One feature of C4d that you may find particularly useful would be the texture axis tool. If you build the geometry of the pattern you want (most likely as children of array objects) you can apply textures derived from your actual veneers (decent digital camera/tripod/Photoshop) and experiment with the layout of your cuts in real time.
Here's a relatively uninspired solid wood compass inlay (the customer's always right). It's the type of thing the CNC eats for breakfast.
Outstanding depiction on that staircase. The drop arm volute and newel are stunning. the more I look at the rendering its easy to see that you have an good eye for detail. Most people would not fart around with the herringbone brick pattern inside the fireplace.
the compass is exceptional as well. i like the way you manipulated the wood grain. do you feel that c4d as a modeling software has more detail capabilities? if you had to combine a modeling software and a rendering software what would you pick. money being no option. is your work done on a pc or mac? i'm a mac and will probably never change.
Cinema 4d has all the geometric capability of the major CAD programs (which isn't saying all that much) plus the native rendering power you've seen. Generally speaking, the 3d software manufacturers keep up with each other so I think your choice can be made based on UI and compatibility with your existing software and drafting procedures. Cinema 4d's interface is especially intuitive and adaptable. For simple 2d drafting it's a bit cumbersome, though. That's when I use AutoCAD in tandem, adding elements whenever needed as 3ds imports.
I'm PC-based. For a Mac studio I see that Cobalt supports .dwg and .dxf, which is good for 'playing with others'. If it will export .3ds files you can have a pretty seamless integration with C4d. C4d handles .obj imports pretty well, too. If you can run them side by side and swap files back and forth, I think you're good to go. Experiment a bit with import/export. Outside of 2d drafting/dimensioning, C4d's all you need. Wait till you see how easy it is to switch materials on the fly. Check out Sketch and Toon for different presentation options.
Thanks for the kind comments! My mind boggles at the 'money's no option' option.
PS. AutoCAD is no slouch! I modeled the wrought iron balusters entirely in ACAD. When it came time to bend a few to a specific radius, C4d handled it nicely.
yeah... everybody i know has Autocad. one problem though. OSX operating system. i'm sure i could upgrade mine to a dual core or install virtual pc on it but my "Hal 9000" would not appreciate it.
I am entertaining buying a new Mac with Intel just for 3d and Cad software. i'm open for all suggestions.
How about picking up a used PC? A second machine can be pretty handy. When I'm busy I work with 3 computers and 4 screens. It also spreads out the CPU load when running multiple apps or long renders, etc.
Love the wood veneer textures!!! Keep em' coming, please:) We're the type of people you see taking random pictures of stuff, like Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man... only difference being we don't have to drop everything when Wopner comes on:).
no problem i'll have more this week . i should try to do four or five at a time instead of single photo's . any particular wood in mind? ash to zebra is available.


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The 5th New Hampshire Project
Using the Ordeal of One Regiment to Study the Civil War
"The 400": Investigating Veterans of the 5th New Hampshire through the Numbers
April 28, 2020 April 28, 2020 ~ hdubrull	~ 3 Comments
As I've indicated on several occasions, about a year ago, I used FamilySearch to start collecting biographical data on a random pool of 5th New Hampshire veterans (all of whom were original volunteers from when the regiment was first organized). I first started doing so because one of my students was interested in doing a statistical analysis of the life outcomes of these men. Although she did not proceed with the project, I continued because I thought collecting data would provide some important insights into the experiences of the soldiers who fought with the regiment. Moreover, as I kept going, I realized that my investigation was uncovering some interesting stories that I could pursue in the future. By the time I finished collecting data over a week ago, I had obtained information about 403 veterans. (I refer to them now as "400," partially for convenience's sake and partially as an allusion to the Spartan "300.") That information is now transcribed in a 579-page, single-spaced document in 10-point Calibri font.
Just a couple of days ago, I finished transferring much of the data to an Excel spreadsheet so that I could sort and search the information in various ways. I am now ready to start looking at what the numbers reveal about these veterans.
How the "400" Were Selected
Several years ago, I got my hands on Augustus D. Ayling's Revised Register of the Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866. The Revised Register has a brief service record for every New Hampshire serviceman who fought in the Civil War. In the case of the 5th New Hampshire, Ayling's book has the records of some 2500 men. A couple of student researchers and I (thank you Greg Valcourt '19 and William Bearce '19) spent a number of months transferring the information for these soldiers to an Excel spreadsheet.
When the student who was interested in doing a statistical analysis of the 5th New Hampshire's veterans approached me, I thought it would make sense to limit the study to the original volunteers who enlisted in September and October 1861. First, they would be easier to find on FamilySearch since the vast majority were native-born and very few deserted. Second, I had to limit the project in some fashion, and the 1000-odd men who were the first members of the regiment seemed easier to deal with than the entire 2500 who passed through the unit's ranks during the war.
I created an Excel spreadsheet with information exclusively associated with the original volunteers and, moving in alphabetical order, started collecting biographical information about every man on that spreadsheet who survived the war. After assembling about seven or eight biographies, I realized that I had undertaken an enormous task. I asked one of my colleagues in Sociology who has an affinity for statistics if I could take a shortcut. Would it be possible, I wondered, to collect information about a smaller pool of men (randomly selected from among the 1000) that would still yield statistically useful information? She thought the minimum size of the pool should be about 300. To get to that number, we agreed that I should proceed by alphabetical order, picking every other soldier on my Excel spreadsheet. If I landed on somebody who had not survived the war, I would have to go to the next person who had survived. And that's what I did, except for one thing: I kept the information on my spreadsheet about the first seven or eight survivors in a row that I collected before I spoke to my colleague. The whole process, though, seems sufficiently random to me. And as we shall see, for a variety of reasons, we should keep in mind that the data are not exactly characterized by great exactitude.
What I Learned about the Data
So why are the data not characterized by great exactitude? Perhaps the most important reason is that most of the information was self-reported, and self-reported information is unreliable. For example, men often changed their names or misrepresented their occupations, and when you throw in careless (or overworked?) census-takers into the mix, matters become very complicated. Among other things, people in those days often seemed pretty cavalier about reporting their age with any accuracy. And if there's one thing I discovered, throughout their lives, men lied about their age. They lied to the recruiting officer because they were either too young or too old to volunteer for the army. They lied when they got married, especially if their 16-year-old wife was less than half their age. They lied when they got old so that they would appear more venerable and respected. They lied for reasons known only to themselves.
For that reason, I often had to make educated guesses about when men were born (especially since I found so few birth records from this period). The documents I located were not always helpful because those compiling them often did not ask for a man's birthday—rather, they asked for his age. That mode of proceeding led to certain problems. If a man was truthful when he told the recruiting officer that he was 21 in 1861, he could have been born in either 1839 or 1840.
This is the top portion of a page for the 1860 Census in Ward 2 of Worcester, MA. Freeman Hutchins (aka Moses Freeman Hutchins), who appears on this page, served only briefly with Company E of the 5th New Hampshire; he was discharged disabled on January 10, 1862 after having been with the regiment for less two and a half months. Later in 1862, Hutchins served with the 12th New Hampshire for just under three months before he was discharged disabled again. Here we see the one of the biggest problems with census records; aside from the fact that all of the information was self-reported, the form only indicates the ages of the respondents on the date of the census (in this case, June 14, 1860). Hutchins claimed he was 23 on that day. Was he born in 1836 or 1837? Or was he lying about his age and born in some other year?
For that reason, my unit of measurement was years instead of anything more precise, and that meant ages often got rounded up. For example, a man born in December 1830 who died in February 1896 was only 65 years and 3 months at the end of his life, but since I was dealing in years, I had to enter his lifespan as 66. I suppose this phenomenon may have exerted some upward pressure on my calculations regarding lifespan, but I found accurate birthdays so infrequently that there was nothing I could do about it. At the same time, I rounded to the month for the soldiers' length of service; it didn't seem to make sense to me to use a more accurate unit of measurement.
There are other problems too. Much of the medical information in my records is suspect for a variety of reasons. For example, it's unclear how determination of cause of death was made in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. And, of course, medical science was not what it is today. Moreover, it was not always clear how good country doctors in New Hampshire were at distinguishing one illness from another, let alone the veterans themselves or the census-takers in 1890. Moreover, the same terms were used differently over a 100 years ago. And yet, despite these problems, the medical information is still useful in some ways (but that's for a future post).
This is the entry for Stephen L. Stearns in the records of the Eastern Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Togus, ME. Stearns, who was admitted on September 5, 1889, had served in Company G, 5th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, from October 1861 to November 1863. According to this entry, Stearns claimed he contracted diabetes at the Battle of Fair Oaks. While such a claim may seem odd, some research suggests that trauma or stress can trigger the onset of diabetes among those who are predisposed to the illness.
Finally, there are holes in the data. Some types of data were easier to collect than others, and some men proved easier to track than others (deserters, immigrants, and those moving far away from New England often proved most difficult to locate). But I did find enough information about enough men to make some generalizations.
My collection of information and my analysis of it are works in progress and will be so for quite some time. Yes, I've probably made some errors in transcription and similar such mistakes. I caught some of these in the as I transcribed information to the Excel spreadsheet that contains information about the "400." But beyond that, in looking at what I've collected, I've made the obvious realization that data prompt as many questions as they answer. Data alone means little without interpretation, and interpretation either requires bringing different analytical tools to bear or the collection of even more data for the sake of contextualization. (For example, with the help of several more students [Steve Hanabergh '21, Will Small '21, and Connor O'Neill '22] I've started collecting data about soldiers from the 5th New Hampshire who died from illness or combat to see if they differed in any noticeable way as a group from the men who survived.) As I wrestle with the data in the next series of posts, you'll see me thinking "aloud" and thrashing about in one direction or another as a try to find the message in the noise.
When I completed the spreadsheet with the data for my 403 men, I exclaimed to my wife, "I'm finished!" But this is not an end; it is really a beginning. Over the coming weeks and months, I will play with the data on this blog and see what they reveal. So why not follow me on the journey?
Charles H. Corey, John Bracy, and Some Wild Thoughts on Goffstown Back Road
April 20, 2020 ~ hdubrull	~ Leave a comment
Amoskeag Cemetery with Charles H. Corey's headstone in the foreground.
Today, I decided to check out Charles Harry Corey's gravesite at Amoskeag Cemetery in Manchester, NH. After Joseph Carraway (who is interred in Goffstown's Westlawn Cemetery, just a couple of block from my house), Corey is the 5th New Hampshire veteran buried closest to my home. Although my kids didn't have anything to do and looked oppressed by the tedium of the stay-at-home order, nobody felt like joining my expedition. So I went alone to Amoskeag Cemetery.
Sunday afternoon found me driving on Goffstown Back Road wondering if this thoroughfare has more cemeteries than any other stretch of pavement of similar length. Driving eastward, one first encounters Hillside Cemetery in Grasmere where the original settlement of Goffstown took place back in the mid-18th century (and it is a hilly cemetery). A couple of miles farther down the road, there's Holy Trinity Polish National Cemetery which appears on both sides of Goffstown Back Road, first on the right, then on the left. And after one clears the last big hill before Manchester, Mount Calvary Cemetery presents its sweeping vistas. This burial ground is enormous and not even close to being filled. Having passed this impressive spectacle on your left, you may be forgiven for failing to notice shortly thereafter an old, tall iron gate between two houses on your right. This is one of the entrances to Amoskeag Cemetery.
Amoskeag Cemetery is more commonly approached from its south side, on Fieldcrest Road. The word "commonly," though, is perhaps misleading. Aside from the fact that the City of Manchester apparently sends somebody to mow the grass, this cemetery is otherwise forgotten. A flag never tops the flagpole. Several of the headstones have fallen down. No one leaves flowers or candles. One finds none of the old GAR or American Legion markers that are so prominent at Westlawn Cemetery in Goffstown. The waist-high iron fence around the cemetery is very old and very rusty. It is a small, sad place surrounded on three sides by a middle-class neighborhood.
The oldest headstones I found there date back to just before the mid-19th century (the Dow family's memorials are especially prominent). The cemetery's heyday appears to have been the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There are several headstones that date from the 1980s or 1990s, but these seem really out of place.
I was surprised at how quickly I found Corey's marker; it took only a couple of minutes. It helped that he had a government-issued headstone.
Chas. H. Corey, Co. C., 5 N.H. Inf.
The headstone does not look as clean as the image that appears on Find A Grave. Considering the general state of the cemetery, I wasn't surprised.
Corey had an undistinguished Civil War career with the 5th New Hampshire. Born in Plainfield, NH, in 1837, he was still living there and working as a farm laborer when he enlisted in Company C. This company, led by James B. Perry, was recruited mainly in Grafton County (e.g. Lebanon, Orford, and Hanover) although Plainfield, NH, in Sullivan County, contributed 7 men. Corey spent less than 8 months with the regiment; he was discharged disabled on June 6, 1862 from Washington, DC, presumably after a stay in a hospital. Since there was no record of his being wounded, Corey was probably part of that huge efflux of soldiers who had fallen ill during the Peninsula campaign (malaria, fly-borne diseases, poor diet, and lack of clean drinking water proved a potent combination).[i]
Corey's post-war career was hard for me to track. I could find no information about him before 1880. According to the census of that year, Corey was living in Manchester with his wife and son and working as a machinist.[ii] Towards the end of his life, he became a janitor at Amoskeag School.[iii] On November 23, 1911, while walking home from work, the elderly Corey was crossing Elm Street near the intersection with Penacook when he was struck by a car. The accident must have been gruesome; according to his death certificate, Corey suffered from a "rupture of [the] right lung & heart." He was later laid to rest in Amoskeag Cemetery.[iv]
Amoskeag School, Corey's last place of employment is only half a mile from Amoskeag Cemetery. After I visited Corey's gravesite, I drove to the school and took this photo. Sitting as it does next to Amoskeag Circle, which handles a great deal of traffic, the school is a minor landmark due to the giant pencil that cuts through one corner of the building. For some years, the school housed an education consultancy and at some point during this period somebody got the bright idea of hanging the pencil on the building. The consultancy is gone and now an accounting agency occupies the old school.
As I walked around the cemetery, which was about 30 yards by 70 yards (at most), I saw a number of government-issued headstones for Civil War veterans. The headstone below caught my attention because it was leaning forward at a crazy angle.
It marks the grave of Corporal John E. Gerry of Company G, 4th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry. Gerry was a resident of Manchester, NH, who joined the 4th New Hampshire in August 1861. He re-enlisted in February 1864 and was afterwards appointed Corporal. His entry in Ayling's Revised Register states that he was killed on January 16, 1865 in the "explosion of magazine, Ft. Fisher, N.C."[v] This laconic comment piqued my interest. After a brief investigation on the internet, I discovered that the day after Federal troops famously captured Fort Fisher (which guarded Wilmington, NC, the Confederacy's last major port), the main magazine blew up, killing several hundred Union soldiers and Confederate prisoners. How did this horrible accident come to pass? Wikipedia has helpfully posted the findings of the court of inquiry that ensued.
FINDINGS.
After mature deliberation upon the foregoing evidence the court finds that the following are the main facts, viz:
Immediately after the capture of the fort General Ames gave orders to Lieut. Samuel M. Zent, Thirteenth Indiana Volunteers, through Capt. George W. Huckins, Fourth New Hampshire Volunteers, acting assistant adjutant-general, Third Brigade, Second Division, to place guards on all the magazines and bombproofs. Lieutenant-Colonel Zent commenced on the northwest corner of the fort next [to] the river, following the traverses round, and placed guards on thirty-one entrances under the traverses. The main magazine which afterward exploded, being in the rear of the traverses, escaped his notice, and consequently had no guards from his regiment or any other. That soldiers, sailors and marines were running about with lights in the fort, entering bombproofs with these lights, intoxicated and discharging firearms. That personas were seen with lights searching for plunder in the main magazine some ten of fifteen minutes previous to the explosion. The court do not [sic] attach any importance to the report that a magnetic wire connected this work [fort] with some work on the opposite side of the Cape Fear River.
The opinion of the court, therefore, is that the explosion was the result of carelessness on the part of persons to them unknown. The court then adjourned sine die
— JOSEPH C. ABBOTT,
Brevet Brigadier-General, U.S. Volunteers, President of Court.
— GEORGE F. TOWLE,
Captain Fourth New Hampshire Volunteers, Acting Assistant Inspector-General and Recorder.[vi]
In other words, it was a bunch of drunken, careless men who blew their comrades (and possibly themselves) sky-high.
I also found the barely legible headstone of Quartermaster Sergeant James A. Hills (above). Born in Antrim, NH, Hills was working as a farm laborer in Manchester, NH, when he volunteered for the 7th New Hampshire (October 1861) and was mustered in as a private.[vii] He re-enlisted in February 1864 and in December of that year was appointed Quartermaster Sergeant—the second-highest non-commissioned rank in the regiment. I have no idea what accounted for this dramatic elevation. The official history of the regiment simply states that once the men who had not re-enlisted had mustered out at the end of their three years' service, "arrangements regarding promotions began at once to be made, in order to fill the vacancies which had been caused by muster-out." And thus was Hills promoted to Quartermaster Sergeant. He must have done something very special.[viii]
Hills returned to Manchester after the war to become a clerk in a hotel owned by Daniel O. Webster.[ix] It appears that the war had transformed the young farm laborer into a man of business. In 1875, he married Ellen J. Blood, and on paper, it certainly seemed as if things were looking up for Hills. Unfortunately, the end was nigh; in 1877, Hills died of consumption. He was only 35 year old.[x] Just over a year later, his young widow died of the same illness.[xi]
The order for James A. Hills' headstone—the self-same one I saw in Amoskeag Cemetery.
I spotted a several other government-issued headstones for Civil War veterans, but these were so badly eroded that I could not read them.
Ironically, the best-preserved government-issued headstone in the cemetery belonged to a man who had not fought in a New Hampshire regiment and had not even been born in the United States. John Bracy first saw the light of day in Stanstead, Canada in 1835. An English-speaking Canadian, he moved to Malone, NY (which is about as far upstate as one can get). It was here that he enlisted in the 16th New York Volunteer Infantry on September 6, 1862. He didn't last long in the army since he was discharged disabled on February 5, 1863.[xii]
Bracy moved back to Malone after the war.[xiii] According to one website, Bracy was still living in Malone at the time of the 1890 Veterans Census.[xiv] For whatever reason, though, he and his family appear to have moved to Manchester at some point in the early 1890s; in 1892, Bracy's daughter, Annie, married John H. Miller (an English-speaking Canadian who had emigrated to the United States in 1881) in the Queen City.[xv] Miller perhaps got more than he bargained for—along with Annie, he also took in his new in-laws. The 1900 Census has all of them living together in the same rented house on Walnut Street, only a few blocks away from Corey's last residence.[xvi] Miller did well for himself, becoming an overseer in one of the city's many cotton mills. He took his extended family out of the city center and moved to a property on Goffstown Back Road that currently abuts the eastern edge of Mount Calvary Cemetery.[xvii] In all likelihood, the Millers' oldest children—John and Marion (13 and 6, respectively, in 1910)—attended Amoskeag School while Corey worked there.[xviii] On November 27, 1912, a year and four days after Corey was killed by an automobile, Bracy died in the Miller household of a stroke.[xix]
As I drove home, I ruminated on the fact that the thousands of people buried alongside Goffstown Back Road were tied together by family, work, and friendship. This web of relationships has left the barest of traces, and now we can form only the haziest sense of their substance through the documents they left behind. Did Bracy's grandchildren, John and Marion Miller, know Corey, the old janitor at their school? Did Bracy himself know Corey? Who knows? What is interesting is that this great tangled knot of people is not so distant from out time as we might think. Marion died in Manchester in the 1980s. In other words, had I lived in the Queen City while attending high school, I could have spoken to someone who knew a Civil War veteran intimately.
Something tells me that Bracy's descendants are still living in the Manchester area. Clearly, somebody has remembered John Bracy and tried to maintain that link between our time and his. When I was at his plot, I noticed that his marker was very clean and well preserved. And a small but brand-new flag was placed next to his stone—the only sign that anybody had visited Amoskeag Cemetery in weeks.
[i] Ayling's Revised Register, 225.
[ii] "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHRN-ZH5 : 12 August 2017), Charles H Corey, 1880; citing enumeration district ED 122, sheet 25A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d), roll 0763; FHL microfilm 1,254,763.
[iii] "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLZ7-195 : accessed 13 February 2019), Charles H Corey in household of Eliza M Hoskings, Manchester Ward 2, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 125, sheet 5A, family 76, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 862; FHL microfilm 1,374,875.
[iv] "New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FSVZ-MPR : 10 March 2018), Charles H. Corey, 23 Nov 1911; citing Manchester, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, Bureau Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 2,078,970.
[v] Ayling's Revised Register, 173.
[vi] According to Wikipedia, this is the citation for the findings: United States War Department. The War of the Rebellion, A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1880–1901. (Series I, Vol. 46, Reports, pp. 430–431).
[vii] "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M7WY-RG1 : 19 March 2020), James A Hills in entry for James Emerson, 1860.
[viii] The regiment had originally mustered in December 1861 for three years, so these arrangements took place in December 1864. Henry F. W. Little, The Seventh Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers of the War of the Rebellion (Concord, NH: Ira C. Evans, 1896), 351-352.
[ix] "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH5N-DDW : 19 March 2020), James A Hills in entry for David O Webster, 1870.
[x] "New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FS2H-G42 : 10 March 2018), James A Hill, 19 Feb 1877; citing , Bureau Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,001,083.
[xi] "New Hampshire Deaths and Burials, 1784-1949", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDV8-LPR : 18 January 2020), James A. Hills in entry for Ellen J. Hills, 1878.
[xii] https://dmna.ny.gov/historic/reghist/civil/rosters/Infantry/16th_
Infantry_CW_Roster.pdf
[xiii] "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ87-Q6X : 17 August 2017), John Bracey, Malone, Franklin, New York, United States; citing enumeration district ED 91, sheet 665B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,834. According to his wife's death certificate, Bracy was a fireman on a locomotive. "New Hampshire Deaths and Burials, 1784-1949", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FD24-HPD : 18 January 2020), John Bracy in entry for Annie Elizabeth Miller, 1939. However, the 1870 Census, the 1875 New York Census and the 1880 Census all refer to him as a "laborer." See "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8X6-NTG : 18 March 2020), John Bracey, 1870; "New York State Census, 1875," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VT8R-K5G : 3 April 2020), John Bracy, Malone, Franklin, New York, United States; citing p. 17, line 21, State Library, Albany; FHL microfilm 878,021; "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ87-Q6X : 17 August 2017), John Bracey, Malone, Franklin, New York, United States; citing enumeration district ED 91, sheet 665B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,834.
[xiv] http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/franklin1/civilwar/1890.html
[xv] "New Hampshire, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1636-1947," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L99K-H4MG?cc=1987741&wc=M6CK-J68%3A265835901%2C265948201%2C266070201 : 29 November 2018), Hillsborough > Manchester > Marriages 1892 > image 687 of 691; New Hampshire Bureau of Vital Records and Statistics, Concord.
[xvi] "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3Y4-KXK : accessed 20 April 2020), John Bracey in household of John H Miller, Manchester city Ward 2, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 93, sheet 24B, family 576, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.).
[xvii] FHL microfilm 1,240,947; "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLZ7-TPL : accessed 20 April 2020), John Bracey in household of John H Miller, Manchester Ward 2, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 124, sheet 18A, family 41, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 862; FHL microfilm 1,374,875. When Bracy died, he was living at 309 Goffstown Road, Manchester, NH. See "New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FSK9-5D3 : 11 March 2018), John Bracey, 27 Nov 1912; citing Manchester, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, Bureau Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 2,070,934.
[xviii] Amoskeag School served those students who lived in that area on the west side of the Merrimack River. It was about three-quarters of a mile away from the Millers lived.
[xix] "New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FSK9-5D3 : 11 March 2018), John Bracey, 27 Nov 1912; citing Manchester, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, Bureau Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 2,070,934.
A Little Bit of 5th New Hampshire History in Goffstown–Plus Something I Didn't Know
April 1, 2020 April 1, 2020 ~ hdubrull	~ Leave a comment
In New Hampshire, we're subject to a stay-at-home order which limits the kinds of things we can do. It seems clear that if we don't behave ourselves and the pandemic gets worse, we will move to shelter in place (although the governor seems reluctant to move in that direction). With that in mind, it's hard to think about what to do with your kids—if, that is, your kids want anything to do with you. But I did find something.
I recently remembered that in the pool of 5th New Hampshire veterans I was studying, there was one man who was buried in Goffstown, NH: Joseph Caraway. Indeed, he's the only figure among the veterans I've studied (almost 400) who had any connection to Goffstown whatsoever. And, I thought, why not find his headstone? I looked him up in the data I'd collected and found to my delight that he was buried in Westlawn Cemetery which is only about a 10-minute walk from my house. So, I told my daughter that we were going on a big adventure to the local cemetery. She's a freshman in high school, but she still falls for that kind of thing, although she did ask, "How long is this going to take?" I have to give her credit for being a good sport.
Vivien was a good sport.
We walked to the cemetery together, armed with the proper spelling of Caraway's name, his birth and death dates, and a photo of his headstone that I found on Find A Grave. I had some trepidations because Westlawn is an old cemetery (although not as old as Hillside Cemetery in Grasmere which is where the original settlement of Goffstown took place). I feared that the system by which graves were organized would have changed repeatedly over the years and that it would be impossible to locate Caraway's burial place. I have to say, though, that I had very little trouble. We found the cemetery directory in a small cabinet on the wall of the large shed that sits at the Church Street entrance and started thumbing through the pages.
First we found the index with all the names of those buried at Westlawn. Caraway was buried in Range #3, Lot #9.
We then located a map of Ranges #1 through #6 with Caraway's grave clearly marked.
And then we established where Ranges #1 through #6 were in the cemetery.
It took all of five minutes.
We walked about two-thirds the length of the cemetery and espied Caraway's headstone without any difficulty. It appears that since the Find A Grave image was taken, someone had cleaned Caraway's marker. It's in very good shape.
What do I know about Joseph Caraway? (His name is spelled "Carraway" in Ayling's Revised Register.) Caraway was the son of Jean-Baptiste Danis (1812-1863) and Sophia Blome (1816-1903).[i] Both of Caraway's parents were Quebecois, although accounts differ about where exactly they were born.[ii] They appear to have been married in 1837 in Baie-du-Febvre on the south bank of the St. Lawrence River halfway between Sorel and Trois-Rivières.[iii] Not long afterwards, they moved just a couple of miles across the American border to Franklin, VT. Shortly after relocating to the United States, Danis changed his surname to Caraway. It was in Franklin that Joseph Caraway— our Caraway—was born in 1843, on the older end of a very large brood.[iv] By 1860, 17-year-old Caraway was still living in Franklin where he worked as a laborer on Benjamin Wilson's farm. Wilson, who had been born in Canada East (or "Lower Canada") was extremely wealthy by the standards of the time, with real estate valued at $10,000.[v]
According to Ayling's Revised Register, Caraway was living in Orford, NH, when he joined the 5th New Hampshire in September 1861.[vi] Why exactly he left Franklin, VT, is unclear, but the Census of 1860 reveals that Caraway's parents now lived with many of their children (nine of them, in fact) in Lyme, NH, which was only a few miles from Orford.[vii]
Caraway was mustered into Company C as a private. This company was commanded (and partially recruited) by Captain James Perry. The great majority of men in this company came from Grafton County. The towns that contributed the most volunteers to this unit were Lebanon, Orford, and Hanover—all of which made sense since Perry and Nathan H. Randlett, his 1st Lieutenant (who also helped recruit the company), lived in Lebanon. The only unusual feature of this company was the large number of Canadian-born recruits. Where 5% of the regiment's original volunteers were born in Canada (around 50 men), 12 of Company C's 100 recruits were. In other words, a quarter of all the Canadians in the regiment were in Company C. Of these, though, only four (to judge from their last names) might have been French speakers: Stephen Bodo, Henry Daniel, Octave Labarre, and Isaac Loungeverns. (There was also a true-blue Frenchman enrolled in the company named Peter Thebeaux.).[viii]
Not having been to Washington, DC, to do archival work yet, I know little of Caraway's service. However, Ayling's Revised Register reveals that he was wounded at the Battle of Fair Oaks (June 1, 1862)—the regiment's first major fight. The surgeon's report for that battle, which was published in the New Hampshire Statesman on June 21, 1862, shows that Caraway had a "finger amputated." He was discharged disabled on February 14, 1863. Whether the discharge bore any relation to his wound is unclear.[ix]
This discharge was not the end of Caraway's military service. The Revised Roster of Vermont Volunteers indicates that in June 1863, while living in Hartford, VT (just across the Connecticut River from Lebanon, NH), Caraway joined Company L of the 11th Vermont Volunteer Infantry. The regiment garrisoned a number of forts in the Washington, DC, area before being redesignated the 1st Vermont Heavy Artillery in December 1863. In the spring of 1864, the unit was ordered to operate as infantry during the Overland Campaign in Virginia. The 1st Vermont Heavy Artillery saw hard fighting throughout 1864 and 1865. Caraway was apparently wounded on March 27, 1865 in fighting near Petersburg, VA (at what appears to have been the engagement at Mcllwaine's Mill).[x] He was mustered out on May 13, 1865.[xi]
In the meantime, Caraway's overaged father volunteered for the 15th New Hampshire on September 8, 1862 and was mustered in exactly a month later. The regiment was engaged in the Siege of Port Hudson in Louisiana before it was mustered out on August 13, 1863 (it was a nine-month regiment).[xii] Danis died just over three months later in Orford. It's hard to avoid the conclusion that at his age (he was almost 50), army service may have proved too much for him.[xiii]
At some point shortly after the war, Caraway married Nora Basha (b. 1851) who appears to have emigrated to the United States from Canada in 1855. I have not been able to find where they were married.[xiv] In fact, I haven't been able to establish Caraway's whereabouts after the war until 1877, when a son of his was born in Goffstown. The only other important information I could glean from the birth certificate was that Caraway was a simple "laborer." [xv] It appears that for the rest of his working life, he remained one. The Census of 1900 indicates that Caraway's "mother tongue" was French and that he could neither read nor write. [xvi] The Census of 1920, however, records that he could read and write.[xvii] Despite his humble occupation and his possible struggles with literacy, Caraway owned his own house free and clear in 1900. It also appears that he had at least six children.[xviii]
This image of Joseph Caroway appears on his Find A Grave page
At some point, for reasons unknown, Caraway moved to Epping, NH, before 1920 and died there on December 9, 1925.[xix] It's clear, though, that he considered Goffstown his home because both he and Nora (d. 1929) chose to be buried there.
If you thought this story was over, it isn't. Because buried right next to Caraway, for no apparent reason, is Wesley Wyman. His government-issued headstone caught my eye with the following inscription:
WESLEY WYMAN
DROWNED OFF
COAST OF IRELAND
SINKING OF
U. S. COAST GUARD
CUTTER TAMPA
This is exactly the reason I love walking through graveyards or reading old newspapers. It's so easy to get distracted by the different stories that both offer. I wondered—was this cutter sunk by a U-boat during World War I?
I immediately headed to the internet to find out. Apparently the USCGC Tampa had just finished escorting convoy HG-107 from Gibraltar to the Irish Sea (where the convoy was bound for Wales) when the cutter was torpedoed by UB-91 at a range of just over 500 meters. All 147 hands went down with the ship—mainly Coast Guardsmen with some US Navy personnel, sailors from the Royal Navy, and several civilians. It was the greatest loss the United States suffered at sea due to enemy action during World War I. Only three bodies were ever recovered which leads me to believe that Wyman's tombstone is a memorial and not a marker.[xx] Until I saw this inscription, I'd never heard the story of the USCGC Tampa. But I'm glad I stopped to take a look. Now I know.
The USCGC Tampa (ca. 1916) (from Wikipedia)
[i] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101680769
[ii] Find A Grave has Jean-Baptiste born in Saint-Donat-de-Montcalm (a wild area about 75 miles northwest of Montreal) and Sophia in Yamaska (about 50 miles northeast of Montreal). A family tree I located on FamilySearch claims that Jean-Baptiste was born in Saint-Michel-d'Yamaska and that Sophia was born in Trois-Rivières. See https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83862589/jean_baptiste-danis; https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89504285/sophia-caraway; and https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LDQW-QWJ
[iii] See https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83862589/jean_baptiste-danis; https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89504285/sophia-caraway; and https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LDQW-QWJ
[iv] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101680769; see also Ayling's Revised Register, 221 (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?q1=Carraway;id=mdp.39015011525055;view=1up;seq=243;start=1;sz=10;page=search;num=221).
[v] "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFD4-4VM : 12 December 2017), Joseph Caraway in entry for Benjamin Wilson, 1860.
[vi] Ayling's Revised Register, 221 (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?q1=Carraway;id=mdp.39015011525055;view=1up;seq=243;start=1;sz=10;page=search;num=221).
[vii] "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M7WR-NTT : 19 March 2020), John Caraway, 1860.
[viii] Most of this information comes from an Excel spreadsheet that compiled data from Ayling's Revised Register.
[ix] Ayling's Revised Register, 221 (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?q1=Carraway;id=mdp.39015011525055;view=1up;seq=243;start=1;sz=10;page=search;num=221).
[x] The 1890 Veterans Census does not indicate where Carraway was wounded. See "United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K837-1F8 : 11 March 2018), Joseph Caraway, 1890; citing NARA microfilm publication M123 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 338,199. For the action at McIIlwaine's Mill, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appomattox_campaign
[xi] See Revised Roster of Vermont Volunteers, 449 (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo1.ark:/13960/t9p27g94k&view=1up&seq=467)
[xii] Ayling's Revised Register, 741 (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015011525055&view=1up&seq=763).
[xiii] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83862589/jean_baptiste-danis
[xiv] They were definitely married at some point between 1865 and 1868. A family tree on FamilySearch has the date falling in August 1867; https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GMV2-JWT.
[xv] "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLLZ-5BN : 10 March 2018), Joseph Carraway in entry for Joseph Carraway, 07 Feb 1877; citing Goffstown, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Concord; FHL microfilm 1,000,490.
[xvi] See the Census of 1900: "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3YW-8GG : accessed 24 January 2019), Joseph Caraway, Goffstown town, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 81, sheet 18A, family 325, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,947.
[xvii] "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH8T-CH2 : accessed 24 January 2019), Joseph Caraway, Epping, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States; citing ED 119, sheet 3A, line 26, family 54, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1013; FHL microfilm 1,821,013.
[xviii] https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GMV2-JWT
[xix] "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH8T-CH2 : accessed 24 January 2019), Joseph Caraway, Epping, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States; citing ED 119, sheet 3A, line 26, family 54, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1013; FHL microfilm; https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101680769
[xx] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Tampa_(1912)
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Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of syringe exchange programs
Posted Sep 02, 2016 By The Incidental Economist Austin Frakt, Ph.D.
Syringe exchange programs (SEPs) provide free, sterile injection equipment to injection drug users and collect their used equipment. SEP's primary purpose is to reduce the blood borne infectious disease like HIV and hepatitis B/C, all of which are disproportionately prevalent among injection drug users. Some programs also offer other services (e.g., condom distribution, infectious disease testing and prevention education) and can be a gateway to drug treatment programs. The preponderance of evidence suggests that, for all these things, they work and that they're cost effective or even cost saving. Let's review.
Improving Injection-Related Practices. Many studies show that injection drug users who visit SEPs use safer injection practices.
A meta-analysis of 47 studies by Ksobiech (2003) found that needle sharing and borrowing declined among SEP visitors.
Hagan et al. (1993) interviewed over 204 users of a Takoma, Washington SEP. They reported no change in injection frequency, but a decline in injections with used equipment.
After Vancouver increased its distribution of clean syringes, it experienced 40% declines in syringe borrowing and lending, according to Thomas Kerr et al. (2010).
Reducing Blood Borne Viral Infection. Safer injection practice is a process measure. Does it translate into reduced incidents of infectious disease among injection drug users? There's a lot of evidence it does.
Hurley et al. (1997) compared changes in rates of HIV infection among injection drug users in 29 cities with SEPs to 52 cities without them. In those with SEPs, the HIV infection rate fell an average of 5.8% per year compared to a 5.9% annual increase in those without SEPs.
Hagan et al. (1995) studied injection drug users who did and did not use a Tacoma, Washington area SEP — one of the first to open in the late 1980s. Not using the SEP was associated with six and seven times greater risk of hepatitis B and C infection, respectively. However, this was a relatively small study, with only about 50-60 subjects, depending on outcome.
A much larger study — of over 1,600 subjects — by Des Jarlais et al. (1996) found that injection drug users who didn't visit a New York City SEP in the early 1990s were over three times more likely to contract HIV, compared to those who did visit one.
Kwon et al. (2012) estimated that, among injection drug users, SEPs in Australia reduced cases of HIV and hepatitis C by between 34-70% and 15-43%, respectively.
For the WHO and in a separate, similar paper, Wodak and Cooney (2006) reviewed and assessed the SEP research literature, concluding that SEPs reduce HIV infection substantially.
HIV incidence fell after Vancouver increased its distribution of clean syringes (Thomas Kerr et al. 2010).
According to a study by Ruiz et al. (2016), when the ban on municipal funding of SEPs in DC lifted, the number of incident HIV cases among injection drug users fell 70%. (See the figure just below.)
Not Increasing Injection Drug Use. A significant concern among many is that the provision of free, clean injection equipment will promote injection drug use. The research says it won't.
That's the conclusion from the literature review by Wodak and Cooney (2006) who wrote, "[A]fter almost two decades of extensive research, there is still no persuasive evidence that NSPs increase the initiation, duration, or frequency of illicit drug use or drug injecting."
Hagan et al. (2000) found that, relative to those who had not visited a SEP, Seattle-area injection drug users who had were more likely to report a reduction or cessation in injection.
Guydish et al. (1993) compared San Francisco drug treatment admissions two years before to two years after SEP implementation (1987-1990). According to the study, SEPs were not associated with increasing drug use (overall or injection-based) or needle-sharing behavior. However, "[n]eighborhoods without needle-exchange sites showed a greater increase in proportion of admissions for injection drug use, and in frequency of injection, over time."
In an analysis of about 5600 San Francisco injection drug users over 5 years, Watters et al. (1994) found that frequency of injection fell and average age of injection drug users rose as a higher proportion of them used SEPs. These findings do not support the hypothesis that SEPs promote greater injection drug use.
Promoting Drug Treatment. SEPs are an effective way to reach a population in need of drug treatment.
Wodak and Cooney (2006) conclude that there is reasonable evidence that they increase recruitment into drug treatment programs.
Hagan et al. (2000) found that "[n]ew exchange users were five times more likely to enter methadone treatment and ex-exchangers were 60% more likely to remain in methadone treatment over the 1-year study period."
Among Baltimore injection drug users, those that had attended a SEP were more likely to enter a drug treatment program, according to work by Strathdee et al. (1999).
Cost-Effectiveness. In their literature review, Wodak and Cooney (2006) conclude, "a number of careful studies in several developed countries and some transitional countries have demonstrated convincingly that NSPs are cost-effective." However, they're more than that — they're cost saving.
Lurie et al. (1988) calculated that if the HIV prevalence rate among injection drug users were above 2.1% then SEPs would be cost-saving. (In the U.S., 3.6% of injection drug users have HIV.)
According to Holtgrave et al. (1998), providing every injection drug user with all the clean needles he or she would avert enough HIV cases to be cost saving.
Laufer (2001) estimated that New York State SEPs cost about $21,000 per averted HIV case in 1996. Because the lifetime costs of HIV exceed this amount, the program was cost saving. (Today, lifetime costs of an HIV infection are about $380,000.)
Lurie and Drucker (1997) estimated that a national implementation of SEPs would avert up to nearly 10,000 HIV infections, saving over three-quarters of a billion dollars in current dollars.
Ruiz et al. (2016) estimated that a policy change that permitted use of Washington DC municipal funds for SEPs saved the city over $44 million in averted HIV cases.
In their study of Australia's SEPs, Kwon et al. (2012) calculated that a dollar invested in them returned $1.3 to $5.5 in averted health care spending.
A SEP in Ontario saved four times more than it cost, according to Gold et al. (1997).
Cabasés and Sánchez (2003) estimated that a SEP in Spain was saved more than it spent, again due to averted HIV cases.
Nguyen et al. (2014) found that for additional SEP funding in the US between $10 to $50 million per year, 194–816 HIV infections would be averted, translating into a return on investment between 7.58–6.38. (See the figure just below.)
Some studies differ. It is important to acknowledge that findings contrary to some of the above exist. For this reason, in a review of reviews, Palmateer et al (2010) found "insufficient" and "tentative" evidence to support effectiveness of SEPs in preventing hepatitis C and HIV transmission, respectively. This, however, is not the same thing as concluding SEPs do not reduce transmission. Additionally, as discussed in Wodak and Cooney (2006), studies that don't find SEPs effective in preventing transmission of these diseases are more likely to have been conducted in settings in which injection drug users have legal access to syringes through local pharmacies. "[I]n settings with [SEPs] but without additional legal access to sterile injecting equipment, there were no negative or null findings," they wrote. This only reinforces the idea that access to clean needles by some mechanism — SEPs and legal sale at pharmacies among them — is an effective means of improving public health and saving downstream health care costs.
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Coimbatore : Over 3,500 members of Jacto-Geo were arrested, when they staged demonstration and blocked vehicular traffic near the District collectorate here and nearby TIrupur on Monday.
As the week-long indefinite strike continued, despite the Government directing the teachers to return to duty considering the future of the students and squatted near the office of district collector and raised the slogans in support of their demands.
They were demanding withdrawal of contributory pension scheme, pay parity with Central Government employees and also promoting second grade teachers and also said that unless Government called the Jacto Geo leaders for talks to find an amicable solution, the strike will continue.
Meanwhile, long queues were seen in front of educational officers' office to submit application forms for appointment of new teachers on a temporary basis, police said.
About 1,500 government employees and teachers were arrested in nearby Tirupur, who were indulged in road blockade near the Collectorate, police said.
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Surprise! Surprise! King of the One Liners, Barry Weisenberg, returns to share with us. Today Barry has found happiness with The Very Best Woman Ever (we'll refer to her as The Girlfriend from this point forward). They met on Match.com. The girlfriend, now divorced, had been married for 20 years with two children. Both she and Barry knew on their first date that it felt right. Barry was single after a ten-year relationship, which gave him a son. Barry shares custody with his ex. Now that relationship is behind him, has finally found THE ONE. They are immensely happy with one another. The Girlfriend has updated his look, cooks for him, and can do his comedy if needed. She enjoys seeing him perform. What could be better than that for a comic? The Girlfriend even likes his son and enjoys spending time with him. Sounds like everything is right for the two of you. It's better than winning at Bingo! Sorry, Barry, even this blogger can be funny. I do wish you both the best. Each week Mom-nonymous shares her thoughts on the episode. Mom-nonymous is a wife, mom, and listener of Life Lafter Divorce Podcast. She's been married for over 50 years, has never been divorced, and would like
Episode 086: Thoughts from Mom-nonymous
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Episode 086: When a divorced family is all you know with special guest Gianmarco Soresi I found a real insight to children of divorce with Gianmarco Soresi. His parents divorced when he was one week old. He endured years of going back and forth between them. His Dad has various girlfriends while Gianmarco was growing up. He'd be kinda nice as kids warm up. On holidays and birthdays Gianmarco always got extra presents. His Mom remarried right after the divorce. As a matter of fact, she married his Dad's lawyer. His stepfather was strict compared to his Dad who.had the party house. His parents set up a schedule for him throughout the years. There was always a place to be. While attending college Gianmarco dated the same girl all four years with an an agreement that after graduation they would part ways. However they did still date and collaborated on writing a play together. The play was about relationships. Gianmarco wanted to perform it with her, but she moved on and married another guy. Gianmarco continues his dream and cast the play with someone else and his ex is having a baby. He's performed the play and received rave reviews — and continues to do so. Today Gianmarco does comedy and dates. He's
Episode 070: The Bride & The Best Man
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Episode 070: The Bride & The Best Man with special guests Misty, Chris, and Glenn Full Transcript: Leanne: 00:00:08 Welcome to episode 70. I am your host, Leanne Linsky and I'm the boyfriend. Welcome back to another wonderful week of divorce, but before we jump in, let's make sure we rate, review and subscribe. So while you're out there today and get her done, tell us how much you love us. Why not? Why wouldn't you? And while you're out there checking out the website at life. Laughter, divorce.com. So boyfriend, I'm really excited about this because this is part two of. The Boyfriend: 00:00:36 Well just a continuation, part two. Part two have to move. It hurt that their, their, their experiences, their life, how they got to where they are to where they are now is is. I'm wondering, even put it as part, it's just they've got this section where you hear about Chris, do you have this section about the marriage of misty and then and then her realization where we're at right now is her marriage and how she figures out what she really wants. Leanne: 00:01:10 So we have sections a, B and c and we're now in the
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Episode 029: Gobsmacked! Welcome to Co-Parenting with special guest Dad Solo It's our 29th episode and The Boyfriend and Leanne talk about how women (and sometimes men) lie about their age. It seems like nobody wants to be older than 30. Leanne's mom always told her she was 29. Then one day Leanne mentioned to the neighbor that it was her mom's birthday. The neighbor asked how old her mom was. Leanne said 29. The neighbor laughed and laughed and said "You're mom is lying to you." Leanne was upset by this and told her mom. Her mom said, "She's right. I've been lying to you. I was 30 when I had you. Anyway, back to divorce… Do you stay in touch with your ex? The Boyfriend doesn't keep in touch with his exes anymore. Leanne doesn't keep in touch with her ex husbands, but does keep in touch with ex-boyfriend. What's the difference? None of the relationships ever lasted long enough to really to be concerned. Also, it's easy to stay connected because of social media. The Boyfriend and Leanne discuss why it may be easy or not easy to keep in touch. If you've had children, you're always going to have a bond
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Episode 003: Stuck in the Middle (of her parent's divorce) with special guest Abby Deely Our parents experience doesn't necessarily determine our own, but they most certainly have an impact. Comedian Abby Deely gives us her perspective on her parents tug-o-war breakup. Abby performs at clubs and colleges in the New Jersey and New York area and will be a featured performer in Escaping Trump's America; a collection of liberal minded comics at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2017. Full Transcript: Leanne & The BF: 00:09 Hey, welcome to life after divorce, episode three. We are here. I am Leanne Linsky And boyfriend. Yes you are, Mr. for so happy to be here today. We have lots of good stuff to talk about. So what are we talking about this week? This week we are going to talk about. Well obviously divorce, but I was thinking about this. I've been married and divorced twice and yet my parents had been married for about 55 years. Fifty five years. Isn't that incredible? The Boyfriend: 00:46 It is because they got my parents be. Oh, bought about eight or nine years. My parents have been married for 48, 47 years. Leanne: 00:56 That's longer than we've
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Godzilla came to America and was battled by SHIELD and the creatures of the evil Doctor Demonicus. He was eventually captured by Demonicus and mutated into an aquatic creature that he could control, battling Iron Man before breaking free. He appeared once more, attacking the production of Devil Dinosaur: The Movie, leaving after destroying their Devil Dinosaur robot.
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alleging that former business associates of the anti-apartheid icon, including lawyer George Bizos, have incorrectly portrayed the Mandela family as "insensitive money-grabbers."
The dispute centers on two companies that were set up for the purpose of benefiting the Mandela family. On Monday, Mandela's daughters, Makaziwe and Zenani, filed papers in court to remove lawyers George Bizos and Bally Chuene and businessman Tokyo Sexwale as directors of the companies.
Members of the Mandela family in favor of their removal say that the three neglected their duties as directors.
However, ahead of the filing, Bizos, one of the directors and long-time associate of Nelson Mandela, spoke out against Mandela's daughter Makaziwe, claiming that she was attempting to take up to $1.3 million in company money without providing an explanation.
The statement released by the Mandelas Thursday said that the goal of the legal action is to "safeguard the interests of beneficiaries and shareholders, in line with a trust set up by Mandela to provide for his family," the Associated Press reported.
However, not all of the Mandelas are on board with the push to remove the trio as directors of the companies. Mandela's grandson Mandla Mandela has been vocal about his desire to stay out of the fray and has even threatened to take his aunts to court for dragging him into the ordeal.
Mandla's name appeared among Mandela's 17 beneficiaries who supported the action filed against the directors Monday, but he claims that he never agreed to support the action.
The companies, Harmonieux Investment Holdings and Magnifique Investment Holdings, sell handprint artwork by Mandela.


Before some Chicago Marathon runners reach the starting line, they have to navigate the lines at the CTA station at O'Hare International Airport.
Travelers at O'Hare taking the "L" into town had to wait in long lines for fare cards Friday as the CTA continues its transition to Ventra, its new fare payment system. Two days before the Chicago Marathon, which attracted 45,000 runners and an estimated 1.7 million spectators last year, is typically one of the busiest days of the year at the O'Hare Blue Line station.
At one point Friday morning, more than 100 people stood in line to use one of seven fare card machines at the station. There was a separate table if riders wanted unlimited passes and had cash.
"We have extra staff out there today and through Sunday," CTA spokeswoman Tammy Chase said. "We're handling everybody as quickly as possible."
The CTA anticipated a busy day, Chase said. The O'Hare station saw 10,557 riders on an average weekday in July, the latest data available. Two days before last year's marathon, 16,175 riders used the station, the most in 12 years, according to CTA data posted in the city data portal.
But this year, the CTA has made changes to its fare card system and fares from O'Hare, potentially leading to confusion.
On Monday, the CTA eliminated the ability for Chicago Card riders to add money to their cards and rail stations to sell disposable cards, a popular fare medium for tourists. On Wednesday, the CTA brought these options back amid backlash about poor customer service in its transition to Ventra.
In January the CTA upped the charge to $5 from $2.25 for riders with disposable cards who didn't have an unlimited pass. In July, this charge was expanded to Chicago Card users. O'Hare was the only station to see an increased charge.
Ambyr Hinton, a four-time marathoner from Pittsburgh, said it was her first time in Chicago. She said she didn't mind her wait of more than 15 minutes to get a fare card.
"With 45,000 runners, you're going to wait in line for a lot of stuff," said Hinton, 31.
Chase said the CTA is also selling one- and three-day unlimited passes at the marathon expo at McCormick Place.


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The State of the Impeachment
On the same day that Bush delivered his state of the union address, eight state senators in New Mexico introduced a resolution (Senate Joint Resolution 5) that if passed would require their state government to send a petition to the U.S. House of Representatives asking that impeachment proceedings immediately begin against Bush and Cheney.
Over 100 citizens showed up for the introduction, and there were over two hours of citizen speeches at the announcement event. Reporters from every New Mexico newspaper and the Associated Press were there, as well as ABC and NBC cameras. What they saw was a bottom-up movement for impeachment, exactly what inpeachment is supposed to be.
The original sponsor of the resolution, Sen. Gerald Ortiz y Pino, says he has received over 1,000 favorable messages and two negative ones. That matches exactly the responses I've received for wearing an "Impeach Bush and Cheney" t-shirt around the country.
The New Mexico resolution will go to three committees in the Senate: Rules, Judiciary, and Public Affairs. Three of the eight sponsors chair those three committees. Four of the eight sit on the Rules Committee, which is the first stop, and where five votes are needed. Ortiz y Pino expected to serve on Rules but has been moved to another committee. The fifth Democrat and the needed vote will be a Navajo representative yet to be appointed.
The Senate Committee hearings will have to happen over the next four weeks or so to leave time for introduction and passage in the House during New Mexico's 60-day legislative session. Local organizer Leland Lehrman is confident it can be done.
More information: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/nm
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FPF & CDT Release Best Practices for Mobile App Developers
December 21, 2011 | FPF Staff
Today, the Future of Privacy Forum and the Center for Democracy & Technology publicly released a beta version of their "Best Practices for Mobile Applications Developers." We have been working on this guidance over the past year in consultation with stakeholders from industry and civil society, both in the United States and abroad. We hope that this document can serve as a primer for developers who are interested in preserving their customers' privacy but who aren't necessarily privacy experts themselves.
We started on this project because of heightened privacy issues in the mobile environment. Application developers can access a considerably broader range of information about users than traditional web developers. Last year, the Wall Street Journal reported that of the top 101 apps, most were transmitting personal information about users, such as unique device identifiers, age, gender, and precise geo-location information to third parties. Research from the Future of Privacy Forum has shown that even in the most popular applications, less than half have privacy policies detailing what they do with customer data.
The best practices are based on long-established privacy principles that we believe should apply to everyone who collects and processes individual information, not just mobile developers. Among the recommendations that we make to developers are:
Be completely transparent about how you are using or transmitting customer data
Don't access more data than you need, and get rid of old data
Give your customers control over uses that users might not expect
Use reasonable and up-to-date security protocols to safeguard data
As the app developer, you need to be responsible for thinking about privacy, and taking privacy into consideration during the various stages of your app life cycle
This is not a final pronouncement on our view as to what app developer best practices are. We're soliciting public comment on this draft — if you have feedback, please send your thoughts to [email protected]
Also, check out the survey we released yesterday finding that Free Mobile Apps are Better than Paid on Privacy Policies.


The DP-PMI Day is a one-day workshop devoted to expose and discuss the research topics and work being developed in the Doctoral Programme in the Physics and Mathematics of Information: Foundations of Future Information Technologies (DP-PMI) at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), in the University of Lisbon, Portugal.
The workshop is constituted by invited talks and by talks by DP-PMI students enrolled in the different doctoral degrees associated with the DP-PMI, namely the doctoral degrees in Physics (PDF), in Technological Physics Engineering (PDEFT), in Information Security (PDInfoSec) and in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PDEEC).
Place: Room P12, second floor of the Mathematics Building, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon.
To participate in the DP-PMI Day, please register online by Friday 22 May 2015: DP-PMI Day registration form.
Registration is free and open to anyone interested, but subject to available places.
See here the abstracts of the talks of the DP-PMI Day 2015.


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Home Editor's Pick Gotabaya takes oaths as Sri Lanka's 7th Executive President
Gotabaya takes oaths as Sri Lanka's 7th Executive President
Gotabaya Rajapaksa took oaths as Sri Lanka's 7th Executive President in Anuradhapura today.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was among those who attended the swearing in ceremony.
The Elections Commission yesterday declared Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the new President.
Elections Commission Chairman Mahinda Deshapriya announced that Rajapaksa secured the highest number of votes and was elected President.
He said that the overall voter turnout at the election was around 83.73 percent.
Deshapriya said that Rajapaksa had secured 52% percent of the total votes which was 6,924,255.
He appealed to Rajapaksa to ensure the democratic process of holding elections on time is followed.
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CERN Update: 'Bombshell' in the Cosmic Ray Data
By Bryan Preston Jul 20, 2011 4:15 PM ET
Very, very interesting.
In 2007, when Fred Singer and I published Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1,500 Years, we weren't terribly concerned with cosmic rays. We knew the natural, moderate warming/cooling cycle was real, from the evidence in ice cores, seabed sediments, fossil pollen and cave stalagmites. The cycle was the big factor that belied the man-made warming hysteria of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change .
When Willi Dansgaard and Hans Oeschger discovered the 1,500 year cycle in the Greenland ice cores in 1984, they knew immediately that it was solar-powered. They'd seen exactly the same cycle in the carbon 14 molecules in trees, and in the beryllium 10 molecules in ice cores. Both sets of molecules are formed when cosmic rays strike our atmosphere. The cycle had produced a whole series of dramatic, abrupt Medieval-Warming-to-Little-Ice-Age climate changes.
The IPCC, for its part, announced that the sun could not be the forcing factor in any major climate change because the solar irradiation was too small. IPCC did not, however, add up the other solar variations that could amplify the solar irradiation. Nor had the IPCC programmed its famed computer models with the knowledge of the Medieval Warming (950–1200 AD), the Roman Warming (200 BC–600 AD), or the big Holocene Warmings centered on 6,000 and 8,000 BC.
I quoted that mainly to set up who the writer is. He's a scientist, doing fundamental science. Here's his take on why CERN gagged its scientists:
Svensmark noted the gigantic "solar wind" that expands when the sun is active—and thus blocks many of the cosmic rays that would otherwise hit the earth's atmosphere. When the sun weakens, the solar wind shrinks. Recently, the U.S. Solar Observatory reported a very long period of "quiet sun" and predicted 30 years of cooling.
Last year, Denmark's University of Aarhus did another experiment with a particle accelerator that fully confirmed the Svensmark hypothesis: cosmic rays help to make more clouds and thus could cool the earth.
The CERN experiment is supposed to be the big test of the Svensmark theory. It's a tipoff, then, that CERN's boss, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, has just told the German magazine Die Welt that he has forbidden his researchers to "interpret" the forthcoming test results. In other words, the CERN report will be a stark "just the facts" listing of the findings. Those findings must support Svensmark, or Heuer would never have issued such a stifling order on a major experiment.
In gagging its scientists, CERN is behaving in a way that is fundamentally anti-science.
The idea, by the way, that the solar cycle should not be taken into account when doing any climate research is absurd. The sun is a variable star. If we were looking at it from outside our solar system across a long time span, we would see its variations the way we see variations in distant stars. Those variations are bound to have an impact on the third planet from it. It's unavoidable. But it's also apolitical. And that's why the IPCC and other AGW hangers on stubbornly resist factoring its cycles into any climate change discussion. It's not politically useful, and in fact hurts their cause. Which, based on the way CERN is behaving, isn't really about science.


A research paper presented at Yale University reports that the financial world's incumbent classification system, GICS, is inherently flawed, as it omits material sustainability factors. At the other end of the spectrum, the SICS classification system created by the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) is faulty in that it overemphasizes sustainability metrics in comparison to traditional financial metrics.
Richmond Global Compass Fund's Chief Investment Officer Decio Nascimento presented the paper entitled "Industry Classification and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Standards" at Yale University's Initiative on Sustainable Finance Symposium 2018 on the State of ESG Disclosure Standards on November 2, 2018.
Richmond Global Compass concluded that integrating the two systems by overlaying SICS industry groups over those of GICS creates a more accurate classification system, one that significantly decreases the correlations between different sectors. This result is impactful as it demonstrates that a reliance on either inferior system misrepresents certain risk factors within a manager's portfolio, and thus, could be a breach of fidicuary duty.
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Community Shuttle
The Chobham Shuttle peak-hours minibus service to Woking Station was a collaborative venture between Surrey County Council, Woking Community Transport and Chobham Community Interest Company. Chobham CIC was established to commission minibus and driver services from Woking Community Transport and the County Council funded its launch. The Shuttle began operating in May 2008 and, by July 2009, 150 households had registered to use the service. It was carrying ~150 passengers per week and was approaching self-sustainability. The planning, launch and day-to-day management of the service were coordinated by a dedicated working group of community volunteers.
However, at the end of July 2009 and despite its operational success, the minibus costs were substantially increased. This coincided with stringent cost-cutting measures in the County Council (caused by the national economic crisis) and they were unable to offer further support to offset the sudden increase in costs. Chobham CIC raised sufficient funding (most notably, from Woking Borough Council) to operate the service for several more months. Sadly, the economic climate and pressure on public funding militated against its continued operation and the Shuttle was closed at the end of November 2009, having carried ~10,000 passengers.
While it operated, patronage and customer satisfaction with the Shuttle service was very high and it was a sad loss to the whole community when it stopped running. (Its closure also put another twenty cars on our local roads every day, adding to traffic congestion and carbon emissions).
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This course covers key areas of using digital technologies in manufacturing/operations environment and provides a foundation to Industrial Internet of Thing (IoT). Participants will acquire knowledge necessary for remote monitoring and control of manufacturing facilities through experiential learning.
This course introduces applications of IoT systems in the area of monitoring and control. Participants will understand how different technologies, such as sensors, microcontroller, cloud, data analytic and mobile apps, are applied in an IoT system. The experiences allow them to explore possible IoT applications to enhance existing system features or designing a new system.
The course aims to reach a target audience of Manufacturing, Maintenance Engineers / Technicians or anyone who wants to understand how digital technologies and Industrial IoT system apply at their workplace.


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Approximately 80km will be covered over a course that brings together the best of all that the host region has to offer. Solo racers and teams of two or four will pass through a series of checkpoints featuring both marked and unmarked sections, with options for strategizing their route choice to maximize speed and efficiency. Finish times typically range anywhere between six to nine hours.
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