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Recent Belmont Historical Society Programs
Destination Watertown: The Armenians of Hood Rubber
Roger Hagopian, Local Historian & Filmmaker, screened his film on The Hood Rubber Plant, founded in East Watertown in the 1890s, in the area behind the Watertown Mall. It employed hundreds of immigrants, especially Armenians, from the neighborhood and made a huge impact in the entire community. BF Goodrich acquired the company in 1929, and it closed in 1969.
Wicked Pissed: New England's Most Famous Feuds
Ted Reinstein, popular reporter for WCVB-TV's "Chronicle" and local author, returned to the Belmont Historical Society on Sunday, March 10 at 2PM to talked about some of New England's most famous feuds. From sports to politics, food to finance, aviation to engineering, New England's feuds have peppered the region for centuries. He brought to life some of the fascinating fights, spats and arguments that are long running and legendary. Wicked Pissed: New England's Most Famous Feuds is Ted's second book, released in 2016.
The Baker Chocolate Company: A Sweet History
A program by author, lecturer, and historian Anthony Sammarco – the fascinating history of America's oldest and most beloved manufacturer of chocolate. It all began in 1765 on the banks of the Neponset River. His book is The Baker Chocolate Company: A Sweet History. See this presentation at Belmont Media Center.
Ted Reinstein – New England General Stores
Ted Reinstein presents his new book New England's General Stores as part of the Belmont Public Library's Author Series. See this presentation at Belmont Media Center.
Belmont Historical Society Annual Meeting
The agenda for this meeting included: (1) election of officers and directors for 2017-2018, (2) award of Historic House Plaques, (3) presentation of the David R. Johnson Historic Preservation Award, and (4) recollections on historic preservation by Roger Webb. Click here to see the complete streaming video of that meeting, including the featured presentation. Roger Webb is a distinguished historic preservationist who shared recollections from his more than 50-year career in preservation projects in Belmont, Cambridge, Boston, and New Bedford. His most notable projects include the conversion and reuse of the old Boston City Hall and the restoration of the Faneuil Hall Marketplace in downtown Boston. Roger was the founder and is the Chairman Emeritus of the Architectural Heritage Foundation (AHF) based in Boston. Click here to learn more about his career and the awards for his historic preservation work.
Dining Out in Boston: A Historic Look at Restaurants and Menus
Over the years, Boston has been one of America's leading laboratories of urban culture, including restaurants, and Boston history provides valuable insights into American food ways. James O'Connell's fascinating look at more than two centuries of culinary trends in Boston restaurants presents a rich and hitherto unexplored side to the city's past. His recent book Dining Out in Boston shows that the city was a pioneer in elaborate hotel dining, oyster houses, French cuisine, student hangouts, ice cream parlors, the twentieth-century revival of traditional New England dishes, and contemporary locavore and trendy foodie culture. Click here to see the complete streaming video of that presentation.
Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse
Eric Jay Dolin, the author of many popular books about a wide range of historical topics who lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts, discussed his most recent book Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse published in 2016. Dolin's illustrated presentation traced the evolution of America's lighthouse system from the beginning of the eighteenth century until the present day. Click here to see the complete streaming video of that presentation.
The History of the Hill-Richardson Families in Belmont
Lifelong Belmont resident, conservationist, and historical preservationist Lydia Phippen Ogilby and Viktoria Haase, Curator of the Belmont Historical Society's Claflin Room collection and Editor of the Society's newsletter, presented an illustrated talk about the Hill-Richardson families, among the earliest families in Belmont. Click here to see the complete streaming video of that meeting.
The agenda for the Society's 2016 annual meeting was:
Election of officers and directors
Presentation of the 2016 David R. Johnson Historic Preservation Awards
Presentation of the latest set of Historic House Plaques
Highlights of Richard B. Betts' collection of Belmont memorabilia and personal reminiscences of Richard's life
Click here to see the complete streaming video of the annual meeting.
"One Woman, One Vote: The New Woman and the New Century"
Barbara Berenson, author and attorney
Barbara Berenson spoke on the topic One Woman, One Vote: The New Woman and the New Century, drawing upon her research for a forthcoming book about the woman suffrage movement in Massachusetts. This lecture was presented as part of the "One Book One Belmont" program organized by the Belmont Public Library with the Belmont Historical Society as a co-sponsor. Anita Diamant's best-selling novel The Boston Girl was selected as the featured title for One Book One Belmont 2016, the library's sixth town-wide reading program. The Boston Girl explores the environment and experiences of women immigrants in Boston during the early part of the 20th century, with woman suffrage as one of the major changes. Click here to see a complete streaming video of Barbara Berenson's lecture.
"The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway"
Doug Most, author and journalist
Construction of the first section of the Red Line subway in 1895 along Tremont Street beside the Boston Common. (Photograph from Boston Carmen's Union, Local 589)
The introduction to Doug Most's latest book The Race Underground describes the motivation, challenges, and obstacles to the 19th century "Big Dig", the construction of Boston's first-in-the-United-States subway:
"In the second half of the nineteenth century, the horse-pulled streetcar, clip-clopping along at five miles per hour and filled with an unbearable stench, slowly began to cripple two great American cities. In Boston and New York, there were too many people and no safe, fast, reliable way for them to move from one neighborhood to the next. In the summer heat, carriages inched forward until the animals reared up their legs in frustration, and police had to come out swinging their clubs to restore peace. During the winter it was no better. Horses struggled to get their footing in the snow and ice and were driven to exhaustion or sometimes death. When a solution finally emerged – a subway – it was rejected time and again, either by corrupt politicians, selfish businessmen, or terrified citizens. 'A menace to the health of the public', a man of the times said. A newspaper article went even further, describing a subway ride like 'living in a tomb'. "
To see a streaming video of Doug Most's fascinating talk, click here.
"Boston and the Civil War: Hub of the Second Revolution"
Barbara Berenson's recent book Boston and the Civil War begins with the following overview: "Most people know that the American Revolution began in Boston when a group of radical activists protested British governance of the colonies. But many people don't know that the nation's Civil War – the war that ended slavery – also began in Boston. Led by agitator and publisher William Lloyd Garrison, a group of radical abolitionists protested against Southern slavery and Northern acquiescence in the South's 'peculiar institution'. Guided by the example of Revolutionary-era Patriots who persuasively argued for independence while organizing dramatic protests such as the Boston Tea Party, Boston's black and white activists organized an unrelenting campaign against slavery and racism. . . After Northerners elected Abraham Lincoln to the presidency in 1860, eleven Southern states seceded from the Union. When Lincoln went to war to restore the Union, Boston's abolitionists tirelessly campaigned for expanding the aims of the war to include the permanent elimination of slavery. They led a Second American Revolution intended to force the nation to live up to the promises of liberty and equality contained in the Declaration of Independence."
To see a streaming video of Barbara Berenson's illustrated talk, click here.
"Massachusetts' Role in the 19th Century China Trade"
Doug Stewart, Ipswich writer
Trade with China was an important part of the Massachusetts economy in the mid-1800's. This image shows the port of Canton around 1852. © Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
To see a streaming video of Doug Stewart's illustrated talk, click here.
To see summaries of some of our older programs, just scroll down this page. If you want to go directly to a specific program, just click on that program's link from the following list:
5/20/15 Belmont Historical Society's 2015 Annual Meeting and Historic House Program
4/15/15 Frederick Law Olmsted: Passages in the Life of an Unpractical Man
3/18/15 The Yankee Division in the Great War
2/25/15 The History of McLean Hospital
12/14/14 Holiday Music
11/12/14 Stealing Rembrandts
10/26/14 The Belmont Uplands: A History of the Changing Use of Land and Water
9/17/14 Francis Cabot Lowell: The Man Who Launched America's Industrial Revolution
5/14/14 Belmont Historical Society's 2014 Annual Meeting and Historic House Plaque Program
3/19/14 Belmont and The Development Of Metropolitan Boston
2/23/14 Lexington Historical Society Colonial Singers
12/18/13 Four Centuries of Christmas in New England
11/20/13 The Caning: How An Assault On The Floor Of The U.S. Senate Drove America To Civil War
10/23/13 Tour Of Mount Auburn Cemetery
The History of McLean Hospital
This program was dedicated to the memory of Anne Claflin Allen, longtime supporter and member of the Board of Directors of the Belmont Historical Society, who died on February 20, 2015.
Alan Bragg traced the 200 year history of the hospital
Terry A. Bragg, Archivist of the McLean Hospital in Belmont since 1981, presented an illustrated lecture tracing the remarkable history of this world-famous hospital. From its start in 1818, McLean Hospital followed the principles of "moral treatment" for the mentally ill, both in the choice of the beautiful country site on which it is now located and in the care delivered to its patients. This was in distinct contrast to the prevailing practices at the time. Patients with mental illness were most often hidden and housed in jails, almshouses, and private homes. If they existed at all, dedicated facilities for the mentally ill provided little care and few activities. The "treatment" frequently consisted of physical coercion, including chains, to restrain the patients. The concept of "moral treatment" for mental illness began to emerge at the beginning of the 1800's. The key concepts of this revolution were a compassionate staff, the limitation of restraints as much as possible, and providing occupations and diversions for the patients in a country environment. With this new approach, the construction and maintenance of psychiatric care institutions began to play an increasingly important role in the treatment of the mentally ill, and McLean Hospital was among the leaders in the transformation.
This 1893 etching shows the new McLean Hospital's Belmont campus. The surrounding streets (Trapelo Road, Mill Street, Concord Avenue, and Pleasant Street) are highlighted. Some of the original buildings are still standing.
The McLean Asylum for the Insane originally opened in Charlestown in 1818. It was named for John McLean, a Boston merchant who was an early major benefactor. The hospital outgrew its original facilities and location by the latter part of the 19th century and moved to a new purpose-built complex on 107 acres in Belmont by the late 1800's. By then the name had changed from the "McLean Asylum" to the current "McLean Hospital". Since the 19th century, McLean Hospital has attempted to integrate the benefits of both basic and clinical research into educational programs and clinical care. Today, McLean Hospital is providing care for more patients and families than ever before. It has eight locations throughout Eastern Massachusetts, sees more than 6,000 admissions annually, and maintains one of the largest psychiatric neuroscience research programs in the world.
Ellen Schreiber(left) and Diane Miller, co-chairs of the Friends of Joey's Park, present a scrapbook for the Claflin Room's historical collection
Before the start of the February 25th program on the history of the McLean Hospital, representatives from the Friends of Joey's Park made a presentation to the Belmont Historical Society. The Friends of Joey's Park is a grass-roots organization in Belmont dedicated to the reconstruction of Joey's Park, a playground built 25 years ago on the grounds of the Winn Brook School. The organization presented the Society with a scrapbook of pictures that document the work of the hundreds of people who came together to rebuild this community resource. That scrapbook will be a valuable addition to the Belmont memorabilia and archives in the Society's Claflin Room.
You may watch a video of the February 25th program, including both the lecture on the history of the McLean Hospital and the presentation of the Joey's Park scrapbook. The video was produced by the Belmont Media Center.
Live music and holiday decorations filled the Assembly Room on December 14th
The Belmont Historical Society's 2014 holiday program featured Vanessa Schukis, a mezzo-soprano and pianist who performed seasonal carols and also pieces from the 1500's/1600's on the flute. Ms. Schukis teaches voice and is on the faculty of the Powers Music School in Belmont. She has had a multi-faceted career as a character mezzo, actress, choreographer, stage director, vocal coach, educator, and administrator.
A holiday sing-along concluded the program
Vanessa has been a soloist/section leader for the historic Old North Church in Boston's North End for 26 years and a soloist/cantor for 15 years at St. Paul's church in Wellesley. She continues to perform in theater, opera, and concert engagements throughout the United States. Here in Red Sox Nation, she has sung the National Anthem and "God Bless America" at a Boston Red Sox game. Vanessa has been a member of the guest faculty at the New England Conservatory and a visiting faculty member at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge.
A special treat was the surprise appearance of the Belmont Historical Society Rhythm Quartet with Lois Farrell (left), the Society's Vice President, and Emilio Mauro Jr. (right), the Society's President
Joe Cornish made the Historic House Plaque presentations on behalf of the Society
Ian Watson accepts the Historic House Plaque for the Widow Brown Cottage on Clark Street
Prior to the musical program, the Belmont Historical Society recognized a set of historic Belmont homes by distributing historic house plaques. These plaques are awarded bi-annually at the Society's annual meeting in May and at the holiday program in December. The plaques recognize properties in the town that meet criteria for historic significance and historic preservation. Click here for more information and an application for the next round of awards.
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Stealing Rembrandts
The Gardner Museum's Dutch Room still displays empty frames where Rembrandt's "A Lady and Gentleman in Black" and "The Storm on the Sea of Galilee" once hung.
On the night of March 18, 1990, a pair of thieves disguised as Boston police officers entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and roamed the Museum's galleries, stealing 13 works of art including Rembrandt's "The Storm on the Sea of Galilee" and "A Lady and Gentleman in Black". This was the largest and most notorious art theft in history and remains unsolved to this day. On November 12th, Anthony Amore, Director of Security at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum where he also serves as chief investigator working to recover the stolen works taken in the infamous 1990 heist, presented an illustrated lecture describing the reality of art crimes as contrasted with the glamorized version frequently presented in movies. He described in fascinating detail three of history's most significant art thefts – all of which occurred here in Massachusetts (at the Worcester Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston), and all involved the theft of Rembrandt masterpieces. Anthony described the sorts of people who steal art masterpieces, why they do it, and what becomes of the art. Art theft is a $6-$8 billion dollar problem worldwide. You can watch the complete lecture on video courtesy of the Belmont Media Center.
Prior to his work with the Gardner Museum, Anthony Amore was senior Homeland Security official in Massachusetts and was the FAA's lead special agent responding to the terrorist attack attempted by Richard Reid, the so-called "Shoe bomber". Anthony also provides security analysis for Fox 25 News in Boston. He is the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Stealing Rembrandts, and his upcoming book The Art of the Con will be published in 2015. Return to top of page.
Anthony Amore explaining the world of art theft in his lecture "Stealing Rembrandts"
The Belmont Uplands: A History of the Changing Use of Land and Water
Walkway entering the Silver Maple Forest, a short distance from busy highways (Routes 2, 3, and 16) and the MBTA Alewife Station
On Sunday afternoon, October 26th, Anne-Marie Lambert presented an illustrated lecture on the Belmont Uplands, a 15 acre tract of land at the northeast corner of Belmont bordering Cambridge and Arlington. This area was once surrounded by the "Great Swamp" and includes the "Silver Maple Forest", a unique and fragile urban wildlife habitat. The forest and surrounding wetlands serve as natural sponges for a region already prone to flooding. This scenic area along the edges of Little Pond and the Little River is home to a diverse species of 45 breeding birds and 20 mammals which rely on the forest as well as the surrounding wetlands for survival. The transition of the Belmont Uplands from marshland to farmland to forest to suburban development tells a fascinating local story of the changing boundaries between nature and man, and between land and water.
Anne-Marie examined the history of these 15 acres through its current surroundings: a glacial kettle pond; a large channel dug in 1909 to drain the Great Swamp; a state reservation claimed by eminent domain when Frederick Law Olmsted's firm was promoting landscaped public parks; a highway widened in 1967 as a Cold War evacuation route; and a modern office park. The history of the Uplands includes Native American fish weirs for alewife, railroad spurs for the ice houses, the award-winning Heustis Farm, numerous pollution challenges, a homeless population, and, most recently, a remarkable collection of native wildlife. As demands for both human and wildlife habitat rise, and as climate change threatens, the story is not over.
The Heustis farm in 1910
Three generations of the direct descendants of Warren Heustis attended the Belmont Historical Society's program on October 26. From left to right, Andre Pare, Nancy (Heustis) Pare, Carol Heustis, and Emilio E. Mauro, Jr, the president of the Belmont Historical Society
Although farms began to appear in other parts of Belmont in the 1600's, the area surrounded by the Great Swamp was considered useless until the mid-1800's. In 1845 Warren Heustis and his new bride Lucy were given 13 acres of land in what is now the Uplands by Lucy's father, a member of one of the earliest settlers in Belmont. The Heustis farm grew and thrived as the railroads expanded and immigrant labor became increasingly available. That particular farm remained in the Heustis family until 1948 when it was sold. By then it was the next-to-last farm in Belmont, and in 1953 it was sold again, this time to the Arthur D. Little Company which built its Acorn Park facility on the land. A highlight of the Sunday afternoon presentation was the fact that three generations of the direct descendants of the Warren Heustis who established the original farm in 1845 attended the program.
Anne-Marie Lambert
Anne-Marie Lambert is on the board of the Belmont Citizens Forum and is co-founder of the Belmont Stormwater Working Group. She leads "Little River Nature History Walks" on the Alewife Reservation bordering the Belmont Uplands and has written many articles about the property for the Belmont Citizens Forum newsletter. Ms. Lambert is a recipient of the Belmont Historical Society's 2014 David R. Johnson Preservation Award for her ongoing work in educating the Belmont community and promoting planning and policies for preservation and environmental quality. She is a Belmont Town Meeting Member and has been a resident of Belmont for 20 years. You can watch Anne-Marie's complete lecture on video courtesy of the Belmont Media Center.
Francis Cabot Lowell: The Man Who Launched
America's Industrial Revolution
The Belmont Historical Society opened its fall season with an illustrated lecture on "Francis Cabot Lowell: The Man Who Launched America's Industrial Revolution" presented by author Chaim M. ("Mike") Rosenberg, a retired Boston psychiatrist and local history enthusiast who has written several books on America's industrial age. Francis Cabot Lowell was born in Newburyport and educated at Phillips Academy and Harvard College. After Lowell and his family toured Great Britain in the early 1800's and saw the tremendous changes brought about by the industrial revolution made possible by waterpower, he returned to Boston and brought the industrial revolution to Waltham. That site for Lowell's first mill, only a few miles from Belmont, was chosen because the waters of the Charles River provided power to run the mill machinery. This development marked the beginning of the shift in the Boston area's commercial foundation from the export/import trade to a manufacturing center. Lowell's associates later expanded his factory model to the Merrimack River and built America's first industrial city, named Lowell in his honor. You can watch Mike Rosenberg's interesting lecture on video courtesy of the Belmont Media Center.
Belmont Historical Society's Annual Meeting
Recognition Of Belmont's Historic Homes
The final meeting of the 2013-2014 year was the Belmont Historical Society's annual meeting that included the election of Officers and Directors for 2014-2015. In addition, the winners of the David R. Johnson Preservation Awards for 2014 were announced. The featured presentation was given by Joe Cornish who described the Society's newly-launched Historic House Plaque Program. Joe explained the process of how property owners may obtain plaques along with tips for researching the history of historic properties in town. Joe is a past president of the Belmont Historical Society, serves on the society's board as the Wellington Station Master, and is co-chair of the Belmont Historic District Commission. Joe is also the president of the New England Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians and has been employed by Historic New England since 1998 where he oversees the organization's preservation easement program. You can watch the entire proceedings on video courtesy of the Belmont Media Center.
Belmont And The Development Of Metropolitan Boston
On March 19th members and friends of the Belmont Historical Society gathered in the Assembly Room of the Belmont Memorial Library to enjoy a presentation by James O'Connell featuring the growth and development of the suburbs around Boston. Mr. O'Connell, who created the methodology to research how places are developed, began by stating that while Boston is a city that can trace its suburban growth back to the 1800's, currently there are 101 cities and towns inside Route 495 with a total population of approximately 4 million people. His book entitled The Hub's Metropolis: Greater Boston's Development from Railroad Suburbs to Smart Growth, traces this history from traditional town centers with greens to today's trends in urbanization. The lecture, like his book, focused on several different but distinct time periods including; "Country Estates" in the 1820's, "Railroad Suburbs" in the 1840's, "Street Car and Parkway Suburbs" through the 1940's, as well as continuing influences leading up to the new urbanization of the 21st century.
Local trends here in Belmont seemed to follow this pattern as fashionable country estates like the 50-room mansion built by John Perkins Cushing were scattered between many large market gardens that dominated the landscape when the town began. The Fitchburg Railroad, which extended its tracks through 1843, contributed to the increased growth of the farm community by making the area more accessible. Soon to follow was the street car line which opened with service from Waverley Square to Boston, creating new routes along the Trapelo Road corridor.
Mr. O'Connell explained that it was in the first few decades of the 20th century that Belmont experienced its most rapid growth spurt. The population in 1900 was 3,929; in 1920 it was 10,749; in 1940 it was 26,867; and in 1960 the population reached its peak at 28,715. Belmont responded to the increase by being the first town to adopt the Tenement Act in 1912, which restricted the construction of triple-decker buildings. This decision, as well as other local zoning bylaws implemented in the 1920's, favored the plans of single family house construction and did much to influence the development of this town.
It is hard to say what Belmont will look like in the future as the increased demand for thousands of housing units to keep pace with growth continues in the area. However, Belmont may feel less of an impact because most would agree that this four and a half square miles of real estate was mostly built out by the 1940's and its population peaked in the 1960's. Still, the current proposed development model for Cushing Square, which favors greater density and the combination of residential and retail space, may succeed in establishing this new trend in our own backyards.
Following the presentation, James O'Connell was available to answer questions and to sign copies of his book. He is seen here (center) with Anne Marie Lambert and Emilio Mauro Jr., President of the Belmont Historical Society. Besides The Hub's Metropolis, O'Connell has written four other books and many articles on urban planning and New England history. His other books include Becoming Cape Cod: Creating a Seaside Resort; The Pioneer Valley Reader; and The Inside Guide to Springfield and the Pioneer Valley. He is a Community Planner for the National Park Service, where he specializes in planning for historic sites and heritage areas.
Lexington Historical Society Colonial Singers
The Colonial Singers from the Lexington Historical Society performing at the Belmont Memorial Library on February 23, 2014
On Sunday afternoon February 23rd, under the direction of Diane Taraz, a group of "colonists" gathered in the Assembly Room of the Belmont Memorial Library to perform more than a dozen songs that captured the history and reflected the culture and daily life of the 1700's. These "colonists" were the Colonial Singers from the Lexington Historical Society, two men and a half-dozen women dressed in costumes of the period. The various musical selections included religious hymns, a call to meeting, a couple of folk songs, several "catches" (more commonly known as "rounds"), marching tunes, and a lively Celtic drinking song. The selections included both songs popular with the colonists (patriots) and songs popular with the British.
Diane Taraz, Director of the Colonial Singers, displaying the dulcimer, a typical musical instrument used in the 1700's.
Before each selection was sung, the Director took a few moments to explain the origins and context of each song. In the 1700's, long before the invention of the phonograph, records, radio, television, CDs, mp3 players, and other technical marvels, the only music was live music which you either played yourself or listened to in a pub, meeting house, church, or similar venue. As is the case today, songs provided a way to comment upon the political, social, and cultural events of the day. Each song has a story about the source of its melody and the context that inspired the words. Popular melodies were re-used with new lyrics to create new songs. One example of this approach is the well-known "Yankee Doodle". We think of this song today as a patriotic American tune. The music was actually borrowed from an earlier song titled "The Air From Who Knows Where", and the lyrics were written by British soldiers to make fun of the American soldiers who took part in the French and Indian War and were considered incompetent by the superior British forces.
The instrument in the foreground is a bodhran, an ancient percussion instrument still widely used in Celtic music today.
A lively catch from 1762 was sung with the explanation that these types of songs were very popular in the "Gentlemen's Clubs" around London in that era. The verses sung in rounds included the line "light all your pipes up so we can see what we are drinking by the light of the weed". An interesting set of lyrics was written by Dr. Joseph Warren who was Chair of the Committee of Safety and in 1770, long before the conflict with the British fully developed, wrote about a day in the future when America would be a land ruled by liberty. William Billings, a prolific hymn writer, composed a "Chester" (or melody) in 1778 to encourage the men in the Continental Army at a time when the battle for independence did not seem to be going very well. Its lyrics included the verses "God is on our side" and "the God of New England forever reigns!". The newspapers of the day such as the Boston Newsletter were another inspiration for songs. The newspaper reported that the British intended to tax goods such as silk, ribbons, and satin. Consequently, a song was written titled "Young Ladies in Town" to encourage the girls to boycott the purchase of these kinds of goods and to buy linen garments made locally from homespun fabrics.
The British Troops who were quartered in Boston in the early 1770's were increasingly harassed following the Boston Massacre and had to move from the city out to Castle Island for their own protection. They wrote a song in protest to threaten that they would return and burn down the town, kill John Hancock, and occupy Boston once again with additional reinforcements. This song became known as the "Castle Island Song" and the original broadside hangs today on the wall inside the Old State House in Boston. Several other war-themed songs were also performed including an allegory about the Boston Tea Party, a soldier of Scottish descent who asks a girl to marry him and become a "camp follower" roaming behind his regiment to help with his army duties, and another tale sung in "Soldier Will You Marry Me"? That story set to music tells of a poor continental commander who accepts the advances and the many gifts of a young lady in pursuit of his affection before he reveals that he has a wife and baby back home.
The festivities were concluded with a final song that repeated the verse "Good night and joy be with you all" which seemed a fitting way to end the educational and entertaining event. This song, commonly known as "The Parting Glass", dates back to the 1600's and is still performed frequently today in Celtic music settings.
You can learn more about the Colonial Singers at their website.
Four Centuries of Christmas in New England
On Wednesday evening, December 18th, Kenneth Turino from Historic New England presented a well-illustrated lecture about the evolution of the celebration of Christmas in New England from 1620 to the present day. The slide in this photograph shows early Christmas cards from the 19th century.
Image courtesy of Historic New England
Did you know that Christmas was not observed in any manner in Puritan New England in the 1600's? In fact, any observance of Christmas in the colonies was outlawed in 1659. That prohibition was loosened slightly in 1681 as a result of the British Restoration. The first observance of Christmas in Boston came in 1686, but Christmas Day was an ordinary workday in New England from the early 1600's into the mid 1800's. It was not until 1856 that Christmas became a legal holiday in Massachusetts, after most other states had already taken that step. The first Christmas trees appeared in the United States in communities of German immigrants in Pennsylvania in 1810. Christmas presents were originally not wrapped but were simply hung on the Christmas tree. That practice continued into the late 1890's. These and many other fascinating aspects of the growth and changes in the observation of Christmas were described by Kenneth Turino, Manager of Community Engagement and Exhibitions at Historic New England. You can learn more about the evolution of Christmas celebrations and traditions at Historic New England's website.
The Caning: How An Assault On The Floor Of The
U.S. Senate Drove America To Civil War
Boston area historian and author Stephen Puleo captivated the audience at the Belmont Historical Society's program on November 20, 2013.
Stephen Puleo
On Wednesday evening, November 20th, Boston area historian and author Stephen Puleo gave a dynamic presentation of the turbulent decade leading up to the Civil War which is the subject of his latest book "The Caning". The book's title comes from an unprecedented and savage attack on the floor of the U.S. Senate chamber on the afternoon of May 22, 1856. The pro-slavery Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina walked into the Senate Chamber in Washington and attacked the anti-slavery Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a walking cane. Senator Sumner was severely wounded in this shocking assault which convinced each side in the slavery debate that their differences were irreconcilable. The nation's turmoil grew worse during the next five years until the Civil War broke out in 1861. While many people today may think that the current Congress in Washington is hopelessly dysfunctional, Puleo argues convincingly that extreme partisanship and the inability to compromise were even worse during the 1850's.
This program was another in the Belmont Historical Society's series commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. As a matter of interest, Senator Charles Sumner is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery which was the venue for the Belmont Historical Society's program in October (see below).
Tour of Mount Auburn Cemetery
Members of the Belmont Historical Society and their guide during the tour of Mount Auburn Cemetery
On a beautiful autumn afternoon, members and friends of the Belmont Historical Society met in front of Story Chapel at Mount Auburn Cemetery for a walking tour of one of the nation's oldest and most beautifully landscaped cemetery/public parks. In 1831, the Massachusetts Horticultural Society purchased 72 acres of mature woodland in Watertown and Cambridge for the creation of a "rural cemetery" and experimental garden. Since its founding 182 years ago, Mount Auburn Cemetery has served the dual role of both an active cemetery and a "museum" preserving changing attitudes about death and changing tastes in architecture and landscape design. Mount Auburn Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2003.
Steve Pinkerton, Belmont resident and Mount Auburn Cemetery volunteer, led the tour and shared his extensive knowledge of local history, general facts about the cemetery, details of native plantings, and fascinating stories about some of the people buried there. The walk followed a route through a section of the grounds with beautiful vistas and historic plant and tree species in full fall color. Stops were made along the way to honor those whose "passage to the next world" began here.
Among the notable people whose graves we visited were:
The mausoleum of John Perkins Cushing whose country estate "Bellmont" gave the town its name. The mausoleum is currently under repair.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – famed writer and poet.
Mary Baker Eddy – the founder of the Religion of Christian Science and the Christian Science Monitor.
John Perkins Cushing – a wealthy China trade merchant whose 50-room mansion "Bellmont" provided the name for our "new town" when it finally won the battle for incorporation in 1859.
Thomas Handyside Perkins – (Cushing's cousin) who competed against him in yacht races in Boston Harbor.
William P. Winchester – who purchased the naming rights for the nearby town of Winchester.
Harriet Hosmer and Winslow Homer – two well-known artists whose graves happen to be suitably situated near each other. Winslow Homer, perhaps the better-known of the two, spent summers in Belmont during the 1850's at the home of his uncle William Flagg Homer (see below). A number of Winslow Homer's famous paintings depict scenes at his uncle's house and other locations in Belmont.
William Flagg Homer, uncle of Winslow Homer, whose historic house in Belmont is open to the public.
William Harnden – founder of the express business in America whose employees built him an elaborate monument to replace his original modest stone.
William Flagg Homer and Samuel Orlando Mead – two prominent businessmen who both married daughters of Colonel Jeduthan Wellington and built houses in Belmont. The historic William Flagg Homer house in Belmont was built in 1853 and is now owned by the Belmont Woman's Club and is open to the public.
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We like the option to ignore Reality.
Created by the mysterious hacker [N-O-D-E], the site is exceptionally minimal, providing an experience not entirely unlike a feed reader. Each story has a main image, a few sentences that describe what it's about, and the ever-important link to the original source. There's even a color filter applied on the images so they aren't jarring when compared to the site's monochrome color scheme. (If that all sounds familiar, it's because Hackaday came up with the idea 18 years ago. But it's cool, we're not salty or anything.)
In all seriousness, the site looks very well done and will no doubt be a great resource for the community. A particularly interesting feature is that entries expire automatically after 30 days. This speaks to the goal [N-O-D-E] has for MOSFET.net — it's designed to show you relevant tech news, and literally nothing else. The focus and simplicity is beautiful.
Here's wishing all the luck to [N-O-D-E] in this new venture. We know better than most that it can be a difficult and sometimes thankless job, but we wouldn't still be doing it all these years if it wasn't worth the effort. The tech world is always growing and there's plenty of room for everyone. In fact, a recent peek at the analytics revealed that Hackaday got more views in 2022 than at any time in its history. As far as we're concerned, the future looks bright for everyone.
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Those "climategate" emails
The current "scandal" erupting around the hacking of servers at the University of East Anglias' Climate Research Centre is rather predictable. The public release of stolen emails has been seized on by climate change deniers as evidence for their claims of manipulated data and faulty peer-review. Even more dishonestly they have been used to attack the integrity of science, and scientists, in general – quite apart form any climate change issue (see for example WarmingGate, The scientific community and self-criticism, Climate scientists caught lying and How the Global Warming Scientists Really Work at four local religious apologetics blogs). On the other hand, researchers and many newspaper commentators say the emails show nothing more than frank discussion between scientists around the world and details of their collaboration on research projects and journal articles.
Domestic debris and media comments
Anyone interested in the boredom of trawling through such domestic debris can access the stolen emails at Alleged CRU Emails. For some more balanced news media coverage have a look at:
This climate email -hacking episode is generating more heat than light
Global warming rigged? Here's the email I'd need to see
Climate change email hacking to be looked into by University of East Anglia
Leaked emails mark dangerous shift in climate denial strategy
Climate change champion and sceptic both call for inquiry into leaked emails
Leaked email climate smear was a PR disaster for UEA
And a rather humorous take on "climategate" is available here: Newtongate: the final nail in the coffin of Renaissance and Enlightenment 'thinking'
Predictably only the most apparently damning emails have been quoted in the media. While I think some of the language in the emails is disappointing I don't think it is surprising for informal private communications. The scientific institutes involved may well be adivsed to investigate specific comments, if only to reinforce their scientific integrity in the public mind. But I will be surprised if these comments indicate any real scientific fraud.
The NZ Science Media Centre has released a summary of reactions from UK-based scientists. It originates from their sister organisation, the Science Media Centre in London.
Dr Chris Huntingford, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), said:
"Using the very comprehensive set of temperature measurements available to us, we do know that there has been significant warming over the last hundred years. These datasets have been compiled by independent research laboratories in both the UK and the USA."Computer model descriptions of the climate system are increasing in their predictive skill, and there are now very good reasons to believe that their output is accurate and can be trusted. These simulations provide compelling evidence of the link between global warming and increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide due to the burning of fossil fuels.
"Such state-of-the-art computer models of how the climate functions do also account for natural cycles in the Earth system. However, when the additional influence of humans is not considered, they are unable to explain the rapid rate of warming that has been observed over the last Century. The implication is that to a very high level of certainty, the warming observed in the last Century is not part of a natural cycle.
"Almost all current scientific understanding of how the climate system operates suggests that humankind is having an influence on our climate system."
Professor John Burrows, Director of the Biogeochemistry Programme, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH), said:
"The peer review scientific process was created to try to avoid conspiracies from any side on an issue. Despite the adverse reaction in some quarters the current discussion is a perfect example that whilst it doesn't always look perfect, an open debate, backed up by peer review, is what science is all about.
"Whilst not ignoring "emailgate" we should not inadvertently move the public attention from the established scientific consensus to the attempt at character assassination being made by these climate change sceptics.
"The basic physics of global climate change has been known since Arrhenius at the end of the 19th century if not before. The four Assessment Reports from the IPCC are consistent, however, the data since 1990 seems to follow worst case scenarios. To me this is evidence that the scientific community is behaving responsibly and rather cautiously with respect to the science of climate change."
Professor Piers Forster, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, said:
"Scientists at the Climate Research Unit are leading experts in the world's temperature record. They do an amazingly hard job of collecting data from lots of counties, looking at errors and putting the different datasets together. They have been under increasing pressure from a few individuals to respond to multiple FOI calls. Like all us scientists they are short of man-power and stretch their resources to the maximum to do as much new science as possible. The need to respond to FOI requests are often too large to make them feasibly achievable and whilst some of the emails show scientists to be all too human, nothing I have read makes me doubt the veracity of the peer review process or the general warming trend in the global temperature record. I know that when errors in their global temperature product have previously been found (e.g. Thomson et al., 2008, Nature), they responded as all scientists should, researching the source of the error with true scientific enthusiasm."
Dr Stephan Harrison, Associate Professor in Quaternary Science, School of Geography, University of Exeter, said:
"The emails from the Climatic Research Unit which have been published on the internet have been seized upon by climate change sceptics as evidence that scientists are involved in a global warming conspiracy, suppression of dissenting voices and making data up to support a global warming agenda. We shouldn't get too carried away, however. Irrespective of what may or may not have been said in some private emails, this doesn't change the physical properties of carbon dioxide, and doesn't change the fact that human activity is warming the planet. There's a lot of politics in all of this debate, but it is the science that has to drive policy."
Kathy Maskell, Spokesperson, & Professor Rowan Sutton, Walker Institute, University of Reading, said:
"Throughout the Earth's history there have been natural changes in climate caused by many factors, including variations in the Earth's orbit around the Sun, volcanic eruptions, and changes in greenhouse gas concentrations. The scientific evidence now shows that people are changing the global climate.
"Climate scientists look at both natural factors that cause climate to change and they look at the effect that people are having on climate. There is no doubt that human activity, such as burning fossil fuels and agriculture, is increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This increase in greenhouse gases is causing the globe to warm.
"The current warmth is unusual in the context of the last 1000 years (at least) and is not just part of a natural cycle. Past changes are also thought to have occurred much more slowly than the warming over the 20th century.
"The majority of scientists agree that much of the warming since the mid-20th century is very likely due to increasing greenhouse gases being produced by human activity. Scientists have looked at different possible causes for the warming. Natural changes (like changes in the Sun's output) cannot explain 20th century warming. The only way to reproduce the warming over the 20th century is to include the effects that people are having on the climate.
"Over the 20th century as a whole there has been a warming trend of 0.7 degrees centigrade and the warming has accelerated since the mid-20th century. The warming has not been steady and there have been periods of cooling. This is exactly what climate scientists would expect. As well as increasing greenhouse gases, natural factors (such as volcanic eruptions and changes in sea surface temeprature in the Pacific called El Nino) are also affecting global temperature. So scientists would expect there to be short periods where there is less warming and even cooling, but overall the trend is towards higher global temperatures."
Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, said:
"Once appropriate action has been taken over the hacking, there has to be some process to assess the substance of the e-mail messages as well. The selective disclosure and dissemination of the messages has created the impression of impropriety, and the only way of clearing the air now would be through a rigorous investigation. I have sympathy for the climate researchers at the University of East Anglia and other institutions who have been the target of an aggressive campaign by so-called 'sceptics' over a number of years. But I fear that only a thorough investigation could now clear their names.
"There needs to be an assurance that these e-mail messages have not revealed inappropriate conduct in the preparation of journal articles and in dealing with requests from other researchers for access to data. This will probably require investigations both by the host institutions and by the relevant journals. There may also be a role for the UK Office of Research Integrity to advise on any investigation.
"The e-mail messages I have seen posted on 'sceptics" websites do not cast doubt on the basic physical fact that the Earth is warming in response to rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. 'Sceptics' may seek to wrongly portray these e-mail messages as a smoking gun from a worldwide conspiracy to create a global warming hoax, but that is simply a ridiculous fantasy."
Dr Andy Challinor, lecturer in Climate Change Modelling, University of Leeds, said:
"Scientists are frequently faced with choices about methods of presenting data. The aim is to represent the underlying facts clearly, and there is rarely a single correct way of doing this. The mechanisms for anthropogenic climate change are established science that is well-understood. The idea that the many scientists across the globe working on climate change could collude in misrepresenting the fundamentals of the science is ludicrous, since it would be both counter-cultural to science and logistically impossible."
Dr Shaun Fitzgerald, Industrial Fellow, University of Cambridge BP Institute, said:
"The evidence base for climate change continues to be debated. However, what is disappointing is that there is less debate about what we should be doing morally regardless of the strength of the case for or against climate change being driven by mankind. Even if some people want to dismiss the evidence base, what do they think we should do as responsible citizens? Clearly we should be seeking ways of reducing our impact on the planet – this is irrefutable.
"Improving energy efficiency and switching to non/low-carbon energy sources are vital. In the case of improved energy efficiency, there are strong economic arguments today as to why this should be done now. In the case of switching to non/low carbon energy sources, the economic arguments are longer-term and may involve consideration of the cost of climate change as per the Stern report. In summary, I fail to understand why people want to debate the evidence base for climate change rather than debate what we should be doing anyway to reduce our impact on the planet. The technological advances in energy efficiency need to be adopted by more people, and more quickly, before we invest more time debating climate change! "
(Further Information: To talk to any of the experts quoted above contact the Science Media Centre on tel: 04 499 5476 or email: smc@sciencemediacentre.co.nz.)
I realise these comments will have no influence on the more adamant climate change deniers or those who wish to sneeringly smear and attack science and scientists for their own ideological or religious reasons. But hopefully more reasonable people will be able to see through such attacks and recognise that these stolen emails don't indicate any widespread conspiracy to deceive.
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Cedric Katebsy | November 25, 2009 at 1:23 am |
Deniers have indeed seized on this yet the deniers themselves seem to be very coy on specific allegations.
Greenfyre has done an interesting analysis of the situation here.
Plus there's also an article on how to effectively talk about the smear campaign.
joe public | November 25, 2009 at 10:04 am |
Here's a couple of links to the files if anyones interested, since they're already freely available on the internet.
http://uploading.com/files/a775cf5e/FOI2009.zip/
http://hotfile.com/dl/18516510/bf4104d/FOI2009.zip.html
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So I see O'Leary at Uncommon Descent has linked to this post. Oh well, any publicity is good publicity. But her link only brought 2 visits! Does that say something about the number of readers she gets?
hkyson | December 13, 2009 at 10:37 am |
"Climategate" started out when there appeared on the Internet a collection of e-mails of a group of climatologists who work in the University of East Anglia in England. These documents reveal that some climatologists of international preeminence have manipulated the data of their investigations and have strongly tried to discredit climatologists who are not convinced that the increasing quantities of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere are the cause of global warming.
It is true that a majority of the scientists who study climatic tendencies in our atmosphere have arrived at the conclusion that the world's climate is changing, and they have convinced a group of politicians, some of whom are politically powerful, of the truth of their conclusions.
A minority, however, is skeptical. Some believe that recent data that suggest that the average temperature of the atmosphere is going up can be explained by natural variations in solar radiation and that global warming is a temporary phenomenon. Others believe that the historical evidence indicating that the temperature of the atmosphere is going up at a dangerous rate is simply not reliable.
Such lacks of agreement are common in the sciences. They are reduced and eventually eliminated with the accumulation of new evidence and of more refined theories or even by completely new ones. Such debates can persist for a period of decades. Academics often throw invective at one another in these debates. But typically this does not mean much.
But the case of climate change is different. If the evidence indicates that global warming is progressive, is caused principally by our industrial processes, and will probably cause disastrous changes in our atmosphere before the end of the twenty-first century, then we do not have the time to verify precisely if this evidence is reliable. Such a process would be a question of many years of new investigations. And if the alarmist climatologists are right, such a delay would be tragic for all humanity.
The difficulty is that economic and climatologic systems are very complicated. They are not like celestial mechanics, which involves only the interaction of gravity and centrifugal force, and efforts to construct computerized models to describe these complicated systems simply cannot include all the factors that are influential in the evolution of these complicated systems.
All this does not necessarily indicate that the alarmist climatologists are not right. But it really means that if global warming is occurring, we cannot know exactly what will be the average temperature of our atmosphere in the year 2100 and what will be the average sea level of the world's ocean in that year.
It also means that we cannot be confident that efforts by the industrialized countries to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere will have a significant influence on the evolution of the world's climate.
Alas, the reduction of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere would be very costly and would greatly change the lives of all the inhabitants of our planet–with the possibility (perhaps even the probability!) that all these efforts will be completely useless.
Harleigh Kyson Jr.
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Q: How to validate date in R I have a date in the format dd-mm-yyyy HH:mm:ss
What is the best and easiest way to validate this date?
I tried
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But how can I catch the error when an illegal date is passed?

A: Simple way:
d <- try(as.Date(date, format="%d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S"))
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}

Explanation: format.Date uses as.Date internally to convert date into an object of the Date class. However, it does not use a format option, so as.Date uses the default format, which is %Y-%m-%dand then %Y/%m/%d.
The format option from format.Date is used only for the output, not for the parsing. Quoting from the as.Date man page:

The 'as.Date' methods accept character strings, factors, logical
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last is converted to days by ignoring the time after midnight in
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characters are ignored.

However, when you directly call as.Date with a format specification, nothing else will be allowed than what fits your format.
See also: ?as.Date

A: You may want to look at the gsubfn package.  This has functions (gsubfn specifically) that work like other regular expression functions to match pieces to a string, but then it calls a user supplied function and passes the matching pieces to this function.  So you would write your own function that looks at the year, moth, and day and makes sure that they are in the correct ranges (and the range for day can depend on the passed month and year.

A: This might be helpful if flexibility is desired in a date-time entry.
I have a function where I want to allow either a date-only entry or a date-time entry, then set a flag - for use inside the function only. I'm calling this flag data_type. The flag will be used later in the larger function to select units for getting a difference in two dates with difftime. (In most cases, the function will be perfectly fine with date only, but in some cases a user might need a shorter time frame. I don't want to inconvenience users with the shorter time frame if they don't need it.)
I am posting this for two reasons: 1) to help anyone trying to allow flexibility in date arguments and 2) to welcome sanity checks in case there's a problem with the method, since this is going into a function in an R package.
dat_time_check_fn <- function(dat_time) {
  if (!anyNA(as.Date(dat_time, format= "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"))) date_type <- 1
else if (!anyNA(as.Date(dat_time, format= "%Y-%m-%d"))) date_type <- 2
else stop("Error: dates must either be in format '1999-12-31' or '1999-12-31 23:59:59' ")
date_type
}

Date-time case
date5 <- "1999-12-31 23:59:59"

date_type <- dat_time_check_fn(date5)
date_type
[1] 1

Date only case:
date6 <- "1999-12-31"

date_type <- dat_time_check_fn(date6)
date_type
[1] 2

Note that if the order above in the function is reversed, the longer date-time can be inadvertently coerced to the shorter version and both types result in date_type = 1.
My larger function has more than one date, but I need them to be compatible. Below, I'm checking the two dates checked above, where one was type 1 and one was type 2. Combining types gives the result with date only (type 2):
date_type <- dat_time_check_fn(c(date5, date6))
date_type
[1] 2

Here's a non-compliant version:
date7 <- "1/31/2011"

date_type <- dat_time_check_fn(date7)

Error in dat_time_check_fn(date7) :
  Error: dates must either be in format '1999-12-31' or '1999-12-31 23:59:59'

A: Many solutions here are prone to SQL injection. They return TRUE for date = "2020-08-11; DROP * FROM my_table". Here is a vectorized base R function that works with NA:
is_date = function(x, format = NULL) {
  formatted = try(as.Date(x, format), silent = TRUE)
  is_date = as.character(formatted) == x & !is.na(formatted)  # valid and identical to input
  is_date[is.na(x)] = NA  # Insert NA for NA in x
  return(is_date)
}

Let's try:
> is_date(c("2020-08-11", "2020-13-32", "2020-08-11; DROP * FROM table", NA), format = "%Y-%m-%d")
## TRUE FALSE FALSE    NA

A: I believe that what you are looking for is the tryCatch function.
The following as an excerpt from a script I wrote which accepts any .csv file with two series that have a common x axis. The first column in 'data' is the common x axis variable, and columns 2 & 3 are the y axis variables. I needed the tryCatch statement to make sure the script would create a plot regardless of whether the x axis data is a time series, or some other type of variable.
### READ DATA FROM A CSV FILE
data = read.csv("STLDvsNEM2.csv", header = TRUE)

#CONVERT FIRST ROW OF DATA (IN MY CASE, THE COLUMN INTENDED TO BE THE X AXIS)
#TO AN ACCEPTABLE DATE FORMAT
#IF FIRST ROW OF DATA IS NOT IN AN ACCEPTABLE DATE FORMAT
#USE THE VALUE WITHOUT ANY TRANSFORMATION
x <- tryCatch({
  as.Date(data[,1])},
  warning = function(w) {},
  error = function(e) {
    x <- data[,1]
  })
y1 <- data[,2]
y2 <- data[,3]

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Home › 📖 Doctrine › 📖💡👑 What Is True, Biblical Worship?
Our doctrinal study begins with God's command to Abraham to sacrifice his only son (Gen. 22:1-4), and Abraham's announcement that he planned to "worship" God in so doing (v. 5). The law of first reference suggests that the Bible's first use of the word worship here defines it as a willingness to obey God no matter how one's faith is tested, a good overall definition even today. And since Abraham indicated that "the lad" was also going to worship, the willingness of Isaac to give his life up at his father's behest1 suggests that when we willingly offer our lives as living sacrifices at our Father's behest (Rom. 12:1), this too is an act of worship. We find confirmation of this when the Lord equated worshipping God with serving God in Matthew 4:10.
Contributing financially to the Lord's work is probably not commonly thought of as worship, but the worship of the wise men is said to have included presenting the Lord with their gifts (Mt. 2:11), suggesting that giving to the Lord's work is an example of worship that is fit for a King.
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Funny that I went so hard for this, yet most of my times in the next couple years I couldn't be bothered to put in more than a couple hours per IL.


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Q: Separating Button Click Behavior Running through an example from the book, AngularJS, why does clicking the Reset button result in the alert, sorry, please get more customers.?
I only want the alert to occur when pressing the Fund my startup! button.
<html ng-app>
<body>

    <script src=
"https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.0.1/angular.min.js">
      </script>

    <form ng-submit="requestFunding()" ng-controller="StartUpController">
        Starting: <input ng-change="computeNeeded()" ng-model="startingEstimate">
        Recommendation: {{needed}}
        <button>Fund my startup!</button>
        <button ng-click="reset()">Reset</button>
    </form>

    <script>
        function StartUpController($scope) {
            $scope.computeNeeded = function() {
                $scope.needed= $scope.startingEstimate * 10;
            };

            $scope.requestFunding = function() {
                window.alert("sorry, please get more customers.");
            };

            $scope.reset = function() {
                $scope.startingEstimate = 0;
            };
        }
    </script>
</body>
</html>

A: You need to prevent the default button on-click behavior (which is submit)
The most explicit way in angular:
Following is a one way.  (You could create a directive for this purpose, too.)
template:
    <button ng-click="reset($event)">Reset</button>

javascript:
    $scope.reset = function( event ) {
      event.preventDefault();
      $scope.startingEstimate = 0;
    };

somewhat implicit way in general html:
<button type="button" ng-click="reset()">Reset</button>

This works by overriding the type attribute of button element
which happens to be 'submit'.


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On March 14th, 2017, we lost the Greatest Detection Dog Ever. Today we lost a dog who has been my second partner since the passing of my Police Dog, Falco von Aramis. It is with the heaviest of hearts that I have to inform the world that we lost The Great Bruno von Falco.
I know many of our detection dog handlers will dispute the claim of Bruno being the best ever… and of course, defend their dog as being the best. But I think I can make a pretty good argument as to the greatness of this unlikely yet masterful detection dog.
Bruno was, in fact, an exceptional dog… but he did not start off that way. Several years ago when I had the bright idea of starting a security company (whole nuther story). And in this security company, we of course, decided to provide narcotics and explosive detection dog services. So the search for qualified dogs was on.
Unfortunately, I cannot remember all the details of how Bruno came to our attention but my memory tells me that he was with a family and due to a change in circumstances, they had to give him up so they called Falco K9 Academy. Upon testing Bruno I found him to be an average dog at best but he did not blow my socks off at the time. But he was good enough to keep him in the running and also because he was less expensive than a trip to Europe for a candidate.
Eventually, a man by the name of Lowin was selected as the handler to work with Bruno. So here I had an inexperienced former truck driver with a dog that was not the best of the best but still worth giving a try… PERFECT! As anyone knows who has ever started a business, sometimes you have to make things work to keep expenses down and to just get things started. So we gave both of them a shot. As we also learn in life, out of some of the biggest challenges and moments of adversity, comes your greatest accomplishments. You also have to dig through the rocks to find the gems. Thank God we did.
As training started, I remember Bruno sometimes just looking at us like we were crazy almost saying, "What the HELL! This makes no sense!" And although there were moments when we all were ready to quit and we had high levels of frustration, Bruno began to search for narcotics. Not only that, Lowin, who was all thumbs and toes to start, became an outstanding handler. They actually became a very effective team. It was night and day! It was amazing!!
Bruno and Lowin would go on to work in schools searching for hidden narcotics and almost immediately began to find dope in schools in Indio, CA and other areas. One time they even had an alert on a teacher's desk where they found methamphetamine. The dope-taking teacher was removed from the school.
During this time, Bruno would also be trained to be a protection dog. And although Bruno was a lover, not a fighter, he would do bite work. Mostly for show but I have a feeling if he was needed to protect Lowin or his future handlers I am sure he would step up to the plate. Bruno was a big German Shepherd with a big bark. There are few people who would continue their aggression once Bruno made his presence known.
Bruno would also begin doing demonstrations with Lowin and that is when I first witnessed the willingness of Bruno to perform. He never missed! And if you know me, I will never say a dog and especially never a dog/human combination have the ability to be perfect. Because not ALWAYS are the conditions, human and dog perfect ALL at the same. But Bruno always found a way to have success in spite of imperfect conditions and an imperfect handler. Bruno would land us jobs and a lot of interest due to his performances. Lowin wasn't bad either!
Unfortunately, the security company ended as quickly as it got started. Even though we were handling the security for Comic-con in San Diego and the Coachella Fest and Stage Coach events in Indio and countless other venues, it just was not to be. So we closed the doors and Lowin went back to Driving trucks and Bruno came home with me. For short time Bruno would become a part of my family and my very small children loved the big oaf. He would run around the backyard and bite at the bees and get stung every time. I would make videos of my small children performing obedience behaviors to show the power of Falco K9 Academy of training. It was great because Bruno was so much bigger than my kids.
During Bruno's time with the security company, I began to get asked to speak on stage to hundreds of attorneys regarding detection dogs. One of the first events was Cesar's Palace in Las Vegas to an audience of over 500 people. For some of you, you could not imagine speaking in front of 500 plus people… but imagine also having to perform a demonstration to show how a detection dog should look when they are searching for narcotics. I also did this while on mic and speaking to the audience while Bruno was searching. I also, I got the bright idea to hide the narcotic training aids in the audience. On their tables, chairs and on the food trays in the back of the room adding a whole new level of difficulty.
Here is what made Bruno the BEST DETECTION DOG EVER! Not only could he actually perform the job in the field and was proven. He performed these demonstrations PERFECTLY. And again, I never use that word in dog training or dog handling. In these huge auditoriums with my voice coming from all the speakers in the room. With a packed room and often standing room only I would place 6 hides amongst the crowd and along the walls. With people moving around, eating food, talking and lifting up their briefcases… Bruno would begin picking off the finds one at a time. I would work both on leash and off leash. At some venues, I would even send him from the stage while I stayed on stage and he would go out and make the first couple finds without me. At no time did we rehearse or do pre-training before the event. He would just do it. Sometimes I would arrive at the venue make the hinges on a break, bet on stage and do the talk and demonstration; back up the aids and leave. Never once preparing or doing anything in advance.
We performed this talk at Planet Hollywood and the Golden Nugget in addition to Cesar's Palace over the years in Las Vegas. We began to get invited to speak all over the Unites States. We would fly to Texas, North Carolina, Oregon and Aspen Colorado to name a few. And he would never miss a hide. No matter how difficult I made the finds or even if someone moved a chair without me knowing with a hide on it… he would find it. In the case of the moved chair (which happened more than once) I just had to trust him. The first time I pulled him off because I thought it was the wrong chair, and on mic admitted that sometimes dogs make mistakes. I even joked that the attorney that was sitting there may have "keestered" some dope before the event. After the audience laughed, I sent Bruno back out and he went to the same chair. I finally had to look under the chair and there was the dope. The audience member then said, "Oh sorry I took this chair from over there because the one that was here was broken". On this day I learned to trust Bruno even more.
While Bruno was living with my family I received a call from a wonderful lady by the name of Cher Aballano. She advised me she loved German Shepherds and she was interested in getting one to do detection work and some bite work. After talking to her, I thought maybe she might be interested in Bruno because I was so busy with other people's dogs, I was not able to spend much time with my own dogs. Plus Bruno looked like the perfect dog for her… that was until I met Cher for the first time in person.
Cher came to my office to meet Bruno and in walks a woman in her 60's and about the size of my 10-year-old. I am sure she weighed 80 to 90 lbs at the time. The same weight as Bruno. After a bit of back and forth, and needless to say, Cher fell in love with Bruno and desired to take him. However, this is when we found out his hips were starting to shows signs of dysplasia. And in the end, Cher decided to take Bruno anyway and it has been a match made in heaven ever since. Cher has cared for Bruno above and beyond what I had hoped for Bruno. He was the luckiest dog on the planet.
Eventually, Cher would be hired by the LA County Sheriff's Department to perform searches on the Metro Rail. She was never so proud and excited to get her uniform and pose with Bruno on the day she was sworn in.
An agreement that Cher and I had is that I could take him to perform our talks when needed and to do odd jobs here and there and we did. We continued to perform all over the USA, Pet Expos, Television, Churches and more. And no matter how sore he was he would always, ALWAYS make the finds. He could always be pet and he would always pose for the camera.
Bruno overall was the perfect detection dog and just simply the perfect dog. This story would be 3 times as long if I continued to tell you stories of our adventures together and the unlikeliness of him even becoming a detection dog. But I hope this gives you a sense of what a loss Bruno is. Not only for Cher, Lowin and myself but also for the Detection Dog Community. Bruno was a great representative of what a detection dog can and could do.
A few days ago, Cher called me to let me know that Bruno was sick and he was being X-rayed. She said they had found something on and early X-ray but on a second X-ray, they could not find what they saw the first time. Because of this and by the way he was acting, they needed to do more tests. At his point, the expenses had reached thousands of dollars. But Cher would never give up if it meant saving Bruno's life and making him as comfortable as possible. Yesterday, on my birthday, I got the call from Cher where she told me that Bruno had died in her home at approximately 12:30 am pst. A Necropsy would show that Bruno died of cancer. The veterinarian said it was so bad that there was no reason why Bruno should have been able to walk, eat or even jump. Yet he did! What else would you expect from the Greatest Detection Dog Ever?
Thank you, Cher, for giving Bruno a great life and thank you Lowin for starting his career as the Best Detection Dog EVER.


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