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We are committed to providing quality education to a diverse student population. This commitment to diversity is reflected in the composition of our faculty. In the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, one in four tenure-track professors are women (four full and two associate professors of 23). Over the past three years, 27% of our department's graduate students have been female. The Faculty is also representative of diverse cultures.
NCWIT Academic Alliance. Our department is a member of the NCWIT Academic Alliance. NCWIT is the National Center for Women & Information Technology, a 501(c)(3)* coalition that works to increase diversity in IT and computing.
Our faculty serve as research mentors to summer undergraduate researchers through the CRA-W/CDC Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates program, which has the goal of increasing the number of women and underrepresented groups entering graduate studies in the fields of computer science and engineering.
Our department, along with the Dean's office, is committed to financially support a cohort of early college computer science majors to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing each year. The event is a series of sessions that include leading researchers presenting their current work and special sessions that focus on the role of women in today's computer science, information technology, research and engineering fields.
The women undergraduates and graduates are members of ACM-W (Association for Computing Machinery-Women) and joins regularly with the College of Engineering's Women in Engineering and UD's Women in Technology groups for activities, including brown bag lunches, speakers, and social events.
The department regularly offers a service learning course, Learning Game Development, in which student teams practice their software engineering skills in designing and implementing learning games for middle school teachers and their students at the Chester Community Charter School in Chester, PA. This is an opportunity for students to help broaden participation in computing. The development of this course was funded by the National Science Foundation Broadening Participation in Computing program. More details can be found at Compute Teams 4 Youth.
Faculty in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences are active in diversity-related initiatives for broadening participation in computing.
Faculty advise students as part of the GEM Fellowship program.
Faculty present and participate in the RISE 5-week Summer academic bridge program to recruit and encourage academically prepared students who are native-born African American, Hispanic American, and Native American, as well as others who, as a group, are underrepresented in engineering.
Faculty have attended the Faculty Recruiting and Faculty Mentoring programs developed by the NSF sponsored UD ADVANCE program to increase the representation of, and improve the climate for, women faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.
Alumni Distinguished Professor Lori Pollock co-organizes the CRA-W Graduate Cohort program annually which aims to increase the ranks of senior women in computing by building and mentoring nationwide communities of women through their graduate studies.
Pollock serves regularly on the Academic Advisory Board for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
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package demy.twitter

import demy.util.log
import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession
import org.apache.spark.sql.functions._

object GeoNames {

def geoNames2Parquet(spark:SparkSession) {
import spark.implicits._
//Countries
val countries = (spark.read.parquet("hdfs:///data/geo/all-cities.parquet")
    .where($"feature_code".isin(Array("PCL", "PCLD", "PCLF", "PCLI"):_*))
    .select($"id", $"name", concat_ws(",", regexp_replace($"name", lit(","), lit(" ")), coalesce($"alternatenames", lit(""))).as("alias")
                , $"country_code".as("code"), typedLit[String](null).as("parent_code"), typedLit[String](null).as("city"), typedLit[String](null).as("adm4")
                , typedLit[String](null).as("adm3"), typedLit[String](null).as("adm2"), typedLit[String](null).as("adm1"), typedLit[String](null).as("country")
                , typedLit[String](null).as("adm4_code"), typedLit[String](null).as("adm3_code"), typedLit[String](null).as("adm2_code"), typedLit[String](null).as("adm1_code")
                , $"country_code", $"population", $"feature_code".as("geo_type"), $"timezone".as("time_zone")).as[GeoElement]
    .map(current => GeoElement(current.id, current.name, current.alias, current.code, current.parent_code, current.city, current.adm4, current.adm3, current.adm2, current.adm1, current.alias
                                , current.adm4_code, current.adm3_code, current.adm2_code, current.adm1_code, current.country_code, current.population, current.geo_type, current.time_zone)
        ).persist)

log.msg(s"${countries.count} countries")
//Level 1
val adm1_0 = (spark.read.parquet("hdfs:///data/geo/all-cities.parquet")
    .where($"feature_code"==="ADM1")
    .select($"id",$"name", concat_ws(",", regexp_replace($"name", lit(","), lit(" ")), coalesce($"alternatenames", lit(""))).as("alias")
                , concat($"admin1_code", lit(";"),$"country_code").as("code"), $"country_code".as("parent_code"), typedLit[String](null).as("city"), typedLit[String](null).as("adm4")
                , typedLit[String](null).as("adm3"), typedLit[String](null).as("adm2"), typedLit[String](null).as("adm1"), typedLit[String](null).as("country")
                , typedLit[String](null).as("adm4_code"), typedLit[String](null).as("adm3_code"), typedLit[String](null).as("adm2_code"), $"admin1_code".as("adm1_code")
                , $"country_code", $"population", $"feature_code".as("geo_type"), $"timezone".as("time_zone")).as[GeoElement])
val adm1 = (adm1_0
    .joinWith(countries, adm1_0("parent_code")===countries("code"), "inner")
    .map(p => p match { case (current, parent)
            => GeoElement(current.id, current.name, current.alias, current.code, current.parent_code, current.city, current.adm4, current.adm3, current.adm2, current.alias, parent.country
                                , current.adm4_code, current.adm3_code, current.adm2_code, current.adm1_code, current.country_code, current.population, current.geo_type, current.time_zone)
        }).persist)

log.msg(s"${adm1.count} adm 1")
//Level 2
val adm2_0 = (spark.read.parquet("hdfs:///data/geo/all-cities.parquet")
    .where($"feature_code"==="ADM2")
    .select($"id",$"name", concat_ws(",", regexp_replace($"name", lit(","), lit(" ")), coalesce($"alternatenames", lit(""))).as("alias")
                , concat($"admin2_code", lit(";"),$"admin1_code", lit(";"),$"country_code").as("code"), concat($"admin1_code", lit(";"),$"country_code").as("parent_code")
                , typedLit[String](null).as("city"), typedLit[String](null).as("adm4")
                , typedLit[String](null).as("adm3"), typedLit[String](null).as("adm2"), typedLit[String](null).as("adm1"), typedLit[String](null).as("country")
                , typedLit[String](null).as("adm4_code"), typedLit[String](null).as("adm3_code"), $"admin2_code".as("adm2_code"), $"admin1_code".as("adm1_code")
                , $"country_code", $"population", $"feature_code".as("geo_type"), $"timezone".as("time_zone")).as[GeoElement])
val adm2 = (adm2_0
    .joinWith(adm1, adm2_0("parent_code")===adm1("code") , "inner")
    .map(p => p match { case (current, parent)
            => GeoElement(current.id, current.name, current.alias, current.code, current.parent_code, current.city, current.adm4, current.adm3, current.alias, parent.adm1, parent.country
                                , current.adm4_code, current.adm3_code, current.adm2_code, current.adm1_code, current.country_code, current.population, current.geo_type, current.time_zone)
        }).persist)

log.msg(s"${adm2.count} adm 2")

//Level 3
val adm3_0 = (spark.read.parquet("hdfs:///data/geo/all-cities.parquet")
    .where($"feature_code"==="ADM3")
    .select($"id",$"name", concat_ws(",", regexp_replace($"name", lit(","), lit(" ")), coalesce($"alternatenames", lit(""))).as("alias")
                , concat($"admin3_code", lit(";"),$"admin2_code", lit(";"),$"admin1_code", lit(";"),$"country_code").as("code"),concat($"admin2_code", lit(";"),$"admin1_code", lit(";"),$"country_code").as("parent_code")
                , typedLit[String](null).as("city"), typedLit[String](null).as("adm4")
                , typedLit[String](null).as("adm3"), typedLit[String](null).as("adm2"), typedLit[String](null).as("adm1"), typedLit[String](null).as("country")
                , typedLit[String](null).as("adm4_code"), $"admin3_code".as("adm3_code"), $"admin2_code".as("adm2_code"), $"admin1_code".as("adm1_code")
                , $"country_code", $"population", $"feature_code".as("geo_type"), $"timezone".as("time_zone")).as[GeoElement])
val adm3 = (adm3_0
    .joinWith(adm2, adm3_0("parent_code")===adm2("code") , "inner")
    .map(p => p match { case (current, parent)
            => GeoElement(current.id, current.name, current.alias, current.code, current.parent_code, current.city, current.adm4, current.alias, parent.adm2, parent.adm1, parent.country
                                , current.adm4_code, current.adm3_code, current.adm2_code, current.adm1_code, current.country_code, current.population, current.geo_type, current.time_zone)
        }).persist)

log.msg(s"${adm3.count} adm 3")

//Level 4
val adm4_0 = (spark.read.parquet("hdfs:///data/geo/all-cities.parquet")
    .where($"feature_code"==="ADM4")
    .select($"id",$"name", concat_ws(",", regexp_replace($"name", lit(","), lit(" ")), coalesce($"alternatenames", lit(""))).as("alias")
                , concat($"admin4_code", lit(";"), $"admin3_code", lit(";"),$"admin2_code", lit(";"),$"admin1_code", lit(";"),$"country_code").as("code")
                , concat($"admin3_code", lit(";"),$"admin2_code", lit(";"),$"admin1_code", lit(";"),$"country_code").as("parent_code"), typedLit[String](null).as("city"), typedLit[String](null).as("adm4")
                , typedLit[String](null).as("adm3"), typedLit[String](null).as("adm2"), typedLit[String](null).as("adm1"), typedLit[String](null).as("country")
                , $"admin4_code".as("adm4_code"), $"admin3_code".as("adm3_code"), $"admin2_code".as("adm2_code"), $"admin1_code".as("adm1_code")
                , $"country_code", $"population", $"feature_code".as("geo_type"), $"timezone".as("time_zone")).as[GeoElement])
val adm4 = (adm4_0
    .joinWith(adm3, adm4_0("parent_code")===adm3("code") , "inner")
    .map(p => p match { case (current, parent)
            => GeoElement(current.id, current.name, current.alias, current.code, current.parent_code, current.city, current.alias,  parent.adm3,  parent.adm2, parent.adm1, parent.country
                                , current.adm4_code, current.adm3_code, current.adm2_code, current.adm1_code, current.country_code, current.population, current.geo_type, current.time_zone)
        }).persist)

log.msg(s"${adm4.count} adm 4")

//Villes
val all_regions = adm1.union(adm2).union(adm3).union(adm4)

val cities_0 = (spark.read.parquet("hdfs:///data/geo/all-cities.parquet")
    .where($"feature_class"==="P")
    .select($"id",$"name", concat_ws(",", regexp_replace($"name", lit(","), lit(" ")), coalesce($"alternatenames", lit(""))).as("alias")
                , $"id".as("code")
                , when($"admin4_code".isNotNull, concat($"admin4_code", lit(";"), $"admin3_code", lit(";"),$"admin2_code", lit(";"),$"admin1_code", lit(";"),$"country_code"))
                    .when($"admin3_code".isNotNull, concat($"admin3_code", lit(";"),$"admin2_code", lit(";"),$"admin1_code", lit(";"),$"country_code"))
                    .when($"admin2_code".isNotNull, concat($"admin2_code", lit(";"),$"admin1_code", lit(";"),$"country_code"))
                    .when($"admin1_code".isNotNull, concat($"admin1_code", lit(";"),$"country_code"))
                    .otherwise($"country_code").as("parent_code"), typedLit[String](null).as("city"), typedLit[String](null).as("adm4")
                , typedLit[String](null).as("adm3"), typedLit[String](null).as("adm2"), typedLit[String](null).as("adm1"), typedLit[String](null).as("country")
                , $"admin4_code".as("adm4_code"), $"admin3_code".as("adm3_code"), $"admin2_code".as("adm2_code"), $"admin1_code".as("adm1_code"), $"country_code", $"population"
                , $"feature_code".as("geo_type"), $"timezone".as("time_zone")).as[GeoElement])
val cities = (cities_0
    .joinWith(all_regions,cities_0("parent_code")===all_regions("code"), "inner")
    .map(p => p match { case (current, parent)
            => GeoElement(current.id, current.name, current.alias, current.code, current.parent_code, current.alias, current.adm4,  parent.adm3,  parent.adm2, parent.adm1, parent.country
                                , current.adm4_code, current.adm3_code, current.adm2_code, current.adm1_code, current.country_code, current.population, current.geo_type, current.time_zone)
        }).persist)
log.msg(s"${cities.count} cities")

//Writing all to disk
cities.union(adm1).union(adm2).union(adm3).union(adm4).union(countries).repartition(32, expr("cast(id/100000 as int)")).write.mode("overwrite").parquet("hdfs:///data/geo/all-cities-expanded.parquet")
cities.unpersist
adm1.unpersist
adm2.unpersist
adm3.unpersist
adm4.unpersist
countries.unpersist
log.msg("all done!")

}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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COVID-19News
Additional safety measures implemented at Walmart following COVID-19 outbreak
Michael Lumsden, staff Thursday, Oct. 15th, 2020
Walmart Supercentre Grande Prairie (Michael Lumsden, mygrandeprairienow.com staff)
After it was confirmed twelve associates in the Grande Prairie Walmart tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this week, some changes in operations have been announced by the retail giant.
"We conducted a deep cleaning… we are in contact with local public health and have temporarily adjusted the store hours to 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.," says Corporate Affairs Manager with Walmart Canada Felicia Fefer.
She adds things like increased cleaning practices, wellness checks that include a temperature check for all associates at the start of each shift, and limiting the number of customers in the store at one time are at the top of a lengthy list.
Other measures now in place also include the installation of plexiglass dividers at registers, and customer service desks, floor markings, and one-way aisles to create physical distancing and mandatory mask use for associates and customers.
As of the end of day October 14th, the Grande Prairie Walmart remains under an Alberta Health Services monitored outbreak scenario. Outbreaks at public facilities, not including long term care facilities or schools, are reported publicly when there are five or more cases. Outbreaks are declared over when four weeks have passed with no new cases.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


I've been using Roll20 pretty much from release. Although I use Fog of War to reveal the map for the players, I really haven't used tokens. I'm tempted to change that in the future.
Monster Stand-Ins Virtual Table Top Tokens v1 is from Inkwell Ideas. If you don't know Inkwell Ideas, you probably know Hexographer, one of the easiest to use mapping programs in the hobby. Well, Inkwell has also published stock art and related projects, so VTT Tokens should be a perfect next step for them.
With Monster Stand-Ins VTT Tokens v1, you get over 80 monsters with over 130 different images for $2.95. That's a huge amount of bang for your buck.
So yeah, very tempted to spend a few bucks and start using minis, er... I mean TOKENS in my upcoming Swords & Wizardry Light sessions.
My regular gaming group, which in one form or another has been gaming most Saturday's since the Friends & Family D&D Next Beta, has had one gaming session since the summer began - and we are halfway through the fall.
I'll also be resurrecting the Friday Night "B" Team, where my 2nd group gets together for some S&W Light madness (we used Swords & Wizardry Complete before, but having two groups playtesting new material for Light will be wonderful). That won't re-kick until next month at best. The "B" Team is usually once a month and its a small core of players, so we may be open to drop ins. As this is their first notice of the impending resurrection, we'll discuss that more at a later time.
The Saturday night group will be more sandboxie in nature. As the Friday group will only be playing once a month, more or less, and will be a bit more structured.
Then in the late spring I plan on running some Swords & Wizardry Light at Legendary Realms out on Long Island.
To be honest, I'm not sure if I'm going to back This Defiant Earth, but it certainly deserves a close look.
I grew up a child of the 70s, and my after school babysitter was the 430 Movie. A staple of the 430 Movies was bad scifi from the 50s, and when I say bad scifi from the 50s, I mean that in the best way possible. The Blob still gives me nightmares.
So, an RPG that is specifically made for that crazy style of 50s scifi certainly grabs my attention, as does the art. The author used to draw comics for a living and it shows. His art is perfect for the genre.
THIS DEFIANT EARTH is a roleplaying game set in a universe inspired by the popular imagination of the 1950s: an Atomic Age dreamscape as envisioned by television, cheap paperback novels, comic books, and above all, movies. In this world, the American Dream is alive and well, but threatened by monsters from the deep recesses of the Earth, alien flying saucers, and sinister foreign agents pledged to destabilize the American way of life with super-advanced technology. Players take on the roles of America's noble defenders in these thrilling but dangerous times! It's up to you, dear reader, to stop the horde of gargantuan ants before they establish a colony in the heart of New York City. It's up to you to thwart the sinister plans of Kro-Gar, the conqueror from space. You will test-pilot rockets, fight monsters, challenge unknown landscapes, and make the world safe for freedom and democracy. You will stand a champion of…THIS DEFIANT EARTH!
THIS DEFIANT EARTH is rules-lite, so it's easy to learn and play. At the heart of the game's mechanics is a simple task resolution system based on rolling a pool of six-sided dice and counting the number of fives and sixes rolled. Each five or six is a success; match or exceed the required number of successes, and your action succeeds. Roll too few successes, and your action fails. It's as simple as that! There are some other variables to consider, of course--mostly situational modifiers--but those are the basics.
This Defiant Earth has met its minimum funding goal with 18 days left to go, so it should hit some stretch goals. I really like the concept, I just don't think my group would actually play it.
To tell you how under the weather I've been for the last two weeks or so, the latest episode of the Old School Blues Podcast released over a week ago and I've only thought of sharing it out now. Yeah, it's been that kind of a month so far.
Episode Five of OSB we talk about Star Trek RPGs. There have been so many different versions of Star Trek RPGs from different publishers, I really should do a post about it.
Its been a while since I've touched upon StarSlinger, the western SciFi setting I was working on for White Star. Swords & Wizardry Light sort of took precedence and then some.
Now, I'm not sure if I've discussed this, but my original thought for what became StarSlinger didn't involve SciFi as much as lighter than air ships and a solar system with three inhabitable planets. Inspired by Spelljammer and Calidar as much as from spaghetti westerns and Firefly, all wrapped up in more or less traditional fantasy.
I think I'm going to revisit that idea in a series of one sheets.
Yes, its the wrong box. Do you know how much wood grained goes for these days on eBay?
Dungeons & Dragons has entered the Toys Hall of Fame. Heck, Time Magazine has an article on it. D&D wasn't alone, either. The Swing and Fisher Price Little People also made the cut.
"The tabletop role-playing game that gave rise to World of Warcraft was created in 1974 by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson during a time when TIME credited the game for creating "a new genre of entertainment" that "encouraged teamwork to succeed" and inspired TV shows, films, online imitators and even an audiobook narrated by Ice-T."
There's more to read about Dungeons & Dragons and what Time Magazine wrote about it a few years after it came out. Go and read it. Its short but informative.
Link to the Toy Hall of Fame.
Today's Deal of the Day is a comic book. More accurately, its the first eight issues of Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms Classics Vol. 1.
Coming in at 210 page, this graphic novel is $2.99 (normally $4.99) for the next 17 hours or so.
Comes in both PDF and EPUB versions.
+James Spahn has releases this teaser piece of art for a new White Star release. While I MIGHT have some idea of what is in the works, I PROBABLY have been sworn to secrecy.
Because if I weren't, I'd be gushing.
Polyhedral Dungeon - normally $4.99 in PDF, for the next 16 hours is just $1.99. SC plus PDF is $5.99 and HC plus PDF is $7.99. Those are excellent prices for a 50 page release.
What can I say about Polyhedral Dungeon? Its the rare non-OSR RPG that I grokked right off the back, but that's probably because of its old school sensibilities.
Its a damn good game and plays well (I know, I've played it) $1.99 is a steal.
Disclaimer: The Badger / +Jason Paul McCartan is a good friend of mine. He writes games and adventures. He's pretty good at it and Polyhedral Dungeon is possibly his best work yet.
Yep, tonight is a Wednesday night, and that means another Tavern Chat.
We all know the US Presidential was yesterday and I'm sure the results will be on everyone's lips. No political talk tonight folks. Sorry. It always turns into a sordid mess.
We may talk a bit about Mazes & Perils Deluxe along with the usual scattershot of topics. I'll also filed any questions one might have about Swords & Wizardry Light's recent release and current plans for its future.
So, join us in that little chat box on the right side of the page. You can use just about any social media platform to log in.
Somehow this escaped my notice earlier. Black Books: Tomes of the Outer Dark is an OSR Mythos themed game. It looks like its pretty much CoC, but with OSR sensibilities. Haven't read it yet, but for a $1.50 I don't see how one could go wrong picking it up.
Black Books: Tomes of the Outer Dark is an OSR investigative horror role-playing game where the player characters are ordinary people (historians, detectives, scholars, artists etc.) drawn into a dark and horrific version of our world - the world of the Cthulhu Mythos. As the investigators learn more of the true horrors of the world and the irrelevance of humanity, their sanity inevitably withers away. The rules are biased towards playing in the 1920's although there is no reason these rules can't be adapted to other time periods. The rules are familiar - they use a D20 for most actions - and the games is class based, with 5 investigator classes - Charmer, Enforcer, Sneak, Scholar and Spiritualist. If you like old school gaming and you like horror, this might well be the game you're looking for!
Its nice to get recognized outside of the OSR circle and even nicer when that recognition is in print.
A tip of the hat to the Taverner that pointed this out to me.
Legendary Games has a bundle of 5e releases aptly named 20 for 20 - 20 PDF products for 5e with a total value of over $100 for 20 bucks.
It includes adventures, bestiaries and more.
"Incidentally that is also the time frame when design assignments are supposed to go out for the Lost Lands Campaign Setting boxed set that we're Kickstarting next June"
The upcoming Lost Lands Campaign Setting Boxed Set hasn't been so much a secret - I've heard rumors and rumblings of it for nearly a year, but this IS the first time I've seen a date associated with the launch of its Kickstarter.
I really enjoy reading all the material that's been set in the Lost Lands thus far and a boxed set for the setting just makes me feel all warm inside.
I'll be on top of this upcoming project and I'll update when I know more.
edit: here's the update - June 2017 is "tentative"
Before I talk about the Dungeon Grappling RPG Supplement Kickstarter, let me talk about the man behind the project, +Douglas Cole . I've known Doug for a couple of years. I was one of his earlier Youtube interviews (my God, I actually spoke favorably about Ken Whitman in that piece). Additionally, Doug was one of the key members of my "B-Team" adventuring party, a once a month, more or less, delving of Castle of the Mad Archmage. He is also well known as a bit of a GURPS fanatic (and I can say that as a solid Swords & Wizardry fanatic myself.) Doug is one of the more meticulous gamers I know, and I mean that is a good way. I fully expect any project he is involved in to hit the goal post and the some.
I came into gaming with the AD&D 1e rules. If you care to think back on that edition of Dungeons & Dragons, you will remember that the unarmed combat / grappling rules were an unintelligible mess. We never used them. We couldn't make heads or tails from them. If my players wanted to go weaponless, I used to tell them they should have made a Monk instead.
Doug was kind enough to forward me the current rough of Dungeon Grappling. I haven't had time to give it more than a quick glance, but what I have looked at looks good. He even addresses rulesets with descending AC. I'll give this a closer look over the coming week.


David Dahl (26) of the Colorado Rockies freezes during a pitch from Caleb Smith (31) of the Miami Marlins in the second inning during the game between the Miami Marlins and the Colorado Rockies at Marlins Park on April 29, 2018 in Miami, Florida.
Throughout their history, the Colorado Rockies have always been known for their hitting. So far in 2018, they're bucking the trend.
After Monday's loss to the Cubs, Colorado is batting .224 on the season, ranking near the bottom of the majors. "Colorado's offense has never opened a season hitting so poorly," Patrick Saunders writes.
When it rains, it pours — the lineup took a hit as second baseman DJ LeMahieu, the 2016 NL batting champion, was placed on the DL on Monday. The team experimented with Ian Desmond — who's batting a paltry .178 with a .229 on-base percentage — in the leadoff spot on Monday. He went 0-for-5.
So what can be done? In Patrick's column on Sunday, he predicted that 24-year-old David Dahl "will be Colorado's starting left fielder by mid-May, at the very latest." Back in 2016, Dahl hit .315 with seven homers and 24 RBIs in 63 games. If he can rediscover that bat, maybe it'll provide the spark the Rox need.
+ Jennifer Roulier-Huth named Northern Colorado Bears' women's head basketball coach.
+ Rockies moves: DJ LeMahieu lands on DL; Carlos Gonzalez reinstated; Ian Desmond leads off.
+ The changes Velorama Festival is making to the layout, ticketing and lineup for its second year.
+ This. Is. Insane. Surfer sets world record by riding 80-foot wave in Portugal.
+ Tackle football before age 12 could result in earlier CTE symptoms, new study finds.
+ U.S. Olympic medal winner wants to compete for a new country in the next Games.
The number of points Celtics Al Horford, Jayson Tatum and Terry Rozier combined for in Boston's 117-101 win over the Philadelphia 76ers.


England soccer supervisor Gareth Southgate has turn into the most recent star to go on a mission into the wilderness with TV motion man Bear Grylls.
Grylls shall be seen testing the seemingly unflappable England boss on his "composure and poise beneath stress" in an ITV particular.
Southgate took the "final problem" on "a number of the nation's most rugged, unspoilt moorlands", ITV stated.
Bear's Mission with Gareth Southgate shall be screened within the coming months.
Grylls described Southgate as a "nationwide hero" after taking England to the World Cup semi-finals this summer season.
"Gareth's proven unbelievable power in his life changing into England supervisor and our mission collectively actually challenged him on so many ranges," he stated.
Southgate stated he had accepted the problem after going with the England squad to the Royal Marines Commando Coaching Centre for a weekend of navy coaching earlier than the World Cup.
"It was massively helpful for the staff and one thing I used to be eager to repeat," he stated.
No broadcast date has but been introduced but for the hour-long present.
Southgate follows within the footsteps of Warwick Davis, Rob Brydon and Anthony Joshua, who've all appeared on Bear's Mission With… for ITV.
In Bear's US present Operating Wild With Bear Grylls, Barack Obama, Kate Winslet and Roger Federer have been among the many stars he put to the check.


Two injured in crash between car and SUV on Dundas St.
London firefighters and paramedics worked for more than half an hour to free a crash victim from an SUV after the vehicle collided with a car and flipped on Dundas St. shortly after noon on Saturday.
While firefighters cut the SUV apart, eventually removing the entire roof, paramedics crawled inside and treated the injured man. Several dozen people watched the intense rescue from the sidewalk.
Dundas Street east of English St. was shutdown while the emergency crews worked.
A woman from the car was transported to hospital, along with the injured man. Police said the patients suffered non-life threatening injuries.
Both vehicles ended up on the north side of Dundas St. with the SUV on its side next to the sidewalk.


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La R160 est une classe de  de nouvelle génération du métro de New York, construites par deux sociétés différentes : Alstom Transportation et Kawasaki Heavy Industries. La classe est construite par deux usines ; les modèles ont donc deux désignations : « R160A » (Alstom) et « R160B » (Kawasaki). Cependant, bien que les deux voitures soient presque identiques, elles présentent plusieurs différences.

Historique

Caractéristiques

Notes et références

Voir aussi
 Métro de New York

Matériel roulant du métro de New York
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Those who serve and protect the U.S. are as diverse as the communities where we live, work, and serve our members. Centene is committed to supporting service members, veterans, reservists, and their families and helping them access high-quality healthcare. That support is not only a priority in serving members of the military but a focus within our workforce.
Health Net Federal Services (HNFS), a Centene subsidiary, has served our nation's military and veterans for more than 30 years. HNFS partners with the Department of Defense to provide healthcare to service members and their families. HNFS serves nearly three million beneficiaries, including active duty service members, veterans, members of the National Guard and Reserve, and their loved ones through the TRICARE program.
Since 2007, HNFS has partnered with the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), a nonprofit organization that helps those grieving the loss of a member of the armed forces. In 2019, the Centene Charitable Foundation entered into a five-year national partnership with TAPS to support suicide prevention and postvention outreach for friends and families of veterans.
Centene's dedication to ensuring our workplace engages our service members is further established through partnerships with organizations such as Hiring Our Heroes and Recruit Military. Centene also supports the Washington Center's Veterans Employee Trajectory Initiative, which gives 25 veterans from colleges nationwide an opportunity to participate in a summer internship in Washington, DC. Additionally, Centene partners with the Great Falls College–Montana State University Veteran Support Center to help veterans, their spouses, and dependents receive services geared toward classroom and career success.
Centene employees have the opportunity to participate in a virtual Veterans Day program put on by CENVET, Centene's Veterans and Military Families Employee Inclusion Group. The event will honor Veterans Day through a flag folding ceremony and remarks by executive leadership.  Employees are also invited to write encouraging letters to loved ones of those who have died while serving in the Armed Forces to further support TAPS. Letters from participating employees will be included with packaged resources for the TAPS Survivor Seminar and Good Grief Camp in November.
Centene was proudly recognized in 2018 with the Patriot Award from the Office of the Secretary of Defense and was named a Top Veteran-Friendly Company by U.S. Veterans Magazine in 2020. Learn more about Centene's commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace through our Employee Inclusion Groups.


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What Is The Best Time Of Day To Have Sex?
Time to send out a meeting invite.
Cara Hessels
We'll take sex whenever we can get it, but we also grudgingly acknowledge that scientists aren't just screwing around when they talk about the virtues of a well-timed tryst. Eager to find a better way to use our hands (the ones on our watch), we conducted field research and discovered through exhaustive and exhausting data collection that timing is, in fact, everything.
Don't worry. We took a break in there to talk to a researcher.
Wake and Quake: 7:00 am - 10:00 am
While morning sex sometimes feels less than ideal – you have sleep in your eyes, dragon breath, the night sweats, and, probably, a hangover – a sunrise shag is actually healthy. "That's when testosterone levels peak," says Dr. Harry Fisch, author of Size Matters. "When a man has higher testosterone and is well-rested, he has more energy during sex. That energy will help him last longer." You hear that, guys? Last longer. As in, you're a sex god. Your woman won't know what got into you, but she will love what's gotten into her.
And that's not all. It turns out that the rush of AM endorphins actually lowers blood pressure and stress levels and makes for a more upbeat rest of the day. "Morning sex can strengthen your immune system for the day by enhancing your levels of IgA, an antibody that protects against infection," adds Fisch. "And climaxing releases chemicals that boost levels of estrogen and testosterone, which improves the tone and texture of your skin and hair."
Yes, that orgasm makes you look good.
Afternoon Delight: 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
You know what sucks? Looking down at your watch and realizing it's only noon on a Wednesday. You know what's awesome? What scientists know about the therapeutic value of sex as stress relief. Our advice: Put down your sorry sandwich and take your humpday to the next level by sneaking off for an afternoon quickie. Not only are you breaking up your day nicely, but the afternoon sex session also has the added bonus of being extra naughty and secretive as you should be getting your work done. You'll strut, not walk, back into the office less anxious, full of confidence and ready to attack the rest of your day.
Just don't fall asleep at your desk.
Bed Time: 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Only having sex at night is like only eating vanilla ice cream for dessert: It makes sense in precisely the wrong way. After all, you're tired, you've had a long day, you've been dreaming of face-planting into your pillow for hours. We get it. We've been there. However, sex can actually help you sleep better. Like a drug, sex sets off certain chemical reactions in the brain that give us feelings of euphoria. Post-O, your body releases oxytocin and endorphins, aka, the feel-good hormones, which often have a sedative effect. So, next time you're in bed and your lady does that thing where she pushes up against you mid-spoon, do yourself a favor and push back. You'll feel better both immediately and in the morning.
Night Moves: Midnight - 3:00 am
You know what they say, after the party is the after-party. Whether you're at home, at a hotel or in a bar, late night sex can be either incredibly sexy or incredibly disappointing. In the late evening hours, you'll either surprise your woman with something spontaneous or with your demonstrable lack of enthusiasm. One too many at the bar will do you like that. Regardless, risk it. You'll most likely get to see a boob, which ain't nothing. And the serious stuff can always wait for the AM.
Morning sex is the most important meal of the day. While we would never recommend shooting down a romp in the sack depending on the time of day, we do suggest getting your rocks off in the raw morning hours. You'll look better, feel better - and seriously - why not start the day with an orgasm?
Get up and at 'em. The clock is ticking.
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HEATHER FRASCH, is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic concert music, performer/composer (flute, laptop/electronics & sonic objects), and creator of interactive sound installations and digital instruments. Through the creation of complex timbres, the usage of unstable notation systems, and electronics her work explores notions of fragility and stillness within an intermedia sonic arts practice. Influenced by the dis-embodiment of acousmatic music practices, she investigates the re-embodiment of sound and the intimacy between humans and their technological objects.
She will be Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, as composer/sound artist-in-residence for 2018-2019.


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Scranton/Lake Ariel, PA (October 2017) –PPL Foundation recently announced a grant in the amount of $6,000 to Lacawac Sanctuary to support its YES (Youth Engaging Science) Program.
Lacawac's YES (Youth Engaging Science) Program provides opportunities for students to participate in hands-on STEM programs both in and out of school including: biology, environmental science, biochemistry, conservation, and forestry.
The main educational goals of the YES Program are to allow students to explore collegiate pathways and careers in STEM including ecology and environmental fields by giving them hands-on experiences and support opportunities for participating in STEM projects and experiences.
Today, many schools have limited training and resources to fully develop and explore local water-related and forestry/land issues. Lacawac's STEM education programs are designed to fill this void by providing students, and their teachers, with a critical understanding of local water and forestry/land issues and related environmental and ecological concerns.
Lacawac's STEM and environmental education programs provide children with a basic knowledge of the water cycle, watershed management, water chemistry, aquatic life, pollution biology, forest growth and regeneration, native plant life, forest life and environmental science that should be part of every student's experience so that they become informed voters, community leaders and policy makers.
Lacawac Sanctuary is a nonprofit association founded in 1966 for the purpose of protecting a gift of the original Connell Park lands by Arthur and Isabel Watres and facilitating environmental education and scientific research. Located on Lake Wallenpaupack, the Lacawac Sanctuary Foundation plays an important role in the preservation of Lake Lacawac which is one of the southernmost glacial lakes in the hemisphere and has been preserved in pristine condition free from development and encroachment. For more information visit www.lacawac.org.
It was a beautiful day on the trails at Lacawac for the 4th annual Run and Walk. Thank you to all those who supported the event from our sponsors to our participants. The gallery below highlights the day's activities!


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Margarita Mathilda Miniati (Greek: Μαργαρίτα Ματθίλδη Μηνιάτη, 1821–1887) was a famous Greek scholar and writer who flourished in Italy during the 19th century.

Biographical information
She was born in Corfu in 1821 and she was the daughter of Dimitrios Alvanas and Aikaterini Palatianou. She had four more brothers and sisters, Leonidas, Friderikos, Nina and Sada. Being still a minor, she was adopted by her mother's sister and her husband, major general Sir Frederick Adam, who at that time served as commissioner of the British Empire in the Ionian Islands. After receiving a primary education in her home country, she followed her foster family in India where Adam had been transferred. Later, she went to Rome where she met the Greek painter Georgios Miniatis, with whom she got married in 1844. She made several trips to Europe until 1846, when she settled with her husband in Florence. There, she joined the artistic and intellectual circles of the city and she had intensified her work on letters, achieving to gain the admiration of many famous personalities of that time.

She died in 1887 in Livorno. Her body was moved to Florence where it was buried. From her marriage with Georgios Miniatis, she had two daughters, Eleni, who died in childhood, and Aspasia, who dealt with painting.

Works
Margarita Miniati is recognized as a multilingual and erudite personality and one of the most important scholars of her time. From 1857 she began her collaboration with the newspaper Hemerisia Nea of London and from 1860 she began to cooperate with several Italian publications. She wrote numerous works in Italian, English and French . In 1865 she published in English her study about "Dante and his time." In the next years other works followed such as "Historical outlines of intellectual and artistic relations of Italy with the Byzantine Empire" (1869), "Correggio, his life and his work" (1881), etc.

References

External links
National Book Center of Greece: Database – Archives – Alvana – Miniati Margarita – Mathilda.

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Burials in Florence


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Warped siding boards usually indicate a problem. Use a screwdriver or awe to poke the surface area and beneath the siding to determine the condition of the material and substrate. If the siding material or substrate feels soft or cracks easily, it is a sure sign that it's time to replace the siding.
Mold or mildew growth on interior walls adjacent to exterior walls could be an indication of excess moisture seeping in through compromised siding. In addition, peeling paint, sagging wallpaper, and soft or crumbling drywall could also point to a moisture problem resulting from compromised exterior siding.
Homes with wood siding often fall victim to dry rot. Lightly tap on the areas of your siding that you suspect of having dry rot. This will allow you to identify a dry rotted area as only the outer layer of siding will remain intact.
The colors and textures you choose for your new siding requires careful thought and consideration. Vinyl siding is manufactured in a wide range of colors while both wood and fiber cement board often require paint or stain.
One of the most important considerations to take into account when choosing a siding color is how your house will blend with the other houses in the neighborhood. While you may be attracted to a bright pink house, it might put a damper on your property values if it does not blend with the context of your neighborhood's color palette.
It would be beneficial to first check with your HOA before choosing a siding color. Homes under the protective umbrella of a homeowner's association often have rules and restrictions limiting your color choices and siding materials.
Climate considerations are also important regarding siding color. Homes located in hot climates would benefit from lighter siding colors as they are resistant to heat absorption.
Take into account door and window frame colors and how they will blend with your new siding color. In addition, if you plan to update them or other exterior features of your home in the future, you must consider those when choosing a siding color as well.
The type of siding material will have a profound effect on the color you choose. Although wood siding requires periodic painting for protection, it allows you the opportunity to change your color scheme.
Manufacturers produce vinyl siding in a wide range of colors. Although you can paint vinyl siding, you will lose its factory finish and maintenance-free properties.
One of the most important decisions regarding siding replacement is the type of material you choose for your project. Several options are available that require careful consideration and will depend on maintenance requirements, climate, and how the siding blends with existing homes in your neighborhood. The most common siding types used in residential construction are wood, vinyl, and fiber cement board.
Maintenance and upkeep are important when choosing a siding material. Vinyl siding requires the least amount of upkeep with just periodic washing. Wood on the other hand will require the most upkeep to keep it properly sealed and protected from the weather. Fiber cement siding is considered middle of the road, requiring light washing and periodic painting mostly for aesthetics.
Climate should weigh heavily on your siding choice. You must consider heat, humidity, rainfall, and insulating factors before choosing a siding type.
Cold weather homeowners might consider insulated siding to increase their home's energy efficiency.
Evaluate the siding types used in your neighborhood. To maintain or increase property values you should choose a type of siding that is common throughout your neighborhood.
In closing, financial concerns for large home improvement projects such as siding replacement always come first. It is important to note, that the type of siding you choose could have a positive or negative impact on your home's property value. Review your options with a siding contractor. Their knowledge and experience in the industry will allow them to evaluate and recommend the best siding replacement material for your home based on the aforementioned considerations above and your budget.


I find myself falling behind in Penguins game reviews when I don't get them up immediately following the game, which is why thanks to the World Series and a Halloween outing Saturday night, I'm back 2 games. But it seems a shame not to say anything, so I'll get in a brief little something-something.
Let's see, which games was this. Oh, that's right, now I remember another reason I wasn't so eager to get into this game. We sucked.
The Pens got the early lead with Sidney Crosby goal, assisted by Reechi and Malkin, and took the 1-0 lead into the 2nd.
After numerous opportunities, the Leafs finally tied in up in the 2nd, with an Alex Steen goal.
Heading into the 3rd, the Penguins were being severely overplayed, and yet somehow maintained in the game. It looked like one of those ugly games that a good team knows how to win. But then the 3rd period happened.
2 minutes into the 3rd the Penguins allowed two goals Jiri Tlusty in 35 seconds, giving the Leafs the 3-1 lead.
The Penguins made it somewhat more respectable, picking up another goal, this one on the power play (Goncahar assisted by Malkin and Crosby). But that was the game 5-2.
Its easy to blame Fleury for a 4 goal 3rd period, but it comes down to the Penguins not doing what they need to do, especially in the defensive and neutral zones.
Following the game Michel Therrien sounded somewhat befuddled in the post-game conference. He called it "a game that you have to win." Considering how the Leafs have been playing, I'd say he's right.
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Wag-on-the-Wall Clock - (Clocks) Of Dutch origin also called the Friesland Clock, for hanging on the wall; long exposed pendulum and weights.
Wainscot - (Wood, Furniture) Originally the term was used to describe a consignment of timber from the Baltic, by the seventeenth century the word was used to describe timber for use in furniture and panelling and it is this latter reference that has survived. The word derives from the Low German word wagenshot.
Waiter - (Silver) A small silver tray dating from the eighteenth century.
Waldglas - (Glass) A glass made in Germany during the Middle Ages, green, brown, yellow; sometimes called `Natural Forest Glass' because the alkali came from ferns and bracken.
Wallace, R. & Sons Mfg. Co. - (Silver, Silversmith, American) Wallingford, Connecticut from 1871 until 1956. They made the first German Silver or Nickel Silver in America. They also produced Silverplate, Triple Plate, Sterling Flatware, Hollowware and later Stainless Steel.
Walnut - (Wood) There are two varieties. The first, grown in Europe (including England) and some eastern countries, is pale brown with dark brown and black veining. The other, sometimes called `Virginia' or `black' walnut, is of a deep brown colour with dark markings and veining; it comes from the eastern states of the U.S.A. Walnut is an excellent carving wood and it takes a good finish. It was used in the solid in France and Italy during the Renaissance, but in England the age of walnut is 1660-1720.
Wan-gata – (Japanese) Name for a shape of Japanese Sake Cup. Bulbous form not flared at the rim and a small foot.
Wardrobe - (Furniture) Developed from the oak cupboard or press during the eighteenth century. Early wardrobes are not usually made with doors the full height, but have a hanging section above a tier (or tiers) of drawers. Large wardrobes dating from the middle of the eighteenth century are constructed in three sections, the centre forming a case of drawers or clothes press, the wings serving as hanging cupboards.
Warming Pan - (Household Accessories) Originally a covered metal pan enclosed in a wooden cage. In the fifteenth century the cage was dispensed with and a long handle was attached to the pan. The best are of brass, finely-pierced, and with iron handles.
Washing Stand - (Furniture) A stand specifically designed to hold a basin does not seem to have been made before the middle of the eighteenth century. In the second half of that century several types evolved, notably the `disguised' type which, when closed, looked like a small table or chest of drawers, the circular tripod basin-stand, usually with a small central shelf or drawer, and another type with so many fittings, including a mirror, that it almost qualifies as a dressing table.
Waster - (Ceramics, Porcelain, Term) Porcelain ruined in the firing so that when taken from the kiln it has to be thrown away.
Watch - (Clocks) The invention of the portable clock or watch goes back to the early sixteenth century. Germany took an early lead in watch-making, Nuremberg being famous for its watches, and later the industry was established in France, and at Geneva by 1585. The so-called `Nuremberg eggs' (q.v.), of flattened oval form, were made in the south of Germany between c. 1600-50. The first glasses were fitted to watches about 1600; prior to 1700 watches had one hand only. Few if any English watches were made before 1600.
Watercolor or Watercolour – (Fine Art) Any paint that uses water as a medium. Paintings done with this medium are known as watercolors. An exception to this rule is water miscible oil paints, which employ water as their medium, but are actually oil paints. When made opaque with white, watercolor is generally called gouache or body color. Tempera is another exception. Colors are usually applied and spread with brushes, but other tools can also used. The most common techniques for applying watercolor are called wet-on-dry and wet-on-wet, along with the dry brush techniques dry-on-dry and dry-on-wet. Colors can be removed while still wet, to various degrees by blotting. Most watercolor painting is done on paper, but other absorbent grounds can also be employed. The papers most favored by those who paint with watercolor is white, very thick, with high rag content, and has some tooth. "Watercolor" is the American spelling. "Watercolour" is the British spelling.
Waterfall Chandelier - (Lighting) A Crystal Chandelier that has rows of crystals or prisms that start out with a large ring and row after row gradually get smaller until there is just one central hanging crystal or prism. This style of chandelier was at the height of it popularity in the 1920s.
Waterford - (Glass, England) Glass Some glass seems to have been made at Waterford from the second quarter of the eighteenth century but it was not till the 1780's that activities became remarkable. In England the Glass Excise Act of 1745, which taxed flint glass by weight, discouraged the making of heavy glass. Ireland could not at first take much advantage of this owing to export restrictions; but in 1780 Irish glass-makers were allowed full freedom to export, a freedom quickly seized by English merchants. John Hill, member of a Stourbridge glass-making family, went to Waterford in 1784, taking more than fifty skilled workmen with him, to manage the Penrose Brothers' Glasshouse. The Penrose brothers relinquished control in 1799, but thanks to Hill, and later Jonathan Gatchell, a worldwide reputation was built up for Waterford cut glassware. A decline set in about 1830 (the glass excise duty imposed in Ireland in 1825 may have had something to do with this) and the glasshouse closed in 1851. Waterford glass has no distinctive features and, unless a stamped seal shows the makers' name, identification is difficult, even for the expert.
Waves – (Chinese Symbolism) The home of Dragons.
Weather Station – (Scientific Instrument) – A decorative unit containing a Hygrometer, Barometer and Thermometer. They come in many forms and configurations. The case can be made out of any material from plastic to wood, and they can hang on a wall or sit on a shelf.
Webley Revolver - (Weapon, Firearm, England) The most successful British weapon of its type, still the prominent product of Webley & Scott Ltd., Birmingham, developed from the unique double-action invention of Philip Webley and Robert Adams, 1851.
Wedgwood - (Pottery, Porcelain, Stoneware, England) The great name in Staffordshire pottery. Records of the Wedgwoods, as potters, date back to the early seventeenth century. Josiah Wedgwood (1730-95), the son of Thomas and Mary Wedgwood, was apprenticed as a thrower to his brother Thomas in 1745; by 1754 he had commenced a five-year partnership with Thomas Whieldon; in 1759 he launched out on his own. Ten years later the factory he had built, Etruria, was in production and in that year (1769) his partnership with Thomas Bentley began, a partnership that lasted till Bentley's death in 1780. The business continued to prosper during Wedgwood's lifetime, went into decline under the direction of his son, Josiah Wedgwood II, and subsequently, but is today in high regard again.
Wedgwood experimented from the beginning, certainly from the time he was with Whieldon. He was fortunate in that his creamware, perfected in the early 1760's, soon after he setup on his own, was such a commercial success. It was the bread-and butter line that enabled him to devote time and cash to the superb ornamental wares, particularly jasper and basalts, and to such projects as copying the Portland vase (q.v.). The greatest of English potters, Wedgwood's influence on his fellow manufacturers of pottery and porcelain both in Britain and on the Continent was profound.
Marks nearly always include the word `Wedgwood' although the initials `w' & B.' (for Wedgwood and Bentley) may be encountered. The inclusion of the Christian name `Josiah' indicates the period of Josiah Wedgwood II.
Welsh Dresser - (Furniture) A side-table or dresser consisting of potboard, two-doored cupboard, drawers and a shelved upper structure. This is the usual form, though there are variations. Normally of oak.
Whalebone - (Materials) Whalebone is actually baleen which are the plates found in the upper jaws of a whale that filters plankton. The material is horn-like. It is a popular material to decorate with scrimshaw.
Whatnot - (Furniture) Square or rectangular stand of three or four tiers with turned, sometimes bobbin-shaped, pillars and drawer beneath; on castors often; of rosewood, mahogany, walnut. Georgian and Regency examples often have ormolu rails; The Victorian era was the heyday of the whatnot are sometimes adorned with fretwork.
Wheel Barometer - (Scientific Instrument) A Wheel Barometer is a barometer with re-curved tube, and a float, from which a cord passes over a pulley and moves an index.
Wheel-lock - (Weapon, Firearms) Form of gun ignition. The matchlock musket was extremely clumsy, and about 1517 at Nuremberg the wheel-lock was invented-possibly based on the extant fifteenth century designs of Leonardo da Vinci. The wheel employed has a serrated edge and is first `wound up', then released to spin and make contact with pyrites, thus showering sparks on priming in the pan. Its principal advantage over earlier methods was that a wheel-lock gun could be loaded and carried or left about ready to fire at once. But it was expensive to make.
Whieldon, Thomas - (Ceramics, Pottery, England) (1719-95) Staffordshire potter of distinction who established his factory at Fenton Low in 1740, had Josiah Wedgwood as a partner 1754-59, made every kind of pottery that could be made in his time, and retired a rich man about 1780. Whieldon's name is particularly associated with `agate' ware, `tortoiseshell' ware and `marbled' wares. He also made figurines though not so many as are attributed to him, simple, lively and colourful. There are no marks on Whieldon's wares.
White Furniture Company - (Furniture Manufacturer) their Tag Line says "South's Oldest Makers of Fine Furniture"; manufactured in Mebane, North Carolina. Large-scale, mechanized furniture operations first emerged in the Piedmont region in the 1880s. Among the earliest was the White Furniture Company in Mebane, organized by brothers David and William White in 1881. With a little cash and a loan from a family friend, they began producing oak dining room tables. Known for years as the South's oldest maker of fine furniture, White Furniture would remain in Mebane for more than 100 years.
Wig-stand - (Personal Accessories) A wooden standard, usually on a circular base, with a bulbous or mushroom-shaped knob at the top. Used for storing and dressing a wig.
Willow - (Wood) A soft tough wood that takes a good polish; often dyed black and used for inlay and applied ornament on furniture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Willow Pattern - (Ceramics, Pattern) Probably the most popular example of chinoiserie applied to the decoration of porcelain in England. A specialty of Spode and Minton.
Wilton Carpets - (Floor Coverings) Wilton, Wiltshire, has been noted for its carpets since 1740 when a factory was established as a result of the efforts of the Earl of Pembroke to introduce the Brussels manner of carpet making (woven as velvet). The cutting of the looped pile was probably practiced from the beginning. The Axminster looms were acquired in 1835 and since then knotted pile carpets have been made.
Wm. B. Kerr & Co. - (Silversmith, Goldsmith, American) Originally Kerr & Thiery The Wm. B. Kerr & Co. was established by William B. Kerr in Newark, New Jersey in 1855. They used the trademark of a Medieval Axe from 1855 until 1892. In 1892, they started using a fleur-de-lis trademark this mark was used until the company was purchased by the Gorham Corporation in 1906. It was then moved to Providence, Rhode Island in 1927. They made flatware, hollowware, jewelry, cigarette cases, women's bags, vanity, and dresser ware.
Windsor Chair - (Furniture) A type of chair with back and legs formed of spindles and turnings inserted in a shaped seat which is usually of elm. The spindle back surmounted by a top rail was usual till about 1740 when the hoop back came in. Manufactured chiefly in Buckinghamshire, this type of chair was widely used as a garden chair, and in inns and farmhouses. The woods used were beech, elm, ash or yew.
Wine Cistern - (Furniture) An oval or circular vessel, usually on legs, for keeping bottles cool. Wooden cisterns, lead-lined, came in about 1730. Most are of mahogany, often with brass hoops and mounts. Cisterns of metal date from the late seventeenth century.
Wine Cooler - (Tableware, Silver) A smallish silver vessel for keeping a single bottle cool.
Wine Goblet - (Silver, Glass, Pottery) A Wine Goblet is a type of drinking vessel consisting of a tapered bowl that sits on a pedestal foot. The earliest known examples date from the 15th century and were ecclesiastical in origin. In the late 17th century, glass became more common and this meant that the numbers of silver goblets reduced. In the Georgian/Victorian periods, silver Wine Goblets became popular again, so they were made in large numbers, and are still being made today. The majority of wine goblets had a deep tapered bowl sitting on an elongated pedestal foot with spreading base. Most were round in cross-section, and decoration varied from plain ascetic Georgian styles through engraved neoclassical, and heavily engraved or chased Victorian examples. Their interiors were often gold-gilt, because some people claimed they could taste the silver in their wine. The level of craftsmanship and their aesthetic qualities determine their value. Unusual shapes or engraved scenes, and forms command the highest prices. Many goblets were engraved with crests or monograms and then later removed so always check the bowl walls for thin spots. They must also be undamaged with good clear hallmarks and crisp detail.
Wine Table - (Furniture) A type of table, dating from the late eighteenth century, specifically designed for after dinner drinking. A typical example is horseshoe-shaped and has two metal coasters attached to a brass rod (or sliding in a well).
Wine Waiter - (Furniture) A wagon on legs with castors for circulating wines and spirits in a dining room. The top is in effect a partitioned tray. They were made in the second half of the eighteenth century.
Wing Bookcase - (Furniture) Another name for the breakfront bookcase.
Wingback Chair - (Furniture) - Upholstered chair with high back and projecting or winged sides, the wings are sometimes called Cheeks, the arms usually ending in a scroll or turnover. It was useful type of chair that protected the person sitting in it from drafts. Also called Wing Chair and Grandfather Chair.
Witch Ball - (Glass) Glass globe, often lustred or otherwise treated to resemble polished silver.
WMF - (Mark)(Silverplate, Stainless Steel, Bronze) Wurttembergische Metallwarenfabrik - Geislingen, Germany. This company started making Hollowware in 1897. They advertised under the WMF – IKORA name. They made the original tarnish resistant silverplate – Stainless Steel, multicolored Ikora metal and bronze Castings. The Company was known for its Art Nouveau Styles.
Wood Family Potters - (Ceramics, Pottery, England) Family of Staffordshire potters, the most famous being Ralph I active c. 1750-70; figures and toby jugs are notable, his son Ralph II and his grandson Ralph III who continued the business till about 1800; Aaron Wood, a brother of Ralph I, was the finest block-cutter of his time and worked for nearly all the leading potters and probably at the Longton Hall porcelain factory; Enoch Wood, a son of Aaron, was active 1783-1840, trading variously as Enoch Wood & Co., Wood and Caldwell, and, from 1818, Enoch Wood & Sons.
Wood & Sons (Ltd) - (Pottery, England) They are known for making Flow Blue pottery, Blue & White and Mulberry Transferware. The Wood and Son Pottery was located in Trent & New Warf Potteries from 1894 and in Burslem, Staffordshire, Circa 1865. Wood & Son reissued many patterns that they purchased from the New Warf Pottery in 1894. The printed name mark "Wood & Son" was used from 1865 through 1907. The "Wood & Sons" mark was used from 1907 through 1910. The "Wood & Sons Ltd." mark was used from 1910 through 1981. In 1982 they changed the mark to "Wood & Sons (1982) Ltd." Advertising marks that have been noted on their wares are: Complements, Geo. T. Horan House Furnishers, Charleston, Mass.; Clifford Black & Co., Malden, Mass.; Geo. A. Folsom & Co., Teas & Coffees, Boston, Mass.; W. B. Fuller Co., Mansfield, Mass.
Worcester - (Ceramics,Porcelain, England) The Worcester `Tonquin Manufacture' was established in 1751 by a company which included Dr John Wall, Richard and Josiah Holdship. In 1783 the factory was bought by Thomas Flight for his sons, Joseph and John. After the death of John Flight, Barr was taken into partnership in 1792 and from that year until 1840 the firm's style went like this: 1792 to 1807, Flight & Barr; 1807 to 1813, Barr, Flight & Barr; 1813 to 1840, Flight, Barr & Barr. In 1840 Robert Chamberlain's factory was amalgamated with the older company. From 1852 to 1862 the firm traded as Kerr & Binns and from 1862 to the present the correct style is the Royal Worcester Porcelain Company. Two local factories were victims of take-over bids: that of Thomas Grainger in 1889 and that of James Hadley & Sons in 1905.
Early Worcester had a soft-paste body which contained soap rock; it shows greenish when held up to the light and appears somewhat opaque when viewed from a distance. Underglaze blue was a favored decoration and the usual Oriental influences are apparent. From about .1765 Meissen provides the inspiration, soon (from 1768) to be rivaled by Sevres. Transfer-printing was much used at Worcester (Robert Hancock was closely associated with the company for a time); painted decoration by such miniaturists as J. H. O'Neale and John Donaldson was of a very high order; a great deal of Worcester porcelain was decorated in the London workshop of James Giles during the 1760's and 70's. Figures were never a specialty at Worcester and are relatively rare. Japan patterns were much used from the early years of the nineteenth century. Figure painting was quite outstanding, as were topographical scenes, but most of the floral decoration was dull. Some pierced wares are prized, and the `egg shell' china produced from the 1850's has many collectors.
Marks are many and varied. Typical are the crescent `c', several stylistic variations on the letter `W', pseudo-Meissen and Chinese marks. The crown appears after the king's visit in 1788. There are many workmen's marks, and, of course, `Flight', `Flight & Barr', `B.F.B.' and `F.B.B.' are self explanatory.
Work Table - (Furniture) A table for ladies, at which they did their needlework, etc., made from the second half of the eighteenth century. A lifting top is quite common in such tables; a writing board is often incorporated; a frequent feature is the suspended silk bag or pouch. A different type, the French work table, has a tray for a top and shelves below.
Writing Chair - (Furniture) See Roundabout Chair.
Wrought Iron - (Metal) Ductile iron that has been `wrought', worked, formed, by hand. As opposed to cast iron, which is hard and brittle, wrought iron is malleable and tough.
Wu Ts'ai - (Ceramics, Porcelain, Decoration, Chinese) 'Five-color' overglaze decoration on Ming porcelain. The `five' is misleading as it really means polychrome. Red and green were the main colors used, with the addition of yellow and purple. The wu ts'ai wares of the Wan Li period are most prized.
Wyeth, Andrew – (Artist USA 1917- ) Andrew Wyeth was born July 12, 1917 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest of five children. Andrew was a sickly child and so his mother and father made the decision to pull him out of school after he contracted whooping cough. His parents home-schooled him in every subject including art education. Andrew's father, Newell Convers Wyeth was a well-known illustrator whose art was featured in many magazines, calendars, posters, and murals. He worked primarily in watercolors and egg tempera and he began by painting watercolor studies of the rocky coast and the sea in Port Clyde, Maine. He held his first one-man show of watercolors painted around the family's summer home in 1937. He married Becky James at the age of twenty-two and had two boys, Nicholas who became an art dealer, and James who became the third generation artist in his family.


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Justia Dockets & Filings Ninth Circuit California Eastern District Vasquez et al v. Leprino Foods Company et al Filing 4
Vasquez et al v. Leprino Foods Company et al
ORDER Relating and Reassigning Case, signed by District Judge Anthony W. Ishii on 6/14/17: The Clerk of the Court is directed to relate this action to Finder v. Leprino, Case No. 1:13-cv-02059 AWI BAM. (Hellings, J)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 12 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 13 15 VICTOR VASQUEZ and LINDA HEFKE on behalf of all other similarly situated individuals, 16 PlaintiffS, 14 17 18 19 20 21 CASE NO. 1:17-CV-00796-DAD-SKO ORDER RELATING AND REASSIGNING CASE LEPRINO FOODS COMPANY, a Colorado Corporation; LEPRINO FOODS DAIRY PRODUCTS COMPANY, a Colorado Corporation; and DOES 1-50, inclusive, Defendants. On November 15, 2013, Plaintiff Jerrod Finder ("Finder") filed a wage and hour class 22 action against Leprino Foods Company and Leprino Foods Dairy Products Company 23 (collectively "Leprino"), alleging California Labor Code violations including failures to provide 24 a second meal break or accurate itemized statements, waiting time violations, Unfair Business 25 Practices Act violations, and Private Attorneys General Act claims based on those substantive 26 violations. On January 21, 2015, Jonathon Talavera ("Talavera") filed a wage and hour class 27 action against Leprino, alleging, (1) claims relating to Leprino's donning and doffing procedure 28 for required sanitary gear, (2) the same second meal period denial claim as Finder, and (3) claims 1 1 for failure to pay all hours worked, overtime, and wages upon termination (based on both (a) the 2 second meal period and rest period denials, and (b) the donning and doffing related claims). The 3 Court consolidated the two actions on November 21, 2016. Finder v. Leprino, Case No. 1:13-cv4 2059-AWI-BAM, Doc. 63. On January 20, 2017, the Court stayed the consolidated action. Id. at 5 Doc. 81. 6 On April 13, 2017, counsel for Talavera filed Perez v. Leprino. Perez v. Leprino, EDCA 7 Case No. 1:17-cv-00686-AWI-BAM, Doc. 1 at 11-32. That action was removed to this Court on 8 May 18, 2017, and assigned to District Judge Dale Drozd. Id. The following day, Leprino filed a 9 notice of related cases. Id. at Doc. 3. This Court related and reassigned that action on May 24, 10 2017. 11 On May 8, 2017, counsel for Talavera filed Vasquez v. Leprino. Vasquez v. Leprino, 12 EDCA Case No. 1:17-cv-00796, Doc. 1 at 10-26. That action was removed to this Court on June 13 12, 2017. Doc. 1. The following day, Leprino file a notice of related cases. Doc. 3. The Vasquez 14 action appears to raise some of the same claims for potentially the same class period as the 15 actions involving Leprino presently assigned to this Court. E.g., compare Doc. 1 at 18-22 16 (alleging claims for meal period violations, wage statement violations, and conversion) with 17 Perez v. Leprino, EDCA Case No. 1:17-cv-00686-AWI-BAM, Doc. 10 at 15-16, 18-19, 21-22 18 (same). 19 Local Rules provide that when a "Judge to whom the action with the lower or lowest 20 number has been assigned determines that assignment of the actions to a single Judge is likely to 21 effect a savings of judicial effort or other economies, that Judge is authorized to enter an order 22 reassigning all higher numbered related actions to himself or herself." Local Rule 123(c). The 23 above-entitled action appears to involve similar questions of fact and law as Finder v. Leprino, 24 Talavera v. Leprino, and Perez v. Leprino. Assignment to the same judge is likely to effect a 25 substantial savings of judicial effort. See Local Rule 123(a)(3). Because the undersigned is 26 assigned the lowest numbered related case, the above-entitled case is hereby reassigned from the 27 dockets of District Judge Dale A. Drozd and Magistrate Judge Sheila K. Oberto to the dockets of 28 Senior District Judge Anthony Ishii and Magistrate Judge Barbara A. McAuliffe. The Clerk of 2 1 the Court is also respectfully directed to relate this action to Finder v. Leprino, Case No. 1:132 cv-02059-AWI-BAM. 3 4 IT IS SO ORDERED. 5 Dated: June 14, 2017 SENIOR DISTRICT JUDGE 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 3


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Money management: Can you afford it?
So, money management. Can you afford it? On the face of it you can, because there's the money in the bank that's maybe not doing much. After all, the bank is paying you 0.00001% on your deposit account, you don't understand the stock market so there's no point risking it there because you could lose a lot more than whatever you've seen in the shop will cost you. Why not treat yourself?
Honestly, if you don't have a financial plan, you've absolutely no idea if you can afford that new thing or not! Absolutely none!
You want to have a certain amount of money and assets by a certain age. I would suggest at least $1M by the age of 50 including your house, pension plans and whatever as a minimum. For a couple, it's at least $1.5M.
Anyway, let's assume for the moment that you're saving in line with this plan and that you've been following it religiously for the last 3 years. This means at the age of 28, you should have about $25,000 in the bank or in assets, at the age of 40, you should have about $350,000 in the bank or in assets. Even this is the absolute minimum and unexpected things can happen along the way like being unemployed for a few months which might eat into your savings and prevent you from adding to them during this period.
If at the age of 28, you haven't got $25,000 in net worth, you can't afford it! And even if you can, you might prefer, having thought about it in these terms, to pass on that impulse purchase and to keep the money in the bank instead.
If you have a partner, it's possible that, even though you're focused on the long-term, your partner is more of the spend-it-if-you've got-it variety. If this is the case, it's absolutely crucial that you have your numbers straight in your head to be able to push back against unnecessary purchases that would take you away from your (joint) financial objectives. And don't forget that the numbers I've given are only for a single person, not a couple.
Having said all of the above, it's important to have a bit of slurge-wiggle room in your monthly budget if possible to buy a few things that are not completely necessary. This will actually help you stay on track because otherwise you might simply throw the budget out of the window as being too restrictive and depressing.
You can only afford to spend any surplus you have after meeting your savings goals first. By thinking about your finances in this way, you're well on your way to simple money management!


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Home Science News
Electrocaloric refrigerators could be a more energy-efficient, light-weight alternative to today's fridges
Experimental technology for the future.
in News, Physics
What an electrocaloric element looks like (left), next to the electrocaloric device with rotating rings (right). Credit: American Institute of Physics.
Physicists at Penn State University are experimenting with a novel type of refrigerator. No bigger than a beverage coaster, this so-called electrocaloric refrigerator generates a temperature difference of about 2 degrees Kelvin between its hot and cold ends. The device is based on the electrocaloric effect which involves switching electric fields to a material to increase or decrease its temperature. Though the absolute cooling effect might not sound impressive at this point, scientists say this method has the potential to be more energy efficient than conventional cooling methods employed today in modern refrigerators or other cooling devices.
Unlike air conditioners and refrigerators, most of which are based on traditional vapor-compression-cycle-based cooling, the electrocaloric refrigerator is based on a reversible temperature change under an applied electric field. It is often regarded as the reverse of the pyroelectric effect.
The Penn State team led by Professor Qiming Zhang experimented with electrocaloric materials and arrangements. Their device consists of multiple ceramic rings each made up of around a dozen or so coin-sized elements. These rings rotate at a rate of several RPMs and when the elements of a ring rotate toward the hot end, an electric field is applied to the elements ejecting heat in the process. When the elements rotate toward the cool end, the reverse process occurs — the electric field is turned down to zero turning the elements into heat absorbers. Because heat is exchanged between adjacent rings that rotate in opposite directions, the cool end of the device cooler and the hot end hotter over time.
Previously, the researchers simulate what their device might behave like and so it was quite the victory for them to see their novel refrigerator working as expected. The prototype currently maintains a temperature difference of 2 K between the hot and cold ends. It's made of commercially available ceramics and only two electrocaloric rings which can only mean there's a lot of room to augment performance.
In March 2006, Zhang and colleagues made an electrocaloric refrigerator from thin films of PZT (a mixture of lead, titanium, oxygen, and zirconium) the strongest electrocaloric response yet reported, with the materials cooling down by as much as ~12 K (12 °C). However, the effort required an electric field change of 480 kV/cm and at an ambient temperature of 220 °C (430 °F).
"In the future, we will focus on developing electrocaloric materials (including polymer and ceramic) which can generate the electrocaloric effect at very low voltage," Zhang told Phys.org. "We will also work on scaling up the current state-of-the-art electrocaloric materials to the commercial scale, which can be used reliably with an applied voltage of less than 200 volts."
Hopefully, an electrocaloric refrigerator will one day become practically viable to consumers as more energy-efficient and lightweight alternative to today's fridges. These could be anything from wine chillers to computer coolers to air conditioners.
Journal reference: Tian Zhang et al. "An electrocaloric refrigerator with direct solid to solid regeneration." Applied Physics Letters. DOI: 10.1063/1.4986508.
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Q: Is there any way to backup and restore your iOS apps *without* re-downloading all of them? I've got a problem. The first step, as they say, is acceptance. My problem, is apps.
I've got over four hundred on my phone, generally. It floats around that count, anyway. I think, perhaps, it comes from when I was a Boy Scout: "be prepared, zing-zing bong-bong," and all that.
But in all seriousness: waiting two or three days, without leaving WiFi range (meaning, since I travel a lot, two or three days being phone-less while it sits at home) for all of my apps to re-download themselves … is painful, at best; and lifestyle-restricting at worst.
I'm a techie. I know quite a bit about these things, generally; and I know that there must be some way, complex as it may be, to backup the actual .app folders and restore the same, without excruciatingly-slowly re-downloading dozens of gigabytes of apps every single time I drop my phone, or update to a new iOS beta, or suffer some other data-calamity.
Anybody know?

A: You can backup the iphone from itunes from a mac/windows pc and the when you need to restore choose to restore from an itunes backup.

A: Thanks to @JashJacob and @HelpingHand for the obvious, although not to me (since I haven't used iTunes in years), answer:
iTunes can, when set up to sync with a given phone, sync just the applications down from the phone. They can then be synced back to a new phone, again with the same iTunes instance.

A: Absolutely no need to waste your time re-downloading the apps via WiFi. Simply transfer all app files to iTunes on your PC or mac.
Then back up the iPhone with iTunes.
The next time you need to restore your apps and app data to the iPhone, simply restore from the iTunes backup and sync the iPhone with iTunes. All apps and app data will be restored. The app files themselves are backed up to your "Mobile Applications" folder in the "iTunes Media" folder - so absolutely no need for re-downloading the apps.

A: You could use iFunbox to save all your apps individually or you could use iTunes to sync all your apps at once

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The tech giants from Silicon Valley such as Google, Microsoft, and Apple are a able allurement for the best talent. Thousands of the best and brightest developers, designers, engineers, abstracts scientists, and artefact managers do whatever they can to get a job there.
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Robert Horry checked in with Scoop B Radio's Brandon 'Scoop B' Robinson. Press Play Below To Listen!
Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls won their first three championships in '91, '92 and '93. Then, MJ retired from hoops, played baseball and the Houston Rockets won championships in '94 and '95.
Million dollar question: Would the Houston Rockets have beaten the Bulls had MJ not retired?
"Oh we would've beat them," former Houston Rocket and current TNT analyst, Kenny 'The Jet' Smith told me last year on the Scoop B Radio podcast.
Well, another former Houston Rocket has weighed in: Robert Horry!
"Michael and Scottie have their own opinions," Robert Horry told me on this week's episode of the Scoop B Radio Podcast.
Horry, Smith, Olajuwon, Otis Thorpe, Mario Elie, Sam Cassell and head coach, Rudy Tomjanovich rummaged through the NBA's Western Conference and gave the Eastern Conference elites: New York Knicks and Orlando Magic, a piece of their minds in the NBA Finals.
"I played for Phil and he doesn't like to double team and you had to double Hakeem or he would have had 50 on you," said Horry.
When asked on where he'd draw the line of comparison between Hakeem Olajuwon and Michael Jordan, Horry was more than honest. "It's hard to compare them because one is a guard and one is a big and everybody wants to compare players nowadays," he said.
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From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 14 August 1801
To Robert Smith
Monticello Aug. 14. 1801.
I recieved yesterday mr Thomas's favor covering the list of warrants for the week, and your's of the 7th. inst. I am very glad to learn your opinion on the question of admitting French & English prizes into our ports, & that it coincides with my own. indeed it is the opinion of every member of the administration. I consider that we are free to recieve, or to refuse the prizes of both nations, & that our best policy will be to reject both: treating them with exact equality. still I have urged to mr Madison not to permit a foreign minister to suppose that he may on the simple foundation of a newspaper paragraph call on the government to determine questions of the first interest. let it be known that a fact is authentic, & what is it's exact character, & then we may act on real & not hypothetical ground. the real facts arising will occupy all our time. if we spend any in hypothetical discussions, we shall want time for real business.
Not knowing what precise portion of Genl. Dearborne's business you undertake to execute, I inclose open to you a letter addressed to him. I would wish not only yourself but mr Gallatin to see the extract. you will probably think it well to seal & forward it to Genl. Dear-borne, as, before his return, he may have some opportunities of enquiry. it is necessary we should all know all the facts of this nature, & reflect on them; as we have to determine the question whether we can avoid laying them before Congress consistently with our duty. accept assurances of my sincere attachment & high consideration.
Th: Jefferson
PrC (DLC); at foot of text: "Robert Smith Secretary of the navy." Enclosure: TJ to Henry Dearborn, 14 Aug., with enclosure.
Mr Thomas's Favor: Abishai Thomas to TJ, 10 Aug., transmitting an abstract of warrants on the Treasury related to the Navy Department for the week ending 8 Aug. (RC in DLC, endorsed by TJ as received from the Navy Department on 13 Aug. and "Warrants" and so recorded in SJL; FC in Lb in DNA: RG 45, LSP).
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Jefferson Papers
Smith, Robert
"From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 14 August 1801," Founders Online, National Archives, accessed April 11, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-35-02-0067. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 35, 1 August–30 November 1801, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008, pp. 90–91.]
From Smith to Jefferson [7 August 1801]
From Smith to Jefferson [17 August 1801]
All correspondence between Smith and Jefferson