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Federal teacher evaluation requirement has wide impact
by Sarah Garland April 15, 2012 March 30, 2020
Elliott Elementary in Lincoln, Ne., struck off on its own last year when it became the only school in the city to win money through the federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) program. Winning wasn't something to be proud of, though: It meant the school qualified as one of the worst in the nation. About a third of fifth-graders at Elliott were proficient on state reading tests when the reforms began, compared to 80 percent in Lincoln as a whole.
Winning also meant a lot of work for teachers and administrators. One of the biggest tasks was overhauling the way teachers at the school are evaluated. Elliott was the only school in the city making the change, which meant it had to come up with a new way of rating teachers mostly on its own.
"The challenge was connecting it to student achievement," said Jadi Miller, named the principal at Elliott after a longtime principal was ousted to comply with the grant's mandate of new leadership. "That was certainly very new for us."
In the Obama administration's new push to turn around the bottom 5 percent of schools nationwide, the vast majority of districts chose the reform option that seemed the least invasive: Instead of closing schools or firing at least half of the teaching staff, schools could undergo less aggressive interventions, such as overhauling how teacher performance is measured and rewarding teachers who do well.
But the teacher-evaluation requirement has turned out to be a major stumbling block for many schools in the SIG program. Last summer, when the U.S. Department of Education offered waivers to extend the deadline for launching new teacher and principal evaluations, more than two dozen states applied on behalf of their SIG schools, according to federal officials. Anecdotal evidence from around the country suggests that nearly two years into their three-year grants, many schools have yet to change how they rate and reward teachers.
"You have this pressure you're putting on these schools, and it really becomes a challenge for them to respond," said Scott Marion, associate director of the New Hampshire-based Center for Assessment, which has advised schools on evaluation models.
The movement to overhaul how teachers are rated has sparked public battles between school officials and teachers unions across the country. Controversial state laws—fueled in part by a separate Obama administration grant competition, Race to the Top—have called for more thorough evaluations based on frequent classroom observations and student test scores. In some states, teachers now face losing tenure or their jobs if they are rated poorly.
Proponents of the new policies have argued that teachers have a significant impact on students' academic careers, either preparing them for success later on or setting them back by years. Critics say that observations are subjective, and test scores aren't a reliable measure of a teacher's skills.
Amid the tumult, the SIG program has received less attention. Yet it's likely to be just as instrumental in spreading the Obama administration's vision of reform for the teaching profession. After the initial delays, many schools, along with entire districts and states, are set to launch new evaluation systems to fulfill the grant's mandates in the next year—despite technical difficulties, resistance from teachers unions and questions about the accuracy of various evaluation methods.
Schools applying for SIG money had four reform models to choose from. During the first round of the program, launched in 2010, nearly three-quarters of schools—more than 600—signed up for the "transformation" model, which requires schools to create new evaluation and reward systems for teachers based in part on student academic growth.
Some transformation schools are located in states already in the midst of launching new statewide teacher evaluation systems, including Florida, New York and Tennessee. State support has not been a guarantee that launching the new evaluations will go smoothly, however.
In New York City, schools officials and the local teachers union have battled over job protections for poorly rated teachers at 11 schools using the transformation model. After the two sides hit an impasse this winter, the district announced it was switching to another SIG model to sidestep the teacher evaluation requirement. Now, the city plans to remove at least half of the teachers at the 11 schools.
Education Week, the Education Writers Association and The Hechinger Report partnered with 18 news outlets in 16 states to investigate how $4.6 billion in federal School Improvement Grants are being used to revitalize some of the nation's lowest-performing schools. Interviewing scores of students, teachers, researchers and education officials at all levels of government, participating reporters set out to determine how the money is being spent and whether the changes it sparks are likely to last.
Read the whole series.
Elsewhere, SIG schools have helped influence whole districts and states to rework how teacher performance is measured. For example, the school districts in Yakima, Wash., and Hazelwood, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis, plan to introduce new evaluations at every school, not just those in the SIG program. And in Michigan, Mississippi and New Jersey, SIG schools are acting as pilots for new teacher evaluation systems that will eventually be rolled out statewide.
In some states, however, schools like Elliott Elementary have had to go it alone.
In Louisville, Ky., the teachers union reluctantly agreed to a new evaluation system in four schools that entered the SIG program this year and chose the transformation model. Part of the agreement required that the new system—which includes bonus pay for high-performing teachers—not expand to any other schools in the district.
In Alaska, schools were left to figure out how to revamp their teacher evaluations with the help of private consultants. "The difficulty is that none of these sites had anything in place at all for collecting and analyzing student achievement data in terms of tying it to teacher evaluation," said Gerry Briscoe, a school improvement specialist at the Alaska Comprehensive Center, a nonprofit group that is supporting the state's 10 SIG schools. "We're really building this from the ground up."
And in Nebraska, teacher unions are currently locked in a battle with state legislators over a proposal to increase the frequency of classroom observations. At the same time, Jim Havelka, a consultant who is aiding the state's seven SIG schools, all of which chose the transformation model, says measuring student academic growth has been challenging because the state doesn't provide sufficient test score data to schools.
"Doing value-added just isn't going to happen," Havelka said, referring to the statistical models that many states are now using to measure student growth on standardized tests. "We just don't have that kind of data."
Even schools in states with advanced data systems must figure out how to measure student academic progress for the vast majority of teachers whose students don't regularly take standardized tests, including those who teach social studies, music, art or physical education. The Department of Education has said the measurements must be both "rigorous and comparable" across teachers and schools, but experts say following that mandate can be hard.
In one popular approach, teachers set goals for their students at the beginning of the school year and then check to see if they have met them the following June. In some schools, teachers are using packaged tests, like MAP, a computer-adaptive assessment sold by the Northwest Evaluation Association, to set goals like having a certain percentage of students pass by the end of the year. But others may allow teachers to use student projects, teacher-created tests or other classroom work to set goals, which can vary by teacher.
Laura Goe, a researcher for the Educational Testing Service who has advised SIG schools, says goal-setting systems may not always meet federal expectations. "If every teacher is setting their own goals and using measures of their own choosing … there's going to be big differences in the goals, and there's going to be big differences in the scoring," she said.
Tim Daly, president of TNTP, a nonprofit organization that helped Rhode Island develop a statewide system of measuring teacher performance through goal-setting, said in an email that the strategy can be useful, "provided the process is sound."
"It should be simple, rigorous, and transparent," Daly said.
Elliott Elementary is using goal-setting to get around Nebraska's lack of data, which makes more sophisticated statistical modeling impossible. In the fall, teams of teachers create a set of goals based on the end-of-the-year standardized tests, along with benchmark tests given during the year. Individual teachers may choose to set their own separate goals for their evaluations, although not many do.
"We never say a 50 percent goal is okay, we push people," said Miller, the principal. "It allows everyone to be a part of it, without direct comparability."
Officials in the Obama administration say they recognize the challenges, but insist that the requirements for the new teacher and principal evaluation systems are critical to the success of the reforms as a whole.
"This is tough work," said Jason Snyder, deputy assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. "We want to make sure that districts have time to develop high-quality evaluation systems that will help them successfully turn around their schools."
The waivers given out to the first set of SIG schools moved the deadline for launching the new evaluation systems from this school year to 2013-14, the year after their grant money runs out. Officials say the development process is the costliest part of the reforms. And there are no federal consequences if schools don't make the deadlines or if their systems do not meet expectations, officials said.
Jadi Miller is optimistic that the reforms at Elliott, including the new evaluation system, will transform the school: Already, test scores have risen significantly after just one year. The next challenge is to figure out how to follow another SIG requirement—that high-performing teachers be rewarded for their work.
"To be one of 37 elementaries and we're the only one looking at [evaluation] this way, that has created some issues sometimes," she said. "That compensation piece continues to be a puzzle for us, and there hasn't been great guidance."
This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, the Education Writers Association and Education Week. Reporting was contributed by Leslie Brody of The Bergen (N.J.) Record, Antoinette Konz of the The (Louisville) Courier-Journal, Rachel Cromidas and Philissa Cramer of GothamSchools, and Lori Higgins of the Detroit Free Press.
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Ramos has co-anchored the evening news "Noticiero Univision" since 1986, and also hosts Sundaypublic affairs show Al Punto, as well as English-language America with Jorge Ramos on Fusion. He is a past winner of the Sol Taishoff award from the National Press Foundation, given in honor of B&C's founder.
Also being honored with 2014 press freedom awards are Aung Zaw (The Irrawaddy, Burma), Siamak Ghaderi (freelancer, Iran), Mikhail Zygar, (Dozhd, Russia), and Ferial Haffajee (City Press, South Africa).
And in a reminder of why CPJ is around, 2013 awardee Vietnamese blogger Nguyen Van Hai (Dieu Cay, Vietnam) will receive a 2013 award after he was released from prison earlier this month after over six years in confinement.


Elizabeth Pierce celebrated 10 years at the Cincinnati Museum Center in October. But November is the month circled in red on the calendar.
That's the end date for a $212 million renovation project at Union Terminal, home to CMC's history museums, children's museum and Omnimax theater. A project that's encompassed most of her 10 years here, the last three as the organization's top administrator. Its conclusion means Pierce will likely have one less thing on her plate. But, she insists, the work is far from over.
Pierce, named CMC's president and CEO in 2015, took the reins at arguably the most interesting time in the organization's nearly 30-year history. Months before her promotion, Hamilton County voters had approved Issue 8; a five-year, 0.25 percent sales tax levy that would fund a bulk of Union Terminal's renovation and rehabilitation, following years of water damage and deterioration. Pierce went from "chief worker bee" in that effort to the top administrator responsible for leading the charge when work started in July 2016.
Navigating a construction project as complicated as this is no easy feat, but for Pierce, it seems par for the course. There's no typical day here. On this particular afternoon, for example, there's an American Heart Association Go Red luncheon. Earlier, there were logistics surrounding a dinosaur event at Rhinegeist; emails about the budget for this year and next.
"The days are always fun and insanely stimulating. Exhausting comes to mind, too," she says with a laugh. "It's a lot of moving parts. There's conversations about exhibit content development, fundraising campaign activities and leveraging partnerships in the community, while putting out fires. It's running a day-to-day business operation, and there's the planning for the future that everybody does, but layered on top of that, we have the construction and everything that goes along with it. The financials, the tax credits and the historic preservation requirements.
For those who know Pierce, perhaps it's no surprise she landed here. She's been a lover of museums for as long as she can remember. Growing up in Mansfield, Ohio, a city of 46,000 situated between Cleveland and Columbus, her childhood was peppered with visits to cultural sites all around. Her father, a physician and a history buff, and her mother, a nurse, take full credit for that.
She attended Miami University, where she received her bachelor of arts in history. As a junior, she studied abroad at Miami's European Center in Luxembourg, and nabbed an internship at the Florence Nightingale Museum in London. She spent time traveling, visiting museums in Berlin, Paris and Prague, and realized she wanted to focus on museums as a career.
For graduate school, she studied museum administration at George Washington University. She bolstered her resume with stints at the Holocaust Museum, in the photo achieves department; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, in public programming; and the National Endowment for the Arts, where she helped with event management and strategic projects.
Craving a return to the Midwest, she methodically made her way to Chicago, where she met her husband, Brad, and worked in fundraising for the Chicago Children's Museum.
When the couple moved to Cincinnati in 1999, she switched gears. Pierce joined the team at Dan Pinger Public Relations and worked in strategic communications—at one point, the Cincinnati Museum Center, was a client. Her relationship with CMC grew deeper through regular visits to Union Terminal with her two young sons, now 17 and 15, while a stay-at-home mom.
She joined the Children's Museum advisory board as a volunteer leader in 2004, and chaired the group until 2007—when Doug McDonald, the man she would succeed at the helm just eight years later, urged her to join the staff full time. She was hired as the museum's vice president of communications and marketing that October.
When McDonald retired in 2015, Pierce, now the organization's chief operating officer, was the obvious choice.
That's helpful, especially now that sights are set on the future. The Cincinnati Museum Center has 3 million objects in its collection—Pierce wants to grow that number. Many of the items are stored at the Geier Research Center on Gest Street, but space is limited.
The renovation did not address the museum's permanent exhibits—both in the Cincinnati History Museum and the Museum of Natural History & Science—and Pierce wants a refresh there, too. But it will take time, and money.
But November looms large. It will be a time to celebrate: to step back and reflect on the magnitude of this effort, taking a building like Union Terminal apart and putting it back together. For Pierce, one less thing to oversee in her atypical day-to-day.
"It feels tremendously empowering to be able to move this vision forward and deliver this project to the community," she says. "People should be excited as we go through this process over the next several years.


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Cramped housing conditions and air pollution in Athens have given rise to a "super breed" of mosquito that is larger, faster and more adept at locating human prey, a Greek daily has reported.
Athens-based mosquitoes can detect humans at a distance of 25-30 metres (yards) and also distinguish colours, unlike their colour-blind counterparts elsewhere in the country that only smell blood at 15-20 metres, Ta Nea daily reported.
The "super mosquitoes" of the Greek capital also beat their wings up to 500 times a second -- compared to 350 beats for other variations -- and are larger by 0.3 microgrammes on average, the paper said, citing a study conducted by Aristotelio University in the northern city of Salonika.
According to the study, the mosquitoes of Athens have adapted to deal with air pollution and insect repellents, and overpopulation in the Greek capital of over four million has provided them with a healthy food supply.
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It's time to cozy up to the fireplace, roast some chestnuts, and crank up the Christmas carols. 'Tis the season to be jolly! I hope you are enjoying this holiday season, and have the opportunity to be with the ones you love… and maybe get in a little knitting time.
I was very excited to be gifted by Adam with two tickets to see Jim Brickman in his Christmas tour. What a fabulous concert! He was also joined by singers Anne Cochran and Ben Utecht, and electric violinist Tracy Silverman at the Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, TX.
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The "Merry Knitmas: Holiday Favorites for the Knitter" 2-CD set may really be a possible gift option, but if it were, it would feature knitterly holiday tunes like, Let Me Knit! Let Me Knit! Let Me Knit, A Knitters 12 Days of Christmas, Fleece Used to Baa, and We Wish You A Merry Knitmas, among many others. And of course, feel free to join in and sing along with Christmas Knits.
Christmas knits, Christmas knits, Christmas time is nigh.
I hope you planned your knitting well, and started in July.
Gloves and mitts, socks that fit, scarves and sweaters, too.
Lots of warm and wooly things made by me for you.
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I've finished half a sock, need more yarn that's the same.
I've made it half way through – a little left to go.
Heel flap, that's done, and gusset, check. Kitchener up that toe!
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I've lots of gifts to knit with Christmas my deadline.
Will someone tell me what to do to buy me some more time?
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Let's Talk About That Shocking, Slightly Uncomfortable Sharp Objects Sex Scene
Sharp Objects Episode 7 Sex Scene With Camille and John
20 August 2018 by Quinn Keaney
Warning: Big spoilers for Sharp Objects ahead!
There are so many things I could spend hours praising about Sharp Objects — Amy Adams and Patricia Clarkson's phenomenal acting; Gillian Flynn's gritty, twisted story; the HBO drama's realistic depiction of mental illness — but what we need to talk about right now is the unexpected sex scene between Camille Preaker (Adams) and John Keene (Taylor John Smith). Readers of Flynn's novel were no doubt expecting the steamy moment, but for anyone who's only been watching the TV adaptation, their intense motel hook-up probably felt like quite a shock.
Up until now, the sex scenes in the series have been between Camille and Detective Richard Willis (Chris Messina). They're hot, to be sure, but it's also clear that something was always missing between them. Although Camille has a genuine connection with Richard, it was also obvious she'd never be able to show him the vulnerable, f*cked up side of her, be it opening up emotionally to him or feeling comfortable enough to show him the words she carved into her skin. With John, however, she sensed a kindred broken spirit, someone who would look at her flaws and find them beautiful. Instead of rearing back in shock at Camille's scars the way Richard later does, John embraces them; he literally reads her.
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Camille finds herself getting physical with John, who she presumes is the lead suspect in the Wind Gap murder case, after a day spent drinking with him at a bar on the outskirts of town. She goes there under the guise of getting information out of him for her article, but since Camille is one of the worst reporters in TV history, it's fair to surmise that a part of her knew something like hooking up with John — who is just barely 18-years-old, for the record — wasn't out of the question. Self-sabotage is kind of her thing.
Not long after the drunken pair tumble into bed at the motel, Richard and Chief Vickery (Matt Craven) manage to track them down and arrive with a bunch of other cops in order to arrest John (Richard hasn't filled Vickery in on his suspicions about Adora just yet, and they only have the blood in John's room to go off of). They bust into the hotel and find Camille and John rushing to put their clothes on — there's no question about what they were getting up to.
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Richard is furious and hurt, and hurls a few insults at Camille. She desperately attempts to make up for her actions by apologising over and over again and trying to unbutton his pants. That moment in particular is even more uncomfortable than her sex scene with John, but it highlights exactly how lost Camille has become both in the case and her own life.
Her editor, Curry, has put up with a hell of a lot from her thus far and truly cares about her well-being, but it's difficult to see how he could brush off something as serious as her sleeping with the main suspect in the case that she's supposed to be reporting on. The future of her career as a journalist is just one of many things up in the air right now — is Vickery's obsession with putting John away as the killer misguided? Is Adora actually the one responsible? What is Richard's next move going to be in all this?
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House, Senate seek advice on McGuiness removal, but fail to finish job
Charlie Megginson November 2, 2021 Government, Headlines
Two separate resolutions passed in the House and Senate requesting the Delaware Supreme Court issue an advisory opinion on the General Assembly's authority to remove indicted State Auditor Kathy McGuiness.
The auditor was indicted in October on a slew of felony and misdemeanor corruption charges alleging nepotism, fraud, theft and witness intimidation. She has pled not guilty to all charges.
Neither resolution will move forward at the moment, though, because the House Concurrent Resolution was introduced after the Senate had already gone home for the day and the House didn't bring the Senate Concurrent Resolution to a vote.
Both were introduced during a special session to pass redistricting legislation.
Article III, Section 13 of the Delaware Constitution says that the governor may "for any reasonable cause" remove any officer of the state government, except the Lieutenant-Governor and members of the General Assembly, upon the request of two-thirds of all the members elected to the House and Senate.
What happened in the Senate
Senate Concurrent Resolution 63 states that the General Assembly does not believe it has ever made such a request to the governor and therefore seeks an opinion from the court to determine what constitutes "reasonable cause," among other things, including:
Does the authority under Section 13 to remove a public official implicitly include the authority to take a lesser action, such as suspension of that public official?
If Section 13 does implicitly include the authority to take a lesser action, must the General Assembly address the Governor on the lesser action or can the Governor choose to take a lesser action than that addressed to the Governor?
Does the application of Section 13 require a hearing on the matter prior to a vote in either House to address the Governor to remove an officer?
If the application of Section 13 requires a hearing, must each House hold a hearing prior to its respective vote to address the Governor, or does a hearing in the first House satisfy the requirement?
If the application of Section 13 requires a hearing in each House, would a joint hearing satisfy the requirement?
If the application of Section 13 requires a hearing, what are the elements that must be satisfied? For example, must the person against whom each House seeks to proceed be provided the opportunity to attend the hearing, to be represented at the hearing by counsel, to testify at the hearing, to call witnesses, or to introduce evidence at the hearing?
Does Section 13 require a 10-day notice for only the first House to take action, or are separate notices required for each House? If Section 13 requires separate 10-day notices for each House's action, may those notices be issued concurrently, or must the second House issue its notice only after the first House has acted pursuant to its respective notice?
Is there a mechanism for an appeal of the decision by the Governor to remove a public officer under Section 13?
Senate President Pro Tempore Dave Sokola, D-Newark, said that the General Assembly has been faced with significant questions over its constitutional obligations under the relevant section of the constitution.
"Some of these questions have come from the public and some have come from our own members, all of whom are rightly concerned about ethics and accountability in public service," Sokola said. "I want to be clear: the Senate takes seriously its oversight role and responsibility and we also recognize the unprecedented nature of what lies before us given the charges facing our State Auditor."
He argued that in order to fulfill their duty to protect public trust in state government, senators must first share a fundamental understanding of their roles and responsibilities as defined within the Delaware Constitution.
Senate Minority Whip, Bryan Pettyjohn, R-Georgetown, argued that taking any action against McGuiness could set a dangerous precedent. He later voted against the resolution.
"We took an oath when we took our offices," Pettyjohn said. "Part of that oath is to defend the constitution that we have both the United States and the state of Delaware. Part of that is the presumption of innocence and if we are looking to take action that is going to possibly — depending on the answer that we get from our friends over at the Supreme Court — overturn the decision that the voters made in the state, that's something that we have to tread very, very lightly upon."
He pointed out that members of the Senate have faced or are currently facing criminal charges and noted that in those cases the General Assembly has waited for criminal proceedings to conclude before taking action.
Sen. Dave Lawson, R-Felton, took Pettyjohn's argument a step further.
"We have one person who has recently been indicted and we have another person who is pending court who has already been charged," Lawson said, referring to Sen. Darius Brown, D-Edgemoor, who is awaiting trial on domestic assault charges. "Are both of those cases going be treated equally when the decision from the court comes back?"
Sokola shot back saying Lawson's comparison was inaccurate and unfair.
"There is a big difference," Sokola said. "One has been indicted by a grand jury, one has not. The other thing is there are felonies involved in one case and not in the other — and I think the responsible thing to do would be to consider what happens with one, the response from our state Supreme Court and the other, with the response from the court of jurisdiction."
Sen. Bryan Townsend, D-Brookside, intervened and said that Lawson's comments weren't relevant to the resolution being discussed, as it specifically addresses Article III, Section 13 of the Delaware Constitution.
Lawson managed to throw in one more jab before yielding the floor.
"One is a non-violent crime. The other is a violent crime," he said.
Sokola said he didn't think Lawson's comments were appropriate before asking for a roll call. All seven Republicans voted against the measure. It passed with the support of all 14 Democrats.
What happened in the House
When the House of Representatives convened over an hour after the scheduled start time, they swiftly passed redistricting legislation with no debate on the bill.
They then went into recess for nearly another hour. Upon their return, they introduced a separate measure, House Concurrent Resolution 42, sponsored by Rep. Sean Lynn, D-Dover.
By that time, though, Reps. Rich Collins, R-Millsboro and Jesse Vanderwende, R-Bridgeville, had already gone home for the day, effectively refusing to vote on the measure.
HCR 42 asks for the same provisions as the Senate Concurrent Resolution but goes a step further. It also calls for the Judiciary Committees of both the House of Representatives and Senate to meet jointly to determine:
The process to be used by the House of Representatives and the Senate pursuant to Article III, § 13 for the General Assembly to decide if reasonable cause exists for the removal of an elected official.
The procedural due process the House of Representatives and the Senate must afford to an elected official subject to Article III, § 13.
A suitable date for a hearing for removal of any elected official subject to Article III, § 13 proceedings, which shall include the issuance of proper notice.
"What this resolution does is sets forth a number of questions that this body would like to see answered from the Delaware Supreme Court," Lynn said while introducing HCR 42.
Lynn could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
"However, in the instance that the Delaware Supreme Court is unable or unwilling to provide such an advisory opinion or in the alternative that they do provide such an advisory opinion, it sets forth the process by which this body imbues the respective Judiciary Committees to meet jointly and to determine the process and the due process to be afforded of state officeholders pursuant to Article III, Section 13 of the Delaware Constitution," he said.
House Minority Leader, Danny Short, R-Seaford, said the Democrats' late introduction of the resolution stunk of inconsistency, lack of transparency and lack of public awareness of what's going on in Legislative Hall.
"Our impression was today we would come here and deal with one thing, called redistricting," Short said. "Now we've dealt with something that started in the Senate, who coincidentally has gone home — is not in the building."
He said Democrats in the House of Representatives make rules only to change them without notice and do whatever they want. He asked for a roll call vote on the resolution and informed his Democratic counterparts that Republicans would either be voting 'no' or not voting.
The resolution passed with 25 in favor, 8 against, 6 not voting and 2 absent. A roll call of the vote can be seen here.
Because the House passed a separate resolution, the measure will have to go back before the Senate before it can be finalized.
But because the Senate was only convened on Nov. 1 for a one-day special session and doesn't return until Jan. 11, it's unclear if or when HCR 42 will be voted on.
And because the House did not vote on the Senate's resolution, that measure will also be effectively tabled.
It is unclear whether either chamber has any plans to return for another special session before Jan. 11.
Coalition asks Wilmington for info, talk about parking tickets, booting, towing
No immediate plans to bring back mask mandate, Carney says
State COVID funds to provide bonuses for healthcare workers
Wilmington's Eastside students welcomed back by cheering crowd
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Hundreds gather to protest ChristianaCare's vaccine mandate
More than 350 people gathered on Churchman's Road Saturday in front of ChristianaCare's sign, and more were arriving by the minute. More than 350 people gathered at the Churchman's Road entrance to ChristianaCare's campus Saturday morning to protest the health system's requirement that all employees must be vaccinated. Members of the crowd stretched down the road on both sides of the entrance and stood in the median. Many carried anti-vax signs such as "My body my choice," "I am informed. I do not consent" and "Say no to vaccine mandates." Dozens wore T-shirts that said "Essential to Expendable." Some of those shirts were in support of Tori Malin, a ChristianaCare patient tech who told reporters she was fired Friday after word spread that she was organizing a protest rally about the vaccinations. She had already put in a two-week notice, she said. "That way, I kind of would have the power to take power back from Christiana and leave on my own terms instead of being terminated," she said. "For me this was the hill I was prepared to die on. I knew that this rally could cost me my job." She said she was sent home Friday and told she would spend the rest of her two-week notice at home on paid time off. She said when she asked why, a manager told her they didn't know. Malin does not believe an employer has the right to demand workers be vaccinated. "It's not approved by the FDA, there's not enough clinical trials or testing data on the side effects and the risks and adverse reactions," she said. "I made a choice for myself and for my family not to be." She declined to say which patient unit she worked in. Organizer Tori Malin, who said she was fired from ChristianaCare Friday for protesting the vaccine mandate, talks to reporters. A lone state trooper car parked a block away before the rally. As marchers moved into place shortly after 9 a.m. behind a man carrying an American flag, another trooper car joined it. On the campus, one ChristianaCare security car with lights flashing was parked in the median, with another nearby in an employee parking lot. On the far end of campus, at the entrance near Chik-fil-A, the intersection was silent and largely deserted, except for two private security cars with lights flashing. On Churchman's Road, the crowd was noisy, but well-behaved with members generally ebullient to be there and pleased with their co-protestors. Many seemed to know each other, and more than a few wore hospital scrubs. The group occasionally broke into chants such as "no manDATES, no manDATES" and enthusiastically cheered and waved their signs when passing traffic beeped, which the crowd interpreted as support. Those cars included a red ambulance driving out of ChristianaCare's campus. The crowd parked at the shopping center across from Christiana Care and marched to the health system campus. The group would stay until noon, Malin said. The protest was well publicized by conservative groups, including Patriots for Delaware. ChristianaCare is one of three Delaware health care systems that have announced all their employees, whether they work with patients or on campus, must be vaccinated. The other two are St. Francis and Nemours Health System, which operates A.I. du Pont Hospital for Children. "I hope that we can stand here and continue to rally together against all the hospitals, not just Christiana here," Malin said, "but against all the hospitals across the state and all health care facilities and any job … We're first, but who's next?" Adriana Brown of Rising Sun, Maryland, said she was attending the rally because Union Hospital near her is run by ChristianaCare. The vaccines are not real vaccines like a polio one, she told reporters. Those who take the polio vaccine never get polio, she point out. The COVID-19 vaccines are just shots, like a flu shot, she said. You have to keep taking flu shots to avoid getting the flu, she said. "You can still get COVID and yet we don't know what this drug is going to do to our bodies," she said. "That is the biggest problem. We don't know what it's going to do. We don't have enough testing involved to understand what's going to happen to our bodies, what's going to happen to our young people, to their hearts, to their testicles, to their ovaries." "This is not about me," she said. "This is about everyone and our freedoms to choose what we want for our own lives." Many in crowd carried anti-vax signs or wore shirts that said "essential to expendable."
Hockessin's Chinese Festival returns with events, food moved outside
The Chinese Festival returns Saturday, with food and events outside. The Chinese American Community Center's festival returns this weekend, but moves out of the building to sell traditional food, offer tea tastings and provide demonstrations. "We still have all the elements," said Naxin Cai, chairman of the center. "We just moved them outside." The center had been forced to cancel last year's event because of the COVID-19 lockdown. Most of the Chinese Festival's pre-pandemic events took place inside. This year's version will take place in tents, booths and in the parking lot. Instead of a three-day affair, it will be limited to Saturday and Sunday. New this year will be tea tastings and ping pong and yo-yo demonstrations. The ping pong demonstrators will show off tricks in matches, as well as play members of the audience brave enough to volunteer (We're looking at you, former Gov. and table tennis champ Jack Markell). The yo-yo demonstrators also will show off tricks, while over at the children's booth, they'll teach kids how to handle a yoyo. The tea booth will offer tastings of different Chinese teas. The festival always highlights a part of Chinese culture and this year will exhibit a collection of traditional tea pots and utensils. One booth will focus on children's activities, including making origami animals from paper, allowing kids to try Chinese calligraphy and teaching yo-yo. The festival will also have its first outdoor movie. On Saturday night, patrons are invited to bring chairs and watch "Ne Zha," an animated film that tells the story of a child who is born with a curse on him. It was the first Chinese film to be created for Imax theaters. Festival admission has always been free, but this year parking will be, too. Because the parking lot will be used for events, patrons may park in a field next to the center, said Cai. About 4,000 people have attended previous festivals over those three-days weekends, he said. Organizers are unsure what to expect this year, he said. The planners went ahead because the pandemic appeared to be easing, but now cases are rising again, he pointed out. In addition to the dances, ping-pong and yo-yo demonstrations, the festival will continue its karaoke area, which was started a few years ago. The center invested in microphone covers that can be changed after each use. The festival runs Saturday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. at 1313 Little Baltimore Road in Hockessin. It requires about 300 volunteers. Most will serve outside this year, with only kitchen staff and financial people inside. A wide menu will be served under a tent in the parking lot of the Chinese American Community Center in Hockessin. Cai said the kitchen staff may not cook as much as it normally does, but will include the Chinese version of popcorn chicken ($6) and a popcorn chicken platter with rice, vegetables and a spring roll ($10). "It's very popular every year," Cai said. So is the festival's bubble tea, he said. New this year will be lamb skewers (2 for $5). Other favorites include stir-fried vegetables ($5); spiced pork over rice ($6); spiced pork over rice with egg ($7); spiced pork combo ($10); vegetable bun ($2); pork and vegetable bun ($2); BBQ pork bun ($2); red bean paste bun ($2); pork and scallion bun ($2); spring roll (2 for $3); scallion pancakes (4 for $3); chicken skewers (2 for $5); Taiwanese grilled sausage ($2); mango slush ($4); watermelon ($2); beer, Tsingtao and others, $4; soda and water, $1. As of Wednesday, the Saturday entertainment schedule included: 11:30 a.m., dragon/line dance; 1 p.m. ping-pong match; 1:30 p.m., yo-yo; 2:30 p.m., dragon/lion dance; 3 p.m., ping-pong; 4 p.m., folk dance troupe; 5 p.m., flash mob dance, with leaders inviting the public to join; 5:30 p.m., ping-pong match. The movie starts at 8 p.m. Saturday. Sunday's entertainment schedule starts at 12:30 p.m. with the dragon/line dance; 1:30 p.m. yo-yo-demonstration; 2 p.m., ping-pong match; 3 p.m., folk dance troupe; 4 p.m., flash mob dance, with leaders inviting the public to join; 4:30 p.m., ping-pong match. The festival returns as the community center is involved with efforts to get Rep. Gerald Brady, D-Wilmington, to resign after he was caught using a racist slur about women of Asian descent. The community center and Delaware Chinese American Association and Chinese American Community Center on Monday called for his resignation in an email sent to Gov. John Carney and members of the General Assembly. Brady had sent a message from his state email June 27 in response to a plea from an out-of-state advocate to consider decriminalizing prostitution that references "chink broads." He accidentally sent it to the advocate. The Chinese American groups said Brady's remarks were not "slip-of-tongue," and that they "reflect his deep-rooted racist and misogynistic views about Chinese Americans and Chinese American women."
Digital vaccine cards now come with convenient QR code
Photo by Seb_ra/Getty Images. Individuals vaccinated in Delaware will now have access to a QR code when downloading their COVID-19 vaccination record. The digital COVID-19 vaccination card now includes the QR code and is available through the DelVAX Public Portal, a site where those who were vaccinated in Delaware can access their immunization records. When the person accesses their COVID-19 record they will be able to download a PDF version of it, which resembles a vaccine card and includes the QR Code. The image can then be saved to a phone gallery, or printed on paper. The technology allows anyone to show proof of vaccination with a digital or printed QR code instead of a paper card. QR codes contain the same information as paper records, but in a format that offers greater security and efficiency. The QR code is digitally verified by the Delaware Division of Public Health. "This new feature provides individuals convenient access to their COVID-19 vaccination record in a way that keeps their personal health information secure," said DPH director Dr. Karyl Rattay in a press release. "This offers a protected link to your COVID-19 vaccination record on the go." Businesses that choose to verify an individual's vaccination status can scan QR codes using a SMART Health Card verifier app. Individuals do not need to download an app to obtain their QR code. When a business or entity scans the QR code, the vaccination information will only appear for a short period of time for verification purposes and will not be saved on the device, keeping the individual's personal information secure. Delaware is among several states to recently adopt the SMART Health Card Framework for QR codes, providing individuals with "trustworthy and verifiable copies of their vaccination records in digital or paper form," the press release said. The framework and standards for the technology were developed by VCI, a coalition of more than 800 public and private organizations – including The Mayo Clinic, Boston Children's Hospital, Microsoft, MITRE, and The Commons Project Foundation. QR codes are available to anyone whose vaccination record includes a working phone number and is in Delaware's immunization database, DelVAX. Nearly all doses administered in Delaware are reported to DelVAX, including pharmacies, physician offices, Federally Qualified Health Centers, public health clinics and state-run community vaccination events. Some doses administered outside Delaware to Delaware residents may be in DelVAX. Doses administered directly by federal agencies such as the Department of Defense or Department of Veterans Affairs are not reported to DelVAX. Parents and legal guardians can access official immunization records for their child/children age 0-17, and adults (age 18 years and older) can access official immunization records for themselves. DelVAX uses two-factor authentication via text messaging or email to validate patient, parent, or guardian access. The DelVAX Public Portal is available at this link. To watch step-by-step instructions on how to access the public portal and download a secure QR code, go to this link. Individuals who need assistance can call 1-800-282-8672, or email DelVAX@delaware.gov.
Dooley named head football coach and athletic director at Woodbridge
Marvin Dooley coaching St Elizabeth's football Marvin Dooley will leave the hustle and bustle of northern New Castle County and head to the land of scrapple and apples in western Sussex County as he was named the new athletic director and head football coach at Woodbridge High School. "I am looking forward to the small town atmosphere and everything it brings with it, my family has been looking to move down south anyways and this opportunity popped up," Dooley said. Dooley was a three sport all state athlete in football, wrestling and baseball when he attended William Penn in the late 1980's as well as spending a few years in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization. He later returned to his alma mater to coach those same three sports. While head football coach at William Penn the Colonials won the 2014 DIAA Division I football state championship. Dooley also had head football coaching stints at Avon Grove (PA), Christiana and most recently St. Elizabeth. Dooley said he is aware of the difference between one of the state's largest public schools and Woodbridge which is one of the state's smallest public schools. "I have been friends with Jed Bell, Ed Manlove and Eston Ennis through Blue-Gold over the years and have talked to them in the past about the small town atmosphere and community schools," Dooley said. "When I was a kid William Penn was a school like that, we all grew up together and hung out together. We were New Castle kids," he said. In addition to his athletic director duties Dooley will take over the football program from Jed Bell who recently took an assistant principal position at Seaford Middle School. The Blue Raiders won state titles in 2016 and 2018, finished as a runner-up in 2019 and then lost in the semi-finals in the 2020 Covid shortened season. Dooley leaves St. Elizabeth where he was athletic director and head football coach. He said he is excited to get to work in Bridgeville-Greenwood communities. "There are a lot things different downstate like the middle school athletic programs where those kids stay in your system. I am looking forward to meeting the Little League coaches and Pop Warner coaches and be a part them," Dooley said. Dooley makes the move to the Henlopen Conference just as the DIAA has completed realignment of the football divisions. While there will no longer be a Henlopen Conference Southern Division championship awarded in football he believes the division will be even tougher now. "I think realignment will be good especially downstate. We are keeping the Delmar and Laurel rivalries as well as other schools like Milford, Lake Forest adding some tough schools from up north," Dooley said. Woodbridge will now play in the new Class AA District III division in football. Traditional Henlopen South teams Delmar and Lake Forest will join them while Henlopen North teams Milford and Sussex Tech were added. Southern New Castle County private schools Caravel Academy and Red Lion Christian will now compete in AA District III. Laurel, Indian River and Seaford will now play in the Class A District II. "I am just excited to be a part of that atmosphere, I just love the small towns and how the communities draw together," Dooley said. "I can't wait for Friday nights this fall." Benny Mitchell 302Sports/Delaware Live
110 animals airlifted from Louisiana to Delaware ahead of Ida
Brandywine Valley SPCA members help take cats and dogs off an emergency airlift before Hurricane Ida hit New Orleans. An emergency airlift helped 60 cats and 50 dogs dodge Hurricane Ida by bringing them from Louisiana to Delaware. The Brandywine Valley SPCA received the shelter animals Saturday before transporting them to their Delaware facilities. The emergency airlift was originally scheduled to arrive at New Castle Airport but was diverted to Chester County Airport Saturday morning as President Joe Biden headed to Delaware to be at the Dover Air Force Base to welcome home the bodies of Marines slain in Afghanistan. According to the Brandywine SPCA. the animals came primarily from the Tangipahoa Parish Animal Shelter on a Wings of Rescue flight sponsored by Petco Love and the ASPCA. The cats and dogs were relocated to remove them from the storm's path while making space in Louisiana for any pets displaced during the hurricane. The Tangipahoa shelter is a high intake shelter in a rural area of Louisiana about 45 minutes north of New Orleans. BVSPCA has had staff members working at that shelter since January as part of a year-long collaboration to help increase life-saving efforts. "We're in a unique position to have a substantial rescue impact before and after Hurricane Ida because we have staff working in Louisiana right now," said Adam Lamb, the Brandywine SPCA's CEO in a press release. "We're combining that with our close working relationships with national groups like Wings of Rescue, Petco Love and the ASPCA to help as many animals as we can before the storm and likely after." Chip Fitz, director of animal services at the Tangipahoa shelter said that by clearing out their kennels, they would be able to take in pets displaced by emergency evacuation orders. "It will also give us space for the animal rescues that will more than likely take place after the storm from the storm itself and possible subsequent flooding," Fitz said in the press release. "Without efforts like this, all of our southern shelters become overwhelmed immediately, which interferes greatly with our lifesaving efforts." Ric Browde, CEO of Wings of Rescue, which operated the flight, credited the mission's success to their ability to have a number of planes and pilots ready to fly quickly. "We are thrilled to be able to play a role in this emergency mission being conducted by BVSPCA in advance of Hurricane Ida," Browde said. "We've seen much too often the devastating burden hurricanes and other natural disasters can place on local shelter facilities and know that early response is key to a successful outcome, not only for the dogs and cats, but the rescue personnel on scene, as well." The Brandywine SPCA is now tasked with finding homes for the evacuated pets. The organization has waived all adoption fees at all of its locations in an effort to motivate potential adopters to act quickly. "Adopting one pet at this time saves the life of two," said Linda Torelli, BVSPCA's marketing director. "It rescues the cat or dog adopted while making space to relocate a hurricane victim." The federal projected path for Ida will bring the remains of the hurricane over Delaware on Thursday. For more, go to www.bvspca.org/hurricane-ida.


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Nina Las Vegas: Australia's Triple Threat
anna lunoe life+times Nina Las Vegas Rustie
Sometimes you never know your true calling until after you receive an unanticipated gig. For Australian triple threat Nina Las Vegas – renowned Triple J radio host, DJ, and producer – those words certainly hit close to home. "I never wanted to do the radio thing for real, but it just became so obvious that that's where I should go," Nina asserts. At the age of 18, Nina moved to Sydney and began working at a community radio station called FBi Radio. It was there where she met Anna Lunoe and a host of other Australian acts that have since moved overseas. Dishing about her club kid days, Nina says that she and her friends hit the clubs that would play Baltimore club edits. "It was hilarious. I just started deejaying then with my friends" Then, in 2005 the Aussie tastemaker landed her first DJ set. Reflecting on the show, she bursts into laughter after admitting that the entire set was pre-mixed! Nina adds, "I was so nervous! It's still so funny to think about. I just got more and more involved." Nina's leisure involvement evolved into a DJ gig at Triple J after they got wind of her production skills. Now, she's revered for her live shows (sans pre-mixing of course) and ability to blend the unlikely (Beyoncé into a Rustie edit because…why not?).
"When I got to Sydney, I realized there was no women anywhere in that club scene in Australia. I thought, 'Well, I can do this!' When I was 18, there were literally like no other girls that could use Pro Tools. I taught myself Ableton. I built a skill set that was less familiar with females – not saying it doesn't happen, but less it's less frequent. I just felt a real need to be loud about that as well…I really feel like it needs more girls." Along with her keen production skills, Nina's confidence is something that is especially noteworthy in a male dominated field. It's no mystery of the shortage of females in the DJ realm, however, Nina, speaking from experience, states that "confidence is so much a part of success. Her amicable disposition adds even more value to her character in addition to producing (and live deejaying) in a style that's distinctly hers alone.
Nina kicks off her first-ever American tour this week in addition to hosting events at SXSW and Miami Music Week. "I just need to play for new people. I can't really do that in Australia because we are small and we do the same round of shows. I know it sounds so cliché, but new clubs, new kids, new promoters – it's just so exciting for me. I can't tell you how ready I am to step it up and play different stuff."
Life + Times: For your latest mix, that was a really nice touch going from Beyoncé's "7/11" into that Rustie edit. So solid!
Nina Las Vegas: They're in the same key, man!
L+T: Yeah, I wouldn't think to put those two things together, but then again I'm not Nina Las Vegas.
NLV: That's what I do – ridiculous stuff together.
L+T: I really admire that about you not only as a DJ, but also a producer. For all of your mixes in general, is it like a grueling process? How are you able to put them together in a way that it meshes well?
NLV: I've been producing mixes for radio for seven or eight years now. I swear it's getting harder because I'm caring more and more, which is a weird thing to say, but I just like it more and more. Basically my rule is the way I make a mix I just put every song that I'm feeling, then I put it in BPM or key order, and then I just do it as it goes. If it's not working, I just go out of it. And then I think about it after. Like a general rule is – if I don't want to hear it, then it doesn't go in. Does that make sense? I see so many people make these mixes and it's like, 'Do you really like that song?' That's the currency, you know? That's what DJs do, they curate. I just actually put in songs I love. You have to trust that it's cool and you have to know that of course people won't like that particular sound, but if you make it or if you trick it into working – you never know. And that's how I DJ as well. I have kind of a big following that only at the moment really wants to hear trap. Then it's like, 'Okay guys, I'm gonna play trap then I'm gonna trick you into this other like dancehall sound.' So yeah, that's how I kind of work.
L+T: Oh okay. That makes sense. I agree with you. I mean the important part of being a curator is being able to introduce new sounds to an audience that may just want to hear one sound. They think they know that they only want to hear trap until you introduce something new!
NLV: In Australia, we had such a big explosion of producers over the last couple of years and I was definitely one of the pioneers of that. And now I'm really trying my hardest to take kids with me to step it up even more. So, I'm playing different shows, smaller shows because I want to because I want to make sure the audience gets that we're about going to a DJ to see them play new stuff, not stuff you know. We haven't had that culture in Australia. Like America has that EDM, that club scene is new and developing a history now. It's not like Europe. We're not London, you know. We kind of have to try and change the perception of what a DJ is here and I am doing that. I'm trying my hardest and I'm saying that and I'm playing. When I make my mixes, I'm really conscious. There's three shows on Triple J that do dance music. One of them is a three hour show on Friday and they all do the big room stuff. They'll do the promos. They'll do the remix packages. I will see that they've covered it and I'm like, 'Sweet! I don't have to play that track. I'm gonna play something weirder!' (Laughs) Or I'm gonna play the R&B stuff that works with dance music, you know. We even joke about how my show is like totally regional sounds like heavy bass, Soundcloud stuff, and R&B. Then, the Friday Night Shuffle show is I get the promoter or this artist like, "Hey Nina, we really think you'll feel this." I clearly don't and I'll instantly write back to them, "Yeah, this is perfect for the other boys!" (Laughs) Because it's true! They'll play it because they like it. We have this nice kind of world covered.
L+T: You're like, "Sure, I'll pass this along to the other DJs."
NLV: People, especially the labels and stuff here, they know my tastes now. So, no one's gonna ever expect me to play a David Guetta track. I've set myself up as someone so well that plays different stuff. Having said that, I will still give stuff a crack; like I really like some of the deadmau5 album – which is something no one thought that I'd like. Dude makes incredible prog stuff. It's like, 'I could make that work.' It doesn't mean I'm gonna play a whole deadmau5 set, but in the context of a radio show I can put it in a mix like once in a while.
L+T: Well, that's because you have an appreciation for good music in general. You don't try hard like, "I'm intentionally gonna be different and just stick to this particular sound" – that may seem weird to others. You're a curator for good music. At the end of the day, good music is good music.
NLV: Totally! That's why I really like people like Boys Noize and people like Brodinski, Skrillex and stuff. It's like there's no intense integrity, like not in a really positive way. No one's ever gonna say, "I'm not gonna play that because that's not mixed properly!" or like, "I'm never gonna play that because that's done by that dude we don't like!" It's like they all just do it for the music and will play whatever comes to them. It's cool and I like that. That definitely is admirable.


/DE             DEdup: remove duplicates from "list"
use command line switch /A to get a list of all available aliases.
To get a custom title without prompt, use " " for prompt.
With /RC0 return code equals selected index, or -1 for "Cancel".
With /RC1 return code equals selected index + 1, or 0 for "Cancel".
Command line switches /RC0 and /RC1 are mutually exclusive.


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//Copyright 2014 Esri

//   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
//   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
//   You may obtain a copy of the License at

//       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

//   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
//   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
//   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
//   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
//   limitations under the License.using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using ArcGIS.Core.Data;
using ArcGIS.Desktop.Core;
using ArcGIS.Desktop.Internal.Mapping;
using ArcGIS.Desktop.Mapping;
using Geometry = ArcGIS.Core.Geometry.Geometry;

namespace UCSamples.EditingCutFeatures {

    internal static class ExtendsEditing {
        /// <summary>
        /// Use to provide an enumeration wrapper for an item of type T
        /// </summary>
        /// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>
        /// <param name="item"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public static IEnumerable<T> Yield<T>(this T item) {
            yield return item;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns the feature class associated with layer.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="layer">The input layer.</param>
        /// <returns>The table or the feature class associated with the layer.</returns>
        public static async Task<Table> getFeatureClass(this Layer layer) {
            // get the feature class associated with the layer
            return await ArcGIS.Desktop.Internal.Editing.EditingModuleInternal.GetTableAsync(layer);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Performs a spatial query against the table/feature class.
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>It is assumed that the feature class and the search geometry are using the same spatial reference.</remarks>
        /// <param name="searchTable">The table/feature class to be searched.</param>
        /// <param name="searchGeometry">The geometry used to perform the spatial query.</param>
        /// <param name="spatialRelationship">The spatial relationship used by the spatial filter.</param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public static RowCursor Search(this Table searchTable, Geometry searchGeometry, SpatialRelationship spatialRelationship) {
            // define a spatial query filter
            ArcGIS.Core.Data.SpatialQueryFilter spatialQueryFilter = new ArcGIS.Core.Data.SpatialQueryFilter();
            // pasing the search geometry to the spatial filter
            spatialQueryFilter.FilterGeometry = searchGeometry;
            // define the spatial relationship between search geometry and feature class
            spatialQueryFilter.SpatialRelationship = spatialRelationship;

            // apply the spatial filter to the feature class in question
            return searchTable.Search(spatialQueryFilter);
        }

    }
}


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import datetime
import smtplib
import subprocess
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from typing import Dict

import yaml

config = {}
# Define sidebar colors for each section in Slack.
colors = {
    'Kitchen': 'a37718',
    'Bathroom': '18a39e',
    'Living-room': 'a34418',
    'Bedroom': '1844a3',
    'General': '6318a3',
    'Personal': 'f47a42',
}

def update():
    """
    Update from git
    """
    subprocess.call(['git', 'pull', 'origin', 'master'])
    subprocess.call(['/srv/chores/env/bin/pip', 'install', '-r', 'requirements.txt', '--upgrade'])
    subprocess.call(['sudo', 'systemctl', 'restart', 'chores'])

def reload_config() -> None:
    """
    Reload the config file.
    """
    config.clear()
    try:
        with open('chores.yml') as f:
            config.update(yaml.load(f))
    except FileNotFoundError:
        print("`chores.yml` not found! Copy `example-chores.yml` for a starting point.")

def safe_append(target: Dict, key: str, chore: Dict) -> None:
    """
    Simply make sure dictionary keys exist before adding to them
    :param target: Reference to dictionary
    :param key: The key to create or update
    :param chore: The chore to add to the dictionary
    """
    if not target.get(key):
        target[key] = []
    target[key].append(chore)

def merge_chores(user_chores: Dict) -> Dict:
    """
    Merge all chores into one mega dictionary.
    :param user_chores: The user chores
    :return: New dictionary
    """
    all_chores = {}
    for category in user_chores:
        for user in category:
            if not all_chores.get(user):
                all_chores[user] = {}
            for group in category[user]:
                if not all_chores[user].get(group):
                    all_chores[user][group] = []
                all_chores[user][group].extend(category[user][group])
    return all_chores

def get_week():
    return datetime.datetime.now().isocalendar()[1]

def should_run_bi_weekly():
    return get_week() % 2 == 1

def should_run_quad_weekly():
    return get_week() % 4 == 1

def email_users():
    for user in config['users']:
        if user.get('email'):
            yield user['name'], user['email']

def email_chores(email, message, chores):
    body = message + " chores:
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    for cat in chores:
        body += "
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        for chore in chores[cat]:
            body += '<input type="checkbox"> ' + chore + "
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    send_email(email, body)

# Adapted from http://stackoverflow.com/a/8321609/1974978
def send_email(email, data):
    msg = MIMEText(data, 'html')
    msg['Subject'] = "Chores"
    msg['To'] = email
    msg['From'] = config['mail_from']
    mail = smtplib.SMTP(config['smtp_server'], config['smtp_port'])
    mail.starttls()
    mail.login(config['smtp_username'], config['smtp_password'])
    mail.sendmail(config['mail_from'], email, msg.as_string())
    mail.quit()


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Antonio de Bellis 1
Baccio Baldini 1
Bernardo Bellotto 1
Carlo Crivelli 1
Egidio dall' Oglio 1
Fra Angelico 1
Francesco Guardi 1
Giacomo Manzù 1
Giambattista Tiepolo 2
Giorgione (Giorgio da Castelfranco) 1
Giotto (Ambrogio Bondone) 1
Giovanni di Paolo 1
Giovanni-Battista Piranesi 1
Giuliano Bugiardini 1
Giulio Cesare Procaccini 1
Henri-Eugène-Augustin Le Sidaner 1
Jacopo Tintoretto 1
Jusepe de Ribera 1
Luca Signorelli 1
Marino Marini 1
Pietro Perugino 1
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni 1
Pseudo Pier Francesco Fiorentino 1
Sano di Pietro 2
Sebastiano Luciani 1
Veronese (Paolo Caliari) 1
Vincenzo Catena (Vincenzo di Biagio) 1
19th century (or 20th century) 1
{blank object type} 1
Bronze Sculpture 2
Engraving 1
Etching 1
Oil Painting 17
Oil Painting, Tondo 1
Tempera Painting 6
{blank period} 27
Modern and Contemporary 3
Apollo and Daphne - Veronese (Paolo Caliari) Canto I (from Dante's Inferno) - Baccio Baldini David with Head of Goliath - Antonio de Bellis Etienne-René, Cardinal Potier de Gesvres - Pompeo Girolamo Batoni God the Father with Angels - Giotto (Ambrogio Bondone) Head of a Philosopher - Giambattista Tiepolo Holy Family with Saint Anne - Vincenzo Catena (Vincenzo di Biagio) Idea for the Rider - Marino Marini Madonna and Child - Carlo Crivelli Madonna and Child with Angels - Giovanni di Paolo Madonna and Child with Saints - Fra Angelico Madonna and Child with St. Anne Appearing to Sts. Anthony of Padua, Charles Borromeo, and Philip Neri - Egidio dall' Oglio Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels - Giuliano Bugiardini Madonna of the Roses - Pseudo Pier Francesco Fiorentino Portrait of a Lady - Alessandro Allori Portrait of a Man - Giorgione (Giorgio da Castelfranco) Portrait of a Man - Sebastiano Luciani Portrait of a Venetian - Jacopo Tintoretto Saint Bartholomew - Jusepe de Ribera Saint Catherine of Siena - Sano di Pietro Saint Jerome in the Wilderness - Pietro Perugino Saint Sabinus (?) - Sano di Pietro San Paolo Fuori le Mura, Interior - Giovanni-Battista Piranesi Seated Cardinal - Giacomo Manzù The Coronation of the Virgin - Luca Signorelli The Grand Canal with the Rialto Bridge from the South - Francesco Guardi The Molo from the Basin of San Marco, Venice - Bernardo Bellotto The Penitent Magdalene - Giulio Cesare Procaccini The Rest on the Flight into Egypt - Giambattista Tiepolo Venetian Scene - Henri-Eugène-Augustin Le Sidaner
Saint Catherine of Siena
Sano di Pietro (AKA Ansano di Pietro de Mencio), Italian, (1405–1481)
Previously attributed to Alessandro Turchi (AKA "l'Orbetto"), Italian (Veronese), (1582–January 22, 1648)
Creation place: Italy
Type: Oil Painting
Medium and Support: Oil on panel
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. R. M. Loeser and commemorating the Silver Jubilee Celebration of Fine Arts Society
State/Province: Siena
Dimensions: 21 1/8. x 16 1/2 in. x 3 15/16 in. (53.34 cm x 41.91 cm x 10 cm)
Mrs. R. M. Loeser, Coronado, California ( - June 27, 1950)
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California (June 27, 1950 - )
Although this panel and the similar panel depicting a bishop saint (1950:106) were separated at some point in their history and came to the Museum from different donors, they are probably parts from a single altarpiece, for they show half-length saints at the same scale, and they include the same pattern of punchwork ornamentation in the haloes. The bishop saint is perhaps to be identified as Saint Sabinus, who like Saint Catherine is one of the patron saints of Siena. They are the work of Sano di Pietro. He was among the most prolific artists in early 15th-century Siena, responsible for illuminated manuscripts as well as devotional panels and altarpieces. Like many of his contemporaries in Siena, he tended to cast his figures in a timeless, almost archaic style, often against richly patterned gold backgrounds.
Art of Devotion The San Diego Museum of Art , 1/28/2016 - 00/00/00
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972
Page Number: 182
The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego Catalogue: San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego, California, 1960
Bernard Berenson. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance—Central Italian and North Italian Schools Phaidon Publishers Inc.. New York, New York, 1968
Saint Sabinus (?)
European Art before 1900
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SHAM STAKES QUOTES
MIKE SMITH, MIDNIGHT HAWK, WINNER: "It kind of turned into a match race today. Today, more so than winning I wanted to find out if he could go long. If you can't go long, there's no use worrying about anything else. He proved he could go long.
"He was much better in the gate today. It was evident the work they have done, he's improved. There is some other work to be done though. He's still a bit green down the lane. When the crowd screams he over-exaggerates (when he changed paths to the rail late in the stretch), he thinks they're yelling right at him and gets scared. There are some things that Bob can do that should help that as well though.
"It's great to see a colt this talented with room to grow. That's what you want to have. I hate to see him be, excuse the expression, but "balls-to-the-wall" and that's all he is. There's room to grow here and that's really something to look forward to. For such a big, heavy horse he just floats over the ground.
"He was better today, without the blinkers, than he was his first race. When he hears the crowd especially, if he couldn't see them today it would be even worse. That's the way I take it, maybe some cotton in the ears, we'll see."
RAFAEL BEJARANO, KRISTO, SECOND: "My horse broke real easy to the lead. I thought No. 6 was going to cross in front of me, but he never did, so I went to the lead. But the winner was much too fast. He lost ground on both turns and still beat me. He's a nice horse, a really good horse. He finished a really good second. He tried hard to the end."
BOB BAFFERT, MIDNIGHT HAWK, WINNER: " . . . He's still a little green, but I liked him a lot better without the blinkers . . . He was waiting a little bit on horses but he came back, he didn't look like he was very tired. He wasn't blowing very hard, so that's a good sign.
"It's a good step. But that's the way Midnight Lute (sire) is. Midnight Hawk was showing up in the mornings, but you don't know until you do it. You hate to get everybody puffed up, but the way he worked his last couple times, it was like, he was pretty impressive."
Next race? "We'll let him tell us when he's ready to roll. He's a big, heavy horse, and he can handle a lot. He's so heavy, I'd rather run him than work him . . . So far, so good, but we'll just take baby steps as we go and just have fun with him."
ATLANTA FALCONS' OFFENSIVE LINE COACH MIKE TICE, PART OWNER: "It's pretty exciting. It's nice to be a part of a winner. Anytime you win it's exciting, in anything, tiddlywinks, horse racing or football."
JOHN SADLER, KRISTO, SECOND: "We think he can get better. We think he wants to run farther. That's not the style we wanted to run today, but when it came up sort of like a match race, you're drawn inside of the other guy, what are you going to do? We had to run head to head all the way around, but he ran well."
NOTES: Midnight Hawk is owned in part by John Sikura of Lexington, who races as Hill 'n' Dale Equine Holdings, Inc., along with Mike Kitchen, Mike Pegram and former Minnesota Vikings head coach Mike Tice and Stanley Cup Champion Chicago Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville.
The Sham is worth 10 qualifying points to the winner for the Kentucky Derby on May 3. Trainer Kory Owens said he scratched Top Fortitude due to a readjustment on a back shoe that developed late Saturday morning, but didn't resolve itself after jogging the colt about noon time. "It looked like we were going backwards and we didn't want it to get worse," Owens said.


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Jared Gordon wants Andre Fili, believes Brazil cost him the finish, move to featherweight?
Oct 30, 2017 Andre Fili, Artem Lobov, Hacran Dias, Jared Gordon
Jared Gordon defeated Hacran Dias by unanimous decision at UFC Fight Night 119 on Saturday. At one point in the bout Gordon got the full mount position and rained down punches, but to his dismay the referee didn't stop it and Dias was saved by the bell. Here's what he told MMAJunkie:
I thought he was taking a lot of punishment, and I was landing over and over with big strikes. I was looking at the ref like, 'What more do I have to do to get the finish?' But we're in Hacran's home country, and respect him. He's a tough fighter, he's a great guy, he's a veteran. So they gave him a chance to come back into the fight and I just have to deal with what comes, and I did what I did. I thought I deserved…It was right there. If this was somewhere else, I think they'd have stopped it.
After the bout he reiterated his feelings about being a true featherweight and then wasted no time in calling out Andre Fili for a fight.
I truly believe I'm a featherweight. Even Hacran coming up from featherweight was bigger than me. I think if I'm going to perform at the highest level, it has to be at featherweight. I'd love to move back down, so that's what I'm hoping for. I did have trouble (making weight) getting down there. But I'm a student of the game, and I'm trying to learn, and I'll do what I have to do to get down there. I've made it before and I'll do it again.
It was the UFC's decision, so hopefully I can sway them into letting me go back down. I'd love to fight Andre Fili. I think it would be an amazing fight. He's a great fighter, and I think it would be a lot of fun. I think it's just an exciting matchup. He's someone I know I could beat. He's a great fighter, so I know we'd put on a good show. I respect him as a fighter, but I'd love to fight him.
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April 2, 2020 April 2, 2020 Carl Robert Keyes Daily Advert Update	Boston Massacre, Commodification of American Revolution, Edes and Gill, Engraving, Fruits of Arbitrary Power, Henry Pelham, T. & J. Fleet
Boston-Gazette (April 2, 1770).
"An Original Print, representing the late horrid Massacre in King Street."
Although Paul Revere's engraving is more famous, Henry Pelham also produced a print depicting the Boston Massacre shortly after the event took place. He marketed his engraving, The Fruits of Arbitrary Power, in the April 2, 1770, editions of the Boston Evening-Post and the Boston-Gazette, a week after Revere promoted his Bloody Massacre in those same newspapers. The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5, so both men moved quickly to make a visual representation of the event available for public consumption. Revere offered his print for sale just three weeks after soldiers from the 29th Regiment shot into a crowd, wounding several colonists. Some died of their wounds on the spot; others died soon after. By the time Revere and Pelham marketed their prints, five colonists had died.
Many consumers may have thought that Pelham's Fruits of Arbitrary Power closely resembled Revere's Bloody Massacre, but the opposite was actually the case. Pelham shared his drawing with Revere, then expressed dismay that his fellow engraver moved forward with his own print based on the drawing and beat Pelham to market by a week. Their advertisements also resembled each other, neither of them particularly flashy considering the products they presented to consumers. Pelham's advertisement simply stated, "To be Sold by EDES and GILL and T. and J. FLEET, (Price Eight Pence) The Fruits of Arbitrary Power, an Original Print, representing the late horrid Massacre in King Street, taken from the Spot." (The version in the Boston Evening-Post switched the order of the printers who sold the print. Each partnership gave itself top billing.). In stating that Fruits of Arbitrary Power was "an Original Print," Pelham took a swipe at Revere and attempted to set the record straight.
Perhaps neither Revere nor Pelham considered it necessary to devise flashy advertisements for their competing prints. After all, the Boston Massacre occurred only weeks earlier. It received extensive newspaper coverage, including descriptions of the funeral procession honoring the victims. Coverage continued as Boston prepared for a trial of Captain Thomas Preston and soldiers from the 29th Regiment. Beyond the several newspapers printed in the busy port, the Boston Massacre was surely the talk of the town. Neither the engravers who produced the prints nor the printers who sold them needed to explain their significance beyond noting that they depicted the "horrid Massacre" and offering brief commentary. The title of Pelham's engraving, The Fruits of Arbitrary Power, summed up the political calculus of the event. He apparently considered that sufficient to convince consumers that they needed to acquire his memento of the Boston Massacre. Consumption played a vital role in commemoration.
October 17, 2019 October 16, 2019 Carl Robert Keyes Daily Advert Update	Essex Gazette, History of Massachusetts Bay, Imagined Community, Subscription Notice, T. & J. Fleet
Essex Gazette (October 17, 1769).
"JUST PUBLISHED … A Volume of Curious Papers."
A brief advertisement in the October 17, 1769, edition of the Essex Gazette (published in Salem) announced that "A Volume of Curious Papers collected by His Honor the Lieutenant-Governor, which may serve as an Appendix to his History of Massachusets Bay" had gone to press and was "now ready to be delivered to the Subscribers by T. and J. FLEET, Printers in Boston." This notice was a variation on advertisements that ran in newspapers throughout New England during the previous week. One variation ran in the New-Hampshire Gazette (published in Portsmouth) on Friday, October 13 and in the Providence Gazette on Saturday, October 14. The Fleets inserted a slightly different version in their own newspaper, the Boston Evening-Post, on Monday, October 16. That same day, variations ran in the Boston-Gazette, the Connecticut Courant (published in Hartford), and the Newport Mercury. Following publication in the Essex Gazette on October 17, a similar notice appeared in the Massachusetts Gazette and Boston Weekly News-Letter on Thursday, October 19. Over the course of a week, the Fleets inserted notices about the publication of this "Volume of Curious Papers" in eight newspapers printed in six cities and towns in four colonies.
This meant that readers in Boston, Hartford, Newport, Portsmouth, Providence, Salem, and beyond encountered similar advertisements for the same product, a book about the history of Massachusetts, as they perused their local newspapers. Although most advertisers were not so enterprising when it came to publishing notices in multiple colonies, members of the book trades often relied on subscription notices distributed widely as a means of creating markets for books they wished to publish. Printers published proposals in several newspapers and, later, published updates for subscribers who pre-ordered books, including, ultimately, announcements informing both subscribers and the general public when they published a proposed work.
These advertisements contributed to the formation of what Benedict Anderson termed "imagined communities" of geographically dispersed people drawn together through the experience of simultaneously reading the same content in newspapers. In the eighteenth century, most of this content consisted of news and editorials, especially since colonial printers liberally reprinted material from one newspaper to another. T.H. Breen has argued that colonists also formed imagined communities around consumption practices, demonstrating that the same sorts of goods appeared in newspaper advertisements from New England to Georgia. Subscription notices and subsequent advertisements, however, did not merely expose readers to similar wares. Like the news and editorials reprinted from one newspaper to another, they replicated content associated with particular products, in this case a "Volume of Curious Papers" about the history of Massachusetts. Print helped to knit together colonists in the era of the American Revolution, but the print that did so was not limited to newspaper reports or political pamphlets distributed far and wide. Sometimes advertising also contributed to the formation of imagined communities in early America.
October 14, 2019 October 14, 2019 Carl Robert Keyes Daily Advert Update	History of Massachusetts Bay, Proposed Book Now Published, Providence Gazette, Subscription Notice, T. & J. Fleet
Providence Gazette (October 14, 1769).
"Subscribers are desired to send for their Books."
The day after a notice concerning the publication of "A COLLECTION of Original PAPERS, which are intended to support and elucidate the principal Facts related to the first Part of the HISTORY of MASSACHUSETTS BAY" ran in the New-Hampshire Gazette, a nearly identical advertisement appeared in the Providence Gazette. Some spelling and punctuation varied, as did the typography throughout the notice, but for all intents and purposes the two newspapers published the same advertisement. The notice in the Providence Gazette, like the one in the New-Hampshire Gazette, provided instructions for customers who had pre-ordered a copy of the "Collection of original Papers" to "send for their Books." Those customers were known as subscribers because they had responded to subscription notices distributed to incite demand and gauge interest in the book before T. and J. Fleet committed to publishing it. The Fleets obtained enough subscribers to make the venture viable and now called on those customers to collect their books.
The advertisement occupied a privileged place in the October 14, 1769, edition of the Providence Gazette. Of the several advertisements in that issue, it appeared first, immediately below local news. John Carter, the printer and proprietor of the Providence Gazette, may have instructed the compositor to place it there when setting the type for the issue. This courtesy extended to fellow printers could have enhanced the visibility of the advertisement, increasing the likelihood that subscribers would take note. The compositor also included a manicule to draw attention, deploying a device that did not often appear in the Providence Gazette. Carter may not have charged the Fleets for inserting the advertisement, running it as an in-kind service for fellow printers in another city who did not directly compete the work he did at the printing office in Providence. Although this advertisement did not explicitly state that was the case, others published in connection to subscription notices sometimes called on fellow printers to give notices space gratis.
October 13, 2019 October 13, 2019 Carl Robert Keyes Daily Advert Update	History of Massachusetts Bay, Local Agents, New-Hampshire Gazette, Proposed Book Now Published, Subscription Notice, T. & J. Fleet
New-Hampshire Gazette (October 13, 1769).
Subscription notices for books regularly appeared in colonial newspapers, but not all proposed publications eventually went to press. Printers used subscription notices to gauge the market for books they considered printing. Only when sufficient numbers of customers "subscribed" – reserved a copy in advance and, in some cases, made a deposit – did printers produce books advertised in subscription notices. In some cases, they also specified that they would not print surplus copies but instead limit publication to copies for subscribers exclusively. This mediated risk for printers, publishers, and booksellers in eighteenth-century America.
An advertisement in the October 13, 1769, edition of the New-Hampshire Gazette provided an update for "subscribers" who had responded to a subscription notice that appeared in the same newspaper several months earlier. That notice, dated "Boston, July 2d, 1769," presented "PROPOSALS for Printing by Subscription, A Volume of curious Papers, to serve as an Appendix to Lieutenant-Governor HUTCHINGSON'S History of Massachusetts-Bay." The new advertisement indicated that the proposed work indeed went to press. "JUST PUBLISHED," it proclaimed.
The original notice called on subscribers to submit their names to "T. & J. FLEET, Printers in Boston, D. & R. FOWLE at Portsmouth, & Bulkeley Emerson, at Newbury-Port." The printers of the New-Hampshire Gazette collaborated with other printers in encouraging the project. The subsequent advertisement, however, suggested the limits of their responsibilities as local agents for a project that originated in Boston. T. & J. Fleet printed the octavo tome there. They also assumed the lead in distributing it to subscribers. The notice in the New-Hampshire Gazette stated, "Subscribers are desired to send for their Books to T. and J. FLEET, at the Heart and Crown, in Cornhill, Boston." The Fleets apparently did not send copies to Portsmouth for local distribution by the Fowles. Instead, the Fowles fulfilled their obligations to the project by running an advertisement in their newspaper. The participation required of local agents when printing books by subscription varied from publication to publication.
August 11, 2019 July 27, 2019 Carl Robert Keyes Daily Advert Update	Daniel and Robert Fowle, Daniel Fowle, Emerson Bulkeley, History of Massachusetts Bay, Market Research, New-Hampshire Gazette, Printers, Printing as Preservation, Robert Fowle, Subscription Notice, T. & J. Fleet
New-Hampshire Gazette (August 11, 1769).
"Most of these Papers will, probably, be irrecoverably lost in a few Years, unless they be preserved by Printing."
During the summer of 1769, Daniel Fowle and Robert Fowle, printers of the New-Hampshire Gazette, cooperated with other printers to incite demand for "a Volume of curious Papers, to serve as an Appendix to Lieutenant-Governor HUTCHINSON'S History of Massachusetts-Bay," a work frequently advertised in newspapers in Boston and other parts of New England. To that end, the Fowles inserted a subscription notice in the New-Hampshire Gazette. Printers had dual purposes in circulating such "PROPOSALS" as newspaper advertisements and, sometimes, separate subscription papers. They aimed to stimulate demand, but they also conducted market research by assessing demand. They did not move forward with projects if consumers did not express sufficient demand. Such was the case with this "Volume of curious Papers." The subscription notice starkly stated that the "Work will begin as soon as a sufficient Number of Subscribers appear to defrey the Expence." Those who wished to reserve a copy needed to submit their names to T. and J. Fleet in Boston, Bulkeley Emerson in Newburyport, or the Fowles in Portsmouth.
In their efforts to encourage colonists to subscribe to the work, the printers vowed that "No more Books will be printed than what are subscribed for." This created a sense of urgency for prospective subscribers, warning that if they did not make a commitment soon that eventually it would be too late to acquire a copy so they better not waver. The printers also presented a challenge that made colonists responsible for preserving the history and heritage of New England. The subscription notice concluded with a short paragraph that outlined their duty: "As most of these Papers will, probably, be irrecoverably lost in a few Years, unless they be preserved by Printing, it is hoped that a sufficient Number of Subscribers will soon appear, from a regard to the Public, as well as for the sake of their particular Entertainment." The printers did not envision carefully storing the original documents as a means of safeguarding them for future generations. Instead, the best form of preservation occurred through multiplication. Taking the volume to press would guarantee that the contents of those "curious Papers" would survive long beyond the originals becoming "irrecoverably lost" through deterioration or mishap over the years. Colonists had a civic duty, "a regard to the Public," to play a role in preventing that loss, according to the printers. Rather than thinking about purchasing and reading the "Volume of curious Papers" as a form of "particular Entertainment" only for themselves, the subscription notice challenged colonists to think of it as a service to their community. Consumption need not be frivolous; it could also serve a purpose in the interests of the greater good.


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