with an organic liquid fertilizer or by making compost tea. Fresh blades can be stored in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days. Juiced blades will not store though.
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Col"lo*type (?), n. [Gr. &?; glue + - type.]
A photomechanical print made directly from a hardened film of gelatin or other colloid; also, the process of making such prints. According to one method, the film is sensitized with potassium dichromate and exposed to light under a reversed negative. After the dichromate has been washed out, the film is soaked in glycerin and water. As this treatment causes swelling in those parts of the film which have been acted on by light, a plate results from which impressions can be taken with prepared ink. The albertype, phototype, and heliotype are collotypes.
© Webster 1913
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Mahabaleshwar is also known as the Queen of all Hill Stations. This hill station is situated at an altitude of 1,372m in the heart of Sahyadri Hills in Satara District. Its name is derived from a Lord Mahadev temple and three Sanskrit words, Maha (great), Bal (power) and Ishwar (God). Some people also relate the name with mythological past as the name 'Mahabaleshwar' means mighty God.
British developed this place as their pastime destination to beat the
heat. Looking down from Mahabaleshwar, one can see a panoramic view of
the sea and the valley. Mahabaleshwar is regarded to be the best holiday
spot in Maharashtra in terms of climate, excursions, sports, and other
Lingmala Waterfalls is one of the most enthralling sights in
Mahabaleshwar. Dhobi waterfall point is another attraction of the hill
station. Wilson Point or Sunrise point is the highest point in
Mahabaleshwar. One can enjoy a beautiful view of the sunrise here.
Bombay Point in the point where one can see the best of sunset in
Mahabaleshwar has 30 exotic viewpoints that provide the visitors for a
spectacular access to the ultimate in fascinating landscapes. Connaught
Peak And Hunter Point, Venna Lake, Elphinston, Marjorie And Savitri
Points, Arthur's Point, Babington Point, Lodwick Point, Kate's Point,
Arthur's Seat, Krishna Temple, Hanuman Mandir, Panchgani, Tapola and
Pratapgad Fort are som eof the important sites of Mahabaleshwar.
Mahabaleshwar is a popular hill station in the state mof Maharashtra.
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Are you ready for a unique summer camp adventure in the forest? Oklahoma Forestry Services is offering teens the opportunity to learn more about the forest while exploring Oklahoma’s natural resources in beautiful Beavers Bend State Park at its 58th Annual Youth Forestry Camp.
“Catching Fire” is this year’s theme, with campers learning about fire ecology and how fire affects the forest’s ecosystem. Hands-on activities with natural resource professionals will include wildlife management, forestry management, stream ecology, and fire management. These professionals, who represent organizations such as Oklahoma Dept. of Wildlife Conservation, Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Dept., OSU Kiamichi Forestry Research Station, Lower Mountain Fork River Foundation and Weyerhaeuser Company, will also discuss career opportunities with the teens. Other programs during the weeklong camp will include tree identification, GPS exploration, forest measurements and soil investigations. Naturally, there is time every day for recreational activities such as swimming, hiking, canoeing, archery and fishing, and meeting new friends while enjoying one of Oklahoma’s most spectacular places.
“The kids always have a great time and learn so much at camp,” said Oklahoma Forestry Services Education Coordinator Jerí Irby, “but what is really great is that they gain a lifelong awareness and respect for their environment.”
The week-long camp will be held June 2 – 7 and is open to boys and girls ages 13 -15 from across the state. The fee for campers is $175 and covers all costs, including lodging, meals, transportation at camp, field trips and workshops. A limited number of partial scholarships are available.
Apply now for this extraordinary outdoor experience at www.forestry.ok.gov/forestycamp. The website also has additional camp information and photos from previous camps. Applications will be accepted until May 16th. You are also welcome to contact Jerí Irby at 405-522-6160 or firstname.lastname@example.org.
Camp counselors and adult leaders are also urged to apply. Camp counselors, age 18-22 should be mature, responsible young adults with an interest in education or outdoor career such as forestry or wildlife. In addition to gaining valuable field experience, camp counselors will receive a stipend of $200 for the week. Volunteer adult leaders are eligible to bring one camper for no charge.
Oklahoma Forestry Services, a division of the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food & Forestry, is committed to conserving, enhancing and protecting Oklahoma’s forests for current and future generations.
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Arranged marriage -- where spouses do not choose each other -- is an unfamiliar and unpalatable idea to most people in the Western world. But those who practice the tradition believe that arranged marriages improve family ties and ensure a good match for their children. In fact, according to senior research psychologist and author Dr. Robert Epstem, arranged marriages have a lot of benefits -- but there can be many downsides as well.
Removes Courtship Period
The rules of courtship vary depending on the culture. In some cultures, the couple are not allowed to be alone together, and while the individuals may have some say in who they marry -- the parents, for example, might give their son a choice of three different girls -- the partners have little time to really get to know each other. That means there is not much chance for any romance to develop, nor for them to be able to tell what it will really be like to be married to the other person. The fun of dating a wide range of people -- which also teaches you a lot about how a good relationship works -- is removed from the equation.
Narrows the Choices
Because the family is heavily involved in the arranged marriage, it can be very difficult for the prospective bride or groom to get a word in edgewise. Although arranged marriages are different from forced marriages -- in the latter, the bride has no choice -- it can still be difficult to say no to an arranged marriage when there is so much pressure from the family to say yes.
Eliminates Other Options
In some cultures, an arranged marriage means that, instead of a woman going to college, she is expected to start having children and tending to her husband's needs. In this case, an arranged marriage can remove other life options for the woman in the marriage. It doesn't mean she can't go to college eventually, but it might be much more difficult for her to do so.
Focuses on the Superficial
In some cultures, the most important things to consider are the appearance -- skin color, height -- of the potential spouse, and his or her socioeconomic standing, especially when it comes to the man's occupation. Many who believe in love matches might find these things to be rather superficial.
Traps the Spouse
Divorce is rare in arranged marriages, because they start out as a practical arrangement and if the couple doesn't get along, it just means that they should work harder on the marriage -- love and emotion don't really come into play. But this can make it very difficult to leave the marriage if there is abuse -- the family might not want to admit they made a mistake in choosing the spouse -- or if one spouse simply doesn't want to be married any longer.
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First described by Englishman William Wood, in New England Prospects, when he visited in 1633. Later described by Johnson in Wonder-Working Providence, (1654). Much of the following is drawn from History of Sudbury, Massachusetts. 1638-1889, by Alfred Sereno Hudson (Town of Sudbury, 1889).
Given the propensity of early regulations concerning its use, the area was likely heavily timbered.
The "Old Connecticut Path" -- first made known to the colonists by the Nipnet Indians -- passed through this area, and was the major way used by the English to travel to the Connecticut river valley, including those groups who settled in Hartford and Wethersfield, Connecticut. Some believe that it was due to this path that the plantation at Sudbury was started.
First petitioned for settlement in 1637, which was approved by the General Court, who ordered that land be marked out sufficient for 50-60 families (about 5 miles square), later extended a mile. (Colony Records, Vol. I, p. 210)
Land was purchased from the Indian, Karte in 1638, by George Munnings and "the rest of the planters of Sudbury." Mentioned in the deeds related to Sudbury (which were finalized as late as the 1680s) include the names:
- Walter Haynes
- Hugh Griffin
- George Mannings
- Emmanuel Downing
- Ephraim Child
- Capt. Edmond Goodenow
- Lieut. Joseph Haynes
- John Goodenow
- John Brigham
- Joseph Freeman
Early Colonial (1638-1670)
Settled in 1638 out of Watertown by Englishmen seeking more meadow, and relief from increasing population -- although many initial inhabitants were not themselves of Watertown. (Bond: "Only a small proportion of the names of the early grantees of Sudbury are on the Watertown records; and some who went there returned.")
- Those below marked with (*) originated in Watertown.
- Those below marked with (c) came over directly from England on the ship "Confidence" which departed Southampton, England 24 Apr 1638.
Received its name in 1639, supposedly after the Sudbury situated near the parish of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England. It was the 19th town in the MBC, and second situated beyond the flow of the tide.
First group of commissioners included (Peter?) Noyes, (Brian?) Pendleton, (Edmund?) Rice, Walter Haynes, John Parmenter [Sr.?] and George Munnings. Their task included assigning social and economic status to every one of Sudbury's adult male inhabitants. (Puritan Village, p. 83.) See below for their numbering.
These were Puritans in theory and practice, many educated.
From early town record, the following 56 heads of household have been determined to have settled in Sudbury by 1638 or 1639. [Source: NEHGR 13:261 (1859) “Original Proprietors of Sudbury, MA” The Names of the original Proprietors of Sudbury to whom lands were assigned in 1640..."
- Robert Beast, Best or Betts(*); owned land in Watertown. From will appears not to have had a family.
- Andrew Belcher, tavern-keeper in Sudbury
- John Bent] (c), of Penton, Southampton, husbandman, 35 in 1638; came with wife Martha, and children under 12: Robert, William, Peter, John, Ann. Returned to England same year and brought back more family on the "Jonathan" in 1640, including his sister Agnes Blanchard, mother Agnes (died on journey?).
- Richard Bildcome (c)
- John Blandford (c)
- #1 Mr. Edmund Brown, 1st minister
- Thomas Browne; at Concord 1638; possible brother to Rev. Edmund and William Browne; may have removed to Cambridge.
- William Browne; eventually settled near Nobscot; one time captain of the militia; first deacon of the Sudbury church
- Widow Buffumthyte (or Buffumthrope); received early alotment of land; no other information.
- Henry Curtis(*)
- Robert Darnill or Daniel(*)
- Robert Davis (c)
- Thomas Flyn, possible mistaken spelling for Thomas Joslyn. No other record.
- Robert Fordum or Fordham, supposedly from Southampton, Long Island; short time at Cambridge.
- John Freeman
- #6 Edmund Goodnowe; rep. town at General Court; capt. of town militia; dwelt west of the river.
- John Goodnowe (c), of Wilsheire, husbandman, 27; with wife Ann, two sons under 4: John and Thomas; Richard Sanger, servant. Brother of Edmund. Supposedly also accompanied by daughters Lydia and Jane.
- Thomas Goodnow (c), of Shasbury, age 30 in 1638; with wife Jane, Thomas his son, and Ursula, his single sister; brother of John and Edmund; petitioner for the Marlboro Plantation to which he moved.
- Hugh Griffyn or Griffin
- John Haine or Haynes, son of Walter; later possessed lands in Worcester.
- Walter Haine or Haynes (c) of Sutton, Mandifield, Wiltshire; linen weaver; age 55 in 1638; came with wife Elizabeth and sons Thomas, John and Josias (all under 16 in 1638) and daughters Sufferance (later married Josiah Treadway) and Mary (later m. Thomas Noyes); listed with them on the "Confidence" were servants John Blandford, 27; John Riddett, 26; Richard Bildcome, 16. Selectman for 10 years.
- John Howe; town selectman; petitioner for Marlboro to which he moved about 1657; first tavern keeper there, said to be the originator of the Wayside Inn, now a historic landmark.
- Thomas Hoyte
- Robert Hunt, came from Charlestown.
- Widow Hunt, might have been the mother or sister-in-law of Robert
- Solomon Johnson(*); assisted in the formation of Marlboro.
- Thomas Joslyn or Jslen; arr 1635 on the "Increase", husbandman; was for a time at Hingham and by 1654 in Lancaster.
- William Kerly (or Carsley or Carlsly) (c) 22 in 1638, husbandman of Ashmore; came with Edmond Kerley also 22. Assigned land at Pedock's Island, Nantasket 1642; Marlboro proprietor 1657; selectman many years. Had brother, Henry, named in his will.
- #7 John Knight(*), maulster
- Henry Loker
- John Loker (brother to above?)
- John Maynard
- #9 George Munnings or Mullings(*), came on "Elizabeth" in 1634 from Ipswich, Suffolk, England; lost an eye serving in the Pequot war; removed to Boston where he died 1658.
- Richard Newton, petitioner for Malboro Plantation; settled in what is now Southboro
- # 6Mr. Peter Noyes (c), of Penton, Southampton, yeoman, 47 in 1638, with Thomas (15) his son and Eliz. his daughter (who later married Josiah Haynes). Servants who came with them: Robert Davis, 30; John Rutter, 22; Margaret Davis, 26. Apparently returned briefly to England and returned with additional children, including Nicholas, Dorothy (later wife of John Haynes), Abigail (later wife of Thomas Plympton) and Peter; and servants John Waterman, Richard Barnes, William Street.
- Thomas Noyse (c), son of Peter, above
- William Parker(*)
- John Parmenter, Sr; removed to Roxbury after the 1660 death of this wife.
- John Parmenter, Jr; kept a tavern, "Old Parmenter Tavern" that continued through the 1800s.
- #4 Mr. William Pelham, apparently returned to England by 1652.
- #2 Bryan (Brian) Pendleton(*), petitioner for Sudbury plantation; prominent businessman; returned to Watertown; moved 1642 to Portsmouth, ME.
- Henry Prentiss
- John Reddock (c), (aka Riddett?); active involved in forming Marlboro plantation, of which he was the first town clerk
- #8 Edmond (Edmund) Rice, prominent landowner; appointed by Colonial Court to apportion land (1639); selectman; deputy to General Court; prominent in the settlement of Marlboro.
- Henry Rice, son of Edmund.
- John Rutter (c) carpenter; built the first meeting house; selectman 1675.
- Richard Sanger(*) (c) carpenter; removed to Watertown 1640.
- John Stone(*), came from Cambridge, son of Dea. Gregory Stone; one time elder of Sudbury church; town clerk 1655; early settler of Framingham; supposed to have moved back to Cambridge at outbreak of King Philip's war.
- Joseph Taintor(*) (c), in Sudbury only a short time.
- John Toll; possible the origin of the name "Toll's Island" in the river; male issue died young
- Nathaniel Treadaway(*), weaver, removed to Watertown after death of his father-in-law; where he was selectman.
- #10 William Ward; deputy to the General Court; prominent in helping establish Marlboro where he moved in 1660.
- Anthony Whyte(*), came over on the "Francis" in 1634; returned to Watertown
- Thomas Whyte
- John Wood or Woods; petitioner for Marlboro; selectman there; early member of M. church
- Widow (Dorothy) Wright, possible mother of Edward Wright; married later widower John Blandford about 1642.
Second Wave of Settlers
The following arrived soon after Sudbury was settled.
- Thomas Axdell or Axtell; arrived from Burkhamstead, England abt 1642; brother of Col. Daniel Axtell who served under Cromwell. Son was killed by Indians in 1676; descendants were early settlers of Grafton.
- Thomas Bisbig, Besbedge or Bessbeck; came on "Hercules," 1635; joined church in Sudbury, removed to Duxbury, but returned to Sudbury
- Thomas Buckmaster or Buckminster; one time in Scituate; later at Boston.
- #3 Thomas Cakebread(*); was in Dedham for awhile, but in S. by 1642; erected the first mill in S. Served as Ensign.
- Hugh Drury in S. by 1641; carpenter; removed to Boston by 1689 when he died.
- John George in S. by 1644.
- John Grout(*) to S. by 1648; came into possession of Cakebread mill; whose widow he married
- Shadrach or Sydrach Hapgood, came 1656, age 14, on "Speedwell"; settled in S. by 1664; killed in Nipnet country near Brookfield in expedition against Indians in King Philip's War.
- William Howe
- Thomas King in S. by 1650; one of the Marlboro petitioners where he served as one of the first selectmen.
- Peter King in S. abt 1650; deacon of the church; rep to Colonial Court 1689-90.
- John Moore, in Sudbury by 1643
- Jonas or James Pendleton(*); son of Brian; came from Watertown; one of the founders of the first church at Portsmouth 1671; served as captain in King Philip's war.
- Thomas Plympton, in S. by 1643, once servant to Peter Noyes (and married the latter's daughter, Abigail; probably brother to Elizabeth Plympton who married John Rutter. Killed by Indians 20 Apr 1676.
- Thomas Read or Reed, at Sudbury by 1654; nephew of Rev. Edmund Brown; tythingman; built sawmill in 1677; his land became the Lanham district.
- John Redit or Rediat; lived in S. before becoming one of first proprietors of Marlboro.
- John Smith; in S. by 1647; might have been early settler of Watertown by the same name.
- John Waterman; came on ship "Jonathan" in 1639; passage paid by Peter Noyes.
- Philemon Whale; in S. by 1646.
- Goodman (John) Witherell(*)
- John Woodward; came, at 13, on "Elizabeth" in 1634 with his father; lived in Watertown for awhile; in Sudbury by 1654; later to Charlestown; returned to S.; died in Watertown 1696.
- Edward Wright, possibly son of Widow Dorothy Wright (and may have come with her).
King Philip's War (1675-1677)
(The bulk of the following is extracted from History of Sudbury (1889).)
Supposedly, Sudbury contributed the most militia during King Philip's War, including the efforts of one Ephraim Curtis.
23 Feb 1675: Hugh Clark reported to the Council that he'd witnessed abandoned homes in Lancaster, Concord and Sudbury. Rev. Edmund Brown fortified his home and sent word to the Council that the enemy was near (listing many stories of dangerous encounters with them). A few months later (late in 1675) he wrote again complaining about the dismissal of the militia from Sudbury.
19 Dec 1675: Sudbury was represented in the famous Swamp Fight (in what is now Kingston, RI), under the command of Capt. Mosele, including Richard Adams, who was wounded.
Early 1676: The first approach of Indians to the town of Sudbury itself was in small bands. Sudbury residents sent requests for support, but the authorities felt that the Swamp Fight had crippled the enemy; Capt. Brocklebank requested dismissal from Marlboro because he had little to do.
10 Mar 1676 Indians attacked at or near Sudbury and many died.
27 Mar 1676: Netmus, a Nipmuc chief sought to capture anyone found outside the Sudbury garrisons. Intellegince of their presence had reached Sudbury. A "score" from Sudbury were joined by 20 from Marlboro in search of the Indians, taking them by surprise in the middle of the night.
21 April 1676: King Philip himself attacked Sudbury from the then-abandoned Marlboro with an army of anywhere from 1000 to 1500. Their numbers were this large apparently due to the presence of women Indians disguised as warriors. The English were warned of their presence early because the day before some Indians made small attacks and killed several inhabitants, including Mr. Boone, his son, and Mr. Thomas Plympton.' Sudbury families gathered at the many garrisons. On the morning of April 21, the Indians set fire to the abandoned homes west of the river and then began their attack on the garrisons. Haynes Garrison successfully routed the Indians, losing two to considerable loss on the part of the Indians. No garrisons were lost despite the lack of outside assistance and likely no more than 80 fighting men.
The east side of town was a bit more protected by the river, high at this season. Women and children were likely at the home stockade of Rev. Edmund Brown, at Timber Neck-- the junction of Mill Brook and the river. A petition sent a month later by the town of Sudbury indicated that their own forces routed the enemy, regained the town, including much of the property stolen from the homes to the west.
Meanwhile, men from Concord and Watertown were sent by the authorities in Boston. The Concord company, which included 12 "resolute young men," were ambushed and all but two slain, including:
- James Hosmer (eldest son of James; m Sarah White 1658 who went on to marry Samuel Rice)
- Samuel Potter (son of Luke Potter, deacon of Concord church; m Sarah Wright 1675)
- John Barnes (lived in Concord in 1661; m Elizabeth Hunt 1664)
- Daniel Comy
- Joseph Buttrick (son of William)
- David Curry
- Josiah Wheeler
- William Haywood of Sudbury
- John How, son of John, a Marlboro petitioner; killed 20 Apr on road between Marlboro and Sudbury
- Henry Axtel, proprietor of Marlboro; similarly slain as How above
- Eleazar Ward, married Hannah Rice, lived in Sudbury; slain as above
The Watertown company was under command of Capt. Hugh Mason, then 75-years-old. They approached Sudbury from the east about noon and pushed about 200 Indians beyond the bridge and river. They then headed west to assist Wadsworth but were overwhelmed by the enemy and retreated to the Goodenow Garrison til evening when they went forth again but by this time the conflict was over. While no list exists of the specific men who fought from Watertown in Sudbury, the following were impressed from Waterbury the previous November:
- Daniel Warrin, Sr
- John Bigulah, Sr
- Nathaniel Hely
- Joseph Tayntor
- John Whitney, Sr
- George Harrington
- William Hagar, Jr
- John Parkhurst
- Michael Flagg
- Jacob Bullard
- Isaac Learned
- Joseph Waight
- George Dill
- William Pierce
- Nathaniel Sangar
- Moses Whitney
- John Windam
- Joseph Smith
- Nathaniel Barsham
- John Barnard
In the meantime, Capt. Wadsworth had arrived with about 70 men at Marlborough the night before. Hearing that the the Indians had moved on to Sudbury, he did not stop for long, left about 40 young soldiers who were too exhausted to go further at the Marlboro garrison, but took about the same number with him from Marlboro, accompanied by Capt. Brocklebank (who had something to do now). The company took chase of a small group of Indians within the bounds of Sudbury, but was then ambushed by the main body of King Philip's army-- as many as 1,000 men. Wadsworth retreated his men up Green Hill from which they fought for several hours, losing five men. Philip set fire to the surrounding trees, forcing the English to relinquish their position and run for Hop Book Mill; only a few made it.
Roxbury men who died with Wadsworth:
- Thomas Baker, Jr.
- John Roberts, Jr.
- Nathaniel Seaver (or Leaver)
- Thomas Hawley (or Romley), Sr.
- William Cleaves
- Joseph Pepper
- John Sharpe
- Thomas Hopkins
- Samuel Gardner
Despite this victory, Philip retreated, and it has been assumed that his losses were great despite any real number of deaths. The Sudbury fight was his last major victory; afterwards, his company dispersed and he was killed by a fellow Indian the following August at Mt. Hope.
In October 1676, the town of Sudbury petitioned the Court for relief, including an account of losses by those affected. This list included:
- Mary Bacon, former relict of Ensign Noyes
- Thomas Plimpton
- Deacon John Haines
- Seg. Josiah Haines
- Capt James Pendleton
- John Goodenow
- William Moores
- Edward Wright
- Elias Keyes
- John Smith
- Samuell How
- Mr. Pelham
- Mr. Stevens
- Corp. Henry Rice
- John Allen
- James Roose
- John Grout, Jr
- Thomas Rice
- Widd Whale
- Henry Curtice
- John Brewer
- Jacob Moores
- Henry Loker
- Joseph Freeman
- Joseph Graves
- Peter King
- Wid. Habgood
- Benjamin Crane
- Thomas Wedge
- John Blanford
- Thomas Brewer
- Richard Burk
- Thomas Reade
US Revolutionary War
Sudbury militia participated in the Battle of Lexington and Concord, in 1775, where Sudbury members sniped on British Red Coats returning to Boston.(wp)
In August 1925, a Sudbury farm was the scene of a riot between local members of the Ku Klux Klan and Irish-American youths from the area. Five people were wounded by gunshots, and the State Police arrested over 100 Klansmen. Massachusetts officials cracked down on the group's meetings theafter, and the area Klan died out.
Sudbury was considered to become the part of the site for the headquarters of the United Nations, along with parts of Lincoln, Concord and Marlborough. Protests by townspeople and the Knights of Columbus caused the United Nations to choose a different location.
- Sereno Hudson, Alfred The history of Sudbury, Massachusetts. 1638-1889
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- LDS Family History Library Catalog
- Wikipedia on Sudbury, Mass
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Suppose there are two types of T-shirts: branded ones and unbranded ones and people allocate their spending in a way that they buy both types. Suppose the price of branded T-shirts goes up, but the price of unbranded T-shirts remains the same. What we see then is that after this price change people buy fewer unbranded T-shirts than before.
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Drones need batteries to operate, and oftentimes, the charging time is a long time. And when the power is out or when you’re off-grid, and you don’t have an outlet to charge your drone in, keeping your drone-powered is a challenge. Since most professional-grade drones need a significant amount of energy to run, knowing the flight times and standard charging times is a must because attention must be given to battery specs, charger speeds, and back-up batteries. Knowing the amount of energy demanded by the drone battery will allow you to choose the best solar solution.
Can you charge a drone directly from a solar panel?
You can possibly charge a drone directly to a solar panel, but it’s not likely, and it’s not recommended. Because of the transient nature of sunlight and the changing position of clouds, the performance of a solar panel would be unreliable. Plus, a 12V DC charger isn’t always available for all drones. The drone charger wants so see a minimum amount of power before it operates, and if it can’t draw enough power, it will time out. The more efficient and faster-charging solution is to place a solar battery between the solar panel and the drone charger, so that the charger can provide continuous and consistent power for the drone, regardless of what the solar power is producing from time to time.
Solar chargers for charging drone batteries when power is out
Here are some power banks and chargers that are easy to connect to a solar panel, and can charge your drones without hassle. All of these are incredibly portable, and can also charge other kinds of devices, so you won’t need an additional power bank or charger in case you are bringing it out off the grid.
Generally, one of the easiest ways to charge a drone battery when power is out is by connecting the Voltaic Systems V88 charger to a car charger designed for your drone’s battery. This charger is for laptops, tablets, and smartphones, DSLR cameras, and drones. This external laptop charger provides one to two times full charges to most consumer aerial drone models using a car charger. You can usually find a third-party car charger that’s much less expensive than the ones sold by the manufacturer. If the car charger isn’t available for your drone, then you can use a li-polymer battery balancing charger or hack your drone’s charging cable to connect it to one of the battery cells. This charger is optimized with high-quality, high-temperature Li-Polymer cells that are optimized for solar applications and housed in a brushed aluminum case.
You can use the V88 for travel even in airplanes, as it complies with the FAA guidelines on spare lithium-ion batteries. It comes with an easy-to-read display that enables you to see the battery power level in real-time, as well as switch between the voltages of the laptop port.
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This battery pack is sleek and powerful, and it’s a great go-to source for versatile power when you’re on the move. It weighs just two pounds and is well-designed. It’s one of the best versatile power banks you can bring while you’re on the move. It’s approved for travel in airlines, plus its high-speed power delivery makes sure that your drones, laptops, DSLR cameras, and smart devices are always powered.
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This power station is the size of a small lunchbox; you can easily grab it and go. Besides charging drones, you can power up phones, tablets, cameras, and other electronic devices with this. It can be used as an alternative to gasoline-powered generators to power up small appliances and lights. This is one power station that will be convenience for you during power outages and off-grid trips.
Need a battery bank that’s both compatible with most solar panels and your drone, yet portable enough to cram in your backpack? The Mini-G Portable Power Bank from Powertraveller is a solution. This power bank is the most versatile, multi-voltage battery in Powertraveller’s range and the smallest multi-voltage battery pack that can power up drones, cameras, laptops, netbooks, phones, and radios. It features a multi-voltage DC output on the ranges of 12V, 16V, and 19V. It comes with a dual USB port at 5V that makes it perfect for charging smaller devices.
This power bank easily connects to any 12V solar panel for continuous energy. It also has an uninterruptible power supply feature. When you connect this to a gadget like a laptop to an AC wall outlet, the device is protected from power outages. If there happens to be a power interruption from the wall outlet, this power bank will stay on to charge your device. You can also charge your drone and other devices while this power bank is charging from the solar panel.
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The following example shows an SQL procedure used to split a CLOB in half and then insert the halves into two separate tables.
First the table definitions:
CREATE TABLE tabc1 ( a1 INTEGER, b1 CLOB); CREATE TABLE tabc2 ( a2 INTEGER, b2 CLOB);
The following SQL code defines the procedure:
CREATE PROCEDURE clobsplitter(IN a1 INTEGER, IN a2 INTEGER, INOUT b CLOB ) BEGIN DECLARE localclob CLOB; DECLARE len INTEGER; SET len = CHARACTERS(b); SET localclob = SUBSTR(b, 1, len/2); INSERT tabc1 (:a1, localclob); INSERT tabc2 (:a2, SUBSTR(b, len/2 + 1)); SET b = localclob || SUBSTR(b, len/2 + 1); END;
The stages in the process followed by this procedure are as follows:
- The first half of CLOB b is assigned to local variable named localclob.
- The contents of CLOB are inserted into table tabc1.
- The second half of CLOB b is inserted into table tabc2 without using a local LOB variable.
- Local variable localclob is concatenated with the second half of b and assigned to b.
- The contents of b are returned to the application.
If clobsplitter is called by another procedure, then b is passed to the other procedure.
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Worldwide Fund for Nature India (WWF India) has partnered with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in an effort to build a circular system for plastics.
The two organisations have launched the India Plastics Pact, which aims to equip businesses, governments and the plastics value chain to move towards a circular plastic economy by 2030.
The pact is the first of its kind to be launched by an Asian country and is supported by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) and the British High Commission in India.
WWF India president Arvind Wable said: “The India Plastics Pact provides a strong platform for Indian businesses to drive actionable, sustainable solutions and accelerate the transition toward a circular economy.”
CII director-general Chandrajit Banerjee said: “I am certain that the founding members and supporter businesses and organisations present here will lead the way towards better use of plastics and create [a] large impact that will benefit all sections of society and industry in our country.”
Following the launch, 17 businesses, including fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) brands, manufacturers, retailers and recyclers, pledged to join as founding members of the pact.
Members will focus on both long and short-term projects, including detecting barriers to integrate recycled content in packaging, designing reusable packaging and eliminating unnecessary plastic packaging.
UKRI India director Rebecca Fairbairn said: “Plastics pollution is a global issue and the opportunity to reorient plastics as a resource in the value chain is a global opportunity.
“What is most exciting about the Plastics Pact is that it brings together governments, businesses, researchers and non-government organisations (NGOs) to create sustainable, unified, national frameworks for circular economies that work specifically for each country.”
Last month, the Indian Government announced a ban on the production, sale and use of several single-use plastic items from next July.
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Feb 23 2012: Thirteen Abstract and Illustrated Dustjackets from Scientific Book Club Editions (1958 – 1962)
A large collection of these Scientific Book Club editions, dating from the later 1950s and early 1960s, appeared one Sunday morning at the Colwick car boot sale in Nottingham, and covered many more subjects than are represented here. The truth is, while the books were plentiful, some selection was necessary in order to carry those chosen home on foot. In the end, with the ongoing Robert Holcombe project in mind, I selected those titles I thought would most interest my fictional character (though his interests, inevitably, also reflect mine) and some of these were presented as screenprints during a performance purporting to give an account of Holcombe’s life and work back in 2010. Yet aside from their part in this one project, they’re fascinating books on their own terms, catching something of the zeitgeist of their era (sitting, as they do, close to the mid-point between the first use of Atom Bombs on civilian cities in 1945 and the lunar landings of 1969) and inevitably reflect a high Cold War mentality: titles like Men And Atoms, Recent Advances in Soviet Science and The Birth of the Bomb are evocative of all this in themselves, and the addition of studies in ant behaviour, meditations on time and the long story of human ancestry, all reflect the concerns of their day. There’s a technocratic and progressive flavour that is in contrast to a more humanistic tone elsewhere, and interestingly, the differences are visible in the dustjackets, with the more abstract designs housing the more technocratic texts, the more archaic illustrations the philosophical and reflective writings. Not all the designs are credited, but it would seem Leslie Wood, R.W. Woolley and Eric Fraser are responsible for most of those seen here, with Woolley mainly designing the more spectacular abstractions and Fraser the quirkier, illustrative Modernist designs, though there some exceptions even here. Given their origins as bargain reprints, these are beautifully made and designed objects, and a previous example of the Scientific Book Club’s work featured here, Stafford and Golightly’s 1970 study LSD In Action, shows the standards were maintained through the next decade, at least.
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The lasting image from the 2011 state budget process might be higher education leaders in Pennsylvania asking lawmakers to accept cuts to college and university budgets of “only 19 percent."
While in any other year 19 percent would seem like an astronomical cut, it is several steps back from the governor’s original proposal of a 50 percent cut in state appropriations .
2011 was the year everything was supposed to fall apart for state budgets. Lawmakers, higher education leaders, and policy researchers expected massive cuts to all state agencies, including public colleges and universities, as a result of evaporating federal stimulus funds , sagging revenues, more fiscally conservative lawmakers , and ballooning structural deficits created by medical and other entitlement obligations. Cuts were supposed to hit every level of public institution, from the research universities to community colleges.
These predictions seem to have come true in several states. Colleges and universities saw their state appropriations cut by more than 10 percent in states such as Arizona (24 percent), Colorado (20.9 percent), Michigan (15 percent), and Texas (14 percent). These cuts, and the smaller reductions in other states, seem even worse when one considers the enrollment increases happening at many institutions.
College and university officials are already discussing ways to cope with the cuts, including tuition increases, salary and hiring freezes, enrollment caps, recruitment of more out-of-state students, and layoffs.
But over all, with most legislatures having completed state budgets and the fiscal year for most states starting today, many higher education leaders said the cuts they’re facing for the 2011-12 academic year are not as bad as they could have been or as they were predicting in January. They were planning for the worst, but improved revenues or supportive lawmakers help stave off apocalyptic cuts. A handful of states, including North Dakota and Wyoming, even increased appropriations for higher education.
“The revenues are not overflowing and plentiful,” said George Reid, executive director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education. “However, many of us were expecting a much greater reduction than the one we actually received." Across the board, lawmakers cut the budgets for Illinois colleges and universities by about 1.3 percent from last year.
While officials seem optimistic about what happened this year, they recognize that the third consecutive year of shrinking appropriations, especially when looked at on a per-student basis, will not be good for the sector. And with economists forecasting that revenues are unlikely to pick up for several years, and many structural deficits continuing to grow, observers said state institutions should be bracing for another year of budget battles and possible cuts.
“We can deal with shortfall if we have a plan and political leadership," said Joni Finney, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education and a state policy veteran. "But in the absence of that, it seems like people are just grasping at straws making decisions to get through the fiscal year. But then next year rolls around and they have to deal with the same problems."
In most states, the cuts did not result from decreases in revenue. Most states are beginning to see revenues return, though not to 2008 levels. Instead, the state budget deficits are being created as a result of entitlement programs, notably pension and Medicaid payments, as well as other competing priorities, such as prisons and elementary and secondary education.
On top of those obligations, this budgeting cycle also was the first in several years without meaningful federal stimulus funding. While the most pertinent piece of the fund for higher education was the portion of the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund directed toward colleges and universities, which amounted to $48.6 billion over the last three years , various stimulus funds helped buoy multiple components of states' budgets for the past three years. With that money gone, states had to reallocate funds to meet obligations, many of which are outside higher education.
In terms of percentage, the most dramatic cuts came in New Hampshire, where lawmakers almost halved state appropriations for the University of New Hampshire system. For the past few years, the state appropriated $100 million for the university. Based on this year's budget, which passed the legislature without the governor's signature, the university will only receive about $52 million. However, New Hampshire had kept state appropriations relatively stable for the past three years while other states cut spending. State appropriations for community colleges in New Hampshire were cut by 20 percent.
David Proulx, associate vice president for finance and assistant vice president for human resources at the University of New Hampshire, said lawmakers had to deal with a budget deficit between $600 million and $1 billion before creating the final $10 billion budget.
Proulx said the university will cope with the cuts by reducing its work force through attrition and increasing tuition.
In sheer dollar terms, California higher education institutions saw the largest cut. State appropriations for both the University of California and California State University systems were slashed $650 million under a budget Governor Jerry Brown signed Thursday. Both could also see larger cuts if future revenue projections don't materialize. Higher education officials said they will probably increase tuition , possibly for the spring semester, to offset the cuts. That increase will come on top of an 8 percent increase that goes into effect in a few weeks.
That won't be a viable solution in Michigan, which slashed higher education appropriations 15 percent, because lawmakers also capped tuition increases at 7 percent . The governor has threatened to enact larger cuts If colleges and universities go over that cap.
In some states, the shift away from funding higher education to other priorities was more philosophical than fiscally necessary, especially considering the slate of conservative lawmakers who won seats in 2010 with promises to balance budgets through cuts, not higher taxes. In Texas, Gov. Rick Perry pressured the state's lawmakers to leave a $6 billion rainy-day fund untapped while making 14 percent cuts to the state's higher education institutions.
James C. Palmer, editor of the Grapevine project, which tracks state higher education spending, said one major question his group will explore when it begins collecting data on state budgets will be how competing obligations affected higher education appropriations. "The big question mark lies in the question of how underfunded pension and health care obligations weighed on lawmakers," he said.
Cuts for about a dozen states hung between 1 percent and 5 percent or held steady from last year. Iowa and Massachusetts have not finalized budgets yet.
Bucking the general trend, a few state legislatures increased appropriations for higher education. North Dakota upped higher education institutions' state appropriations by 12 percent, and Wyoming, which is seeing revenues come in at 5.2 percent greater than expected, doled out more than $50 million in one-time funds while holding general appropriations steady. Idaho and Alabama increased higher education spending by about 3.5 and 5 percent, respectively. Virginia lawmakers appropriated an extra $65 million to expand higher education and encourage students to study science, engineering and math.
Frank Ballmann, director of federal relations for the New York State higher education services corporation and spokesman for the National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs, said his group is still surveying states to determine how aid programs fared in budget cuts. Ohio and Michigan have both cut their aid programs in recent years. For the most part, he said, aid programs didn't see tremendous cuts, and a couple of states, such as Indiana, actually increased spending on aid.
"There's pretty broad bipartisan support for student aid programs, which I think keeps them from getting cut too bad," he said. "On one hand, you're helping needy students. On the other hand, you're creating qualified employees, which businesses want."
Finney said one of the unseen casualties of the past few budget cycles has been long-term planning. Washington cut state appropriations for colleges and universities by about 24 percent and allowed tuition hikes higher than 10 percent for several institutions, moves that Finney said take it off of the path laid out in the Strategic Master Plan the state adopted in 2007. "There's no rationale or strategy for the long term," she said. "I think that's a greater problem than the budget problems."
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Just a short drive from Ayers Rock Airport, are both Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park and Yulara (Ayers Rock Resort), the setting for a cluster of hotels, shops and restaurants that form the Northern Territory’s fourth largest settlement when occupied. Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park is home to an abundance of wildlife and Uluru and Kata Tjuta, two fascinating rock formations that were created around 55 million years ago when much of central Australia was covered by an ocean.
Kata Tjuta is a striking group of domed rocks that cluster together to form small valleys and gorges. 30 kilometres to the east is Uluru the world’s second largest monolith, measuring over 9 kilometres around the base, and rising 348 metres above the mulga plain. Named Uluru by the Aborigines, it is a sacred monument to them, and the walls of the caves which honeycomb the base are covered in Aboriginal carvings and paintings, many of which are thousands of years old. Both Kata Tjuta and Uluru are estimated to continue around 5-6 kilometres underground, making the visible rock just the tip of each formation.
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