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Touring Alabama in 1820, 1821 – Letters written home by Adam Hodgson
August 10, 2017 July 8, 2017 by Donna R Causey
Touring Alabama in 1820, 18211
Written ca. 1820
Adam Hodgson
In the course of the year 1820, and the spring of 1821, I made an extensive tour through Upper and Lower Canada and the United States of America, traversing the latter through Maine and Louisiana, through Alabama, and back again through the States of Mississippi and Tennessee.2
. . . With these views we proceeded through the new settling districts in Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Virginia; living almost entirely among very recent emigrants, sleeping with them in their log-huts, erected in many cases the week before, and through the sides and roofs of which the stars twinkled upon us as we lay on the floor, with a brilliancy quite unknown in our little island.
My conversation with these hardy pioneers turned naturally on the peculiarities of their situation, their past sacrifices, or present difficulties, and their prospective compensation; and as I made it a rule, from which I deviated only in one instance, to get rid before night of any companions whom I might happen to have picked up in the course of the day, 1 was usually enabled to make myself one of the family, and by sitting down with them at their meals, or over their fire, to draw them out, and render them very communicative. By this plan, I not only escaped the effects of the possible ill temper, or want of suavity,of a travelling companion, under the little trials of our novel accommodations, but, by creating less bustle in the family, I saw things more in their ordinary state.
Indian Corn
Few regretted the move
In our course through the above mentioned States, we met with only three or four cases in which the emigrants regretted the change; although the price which some of those in Alabama had been obliged to pay for their Indian corn the first year, (and which amounted in the case of one family to six dollars per bushel, and for one purchase eight,) had thrown them back three or four years in their calculations.
All these, however, were Slave-States; and I was glad to find that my servant considered that a decided objection to settling in them. Indeed, as no title could be obtained but by purchase, there were no decided inducements to those, who, like him, have only from 80l. to 100l.
Unpopular to bid against the squatters
We found many families living very comfortably on land which they had taken possession of, and had cleared, on the presumption that some peculiarities in the situation would prevent its being brought to sale for many years, and that they should obtain something for their improvements, even if they should not have realized sufficient in the mean time to purchase a title to their occupation.
It is very unpopular to bid against these "Squatters;" and for the improvements of a single year, and the produce of a single crop, it was common for them, till the late depression of prices, to obtain a fair remuneration for the labour employed.
The first night we lay out in the woods in Alabama, one of the points discussed by some Carolinian emigrants, who came to our fire to have a little chat before bed-time, was the eligibility of stopping on the road a year, to make and sell a crop from the public lands in their way, or of proceeding without delay to their ulterior destination in the state of Mississippi. They appeared pretty nearly decided on the former plan.
. . . We left Milledgeville (Georgia) at eight o'clock, on the 21st, and arrived at Fort Hawkins, 32 miles distant, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. In the course of the day, we passed several settlements, and occasionally our eyes were regaled with a few acres of peach trees in full blossom. The cleared land, however, seldom extended into the forest above a few hundred yards from the road, and occurred but at distant intervals.
Passed waggons along the way to Fort Hawkins
Towards evening we passed six waggons, conveying ninety Slaves belonging to General ____, from his plantation in Georgia, to his settlement on the Cahawba in Alabama. I mention these little occurrences to put you more familiarly in possession of the habits of the country.
Fort Hawkins is a small quadrangle of wooden buildings, supposed, during the late war, to be of some importance in intimidating the Lower Creek Indians, some of whom took part with the British. The whole tract cleared for the fort, and a house of entertainment for travellers, is perhaps half a mile square; and from the fort the eye looks down on an unbroken mass of pine woods, which lose themselves on every side in the horizon about twenty miles distant.
1Remarks During a Journey Through North America in the Years 1819, 1820, and 1821, Adam Hodgson; Samuel Whiting, 1823 – Indians of North America
2Remarks During a Journey Through North America in the Years 1819, 1820, and 1821,, Adam Hodgson; Samuel Whiting, 1823 – Indians of North America
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this how my grand mother came to Blount Co Alabama from Buckhana Ga. She was Molly B Stephenson..She was 9 Yrs old.
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Barbara Thomas I also had family travel this path and settled in Blount Co. Al, "Murphree"
There's a place called Murphree Valley or so I have been told
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Paul Clement has left Reading FC with immediate effect.
The 46-year-old was brought to Madejski Stadium in March by the now former CEO Ron Gourlay, tasked with keeping the Royals in the Championship after a woeful run of form under Jaap Stam.
He succeeded with two wins and a final day draw at Cardiff City, but Reading are again struggling this season and are only outside of the relegation zone on goal difference following just four wins in 20 league games.
Clement's final game in charge came during Saturday's 2-2 draw against Stoke City but since then the Royals have appointed a new chief executive in Nigel Howe.
"Owners Mr Yongge Dai and Ms Xiu Li Dai have made the difficult decision that the time is now right to make a change," read a club statement.
"We would like to thank Paul for his hard work during his time as manager of Reading Football Club and we wish him the very best of luck in his future endeavours.
Under-23s boss Scott Marshall will take training in the interim in the build-up to Saturday's clash with Sheffield United, assisted by coach Nigel Gibbs.
Out-of-work Steve Bruce and Slavisa Jokanovic are among the early front-runners with the bookies to replace Clement along with familiar faces at Reading in Phil Parkinson, Graeme Murty and Alan Pardew.


Don't Fly Go! | Bored Of Beach Holidays?
A relaxing holiday in the sun isn't for everybody, some of us get bored sitting around doing nothing all day. After a week, you'll be itching to do something active again. If you want to avoid going out of your mind before the holiday is over, you'll need to plan something a bit more active for yourself. There are plenty of great activity holidays all over the world, these are some of the best.
Skiing is great fun and there are places all over the globe that you can go to do it. You can get different experiences depending one where you go so do a bit of research beforehand. If it's something that you enjoy a lot, you could try to get a ski instructor course qualification. That way you can teach skiing and stay out there for longer periods.
Cycling is a brilliant way to get to know a new country while staying active at the same time. You can cover a lot more ground on a bike than you can on foot. There are places all over that are great for cycling holidays, but some of the best ones are in Europe. France is particularly good, there are brilliant paths in the Alps that take you through some lovely picturesque areas. If you fancy something a little more extreme, why not go on a mountain biking holiday in Austria. It isn't well known as a place to go cycling but it's great. There are cable cars that will take you up the mountains and from there you can follow lots of separate paths of varying difficulty. Most of the trails are close to the airport so accessibility is good.
If cycling is a bit too hectic for you and you prefer something that is a bit slower, a hiking holiday is good for you. You get all of the same benefits that you would from a cycling holiday but it's a bit easier on the legs. Britain has lots of brilliant hiking trails, especially in Scotland and Wales, but one of the best places to go in the world is Romania. There are plenty of stunning lakes and valleys to hike through but be warned, some of it is fairly tough so it's only suitable for experienced hikers.
Hiking isn't all that cool and if you think you're way too hip for that, surfing might be a bit more your speed. Most people tend to think of the USA when they are thinking of places to go surfing. While places like California are brilliant for surfing, there are other more interesting options. Portugal is a surprisingly good surfing location, especially the secluded resorts set in a valley on the west coast. They make a nice change from the more hectic resorts in America and they also offer lessons so don't worry if you don't know what you're doing. After a long day of surfing, you can also take part in yoga sessions to help you relax.
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Samsung Galaxy Note 10 launch may happen on August 10
Samsung will reportedly launch the Galaxy Note 10 on August 10. The upcoming Galaxy Note 10 series is said to include two phones - a vanilla Galaxy Note 10 and a Galaxy Note 10 Pro.
Sanket Vijayasarathy
The Galaxy Note 10 will reportedly launch on August 10.
Samsung is said to announce a regular Galaxy Note 10 and a Galaxy Note 10 Pro model.
Both the Galaxy Note 10 phones will offer a center punch-hole display and vertical triple cameras.
Samsung's next big flagship will be the Galaxy Note 10. This time around, Samsung is rumoured to launch not one but two phones under the Note series - a vanilla Galaxy Note 10 and a Galaxy Note 10 Pro. It's a strategy similar to the Galaxy S10 series where the company announced three models instead of the regular two. The Galaxy Note phones usually goes official in August - last year the Galaxy Note 9 was announced on August 9. This year, the Galaxy Note 10 will likely be launched on August 10.
The Galaxy Note 10 launch date comes to us via a report by ETNews, which claims the release date will be August 10. The report also talks about the possibility of two Galaxy Note 10 devices, which we have been hearing for a while. The Pro model is said to come with 5G support, while the regular Galaxy Note 10 will support LTE.
Based on what we know so far, the Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10 Pro will look similar, but will differ in size. They will both come with a new kind of Infinity-O display where the punch-hole cutout will be on the top center of the screen rather than the corner as seen on the Galaxy S10 series. They will also get vertical camera systems on the back rather than the horizontal alignment we are used to seeing on past Samsung flagships.
The regular Galaxy Note 10 is said to come with a 6.28-inch display, while the Galaxy Note 10 Pro will offer a large 6.75-inch screen. Both with employ AMOLED panels and should support QHD+ resolution. Notably, there are also rumours that the Galaxy Note 10 phones could support 45W fast charging, which would be a first for the company.
The Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10 Pro could feature a new Exynos 9825 SoC, which is yet to be announced. This new chipset is said to use a 7nm process and will likely be more power efficient and slightly more faster than the Exynos 9820 SoC. Expect these phons to offer up to 12GB of RAM and a lot of onboard storage. They will also ship with Android Pie with One UI on top.
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Toddler coding classes are the new must-have activity for nurseries
It's a Sunday morning at East Dulwich Picturehouse in South London, and a group of three- and four-year-old children is playing in a backroom. But not with cars or dolls. Instead, they are learning the basics of coding by creating animations on tablets.
One of the children, Rocco, turned four a week ago and has been attending classes for six months. During this time, he has created an animation of a giraffe and a zebra in a bedroom. "I want the giraffe to chase the zebra so that he can fight him," he says. His mother chimes in: "Don't you mean play with him?" Rocco smiles and shakes his head. That's a no.
Rocco created this animation using ScratchJr, an introductory programming language designed jointly by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at MIT and DevTech Research Group at Tufts University. ScratchJr offers a menu of coded blocks that click together like puzzle pieces. It's a simplified version of Scratch, which is already widely taught in UK primary schools – part of the national curriculum for computing classes from Key Stage 1, when children are five and six years old.
Some nurseries aim to give pre-schoolers a head start by introducing them to block-based coding. At Streatham & Clapham Prep in South London, an all-girls school, 35 girls under five are using iPads to code nursery rhymes into animations. One of the nursery rhymes is 'One, two, three, four, five/Once I caught a fish alive'. For this animation, the girls choose a fish and a sea background from the ScratchJr picture library. They then move their chosen blocks from the various menus in ScratchJr into the coding box to make the fish move; next, they record themselves singing the nursery rhyme and add it to the animation sequence.
"The girls have grasped it faster than the adults," says Ruth Lockyer, head of early years at the nursery. "They understand that the code must go from left to right, how to slot in a new block, structure their thinking and problem solve if they slot in the wrong block." After the lesson, the children make their own versions – for example, by drawing fish on the iPad. That, she says, is their favourite part.
The girls are following a curriculum developed by MAMA.codes, a company founded by Liane Katz. Her programme is now used at nine nursery and primary schools, as well as at drop-off classes for three- to eight-year-olds in London, Hertfordshire and Northern Ireland.
Katz believes that coding can be taught to children the same way they learn to read. "Kids under eight are hardwired to learn language," she says. Take the word 'sat'. At school, children are given a series of books devoted to the sound 'at'. Once they recognise that sound, they can apply it in a variety of contexts and use it to express what they want to say. Katz says that with ScratchJr's puzzle-like icon blocks, they can apply the same principle to tasks such as coding a nursery rhyme. "After being exposed to that sequence three or four times, we test the children to see if they can do it independently," she says.We asked a bunch of ten year olds how they use technology
We asked a bunch of ten year olds how they use technology
Katz started developing this method in 2015, when she realised that her six-year-old daughter didn't have any coding classes at school. She did some research and came across ScratchJr. Katz started inviting friends to her house for 'parent hacks' to code silly jokes, and the friends could then teach their own children. "Parents are very aware that these are the skills of the future and they want to future-proof their children," she says.
Beth Hart agrees. Her five-year-old twin boys, Ollie and Eddie, have been attending coding classes for a year. As a supply chain director in the food industry, she sees how it's become an increasingly essential tool. "Even if coding is not something they choose to study further, at least they've had a positive introduction and understand the value of it," she says. Likewise, Joanna Hickman, mother to three-year-old Gus, has always been interested in coding and feels her generation doesn't know enough about it, which is why she enrolled her son in the classes.
But Benedict Gaster, an associate professor in physical computing at the University of the West of England, wonders whether three- and four-year-olds really need to be sitting in front of a screen. "I'm not arguing that they shouldn't use devices. It just shouldn't be the only means of teaching," he says. His own four children like to play Robot Turtles, he says – a maze-like board game which introduces the fundamentals of computer programming with instruction cards that move the turtle across the board to win a jewel. "I would argue that children playing with building blocks is teaching problem solving skills," he says.
There are other physical games meant to introduce pre-schoolers to the basics of computer programming. Cubetto, for instance, is a little wooden cubical robot that moves on a board when a child puts special programming blocks into a connected base. The board is a map with different themes – space, ocean, city – and an accompanying book tells a story. Then there is KIBO, a robotic kit that works with wooden blocks, used to create a sequence of instructions. The child can then scan the blocks with a small robot to tell it what to do, and the robot starts to move. These toys don't have screens, and are part of STEAM, an educational approach that incorporates the arts into the STEM model that includes science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Katz knows that parents and teachers have valid concerns about children overusing screens. She believes there should be a balance, but thinks devices are important for creativity and learning. "Kids need to be creative thinkers, innovators, have an armoury of skills and mastery of tech to survive in future, technology-driven workplace. So what better skill to teach them than coding? I feel like it's a 21 century superpower."
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The high level meeting chaired by the chief minister Pinaray Vijayan decided to release at total of 700 cubic metres per second of water on Friday. Around 8 lakh litres of water have increased in the reservoir with the total at 2401.50 ft at 12pm.
The high level meeting chaired by the chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan decided to release at total of 700 cubic metres per second of water on Friday.
Around 8 lakh litres of water have increased in the reservoir with the total at 2401.50 ft at 12pm.
KOCHI: In the wake of heavy rainfall in the catchment area of Idukki dam, all five shutters of the Cheruthony dam were opened for the first time in 40 years to release more water in the backdrop of heavy rains and rising water level in the reservoir.
It was being said that with the fifth shutter being opened soon, the total height could be five shutters at 1 m height. The waters at present are flowing at about 3.5 lakh litres of water per second. Around 8 lakh litres of water have increased in the reservoir with the total at 2401.50 ft at 12pm.
Idukki dam officials informed that following heavy rains and high inflow of water in the catchment area of Idukki dam, 7.5 lakh litres of water per second will be released from the dams where all shutters have been opened, high alert has been issued on the banks of Cheruthony and Periyar rivers.
This had left officials with no option but to raise the 4th shutters. The high level meeting chaired by the chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan decided to release at total of 700 cubic metres per second of water on Friday. It asked all officials to be on standby for any untoward happenings. On Friday at 11.30am, three shutters of the Idukki dams which were opened started releasing 3 lakh litres of water per second, doubling the flow from the morning hours.
To control the damage of waters to the downstream areas right up to the Periyar in Aluva in Ernakulam district, the dam safety officials decided to control the waters at Idamalayar dam which was opened on Thursday morning. Earlier, only one of the shutters of the dam was opened by 50 cm through which 50,000 litres of water per second was released from Thursday afternoon 12.30pm. However, the water level in the dam continued rose to touch 2401.34 feet at 10 am on Friday.
Officials with the Kerala state electrity board who are the custodians of the Idukki dam said that the plan is to increase the volume of water being released to 300 Cumecs or 3 lakh litres per second from the current 1.25 Cumecs or 1.25 lakh litres per second. The volume may be further doubled to 600 Cumecs or 6 lakh litres per second after reducing the release of water from Idamalayar dam. The officials said that the release from Idamalayar could be controlled at 3 lakh litres per second.
The water level in Idamalayar dam has slipped slightly to 169.32 metres at 5am on Friday from 169.52 at Thursday midnight, which power minister M M Mani said was a good sign. Meanwhile, heavy rains in this end of Ernakulam at Aluva have created concern. When the shutters of the Cheruthony dam were opened to release the waters from Idukki dam, lots of coconut trees and other crops flowed along with the speeding waters down the Cheruthony bridge. As the speed increased, officials started cutting down trees along the banks of river Periyar.
The South-west monsoon has been vigorous over Kerala resulting in heavy rains in various parts of the state since the past two days, PTI adds from Thiruvananthapuram.
Twenty-six people have lost their lives since August 8 in landslides and floods caused due to the heavy rains as the southwest monsoon remains vigorous over Kerala.
Over 5,500 people from Wayanad district, where a red alert had been sounded on Thursday, have been shifted to relief camps, the sources said on Friday morning.
The Army has been deployed for rescue-relief and damage control exercises in several districts in the state.


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PM's Mann ki Baat programme on All India Radio
My dear countrymen, Namaskar. I begin 'Mann Ki Baat' today with a heavy heart. 10 days ago, Mother India had to bear the loss of many of her valiant sons. These brave hearts made the supreme sacrifice in securing the lives of a hundred & twenty five crore Indians. In order to ensure that their fellow countrymen could sleep peacefully, these brave sons toiled relentlessly, day or night. As a consequence of the Pulwama terror attack and the sacrifice of the brave jawans, people across the country are agonized and enraged. All around, there is a deluge of strong feelings of sympathy for the martyrs & their family members. The outrage that singes your being and mine on account of the terrorizing violence replicates itself in the collective inner psyche' of every citizen of the country; it also echoes in pro-humanity communities of the world, which sincerely believe in humanity. I respectfully bow to all the brave sons of the country, who laid down their lives, protecting the honour of their motherland, India. This martyrdom will keep inspiring us relentlessly to uproot the very base of terrorism; it will fortify our resolve. We shall have to take up this challenge facing our country, forgetting all barriers of casteism, communalism, regionalism and other difference, so that, our steps against terror are firmer, stronger and more decisive. Our armed forces have consistently displayed unparalleled courage and valour. On the one hand, they have displayed exemplary capabilities in restoring peace; on the other, they have retaliated in equal measure, in a language the attackers understand.
You must have seen how within a hundred hours of the attack, retributive action was accomplished. The Army has resolved to wipe out terrorists and their harbourers. The martyrdom of these brave soldiers brought to the fore, through the media, touching, inspiring stories of their kin, whichgive hope and strength to the entire country. The fortitude displayed by Ram Niranjanji, father of Martyr Ratan Thakur of Bhagalpur, Bihar, in this moment of tribulation is truly inspiring. He has expressed the wish of sending his second son too, to take on the enemy; if need be, he himself would go and fight. The country salutes the indomitable courage of Meenaji, wife of Martyr PrasannaSahu of Jagatsinghpur, Odisha. She has vowed to send her only son to join the CRPF. When the mortal remains of Martyr Vijay Soren, draped in the tricolor reached Gumla, Jharkhand, his innocent son iterated that he too would join the armed forces. The mettle of this innocent lad is a representative sample of the feelings of each &every child of the Nation today. Similar sentiments are coming to the fore in the households of our brave heart martyrs. No martyr, no family is an exception to that.
Whether it be the family of Martyr Vijay Maurya of Devariya, the parents of Martyr Tilakraj of Kangra or the six year old son of Martyr Hemraj of Kota – the story of every family of martyrs is full of inspiration. I urge the young generation to know and understand the fortitude and the sentiment displayed by these families. To understand the virtues of patriotism, sacrifice and perseverance, one doesn't need to revert to historical events. These are but living examples before your eyes… these very examples are a source of inspiration for the future of a rising & glowing India.
My dear countrymen, the rather long wait after Independence for a War Memorial is about to be over. It is natural for our countrymen to be curious about it. On the Narendra Modi App, Shri Onkar Shetty ji of Udupi, Karnataka has expressed his happiness on the completion of the National War Memorial. India not having a National War Memorial used to surprise me, pain me… a Memorial that would house the valour saga series of our brave soldiers who laid down their lives, safe guarding their nation's security. And I took a resolve that the country must have such a Memorial.
We decided to erect the National War Memorial and I am contented to see it attaining completion in so little a time. Tomorrow, that is on the 25th of February, crores of we Indians will dedicate this National Soldiers' Memorial to our Armed Forces. On part of the nation, this will be a small step towards repaying a great debt.
This new memorial has been instituted in the heart of Delhi, in close vicinity of India Gate and Amar JawanJyoti. I do believe that for our countrymen a visit to the National War Memorial will be akin to a pilgrimage to a holy place. The National Soldiers' Memorial is a symbol of the nation's gratitude to those men who made the supreme sacrifice after we gained Independence. The Memorial's design symbolises the indomitable courage of our immortal soldiers. The concept of the National Soldiers' Memorial is based on the notion of four concentric circles, which depicts the journey of a soldier from coming into being, culminating in his martyrdom. The flame of the Amar Chakra symbolizes the immortality of the martyred soldier. The second circle, Veerta Chakra, depicts the courage and bravery of our soldiers. It is a gallery whose walls are inscribed with soldiers' tales of valour. This is followed by the Tyag Chakra. This circle stands for the sacrifice of our soldiers. This bears the names of soldiers who made the supreme sacrifice, in letters of gold. Following that is the Rakshak Chakra which depicts the spirit of security. This circle houses a row of dense trees. These trees represent soldiers and send a reassuring message to the country's citizens that our soldiers vigilantly guard borders round the clock and that they, the citizens are safe. If you take a holistic view, the National Soldiers' Memorial is sure to turn out to be a sacred site, where people will throng, to get information on our great martyrs, to express their gratitude, to conduct further research on them. This place stands testimony to a series of sacrifices of men who laid down their lives for the sake of their country, so that we could live, so that the country could be safe & secure, paving the way for development. One falls short of words in assessing the enormous contribution of our Armed Forces, Police and Para Military Forces in the strides of progress achieved by the country.
In the month of Octoberlast year, I was blessed with the opportunity to dedicate the National Police Memorial to the nation. That too echoed the same sentiment, and we believe that we should be ever grateful to those policemen & police women, who relentlessly ensure our safety & security. I do hope that you will pay a visit to the National Soldiers' Memorial and the National Police Memorial. Whenever you are there, do capture images and share them on social media so that others get inspired to come & visit this sacred site with eagerness.
My dear countrymen, for 'Mann Ki Baat', I keep getting thousands of letters and comments from your side, on various platforms. Once while I was going through your comments, I came across an interesting point by AtishMukhopadhyayji. He has written that on the 3rd of March, 1900, the British arrested BirsaMunda, when he was just 25 years old. Coincidentally, the 3rd of March is also the birth anniversary of Jamsetji Tata. He further states that despite both personalities hailing from diverse family backgrounds, they enriched the legacy and the history of Jharkhand. Paying tributes to BirsaMunda and Jamsetji Tata is, in a way, salutation to the glorious legacy and history of Jharkhand. These two distinguished personalities brought glory &honour not just to Jharkhand, but the entire country. The country is indeed grateful for their contribution. Today, if an inspiring personality is required for ably guiding our youth, it certainly is that of BhagwanBirsaMunda. The British tree treacherously arrested him when he was asleep, in a covert manner. Do you know why they had to resort to such a cowardly operation? Because even the British who raised a mighty empire used to be terrified of him. BhagwanBirsaMunda took on the might of the guns & cannons of the British, using traditional bows and arrows, to shake them apart. The fact is, when people are blessed with exemplary leadership, the might of arms pales in comparison to the collective will power of the people. BhagwanBirsaMunda not only waged a struggle against the British for political freedom; he also actively fought for the social & economic rights of the tribal folk. And he accomplished all this in his rather short life. He let sunshine peep into the darkened lives of the deprived and the oppressed. BhagwanBirsaMunda sacrificed his life at the tender age of twenty five. Illustrious sons of Mother India, such as BirsaMunda have come into being in each & every part of the country. There must've been hardly any part of India, which did not produce someone who contributed in the long freedom struggle,that spanned centuries. But it's a misfortune that these tales of valour and sacrifice did not reach the new generations. If the valourousBhagwanBirsaMunda made us aware of our existence & identity, far-sightedJamsetji Tata created great institutions for the country. Jamsetji Tata was a true visionary, who not only foresaw India's future, but also duly laid strong foundations. He knew very well that making India a hub of science, technology and industry was imperative for her future. It was his vision that culminated in the establishment of the Tata Institute of Science, which we know as Indian Institute of Science today. Not just that, he also established world renowned institutions and industries such as Tata Steel. On a voyage to America, Jamsetji Tata met Swami Vivekananda on the ship, and an important topic of their discussion was the outreach & spread of Science & Technology in India. It is said… this very discussion led to the founding of the Indian Institute of Science.
My dear countrymen, our former Prime Minister Morarji Desai was born on the 29th of February. All of you know that this day comes just once in four years. A simple, peace loving personality, Morarjibhai was one of the most disciplined leaders. In Independent India, the record of presenting the budget the maximum number of times is held by Morarjibhai Desai. Morarji Desai steered the course of the country through some difficult times, when the very democratic fabric of the country was under a threat. To save democracy, Morarji Desai flung himself in the movement against imposition of Emergency.For this, he had to pay a heavy price in his old age. The government of that time arrested and incarcerated him. But when the Janata Party won the general elections in 1977, he became the Prime Minister of the country. During his tenure, the 44th constitutional amendment was introduced. This was important because the 42nd amendment which was brought during the emergency, curtailed the powers of the Supreme Court and implemented provisions which stood to violate our democratic values, was struck down. The 44th amendment, made it mandatory that the proceedings of Parliament and Legislative Assemblies were made public through the newspapers. This amendment, restored certain powers of Supreme Court and declared that the fundamental rights granted under Article 20 and 21 of the Constitution could not be abrogated during the Emergency.
For the first time constitutional safeguards guaranteed that the President could only announce the emergency upon the written recommendation of the Cabinet, and that the period of emergency could not be extended more than six months at any stretch of time. In this way, Morarji Bhai ensured that the way democracy was assassinated in 1975 by imposition of emergency, could never be repeated againin the future. Theupcoming generations of our nation will always remember his priceless contribution in maintaining the sanctity of Indian democracy. Once again I pay my homage to a great leader like him.
My beloved countrymen, this year too, there was a great buzz about the Padma award. Today as we head towards a new India, in which we want to honour those who are doing their work at the grass-root level without any care for a reward. They, by their diligence, are powering positive changes in the lives of others in myriad ways. In reality they are true 'Karmyogis,' who are selflessly engaged in public service, social service and, above all, in the service to the nation. You must have been a witness yourself to the curiosity in the air when the Padma awards are announced, and people are inquisitive about the awardees. In a way, I consider this to be a huge pat on the back because these are people who are not on the front page of a Magazine or Newspaper or on our TV screens. They are far removed from the world of glitter and glare, and are people who do not care about name or fame but simply believe in toiling at the proletarian level.
Theybelieve in living in the manner as preached by the shloka of Srimadbhagvad Gita 'Yoga: KarmasuKaushalam', or excellence in action is yoga. I would like to tell you about some of these people. You must have heard about Odisha's DaitariNayak, who is not nicknamed the 'Canal Man of Odisha' for nothing, DaitariNayakchiselled through the mountain literally with his hands and carved a three kilometers long canal in his village, and put to restforever the problem of irrigation and water by the sheer dint of his labour. Take the case of Abdul Ghafoor Khatri of Gujarat, whohas done an amazing job of reviving the traditional Rogan painting form of Kutch. He is doing a great job of extending this rare painting art form to the present generation. I had gifted a Roganpainting titled 'Tree of Life' done by Abdul Gafoor, to the former President of USA, Mr. Barack Obama.
Among the recipients of the Padma award, ShabbirSayyed of Marathwada is known as the servant of Gau-Mata. The manner he has spent his entire life in the service of Gau-mata, is unique in itself. Madurai Chinna Pillai is the same person who at first tried to empower the downtrodden and the exploited through the Kalanjiyam movement in Tamil Nadu and initiated community based microfinancing. America's Tao Porchon-Lynch will leave you astounded, Lynch has become a living institution of yoga today. Even at the age of 100, she is training yoga to people from all over the world and till now has trained 1500as yoga teachers. JamunaTudu, famous nicknamed 'Lady Tarzan' in Jharkhand, most valiantly took on the Timber Mafia and Naxalites, and not only saved the 50 hectares of forest but also inspired ten thousand women to unite and protect the trees and wildlife. It is a tribute to Jamunaji's diligence that today, on the birth of every child,villagersplant 18 trees. Also, 10 trees are planted on the marriage of a girl in the village.
The story of MuktabenPankajkumarDagali of Gujarat will fill you with inspiration despite being a divyang herself, it is difficult to find an example than what Muktaben did for the upliftment of divyang women by establishing the institution named ChakshuMahilaSevakunj, through the medium of which she has been engaged in a virtuousendeavour to make visually challenged children self-reliant. The story of 'KisanChachi', i.e. 'Farmer Aunty' of Muzaffarpur in Bihar, or Rajkumari Devi is very inspiring. She has established a precedent in the direction of women empowerment and farming. Rajkumari Deviadded 300 women of her area to a 'Self Help Group' and motivated the entire lot become financially self-reliant. She not only trained the women of the village in pursuing other gainful means of employment, but most importantly she integrated technology with agricultureand my dear countrymen, it has perhaps happenedfor the first time, that in the roll of Padma awards bestowed this year, 12 farmers have been the recipients. Generally, very few people associated with the agricultural world or those very few who can be labeled as real farmers have ever found their name in the list of Padmashree awards. This in itself presents the live and vibrant image of a changing India.
My dear countrymen, today I wish to narrate a heart rending experience with you which I've beenwanting to do past few days. At present, whenever I'm touring, it is my sincere effort to meet people beneficiaries of 'PMJAY' scheme under Ayushman Bharat's umbrella. 'PMJAY' means to some of the beneficiaries, like the single mother whose unable to set her small children treated due to lack of money or the head of the family who was sustaining his family by the sweat of his brow and met with an accident and was unable to work, he too has benefitted due to this scheme, regained his health and is virtually living a new life!
Brothers and Sisters, about 12 lakhimpoverished families have benefitted from this scheme over a period of last five months. I have found that it brings about a transformation in the life of the have-nots. If you know a poor person who is unable to procure treatment due to lack of money, do inform him about this scheme. In fact this scheme is meant for the benefit of such underprivileged people.
My dear countrymen, exam time in schools throughout the nation is soon going to dawn upon us. In the next few weeks various education boards across the country will initiate the process for the board examinations of the tenth and twelfth standards. My best wishes to all the students who're going to appear for their examinations, their parents and all the teachers as well.
A few weeks ago, an immense event entitled 'ParikshaPeCharcha' was organised in Delhi in the format of a Town Hall programme. In this Town Hall programme, I had the opportunity to talk with crores of students from India and abroad, and also with their parents and teachers; a possibility through the aegis of technology. One of the focal points of 'ParikshaPeCharcha' was that there were lively interactions on various topics related with the entire process of examinations. There are many such aspects which emerged out of these discussions which are definitely going to be beneficial for the students. All the students, their teachers and parents can watch the recording of this entire event on YouTube, and I take this opportunity to wish all the best to all my'exam warriors', for their upcoming examinations.
My dear countrymen, no mention of India can be complete without citing its festivals. It is just not possible that a day passes without any significance associated with it, or does not herald a festival! Our culture has a continuum spread over many millennia and it is a part of our heritage. In a few days from now, Mahashivrartri will be celebrated, and that too on a Monday, and when a Shivratri falls on a Monday, it becomes all that special in our heart of our hearts! I extend felicitations on this pious occasion of Mahashivratri to you all.
My dear countrymen, some days ago I went to Kashi and there I got a chance to spend time with my divyang brothers and sisters. Many topics were discussed in their company and their confidence was really striking –it was inspiring. During the conversation with one of them, a visually challenged young man, and he mentioned that he happened to be a stage artist, and specialized in mimicry during entertainment programs, so just like that I asked him as to who all he could imitate! And he told me that he could mimic the Prime Minister. So I requested a demonstration and a pleasant surprise was in store for me. He mimicked the very exact way I converse with you during 'Mann KiBaat'. I was very happy to hear that people not only listen to 'Mann KI Baat' but also remember it on many occasions. I was really impressed with the prowess of that divyang young man.
My dear countrymen, connecting with all of you, courtesy the 'Mann KiBaat' program has been a really wonderful experience for me. Through radio I connect every month with millions of families. Many times while conversing with you, reading your letters or listening to your thoughts sent on the phone, I feel that you have adopted me as part of your family. This has been a very sublime experience for me.
Friends, elections are the biggest celebration of democracy. In the next two months, we will be busy in the hurly-burly of the general elections. I myself will also be a candidate during this election. In maintainingrespect for healthy democratic traditions, the next episode of 'Mann KiBaat' will be broadcast on the last Sunday of the month of May. This means I shall take up our thoughts and ideas accumulated over the three months of March, April & entire May after the Elections, with confidence anew. With the power of your blessings, once again I shall begin this series of conversations through 'Mann Ki Baat'… and shall keep doing 'Mann Ki Baat' with you for years. Once again, I thank all of you from the core of my heart.
पुलवामा के आतंकी हमले में, वीर जवानों की शहादत के बाद देश-भर में लोगों को, और लोगों के मन में, आघात और आक्रोश है: PM#MannKiBaat pic.twitter.com/72l5s74OuO
— PMO India (@PMOIndia) February 24, 2019
वीर सैनिकों की शहादत के बाद, उनके परिजनों की जो प्रेरणादायी बातें सामने आयी हैं उसने पूरे देश के हौंसले को और बल दिया है | बिहार के भागलपुर के शहीद रतन ठाकुर के पिता रामनिरंजन जी ने, दुःख की इस घड़ी में भी जिस ज़ज्बे का परिचय दिया है, वह हम सबको प्रेरित करता है : PM
जब तिरंगे में लिपटे शहीद विजय शोरेन का शव झारखण्ड के गुमला पहुँचा तो मासूम बेटे ने यही कहा कि मैं भी फौज़ में जाऊँगा | इस मासूम का जज़्बा आज भारतवर्ष के बच्चे-बच्चे की भावना को व्यक्त करता है | ऐसी ही भावनाएँ, हमारे वीर, पराक्रमी शहीदों के घर-घर में देखने को मिल रही हैं : PM
हमारा एक भी वीर शहीद इसमें अपवाद नहीं है, उनका परिवार अपवाद नहीं है | चाहे वो देवरिया के शहीद विजय मौर्य का परिवार हो, कांगड़ा के शहीद तिलकराज के माता-पिता हों या फिर कोटा के शहीद हेमराज का छः साल का बेटा हो – शहीदों के हर परिवार की कहानी, प्रेरणा से भरी हुई हैं: PM
मैं युवा-पीढ़ी से अनुरोध करूँगा कि वो, इन परिवारों ने जो जज़्बा दिखाया है, जो भावना दिखायी है उसको जानें, समझने का प्रयास करें | देशभक्ति क्या होती है, त्याग-तपस्या क्या होती है – उसके लिए हमें इतिहास की पुरानी घटनाओं की ओर जाने की जरुरत नहीं पड़ेगी : PM
मुझे आश्चर्य भी होता था और पीड़ा भी कि भारत में कोई National War Memorial नहीं था | एक ऐसा मेमोरियल, जहाँ राष्ट्र की रक्षा के लिए अपने प्राण न्योछावर करने वाले वीर जवानों की शौर्य-गाथाओं को संजो कर रखा जा सके | मैंने निश्चय किया कि देश में, एक ऐसा स्मारक अवश्य होना चाहिये: PM pic.twitter.com/03B3gs8iO8
आज, अगर हमारे नौजवानों को मार्गदर्शन के लिए किसी प्रेरणादायी व्यक्तित्व की जरुरत है तो वह है भगवान 'बिरसा मुंडा': PM#MannKiBaat pic.twitter.com/mDQPW1RUaq
जमशेदजी टाटा सही मायने में एक दूरदृष्टा थे, जिन्होंने ना केवल भारत के भविष्य को देखा बल्कि उसकी मजबूत नींव भी रखी: PM#MannKiBaat pic.twitter.com/Cmd0eAv8fY
हमारे देश के पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री मोरारजी भाई देसाई का जन्म 29 फरवरी को हुआ था | सहज, शांतिपूर्ण व्यक्तित्व के धनी, मोरारजी भाई देश के सबसे अनुशासित नेताओं में से थे: PM pic.twitter.com/9h7hMZOgbB
मोरारजी भाई देसाई के कार्यकाल के दौरान ही 44वाँ संविधान संशोधन लाया गया |
यह महत्वपूर्ण इसलिए है क्योंकि emergency के दौरान जो 42वाँ संशोधन लाया गया था, जिसमें सुप्रीमकोर्ट की शक्तियों को कम करने और दूसरे ऐसे प्रावधान थे, उनको वापिस किया गया: PM#MannKiBaat pic.twitter.com/UvbjjIRtBz
हर साल की तरह इस बार भी पद्म अवार्ड को लेकर लोगों में बड़ी उत्सुकता थी | आज हम एक न्यू इंडिया की ओर अग्रसर हैं | इसमें हम उन लोगों का सम्मान करना चाहते हैं जो grass-root level पर अपना काम निष्काम भाव से कर रहे हैं: PM#MannKiBaat pic.twitter.com/7rpJW0vngB
मैं आज आप सब के साथ एक ऐसे दिल को छूने वाले अनुभव के बारे में बात करना चाहता हूँ जो पिछले कुछ दिनों से मैं महसूस कर रहा हूँ: PM#MannKiBaat pic.twitter.com/IuxZzz7MUl
मुझे ये सुनकर बहुत अच्छा लगा कि लोग न सिर्फ 'मन की बात' सुनते हैं बल्कि उसे कई अवसरों पर याद भी करते हैं: PM#MannKiBaat pic.twitter.com/DOgBUtCM13
अगले दो महीने, हम सभी चुनाव की गहमा-गहमी में व्यस्त होगें | मैं स्वयं भी इस चुनाव में एक प्रत्याशी रहूँगा |
स्वस्थ लोकतांत्रिक परंपरा का सम्मान करते हुए अगली 'मन की बात' मई महीने के आखरी रविवार को होगी: PM#MannKiBaat
मार्च, अप्रैल और पूरा मई; ये तीन महीने की सारी हमारी जो भावनाएँ हैं उन सबको मैं चुनाव के बाद एक नए विश्वास के साथ आपके आशीर्वाद की ताकत के साथ फिर एक बार 'मन की बात' के माध्यम से हमारी बातचीत के सिलसिले का आरम्भ करूँगा और सालों तक आपसे 'मन की बात' करता रहूँगा: PM#MannKiBaat


It has now been a little over a year since I joined the Easter Seals family. I can say that I feel sufficiently settled-in. Due to the nature of my position as Data Secretary, I often get to know names of individuals before having the opportunity to meet them in person. It has been a great experience getting to know both students and staff.
It still amazes me that the excitement I felt about making an initial connection with one of the students named Max has not waned in the least. It started out with kisses and now has expanded to cats! He fell in love with my mug that had a picture of my cat named Teacup on it. I made a copy of the picture for him. This new found love of cats has made its way into his home life as his parents report that "he is really liking cats now." The best part of the last year has been the multiplication of connections and bonds I have had the opportunity to make. I now have many little friends! To one named Mung, I am known as Wonder Woman and because of that I dressed-up as the character for the Fall Festival. Another, Jaylen, stops by every day and gives me a hug before boarding the bus to go home. Others I visit during the day to receive my daily smiles and conversations. I get to witness first hand their progress and growth and it is nothing short of spectacular! The programs here tap into each child's potential and make it reality. These interactions recharge my batteries and I'm able to be a more productive employee because of their enrichment. It is such a symbiotic environment.
I had spent over 20+ years in the banking industry and I can truly say that I have never felt as fulfilled as I feel here. Easter Seals is good for education and good for the soul.
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ARMENDAREZ, GUADALUPE L. [WALLY]
Clayton T. Shorkey
Saxophonist Wally Armendarez (far right at the microphone)
was inducted into the Tejano R.O.O.T.S. Hall of Fame in
2003. Falcon Records Collection, Texas Music Museum.
ARMENDAREZ, GUADALUPE L. [WALLY] (1933–1996). Guadalupe L. "Wally" Armendarez, orquesta musician, was born in Premont, Texas, on September 12, 1933. His father Tomas and his uncle Polito were both excellent musicians. Tomas played accordion, bajo sexto, guitar, and violin. Wally remembered listening to Beto Villa's orquesta when he was a young boy of seven years. When he was in junior high school, his parents bought him a clarinet, and soon he was playing in the high school band and was second clarinet although he could not yet read music. When he was thirteen or fourteen years old he received an alto saxophone and practiced listening to Beto Villa's recordings. He started his own orquesta while still in high school and later played with a group of musicians who had been members of Villa's orquesta. Armando Marroquín of Ideal Records asked fifteen-year-old Armendarez to record some songs in his studio in Alice, Texas, with "El Huracán del Valle" Narciso Martínez's band. Wally's skill during the sessions prompted orchestra leader Beto Villa to ask the teenager to also record with his group. As a result he recorded two polkas titled "La Rielera" and "El Quelite."
After serving two years in the United States Army in the mid-1950s, Almendarez received an invitation from Villa to join his orquesta. Almendarez played with Villa until declining health forced Villa to give up touring. Almendarez then joined the Paulino Bernal Orquesta in 1959 and helped record the big hit "Mi Unico Camino." He worked with Armando Marroquín to back up some of the major artists recording for Ideal, including Chelo Silva, Narciso Martínez, Las Hermanas Mendoza, Rosita Fernández, and others. His 1959 recording for Ideal, the polka "Las Cuatro Milpas," turned out to be a good seller. In 1960 Almendarez formed his own group which played together for three years. Later in the 1960s Almendarez played with Nori Cantú and Esteban Jordan in California and also with Shorty and the Corvettes and Manuel Guerra.
In 1970 he married Iris Villa, the daughter of Beto Villa, and they had a daughter and son. Almendarez continued to perform occasionally until retiring about 1987. He worked as a rancher and later as a hotel clerk. In his spare time he taught his musical traditions to his children, and he still played the saxophone and performed at an occasional reunion or benefit dance in the Falfurrias area. Wally Almendarez died on September 15, 1996, and he was buried in Premont Cemetery in Premont. He was inducted into the Tejano R.O.O.T.S. Hall of Fame in 2003.
Corpus Christi Caller-Times, September 17, 1996.
Conjunto, Tejano, and Border
Handbook of Texas Online, Clayton T. Shorkey, "ARMENDAREZ, GUADALUPE L. [WALLY]," accessed January 20, 2020, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/far46.
Uploaded on May 8, 2014. Modified on August 24, 2015. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.


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by Michael Santo — Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 12:57 PM EDT
What Deal? T-Mobile Ads Mocking AT&T Continue to Air
It was assumed that, since AT&T is in the process of acquiring T-Mobile, those snarky commercials that T-Mobile has been running criticizing AT&T and its network would end. Apparently, the answer to that assumption is no.
To be honest, we watch almost no live TV, and skip ads. In this case, we were tipped by a friend, who noticed the ad. On Cartoon Network on March 28, 2011, during a showing of Inuyasha on the network's Adult Swim, one of the T-Mobile ads aired. This one was the one criticizing the cost of AT&T's data plan. Part of the ad shows AT&T saying
"Look, sometimes you just gotta pay more to be ... slower. It makes sense if you don't think about it."
As noted, we watch very little live TV, and nearly no ads. That said, we had DVRed the show anyway, and confirmed the existence of the ad.
It's the first time we have seen one of the anti-AT&T ads since the announcement of the deal between AT&T and T-Mobile USA's parent company, Deutsche Telekom. It's possible these ad segments were purchased prior to the announcement, as that announcement was only made on March 27, about a week ago, and thus couldn't be halted. It will be interesting to see if they continue to air in the future, as the deal between AT&T and Deutsche Telekom is expected to take a year to come to fruition.
At least, however, we can continue to see the T-Mobile pink-dressed actress for a while. It would be shame to lose her. In case you're wondering, she's Carly Foulkes, a model who has been in a number of Rugby Ralph Lauren ads, as well.
You can watch the recently aired ad below.
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A Message About Racial Injustice
Story | A Message About Racial Injustice
We are heartbroken. We are angry. We are upset. North Highland pledges to listen, learn and act, as shared in an employee message from Managing Director & President Alex Bombeck, highlights of which we are sharing below.
A Message from the Desk of Alex Bombeck, North Highland Managing Director & President
It's been heartbreaking to hear the stories some of our North Highland colleagues have shared over the past two weeks about what it means to be a person of color in the United States. Of encountering racism while shopping, or driving, or working in an office. It is atrocious that people of color still endure injustice, racism or exclusion in the year 2020. But sadly, it's all too real. The injustice, oppression and inequality that led to the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and far too many others are not new. Systemic racism and injustice have been decades, generations, hundreds of years in the making, and they are pervasive. What can we – as individuals and as a firm – do about it? I'm not here to dispense easy answers. I do not feel this injustice will be solved quickly. But I do believe that, if we are all willing to listen and act, we can work together and make progress towards what should be global ideals of equality and justice for all. There are no bystanders to this type of injustice, which means those of us who are not people of color are called to be allies. That can take many forms: listening more than speaking, or giving your time, talent, and resources to organizations doing front-line work in this area. Being an ally means committing to the work. It's about doing, not just knowing. Learning needs to come in the form of action.
America has missed an untold number of opportunities to listen to leaders in our communities who have brought a voice to the need for social justice. We need to act, now. And we cannot let another moment go by without meaningful change that brings us closer to the promise of justice for all.
We are looking forward to listening to what North Highlanders and our clients are saying, to learning and helping our firm continue its commitment to upholding a culture where inclusion and diversity are the priority every day….
… As we work for lasting change, we must start by truly seeing – and hearing – each other and driving forward into a program of action. Thank you to the Inclusion & Diversity Committee, to our local I&D Champions and to our Employee Resource Groups – the Black Employee Network, PRIDE Alliance, Women in North Highland, Veterans at North Highland and London BAME (Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic community) – for representing the interests of employees so well. Challenges like this clearly aren't confined by borders. We are one firm, pulling together in solidarity.
…. I'm deeply committed to take part in this journey with all of you.
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A low-fat dessert recipe of individual meringue shells filled with frozen yogurt, covered with strawberries, and drizzled with raspberry sauce. A very refreshing, fruity dessert recipe.
In a bowl, beat, using an electric mixer, the egg whites with the cream of tartar, until soft peak sform.
Gradually add the granulated sugar, a tablespoon at a time, beating with an electric mixer, until stiff peaks form.
Spoon the meringue onto a foil-lined baking sheet into 6 - 5" rounds.
Using the underside of a spoon, shape the meringue into "nests".
Bake at 250 degrees F, (120 degrees C), for two hours or until meringues are crisp, but not browned, and can easily be removed from the foil. If foil sticks, continue baking meringues.
Cool, then store in a sealed container for up to a few days. If you wish to store the meringue "nests" longer, freezer them in a sealed container.
In a blender, puree the raspberries.
Stir in the icing sugar, or honey, (to desired sweetness). This can be kept in the refrigerator for up to a few days.
Spoon the frozen yogurt into the meringue shells, spoon fresh sliced strawberries over top, and add a drizzle of the raspberry sauce.
An excellent source of fiber, and vitamin C too!


Digital lines, such as T1 or T3 carrier lines (bedanya Cuma dikecepatan doank, T1 = 1,5 Mbps dan T3 = 44 Mbps), require a channel service unit (CSU) and a data service unit (DSU). The two are often combined into a single piece of equipment, called the CSU/DSU. The CSU provides termination for the digital signal and ensures connection integrity through error correction and line monitoring. The DSU converts the T-carrier line frames into frames that the LAN can interpret and vice versa….koq kek modem ya ??emang !!!.The CSU/DSU implements two different functions. The CSU is responsible for the connection to the telecom network while the DSU is responsible for handling the interface with the DTE. Bedanya ama modem2 kebanyakan adalah CSU/DSU mengirim data dalam format digital melalui jaringan telephone digital.
Gambar diatas adalah diagram frame dari HDLC (salah satu dari WAN Protocol). Examining the header portion of an HDLC frame will help identify common fields used by many WAN encapsulation protocols. The frame always starts and ends with an 8-bit flag field. The bit pattern is 01111110. The address field is not needed for WAN links, which are almost always point-to-point. The address field is still present and may be 1 or 2 bytes long. The control field is protocol dependent, but usually indicates whether the content of the data is control information or network layer data. The control field is normally 1 byte.
Together the address and control fields are called the frame header. The encapsulated data follows the control field. Then a frame check sequence (FCS) uses the cyclic redundancy check (CRC) mechanism to establish a 2 or 4 byte field.
Circuit-Switched: contohnya adalah PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network…lo bisa bilang ini jaringan telepon lah) dan ISDN (Integrated Service Digital Network…versi digitalisasi PSTN).
ISDN: is a circuit-switching technology that enables the local loop of a PSTN to carry digital signals, resulting in higher capacity switched connections. ISDN changes the internal connections of the PSTN from carrying analog signals to time-division multiplexed (TDM) digital signals. TDM allows two or more signals or bit streams to be transferred as subchannels in one communication channel. The signals appear to transfer simultaneously, but physically are taking turns on the channel. A data block of subchannel 1 is transmitted during timeslot 1, subchannel 2 during timeslot 2, and so on. One TDM frame consists of one timeslot per subchannel. Salah satu protocol yang memakai TDM adalah PPP. ISDN connection uses 64 kb/s bearer channels (B) for carrying voice or data and a signaling, delta channel (D) for call setup and other purposes.
Packet-Switched: data yang dialirkan dari A ke B dipecah2 jadi packet (makanya dinamakan packet switching) lalu dialirkan ke B melalui redundant network…jadi bisa aja suatu data dipecah jadi 3 bagian…bagian A1 lewat jawa, bagian A2 lewat Kalimantan, bagian A3 lewat papua…yang menting nyampe di bali (kira2 analoginya begitu). Path yang diambil tergantung dari switch dan router nya (connection-oriented atau connectionless…inget TCP/UDP !!)…klo di Frame Relay dikenal namanya Data Link Control Indentifier (DLCI…ini istilah TCP untuk Frame Relay).
Ada lagi yang namanya VDSL…V for Very High Bit Rate…downstream bisa ampe 52Mbit/s dan 12Mbit/s untuk upstream…Cuma implementasinya mahal (enakan ADSL….murah..untungbanyak), buat dijadiin ISP juga ga cocok..mending Fiber Optic sekalian…ya ga ?!?!?
X.25: teknologi X.25 menggunakan Virtual circuits (VC) yang di-established melalui network dengan call request packets ke alamat tujuan. The resulting SVC (Switched VC) is identified by a channel number. Data packets labeled with the channel number are delivered to the corresponding address. Multiple channels can be active on a single connection. Aplikasi nyata dari X.25 ini adalah point-of-sale card readers. These readers use X.25 in dialup mode to validate transactions on a central computer. For these applications, the low bandwidth and high latency are not a concern, and the low cost makes X.25 affordable. X.25 link speeds vary from 2400 b/s up to 2 Mb/s. However, public networks are usually low capacity with speeds rarely exceeding above 64 kb/s. UDAH JARANG DIGUNAIN DI NEGARA2 MAJU DAN BERKEMBANG.
Transfer data yang ditawarkan oleh Frame Relay bisa sampai 4 Mb/s. Frame Relay is ideal for connecting enterprise LANs. The router on the LAN needs only a single interface, even when multiple VCs are used (jadi 1 interface bisa banyak DLCI alias banyak tujuan). The short-leased line to the Frame Relay network edge allows cost-effective connections between widely scattered LANs.
ATM : singkatan dari Asynchronous Transfer Mode, is a technology capable of transferring voice, video, and data through private and public networks. It is built on a cell-based architecture (sama kek Packet Switching,tapi pemecahan packet2 nya fix / fixed length…makanya dinamakan "Cell") rather than on a frame-based architecture. ATM cells are always a fixed length of 53 bytes (5 byte ATM header dan 48 bytes ATM payload). Small, fixed-length cells are well suited for carrying voice and video traffic because this traffic is intolerant of delay. Video and voice traffic do not have to wait for a larger data packet to be transmitted.
The 53 byte ATM cell is less efficient than the bigger frames and packets of Frame Relay and X.25. When the cell is carrying segmented network layer packets, the overhead is higher because the ATM switch must be able to reassemble the packets at the destination. A typical ATM line needs almost 20 percent greater bandwidth than Frame Relay to carry the same volume of network layer data. ATM was designed to be extremely scalable and can support link speeds of T1/E1 to OC-12 (622 Mb/s) and higher.
DSL: singkatan dari Digital Subscriber Line, penjelasannya udah diatas tuh. Multiple DSL subscriber lines are multiplexed into a single, high-capacity link using a DSL access multiplexer (DSLAM) at the provider location. DSLAMs incorporate TDM technology to aggregate many subscriber lines into a single medium, generally a T3 (DS3) connection. Current DSL technologies use sophisticated coding and modulation techniques to achieve data rates of up to 8.192 Mb/s.
WiMax: Wordwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, teknologi terbaru nih…denger2 waktu aceh tsunami, akses teknologi nya pake ini nih…IEEE nyebut ini dengan kode 802.16, yang pasti sih WiMAX operates in a similar way to WiFi, but at higher speeds, over greater distances, and for a greater number of users. It uses a network of WiMAX towers that are similar to cell phone towers. To access a WiMAX network, subscribers must subscribe to an ISP with a WiMAX tower within 10 miles of their location. They also need a WiMAX-enabled computer and a special encryption code to get access to the base station.
VPN singkatan dari Virtual Private Network, A VPN is an encrypted connection between private networks over a public network such as the Internet. Instead of using a dedicated Layer 2 connection such as a leased line, a VPN uses virtual connections called VPN tunnels, which are routed through the Internet from the private network of the company to the remote site or employee host. To address security concerns, broadband services (ISP) provide capabilities for using Virtual Private Network (VPN) connections to a VPN server, which is typically located at the corporate site.
HEMAT, teknologi VPN memungkinkan organisasi untuk menggunakan internet secara global dan terkoneksi ke remote offices atau remote user ke main corporate site, thus eliminating expensive dedicated WAN links and modem banks.
Keamanan/Security, VPNs provide the highest level of security by using advanced encryption and authentication protocols that protect data from unauthorized access.
Scalability, Because VPNs use the Internet infrastructure within ISPs and devices, it is easy to add new users. Corporations are able to add large amounts of capacity without adding significant infrastructure.
Compatibility, VPN technology is supported by broadband service providers such as DSL and cable, so mobile workers and telecommuters can take advantage of their home high-speed Internet service to access their corporate networks. Business-grade, high-speed broadband connections can also provide a cost-effective solution for connecting remote offices.
Diliat dari gambar diatas, Site-to-Site VPN konek dari satu network ke network yang lain (contoh HQ ke Branch atau sebaliknya). Each site is equipped with a VPN gateway, such as a router, firewall, VPN concentrator, or security appliance.
Singkat kata….Metro Ethernet itu istilah Ethernet yang dipakai "melampaui batas"… By extending Ethernet to the metropolitan area, companies can provide their remote offices with reliable access to applications and data on the corporate headquarters LAN. IP-aware Ethernet switches (switch layer 3 / multi-layer switch) enable service providers to offer enterprises converged voice, data, and video services such as IP telephony, video streaming, imaging, and data storage.
Reduced expenses and administration-Metro Ethernet provides a switched, high-bandwidth Layer 2 network capable of managing data, voice, and video all on the same infrastructure. This characteristic increases bandwidth and eliminates expensive conversions to ATM and Frame Relay. The technology enables businesses to inexpensively connect numerous sites in a metropolitan area to each other and to the Internet.
Easy integration with existing networks-Metro Ethernet connects easily to existing Ethernet LANs, reducing installation costs and time.
Enhanced business productivity-Metro Ethernet enables businesses to take advantage of productivity-enhancing IP applications that are difficult to implement on TDM or Frame Relay networks, such as hosted IP communications, VoIP, and streaming and broadcast video.
Do you want to connect local branches in the same city area, connect remote branches, connect to a single branch, connect to customers, connect to business partners, or some combination of these? If the WAN is for providing authorized customers or business partners limited access to the company intranet, what is the best option?
Ruang Lingkup Geografis / Didaerah mana?
Is it local, regional, global, one-to-one (single branch), one-to-many branches, many-to-many (distributed)? Depending on the range, some WAN connection options may be better than others.
Kebutuhan Traffic-nya seperti apa ?
Private or Public Network ?
Public: tipe VPN kek apa yang mau di bikin?


This project was for a 4K-5th grade elementary school in Ellsworth, Wis., one of the state's largest school districts, serving 1,700 students. The $25 million referendum project replaced the old school and brought together students currently housed in three pre-5K schools – Hillcrest, Prairie View and Lindgren – which were old, outdated and in urgent need of repair.
Paul Bauer, CEO and general manager of the Ellsworth cooperative creamery and chair of the Vote Yes committee for the Ellsworth Community School, said Ellsworth was primarily a rural, agriculture area, but now is changing to a more urban, commuter community with about 60 percent of its workforce commuting outside the Ellsworth area for jobs.
Designed by Ayres Associates, the two-story, 108,000 square-foot school features modern, safe and secure buildings that will serve 700 students and significantly upgrade the educationally appropriate spaces to 135 square foot per student. The new elementary school features a full-size competitive gymnasium that can also be used by the senior high school and middle school. The building also houses the district office.
The project includes a large cafeteria, conference rooms, classrooms and numerous common learning spaces and grade-level "neighborhood spaces." The collaborative learning environment can be used by teachers and students for a variety of activities with flexible furniture, technology and multi-use storage. Students will be able to flow in and out of classrooms for large group activities as well as individualized learning.
The new school also greatly reduces the time buses spend transporting students. Buses remarkably drive 2,200 miles per day to pick up students in two shifts – one for the three current elementary schools and one for the middle school, high school and St. Francis students. The proposed change will result in one pick-up for 4YK-12 students. By using a one-start, one-stop route, the district will eliminate 850 miles a day of bus time.
The school is located directly east of the senior high school and south of the current Day Hillcrest school, creating a campus. Construction began in early September 2017 and was completed in early 2018. Wells Concrete contributed 40 precast double tees (11,389 square feet), with acid etch and sandblast finishes.


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"Endless choices. Endless doors. And behind every door, a man with a gun in his hand."
H.V. Chao
"When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand." ~Raymond Chandler's advice for writer's block
It was Sunday and the deli downstairs was closed. I'd made myself a sandwich from the mini-fridge for lunch and left it sitting by the coffeemaker. You could make a sandwich and then walk away from it, forget it ever happened. It would sit there half-eaten and never glower at you, getting cold, never wonder what time you'd be home for dinner. It was the kind of meal I could get behind.
I sat there going over what I knew about the case. I could see it from every angle except clear through it. I had all the facts — boy, did I have them. I had them from the first wife who now ran a palm reading parlor on Venice and a star jockey out at Santa Anita. I had them from one son who flew in for a day to see his lawyers and the other one, still dressed for what seemed like a good idea at the time, sleeping the heart right out of another Tuesday in his Malibu villa. The light on the breakers was clearer than an angel's tears. That was the problem with Southern California: It made you feel so good. The sun congratulated you for just crawling out of bed, and by the time you stumbled out to your convertible, all was forgiven.
Except me. I wasn't getting anywhere, so I got up. The light sliding through the blinds right now was making me feel lousy at my job. I stood there with my back to the room, watching traffic wash down the avenue. Maybe I had something against feeling good. Maybe I had something against being stumped.
There was a knock. I turned around. A man came through the door with a gun in his hand.
Afterwards, they found themselves at the usual Chinese restaurant. A tiny place whose style had departed, like a glamorous daughter. By the register, the obligatory clipping — some critic's compliments from the early days — was yellowing in plastic.
Anna set the menu down, brass corners clicking on the tabletop.
"I can't do this anymore," she announced.
"What, the egg foo young?" said Clive. "I was thinking of trying something different myself."
Anna began to cry. Clive sighed. "You know, Graham Greene dedicated The End of the Affair to Catherine Walston, but afterwards, they carried on for another 10 years." Clive had an unhealthy interest in adultery in the abstract. Just once, he thought, I'd like to share with a woman something illicit that wasn't tawdry. One of those European affairs that leave you with a profound appreciation of human nature.
"I feel so completely stuck in a rut," said Anna.
Just then, the bell by the front door jangled. A man in a ski mask dashed in with a gun in his hand.
They had come to what always gummed up this stretch: a highway swooping overhead to merge in from the left. Without fail, cars that sailed by the gridlock, merging only at the very last minute, were let in, a lesson Jerry had taken to heart. The freeway was a distillation of the social contract. Someone was going to be an asshole, and someone else was going to look the other way. Out of the corner of his eye he saw a car length open up to the left, but it was too late. A woman in a blue hatchback had closed the gap.
It was the wave that did it. He wrenched in right after her, to the protests of those behind. Women! What was going on in those pretty little heads? That flutter of the hand, like a royal dismissal — was it supposed to be magic? Was it supposed to make everything all right? He fumbled around behind the passenger seat. He'd been saving something up for just such an occasion.
The grip fit in his hand like a hair dryer's. It even had a strap for his wrist. He rolled down the window.
"Bitch," he said. The megaphone gave his voice official heft. It carried and echoed. A few drivers looked around, startled from their audiobooks. "Yeah, you in the blue Prius. I mean, the hell were you thinking?"
He flicked on his high beams. Then her brake lights went dark.
He had not thought it humanly possible for him to be more pissed off than he was. Her car was just sitting there before him, in the road.
The door opened and she stepped out with a gun in her hand.
My dad always figured that whatever happened between him and my mom, and later between the two of us, we'd always have the movies. He only ever really opened up to pronounce upon our national dream life. He liked The Magnificent Seven because they "weren't in it to get rich." A red-blooded pacifist, he wasn't above a Bond ending or a good car chase: "like watching money burn." His idea of generation gap was how your daddy's assholes inevitably became your idols: Paul Newman in Hud, say, or that con artist Shane. "There's no anti-hero so low some hungry-hearted pipsqueak won't give him credence. Next thing you know, Dirty Harry's no psycho, just your everyday sumbitch with a sailor's mouth and a heart of gold." I thought Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket fit the bill exactly, but when I said so, he almost burst a vein. Six months later, I enlisted. We didn't speak for three years.
"But these days," he said the last time we talked, "what really gets my goat is when they can't be bothered to develop a character we care about, so they put some random kid in danger. No one wants to see that. Sure, Hitchcock himself stooped to it, but it was a cheap twang on the heartstrings even then, and he was the master."
"It's a different world, Pops."
"So they tell me. Anyhow, gotta run, show's starting."
I can picture that multiplex perfectly. We wound up there whenever I'd visit. Now when I close my eyes, I see him pocketing his cell phone, ambling down the long slow carpeted slope. Not a single preview leaves him eager, but it gives the yahoos coming in late time to find a seat and crackle open their candy. The movie starts with a bang. Some do-gooder's getting chased over rooftops. Shots are fired. When the screaming starts, it takes him a minute to figure out it's coming from the back of the theatre.
In the early hours of November 2, 2013, in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, 19-year-old Renisha McBride stood on the porch of Theodore Wafer, pounding at his door. Her car had broken down, and her cell phone was dead. Her blood alcohol level was at .218 — three times the legal limit — and earlier that evening, she had been smoking marijuana. The door opened, and out came Mr. Wafer with a gun in his hand.
On the night of September 21, 2014, 60-year-old Iphigenia Christian woke up for no particular reason. She had been having trouble sleeping lately, for which her doctor had just that morning prescribed her pills. Remembering she had left them in the kitchen, she went downstairs to look for them. The last thing she saw was her husband, wakened by the noise, coming through the doorway with a gun in his hand.
These are true stories. None of them happened to me, or anyone I know. I read about the first one a week ago, and then the more I read, the more I seemed to find. Psychologists call this "frequency illusion," in which selective attention is reinforced by confirmation bias, but the colloquial name for it is the "Baader-Meinhof phenomenon," named for the West German terrorist group also known as the Red Army Faction. A man who'd never heard of them before came up with this name. One day he read about them, and the next thing he knew, there were terrorists everywhere he looked.
This is something that did happen to me: On December 10, 2014, I went to Home Depot with my wife. I guess this is a western, in that my wife is a civilizing influence. When I was a boy I read about a boy and a girl who ran away to a museum. I thought I'd do them one better by running away to a furniture store. Home Depot is kind of like that: a gallery of pretend. There's a lamp for every kind of lifestyle, more lamps than lives you can ever live, even if you grew up lucky enough to have parents who said you could be anything. The model kitchens make me want to pick a mock domestic spat over some issue my wife and I have yet to face. Not money, we already fight about that. A baby, maybe? She will slam the fridge and cross her arms, and I will flick the tap on and off with an idiot grin, delighted by the lack of water. Through the paneless window we can spy on neighbors waffling over a new dishwasher. But not today. Today we have come shopping for a new front door, one that fits flush and doesn't let in a draft. A front door is like the face you show the world, she says. In the next department down, doors hang hinged along the aisle like pages in a giant book. One door closes and another opens. Flip, flip, flip. They are running some promotion. Plastered on each door is a life-size Elvis Presley as a cowboy, pistol drawn. The poster is tinged pastel, with DayGlo stars shooting out. I feel dizzy; I have to sit down. My wife asks, "What's the matter?" but I can't explain. What should I say? That we're lucky? That I feel guilty about our luck? That I'm dumb about the problems of the world and don't know which is worse: that I think we're safe or that we're really not, or that no matter how unsafe we are, there will always be someone worse off? I want to hold her and say, in spite of all our problems we have our whole lives ahead of us, but instead I hold my head in my hands. Flip, flip, flip. It's too ridiculous; it's just Elvis. It never happens to anyone you know, until someone you know can't believe it happened to you. Endless choices. Endless doors. And behind every door, a man with a gun in his hand.
When he opens his eyes, the pain is gone. He's been squeezing them so tightly shut! His tears roll up his cheeks, paths drying behind them along every anguished furrow. They tremble at the edge of his lower lid till, with a blink, he scoops them back inside his eye. Of course his skin is still clammy and his heart a-hammer. Relax, he tells himself, and to his surprise it works — it never seems to at the office. He stretches one leg out and then the other. Was he really in a fetal curl? A woman comes darting at him sideways. Unthinkingly, he receives her with a kick. Before he can apologize, a scream comes funneling back to his wide-open mouth; he gulps it down. His throat feels raw. She backpedals away from him, waving her arms, streaks of mascara vanishing from her cheeks. He clambers out from under the row of seats by the gate.
All around him, people are jogging backward through the terminal. He joins them. When in Rome … Some stop and, without breaking stride, pick up bags they've dropped. Others stumble and fall, but they get up again. A flood of Coke sweeps ice cubes back into an empty cup, and when it bounces from the ground, a man's hand is there to catch it. Nice, he nods at the man. Suddenly, he coughs a piece of gum into his mouth. With every chew it seems to get some snap back, bursts of flavor wriggling into the elastomer. He loves gum, he remembers.
He whips his head around just in time to catch another scream: the delicious whoompf of air in his mouth, a quick pump of receiving gut. His throat feels better with every scream he swallows. There's a fever in the air, catching. Everyone is swallowing their screams. Is it some new fad?
A whizzing past his ear. From behind, a harsh staccato chatter he knows only from action movies. Wait, so that's what this is, right? Of course! They're shooting an action movie at the airport. Why didn't he remember? Everyone, everything, is being recalled for a second take. A bullet is plucked from a wall; splintered plaster rushes to fill the gap. Another one removes a puncture from a garbage can. A stuntman collects his shattered shin from the floor. This is some next-level stuff! The bullets are thicker in the air now. He backpedals on, chewing gum, untouched. How do you know you're the hero? he remembers a stuntman telling him once. The bad guys are missing you as closely as possible, expertly accommodating the fickle akimbo of each balletic dodge, like the circus knife-thrower in unrequited love with his bewitching assistant. He must be a hero. He feels his legs pump. It's like he's watching himself already. Will he ever do better than this?
But back at security, nothing is explained. There's a lot of pushing and shoving to get back in line, people insisting on the exact order they were in before. Continuity is key. Where are the cameras? TSA seems to be filling in for PAs on crowd-wrangling duty. The bad guy — is there only one? — seems really angry about the do-over, on the verge of a diva freakout. The guards hold out their hands, trying to calm him down. Finally, the man lowers his assault rifle. The crowd lets out a held breath.
He feels his heart slowing, adrenaline draining away. The worst part of these shoots? The wait.
One last glance and he's checking his phone, the man with the gun completely forgotten. Around him: grumbling about security checkpoints, anxiety about making flights. His saliva has almost finished restoring full flavor to the gum, just a little more prodding and smoothing. Out it comes with a trick of the tongue, clean-smelling and freshly powdered. He nestles it lovingly, absently in its foil wrapper: a matter of habit, not thought. The little acts we take for granted, in which such care inheres, like pulling covers over a loved one — for, having done them so often, it seems we will go on doing them forever. He slides the stick in beside five others just like it, and tucks the pack into his jacket pocket. Unnoticed, a man backs through the glass doors, just another in a crowd of the coming and going.
Contemporary Fiction, Fiction
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Ginger Dehlinger
2022 Great American Fiction Contest Winner: Dust
Dana Fitz Gale


On this past Sunday's episode of Rachael vs. Guy: Kids Cook-Off, the kids faced one of their toughest challenges yet, cooking their least-liked foods. And they couldn't lie to Rachael and Guy — their parents were on hand to spill the beans on what the kids really hate the most. The whole idea behind the mini challenge was to, hopefully, get the kids to like those foods, or at least find an appreciation for them. And along with Rachael and Guy, each kid chef had to taste his or her creation, so there was no getting out of it. It's worth mentioning that some kids didn't change their minds!
Thinking back to when you were a kid, what was your least-liked food? It was most likely an ingredient, like a vegetable, that now, as an adult, you don't mind or maybe even love. Brussels sprouts? Yeah, they stank, but wasn't it always because Mom overcooked them? You know better that the little cabbages are perfect roasted or sauteed, not boiled to within an inch of their lives.
Vote in the poll below, and if you don't see the ingredient you didn't like, feel free to add it.
See Food Network talent dish on the foods they hated as kids below.
Celebrity chefs reveal food they hated as kids but can't get enough of now.


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Q: Java 8 Consumer and side effects I am new to Java 8, I came across Consumer java doc and it says, "Consumer is expected to operate via side-effects." Could somebody please explain why it is said so ?

A: According to the Consumer javadoc, a consumer must be declared with a method having the signature void accept(T). As a result, the method cannot return a value. If it did not have a side effect it would have no capability of performing any effects whatsoever.

A: Most functional interfaces are meant to be just that - functional interfaces, which strictly means they accept an input, make some calculations, and return an output. They're not supposed to modify any state. Consumer is the exception because it doesn't return any values; its purpose is solely to modify some state.

A: Consumer has method accept with the following signature
void accept(T t);

The method takes t as an input and doesn't return anything (void), and hence you can't return anything from it and replace the method call with the value it returns.
An example of a side effect would a print statement,
list.stream.foreach(System.out::println);

foreach takes a Consumer as an argument. If you think about it, the only useful thing you could do with such a method is to change the world (ie, mutate a state).
The opposite of that would a pure function, a function that doesn't mutate any state, it takes an input, and returns something, for example
Function<Integer,Integer> fn = x -> x*x;

fn here doesn't have any side effects (it doesn't mutate anything), it receives an integer and peacefully returns its square.

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