Graduation is an exciting time regardless of the student's age. Perhaps she is completing kindergarten, ready to officially become a "big kid." Maybe he is preparing to attend college in the fall, or venture out into the real world. All of these transitions are equal parts joy, excitement, and terror, not only for the graduates but also their loved ones.
So it makes sense we want to honor our graduates with gifts.
An inspirational quote book or printed commencement address are popular choices for a graduation gift. Chances are the graduate in your life is going to receive a couple of those, so if you're looking for unique idea that are as useful as they are cute, I've got your covered!
A tote bag from Litographs.
Actually, anything from Litographs makes an awesome gift for a book lover! These stunning designs are created using the words from a book. It's a unique, practical way to honor your favorite books. I have a couple items I received as gifts and they are fun to use, of great quality, and receive lots of compliments.
Another cute way to honor favorite books and perfect for graduates of any age! Serves as decoration, plus is a neat way to display your favorite titles without using shelf space!
Available in undated versions, as well as dated academic and traditional calendar years, these planners are a life saver. One of the only planners that gives space for work or school AND personal stuff. There's lots of space for creativity as well as structured organization.
Whether you want to deliver positive messages, or a bit of snark (or both) these pencils are a fun, practical way to do it. I have a set my husband gave me that say "Zero F-s Given" which I LOVE because they remind me to prioritize my energy! There are options to customize as well — a thoughtful way to deliver your good wishes and advice!
Most high school and college grads would appreciate these boxes, stuffed with drinks, snacks, and other goodies (a mug, soaps, bookmarks) revolving around a classic work of literature, which is also included.
Here's another functional way to display a book title without using shelf space. It's not only useful, it's also a thoughtful way to show your recipient you know what he/she is into, and honors their personality. Plus who doesn't love a fun new mug?
Graduates have a lot on their minds and so much to keep track of. A cute notebook like this one from Bando provides a little inspiration and a place to do the work!


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July 24, 1988: Ozzie Smith and Jose Oquendo fight Giants slugger Will Clark
Nine months after the Cardinals ended the Giants' 1987 world championship hopes in a hard-fought, seven-game NLCS, the two teams came to blows in a midsummer brawl involving Will Clark, Ozzie Smith, and Jose Oquendo. Neither team enjoyed the same success in 1988 that they had before. Entering the final game of their four-game series …
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January 6, 1988: Jack Clark signs with the Yankees
With the holidays in the rearview mirror and spring training just a few weeks away, Jack Clark finally lost patience. On January 6, 1988, the Cardinals' leading home-run hitter during their National League pennant-winning seasons in 1985 and 1987 signed a two-year, $3 million contract with the Yankees. Since the Cardinals acquired Clark from the …
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January 14, 1988: Cardinals sign Bob Horner despite Herzog's initial concerns
When the idea of signing Bob Horner to replace Jack Clark was first broached, Whitey Herzog didn't pull any punches. "I don't like Horner," the Cardinals manager said. "Of his lifetime homers, about 70% were hit in Atlanta. He never could hit in St. Louis. He can't hit and he can't field, and he wants …
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December 16, 1988: Cardinals get Milt Thompson in trade with Phillies
From the moment he arrived in St. Louis, the Cardinals saw Milt Thompson as a Whitey Herzog type of player. On December 16, 1988, the Cardinals traded outfielder Curt Ford and catcher Steve Lake to the Phillies for Thompson. A former second-round pick of the Braves in 1979, Thompson was expected to serve as a …
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August 16, 1988: Cardinals trade John Tudor for Pedro Guerrero
On August 16, 1988, the Cardinals' quest for Jack Clark's replacement led them to deal John Tudor, the left-handed pitcher who won 21 games in 1985, to the Dodgers in exchange for four-time all-star first baseman Pedro Guerrero. Clark had anchored the Cardinals' lineups from 1985 through 1987, but in January 1988, he signed a …
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April 22, 1988: Cardinals trade Tom Herr to the Twins for Tom Brunansky
Tom Herr knew that the Cardinals needed to shake things up after winning just four of their first 15 games in 1988. Still, he was just as shocked as Cardinals fans when he entered the clubhouse following a 4-0 loss to the Mets and was informed that he had been traded to Minnesota for power-hitting …
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Barcelona, May 6, 2010: Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, the world's first Ferrari theme park and largest attraction of its kind, has announced that it will open its doors to the public on October 28, 2010, three weeks ahead of the second Formula 1™ Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The long anticipated opening date was announced in a ceremony held on 6th May 2010 at the Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona, attended by representatives from Ferrari, Aldar Properties PJSC and Ferrari World Abu Dhabi.
Ferrari World Abu Dhabi will pay tribute to the passion, excellence, performance, and technical innovation that Ferrari has established over the years and represents today. Its iconic sleek red roof is directly inspired by the classic double curve side profile of the Ferrari GT body, spanning 200,000 m2 and carrying the largest Ferrari logo ever created.
In celebration of the opening date announcement, Ferrari World Abu Dhabi unveiled one of its featured attractions. Officially named "Formula Rossa," this attraction will offer guests a once-in-a-lifetime experience blasting away on the world's fastest roller coaster reaching speeds of up to 240 km/h. The main element of this masterpiece was unveiled in the Paddock area in front of Scuderia Ferrari's garages at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya.
After the inaugural Formula 1™ Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix held on Yas Island on November 1 2009, the opening of Ferrari World Abu Dhabi signals a milestone in bringing Abu Dhabi global recognition. Ferrari World Abu Dhabi will be a key element in expanding the appeal of Abu Dhabi to travelers, both business and leisure. Ferrari World Abu Dhabi will have over 20 rides and attractions which will bring to life the Ferrari brand in ways which appeal to a diverse international audience. In addition to Formula Rossa, visitors to Ferrari World Abu Dhabi will also enjoy an aerial voyage through Italy following a Ferrari, a G-force experience taking passengers on an adrenaline-pumping ride up over 62 m, through the roof and back down again, and a flume ride journey through the heart of a Ferrari 599 engine.
"We are very pleased to be a part of today's announcement of the opening date of this unique and exciting attraction alongside our partners at Ferrari. Signature projects like this are another element of our commitment and contribution to Plan Abu Dhabi 2030, by delivering attractions that further enhance the Emirate's credentials as an inspiring place to live and visit. " commented Mohammed Al Mubarak, Chief Commercial Officer at Aldar, Abu Dhabi's leading property development, management and investment company, and Chairman of Farah Leisure Parks Management LLC.
Ferrari World Abu Dhabi is located on Yas Island, a 25 km2 entertainment and recreation destination and venue for the first Formula 1™ Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Ahead of the inaugural race last November, Aldar delivered the Yas Marina Circuit, 7 brand new hotels, Yas Marina and all the infrastructure and race-related facilities. A number of new entertainment attractions will open to the public in the few coming years, including the first Links golf course in the region opening in late 2010, and a super regional mall in 2012.
Yas Island is one component of the mass infrastructure development outlined in the Abu Dhabi Government's 2030 Plan to diversify and expand the emirate's economic base. When completed, Yas Island is set to be a global tourist destination.


Is it just coincidence there are lots of grisly deaths connected with Damien, or is he the spawn of the Devil.
Many dismiss Damien: Omen II (1978) as the most forgettable of the original Omen trilogy. The Omen film series telling of those exploits of one Damien Thorne, aka the son of the Devil from birth until… It has one of the most easily recognisable musical scores of this time, Ave Satani.
I'd watched the first three Omen movies, back in the day with my dad. Along with equally silly almost comic horror gems as The Medusa Touch (1978), The Hand (1981) and The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970). These films had more memorable leading actors than music with Richard Burton, Michael Caine and Roger Moore respectively. As I remember on watching this particular Omen film at my first viewing, that I didn't know any of the cast. I only recalled it as not being as good as the other two and about a teenage Damien. And that was about it.
So over a couple of retro horror themed movie nights, Darlin' Husband and I re-watched the box set of the Omen trilogy franchise with the first followed by the third. We both had no problem with skipping the second movie, as like me Darlin' Husband dismissed it as hokum. However not long after that, I discovered that the stars of this movie were actually as prolific as those others in that trilogy.
As after joining this year's William Holden tribute I discovered he was the top billed actor in this film. With Nicholas Pryor, Lew Ayres and Robert Foxworth supporting him. Holden's leading lady, was an actress who has probably starred in more of my guilty pleasures than anyone else so far , Lee Grant. And an actress I reviewed in those other memorable roles as Queen of the Bee B Movies in The Swarm (1978) and Airport 77 (1978) (also with Foxworth). And Lance Henriksen. So with a sterling seventies cast like this, I really couldn't review anything else.
This film's plot starts a week after the first film's story line finishes. In a wee epilogue, we are reintroduced us to the archaeologist and Antichrist specialist from the first movie, Carl Bugenhagen (Leo McKern). He is seen gittering wildly to a friend Michael (Ian Hendry) about evil, wee Damien Thorn, a child who he says is Satan's spawn. He believes many people's untimely deaths are linked with the child.
Which their deaths are, to be fair but without giving away any spoilers of the who, how and when from that famous cast from the first movie. Which included – in no particular order – Billie Whitelaw, Patrick Troughton, David Warner, Lee Remick and Gregory Peck. And introduced us to the evil one from birth to about 5 years old. But it did end, with wee Damien being looked after by the US President but how, when and why is revealed in the movie. But I digress and back to Omen II.
Bugenhagen has read in a newspaper that this kid is now living with his Uncle Richard Thorn. Bugenhagen tells his friend, Michael that Damien has a birthmark resembling the numbers 666 on his head and says he can only be killed using seven legendary daggers. And asks his friend to take a letter about this child and those daggers to his now guardian. His friend doesn't believe him (and tbh who can blame him). So Bugenhagen takes Michael to Yigael's Wall which has a wee natty Damien themed mural of the boy in illustrations throughout his life (with then no indication of a third movie let alone those TV movies). Then the tunnel collapses with Bugenhagen, pal and box all drowning in sand.
Flashforward seven years, Damien (Jonathan Scott-Taylor) is now 13 and attending military school with his similarly aged cousin, Mark. Damien seems a pleasant enough kid on first impressions, he seems to have a loving relationship with his Uncle Richard (Holden), Auntie Ann (Grant) and Mark (Lucas Donat). So while the boys are returning to school by car, Richard and his second wife Ann are entertaining a visitor, Richard's elderly Aunt Marion (Sylvia Sidney). Marion tells the adults, there's something about Damien she just doesn't like – after all his brother Robert did try to kill him – and she thinks he's a bad influence on Mark. So she vents all at a dinner with Ann and Richard. Even the presence of the Thorn Museum's curator Dr Charles Warren (Pryor) doesn't stop her outburst.
Marion dislikes Damien so much so that she will even cut Richard out of her will if he continues to send the boys to the same school. Needless to say Richard and Ann are horrified at her outburst, both believing the best in young Damien. With Ann becoming terribly angry at the dotty one's ramblings. The calmer, though angry Richard dismisses Marion as crazy, placates his irate spouse.
And as Marion retires for the night, Richard and Ann are shown a slide show showing new artifacts for the Thorn Museum. Pryor shows a slide of a journalist, Joan Hart who saw the Yigael's Wall's mural. Hart is now keen to meet with Richard for an interview. Meanwhile a raven appears in Marion's bedroom, then that ominous Ave Satani music… and she dies of a heart attack..
Meanwhile the boys are at military school with the only evidence so far Damien's a bad un is trying to procure a cigarette from the family chauffeur. The boys meet new Platoon Officer, Sergeant Daniel Neff (Henriksen), who says he wants to excel in his new post. Meanwhile Richard is rescued from his apparently dull work at Thorn Industries, by Ann who has discovered Aunt Marion's lifeless body.
On leaving work Richard encounters Hart who barges her way into his car, he throws her out when she starts ranting about Damien, the wall and someone she feels died because of Damien. So the journalist goes to see Damien for herself, and is spooked out when she sees him. And then on driving home that Thorn bird appears… and Hart's car engine stops working….
The film on watching it again, had to its credit a wonderful wee epilogue preparing you with that essential information needed for the second movie. It was useful in telling you who Damien was and how he could be killed. But it did assume that you had seen the first movie, by giving away the most significant part of the ending.
And as Bugenhagen and his friend died in the sand… it set the movie up for more characters who on finding out Damien's identity, lead to their gruesome, untimely deaths. With the Thorn Bird in tow, Damien almost decimated the cast. And it almost turned into a Casualty (1986-) episode where you could spot the victim and the way he would die before it happened. Although at times the use of dummies was almost laughable, there were a few genuine horror filled scenes.
I loved William Holden in this film, playing the mild-mannered, genial uncle throughout and almost a bit too trusting of Damien, as his "innocent" nephew. However with his character only getting the reports of those deaths – and us getting the full story of Damien from all and sundry – it was to him these must have merely looked coincidental. Holden played the supportive, protective uncle, father and husband role amiably with all the cast.
Even after he found the evidence appearing to incriminate young Damien, he trusted him. His on-screen rapport with his screen wife Grant was quite sweet, warm and touching. Their scenes showing their closeness as a family with the younger members of the cast almost like they were in a completely different movie genre. Less horror, more schmaltzy family movie. But to me, Damien's close relationship with his uncle could have been developed further, especially after Damien became upset after he discovered his true identity.
After seeing the second film again as much as I enjoyed it I found some parts of this sequel's story line frustrating. The first film shows a quite possibly disturbing cliffhanger to the film, where young Damien is being cared for by President of the US of A. So why not carry on that story line, it certainly would be a far more interesting premise than Thorn Industries expansion subplot. Which was a bit bo-ring. The story could have then continued as it did, but with this particular Presidential guardian, a bit of a twist. It would have been interesting to see how the White House would have coped with the bodies piling up. This part of the story line instead was ignored, and not even mentioned.
Another part of the story line, but left hanging was that Ann was noted to be Richard Thorn's second wife. As his first wife was never mentioned, we could possibly go down the conspiracy theory line believing Uncle Richard knows his nephew, Damien killed her – and therefore his true identity – is covering up to all and sundry. Instead of leaving you wondering if the relevance of this fact was cut out of the film.
This film review was added to The Wonderful World of Cinema, Love Letters to Old Hollywood and The Flapper Dame's The William Holden Centenary, 3rd Golden Boy Blogathon. Other film reviews here with this cast include William Holden in Network, The Towering Inferno and Bridge on the River Kwai. Sylvia Sidney stars in my Magnum, The Love Boat and Mars Attacks posts. Lee Grant stars in The Swarm, Columbo and Airport 77. Robert Foxworth also stars in Airport 77, Murder She Wrote and Columbo. Nicholas Pryor was in these films and TV reviews… Less Than Zero, Knight Rider, Dynasty, Dallas. MASH, Hart to Hart and Murder She Wrote. Lew Ayres starred in Hotel and Fantasy Island. Leo McKern stars in Murder with Mirrors.
Ive got a funny story about this movie- i t was airing on a Movie station- that my family doesn't regularly get but it was airing on a free weekend-. My mom put it on the DVR and she didnt love it- fast forward through most of it- but she made sure to show me a part William Holden was in just because I adore him!!
Thank you so much for writing this post on Bill! and sharing your admiration for this man!
Hope you got to appreciate more of his role now, and have the time to watch it now in its entirety! Thanks for having me in the blogathon!!
Great review! It sounds like quite an intense film! I must admit I'm not really into horror movies and haven't seen any of the Omens (I remember seeing clips from the first one at the cinema museum in Torino) but I guess just the fact that William Holden stars in it should be a good reason to see it! The way you describe his character makes me believe that it's a character and performance I should enjoy! Thanks so much for your participation in the blogathon!
Thanks for having me, it is worth it for Hlden and Lee Grant but its more horror comedy at times,There is a nice wee homage to Hitchcocks The Birds so if you've seen that, everything else is just a wee bit daft and fun in comparison. Thanks for having me in such a fun blogathon!
That scene is as horror as it gets, the rest are more amusing than horror. Do give it a try!
I think this entire trilogy is solid. The first one is the best, but two and three are very good and have plenty of creepy moments too. I liked William Holden and Lee Grant in this one. I wish that Jonathan Scott-Taylor had made more films he was very good as Damian. I quite liked how in this film Damian is afraid when he learns who he is and he fights it, I wish it had focused a bit more on his struggle to deal with who he was.
I agree, I think it would have been a nice touch if he had talked with his family about it.
Isn't it funny when you revisit childhood films and find out the amazing casts you didn't notice before? That happens to me all the time with Disney movies.
I'm not a big horror fan, but I'm definitely intrigued by seeing Holden here. Thanks for contributing to the blogathon, Gill! Wouldn't have been the same without you!
Thank Michaela, it really is a treat isn't it. Thats what I find with blogathons too all the time, particuarly with some of those big Golden Hollywood names. This film is now definitely more silly horror than scary it that helps. Thanks for having me in the blogathon – was great fun rewatching (and reviewing) this film.
Sure, would be great to honor Ms Grant, especially if I can cover her Oscar winning performance in Shampoo with Warren Beatty and Carrie Fisher!
Just read your post – wonderful! Just relived all those movies. Keep in touch via email and we can sort a time out for this!
And please DO see Sam Neill in Part 3 again and write about it soon!
Thanks Chris, will check out your post – and was totally surprised at Ms Grants age, she's always such a timeless actress to me. Would you like to join me in honouring her in a blogathon sometime,? really love her movies The Swarm and Airport 77, and love to read more on her work.. Off to check out your review now.


Fessing up, I've had this pack of Hydra Cool Firming Eye gels in my 'to try' drawer for over a year. I got them at an M&S beauty press day, when I met the brand founder Sarah Kugelman, who -possibly seeing my own eyes could do with a bit of help- urged me to try them.
But I've got a weird relationship with eye products, I see them as a bit of a con by the beauty industry to sell us 'area specific' stuff when we really don't need it.
Anyway, move on a year and I'm looking at an instagram image of Kanye West, pre a sleb-gig somewhere and he's got these eye-pads stuck to the under-bits of his eye (the 'bags' area) and i remember the Skyn ones. Last week was a knackering one and I've been out a lot, so the skin around my eyes was looking a bit dark and dingy. Perfect time to try these cooling eye pads then. And, amazingly, they work! I popped them on, sat down and listened to The Archers and after 10 mins or so, I had less dingy skin and slightly more sparkly eyes.
With the Christmas part period not far away, and for the generally stressed out, these are worth a go.


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Around 98% of JEE (Advanced) 2020 candidates allocated one of the top three choices as examination cities
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By India Education Diary Bureau Admin On Sep 24, 2020
New Delhi: JEE (Advanced) 2020 scheduled on September 27th (Sunday) will be conducted across the nation in 222 cities and around 1000 exam centres by IIT Delhi, the organising institute. Total 1,60,831 candidates have registered for the Advanced after qualifying the JEE Main.
Of the total registered candidates who paid their registration fees i.e. 1,55,511 candidates, 97.94% have been allocated examination cities, which fall under the top three choices they had made during the registration.
The rest of the candidates i.e. 2.06% have also been allocated those examination cities, which fall under the eight choices they had made.
All registered PwD candidates, whether they have paid the fees or not, have been allocated their first choice of preference.
There are in total 5320 candidates who have not paid their fees and they may or may not appear for the examination. However, over 62% of the total such candidates have also been allocated examination cities, which fall under the top three choices they had opted for.
Of the total 1,60,831 registered candidates only 991 candidates have been allocated centers out of the 08 choices. These candidates are the ones who have not deposited fee at the time of the registration and it is assumed, on the basis of the past data, that they won't be appearing for the examination.
The shortage of nodes in some regions resulted in allocation of examination cities beyond top three choices and that too only for a small fraction of the candidates.
Last year there were 164 cities and 600 examination centers. This year, the number of cities with examination centers have been increased to 222 and the number of examination centers to around 1000.
The examination cities to the candidates have been finally allocated completely randomly, based on an advanced algorithm, to achieve the most efficient distribution. The algorithm also takes note of the fact that these are challenging times because of COVID-19 and physical distancing needs to be maintained at each center to ensure their safety.
The organising institute emphasizes that the city allocation for JEE (Advanced) 2020 is completely fair to all the candidates.
Meanwhile, having realised the relevance and criticality of 'Eduride' service, a dedicated portal launched by IIT Alumni and students that aims to ease burden of commuting for the needy candidates especially from the remote locations and poorly connected areas, IIT Delhi Alumni Association has informed that the transportation facility via Eduride portal will be available for the JEE Advanced candidates also. Interested candidates may visit www.eduride.in.
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Each beautiful, high-resolution vintage book and paper texture within this pack has been sourced from our rapidly growing private library of pre-1900 books (some are more than 300 years old!). While we primarily use these books to source illustrations, we have recently started turning to them for their perfectly imperfect textures.
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Serena Butcher, Marlene Behrmann; Detection of Closure Reverses Unilateral Field Advantage for Repetition Detection. Journal of Vision 2010;10(7):1182. doi: 10.1167/10.7.1182.
Previous research suggests that subjects are faster and more accurate detecting repeated elements presented unilaterally (both items in the same visual field) versus bilaterally (one item in each visual field). This finding has been explained in terms of an efficient within-field organization process for groups defined by similarity and proximity (Butcher & Cavanagh, 2008). But what about other grouping cues? Here, we examine the cue of closure. On each trial, subjects were presented with four items, each occupying one of four positions defined by left/right x up/down around central fixation. The participants' task was to report whether any two out of four items were the same or whether all four were unique. The repeated target stimuli were square brackets. The distractors were composed by rearranging the line segments of the targets. The repeated brackets occurred in either the same orientation("[ [ " no-closure) or mirror reversed orientation ( "[ ]" closure). We found a significant unilateral field advantage in the no-closure condition (12 ms, t(18) = 2.0, p = 0.05), replicating previous work on detecting repetitions presented in the same orientation. However, in the closure condition, we found bilateral repetitions were detected significantly faster than unilateral repetitions (28 ms, t(19)= 3.83 p = 001). These results suggest that closure is more efficiently detected across visual fields versus within a hemifield.


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Washington Post: The Life and Death of a Scientologist
By Richard Leiby, Washington Post Staff Writer
CLEARWATER, Fla. - "I am L. Ron Hubbard," the woman on the hotel room bed announced in a robotic voice. "I created time 3 billion years ago." She rambled on and on, every outburst dutifully scribbled down by those assigned to watch her.
"I can't confront force ... I need my auditor ... I want to take a toothbrush and brush the floor until I have a cognition."
The jargon of Scientology was instantly familiar to anyone who entered that room in the Fort Harrison Hotel, part of an elite training center and retreat established here by Hubbard, the science fiction writer and self-styled religious leader. It was also obvious to her fellow Scientologists that Lisa McPherson had cracked up.
"Out of control," one wrote.
Beginning Nov. 18, 1995, Scientology staffers - following Hubbard's regimen for dealing with psychotic members - kept McPherson isolated in that room 24 hours a day, refusing to speak to her, trying to force-feed her, plying her with vitamins and herbal concoctions and injecting her with sedatives, according to several accounts that are now part of court records. She furiously resisted: She pounded the walls, tried to escape, attacked a staffer with a potted plant. In her delirium, records say, she defecated on herself and drank her own urine.
Within 17 days, McPherson - who'd spent most of her adult life and tens of thousands of dollars as a devotee of Hubbard's teachings - would be dead. The once-voluptuous 36-year-old - she stood 5 feet 9 and wore a size 12 dress - lost an estimated 40 to 50 pounds during the ordeal, dropping to 108, her bruised body pocked by insect bites and scabs.
She was never seen by a licensed physician during that time. An autopsy attributed her death to a blood clot that developed due to "severe dehydration" and "bed rest."
Last month, after more than two years of investigation, the state attorney here filed two felony counts against the Scientology organization, alleging abuse or neglect of a disabled adult and the practice of medicine without a license. (No individuals were charged; to obtain their testimony, all Scientology witnesses were given immunity by prosecutors.) A criminal conviction would only bring fines of up to $15,000, but also would allow a court to order restitution to the victim's family and payment of law-enforcement investigation costs.
The church has pleaded not guilty. Mike Rinder, senior spokesman for Scientology, would not respond to any questions about McPherson, but issued a statement calling the "circumstances" of her death "unfortunate," and contending that the church had no "intent to do any harm" to its devotee. Church lawyers would not comment.
Meanwhile, McPherson's aunt has filed a wrongful death suit against the church, saying McPherson suffered "extreme torture" as "a prisoner of Scientology." Church officials have said they were honoring McPherson's religious preferences; Scientology vehemently denounces all forms of psychotherapy.
This weekend, to mark the anniversary of McPherson's death, Scientology defectors and other activists picketed near the Fort Harrison Hotel. Since its founding 45 years ago, the Church of Scientology has endured more than its share of bad publicity, but the McPherson case puts on stark display a side of the religion far removed from the glowing testimonials it receives from Hollywood adherents like John Travolta, Tom Cruise and Isaac Hayes.
If, as Hubbard decreed, the ultimate aim of Scientology is its adherents' "total freedom" and "survival," then what went wrong in the case of Lisa McPherson?
"At last, here is a book . . . which provides the answers to the problems of the human mind," pledged Hubbard's 1950 bestseller, "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health." It was the cornerstone of the religion he later founded. Once "cleared" of their troublesome brain "engrams," followers would be happy and healthier, have higher IQs and become "stable mentally," Hubbard believed.
In September 1995, Lisa McPherson proudly attested to reaching the state of "clear" at a Scientology ceremony. Within a few weeks, her mind began to unravel. After 13 years of intensive study, she was still failing as a Scientologist; indeed, she had become one of the worst kinds of problems - in church lingo, a "Potential Trouble Source Type III," or what Hubbard also called an "insane being."
Out in the real world, around non-Scientologists, McPherson was dramatically breaking down, becoming a public embarrassment. Scientologists weren't supposed to do that.
The Founder, a flame-haired, swashbuckling figure, died in 1986, but his every utterance and writing is viewed by Scientologists as consecrated, immutable scripture. Hubbard seemed to take a dim view of those who suffered breakdowns.
"We have nothing to do with the insane whatsoever. The insane, well, they're insane!" he once declared in a rare television interview. Little could be done for psychotics. "Provide a relatively safe environment and quiet and rest and no treatment of a mental nature at all," he wrote in a 1965 policy letter.
"There will always be some failures," he continued, and "sometimes [they] can't be kept alive."
McPherson grew up in Dallas, the daughter of an insurance man and his homemaker wife, attending Baptist churches. She had an older brother she loved, named Steve.
When Steve was 16 he shot himself in the head in a gas station rest room. Lisa was 14. The suicide was apparently connected to a dispute with another teen, although the details remain vague to Lisa's aunt and closest living relative, Dell Liebreich. But Liebreich knows one thing: "I'm sure it had a traumatizing effect on Lisa. Her father never recovered from it. He committed suicide 10 years later." He too used a pistol.
After high school, McPherson went to work at Southwestern Bell, where her family says a supervisor recruited her into Scientology. A vivacious brown-eyed blonde, fond of frosting her hair, McPherson had an early, troubled marriage that lasted only a few years. But she did well at the phone company, and she avidly studied Hubbard's techniques. "She was always going to the mission, taking courses," recalls Liebreich, who signed on to the lawsuit against Scientology after Lisa's mother, Fannie, died last year.
The church's account of McPherson's tenure has required criminal investigators and civil case lawyers to learn another language - Hubbard-speak. For example, a Scientology-prepared report on McPherson says that in "Dec. 86/Jan. 87 she had a PTS Rundown (items were Mom, Don and Theresa). . . . This was followed by a large amount of wordclearing, False Data Stripping and O/W write ups."
Using an E-meter, a lie detector-like device that Hubbard invented, a counselor discovered that McPherson was a "potential trouble source" in Scientology because of her connection to three "suppressive" people, including her mother. In confessional rituals, a parishioner must declare his O/Ws - "overts and withholds" - immoral acts that include harmful, undisclosed transgressions against Scientology. Any miscomprehensions about anything - including the the church and its teachings - are "false data" that must be stripped away.
In Hubbard's cosmology, traumas in past lifetimes, contact with alien beings, drug use and involvement with "suppressive persons" (who include enemies of the church) all can be impediments to a "pre-clear's" success. They must be located and removed by "auditing."
According to the church, McPherson took her first courses in 1982, when she was 23, and tried but failed to go "clear" in 1986. She took a staff job and married a member of the church. In 1989, she also committed herself to serving Scientology for a "billion years," signing up for its Sea Organization, an elite group whose members wear nautical uniforms and follow a militaristic command structure, working long hours for salaries of $50 a week.
A World War II Navy lieutenant, Hubbard ran his sect for several years from aboard a 320-foot converted cattle ferry, sailing the world before establishing what he called the Flag Land Base at Clearwater, a placid town of white sand beaches on the Gulf of Mexico. The Commodore, as Hubbard was known, lived nearby briefly in the mid-1970s. He told aides he planned to pose as a photographer in the tourist industry.
Today, about 6,000 Scientology followers and staffers live in the Clearwater area - many based at the campus of former hotels where Hubbard's "religious technology" is offered at the most advanced (and expensive) levels. Several Scientologist-operated businesses also maintain headquarters here.
McPherson migrated to Clearwater in the early '90s after her new Scientology employers relocated their publishing firm here. She'd divorced again, and had left the Sea Organization. But she kept attempting to reach "clear." Records show she was thwarted again in 1991 and 1994 because she was a "potential trouble source" - the E-meter sessions revealed she'd been in contact with suppressive, anti-Scientology elements.
At first McPherson flourished as a sales rep at AMC Publishing; she made $136,721 in 1994, according to her tax returns, spending more than $55,000 on Scientology courses and taking deductions for them. (The IRS, after fighting hundreds of lawsuits filed by Scientology, granted the church tax-exempt status in 1993.)
Then, turmoil. "In June 1995, Lisa caved in and actually went into a spin (psychotic break)," says the church report. This forced a brief recuperation at the Fort Harrison Hotel and a slowdown in her work. She was put into "ethics handling" - a regimen that includes writing up "overts and withholds."
Her aunt, an old high school friend and others believe McPherson was on the verge of quitting the church - and that was her undisclosed crime against Scientology.
"She was roller-coastering: up and down, up and down, high emotions and low emotions," says Michael Pattinson, a painter and recent Scientology defector who got to know McPherson in the months before her death. "She wanted to do something more artistic in her life, and the group's power and pressure were too much for her.
"She was having a very, very rough time at work keeping up with the quotas for sales," Pattinson recalls. "She asked for my advice. I said, 'Lisa, follow your own goals, not someone else's, or you'll end up in the soup.' "
Scientology officials say McPherson was a devoted member. And on Sept. 7, she finally reached her cherished goal: "I'm from Texas and I'm Clear!" she announced to a roomful of fellow members, reading from a script now in court files.
"Being Clear is more exciting than anything I've ever experienced. I am so thrilled about life and living that I can hardly stand it!"
McPherson's final hurdle to Clear was an incident from a past life. A saber-toothed tiger kept attacking and eating her: "Not only did I see him, I was in a cage with him for six months."
Auditing "handled" that problem, McPherson told her audience. But other problems arose.
By mid-October, church records show that officials had declared her a "liability" to Scientology, apparently after her production dropped off at her publishing job. In Hubbard's jargon, that meant McPherson had "taken on the color of an enemy" and could not be trusted. In a memo, she said she was making "amends," and working seven days a week, from 7 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., in part to raise money for a the church's "Winter Wonderland" holiday event.
By November, she began to act out in bizarre ways: At a business conference in Orlando, she insisted to strangers that they had to read L. Ron Hubbard's "Dianetics." She interrogated a co-worker about "suppressive people." She rousted the colleague in the middle of the night, raving about "something going on on this planet that I didn't know about."
"When I woke up at 7 a.m. I found her still in the bathroom reading" Hubbard's works, the woman wrote in a report to church officials. "She looked like hell."
One year ago, on the sidewalk in front of the Fort Harrison Hotel, Scientology critics lit candles in a memorial to McPherson. Their signs bore her grisly autopsy photos. Their T-shirts said "Scientology Kills."
A few blocks away in a counterdemonstration, thousands of church members staged a "civil rights" march on the Clearwater Police Department and the local office of the St. Petersburg Times, charging that police and media investigations of the McPherson case amounted to a hate campaign.
For many residents, the long-running McPherson case has revived unwelcome memories of Scientology's controversial past here - in the mid-'70s the town's political, business and media establishment were targeted for what Hubbard memos termed "takeover" and "control." In 1975, Hubbard moved his sect ashore, secretly purchasing downtown properties under the guise of a group called United Churches of Florida.
The guru's plan to create a Scientology-run city - part of an even more grandiose scheme for global domination - foundered after FBI raids and news reports exposed his goals. Prosecutors used internal church documents to help convict Hubbard's wife and 10 other top Scientologists in a conspiracy to infiltrate, bug and burglarize federal agencies. Hubbard was named an unindicted co-conspirator in that case.
Scientology leaders, who say they purged the church of criminals 15 years ago, claim it enjoys excellent relations with the city. Last month, ground was broken for a $45 million Scientology center in the faded downtown; at 370,000 square feet, it's the largest construction project in the church's history. Only a few bigots and "rednecks" oppose its presence here, church officials say.
"The sun never sets on Scientology," church leader David Miscavige, quoting Hubbard, said at the glitzy groundbreaking, which included a laser light show. "Scientology now, tomorrow and forever."
The dueling demonstrations over the McPherson case coincided with the opening of "Winter Wonderland," an annual holiday display erected by the church to collect food and toys for the poor. Rocker Edgar Winter, a Scientologist, welcomed the crowd and praised "this wonderful gift to the community."
Bennetta Slaughter, owner of AMC Publishing and a Scientologist for nearly 20 years, spoke of the church's dedication to children. She pointed out that a $3,400 donation by her deceased employee, Lisa McPherson, helped make it all possible.
"She was one of my very good friends and I loved her very much," Slaughter said later, bracing against the breeze in a Christmas sweater and red velvet skirt. "It's a farce that they're demonstrating [against the church]. They're desecrating her memory, not honoring her memory."
Slaughter and her company were initially named as defendants in McPherson's aunt's suit, but were later dropped from the action. "I absolutely know that what occurred with Lisa - " Slaughter began. She paused. "She was not denied anything. The things that have been said are complete misrepresentations on the part of those who would attack the church. They're falsehoods."
And why would people criticize her church?
"No data," she quickly replied. "Obviously there's an agenda."
"The real and inexcusable danger in Dianetics lies in its conception of the amoral, detached, 100 percent mechanical man. This is the authoritarian dream, a population of zombies, free to be manipulated by the great brains of the founder, the leader of an inner manipulative clique." - A review of "Dianetics" in The Nation, 1950
From the very beginning, the therapies of L. Ron Hubbard have been denounced by medical authorities as quackery, hypnotism and brainwashing. One of the first judicial investigations of Scientology, conducted in Australia in the 1960s, deemed the auditing process a form of "mental torture" and resulted in a ban on Scientology practices. "Sometimes preclears are so distraught that they scream, develop murderous feelings, have bouts of anger, grief . . . their sexual passions are aroused, they act insanely, laugh hysterically . . . they become violent and try to escape and have to be restrained," the report said.
"In Scientology parlance, when such manifestations as these occur, the preclear is being 'restimulated'; in fact he is being debased and mentally crippled."
(By 1982, Australia overturned its ban and recognized Scientology as a religion. But an official commission of top legal experts recently recommended that significant psychological harm inflicted by any religious group, including Scientology, be made a crime.)
In 1978, a French court tried Hubbard in absentia for fraud and sentenced him to four years' imprisonment.
In 1986, a California jury awarded $30 million to a former Sea Organization member who said the church's advanced regimens caused him to become psychotic and actively plan suicide. (The award, later reduced to $2.5 million, has been upheld by the Supreme Court, but the former member has yet to collect because of exhaustive litigation by the church.)
In a 1984 decision, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Paul G. Breckenridge said Scientology "is nothing in reality but a vast enterprise to extract the maximum amount of money from its adepts by pseudo-scientific theories . . . and to exercise a kind of blackmail against persons who do not wish to continue with their sect. . . . The organization clearly is schizophrenic and paranoid, and this bizarre combination seems to be a reflection of its founder."
Such conclusions strike especially close to the heart of Scientology, a belief system whose strongest rhetoric is reserved for its criticism of psychiatry. Hubbard said he wanted to control "absolutely the field of mental healing on this planet in all forms." He denounced shrinks as crackpots and butchers who killed patients' souls with electroshock therapy and drugs.
But there may have been a deeper source of the Founder's ire. His eldest son, L. Ron Hubbard Jr., once swore an affidavit saying his father "ended up in psychiatric hospital at the end of the war." (Hubbard Jr. is dead; the church says the Founder never received treatment and that the son recanted his criticism.)
In a letter written to the Veterans Administration in 1947, Hubbard senior admitted to suicidal tendencies and asked for psychiatric help.
Denouncing doctors, Hubbard claimed his research revealed the true nature of the mind. "All of these things are scientific facts, tested and rechecked and tested again," he wrote in "Dianetics." But his son said the findings - initially published in the pulp magazine Astounding Science Fiction - was without scientific merit: "My father wrote his books off the top of his head based on his imagination. There were no case studies."
"He audited me and it didn't help," says Richard de Mille, a Dianetics believer from 1950 to 1953. "I came to understand that it was all his imagination, just a story he was telling."
De Mille, 76, son of the famous director, says Hubbard transformed his self-help discoveries into a religion to avoid having to prove them: "It became a religion very suddenly and all his magical ideas jumped back into it."
The apex of Scientology spiritual counseling is at the secret, so-called OT Levels, which promise superhuman powers. Here, members pass through what Hubbard described as the Wall of Fire. Parishioners - who have already spent thousands to go clear - pay several thousand more to learn that their spiritual traumas stem from an intergalactic holocaust perpetrated 75 million years ago by an alien overlord named Xenu.
During a space battle, Hubbard teaches, our spirits became infested with evil alien spirits, called "body thetans." There could be untold numbers of such bad thetans fomenting problems in each of our minds. Only through rigorous auditing can they be removed - allowing the untormented Operating Thetan - the OT - to emerge.
In 1995, church financial records show, McPherson paid nearly $42,000 in "donations" for top-level courses - including "Wall of Fire," the "Flag OT Executive Rundown" and "OT Preparations and Eligibility."
On Nov. 10, 1995, court records show, the devotee purchased her last religious item from the Church of Scientology. It was a 1996 calendar featuring L. Ron Hubbard. Price: $100.
"No one told me I was a prisoner, but I knew that I wouldn't just walk out the door. . . . It's embedded over the years that, once you're a Scientologist, there's nowhere to go; you just don't leave." - Former church staff member Lori Taverna, testifying to the Clearwater City Commission in 1982.
After a minor traffic accident, McPherson stripped off her clothes and walked naked down well-traveled Belleview Boulevard. She told stunned paramedics she wasn't crazy but just wanted to get their attention: "I need help. I need to talk to someone." She spoke in a monotone, as if programmed, and said she didn't need a body to live.
"I'm an OT," she said. An Operating Thetan.
It was shortly after 6 p.m. on Nov. 18, 1995. McPherson had driven her '93 Jeep Cherokee into a boat being towed on a trailer. She wasn't hurt.
The paramedics took her to nearby Morton Plant Hospital. Nurses there said she looked calm, but they noticed her fixed stare. McPherson disclosed that her brother and father had committed suicide, but denied she wanted to kill herself or anyone else.
By 6:50, a group of Scientologists had arrived. By the church's account, McPherson had phoned her friend and boss, Bennetta Slaughter. (Hospital records contain no mention of McPherson making any calls.) The Scientologists explained that a psychiatric consultation would violate McPherson's religion.
At 7:30, a psychiatric nurse went to McPherson's bedside, where she was surrounded by church members. Again she spoke in that monotone, telling the nurse, "I want to go home with my friends from the congregation."
An emergency room doctor decided, after talking by phone with a psychiatrist, that the patient could not be involuntarily committed. "Her friends at scientology will watch her 24 hours and be sure that she gets the care that they want her to have and the patient wants to have," the doctor typed in his report. But he seemed uneasy, adding: "I told her I could not be responsible . . . I will have the patient sign out against medical advice."
Around 8:30, she was taken to the Fort Harrison Hotel and put in Room 174. She would not leave again until the night of Dec. 5.
Scientologists loaded McPherson's nearly lifeless body into a church van. Instead of calling an ambulance or driving her to Morton Plant, five minutes away, she was taken 45 minutes north to Columbia/HCA New Port Richey Hospital.
Her watchers had decided it would be best if McPherson were treated by a Scientology doctor - an OT-course graduate named David Minkoff who worked in the emergency room at the New Port Richey hospital. Minkoff had earlier prescribed Valium for McPherson without seeing her, according to a Florida Department of Law Enforcement affidavit. (Minkoff, initially named in the wrongful death suit, authorized his insurers to settle with McPherson's estate for $100,000 - what his attorney called a "pittance in comparison with the millions and millions they were asking for.")
McPherson never got the Valium. Staffers told investigators that they feared any drug might interfere with her future auditing. So instead they loaded aspirin and Benadryl into a syringe and forced it down her throat. McPherson's "case supervisor" believed the aspirin "might assist in blocking Lisa's formation of mental images," the prosecution affidavit says.
Through the 17 days since her naked stroll down Belleview Boulevard, McPherson had been attended by Janis Johnson, an unlicensed anesthesiologist who served as the Flag base medical liaison officer, by a dentist and by staffers with no medical training, including a 17-year-old. One woman assigned to McPherson's room broke down, sat in a corner and cried, records show.
The Scientologists injected McPherson with magnesium chloride and gave her the sedative chloral hydrate - both substances apparently endorsed by Hubbard. By Dec. 1, she was so dehydrated that she needed two liters of fluid, according to Johnson's notes. The medical examiner later said it appeared that she'd gone without water for at least five days. The watchers' records are spotty, and church logs of her final 53 hours were lost or destroyed, according to the prosecution affidavit.
A reconstruction of events that Scientology turned over to lawyers for McPherson's estate, as well as prosecutors' findings, describe McPherson's final day:
By Dec. 5, she couldn't walk. She'd been lapsing in and out of consciousness, barely moving. That morning, Johnson thought McPherson looked "septic," as if suffering from a massive infection. Around 7 p.m., Johnson called Minkoff, requesting he issue a prescription for penicillin.
Minkoff says he refused and advised that the patient be taken to the nearest hospital. But Johnson said, "Lisa was not that sick." She would transport McPherson 24 miles to New Port Richey instead.
McPherson's breathing grew heavy and labored on the trip. She was loaded into a wheelchair when they reached the hospital around 9:30. Minkoff said he was shocked by her "horrific" appearance.
He pronounced her dead on arrival.
According to the charging document, "This inexcusable delay in seeking emergency help . . . deprived Lisa of her only opportunity for survival."
A Scientology report on the incident begins this way: "Lisa McPherson, Flag public living in Clearwater, FL., dropped her body this evening while being taken to a hospital."
On Aug. 6, 1996, eight months after she died, the church mailed Lisa McPherson a statement showing a credit of $3,000. Her next course, called "OT Debug Service," was paid for and waiting.
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Studio portraits (2)
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Letterpress copybooks (1)
Museum records (1)
Plans (drawings) (1)
Sketchbooks (1)
Commercial photography (2)
Art museums (1)
Flower shows (1)
Landscape architecture (1)
Alexander, John White (1)
Anka, Paul (1)
Austin, Darrel, 1907- (1)
Bach, Vivi (1)
Beatty, John W. (John Wesley) (1)
Beaux, Cecilia (1)
Brush, George de Forest (1)
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy (1)
Bulliet, C.J. (Clarence Joseph) (1)
Bulliet, Katherine Adams (1)
Cafritz, Gwendolyn (1)
Cafritz, Morris, 1886?-1964 (1)
Canaday, John (1)
Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art (1)
Carr, Vikki (1)
Chapin, James (1)
Chase, William Merritt (1)
Church, Samuel Harden (1)
Coe, Norman (1)
Cooper, G. Arthur (Gustav Arthur) (1)
Archives Center, National Museum of American History (3)
Archives of American Art (3)
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Coe, Norman
141 film reels
Scopitones are three minute long 16mm films that were viewed on a Scopitone machine, a jukebox-like player. A precursor to music videos, Scopitones -- both the films and the machines -- were popular in the United States from around 1962 to 1968. The films featured sets, costumes, and dancers in support of well-known performers singing a single song. The collection includes Scopitone films from the United States and Europe.
G. Arthur Cooper Papers
Cooper, G. Arthur (Gustav Arthur), 1902-2000
1923-1993 and undated,with material from 1878 to 1892
18.61 cu. ft. (36 document boxes) (1 half document box) (2 3x5 boxes) (1 oversize folder)
C. J. (Clarence Joseph) Bulliet papers
Bulliet, C.J. (Clarence Joseph), 1883-1952
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The C. J. (Clarence Joseph) Bulliet papers measure 34.6 linear feet and are dated circa 1888-1959. Biographical materials, correspondence, writings, subject and artist files, printed material, photographs, and artwork document the career of the influential Chicago art critic and writer. The records contain extensive information about art and artists in Chicago and the Midwest from the early to mid-twentieth century.
Perls Galleries records
Perls Galleries
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The records of the Perls Galleries measure 79.6 linear feet and date from 1937 to 1997. Founded by Klaus Perls in 1937 and operating until 1997, the gallery dealt primarily in modern French art and the artwork of Alexander Calder. Found within the records are extensive correspondence (circa 44 linear feet) with artists, dealers, galleries, museums, and collectors; photographs and negatives of inventory and other artwork; exhibition files, scattered financial records; and exhibition catalogs and clippings.
Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art records
Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art
265.8 Linear feet
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The records of the Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art measure 265.8 linear feet and date from 1883-1962, with the bulk of the material dating from 1885-1940. The collection includes extensive correspondence between the museum's founding director, John Beatty, and his successor, Homer Saint-Gaudens, with artists, dealers, galleries, collectors, museum directors, representatives abroad, shipping and insurance agents, and museum trustees. The collection also includes Department of Fine Arts interoffice memoranda and reports; loan exhibition files; Carnegie International planning, jury, shipping, and sale records; Department of Fine Arts letterpress copy books, and a copy of the original card catalog index to these records.
Scurlock Studio Records, Subseries 4.6: Black and white negatives in cold storage arranged by client
Scurlock, Robert S. (Saunders), 1917-1994
87 Boxes
The subseries consists of black and white silver gelatin negatives.
The Scurlock photographic studio was a fixture in the Shaw area of Washington, D.C. from 1911 to 1994, and encompassed two generations of photographers, Addison N. Scurlock (1883-1964) and his sons George H. (1920- 2005) and Robert S. (1916-1994). Subseries 4.6 consists of black and white silver gelatin negatives. An overview to the entire Scurlock collection is available here: Scurlock Studio Records
The Garden Club of America collection
Garden Club of America
circa 1920-present
37,000 Slides (35mm slides)
33 Linear feet ((garden files))
3,000 lantern slides
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This collection contains over 37,000 35mm slides, 3,000 glass lantern slides and garden files that may include descriptive information, photocopied articles (from journals, newspapers, or books), planting lists, correspondence, brochures, landscape plans and drawings. Garden files were compiled by Garden Club of America (GCA) members for most of the gardens included in the collection. Some gardens have been photographed over the course of several decades; others only have images from a single point in time. In addition to images of American gardens, there are glass lantern slides of the New York Flower Show (1941-1951) and trips that GCA members took to other countries, including Mexico (1937), Italy, Spain, Japan (1935), France (1936), England (1929), and Scotland. A number of the slides are copies of historic images from outside repositories including horticultural and historical societies or from horticultural books and publications. The GCA made a concerted effort in the mid-1980s to acquire these images in order to increase its documentation of American garden history. Because of copyright considerations, use of these particular images may be restricted.
National Air & Space Museum Technical Reference Files: Biographies
National Air and Space Museum. Archives Division.
261 Cubic feet
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
The Technical Reference Files comprise an artificial collection that currently contains 1,900 cubic feet of aviation and space related materials, organized in 22 subject series. File materials include photographs, press releases, clippings, correspondence, reports, and brochures, on individuals, organizations, events, and objects.


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News at CIUS
CIUS' 40th Anniversary
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Student Travel Award Recipients/ Graduate Student Research Posters From The Сonference "Ukrainian Studies In Canada: Texts And Contexts"
The Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) at the University of Alberta celebrated its fortieth anniversary in 2016. On 14–15 October 2016, it held a two-day conference at the University of Alberta entitled "Ukrainian Studies in Canada: Texts and Contexts." Scholars from Canada and abroad participated in five round tables on the following topics: "Foundations of Ukrainian Studies," "New Challenges for Ukrainian Studies," "Ukrainian-Canadian Studies," "Teaching Ukrainian Studies," and "Community Outreach."
CIUS made available a limited number of travel awards to enable graduate students residing outside of Edmonton to attend the conference at the University of Alberta.
Six students registered in a graduate-level program of study in the humanities or social sciences at a post-secondary institution in Canada were the recipients of these awards.
At the conference, they had the right of asking the first questions before questioning was opened up to the general public. They designed and displayed a poster of up to 600 words describing their research.
Transcriptions of the conference proceedings, which are currently being worked on, will be made available electronically to the public on CIUS' website in March 2017.
Please find the biographies of the six graduate student attendees (also the student travel award recipients) below:
1. Nataliya Bezborodova, MA, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton. She worked at the Kule Folklore Center and Bohdan Medwidsky Ukrainian Folklore Archives at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Her previous degree is in Linguistics and Translation Studies, and it was focused on cultural diversities and misunderstandings based on different cultural origin in the area of international English-language communications. Her recent research explores textual representations and protest lore of Ukrainian protests in winter 2013-2014 in social media, particularly, on Facebook, and the way of re-articulation of national identity and formation new attitudes.
Currently she is a PhD student of the Memorial University of Newfoundland. She is interested in interdisciplinary approach including anthropology, ethnography, folklore, cultural and religious studies.
Her work experience includes academic conferences, exchange seminars and guest lectures administration, international cultural projects (European Humanities Research Center and St. Clément's Center, Communion and Dialogue of Cultures, 2010-2013), ethnographic research methods and archives (Kule Folklore Center and Bohdan Medwidsky Ukrainian Folklore Archives, 2013-2016), trust-building initiatives, cultural dialogue and education seminars (2009-2010). She worked in "Duh i Litera" Publishing House, one of the leading Ukrainian publishers in academic Humanities, international NGOs and academic institutions.
Research interests: ethnic, national and religious identity, community building, belonging, imagining, collective memory construction, space and place, vernacular religion, intangible cultural heritage.
2. Genia Boivin is a PhD student at University of Alberta. Previously, she studied Film at Université de Montréal and Fine Arts at Concordia University, and graduated With Distinction in 2006. She completed an MA in Ukrainian Folklore with specialization in dance at the University of Alberta in 2010. In addition, she studied abroad in L'viv, Ukraine and in Trondheim, Norway. Her present research project focuses on the representation of the national ideological ethos in animated films from the United States, the former Soviet Union, and France. Genia's research interests target a broad range of cultural representation in the media, including storytelling, body culture, cyberbodies, as well as concepts of the Self and the Other. Genia taught French language at the University of Alberta from 2011 to 2015. She is the recipient of the 2014 Faculty of Arts Graduate Student Teaching Award and in 2015, was nominated by students to give the Last Lecture at the University of Alberta. She is also an instructor of French Canadian folklore in the Envision long-distance education program at the University of Sudbury since 2011, and is presently writing a course manual on mythmaking in the media for this program.
3. Kassandra Luciuk is a 3rd year PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation explores how power, ethnicity, and politics were negotiated in Cold War Canada. It shows how the construction of a politically coherent Ukrainian Canadian identity was the deliberate result of ongoing negotiations; the Canadian state contracted out the production of "good Canadians" to Ukrainian brokers who concomitantly instilled the values and rhetoric of liberal democracy in their constituents. Her dissertation also looks at the transformation of Ukrainian displaced persons from mercenaries of socio-political control into a political force in and of themselves. As DPs increased their cultural and political capital, they began making unprecedented demands on the state, engraining themselves in Canadian brokerage politics. Kassandra's most recent publications explore the relationship between the internment of Ukrainian Canadians during World War One, the Ukrainian Canadian left, and the politics of redress and the appropriation of Taras Shevchenko by competing factions of the Ukrainian Canadian community during the Cold War.
4. Kirsten Tarves is a graduate student of Slavic Studies at the University of Manitoba. She has a BA in Russian and Ukrainian from the University of Manitoba, and will begin her MA in Slavic Studies in January at the same university. Her current primary areas of interest are Russian and Ukrainian literature and folklore.
5. Klavdia Tatar is a 3rd year PhD student in the School of Political studies at the University of Ottawa. She is a member of the University of Ottawa's Chair of Ukrainian Studies. She completed an MA in history at the University of Manitoba in 2014. Her current research project focuses on studying political activism of the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada since 1991.
Her broader research interests focus mainly on the areas of international and domestic politics, migration and ethnic lobbying, diaspora studies and transnationalism, and Eastern European politics, in particular the international relations of Russia, Ukraine and Turkey. Ms Tatar has worked as an advisor and a researcher for various stakeholders, inside and outside academia. In 2016 she become a founder of Ottawa-based research organization, PoliSens.
6. Viktoriya Thomson is a fifth year candidate in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University, Ottawa working on her Doctoral thesis entitled, "From the Orange Revolution to Euromaidan – the political culture of Ukrainian society from 2004 to 2014." Her research concerns the changes that occurred in the political culture of Ukraine after the Orange Revolution and their impact (if at all) on the level of spontaneous mobilizations of citizens during Euromaidan. She presented different parts of her research during the 2015 CPSA conference as well as during the 9th and 7th ECPR General conferences in Montreal and Bordeaux. She wrote her MA Thesis on "Political Opposition in Ukraine and its effectiveness" in 2008 at Carleton University. She visited Ukraine as an election observer during 2012 and 2014 parliamentary elections, and moved to Canada from Ukraine in 2003.
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/**
 *

 * This goals installs the TIBCO Business Studio proxy which is a prerequisite
 * for this plugin.
 *

 *

 * The TIBCO Business Studio proxy is an Eclipse feature packaged in an Eclipse
 * update site as a Maven artifact and downloaded from Maven repositories.

 * The coordinates of this artifact are defined as follows:
 *

 *
groupId is set with
 *    tibco.bw6.studio.proxyGroupId parameter and defaults to
 *    io.teecube.tic.tic-bw6-studio. This should never be changed.
 *

 *
artifactId is set with
 *    tibco.bw6.studio.proxyArtifactId parameter and defaults to
 *    tic-bw6-studio-proxy-site. This should never be changed.
 *

 *
version is guessed by concatenation of
 *    tibco.bw6.studio.version parameter (with a major and minor version)
 *    and tic-bw6-studio-proxy-site parameter (a revision version).
 *    This should never be changed.
 *

 *

 *

 *
 * @author Mathieu Debove <mad@teecu.be>
 *
 */
@Mojo(name="studio-proxy-install", requiresProject = false)
public class StudioProyxInstallMojo extends StudioProxy {

    @Override
    public List<String> getArguments() {
        List<String> arguments = new ArrayList<>();
        arguments.add("-installIUs");
        arguments.add(proxyFeature);

        return arguments;
    }

    @Override
    public void execute() throws MojoExecutionException, MojoFailureException {
        super.execute(); // must exist because of standalone goal initialization
    }

    @Override
    protected String getFailureMessage() {
        return Messages.Studio.PROXY_INSTALL_FAILED;
    }

    @Override
    protected String getInfoMessage() {
        return Messages.Studio.PROXY_INSTALL;
    }

}

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see my image file and after i export to pdf equation is not displayed.
If PDF exporter cannot export equations, you need to export them as bitmaps.
Assign MetafileCompatibility = True (for TRVReportHelper or TRVPrint generating pages for PDF).
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It's been a challenging first year as clerk of the course at Goodwood for Ed Arkell. But most would surely agree it's been a highly successful one.
Arkell took over from Seamus Buckley, who spent 23 years in the role, at the end of the 2018 season, having helped Buckley at the week-long Glorious festival for the past decade.
This year, the opening fixture in May was marred by violent scenes among a group of racegoers, but the racecourse upped their security and police presence in response, which eradicated such behaviour for the rest of the season. There were also instances of two jockeys squaring up in the weighing room – and even a horse biting another runner in the closing stages of a race.
But none of these incidents bear reflection on the excellent job carried out by the new clerk, who described this year's main event – the Qatar Goodwood Festival – as 'one of the best'.
He said one major task faced by the team was to keep the racing surface sufficiently watered throughout a very dry summer. However, groundstaff worked tirelessly to achieve this. And thanks to the small amount of rain which arrived right on cue just ahead of the Glorious festival, Arkell described the ground as being in optimum racing condition.
One horse who was not worried about slight give in the turf was the Charlie Appleby-trained Gordon Stakes winner Cross Counter, whom Arkell picked out as his performance of festival week. The three-year-old Godolphin horse broke the track record on the way to victory, not idling when left out in the clear, which made it all the more impressive.
Cross Counter, remarkably, went on to win last month's Melbourne Cup – and Goodwood bosses are hoping he returns to the Downs in 2019.
Arkell also enjoyed watching Lil Rockerfeller, a horse he remembers winning the National Spirit Hurdle during his days in charge of Fontwell Park, cruise to victory – as well as George Baker's 125/1 aptly-named winner Feel Glorious.
One of Arkell's roles at Goodwood is to help attract more runners from overseas to the Qatar Festival. This year, the number of French-bred runners doubled, which was a success in itself – but this is still a work in progress, he points out.
Arkell said: "It is not just about the racing here, owners and trainers are also attracted by the fantastic evening events held on the estate such as a cricket match, the sales and cars on the motor circuit.
"We have fantastic connections in France, I will be going to Hong-Kong during the winter and it is all about being there and approaching the right people and encouraging them to come racing at Goodwood. This year was the start of a three to four-year plan of action to entice more foreign runners.
Although the season has come to a close, there is still plenty of work to be done for Arkell and Co. The groundstaff are out on the track doing a fantastic job, ensuring the surface is maintained ahead of the winter and spring and the return of racing on May 4 next year.
Arkell said he had learned a lot in his first year, particularly how the timescales for work differ with the size of the track.
He said he was extremely pleased with how his first season had gone and had received fantastic plaudits from the racing industry following an extremely successful Glorious festival.


The story line of Job is simple. Job, a blameless worshiper of God, experiences a series of devastating tragedies. Three friends come to comfort him, but end up arguing that since God is good Job must have done something terrible to deserve his intense suffering. Job refutes them and in the process points to injustices God permits in His world. A young observer suggests that God may have other purposes in suffering than to punish. Then God Himself speaks to Job. The Lord gives no reason for what has happened to Job, but Job realizes he must submit to God rather than question Him. Job is restored and his three pious friends, who have so forcefully defended God, are rebuked by the Lord. Job goes on to live a long and blessed life.
That's the way it is! God doesn't give us the answers for the suffering in the world. He doesn't give us the answers to why the wicked prosper in our world, either. Like Job, we must realize that it is our duty to simply submit to God's plan and program for our lives without questioning Him. This is what faith is: Trusting God in all the confusing, painful, and threatening situations of life.


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Q: ExecuteNonQuery returns -1 even though the execution was successful I'm running an asp.net 2.0 web application. Suddenly this morning, ExecuteNonQuery started returning -1, even though the commands in the SP that ExecuteNonQuery is running, are executing (I see items inserted and updated in the DB), and there is no exception thrown.
This happens only when I am connected to our production DB. When I'm connected to our development DB they return the  correct number of rows affected.
Also, interestingly enough, ExecuteDataSet doesn't have problems - it returns DataSets beautifully.
So it doesn't seem like a connection problem. But then, what else could it be?

A: You can also check the procedure to see if there's this line of code in there -
SET NOCOUNT ON

This will cause the ExecuteNonQuery to always return -1.

A: -1 means "No rows effected".
SELECT statement will also return -1.
Check the effect of the SP on dev and live environments.
Taken from SqlCommand::ExecuteNonQuery Method
For UPDATE, INSERT, and DELETE statements, the return value is the number of rows affected by the command. When a trigger exists on a table being inserted or updated, the return value includes the number of rows affected by both the insert or update operation and the number of rows affected by the trigger or triggers. For all other types of statements, the return value is -1. If a rollback occurs, the return value is also -1.

A: I encounter almost same problem (in Postgresql though) with NpgsqlDataAdapter, the Update method always returns 1.
Perhaps your connection string to your development db is different from your production db.  Or if there's really no difference between their connection strings, perhaps your production db's service pack is different from your development db.

A: ExceuteNonQuery returns -1 for all types stored procedure as per the msdn
it will returns updated records values only in case of sattment

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The subpoenas were filed in November of last year and February of this year relating to his sale of Rocawear. Jay-Z's attorneys have argued that his testimony would interfere with his upcoming music tour.
Rocawear was founded in 1999 by Jay-Z and his business partner Damon Dash. The brand sold streetwear and accessories. Back in 2007, Carter sold his clothing brand Rocawear to Iconix Brand Group. The sale was for $204 million. The SEC is investigating whether Iconix violated trading laws related to financial reporting. They want to question Jay-Z about his involvement with the company and its dealings with Rocawear.
Jay-Z will have to testify as to the value of the Rocawear trademark at the time of the sale. It should be noted he did stay on with the brand to oversee product development and marketing.


The former Taunton School pupil and current Somerset Cricket Captain Tom Abell has revisited his roots and delivered an inspiring training session with Taunton School cricketers.
Abell, who attended Taunton School from aged two and left in 2012, visited the school on Tuesday evening and worked with pupils from the prep and senior school.
"I started playing cricket for Taunton School when I was around eight or nine. I was very lucky to be placed in good teams, which was a great base for me to learn. I was also privileged to work with such great coaches," said Abell.
Abell's closing comment was that his time at Taunton School was "the best time of my life".


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Kleivane, L. et al.
Organochlorine contaminants in northeast Atlantic minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata).
Blubber samples of 72 minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) were obtained from the northeast Atlantic in July and August 1992, and evaluated for organochlorine contamination. The following organochlorines were determined: the industrial chemicals PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), and the organochlorine pesticides DDTs (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethanes), HCHs (hexachlorocyclohexaneb), HCB (hexachlorobenzene) and CHLs (chlordanes). The concentrations of SigmaPCB (sum of concentrations of 18 PCB congeners) and SigmaDDT (sum of concentrations of p,p'-DDT, p,p'-DDE, p,p'-DDD, o,p'-DDT and o,p'-DDD) ranged from 0.6-20.8 and 0.5-14.8 microg g(-1) lipid weight, with mean concentrations at 3.8 and 2.5 microg g(-1) lipid weight, respectively. The mean concentrations of HCB, the chlordane metabolites oxychlordane, cis-chlordane and trans-nonachlor, and the HCH isomers (alpha-, beta- and gamma-HCH) were all < 1 microg g(-1) lipid weight. Significantly higher concentrations of the three major pollutants (SigmaPCB, SigmaDDT and SigmaCHL) were found in mature males as compared to mature females and juveniles of both sexes. No such relationship was found for SigmaHCH and HCB. Stomach contents of northeast Atlantic minke whales indicate considerable heterogeneity in the diet when comparing different years, seasons and geographical areas. However, without knowing more about the minke whale migration pattern, or possible geographical segregation with age and sex, the interchemical variation of organochlorines between sampling areas may not reflect true geographical differences.[1]
Organochlorine contaminants in northeast Atlantic minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata). Kleivane, L., Skaare, J.U. Environ. Pollut. (1998) [Pubmed]


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Teacher discovers the magic of Thailand – The Royal Gazette | Bermuda News, Business, Sports, Events, & Community
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Teacher discovers the magic of Thailand
Created: Aug 27, 2015 09:00 AM
Children are the same, the world over.
That's what Nadia Khan learnt from a summer spent teaching in Thailand.
"I thought there would be more cultural differences," said the 31-year-old teacher.
"With my own students at Somersfield Academy, they often start to flex their personalities in primary four.
"I thought that was because they had been with me for three years and were getting ready to move on to the next level.
"But I saw that same behaviour with the children of that age in Thailand."
Ms Khan volunteered to teach English and literacy through an international programme called Cross-Cultural Solutions.
"I was thinking about going away to teach for a year, or maybe three," she said. "But I couldn't commit to up and leaving for that long.
"Cross-Cultural Solutions have different programme lengths so I thought I would try it out for the summer. They have programmes, in India, Brazil, Peru and many other places."
She chose Thailand, because she loves the culture, especially the food.
"I didn't realise how much I loved Thai food until I came back to Bermuda," said Ms Khan. "While some of my fellow volunteers complained about having to eat Thai food all the time while they were there, I loved it. I miss it now that I am home."
The children may not have been different, but the school was.
"There were 2,000 students," she said. "It was on a huge campus that was on either side of the road. We were located on the outskirts of Bangkok."
There was no air conditioning or white boards.
"There was only a ceiling fan that wasn't very effective," she said. "But the teachers managed to keep the students' attention without any fancy gimmicks."
But she said discipline in the school was a shock.
"I was really surprised to see one of the teachers slap a student for not paying attention," she said. "A lot of the other volunteers also witnessed this. It is common in Thai schools."
She found her students, aged 5 to 9, respectful, friendly and enthusiastic.
"We were told that during times when there is a native English speaking volunteer, more children come to school," she said. "They are very eager to learn English, because ultimately people in Thailand who know English do better in their careers."
Ironically, she sometimes struggled to find people at the school who spoke English.
"There were two or three teachers who spoke it," she said. "I took this for granted until one day when I couldn't find a class.
"I wandered around trying to communicate with people with hand gestures. I did eventually find it."
During her free time, she was able to explore Bangkok, visiting historic sites and trying her hand at Thai boxing, Thai massage and elephant washing.
"One day I went with a group of volunteers to wash and feed elephants," she said. "I did this with an organisation that wants to encourage positive interaction between Thais and elephants, so there were no whips or harnesses involved.
"I was washing a baby elephant, but it was still really big. It was a bit intimidating at first. At one point it kicked me, by mistake. It did hurt. It was a reminder of the power of the animal."
When she returned to Bermuda, last week, she felt changed by the experience. She will be sharing information about Thailand with her Somersfield students. She also hopes to start a pen pal chain between the two schools.
"The letters will be very simple, as the Thai students are not very proficient at English, yet," she said.
She hopes to do another Cross-Cultural Solutions programme, next summer, but more close to home.
"My mother has a birthday coming up and I will be travelling with her next summer," said Ms Khan. "So I won't be able to go back to Thailand next year."
She studied at Mount St Vincent University in Canada and has been teaching at Somersfield for nine years.
For more information see: www.crossculturalsolutions.org.
Bath time: Nadia Khan washing an elephant in Thailand with other volunteers from Cross-Cultural Solutions
World of learning: Nadia Khan with English language students
Universal language: Nadia Khan with her English language students at a school in Bangkok, Thailand
Teacher Nadia Khan feeding an elephant in Bangkok, Thailand (Photo supplied)
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Series host and narrator, Alan Alda, confronts the puzzle of why our ancestors in Africa got the Spark and evolved into us, while the first humans to leave Africa for Europe--the Neanderthals--never did. Why did we flourish, while they changed very little for thousands of generations before eventually dying out?
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CPE & Em: Corner Gas, Episode 4: Oh Baby!
A brief synopsis – Wanda has a toothache, and Brent, trying to impress Lacey, volunteers to watch her kid. The town takes bets on what will happen while Oscar fills in at the store.
The best line – Oscar: Sure you can trick a kid. Kid's are stupid.
Brent: Well, your days of outwitting 7 year olds are over. Thankfully, now it's illegal for kids to smoke.
Oscar: What? Since when? (Turns to Officer Davis, who is reading a magazine) Is it illegal for kids to smoke?
Davis (not bothering to look up): What am I, a lawyer?
The best moment – Emma catches the car.
The best storyline – Oscar in charge of anything is a hoot.
Notable guest appearance – We see the Mayor, Fitzy, for the first time, played by Cavan Cunningham.
Em's Favorite Character – Emma because she came to the rescue.
A solid episode, even if it is not the most original story lines. The characters are finding their places in the show and becoming comfortable interacting. That said, it is worthy to note that they show Brent having an interest in Lacey for the first time. This is a theme they will approach tepidly throughout the rest of the season. It is also one of the few times that we will ever hear any reference to Wanda's kid.


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Real Madrid dominate nominations for Champions League awards
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Six Real Madrid players have made UEFA's shortlist for the best footballers in each positional category who played in the Champions League last season, the sport's European governing body said on Friday.
Spanish champions Real, who won Europe's elite club competition for the second year in a row, were awarded half the total slots on the shortlist.
Cristiano Ronaldo, who was the tournament's top scorer last season, was named among the three best forwards of the 2016-17 campaign alongside his Barcelona rival Lionel Messi and Juventus's Argentina international striker Paulo Dybala.
The best midfielder is sure to be from Real with their trio of Casemiro, Toni Kroos and Luka Modric the only names shortlisted for the position.
Real full-back Marcelo and centre-back Sergio Ramos have been named in the best defender category alongside Juventus's Leonardo Bonucci, who has since moved to AC Milan.
Goalkeeper is the only category where Real do not have a single contender, with Juventus stopper Gianluigi Buffon, Bayern Munich's Manuel Neuer and Atletico Madrid's Jan Oblak in contention.
The winners will be announced at the 2017/18 UEFA Champions League group stage draw on August 24 along with the Men's and Women's Player of the Year honours, the nominees for which will be announced on August 15.
The nominees were selected by a jury of 32 coaches from last year's Champions League participants and 55 journalists chosen by the European Sports Media (ESM) group.
UEFA will announce the Europa League Player of the Season award on August 25 with all three nominees - striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic and midfielders Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Paul Pogba - chosen from last year's winning Manchester United team.
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Daniel Friedrich Ernst Meissel (31 July 1826, Eberswalde, Brandenburg Province – 11 March 1895, Kiel) was a German astronomer who contributed to various aspects of number theory.

See also
Meissel–Lehmer algorithm
Meissel–Mertens constant

External links

1826 births
1895 deaths
19th-century German astronomers
19th-century German mathematicians
Number theorists


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MK Dons returned to pre-season training this week as work begins to mount a challenge to get back into the Championship.
After suffering relegation last season, Dons will enter League 1 as one of the favourites for promotion.
Of last season's squad, Lee Hodson and Simon Church were missing, still on European Championships duty, while want-away defender Kyle McFadzean was also absent (see page 73).
"They're in a good state," said Robinson. "They all deserved a break and a holiday, to let their hair down. They have to relax and get back to normality.
"But I don't expect anyone to come in out of shape.
"Dean Lewington looks in incredible shape and Samir Carruthers looks in the best shape I've seen him.
"I'm really excited about how they've come back.
Robinson has brought in three players - Ed Upson, Paul Downing and George Williams - so far this summer and he hopes to bring in more before the season starts.
Those signing probably won't be big money signings though, but the manager believes his current targets will help him build the best squad he's had in League 1.
He said: "We won't be the biggest in this league, but we'll be the biggest we've been at this level.
"There are some big teams in this league, and our work now will allow us to compete in the top six.
Dons will be upping their levels over the weekend, training three times a day before heading off for their pre-season tour or Ireland next week.
Robinson added: "I know a lot of the players were in last week training, so they're almost where we need them to be.