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4 killed in collision in rural northeastern Okla.
Authorities say four people are dead after a head-on collision in northeastern Oklahoma.The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says the crash happened Sunday afternoon on U.S. 60 near Wyandotte in Ottawa County. Authorities say a Ford Mustang driven by 39-year-old George Willis of Webb City, Mo., crossed the center line and crashed into a pickup truck traveling west.Troopers say four people were pinned inside the wreckage for an hour and a half. The highway patrol says Willis was killed in the crash along with two of his passengers, 14-year-old Drake Cobb and 13-year-old Syrrena Sanderson. Both were from Garland, Texas.Authorities say a 7-year-old girl is in serious condition at a Springfield, Mo., hospital.Also killed in the crash was the pickup's passenger, 19-year-old Samantha Delamatter of Fairland, Okla.
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Authorities say four people are dead after a head-on collision in northeastern Oklahoma.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says the crash happened Sunday afternoon on U.S. 60 near Wyandotte in Ottawa County. Authorities say a Ford Mustang driven by 39-year-old George Willis of Webb City, Mo., crossed the center line and crashed into a pickup truck traveling west.
Troopers say four people were pinned inside the wreckage for an hour and a half. The highway patrol says Willis was killed in the crash along with two of his passengers, 14-year-old Drake Cobb and 13-year-old Syrrena Sanderson. Both were from Garland, Texas.
Authorities say a 7-year-old girl is in serious condition at a Springfield, Mo., hospital.
Also killed in the crash was the pickup's passenger, 19-year-old Samantha Delamatter of Fairland, Okla.


There seems to be something very wrong with Linden Lab's network right now. Around 3:00PM PST today, calls from scripted objects via llHTTPRequest started silently failing some of the time. This means that En Garde scoreboards won't update, games won't get recorded, and in general things are a mess.
I've called support and filed a ticket and they say they have an engineer looking at it right now. The problem is easily reproducible. I'll file an update when I know more.
[UPDATE 7pm]: We have narrowed the problem down to DNS, which seems to be broken at Linden Lab. They are looking into it.
[UPDATE 7am Saturday]: Linden Lab claimed they fixed the problem, but it's still there.
[UPDATE 1:30pm Saturday]: Still no further response from the Lindens. This bug is responsible for games not registering, score boards not updating, and remote controls not functioning. It also causes some of my vendors not to deliver products.
Linden Lab has done something today that killed the bot I use to upload name textures. So all my pretty scoreboards that show players' names in nice fonts in just one prim won't show any new player names. If you're already "in the system" your name will still be there ok. New players, however, will just show up blank until I can figure out how to fix this.
There is also a problem with Local Scores -- if a new player is on there, it kills the whole display (since they don't have a texture to show). I can maybe fix that so they're just blank and it doesn't kill the whole score display. Not sure how long that will take either.
[Update 10:58] I've fixed the bug so that blank names won't kill your Local Scores. No new players will show up in any scoreboard, though. Still working on that.
[Update Oct 3] It seems Linden Lab re-enabled bots, so I've turned the name upload back on. There are some new players who didn't get a name during this period. If your name isn't showing up, IM me and I can reset you.
[Update Oct 4] I spoke too soon. I'll work on this some more this weekend and see if I can get it going again. Hey Linden Lab, when can we get HTML on a Prim, hmm?
[Update Oct 5] Okay, giving this another try. Let me know if it's working... or not.


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Romsey man celebrates 77th birthday as part of annual fun run
Runners from Romsey join in Stockbridge fun run
By Sophie Day https://twitter.com/ChronicleSophie Senior Reporter
THE Stockbridge fun run made a return at the weekend, after a break last year due to Covid-19.
Entrants geared up ready to take on the 34th George Skeates Cross-Country.
Entries came from far afield with the usual good turnout from Romsey Road Runners, despite a clash of dates with a league event.
Derek Kelly of Romsey Road Runners, celebrated his 77th birthday running the long course including the notorious Gum Boot Gully in one hour and 31 minutes.
His teammates were on the finish line to sing Happy Birthday to him as he crossed the line and others joined in.
Alan and Kevin, both in their late 60s rode the long cycle course. Kevin had been intending to participate in a road race but it was cancelled due to black ice on the route and decided to keep Alan company instead and the organisers said they are very glad he did.
Zodwa Chosokela, who was previously a member of a club but has been running on her own for last couple of years due to Covid, ran the event for the first time. She intended to do the short run but was swept along by other runners and ran the whole 7.75 miles in the respectable time of one hour and 53 minutes.
An event spokesperson said: "Congratulations to her. We hope everyone enjoyed the event; the 35th iteration is tentatively set for 14 January 2023."
First in the Long Run (8 miles) was Justin Cooper with a time of 53 minutes, followed by Lee Syrett, Matt Hersby and James Blyth. The first woman home was Fay Bromilow in one hour and 15 minutes, second place Agata McGarry with a similar time, and Sue Sylvester and Liz Slade of Romsey Road Runners who ran together in 3rd and 4th with 1.22.04.
Ross Wayne came first in the Short Run (just over 3 miles) with a time of 25 minutes and 35 seconds, followed home by ladies B Thompson (31 minutes) and Caroline Lucas (32.35). Cationa/Katrina James. Eleven-year-old Bella James and David James also ran the short course in a very respectable 38 minutes.
Long cross-country cycle: Colin Ings in first place (37 minutes) followed by James Dance and Tim Ponting in second and third. Jo Ponting was first placed lady (time not recorded) followed by Julia Downs in (one hour and 2 minutes).
The E-bikes were first home with Brett Wilkinson, Rob Wilkinson and Jamie Wilkinson in 27 minutes.
The short cycle ride was completed in 48 minutes by Laura Turner, three-year-old Charlie Green and Dean Turner. The spot prize was won by number 69, David Cox.
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The IBM Model D electric typewriter was produced in the spring of 1967 in both a regular and executive versions. The Model D Executive featured proportional spacing originally introduced in IBM's Model B Executive typewriter. Instead of every character taking exactly the same space on the page, thin letters received narrower space, and wide letters got wider space. Other features of the Model D included a "control row" above the keyboard that allowed the user to adjust the margins, the tab settings, and the ribbon position.
Originally founded in as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in 1911, IBM began its venture into typewriter manufacturing with the acquisition of the Electromatic Typewriter Company in 1933. In 1935 IBM produced its first electric typewriter, the Model 01, which IBM considered a commercial success. IBM continued producing typewriters throughout the 20th century until 1990.
The letter "i" was considered one character space & where the letters "m & w" were considered three character spacing. You had to count backwards to "center" a word on a paper, using those parameters. The word "E-mail" would be two spaces for "E", one space for "-", three spaces for "m", two spaces for "a", one space for "i", and one space for "l". That is a total of 10 spaces for what we would currently consider 6 spaces.
The Executive took time to adjust, but the material it produced brought a new sophistication to anything typed and printed.


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$1.6M donation from Bishop estate
The late Roger J. Bishop, the first head of the University of Victoria's Department of English who was also known as the "father of UVic Special Collections," has left a lasting legacy as both an educator and philanthropist.
Legacy of the late Roger J. Bishop
The legacy of the late Roger J. Bishop, a founding member of UVic's Department of English who supported the establishment of the theatre department and played a major role in building the university's rare book holdings, continues through a generous estate donation.
Donation to UVic Libraries
The influence of a small town Canadian on the career of Johnny Cash and the burgeoning American rock 'n' roll scene in the 1960s was obscured by history until recently. On June 4, UVic Libraries announced the archives of Saul Holiff, manager of the music legend, are now available at UVic for scholarly research.
Unique Johnny Cash memorabilia donation
The archives of Saul Holiff, manager of music legend Johnny Cash, are now available at UVic for scholarly research. The highs and lows of the relationship between Holiff and Cash are documented in this collection, donated by the Holiff family to UVic Libraries.
Program for Indigenous entrepreneurs expands
Aspiring Indigenous entrepreneurs in Canada will benefit from a $1-million gift from BMO Financial Group to expand the Aboriginal Canadian Entrepreneurs (ACE) program.
UVic and Island Health collaboration
A Greater Victoria family with a personal connection to cognitive health issues today announced a major donation for a five-year initiative that will bring together UVic, Island Health and the University of BC for a research project that aims to improve the diagnosis and treatment of dementia.
Donation provides bursaries for Indigenous students
A $500,000 donation from The Joyce Family Foundation will establish new bursaries at UVic to help Indigenous students with financial need achieve their academic goals.
New bursaries for Indigenous students
Donation benefits art history
A major gift from BC sculptor Jeffrey Rubinoff and the Jeffrey Rubinoff Foundation will allow doctoral students at UVic exceptional opportunities to study the complexities and richness of the history of modern and contemporary art and why it matters to Canadians and the world.
Donation Supports Innovative Business Research
The Peter B. Gustavson School of Business at the University of Victoria is pleased to announce a $500,000 donation from Vancouver-based resource firm Goldcorp Inc. to support the school's Centre for Social and Sustainable Innovation (CSSI).
Lemonade Tycoons
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Central 1 Credit Union Donates $1 Million
Central 1 Credit Union is donating almost $1 million over the next five years to the University of Victoria's Centre for Co-operative and Community-Based Economy (CCCBE).
HSBC Donation To UVic Helps Aboriginal Students
For the first time, Aboriginal students entering UVic from the province's Indigenous Adult and Higher Learning Association's (IAHLA) Post-Secondary Institutes will have access to entrance awards thanks to a $50,000 donation from HSBC Bank C
BMO provides lead donation
UVic's plan to create a centre of cultural and academic support for Indigenous students is one step closer to reality thanks to a gift of $550,000 from BMO Financial Group.
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TD Bank donation supports Indigenous
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Franklin Board of Mayor and Aldermen approves Magnolia Hall estate subdivision plan
By Martin Cassidy | 12:18 PM Dec 20, 2021 CST
Updated 12:18 PM Dec 20, 2021 CST
A rendering from Franklin-based D9 Development showing the planned layout of the Magnolia Hall planned unit development. Officials favored the design for preserving views of the historic Italianate mansion built in 1840. (Courtesy D9 Development)
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen hear a presentation on the Magnolia Hall planned unit development. The group voted unanimously to approve a development plan for 10 single-family residences on the 12-acre historic estate. (Martin Cassidy/Community Impact Newspaper)
A rendering of a future view of Magnolia Hall estate within a planned unit development on the historic property. The Italianate mansion was built in 1840 and is on the National Register of Historic Places. (Courtesy D9 Development)
The Franklin Board of Mayor and Aldermen voted unanimously Dec. 14 to approve a development plan for single-family homes to be built on Franklin's historic Magnolia Hall estate on Boyd Mill Avenue.
The board also voted unanimously to partially exempt Franklin-based developer D9 Development from required fees for not building out a full sidewalk network on the exterior perimeter of the historic estate. The fees will be waived for a section of sidewalk on the east side of Boyd Mill Avenue and a sidewalk inside the development, but the developer will still pay $19 per square foot of unbuilt sidewalk along the property's perimeter along Hwy. 96 and on Glass Lane.
Alderman Matt Brown said the developer's plan to build 10 single-family homes on the 12-acre plot of land and preserve open space and views of the historic Magnolia Hall Estate warranted some flexibility on fees in return for D9 Development's design retaining public views of the historic Italianate mansion built by Charles S. Campbell in 1840. The project also retains more open space on the 12-acre site, including a pond, according to the city planning department's report.
"So many times we see these unique properties that are challenging or historic and people want to throw all kinds of things onto their development," Brown said. "We've got a developer here who has really done a nice job."
The body also rejected the idea of requiring the developer to grade Hwy. 96 or Glass Lane outside the development in the event residents seek sidewalks in the future. That work was estimated to cost $500,000.
Speaking in favor of excepting the property from the usual rules, John Schroer, former mayor of Franklin and a resident of Glass Lane, said exempting the developer from building a full sidewalk network was the right decision, particularly along Glass Lane which is already narrow and not a normal pedestrian thoroughfare.
"If you make them grade for future sidewalks you will have to remove all the vegetation and then it will be gone," Schroer said. "This is not a normal development and we need to preserve [Magnolia Hall] with standards that are not normal."
The total amount of sidewalk fees the city will collect for Hwy. 96 and Glass Lane was not yet finalized, officials said.
The Franklin Municipal Planning Commission approved the development plan unanimously in late October.
By Martin Cassidy
Martin Cassidy joined Community Impact Newspaper as editor of Franklin Brentwood Community Impact in 2021. As editor of both CI's Franklin-Brentwood and Murfreesboro editions, he covers local government, education, real estate, business, transportation and more. As a staff writer for Greenwich Time from 2000-08 and the Stamford Advocate from 2008-17, he earned multiple awards for his work from the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists. He received a Master of Arts degree from Columbia Journalism School in Business & Economics in May 2018. He lives in Nashville.


Weight regulation for hockey players can be a tough road to success.
Between in the gym training, on the ice work and dry land training movements, it can be tough to get all your meals in and eat enough to gain weight with all of that activity. I just recently had to give one of my high level hockey players three different meal plans to alternate throughout the week due to his intense training regime and school commitments.
2. Proper building blocks for lean muscle tissue from the diet.
3. Proper training stimulus and loading parameters to force the body into growth.
Those three rules are like a tri-pod, if one of them are knocked over it's all going to crash. They function in their own important and independent way that is discussed throughout entire textbooks on sports science.
If those three are in check, there's nothing stopping you.
During the Off-season is where hockey players are generally looking to maximize weight gain and with the small amount of time you have to focus on this, you need to pull out all the tricks you have. Off-season training is generally only 16-20 weeks in length (MAX, usually less than this) and there is only so much that can be accomplished.
Due to the short time frame, you need to make sure that everything tactics you use in done correctly because you don't have much "play room" for trial and error here. You need progress, and you need it quickly.
Without a hypercaloric diet you can't gain weight. Period.
If you're stuck at the same weight for months on end you're eating at maintenance, which is the amount of food required to keep you at your current weight while supporting your current activity (these terms are borrowed from the heavily accepted model that your energy in vs. energy out determines your body weight regulation).
You need to be able to eat more than enough to support your current body weight and activity levels in order to gain more weight. Put another way, you have to eat enough to maintain your current mass while also eating enough to fuel your games and workouts — then you need to eat even more in order to gain weight on top of that.
This can be uncomfortable at times, yes, but is absolutely necessary. There's no way around it.
If you're not gaining weight, you're only eating enough to support your current weight/activity, you need to exceed that caloric intake in order to gain weight. Body weight is regulated almost entirely by caloric intake, it's your guaranteed track of success.
160 x 18 = 2880 calories per day would be a good starting point.
Calories bring about total body weight regulation, but calories aren't tissue specific (tissue specific being muscle mass vs fat mass).
Becoming tissue specific means controlling the amount of macro-nutrients (protein/carbs/fat) that are making up your current calorie allotment. For example, getting 100% of your calories in from carbohydrates is going to yield a different physique then having a more balanced intake that includes proteins and healthy fats as well.
Ensuring you are getting in the proper macro-nutrient breakdown for your desired goals and activity levels is vital to ensuring your gains are quality gains. We want functional mass, not just mass.
Protein (4 calories per gram): 0.8 – 1.2g per pound of body weight per day.
Carbohydrates (4 calories per gram): 0.0 – 4g per pound of body weight per day. Carbohydrates have a very, very large range of intake because they are based strictly off your current activity levels. But for weight gain, generally 2g per pound of bodyweight on training days is a good start point and 0.5-1g per pound of body weight on non-training days is ideal.
Fats (9 calories per gram): Fats simply make up the rest of your calorie allotment. Take the above example of the 160lbs athlete looking to gain weight, his calorie allotment was 2880 calories per day.
Total calories allowed = 2880 – 640 (protein) – 1280 (carbs) = 960 calories left, which equates to 106g of fat per day.
Keep in mind all these calorie estimates and macronutrient breakdowns are just that, estimates. I can't be 100% sure what is optimal for you unless I know you and you're current situation. Unless we are working together 1-on-1 it is up to you to gauge these requirements, assess your body weight overtime, and adjust accordingly.
Listen to your body, don't just number crunch. The numbers should be viewed as more of a compass as opposed to an exact Google Maps direction list.
Training program design and proper workouts are what is going to stimulate muscle growth in an otherwise already fit person. For an underweight individual or unhealthy individual, somebody can gain lean muscle mass just simply with a change in macro-nutrients and calorie intake.
But the healthy training population who has already attained a healthy body weight / lean muscle mass and is looking for more lean muscle mass to improve their game; NEEDS to train properly. This normally represents hockey players looking to add some mass in the off-season.
You don't grow in the gym, training simply creates the stimulus for growth, while eating and sleeping provide the proper environment for the real growth to actually happen.
If you don't have a proper periodized hockey training program creating a controlled overload over a period of time, you could definitely be spinning your tires in the mud. Program design is of the utmost importance to your success, and if you're winging it or playing ping pong with a bunch of different random programs online you will plateau, fast.
You don't just eat to gain, you have to train to gain as well. Put another way, don't complain about not adding mass if you're spending our time doing body weight squats on a BOSU ball for "activation".
Eating 4-6 times per day is ideal. Neither 4 nor 6 is better than the other so long as you get your calories and macros in.
Having a meal plan is a guaranteed approach to success in weight gain. But if you're not on a meal plan for whatever reason, eating calorie dense foods is to your advantage as they add more bang for your buck in terms of weight gain per meal.
A good example of calorie dense foods are a bag of raw nuts and mixed dried fruit to snack on between meals. Or choosing steaks and chicken thighs over leaner meats such as chicken breast and tuna.
More fat = More calories.
More calories = More mass.
If appetite is a problem, alternating between liquid and solid meals may be to your advantage, but relying too much on liquid meals is a defeating technique. You need to eat solid food to be solid.
One of your liquid meals should come in the form of a shake post-workout with a moderate amount of protein mixed with a very high amount of carbohydrates due to the post-workout window being nearly bullet-proof in preventing any fat gain. Especially for you hard gainers.
Last but not least, if appetite is still an issue even after alternating between liquid and solid meals, adding in a B-Complex vitamin is to your advantage. Deficiencies in B-Vitamins have been linked to low appetite so taking in a well formed multi-vitamin with a good amount (and good forms) of B-vitamins throughout the day can help with that.
I hope this article helped shed some light and offer you some rock solid strategies you can use to gain lean muscle mass — Pick up the fork and pick up that barbell!
This was very helpful, with really specific directed suggestions/advice. Reassured much of the other stuff I had figured. THanks alot!


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Sticks and Stones and Woodrow Wilson and Black Tape
By Michael Dorf
My latest Verdict column uses the ongoing deliberations at Princeton over whether to remove Woodrow Wilson's name and likeness from various places of honor at that university as an opportunity to discuss the general question: When, if ever, should a record of what is now recognized as evil warrant name changes? I develop some qualitative criteria for evaulation of that question, which I regard as difficult in most of the contexts in which it is now being raised at Princeton, Yale (regarding Calhoun College), Harvard (regarding the Royall family coat of arms in the law school seal), and elsewhere. But I reject easy solutions because I think there undoubtedly are both circumstances in which the right call is to remove and other circumstances in which the right call is to leave the name, statue, or other form of recognition in place. In the latter cases, however, I say that there is an obligation to acknowledge and disavow the tainted elements of the legacy (as Mount Vernon does with respect to George Washington's relation to slavery).
Here I want to offer a hypothesis about what we are seeing in the developing campus movement, and continue to push back against some aspects of the emerging counter-narrative, which views the movement as stifling free speech due to oversensitivity and counter-productively encouraging a victim mentality. Consider the new column and this post a follow-up to my immediately prior Verdict column and two prior posts (here and here) on the protest movement.
One of the more sensitive examples of the counter-narrative is a recent NY Times op-ed by Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy. Discussing the recent incident at HLS in which someone (identity still unknown) placed black tape over the faces on the pictures of most of the African American faculty in the corridor of one of the HLS buildings, Kennedy worries that such relatively isolated incidents are one-off events that do not reflect widespread sentiment. He also worries that African American and other minority students who deem such incidents indicative of a broader hostile culture thereby "harm themselves by nurturing an inflated sense of victimization."
Is Kennedy right about victimization? There is no doubt that people from all walks of life and of all political views sometimes do claim victim status when it is inappropriate or counterproductive. (War on Christmas anyone?) But in the current circumstances, Kennedy's worry about an inflated sense of victimization makes sense only if, in fact, the protesters have inflated their sense of victimization. And whether that's true depends on Kennedy's first claim--that incidents like the taping over the portraits at Harvard or the email regarding Halloween costumes at Yale really are isolated incidents that should be simply shrugged off.
I'll first try to put the point for Kennedy's position as strongly as possible. We have come a very long way. Less than a century ago, African Americans were lynched at a rate of over 60 per year. Although a handful of African Americans attended Harvard and other elite universities even in the 19th century if they were among the most extraordinarily talented people alive, it was not until the late 1960s that such universities began to enroll African American students in substantial numbers. Compared to the prospect of outright denial of admission or murder based on race, surely minority students today have it pretty good.
Right? Well, yes and no. People of color--and especially African Americans--are subject to substantially higher risks of arrest and violence at the hands of police than are other people, and that fact is not irrelevant to the campus protests. As I noted in my previous Verdict column, the campus activism at the University of Missouri was led by veterans of the Missouri-sparked Black Lives Matter movement. And as Professor Kennedy notes in his op-ed, one of the complaints of the protesters at Harvard is that "campus police officers . . . subject black students to a more intensive level of surveillance than white students." Kennedy appears to acknowledge that this particular complaint has "a ring of validity."
What of the fact that valid complaints are mixed in with some contestable ones, such as complaints about the coverage choices of some professors? Is that a sign of over-sensitivity?
It's hard to tell. As anyone who has ever witnessed or participated in a protest movement knows, there is a tendency for some people in the group to expand their complaints beyond the uncontested core. But it would be unfair to dismiss a movement as a whole simply because of this phenomenon. Students raising serious complaints about harassment by campus police, for example, should not be marginalized because some of the complaints of others associated with the same broad movement go too far.
Moreover, I'm not sure that Professor Kennedy is right to see even overt racism as a marginalized phenomenon. It is a peculiar fact of our current era that even as colleges worry about triggering sensitive students with difficult topics, the Internet is awash with the harshest possible rhetoric, including racism. Comments on this blog are almost always respectful, even when the commenter expresses strong disagreement, but that is hardly typical. I'm not talking just about websites run by the Klan or neo-Nazis. The opportunity to post anonymous comments on mainstream websites allows people who hold racist and other hateful views to give vent to those views online, even if they would keep quiet in public.
There might even be a causal connection between hate-speech and cruel speech on the Internet, on the one hand, and complaints about insensitivity of a lesser order on campus, on the other. Professor Kennedy suggests that today's students are sensitive to slights that, in years past, would have gone unnoticed because there were so many more serious problems to address. In this view, students focus on microaggressions because they no longer have to deal with macroaggressions.
But what if that is backwards? What if the macroaggressions that students encounter online make them more sensitive to microaggressions in real life? Some of the counter-narrative that has been offered against the ongoing campus protests takes issue with the demand for "safe space," questioning whether students who will some day take their place as leaders in business, government, academia, and beyond should be treated as such delicate flowers that they can't handle a little adversity. "Suck it up" is the not-so-veiled sub-text of this counter-narrative. Maybe that's good advice, but maybe it unfairly assumes that minority students face aggression of only the micro variety.
Michael C. Dorf at 7:00 AM
Joe 8:56 AM
Colleges should be in certain ways safer harbors than general society but one thing there is that just as people say "get over it" to some person who complains about alleged racial slights, perhaps the complaints should be "gotten over."
It's somewhat different but at times I'm annoyed at the strident nature of comments in certain blogs, sometimes because of my general style of trying to hedge things at times. At times, it seems like if I don't call a person a monster almost, it is assumed by someone I'm defending the person. Ditto on protecting some right.
But, I understand the people are coming from a place where the rights are really being violated & their sensitivity and ability to express themselves has value & is understandable. So, I take that into consideration. At some point, it does get a bit much, but I understand where they are coming from. And, how a comment online is just that. It isn't a grand thing and even if they are wrong, it isn't THAT important.
Maybe the "get over it" -- in proper degrees -- at times is a general message for people to take into consideration. And, as you say, even if individual complaints are a bit much, they are not just imagining things or something. Part of the problem of racism, sexism etc. is that we cannot simply trust and take things at face value. We at times might overcompensate. It's a lesson in itself.
David Ricardo 9:15 AM
This post and the previous one by Mr. Buchanan highlight one of the biggest flaws in the American character. It's not that we "can't handle the truth", it's that we cannot handle ambiguity. The typical American wants its political leaders and other public figures to be all good or all bad.
And since that typical American cannot intellectually process ambiguity the result is veneration or hatred towards public figures. Hilary Clinton is either a courageous visionary or the devil incarnate. Ronald Reagan is either one of the great Presidents or one of the worst. Those who support Donald Trump, Ben Carson or Ted Cruz simply ignore the lies and distortions that those candidate proffer. Those who admire Bill Clinton simply exorcise his personal transgressions from the record. The result is a polarized electorate, a divided nation and a population that refuses to understand or accept that the other side may have some redeeming values and that tolerance and compromise is necessary in a large and diverse country.
The racism of Woodrow Wilson is not a newly revealed secret, it has been known since the late 19th century. Thomas Jefferson owned slaves, a fact that has been known since the 18th century. Of course all of us would condemn a viscous racist who said the following.
"I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And in as much as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything. I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone"
Oh, wait a minute. That is not a KKK leader, those are the remarks of Abraham Lincoln. Pretty ugly remarks from the mouth of one of the greatest champions of freedom the world has ever known. Shall we remove Lincoln from public veneration, should we take his name off of everything or should we educate the populace about who he was, what he did, how he acted, what he said and what his faults were, allowing each of us to make his or her own evaluation of the man.
The inability to deal with ambiguity, the lack of recognizing that no one is perfect, this increasing polarization is creating a nation that cannot be governed effectively. If allowed to continue it will ultimately create a permanent division of the nation. And no, there is not equal blame here. The conservative factions, because their positions are largely faith based rather than fact based bear the brunt of the fault.
Granting the ambiguity point, there are shades of bad -- that fits into the perspective tone of the last comment -- putting aside even that comment by Lincoln is a bit of political spin on his part, all that he did for blacks can be compared to Wilson, who even in his time, was more racist than others. Also, recognizing Wilson as a key player at Princeton would be somewhat different than naming a local bridge in a Southern city with a large black population after the leading racist.
Shag from Brookline 10:38 AM
David's "ambiguity" theme does not, in my view, address the issues raised by this post, although David makes many useful points. Yes, nobody's perfect. We all have various forms of biases that we should address (I'm thinking of the hermeneutical circle), but many of us don't. That's not necessarily ambiguity. The majority often fears the "Other." People of color have readily served as the convenient "Other" for many whites in serving as the majority. But at times in America's history we have had whites on whites as the "Other." Recall the "dark whites" immigrants from the Mediterranean as the "Other" for Anglo-Saxon white majorities. Assimilation via marriage eliminated, to a great extent, this bias. It seems there is always some the "Other" for the majority to rail against. Is it human nature, a matter of genes, culture, environment, whatever, or ambiguity that results in reactions to the "Other"? I have some views, which may demonstrate my biases, something I have to work out for myself at times when I may have to personally face them. Others may be similarly situated at times, whether in the majority or as part of the "Other." Views on superiority may be ambiguous, even - or especially - when challenged. Reactions of majorities to such challenges take various forms. Consider the current political xenophobia by presidential candidates seeking to lead America. Is this ambiguity or intentional efforts politically to gang up on the "Other" du jour? And how ambiguous are the followers drinking the political "Kool Ade"? What was it the late Walt Kelly's Pogo said about "the enemy"?
Aaron Jordan 8:28 PM
I really like your point about racism on the seeping into the student's reflections on the real world. Students are more likely to be exposed to this bile than adults, and thus may be more sensitive to microagressions.
I would add though that all of this coverage is creating the perception among those outside the university sphere that all students are delicate flowers offended by even the tiniest things. In the Con Law course that I TA, students have read horrible and racist things but been able to discuss the legal issues with thought, logic, and sensitivity. Sensitive students are not the norm, they are a (growing) exception.
Shag from Brookline 7:59 AM
This morning in making my Internet rounds, I got to Barbara Ehrenreich's "America to Working Class Whites: Drop Dead!" at TomDispatch. As I got into it, this post came to mind. Economics plays a large part in the majority's concerns with the "Other." Is equality a losing sum game for some in the majority? (The article goes beyond a recent statistic, so don't be put off by its title.)
In physics, for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction. But the "equal" part does not apply to the subject of this post: escalation results, defensively and offensively. At some point reason may set in. But when? For many there will always be some the "Other." But this should not stop questioning of past injustices (including by protests) and putting them in perspective.


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Q: HSQLDB Plug-In for Eclipse I want to add the eclipse plugin for HSQLdb. I followed the instructions given here: hsqldb plugin for eclipse
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Mr. Aslan's thesis is not as startling, original or "entirely new" as the book's publicity claims. Nor is it as outlandish as described by his detractors. That Jesus was a Jewish peasant who attempted to foment a rebellion against the Romans and their Jewish clients has been suggested at least since the posthumous publication of Hermann Samuel Reimarus's "Fragments" (1774-78).
The review notes that while Aslan generally writes well—which is an opinion I share, after reading his book on Islam, No god but God a couple years ago—his research is lacking and he is often conclusory. This plagued No god but God, I felt. Perhaps thanks to a viral interview with Fox News, the book has received a considerable amount of attention. Although I've not read it yet, I wouldn't be optimistic—and suspect that, judging by this review, readers interested in the historical Jesus are probably better served by reading accounts such as E.P. Sanders' The Historical Figure of Jesus .


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Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee – album studyjny Elvisa Presleya, zawierający utwory, które nagrał w the Jungle Room w Graceland między 2 a 7 lutego 1976 roku i wydany w maju 1976 roku przez RCA Records.

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WWDC, SAN JOSE, California—MAY 15, 2000—Apple® today announced that more than 50 million copies of its QuickTime™ 4 player software have been distributed for Mac® and Windows users worldwide, and gave developers at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) a sneak preview of the next version of QuickTime which will debut this summer.
In addition, Nielsen//NetRatings has named Apple's website, www.apple.com, the most popular destination for movie trailers on the web.* Contributing to the success of Apple.com's QuickTime-based movie trailer section, downloads for New Line Cinema's "The Lord of the Rings" preview, encoded exclusively in QuickTime, topped 12 million since its April 7 debut, making it one of the largest online entertainment events ever.
"We're thrilled that there are now over 50 million copies of QuickTime 4 on both Mac and Windows platforms, and that most on-line viewers choose to watch their movie trailers in QuickTime, getting the very best video quality available on the Internet," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO.
Additionally, Apple gave developers at WWDC a sneak preview of its next version of QuickTime, which will be available this summer and includes cross-platform support for MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, Flash 4 for web animation, and an enhanced QuickTime VR playback function providing unlimited spherical views of virtual-reality scenes. The new version of QuickTime also will feature QDesign software that has been optimized to take advantage of the Power Mac™ G4's Velocity Engine™ to encode music up to three times faster.Apple's QuickTime 4 player for Macintosh and Windows users is available as a free download from www.apple.com/quicktime.
* Nielsen//NetRatings data for April 2000.
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Annemiek van Vleuten taken to hospital after world road cycling championships crash
Associated PressSep 21, 2022, 10:53 AM EDT
WOLLONGONG, Australia — Dutch star Annemiek van Vleuten crashed heavily at the world road cycling championships on Wednesday, was taken to a hospital and learned she fractured an elbow but does not need surgery.
"I am allowed to ride my bike, but depends on pain and needs to be sensible," she tweeted. "Hope I can sleep."
The Olympic and world champion, one of the biggest names at the Wollongong worlds, had a mechanical problem at the start of the mixed team relay.
"Don't know what happened," she tweeted. "I got out of balance, but what ever caused it: it will not help or change my situation."
Her crash overshadowed the mixed team relay, where Switzerland won gold, Italy the silver and Australia the bronze.
Van Vleuten was second in the Dutchwomen's pace line, only a few meters after setting off from the start ramp, when she lost control and hit the ground heavily. The Dutch ace was in shock and her right knee was bloodied as team staff rushed to her aid.
Van Vleuten was limping noticeably as she walked away from the crash scene.
It was unclear whether van Vleuten will start in Saturday's road race, where she is one of the favorites. Even without van Vleuten, the powerful Dutch combination managed fifth place.
Three women and three men were part of each team in the relay on the 28.2-kilometer course. The Swiss, among the last teams to start, clocked 33 minutes, 47.17 seconds. Italy was 2.92 seconds behind.
Don't know what happened but looks the tire exploded after I did hit the side of the road. So that was not the problem. Something caused I got out of balance, but what ever caused it: it will not help or change my situation. Now in the hospital. 🤞🤞 https://t.co/ApGAY4YITt
— Annemiek van Vleuten (@AvVleuten) September 21, 2022
Back from hospital Wollongong (super support there🙏!). Stable fracture elbow, no surgery needed. I am allowed to ride my bike, but depends on pain and needs to be sensible. Hope I can sleep. At least I can already laugh about this picture 🤣😉⬇ pic.twitter.com/xCIEVDEcth


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Can Microsoft Convince iPhone Developers To Move To Windows Phone?
Apple is the obvious market leader when it comes to mobile computing, but Microsoft is seriously trying to entice iPhone developers to reconsider the Windows Phone platform. In fact, they recently released an API tool which helps developers transition from iPhone apps to Windows Phone.
Microsoft's iPhone/iOS to Windows Phone 7 API mapping tool allows iPhone developers to port their iPhone apps by selecting iOS API calls, and using the equivalent classes methods and notification events for Windows Phone 7.
The senior technical evangelist for interoperability at Microsoft, Jean-Christophe Cimitiere, recently remarked "Launched today, the iPhone/iOS to Windows Phone 7 API mapping tool helps developers find their way around when they discover the Windows Phone platform. Think of the API mapping tool as being like a translation dictionary."


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In November 2013, nearly 400 books from the late Professor Brian J. Kelley's personal collection were donated to The Institute of World Politics. As a faculty member at IWP, Prof. Kelley specialized in counterintelligence studies and is remembered as a beloved instructor by both graduates and faculty alike. The donated materials are integrated into the Institute's library collection, and a special inscription signifies each book. Naturally, the special collection features a number of works related to Prof. Kelley's specialization, but it also represents his broader philosophical interests and scholarly pursuits.
Prof. Kelley spent over 40 years in the counterintelligence field, serving both in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations and the Central Intelligence Agency's counterespionage branch. While in the CIA, he was involved in a number of crucial espionage cases and uncovered a Soviet method used to communicate clandestinely with deep-cover agents. Prof. Kelley was also the subject of a famous FBI investigation that was searching for a mole in the US government. In 2001, he was cleared of all charges after FBI agent Robert Hansen was arrested for the crime. Upon his retirement from the CIA, Prof. Kelley was awarded the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal. Experiences like these exemplified Prof. Kelley's character, endurance, and insight, making him an exceptional professor.
During Prof. Kelley's time as a faculty member, he made a significant impact on IWP. The Institute is honored to have received this gift and to extend the moral and intellectual legacy of this great man.
Please click here to read reflections about the life of Brian J. Kelley by John Lenczowski, founder and president of The Institute of World Politics.


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Ansley Walker
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Best Weekend Ever Indie Study
Day in the Life of a Photojournalist
Women in Recovery
Georgia National Fair
Welcome Home to Wilson's
The Discipline and Joy of Dressage
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Then and now: The Hot Corner and African American culture in Athens
A Walk Through Historic Downtown
Map: Facade Grant Program in historic downtown Athens
Facade Grant Program highlights historic restoration downtown
The oldest thing in a changing town
Sweet as Athens Honey
on April 26, 2016 April 26, 2016 By Ansley Walker
By Ansley Walker
Seven-year-old Barbara Thompson would dress in her Sunday best and walk to Hill First Baptist Church for 11:00 a.m. service. At the sermon's close, she sprinted out of the church doors, raced her three brothers past the magnolia trees outside of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and continued up Washington Street. A block ahead she could see her best friend, Sandy, sitting outside of Morton Theatre. Sundays at the Hot Corner were the backdrop to some of her favorite summer memories. Now 57, Thompson rarely visits the area she once loved, as it's become unrecognizable.
A place that at one time defined itself with gospel music and family businesses has been replaced by a popular spot for predominantly white students and residents. The patrons aren't the only change to the area, as minority shop owners are also absent from downtown commerce. The decline of black business owners, and a result consumers, at the Hot Corner asks a louder question: What happened to African American culture in Athens?
Known today for its trendy restaurants and bars, the intersection at Hull and Washington Streets existed as the center for African American culture throughout the twentieth century.
"The Hot Corner was home for so many of us," Thompson says. "Growing up in this town and watching it change in a bad way, it hits you hard."
Thompson is not alone in her concern for the changing face of African American culture in Athens. Racial tensions rose last year when minority students spoke out about discrimination they faced at bars downtown.
A shot named the "N*****ita" at Confederate-themed bar General Beauregard's ignited a national scandal. The controversy gave birth to a new conversation about the discriminatory culture downtown that many African Americans face.
While the African American community has been impacted by racism, many members look past the negatives, and try to celebrate their future.
Homer Wilson has watched the face of African American culture change for half a century. Owner of Wilson's Styling Salon, flanked by the Manhattan and World Famous, has remained a staple for the African American community throughout its 55 years in business at the Hot Corner.
Wilson understands the frustration behind a change to the Hot Corner culture, and on a larger scale, African American life in Athens. However, he promotes a positive increase in diversity amongst store owners rather than focus on the current absence of minority business men and women.
"Diversity breeds only good things," Wilson said. "While I'd like to see more black shop owners for my community's sake, I think diversity in general will bring a stronger economy."
To understand the ways in which African American culture has changed downtown, look back to the history of black business owners in the early twentieth century. Everything started with the Morton Building.
From the opening of Morton Building in 1910, African American business owners completely controlled the Hot Corner, says Lynn Green, managing director of Morton Theatre. The center of black commerce included the office of Ida May Hiram, the first African American woman to become a dentist in Georgia. The building also housed black doctors, dentists and pharmacists.
The Morton Theatre, owned and operated by African American, Monroe Bowers "Pink" Morton, hosted infamous stars such as Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. At the time, it was the major entertainment facility in Athens for the black community.
"The morton has always had a special place in the African American community in Athens," Green said. "The renovation of the building throughout the 80s and 90s represents past Hot Corner patrons and owners receiving their due."
Green started work when the facility was in its 87th year. While she missed the theatre and Hot Corner in their prime, Green has been able to identify changes to black business within the past 20 years.
Gentrification is the easy answer concerning the loss of minority business owners, says Green. In the 70s, ownership shifted, and a result rent prices soared. White business owners moved into the upper floor offices in the Morton Building, displacing black business owners to other areas.
For some the move was relatively harmless, like Brown's Barber Shop that moved out of the Morton to the corner spot across the street. For others, it meant closing down their family's livelihood.
Today, Athenians are still experiencing displacement due to commercial and residential prices. Thompson grew up on Reese Street, but had to move to a smaller house on Chase Street when the Historic Cobbham district became a popular living area for students.
"It's like I can't retrace the steps of my childhood," Thompson said. "While many parts of my black community remain, important things to myself and my family have been taken away from us."
With the number of African American store owners and patrons on what seems like a perpetual decline, many residents wonder what can be done to preserve and promote black culture in Athens.
"We honor it [black history] everyday," Green said.
She observes her heritage every time she steps into her office. The Morton Theatre served as an anchor for the Hot Corner and it still does today, Green says.
The historic theatre hosts concerts, church services, weddings and other private events for the community just as it did in the past. The theatre makes sure to welcome all audiences to honor integration amongst Athenians.
"We proudly share our history as a cornerstone of the African American community," Green said. "We work everyday to continue the legacy into future generations."
While multiple community gatherings occur at the theatre every month, one event downtown is recognized for its devotion to honoring black history.
The Hot Corner Festival is a celebration along Washington Street meant to observe and admire the historical significance of African American culture in Athens.
Wilson heads a committee that plans and produces the event. Festivities include gospel and soul music performances, dancing, community praying and spoken word poetry. While enjoying the collective atmosphere, attendees can experience what Wilson calls, the most "authentic and righteous" soul food in the South.
"The festival is used to celebrate the past," Wilson said. "But also look to the future. We hope that young people will come and hear the history of black business in Athens, and be inspired to start their own shops."
From encouraging young entrepreneurs to teaching new residents the cherished history of the Hot Corner, the festival is always a "spiritual, good time."
Last summer was the fifth festival Barbara Thompson has attended. While she remains a self-proclaimed pessimistic about the future of black lives in Athens, Thompson views the festival as a successful event in informing people about the Hot Corner.
"It's the one day a year my children can understand what my life was like at their age," Thompson said. "It's a special day."
The 16th annual Hot Corner Festival will take place on June 10-11 this coming summer. Expect Wilson to be manning the main stage, Green to be listening to her favorite poets and Thompson to be reliving the days she hopes to see again.
Within the past few years, the face of downtown Athens has morphed from a small retail based community to a bustling town with large chain businesses. All the change has Athenians concerned and confused about the disappearing face of the Classic City. Down the street at College Square big changes are happening, but not changes that people ought to fear. In fact, they may not even notice the difference.
The historic buildings downtown act as the backbone to the town's unique and charming character. With the popularity of local boutiques and restaurants, the structures that hold these shops are often overlooked, and as a result, their appearances have
deteriorated. Weathered and worn throughout the years, the 100-year-old
buildings need help and the owners have been presented with an opportunity to
restore their buildings to the original condition.
In the past year, a shift towards restoring the appearance of old buildings downtown began with a new program launched by the Athens Downtown Development Authority. The program allows that $10,000 be awarded to business owners within the Downtown Athens Historic District, who propose renovation or repairs to bring the exterior of their building back to its historically appropriate condition. The Facade Grant Program was created with the hope that by providing a financial incentive, building owners downtown would invest in restoration to improve the appearance of their storefronts, said program manager Christi Christian.
"We are very interested in maintaining the historical character and appearance of our downtown buildings," Christian said. "They play a huge part in that Athens charm that draws visitors to our beautiful city every day."
While a recently new program, Christian spent months researching historic preservation programs throughout the state and thought about what best suited Athens' needs. To the receive the grant, the proposed projects need approval from the Historic Preservation Commission. As well as a "certificate of appropriateness" from the Athens-Clarke County Planning Department. From there, the Facade Grant Committee, which Christian serves on, considers the projects within the scope of the ADDA's annual$15,000 budget for the program.
Recipients of the grant are awarded half of the total project cost, or up to $10,000. While owners may have additional plans for the building's interior, the grant money is to be allocated for external renovation and repairs with the exclusion of signs and awnings. The grant money is awarded based on project completion, through a reimbursement plan.
So far, three businesses have taken advantage of the grant. The first building to receive funding through the program is located at 220 E. College Ave. across the street from its owner's namesake, Heery's.
Rusty Heery's project to restore the upstairs facade above Subway spurs from fire damage dating back to the 1980s. The right side of the building was badly burned, and while it was rebuilt, no architectural details were put back.
"Taking on this project became much bigger than we ever anticipated," Heery said. "You can't find people to do the work that was around in 140 or 150 years ago."
The main problem with historic buildings is that the materials needed to restore the property are simply obsolete in modern construction. The amount of custom tin work and small decorative details needed to restore the building perfectly drove the price to around $100,000, or in Heery's words "cost prohibitive." A year later and Heery says the project is almost done.
"Very few people will ever even notice that the work was done, but I'll notice," Heery said. "Other college towns can be so sterile, and even if they have 50-year-old structures, they don't have the character like buildings in downtown Athens."
Coincidentally, another building undergoing restoration through the program is located catty-corner to the Heery's project. The Wuxtry building, famed for a record store that brought together lead members of the band R.E.M., exists in poor condition today.
Native America Gallery is one of four stores that resides within the building and owner Tim Stamey proposed the restoration to the building. While not the property owner himself, Stamey recognizes that maintenance to the external structure is necessary. Restoration will not only positive for its appearance, but preservation work also promotes responsible energy use and can prevent water damage.
Stamey was met with what he calls "creative conflict" when the Historic Preservation Commission rejected his proposal to use the industry standard vinyl-clad windows in place of large wooden windows. The commission said that use of the new windows would go
against what is considered "historically appropriate." Stamey countered that vinyl windows were used in renovation to the buildings two decades ago before the area was a local historic district.
Historically appropriate windows almost always means wood-framed windows which are more expensive, harder to find and harder to maintain than common, modern vinyl-framed windows, says Christian. With restoration work today, trying to perfectly match windows or other details with their original materials can be illogical and dangerous.
A few months later, and the windows are being manufactured now and paint colors are being chosen for the facade. Stamey said the opposition was a good thing and that it made him double check that he was making the right choices concerning the building.
"Historic preservation is not a cookie cutter thing or always black and white," Stamey said. "You have to work with the property. It's a case by case issue. Always do what is best for the building."
At the end of the day Stamey says preserving the uniqueness in every building is the main objective. The ideal restoration brings the building back as close to its original condition as possible, while making it easy to maintain moving forward.
Christian says the ADDA is "thrilled" to have projects going on in such a visible, high-traffic spot on College Square, with the hope that students and passerby's who usually don't think to the history and importance behind downtown architecture will give the structures another look.
Anne Shepherd, owner of Chick Music, shares her story of family, a love for historic downtown and how despite big changes to Athens retail, she kept a piano store alive for over 50 years.
A reporter walks into Chick Music on Clayton Street and asks to speak to the owner. A salesman points to the back where a matronly woman with brown hair types at a desk. The reporter approaches and asks if she can speak with Anne. To her surprise, the woman looks to her right and says, "Someone's here to see you." A pair of bright eyes rimmed by large, circular glasses peek out from the corner desk, and down the stairs descends an assumed grandmother.
"Excuse me ma'am, are you Anne Shepherd?" the reporter asks.
"I call myself the 'oldest thing in downtown Athens,' but I'm also known by that name," she replies.
For 51 years, Anne Shepherd watched through the windows of her company, Chick Music, as downtown Athens transformed. She recalls the period when "everything" was downtown. Car dealerships, grocery stores and funeral homes all congregated in downtown Athens and coexisted with the family retail shops. As a small business owner, Shepherd experienced firsthand the transfer of retail power from the local owners to the large chain businesses that occupy downtown today. She once served as a block captain for what used to be a family of small retailers, but today can name the store owners she knows on one hand.
Lewis Chick opened Chick Piano in 1942. As a lover of music, Shepherd's late husband, Billy, started work at the company straight out of high school in 1947, says Shepherd, so buying the business in 1965 felt natural.
In a place where retail shops come and go, Chick Music defied the odds and the store became an iconic Athens landmark. Shepherd has committed more than half her life to the business and attributes the company's success to a strong work ethic. At 86-years-old, she never misses a day of work.
"The good Lord said to work six days and rest on the seventh," Shepherd says when asked why she hasn't retired. "I do that."
Despite the company's overall success story, Shepherd and her business have experienced their share of obstacles. Some years ago, the city pursued streetscape construction and started with Clayton Street. The predicted time to finish the project was about three months, which stretched to almost two years, says Shepherd.
With their front door blocked and the street without parking, Shepherd feared her business would fall under. On the contrary, business surged as people would park on Washington Street and walk down to the backdoor.
"We've had a lot of good faithful customers that carried us through," Shepherd said. "They want us to succeed."
The relationship between Chick Music and its customers goes past the standard of good customer service. The family run business notoriously treats their patrons as such; family. Three generations of Shepherds operate the store as it is today. Shepherd's four children grew up in the shop and stayed in Athens to work at the family business.
When asked about the single greatest hardship as owner of Chick Music, Shepherd ran her fingers down the pearls hanging from her neck and sighed. Husband, father and co-owner, Billy, died in 1988, and Shepherd wasn't sure how to move forward. She had promised her husband that she wouldn't sell the company, but many times felt the stress of making that promise. Shepherd credits her ability to overcome this time with the help of her customers, and more so, her family.
After the loss of their father, the Shepherd children took on more responsibility to help their mother run the business. While she manages to delegate the workload, they all know she's still in charge.
"There's not much difference between her at home than in the store," says son and store manager Van Shepherd. "She's got a mother complex over the whole business."
From across the store his mother chimes in, "Don't say I'm a control freak." Van and the other workers laugh.
"She's got them teacher ears," piano department manager Ben Robinson said. "She can hear you from a mile away."
"It's like cheers without the alcohol," said guitar instructor Kevin Flemming about the store dynamic.
Looking ahead, the former president of the Athens Downtown Council says she'd like to see a rebirth of the historic classic city. She recounts walking down Clayton Street; flanked on either side by an abundance of local retailers.
"It's disheartening to see so many restaurants and so little retail when you know what it used to look like," Shepherd said.
No matter the future appearance of downtown, Anne Shepherd will always be an irrevocable piece of Athens' character.
Downtown Athens is a place of constant change. With new restaurants and boutiques at every corner, Athens can seem unrecognizable compared to its former self.
Anchoring the town to its past are the historic buildings downtown. The amalgamation of buildings dating back to the early nineteenth century give Athens much of its personality and unique appearance.
Many of the buildings are showing their wear after a hundred or so years. With a new program in place by the Athens Downtown Development Authority, the historic buildings owners are able to receive up to $10,000 to put towards renovating the facade.
To learn more about the historic buildings of downtown Athens, I took a walk with former University of Georgia Campus Architect, Danny Sniff. Sniff, who has a masters in historic preservation, spoke about specific building's histories, popular architectural designs in Athens and how new facade projects were being handled.
The order of images in this gallery mimic the route Sniff and I walked. The captions provide context to our location, but more importantly the remarks made by Sniff about the building. Click on the first image to read the caption, and continue through the gallery by clicking the right arrow.
To learn more about downtown Athen's historic buildings, check out the following links.
http://achfonline.org
http://www.visitathensga.com/about-athens/heritage/athens-historic-districts/
http://achfonline.org/facade-grants/
"This just recently was renovated. It was just a blank facade, and they came in and painted it. They punched mid-century or early modernist windows in. The windows have a steel frame and they renovated this very nicely. The windows are all in scale and in proportion to what you would have seen in 1942. It's simple lines, but yet, it was respectfully done. Then at the street level is where most towns will allow a lot more flexibility. This storefront facade is distinctively modern. In a lot of ways, this is an example of a building that just a few months ago was just a blank area that now suddenly has new life to it with the windows. More importantly though, it was just well done."
"Look back to the Double Barrel building. You can look up at this facade, which is from the 1960s, and that's what the Porterhouse building looked like. You can just imagine how different it would look by punching in some windows and changing around the details. Again, it needs to be done respectively and in good taste. You always want to be respectful to the era. That's why I think the Porterhouse is good example of a facade renovation."
Renovations taking place on the Clayton Street facade of the Porterhouse building pictured before. Mid-century windows are being placed in the front. The building, under a new owner, is being renovated into apartments.
227. E Clayton St., owned by Fred Moorman, was the first building to complete restorations through the Facade Grant Program. While the Facade Grant Program only works towards facade restoration, Moorman is renovating the second floor interior as well. He plans to turn the level into apartments. He also plans to construct a third level for apartments, which will lie behind the facade to not disrupt the historic aspects of the building.
Formerly George Dean's clothing, the historic building now hosts popular fast-casual eatery, Zaxby's.
"From street level, most municipalities give a little more flexibility with the architectural guidelines. However, if there's historic fabric here, in other words, if there's still stuff that remains from the original building they would be much more restrictive. The original, probably turn of the century, building front was removed in the sixties and the storefront at the street level was gone. That allowed him [Moorman] to do things that maybe aren't the best historically. These little blocks of glass looks very historic, as it is something you would see in the 1920s. If we were in a place that had much stricter guidelines for historic restoration, this probably wouldn't be allowed. People who walk past it would say, "Wow that is from the 1920s," and it really isn't. This should have been done in a more modern way. It does add confusion. It isn't too far away era-wise from the original building. It was at least twenty or thirty years later you started seeing this glass blocking. It could have been a lot better."
220 E. Clayton St., built in 1883 and is owned by Rusty Heery. It was the first to receive funding through the Facade Grant Program. The need for restoration spurred from fire damage in 1979. The right upper facade was badly burnt, and when it was rebuilt no historic or architectural details were restored.
Heery had to find workers to custom make tin sheeting and small wooden circles to meet the original facade work. Heery also worked with the University of Georgia to match paint colors for the facade with old photographs of the building.
"They only replaced what was really bad as opposed to replacing the whole thing. This is a stamped tin. The original was probably too hard to find, so they just filled it in with a blank piece of tin. This is what you would call just a 'cheap ass job'. The bracketing is broken. This is because we just don't have a strong code for renovation in Athens."
197 E. Clayton St., built in 1883, is the third building to receive funding through the Facade Grant Program. This building homes four local businesses: Wuxtry Records, Bizarro Wuxtry, Native America Gallery, and Frontier gift shop.
"In my opinion, he should be using the original windows. The problem with vinyl windows is that people would see them and assume that they are a part of the original structure. It's an error. You want a group of buildings to look as original to the era of the brick as you possibly can, with exceptions made to the storefronts only. This is what's important to downtown. People see this eclectic, special collection of historic buildings from different years. By not putting it back to its original state, it doesn't contribute the character of downtown. You could argue it takes away from it, because it's so inaccurate. With the facade itself, it's obviously in need of a coat of paint. Wear like this is due to wind and sun exposure. If he plans to paint it an 'interesting color' I am not really a fan of that. He should be respecting what's there."
Native America Gallery owner, Tim Stamey, is the project leader for the facade restoration. After receiving the grant, Stamey was met with opposition by the Historic Preservation Commission. The dispute centered around using modern vinyl-clad windows in place of the "historically appropriate" wooden frames. Stamey argued for the windows, because of a decreased cost and easier maintenance moving forward. Eventually, the windows were approved. The facade will also receive a new coat of paint. Stamey wants to choose an interesting color to draw interest to the otherwise institutional-looking building, but will not have the final say.
"Lamar Lewis has one of the most iconic facades downtown. Awesome masonry work here. It looks like tiles, but it's done in cement blocks. It's probably 2 foot by 2 foot blocks. Somebody had laid down the pattern and poured it. It's probably the thickness of a brick about 3 or 4 inches. It likely has wire running behind it that they hooked to the brick. This type of masonry would have been done in about the mid 1950s."
"In the 1960s the store front would be all glass. But by using this granite with the glass, plus the masonry above, it tells me it's more 1950s. This architecture tells a story of strength and modern design."
"At the top of my head I see two or three different influences. You see a very New York twenties influence with the square windows, or even late 1890s. These doors look pretty original, it'd be interesting to see what's changed here. I doubt very much has changed. This definitely is Elberton granite with Tate marble, both sourced from places in Georgia. Here's a local using local materials. They probably found influences in magazines coming out around that time period to give it this New York, Soho look. This probably has much more of the original 'fabric' because of the Tate granite. It would have been quite expensive, but you see incredible detail in all of these buildings. To an architect, this shows that they cared about these structures and wanted to make them well."
Cuts were made into the Tate granite. This is from the Greek temples, they would do this on blocks. It's more decorative to add this instead of just having a blank facade. This chamfered finished edge around also adds detail and permanency by the architect."
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In 2015, the Athens Downtown Development Authority initiated a grant to incentivize historic restoration. The Facade Grant Program can award up to $10,000 or half the cost of the proposed project. The ADDA is "thrilled" that the three businesses that have chosen to take advantage of the program are all located near or at the popular intersection of Clayton Street and College Avenue. All three projects differ in their restoration needs, but have the same goal in mind: bringing the building back to its original state.
This map portrays the three building locations. Zoom in to see the Downtown Athens Historic District. To learn more about the buildings and the restoration project, click on the point.
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Climate Swings Drove Early Humans Out of Africa (and Back Again)
A new study details how climate change directed early modern humans' intricate dance among continents and pushes back their dispersal out of Africa to at least 100,000 years ago.
Amanda Mascarelli	/ 21 Sep 2016
Amanda Mascarelli is the managing editor of SAPIENS.
The textbook narrative of human history tells us that between 70,000 and 60,000 years ago our earliest modern human ancestors traveled out of Africa on a journey that led them to nearby continents. But the factors that drove this mass exodus—as well as when it occurred and whether there was more than one big migration event—have long been points of spirited debate and contention. In a study published today in Nature, researchers report that dramatic climate fluctuations created favorable environmental conditions that triggered periodic waves of human migration out of Africa every 20,000 years or so, beginning just over 100,000 years ago.
These findings push back the clock on the earliest known arrivals of humans in Europe by tens of thousands of years and provide important clues about what drew early humans out of Africa and into Eurasia and beyond. The study further calls into question the deeply held dogma about a single, prominent migration out of Africa around 70,000 to 60,000 years ago. "What we cannot support is that there must have been a major single exit event from 70,000 to 60,000 years ago, which has become more or less the standard scenario for out of Africa," says Axel Timmermann, a climate scientist based at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and lead author of the study.
The new study suggests that there were "multiple opportunities for migrations of humans out of Africa, and that window of opportunity starts by at least 100,000 years ago," says Michael Petraglia, an archaeologist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, who was not involved with the study. "Everything we're finding archaeologically makes sense relative to the climate simulations that [the new study] reports."
To understand the conditions that may have encouraged human dispersal, Timmermann and co-author Tobias Friedrich, a postdoctoral fellow also at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, developed one of the first climate simulation models that integrates paleoclimatic data across glacial and interglacial cycles, vegetation change, and human migration. By modeling climate variability over the last 125,000 years and accounting for sea-level changes and millennial-scale abrupt climate shifts, the team studied how warm and wet periods in northern Africa led to lush vegetation and other conditions that were ripe for both mammals and hunter gatherers to move north and east.
"Our results reveal that human migration out of Africa and across the Sinai Peninsula and the Red Sea near Bab-el-Mandeb was not a single event as is often suggested but that it occurred in waves, and every 20,000 years or so Earth's axis wobble caused shifts in climate and vegetation in tropical and subtropical regions," asserts Timmermann. "Such shifts then opened up green corridors between Africa and the eastern Mediterranean and between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, thus enabling Homo sapiens to leave northeastern Africa and to embark on their grand journey into Asia, Europe, Australia, and eventually to the Americas."
The study finds that humans traveled out of Africa in four waves across the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant region (the eastern Mediterranean). These waves occurred from 106,000 to 94,000 years ago, 89,000 to 73,000 years ago, 59,000 to 47,000 years ago, and 45,000 to 29,000 years ago—results that align well with a growing body of archaeological and fossil data. The wave that occurred approximately 50,000 years ago is likely the one that led to the population of the rest of the world. The new research also shows that Homo sapiens arrived simultaneously in southern China and Europe some 90,000 to 80,000 years ago.
Cold, arid conditions during the first half of the last ice age (110,000 to 60,000 years ago) were punctuated every 20,000 years by warm summers in the Northern Hemisphere. These climate shifts, triggered by the wobble of Earth's axis, created green corridors between Africa and Eurasia that set the stage for migratory waves of Homo sapiens. With the growth of lush grasses and shrubs, the expansion of animals and early humans out of Africa became possible. "If you imagine savannah biomes, they're perfect for herbivores such as cattle, oryx, and other four-hooved animals," explains Petraglia. "They migrate in those situations and eat off the grasslands, and then of course you have standing fresh water and aquatic resources in freshwater lakes."
In contrast, periods of low temperatures and extreme drought would have made human travel far less likely. Paleoclimatic models are in wide agreement that 60,000 to 70,000 years ago—an era that is often thought to be the main timeframe for modern human dispersal out of Africa—was one of the most extended drought periods in northern Africa, Saudi Arabia, and the eastern Mediterranean in the last 125,000 years, says Timmermann. "Walking into the Arabian Peninsula around 60,000 to 70,000 years ago," he remarks, "would have been a bad choice."
The oryx is one of the many mammal species that may have led early modern humans out of—and in some cases back into—Africa during migrations over the last 100,000 years. Benjamin Hollis/Flickr
Yet, Timmermann notes, just 10,000 years earlier (roughly 80,000 years ago) would have made for "wonderful conditions" for migration into Saudi Arabia and the eastern Mediterranean region.
The team's model suggests a more fluid exchange between Africa and nearby continents rather than a one-way exodus out of Africa. "Chasing prey through the green savannah in northeastern Africa, Sinai, the eastern Mediterranean, and the Arabian Peninsula, early Homo sapiens would not even have recognized the difference between Africa and Eurasia," Timmermann says. "These migration corridors work in two directions."
Peter deMenocal, a paleoclimatologist based at Columbia University, who was not involved with the study, gave the analogy of climate acting like a pump and a valve at different times. Long periods of cold, dry, inhospitable conditions closed the valve on migration. But when warm, moist, tropical conditions set in, they opened the valve, connecting adjacent regions that were previously out of reach. "I think what's great about this paper is that it really clarifies the role of orbital climate change in pacing the peopling of the world," deMenocal adds. Once conditions were right for human migration, "they got out of Dodge."
One of the more surprising findings of the new study is that it shows wisps of human migration into southern Europe at around 80,000 to 90,000 years ago—approximately 45,000 years earlier than the oldest fossil evidence of early humans in the region. "This [earlier migration] is a plausible scenario, but it's so much at odds with what we know about the fossil record in Europe, so that came as a big surprise to me," says Timmermann. The time discrepancy, he adds, "still needs to be reconciled."
Three genomics studies also published today in Nature add insight and complexity to the timing of early human dispersal. The new papers both converge and diverge with the paleoclimate study in important ways, observes Petraglia, who was one of a suite of authors on a study that analyzed a dataset of nearly 500 genomes from 148 populations worldwide. The study Petraglia contributed to provides additional evidence that modern humans emerged from Africa approximately 100,000 years ago. "We have a convergence or a correspondence between the theoretical arguments of these climate simulations and our own on-the-ground evidence. So there's a perfect marriage between the two very independent studies."
Although the new paleoclimate study opens the door to the possibility of earlier and more frequent human migrations, it's unlikely that those dispersals played a big role in populating the world, says Petraglia. Research suggests that the majority of the earliest human groups eventually faded away after they arrived in Eurasia and that most people alive today can trace their ancestral lineage to the migration that occurred between 59,000 and 47,000 years ago. "Actually, there were a lot of experiments in the past, in a sense. Some populations might have been more successful than others. We never think of lineages of Homo sapiens potentially going extinct, but that's very possible."
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Community demands PDP Sabongari Reps ticket
Eseohe Ebhota-Akoma
Concerned members of the Basawa community in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Sabon Gari local government area of Kaduna State, have appealed to the leadership of the party to zone the party's House of Representatives ticket to Basawa district in the interest of justice and fairness.
The members in a statement by its leader, Alhaji Ali Go-Slow, said the appeal became necessary in view of the fact that the House of Representatives seat of the Sabon Gari Federal Constituency has remained in Sabon Gari district since the advent of the present political dispensation in 1999.
"Our appeal to the leadership of the party at both state and national levels is sincerely out of concerns expressed by all PDP members from the area. Zoning PDP's House of Representatives ticket to Basawa district will certainly make our people to have a sense of belonging, and contribute meaningfully for the democratic development of the area, state and the country at large," he said.
The group also called on former chairman of the PDP national caretaker committee, Senator Ahmed Muhammad Makarfi, and other PDP elders and stakeholders from the area to look into the issue by zoning the ticket to the district.
The Kakakin Samaru, who described PDP members from the area as "loyal and peaceful" noted that the area had been relegated to the background in the scheme of political responsibilities, saying the district benefited only once when it was given a slot of commissionership.
He said Basawa area was such a big district that should not be ignored in terms of political responsibilities as it is host to Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and a host of others public institutions.
He said the area should be given a trial to fly the PDP's House of Representatives flag in the 2019 general elections given its strong electoral value to the party at local, state and national levels.
The group spokesman expressed confidence that the party would emerge victorious in all the elections that would be conducted in the 2019 general elections if the PDP's House of Representatives ticket was eventually zoned to the area.
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Q: How can I run selenium (with python) on an open firefox window? (if not, on a Chrome window) I have this python program made with selenium that automates a search on a firefox page, with a login and everything.
The thing is, after the search is done, the program stops executing (the page is still open. I want it that way) but I want to somehow implement a function that when -given certain argument- it searchs for something different on that open firefox page.
I don't know if I explained myself, but this is very important to me.
If you know how to do this but with Chrome I don't mind. I only need it to work regardless of the browser.
I'm not that pro at this, so please be patient with me. I'm very grateful for all the help you could provide me.
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Python has two basic modes: script and interactive. The normal mode is
the mode where the scripted and finished . py files are run in the
Python interpreter. Interactive mode is a command line shell which
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So basically you need to run your code in interactive mode. It depends on your IDE: If you use PyCharm Right-click on the page that you're writing your code and find Run File in Python Console and continue coding in the new window opened by PyCharm. You can also use Jupyter which is a great tool for interactive mode. For other IDEs, try to find any menu that is related to interactive mode or window.