Now I know what you're thinking – Nicole, when did you STOP cooking??? Well it goes a few months back to a rice fiasco when cooking with abuela. Talk about a confident killer!!! And since it's just me I have had no incentive to cook on a regular basis so I've been free range eating. No planning. No menus. Just whatever is in the cabinet or suits me. The other night I went to Walmart to get a Patti pie after my sister said I wouldn't be cheating on my foremothers and came out with guac ingredients, bolthouse farms smoothies, a pineapple, a butternut squash and some beef bullion. Gospel. No pie, btw. And because I have nothing to eat the guac with…I have to go back this morning. But now I'm briskly striding back into the kitchen and seeing I still got it no thanks to this new little situation named Joseph. My goal before was to show anyone could get a proclamation but now that a mutual friend has told him about my culinary prowess I can't be a failure twice!
So let's talk about Bentley. Took him for his usual run about at a local school and he ran off to chase birds. Well by the time I get to him the other folks that were out there with me immediately started to pack up and bolted.
First – I was relieved that he was ok. Then I was furious because while my gut said he was ok all along it also said the people at the school took him. Well I will save you the parts you already know. But I called and was immediately greeted with a request for cash – $150. I'd decided beforehand if it came to it I could do $500, $1500 if it goes the distance. So this was really light work BUT now I'm fighting a war of principalities.
I arranged for the police to be there, find out where he is (another string of lies) and went GHETTOCLASSICUBERRATCHETBLACKGIRLBATSHITIMSOHOODCRAY once I saw Bentley was ok and gone. Now the officers on scene had to contend with me and makes heads or tails of the situation. Somewhere in between being 80% South Jamaica Queens and 20% southern belle I just stopped. A calm washed over me and I stepped back and told the officers the one thing I wanted these lowlifes to know and proceeded to tell jokes.
Now anyone who knows me would call this a miracle or think it's like the movie Get Out where parts of the real me crept out beyond the facade of everything's cool. But I genuinely had a moment of you're better than this. I got my dog back and he was safe, unharmed and didn't seem the least bothered. On some level these folks did the right thing, had him scanned and gave valid contact info. The cops could have arrested me but thankfully understood I was upset. And for what it was worth they apologized. It ended civilly with handshakes so no need for the fireworks. Call this growth folks and a W for the home team.
Moral of the story: sometimes you just have to stop and recognize the blessings that you do have. I'm not exactly thrilled with how it ended and I may still pursue charges. But in the moment I got the one thing I really wanted. My prayers were answered and that is what prayer will do. Not perfect. Not everything. But God will deliver when it counts the most. Be blessed and blessings!


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Q: Control system with equation C = A*x + B*dx/dt This question came up in a computer science / robotics exam and I still don't know the solution for it. I figured out that it's classical mechanics related, so I thought this might be the best place to ask it.

Suppose a control system is described by the equation
C = A*x + B*dx/dt

where B is proportional to the mass of the robot. The behaviour of the
  system can be characterised by the steady state (e.g. the asymptotic
  velocity of the robot) and the half-life time of the decrease of the
  distance to the steady state. Explain how the steady state and the
  half-life change if the mass of the robot is doubled.

I've figured out that the steady state doesn't change, as when dx/dt is 0 B is not affecting the solution.
And this is how far I understand it. Can you explain to me, what kind of movement is this, what is the real-life meaning of the steady state and half-life for this movement and that how to calculate the change in the half-life?

A: This is actually a question for mathematical forum - solving linear non-homogenous differential equations.  You have to find solutions for homogenous ($C=0$) and non-homogenous ($C\ne0$) equation.  Non-homogenous solution is obviously
$$x_\text{N} = \frac{C}{A},$$
while homogenous solution in
$$x_\text{H} = x_0 \exp[-\frac{A}{B}t].$$
The whole solution of the differential equation is the sum of both solutions $x = x_\text{N} + x_\text{H}$.  The point is that for $t \rightarrow \infty$ $x_\text{H} \rightarrow 0$, therefore robot is exponentially getting closer to non-homogenous solution $x_\text{N}$.
I would call $x_\text{N} = \frac{C}{A}$ steady state, while half time $\tau$ can be obtained by equation
$$x_0 \exp[-\frac{A}{B}\tau] = \frac{x_0}{2}.$$

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Zante (o anche Zacìnto, dal suo nome ) è un'isola greca (405 km²) con una popolazione di circa 40 000 abitanti. L'isola si trova nel mar Ionio, vicino alle coste del Peloponneso e fa parte dell'arcipelago delle isole Ionie.

Zante fu al centro delle battaglie spartano-ateniesi; fu poi una delle isole Ionie sotto il dominio veneziano, durante il quale vi nacque il poeta Ugo Foscolo, che vi dedicò il sonetto A Zacinto; nel 1953 fu devastata da un disastroso terremoto.
Dal punto di vista amministrativo costituisce un'unità periferica   delle Isole Ionie formata dall'unico comune omonimo.

È conosciuta anche per la spiaggia del Relitto, lido accessibile solo via mare, racchiuso tra due alture e con al centro un relitto di mercantile arrugginito portato lì dalle acque. La spiaggia è la più fotografata di tutta la Grecia e tra le più immortalate del Mar Mediterraneo. Al largo di Zante inizia l'estremità settentrionale della fossa ellenica che tocca nell'abisso Calypso il punto più profondo del Mediterraneo.

Territorio
Zante ha un territorio vario, con pianure fertili nella parte sudorientale dell'isola e terreno montuoso con scogliere lungo le coste occidentali. Il clima mediterraneo e temperato con abbondanti precipitazioni primaverili dona un'intensa vegetazione all'isola, tanto che Omero la indicò come Fiore di Levante. Le estati sono molto calde (arrivano a sfiorare temperature di 43°/45°) ma sono anche molto secche, ciò non fa avvertire l'afa. I mari che la bagnano sono particolarmente caldi (nel sud dell'isola l'acqua tocca anche i 30° nei mesi caldi).
L'isola non è stabile economicamente, ripone le proprie ricchezze in agricoltura, allevamento e turismo. Poche sono le fabbriche sull'isola, soprattutto artigianali. Viene inoltre praticata l'attività mineraria, con due giacimenti attivi nella parte occidentale dell'isola.

Solo negli ultimi anni l'isola ha goduto di una forte espansione insediativa, che propone moderne attrezzature per turisti ma mantiene scenari antichi intatti (soprattutto nell'entroterra dove non mancano mulattiere, strade sterrate).

La città maggiore è Zante, capoluogo omonimo dell'isola, chiamato dai greci anche Chora. La città è il porto principale e da sola copre la metà della popolazione complessiva insulare. I prodotti principali sono olio d'oliva, uva e cedri. Un tipo particolare di uvetta senza semi è nativo dell'isola. Non mancano spezie e carni ovine. Le coordinate della città sono: latitudine 37.79139/37°47'29 N, longitudine 20.89528/20'53'43 E.

Zante ha dato i natali nel 1798 a Dionysios Solomos, autore dell'inno nazionale, la cui statua adorna la piazza principale della città.

L'isola ha un aeroporto, intitolato a Dionysios Solomos, dove atterrano principalmente voli nazionali. I voli dall'Italia sono prevalentemente estivi; ormai ci sono collegamenti diretti da varie città italiane (tra cui Milano-Malpensa, Napoli, Bologna, Bari e Brindisi), le altre città fanno scalo nella capitale greca Atene. L'aeroporto si trova a ridosso della baia di Laganas, dando agli aerei l'impressione di atterrare sull'acqua.

Il porto di Zacinto, di ragguardevoli dimensioni, è suddiviso in due, ben distinte, parti: una per passeggeri e l'altra per le merci. Dal porto, numerosi traghetti collegano Zacinto con Kyllini, sul continente; mentre, dalla punta nord dell'isola, ulteriori traghetti la collegano con Cefalonia, posta di fronte. In estate, a seguito del moltiplicarsi dei collegamenti, è attivo un servizio che collega l'isola direttamente con Brindisi.

Storia

Origini leggendarie
L'isola di Zante era abitata sin dal periodo Neolitico, come provano alcuni ritrovamenti archeologici. Omero, per primo, menzionò l'isola nell'Iliade e nell'Odissea, affermando che ricevette il nome di Zakynthos (in latíno Zacynthus) perché fu colonizzata da Zakynthos figlio di Dardano, proveniente da Psofis in Arcadia (per questo la acropoli della città di Zakynthos fu chiamata Psofis) intorno al 1500 - 1600 a.C. Tucidide dice che l'isola fu colonizzata dagli Achei del Peloponneso nel secondo millennio a.C. La tradizione dice che la città fondò la colonia di Sagunto in collaborazione con i Rutuli di Ardea (sicuramente prima della guerra di Troia). Gli abitanti dell'isola furono ostili ai Lacedemoni e ad alcuni fuggitivi di Sparta che si rifugiarono a Zakynthos.
L'isola fu poi conquistata da Re Arkeisios di Cefalonia. Fu poi Ulisse, re di Itaca, il successivo conquistatore dell'isola.

Durante la guerra del Peloponneso l'isola fu alleata di Atene e nel 430 a.C. gli Spartani attaccarono la città. Poco tempo dopo gli ateniesi la utilizzarono come base navale nella loro spedizione a Pilos. Nel 415 a.C. furono alleati degli ateniesi nella spedizione in Sicilia. Dopo la guerra del Peloponneso l'isola fu alleata di Sparta (404-373 a.C.).
Nel 374 a.C. Timoteo, comandante ateniese, di ritorno da Corcira (Corfù), lasciò alcuni esiliati a Zakynthos che si stabilirono in un luogo fortificato per lottare contro il governo pro-spartano. Sparta inviò una flotta di 25 navi a Zakynthos, che tuttavia non riuscirono a impedire la presa del potere dei demòcrati. L'isola aiutò Dión nella sua spedizione a Siracusa per cacciare il tiranno Dionisio I (357 a.C.).

Cadde sotto il dominio della Macedonia verso il 217 a.C., con il re Filippo V di Macedonia. Nel 211 a.C. il pretore romano M. Valerio Lavino occupò la città di Zakynthos con eccezione della cittadella, ma fu restituita alla Macedonia. Nel 208 a.C. si concluse in Atamania sotto il governo congiunto di Filippo di Megalópolis e Hierocles de Akragas, che durò fino al 191 a.C., anno in cui si unì alla Lega Achea, però i macedoni la cedettero a Roma. Durante le Guerre Mitridátiche fu attaccata dal generale Arquelao, che fu respinto. Appartenne all'Impero romano e dopo a quello bizantino. In seguito, secondo un trattato, Zante fu trasformata in una democrazia indipendente, la prima dell'Ellade, che durò più di 650 anni.

Zante e la Serenissima

Nel 1194 Matteo Orsini stabilì un governo locale a Zante, la Contea palatina di Cefalonia, Itaca e Zante.
I sei secoli di dominio veneto furono interrotti solo da una breve conquista turca dal 1479 al 1485. Nel Seicento fu costruita la grande fortezza (terminata nel 1664).

Nel 1669 Zante vide accrescere notevolmente la sua popolazione, in seguito all'evacuazione dei veneziani da Creta. I nuovi arrivati portarono con sé notevoli risorse e trasformarono Zante in una piccola Venezia con molti portici e molte chiese, conseguenza della presenza mista di Cattolici e Ortodossi. L'8 maggio del 1748 i fratelli Demetrio I (1723 – 1793) e Demetrio III Nicolò Mocenigo, figli di Demetrio, ottennero dalla Repubblica di Venezia il titolo di conti del Zante.
Il 6 febbraio 1778 vi nacque Ugo Foscolo.

L'isola rimase sotto il dominio della Repubblica di Venezia fino al 1797, quando fu ceduta alla Francia con il Trattato di Campoformio.

La Repubblica eptanese

In epoca napoleonica fu stabilita nelle Isole Ionie la Repubblica eptanese che durò dal 1802 al 1810. La Repubblica eptanese (cioè Repubblica delle sette isole) fu il primo governo semi-autonomo greco dopo molti secoli e adottò come emblema il Leone di San Marco. Sotto protettorato russo-ottomano ma a guida veneto-greca, il piccolo Stato fiorì grazie al contributo di importanti intellettuali greco-veneti, tra i quali Giovanni Capodistria.

Dopo il Congresso di Vienna l'isola fece parte di un protettorato britannico fino al 1864 anno della sua incorporazione nel nuovo regno di Grecia.

Dal secondo dopoguerra al ventunesimo secolo

Zante ha subito due gravi terremoti nell'estate del 1953 che causarono la totale distruzione delle infrastrutture dell'isola. Il più distruttivo di questi, avvenuto il 12 agosto, registrò 7,2 gradi sulla Scala Richter e fu percepito in tutto il paese. Solo 3 edifici sono sopravvissuti, la chiesa di San Dionigi, il palazzo della Banca Nazionale e la chiesa di San Nicola "tou Molou", del Molo. I primi aiuti giunsero dallo Stato di Israele: durante l'occupazione nazista dell'isola, infatti, il vescovo Chrysostomos aveva dato ai tedeschi una lista degli ebrei di Zante contenente solo due nomi, il suo e quello del sindaco. Gli aiuti israeliani giunsero con un messaggio: Gli ebrei di Zacinto non hanno mai dimenticato il loro sindaco e il loro amato vescovo e ciò che hanno fatto per noi. La ricostruzione dell'isola fu soggetta a un severo regolamento antisismico, vari deboli e forti terremoti sono stati così sopportati con scarsissimi danni.

Mitologia
Zacinto (Zάκυvθος) è l'eroe eponimo dell'isola Zacinto, in seguito diventata Zante, nel Mar Ionio. Secondo le tradizioni, Zacinto, figlio di Dardano, o un arcade venuto alla città di Psofi, è ritenuto scopritore dell'isola e divinità locale.

Parco nazionale marino

Nella zona sudoccidentale dell'isola si trova il Parco nazionale marino di Zante, dove si possono trovare le tartarughe Caretta caretta. La Caretta caretta è una specie in pericolo, anche a causa del turismo e dell'inevitabile inquinamento che ne consegue; tuttavia, grazie al turismo vengono anche reperiti fondi, arruolati volontari e raccolte offerte per molteplici attività di recupero e salvaguardia della specie. Ogni anno, a partire da giugno, le tartarughe femmine arrivano sulle spiagge meridionali per sotterrare le loro uova nella sabbia. Il periodo d'incubazione dura all'incirca 55 giorni poi, alla schiusa, i piccoli raggiungono da soli il mare (il tasso di sopravvivenza è molto basso per i maschi).

Economia

Turismo
L'industria del turismo è di fondamentale importanza per l'isola che accoglie ogni anno numerosi visitatori. L'isola divide il proprio turismo tra quello naturalistico e mondano. I punti di forza del posto sono soprattutto gli scenari naturali di rara bellezza. La Spiaggia del Relitto, Le Grotte di Keri (paragonabili alla grotta Azzurra di Capri), L'Isola delle Tartarughe, Capo Skinari sono solo alcune delle località con maggiore flusso turistico, attirato anche dalla limpidezza delle acque. Le spiagge sono tutte attrezzate, anche se c'è un'abbondanza di spiagge libere ed incontaminate. Quelle più attrezzate, tuttavia, si trovano nella parte meridionale, nella baia di Laganas e Agios Nikolaos.

I locali di divertimento sono concentrati principalmente nelle località di Laganas e Argassi. La prima è indicata ironicamente dai turisti come una piccola Las Vegas, per la quantità impressionante di locali, neon e trasgressione.
Non mancano punti di divertimento anche nella capitale Zante, ad Alykes e Tsilivi.

Amministrazione
Zante costituiva una prefettura della regione delle Isole Ionie, abolita a partire dal 1º gennaio 2011 a seguito dell'entrata in vigore della riforma amministrativa detta piano Kallikratis e sostituita dall'unità periferica omonima.

Dal 1997, con l'attuazione della riforma Kapodistrias, la prefettura di Zante era suddivisa in 6 comuni.

L'intera isola più le isole Strofadi costituiscono il comune omonimo

Gemellaggi
Zante è gemellata con:

Dati geografici
 Lunghezza dell'isola: 40 km
 Larghezza dell'isola: 20 km
 Punto a maggior altitudine: Vrachionas, 758 m

Galleria d'immagini

Note

Voci correlate
 Aeroporto di Zante
 Ugo Foscolo
Isole Ionie sotto il dominio veneziano
 A Zacinto
 Rosa dei venti

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Ugo Foscolo
Possedimenti della Repubblica di Venezia

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It was hardly your ordinary location for a Board of Regents meeting.
But after an epic winter storm buried the Eastern Kentucky University campus in a foot of snow, it was EKU Facilities Services staff who came to the rescue, cleaning streets and lots and scraping sidewalks, allowing classes to resume on Monday, Jan. 25.
So maybe it was most fitting that this Board meeting, also on Jan. 25, was held in the headquarters of Facilities Services, the Gentry Building.
EKU President Michael Benson began his report by saluting the work done by Facilities Services employees, not just during the recent storm but year-round. "Lots of people go into making sure this campus works," he said.
· Dr. Laurie Carter, executive vice president and University counsel, reported that a new welcome center and student success center will both open in February. She also discussed improvements in graduation and retention rates amid records and near-records in both overall enrollment and academic quality of this year's freshman class.
· Dr. David McFaddin, executive director of engagement and regional stewardship, said a large campus and local contingent will converge on Frankfort on Feb. 17 for the University's annual Colonels at the Capitol Day. He also noted that regional campus enrollment is on the upswing and that demand is high for EKU's Dual Credit Program that enables high school students to earn college credit.
· Nick Perlick, vice president for development and alumni relations, told the Board that giving for the first six months of this fiscal year easily surpassed totals for the same period last year. The approximately $3.2 million raised from July through December 2015 was the third-best six-month figure in University history, he said, and $1.2 million ahead of last year's pace. Eastern is coming off its best fundraising year since 2001.
· Athletics Director Steve Lochmueller reported that the Colonel Club now has 711 members, compared to 437 a year ago, and that cash gifts to Athletics are up 75 percent.
· Dr. Richard Day, chair of the Faculty Senate, noted a "fresh energy centered on faculty excellence" and thanked the Provost's Office and University deans for their commitment to quality.
· Student Regent Katie Scott said the Student Government Association will soon introduce LiveSafe, a mobile app that will enhance campus safety. A news conference is scheduled for Monday, Feb. 1, to coincide with the launch.
· Facilities Services Director David Williams introduced a video that detailed the services provided by the operation he heads.
In other business, the Board re-elected Craig Turner to another one-year term as its chair.
The meeting moved to the Whitlock Building after lunch, which was also held at Facilities Services.


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Greenyard Flowers UK has been acquired by Yellow Holdings Ltd.
Greenyard has sold its subsidiary Greenyard Flowers UK to Yellow Holdings Ltd.
Greenyard Flowers UK is the world's largest supplier of daffodil flowers. Its strong market position is the result of a powerful fully vertically integrated company model, that ranges from the selection of the best genetics to supplying packed products to retailers. In addition to daffodils, of which of which the company has developed more than 2,000 varieties, Greenyard Flowers also grows summer flowers such as peonies, agapanthus, nerines, brodiaea and dahlias.
Yellow Holdings is a holding company owned by Pebble Group, the management of Greenyard Flowers UK and other financial sponsors, and specifically incorporated for the acquisition of Greenyard Flowers UK.
Greenyard was established in 1987 by Hein Deprez and has since grown into one of the largest suppliers of fruit, vegetables, flowers and plants in the world. Today, the company is still a family-owned business that is publicly traded and listed on Euronext Brussels.
Oaklins' team in Belgium advised the seller in this transaction. The team in the Netherlands contributed sector specific knowledge and contacts with buyers. Oaklins Smith & Williamson, based in the UK, supported with origination and prospective buyer.
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5.26.2016 New Music
New Music: Jadakiss – 'All the Way Up (Remix)'
Jadakiss is "All the Way Up!"
After Jay Z jumped on the official remix, and after Meek Mill joined Fabolous for an unofficial revamp, Jadakiss tries his hand at Fat Joe, Remy Ma, and French Montana's banger.
The LOX MC, who recently reunited with his Bad Boy family at their tour kickoff in Brooklyn, delivers a punchline-heavy verse, including some wisdom about life and death. "Reason ni**as die? They don't know how to live enough," he raps. "They can tread water, but they can't swim enough."
He also says, "Meek called me and Fab," so it's possible the verse was meant to appear on yesterday's Mill release. In any case, the track is out now and it's "All the Way Up."
Listen to J-to-the-Muah's version below.
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Artist: The Floorwalkers Song: "Up the Vine"
I've become a big fan of The Floorwalkers over the past few months. The group's weekly Wednesday night gig at Ruby Tuesday, 1978 Summit St., is a can't-miss destination for expertly performed pop music that draws from the full spectrum of American music. They skew a little close to jam band territory from time to time, but it doesn't even matter because they're so good at what they do.
And when they lean in the other direction, toward pure, unadulterated rock 'n' roll, it works just as smoothly. Case in point: "Up the Vine," viewable in a video clip on their MySpace page. A staple of their more rambunctious second sets at Ruby's, the track shows the band can do dark as well as it can do light and breezy. Catch them playing it tonight, or see them with MojoFlo Friday at Rumba Cafe, 2507 Summit St.


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NY Times missed coverage on trove of new 2019 downtown apartments
New York Post // Jan 07, 2019
Lower Manhattanites scratched their heads on Sunday over a New York Times story on "What's Coming in New York Real Estate in 2019." It overlooked that downtown is full of apartment buildings under construction, as anyone can see.
A "Top 10 Neighborhoods" list of residential buildings "under construction for more than two years" and mostly due to open this year was compiled by data outfit localize.city.
It ranked areas from Long Island City (2,219 units under construction) to Flushing (928). But it made no mention of FiDi, where there are so many residential construction barricades that people must dodge traffic to avoid them.
We checked with the Downtown Alliance and found at least seven apartment projects that have been under construction for more than two years — 19 Park Place, 161 Maiden Lane, One Beekman, 125 Greenwich St., One Wall St., 45 Park Place and 130 William St. Most will open this year and a few by late 2020.
They total 1,265 new homes, which would rank Downtown as No. 7 on the Times' list. That total doesn't include 19 Dutch, with nearly 450 new rentals, because some tenants have moved in although the building isn't finished.
But the Times and localize.city chose to count only new, ground-up construction, and not conversions. That left out, for example, One Wall Street, where Harry Macklowe is bringing no fewer than 566 new condos to market inside a former office building. It's been a work site for years. The offering plan was approved last summer. Their omission is hard to fathom in a story about the volume of new inventory in specific neighborhoods and how it will impact prices.
The Times focused on buildings to open in 2019 — but noted that some projects in localize.city's neighborhoods may "drag into" 2020 — which is when One Wall Street is to open.
A rep for localize.city said it went by Department of Buildings filings. Realty Check uses them too. But sometimes nothing beats taking a walk around the neighborhood.
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further reading Oct. 2, 2018
The Books That Inspired Rebecca Traister's Good and Mad
What I'm Reading When I'm Writing
Authors on the books that inspired and influenced their latest project.
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Author and New York contributing editor Rebecca Traister discusses the books that inspired her fiercely argued and profoundly relevant history of America's "oppressed majority," Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger (Simon & Schuster) — which comes out today — as well as a couple she wishes she'd gotten around to earlier.
I spent about six months doing interviews and research for Good and Mad, presuming the whole time that I would be writing this book, which was meant to be a slow chronicle of the Trump administration, over several years. But the fast-burning wrath of just the first year of that regime — from the Women's Marches to the female candidates to #MeToo — forced me to change course pretty quickly. And so the actual writing of the book was done in four months. That meant that I was relying on a lot of books I'd already read and absorbed, turning quickly to many others as research material, and desperately hoping to be able to read and incorporate many more but failing to for lack of time. Here are the few that made the biggest impressions on me.
Brittney Cooper's book Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (St. Martin's Press, 2018) was published just as I was starting to write my book. I'd been doing research for months and we'd just been through #MeToo, so I was already thinking about anger, gender, race, and then I got an early copy of this and it blew the doors off, imaginatively speaking. It was this proud, energetic reclamation of anger, via memoir and pop cultural analysis — a vision of how a book could be forceful and smart and joyous all at once. It was an inspiration to me in those four months of speedwriting; it just sat next to the bed where I wrote, kind of glowing with pleasure and promise.
One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Women's Suffrage Movement (New Sage Press, 1995), a collection of essays about suffrage edited by Marjorie Spruill Wheeler, was absolutely vital. I had been taught very little in school — shockingly little — about the lengthy, complex, fraught movement for women's suffrage in this country. And I often find it strange how few comprehensive texts there are about it. I turned to this compilation of academic perspectives over and over again, learning about the movement's horrifying racial politics, the many strategic approaches taken by different activists at different stages, the arguments about whether to create a proletariat coalition or appeal to elite women, and the domestic remaking of Susan B. Anthony. It's a terrific resource for those who want to know about suffrage from many different angles.
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance—a New History of the Civil Rights Movement From Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power, by Danielle McGuire (Knopf, 2010). I'd read this book when it was published, and it made a huge impression on me, chiefly because it was the text that really made me rethink everything I'd been taught about Rosa Parks as demure, stoic, and exhausted. It also helped me to understand and begin to question so much about structural relationships between racial and sexual violence.
Intercourse, by Andrea Dworkin (Free Press, 1987). You may think you know Dworkin, and there may indeed be things that you can't stand about Dworkin — like her approach to porn, and to sex work (I agree with neither!). But there is so much about her work that is prescient, terrifying in its acuity, raucous and daring and very much of this moment. It's worth it to go back and read some of it with an open mind.
I'm also going to mention two books that I didn't read in time to incorporate them into my book, which I really regret:
Tera W. Hunter's To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War (Harvard, 1997) is a book I just hadn't known about when I wrote about women's catalytic role in the American labor movement. I focused on the young white women working in the mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, and the immigrant insurgents in the shirtwaist factories in New York, but the big story I wish I'd included was about black washerwomen in Atlanta who organized in the summer of 1881, kicking off a citywide action for higher wages and recruiting the (few) white washerwomen in the city as well as other domestic and hotel workers. Hunter's book covered their strike, and I only realized that I should have included it in my book after I was already done. I recommend everyone go read about it now!
The other book I didn't read until I was done with my own was the newish novel The Power, by Naomi Alderman (Little, Brown, 2017). Lots of people kept telling me, "Oh, you're writing about women and anger? You have to read The Power." But my God, I had no time for a novel! As soon as I was done I dove in — and holy hell, it was like every theme or idea I had just finished writing about brought to chilling, mind-bending fictional life. I kept having to put it down because it was hurting my brain.
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Qozidavlat Qoimdodov   is a Tajikistani agrarian and politician. He served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Agriculture in Tajikistan.

In November 2004, Qozidavlat Qoimdodov noted that economic growth and enhancement of quality of agricultural output were the key components of the national policy of Tajikistan. According to him, dehqan farms (farming units) had been established in all districts of the republic and 75,000 hectares of land has been distributed to farmers under his regime.

As reported in the Pamir Daily News, he replaced Akbar Ali Pesnani, when Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) appointed him Resident Representative to Tajikistan. he was formerly  Tajikistan's Ambassador to Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, maintaining residence in Minsk (Belarus) from November 2009 to December 2017.  From 20052009, he was the Tajik Ambassador to Turkmenistan .  He served 1995 to 2000 as Deputy Prime Minister in charge of agriculture.  From 20002005, he was Tajikistan's Government Coordinator of AKDN Tajikistan.  He also held the post of Deputy of the Supreme Assembly (Tajikistan's Parliament1995-2000.  finally, from 19921995, he served as Deputy Head of the Supreme Assembly of Tajikistan (1992-1995).

He was instrumental in Mawlana Hazir Imam the Aga Khan's first visit to Tajikistan as well as to the development of many of the AKDN projects such as: Pamir Energy project, Tcell, Serena Hotel, Ismaili Center in Dushanbe and the University of Central Asia, and the construction of friendship bridges between Tajikistan and the Islamic State of Afghanistan.

References

External links
Tajikistan local digest

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Government ministers of Tajikistan


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John G. "Jay" McKnight (February 11, 1931 - November 5, 2022) was an American businessman and engineer who was the co-founder of the Magnetic Reference Laboratory, where he was engineering vice-president from 1972 to 1975 and was the president since 1975. He also developed new products and directed engineering at MRL.

Early life and education
McKnight was born in Seattle, Washington. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1952.

Career
McKnight worked for Ampex from 1952 through 1972. From 1953 to 1956, McKnight served in the United States Army as a part of the American Forces Network in New York City, where he also worked at the Gotham Recording studio.

At Ampex, he worked in the magnetic recording research group, the stereo tape division, and the professional audio division. In addition to research, he also worked on the design of the CinemaScope reproducer system; the Models 350, PR-10, and MR-70; improvements in the high-speed duplication system and operating procedures at the Ampex Music (Stereo Tape) Division; and he developed the "Ampex Master Equalization" (AME). He has published more than 70 technical papers, mostly in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), on the theory and practice of magnetic recording, and on audio engineering. He received the Audio Engineering Society's Publication Award in 1982.

From 1972 to 1974, he also was a consultant to Scully/Metrotech in Mountain View, California, and to MCI in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, on audio systems and magnetic recording.

Les Paul

When Les Paul got the Ampex eight-track machine, he realized that he would need a custom built console to work with the new multitrack recorder. He hired Rein Narma (chief engineer at Fairchild Recording Equipment) to do the job. McKnight had worked with Narma at Gotham Audio in New York and wound up helping with some of the design and layout, as well as installation.

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In 1973 and 1974 he was a member of Judge John Sirica's "Advisory Panel on White House Tapes". As a part of his testimony,

The first purpose, I recall, was to try to make the tapes that they found more understandable. But before very long they found out that there was an 18-minute gap in one of the tapes, and that's what the panel focused on. What we were able to do was verify which machines had made the recordings and which had been used to erase the recordings. The recordings were made on a Sony Model 800B, a little consumer kind of machine... it ran 15/16ths inches per second, and Nixon's staff had attached a sound-activated start and stop feature. And the Secret Service came through every evening and put new roll of tape on it if it had run out of tape. The machine that was used in the erasure was an Uher 5000, a commonly used German dictation recorder. What we could establish was that you can hear the clicks where the machine's been put in and out of recording mode. And we could establish that the clicks were in fact from going in and out of recording. We could say that the likelihood that it was done accidentally was incredibly remote. The erasing machine was put in and out of recording mode six times, so judge for yourself how likely that was to have been accidental.

Personal life
Jay and his wife Brigitte have four adult sons.

Awards and honors
1960 — Fellow of the AES
1971 — AES Award
1978 — President of the AES
1979 — Honorary Member of the AES
1990 — AES Board of Governors Award
2008 — Distinguished Service Medal Award, for extraordinary service to the society and contributions to the advancement of knowledge in magnetic recording over a period of more than 50 years

References

External links
Magnetic Reference Laboratory
Magnetic Reference Laboratory and the State of Reproducer Calibration
Jay McKnight at Ampex, the rest of Alex Kostelnik's interview that was not used in the Tape Op article.

Stanford University alumni
1931 births
Living people


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Feral Cats: The Real Dangers Of Letting This Problem Go Unchecked
Phyllis M Daugherty
The burgeoning number of feral cats in almost every community in the United States mandates that leaders in animal welfare and protection admit the limitations of TNR (Trap/Neuter/Release) as a cure for an epidemic of irresponsibility and accept a mandate to change how we think about and address feral cat overpopulation.
As a nation, we treat cats as disposable pets—failing to demand that they are licensed and microchipped to establish owner responsibility. We classify them as free-roaming (a throwback to the days when cats were kept mainly to kill rodents) and praise TNR cat colonies, giving the uneducated or naïve owner the impression that an outdoor life is natural and acceptable for a domestic cat.
There are few major campaigns that saturate the media before the springtime "kitten season," directly targeting cat owners with spay/neuter messages. Then we wring our hands and lament that, when pet cats reach breeding age (4 to 6 months) and display undesirable mating behavior, they are placed outside, begin reproducing and are often forgotten or abandoned—and, if they survive, they become feral.
FERAL CATS: DIFFERENT STATES, SAME ISSUES
"Antioch is overrun with feral cats," writes Nate Gartrell of the northern California Bay Area News Group in a Dec. 26, 2014, article, "Antioch Feral Cat Feeding Ban Proves Futile." Antioch is a suburb of San Francisco.
"For years, hundreds of these free-roaming cats have permeated the city…," Gartrell observes, "and volunteers from various homeless animal rescue groups have trapped and neutered hundreds of them as a form of population control."
On the other side of the country, a New Jersey Neighborhood Cats group posted a desperate plea for donations to a TNR campaign on YouCaring.com in August, stating, "Waldo, Junior and Ellie-Mae are waiting for your help…"
The requester describes how the three named cats live in a feral cat colony in Jersey City and a caretaker has been doing her best to spay/neuter when she can afford to make the trip to a veterinarian. "But kittens kept arriving," she explains, "and the small colony of five doubled in size, then doubled again….Today there are 40 'teenagers' and adult cats and about 10 baby kittens in the colony."
FERAL CATS AND THE SPREAD OF DISEASE
"According to the Humane Society of the United States, there are more than 70 million feral and stray cats roaming the streets," an Animal Planet post tells us. And, because of the greater danger of diseases carried by stray and feral cats, "…the best thing that you can do to protect your domesticated cat against serious illness is to keep it indoors."
This site, "5 Most Dangerous Cat Diseases," provides an excellent guide to the most common serious and often fatal diseases to which outdoor cats are susceptible, including Feline Leukemia, FIV, Feline panleukopenia (distemper), renal failure, and rabies. It also reminds us of the suffering of feral cats infested with fleas and parasites.
We cannot ignore the potential impact of free-roaming feral cats on humans. Drs. E. Fuller Torrey and Robert H. Yolken contend that "cat poop could be a 'vast and underappreciated' public health problem." They published a paper in the journal Trends in Parasitology in 2013 on the dangers of Toxoplasma oocysts found in cat poop. They warn that "a single infected cat can deposit millions of oocysts, each of which may survive in moist soil for 18 months.
IMPACT OF FERAL CATS ON THE ENVIRONMENT
In a September 2004 article, "U.S. Faces Growing Feral Cat Problem," National Geographic takes a realistic look at the impact of millions of feral cats on the environment, and states that, "[S]ome experts estimate that each year domestic and feral cats kill hundreds of millions of birds, and more than a billion small mammals, such as rabbits, squirrels, and chipmunks."
Ron Jurek, a wildlife biologist for the California Department of Fish and Game, discusses the impact of feral and free-roaming cats, and estimates, "In urban areas there are hundreds of cats per square mile—more cats than nature can support."
National Geographic acknowledges the good intentions of TNR, stating, "Thousands of volunteers and animal welfare groups throughout the country stepped forward in the early 1990s to control the wild cat population through mass sterilization programs."
Drs. Torrey and Yolken told CNN that studies in California have shown that cats deposit an estimated 1.2 million tons of cat poop into the environment each year.
CAN TNR FIX THE FERAL CAT PROBLEM?
Two experts have written why TNR, alone, can never be successful in resolving the overpopulation of feral cats on a wide-scale basis. It is not from a lack of funding or dedication by the "intrepid trappers," as Dr. W. Marvin Mackie calls TNR devotees. Rather it is the reality of the escalating births.
CAT OVERPOPULATION AND THE 70% RULE
W. Marvin Mackie, DVM, founder/director of two Animal Birth Control spay/neuter clinics in Los Angeles County, was a pioneer in early-age spay/neuter and trained veterinarians worldwide in techniques he called, "QuickSpay." During his long career, he was devoted to sterilizing feral cats and kittens.
Dr. Mackie shared his thoughts in the following personal interview, an expanded version of which appeared in the Pet Press, March-April, 2003:
"I was inspired in 2002 by an article by Merritt Clifton [now editor of Animals24/7.com], who discussed the application of the Fibonacci 70% rule to spay/neuter of dogs and cats," Dr. Mackie explained.
"I realized that this concept is amazingly insightful into success or failure as it relates to ultimate pet overpopulation and deserves to be understood by all who are decision makers in the effort to bring it under control," he continued.
"Leonardo Fibonacci, a preeminent mathematician of his time, created a formula (model) in the early 1200's relating to agriculture productivity. Six centuries later, Louis Pasteur, while working on an early vaccine for disease prevention, used the model to predict that 70% of a susceptible population would have to be vaccinated in order to prevent an epidemic of almost any contagious disease.
"Fibonacci's 70% model is still recognized as valid by leading public health authorities such as the World Health Organization and the Center for Disease Control.
"It is not a great leap to advance to the notion that pet sterilization is in effect "vaccinating" against the disease of overpopulation. Using this premise, we can say that 70% of the susceptible population (animalswith outside privileges) in a defined demographic area must be sterile in order to affect the decrease in over-birthing that will result in a population decrease within that area.
"The outcome at this 70% sterilization level is that the transmission odds (successful breeding encounters) of the remaining 30% are reduced to the point that births then occur at a rate only great enough to replace normal attrition.
"If we follow the logical conclusions of the 70% rule, which is broadly accepted by those who work in epidemiology, we arrive at some interesting answers. For instance, those working so diligently to control pet overpopulation in the greater Los Angeles and Orange county areas are confounded by the fact that, in spite of their tireless efforts, they have not seen the hoped for reduction in euthanasias.
"Unfortunately, the fertile pet population was so large at the onset and the densely populated two-county area was so great that they were unable to sterilize the numbers required to reach the 70% mark. Mr. Clifton, states emphatically that you must reach 70% or FLUNK – there is no progress made with a "B" or "C" grade!
"Clearly, the 70% rule applies to any circumscribed area. It can be an isolated town or the mere area of a feral cat colony. Generally, more affluent areas can and do reach 70% (or better) pet sterilization and the over-birthing problem ends in those areas.
"The more impoverished areas don't come close to 70% and the shelters serving those communities are the recipients of the hapless victims of too many births and too few homes."
A similar position is presented in an excerpt from comments by Dr. Travis Longcore, Science Director, The Urban Wildlands Group, on the Initial Study/Draft Mitigated Negative Declaration for Proposed City of Los Angeles Citywide Cat Program, November 4, 2013. The following is provided with his permission:
"Even though current spay/neuter resources are effective at reducing the number of unwanted owned cats, switching those resources to feral cats would not be similarly effective at controlling overall feral cat numbers. Although this seems counterintuitive, it is a fact well established in the scientific literature. This derives primarily from the difference in sterilization rates in the two groups (owned vs. unowned).
"Owned cats have a high sterilization rate, high enough for sterilization to make a difference in the number of unwanted litters. If a cat population has an 80% spay/neuter rate, increasing the rate to 81% will further control population growth. That is, even a 1% increase matters.
"Unowned cats have a very low sterilization rate (< 5%), even in large-scale long-term TNR programs (Foley et al. 2005). Because of the significant reproductive capabilities of cats and the mobility of unowned cats across the landscape, the rate of sterilization for females has to be in the neighborhood of 70–90% for the sterilization to make any difference in the population growth rate (Andersen et al. 2004, Foley et al. 2005, Schmidt et al. 2009, McCarthy et al. 2013).
"At sterilization rates < 70–90%, increased reproduction from intact females makes up for the sterilized cats. If a cat population has a 3% spay/neuter rate, additional sterilization to a 4% rate will make absolutely no difference in controlling the population.
"Therefore, because owned cats already have a high sterilization rate, the additional effort to increase sterilization does influence the number of unwanted kittens being born, which is what the Los Angeles spay/neuter programs have been doing. Those same sterilization funds spent on feral cats, which generally have a < 5% sterilization rate, even with large-scale and long-term TNR programs (Foley et al. 2005), would be wasted."
IS THERE A SOLUTION TO FERAL CAT OVERPOPULATION?
We cannot expect to achieve a complete absence of feral cats in a diverse, democratic country. However, by seriously applying the 70% Rule to spaying and neutering, and combining it with licensing, microchipping and a serious attitude toward the responsibilities of cat ownership—including keeping them indoors--the problems and suffering could be dramatically reduced. Cats deserve more from us than a life, and death, in the streets!
Sources: Santa Cruz Sentinel, You Caring, Animal Planet, CNN, National Geographic, QuickSpay
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Six Teams to Appeal FIA Decision
Six of the manufacturer backed Formula One teams have said they will appeal against the guilty verdicts handed down to them over charges relating to the United States Grand Prix fiasco
In an official statement issued on Wednesday, BAR, Williams, Renault, Sauber, McLaren and Toyota all claimed the FIA was wrong to punish them for charges that they failed to bring suitable tyres to the United States Grand Prix and that they refused to race.
"The Teams explained to the World Motor Sport Council that, in the light of the clear and written advice from Michelin that it was unsafe to race at Indianapolis on the tyres supplied by that company, the Teams had no choice but to decline to race," said the statement.
"Any other decision would have been irresponsible. Nineteen of the current Formula One drivers have expressed their agreement with the decision of the Teams.
"The Teams much regret that the American public were unable to enjoy a race involving all ten Formula One teams, and would like to express their thanks to the many fans who have communicated their support for the stance taken by the Teams and by Michelin on grounds of safety.
"The Teams are pleased that Michelin have agreed to compensate fans who attended the race.
"The Teams very much look forward to the next Grand Prix on Sunday."
The reference to the drivers is believed to refer to efforts among the Grand Prix Drivers' Association to help the teams in their case - which were scuppered when they failed to get the unanimous support they had been chasing.
Referring to the individual charges, the teams claimed they should not be punished for bringing the wrong tyres because that was Michelin's responsibility, and that it was wrong of them to be found guilty of not racing.
The statement added: "The charges suggested only one means by which the Teams could safely have raced (the use of a speed restriction). On that charge, the Teams were found not guilty.
"The Teams cannot understand how they can be found guilty by reference to another proposed solution, which was not part of the charges brought against them, which was not suggested by the FIA at Indianapolis, which was considered unsafe and which, in any event, would not have achieved a satisfactory race for the fans."
The only missing team from the release was Red Bull Racing, whose decision to abstain from involvement could be because they are to link-up next year with Ferrari - which is the only team currently signed up with the FIA to remain in F1 beyond the end of 2008.
Full Statement from the Teams
The six Formula One Michelin teams identified above are very disappointed by the decision of the World Motor Sport Council to find them guilty of two of the five charges brought against them by the FIA in relation to the 2005 U.S. Grand Prix at Indianapolis.
1) In relation to the finding that they failed to ensure that they were in possession of suitable tyres, the Teams point out that they reasonably relied on Michelin, an approved FIA tyre supplier and a highly reputable manufacturer of tyres worldwide, to provide suitable tyres for that race. As Michelin have already acknowledged, they were responsible for the supply of unsuitable tyres for the Indianapolis circuit. The FIA's decision accepts that there were "strong mitigating circumstances" for the Teams. In truth, those circumstances provided a complete answer to the charge, given that the Teams cannot be held responsible for what occurred.
2) In relation to the finding that the Teams wrongfully refused to allow their cars to start the race having regard to their right to use the pitlane on each lap, the Teams respond as follows. The charges suggested only one means by which the Teams could safely have raced (the use of a speed restriction). On that charge, the Teams were found not guilty. The Teams cannot understand how they can be found guilty by reference to another proposed solution, which was not part of the charges brought against them, which was not suggested by the FIA at Indianapolis, which was considered unsafe and which, in any event, would not have achieved a satisfactory race for the fans.
The Teams therefore will be lodging an appeal against each of these findings.
The Teams explained to the World Motor Sport Council that, in the light of the clear and written advice from Michelin that it was unsafe to race at Indianapolis on the tyres supplied by that company, the Teams had no choice but to decline to race. Any other decision would have been irresponsible. Nineteen of the current Formula One drivers have expressed their agreement with the decision of the Teams.
The Teams much regret that the American public were unable to enjoy a race involving all ten Formula One teams, and would like to express their thanks to the many fans who have communicated their support for the stance taken by the Teams and by Michelin on grounds of safety.
The Teams are pleased that Michelin have agreed to compensate fans who attended the race.
The Teams very much look forward to the next Grand Prix on Sunday.
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Ted Sullivan
May 19, 2020 /in BioProject - Person Executives, Managers, Minor Leaguers, Scouts, Umpires, Writers and Researchers Ireland /by admin
Frank Vaccaro
The Johnny Appleseed of baseball, Timothy Paul "Ted" Sullivan, set up baseball leagues wherever he traveled. Like the American folk hero, Sullivan didn't stick around to ensure what became of his projects — but they took root anyway.
Sullivan was a self-made baseball manager, league organizer, promoter, sage, and scout. A small man with a fine mustache and features, and often sporting a derby,1 Sullivan worked middle America from the Gulf of Mexico to Northern Wisconsin, promoting baseball and selling investors on new leagues with his patented reference to the game as "The Show"2 — which is still in wide use today.
Timothy Sullivan was born in County Kerry, Ireland, in 1856. Many references show his birthplace as County Clare and the year as 1851, but Sullivan provided Kerry and 1856 in a handwritten 1912 letter to sportswriter Ernest Lanigan, who made an extensive effort at that time to write to living ballplayers and collect biographical information. In Sullivan's letter, he also claimed to be born on St. Patrick's Day, though he may have simply been having a bit of fun.3
Timothy was the second of eight children born to Timothy and Catherine Sullivan, farmers who brought him and his older brother Patrick to Illinois around 1858, finally settling in Muscatine, Iowa, the following year. Census data from 1870 and 1880 support the later year of birth for Timothy. They also show that the family welcomed four more sons (Michael, John, Daniel, and Cornelius) and two daughters (Hellen and Eugene) after emigrating.
Timothy learned baseball in his new hometown, and learned the Iowa train lines from Davenport to Dubuque selling newspapers and provisions car to car.4 He played baseball for St. Louis University and St. Mary's in Kansas.5 At St. Mary's he met ace pitcher Charlie Comiskey. After graduating, the two started up an independent squad representing a Milwaukee shipping house. Sullivan told the sponsor to pay Comiskey $50 per month.6
In late June of 1878, Sullivan moved key players of the team to Dubuque.7 It flourished as an independent club by tapping regional rivalries against Rockford and Davenport. Comiskey was joined by such players as Charles Radbourne, Tom Loftus, Jack Gleason, and Cliff Carroll. Fans and shop keepers demanded a continuation in 1879,8 and Sullivan roused up enough backers to create a four-team North West League with a 36-game season.9 But after Dubuque won 23 consecutive games, fan interest vanished and the league broke up. Somehow Sullivan kept his team together, taking on any and all opponents through 1881. Things were slow enough in 1880 that Sullivan worked as a National League umpire in Cleveland and Cincinnati.
But on July 16, 1881, a local St. Louis team hosted Dubuque on the Grand Avenue Grounds. Sullivan, impressed by the fan turnout, used his Dubuque roster to seed what is today the St. Louis Cardinals franchise.10 Sullivan cared little for his own equity and soon had but a small stake in the club, despite working its business affairs exclusively until 1883.11 At that time he rose to manager and signed Arlie Latham on first sight.12 Comiskey became captain, and the team contended all year.
On August 29, with St. Louis in first place by one game, Sullivan quit mid-game in New York, in the face of a browbeating by St. Louis majority investor Chris von der Ahe, who demanded a pitching change. As he stood up, Sullivan threw a $300 dollar watch at von der Ahe — a gift from von der Ahe himself — and paid his own way out of the city, saying, "Mr. Von Der Ahe understands but little about baseball."13 Throughout his career, Sullivan would often resign a management position or drop projects after seemingly small slights — a pattern that may have destined Sullivan for the fringes of professional ball. Two principles — that the ownership knew nothing and that the manager delegated on-field authority to the captain — were paramount to him.
Sullivan finished 1883 as an agent for Henry Lucas,14 the railroad man funding the 1884 Union Association. Considered one of the top four managers in baseball,15 Sullivan signed to manage the St. Louis Unions for $3,000 per year.16 Although Sullivan helped other teams fill out their rosters,17 no team could compete with St. Louis and Sullivan's team walked to the pennant after a 20-0 start. When Lucas interfered with the running of the team, Sullivan quit in mid-June, calling Lucas "a rich man with a hobby."18 For the rest of his career, Sullivan lamented that he had not spread the talent evenly among the Union teams,19 although he had made the same mistake with Dubuque in 1878 and 1879.
During the first week of July, Sullivan managed the troubled Eastern League Virginias, a team hard hit by player defections. He appeared in three games, batting 0-for-9 and breaking his right pinky,20 before jumping back to the Union Association by accepting one-half interest in the Kansas City team on July 15.21 This was believed to have been a settlement with Henry Lucas for the balance of his contract. Virginia temporarily blacklisted Sullivan for the jump.22 With Kansas City in free-fall, Sullivan brazenly stole players from whatever clubs he could.23 A bad season ended on a positive note when the team finished with a winning home stand under captain Jerry Sweeney.24 The Union finally disbanded in January 1885, but Sullivan herded the flotsam of that upstart league and created the Western League,25 which itself disbanded on June 15, shortly after the Detroit Nationals bought the entire first-place Indianapolis franchise. On May 23, Sullivan attacked a much larger umpire, Buster Hoover, at the Kirby House, a popular Milwaukee baseball hotel,26 and came out the loser in the fist fight that followed. Sullivan ended 1885 managing sixth-place Memphis in the first serious version of the Southern League.27
He set up the 1886 Southern League during the offseason, then departed to create a new North West League in March, taking a position managing his hometown Milwaukees. Sullivan pitched batting practice, was quick to fine a player, and insisted that outfielders wear rings on each finger as "proof against muffs."28 Milwaukee finished last. It rang hollow with fans when Sullivan explained that he tried to create a balanced league instead of one dominated by one strong team as had been the case with the Union Association in 1884.29
Criticized for a last-place finish,30 Sullivan walked away from his Milwaukee interests to become a full-time ump in the International League in 1887. However, he was erratic and indecisive; and the league dropped him in the season's first weeks.31 Remarkably, he signed as an umpire in the American Association in August.32 There his umpiring remained erratic. On August 12 he was criticized for ruling a Gus Weyhing hit a double when a New York outfielder kicked it out of play into a diorama in right field celebrating the Biblical story, "The Fall of Babylon."33 Dropped by the AA, Sullivan worked as a scout for the Washington Nationals, quickly obtaining for them Walt Wilmot and Dummy Hoy.34
Sullivan signed to manage Troy in the International League for 1888, but team owners wouldn't sign off on a spring training trip.35 As a favor to Washington Nationals owner Walter Hewitt, Sullivan took Washington south, becoming the first manager to train a team in Florida.36 A Sullivan trick to get his players fed well was to place a silver dollar on the table when he ordered at restaurants. But the dollar was never left as a tip. Connie Mack said Sullivan had the same coin in his pocket for years.37
Back with Troy, Sullivan then set up a deal to have Troy replace New York in the American Association, but the deal fell through when Sullivan tried to turn it into a sale of Troy to the AA.38 Troy ownership fired Sullivan after a bad start and Sullivan re-signed with the Washington Nationals on June 10.39 Reportedly, if Washington had the lead, Sullivan had a groundskeeper in the stands throw old soft baseballs on the field after foul balls went into the crowd.40 Sullivan induced shortstop Shorty Fuller to jump from New Orleans and escaped reprimand only after the Southern Association disbanded.41
Sullivan set up the Washington franchise for 1889 but quit three weeks before opening day and took a pleasure cruise to Ireland.42 Over the summer he toured Europe, teaching baseball along the way in a failed attempt to form English and French national teams.43 He returned to America in September, and signed Billy Rhines as a favor for Cincinnati.44 The Washington Star wrote Sullivan "can distinguish a ballplayer before he doffs his trousers."45
Sullivan was on hand on March 22, 1890, when Washington was dropped from the National League. However, he had already prepared a place for the team in the Atlantic Association46 and managed it until it disbanded on August 2. Sullivan was offered the franchise but couldn't raise enough to fund the debts and the players were let go.47 The timing was inopportune. Days later Sullivan was offered Brooklyn's slot in the AA and he had to pass.48 He invested in a Potomac River oyster boat.49 He also tried to drum up a team of college soccer players for a European tour but dropped that project early in 1891.50 Instead, he prepared an American summer schedule for visiting English soccer and rugby teams.51 Late in the year he signed players for St. Louis.52
Sullivan managed Southern League teams for the next three seasons: Chattanooga, Nashville, and Atlanta. Chattanooga won the first half's pennant in 1892 but tied the best-of-nine postseason competition, 4-4, when attendance was dismal.53 In 1893 and 1894, Sullivan also coached the University of Alabama.54
In 1895 Sullivan moved at a dizzying pace. He first traveled to England and secretly signed a team of real soccer players, who, back in America, were undefeated against teams created for play in each ballpark.55 He helped form both the Atlantic League56 and a New Jersey League57 that perished early. At an August 28 meeting in Newark, he negotiated a stake for himself in the New Haven franchise.58 He also was a spokesperson for batting helmets and arm pads.59 But most of the year was spent organizing the Texas League, managing Dallas, and winning the first half's pennant.60
Shortly after Christmas, Sullivan broke with the Texas League and moved all his players to New Haven, creating the rough and tumble New Haven "Steers" of 1896.61 Fans used this alternate franchise name until the 1960s.62 The original "Steers," however, were a complete failure and Sullivan lost the roster to the Lancaster franchise on July 3.63 A worse failure followed in 1897, when Sullivan managed the Atlantic City franchise in a reboot of his New Jersey League.64 He leased a bicycle track in Dallas,65 pitched the formation of a new California League,66 and returned to Europe, promising to set up a postseason tour of England for Baltimore. In a telegram, however, he recommended no tour, since the weather was bad.67
Despite being injured in a spring buggy accident,68 Sullivan was again tireless in 1898. First, he dropped a bid to manage Dubuque, giving up the team on June 1.69 He traveled to Cuba, prepared a fall tour — which no major-league teams accepted70 — and then went to Dallas, where he set up and managed a "black carnival."71
He started 1899 managing Montgomery in the Southern League, then replaced the franchise on May 2272 by pulling his Dallas team from the Texas League. Nine days later, Texas League officials exacted revenge, buying first-place Mobile from the Southern League and moving it to Houston.73 The Southern League collapsed. Sullivan cursed the skullduggery of the minors. Instead he covered the heavyweight championship boxing match between Bob Fitzsimmons and James Jeffries as a journalist for The Sporting News in June,74 scouted the Western League for players in an abortive effort to rekindle the American Association,75 and reenacted college football games with patented scoreboards set up in theaters across the midwest.
In 1900 he organized the Wisconsin State League.76 He also worked as an advisor and scout, first for the Chicago Nationals, signing Johnny Kling,77 and then for Cleveland, where he signed Addie Joss.78 He remained with neither team.
In the fall he prepared a North West League for 1901.79 He also completed a book, Humorous Stories of the Ballfield, which went on to sell 40,000 copies.80 He started a five-year stint as a Cincinnati scout and did well, famously signing pitcher Orval Overall, then better known as a football player from the University of California.81
Franchise owners from the Texas League paid Sullivan a fee to organize for 1902. He negotiated the Fort Worth club for himself and finished in third place.82 When not managing he wrote a play, The Mississippi Cotton Pickers.83 He managed Paris, Texas, for the first half of 1903, and Waco for the second half.84
In 1904 he created the South West League and ran the Guthrie franchise, but pulled out before opening day in a dispute with other owners.85 Sullivan said he swore off minor league baseball for good, claiming magnates "go about holding a prayer book in one hand and a scalping knife in the other."86 Nevertheless, he purchased the Calumet, Michigan, club.87 He spent June in Escanaba writing a book of African American humor.88 In August he scouted California for the Reds.89 After that he spent the next six months organizing the 1905 Virginia League.90 Sullivan created a strong roster for Norfolk but managed the weaker Charlotte club.91 That league disbanded on August 19.92
Sullivan did scouting for Cincinnati93 and Washington in 1905,94 reportedly traveling to California in September to avoid yellow fever in the South.95 There he signed Mike Mowrey for the Reds.96
In 1906 Comiskey hired Sullivan to set up White Sox spring training sites for the next six years.97 The most daring trip came in 1907, when Chicago toured Mexico on their way to Los Angeles.98 In Mexico City, Sullivan met President Porfirio Diaz and personally plastered the city with promotional posters.99 For setting Chicago up at Mineral Springs, Texas, in 1907 he received a gold watch from that town's citizens which he wore for the rest of his life.100
After 1907 Cincinnati dropped Sullivan as a scout, claiming that Sullivan had failed to sign Jim Nealon, early in 1906,101 and wrongly advised the sale of Cy Seymour to New York in August 1906. The sale was made after Sullivan watched one Reds game, August 18, concluding that Seymour had an "asphalt brain."102
Sullivan became a full-time White Sox scout, gaining fame for signing Chick Gandil103 and catcher Ray Schalk.104 He also formed the 1908 Copper Country League with a stake in the Superior, Michigan, club.105 To weaken Comiskey's cross-town rivals, the Cubs, Sullivan had a role in Johnny Kling's move to Boston.106 He also brokered the New York Giants' use of Marlin Springs, Texas, for spring training in 1911,107 and many years thereafter. That year he helped coach his alma mater's baseball team, St. Louis University. He also took a trip to Japan108 and created a series of eight lectures on the history of baseball, which he gave at the school in the spring of 1912.109 These continued for the rest of his life. He began each lecture by calling himself the man who first organized the "West, South, and North."110 In truth, his efforts were neither the first, nor organized enough to continue without him.
In addition to having a role in the creation of the AA in 1883 and the UA in 1884, Sullivan's fingerprint can be found in 17 other leagues: the North West League in 1878, 1879, 1886, and 1901; the short-lived Western League in 1885; the Southern League in 1886 and 1892-1894; the Atlantic League in 1895; the New Jersey League, 1895 and 1897; the Wisconsin State League in 1900; the Texas League in 1902; the South West League in 1904; the Virginia League in 1905; and finally the Oklahoma League in 1912. In all, Sullivan managed 1,330 professional games to a 652-678 record.111
In 1912 Sullivan began a long stint working for the Grand Pacific Hotel in San Francisco.112 From there, at the age of 62, he organized the 138-day world tour of the White Sox and Giants in 1913-1914. He published a book about the trip upon the team's return — his last great baseball effort.113 However, he may have been the cheerleader for a 1922 White Sox/Giants world tour that never happened.114
In 1919 Sullivan bought a North Carolina plantation.115 In addition to writing occasionally for the Washington Post, he remained a scout, officially and unofficially, for Comiskey.116 He attended many major- and minor-league meetings over the years.
Ted Sullivan suffered a stroke in Washington, DC, on June 22, 1929.117 He died two weeks later with no mention of surviving family.
This biography was reviewed by Bill Nowlin, Rory Costello, and Norman Macht, and checked for accuracy by SABR's fact-checking team.
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Boston Herald, 1909
Boston Morning Journal, 1884
Brooklyn Eagle, 1885
Chicago Tribune, 1878-1906
Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1887
Milwaukee Daily Journal, 1886-1891
New York Clipper, 1893-1898
New York Sun, 1894
Norfolk Virginian, 1895
Philadelphia Inquirer, 1891
St Louis Post Dispatch, 1883-1885
The Sporting Life, 1883-1914
The Sporting News, 1887-1929
Washington Evening Journal, 1896
Washington Post, 1888-1922
Washington Star, 1889-1890
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2 The Sporting News, 1/9/1913, p 5, col. 1
3 Bradshaw Swales Collection, NYPL, Baseball Player Card File, 1871-1916; Nov. 27, 1912 letter to Lanigan.
4 Spalding Collection, New York Public Library, Player Questionnaires, Ted Sullivan"
5 Sporting Life, 1/4/1913, p. 6, col. 2
6 Gustaf Axelson, Commy: The Life Story of Charles A. Comiskey (Chicago, IL, The Reilly & Lee Co.) 1919, ch. 3, p. 3
7 Chicago Tribune, 6/30/1878, p. 7, col. 2
8 Alfred Spink, The National Game (St Louis, MO, National Game Publishing Co.) 1910, p. 296
9 "teams managed for" (date accessed 4/10/2018), https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=sulliv001tp-
10 Alfred Spink, The National Game (St Louis, MO, National Game Publishing Co.) 1910, p. 296
11 Lloyd Johnson, Miles Wolff, Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball (Durham, NC, Baseball America) 1997, p. 108
13 Sporting Life, 9/3/1883
14 St Louis Post Dispatch, 11/22/1883
15 Sporting Life, 1/2/1884, p. 3, col. 2
16 Sporting Life, 1/9/1884, p, 3, col. 3
17 St Louis Post Dispatch, 1/29/1884
18 Sporting Life, 7/11/1884, p. 7, col. 2
19 Milwaukee Daily Journal, 6/30/1886, boxscore
23 Boston Morning Journal, 8/2/1884 (re: Barney McLaughlin); see also Boston Morning Journal, September 3, 1884: 7.
24 Sporting Life, 10/29/1884, p. 5, col. 5
25 Brooklyn Eagle, 1/25/1885
27 Lloyd Johnson, Miles Wolff, Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball (Durham, NC, Baseball America) 1997, p. 110.
28 Milwaukee Daily Journal, 7/3/1886, p. 2, col. 4
30 Milwaukee Daily Journal, 9/25/1886, editorial page
31 Cleveland Plain Dealer, 7/16/1887
32 Cleveland Plain Dealer, 8/2/1887
33 The Sporting News, 8/17/1887, p. 3, col. 1, NY AA boxscore
34 The Sporting News, 9/14/1889, p. 3, col. 1
35 Norman Macht, Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball, (Lincoln, NE, U of Nebraska Press) 3/22/1888, p. 63.
37 Norman Macht, Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball, (Lincoln, NE, U of Nebraska Press) 4/1888, p. 63.
38 New York Times, 1/15/1888
39 Washington Post, 6/11/1888
40 David Nemec, Major League Baseball Profiles, (Lincoln, NE, Bison Books, 2011) 6/27/1888 (also TSN 12/17/1898)
41 The Sporting News, 7/21/1888 p. 1, col. 6
42 The Sporting News, 5/4/1889 p. 1, col. 2
45 Washington Star, 9/12/1889
47 Boston Daily Globe, 8/6/1890
51 Milwaukee Daily Journal, 8/29/1891, p. 4, col. 4
52 Philadelphia Inquirer, 10/18/1891, Sporting Notes
53 Sporting Life, 10/8/1892, p. 1, col. 5
54 New York Clipper, 4/1/1893, p. 60, col. 2
56 Baltimore Sun, 8/30/1894, p. 6, col. 2
57 New York Sun, 8/29/1894, Baseball Notes
58 Wilmington Evening Journal, 4/10/1896, p1, col. 2, also: Norfolk Virginian, 2/29/1895, p. 8, col. 1
61 Washington Post, 12/30/1895
62 Lloyd Johnson, Miles Wolff, Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball (Durham, NC, Baseball America) 1997
63 Bradshaw Swales Collection, NYPL, Baseball Club Rosters, 1871-1916
65 Sporting Life, 8/14/1897, p. 10, col. 3
66 David Nemec, Major League Baseball Profiles, (Lincoln, NE, Bison Books, 2011).
67 Sporting Life, 10/17/1896 p. 10, col 1
68 Sporting Life, 11/13/1897 p. 4, col 3
69 New York Clipper, 2/12/1898, p. 831
70 Boston Globe, 7/21/1898
72 The Sporting News, 5/27/1899, p. 7
77 Chicago Tribune, 2/15/1903
79 Chicago Tribune, 11/12/1900
80 Spalding Collection, card file T.P. Sullivan, letter to Lanigan
82 Bill O'Neal, The Texas League: A Century of Baseball, (Fort Worth, TX, Eakin Press, 1987) p. 23
83 Dramatic Compositions Copyrighted in the US, 1870-1916, vol. 1, (Washington, DC) p. 1508
84 Bill O'Neal, The Texas League: A Century of Baseball, (Fort Worth, TX, Eakin Press, 1987) p. 291
85 Sporting Life, 3/26/1904, p. 3 col 4
86 Sporting Life, 5/21/1904, p. 22, col 3
88 Sporting Life, 7/2/1904, p. 7, col 3
89 Sporting Life, 10/15/1904, p. 14, col 3
90 Sporting Life, 3/18/1905, p. 4, col 2
92 Johnson and Wolff, p. 147.
96 Sporting Life, 10/7/1905, p. 9, col 1
100 Sporting Life, 4/29/1911, p. 11 col 4
101 Sporting Life, 5/12/1906, p. 2 col 2
102 Sporting Life, 8/18/1906
103 Alfred Spink, The National Game (St Louis, MO, National Game Publishing Co.) 1910, p. 180
104 Sporting Life, 8/3/1912, p. 5, col 2
105 Sporting Life, 2/29/1908, p. 2, col 3
106 Boston Herald, 4/24/1909, p. 9, col 4
108 Sporting Life, 5/27/1911, p. 15, col 4
109 Washington Post, 2/4/1912
110 Bradshaw Swales Collection, NYPL, Player Cardfile, 11/27/1912 Letter to Lanigan
111 Lloyd Johnson, Miles Wolff, Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball (Durham, NC, Baseball America) 1997
115 Washington Post, 11/10/1919
116 The Sporting News, 7/20/1916, p. 5, col 4
117 The Sporting News, 7/11/1929, p. 3
Timothy Paul Sullivan
, 1856 at County Kerry, (Ireland)
July 5, 1929 at Washington, DC (USA)
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Republicans are anti-voting and anti-democratic
Voters make their way to voting booths at the Brentwood Library in Tennessee. (William DeShazer for The Washington Post)
By definition, you get a more robust democracy and leaders more reflective of the population as a whole when more people vote. Democracy has little meaning if it doesn't rest on the broadest possible franchise. And, if a political party has confidence in its agenda and message, it should want as many voters as possible.
That's not the current state of affairs in the United States. You would have to be living under a rock not to see that widespread barriers to voting (from voting-roll purges to closing polling places to voter ID laws) have been deployed by Republicans to get a whiter, more conservative electorate.
Each controversial move to block registration or make voting more difficult that now-Gov. Brian Kemp instituted in Georgia had a disproportionately adverse effect on nonwhites. If you think that's all a coincidence, I've got a bridge to sell you.
Democrats such as Stacey Abrams, whom Kemp defeated, have begun to litigate and try to legislate against voter-suppression measures. However, the fundamental, disturbing point is too infrequently asserted: Republicans want more white people to vote and will undermine democracy (i.e., throw up barriers to voting) to get a smaller, whiter electorate. Republicans, to be blunt, have not only become wedded to racism but also hostile to democracy itself.
Unfair? Well, let's test this out. NPR reports:
The United States is almost alone among industrial countries and other democracies in putting most of the onus of registering to vote on individual voters, a sometimes cumbersome process that may explain a large portion of why turnout rates in the U.S. are lower than in many other countries.
But the increasing adoption of automatic voter registration over the past five years has led to a big boost in the voter rolls in states that have implemented the new system, according to a new study by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School.
The states that have implemented automatic registration have seen huge increases in registration, "between 9 and 94 percent in seven states and the District of Columbia, due to their automatic registration systems. The increase was greatest in Georgia (93.7 percent) and lowest in the District of Columbia (9.4 percent)." Right now, 11 states and the District of Columbia use automatic registration. Six are beginning to implement it.
The vast majority of states that have automatic registration are blue states (e.g., Oregon, California, New Mexico, New Jersey, Illinois, Connecticut, Vermont and Rhode Island) or leaning blue (Colorado). In addition to Georgia, Alaska is the only solidly red state to utilize it.
Why, then, shouldn't we implement automatic voter registration and other techniques that maximizing voting (vote by mail?) everywhere? Let's put aside the bogus issue of fraud; the only systematic fraud we've seen of late is in North Carolina where Republicans snatched up absentee ballots from some neighborhoods with higher percentages of nonwhite voters.
Every Democrat on the ballot in 2020 — from city councilman to president — should challenge their opponent to support franchise-expansion. And if, as we expect, Republicans refuse to take them up on it, it's finally time to hit Republicans with the entirely supportable charge that they don't want more nonwhites voting — and they really don't believe in democracy. (I suppose if they thought they could get away with it, they would support re-implementing property ownership as a condition of voting.)
Republicans should take some time to self-reflect. Faced with the reality that they have chased off nonwhite voters at an alarming rate, they've now morphed into the party of white grievance, xenophobia and racism. The only way to win with that kind of message in a racially pluralistic society is to make sure the electorate isn't so pluralistic.
Wouldn't it be better — for their consciences, their long-term success (since we are heading toward majority-minority jurisdictions in many places) and our democracy — to stop their herculean efforts to reduce voting and instead figure out how to appeal to the country as it is, not as they have carved it up to sustain power?
Republicans have to decide if they believe in this democracy stuff. Right now, it sure seems like they don't. And they should be called on it — loudly and consistently.
Paul Waldman: The prospect of easier and fairer voting terrifies Republicans
Karen Tumulty: Where the hunt for voter fraud is worse than the crime itself
E.J. Dionne Jr.: History will mark how many Republicans shy from Trump's extremism
Jennifer Rubin: We finally found election fraud
Greg Sargent: The war over democracy is going to get a lot nastier