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If you're looking for relaxation and tranquility, you'll find them at the Hotel Riu Palace Jamaica. At this 18+ Adults Only hotel, reward yourself with a wide range of activities, from the fresh water pool, the cool chill-out bar on the beach, jacuzzi, sauna, gym and Renova Spa, offering a variety of pampering treatments and massages.
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Founded in 1959, Pleasant Holidays is one of the largest travel companies in the U.S., offering customizable vacation packages including flights, hotel and cruise accommodations, airport transfers and car rentals, exciting sightseeing tours and activities, travel protection coverage and more. Our vast portfolio spans the globe while featuring the world's most popular vacation destinations, including Hawaii, Australia, Canada, Caribbean, Central America, Cook Islands, Europe, Fiji, Japan & Asia, ...
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Paul van Somer (ca. 1577 – 1621) was een Zuid-Nederlands kunstschilder die vanuit Antwerpen naar Engeland reisde tijdens het regime van Jacobus I. Paul van Somer werd een van de voornaamste schilders aan het Engels koninklijk hof. Hij schilderde een aantal portretten van zowel Jacobus, zijn echtgenote Anna van Denemarken en andere leden van het hof.

Over Paul van Somer is niet veel geweten. Ook zijn kunst is weinig of niet beschreven. Volgens Karel van Mander was hij de broer van Barend van Someren, die de dochter van Aert Mijtens meebracht en huwde nadat hij terugkeerde uit Italië. Van Mander vermeldt niet of Paul zijn broer vergezelde op die reis maar zegt wel dat hij nog ongehuwd was. Volgens gegevens in het Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie leefde Paul van 1612 tot 1614 in het huis van Steven de Gheyn in Leiden, in 1616 in Brussel en vertrok dan naar Londen waar hij hofschilder werd. Hij effende het pad voor latere hofschilders uit de Lage Landen in Engeland zoals Daniël Mijtens en Antoon van Dyck. Een van Van Dycks eerste taken aan het hof was het kopiëren van een aantal koninklijke portretten van Van Somer, zeer tegen zijn zin. Paul van Somer was, door zijn reizen door Noord-Europa, al een gerijpt kunstenaar toen hij in Engeland aankwam.

Paul van Somer ontving vaak opdrachten om koninklijke portretten te kopiëren. Jacobus haatte het poseren en verstuurde liever kopieën naar het buitenland. Er bestaan van zijn oeuvre veel varianten in gedrukte vorm. Van de schilder wordt gezegd dat hij als eerste regalia in zijn portretten verwerkte, onder meer de orde van de Kousenband. Ook andere leden van de hoge adel lieten zich door Van Somer portretteren.

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Dany Laj and the Looks Sign to Squirtgun for 'Word on the Street' LP
By Sarah Murphy
Poppy rockers Dany Laj and the Looks recently wrapped up a string of Ontario shows, but aren't looking to slow down any time soon. They've just announced that their next album will be arriving this spring.
Titled Word on the Street, the album will mark the band's debut with new label home Squirtgun Records. It's due out on May 5.
The album was recorded at Stu-Stu-Studio, with production credits going to bassist Jeanette Dowling, Brendan Howlett and Laj himself. Howlett also served as the album's engineer.
According to a press release, the 10 new tracks tell "the tale of the Northern Ontario kid trying to find his way south, ultimately to Montreal, by way of Sudbury, North Bay, Toronto, and everywhere in between, with stories of finding love, cross-country tours, and broken-down vehicles."
These themes are brought together with the band's signature power-pop sound, provided courtesy of Laj and Dowling, as well as Alexandre Bigras on drums and new addition Alexandre Fecteau on keyboards and sax.
"It's very exciting to have the opportunity to work with an artist whose musical spirit embodies our own here at Squirtgun," said Squirtgun CEO Lee Maslin about the recent signing. "I can't wait until everyone hears the new record."
The full tracklisting for Word on the Street can be found below. Scroll past that to check out the band's upcoming shows.
Word on the Street:
1. Small Town Kid
2. I Know You Want Out
3. Mr. Rebound
4. We Know
5. Where's the Love
6. Best Thing In Town
7. Woody/Dreamers
8. Killing the Pleasure
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10. Carl le Fou
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Reprise raises $17 million to create and host software product demos
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Reprise, a software demo platform for enterprise sales and marketing teams, today announced that it has raised $17 million in a series A round led by Bain Capital Ventures. Reprise says the funds, which follow a $3 million seed investment, will be put toward expanding its platform and hiring new employees.
With companies using their products as the primary vehicle for acquiring new customers, there's a critical need for full-featured and dynamic product demos. According to Animoto, 73% more website visitors who watch product videos make a purchase. But creating demos tailored to a specific customer or industry can be complex.
Boston, Massachusetts-based Reprise, which emerged from stealth last November, allows customers to capture the frontend of their software app, modify it as necessary, and host it as a functional experience for their prospects. Revenue teams can use this for sales calls or for creating an embedded self-service demo on a website.
With Reprise, users can capture and edit the animations and interactivity in single-page apps while identifying and replacing proprietary names to create a demo dataset. They're also able to highlight features and create sequential self-guided tours, as well as implementing multi-team, role-specific access controls designed to prevent unauthorized modifications.
There's also an ostensible performance and analytics benefit. Reprise customers like Pendo, Gainsight, and Medallia can see where prospective buyers focus their attention or share with others. Moreover, Reprise claims its platform can load pages 10 times faster than production apps when compiled and hosted on the company's content delivery network.
"The difficulty of creating a usable software demo was a problem I experienced firsthand running a large go-to-market team at Trilogy in the 1990s, and I haven't seen a solution until now," Bain Capital Ventures partner Ajay Agarwal, an investor and new member of Reprise's board of directors, said in a press release. "As soon as I saw the Reprise solution, I knew this was the future. The elegance and power of the Reprise technology combined with a world-class founding team compelled us to move quickly to invest."
Bain Capital Ventures led Reprise's latest funding round, with participation from existing investors Glasswing Ventures and Accomplice VC. It brings the company's total raised to over $20 million.


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Mo Arnold, as well as the rest of Southern Miss' team, rush to join the student section at Reed Green Coliseum after the Golden Eagles' 76-72 win over South Alabama on Thursday.
Last-minute effort pushes Golden Eagles past South Alabama
By ANDREW ABADIEANDREW ABADIE
Thu,01/19/23-11:26PM, 559 Reads 25,178 Statewide
Feelings of pandemonium and excitement were almost a forgotten concept inside the walls and stands of Reed Green Coliseum.
Slowly the enthusiasm for Southern Miss basketball has grown as the Golden Eagles defeated South Alabama 76-72 in front of the largest crowd of the Jay Ladner era.
In what seems to become a new tradition, players sprinted to the student section to join the student body in celebrating the almost lost concept of winning for the Golden Eagle program.
"It gets a little louder every game," remarked Austin Crowley, who scored a game-high of 25 points for USM.
After Thursday night's win, Southern Miss remains in a four-way tie for first place in the Sun Belt standings, with the Golden Eagles improving to 16-4 overall and 5-2 in conference play. Notably, USM has yet to lose a home game with a perfect 9-0 mark.
In the final minute and a half, Crowley and Felipe Haase displayed what has made USM so good this season – the team's chemistry.
With the game tied at 70 with under a minute to go, Crowley found Haase, who hit a layup and drew a foul to give USM the lead. Twenty seconds later, Haase drew another foul and hit both free throws to make the score 75-70. Crowley then put the game away by hitting one more free throw to seal the two-possession lead. For Haase, the moment was a little sweeter after the senior forward experienced a frustrating five-game stretch that saw his overall production drop.
"It's everybody trusting me, to be honest," Haase said. "Coach called it for me, and guys trusted me. I just needed to make a play. It's everybody trusting each other. We didn't care who the play was for as a whole team. I've been frustrated. It's good to see the ball go in a little bit more. I was ready to get out of it. At the end of the game, I felt good and confidence in myself."
Haase finished the game with 18 points, which is the most for him since his 19-point game against McNeese State on Dec. 18.
"In 22, we trust," said Crowley on seeing Haase battle his slump. "A stretch of not making shots, that happens to everybody. It can happen to me in the next game. The thing I like about Felipe is that he always has a positive attitude. You never see him frown. You never see him get mad. That's the things that get you off the slump. No matter what, during his slump, we were still passing him the ball. We still want him to make winning plays, and he's going to make winning plays like today. He's a winner.
"In the second half, I didn't have the hot hand, and we went to guys like Felipe for the last shot. It's a family."
Southern Miss quickly built an 11-point lead in the first half at 16-5. However, that lead slipped away with 12 minutes left in the game as the Golden Eagles went on a six-minute scoring drought, which allowed the Jaguars to go on a 9-2 run and eventually take a 37-33 lead at the half.
"In practice, Austin hurt his rib in a collision," Southern Miss coach Jay Ladner said. "He called to come out. We got out of rhythm a little bit. We got impatient on offense. They were able to get that back under control in the second half. That was as much my fault in substitution pattern than anything."
The Golden Eagles built a 56-48 lead, the largest of the second half. However, South Alabama (8-11, 2-5) went on an 8-0 run, which to led to both sides trading buckets until the final minute.
"There is an old saying in coaching that if your best players are your hardest workers, then you have a chance," Ladner said. "(Austin is) that guy. Felipe is that guy.
"I thought all of our guys showed a lot of poise and composure in a very pressure-filled situation."
Also scoring in double-digits was DeAndre Pinckney, who scored 18 points and six rebounds, while Denijay Harris put up 11 points and nine rebounds.
Southern Miss hosts James Madison on Saturday, with tipoff set for 2 p.m.
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Turkey hunter finds 11,000-year-old giant sloth skull
Ordo News Editor
(ORDO NEWS) — A resident of the American village of Red House, West Virginia, USA, while hunting for turkeys, found the skull of a giant sloth aged 11 thousand years and weighing about 13 kilograms. It is reported by Outdoor Life.
Kevin Adkins, 36, went hunting with his father-in-law Tony Hager. The men tracked the turkey for about half an hour. When the bird took off, they ran after it to the stream.
The hunters made their way across the mountain stream, stepping on the rubble that had been washed away by the flood that hit the region two days earlier.
"When we were crossing the stream, I looked down and saw something bulging. I thought it was a snag and was about to kick it, but at the last moment I noticed something unusual. They were teeth. I picked up the find," said Adkins.
The skull he found weighed about 13 kilograms and was covered with clay and sand. The man cleaned it and saw the remains of wool and a jawbone with teeth. He decided to take the find with him.
At home, they put the find on the table. Adkins' wife Elizabeth suggested that it was a cow's skull. "But the father-in-law answered in the negative.
It was something else. Then we started to google and send photos to relatives and friends. Then I published a post on social networks, "the man said.
The skull retained four teeth on each side, but no fangs. Adkins' father George, after searching the Internet, came to the conclusion that this is the skull of a giant sloth that lived in what is now West Virginia. The men contacted representatives of the State Geological Survey.
The scientists recommended that Adkins contact Dr. Greg McDonald, known as Dr. Sloth because of his specialization in these prehistoric animals.
"Doctor McDonald confirmed that I found the skull of a giant sloth. These animals lived from five million to 11 thousand years ago. The giant sloth weighed about 900 kilograms and reached three meters in length, "Adkins explained.
The American has hidden the skull in a safe place and decides what to do now: carry out carbon dating or immediately give the skull to the museum.
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Film captures priest's life in Sudan
The late Father Lee Tae-suk was one of the few Korean priests to volunteer for a mission in Sudan. Through his experience, he said he learned that being with people through their hardships was the most important aspect of his mission. [JoongAng Ilbo]
It may be called "Don't Cry, Tonj," but there wasn't a dry eye in the house at the premiere of the film at a theater in Jongno on Aug. 27.
The film depicts the life of the late Father Lee Tae-suk (1962-2010), who died on Jan. 14 at the age of 48 after a long battle with colon cancer.
Lee will be remembered not only by the people he's left behind here, but also by the people he helped in war-torn Sudan, where he had been working as a medical missionary at the time of his death. Before the screening began the narrator of the film, Lee Geum-hee, paid tribute to Father Lee.
"We gather here for one person," she said. "We remember him as a person with exceptionally bright smiles and exceptionally warm tears. He could not be here with us today."
Gu Soo-hwan, the film's producer and a chief producer at KBS, said, "In my 25-year career, I have never cried as much in production as I have during the making of this film."
The film is based on a KBS documentary that aired in April.
Father Lee was one of a few Korean priests to volunteer for a mission in Sudan after his ordination in 2001.
He provided medical care, artistic inspiration and understanding to the people in his community.
"At first, I wanted to plan projects for the area," Lee once said, reflecting on his time in Sudan. "Eventually, I realized that being with people through their hardships was the most important thing."
When he arrived in Tonj, southern Sudan, Lee was the only doctor in the area. More than 300 patients visited him each day and some even knocked on his door in the middle of the night.
One of his first duties was to build a hospital, where solar panels were installed to prevent vaccines from decaying. He also built an elementary, middle and high school building, where he taught music and mathematics.
"Would Jesus have built a school or a church first?," Lee says in the film. "He would have built the school first."
"Don't Cry, Tonj" will be released Sept. 9 in CGV theaters in Apgujeong, southern Seoul; Daehangno, central Seoul; Myeongdong, central Seoul; East Suwon; Daejeon; and in Sumyeon in Busan.
By Baik Sung-ho [estyle@joongang.co.kr]


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New e-Navigation technologies developed by the ACCSEAS (Accessibility for Shipping, Efficiency Advantages and Sustainability) project could improve the safety and efficiency of ships across the notoriously busy shipping lanes of the North Sea Region, following successful trials.
to be held in Rotterdam, 17th – 19th February, 2015.
ACCSEAS are pleased to invite you to meet our team and trial our prototype solutions for safe, efficient and sustainable maritime navigation, all on our stand at SMM in Hamburg, September 9-12.


Lost, stranded, and wandering in a dark world, we at the Chompcast meander through Inside to discover and ponder a deep and underlying meaning to the Boy's journey. We come out of the dark into Mafia 3, a societal adventure that delves into a dismal era in recent American history. We briefly look to the future with a mention of Titanfall 2. We round out the show up with a hearty serving of news ranging from Blizzcon announcements to Valve quashing false advertising.


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On Beacon Hill: Birds of a feather?
By State House News Service | November 26, 2017
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Lower speed limits in highway work zones are just suggestions — for now, Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack said at a press conference Tuesday. "You can only be ticketed if you're actually going faster than the underlying speed limit for the road," she said. Gov. Charlie Baker announced he is filing a bill to allow enforcement of the lower limits.
Recap and analysis of the week in local, state and federal government from State House News Service and Sun research.
BOSTON — An estimated 51 million Americans were projected to travel more than 50 miles to celebrate Thanksgiving this year.
A fair number of those hit the Massachusetts highways newly confident, if they didn't know before, that if they could escape the traffic for just a few miles those reduced speed limits posted in work zones along the route were merely "suggestions" and nothing that could legally stop them from getting to their turkey faster.
Gov. Charlie Baker made that point clear while standing in front a giant bank of monitors showing pockets of traffic starting to form Tuesday afternoon as he announced a package of highway safety initiatives he hopes legislative leaders will move to their front burner.
The ability to legally enforce reduced speed limits in work zones was one. But it wasn't the talker.
Just this past February, Baker was on the radio when he said he thought texting while driving was the real danger on the roads. "I'm not sure I believe that the talking thing is," he explained.
The governor, however, is no longer willing to take the risk that he could have been right, citing the volume of fatal car crashes that can be attributed to distracted driving and advances in technology and pricing that have made hands-free devices more accessible than ever. Those free hands, advocates hope, can stay gripped to steering wheels.
Baker called on the Legislature to deliver to his desk a bill before next summer that would make Massachusetts the sixteenth state to ban the handheld use of cellphones while driving. (Every other state in New England, except Maine, and New York have already done so.) And just like that, a driving safety bill climbed up the ladder of issues to watch for in 2018.
The governor's new point of view changes some of the Beacon Hill politics over the long-filed bill, ratcheting up pressure on the House.
"I'm very pleased to see his comments," Sen. Mark Montigny told the News Service. "But the only thing that should change the political dynamic is 15 years of death and destruction on the highways."
Montigny, of New Bedford, still remembers vividly having to settle in 2010 for a ban on texting while driving. The Legislature wasn't ready then to go all the way, and Montigny almost voted against his own bill because, as police would later complain, he believed the texting ban to be virtually unenforceable if people would still be allowed to handle their devices to phone a friend.
In the Senate, a hands-free bill already won approval in June, and because of Baker, Montigny has been imbued with new hope. "I'm glad the governor's on board," he said.
The pressure now shifts to the House as the lone holdout on a topic that from an experiential standpoint resonates with most voters/drivers. House Speaker Robert DeLeo said he would be speaking with his Transportation Committee Chair Rep. William Straus in the "near future" about how to proceed.
In the meantime, Baker had bills sitting on his desk that merited his attention, and the signing spree started Monday with an elaborately staged ceremony to make the contraception "ACCESS" bill law.
"This is a great day in the commonwealth of Mass.," the governor declared from a podium set up in the rarely used State House library, flanked by leaders of the House and Senate, Attorney General Maura Healey, Treasurer Deb Goldberg, the head of Planned Parenthood and more.
Lawmakers, including Senate Majority Leader Harriette L. Chandler, right, looked on as Gov. Charlie Baker signed the ACCESS bill into law last week.
Don't be surprised if this image makes it into campaign literature next year, the governor standing front and center as the state's almost exclusively Democratic power brokers, plus the governor, delivered a message to President Trump's Washington that birth control would remain free and covered in Massachusetts no matter what happens to Obamacare.
This is shaping up as a fascinating election year — Baker trying hard to stay in good graces of State House Democrats, his opponents trying just as hard to Velcro him to Washington Republicans.
— Matt Murphy
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Economy, State Police scandal keep Worcester in spotlight
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Governor signs overhaul of English language learning
Life sciences investment, State Police scandal keep Worcester in spotlight
Lawmakers are starting to see the fruits of the labor they exhibited before formal sessions expired for the year on Nov. 15. Democrats tied up loose ends on two priorities — more flexibility for English language learners [see story below] and access to free birth control — and found in Charlie Baker a receptive Republican governor as he signed both bills into law.
Baker, who has found the Legislature not always as receptive to his many offerings, this week has an opportunity to push for one of his measures that the majority party might get behind: a major new public investment in the life sciences sector that's up for a public hearing on Thursday in Worcester.
And the House is using its holiday season lull to ramp up the heft of its exploration of sexual harassment. House chief legal counsel James Kennedy informed representatives Nov. 14 that he's retained employment law experts Paul Holtzman and Jill Brenner Meixel of Krokidas & Bluestein and Martha Coakley and Jennifer Kirby of Foley Hoag. They are working with his office as it reviews House human resources policies relating to sexual harassment and retaliation.
As the former attorney general is engaged in that issue, current Attorney General Maura Healey is looking into the State Police's handling of arrest reports after two of the force's top officials resigned, and Baker has suggested a role was played by the Worcester District Attorney's office in the case involving changes to an arrest report for Alli Bibaud, the daughter of a district court judge known to be a friend of DA Joe Early Jr.
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Warren continues attack on GOP tax plan
GOP claims a $1.5 trillion corporate tax cut will help working families. But who's to say corporations won't just run off with the money? pic.twitter.com/kTsaT1qhtm
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) November 22, 2017
Healey decries Trump immigration stance
We will not turn our backs on immigrants and we will NEVER back down from President Trump or his administration. pic.twitter.com/VgD7yDgxkW
— Maura Healey (@MassAGO) November 21, 2017
Healey 'disappointed' Baker's opioid bill doesn't do more in schools
The lack of funding for school-based drug education in Gov. Charlie Baker's latest opioid abuse treatment and prevention bill has left Attorney General Maura Healey "disappointed" that the administration did not put more money on the table.
"I think that there are some good things there, but I also have a particular focus on prevention and education and treatment and I was disappointed to not see more," Healey said responding to a caller last week during her appearance on WGBH's Boston Public Radio.
Healey said on a recent visit to a recovery high school, the teenagers who had been sent there from drug courts said universally that they were not taught about the dangers of opioids in school before they became addicted.
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Attorney General Maura Healey
Healey explained how her office has made $3 million available to schools for education and prevention programming. She said, "But I know that the need is greater than that and that's why I'm disappointed that we don't have a proposal to fund universal prevention and education in schools."
Baker's bill introduced this month proposes a variety of new steps to fight the epidemic, including increased access to treatment beds, making Narcan available over the counter and allowing emergency room doctors to send patients for addiction treatment against their will for up to 72 hours.
The administration also said it would work with universities to make opioid education a part of all freshman orientation programming and establish a grant program to help schools identify at-risk students and develop intervention programs.
To fund some of these initiatives, Baker said he would divert $30 million from the state's federal Medicaid waiver to expand residential recovery, add recovery coaches and increase access to medication-assisted treatment.
Governor OKs long-sought update to English language learning law
Massachusetts schools will now have more options for how they educate students learning the English language, under a bill Gov. Charlie Baker signed into law Wednesday.
A 2002 ballot law required English learners to be taught in sheltered immersion programs. Under the new law, school districts will be able to continue to use immersion, but will now also be able to choose a different approach to meet their students' needs, subject to approval by state education officials.
State House News Service
Gov. Charlie Baker
The 2002 ballot question passed 68 percent to 32 percent after a campaign that stressed the benefits of children learning English as quickly as possible. Supporters of the bill Baker signed (H 4032) have argued the ballot law is overly restrictive and has not helped close the achievement gap between native English speakers and their peers who are still learning the language.
The number of English learners in Massachusetts schools has doubled to more than 90,204 students, or 9.5 percent of the student population, since 2000, according to House Speaker Robert DeLeo's office.
Baker signed the bill Wednesday morning without a public ceremony. In a press release, he said the new law "preserves an existing approach that works well for many students, while providing school districts with the opportunity to adopt alternative, credible ways to teach English that may be more beneficial for certain students."
The governor said the current immersion system "works extremely well for tens of thousands of students," but that there are other students for whom it is not effective. The governor's comments fueled speculation about whether he would sign the bill, or seek to amend it perhaps.
The bill was originally filed by Sen. Sal DiDomenico and House Ways and Means Chairman Jeffrey Sanchez, who had both been pursuing the issue for years. The final version passed the Senate unanimously and the House on a 155-1 vote Nov. 16.
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VUKOVI – Announce Their Biggest Headline Tour
VUKOVI have announced their biggest headline
UK and European tour for October 2022
The bands brand new album 'NULA', released on October 7th, 2022 through LAB Records, pre-order HERE
Scottish 2 piece VUKOVI have today announced their biggest headline tour for UK and Europe for this October. The band also recently announced details on their new album NULA, which is out the 7th October via LAB Records.
Speaking about the tour Janine said 'Equally excited, proud and apprehensive having our biggest headline tour to date go on sale during such economically hard times but we believe in our music, our message and our fans. It is going to be an unforgettable experience'
You can see the band at the following dates:
12th October- Stylus, Leeds – Tickets
13th October – Academy 2, Manchester- Tickets
14th October – Garage, London- Tickets
16th October – Chalk, Brighton- Tickets
17th October – Fleece, Bristol- Tickets
19th October – Institute 2, Birmingham- Tickets
21st October – Goldener Salon Hafenklang, Hamburg- Tickets
22nd October – Privat Club, Berlin- Tickets
23rd October – MTC, Köln- Tickets
25th October – Les Etoiles, Paris- Tickets
26th October – Patronaat 23, Haarlem- Tickets
29th October – Student's Union, Newcastle- Tickets
30th October – SWG3, Scotland- Tickets
Tickets on sale Friday 17th June at 10am
As well as announcing new album NULA the band released their huge, brand new single and video 'HADES', which got its world exclusive first play on Radio 1 with Clara Amfo.
Watch the video HERE or click on the image below:
VUKOVI are an ambitious band, and 'NULA' is an ambitious record, filled with big, punchy riffs amalgamated with extreme pop that has made them such a band to be reckoned with. The record has a careful sonic blending of nu metal, shoegaze, rock, punk, pop, electronics and samples, "I've had so much fun making this record," says Hamish (Reilly), "I sometimes think I can overcomplicate my playing, just because I need to keep myself interested. But I've gone all out on NULA, and everything that is there is something that needed to be there."
Now a two piece, vocalist Janine and guitarist Hamish are VUKOVI, and have spent these strange two years gone plotting in their Glasgow base. 'NULA' is, as vocalist Janine explains 'A concept record', which charts the journey of this character (called Nula) in a distant, far off, Sci-fi world. "Growing up I was obsessed with the likes of Akira, Batman: The Animated Series, Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, The Alien franchise, Star Wars, all massive influences of mine."
The whole record starts with an announcement of interplanetary travel. Nula (the character) is a captured extraterrestrial that's now the property of a nefarious capitalist. 'NULA' (the album) picks up 25 years after her capture. And in-between there's all sorts of comment on themes of trauma, violence, lust, and revenge. Fittingly for a record as bold in its ambition as 'NULA' is, it's not a record that only looks inward – there are big themes being explored on the album. It's 2022. The world is ablaze, how could there not be? "I think about what's happening in the world too much," says Janine. "The way the rich are getting richer and the poor getting poorer. The greed. The cruelty. There's a lot of that on the record, and in Nula's story."
As well as being sonically ambitious, the album is incredibly, lyrically mature and astute, with the anthemic synthetic pop of the excellent 'SLO', which deals with singer Janine's diagnosis of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. "It's almost like a love letter to something I hate, something that's caused me so much suffering. But it's also me wondering if I would cease to exist if it was removed from me. Or the heavy and heady rush of 'I Exist', which sees Janine push through the pain of mental illness and realise that she is worthy of life and deserving of joy. "I'm really interested in exploring the idea of joy," says the singer. "I've had enough misery in my life. There's a song I really like early on in the record called 'Quench', which is about sexual liberation from a woman's perspective, which I don't think we hear about enough."
'NULA' track-listing:
1. DEPARTURE
2. TAINTED
3. LASSO
4. QUENCH
5. SLO
6. I EXIST
7. ATTENTION
8. SHADOW
9. HADES
10. KILL IT
11. HURT
13. XX
'NULA' is out on October 7th, 2022 through Lab Records, and new single 'HADES' is
out right now. Pre-order 'NULA' – HERE
See VUKOVI this summer at the following dates:
July 8th – 2000trees Festival (UK)
August 20th – Pukkelpop Festival (Belgium)
September 3rd – Burn It Down Festival (UK)
September 10th – Risefest Newcastle (UK)
A little bit about VUKOVI:
VUKOVI (which means wolves in Serbian) from the West coast of Scotland. They have released two full length albums ('Vukovi' in 2017 and 'Fall Better' in January 2020), with the latest record "Fall Better" debuting at number 1 on the Official Charts Rock & Metal Albums (alongside a sold-out UK headline run on launch week).
The band have built up a very dedicated fanbase through extensive touring in the UK and Europe over the past couple of years, playing slots at the likes of Download Pilot Festival, TITP, TRNSMT, Slam Dunk, Reading and Leeds Festival, 2000 Trees and The Kerrang! Tour. Along with supports for PVRIS and One Ok Rock.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON VUKOVI, VISIT:
WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | TWITTER
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VUKOVI release new single 'QUENCH'
VUKOVI RELEASE NEW VIDEO FOR 'I EXIST'
VUKOVI release huge new single 'I EXIST', a Radio 1 Hottest Record
VUKOVI release single 'HADES', announce new album 'NULA' for October


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Q: Is it "backward/forward" or "backwards/forwards"? Can backward and forward be used interchangeably with backwards and forwards, or is there some particular situation in which one pair is consistently used over the other?

A: In British English (and possibly others), backward and forward are adjectives, and backwards/forwards are adverbs.
A person may be backward1 or forward; a car may be forward of a "Stop" line; one might move something forward (that is, to a position which is forward of its current position). However, when describing that movement itself, it's forwards.
Related question: Meaning of "backwards"
1 Using backward to describe some developmental abnormality is frowned upon and not recommended. In fact, describing someone as forward is rather dated, too.

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If payment is not made by Wednesday, your tuition will be considered past due and a $15.00 late fee will be charged. If payment is not received by drop off on Friday, a Do Not Admit Notice will be issued to the classroom. At this point your child will not be allowed to attend until your balance is paid in full.
If you would like to pay on a monthly basis, this can be done in advance using the billing weeks listed on your school calendar. (Example: In September there are 4 billing weeks. Take the tuition amount as stated on your agreement times that by 4 and pay that amount at the beginning of the month.) Please place all payments in the locking mailbox outside the main entrance door. Do not give payments to the teachers or leave them in your child's school bag. The teachers are not responsible for getting your payment to the office.
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» Fish Oocyte
Oocyte Development And Molecular Staging By Proteomics
Fri, 08 May 2015 | Fish Oocyte
Until recently, oocyte development was mostly followed by visual inspection of the different stages of the oocytes, either under a microscope (Selman et al., 1993; Maack and Segner, 2003), or by following the activity of enzymes involving with the maturation process with their corresponding maturation stages. Oocyte growth and development are accompanied by changes in the opacity of the oocyte, as well as changes in color, size, and density. These changes are mostly attributed to the accumulation of Vtg products, to their aggregation into protein aggregates, to their processing into small peptides, and finally into free amino acids. Molecular staging of the oocytes can be performed using transcriptomics and proteomics. It is based on establishing genes and proteins expression patterns as representing specific stages of oocyte development. The gene expression patterns discussed in Chapter 3 in this book (Knoll-Gellida et al., 2006) are example of the transcriptomic-based approach and its comparison with proteomic profiling (recent review of molecular staging in farm animals (Sirard et al., 2003). Molecular staging based on proteomics approach was demonstrated in pigs by Ellederova et al. (2004). Proteomics-based molecular staging is able to include in the analysis those proteins produced outside the oocytes (such as Vtg products, which are synthesized in the liver).
Ellederova et al. (2004) used proteomics tools to analyze pig oocyte proteins during in vitro maturation (IVM) using 2D-PAGE for separation, and visualization of oocyte proteins and MS for the identifications. Comparative analysis was used to identify unique protein patterns of different staged in vitro mature oocytes. They noticed that the expression of antiquitin (D7A1) increased during first meiosis and second meiosis compared to germinal vesicle in vitro maturated oocytes. Such differentially expressed proteins may be useful as bio-markers of oocyte IVM and quality.
We have also followed the changes in the forms of Vtg-derived proteins in sea bream and in zebrafish during oocyte development and identified by MS/MS many of the Vtg-derived protein spots on a 2D-PAGE. We therefore propose 2D-PAGE as a useful approach for establishing comprehensive maps of Vtg-derived proteins in oocytes during their development (Gattegno et al., in preparation).
9. SINGLE OOCYTE PROTEOMICS
The exquisite sensitivity of modern genomics and proteomics technologies enables the analyses of the transcriptomes and the proteomes of single oocytes. The significance of this ability relates to the possibility of studying the variability among oocytes of the same apparent stage and correlating the visible changes taking place during maturation with molecular level changes in protein repertoires. The oocytes are visualized and photographed under the microscope, followed by extraction and analysis of their proteins. Each of the different maturation stage proteins are resolved by 2D-PAGE, with each gel image representing the protein repertoire of a single oocyte. Each gel reveals the differences among individual oocytes and correlates protein patterns with morphology. We have analyzed single oocytes of zebrafish and of sea bream that were morphologically defined at developmental stage III. They differed significantly in their protein repertoires, most notably, in their processing of the Vtg-derived proteins. Earlier stage oocytes are more difficult to analyze due to their small size and limited amount of protein content. Oocytes that were morphologically defined at stage IV displayed a very similar protein repertoire, since Vtg is very abundant at this stage, and as previously mentioned, it masks many of the other proteins in the sample (Gattegno et al., in preparation).
The use of proteomics for cataloguing of oocyte proteins, following the changes in the proteins repertoire during development and determining the variability between individual oocytes is just beginning. It is likely to enhance our understanding of oocyte biology in the near future and to facilitate medical and biotechnology advances in reproductive biology and animal farming as the technology will be implemented into routine use.
11. ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Funding for the research in A.A. lab was from EC contract # Q5RS-2002-00784 - CRYOCYTE.
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Could my dog be suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder?
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a well-recognised condition in humans that occurs during the winter period when the shorter days and lack of natural light causes depression-like symptoms because light has a direct effect on hormone production in the body. The reduced light in winter allows greater production of melatonin which can affect sleep cycles and cause symptoms of lethargy and sleepiness. A second hormone, serotonin is also affected by light levels and less is produced in the winter than summer. Serotonin can influence appetite, mood, and sleep, and low levels can drive depressive moods and cravings.
It is now suspected that dogs can be affected by SAD too. A study by the PDSA (the UK's leading veterinary charity in 2009 found that in the winter dogs were sleepy, grumpier and hungrier, had lower energy levels and didn't want to exercise. It's also thought that some cases of hair loss in dogs can be related to hormonal imbalance due to lack of sunlight and sunlight exposure treatments are being prescribed for some sufferers.
However there are some treatments that can help canine SAD sufferers so check with your vet if you think your dog might have the condition. Veterinary medication can help with imbalanced hormones and light boxes will provide artificial sunlight but simple tactics at home like planning long lunchtime walks in the winter rather than early morning or evening, using full spectrum white light bulbs (available from lighting specialists and some retailers) to light your home and feeding a satisfying diet to prevent hunger can all help to hold off the symptoms of SAD in your dog over winter.
Does it apply to blind dogs too?
It's known that blind people still have a system of light detecting cells (for instance they will have a normal sleep routine at night) and can suffer from seasonal affective disorder as well as normal sighted people, so it is likely that blind and poorly sighted dogs could also suffer from SAD.


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2 Department of Physics, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria.
Simultaneous measurements of air temperature were carried out using automatic weather stations at 14 tropical locations in Nigeria. Diurnal variations were derived from the 5-minute update cycle initial data for the years ranging between 2007 and 2013. The temperature trends in Nigeria revealed a continuous variability that is seasonally dependent within any particular year considered.
The analysis was carried out using available data from the network and the results are presented with a focus to characterize the temperature variations at different locations in the country using the mean, maximum and minimum temperatures from the north which is arid in nature to the south, which is a tropical monsoon climate type and a coastal region.
In overall, temperature variations in Nigeria were observed to have higher values in the far north, attributed to the influence of Sahara Desert, which has less cloud cover and therefore is more transparent to solar irradiance and lowers values in the south, where there are more cloud cover and abundant vegetation.
Measured maximum and minimum temperatures in Nigeria are respectively 43.1°C at Yola (north-east part of Nigeria) and 10.2°C for Jos (north-central part of Nigeria). The least temperature variations were recorded for stations in the southern part of the country, while the largest variations were recorded in the north-central region of the country.
Keywords: Temperature, Measurement, Variation, Maximum, Minimum, Mean.
© 2017 Okoh et al.


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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940) was an Irish American writer. He is remembered mostly for his novel The Great Gatsby, and for being one of the main members of the Lost Generation.
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Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He briefly went to the Nardin Academy[1]– a private Roman Catholic school in Western New York. When his father lost his job, the Fitzgerald family returned to Minnesota. F. Scott Fitzgerald then went to the St. Paul Academy, but was thrown out of the school when he was aged 16 for not working hard enough. Fitzgerald went to another school in New Jersey and eventually went to Princeton University in 1913. While he was at Princeton, Fitzgerald wrote for a musical-comedy club at the University which led to him sending a novel off to a book publishing company, Charles Scribner's Sons. The editor liked Fitzgerald's writing, but did not publish the book. Fitzgerald left Princeton University to serve in the United States Navy in World War One, but the war ended shortly after he signed up.[2]
Fitzgerald got engaged to Zelda Sayre in 1919. He moved into an apartment on Lexington Avenue in New York where he wrote short stories and worked in advertising. Zelda did not think that Fitzgerald's job was good enough and she broke off their engagement. Fitzgerald went back to his parent's home in St. Paul and worked on his first novel This Side of Paradise. This Side of Paradise was finally accepted by Charles Scriber's Sons in late 1919 and Zelda and Fitzgerald got engaged again. This Side of Paradise was published in 1920 and was very popular. Scott and Zelda got married in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. On October 26, 1921, their daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald was born.
Fitzgerald's most famous book, The Great Gatsby, was first sold in 1925. Fitzgerald travelled a lot at this time – mainly to France, where he met a number of other Americans who had left the United States. It was around this time that Fitzgerald first met Ernest Hemingway. They became good friends, but Hemingway did not like Fitzgerald's wife, Zelda. Hemingway said that Zelda was insane, made Fitzgerald drink alcohol and that she did not allow him to do his best work.[3] It is generally accepted, however, that Zelda had a big influence on Fitzgerald's writing.
Fitzgerald's other novels did not sell as well as his first novel while he was alive. He and Zelda spent a lot of money on parties and Fitzgerald had to try and make money by writing short stories. In the late 1920s, Fitzgerald started working on a fourth novel, but problems arose when Zelda's mental health got worse. The fourth novel, Tender is the Night, was not published until 1934. Some people say that the characters in the novel are very similar to Fitzgerald and Zelda themselves. Tender is the Night did not sell as well as This Side of Paradise in Fitzgerald's lifetime, and a number of critics said it was poor. The book is now considered to be one of Fitzgerald's better works, however.
Zelda's mental health did not improve and she went to live in a mental hospital while her husband worked on more short stories and his fifth novel.
Fitzgerald's health got worse; possibly due to the fact that he drank a lot of alcohol during his life. On December 21st 1940, he had a heart attack and died. The last words of The Great Gatsby are written on Fitzgerald's gravestone. His fifth and last novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was released after he died.
Works[change | change source]
Novels[change | change source]
The Beautiful and Damned
The Love of the Last Tycoon
Short story collections[change | change source]
Flappers and Philosophers (Short Story Collection, 1920)
Tales of the Jazz Age (Short Story Collection, 1922)
All the Sad Young Men (Short Story Collection, 1926)
Taps at Reveille (Short Story Collection, 1935)
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (Short Story Collection, 1960)
The Pat Hobby Stories (Short Story Collection, 1962)
The Basil and Josephine Stories (Short Story Collection, 1973)
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Short Story Collection, 1989)
Short Stories[change | change source]
Bernice Bobs Her Hair (Short Story, 1920)
Head and Shoulders (Short Story, 1920)
The Ice Palace (Short Story, 1920)
May Day (Novelette, 1920)
The Offshore Pirate (Short Story, 1920)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Short Story, 1921)
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (Novella, 1922)
Winter Dreams (Short Story, 1922)
Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar (Short Story, 1923)
The Freshest Boy (Short Story, 1928)
Magnetism (Short Story 1928)
A New Leaf (Short Story, 1931)
Babylon Revisited (Short story, 1931)
Crazy Sunday (Short Story, 1932)
The Fiend (Short Story, 1935)
The Bridal Party (Short Story)
The Baby Party (Short Story)
Other[change | change source]
The Vegetable, or From President to Postman (play, 1923)
The Crack-Up (essays, 1945)
↑ "F. Scott Fitzgerald in Buffalo, NY: 1898 -1901" - Buffalo Architecture and History (c/o bfn.org)
↑ Petri Liukkonen (2008). "F(rances) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald". Retrieved 25 October 2009.
↑ In his book, "A moveable feast", in which Hemingway describes his years in Paris and his encounter with the couple.
Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph (2002), Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (2nd rev. ed.), Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, ISBN 1570034559 .
Bryer, Jackson R.; Barks, Cathy W. (eds.) (2002), Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, New York: St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0312268750 CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link).
Cline, Sally (2003), Zelda Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise, New York: Arcade Publishing, ISBN 1559706880 .
Wikimedia Commons has media related to F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Vimeo Takes A Page Out Of YouTube's Book, Launches Cards And Updates End Screens
On May 31, 2017 May 31, 2017
On YouTube, cards and end screens help creators drive engagement by encouraging viewers to click beyond the video they are watching. Now, those features are coming to Vimeo. The online video platform has announced that subscribers with Vimeo Business accounts will be able to employ cards and end screens, which can be used to share additional information and direct consumers to external sites.
As we've come to expect from Vimeo, its card-based solution, which can be seen above, is a bit more elegant than those of other online video platforms. It is designed to be mobile-friendly and can appear in multiple designs. In addition to the card style pictured above, which appears as an overlay of sorts, Vimeo shared a photo of a card that appears underneath the active video, which would appear to be a less intrusive choice.
Vimeo Business, a $50-per-month offering that launched last year, is Vimeo's highest subscription tier. There are plenty of users within that echelon who could find good uses for cards. For example, YouTube has employed cards to help make its videos more "shoppable," and Vimeo users with conversion-related goals may find the new tools handy.
"Quality continues to be our top priority at Vimeo and our video interaction tools are designed to feel as native, unobtrusive and engaging as possible," said Anjali Sud, GM and SVP of Vimeo's Creator Platform. "We also accounted for the fact that the majority of video views occur on mobile and are excited to introduce a complete, mobile-optimized solution with our new cards."
For more information about Vimeo's updates, check out the company's blog.


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One sunny day in January 2021, an older man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he'd been sitting on a parch bench
He spoke to the U.S. Marine standing guard and said, "I would like to go in and meet with president trump." The Marine looked at the man and said, "Sir, trump is no longer president and no longer resides here."
The old man said, "Okay", and walked away.
The following day, the same old man approached the White House and said to the same Marine, "I would like to go in and meet with president trump."
The Marine repeated, "Sir, as I told you yesterday, trump is no longer president and no longer resides here." The man thanked him again and just walked away.
On the third day, the old man approached the White House and spoke to the very same U.S. Marine. "I would like to go in and meet with president trump."
The Marine, understandably irritated at this point, looked at the man and said, "Sir, this is the third day in a row you've been here asking to speak to trump and I've told you each time that he's no longer the president and no longer resides here. Don't you get it?"
The old man looked at the Marine and said, "Oh, I understand. I just love hearing it."
The Marine snapped to attention and said, "See you tomorrow, Sir.


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Our babies are precious to us. We pile them with presents. We worry about all the harmful chemicals that the world has manufactured. We fill them with finest foods. But we've forgotten the most important ingredient. And it's all round us, free and just waiting to be used: words. Meet the newest trend: 'language nutrition'.
And words are going out of business. We used to live in big, extended families in big, extended streets or villages. We used to – listen to this, kids! – talk to each other round the fire, over the washing or at the peat bank. We didn't used to have – our grannies tell us – radios, tellies, videos, iPads or even smart phones. I remember thirty years ago sitting in Australia's Western Desert with a bunch of Pintupi Aboriginal guys, trying to convince them that the TV was only invented recently and that when I was born our family hadn't had one!
There are now huge – and I mean really huge – differences in the amount of language we speak to our kids. Twenty years ago researchers in America followed 42 families with young children every month from the age of 7 months to 3 years. Every month the scientists sat in a corner of the room and recorded all the conversations for an hour. The results amazed everybody. After 3 years, up to 98% of the words used by the children had been used by their parents during that period. But as well as that, the kids were mimicking the way and the amount their parents talked. Some families talked much more than others. The least-talking households used 616 words an hour, while the most-talking children were hearing 2,153 words an hour. That meant that the children in the most-talking families had heard 30 million more words than those in the least-talking houses by the age of four.
Not only that, but some families 'scolded' their children much more than others. Some parents gave out two discouragements for every encouragement – by the age of four they were on the receiving end of 125,000 more words of discouragement than encouragement; others praised six times more than they scolded. All the families were equally loving and the kids as well-looked after as each other.
And what about 'screen language'? Is the old parental standby of CBBC, DVD and now the kid's own iPad just as good? Probably not. Another study from America looked at 9-month-old babies from Englishspeaking families, who were talked to in Mandarin Chinese for half an hour, three times a week for a month. At the end of this they tested the babies to see if they could tell the difference between two sounds common in Chinese – 'chee' and 'shee'. The babies could do this, as well as babies brought up in Taiwan. But babies given exactly the same exposure to Mandarin on a TV or a radio hadn't learned anything. You need the words, but you also have to have a human being in front of you.
Babies learn more if you talk to them about what's interesting them at the time. In other words, if they're looking at a bright red car, talk about that, not a book about hippopotamuses you've just got from the library. And two languages are even better. Children exposed to two languages concentrated better, and were better at solving problems, than English-only kids.
So how should we talk to babies and young children – apart from 'a lot'? Well, you might think that being sophisticated is better. But speaking in baby talk, or what the experts call 'child directed speech', is the best. Sometimes called 'parentese', this involves a higher pitched voice, a sing-song style, stretching the words out ("Whoooose a prettyy bayyybeeee. Yes, yoooo are!"), and exaggerated facial expressions. Studies show that babies like it and they remember more from the 'conversation'. Importantly, adults who speak baby talk actually like babies more, and infants are good at working this out – and smile at them more. They've got us wrapped around their tiny fingers! A baby's first 1,000 days are the most important; words are as important to the growing brain as food is to the growing body. Scans show that babies exposed to more talking have physically bigger language centres in their brains.
As one expert said, "Brains aren't born, they're made." Words are free. Fill the air with them!


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Recruiting Black Soldiers in Kansas
Posted on August 6, 2012 by Donald R. Shaffer
Kansas was a special place in the American Civil War. Essentially, because of "Bleeding Kansas" the bloody fight between freesoil and pro-slavery settlers in the 1850s for control of the territory, the Civil War had arguably begun seven years earlier there than for the rest of the country. Hence, it was ready earlier in the conflict to embrace measures that further east many Americans still considered too extreme–like recruiting black soldiers into the Union Army.
On August 6, 1862, recruiting began for what would become the first black regiment to serve intact until its formal acceptance into federal service. Called initially the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry, it would eventually be re-designated 79th U.S. Colored Infantry.
However, like the 1st South Carolina Colored Infantry that preceded it, the 1st Kansas Colored was formed without federal authorization. The difference being, that except for one company, the first incarnation of the 1st South Carolina regiment did not survive intact to be accepted formally into federal service (a new version of the unit would be organized in early 1863).
The Kansas colored regiment was the brainchild of U.S. Senator and Union general, James H. Lane. Lane was a brash veteran of Bleeding Kansas, who had achieved notoriety the previous fall for his destructive raid into pro-Confederate areas of Missouri, including the burning of Osceola, Missouri. Lane, just as he had adopted hard war tactics early in the Civil War, also was one of the first Union leaders to accept the idea of black soldiers in the federal army and take affirmative steps to make it a reality.
Given his impetuous nature, it is not surprising Lane started recruiting blacks soldiers for the Union Army, then informed the War Department in Washington, D.C. On August 6, 1862, he sent the following telegram to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. It read simply, "I am receiving negroes under the late act of Congress. Is there any objection? Soon have an army."
The War Department did object. Its disapproval manifested itself first on August 19, when the Assistant Adjutant General in Washington, D.C., sent letters to Union Army disbursing officer in Leavenworth, Kansas, prohibiting him from paying black recruits either a bounty or premium, and to Governor of Kansas prohibiting him from issuing officer's commissions for the black regiment.
These communications were followed up on August 23 with a letter from Stanton personally to Lane. After congratulating the Senator/General for his success recruiting white soldiers in Kansas, he added more sternly:
In regard, however, to the portion of your communication which contemplates the raising of two regiments of African descent, you are informed that regiments of persons of African descent can only be raised upon express and special authority of the President. He has not given authority to raise such troops in Kansas, and it is not comprehended in the authority issued to you. Such regiments cannot be accepted into service.
Nonetheless, despite Stanton's letter, James Lane kept the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry together, arming and supplying them from the state's resources. And between October 27 and October 29, 1862, the unit skirmished with Confederate guerrillas at Mound Island in Bates County, Missouri, becoming the first black soldiers to see combat in the Civil War. Shortly after the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect, on January 13, 1863, the War Department finally dropped its objections and the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry was formally mustered into federal service.
In any case, the continuous service of black soldiers in the Civil War was finally underway in August 1862, constituting a major step forward in the quest of the slaves for freedom. For military service gave African Americans not only a potent claim to freedom but also citizenship. In the 19th-century United States, military service was considered a duty of citizenship. Hence, by performing arguably the most onerous duty of the citizen, black soldiers staked a claimed for citizenship rights, and by becoming warriors also began to assert a long suppressed manhood.
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