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My Younger Sister is the Same Age as I Am, Again
Posted on November 2, 2020 by HB Auld, Jr.
by HB Auld, Jr.
My sister, Jeri Lynn (Auld) Harness caught up with me yesterday and for these four days out of each year, we are the same age. She was born on November 1st, four days before my first birthday on November 5th.
We kid each other about being the same age every year during these four days. That makes us what is referred to as "Irish Twins," two siblings born within the same year.
Happy birthday, Shugga, my sweet Little Sister, wife, grandmother, and great-grandmother. Be well and have a blessed year.
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Amy Coney Barrett Becomes Newest Associate Justice
Posted on October 26, 2020 by HB Auld, Jr.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett was sworn in as the newest Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court tonight. Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, the longest-serving Justice on the current Court, administered the Oath of Office to Justice Barrett in front of her husband, Jesse, and a crowd of supporters in front of the White House tonight.
Justice Barrett will repeat the Oath of Office in a private ceremony Tuesday, October 27, 2020, at the Supreme Court. Court Chief Justice John Roberts will administer that private Oath.
Justice Barrett is known as an "originalist" in her defense of the US Constitution. She defines an originalist as: "Originalism is characterized by a commitment to two core principles. First, the meaning of the constitutional text is fixed at the time of its ratification. Second, the historical meaning of the text 'has legal significance and is authoritative in most circumstances.'"
Justice Barrett 's resume contains a long list of accomplishments, including attending Rhodes College in Tennessee where she majored in English Literature and French, graduating first in her law class at Notre Dame University, one year of service as a law clerk for the late Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, fifteen years as a law professor at her alma mater at Notre Dame, and three years as a Judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
The 48-year old jurist and her husband, Jesse Barrett, have seven children, including two children adopted from Haiti. Justice Barrett comes from a large family, herself. She is the eldest of seven children, with five sisters and one brother. Her family is devoutly Catholic. Her father has served as an Ordained Deacon for 38 years. She is of French descent and grew up outside of New Orleans, LA, in the suburb of Metairie.
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Happy Birthday to the USS Constitution: Old Ironsides!
By Guest Author, Tara Ross
On this day in 1797, Old Ironsides is launched!
"Old Ironsides" is the nickname that was given to the USS Constitution, one of the first six frigates built for the U.S. Navy during the early years of our country. Initially, the frigate was used in the Quasi War with France and the Barbary Wars, but it is perhaps most famous for its performance during the War of 1812.
USS Constitution defeated four English warships.
A former captain of USS Constitution, Tyrone G. Martin, later wrote a history of the ship. He describes the effect of these victories: "The losses suffered by the Royal Navy were no more than pinpricks to that great fleet: They neither impaired its battle readiness nor disrupted the blockade of American ports. . . . What Constitution and her sister [ship] did accomplish was to uplift American morale spectacularly and, in the process, end forever the myth that the Royal Navy was invincible."
The ship earned its nickname during a battle fought on August 19, 1812.
On that day, Constitution encountered HMS Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia. The two ships got within about 50 yards of each other and began firing their cannons. Constitution was causing great damage to the British ship, even as the British cannon balls were bouncing off the hard oak sides of Constitution. One of the American crewmen saw what was happening and was heard to yell: "Huzza! Her sides are made of iron!"
The nickname "Old Ironsides" was born!
The British surrendered roughly one hour after the attack began. Guerriere was badly damaged and had to be sunk after the battle. The British captain later reported: "The Guerriere was so cut up, that all attempts to get her in would have been useless. As soon as the wounded were got out of her, they set her on fire; and I feel it my duty to state that the conduct of [American] Captain Hull and his Officers to our Men has been that of a brave Enemy."
If the victory provided a psychological boost to Americans, it seems that it was equally demoralizing to the British. The London Times mournfully reported: "Never before in the history of the world did an English frigate strike to an American."
Old Ironsides has been preserved and can still be seen at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Massachusetts. It's well worth the visit.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Guest author, Tara Ross, is a mother, wife, writer, and retired lawyer. She is the author of The Indispensable Electoral College: How the Founders' Plan Saves Our Country from Mob Rule,Enlightened Democracy: The Case for the Electoral College, co-author of Under God: George Washington and the Question of Church and State (with Joseph C. Smith, Jr.), & We Elect A President: The Story of our Electoral College. She is a constitutionalist, but with a definite libertarian streak! Stay tuned here for updates on pretty much anything to do with the Electoral College, George Washington, & our wonderfully rich American heritage.
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Columbus Day: October 12, 2020
By Guest Author: Tara Ross
During this week in 1492, Christopher Columbus lands in the New World. Exactly 300 years later, New York City would hold the first Columbus Day celebration. More unofficial celebrations would follow, and the day finally became a federal holiday in the 1930s.
Since then, the holiday has become controversial—to say the least. Some people want to replace his holiday with an "Indigenous Peoples' Day." Others want to tear down Columbus statutes, labeling them a "symbol of hate." But do you know how and why we started celebrating Columbus Day in the first place?
It's impossible to understand Columbus Day unless you first step into the shoes of our Founders.
During America's early years, the country was looking for heroes. We'd just cut ourselves off from England and had thus lost much of that heritage. Obviously, we had heroes such as George Washington, but Americans wanted other heroes, too. Christopher Columbus was a natural choice. The Italian explorer had risked everything to make a dangerous trip across the Atlantic. He had no idea that he would find an entirely new continent, of course. He was on a mission to find a quicker route from Europe to Asia.
He never found Asia. Instead, he landed in the New World on October 12, 1492. He would make four voyages to the New World before his death in 1506.
Perhaps it is unsurprising that Columbus came to be admired by so many after the American Revolution? His daring spirit, sense of adventure, and his willingness to put everything on the line were understandably appealing to a generation that had just fought—and won—a war against the mighty British army and navy.
Over time, Columbus grew into an American icon. His name is all around us, although you've probably never really thought about it. Columbia University is named for him, as is South Carolina's capital. The Knights of Columbus adopted the name in remembrance of Columbus's Catholic roots. Perhaps most notably, the District of Columbia—Washington, D.C.—bears his name.
It's worth noting that those in the Italian community became especially proud of Columbus over the years. They were immigrants who hadn't always been treated well. But celebrations of Columbus became an opportunity, one historian writes, "for reminding Americans of the indissoluble and everlasting bonds uniting American and Italian histories."
Thus, to many people, the holiday took on a pro-immigrant meaning as well.
Obviously, Columbus was far from perfect, and modern Americans will debate the pros and cons of remembering his legacy. But perhaps it would help the dialogue to remember just what it was that our ancestors admired about him in the first place.
Ronald Reagan expressed this particular sentiment the best: "[Columbus] was a dreamer, a man of vision and courage, a man filled with hope for the future and with the determination to cast off for the unknown and sail into uncharted seas for the joy of finding whatever was there. Put it all together and you might say that Columbus was the inventor of the American dream."
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Texas Revolution Began 185 Years Ago Today
Posted on October 2, 2020 by HB Auld, Jr.
By Tara Ross, Guest Author
On this day (October 2nd) in 1835, the Texas Revolution begins! Did you know that the first battle was fought because Texans decided that the Mexicans would have to pull an old, small cannon out of their cold, dead hands?
Does that fact, alone, explain my home state?!
The Texas Revolution wasn't fought entirely over one old cannon, of course. That cannon was just the straw that broke the camel's back, prompting a skirmish that came to be known as the Battle of Gonzales.
In 1835, Texans (or "Texians") were concerned about the increasingly dictatorial Mexican government and its army. But the town of Gonzales found itself in the crossfire for a rather unexpected reason. It possessed one small cannon that had come from San Antonio de Béxar in 1831. Some thought the cannon was loaned, others thought it had been given. Either way, Gonzales felt that it needed the cannon to scare off local Indian tribes.
As tensions between the Mexican government and the Texians escalated, the Mexicans decided that Gonzales could not keep its cannon anymore. The given reason was that the cannon had been given only as a loan. But perhaps the real reason is that the government wanted to disarm citizens? Either way, town officials were notified that the cannon must be returned.
The alcalde, or mayor, of Gonzales called a town meeting and a vote was taken. All but three people agreed: Gonzales should keep its cannon!
Nevertheless, Mexican commander Francisco de Castañeda was sent to retrieve the cannon.
The Mexican force reached the Guadalupe River on September 29, but then it got stuck. Recent rains had made the river difficult to cross. Complicating matters, Texians had taken all the boats from Castañeda's side of the river. Eighteen Texians were now guarding the river on the other side. In the meantime, Gonzales was calling for help from nearby towns. Its citizens buried the cannon in a nearby peach orchard.
Come hell or high water, they were not giving up that cannon!
The Texians managed to stall for a while. Castañeda wanted to talk, but the Texians noted that the talks were more properly held with the alcalde, Andrew Ponton. (Surprise, surprise. He wasn't there.) Even when the Texians did engage in talks, they just shouted across the river at Castañeda. At one point, a single Mexican was allowed to swim back and forth with messages.
What a scene! Naturally, the delay mostly ensured that the Texians got reinforcements.
The stalemate continued until October 1, when Castañeda moved his men a few miles upriver. By now, the Texians were getting tired of the situation. They dug up the cannon and created shrapnel from anything they could find. They hauled the cannon across the river and approached the Mexican camp early on October 2. A thick fog hid them from view.
A few shots were exchanged during the early morning hours, but the more serious fighting began after sunrise. Naturally, the controversial cannon was brought into battle. The Texians had created a white flag, which waved proudly over the cannon.
You guessed it. The flag bore the words: "Come and Take It."
The fighting itself was more of a brief skirmish than a true battle. In the end, Castañeda quickly retreated because he thought his orders required him to do so before the conflict escalated into war. His retreat came too late. The Texas Revolution was on.
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Guest author, Tara Ross, is a mother, wife, writer, and retired lawyer. She is the author of The Indispensable Electoral College: How the Founders' Plan Saves Our Country from Mob Rule,Enlightened Democracy: The Case for the Electoral College, co-author of Under God: George Washington and the Question of Church and State (with Joseph C. Smith, Jr.), & We Elect A President: The Story of our Electoral College. She is a constitutionalist, but with a definite libertarian streak! Stay tuned here for updates on pretty much anything to do with the Electoral College, George Washington, & our wonderfully rich American heritage.
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75th Anniversary of the Surrender of Japan, Ending WWII
Posted on September 2, 2020 by HB Auld, Jr.
Today is the 75th anniversary of V-J Day, the day remembered as the Victory over Japan day and the effective end of World War II. War would not "officially" end until the Treaty of San Francisco, signed almost seven years later on April 28, 1952.
On September 2, 1945, members of the Supreme Allied Forces and the Government of Japan gathered on the teak deck of the USS MISSOURI (BB 63) to sign the formal declaration of surrender by the Japanese Empire. Hostilities leading to the United States' entrance into World War II had begun almost four years earlier with a surprise attack on naval forces at Pearl Harbor, HI. Now, the "Rising Sun" empire would cease the fighting in the Pacific and China, with the primary condition of surrender being the preservation of the life of Japanese Emperor Hirohito.
Japanese Foreign Minister Shigemitsu signed for the Japanese government, while Japanese General Umezu signed for the Japanese armed forces. General of the Armies Douglas MacArthur and Navy Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz signed for the United States. US Forces officers dressed in their daily khaki work uniforms for the auspicious ceremony. MacArthur is said to have ordered that he and his men would wear that working uniform, implying that this was just another "day at the office." On the bulkhead behind the signatories that day was the "Perry Flag," the US flag that flew over USS POWHATAN commanded by Commodore Matthew C. Perry on the first of his two expeditions to Japan in 1853, forcing the Japanese to open their country to trade with America.
That Perry flag was retrieved from the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, especially for the ceremony. Admiral Bull Halsey wanted the flag for the ceremony, so a young naval officer, LT. John K. Bremyer, was tasked with rushing it 9,000 miles in record time from Annapolis to the Pacific. He was told to "get there any way you can" and that he did, hitching rides and going without sleep and sometimes meals as he traveled on his mission. He carried the flag in a box inside a courier bag and he slept with it, ate with it, even carried it to the bathroom with him, never letting it out of his sight. He held a Top Secret Clearance and was a member of the elite Courier Force whose job it was to ferry documents in military wartime. God bless LT John K. Bremyer.
My dad, HB Auld, Sr., fought in the Pacific in New Guinea; my father-in-law, JB Kattes, served in Alaska; and my uncle, Ross Wilton Hargis, was a pilot in Germany…all during World War II. Truly, they were members of The Greatest Generation.
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Today is the 56th Anniversary of the Capture of the First Prisoner of War in Viet Nam
Posted on August 11, 2020 by HB Auld, Jr.
On this day in 1964, a U.S. Navy pilot arrives at the soon-to-be-infamous "Hanoi Hilton." LTJG Everett Alvarez, Jr. would spend a stunning 3,113 days in captivity, making him one of America's longest-held POWs.
Alvarez's troubles began on August 5. His plane took a hit during a bombing run, and he was forced to bail out. Mere minutes later, he was captured by Vietnamese fishermen.
Alvarez found himself in a rather tricky situation. Was he a prisoner-of-war with all the protections of that status? The North Vietnamese claimed that he was only a common criminal. (War had not been declared.) Similarly, how should he answer questions? At first, Alvarez gave only his name, rank, and serial number. But he soon realized that Vietnamese authorities had information obtained from the American media. How did that change what he could or couldn't say?
For months, Alvarez had nothing to rely upon except his own wits. There wasn't even another American POW around. He was barely surviving in a small cell on a starvation diet.
"Sometimes I lifted the cover off a plate and found a chicken head floating in grease," he wrote, "or in a slimy stew or soup smelling of drainwater. At other times an animal hoof . . . . More than once a blackbird lay feet up on the plate, its head and feathers intact and the eyes open."
Alvarez implemented strategies to sustain himself. He scratched a cross into a wall and hosted his own Catholic Mass. He etched the passage of time on walls. He did complex math problems and played chess against himself, just to keep his brain working. He had daily cleaning rituals, which (sort of) warded off the cat-sized rats that roamed around.
Other POWs began to arrive in 1965.
Their arrival made Alvarez's life better—and worse. On one hand, he had companionship. The men developed a tap code that worked through walls. Their communications system, Alvarez would say, "became our lifeline . . . . It fueled our morale and stiffened our backbone. Above all, it kept us informed . . . . To be forewarned was to be forearmed."
On the other hand, interrogations got a lot worse.
The North Vietnamese wanted letters and recordings for propaganda purposes. Americans were tortured if they refused to cooperate. On one occasion, Alvarez was told to write an apology. His arms were contorted and painfully bound until he finally complied. "For the first time in my life," he later wrote, "I felt sheer hatred . . . . It took a few hours before I could hold the pencil and when I did, my writing looked like a drunkard's scrawl. . . . I took pains to misspell words to make the confession as phony as possible."
The arm torture left the skin on Alvarez's hands deadened and black. Natural color didn't return for two years.
On another occasion, Americans were marched through a frenzied crowd. They'd been tethered to each other, defenseless, as the mob madly beat and kicked them. "Our emaciated bodies, lacking nutrition, sunlight and exercise for so long, were ill-equipped to withstand this kind of ordeal," Alvarez concluded.
The treatment of prisoners improved, but not until after Ho Chi Minh died in 1969. Finally, in 1973, the POWs were released.
Alvarez had been a captive since the very beginning—but he'd also been a pillar of strength for everyone else. "[A]ll the POWs, looked up to Ev," one said. "He was one of those optimists who always thought we would get out the next day."
Unfortunately, homecomings weren't always so rosy. For Alvarez, the difficult news concerned his wife. During his absence, she obtained a divorce—and a baby with a new husband.
Fortunately, this hero's story has a happy ending: Alvarez remarried, earned graduate degrees, and founded a wildly successful company.
Author's Note: If you enjoy these history posts, please see my note below.
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The 75th Anniversary of the Bombing of Hiroshima, Japan
Posted on August 6, 2020 by HB Auld, Jr.
On this day in 1945, Americans drop an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bombing came not too long after Japan had rejected a final opportunity to surrender.
The so-called Potsdam Declaration was issued through a combined statement of the United States, Great Britain, and China.
"The time has come," these Allies declared, "for Japan to decide whether she will continue to be controlled by those self-willed militaristic advisers whose unintelligent calculations have brought the Empire of Japan to the threshold of annihilation, or whether she will follow the path of reason."
Unconditional surrender was necessary. The alternative was "prompt and utter destruction."
Japan rejected the ultimatum. Presumably, no one in Japan really knew what was coming. But you have to wonder whether anyone in America truly understood what was coming, either?
Captain William Parsons of the Manhattan Project briefed the crew of the Enola Gay (and others) before they departed on their historic mission: "The bomb you are going to drop," he told them, "is something new in the history of warfare. It is the most destructive weapon ever produced. We think it will knock out everything within a three mile area."
Well, yes, it did. But it also shattered glass in suburbs that were twelve miles away from the detonation site.
Later that day, President Harry S. Truman made a statement:
"The Japanese began the war from the air at Pearl Harbor. . . . We are now prepared to obliterate . . . every productive enterprise the Japanese have above ground in any city," he stated. "We shall destroy their docks, their factories, and their communications. Let there be no mistake; we shall completely destroy Japan's power to make war."
Unfortunately, the Japanese did not surrender that day. A second bomb would be dropped on Nagasaki mere days later.
It was a hard day in world history, but it was also the beginning of the end of World War II.
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The Anniversary of the Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
Posted on July 2, 2020 by HB Auld, Jr.
Today marks the 83rd anniversary of the disappearance of the late famed aviatrix, Amelia Earhart.
Amelia Earhart had already flown solo across the Atlantic Ocean as the first female to do so in 1932. She and her navigator, Fred Noonan, then set out in 1937 to fly around the world, island-hopping into the history books. They were near the end of their journey when they took off on July 2, 1937, from Lae, New Guinea. Their intended next stop on their around-the-world flights was Howland Island in the Pacific. From there it would be on to Hawaii and then the United States where they began their eastward trip. They never made it to Howland Island, although their radio transmisions were heard on board the USCG Cutter ITASCA, listening for them at Howland Island.
What REALLY happened to Earhart, Noonan, and their Lockheed Electra 10E aircraft, NR 16020, has been the subject of hundreds of books and sheer speculation since they flew into history and disappeared over the Pacific.
In my opinion, the very best book on Amelia Earhart's final flight is Amelia Earhart: The Truth At Last, written by former Navy Journalist and Air Force Civilian writer Mike Campbell. Mike is the author of three books on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan. He is a member of Amelia Earhart associations and has spoken to aviation groups throughout the US, including "The 99s," an association of female pilots founded by Amelia Earhart herself. His most recent book, Amelia Earhart: The Truth At Last (Second Edition) is consistently among the top five of more than 1,000 books on Amelia Earhart on Amazon each month.
I first met Mike in the mid-1980s when he was a JO2 (Navy Journalist Second Class), assigned to a national Navy news service in Washington, DC. Later, we worked together as Writer/Editors at Naval Recruiting Command in DC. We have been great friends for more than 30 years. In 1988, Mike was assigned to write a feature on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart for the Navy news service. His exhaustive investigation of that subject for his article introduced him to the late Thomas E. Devine, a former Army Postal Clerk who had served on Saipan in World War II.
Devine was convinced that Earhart crashed in the Marshall Islands in 1937 on her way to Howland. She and Noonan were subsequently captured by the Japanese and transferred to Saipan where she was imprisoned at Garapan Prison and later executed and buried on Saipan. Devine had interviewed countless Saipanese who were live eyewitnesses to Earhart and Noonan's capture and execution there. Out of that friendship grew Mike and Thomas E. Devine's first co-authorship of the book, With Our Own Eyes, (Eyewitnesses to the final days of Amelia Earhart). With that friendship, Mike was hooked and has spent the past 32 years continuing Devine and his quest to prove what really happened to Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan.
In the now Second Edition of his more than 450-page Amelia Earhart book, Mike delves into the detailed eyewitness accounts and interviews with others notables. He digs into famed radio investigative journalist Fred Goerner's book, The Search for Amelia Earhart, which quotes interviews with three US military flag officers, including Fleet Admiral Chester A. Nimitz, and a US Marine Corps Commandant. Mike's book contains hundreds of footnotes, several Appendices of declassified naval messages, a complete Bibliography, and a detailed Index. In short, this is NOT a rip-snorting, thrill-a-minute, action-packed account of an exciting flight, but a well-researched, historical scholarly narrative of what really happened on the flight. Along the way, Mike debunks the other myths and legends out there about the aviators disappearance, including the "crash and burn" in the ocean, the "captured as a spy and flown to the Japan mainland where she was eventually released and lived out her life in obscurity in New Jersey" theory, and the well-publicized trips by an aviation group who makes annual excursions to another Pacific Island, searching for non-existent artifacts in the wrong place.
l highly recommend Mike's book, Amelia Earhart: The Truth At Last, (Second Edition) available from Amazon. It is the definitive work on what really happened to this famous aviation pioneer and her navigator who flew into history 83 years ago today.
Mike Campbell's WordPress Amelia Earhart blog:
https://earharttruth.wordpress.com/
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The Siege of Gettysburg
By Guest Writer Tara Ross
On this day in 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg begins. Our nation should have been celebrating its 87th birthday that week. Instead, we were engaged in a brutal, 3-day battle that would end with as many as 51,000 dead or wounded.
At the time, Confederate General Robert E. Lee was fresh off a victory at the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia. He decided to head to Pennsylvania, with the intent of collecting more supplies. He also had another goal: Some northerners wanted out of the war. Perhaps he could encourage that sentiment by moving the fight to their own backyards.
In the meantime, newly appointed Major General George Meade led the Union army toward Lee's troops. The two sides ended up clashing in Gettysburg when Confederate infantry ran into some Union cavalry, more or less by chance. The situation quickly took a serious tone, because Union commanders did not want to lose the town. Many roads converged there.
More reinforcements arrived that evening. The fighting that had begun on July 1 continued into a second day. Then it continued into a third day. The battle finally swung decisively in favor of the Union army when the Confederate army launched an attack at the center of the Union lines. At least 12,000 Confederate soldiers marched across an open field in the attack known as Pickett's charge. That attack lasted about an hour and ended miserably for the Confederate side. Half of the Confederate soldiers were lost, and the army soon began a hasty retreat toward Virginia.
Meade declined to pursue Lee, perhaps echoing the mistake that Ewell had made two days earlier. Some speculate that Meade could have ended the war then and there, if only he had taken up the pursuit. Abraham Lincoln certainly thought so. He wrote a letter to Meade (although he never sent it).
Lincoln wrote: "Again, my dear general, I do not believe you appreciate the magnitude of the misfortune involved in Lee's escape—He was within your easy grasp, and to have closed upon him would, in connection with our other late successes, have ended the war—As it is, the war will be prolonged indefinitely."
The aftermath of the battle was gruesome. One teenage girl, a resident of Gettysburg, later recounted what she saw:
"I fairly shrank back aghast at the awful sight presented. The approaches were crowded with wounded, dying and dead. The air was filled with moanings, and groanings. . . . [A]mputating benches had been placed about the house. I must have become inured to seeing the terrors of battle, else I could hardly have gazed upon the scenes now presented. . . . To the south of the house, and just outside of the yard, I noticed a pile of limbs higher than the fence. It was a ghastly sight! Gazing upon these, too often the trophies of the amputating bench, I could have no other feeling, than that the whole scene was one of cruel butchery."
Only a few months later, the Gettysburg Address would be given on this battlefield. "The brave men," Lincoln stated, "living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. . . . we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
It's a resolve that bears repeating, isn't it?
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St. Nicholas Primary, located in the heart of busy Harpenden, staff and pupils are aware that Mindfulness is a valuable tool that can help us. It is used to help pupils deal with any anxiety, encourage them to be calm as they work and lead them to reflect on their achievements at the end of a busy day of learning. Lucy Mortimer, class teacher and mindfulness coach, first introduced this approach at St Nicholas three years ago and now leads the school's mindfulness programme. All Children from Reception to Year 6 participate in a Mindfulness session daily where they develop a positive sense of self and their ability to focus.
During the school year, our pupils complete a self-survey – the Child Your Resilience Measure questionnaire – which enables staff to measure the benefit of using Mindfulness and other well-being strategies.
"It helps you to concentrate and stop thinking about what's happened, what's going to happen because you are just in the moment. Before SATs, we do our mindfulness exercises, it stops us worrying and help us feel calmer about what's coming up. I found it really helpful," said Evie.
"I was very nervous about SATs but the mindfulness helped me to focus and let out all my worries. I feel like I was very calm and relaxed doing my tests because we did mindfulness before", said William.
"Mindfulness really helped me with my SATs. I did mindfulness before and during my SATs and it helped me to believe in myself. After I have done my SATS, I felt proud that I have achieved so much more than if I didn't do a mindfulness exercise," said Rachel.
"I think mindfulness is good because you can using it in a tricky situation like stressing about SATs. We can just sit back and take a few breaths to calm down and to carry on. Then we can concentrate and understand what is happening around us in the world," said Edward.
This Mindfulness approach has created a calm and focused environment during SATs week as the children had a few weeks of one hour's worth of participating in various exercises. Scientific research shows the strong link between emotional strength and academic performance. The outstanding results achieved by pupils at St Nicholas school are a testament to the success of this approach. The school has also been ranked 1st in Hertfordshire by The Times Top Primary Schools League Tables 2018.


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Lobservatoire d'Iso-Heikkilä () est un observatoire astronomique amateur situé dans le quartier d'Iso-Heikkilä à Turku en Finlande. Il fut exploité par l'Université de Turku de 1937 à 1972. Depuis, il est utilisé par la division locale de l'Association astronomique Ursa.

L'astéroïde (1947) Iso-Heikkilä a été nommé d'après la structure.

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'Craven' Labour has given Tories free ride over Brexit – by Charles Clarke
Published on 14 June 2018 10 June 2020 by Park Street Partners
Former Home Secretary Charles Clarke, a good friend of Park Street Partners, wrote a blog prior to the 2017 General Election for the New European and The UK in a Changing Europe site on the failure of Labour to set out an alternative and positive vision for Brexit, and so shape the Government's approach. It remains extremely relevant today so, with Charles's permission, it is republished below.
Labour's confusion and incoherence in response to the EU referendum, eight months ago, has given the Conservatives a free ride. It must not go on.
Labour's starting point should be to accept the referendum decision for what it was, and not for what it was not.
It was a narrow but clear vote to leave the European Union. It was not a vote about how we should leave, or about what the UK's new relationship with the EU should be. This important distinction has been insufficiently emphasized and needs to be properly understood.
From the Prime Minister's speech last October at the Conservative Party conference she and her media cheerleaders have tried to bully the rest of us into accepting that their approach to Brexit is what people voted for last June. She asserts that no alternative can be contemplated. At a difficult time she has behaved divisively rather than as a national leader, for example by seeking a common approach across Parliament.
Unfortunately Labour's lack of any clear alternative has allowed her unfounded claim to become accepted. It is beyond time for Labour to submit the Government's approach to detailed and rigorous scrutiny, to challenge them at every turn and, most important of all, to put forward the realistic alternative which Labour would be following were it in government today.
Labour should not be colluding with government proposals, or even simply opposing from time to time. Labour has to make its own compelling case for the future. It must lead the national debate not follow it.
The Government's approach is easy to summarize. It believes that, in order to try and reduce immigration from the European Union, the UK should leave the single market and the customs union, accepting whatever economic and constitutional damage that causes.
This plan is based on the manifest illusion that the economic benefits of any UK trade agreements outside the EU will exceed whatever the UK will lose. Moreover it risks the security of Northern Ireland whilst encouraging the Scottish National Party's drive to independence.
And, whatever their attitudes to immigration, the British people never voted for such an economically suicidal approach which threatens the constitutional integrity of our country.
Despite important differences of opinion, notably around immigration, Labour is in a much better position to put forward an agreed alternative Brexit strategy than many seem to think. And Labour's victory in Stoke should reduce fears that UKIP is an existential threat to Labour.
We have more in common than divides us: the UK should remain part of both the European single market and the Customs Union; we should remain part of the European scientific and research networks; we should retain co-operation in security and European external policy; we would be happy to dump the Common Agricultural and Common Fisheries Policies.
And on the vexed and tricky matter of immigration, there is general agreement that EU citizens should be able to come to the UK if they have a place to study or a confirmed job, particularly in the farms and factories which need the workers. There is no desire to abandon our legal obligations to genuine asylum-seekers. There might even be agreement to look again at identity cards, which Labour introduced in 2006, to offer reassurance that we can properly control immigration.
And of course over the next year or so the policy landscape on immigration in other EU countries will change. In addition the Conservative position is badly damaged by Theresa May's hopeless failure to control immigration during her 6 years as Home Secretary and by recent Tory Cabinet ministers' admissions that the country will continue to need significant numbers of migrant workers. And any country making a new post Brexit trade agreement will require freedom of movement for their citizens to the UK.
This should be Labour's independent Brexit strategy. Labour should not be frustrating the referendum decision but nor should it be assisting the government's highly divisive and damaging version of Brexit.
Such a Labour approach would be in the national interest. It would be realistic and coherent. It would gain support from outside Labour ranks and it would honour the outcome of the referendum more faithfully than the Government's current approach. It would better reflect the overall views of the population.
Such a strategy would also be far more likely to secure orderly agreement with the other 27 EU member states. The government's proposals, which are based on a series of fantasies, are getting little support, or even understanding, from our negotiating partners.
And finally Labour would not need to resort to Theresa May and Philip Hammond's incredible threat to impose 'Singapore-style' economic reforms which could never be implemented in this country.
So on any reasonable assessment, such a Labour Brexit strategy would be superior to the government proposals and would better implement the decision of the referendum.
The incoherence and riskiness of the Government's approach has led them to try and avoid all parliamentary approval of their approach. The Supreme Court predictably forced them to legislate before sending the Article 50 letter.
That Supreme Court decision is likely also to mean that new legislation will be needed after the negotiations are complete in order to authorize any final agreement between the UK and the EU, or indeed to withdraw from the EU if there is no agreement.
The former Deputy President of the Supreme Court, Lord Hope of Craighead, made this clear in a little-noticed intervention in the House of Lords. He was endorsed by the former Conservative Lord Chancellor, Lord Mackay of Clashfern, the drafter of Article 50, Lord Kerr of Kinlochard and Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet Secretary, Lord Armstrong of Ilminster.
So the despatch of the Article 50 letter will by no means end parliamentary engagement with the Brexit process.
Labour must vigorously press its approach at all stages, including throughout the negotiations – there will be a running commentary despite the Government's desire for secrecy – and through the final legislation.
It must be absolutely clear that it will support an exit from the EU which honours the Labour approach but it will rigorously oppose an exit which does not.
Such a clear approach should have meant that Labour supported the Second Reading of the Withdrawal from the European Union (Article 50) Bill, thus formally accepting the outcome of the Referendum; but voted against at Third Reading unless the Bill then included clear amendments reflecting Labour's position. The passionately held positions of individual MPs should have been respected by using a 2-line rather than 3-line whip.
And Labour should never, disgracefully, have whipped its peers to vote against amendments requiring the UK to stay in the Single Market.
In short Labour was absolutely wrong to submit cravenly to the government's contention that its Brexit strategy was the only possible way to implement the referendum vote.
Labour should truthfully explain that its position is to support implementation of the referendum result but only if it is done in a way which minimizes the damage to the country.
Finally Labour needs to consider its attitude if public opinion were to change, as the consequences become increasingly apparent.
Doubts about the competence of the Conservatives' Brexit approach are likely to grow. At the same time the new economic and political realities of Brexit will replace predictions. Theresa May's pathetic wooing of "America First" Donald Trump, in the vain hope of a trade deal, may well become increasingly unpopular.
It is thus entirely possible that, once the implications of Brexit are revealed, public opinion about the desirability of leaving the European Union will shift.
The British people would certainly have the right to change their minds. They could express that view through either of the two legitimate sources of popular authority – a second referendum or a general election on the basis of clear manifesto commitments.
In such circumstances Labour would certainly have the right to consider including in its 2020 General Election manifesto a pledge to remain in the European Union.
I do not expect this to happen but everything will depend on the attitudes of the people of this country as the consequences touch their day-to-day lives.
At this momentous period in British history Labour cannot walk by on the other side. If it did it would fully deserve to play no part in the future of country.
It's time to engage fully in this vital national debate.
By Rt Hon Charles Clarke, former Home Secretary under the Labour government. This piece originally featured in the New European.
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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Thursday disclosed that broadband penetration in the country has reached 30.9 per cent, thus surpassing the 30 per cent broadband penetration target by a margin of 0.9 per cent.
Quoting the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), NCC informed that contributions of telecommunications and information services to GDP from the first quarter (Q1) to Q3 2018 was N4.7 trillion.
It however, put the Q3, 2018 GDP contribution at N1.5 trillion.
NCC said the telecommunications and Information services sector grew by 14.7 per cent from Q1, 2017 – Q3, 2018.
Nigeria had through her five-year National Broadband Plan (2013-2018), which was released in 2013, targeted 30 per cent broadband penetration by December 31, 2018, but as at 2017, the country was able to attain 21 per cent penetration.
As at 2013, when the National Broadband Plan was released, the broadband penetration was at six per cent, but the NCC, through its Executive Vice Chairman, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, came up with eight-point agenda, which focused more on achieving deeper broadband penetration in the country.
NCC, which disclosed the new broadband figure in a document titled Key Statistics in the Telecom Industry as at November, said active voice subscriber base grew from 165,239,443 in October 2018 to 169,104,830 in November 2018.
NCC also put internet subscription at 108.8 million, up from 107.5 million within the months under review.
Danbatta had earlier said one of the challenges that confronted the successful implementation of the National Broadband Plan (NBP) was the inability of other government agencies to drive the plan.
He however, used the opportunity to call on other agencies like the National Information Technology Development Agencies; Galaxy Backbone, among others to drive the initiative.
The commission revealed that total active broadband subscription on 3G and 4G platforms as November was 58,965,478.


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Posted: Jan 16, 2020 / 12:32 PM CST / Updated: Jan 16, 2020 / 12:32 PM CST
WASHINGTON (AP) — AP sources: In policy shift, FBI commits to informing states about breaches of local election systems.
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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg made a pitch to African American voters the day before the national holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr., visiting a black church in Tulsa, the site of a race massacre nearly 100 years ago that left hundreds dead and the city's thriving African American community in rubble.
The former New York City mayor spoke out against racial income inequality and outlined an economic proposal aimed at increasing the number of black-owned homes and businesses. The plan includes a $70 billion investment in the nation's most disadvantaged neighborhoods.
Candidates seek new caucus voters in trailer parks, rallies
by THOMAS BEAUMONT, Associated Press / Jan 19, 2020
OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) — Bernie Sanders is sending organizers to convenience stores across Iowa and staking out drug stores and even nursing homes.
Pete Buttigieg has a more technocratic model. He's compiling detailed lists of the personal networks of his supporters, turning them into crowds and sifting through the hundreds of email addresses and cell numbers in hopes of landing them on caucus night Feb. 3.
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Soup Joumou/ Pumpkin Soup
Soup Joumou/Pumpkin Soup is a radiant golden yellow soup eaten on January 1st to commemorate Haiti's Independence day. This delicious one pot meal makes the official end of slavery in Haiti a Thanksgiving Day Celebration. By legend, the soup was made popular on Independence Day in 1804 when all over the island, people shared this great meal symbolic of freedom and moral fortitude.
The soup is rich in nutrients. It contains essential minerals and vitamins. Such a fortifying meal could only be enjoyed when we obtained the freedom to nourish ourselves away from French oversight.* Today, much of the pain of slavery has been forgotten, but the joy of breaking those chains has been passed down in every Haitian family through an unbroken link. Every generation has shared with the next the joy of having the symbolic Soup Joumou on Independence Day.
Every New Year we celebrate the courage of our Ancestors. The freedom they secured for us glows like magnificent sunshine. Like the sun, joumou is round and its pulp is golden yellow. It is good for you as it is rich in vitamins A, C and E. The ingredients added to it enrich it further with proteins, carbohydrates and fats to make it a more complete meal. The added spices make it delicious and good for one's spirit. It is a Haitian Soul Food.
Our fore-parents who left us this symbolic meal were well grounded in their belief that freedom was their innate right. They felt linked to the Native Taino who suffered a fate much like their own. In tribute to these former custodians of the land, they selected joumou, a plant native to Haiti to show that we are united with those who preceded us in their aspiration to live freely. Joumou is a vine that grows on the ground and represents the fruit of the land, a land that would call us: chè mèt, chè metrès. In our sharing Soup Joumou, we are able to celebrate our aspirations while not forgetting how we came to inherit this great land.
The use of joumou on Independence day connects us ideologically to the Tainos but how the soup is prepared links us with the people of Ginen who used to prepare similar one pot meals. Our foreparents brought their cultural cooking style to Haiti and applied it to their new circumstances. Our Bouyon Samdi, the American Gumbo and the Caribbean Pepper Pot Soup are but a few examples of one pot meals derived from West African Cuisine.
Soup Joumou arises from our cultural heritage and is symbolic of our everlasting hope for a bright and radiant future. The food is nutritious and delicious making it contrast starkly with the unpalatable foods that our foreparents were given, just so that they could survive a few sugar cane and coffee harvests. Independence brought us life and Soup Joumou is symbolic of that.
Enjoy a bowl of Soup Joumou, share the hope for a brighter future, and pass it on.
*While it is true that enslaved Africans were poorly fed, there is no evidence that the French ever forbade Africans from drinking Soup Joumou or from eating any other foods. It is a misconception to suggest that it was a meal reserved for colonists. Soup Joumou was not copied from the French. It is an African style meal made in Haiti and not derived from French Cuisine.


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Thulvald Axe-Head: I can't believe this is happening to me.
Hero: What seems to be the problem?
Thulvald Axe-Head: The better question is, what isn't the problem? I've got missing equipment, trolls, a spriggan infestation, woodcutters who refuse to work—it's a disaster! I'm sorry, I'm a bit upset. My lumber camp is ruined. Ruined!
Thulvald Axe-Head: Really? When we tried to enter the camp, we were besieged by trolls! My trusty clerk Eginir volunteered to sneak in and find my logging chief, Jafelma. He hasn't returned and I'm worried about him. If you could help, I'll pay you for your trouble.
Hero: I'll find your missing clerk.
Thulvald Axe-Head: Jafelma comes from this part of the forest. Knows it like the back of her hand. I figured she'd be able to deal with the ghost stories. But trolls! How does anyone deal with a herd of trolls? There's so many of them!
Hero: When did your troll problem start?
Thulvald Axe-Head: Jafelma's reports stopped arriving several days ago. So I left my office in Windhelm and came out to investigate. The few woodcutters we did find said that the trolls began arriving in dribs and drabs, followed by the spriggans.
Hero: Where did your clerk go?
Thulvald Axe-Head: Eginir went to check on the logging cabin. He's a Wood Elf, so I figured he'd be able to deal with strange forest activity. But he hasn't come back yet and now I'm concerned about him.
Hero: Thulvald sent me to find you.
Eginir Thistlebreeches: Well, here I am. A troll tried to eat me and a spriggan chased after me. By Y'ffre, those things give me the creeps. I was looking for Jafelma, but instead I found a couple of woodcutters hiding in here. So I decided to join them.
Hero: Any idea where I can find Jafelma?
Eginir Thistlebreeches: One of the woodcutters saw her helping a logger near the other cabin. I was thinking of going to look for her, but then I thought about those creepy walking bushes and decided to stay right here. I'm a clerk! I didn't volunteer for this!
Hero: That's funny. Thulvald said that's exactly what you did.
Eginir Thistlebreeches: Of course he did. And did he tell you that my special Bosmer senses could figure out what's going on out here? Well, he lied about that, too! The Nords claim there are forest spirits. Maybe one of the woodcutters chopped down the wrong tree.
Jafelma: I can't believe a spriggan got the drop on me. I'm going to turn that thing into kindling!
Hero: Thulvald sent me to help.
Jafelma: Don't tell me Lord Fancy-Pants actually left his cozy office in Windhelm. He hasn't been in a real forest in years! At least he made the trip. That's more than most bosses would do.
Hero: What happened out here?
Jafelma: Well, I think we offended the forest spirits. I know, it sounds strange. But the forests of Skyrim are ancient and magical. And not everything likes to be disturbed. I think Thulvald bought land that... had a prior claim attached to it.
Hero: Who has a prior claim to this land?
Jafelma: I think that this part of the forest belongs to a spriggan matron. At least, she's certainly treating the place like it's hers. She sent the forest trolls and lesser spriggans to harrass us and drive us off.
Hero: Where can I find this spriggan matron?
Jafelma: You can find the spriggan matron near the pool, just south of here. Be careful. Elder spriggans are ruthless and dangerous. But if you can handle it, the elder spriggan really needs to die. It's the only way we'll all get out of this forest.
Hero: I'll take care of the spriggan matron.
Jafelma: Laugh if you will, but these forests hold many secrets. Thulvald probably got this land for a steal. Certainly, our presence here seems to have offended ... something. I'll try to lead my workers out of here, but that spriggan needs to die.
Jafelma: You can find the spriggan matron near the pool, just south of here. Be careful. Elder spriggans are ruthless and dangerous. But if you can handle it, the elder spriggan really needs to die. It's the only way we'll all get out of this forest. You offended the forest spirits?
Thulvald Axe-Head: Every day that this place is shut down is a day I'm losing gold. So what happened out there? Do you bring me good news or bad?
Hero: Your problem was a spriggan matron. I took care of it for you.
Thulvald Axe-Head: Really? That's outrageous. But that does explain what that old Nord I bought the place from was trying to tell me. Anyway, we'll leave the camp vacant for now. Eventually the trolls will leave. Take this for helping us. And thank you.


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Farber Plastic Surgery Center, founded by board-certified plastic surgeon Scott Farber, MD, has opened a new cosmetic and reconstructive surgery center in Boca Raton, Fla.
Frontier Endoscopy has announced the opening of Flushing (N.Y.) Endoscopy Center, which is the fourth ambulatory surgery center the management and development company has opened since February this year.
Dingmans Medical in Dingmans Ferry, Pa., has proposed a $2.5 million expansion initiative, which would include the addition of an ambulatory surgery center.
The Veterans Administration has announced plans to develop an 84,000-square-foot, $14.6 million outpatient surgery center in New York.
Malcom Grow Medical Clinic & Surgery Center at Joint Base Andrews, Md., intends to develop a 345,000-square-foot, $266 million facility that will include an ambulatory care and surgery center.
Carolinas Center for Oral & Facial Surgery has opened a fifth location in Charlotte, N.C.
Hoopes Vision has opened EyeSurg of Utah, an ambulatory surgery center in Draper.
Ross Clevens, MD, has opened the Clevens Center for Facial Cosmetic Surgery and Wellness Center in Melbourne, Fla.
LASIK Vision Institute has opened Long Island LASIK Eye Surgery Center in Garden City, N.Y.
Lexington (Ky.) Clinic has opened the Endoscopy and Surgical Center of Lexington Clinic.
The Minnetonka Planning Commission has granted Minnesota Eye Consultants approval for a 31,000-square-foot project, which will house the practice's ambulatory surgery center, clinic and offices.


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Interview with Dennis Rušnjak, guitarist for German thrashers Wulfpack.
Maximum Metal: Congratulations on releasing your debut album, 'War Ain't Over!'. It has definitely been on our radar half the year and a record I'm placing in the top thrash albums of 2018. How does it feel to get that first full-length record completed and released?
Dennis Rusnjak: Well it's been a tough way to get there. Saving the money, people leaving the band the day before we were supposed to hit the studio, etc. So it's a hell of a relief to finally have it out there!
"As we got older we surely became better musicians and songwriters but I think the biggest change is that our music has gotten more groovy"
MM: Like most readers, Wulfpack is a fairly new name. Despite being active for five years now the group started out as The Gamps, right? How did the band form and what led to the name The Gamps and then later Wulfpack?
DS: Our guitarist Dennis and I formed the Gamps in 2012 together with former Wulfpäck bass player Bobby Roth. We changed the name in September 2013 as we got a new drummer and started playing metal music as opposed to the more rock-oriented music we played before.
MM: The band's first demo, 'Enter the Pack', was released in 2013, followed by the EP 'Pork' a year later. Other than "Pork", are any of these songs featured in some way on the debut album? Maybe re-titled are reworked?
DS: "Pork" was the only previously released track we put on the album. We've used two riffs we wanted to keep from our first demo for the title track of the album though.
MM: When you compare this full-length record with the demo and EP, what noticeable changes are there? What are the biggest improvements and strides you have made since the band started?
DS: As we got older we surely became better musicians and songwriters but I think the biggest change is that our music has gotten more groovy than the straight thrash metal stuff we wrote before.
MM: Obviously, just from the cover art alone this album has some social commentary--a political message. What are you telling us with the album's vivid artwork and how does that message tie into the album lyrics?
DS: We wanted something radical and direct just like our lyrics. We originally had a different cover planned. We ended up not being able to use it so we contacted Andrei Bouzikov. That was his first idea and we loved it immediately.
MM: With tracks like "Slaughter the Police", which are bold statements, has the band had any negative feedback or outcries from listeners or press?
MM: Who exactly is "Mr. Shitface"? It's the album's opening track and designed to make an impact right out of the gate.
DS: There is no specific Mr. Shitface. To us, he's basically a personification of evil. In the context of the lyrics we especially thought about politicians. So, there you go.
MM: The band is signed to a label that really knows and understands thrash music--Violent Creek Records (Toxic Waltz, Hateful Agony). How did that agreement come about?
DS: A few years ago we became pretty good friends with Traitor and now also Wulfpäck bassist Lorenz Kandolf. His band had already signed with Violent Creek records and so Lorenz took the opportunity to show our songs to the label. After some great feedback they wanted us on board and we were happy to take the chance.
MM: Wulfpack is steeped in the sounds of German thrash--Destruction, Sodom, Kreator, But, there is a lot of Bay Area influence as well. How would you describe Wulfpack to unfamiliar listeners?
DS: So far, I would call it a combination of aggressive up tempo riffs and massive groove parts. It's funny though that people get reminded of Teutonic thrash bands when they listen to our music, because that's actually not the type of stuff we are into that much.
MM: Top 5 thrash records?
MM: What do you say to press or fans that place Wulfpack into the stereotypical label of "New Wave of Thrash Metal"? Is that still a thing?
DS: It's probably still a thing. People will always categorize us in some way but we don't really care about it.
MM: I know it's early and we are fresh off the release of this debut record...but how long is the wait until the second album is released?
DS: We don't have any certain plans for a new album yet but we already started writing on new material and there's definitely gonna be another release or two coming this year I can tell you that much.
MM: Where can I get an awesome Wulfpack t-shirt here in the US?? I gotta have one!
DS: You can send us a message to our Facebook page with your order and we'll ship it to you.
MM: Good luck with the new album, upcoming shows and the new year. Keep it Maximum Metal!
DS: Thank's a lot dude. Party on!
Dennis Rušnjak Eric Compton 1/25/2019 "The War Ain't Over!"


I try to debug my FPGA design on the intelFPGA Arria 10 SoC device.
For that I add a "Signal Tap Logic Analyzer" in my Design.
The debugging works well over an USB Blaster and the JTAG interface.
To use the "SLD Hub Controller System Intel FPGA IP" in my own Linux kernel and filesystem, I'm looking for the sources of the kernel module and the server application.
In the Documentation (previous link) I found the hint, that all sources are in the meta-remotedebug layer.
Does anyone know where I could find this layer?
Or the sources of the sld_hub kernel module and the mmlink application?
Read through referenced document in README.md of the driver link above and you will be able to put the pieces together easily.


It's the last week of the Author Blog Challenge, and I reviewed my 'lineup' today and found I am missing three posts! So I'm filling in the blanks: Days 17, 23 and 29..
DAY 17 What has been the biggest surprise about writing/publishing your book? What has been the most enjoyable or most memorable aspect?
When I began my career in adoptions, I wanted to write a book about pregnancy for a woman planning an adoption. I remembered my first pregnancy, and my favorite book. I wore out the cover and thumbed the pages until they were marked in grime, especially the chapter that told about fetal development! And I gave it away, later, to someone else experiencing her first pregnancy.
I searched until I found a copy of that book (I think it was called Your Baby and You); I read it with my clients in mind. The book begins with the excitement of choosing a layette and painting the nursery – as a couple! It talked about attending childbirth classes with your husband! Yikes! That would only remind my clients of what she did not have! This would never do!
I was only a year into pregnancy counseling in 1980, when Jeanne Warren Lindsey's book, Pregnant Too Soon came out. Jeanne was the teacher/principal of a teen pregnancy program in Los Cerritos, CA., and Pregnant Too Soon addressed the issue of teen mothers in a school-based program making an adoption plan for her baby. It was an attempt to de-vilify the few teens in the 1980s who chose adoption for their babies.
I wished I had written that book! I wrote to the author to tell her so, and Jeanne wrote back that it was her first fan letter. I even pitched my book to her publishing team, Morning Glory Press, for Jeanne was a pioneer in self-publishing. Although she encouraged me to address the issue, she wasn't prepared to publish it.
I set aside my idea of writing a pregnancy book for someone planning adoption. Over the years there would be books written for pregnancy for single women who planned to parent. Every time I checked the index for those books, the word adoption did not appear.
Convince a publisher to take a chance on me, an unknown writer.
Set aside $5,000 to $20,000 to get it published, printed and distributed.
Then, in 2005 thanks to Phoenix Publishing and Book Marketing Meetup, I learned about self-publishing, and the most surprising thing is: it isn't hard or overly expensive to self-publish and print a book!
Most people who write have the computer skills necessary to get a book ready for printing; if not, they can hire someone to bring the book to that level. The costs of self-publishing are not prohibitive. You can form your own publishing company. You can purchase your own ISBN (the barcode number that identifies your book and your book alone), or the company that publishes your book will supply it.
So, if you have a book that you want to write, go for it! You'll have to make decisions about how many copies you will print. The more you print, the less expensive the cost. But an advantage of self-publishing is that you can rewrite the book between printings.
But if someone wants to write a book of family stories to share with children and grandchildren, it's not hard (or expensive) to do.


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Telecom Facilities To Be Raised in Northeast To Spur Growth
Shillong, June 19 : The central government has decided to upgrade telecommunications facilities in insurgency-hit and border areas in India's northeastern states with a focus on all-round economic development of the region.
"A core IT (Information and Technology) infrastructure has been established in all the states for a smooth roll out of the delivery of citizen-centric services," Minister of State for Communication and Technology Sachin Pilot said here Monday.
Pilot reviewed the progress of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) schemes, telecommunication and postal services in the region.
The meeting was attended by IT ministers from Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura, besides chief secretaries and IT secretaries from the region and senior central government officials.
Pilot said the union cabinet recently sanctioned a Rs.388 crore special package for northeast to impart affordable ICT training to youths in the region, and, of the total sanctioned amount, Rs.63.35 crore would be spent this year.
Saying that the project would help train 14,000 youths per year, the minister hoped it would ensure the availability of trained professionals in the region to attract IT Industry to set up their units there.
The National Institute of E-Learning and Information Technology (NIELIT) will implement the project by upgrading the six existing NIELIT centres located at Imphal (Manipur), Aizawl (Mizoram), Guwahati (Assam), Shillong (Meghalaya), Gangtok (Sikkim) and Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh), Pilot said.
Ten new extension centres would also be set up at Senapati and Churachandpur in Manipur; Dibrugarh, Silchar, Jorhat and Kokrajhar in Assam; Lunglei in Mizoram; Tura in Meghalaya; Tezu and Pasighat in Arunachal Pradesh.
The two existing extension centres located at Chuchuyimlang in Nagaland and Tezpur in Assam will be upgraded.
Pilot also reviewed the implementation of central government's flagship scheme National e-Governance Plan and directed all agencies involved in it to resolve the pending issues.
The total expenditure planned for the northeastern states is about Rs.243 crore this year, of which Rs.190 crore would be spent on e-governance, the minister of state said. He requested the state governments to fully utilise this amount.
Pilot also unveiled a special training project for the government officials from all levels.
"A specific component of the funds, about Rs.1 crore, would be allocated for northeastern states. It is over and above the Rs.1.06 crore fund available for the region under the regular capacity building budget," he said.
Emphasising the importance of connectivity, Pilot said, "An ambitious plan in this regard is under consideration of the government and BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.) plans a capital expenditure of Rs.347 crore in the region," he said.
He said a special unit entrusted with execution of projects would be given Rs.142.93 crore, besides Rs.300 crore that would be spent on National Optical Fibre Network and other projects.
Pilot also announced 50 more post offices for the region under the Department of Post's prestigious Project Arrow.
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What's in a name? Lineage, luck and creativity
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PUBLISHED: August 30, 2000 at 4:43 a.m. | UPDATED: July 22, 2021 at 8:56 a.m.
SARATOGA SPRINGS — For owners who devise the clever and quirky names of the horses that run at Saratoga Race Course and the fans who bet on their sounds and connotations, the name of a thoroughbred is a serious business. But coming up with names can be fun, too. When it comes to choosing the name itself, owners generally fall in two camps: those who use lineage and those who rely on their own creativity. "I'd say it's about 50-50," said Lee Weil of the Saratoga Springs office of the Jockey Club. Of the nine horses that ran in Saturday's Travers, four bore names derived from their lineage. Country Coast was sired by Country Pine out of Do Ye Well by Coastal. Unshaded, the winner, was sired by Unbridled. Dixie Union is the son of Dixieland Band. Impeachment was sired by Deputy Minister out of Misconduct by Criminal Type. Cot Campbell of Dogwood Stable, which owns Impeachment, said he often looks at a horse's lineage and then puts a clever spin on it. "We have a contest in our office where everyone submits names," he said. A committee of one — Campbell himself — selects the winning name and bestows a $50 prize on the lucky employee. In Impeachment's case, it was Campbell's secretary. The timely and clever but subtle tweaking of the horse's breeding history appealed to Campbell, he said. Horse names are regulated by the Jockey Club, based in Lexington, Ky. The club maintains a massive database of names to prevent duplication. Officials in Lexington use a sophisticated phonetics program to check for names that sound alike and examine foreign-language names for hidden meanings. They also ensure proper nouns are not used without permission. According to Weil of the Saratoga Springs office of the Jockey Club, proposed names are rejected quite often. Horse owners can submit new names by visiting an office of the Jockey Club or its Web site at www.jockeyclub.com. The club's simple registration form can also be mailed to the Lexington office. There is no charge for claiming a new name before Feb. 1 of the horse's second year. Requests after that date, as well as to reserve names ahead of time, cost $50. Names may be changed any time before a horse's first race for a fee of $100. The process usually takes less than a week. Some owners pick names spontaneously. Carol Farmer named Albert the Great, who placed in the Travers Saturday, after breeder Albert Clay of Kentucky. "We've known Mr. Clay for a long time and have great respect for him. The name Albert the Great just popped into my head," she said. Even more abstract, Beverly Lewis picked Commendable's name "off the top of my head." "It's a strong name," she explained
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Q: change portlet title from code in Liferay without Jquery I'm having solution to change title of portlet through JQuery.
$('#idOfPortlet').find('.portlet-title').html('new title');

But we dont want to use JQuery in our project.
Is there any solution to change title of portlet using YUI or anyother thing through code?
Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
Mayur Patel

A: If the version of Liferay you're on is using YUI 3, then this aught to do it:
Y.one('#idOfPortlet .portlet-title').setContent('new title');

I'm not sure if Liferay exposes the YUI instance as Y, or if they wrap it in AUI and make it A.

A: You can do so, by using this code -
document.getElementsByClassName('.portlet-title')[0].content = 'something else as title'


This project was done a year ago about this time of year. I was asked by my fellow Elders if I could come up with a way to collect the used glass single serve communion cups, so we wouldn't have to have the need to have another person go behind the pastor to collect them during communion.
So I designed these very thin tables, 11"x46" tops, with 32" height. Before deciding on the width and length of the table, I built the 4 collection trays. They have 7/8" diameter holes 9/16" deep. Cups are tapered from 3/4" bottom, which is why I went with the 7/8 hole and ran a 1/8" round-over bit around each of the 200 holes. I made a pattern on my laptop printed a couple pages and taped them together and created the router template at the drill press with a forstner bit. Then double side taped it to each of the four tray tops. Actually only had 35 holes in the template, so had to do those 35, then pull up the tape and re-position to finish each tray's 50 holes. Each tray has an indent on the ends that accepts the bloodwood splines ( appropriate for the project I thought) from the tray below to make them stack-able and prevent sliding off. The are white oak. After completing, I ordered some red felt discs that I glued in the bottoms to remove echo and sound when placing the cups in the holes.
The tables are all mortise and tenon, red oak. I did add some adjustable slides on the feet to they didn't get caught if someone were to slide them on the carpet.
Beautiful work! I find projects for my church some of the most rewarding that I do. We use a common chalice at our Episcopal church, but this project is a wonderful way to elevate communion at your church.
very well done. they look great!


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Last week I had a post that included the phrase deja vu, the feeling that we have seen or experienced something before. If you are a fan of the movie The Matrix you know it as a sign that something is not right.
Well here we are in mid-May 2012 and both the economic picture and the stock market picture are eerily the same as 2011 and 2010. In all three years economic data was strong to start the year, the market did well and late in April they hit their highs for the year, ending it with a bottom in the fall.
One of my favorite quotes on history is from Mark Twain who said that history doesn't repeat itself but it does rhyme. While you can only know if we hit the top in April this year by looking back from the end of the year, or at least late in the year this year so far is uncannily similar to the two preceding it. Of course, in addition to the economic numbers losing momentum you still have the same European problems as the last two years.
We are a little underweight in stocks and we are tilted toward the conservative side in most of our picks so that is standing us in good stead right now. We'll see how it goes.