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Гу́став Ха́ральд Аугуст Мула́ндер (; 18 ноября 1888, Гельсингфорс, Великое княжество Финляндское, Российская империя, ныне Хельсинки, Финляндия — 19 июня 1973, Стокгольм, Швеция) — шведский кинорежиссёр и сценарист.

Биография
Родился 18 ноября 1888 года в Гельсингфорсе, в Великом княжестве Финляндском, где его отец Харальд Муландер выступал в Шведском театре.

С 1907 по 1909 годы учился в школе при Королевском драматическом театре Стокгольма. Как актёр выступал до 1913 года в Шведском театре Гельсингфорса, а позднее окончательно переехал в Стокгольм.

В кинематографе начинает как сценарист в 1916 году. Пишет сценарии для Виктора Шёстрема и Морица Стиллера. Как режиссёр дебютирует в 1920 году («Король павочников»), но успех пришёл к нему только в 1931 — после выхода на экран фильма «Одна ночь». Снимал мелодрамы, которые критика называла сентиментальными. Обращался к антивоенной и антифашистской тематике. Экранизировал произведения скандинавской классической литературы. Снял несколько картин по сценариям Ингмара Бергмана. Постоянно сотрудничал с кинооператором Оке Дальквистом.

Участник конкурсных программ 2-го (1934, «Маленький флирт»), 6-го (1938, «Лицо женщины») и 10-го (1949, «Ева») международных Венецианских кинофестивалей.

Был женат на актрисе Карин Муландер. Их сыновья Харальд Муландер (1909—1994) и Ян Муландер (1920—2009) связали свою жизнь с кинематографом.

Избранная фильмография
  — Король лавочников / Bodakungen
  — Одна ночь / En natt
  — Маленький флирт / En stilla flirt (по роману Эдит Эберг)
  — Сведенхельмы / Swedenhielms (по роману Яльмара Бергмана)
  — На солнечной стороне / På solsidan (по пьесе Хельге Крога)
  — Интермеццо / Intermezzo (по рассказу Йёста Стевенса)
  — Единственная ночь / En enda natt
  — Лицо женщины / En kvinnas ansikte
  — Возгорится пламя / Det brinner en eld (по рассказу Йёста Стевенса)
  — Слово / Ordet (по пьесе Кая Мунка)
  — Император Португальский / Kejsarn av Portugallien (по роману Сельмы Лагерлёф)
  — Невидимая стена / Den osynliga muren (по роману Марики Стернстедт)
  — Женщина без лица / Kvinna utan ansikte
  — Ева / Eva
  — Разведённый / Frånskild
  — Деньги господина Арне / Herr Arnes penningar (по роману Сельмы Лагерлёф)
  — Песнь о багрово-красном цветке / Sången om den eldröda blomman (по роману Йоханнеса Линнанкоски)
  — Стимуляция / Stimulantia (новелла «Ожерелье»)

Награды
 1934 — Почётный диплом 2-го международного Венецианского кинофестиваля («Маленький флирт»)
 1938 — Специальная рекомендация 6-го международного Венецианского кинофестиваля («Лицо женщины»)

Сочинения
 Molander, Gustaf. Jag minns så gärna. Stockholm, 1970.

Литература
 Кино: Энциклопедический словарь / Гл. ред. С. И. Юткевич Москва, Советская энциклопедия, 1987. — с. 281
 Рязанова О, Муландер Густав // Режиссёрская энциклопедия. Кино Европы / Сост. Черненко М. М. — М., Материк, 2002. — с.123—124 — ISBN 5-85646-077-4
 Кинорежиссёры Скандинавии: Библиографический справочник / Авт.-сост. О. Э. Рязанова; под ред. М. М. Черненко. — М.: НИИ киноискусства, 1996. — с. 100—103
 Forslund, Bengt (2003). Molander, Molander, Molander: en släktkrönika med tonvikt på Gustaf och Olof Molander, film- och teaterlegender under ett halvt sekel. Stockholm: Carlsson. Libris 8909864. ISBN 91-7203-519-6 (inb.)
 Gimtar från förr — axplock ur Gävles historia, utgiven 2007 av Jan G. Ljungström.

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English cardinal after mosque attack: 'Repudiate hatred and violence'
A police officer stands in front of messages and tributes June 19 left near where a man died and 10 people were injured after a van was rammed into a crowd of worshippers near a mosque in north London. A 48-year-old man was arrested in the collision with pedestrians outside the Muslim Welfare House, police said. CNS photo/Kevin Coombs, Reuters
LONDON – An English cardinal has condemned an attack against Muslims who had gathered close to a London mosque.
Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster issued a statement following the fourth terror attack in the United Kingdom in the past three months.
At least one person was killed and 10 others were injured when the lone assailant drove a van into a crowd of Muslims gathered outside the Muslim Welfare House, near the Finsbury Park Mosque, where they had been attending Ramadan prayers. The incident occurred at 12:20 a.m. June 19.
"Together with people all over this country, I am appalled at the deliberate attack on people leaving their late-night prayers, as the end of their day of fasting, at the mosque in Finsbury Park," said Cardinal Nichols in a June 19 statement.
"I have assured the leadership of the mosque and the Muslim welfare centre of our prayers and support," he said.
"Violence breeds violence. Hatred breeds hatred. Every one of us must repudiate hatred and violence from our words and actions," the cardinal continued. "We must all be builders of understanding, compassion and peace, day by day, in our homes, our work and our communities. That is the only way."
A 48-year-old man was overpowered by Muslim bystanders and was restrained until he was arrested by police officers who arrived within minutes.
Police has described the attack as a "terrorist incident." Witnesses reported that the assailant repeatedly said: "I want to kill Muslims."
The attack follows two terrorist attacks by Muslim extremists in London, in which vehicles were used to kill pedestrians, and a suicide bomb attack after a concert by Ariana Grande in Manchester in May that left 22 people dead.
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"Tell me a story" is one of the most powerful phrases you can utter to another human being. Stories allow us to relate to each other. They connect us, unite us, and make meaning for us.
When we can't take the rest of the world with us on our travels, we tell the story of our adventures through photos.
When one of our children trips and falls, we ask, "what happened?" so they can tell the story of their pain.
Stories allow us to understand each other in all our complexities and peculiarities and share our experiences with one another. Brands that are built on a compelling story tend to thrive, while a low-budget movie with a powerful story can make millions, and a friend willing to relate to you through stories becomes your family.
We are created to relate to one another and stories are how we connect.
I want you to understand how literature makes meaning by fusing together narrative, story, and plot so you can appreciate the power of story in your everyday life.
The terms narrative, story, and plot are often used interchangeably and all three are implied when we use the word "story." This is problematic if you want to understand how story works to make meaning. The differences between these three terms are subtle at first glance, but if you are willing to think deeply about the last story you read or watched, I promise you will walk away with a firmer grasp on how to articulate your literary experience.
In case this feels like something you forgot to pay attention to in class once, let me refresh your memory. Most college students learn this in an introduction to literature course or when they learn about literary analysis for the first time. But you might need a refresher, so let's begin.
Remember that writing is a craft. When you write, you are practicing creation, much like building a house.
The narrative is how the story is told or demonstrated. This is the overarching idea of the story – the narrative is the interpretation of the events within the story. When the narrator (or the one interpreting the story for the reader) is unreliable, then not only is the interpretation questioned but the events as well. When you consider the point of view of the story, you examine the perspective of the narrator because this leads to different understandings of the narrative (the interpretation communicated from the narrator to the reader).
The narrative is the architect's design or how he intends others to interpret the building.
The story includes all of the events described that make up a narrative. The scenes in a movie or events in a book are the story. You can ask two simple questions of most stories to find out what makes up the story: who are these people and what happened to them?
The story is the material that the builders will use to erect the structure of a house.
The plot suggests the events are somehow related by cause and effect. When considering the plot, think about the relationship between scenes or events. Are events presented in a linear way? Are there flashbacks or flashforwards? How much time passes between scenes? How are characters different from one scene to the next?
The plot is how the material is pieced together when building a house.
Once again, the word story usually envelops all three of these concepts, but all three of these elements must work together to create a compelling story.
Story itself is an illusion.
Without a narrative, an overarching idea of how you are to interpret the related events, you have no story.
Changing a diaper, taking a vacation, sitting in class, watching baseball– we would never call these everyday experiences a story unless we decided to impose a narrative form on them. Something has to happen. Someone needs to change.
Answering these questions will help you understand the specifics involved in breaking down the differences between story, narrative, and plot.
The following break down shows how these three elements work together to make and play with meaning. The synopsis contains no spoilers, but that choice means certain descriptions will remain fairly vague. Please fill in the gaps after watching the movie or reading the novel for yourself.
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, is about an insecure guy who hates his job, attends support groups for illnesses he doesn't have, and becomes friends with Tyler Durden, a guy who is everything the main character is not, or so it seems. Together they start a different kind of support group for men called Fight Club.
This is a loose skeleton that you can call the story.
The plot of Fight Club places certain scenes next to each other, which includes various unexplained gaps. The director removes camera angles from certain scenes on the first viewing to show the reader mistakenly imposes the logic of cause and effect on the wrong circumstances.
It's only at the end of the story that this logic crumbles and the narrative reveals the full meaning. In the movie, camera angles help advance this revelation for the viewer.
This revelation is how powerful narrative is. It forces the reader to suspend their original interpretations as she begins to understand the events of the story in a completely different way. If you have seen the movie, it takes a complete rewatching to reinterpret every moment leading up to the revelation. It is here that the reader also learns how unreliable the narrator is, despite telling a fairly coherent story.
Once you understand the differences in these literary terms, it is much easier to see how narrative, story, and plot each create what we typically think of as story. We start to question how the storytelling takes place because the narrator is less than reliable. The multiple support group attendances should have tipped us off, but this was actually one of my favorite things about him and didn't want to question it too deeply. The narrative tells us how to interpret each moment and is the meaning we walk away with.
I love your example of the Bible as the grandest story ever. I just finished reading "Everlasting Man" by G.K. Chesterton and he calls Christianity the philosophy of stories. He argues that it is man's instinct to create narratives and that no other philosophy fulfills that instinct in the way that Christianity does. Man's life is an adventure story and so is the true story of God.
Wow. That book is one I have wanted to read for quite some time, and this gives me even more reason to. That is incredible. Thank you for reading this post and sharing what you gleaned from Chesterton. I'll be sure to let you know when I finally read it.
Interesting topic. I never took note of the differences prior to reading your post. Thanks for sharing.
Nicely put, Jessica. I have read a lot on the distinction between narrative, story, and plot over the years and this definitely does one of the better jobs at distinguishing the different roles of each and their impact on storytelling.
Thank you, Helena! Even though the terms can be used somewhat interchangeably without losing the intent of the message, I find it helpful to tease out the nuance between them. I also love thinking about the role of the reader as dwelling in the house constructed by the author.


When I first moved here to Sebastopol, California 19 years ago and saw the flat lands below my house fill up with water and birds after winter rains; saw the mustard bloom stretch out like a neon yellow carpet, I knew I would have to find a way onto the land and water to explore. This area, known as The Laguna de Santa Rosa, encompasses the ecologically rich watershed lands that span from Forestville and the Russian River south to Cotati.
Eventually I managed to get out on the water and paddle, and I joined the plein aire painters who sometimes had access to the private Laguna lands. Later I learned of the vernal pools and explored them on the magical Lynmar Winery lands on the Laguna. I became convinced that I'd moved to one of the more exotic places on Earth!
Fast forward to this week when the winter rainstorms abated, the sun came out, and I parked by the side of Sanford Road to do some mini Laguna captures.
The traffic was roaring by so I wasn't particularly comfortable and needed to find a place a bit more relaxed.
This time I visited the Laguna Foundation which is open during weekdays and not only has views of the mustard bloom and Mayacama mountains behind but also the Heron Art gallery that features nature oriented art by a different artist every four months and Stone Farm with its weathered barns and farm equipment.
And my sketch buddies joined me for a day of sketching and picnicking on site. I remembered sketching this barn 18 years ago when there were also cows, and not yet the offices of a Foundation with nature workshops, land stewardship programs, native plant gardeners, community education programs and so much more.
Sitting here with my back to the "pond" and listening to a chorus of marsh birds.
At this point my eyes were weary from the bright sunlight, so I sat in the shade of the maintenance man's truck and enjoyed a closer subject matter. It's so much easier to see what you're doing when the sun isn't shining either directly in your eyes or on your white paper!
I'll have to save a watery Laguna sketch for another day! This is the view from Lynmar Estates.
The mustard bounty will last a while longer. It's a great excuse to get out with your sketchbook, listen to bird song, and experience that gratitude that we feel for living in the midst of such abundant natural beauty.
All images and text are the original copyrighted work of Susan Cornelis unless otherwise attributed.


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AFSCME Office of the President: Gerald W. McEntee Records
Abstract Gerald W. McEntee became president of AFSCME in 1981. Some of the issues reflected in Part I of this collection include the anti-apartheid movement; health care reform, especially under the Clinton White House; affirmative action; AIDS; presidential politics and union campaign support; international labor relations; and legislative affairs. The records also include information on state locals and councils, AFSCME's relationship to other labor unions and organizations, and AFSCME's judicial...
AFT: Human Rights and Community Relations Records
Abstract The Human Rights and Community Relations Department of the American Federation of Teachers was created by Vice President Richard Parrish October 2, 1966. Before the official department was created it was a standing committee and then a permanent committee with in the executive council. The department was created as an office in the AFT that would be responsible for collecting and distributing information about the government, education and community policies and programs dealing with civil...
AFT Inventory Part I Records
Abstract Papers consist of correspondence, ballots, proceedings from meetings, clippings, local finances, per capita reports, charter applications. Subjects include integration, federal works programs, loyalty oaths, academic freedom, federal aid to education, communist issues.
Coalition of Labor Union Women: Metro-Detroit Chapter Records
Abstract The Metro-Detroit Chapter of the Coalition of Labor Union Women was founded as the Wayne County Chapter of CLUW at the Southeastern Michigan Organizing Conference in July 1974. Their goal was to bring together as broad a representation as possible of union women living or working in Wayne County to identify common problems and develop union-centered programs to deal with them. Their records reflect activities concerning strike assistance, affirmative action, ERA, and sexual harassment.
Detroit Police Department Affirmative Action Oral Histories
Identifier: LOH002215
Abstract Between 2004 and 2005, Dennis Deslippe interviewed labor leader Douglas Fraser and retired police officer Ron Mestdaugh as part of his research on the history of affirmative action in the Detroit Police Department. Collection consists of two audio interviews. Fraser, appointed by Mayor Coleman Young to chair the Detroit Police Commission, details the commission's efforts to integrate the police department. Mestdaugh, a white officer, talks about his time on the police force from his recruitment...
Harriet Cooper Alpern Papers
Identifier: UP000762
Abstract Harriet Cooper Alpern served as Vice President of Public Relations for the Detroit chapter of NOW (National Organization of Women) from 1970 to 1973 and was a member of the Women's Advisory to TV station WXYZ from 1971 to 1975. In 1978 Ms. Alpern formed the company, Program Resources to produce media material for the women's movement and other educational purposes. The papers of Ms. Alpern reflect her work with NOW and the women's movement, and to a lesser extent, the use of mass media as an...
Irving Bluestone Papers
Overview Irving Bluestone (January 5, 1917-November 17, 2007) was born and raised in New York City. He received his B.A. at City College of New York in 1937 and attended the University of Bern, Switzerland for one year of postgraduate studies. In 1942, he joined the UAW in New Jersy and showing promise, was moved to Detroit in 1947 by Walter Reuther to join the General Motors Department. He became Leonard Woodcock's administrative assistant in 1955 and Walter Reuther's in 1961. In 1972 he was elected...
Marc Stepp Oral History
Abstract In 2003, labor historian Mike Smith conducted an oral history interview with labor, civil rights, and community leader Marc Stepp. Stepp worked at the Chrysler Highland Park plant and advanced through positions of leadership in the UAW local. He then rose to regional and international levels, culminating in his election in 1974 as UAW International Vice President, a position he filled until his retirement in 1988. Collection consists of video and audio recordings. Stepp talks about his family...
Marjorie Stern Papers
Abstract Marjorie Stern worked as on organizer for the American Federation of Teachers in various cities, served seven consecutive terms as secretary to the San Francisco Federation of Teachers Local 61, and played an instrumental role in the creation of the AFT Women's Rights Committee. Ms. Stern served as coordinator of the National Organization for Women's (NOW) Task Force on Union Women, and served as a founding member of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW). Ms. Stern's papers relate to her...
Ramon S. Scruggs, Sr. Papers
Abstract Best known as the first African-American member of management at both Michigan Bell Telephone Company and AT&T, Ramon S. Scruggs, Sr. served as an influential civil rights figure in the American business community. Scruggs' career began at the Rumford Baking Company as a National Sales Representative in 1932, the first African-American to hold such a prominent position in the food industry. He left the company to join the Detroit Urban League and local YMCA branch, starting a relationship...
Wade H. McCree, Jr. Papers
Abstract Wade Hampton McCree, Jr. began his career as a lawyer in the Detroit law firm of Harold E. Bledsoe and Hobart Taylor. He later served on the state's Workmen's Compensation Commission and as a judge in the county and U.S. court system. During his tenure on the bench, McCree took part in a number of school desegregation cases iand as the government's lawyer, he argued a number of significant cases before the Supreme Court. He resigned in 1977 to accept appointment as U.S. Solicitor General in the...
Wayne State University Office of the President: George E. Gullen Jr. Records
Identifier: WSR000285
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Wayne State University Women's Resource Center Records
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National Organization for Women 2
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Alpern, Harriet Cooper 1
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Democratic Party (Mich.) 1
Deslippe, Dennis 1
Didier, Gene 1
Gullen, George E., Jr. 1
Hartley, Kay 1
Kugler, Phil 1
North American Free Trade Agreement (1992 December 17) 1
Public Services International 1
Scruggs, Ramon S., Sr. 1
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32 Disturbing Photos Of Life Inside Soviet Gulag Prisons
By Mark Oliver
During the reign of Joseph Stalin, 14 million people ended up in a Soviet gulag, where they were forced to literally work themselves to death.
During the days of Stalin, one wrong word could end with the secret police at your door, ready to drag you off to a Soviet gulag – one of the many forced labor camps where inmates worked until they died. Historians estimate that nearly 14 million people were thrown into a gulag prison during Stalin's reign.
Some were political prisoners, rounded up for speaking out against the Soviet regime. Others were criminals and thieves. And some were just ordinary people, caught cracking an unkind word about a Soviet official.
Still more inmates came from the Eastern Bloc of Europe – conquered countries that were made subservient to the Soviet regime. The families of priests, professors, and important figures would be rounded up and sent off to the work camps, keeping them out of the way while the Soviet Union systematically erased their culture.
Wherever the gulag inmates came from, their fate was the same: backbreaking labor in freezing, remote locations with little protection from the elements and less food. These photographs tell their story.
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Young boys in a gulag stare at the cameraman from their beds.
Molotov, USSR. Date unspecified.David Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
A miner who died working in a forced labor camp is put to rest under the ground.
Vaygach Island, USSR. 1931.Wikimedia Commons
Polish families are deported to Siberia as part of the Soviet Union's relocation plan.
Influential families in conquered states would often be forced into labor to help systematically destroy their culture.
Poland. 1941.Wikimedia Commons
Not every political prisoner was pushed into forced labor. Here, the bodies of thousands of Polish people lie dead in a mass grave.
Katyn, Russia. April 30, 1943.Wikimedia Commons
The dead bodies of political prisoners, murdered by the secret police, lie inside of a prison camp.
Tarnopil, Ukraine. July 10, 1941.Wikimedia Commons
Convicts sleep inside of a sod-covered house in a Siberian gulag.
Siberia, USSR. Date unspecified.Library of Congress
Posters of Stalin and Marx gaze down at the prisoners inside of their sleeping quarters.
USSR. Circa 1936-1937.New York Public Library
Prisoners at work building the White Sea–Baltic Canal, one of the first major projects in the Soviet Union made entirely through slave labor.
12,000 people died while working in the harsh conditions at the canal.
USSR. 1932.Wikimedia Commons
The chiefs of the gulags. These men were responsible for forcing more than 100,000 prisoners to work.
USSR. July 1932Wikimedia Commons
Prisoners in a Soviet gulag dig a ditch while a guard looks on.
Stalin comes out to inspect the progress on the Moscow Canal, which is being built by imprisoned workers.
Moscow, USSR. April 22, 1937.Wikimedia Commons
A gold mine that, during Stalin's reign, was worked through prison labor.
Magadan, USSR. August 20, 1978.Wikimedia Commons
Philosopher Pavel Florensky after being arrested for "agitation against the Soviet system."
Florensky was sentenced to ten years of labor in Stalin's gulags. He would not serve the full ten years. Three years after this picture was taken, he was dragged out into the woods and shot.
USSR. February 27, 1933.Wikimedia Commons
The directors of the gulag camps gather together to celebrate their work.
USSR. May 1, 1934.Wikimedia Commons
Two Lithuanian political prisoners get ready to go to work in a coal mine.
Inta, USSR. 1955.Wikimedia Commons
The crude lodgings that host a group of prisoners in one of Stalin's gulags.
Prisoners at work operating a machine inside of a gulag.
Prisoners at work on the White Sea-Baltic Canal.
USSR. Circa 1930-1933.Wikimedia Commons
Prisoners hammer away at the rocks in the White Sea–Baltic Canal.
Yuriy Tyutyunnyk, a Ukrainian General who fought against the Soviets in the Ukrainian -Soviet War.
Tyutyunnyk was allowed to live in Soviet Ukraine after the war — until 1929, when Soviet policies changed. He was arrested, taken to Moscow, imprisoned, and killed.
Prisoners transport lead-zinc ore.
Vaygach Island, USSR. Circa 1931-1932.Wikimedia Commons
Prisoners digging clay for the brickyard.
Solovki Island, USSR. Circa 1924-1925.Wikimedia Commons
Officials look over their laborers, at work on the Moscow Canal.
Moscow, USSR. September 3, 1935. Wikimedia Commons
A "penal insulator" inside of a gulag.
Vorkuta, USSR. 1945.Wikimedia Commons
Stalin and his men inspect the work on the Moscow-Volga Canal.
Moscow, USSR. Circa 1932-1937.Wikimedia Commons
Gulag prisoners forced to work on a mine overseen by the USSR's secret police.
Prisoners at work in a gulag pause for a moment's rest.
A guard shakes hands with a prisoner, at work cutting down lumber.
Guards walk through a gulag during an inspection.
The prison photo and papers of Jacques Rossi, a political prisoner arrested for his connections to revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky, hang on the wall of a gulag.
Norillag, USSR.Wikimedia Commons
Men at work on the Koylma Highway.
The route would come to be known as the "Road of Bones" because the skeletons of the men who died building it were used in its foundation.
Colonel Stepan Garanin, at one time the chief of the Kolyma Force Labor Camps, prepares for his new life as a prisoner.
The History Of The Soviet Gulag
The history of forced labor camps in Russia is a long one. Early examples of a labor-based penal system date back to the Russian empire, when the tsar instituted the first "katorga" camps in the 17th century.
Katorga was the term for a judicial ruling that exiled the convicted to Siberia or the Russian Far East, where there were few people and fewer towns. There, prisoners would be forced to labor on the region's deeply underdeveloped infrastructure — a job no one would voluntarily undertake.
But it was the government of Vladimir Lenin that transformed the Soviet gulag system and implemented it on a massive scale.
In the aftermath of the 1917 October revolution, Communist leaders found that there were a number of dangerous ideologies and people floating around Russia — and nobody knew how fatal an inspiring new ideology could be better than the leaders of the Russian Revolution.
They decided that it would be best if those who disagreed with the new order found somewhere else to be — and if the state could profit from free labor at the same time, all the better.
Publicly, they would refer to the updated katorga system as a "re-education" campaign; through hard labor, society's uncooperative elements would learn to respect the common people and love the new dictatorship of the proletariat.
While Lenin ruled, there were some questions about both the morality and the efficacy of using forced labor to bring exiled workers into the Communist fold. These doubts didn't stop the proliferation of new labor camps — but they did make progress relatively slow.
That all changed when Joseph Stalin took over after Lenin's death in 1924. Under Stalin's rule, the Soviet gulag prisons became a nightmare of historic proportions.
Stalin Transforms The Soviet Gulag
The word "gulag" was born as an acronym. It stood for Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei, or, in English, Main Camp Administration.
Two factors drove Stalin to expand the gulag prisons at a merciless pace. The first was the Soviet Union's desperate need to industrialize.
Though the economic motives behind the new prison labor camps have been debated — some historians feel economic growth was simply a convenient perk of the plan, while others think it helped to drive arrests — few deny that prison labor played a substantial role in the Soviet Union's new ability to harvest natural resources and take on massive construction projects.
The other force at work was Stalin's Great Purge, sometimes called the Great Terror. It was a crackdown on all forms of dissent — real and imagined.
As Stalin sought to consolidate his power, suspicion fell on party members, "rich" peasants called kulaks, academics, and anyone said to have murmured a word against the country's current direction. In the purge's worst days, it was enough to simply be related to a dissenter — no man, woman, or child was above suspicion.
In two years, some 750,000 people were executed on the spot. One million more escaped execution — but were sent to the gulags.
Daily Life In A Soviet Gulag
In the forced labor camps, conditions were brutal. Prisoners were barely fed. Stories even came out saying that the inmates had been caught hunting rats and wild dogs, snagging any living thing they could find for something to eat.
While starving, they worked themselves literally to the bone, using usually outdated supplies to do intense labor. The Soviet gulag system, instead of relying on expensive technology, threw the sheer force of millions of men with crude hammers at a problem. Inmates worked until they collapsed, often literally dropping dead.
These laborers worked on massive projects, including the Moscow–Volga Canal, the White Sea–Baltic Canal, and the Kolyma Highway. Today, that highway is known as the "Road of Bones" because so many workers died building it that they used their bones in the foundation of the road.
No exceptions were made for women, many of whom were only imprisoned because of the imagined crimes of their husbands or fathers. Their accounts are some of the most harrowing to emerge from the gulag prisons.
Women In The Gulags
Though women were housed in barracks apart from the men, camp life did little to really separate the genders. Female prisoners were often the victims of rape and violence at the hands of both inmates and guards. Many report the most effective survival strategy was to take a "prison husband" — a man who would exchange protection or rations for sexual favors.
If a woman had children, she would have to divide her own rations to feed them — sometimes as little as 140 grams of bread per day.
But for some of the female prisoners, simply being allowed to keep your children was a blessing; many of the gulag children were shipped to distant orphanages. Their papers were often lost or destroyed, making a reunion someday almost impossible.
After Stalin's death in 1953, the zeal that had sent thousands to the gulag prisons every year faded. Nikita Khrushchev, the next to take power, denounced many of Stalin's policies, and separate orders freed those imprisoned for petty crimes and political dissidents.
By the time the last Soviet gulag closed its gates, millions had died. Some worked themselves to death, some had starved, and others were simply dragged out into the woods and shot. It is unlikely the world will ever have an accurate count of the lives lost in the camps.
Though Stalin's successors ruled with a gentler hand, the damage had been done. Intellectual and cultural leaders had been wiped out, and the people had learned to live in fear.
After reading about the gulag prisons of the Soviet Union, check out these photos of abandoned Soviet monuments and fascinating Soviet propaganda posters.
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The Wells Fargo Championship will be up for grabs on Sunday. But Patrick Reed will start the final round atop the leaderboard by one shot.
With winds howling, Reed had six birdies with one bogey during a 5-under 67 performance in Round 3. Alex Noren and Jon Rahm trail him by just a shot. Fifteen other plays including Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson, are within four shots or less.
Reed will have his work cut out for him to say the least.
Dustin Johnson had his best round by far on Saturday. The World No. 1 shot a 5-under 67 after a 70 and 75 in the first two rounds. Johnson went bogey-free and collected five birdies.
While Johnson didn't miss a ton of time, missing The Masters certainly had to be a big blow to his season. If he can find a way to win the Wells Fargo Championship on Sunday, he will extend his PGA Tour win streak to four.
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By Changing Tactics, Antiabortion Movement Seizes Momentum
Beth Reinhard
Abortion opponents have turned to different tactics since the Supreme Court legalized most abortions half a century ago, from imposing 24-hour waiting periods to banning late-term procedures to requiring minors to get permission.
But in the wake of Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortion doctor convicted in May of first-degree murder in the deaths of three babies, the antiabortion movement has increasingly aimed its fire at the brick-and-mortar clinic. On Friday, Texas became the 16th state to tighten regulations on abortion clinics in the past three years, more than doubling the number of states with what opponents call "targeted restrictions on abortion providers."
The mostly recently affected states range from Republican strongholds such as North Dakota and Alabama to political battlegrounds such as Ohio and Wisconsin. Only six of the 42 abortion clinics in Texas meet the stricter standards that require them to operate like surgical centers, meaning dozens could close. North Carolina lawmakers are also debating tougher licensing requirements.
"The adoption of these regulations is really about shutting clinic doors, which in a sense is easier than trying to overturn Roe v. Wade or to ban abortion," said Elizabeth Nash, state issues manager for the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that favors abortion rights. "We're moving into new territory and very extreme restrictions."
The antiabortion movement's success, however, stems in part from activists making the case that tougher clinic regulation is a mainstream cause to improve women's safety. In Texas, the new rules are wrapped around a ban on abortions after 20 weeks, a limit that most Americans support, according to recent polling. The latest United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll found Americans favor banning late-term abortions 48 percent to 44 percent. A majority of women surveyed in the poll supported the ban after 20 weeks.
Peggy Nance, president of the Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee, billed the new Texas law as "very limited, common-ground legislation."
"The pro-life movement is at its core is about protecting the unborn child and protecting women, and we believe women deserve better than abortion," said Mallory Quigley, spokeswoman for the Susan B. Anthony List, an antiabortion group. "If a clinic shuts down, there's one less decrepit clinic that's endangering women."
It's a public-relations strategy that seems to be working, even as an 11-hour fillibuster by Texas Sen. Wendy Davis has energized Democrats in her state. At a time when the Republican Party is trying to refute Democratic attacks that abortion limits constitute a "war on women," increasing regulations on clinics can be framed as a positive blow for public health. "These are not viewed as restricting abortion so much as protecting women's health," said Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway. "Women think it is outrageous that tattoo parlors have more operational regulations than abortion clinics."
By arguing that public opinion is on their side, abortion opponents are using a strategy similar to that of gay-rights advocates, who point to increasing acceptance of gay marriage in the polls. The public remains closely divided over abortion, however, forcing opponents to rely on the grisly details of the Gosnell case and Republican control of most state capitals to win the argument for tougher clinic oversight. Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a former and possibly future Republican presidential candidate, said earlier this year that his goal was to make abortion "a thing of the past." Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, also a Republican, called the new regulations "the first step in a movement, I believe, to do what we campaigned on: to say that we're going to try to end abortion in Mississippi." There's one abortion clinic in the state.
These declarations by antiabortion officeholders suggest the rules are aimed more at regulating clinics out of business than at improving patient safety. Virginia boasts one of the toughest laws in the country, putting abortion clinics on the same category as hospitals.
After surviving arson, bullets, and pipe bombs during its 40 years in existence, the Hillcrest Clinic in South Hampton Roads closed in April, in part because of the new regulations. "I was there for 28 years, and I can recall transporting one person to a hospital who had a reaction to a medication--which is a risk in a dental office too," said the former director, Suzette Caton.
Rosemary Codding, director of a Northern Virginia abortion clinic suing the state, opened the door to one of the biggest scofflaws in her office: the janitor's closet. The cramped space isn't big enough under the stricter guidelines, and the washer and dryer need to be in a separate room. Meeting the stricter standards, which also dictate the size of the hallways, parking lot, and outdoor awning, would cost the Falls Church Healthcare Center an estimated $1 million.
"How in the world would this improve the safety of women?" Codding demanded during a recent tour, peering into the closet of cleaning supplies. "I feel very strongly the state is sacrificing women's health to a political agenda, and that's unconscionable."
The new rules apply only to the 20 clinics in Virginia offering first-trimester abortions, because the state already requires later-term procedures to be done in a hospital. Clinics have to meet the same construction standards as hospitals built after 2010, even though existing hospitals do not have to comply retroactively. Less than 0.3 percent of women getting abortions need to be hospitalized, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
Virginia's new law holds abortion clinics to stricter standards than medical offices that perform outpatient procedures like colonoscopies, oral surgery, and even liposuction.
"The objection is that these regulations will do nothing to help women reach a higher standard of medical care," said Anna Scholl, director of ProgressVA, a liberal group that fought the new rules for abortion clinics. "They are not connected to the medical reality of the services those centers are providing. A woman getting a mammogram doesn't need extra room in the hallway for another gurney."
The Falls Church clinic has sent only two patients to the hospital in the last decade; one wasn't getting an abortion. The clinic also offers pregnancy tests, gynecological exams, birth control, and flu vaccines. The clinic is much smaller than a typical hospital, with only 11 employees and 5,000 square feet of space.
The state health board initially voted to grandfather in existing clinics, but Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli rejected that decision and warned board members they could be personally liable for legal costs if they were sued. The state health commissioner resigned in protest.
Cuccinelli is now the Republican nominee for governor. His office said he was only following the law passed by state lawmakers in 2011, which he believes precluded the board from waiving the rules for existing abortion clinics.
"When it comes to advising on and enforcing Virginia's laws in my role as attorney general, my personal opinion about them doesn't matter," Cuccinelli said in a written statement. "Whether I like them or don't like them, my job is to impartially uphold our laws."
It's quiet at Falls Church Healthcare Center on a recent afternoon, making it seem far removed from the heated rhetoric at rallies in Washington, Austin, and Raleigh in recent weeks. Inside a dumpy, three-story building, the clinic tries to present a cheerful setting with freshly painted cream-colored walls and boxes of pink and purple plastic flowers in the waiting room.
While women in medical scrubs padded by, Codding pointed to a number of rooms and fixtures that would flunk the new guidelines. The 50-year-old building lacks a central ventilation system, and the ceiling tiles are no good. The tiny staff lounge doesn't have a shower or separate lockers. The armchairs in the patient lounge will probably need to be separated with privacy curtains, but she's not sure. "We have a year to figure all of this out," she said. "It just makes no sense."
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Thousands of Rockets fans poured into the Toyota Center on Saturday night for Game 6 of the Western Conference finals despite the series shifting back to the Bay Area. The Houston franchise opened up the building for just $10 per ticket to support the Santa Fe Memorial Fund. The simple gesture led to a sold out event that helped raise thousands of dollars for the suburban community.
In all, the Rockets sold 10,000 tickets with proceeds going to help the victims from the May 18th shooting at a high school outside Houston that left ten dead and another dozen wounded. The $100,000 donation is just the latest way the Rockets have volunteered to help the suburban community heal.
Rockets sold out all 10,000 tickets to tonight's watch party at Toyota Center. That's $100,000, all going to the Santa Fe Memorial Fund.
Team owner Tilman Fertitta donated 300 tickets to Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals to the senior class at Santa Fe High School along with first responders. That night the club also used the in-house 50/50 raffle to raise more money for the memorial fund.
H-Town is ready for Game 6!
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A school on Long Island has been renamed Barack Obama Elementary School in honor of his historic rise to the presidency.
The move at the largely black and Hispanic school in Hempstead is among the first in what will likely be a wave of name changes around the world now that Mr. Obama has been elected president, from schools and streets to parks and mountaintops.
The prime minister of the Caribbean nation of Antigua has said he's taking measures to have the island's highest mountain peak renamed Mount Obama. In Portland, Ore., students want to rename Clark K-8 At Binnsmead school. Elsewhere on Long Island, the Clear Stream Avenue School in Valley Stream will consider a renaming resolution in December. And parents already have been naming newborns Barack.
"When I'm older I'm going to look back and say I went to Barack Obama Elementary School," said fifth-grader Teonte Jackson, who played Mr. Obama in a mock presidential debate before the election. "He had the guts to run for president and believe in himself."
The name Barack Obama Elementary School was the idea of children at the former Ludlum Elementary School, according to officials at Hempstead Union Free School District.
Mr. Obama's election was a big source of pride, and the schools walls are plastered with Obama signs. District officials believe it's the first school in the country to be named for America's first black president.
Some of the children read essays about Mr. Obama and the election at the school board meeting on Thursday night, when officials voted for the change. "That really was effective," principal Jean Bligen said Friday.
The essays were the culmination of a fifth-grade project that included a mock presidential and vice presidential debate. Just before the Nov. 4 election, the kids repeated the debate for parents and the public - followed by a mock election that Mr. Obama won by a landslide.
"After the debate, the children said, 'If Obama really is elected president, can we rename our school?"' said Joseph Laria, the district's superintendent. "It was so well done in terms of content and articulation that the school staff picked up the baton and made a presentation to the school board."
The five-member board passed the resolution unanimously: "Whereas ... the students did a wonderful job of carrying out their tasks and demonstrating their patriotism at an early age ... now be it resolved that the (board members) proudly rename the Ludlum Elementary School as the Barack Obama Elementary School."
The new name will appear on a sign in front of the building and on stationery, "hopefully before Christmas," at a cost of several thousand dollars to the district, Laria said.
The change will be formalized at a ceremony sometime in December. School officials are hoping Gov. David Paterson can attend. The state's first black governor graduated from Hempstead High School.
Hempstead is in Long Island's Nassau County, about 25 miles east of New York City.


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Q: .net core 2 Format API Response with deep properties I am building an application that consists of only an API using .net core 2.1.
I have a parent class (Dad) which owns only a single child (Kid). I am looking for the most efficient way to format the JSON response of my controller; for developers who will integrate my API to their applications.
public class Dad
{
    public long Id{get;set;}
    public string Name{get;set;}
    public Kid OnlyChild {get;set;}
}

public class Kid
{
    public long Id{get;set;}
    public string FirstName{get;set;}
    public string LastName{get;set;}
    public string Useless{get;set;}
}

Currently I am doing something like this in the controller:
[HttpGet("{id}")]
public async Task<IActionResult> GetDad([FromRoute] long id)
{
    dynamic DadResponse = _context.Dads
        .Where(o => o.Id == id)
        .AsNoTracking()
        .Select(p => new
        {
            Dad = p.Name,
            Kid = string.Format("{0} {1}", p.Kid.FirstName, p.Kid.LastName)
        }).FirstOrDefault();

    return Ok(DadResponse);
}

The upside with this approach is that:

*

*the resulting DadResponse object has the format I want for my
API.

*the resulting MySQL query generated by EF Core will be
optimized and only select Dad.Name, Kid.FirstName and Kid.LastName.

The downside is that if Kid is null, it will generate an exception.
What is the best way around this; maybe I am using a wrong approach all together. I tried to use JsonIgnore attributes in my models but each of my controllers might need to return slightly different properties (e.g. GET /Kids will return all the kids with their Id, whereas GET /Dads may return only the format described above).
Update:
Ideally I would like to have Kid return null value if Dad doesn't have a Kid, but I cannot do something like this:
Kid = (Kid == null ? null : string.Format("{0} {1}", p.Kid.FirstName, p.Kid.LastName))

I have tried to dynamically update the value after the select, using the following:
    dynamic DadResponse = _context.Dads
        .Where(o => o.Id == id)
        .AsNoTracking()
        .Select(p => new
        {
            Dad = p.Name,
            Kid = p.Kid
        }).FirstOrDefault();

        DadResponse.Kid = (DadResponse.Kid == null ? null : string.Format("{0} {1}", DadResponse.Kid.Firstname, DadResponse.Kid.Lastname);

    return Ok(DadResponse);

But that throws another exception.

A: Your query is an EF query that will be translated to SQL. Null propagation can't be translated which is why you get that error.
You don't have to format the string in the EF query though, you can load the data you want and use another LINQ to Objects query to map them to their final form. If you load only a single object, you can return a new anonymous type:
For example :
var data = _context.Dads
                  .AsNoTracking()
                  .Where(o => o.Id == id)
                  .Select(p => new {
                          Dad = p.Name,
                          Kid = new {p.Kid?.FirstName, p.Kid?.LastName}
                       })
                  .FirstOrDefault();
var dadResponse = new {
                          data.Dad,
                          Kid= $"{data.Kid.FirstName} {data.Kid.LastName}"
                      };
return Ok(dadResponse);

If you don't want to return the Kid element at all, you can simply omit it from the result:
if (data.Kid.FirstName==null && data.Kid.LastName==null)
{
    return Ok(new {Dad=data.Dad});
}
else
{
    ...
}

Of course, someone could say that since we don't care about the Kid property, we could just return the KidFirstName and KidLastName as separate properties, making the code a bit simpler :
var data = _context.Dads
                  .AsNoTracking()
                  .Where(o => o.Id == id)
                  .Select(p => new {
                          Dad = p.Name,
                          KidFirstName = p.Kid?.FirstName
                          KidLastName =  p.Kid?.LastName
                       })
                  .FirstOrDefault();

if (data.KidFirstName==null && data.KidLastName==null)
{
    return Ok(new {data.Dad});
}
else
{
    return Ok(new {data.Dad,Kid=$"{data.KidFirstName} {data.KidLastName}");
}

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Alchemy and Ale has received a lot of negative feedback from Pittsburgh diners. As a result, I approached the restaurant/bar with skepticism. I was most pleasantly surprised by the $3 happy hour special - any draft beer for only $3! I thought the food was actually pretty good as well. In particular, I liked the pork belly quesadillas with the spicy cucumber topping. I found the shepard's pie to be somewhat bland and in general I found most of the selections to be overpriced.
For example, take my cheese plate pictured below. The cheese and toast were just fine, but the portions were too small to warrant the price tag. I find this to be one commonality between most places that call themselves gastropubs. Small portions and large price tags. I suppose I should not be surprised, this is the very nature of the gastropub. A bastardized version of both a pub and a fine restaurant lacking the portion size of pub food and the elegance of fine dining. Do you have a favorite Pittsburgh gastropub? Tell me about it and maybe I'll stop by.
The cheese almost stands alone.
Out of curiosity, when was your visit? There has been a lot of confusion on the internet over the past couple of weeks (at least on Twitter and Yelp) as to whether or not Alchemy & Ale is still open.
I can assure you it was very open on February 16. They were even pretty busy!
I'm a huge fan of Round Corner Cantina. It's a gastropub, but it's definitely/obviously a LATIN gastropub. Swing by if you're in Lawrenceville. Love that place.


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Q: different ways for 'this' keyword in scala gives overloaded constructor error I have been trying to see usage of 'this' keyword in scala. I tried below program:
 class Person(name:String, age:Int){
  var id:Int=10
  def this(name:String, age:Int, i:Int){
      this(name, age)
      this.id = i }
  def show(): Unit = {
    println(this.name+" , "+this.age+" , "+id)}}
 object thisKeyword extends App{
  val t = new Person("Tom",21)
  t.show()}

Now what I understood was that the code will call this constructor and print Tom,21,10 as output which is on expected lines even if I'm passing only name and age. But when I remove the parameter from class Person like below and run it:
class Person{

It gives me error at below line:
val t = new Person("Tom",21)

cannot overload constructor 'Person'

I don't understand why it says so? Why it is not using 'this' constructor definition that I have defined and should call that definition, along with default value of id. Also at below line:
this(name, age)

It gives error as

Too many arguments for constructor 'Person'


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Here is information on the closures:
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6 p.m. - The Fremont Street gates will open for party goers
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The union that represents the firefighters has launched a website that says lives could be in danger and insurance rates could go up if budget cuts are approved. The website says critical jobs will be cut slowing down response time.
The website encourages people to sign a petition, contact Mayor Oscar Goodman and city council members, and attend a Town Hall meetings to speak out against the cuts.
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Q: Multiple dex files define Lcom/google/zxing/BarcodeFormat I am creating an app in which one module allows to scan the Qrcode and the other generates the QRcode.
To generate QRcode i am using this library:
    compile 'com.github.kenglxn.QRGen:android:2.1.0'

To Scan a QR code i am using this library :
    compile 'com.dlazaro66.qrcodereaderview:qrcodereaderview:1.0.0'

both library are using ZXING , that is why i am using this multiple dex error in Android Studio.
Please help so that i can include both libraries in my gradle. I know can solve this using "exclude" , but i don't know which class from both libraries are clashing.

A: For me this was caused by having duplicate dependencies in my project.
Turns out I had included zxing dependency by different means and different versions in my project.
One of them was from Facebook SDK which used the latest version and another one was already included via a .jar file in the /libs directory and was an ancient version.
To resolve the issue I removed the Facebook SDK, found the old version and instead of including the jar directly I replaced it with:
compile 'com.google.zxing:core:3.3.1'

in my app's build.gradle.
After that included Facebook SDK, clean/rebuild with no problems.

A: You need to Enable Multidex please check Highlighted part of image

A: Found the solution.
I was using other library which used same core ZXing library to generate the QRcode in to a bitmap.
What i did instead :
    com.google.zxing.Writer writer = new QRCodeWriter();
// String finaldata = Uri.encode(data, "utf-8");
int width = 250;
int height = 250;
BitMatrix bm = writer
        .encode(data, BarcodeFormat.QR_CODE, width, height);
Bitmap ImageBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(width, height,
        Config.ARGB_8888);

for (int i = 0; i < width; i++) {// width
    for (int j = 0; j < height; j++) {// height
        ImageBitmap.setPixel(i, j, bm.get(i, j) ? Color.BLACK
                : Color.WHITE);
    }
}

used com.google.zxing.writer to generate bitmap and set it to my imageview.
Thanks @pranavjoshi

A: You have to remove the Zxing library from one of the conflicting dependencies, like this example:
  implementation ('com.github.kenglxn.QRGen:android:2.5.0') {exclude group: 'com.google.zxing'}


I don't really know where to begin fellas. I will start by posting a few pics from the past. I have looked back over my old posts and all my photos aren't there anymore. I have uploaded hundreds over the past 8 years but now they are gone.
I joined the forum around 8 or more years ago before I had ever planted ginseng. When first searching the archives I can remember seeing posts from fellas who at one time seemed to be active in the forum and extremely interested in Ginseng. But all at once, it was like they fell off the earth, never to be heard of again. I often wondered if they had lost interest, gotten discouraged and gave up or maybe they even could have passed away. Never the less, they weren't around anymore and it did make me wonder.
It has been a long, long time since I have posted here and while reorganizing my laptop I decided to click on the shortcut from my home screen. The shortcut isn't used anymore and before I remove it, I thought I would make one last post.
Since I have last been here, I have married a couple years ago and am now a daddy to a bouncing baby boy since last fall.
My primary business has grown and after I see to it, care for my ginseng, entertain this little guy until bedtime... I just don't seem to have the time to visit the forum as I once did. If things one day loosen up I may visit back again. But, if not, I will say this here, rather than just disappearing.
I am in my 8th year of growing now. I currently have a little over 3 1/2 acres of fairly dense plantings and I just put this years in about a month ago. It seems there hasn't been anything new to post from me that I haven't posted before and I have noticed in the past while that the forum has lulled and others aren't visiting as well. I hope their situation is good and It isn't due to discouragement, bad luck or god forbid, they have passed away.
Pretty much my whole journey in growing ginseng is in this forum and were once with pictures as well but they seem to have been lost or removed from my posts. I have literally grown and learned throughout this process with several of you fellas.
I had a tough time just picking a quick few to upload now due to the hundreds that I have taken over the years. It seems to cheapen it by just throwing out several photos to represent it all because it doesn't even begin to cover it.
A lot of ups and downs have been encountered along the way. I have spent more time in the woods in the last decade than I have my entire life combined before growing. The whole way has been filled with senses of accomplishment and triumph, along with failure and disgust. Certain things could have been helped and was learned and improved, but many things cant be prepared for and will always work against you. So one should just expect things to go south sometimes because it occasionally will.
If I could go back and do those 8 years over then I would do them just the same, its been very enjoyable and a great learning process.
Truly, the learning and discovering of all the things involved in the process has always been exciting. Soil composition,light,disease, predation, germination, potential growth, poachers, planting methods, maintenance, potential profit, all these things were to be learned and figured out.... And we tried to do it together.
At one time, I was consistently checking into this forum several times a day to share what I had learned and to maybe grab on to what others had to share. I can remember spending many of my lunch breaks under a shade tree and checking in to the forum, after work being in the woods in my Ginseng until dark and coming home to hop back on the forum while eating supper until time to go to bed. It once was a really happening place. I get tickled when thinking about some of the arguments that took place here and what they were actually about.. I have made many friends here along the way that I would have never known without it. Some of those men I am still in contact with today and some I am not.
Fellas, if your reading this, boy wasn't it fun?!
I won't name anyone but you all know who are. I enjoyed your experiences you had to share, be it hunting and growing ginseng, growing peaches, apples,your garden,deer hunting, fishing, mushroom hunting and everything else I can't think of at the moment. Heck, I mean I feel like iv been in the woods of Ohio hunting Morels, catching smallies in the streams of southern TN, a North East Honeycrisp orchard, peach orchards of eastern TN and been hunting ginseng all over the Appalachian mountain chain and been in the woods of many states. I truly appreciate it all, thank you for the good times and comradery we all had. Even though our time here may be through, I surely won't forget what all took place.
So.. if you ever are wondering about me, I'm still here in TN hopping from one hill to the other. I'm still growing, planning to continue and will be digging my first that I planted way back when, this fall... I surely haven't fell of the face of the earth. I haven't given up or lost interest and I have most definitely not passed away.
I wish all my old buddies here happy trails.
Good bye guys and good luck.
Thxs hill for all your info , wonderful pics. May your hills of ginseng grow n grow. Congratulations on the handsome baby boy.
I can sure relate to getting married, having kids and finding more important things to do... Back when I was big into Archery competition... I was really focused on that... practiced and competed all the time (all year round)... I tend to do things like that... when I find something that really interest me (and is fun too)... I hit it really hard and for quite a while... At 17 I got into archery competition, shooting local tournaments (middle tn)... and 2-3 years later I was winning big time all over my area... got a sponsorship from a PSE dealer for 4 years, then High Country Archery signed me up as a National Staff Shooter for the next 4 years. Literally won thousands of tournaments, including 11 Tenn State championships.
In year 3 of my HCA run I got married... and that slowly started to change things. I had a new focus... and the archery eventually slipped away. 1992 was the last year I signed a contract with HCA.
Priorities and to some extent interest change over time.... something new and better comes along.
I do want to say that Hill ... of all the folks that have posted here over the last several years, you are the one that I would say "really made it" happen Ginseng wise. I have been impressed at how hard you worked at it, and the results you got. Much better than any others have shown and definitely much better than I have done. I think I had the drive to do it well early on.. but am somewhat handicapped by my location (it is just so so). It will grow here, but not like what you have. You had the drive to get it done and an excellent location too. Absolutely beautiful Seng.
I do hope that you will make your way back here now and then and give us an update.
I would love to know when you do start selling some of your wild sim and how it does price wise.
Last I saw root pics, they were looking great, just needed a bit more age and root neck to them.
God bless you man !


Condolence: While health prohibits my being there in person I am so there with all of you who enriched her life and gave it warmth and support and meaning. To all her family know I treasure that dear, quirky, wild-and-wooly, loving friend as I am sure others do as well and hope that provides some measure of comfort to you. I send this with profound gratitude for the gift of our 40 yr. friendship and with profound sympathy for the family who love her so.
Condolence: No words can be expressed of my sadness for such a dear loss. What a blessed friend I made in such a short time. My condolences to your family.