Another Saturday, another 3am gathering of mad buggers at the BP garage next to The Lord Charles hotel. This time the we were three – joining Henri and I was Grant Cox, fellow randonneur and LEL rider. No need for gilets today, even at this early hour the day was already warm – with a promise of hotter and windier conditions for later in the day. Introductions and formalities aside, we headed out.
Our route may be starting out along familiar roads, but Henri had devised an exciting and inspiring variation beyond the 80km water stop in Villiersdorp. Instead of heading out towards Worcester, we would be doubling back to the start of town, swinging left along Theewaterskloof Dam, and after crossing the dam wall we would be climbing up and out of the bowl of mountains and into the golden rolling pastures of the Overberg.
We had to get there first, and as we left Franschhoek behind and started the long haul up the pass, I wasn't feeling all that sure I would. Labouring up the climb, I was even contemplating bail out options – wouldn't it be better to turn back at the top? It would be much quicker for Yoli to come pick me up, and I was sure somewhere would be open for coffee whilst I waited until a slightly more civilized hour to call her for help. I shook my head and focused on the road ahead, with barely a quarter of our distance covered it was going to be a very long day if I started dwelling on thoughts of defeat. The road was steep, and yet again I'd left my crawler cassette at home. The wind was strong too, and getting stronger as we rose up the mountain. Fortunately, once we rounded the first dogleg beyond La Petit Ferme, aside from the occasional buffeting from the side, it was mostly at our back, giving a gentle and welcome push up the climb. The moon shone high and bright to the left, so much so once again we could switch off headlights and enjoy the tranquility of the morning. Doubting myself here would serve no purpose, so alternating standing and sitting, I ground on up.
Somewhere close to the top it occurred to me that maybe I was low on fuel. The Muesli jar was almost empty and perhaps the Squirrel Pillows (or whatever Ben's breakfast cereal was called) which I'd topped up my bowl with didn't quite have the same energy value. Rounding the final dogleg was a battle, the wind was blasting straight down the last stretch of road to the top, and trying to turn into it like wrestling an angry gorilla. I slogged onward up into a blanket of fog that was scudding across the neck of the pass. To the right I could just make out the normal viewpoint stop through the gloom – it was empty. The guys must have decided to stop over the top – a good call giving the damp and cooler air. Easy to get a chill after working up a healthy sweat. And sure enough, red blinking lights appeared as the crest of the hill fell away ahead.
"Mother F…er" I exclaimed, too tired to bother finding less profane language to describe how I was feeling.
Grant echoed my feelings – Henri smiled in amusement, way too fresh and cheery. At least the two significant climbs of the day were behind us, and ahead lay a long blast down to that water stop, and a new and unexplored stretch of road. We charged down the pass towards the dam, the first grey light of the dawn gradually rising up to meet us as we sped down. I wobbled into the first corner, half an uneaten energy bar wedged in my left hand. Probably not the smartest move when wrestling a strong wind, tight corners, and rapidly increasing speed. I jammed it in my mouth, planted both hands firmly on the bars and leaned left through the bend. Ahead I could see Grant's tail light just about to negotiate the next turn, and Henri's front light already exiting the loop of road. As we raced down, I'd see them again and again, but the lights became less obvious as the light started to pick out the shapes of them on their machines.
The descent freshened my legs, the food was beginning to have an effect, and a stop for Grant to fix a puncture was the final part of the lift I needed to my spirits – a brief pause to admire the stunning fynbos clad mountains all around us. Somewhere shortly after we got underway again I took a turn on the front, nothing like putting some work in to banish negative thoughts. It felt great, and I was happy to tow the remaining 10km or so into Villiersdorp. We maintained a decent pace and the town was soon coming into view, ringed with towering cloud topped mountains silhouetted against a deep blue sky . It was going to be a stunning day. On the outskirts of town a small boy started to run alongside us on the far side of the ride – as we picked up pace so did he, racing us to the junction we would come back to after our stop. He stuck with us, not falling back at all. It would have been impressive for anyone, but this kid was sprinting barefoot on loose gravel, and he was smiling and waving the whole way too.
The Shell garage was open, at least, but it's provisions were somewhat on the meager side. They had the essentials though – coke and water in my case. The coke serving a dual purpose of caffeine replacement for my usual morning coffee, and energy supplement for the rear water bottle. I'd managed to stick to plan and drain both bottles by the time we stopped – an attempt at staving off my usual hydration issues on what was forecast to be a fiercely hot day. I also forced some food down too – I wasn't hungry, and it was a struggle to eat, but I had to try and avert my other failing of not eating enough and running out of gas.
We didn't linger – more than half the ride lay ahead still, and adventure lay ahead. My concerns about the road were soon alleviated. The surface was good, and it was reasonably wide. Traffic was picking up, but most of it gave us plenty of room as it passed by. The road rose and fell as it meandered along the eastern side of the dam. I heard a curse from Henri, he was stopping and dismounting behind me.
"Mechanical!" I called ahead to Grant.
"Sorry for an unscheduled stop so soon" Henri apologized as he quickly located and removed the wire that had pierced his tube.
"Just luck I think" was the best I could come up with.
question was soon being answered as the road swung left across it. Leaving the large expanse of water behind, we began what I assumed was the climb up and through the mountains. Henri's promise of not being as long or steep as Helshoogte proved spot on. What he hadn't mentioned was how darned pretty it was – perhaps not wanting to spoil the surprise. Farmland pastures gave way to pine woodlands and finally fynbos at the summit. Beyond lay a treat: the Overberg. Having enjoyed this scenic delight on many road trips up the east coast I was thoroughly looking forward to seeing it at cycling speed.
As it happened, cycling speed was not much less the driving speed for the first couple of kilometers. My Garmin was reading around 65km/h on the long descent from the top of the pass. The change in scenery was dramatic – the green and rocky slopes giving way to the brown and gold of rolling farmland. That was another accurate prediction from Henri – the last of the significant hills may be out of the way, but ahead was a steady sequence of rollers, each of them tall enough to test the legs and see granny rings brought into use. The sagging spirits from before daybreak were gone though – and even a slight tightening of my outer thigh was not enough to diminish the smile. I mentioned it to Henri and asked him to check my leg extension – I'd had a niggle that maybe my cramps were due to over extending my legs and had lowered my saddle a shade before Wednesday's club ride. Perhaps I'd gone too far though? He put my concerns at rest though – no indication of being either bunched up or of over extending my legs.
There was a long descent over the top, but it wasn't quite the last, there was one small final rise to negotiate before we could relax. Henri point out a pair of kites high across the field to our right. And as if to acknowledge our interested, one of them proceeded to drop down and fly beside him for quite some distance. Riding just a few meters back, I could see the bird clearly looking down at him as it glided along. It was clearly curious, or perhaps it had learned that humans often jettison edible morsels – kite's are scavengers after all.
Too soon our Overberg Scenic Tour came to an end as we swung right and joined the busy traffic of the N2. A smartly dressed couple were waiting for a taxi beside the road.
"Sorry, we've got no room left on here" Henri and I commented simultaneously by way of greeting as we passed. They both smiled and laughed as we whizzed by.
The run down to the Botrivier turn was fast, which was a relief. Even with a wide yellow lane, the traffic was heavy. Riding along a major highway amongst trucks and speeding cars is never much fun, but at least this was brief. We were soon turning left towards Hermanus and our next stop of the day. A padstaal at the Shell garage a couple of kilometers after the turn. I guess today's filling station of choice would be Shell – no one could claim us of being inconsistent on our fuel stops.
One of many ornamental features on their stoep was a rusting bicycle with no tyres.There was an obvious comment to be made about being glad that wasn't our ride for the day – but being obvious didn't stop us all remarking on it any way. Inside was something far more important – hot chicken pies. Hot as in just baked too, not hot as in warmed in a micro-wave but with soggy pastry. They were delicious, and quickly devoured, along with a chocolate milk and a further top up of coke in my rear bottle. The pies had been lovely and salty – so I left out the electrolyte tablet this time, and went plain water for the other bottle.
"Flat and fast from here now eh Henri?" I queried as we rolled out refreshed.
I forget his exact reply, but it definitely contained an added tip that it might be worth learning to love the heat as well. He wasn't wrong, the day was starting to warm up properly. Less than a kilometer down the main road and we met up with our right turn onto the coast road towards Kleinmond and home. Familiar routes, and a definite sense that the horses were beginning to smell the stable, it was a good feeling. Even better was the slight breeze we ran into too – just enough to brush away the worst of the heat without being strong enough to affect our speed. Rather less pleasant was the roadworks which started at the junction – loose, sticky, tar covered gravel strewn over a long Stop-Go section. All of us commented on the trashing this would be giving our tyres, it was hard to keep them clean even with regular hand and foot wiping and alternating sides of the one-way lanes as traffic allowed.
Somehow none of us punctured, and the roadworks came to an end before we rode through Kleinmond high street. A beautiful day and a lovely little coastal town – it felt great to be out riding. Exiting the down and swinging down and through the loop past Kogelberg Nature Reserve we really started to motor. Our pace picked up considerably and we fairly charged through Betty's Bay, through yet a further stretch of roadworks, out of town and up the short incline to Pringle Bay. It was a struggle to remember a club 100 where we'd taken that stretch of road faster, and we weren't slowing down either. The final rise up and over to Rooi Els was a blast – something got into my pedalling around a third of the way up, my cadence picked up effortlessly, and I found myself shifting up repeatedly. It was one of my least favourite uphill stretches and I was simply flying – the last time I;d looked down my Garmin was reading 30km+ and I'd sped up since then. Before long I passed both Henri and Grant, knowing they'd give me some stick for suddenly surging ahead. In that moment it didn't matter, the crest was in sight and I was experiencing first hand what I've seen referred to as No Chain – pedaling so effortless that it's as if the bike had no chain attached. On any ride it would have been a joy, with 170km already on the clock it was an unexpected delight.
Henri got his own back on the descent to our final water stop, whizzing past me with a whopping 72km/h showing on his bike computer. No surprise that spirits were high as we pulled into Rooi Els and made for the local shop to top up supplies. More water for me, and another Coke – on any normal day that would be a sugar overload, but today it was keeping the engine purring along. No signs of distress from the legs either.
"How far home from here?" Grant queried as we rolled out again.
glorious day. A couple of times along that last stretch we chatted about a possible coffee stop at the end, but as we left Strand behind us and made for home a better idea lept into my head.
"There's nothing to say this has to be a circular route now we've done our full 200" I called across to the guys.
"I like your thinking", Grant needed no further hint, catching my meaning instantly.
So as we came up to the robot we swung left into Paardevlei and made for Trigger Fish brewery. Some ice cold locally brewed beers would make a far more fitting end to a perfect ride.


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The Project Charter does not change throughout the project life cycle. and a brief description of the context and/or scope of the changes in that revision. the date of update/issue. and in the earliest stages of project planning). The Project Charter provides an ongoing reference for all project stakeholders. the author responsible for the changes. Revision Number Date of Issue Organisation Owner Author(s) Title/Subject Approved by Date Brief Description of Change Number Version Page iv . but rather is developed at the beginning of the project (immediately following project initiation approval. The table below includes the revision number (defined within your Documentation Plan Outline).Project Plan < Insert Project Name > Document Change Control This section provides control for the development and distribution of revisions to the Project Charter up to the point of approval.
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 Identify. 2. and other organizational entities that interact with the project.3 Roles and Responsibilities  Identify and state the nature of each major work activity and supporting process. subcontracted organizations. responsibility and communication within the project. the customer. such as configuration management.2 Internal Structure  Describe the internal structure of the project organization. as applicable: − − − −  the parent organization. Use organizational charts or diagrams to depict the project's external interfaces. Project Organization 2. 2.Project Plan < Insert Project Name > 2.1 External Interfaces  Describe the organizational boundaries between the project and external entities.  Describe the interfaces between the project and organizational entities that provide supporting processes.  Describe the interfaces among the units of the IM/IT development team.  Consider using a matrix of work activities and supporting processes vs. organizational units to depict project roles and responsibilities. Organisation Owner Project Plan Approved by Date Number Version Page 4 .  Use organizational charts or diagrams to depict the lines of authority. quality assurance.  Identify the organizational units that are responsible for those processes and activities. and verification and validation.
schedule and resource requirements. schedule and resource requirements for conducting the project.  Specify the schedule for re-estimation.  Specify the methods. by project phase. Organisation Owner Project Plan Approved by Date Number Version Page 5 . etc.Project Plan < Insert Project Name > 3.1 3. and by aggregations of skill levels and project phases.1. standard unit of size. historical database. risk management. 3.1. project tracking and project close-out. − numbers and skill levels in each project phase.3 Estimates  Specify the estimated cost. resource histograms.g.)  Consider using resource Gantt charts. cost model. a periodic or event-driven (e.  Specify the sources of staff personnel (e. schedule and required resources. etc.g. which might be regular.  Specify the methods. Managerial Process Plans This section of the IM/IT Project Management Plan specifies the project management processes for the project. Staffing  Specify the number of required staff. new hire. contracted.  Describe the resource acquisition process.  Specify the sources of estimate data and the basis of the estimation such as: analogy. This section defines the plans for project start-up.: internal transfer. in addition to personnel. spreadsheets and tables to depict the staffing plan by skill level. and specify the associated confidence levels for each estimate.: on project milestones). and − duration of personnel requirement.  Specify the assignment of responsibility for all aspects of resource acquisition.1.2 3. project work.1 Start-up Plan 3. providing the following details: − number of personnel by skill level. tools and techniques used to estimate project cost. Resource Acquisition  Specify the plan for acquiring the resources and assets. tools. rule of thumb. techniques to be used to re-estimate the project cost. needed to successfully complete the project.
acceptance criteria for the work activity products. mentoring. 3. etc. applicable level of technology.4 < Insert Project Name >  Specify acquisition plans for equipment. The level of decomposition internally within the WBS may vary depending on the quality of the requirements. and the training method. consultations.  Decompose the work activities to a level that exposes all project risk factors.Project Plan 3. for example: lectures. Organisation Owner Project Plan Approved by Date Number Version Page 6 . and predecessor and successor work activities.2.1. training. and to depict the relationships among these work activities. numbers of personnel to be trained.  If necessary. and administrative and janitorial services.  Specify the following training information: − − − −  the types of training to be provided. entry and exit criteria for training.  Specify the following factors for each work activity: − − − − −  necessary resources.2 Work Plan 3. to accommodate acquisition plans for various types of resources. service contracts. familiarity of the work.  Specify when in the project schedule the various acquisition activities will be required. facilities. Identify training as needed in technical. transportation. products or deliverables of the activity. Project Staff Training  Specify the training needed to ensure that necessary skill levels in sufficient numbers are available to successfully conduct the IM/IT project. computer hardware and software. expand this subsection to lower levels. and that allows accurate estimation of resource requirements and schedule duration for each work activity. computer-assisted training.1 Work Breakdown Structure  Define a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to specify the various work activities to be performed in the IM/IT project. managerial and supporting activity skills.  Specify any constraints on acquiring the necessary resources. estimated duration. etc.
Budget Allocation  Provide a detailed breakdown of the necessary resource budgets for each of the major work activities in the WBS. the costs for the following items: − − − − − − travel. activity lists.  Specify.  Identify the critical path in the schedule.Project Plan 3. Organisation Owner Project Plan Approved by Date Number Version Page 7 . special testing and simulation facilities.2. computing resources. Use a separate line item for each type of resource for each work activity. the allocation of the following resources: − − − − −  3.  Indicate any constraints on the scheduling of particular work activities. software tools.2.2. Resource Allocation  Provide a detailed itemization of the resources allocated to each major work activity in the project WBS. and include as appropriate. critical path networks and PERT charts.4 personnel (by skill level).  Identify appropriate schedule milestones to assess the scope and quality of project work products and of project achievement status. and administrative support. activity networks. as appropriate. that are caused by external factors. and administrative support. computing resources software tools special testing and simulation facilities.2 3.  Specify the numbers and required skill levels of personnel for each work activity.  Techniques for depicting schedule relationships may include milestone charts.3 < Insert Project Name > Schedule Allocation  Specify the scheduling relationships among the project work activities in a manner that depicts the time-sequencing constraints and illustrates opportunities for concurrent work activities. meetings. activity Gantt charts.  Specify the estimated cost for activity personnel.
and hence to assess the achievement of each schedule milestone. Organisation Owner Project Plan Approved by Date Number Version Page 8 . budget.  Specify when cost reporting will be done in the project schedule.  Specify the processes to be used in assessing the impact of requirements changes on product scope and quality.Project Plan < Insert Project Name >  Use a separate line item for each type of resource in each activity budget. 3.3 Project Tracking Plan 3.3 Requirements Management  Specify the process for measuring. resources and risk factors. − to compare the actual cost to the planned and budgeted costs. Budget Control  Specify the budget control activities by identifying the processes to be used for the following purposes: − to measure the cost of work completed.3. Schedule Control  Specify the schedule control activities by identifying the processes to be used for the following purposes: − to measure the progress of work completed at the major and minor project milestones.  In the processes for requirements management.2 3. include traceability. − to compare actual progress to planned progress. and the impacts of requirements changes on project schedule.  In the configuration management processes. prototyping and modeling.  Specify the methods and tools that will be used to measure and control schedule progress.3. specify change control procedures and the formation and use of a change control board. and − to implement corrective action when the actual cost does not conform to the budgeted cost. reporting and controlling changes to the project requirements.  Identify the objective criteria that will be used to measure the scope and quality of work completed at each milestone. and − to implement corrective action when actual progress does not conform to planned progress.3. impact analysis and reviews.1 3.
 Specify the following metrics process information: − − − identification of the metrics to be collected. verification and validation. quality.3.  Specify the use of a mechanism such as earned value tracking to report the budget and schedule plan. joint reviews.6  Specify the methods and tools that will be used to track the project cost. budget.  Specify plans for assessing initial risk factors and for the ongoing identification. frequency of collection.  Specify the use of quality control processes such as quality assurance of conformance to work processes. criticality. risk and visibility.4 3. Quality Control  Specify the processes to be used to measure and control the quality of the work and the resulting work products. 3.4 Risk Management Plan  Specify the risk management plan for identifying. and processes for validating. and reporting the metrics. and mitigation of risk factors throughout the life cycle of the project. and the cost of work completed. audits and process assessment. and prioritizing project risk factors. tools and techniques of communication.  Specify a frequency and detail of communications related to project management and metrics measurement that is consistent with the project scope. Project Metrics  Specify the methods. analyzing.3.3.Project Plan < Insert Project Name > 3. schedule. and other desired or required status metrics within the project and to entities external to the project. schedule progress.  Identify the schedule milestones and objective indicators that will be used to assess the scope and quality of the work completed at those milestones.5 3. and techniques to be used in collecting and retaining project metrics. analyzing. tools. assessment. report formats and information flows to be used in communicating the status of requirements. Reporting  Specify the reporting mechanisms.  Specify the methods. Organisation Owner Project Plan Approved by Date Number Version Page 9 .
5 Project Closeout Plan  Identify the plans necessary to ensure orderly closeout of the IM/IT project. risks in personnel acquisition. and a plan for preparation of a final report to include lessons learned and an analysis of project objectives achieved. organizations and personnel responsible for performing specific risk management activities. Organisation Owner Project Plan Approved by Date Number Version Page 10 . a process for post-mortem debriefings of project personnel. procedures for tracking the various risk factors. risks in the development and target environments. Identify and describe the applicable impact of any of the following risk factors: − − − − − − − − risks in the customer-project relationship. contractual risks. procedures for evaluating changes in the levels of the risk factors and responding to changes in the levels of the risk factors. procedures and schedules for performing risk management work activities. project and subcontractor organizations.  Specify the following: − − − − − a staff reassignment plan a process for archiving project materials. skill levels and retention risks to schedule and budget. 3. a process for capturing project metrics in the business projects database. technological risks. and procedures for communicating risks and risk status among the various customer.Project Plan  < Insert Project Name > Describe the following: − − − − − − − −  procedures for contingency planning. and risks in achieving customer acceptance of the deliverables. risk documentation and reporting requirements. risks caused by the size and complexity of the product. risk management work activities.
Project Plan < Insert Project Name > 4. modify and maintain the project deliverable and non-deliverable work products. network and software). build.  Define the baselines to be established.  Use a combination of graphical and textual notations to describe the project process model. and janitorial services. 4. 4. Tools. testing.  Specify the required approvals within the duration of the project. tools and techniques to be used to specify. procedures.3 Infrastructure  Specify the plan for establishing and maintaining the development environment (hardware.  Identify the reviews to be conducted. design.  Indicate any tailoring of your organization's standard process model for a project.2 Methods. and the policies. local area networks.  In the process model for the project. office space. and the processes. desks. test. administrative personnel. document. integrate.1 Process Model  Define the relationships among major project work activities and supporting processes. include project initiation and project termination activities. programming languages and other notations. These resources may include workstations. and procedures governing development and/or modification of the work products.  Specify the timing of work products to be generated. deliver. standards. and provisions for physical security.  Specify the technical standards. software tools for analysis. operating system. and facilities required to conduct the IM/IT project. and project management. Technical Process Plans 4. Organisation Owner Project Plan Approved by Date Number Version Page 11 . design implementations.  Specify the major milestones to be achieved.  Identify the project deliverable to be completed. policies.  Describe the flow of information and work products among activities and functions. and Techniques  Specify the development methodologies.
Organisation Owner Project Plan Approved by Date Number Version Page 12 .4 Product Acceptance  Specify the plan for customer acceptance of the deliverables generated by the IM/IT project. analysis and inspection.  Specify any technical processes. or tools required for deliverable acceptance.  Reference a formal agreement of the acceptance criteria signed by representatives of theIM/ITorganization and the customer. methods.Project Plan < Insert Project Name > 4. such as testing. demonstration.  Specify objective criteria for determining acceptability of the deliverables.
and release management. demonstration. tools. tracking of changes in progress. 5. simulation and modeling. initial baselining of work products. progress reviews. Supporting Process Plans 5.  Specify the use of validation techniques such as testing. analysis and inspection. milestone reviews. Identify the automated configuration management tools used to support the configuration management process. logging and analysis of change requests. providing the information identified in the following lines. Organisation Owner Project Plan Approved by Date Number Version Page 13 . change control board procedures. status accounting.Project Plan < Insert Project Name > 5.  Specify the organizational relationships and degrees of independence between development activities and verification and validation activities. prototyping.  Specify the use of verification techniques such as traceability. evaluation. providing the information identified in the following lines.  Specify the scope.2 Verification and Validation  Specify or reference the verification and validation plan for the IM/IT project.  Identify the automated tools to be used in verification and validation. and procedures for notification of concerned parties when baselines are established or changed. configuration control. techniques and responsibilities for the verification and validation work activities. peer reviews.1 Configuration Management  Specify or reference the configuration management plan for the IM/IT project.  Specify the methods that will be used to perform the following activities: − − − − −  Specify the processes of configuration management including procedures for the following activities: − − − − −  configuration identification.
such as analysis. controlling template or standard for each document. developer peer reviews. procedures. review. 5.4 Quality Assurance  Specify or reference the quality assurance plan for the IM/IT project. who will prepare each document. the IM/IT Project Management Plan.  Specify the plans for joint customer-project reviews.Project Plan < Insert Project Name > 5. configuration management. and a distribution list for review copies and baseline versions and quantities required 5. due dates for initial baseline versions. and processes. review. verification and validation. supporting plans and any standards. system engineering.  Specify the plans for assuring that the IM/IT project fulfills its commitments to the IM/IT process and the IM/IT product as specified in the requirements specification. management progress reviews. Organisation Owner Project Plan Approved by Date Number Version Page 14 . audit. and for generating and reviewing the project documentation. quality assurance audits.  Specify the organizational entities responsible for providing input information.5 Reviews and Audits  Specify the schedule.3 Documentation  Specify the plans for generating non-deliverable and deliverable project documentation. who will review each document. or guidelines to which the process or the product must adhere. inspection. and customer-conducted reviews and audits.  Specify the following information or object identification: − − − − − − − list of documents to be prepared.  Indicate the relationship among the quality assurance. due dates for review copies. and assessment. containing the information identified in the following lines.  List the external agencies that approve or regulate any project deliverable. and procedures to be used in conducting project reviews and audits.  As applicable. resources. audit. specify the quality assurance procedures to be used. and assessment processes.
for determining areas for improvement.Project Plan < Insert Project Name > 5. and for implementing the improvement plans. risk management procedures. Organisation Owner Project Plan Approved by Date Number Version Page 15 . and include all items necessary to ensure successful completion of each subcontract as follows: − − − − − − − requirements management. a process to identify the project processes that can be improved without serious disruption to an ongoing project. using a tailored version of this Project Plan. schedule and budget control product acceptance criteria. the change control board.7 Subcontractor Management  Specify or reference the plans for selecting and managing any subcontractors that may participate in or contribute to the IM/IT project.  Specify the criteria for selecting subcontractors. analysis and resolution. and verification and validation in problem resolution work activities.  Generate a separate management plan for each subcontract.  Indicate the roles of development.  Ensure that the process improvement plan is closely related to the problem resolution plan. configuration management. 5. and a reference to the official subcontract and subcontractor/prime contractor points of contact. tools.8 Process Improvement  Specify the plans for periodically assessing the project. monitoring of technical progress. and to identify the project processes that can best be improved by process improvement initiatives at the organizational level.6 Problem Resolution  Specify the resources.  Provide for separate tracking of effort expended on problem reporting. additional topics as needed to ensure successful completion of the subcontract. so that rework can be tracked and process improvement accomplished. prioritizing and processing IM/IT problem reports generated during the project. techniques and procedures to be used in reporting. methods. analyzing. 5.  Include in the improvement plan.
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maintenance and operational model for the project when the project will be used by the potential customers 7.Project Plan < Insert Project Name > 7.1 Project support and maintenance  Specify or reference to the support. Project Evolution 7.2 Follow-up projects  Identify potential follow-up projects which will use this project  Identify potential follow-up projects which will supersede this project Organisation Owner Project Plan Approved by Date Number Version Page 17 .
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William Lloyd Garrison (December 12 1805 – May 24 1879) was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the radical abolitionist newspaper, "The Liberator", and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. He promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States.
William Lloyd Garrison was born on December 10, 1805, in Newburyport, Massachusetts, [Ehrlich, Eugene and Gorton Carruth. "The Oxford Illustrated Literary Guide to the United States". New York: Oxford University Press, 1982: 53. ISBN 0195031865] the son of immigrants from the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Under the Seaman's Protection act, Abijah Garrison, a merchant sailing pilot and master, had obtained American papers and moved his family to Newburyport in 1805. With the impact of the Congressional Embargo Act of 1807 on commercial shipping, the elder Garrison became unemployed and deserted the family in 1808. Garrison's mother, Frances Maria Lloyd, was reported to have been tall, charming and of a strong religious character. At her request, Garrison was known by his middle name, Lloyd. She died in 1823.
Young Lloyd Garrison sold homemade molasses candy and delivered wood to help support the family. In 1818, at thirteen, Garrison began working as an apprentice compositor for the Newburyport Herald. He soon began writing articles, often under the pseudonym "Aristides," taking the name of an Athenian statesman and general known as "the Just." After his apprenticeship ended, he and a young printer named Isaac Knapp bought their own newspaper, the short lived "Free Press". One of their regular contributors was poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier. In this early work as a small town newspaper writer, Garrison acquired skills he would later use as a nationally known writer, speaker and newspaper publisher. In 1828, he was appointed editor of the "National Philanthropist" in Boston, Massachusetts, the first American journal to promote legally mandated temperance.
When he was 25, Garrison joined the Abolition movement. For a brief time he became associated with the American Colonization Society, an organization that believed free blacks should immigrate to a territory on the west coast of Africa. Although some members of the society encouraged granting freedom to slaves, the majority saw the relocation as a means to reduce the number of free blacks in the United States and thus help preserve the institution of slavery. By 1828, Garrison had rejected the Society's programs.
Garrison began writing for and become co-editor with Benjamin Lundy of the Quaker "Genius of Universal Emancipation" newspaper in Baltimore, Maryland. Garrison's experience as a printer and newspaper editor allowed him to revamp the layout of the paper and freed Lundy to spend more time traveling as an anti-slavery speaker. Garrison initially shared Lundy's gradualist views, but, while working for the "Genius", he became convinced of the need to demand immediate and complete emancipation. Lundy and Garrison continued to work together on the paper in spite of their differing views, agreeing simply to sign their editorials to indicate who had written it.
One of the regular features that Garrison introduced during his time at the "Genius" was "The Black List," a column devoted to printing short reports of "the barbarities of slavery — kidnappings, whippings, murders." One of Garrison's "Black List" columns reported that a shipper from Garrison's home town of Newburyport, Massachusetts — one Francis Todd — was involved in the slave trade, and that he had recently had slaves shipped from Baltimore to New Orleans on his ship "Francis". Todd filed a suit for libel against both Garrison and Lundy, filing in Maryland in order to secure the favor of pro-slavery courts. The state of Maryland also brought criminal charges against Garrison, quickly finding him guilty and ordering him to pay a fine of $50 and court costs. (Charges against Lundy were dropped on the grounds that he had been traveling and not in control of the newspaper when the story was printed.) Garrison was unable to pay the fine and was sentenced to a jail term of six months. He was released after seven weeks when the antislavery philanthropist Arthur Tappan donated the money for the fine, but Garrison had decided to leave Baltimore and he and Lundy amicably agreed to part ways.
In 1832, Garrison founded the New-England Anti-Slavery Society. The next year, he co-founded the American Anti-Slavery Society. That same year, 1833, Garrison also visited the United Kingdom and assisted in the anti-slavery movement there. He intended that the Anti-Slavery Society should not align itself with any political party and that women should be allowed full participation in society activities. Garrison was influenced by the ideas of Susan Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone and other feminists who joined the society. These positions were seen as controversial by the majority of Society members and there was a major rift in the Society. In 1839, two brothers, Arthur Tappan and Lewis Tappan, left and formed a rival organization, the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society which did not admit women. A segment of the Society also withdrew and aligned itself with the newly founded Liberty Party, a political organization which named James G. Birney as its Presidential candidate. By the end of 1840, Garrison announced the formation of a third new organization, the Friends of Universal Reform, with sponsors and founding members including prominent reformers Maria Chapman, Abby Kelley Foster, Oliver Johnson, and Bronson Alcott (father of Louisa May Alcott).
Meanwhile, on September 4, 1834, Garrison married Helen Eliza Benson (1811-1876), the daughter of a retired abolitionist merchant. The couple had five sons and two daughters, of whom a son and a daughter died as children.
Garrison made a name for himself as one of the most articulate, as well as most radical, opponents of slavery. His approach to emancipation stressed nonviolence and passive resistance, and he attracted a vocal following. While some other abolitionists of the time favored gradual emancipation, Garrison argued for "immediate and complete emancipation of all slaves".
Garrison and "The Liberator" were ardently supported by the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, which held meetings, sponsored lectures, and helped to strengthen the female anti-slavery network throughout the Northeast.
Garrison's outspoken anti-slavery views repeatedly put him in danger. Besides his imprisonment in Baltimore, the government of the State of Georgia offered a reward of $5,000 for his arrest, and he received numerous and frequent death threats. One of the most controversial events in pre-Civil War Boston history resulted from an Anti-Slavery Society lecture. In the fall of 1835, the society invited George Thompson, a fiery British abolitionist, to address them. When Thompson was unable to attend, Garrison agreed to take his place. An unruly mob threatened to storm the building in search of Thompson. The Mayor and police persuaded the Boston Female Anti-Slavery members to leave. The mob, however, pursued Garrison through the streets of Boston. Garrison was rescued from lynching and lodged overnight in the Leverett Street Jail before leaving the city for several weeks.
Garrison occasionally allowed essays in "The Liberator" from others, including 14-year-old Anna Dickinson, who in 1856 wrote an impassioned article pleading for emancipation of the slaves.
Garrison's son, also named William Lloyd Garrison (1838-1909), was a prominent advocate of the single tax, free trade, woman's suffrage, and of the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act. A second son, Wendell Phillips Garrison (1840-1907), was literary editor of the New York Nation from 1865 to 1906. Two other sons (George Thompson Garrison and Francis Jackson Garrison, his biographer) and a daughter (Helen Frances Garrison) survived him.
Honoring Garrison's 200th birthday, in December 2005 his descendants gathered in Boston for the first family reunion in about a century. They discussed the legacy and impact of their most notable family member.
* [http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=562 Address to the Colonization Society] , a Fourth of July oration delivered in 1829 at the Park Street Church in Boston. This was Garrison's first major public statement against slavery.
* [http://antislavery.eserver.org/tracts/garrisonmarlborochapel An Address Delivered in Marlboro Chapel] , a Fourth of July oration delivered in 1838, discussing Garrison's views of slave rebellion and the prospects for violence. From the Antislavery Literature Project.
* [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2928t.html To the Public] , Garrison's introductory column for "The Liberator" (January 1, 1831).
* [http://fair-use.org/the-liberator/1831/01/08/truisms Truisms] , from "The Liberator" (January 8, 1831).
* [http://fair-use.org/the-liberator/1831/09/03/the-insurrection The Insurrection] , Garrison's reaction to news of Nat Turner's rebellion, in "The Liberator" (September 3, 1831).
* [http://fair-use.org/the-liberator/1832/12/29/on-the-constitution-and-the-union.html On the Constitution and the Union] , from "The Liberator" (December 29, 1832).
* [http://fair-use.org/the-liberator/1838/09/28/declaration-of-sentiments-adopted-by-the-peace-convention Declaration of Sentiments] , adopted by the Boston Peace Convention (September 18, 1838), reprinted in "The Liberator" (September 28, 1838).
* [http://fair-use.org/the-liberator/1839/06/28/abolition-at-the-ballot-box Abolition at the Ballot Box] , from "The Liberator" (June 28, 1839).
* [http://fair-use.org/the-liberator/1845/01/10/the-american-union The American Union] , from "The Liberator" (January 10, 1845).
* [http://fair-use.org/the-liberator/1859/10/28/the-tragedy-at-harpers-ferry The Tragedy at Harper's Ferry] , Garrison's first public commentary on John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, from "The Liberator" (October 28, 1859).
* [http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=569 John Brown and the Principle of Nonresistance] , a speech given for a meeting in the Tremont Temple, Boston, on December 2, 1859, the day that John Brown was hanged. Reprinted in "The Liberator" (December 16, 1859).
* [http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?documentprint=577 The War—Its Cause and Cure] , from "The Liberator" (May 3, 1861).
* [http://fair-use.org/the-liberator/1865/12/29/valedictory Valedictory: The Final Number of "The Liberator"] , closing column for "The Liberator" (December 29, 1865).
* [http://www.amazon.com/s?sort=%2Bsalesrank&rh=n%3A1000%2Cp%5F30%3Acornell%20university%20library%2Cp%5F57%3Agarrison%5Cc%20william%20lloyd&page=1 William Lloyd Garrison works] reprinted by Cornell University Digital Library Collections.
* [http://theliberatorfiles.com The Liberator Files] , Horace Seldon's collection and summary of research of William Lloyd Garrison's "The Liberator" original copies at the Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts.
*Abzug, Robert H. "Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination". New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-19-503752-9.
*Hagedorn, Ann. "Beyond The River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad". Simon & Schuster, 2002. ISBN 0-684-87065-7.
*Mayer, Henry. "All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery." New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. ISBN 0-312-25367-2.
*Laurie, Bruce "Beyond Garrison". New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-521-60517-2.


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Post-Post Brexit:
Presidents' Month 2020
About 6 years ago, I chanced to engage in learning some real-life news in sad-sad-England. My knowledge was gained during the next two years through a series of very friendly and heart-felt business transactions with a leather artisan who lives in the Midlands. She was going through a rough patch, and had been doing so for the previous 7 years. No, it was 10 years. Actually, the rough patch was never-ending.
Tales of horror about the NHS and the obscene bungling of the hospital care of a parent who unexpectedly died just before release from the hospital; nervous worries about a rather humble Christmas gift that I had sent to her being too expensive and she feared having to pay Customs; EU appliance wattage regulations; a rampant inability to find real work; an ever-increasing dearth of decent clothing and shoes to purchase; a profound hostility to Internet technology that I could feel through the ether-sphere; and a general sense of dread about the future, interspersed with the dry British humor about life.
Brexit and the election of Donald Trump occurred not long after I chose to bid goodbye to someone who was in so much mental and emotional anguish that my increasing happiness in my own life became yet another unintentional wound to a person in an almost chronic state of grief.
Life in peacetime England post-post Brexit in many ways emotionally approximates life in post-World-War-Two England, without the rubble and the ruination of most cities and towns. Jubilation over the freedom of this island nation from the blob bureaucracy that sucks away freedom and money as if there is no tomorrow (because there is not much of a tomorrow for the EU) — that euphoria must be tempered with the somber acceptance of 7 decades of socialism rotting away a country that never fully embraced capitalism as a means to individual freedom. In a rather macabre sense, post-Brexit England finds itself confronted with chronic shortages that the fix of post-WWII socialism was intended to fix. Socialism doesn't fix anything, but don't tell a socialist that reality. He, or she, might get violent!
Group-think is too strong a term for how the Brits have done business, but the small-business model has been somewhat lacking in terms of starting-from-nothing to building a brand based on market demand. In America, Ralph Lauren did it. In England, there is no Ralph Lauren, the man, or Sir Ralphie, as I call him. (Although from what I have been observing lately, it appears that the Giant Sequoia that Ralph nurtured and grew, is in the process of being made into trillions of tiny toothpicks by the Woke Next-Generation.)
Entrepreneurship is a rare find among the English. The Irish have a natural knack at selling, but they are genetically superstitious about money and land, so there you go! The Scots, well, they ought to know better, having produced Adam Smith; but a Scots is so typically cheap, that he squeaks. The EU regulatory-resentment scheme was therefore tailor-made for the Scots temperament!
The shop-keeper/artisan was rarely valued in merry olde England. Charles Dickens used Scrooge, and all of those ghosts, to at least encourage a sense of conscience toward the virtue of money, used wisely and with mercy. In the 19th century, corporate success was not yet the ogre eating away at the soul of England. Nowadays, the big corporate heads flash a lot of cash, in other tax-sheltered countries!
There has always been a struggle, a tug-of-quid, over the goodness inherent in building great wealth in Great Britain. Acquiring wealth has usually been the norm, down the centuries, through inheritance. The more recent transfer of wealth has been achieved through being bought off by the Globalists, be it in Parliament or through succumbing to peddling Chinesium, or exiting a Royal Family with a hefty nest-egg and a golden parachute into a Dominion.
The class-system that has long been the basic structure of English society is not to blame for the lack of fluidity in finances among the populace. England in the early 1900s was a thriving nation, perhaps due in part to Imperial colonialism, but at least the spirit of individual enterprise was not under assault. That war on money would occur with the shift of the Labour Party from the trade-union labourers to the "social-conscience" parasitic overseers of the workers, and then, ultimately, to the Woke Weirdos, feasting off of the cadavers of the labor union heroes of yesteryear, such as Keir Hardie. The oppressed eventually become the oppressor, and we need not look at the wizened, bitter and pompous face of Jeremy Corbyn to see which side of the equation he squats on.
The other day I was reading a blog written by a former fashion model who lives in rural Southwest England. Such leisure activity is part of what I do in between my brain-intensive periods of work. Decades ago, I used to buy The National Inquirer and read it from cover to cover to veg-out my weary brain. Currently, the entire "media" is the Inquirer, but boringly without the frivolous fun!
One of the more fascinating posts, put up that very day, detailed her hell in procuring Internet speed and performance in her rural hamlet in England. Cost is a punitive factor, as is an utter lack of options. I read the entire lengthy post with wide-eyed interest because I have only just recently procured my own high-speed Internet in my rural location after nearly two years of Hot-spot Hell.
(For further information on this exercise in frustration, please see: My Hotspot, and for a happy ending, please refer to the January 2020 post contained in How I Work.)
This intelligent and savvy woman wrote in all seriousness, albeit it with extremely comical similes, about her energetic quest to locate a high-speed Internet provider. Below are some of the more astounding aspects of her search, which remains ongoing. Please bear in mind that this Englishwoman speaks of the 4G network. The current crisis in British tele-coms concerns 6G. Whatever happened to 5G??!
The residents of this hamlet had been promised FTTP — Fibre To The Premises. I actually laughed out loud at this phrase. I mean, Womb To The Tomb Coverage is more realistic! To keep the hamlet-ers on the line, the Internet line, the hucksters insisted they were at 99%, ALMOST THERE, to launch the project of connecting subscribers. Just one more household and we're there! Only less than 1 household to go!
Maybe the dog could sign up!
The blogger was reduced to using the basic Hotspot method that I was forced to use for almost 2 years. Your computer is basically tethered to a mobile device. After one month of high-speed Internet connection, I still find myself reaching to charge my phone for whatever precious minutes are left to me. Some habits are harder to break than others!
For me, the obvious lack of advertising smarts in England is almost as bad as the lack of technology!
Prior to perusing this website, I had spent a sunny afternoon completing the translation of Chapter 49 of THE DAWN into L'AUBE. I'd taken the previous day off and had to go back to translation work to take a break from life-work: laundry, cooking, yoga, and research! In an attempt to find relaxing reading, I "visited" this former model's website. It revealed to me the humongous effort, time, and energy that she routinely expends in trying to live life in an England that has fallen very far behind the United States in (ha!) connection with communications technology.
It's even worse in France.
Oppression of the Internet by l'État is nothing compared to the ill-will of the French government toward the actual purveyors of online businesses! The mail rates in France doubled just before Christmas 2014, causing those waiting in line at La Poste to nearly "fall out of their shoes." The ever-increasing animosity of my dear friend toward La Poste was caused by the ever-increasing postal rates imposed by the State of France on any anyone shipping — or mailing — anything, anytime, anywhere — out of France, or in it.
Many of my purchases from the online shop of my dear friend in southwestern France arrived in California via Book Rate, often with certain items "tucked" into the goods. We shared a rebel stance, and still do, twixt Heaven and Earth.
Just prior to the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, I'd been conversing through email with a Frenchwoman living in the north of France, not far from the escape route of the terrorists. This woman had purchased my e-books, downloading them through an arduous and complicated process for online data in France. It took her almost three days to complete the download. She'd been profoundly moved by the first chapter of THE GHOST. Her computer files, however, during the French government's frantic search for the terrorists, were completely wiped out. Along with all of her online business information, poof went the downloaded fiction by Debra Milligan. And she wasn't the only one whose data were zapped.
"Not sure what's up with that," she wrote to me.
I had a pretty good idea.
Really, there is so much going on in these countries of the Euro-ized Western Europe that the citizenry there do not even dare to suspect: it is almost painful at times for me to form a critical opinion of their betrayal by their own politicians. Something dastardly is always afoot in the midst of the exhausted ignorance of citizens who are just trying to make a living and stay safe.
While the over-40 group in France believes in government of some sort, they have not yet arrived at defining that precise type of charlatan. The under-30 citoyens, however, lack any belief in government, of any kind. They are not nihilists, but when I was informed that the son of an over-40 mother in France thought that the Charlie Hebdo attacks were an inside job, I found the opinion credible.
"You wouldn't believe . . ." started the shocked statement. I believed.
Further clarification of the Youth Opinion was that the inside job was inside the Hollande government. Not to get too conspiratorial here, but I can with confidence say that the prevailing theory among the under-employed-20-somethings was that the Hollande government knew the terrorist attacks were inevitable, but did nothing to prevent them, as a way to teach the free-speech radicals a lesson. And the Macron government is even worse.
This fear-filled mother, a Dutch woman who had lived in southwestern France for almost 30 years, had just walked by the Charlie Hebdo offices a few days before the terror attack there. She'd had to journey to Paris to renew her passport in early January (2015). "One passport office in all of France," she stated: "In Paris."
You see, the legal citizens, as well as green-card holders, are harassed by the governments in France and the UK, while the illegals roam at will, at random, and at large. It's no wonder these fonctionnaires haven't a clue how many of the barbarians there are! And this dear friend of mine had been a fan of the EU: "It's great. No borders. We can go wherever we want."
"So can the terrorists," I opined.
Such statements are not easy for me to make, almost flippantly, to people who cannot face the appalling truths about what has gone on, behind their naïvely trusting backs. It is precisely because such truths are difficult to state that I state them.
Eastern Europe, however, experiences virtually no terrorist attacks and, quite connectedly, no problems with attaining high-speed-Internet. Lithuania, Romania (including Bucharest, or Little Paris), Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic all boast of ginormously higher-speed Internets than do rural England and most of France. Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland, perhaps due to a lack of trees and an arctic atmosphere that has beckoned digital testing, also enjoy the rapid rate of truly modern communications. Life, however, outside of the house in Scandinavia has become a bit more perilous at an ever-increasing rate of immigrant importation.
The latest news from the UK regarding the National gone to Hell (Health) Service is the training of nurses as surgeons! The very last thing any nurse anywhere ought to be handed is a scalpel. Historically, there has thrived a love-hate relationship between doctors and nurses. One too many a nurse wants to either supplant the doctor, or seduce him, or both!
Yes sirree, handing the knife to a know-it-all nurse is one sure-fire way to SHORTEN WAIT TIMES — by shortening life times! Socialized medicine is the ultimate path to decreasing the surplus, or the surface population of any nation. The writing of post-surgical scrip by non-doctors logically follows as the next atrocity against physicians. Surgeon-shortage anyone?
There's a lot of catching up that Great Britain and Western Europe have to do in order to compete with the European nations they still hold in derision as un-civilized and backward. One huge wave of the future is broadband. I hope the Brits get to ride it. Their mere quest to achieve a high-speed Internet may, in fact, be more rewarding, with regard to liberty, than their realization of that path. The French citadins will also ride that wave, one day, but I do believe the rural Anglo-Saxons and the provincial French now lead the way toward the liberation of the power of the individual.
I wrote a book on it!


Do you feel like December is just a blur of days? Monday runs into Tuesday, Tuesday runs into Wednesday and so forth? Are things lightening up for you at work, or at they actually intensifying?
Well, just like we have the 12 Days of Christmas, I have my 12 Survival Tips for the Hurried Holidays!
1. Delegate as much as possible.
2. Get those you support at work to support you.
3. Set realistic goals for yourself. It's better to under promise and over deliver.
4. Search for alternatives. Is there a simpler way, a faster way, a better way to do things.
5. Focus on tasks of high value. Don't get caught up in a lot of busy work.
6. Take a break! This will help cope with your overload at work. Stand, walk, get away from your desk for a little bit.
7. Remember that you are human and you can only do so much.
8. Keep a good, positive attitude! Be upbeat.
9. Take a break at home, too! Sit down and relax. Enjoy some hot chocolate.
10. Get the kids involved.
11. Get away; don't have everything at your place this year.
12. Just focus on today, it's all we have. We can only get so much done in a day so just focus on today and tomorrow will come naturally.
I hope you have enjoyed my survival tips for hurried holidays.
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Robert Vann's Pittsburgh Courier set a pattern for what the Black press could do
The Pittsburgh Courier that Robert L. Vann acquired in 1910 was a newspaper of humble beginnings. Its previous owner was a security guard at the H.J. Heinz Company food packing plant, and a self-published poet who sold copies for a nickel apiece.
Jenna Cohen In Explore Stories, Featured, Printing Hate
Freedom's Journal Marked the Beginning of the Black Press
Not quite 40 years after Freedom of the Press became protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution, a group of free Black men came together to discuss the news of the day and the newspapers that delivered it.
Simeon Booker among Black chroniclers of civil rights-era atrocities
Simeon Booker, then a reporter for Jet magazine, was a witness to history on the day in 1955 when Mamie Till Mobley stared at the bloodied and bloated body of 14-year-old Emmett, her only child.
Black journalist Alexander M. Rivera, who covered Willie Earle lynching trial, recalls tension, fear
Alexander M. Rivera, a Black reporter and photographer for The Pittsburgh Courier, was on assignment to cover "the trial of the century" as he and others described it to readers, a trial that could mark a turning point in the legacy of lynching in the South.
NAACP head Walter White was a pioneering Black journalist
Breathlessly, the man scrambled along the railroad tracks, barely catching the next northbound train out of town. He bought his ticket onboard and tried to swallow a sense of
foreboding.
Frederick Douglass founded newspapers to allow Black writers to tell their own stories
He boarded the northbound train in Baltimore dressed as a sailor. He carried questionable identification documents, and some travel money given him by the woman he soon would marry.
James Weldon Johnson gave voice to Black people's dignity and creativity
The words were meant to be spoken, not sung. It was supposed to be a speech honoring Abraham Lincoln—born nine decades earlier, assassinated half a century later, yet still revered at Stanton Normal High School in Jacksonville, Florida, where the principal was a son of the city, James Weldon Johnson.
Ida B. Wells Exposed the Economic Truths Behind Lynchings
Ida B. Wells-Barnett had a special connection to Thomas Moss, and didn't understand how he could have done what they said he had.
A Timeline of Post-Civil War Racial Terror and Federal Legislative Efforts to Stop It
The question of slavery, and whether and when it should end, divided America from its inception, and eventually moved the nation toward Civil War. The dispute reached a peak on Dec. 20, 1860, when South Carolina passed the first Ordinance of Secession from the Union. South Carolina's secession was followed by the secession of Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas, and the threat of secession by Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee and North Carolina, according to the Library of Congress. Those 11 states formed the Confederate States of America.
Billie Holiday v. The White Press
Billie Holiday looks at the stage floor, then takes a deep breath. She gazes straight into the audience and begins to sing, "Southern trees bear a strange fruit./ Blood on the leaves. And blood at the root."
Protected: Confederate monument stands at site of 1922 Hot Springs lynching
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Skilled Park is the place to be on Sunday, as United go for Gold against travel-sick Wellington Phoenix! Be there!
Get down to Skilled Park this Sunday afternoon for some fantastic Hyundai A-League action as United look to continue their steady improvement and pull themselves from the foot of the ladder.
And what a opportunity they have to pick up three points, as they take on a side that have had a typically rough time on their travels so far this season. Can the Gold Coast pick up a morale-boosting victory? With your support, they have every chance!
Last week, Miron Bleiberg's troops showed just what they are capable of, by fighting back to pick up an excellent draw against high-flying Melbourne Heart. Despite being 1-0 down for much of the match, they never stopped believing, and salvaged a point thanks to a moment of subtle beauty from Maceo Rigters.
His delicious touch from close range brought the scores level and sent The Beach wild! Indeed, United's recent form in front of their home fans belies their current league standing.
They are unbeaten in three games at Skilled Park and, before the fine draw against Heart, recorded an even more impressive result, with a 1-0 win against champions Roar.
Conversely, United's opponents on Sunday, Wellington Phoenix, have yet to record a win on the road in the Hyundai A-League 2011/12 season. In fact, they have only secured a couple of draws on their travels, and last week even dropped rare home points against Perth Glory at Westpac Stadium. In pouring rain, it seemed they would have to settle for a disappointing goalless stalemate, but things got even worse as they conceded a stoppage time goal to defender Josh Mitchell's header. However, they head into the game boosted by the fact that captain Andrew Durante has committed his long-term future to the club. Late last week, the 29-year-old signed a new three-year deal.
The only time these sides have done battle so far in the Hyundai A-League 2011/12 season was a tight affair. Trailing 1-0 to Chris Greenacre's 17th-minute goal, United showed great spirit to grab an 88th-minute equaliser thanks to a wonder strike from that man James Brown.
With the match ending all square, it is impossible to call which way this one will go, so your support could make all the difference. Noise from the stands equals points on the ladder, so get yourself down to Skilled Park on Sunday for full-blooded Hyundai A-League action!
Will Phoenix secure the rarest of away wins, or can Gold Coast United continue their fine recent form? There has been plenty of quality entertainment on offer for United fans of late, and there is no reason why Sunday should be any different, so get down to the stadium and see what's in store this time round. It's what Sundays were made for!


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Barbara Moore is a strong and independent woman, a former star NYPD Detective, used to doing things her own way. Until, that is, her habitual disregard for protocol catches up with her and she finds herself sent away to prison, stripped of her former identity and way of life. Inside, rules are rules, and failure to follow them completely and instantly is punished severely.
She finds herself at the mercy of stronger, more experienced prisoners, who hate her because she is a cop who has sent some of them to this hell. The guards and the Matron are only too happy to see her humiliated and made to suffer. And the Warden is a corrupt and sadistic man who uses the prisoners to satisfy his lusts and those of his paying guests, who are among the richest and most powerful men in the state. Barb will have to submit to every degradation and suffering in order to survive her sentence.
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Stories by Dominic Smith
Dominic Smith is an Emmy winning multimedia producer, visual effects artist and journalist based in New Hampshire. He operates Smith Robinson Multimedia with offices in New England and California. Follow Dominic Smith on Twitter.
To Clear Deadly Land Mines, Science Turns to Drones and Machine Learning
In a field in Oklahoma, researchers are using new technology to spot deadly munitions built to maim and kill
8 minutes ago — Andrew Robinson and Dominic Smith
Dive into a Vanishing Invisible Forest to See What Climate Has Changed
Our kelp forests are largely unobserved, but now they are vanishing. To understand why, scientists dive underwater and look down from space. Their research reveals a complex system at risk of collapse...
July 20, 2022 — Dominic Smith and Andrew Robinson
Wildfires Are Putting Giant Sequoias at Existential Risk
The future of these guardians of the forest, some thousands of years old, is not assured
Did Your Catalytic Converter Get Stolen? The Pandemic—and Rhodium—Could Share Some Blame
In 2021 the search phrase "what precious metal is in a catalytic converter" saw a more than 5,000 percent increase in use. Here's why.
December 20, 2021 — Dominic Smith and Andrew Robinson
A Visual Guide to the New Coronavirus Variants
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus seems to be suddenly acquiring mutations at a rapid rate. The most worrying variants, first discovered in South Africa and Brazil, increase the virus's contagiousness and may even help it evade the human immune system...
February 11, 2021 — Sara Reardon and Dominic Smith
What Is Chronic Kidney Disease, and How Might It Affect You?
In the U.S., a third of Americans are at risk of chronic kidney disease, and age is a major factor. More than half of Americans older than 75 are thought to have some sort of kidney damage...
January 12, 2021 — Dominic Smith and Andrew Robinson
The Clitoris: A Reveal Two Millennia in the Making
In the history of sexual anatomy, the clitoris has long been dismissed, demeaned and misunderstood. Here is a view of the clitoris you've probably never seen.
March 4, 2020 — Rachel E. Gross, Jeffery DelViscio and Dominic Smith


I'm very pleased to offer this rare and remarkable pewter and crystal chandelier!
I'm uncertain as to the exact age of the chandelier. It might be very late 1930s. I believe it's 1940s. I'm certain it's not earlier or later.
I'm certain, too, as to its beauty. And rarity. I've never offered a chandelier like it. All the metal components appear to have a pewter finish. Nice. Each arm has distinctive crystals. The hurricane shades are particularly lovely; that they remain in situ is frankly amazing. I also like the expressive glass stem.
The chain is original, as is the ceiling canopy.
The exposed wire is cloth-covered like the original.
I would say the the chandelier, at 17-1/2-inches wide, is medium in scale.
To me, finding such a fixture is a special treat. And bringing life back to it is even better. It's hard to express, but seeing the chandelier literally full of light once again makes my heart sing. I know, I know, kinda crazy.
Wholly restored and with all new wiring, this fixture is ready to hang, and comes with all the mounting hardware needed!
DETAILS: The fixture accepts standard base 60W chandelier bulbs.
SIZE: The fixture hangs down 29-1/2-inches; the glass finial beads and sphere add another 5-inches. I can remove up to 6-inches of chain. I can add chain. The fixture is 17-1/2-inches wide.
I love writing this: there's no damage. Amazing.
The Bakelite sockets are original (and in fine shape) with new wiring.
The crystals are original. They have subtle flea bites here and there.


Chagall created a touching work with this original graphic. It depicts Eve, naked, and exposed as a consequence of her guilt. The way she holds her right arm, her eyes cast down and her face blushed in embarassment convey something of the sense of guilt she is tormented by. However, God hasn't abandoned her. In the upper left-hand corner of the work, we can see the Hebrew tetragrammaton JHWH, the letters of God's name Jahwe, "I am here for you". This is how one could translate the name, and the friendly, paternal character of God's messenger in the upper right-hand corner of the graphic conveys just that. The big tree protecting Eve with its branches reinforces this idea.
Eve's body looks like a dish ready to receive Adam's love, the fertility of which is displayed in their children, Cain and Abel. This implies that Eve becomes the life-giving Mother of All. Adam and Eve will shape their future under to the changed conditions.


The day has finally arrived! Marvel's jukebox musical Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is out in theaters and we bring you our spoiler-free review! And because we care so much, we ALSO have a review of the first appearance of the modern Guardians in Annihilation Conquest: Starlord #1-4 for our Comic Book Club segment!
Plus, we take a look at the new trailers for The Defenders and The Dark Tower, we get real on Mr. Stephen King, Kal nearly kills himself trying to explain the entirety of Marvel Cosmic, Mika throws shade on space jerk gold people, and both Ghostbusters 2 and Gremlins 2 are mentioned! Favorably! I know!
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