When touring the sights at Heritage Park, the building dedicated to the life of early Calgary resident W.G. MacKay might look like any other log cabin. However, the small building has gone through several incarnations, including serving for a time as a Calgary bakery.
"Our records state the cabin was built in approximately 1884 or '85 out of logs salvaged from an abandoned mine," said Barb Munro, communications specialist for Heritage Park. "Possibly at Silver City near Banff, and floated down the Bow River.
From what Heritage Park was able to dig up, the cabin was built by William Bruce and originally located at 8th Avenue and 3rd Street SE. For a time it was rented out to the MacKay family before serving as the Log Cabin Bakery between 1906 and 1914.
"Heritage Park acquired the building in 1964 where it served as a combination barber shop and harness shop, print shop and as the Log Cabin Bakery," said Munro. "It was moved into the Settlement area of the park in 1976 where it was revived into its role as a residence and is now known as the MacKay Cabin.
The street was named for the first president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, George Mount Stephen in 1884, the same year, or close to, the log cabin that would become the Log Cabin Bakery was built.
Stephen Avenue today faintly resembles itself as it did between 1880 and 1930 when most of the buildings were constructed. In 1886 a fire destroyed 70 of the wooden buildings in downtown Calgary causing council to pass a law requiring all public buildings be made from fireproof materials such as brick and the local Paskapoo sandstone.
With the increasing costs of sandstone, failure of quarries to supply desirable stone and competition from other building materials, quarries in the area closed, and with the outbreak of the First World War, Calgary's Sandstone Era came to an end with some construction projects on Stephen Avenue left uncompleted.
When the Great Depression hit in the 1930s, despite the poor world economy banks continued to be constructed on Stephen Avenue including the Bank of Montreal and the Bank of Nova Scotia. Then, in the '40s, oil was discovered in Leduc and the oil boom brought prosperity both to Alberta and Calgary and J.B Barron began construction on The Barron Building, an office tower on 8th Avenue and 5th and 6th Street SW, a hub for oil companies to move to the city.
In 2002, a portion of Stephen Avenue was declared a national historical site by the Federal Government with about three dozen buildings recognized.


Super petit camping pour 13 €, sanitaires chauffées, lave-linge pour 3 €, cuisine, personnel sympathique. Ce soir nous sommes 4 camping-cars.
12,5€ with electricity. Beautiful place. Very clean toilets and showers. Kitchen area as well. Free wifi for visitors. Wifi worked ok but we were pretty much only customers. Washing machine 3€ thuble dry 3€.
Sehr netter Campingplatz direkt am See, keine Parzellen - große freie Wiese. Sehr günstig!
Magnifique endroit très propre spacieux. Accueil super sympathique en anglais. Snack bar..1.50 € la pression...50 zlt tout compris.. À recommander... Garder le pain dur il y a des canards affamés !!
Very nice place for stay couple of nights on a way to Krakow or Warszawa. Cheap prices and has a bar and good showers and clean toilets. Tennis and other little sports. 20zl/person (5 €) and 10zlots (2.5 €) for electricity. Good free WIFI around the area !
Small parking next to the ruins. You'll need holds. Downtown in the immediate vicinity.
Parking area. Very close to the lake. Suitable for AC. Water and WC. No electricity.


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How to send large files for free
Want to send some large files that are too big for email? Here's seven reliable and totally free ways to do it.
When a file is too big to email, here's how to share it (without paying)
By Grace Rasmus, Contributor | 30 Jan 2020
It's quick and easy to send attachments via email, but what about when those files become too large? Many email clients place restrictions on the sizes of files that can be sent, and even those that are delivered can clog up the recipients inbox.
How can I send large files for free?
With that in mind, you'll want to find alternatives which you can turn to. Fortunately, we have seven free options, all of which still use email as a verification method.
1. WeTransfer
WeTransfer offers one of the easiest and most straightforward ways to share your files. It's free, you don't need to register, and you can send up to 2GB at a time. You can upload and send files as often as you like, and with to up to 20 people at a time.
The download link is sent via email, and valid for seven days. Uploading files can be a bit slow during busy times, so the company recommends sending files in the morning or after work to avoid the rush hour of internet congestion.
2. Send Anywhere
Send Anywhere is a relatively similar service, but it does have a few tricks up its sleeve. One is its compatibility with a wide range of platforms - there's dedicated iOS and Android apps, a WordPress plugin and all the popular desktop operating systems are supported.
It also allows files up to 4GB to be sent, and is as simple as putting in your email address and the recipients, a subject and optional message, and hitting Send.
If you use the Chrome extension or Outlook plugin that limit is increased to 10GB, while it's 20GB on Android / iOS and unlimited if you use the Windows app.
Receiving files is even easier, as you just need the 6-digit key to receive the file as soon as it's ready.
3. MailBigFile
MailBigFile is another quick and easy option. You can send files up to 2GB in size and upload up to five files at a time. The recipient then has up to 10 days to download them.
The user experience isn't as clean and aesthetically pleasing as WeTransfer, but it's another good, free service that gets the job done.
4. Hightail
Hightail (formerly YouSendIt) requires you to sign up for a free account, making it more complicated than WeTransfer and MailBigFile for one-off transfers. However, it's another decent service that lets you share files up to 250 MB. You can also store up to 2GB and have five e-signatures.
Hightail offers secure data encryption, receipt verification, and mobile and desktop app access. If you're worried about particularly sensitive files, this might be the one to go for.
5. Dropbox
Dropbox is probably best-known as a cloud storage provider, but its file-sharing functionality is just as in-depth. The good news is that the recipient doesn't need to sign up to be able to receive files, although you will need an account to send them.
You can store 2GB for free, and get up to 16GB free with referrals. Paid plans are also available for businesses.
It works with Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android. There's also an offline mode so you can access your files at anytime.
6. Google Drive
Similar to Dropbox and OneDrive, Google Drive gives you space to store files on the web to access from anywhere. You'll get 15GB free space, which is more than enough for most people, while paid plans start at just £1.59 per month.
It's also directly linked to your Google account, so it's perfect if you already use Gmail as your email client.
It's not designed to be a way of sending large files first and foremost, but it offers an easy sharing feature that does the trick, in addition to the Dropbox-like features that come with it.
7. OneDrive
Much of the functionality in OneDrive (previously SkyDrive) is similar to Dropbox and Google Drive. You can store 15GB of files using Microsoft's cloud service, and if you want more you can get it through referrals and for linking the app to your phone's Gallery app. Paid plans often come as part of an Office 365 subscription, although you can get a standalone 100GB for just £1.99 a month.
But more importantly in this case, though, you can use it to share files for free. Any file that is stored in OneDrive can be sent to a friend quickly and easily just by pressing the Share button.
8. Mail Drop
If you're using a Mac, you might not have realised that there's actually a free way of sending large files for free built into the Mail app.
It's called Mail Drop, and works by making use of iCloud to upload the file to the web and generating a link that the recipient can use to download and access the file. Even if the recipient doesn't use Mail or even have a Mac at all, they'll still be able to access the file.
If the recipient does use Mail, though, the file will automatically be downloaded as an attachment on the email and they won't even notice anything different from a normal attachment. Check out our sister site Macworld to find out more about Mail Drop.
Author: Grace Rasmus, Contributor
Grace Rasmus is a contributor to Tech Advisor.

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As a full-time freelance musician based in Jamaica, Chris' professional musicianship has taken him all over the world. He is well known in Jamaica's music industry as he has recorded and toured with a number of well-acclaimed reggae artists and has worked with many of Jamaica's best hotels and villas to bring many weddings to life.
Imagine the sound of a live acoustic duo/trio played solo. Chris is a guitarist who incorporates, fingerstyle guitar and occasional percussive rhythms by tapping on the guitar's body, to add a unique twist to those classic covers from all eras (from Bob Marley, the Beatles to Ed Sheeran).
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As you see I'm going to send files in chunk. I don't know if I'm going to convert the file into byte array. If I needed can anyone give some sample code thanks.
To send Text File or Image File on Server you can use MultiPartEntity.
This is working, as this code is part of my Running project.
You can send Text file And media file using MultiPartEntity.
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We are going to enter The Fenland Open Meet 2018 which takes place on Sunday 27th May at Whittlesey pool.
Please find attached the entry pack. I would encourage all of our swimmers to enter this meet. It is a lovely meet and great for those with little racing experience. It is a one day event and is age on the day. The entry times are also SLOWER THAN times making it very accessible. Entry fee is £5 per event entered.
Please print off the entry form in the attached pack and return to me by Friday 23rd March 2018. All entries must be accompanied by full payment.


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What is Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Reading? John David Lewis' "Nothing Less than Victory: Decisive Wars and the Lessons of History"
Netanyahu at the Knesset on Dec. 21, 2016 holding "Nothing Less than Victory" by John David Lewis. Photo: Olivier Fitoussi
From "What Is Netanyahu Reading These Days? And What Might It Say About His Future Plans?":
The prime minister was seen in the Knesset chamber reading John David Lewis' 'Nothing Less than Victory,' which suggests that successful military commanders who have achieved decisive victories have established stable peace.
During Wednesday evening's long Knesset debate in the run-up to the final vote on the 2017-2018 budget, a number of Knesset members, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whiled away some of the time in the Knesset chamber catching up on reading.
In the prime minister's case, he was reading "Nothing Less than Victory: Decisive Wars and the Lessons of History," published in 2010 by historian John David Lewis, who died in 2012 at the age of 57. Netanyahu is said to be a voracious reader, preferring non-fiction over novels. Time may tell whether Lewis' book influences the prime minister's future military thinking.
The premise of Lewis' book is that aggressive military campaigns using decisive force are capable of winning wars and establishing lasting peace, while in contrast defensive military operations have led to indecisive outcome and prolonged hostilities. The book examines six wars from various periods, from antiquity to modern times.
When the book was initially published in 2010, Publishers Weekly said: "Lewis's analysis of war as a psychological struggle and 'clash of moral purposes' is lucid and forceful; it's especially telling in his incisive account of Sherman's march [in the American Civil War] through Georgia, and especially provocative in his defense of the atomic bombings of Japan."
Reflections on Trump's Wall
They always failed. He had a lot to say on the subject. Here is a very pertinent quote from his book. Particularly ominous is the last paragraph:
"When Constantine marched on Rome in 312, his opponent Maxentius did not rely on the walls but rather marched out to meet his foe. The purpose of the walls was to protect the city until an army could come to its rescue, not to serve as a sufficient defense in their own right. But there is a deeper meaning to these walls. For centuries the majestic grandeur of Rome's strength had been flaunted in the open roads into the city. It had been six hundred years since the city was last besieged, and for centuries an invasion of Italy had been inconceivable. Every Roman could see this power and this confidence in the openness of Rome's roads, which connected her without fear to the world. These roads were like the shipping routes that had crossed the Aegean Sea when Athens was at her apex, which had brought the goods of the world to the foremost Greek city. The openness of Roman roads was true power, far stronger than mere walls. These roads were lines in the face of a confident city, the sinews of an invincible civilization with a people who admitted to no threats capable of striking their capital. Now the threats were real, and a new invasion was only a matter of time. Aurelian's walls might have reassured the Romans that another invasion could be held off before penetrating the city itself, although Rome remained dependent on outside sources for its food and water. But the walls may also have had a deeper effect: they could not save Rome, but they could remind every Roman, every day, that he was perpetually at risk. The assault of the Goths onto Italy had been shocking but temporary evidence of Rome's precarious position-as the sight of the Thebans had revealed the paucity of the Spartans, and Scipio's landing swept fear through Carthage-but Aurelian's walls were an open admission of permanent weakness and vulnerability. If any doubt remained that Rome was no longer the source of energy at the center of empire, that doubt was now removed. If one wished to name a particular event as marking the true Fall of Rome, one might look not to the elevation of King Odoacer to emperor in 476, or to the sack of Rome in 410, or even to the division of the empire in 395. The moment at which the city of Rome became just another town among many in an anarchic landscape, and not a source of law and power, was AD 271, with the decision to build walls around Rome. The political and military center of the empire had been gutted; the rest was a matter of time."
Read John David Lewis's book, "Nothing less than Victory", for more info regarding walls erected in ancient times to protect the cities.
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Liz Claiborne Outlet Stores-Everything Must Go!
As a Philadelphia born Floridian, the cooler weather, the falling leaves, and the beautiful colors of fall are a fond memory. I remember just as fall approached designers revealed beautiful fall sweaters and oh, those fashionable jackets were just amazing. How I enjoyed shopping those new fall arrivals. Back then I was of the opinion one could never have enough jackets. Since then my thoughts have changed a bit.
In the absence of extreme seasonal changes, the unveiling of fall fashions still promotes an amazing and cozy fashionista type excitement. Fall is almost here in SW Florida. Rather than see the changes I can smell it in the air. A distinct freshness and lack of dense humidity exists simultaneously. It is a crisp and welcoming scent to say the least. Sweaters mean to Floridians what winter coats and jackets mean to Philadelphians. Fall is still my favorite time to shop however; sweaters have become my fall enthusiasm.
Liz Claiborne is one brand that consistently entices the senses with fashionable yet elegant fall styles. Whether it be flirty ruffles, delicately embroidered tops, or feminine flowers Liz Claiborne has something special for you. From classic high neck cardigans to crew necked zippers, the new fall sweaters are simply fabulous.
You know what that means, time for a big SALE! Liz Claiborne New York Outlet stores are selling their entire inventory at a discount! Everything must go on sale 40% – 70% off! The new fall fashions are available for sale up to 40% off, including my favorite the sweaters! Wait there is more; the Liz Claiborne Outlet sale includes an impressive selection of women and petites sizes too.
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HBO is capitalizing on election frenzy (and, perhaps, voter apathy ) this summer with the unveiling of a model new political social gathering. Concise, laborious-hitting and entertaining, FIXING THE GAME advocates seizing American capitalism from the jaws of the expectations market — and planting it firmly in the actual market, and tells us exactly the way to do it, starting now. However, there is a sure charm to deliberately fluffing the task as badly as attainable so that you just finish the recreation with him stroppily yelling: That's IT! Octamari Rescue: Save the loveable Octamari from their dying dwelling world in this quick paced and enjoyable match 3 puzzle recreation.
Now, bestselling creator Roger Martin, called by The Times one in every of top fifty administration thinkers on this planet, reveals the offender behind the sorry state of American capitalism inFIXING THE GAME: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL (Harvard Business Review Press; May 2011).
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After high school, Brandon spent two years on a service mission in Chiapas, Mexico. Notably, Brandon was present during Hurricane Stan and assisted with rescue efforts and clean-up work. In addition, Brandon became fluent in Spanish through his day-to-day interactions with the people he served.
After returning from Mexico, Brandon attended Brigham Young University. In 2013, Brandon graduated with a degree in History.
By that time, Brandon knew he wanted to pursue a legal career. He chose Baylor Law School because of the school's reputation for trial advocacy and its Practice Court program.
While in law school, he earned the Robert Messinger Memorial Award for excellence in legal writing and spent a summer as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Judge Darold McDade.
Brandon excelled in Baylor's trial advocacy program and knew that he wanted to be the kind of lawyer who gets into court to try cases. After he earned his Juris Doctor in 2016, Brandon fulfilled his goal of becoming a trial lawyer by joining our team at Sloan Law Firm.
"I love the competitive aspect of litigation, but I've also discovered that law provides an opportunity for me to learn new things every day," Brandon says.
Brandon's practice focuses mostly on personal injury litigation and commercial litigation. One of his career highlights, to date, was serving on the team that achieved a $6 million settlement for a client who suffered a brain injury, multiple broken bones, a punctured lung, and torn knee ligaments as a result of an 18-wheeler collision. Our client was awarded a net amount of $4 million after attorney's fees and expenses.
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TellTale Blames SCEE For TWD Episode 3 Delay
Sebastian MossTuesday, September 04, 2012
If you've been eagerly following the terrific tale that is The Walking Dead episodic game, but happen to live in Europe, you probably wondered where the third episode was after it released last week in the US.
In response to the delay, fans of the series complained to developer TellTale Games, blaming them of regional favoritism and poor prioritization. But TT took to Twitter to explain that they aren't to blame, and that they gave SCEA and SCEE the game to test at the same time:
Ep 3 of TWD was submitted to SCEE at the same time as SCEA. We will update as soon as we can confirm an impending release date on PSN EU.
After tweeting it, the developer removed the message, presumably not to make it look like they are biting the hand that feeds them, but we captured a screenshot:
Seconds later, they tweeted the following:
We thank our fans so much for their patience and support. As soon as we know the PSN EU date, we'll be able to confirm!
Yesterday, SCEE's Fred Dutton spoke about the delay, sadly not giving a very firm release window:
Yes, I know you are and appreciate your frustration over the discrepancy with the US release. The EU code is currently in QA and will hopefully be on the store in the next couple of weeks.
Exactly why SCEE takes so much longer than SCEA is unclear – other than extra languages, the games are presumably the same, and SCEA was certain the title was fit for release a week ago. It also does seem odd that Sony doesn't use a single global Quality Assurance system that would both save costs for them and the developer, and reduce the 'the grass is greener on the other PSN region' ethos that has become prevalent this gen.
What do you think about the matter? Is the extensive regional testing necessary to ensure that games are bug free, or is it a needless hassle that alienates gamers? Let us know what you think in the comments below.
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Q: Counting number of 1 bits in binary representation I tried with the below code to convert decimal input into its binary representation, and then to count the number of 1's in it
When I run the below code, there is no output and there are no errors reported:
function demo() {
    var arra, i, rem;
    var Input = document.getElementById('demo');
    arra = [
        0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
        0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0];
    var x = 1;
    while (Input > 0) {
        rem = Input % 2;
        Input = (parseInt(Input / 2));
        if (rem > 0) {
            arra[i] = 1;
            i = i + 1;
        } else {
            i = i + 1;
        }
    }

    while (x < 35) {
        if (arra[x] == 1) {
            document.getElementById("output").innerHTML = "SOB Found";
            x = x + 1;
        } else {
            x = x + 1;
        }
    }
}

HTML Code:
<!doctype html>

    <title>Test Phase</title>

    <input type="text" name="value" id="Input"   />
    <input type="submit"  value="submit"   onClick="demo()"  />

A: There are a couple of things wrong with your code. var Input the way you have it is a DOM element which doesn't actually exist (demo) isn't in your HTML, you probably wanted to do var Input = document.getElementById('Input').value;
Next is that you didn't give i an initial value which makes the first arra[i] undefined: 1 (or whatever value Input is at that time.
Third, an Array starts at the index 0, so var x should be 0.
To bring it all together it should be:
function demo() {
    var arra, i = 0, rem;
    //            ^ giving i initial value
    var Input = document.getElementById('Input').value;
    //                                   ^       ^
    arra = [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0];
    var x = 0; // start index is 0
    while (Input > 0) {
        rem = Input % 2;
        Input = (parseInt(Input / 2));
        if (rem > 0) {
            arra[i] = 1;
            i = i + 1;
        } else {
            i = i + 1;
        }
    }

    while (x < 35) {
        if (arra[x] == 1) {
            document.getElementById("output").innerHTML = "SOB Found";
            x = x + 1;
        } else {
            x = x + 1;
        }
    }
}

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This works, although I don't understand what the meaning is.

A: You could use an empty array, use the implicit casted to number value of the input, use all small letter variables and count all 1 in the array. Then make an output with the count.

function demo() {
    var array = [], i = 0, rem,
        input = +document.getElementById('Input').value,
        count = 0;

    while (input > 0) {
        rem = input % 2;
        input = Math.floor(input / 2);
        array[i] = rem;
        i++;
    }

    for (i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
        if (array[i] == 1) {
            count++;
        }
    }
    document.getElementById("output").innerHTML = count + ' found of 1.';
    console.log(array);
}
<input type="text" name="value" id="Input"   />
<input type="submit"  value="submit"   onClick="demo()"  />

A: There are several issues, but you can do this with much less code by using the .toString(2) method:

function demo() {
    // Get input value via value property and convert to number (+)
    var val = +document.getElementById("input").value;
    // Convert to binary representation:
    var bin = val.toString(2);
    // Count the number of 1 bits, by counting the number of
    //    matches when looking for 1s:
    var ones = bin.match(/1/g).length;
    // Output results, using textContent, not innerHTML:
    document.getElementById("binary").textContent = bin;
    document.getElementById("ones").textContent = ones;
}
<input type="text" name="value" id="input">
<input type="submit"  value="submit" onclick="demo()">

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Lifestyle | Kateigaho International Japan Edition
Elegant glassware: A historic fusion of kirikane and glass
"Building a Rainbow" by Akane Yamamoto |
Glass blossom: 'Hanaguruma' ('Wheel of Flowers') by Akane Yamamoto. One can almost smell the sweet scent of the ume (Japanese plum) blossoms in the lovely pattern that adorns this shallow bowl.
The British Museum's glass collection includes a bowl with gold-leaf patterns that is estimated to have been made around 250 B.C. The gold leaf is sandwiched between two layers of glass, but the layers were never fully fused together. When two pieces of glass are curved, they are extremely difficult to fuse, and that feat has remained a holy grail for glassmakers through the ages.
The artist who finally achieved that goal was Akane Yamamoto. Fascinated by the craft of kirikane, in which very fine strips of metals like gold and platinum are used to form decorative patterns, she set out to incorporate the technique in her shaping of glass. Through trial and error, she succeeded in devising a way to set three-dimensional gold kirikane ornaments as if they were floating between two glass layers. A major challenge was that the melting temperature of gold is not much different from that of glass, so her timing had to be absolutely perfect to keep the gold patterns from losing shape. She accumulated a vast array of data correlating such factors as the size of a piece and the speed at which the kiln heats up. All that effort paid off when, in London in 2014, she exhibited at Collect, the International Art Fair for Modern Craft and Design. British glassmakers praised her creation as both a beautiful work of art and an awe-inspiring technical triumph.
Yamamoto's commitment to innovation is typical of the new generation of Japanese artists working with glass, as is her aesthetic flair. The prospects for glass craft in the 21st century look bright indeed, thanks to phenomenal talents like her.
Upcoming exhibitions:
Golden glow: 'Asagao' ('Morning Glory') tea-ceremony bowl by Akane Yamamoto. Born in Ishikawa Prefecture in 1977, Kyoto resident Yamamoto won the Encouragement Prize of the Pola Award for the Promotion of Traditional Japanese Culture in 2015. Exquisitely wrought bands of gold glow from between two layers of glass, an effect achieved through a firing process that melts the glass just enough for the two pieces to fuse together without overheating the metal.
Akane Yamamoto has two upcoming exhibitions featuring her kirikane glasswork:
"Elegant Luster of Gold: Decoration of Kirikane Technique" at the Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art is scheduled to run from June 20 through July 26; ¥370. For more information, visit www.ishibi.pref.ishikawa.jp.
"Contemporary Japanese Crafts: Reinterpretation, Exquisite Craftsmanship, and Aesthetic Exploration" at the Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art is scheduled to run from July 18 through Sept. 22; ¥1,000. For more information, visit panasonic.co.jp/ls/museum.
Due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, health guidelines and scheduled events are subject to change. Please check with national health authorities and venue websites for the latest information before heading out.
For more insight into Japan's culture, arts and lifestyle, visit int.kateigaho.com.


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Private G.L. Price, Last Combat Death – 11 November 1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission commemorative certificate for Pvt. G.L. Price.
Pvt. George Price, "A" Company, 28th Canadian Infantry Battalion (Northwest) is reported as the last CEF soldier to die before the 11AM Armistice that ended the First World War. Units of the Canadian Expeditionary Force had been ordered to resume the advance, and keep pushing German forces beyond Mons, Belgium. By mid-morning most soldiers knew of the Armistice coming into effect at 11. The 28th Battalions "A" and "B" Companies were pursuing a retreating enemy East of Mons, through the woods and village of Havré. George Price, a 25 year old originally from Kings County, NS, who had been working in Saskatchewan, had just crossed the canal into Ville-sur-Haine.
G.L. Price draft form, conscripted under the 1917 Military Service Act. Library and Archives Canada CEF Service File, RG 150 1992-93/166, Box 7974.
While other units were standing-to, his small team were working their way into the village, with Germans units withdrawing to the North-East. Pvt. Price was struck in the chest by a rifle or machine-gun bullet. Help from his comrades and Belgian civilians could not save him. At his death, church bells in Mons and the surrounding villages were ringing out in celebration of the end of hostilities.
Modified detail of Sheet 45, Edition3. Series: GSGS 2743. H.B. Stuart Collection, McMaster University. This shows rough locations, as referenced in records below. The location stated for his death accurately maps to the location of a plaque at Ville-sur-Haine.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission's site shows that, although Price was the only CEF soldier killed-in-action advancing in Belgium that day, 38 others, and one soldier from the Dominion of Newfoundland, died at various locations in France, Britain and Canada, on this last day of the Great War. Here is a small selection of documents that help tell the story of Price and the events of a hundred years ago:
Library and Archives Canada 28 CIB War Diary Report on Operations Nov. 1918 RG9-III-D-3. Volume/box number: 4936.
G.L. Price Circumstances of Death form on his CEF file. Library and Archives Canada CEF Service File, RG 150 1992-93/166, Box 7974.
G.L. Price Circumstances of Death register entry. Library and Archives Canada RG150, 1992-93/314, Vol. 230.
Plaque marking the place Price fell at Ville-sur-Haine, courtesy of http://www.visitmons.co.uk.
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Len had been awarded honorary life membership of the SSA in recognition of his years of distinguished service. He first joined in 1951 to play the small role of Bernardo in Hamlet. However his talents were soon evident and over the course of the next fifty years he acted in every play of the canon. K.E. (Peter) Gately, our founder, once referred to him as "our resident Henry" because he played Henry VIII and Henry IV (both parts), the latter several times. His roles tended to reflect his strong and noble character – Othello (at least twice), MacDuff (Macbeth), Enobarbus (Antony and Cleopatra), Brutus (Julius Caesar), Cominius (Coriolanus) – but he also played Buckingham (Richard III), Claudius (Hamlet), Bottom (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Warwick (Henry VI pt1/2/3), and Falstaff (The Merry Wives of Windsor), as well as many other supporting roles. He was one of the first trustees, with KEG and Terry Salmon, who ensured the continued survival of the SSA after Clifford Allen retired as director. He and his late beloved wife of 68 years, Jean (who died in 2014), were truly pillars of this unique company. Len died, after courageously surviving cancer well for some years, less than a week short of his 95th birthday.


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace Bio.Algorithms.Alignment.MultipleSequenceAlignment
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Implementation of ProfileAlignment class.
    ///
    /// The class is basically the same as SequenceAlignment, with the difference
    /// that it also inherits the new members defined in IProfileAlignment interface,
    /// i.e. new profile class, float alignment score.
    ///
    /// With the new Profiles member, some methods need to be modified to
    /// accommodate this change.
    ///
    /// The class also provides a set of static methods to generate profileAlignment
    /// from profiles, sequences, and other profileAlignments.
    ///
    /// </summary>
    public class ProfileAlignment : SequenceAlignment, IProfileAlignment
    {
        // The profiles of an alignment

        // The score for the alignment. Higher scores mean better alignments.
        // Internal score

        /// <summary>
        /// The alignment score of this alignment
        /// </summary>
        public new float Score { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// The profiles of this class
        /// </summary>
        public IProfiles ProfilesMatrix { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// The number of sequences associated with this profile alignment
        /// </summary>
        public int NumberOfSequences { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Modified.
        /// Clears the SequenceAlignment
        /// Throws exception if SequenceAlignment is read only.
        /// </summary>
        public override void Clear()
        {
            base.Clear();
            this.Score = 0;
            ProfilesMatrix.Clear();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Generate IProfileAlignment from a set of aligned sequences
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="sequences">aligned sequences</param>
        public static IProfileAlignment GenerateProfileAlignment(ICollection<ISequence> sequences)
        {
            IProfiles profileMatrix = Profiles.GenerateProfiles(sequences);
            IProfileAlignment profileAlignment = new ProfileAlignment();
            profileAlignment.NumberOfSequences = sequences.Count;
            profileAlignment.ProfilesMatrix = profileMatrix;
            return profileAlignment;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Generate IProfileAlignment from a set of aligned sequences
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="sequences">aligned sequences</param>
        /// <param name="weights">sequence weights</param>
        public static IProfileAlignment GenerateProfileAlignment(ICollection<ISequence> sequences, float[] weights)
        {
            IProfiles profileMatrix = Profiles.GenerateProfiles(sequences, weights);
            IProfileAlignment profileAlignment = new ProfileAlignment();
            profileAlignment.NumberOfSequences = sequences.Count;
            profileAlignment.ProfilesMatrix = profileMatrix;
            return profileAlignment;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Combine two profileAlignments into one if they are aligned already
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="profileAlignmentA">first profile alignment</param>
        /// <param name="profileAlignmentB">second profile alignment</param>
        public static IProfileAlignment GenerateProfileAlignment(IProfileAlignment profileAlignmentA, IProfileAlignment profileAlignmentB)
        {

            IProfiles profileMatrix = Profiles.GenerateProfiles(
                        profileAlignmentA.ProfilesMatrix, profileAlignmentB.ProfilesMatrix,
                        profileAlignmentA.NumberOfSequences, profileAlignmentB.NumberOfSequences);

            IProfileAlignment profileAlignment = new ProfileAlignment();
            profileAlignment.NumberOfSequences = profileAlignmentA.NumberOfSequences + profileAlignmentB.NumberOfSequences;
            profileAlignment.ProfilesMatrix = profileMatrix;

            return profileAlignment;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Generate a profileAlignment from one single sequence
        /// The set of sequence items of the seq should be the same as
        /// 'static ItemSet' of the IProfiles.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="seq">an input sequence</param>
        public static IProfileAlignment GenerateProfileAlignment(ISequence seq)
        {
            IProfiles profileMatrix = Profiles.GenerateProfiles(seq);
            IProfileAlignment profileAlignment = new ProfileAlignment();
            profileAlignment.NumberOfSequences = 1;
            profileAlignment.ProfilesMatrix = profileMatrix;
            return profileAlignment;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Generate a profileAlignment from one single sequence
        /// The set of sequence items of the seq should be the same as
        /// 'static ItemSet' of the IProfiles.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="seq">an input sequence</param>
        /// <param name="weight">sequence weight</param>
        public static IProfileAlignment GenerateProfileAlignment(ISequence seq, float weight)
        {
            IProfiles profileMatrix = Profiles.GenerateProfiles(seq, weight);
            IProfileAlignment profileAlignment = new ProfileAlignment();
            profileAlignment.NumberOfSequences = 1;
            profileAlignment.ProfilesMatrix = profileMatrix;
            return profileAlignment;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Combine two profileAlignments with alignment operation array from dynamic programming.
        /// The dynamic programming algorithm returns two arrays containing the alignment operations
        /// on the two profiles. This method applies the operation information in the two arrays to
        /// the two original profiles, and combine them into a new aligned profile, and put into the
        /// newly generated profileAlignment.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="profileAlignmentA">first profile alignment</param>
        /// <param name="profileAlignmentB">second profile alignment</param>
        /// <param name="aAligned">aligned integer array generated by dynamic programming</param>
        /// <param name="bAligned">aligned integer array generated by dynamic programming</param>
        /// <param name="gapCode">the gap integer code defined in dynamic programming class</param>
        public static IProfileAlignment GenerateProfileAlignment(
                IProfileAlignment profileAlignmentA,
                IProfileAlignment profileAlignmentB,
                int[] aAligned,
                int[] bAligned,
                int gapCode)
        {
            IProfiles profileMatrix = Profiles.GenerateProfiles(
                profileAlignmentA.ProfilesMatrix, profileAlignmentB.ProfilesMatrix,
                profileAlignmentA.NumberOfSequences, profileAlignmentB.NumberOfSequences,
                aAligned, bAligned, gapCode);

            IProfileAlignment profileAlignment = new ProfileAlignment();
            profileAlignment.NumberOfSequences = profileAlignmentA.NumberOfSequences +
                                                    profileAlignmentB.NumberOfSequences;
            profileAlignment.ProfilesMatrix = profileMatrix;

            return profileAlignment;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Combine two profileAlignments with alignment operation array from dynamic programming.
        /// The dynamic programming algorithm returns two arrays containing the alignment operations
        /// on the two profiles. This method applies the operation information in the two arrays to
        /// the two original profiles, and combine them into a new aligned profile, and put into the
        /// newly generated profileAlignment.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="profileAlignmentA">first profile alignment</param>
        /// <param name="profileAlignmentB">second profile alignment</param>
        /// <param name="aAligned">aligned integer array generated by dynamic programming</param>
        /// <param name="bAligned">aligned integer array generated by dynamic programming</param>
        /// <param name="gapCode">the gap integer code defined in dynamic programming class</param>
        /// <param name="weights">the weights of two profileAlignments</param>
        public static IProfileAlignment GenerateProfileAlignment(
                IProfileAlignment profileAlignmentA,
                IProfileAlignment profileAlignmentB,
                int[] aAligned,
                int[] bAligned,
                int gapCode,
                float[] weights)
        {
            IProfiles profileMatrix = Profiles.GenerateProfiles(
                profileAlignmentA.ProfilesMatrix, profileAlignmentB.ProfilesMatrix,
                profileAlignmentA.NumberOfSequences, profileAlignmentB.NumberOfSequences,
                aAligned, bAligned, gapCode, weights);

            IProfileAlignment profileAlignment = new ProfileAlignment();
            profileAlignment.NumberOfSequences = profileAlignmentA.NumberOfSequences +
                                                    profileAlignmentB.NumberOfSequences;
            profileAlignment.ProfilesMatrix = profileMatrix;

            return profileAlignment;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// The profiles of two subsets is extracted from the current multiple alignment.
        /// Columns containing no residues, i.e. indels only, are discarded.
        ///
        /// This method is used in alignment refinement, when the guide tree is cut into two,
        /// the sequences (leaf nodes) are separated into two subsets. This method generates
        /// two profileAlignments for the two subtrees by extracting profiles of the two subsets
        /// of sequences.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="alignedSequences">a set of aligned sequences</param>
        /// <param name="sequenceIndicesA">the subset sequence indices of subtree A</param>
        /// <param name="sequenceIndicesB">the subset sequence indices of subtree B</param>
        /// <param name="allIndelPositions">the list of all-indel positions that have been removed when constructing</param>
        public static IProfileAlignment[] ProfileExtraction(IList<ISequence> alignedSequences,
                                        IList<int> sequenceIndicesA, IList<int> sequenceIndicesB,
                                        out List<int>[] allIndelPositions)
        {
            allIndelPositions = new List<int>[2];
            IProfiles profileA = Profiles.GenerateProfiles(alignedSequences, sequenceIndicesA, out allIndelPositions[0]);
            IProfiles profileB = Profiles.GenerateProfiles(alignedSequences, sequenceIndicesB, out allIndelPositions[1]);
            IProfileAlignment profileAlignmentA = new ProfileAlignment();
            IProfileAlignment profileAlignmentB = new ProfileAlignment();
            profileAlignmentA.ProfilesMatrix = profileA;
            profileAlignmentB.ProfilesMatrix = profileB;
            profileAlignmentA.NumberOfSequences = sequenceIndicesA.Count;
            profileAlignmentB.NumberOfSequences = sequenceIndicesB.Count;

            return new IProfileAlignment[2] { profileAlignmentA, profileAlignmentB };
        }
    }
}

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Q: Convert a raster to GeoJSON polygons in PostGIS I'm trying to convert a raster to a polygon and export it from PostGIS as GeoJSON. Specifically I want each pixel to be a polygon with associated the raster value.
PostGIS seems to have a few different functions for converting rasters to polygons, I'm using the ST_PixelAsPolygons function because I want each pixel to be represented as its own polygon.
Example:
SELECT ST_PixelAsPolygon(rast) FROM tbl;

However this returns a set of records for each raster and I can't easily convert this to GeoJSON.
Does anyone know of a simple way to do this?

A: If you look at the example on the man page for ST_PixelAsPolygons you will see how you can access the geometries using table_alias.geom syntax (similar in spirit to how ST_Dump works to turn a set or records into individual rows). Following on from that example, you can pass (gv).geom to the ST_AsGeoJSON function, eg,
SELECT ST_AsGeoJSON((gv).geom)
  FROM
      (SELECT ST_PixelAsPolygons(
          ST_SetValue(
              ST_SetValue(
                  ST_AddBand(
                    ST_MakeEmptyRaster(2, 2, 0, 0, 0.001, -0.001, 0.001, 0.001, 4269),
                                       '8BUI'::text, 1, 0),
                    2, 2, 10),
            1, 1, NULL)
     ) gv
 ) foo;

which will return the three rows:

{"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[0.001,0.001],[0.002,0.002],[0.003,0.001],[0.002,0],[0.001,0.001]]]}
{"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[0.001,-0.001],[0.002,0],[0.003,-0.001],[0.002,-0.002],[0.001,-0.001]]]}
{"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[0.002,0],[0.003,0.001],[0.004,0],[0.003,-0.001],[0.002,0]]]}

If you wish to turn this into a FeatureCollection, you can use a combination of row_to_json, array_agg and array_to_json to group the rows together into an array and add in the "type":"FeatureCollection" before the features array. The general idea is that you select the 'Feature', the GeoJSON representation of the geometry and the properties in one subquery, and then use array_to_json and array_agg to group this into an array of features, with 'FeatureCollection' as type before the array. Finally, you select row_to_json to group this all together inside {}.
Note you have to do the nasty subselect on the properties -- in your case the raster pixel values -- to avoid the labels being f1, f2, etc. See this Postgres Online article for more information.
SELECT row_to_json(fc)
  FROM
    (SELECT 'FeatureCollection' as type, array_to_json(array_agg(feats)) as features
      FROM
         (SELECT 'Feature' as type,
                 st_asgeojson((gv).geom)::json as geometry,
                 row_to_json((SELECT props FROM (SELECT (gv).val as value) as props )) as properties
            FROM
                (SELECT
                    ST_PixelAsPolygons(
                       ST_SetValue(
                         ST_SetValue(
                             ST_AddBand(
                                 ST_MakeEmptyRaster(2, 2, 0, 0, 0.001, -0.001, 0.001, 0.001, 4269),
                            '8BUI'::text, 1, 0),
                        2, 2, 10),
                     1, 1, NULL)
               ) gv
          ) json
    ) feats
) fc;

which now produces:
{"type":"FeatureCollection",
     "features":[
           {"type":"Feature",
                "geometry":{"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[0.001,0.001],[0.002,0.002],[0.003,0.001],[0.002,0],[0.001,0.001]]]},
                "properties":{"value":1}
           },
           {"type":"Feature",
                "geometry":{"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[0.001,-0.001],[0.002,0],[0.003,-0.001],[0.002,-0.002],[0.001,-0.001]]]},
                "properties":{"value":1}
            },
            {"type":"Feature",
                "geometry":{"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[0.002,0],[0.003,0.001],[0.004,0],[0.003,-0.001],[0.002,0]]]},
                "properties":{"value":10}
            }
     ]
}

Note: You need to cast the ST_AsGeoJSON to JSON, with the :: operator, or else you will end up with all the quotes being escaped, as \" in the output.


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Haunted Wiltshire
and other mysteries from the South West
Devizes Castle
The first castle to be built at Devizes was constructed around 1080 by Osmond - Bishop of Salisbury. Osmond's castle was a motte-and-bailey construction with a wooden three-storey tower set on a high palisade mound. The outer bailey would have included a defensive ditch, stockade and drawbridge. The castle was often used to secure prisoners of state. One such famous resident incarcerated for twenty years was Robert - Duke of Normandy, imprisoned following a lengthy dispute with his younger brother Henry I.
After its destruction in 1113 by fire, as was often the case with wooden structures, work to rebuild it was undertaken by Viceroy Bishop - Roger of Caen, who lavished a huge amount of money on its construction. Built primarily of stone this time indications are, that the new castle would of had a keep, castellated walls, a portcullis and a very deep moat, its banked sides still visible today.
The castle was badly damaged again in 1645 by repeated assaults from Cromwell's army, who eventually won the day and seized the castle. An order was issued from parliament to have the castle 'slighted', a term used to initiate dismantling. Very little remains of the original castle, though parts of the keep were discovered during the 19th century when the Leach family began work constructing a new castle in a Neo-Norman Gothic style. Towers were built to the south and north with castellated walls and an impressive gatehouse with double grid patterned timber gates set into a large Norman archway.
Over its colourful history, the castle has gained, not surprisingly, a reputation for being haunted. A mysterious woman dressed in white has been seen countless times wandering the castle's corridors. Originally, she was thought to be Lady Isabella - daughter of Charles VI of France. The story goes, that as a result of a politically arranged, turbulent and unhappy marriage to King Richard II of England, Isabella sort the attentions of another man. Isabella was often left alone in the castle and it was during one of these solitary episodes that she met and later fell in love with a young knight. The King was told of her infidelity. The knight was duly arrested and put to death but Isabella's fate was even more gruesome, for she was to be buried alive within the castle walls at the hands of her jealous husband.
The validity of this story is brought into question however, as Isabella's forced marriage in 1396 was at the tender age of just six, so the likelihood of her engaging in a relationship with a another man would have been extremely unlikely. Not only that, but it is well documented that she returned to France aged 11 after King Richard, returning from a military campaign in Ireland, was imprisoned and later mysteriously murdered. It is also well known, that even though their marriage was arranged in an effort to calm the tensions between England and France, they were anything but at odds with one another and both carried a deep respect for each other. Therefore, the true identity of 'The Lady in White' remains a tantalising mystery.
Another of the castle's ghosts is that of a cavalier, who haunts the main staircase. He is described as very tall and seems always to be in a rush as he descends the stairs in great haste with his sword clattering at his side. Story has it, that one evening as an elderly resident was making her way up to her bedroom, she was suddenly confronted by the cavalier as he dashed past her leaving her in his icy wake. Another resident similarly climbing the stairs, was abruptly subjected to an icy blast as the apparition materialized immediately in front of him then proceeded to pass straight through him.
The sound of man's voice has been heard coming from one of the bedrooms. During WWII the castle was used as a barracks. The story goes, that one soldier was inclined to sleepwalk to such and extent that he was forever waking the others. A decision was made to confine him to one bedroom where he was locked in at night. People who have stayed in that room have been woken by the sound of someone murmuring and a shuffling sound as if someone is moving about the room. I'm inclined to think that whatever is haunting that room must surely not be that same soldier, I can't believe that his comrades would have locked him in and left him for dead.
Probably the most eerie of the castle's ghosts and indeed, the most active, is that of an elderly woman who has been seen in the Gallery. She is described as dressed in 19th century 'widows weeds', a garment worn during a time of mourning. She walks with a stoop and grasping a walking stick, but there is something a little disturbing about her presence and for that matter the Gallery in general. Over the years a succession of dogs have apparently refused to enter the room, instead preferring to stand transfixed, or howl, or growl, or all three, at something that only they can sense within the empty room.
Today the castle is privately owned and not accessible to the public. Don't let this put you off though. Great views of the castle, its grounds and the site of the moat can be had from the Castle car park at the rear of Market Square.
Posted by Willow at 17:24
Labels: Devizes Castle
I have spent a good deal of my time in the pursuit of ghosts, a pursuit which regrettably has yet to yield anything tangible by way of conclusive proof. My interest in ghosts and haunted houses probably stems from when I was a child and discovered that my grandparents owned a haunted pub. I would listen intently to all the tales, which ultimately fuelled my interest in the supernatural. It wasn't until much later - 1995, that I took the initiative and formed an investigative group composed of people I selected for their objective open-mindedness. What followed were several years spent investigating some pretty eerie locations. Wiltshire's ancient landscape has a unique beauty, often wild and mysterious, with a rich tapestry of hauntings, folklore and legends. A county regarded by many commentators and authors as possibly the most haunted in Britain. I hope you enjoy my blog, but please forgive me if some of my ramblings are a little tongue-in-cheek. I remain as always, an open minded sceptic
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Home American History Colonial America – Early Naming Patterns
Colonial America – Early Naming Patterns
Anyone who has ever tried to trace their families' roots, and has gotten back to the early American colonies, has probably run into a situation where there are 4 Johns, or 5 Williams in one generation, or the 7th child is a Jr. Why is that?
English Naming Patterns
Up until the revolution, and sometimes until the 1850's, most families of English descent (and the Scots who settled in North and South Carolina) followed the following naming pattern:
First-born son named for Father's Father
Second-born son named for Mother's Father
Third-born son named for Father
Fourth-born son named for Father's eldest brother
First-born daughter named for Mother's Mother
Second-born daughter named for Father's Mother
Third-born daughter named for Mother
Fourth-born daughter named for Mother's eldest sister
Any subsequent children where usually named for other ancestors.
For example, a family found in Halifax County, Virginia has the following names and ages: James (33), Mary (35), John (12), Evin (10), Mildred (8), Adolphus (6), James (4), Mary (1), Martha (1), Richard (4 months). Living next door are James's parents, named John and Mildred.
Let's apply the naming pattern. The father's father is John, as is the eldest son. We can assume that either they had a daughter who died or that Mary's mother was also named Mildred, since the eldest daughter appears to be named for the Father's Mother. The fourth son is named for the father, which is a slight variant from the pattern but the third daughter is indeed named for the mother. If you look at other information this family, you may find siblings of the parents named Richard and Martha.
A frequently found variation from this pattern is: Eldest son named for Mother's Father Second son named for Father's Father Eldest daughter named for Father's Mother Second daughter named for Mother's Mother.
The first settlers in New England generally bore names with English origins, Biblical connotations or moral significance. Biblical names were generally preferred over names connected with the Church of England. Common names among the Puritans included Chastity, Love, Obedience, Patience and Mercy. Other popular names included Mary, Elizabeth, Sarah, Ruth and Hannah for girls while John, Joseph, Samuel, Nathan and Josiah were popular for boys. Often the eldest son and daughter would be named for their parents.
In Virginia and the Southern colonies, biblical references were less common though not unseen. Often children were given classical Greek names and popular English (folk) names. Boys could be named William, Richard, Edward, George, Adolphus, Theophilus, or John. Girls were often named Margaret, Martha, Elizabeth, Jane, Catherine and names such as Penelope, Permelia, and America were not very uncommon. First-born children were also often given their parents' names in lieu of the names of their grandparents.
The Quakers in Pennsylvania and Delaware generally followed the English naming pattern. Also popular were biblical names such as John, Joseph, Thomas, William and George for boys, Mary, Hanna, Esther, Elizabeth, Sarah and Phebe for girls. Names denoting moral virtues such as Patience, Preserve, Grace and Chastity were also favored.
The frontier settlements of early America generally followed the same naming patterns of the southern colonies, but also tending to make up more unusual names for their children. These settlers were German, Irish, Scottish, French, Dutch and Scandinavian and tended to Americanize their children's names in an effort to fit into their new country (this included surnames as well as given names). Some popular names in these regions included Alexander, Charles, James, Percy, David, Richard, Robert and John.
One last common naming pattern was the use of surnames as given names. For example, the child of John Woodson and Catherine Haynes might be Haynes Woodson. After the Revolution, it was common to see surnames given as middle names.
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Before the American Revolution, it was against English Common Law for commoners to have middle names. The German population generally ignored this law, giving two or three given names to each child. If a man was known by more than one name before the Revolution, it was generally a nickname or a name used to tell him about from the other John's in his family (as in "John the elder") After the Revolution, the giving of a middle name became common. Often, a surname was given as a middle name, such as the name of a maternal grandmother or other distant relation.
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6 April 2021 /
Ellen Phiddian
Contraception planning for women with heart disease
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Cardiologists need to address the risk of pregnancy appropriately with women of child-bearing age, and encourage contraception planning for women with heart disease, according to a paper published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Pregnancy can create further health problems for people with cardiovascular disease, leading to an increased risk of morbidity and mortality. Some medications used to treat cardiovascular disease can also be harmful to foetuses. This means that women with cardiovascular disease should discuss reproductive planning with their cardiologists, but it's not currently known how frequently this happens.
"It is important for cardiovascular clinicians to assess for the need for contraception and appropriateness of contraceptive method both at the time of initial assessment and at subsequent annual encounters in all reproductive age women (age 15-44) with cardiovascular disease," says Kathryn J. Lindley, lead author on the paper.
"If a patient identified to be at increased risk for pregnancy complications is also noted to be using a contraceptive method with low effectiveness, a discussion of reproductive goals and safe and effective methods of contraception is recommended."
Cardiovascular disease is on the rise among women of childbearing age, according to the paper, and is particularly high in areas of the USA where it's difficult to get contraception. More than 19 million women in the US currently live in 'contraception deserts', counties without contraceptive care or reproductive planning services.
The paper emphasises that shared decision-making between patient and doctor is critical to address this problem. Similarly, a range of available contraceptive methods is required to tailor to different people's needs.
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Ellen Phiddian is a science journalist at Cosmos. She has a BSc (Honours) in chemistry and science communication, and an MSc in science communication, both from the Australian National University.
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CHAIRMAN BOB FILNER
HOUSE COMMITTEE ON VETERANS' AFFAIRS
VA Unresponsive to Questions, Needs of Gulf War Veterans
Washington, D.C. – On Tuesday, May 19, 2009, the House Veterans' Affairs Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, led by Chairman Harry Mitchell (D-AZ), conducted the first of a series of hearings on Gulf War Illness research. The hearing provided a review of the history of the research that has been conducted on Gulf War Illness, examined the methodology used by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to determine possible exposure to toxins and pesticides, and focused on the ongoing challenges veterans face as a result of their service in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
"It has been almost 19 years since the United States deployed some 700,000 service members to the Gulf in support of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm," said Chairman Mitchell. "When these troops returned home, some reported symptoms that were believed to be related to their service. Still today, these same veterans are looking for answers about proper medical treatment and the benefits that they bravely earned. While we hear about numerous studies and millions of dollars spent on Gulf War Illness research, many questions remain unanswered. Today, we will attempt to establish an understanding of the research that has been conducted – and the actions that have been taken – in relation to Gulf War Illness."
According to Congressional testimony, VA had concerns that returning veterans might have certain unique health problems including respiratory effects from exposure to the intense oil fire smoke even before the 1991 Gulf War cease-fire. During the summer of 1993, U.S. troops' exposure to chemical warfare (CW) agents first became an issue. The Department of Defense (DoD) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) concluded that no troops had been exposed for two reasons: there were no forward-deployed CW agent munitions, and plumes of CW agents released from the bombing that destroyed the chemical facilities could not have reached the troops. This conclusion was maintained until June 1996, when DoD publicly acknowledged that U.S. troops had destroyed stockpiles of chemical munitions at Khamisiyah after the war.
In 1998, Congress passed legislation, the Persian Gulf War Veterans Act of 1998 and the Veterans Programs Enhancement Act of 1998, which directed the VA Secretary to seek to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to review and evaluate the available scientific evidence regarding associations between illnesses and exposure to toxic agents, environmental or wartime hazards, or preventive medicines or vaccines to which service members may have been exposed during service in the Persian Gulf during the Persian Gulf War. Congress directed the NAS to identify agents, hazards, medicines, and vaccines to which service members may have been exposed during the Persian Gulf War.
Between January 1, 2000 and September 12, 2006, NAS issued four reports on health effects of various toxins, chemical warfare agents, and insecticides. Each report concluded that the available evidence did not warrant a presumption of service connection for any disease discussed in the report. The fifth report, released October 16, 2006, reviewed published, peer-reviewed scientific and medical literature on long-term health effects from infectious diseases associated with Southwest Asia. VA is currently drafting a proposed rule to establish presumptive service connection for nine infectious diseases discussed in the report and providing guidance regarding long-term health effects associated with those diseases. It was determined, however, that the scientific evidence in the report does not warrant a presumption of service connection for any illnesses caused by these diseases or agents.
Veterans raised a number of concerns at the hearing, mostly based on lack of information, outreach, and resources available from the VA. Veterans reported frustration that there is no formal Gulf War I Registry, no service-connected benefits for maladies, inadequate research to determine the cause of illness, no formal recognition by the VA of Gulf War Illness, and a lack of epidemiological tools in use to further track effects of Operation Desert Storm and Operation Desert Shield.
Recommendations from witnesses included increasing the VA research budget, formal recognition by DoD and VA of Gulf War Illness, access to disability benefits, and an end to the perceived secrecy that surrounds research findings, treatments, and new information. Also discussed was the immediate need to implement an electronic medical health record that fully incorporates the veteran's military record. Rick Weidman of Vietnam Veterans of America testified,
"VA needs to move quickly to modify the Computerized Patient Records System (CPRS) or VISTA, to incorporate a military history that will include branch of service, periods of service, places assigned and when, military occupational specialties, and notes on what happened to the individual that may be of note. This also needs to be searchable on a nationwide basis, so that if an individual has an unusual medical condition, then the physician can search and find out if others who served in their unit at the same time have the same or similar conditions. This would be an invaluable epidemiologic tool that could/would point VA in the direction of where there needs to be research that is directed where there are obviously problems. You may ask why they never did this before? Well, we have come to the inescapable conclusion that they never did it because they did not want the information. As the cost to make this change to the CPRS is really minimal, we can come up with no other explanation that makes any sense whatsoever."
"If Gulf War veterans have been harmed by their service to their country, we must ensure they are taken care of through presumptive service connection for that illness," said Bob Filner (D-CA), Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. "I support President Obama's call to develop joint electronic medical records that contain military records. Not only is this information sharing between the DoD and VA imperative to more accurately treat maladies and service connected injuries, it will allow the VA to refocus its efforts and direct care to its wounded warriors. It is time for the VA to compassionately and immediately serve its clients."
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Walt Whitman Biography
(One of the Most Influential Poets in the American Canon, Regarded as the 'Father of Free Verse')
Birthday: May 31, 1819 (Gemini)
Born In: West Hills, New York, United States
Walter Whitman was an American poet, journalist and humanist. He is mainly known for his approach to Transcendentalism and realism and mastery in free verses, which mirrors in his works. Born into a family of farmers in Long Island, he grew up in Brooklyn, living there through much of his career. An autodidact, he had to give up his schooling at the age of eleven to augment the family income, thereafter taking up various small jobs, including teaching, anonymously publishing poems in various journals. At the age of 19, he founded a weekly newspaper, shortly breaking into professional journalism, publishing his first book, a novel, at the age of 23 and the first edition of his most celebrated work, Leaves of Grass, at 36. Partly inspired by his admiration for Ralph Waldo Emerson and partly by his travels through the American frontier, he spent most of his life revising and enlarging the book, publishing several editions of it until his death.
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father: Walter Whitman
mother: Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
siblings: Andrew Jackson, Edward, George Washington, Jesse, Thomas Jefferson
Born Country: United States
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Died on: March 26, 1892
place of death: Camden, New Jersey, United States
Cause of Death: Pleurisy
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Walter Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, in West Hills, a hamlet in the Town of Huntington, Long Island, USA, where his ancestors had lived for 125 years. His father, Walter Whitman Sr., was of English ancestry, while his mother, Louisa Van Velsor, was of Dutch descent.
By the time Walt Whitman was born, the family had lost much of the land and his father had taken to house-building. They were typical farm people with little education.
Born second of his parent's nine children, Walt had an elder brother named Jesse Whitman, while his younger brothers were Andrew Jackson Whitman, George Washington Whitman, Thomas Jefferson Whitman and Edward Whitman. He also had two sisters named Hannah Louisa Whitman and Mary Elizabeth Whitman. Another brother died unnamed in infancy.
In 1823, his father moved his growing family to Brooklyn, where he speculated in real estate and built cheap houses for artisans. But due to bad investment, found it difficult to provide for his family; as a result Walt's childhood was spent in monetary hardship.
Walt Whitman began his education in a public school; but had to give that up at the age of eleven and start working. For a time, he was an office boy for two lawyers before joining Patriot, a local weekly newspaper, as an apprentice and printer's devil.
While working at the Patriot, he continued to study by himself, sometimes writing odd pieces to fill up space. Eventually, he left the newspaper to work; first for Erastus Worthington in Brooklyn, and then for the Long-Island Star.
It was while working for Long-Island Star that he began to move around in the literally circle, anonymously publishing his early poems in the New-York Mirror. But in 1836, circumstances forced him to move to rural Long Island, where he taught at various schools till 1838.
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In 1838, while living in Long Island with his family, nineteen years old Walt Whitman founded a weekly newspaper, called the Long-Islander, serving as its reporter, editor, printer, and delivery boy. However, he sold the paper after ten months, thereafter taking up several small jobs to earn his living.
By early 1840s, he had broken into professional journalism, publishing a series of ten editorials, entitled Sun-Down Papers—From the Desk of a Schoolmaster, in three different newspapers. In May 1841, he moved to New York, working under personalities like Park Benjamin Sr. and Rufus Wilmot Griswold.
In March 1842, he was appointed editor of The New York Aurora. Although he brought about positive changes, he had to leave the paper due to dispute with the owners. Also in 1842, he published his first work; a temperance novel entitled Franklin Evans; or The Inebriate.
In 1844, he came across an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson. In this essay, the author expresses the need for the United States to have its own poet, who would write about different aspects of American life, about its politics and trade, its blacks and Indians, virtues and vices.
While Whitman decided to respond to Emerson's call, it is not known when he actually started writing poems. Meanwhile, he continued to earn his living as an editor, concurrently contributing pieces to various journals and newspapers.
In 1846, he was appointed the editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. In the same year, he began publishing his second work, Arrow-Tip, in the same paper anonymously. Later, the book was published with a new title, The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier
Walt Whitman left Brooklyn Daily Eagle in early 1848, because of his support for the Free-Soil wing of the Democratic Party. Thereafter, he moved to New Orleans, where he served as the editor of New Orleans Crescent for three months; but returned to New York after witnessing a slave auction.
In New York, he cofounded a free-soil newspaper called the Brooklyn Freeman, serving as its editor to till the fall of 1849. When the venture failed, he began to dabble in real estate, concurrently continuing to write, publishing a city-mystery novel called Life and Adventures of Jack Engle in 1852
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In 1855, Walt Whitman self-published his first edition of Leaves of Grass, a book of verses consisting of only twelve poems. Later, he would write and rewrite the book several times, self-publishing second edition in August 1856, adding twenty poems to it. However, some poems were criticized for their sexual overtones.
In May 1857, financial constraint forced him to join Brooklyn Daily Times as an editor, serving in this capacity till 1859. Meanwhile, in 1858, he published Manly Health and Training.
As the American Civil War broke out in April 1861, Walt Whitman went in search of his brother, whom he thought was dead. However, he found him alive, but the war scenes affected him greatly and he decided to serve the wounded at New York City-area hospitals, concurrently working as a freelance journalist.
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In December 1862, Whitman moved to Washington, D. C. to care for his brother, who had been wounded in the war. Touched by the agony of the wounded soldiers, he eventually decided to stay back and work in the hospitals, remaining there till 1873.
In January 1865, Walt Whitman joined the Bureau of Indian Affairs as a clerk; but was fired from the job when the Secretary of the Interior discovered that he was the author of Leaves of Grass, a book he had found distasteful. Thereafter, he managed to get a job at the attorney general's office.
In May 1865, he published a collection of war poems called Drum-Taps, which was followed in autumn by Sequel to Drum Taps. Very soon, he began to attract greater attention, both at home and abroad.
In 1871, he published his seventh book entitled Democratic Vistas, now considered a classic on comparative politics and letters, which was followed in 1876 by Memoranda During the War. Meanwhile in 1873, Whitman suffered a paralytic stroke, which forced him to move to his brother's home in Camden, New Jersey.
He lived in his brother's home until 1882, leading a very productive life, publishing the seventh edition of Leaves of Grass in 1881. During this period, his poems were related more to soul, death and immortality. His last work, Specimen Days was published in 1882.
In 1882, he was able to buy his own house. He lived there all by himself until February 1885, when Mary Oakes Davis moved in with him, serving as housekeeper in lieu of rent. Here he spent his last years, working on his deathbed edition of Leaves of Grass (1891-1892).
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Walt Whitman is best known for his life-long work, Leaves of Grass, a collection of poems he continued to revise throughout his life, adding more and more poems to it. Considered a landmark in the history of American literature, the first edition was a small book of twelve poems, while the last one was a compilation of over 400.
Most famous of the poems compiled in the collection are Song of Myself, I Sing the Body Electric, Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking and When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd. Written in the summer of 1865, the last-mentioned poem is an elegy to fallen president, Abraham Lincoln.
Honours & Achievements
In 2009, Walt Whitman was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame and in 2013 into the Legacy Walk in Chicago.
Death & Legacy
Whitman died on March 26, 1892 and was buried four days later at Harleigh Cemetery in Camden. The cause of death has been listed as "pleurisy of the left side, consumption of the right lung, general miliary tuberculosis and parenchymatous nephritis".
Between 1876 and 1884, he spent a lot of time in the pastoral community of Laurel Springs, New Jersey, converting one of the Stafford Farm buildings to his summer home. He wrote parts of Leaves of Grass In this house, which has now been turned into a museum.
The Walt Whitman Bridge across the Delaware River near his home in Camden has been named after him. Moreover, his statues have been installed at the entrance to the Walt Whitman Bridge and also in the Bear Mountain State Park.
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