White Ash and New Loveland coal mines in the 1890�s. The view is northward from the south side of Clear Creek on west edge of Golden. The White Ash coal mine and its dump are in the foreground. The New Loveland coal mine is on the north side of Clear Creek in the upper left.
About the middle of June �77. R.D. Hall and Al. Jones under the firm name of Hall and Jones, began opening out what is known now as the White Ash Coal Mine. It is situated at the west end of Second Street in Golden. These men continued to operate the mine until May 1st, 1879, when W.S. Wells purchased an interest in the enterprise and Mr. Hall retired.
The first year a shaft was sunk 100 feet and the first level on the coal mine opened out. This was worked on until the first of 1879, when the shaft was sunk down 100 feet further and a new level opened out. This is the one which has since been worked. The vein at present is from 9 to 14 feet thick of good clean coal. There is a great abundance so that work on this level can be continued for two years to come. From the main shaft they now have the level opened out 800 feet to the south and 200 feet to the north.
In the spring the mine will be opened up on a still larger scale. Messrs. Jones and Wells propose at that time to run the main shaft 200 feet deeper and open out two more levels, one at 100 feet below the present, and 300 feet below the surface, and one 400 feet below the surface and 200 below the present level worked. As it is a self evident fact that the deeper the coal is taken out the better is the quality, this will enable the men to place upon the market the best coal in the state. Another advantage gained from this new project is that it affords such largely increased facilities for turning out large quantities daily, by having three good levels to work from.
The coal mining industry of Golden is one of its greatest and one on which the growth and prosperity and foundation of the place is largely based. Hence the following description of the resources, developments and output of the mines of the vicinity will be interesting.
The Ralston Springs coal mine is one of the most extensive and profitable in the county as well as the state. It was first opened out by Messrs. Nicholls and Hoagland, and lies three miles north of Golden near the R.R. track of the Cheyenne division of the Colorado Central. It is now owned and operated by John Nicholls, one of Jefferson County�s commissioners, and is an enterprise that adds much to the growth of the city. The main shaft of the mine is down 175 feet, from the bottom of which two levels have been run, one extending north and one south, each to the extent of 500 feet. From these levels toping has been carried on and the mine developed and opened out in good shape. From the coal rooms above these levels the coal is blasted out, and the handsome manner in which the property has been opened out in this respect gives them the capacity of raising 100 tons of coal per day. The regular force of the men varies from 75 to 100, and the output of coal from 75 to 80 tons per day. The mine is provided with a good shaft house, coal chutes, engine house, and the propelling machinery of the hoisting apparatus consists of a forty horsepower engine and a sixty horsepower boiler. The coal mined here is of a very superior quality. The estimated production of the mine last year was 22,500 tons of coal.
The White Ash Mine, owned and operated by the Colorado Brick and Coal Co. is one of the most extensive in the state. The main shaft is down 450 feet- the deepest coal shaft in Colorado. From this shaft three levels have been run, one at a depth of 280 feet, another at 360 feet and the third at the bottom of the shaft. The last is just now being opened out and the entries on it have not been run but a short distance. On the first level the entries have been run 1000 feet to the south and 600 feet to the north; on the second level the entries are now opened 400 feet in both directions.
Fifteen teams are kept constantly hauling from the mine, 40 men are employed, and about 100 tons of coal are produced each day. The mine is supplied with two hoisting engines, 60 horsepower each, good engine houses, shaft house and coal chutes, so the work can be carried on successfully.
This company which is under the management of S.D. Peppard, also operates the large brick works near the mine.
Beside the above enumerated coal mines there are the Murphy mine on Ralston Creek, the Lyden Creek coal mine, and one near Morrison all having been worked more or less, during the year, but not regularly. The Welch coal mine which is tributary to Golden raises on an average 370 tons per day the year round. It is just north of the north county line.
An accident which ordinarily might have cause great loss of life occurred last Monday at the White Ash Coal mine. Luckily it terminated in nothing more serious than the destruction of considerable property, and causing work to be suspended at the mines for a couple of weeks or more. It seems that as a car of coal was being hoisted from the mine, the weight of which was nearly a ton, the arm attached to the piston rod of the engine, broke at the fastening to the drive wheel and flew back with such force as to cause it to penetrate the cylinder head. The sudden breaking of the engine caused the breaking of the hoisting apparatus which let the car of coal descend the shaft at a terrific speed. The loss to the company for repairs will be about $1000 as the machinery was almost entirely destroyed.
Last Thursday one of the most startling accidents occurred in the White Ash coal mine, which has happened in this locality for a long time, which resulted in the fatal injury of one man and the severe bruising of others.
John Boucham, one of the miners, was at work in the fourth level, 450 feet below the surface and thirty feet from the shaft. He was taking a pillar out of the air shaft and laboring in the air course for the purpose of improving it, as the air had become quite bad in the mine. It was about 9 o�clock when he took the pillar out and the accident occurred. Immediately after its removal five tons of rock and coal fell upon him, crushing him down and burying him. Four men worked for 15 minutes before he could be extricated form this situation.
Shortly after this accident, another one took place in the level below that one. Patrick Masters was this time the victim, but fortunately he escaped with minor injuries. He was working 525 feet below the surface and 900 feet from the shaft. His light was poor and he ventured too far in a dangerous direction when suddenly some rock and coal fell on him. Two other miners were also somewhat bruised and cut by the falling rocks.
Last Wednesday a couple of miners were quite seriously injured at the White Ash mine. A German known as "Chris" and a man named Tom Richardson were at work at the bottom of the main shaft when a heavy chain fell from the "cage" which was ascending over their heads, striking one man upon the shoulder and mashing the other�s foot. Had the falling chain struck either of them more squarely it would have resulted in instant death.
Our people have been considerably alarmed during the last few days at the fact that the White Ash coal mines were on fire. Fire has been smoldering for some time in one of the workings, and on Monday the smoke became so bad that the miners were driven out. Extra exertions were used on Monday and Tuesday night, and the usual amount of coal is being raised again.
There is a rumor that the coal mines on the north side are to be opened up at once, to be worked in connection with the White Ash Mines on the south side. The working of the latter are now under the old mine at the depth of 750 feet.
HORRIBLE DISASTER: Ten Men Drown in the White Ash Coal Mine.
The most serious accident in the history of Golden occurred last Monday afternoon, about 4 o�clock in the White Ash coal mine, situated at the west end of Second street and not over a quarter of a mile from the Golden post office. Ten men were at work in the mine on the lower level 730 feet from the surface, when a flood of water broke in on them without a moment of warning and they were all drowned. A list of those killed is as follows: David Lloyd, cage man, single aged 30 years. William Collins, aged 45 years, leaves a wife and child. John Collins (his brother) widower, leaves five children, his wife died nine years ago. Richard Roe, a nephew of the Collins� boys, single, aged 22 years. Joseph Allen, aged 47 years, leaves a wife and daughter. Joseph Hutter, aged 44, leaves a wife and five children. Henry Haussman, aged 40 years, leaves a wife and five children who all reside in Denver. William Bowden, aged 37 years, leaves a wife and three children. Jack Morgan, 21 years, single. John Murphey, 45 years, single. Although Richard Roe was single he had a mother dependent on him for support.
The trouble arose from the water in the old Loveland mine, on the north side of the creek, which was abandoned about ten years ago. It is about 1,959 feet from the White Ash beside the track of the Colorado Central road on the north side of town. The Loveland was filled with water, which broke through the wall 90 feet thick between it and the White Ash, and came rushing along the old tunnel of the White Ash to the shaft, and flowed into the mine 440 feet below the surface.
The calamity was discovered by engineer Charles Hoagland, who tried to send the cage down, but couldn�t get it to the bottom. This was about a quarter to four. He gave all the signals to the cage man, David Lloyd, but could not get an answer. He then knew that something was wrong. Evan Jones, the foreman, climbed down the ladder 280 feet in the shaft. He heard a great roaring, and knew that the mine was flooded. He came back and reported to the general manger, Mr. Paul Lanious.
On examination, Mr. Jones found that the water had gone out of the Loveland mine. He fathered all the men he could and made any number of efforts to go down into the mine, but couldn�t keep the light lit. Between nine and ten o�clock he put down electric lights and attached heavy ropes to the grab winze. Foreman Jones then went down about 300 feet, but the bad air and sulphur working out of the old workings forced him to come back. The general manager sent to the Ralston Springs coal mine and got a heavy wire rope, put it on the ground and attached it to the engine.
At 7:30 the next morning Mine Inspector McNeil and Foreman Jones went down on a heavy iron bucket, made an examination and found that nothing could be done to save the men. They covered over the top of the shaft and stopped the draft between the two mines. The dead men are supposed to be 200 feet under the water. They were in a tunnel 730 feet from the surface. The tunnel ran in about 900 feet under the creek.
When Engineer Hoagland found that the cage would not go to the bottom, he immediately tried to raise it but it stuck, and repeated efforts were made with the full power of the engines but it could not be hoisted up again. During the entire night air was pumped into the mine in the hopes that something might occur by which there would be a ray of hope for the lives of the men.
Probably a thousand people visited the place during the night, among which were relatives of those who had met such a terrible fate. Many were crazed with grief and almost prostrated while others were only nerved on to do all in their power for the relief of those below. It was however, soon determined that nothing could be done, as they all drowned.
State inspector of Coal Mines, John McNeil, was in the city again Thursday, and it was the privilege of our reporter to get from him some very clear statements of the cause of the accident and the circumstances connected therewith. Mr. McNeil says that when he first visited this mine about six years ago, he inquired into the matter of the water in the old Loveland mine. From all the evidence he could get, he came to the conclusion that there was at least 70 to 100 feet of wall between the 250 foot entry in the Loveland mine, and the 280 foot level in the White Ash mine, when the workings in these levels were abandoned some eight years ago. It had also been represented to him that the vein pinched up near this wall between these levels, and he came to the conclusion a fault in the vein occurred there. Fire was raging in the 280 foot White Ash level and he ordered it walled up and closed to smother the fire out. Mr. McNeil was satisfied the fire, which was caused by combustion of the slacked coal, had by this walling up process, been checked and practically smothered out. This conclusion he came to because he has frequently examined these entries walled, and found the black damp so bad in them the fire could not continue. It was evident however, that fire had helped eat out this wall between these two levels. After these many years of testing, thus causing the water to burst through the 280 foot level of the White Ash mine, down the vein and through the cross cut to the shaft in the 440 foot level. In order to do this it came with sufficient force to carry all before it.
The question which seemed perplexing to Mr. McNeil, was to know how the fire had reached that wall of 90 feet between the levels of the two mines. He had thoroughly inspected the property and came to but one conclusion. He now believe that the fire came from the dump on top of the ground, and worked its way down through seams and crevices along the vein to this place referred to. It could not have spread upwards from below for the black damp was sufficient evidence against that theory. But on the top, this dump was on fire, and it must have come from that.
The inspector said that he had thought of every other calamity as possible but the one that happened to these miners. Every other defect in regard to the property, the manager was seeking to remedy as fast as money and labor could do it, but the idea of being drowned never occurred to them. It was therefore in this manner the state inspector permitted ten men to labor one shift each in the mine, as all considered it was being put in good shape. He considered the whole matter one of those unfortunate calamities no one could foretell or warn others against.
There has been much desire on the part of all manifested toward recovering the bodies if possible, but this does not now seem possible. Mr. McNeil has made some calculations in the matter. There are now in the mine three million cubic feet of water, and it is filling in at the rate of eighty-five thousand gallons of water a day. It would require a very good pump to keep out the increase of water daily, to say nothing about reducing the quantity already there. The shaft of the mine is not a large one, and consequently would not admit putting down a very large pump to pump the water out. Taking into consideration the debris that such as could be put in this shaft, it would take under the most favorable circumstances at least three months to recover the bodies. If anything occurred to delay, it would require so much longer. Then there is a question whether the water, already heated by the fire in the mine, taken together with the mineral substance in the water would not destroy all that remains of the deceased by the time they were recovered. So the case stands. Several of the families are left without means of support for the future, and are in needy circumstances.
The White Ash Coal mining Co., have made another big deal that will involve several thousand dollars. They were not satisfied with having a 25 years lease on the White Ash and Loveland properties which gave them a mile an a quarter of coal vein, so they purchased the old Murphy coal mine. Too much credit cannot be given to Mr. Chas. T. Clark as he has been the main instigator in all these big enterprises. Since last April he has opened the White Ash mine and has made it a good producer, and has constantly been increasing the output, and then later formed a company and leased the Loveland property for 25 years, and now has purchased the Murphy mine. This means more business for Golden, and the employment of many more men.
The White Ash Coal mining Company during the past year have opened the Loveland shaft and are now working two mines. This company has done a great amount of work the past year and are now in a shape to supply a large demand for coal.
At the beginning of 1891 General Manager Clark had opened the Little shaft and was taking out a limited supply of coal. The company had been formed a short time previous to this, and in the latter part of November 1890, started work on the shaft of the Loveland mine. This work was pushed rapidly and in less than a year was producing coal. The shaft is now 582 feet deep with levels run in, cutting the coal at the depth of 372; second level at 452 and the lowest at 532 feet. These levels are run 126 feet before striking coal. In each level they have struck two veins the first is 5 ½ feet wide, and the second is 9 feet. The coal is of fine quality being harder than any other in northern Colorado. Splendid machinery has been erected and the shaft is a model one. A road has been graded ready for a switch and chutes are ready to load the cars. The output at the Loveland is 50 tons per day, and the Little mine puts out 25 tons per day.
The White Ash Mine closed down on Tuesday morning. The tracks and pumps and underground machinery were taken out and work stopped. About 20 men are thrown out of employment. The miners who have been working under lessees, on a sort of co-operative plan, found that they would have to do a great deal of dead work in order to get to further deposits of coal, and they endeavored to get the owners of the mine to pay for sinking to a lover level, but the owners refused to contribute anything. As it is the miners have had scant pay in the past, after paying salaries and royalty. And felt that they could not stand the expenses of development. The White Ash mine is probably closed for good.


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Just to let you know the absolutely fab book has arrived. I had briefed our country postman a couple of days ago, he took a detour this morning so he could deliver it personally for us. I have delivered it to the school . I know its brill in looks and quality, but to watch the senior staff be speechless, stroke the black engraved front cover and keep turning back the pages as well as going forward told me we have all surpassed expectations. Can I again thank you all at Vanilla for the OTT service you have given, just wish we could all be a fly on the wall when its presented tomorrow morning at the school.


You asked for it and look what my nieces spent part of their Sunday afternoon doing for me.
They took pictures of baby Ava (Jackie's granddaughter and my great niece) and the crochet trimmed quilt that Grammy Jackie made for her. I know this had to be a challenge because Ava is now walking, and I'm sure she didn't want to stay on anyone's lap that long.
Thank you, Angie and Emilee for spending a portion of your Sunday taking pictures for the blog. (I know you needed a reason to take pictures of such a cute little baby!) Ha! Ha!


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Q: Scheduling a task using python script I am trying to schedule a task, but it is giving me the following error
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Can someone please help me fix this. I am relatively new to python. Here is my code below:
import os, time
runHr = 23 #Hour of the day that you would like to run the batch file
runMin = 00 #Minute of the hour the batch file is to be run
while True:
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The Agusta A.104 Helicar was an Italian prototype light commercial helicopter first flown in December 1960.

Production
The A.104 was a slightly enlarged version of the A.103, and added a second seat beside the pilot's seat. The cockpit was enclosed by a perspex bubble with the engine at the rear and the tail rotor carried on an enclosed boom.

Two piston-engined prototypes were built, followed by a single example of a turbine-engined variant designated A.104BT. No production resulted.

Surviving aircraft
An example of the A.104 is preserved in the Museo Agusta which is maintained by the Agusta company and is located just south of Milan Malpensa Airport.

Variants
A.104 HelicarTwo prototype aircraft powered by de-rated Agusta GA.140 piston engines.
A.104BT HelicarA single example of a turbo-shaft powered Helicar, powered by a   Agusta A.270.

Specifications

See also

References

External links

 luftfahrt-archiv.de

Agusta aircraft
1960s Italian civil utility aircraft
1960s Italian helicopters
Aircraft first flown in 1960
Single-engined piston helicopters

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Die goidelischen Sprachen (Irisch: teangacha Gaelacha; Schottisch-Gälisch: cànanan Goidhealach; Manx: çhengaghyn Gaelgagh), auch gälische Sprachen genannt, sind ein Zweig der  inselkeltischen Sprachen. Der zweite Zweig der inselkeltischen Sprachen sind die britannischen Sprachen. Zu den heutigen goidelischen Sprachen gehören Irisch, Schottisch-Gälisch und Manx. Das ausgestorbene Manx steht dem Schottisch-Gälischen näher als dem Irischen. Die Sprecher der goidelischen Sprachen werden Gälen genannt.

Bezeichnung
Die Bezeichnung Goidelisch geht auf das altirische Wort Goídelc zurück, eine Ableitung von Goídel ("Ire"), was wiederum ein Lehnwort aus dem Britannischen ist. Goídelc war zunächst die Bezeichnung für die irische Sprache im frühen Mittelalter. In der Sprachwissenschaft wird goidelisch für den Zweig der inselkeltischen Sprachen verwendet, der Irisch, Schottisch-Gälisch und Manx umfasst.

Geschichte
Alle modernen goidelischen Sprachen gehen auf das frühmittelalterliche Irische zurück, der Begriff Goidelisch umfasst aber auch ältere Sprachstufen wie das archaische Irisch. In der Entwicklung der goidelischen Sprachen lassen sich folgende Phasen unterscheiden:
 Frühes Goidelisch (vor dem 4. Jahrhundert)
 urtümliches Irisch (ca. 4. bis 6. Jahrhundert)
 Archaisches Irisch (ca. 7. Jahrhundert)
 Altirisch (ca. 8./9. Jahrhundert)
 Mittelirisch (ca. 10. bis 12. Jahrhundert)
 Modernes Irisch
 Schottisch-Gälisch
 Manx

Das frühe Goidelisch ist nur durch wenige Orts- und Stammesnamen überliefert und muss ansonsten von der historischen Sprachwissenschaft rekonstruiert werden. Das urtümliche Irisch ist ausschließlich durch Inschriften in Ogam-Schrift belegt. Das archaische Irisch ist eine frühe Form des Altirischen. Es gibt lediglich vereinzelte direkte Belege des archaischen Irisch in der Form von einzelnen Wörtern und Namen in lateinischen Texten. Indirekt kann die Forschung jedoch noch auf eine Reihe von Prosa- und Lyriktexten zurückgreifen, die in späteren Manuskripten überliefert sind, aber vermutlich ursprünglich aus dem 7. Jahrhundert stammen. Altirisch ist direkt belegt über Glossen und Marginalien irischer Schreiber in lateinischen Texten. Für Mittelirisch kann die Forschung bereits auf bedeutende Manuskripte aus dem Mittelalter zurückgreifen.

Etwa ab dem 5. Jahrhundert breiteten sich goidelisch sprechende Iren im heutigen Schottland und auf der Insel Man aus. Die drei goidelischen Sprachen formten historisch ein Dialektkontinuum von Irland über die Insel Man bis Schottland. Im 13. Jahrhundert trennten sich die Dialekte, die in Schottland und Man gesprochen wurden, von dem Irischen und entwickelten sich zu einer eigenständigen Sprachvariante. Im 15. Jahrhundert schließlich trennten sich auch Schottisch-Gälisch und Manx voneinander und entwickelten sich zu eigenständigen Sprachen.

Geografische Ausbreitung
Die modernen goidelischen Sprachen sind heute noch in Irland und in Schottland zu finden. Manx, ursprünglich auf der Insel Man beheimatet, hat mit dem Tod von Ned Maddrell 1974 keine Muttersprachler mehr, aber es gibt seit dem 19. Jahrhundert einige Bemühungen, die Sprache wiederzubeleben und unter der englischsprachigen Bevölkerung von Man populär zu machen.

Auch außerhalb der britischen Inseln gibt es Dialekte, die vom Irischen bzw. Schottisch-Gälischen abstammen und damit goidelisch sind: So gibt es einige Belege dafür, dass Schottisch-Gälisch und (weniger) Irisch von irischen und schottischen Einwanderern und deren Familien in Neufundland gesprochen wurde. Das Kanadisch-Gälische ist ein auf Nova Scotia gesprochener Dialekt der Nachfahren schottischer Einwanderer.

Literatur
 Martin J. Ball, Nicole Müller (Hrsg.): The Celtic Languages, 2. Auflage. Routledge, London/New York 2010, ISBN 978-1-138-96999-5.

Weblinks

 Family: Goidelic auf Glottolog

Einzelnachweise

Keltische Sprachen
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Make Masks Mandatory
188 petitions
Coronavirus Epidemic
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Petition to Brad Little
Require Face Masks in Idaho Shared Public Spaces
My mask protects YOU - Your mask protects ME! Idaho is currently seeing an exponential increase in COVID-19 spread. All across Idaho, people are out in shared public spaces without masks. Opening up without requiring masks in shared public spaces has backfired. Parts of Idaho are going backwards to stage 3 of the 4 stage reopening plan. This is bad for business! Failing to require masks creates an unsafe environment and forces many people to limit their activities and their support of our economy. Many are unable to restrict their activities, and are being put at unnecessary risk just to support their families. There is no end to the misinformation, confusion and conflict around the use of masks, because there has been no authoritative and expert leadership. Idahoans are better than this. We care about each other and protect each other. The best way we can do this during a global pandemic is to follow the advice of experts, who overwhelming support the use of masks in shared public spaces, in addition to social distancing measures. Those of us endangering one another are doing so unknowingly, and should not be steering our public health policies. Those of us who already understand why using masks helps to control the spread of COVID-19 are watching helplessly in horror. The decision to require masks in shared public spaces is a decision to ensure the health and welfare of every Idahoan. The sooner we control the spread of this virus, the sooner we can get back to business! Demand that Idaho Governor Brad Little orders that masks be used in shared public spaces in Idaho. Masks covering the mouth and nose, when used in addition to social distancing measures, are proven to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Many countries around the world are successfully controlling the spread of this virus by requiring masks in public spaces. More and more states and jurisdictions in the United States are requiring masks to effectively control the spread of this disease. But here in Idaho we are being left behind while our numbers climb higher than ever. Requiring masks in shared public spaces is an easy, simple and cost-effective solution to fight back against the spread COVID-19. Every Idahoan has the ability to do their part . Every day that we delay puts all Idahoans at greater risk. Demand that Idahoans are protected so we can ALL get back to the business of opening up our great state. Let's open up Idaho for ALL Idahoans. Governor Little, we implore you to require the use of masks that cover the mouth and nose in all shared public spaces.
Mandate Masks Idaho
6,955 supporters
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Petition to Ron DeSantis
Mandate Masks in Enclosed Public Spaces
We are physicians of Florida writing this letter to implore you to take more proactive steps towards the fight against COVID-19. We need you to require face masks in enclosed public places. It is well documented that masking prevents the spread of COVID-19. Studies show that COVID infections are drastically reduced with universal mask wearing. Without masks, people will easily spread the virus through droplets and asymptomatic spread. The 14 days average incubation period already puts us at a disadvantage from diagnosing all the cases quickly but mask wearing will slow the rate of infection and allow us to contact trace appropriately and isolate those exposed. The numbers of newly infected people are rising to record levels in Florida and an increase in hospitalizations and deaths is sure to follow. The states in which mask wearing is mandatory are seeing a drop in their rates of COVID infection and Florida is lagging in its response to this pandemic. In order to mitigate the spread of this and bide our time to develop better treatment and produce more PPE, we need to slow the spread. It will also allow Florida residents to safely conduct business without putting their patrons or employees at risk. Please consider the safety of your Florida residents as well as us Health Care Workers putting our lives at risk to fight this virus. Best regards, Physicians of Florida
R Garcia
Petition to Mayor Tom Barrett, Milwaukee Common Council
Milwaukee should require masks in public places to protect residents
Medical professionals, health officials and scientists say that wearing face masks helps prevent the spread of the deadly Covid-19. The City of Milwaukee should require everyone to wear masks and practice physical distancing in public places. Many city, county and state governments already require this. Milwaukee should protect its residents, too, so they're safe as possible. Masks help prevent a wearer from infecting others. But mask wearers are not protected if others don't wear masks. Not wearing masks puts everyone in public spaces -- including customers and employees -- at risk. While some businesses require masks for everyone, others do not. There's no way a consumer can know where masks are required. Without rules, some people won't wear masks, even though they could infect others. With everyone wearing masks, workers and businesses will benefit, as more people feel safe to spend money at Milwaukee businesses. Can we truly reopen if we don't make Milwaukee public spaces as safe as possible? The City of Milwaukee should require that people wear masks in public places and maintain physical distancing until health professionals say these practices are no longer needed. The alternative is more lockdowns, business failures, and serious illness and death.
Jeff Bentoff
18,611 supporters
Petition to Eric J. Holcomb
Petition Mandated Masks in Indiana
At the time of this update COVID-19 has killed in excess of 138,000 deaths in the United States and deviated the economy. Businesses have closed and we have distanced ourselves from our friends and families. It is in all our interest to STOP the spread of the disease. Models of COVID-19 transmission show that if a sufficient proportion of people wear effective masks that the infection will burn out. Countries which have enacted mask laws or have a culture where mask use is the norm, have generally outperformed their counterparts in suppressing transmission, and scientific studies have shown that masks act as a barrier to transmission. In order to help stop the spread of COVID-19 in Indiana the general public should be expected to wear masks in public indoor, or enclosed spaces and outdoors when social distancing can't be maintained. As time is of the essence to achieve this change of behavior we need government to act to ensure Hoosiers are mandated to wear masks outside of their homes.
Sheri Stewart
Update posted 4 days ago
Petition to Newegg CEO, Newegg HR, Newegg CEO Office, Newegg Employees, NeweggersWFH
Newegg: Cease Rotational Shifts, Start Work From Home, and require Face Masks in Office
In March, we had a brief period of work from home (WFH) but currently, we are now being pressured to go back into office and risk exposing ourselves and our families to COVID-19. We are asking Newegg to put the health and safety of its workers first and to bring itself back into compliance of the guidelines set forth by the State of California, and the County of Los Angeles. Newegg must: 1. Immediately close its non-essential indoor office operations as ordered by Gov. Newsom 2. Mandate the proper wearing of face masks by everyone in the office per Department of Public Health guidelines. On July 13th, California State Governor Gavin Newsom issued a state order for Los Angeles county to close "offices for non-essential sectors" effective immediately. Currently 33 out of 58 counties in California are under those additional state mandated restrictions, LA County included. (https://covid19.ca.gov/roadmap-counties/) Counties that have remained on the County Monitoring List for 3 consecutive days will be required to shut down the following industries or activities unless they can be modified to operate outside or by pick-up. Offices for non-essential sectors Furthermore, the offices of Newegg is considered not to be an essential sector according to the State of California. Here is a link of the types of jobs that California lists as essential: (https://covid19.ca.gov/img/EssentialCriticalInfrastructureWorkers.pdf) If you look at page 22 of the CA.GOV link above, you will find the following relevant statements: 13. INDUSTRIAL, COMMERCIAL, RESIDENTIAL, and SHELTERING FACILITIES AND SERVICES Essential Workforce, if remote working is not practical: 5. Workers in hardware and building materials stores, consumer electronics, technology and appliances retail, and related merchant retailers, wholesalers and distributors that support essential workforce functions where sales and operations cannot be conducted online. The statement above proves that Newegg is an non-essential office and is required to immediately implement measures for employees to Work From Home (WFH) per Gov. Newsom's orders. We ask for Newegg to start WFH for all non-essential office personnel immediately per state orders. During a July 13th press conference, LA Mayor Eric Garcetti said the following statements highlighting the scale of the Coronavirus Pandemic: "'Los Angeles County now has more confirmed cases of the coronavirus than 'all of Canada.' If LA county was an independent country, it would have the 20th most cases in the world. We have never had as many people infected or infectious. We have never had as many recorded positive cases each day. And we've never had as many people in the hospital as there are tonight as I speak to you in Los Angeles,' Garcetti said." (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/los-angeles-county-has-more-cases-of-coronavirus-than-the-entire-country-of-canada-la-mayor-says/) Health officials in Los Angeles County report 1 in 140 people are currently infected with COVID-19. "Over the course of the coming week, it is estimated that [1 out of 140] will fall to 1 out of 100 or even 1 out of 70 residents of LA county," said Mayor Eric Garcetti. Currently as of July 20th, California is the #2 state with the most confirmed cases of COVID-19 at 397,870 confirmed cases. More shockingly, 40% of the confirmed cases in California is right here at home in Los Angeles County with 159,045 confirmed cases. You can view the data yourself with this COVID-19 tracker by John Hopkins University: (https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html?fbclid=IwAR0jxCWZm6_atgbc5GoMXElVIVApYcp8S0R6xZGgXI7hqh5xwGBC03peM4Y#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6) In addition to implementing WFH measures, we are asking Newegg to require and enforce the proper wearing of face masks in the office per the guideline set forth by the LA County Department of Public Health: Everyone is asked to wear a face covering when they are interacting with others who are not members of their household in public and private spaces. (http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/Coronavirus/docs/protection/GuidanceClothFaceCoverings.pdf) While HR does recommend for us to wear masks, we still have many people in office not wearing their masks, especially within top management. The people we most look up to are setting a bad example to their employees and making us feel uncomfortable. When I walk around in the office, roughly 40% of the employees I see are not wearing their masks, either at their desks or walking around. This is concerning because COVID-19 is able to spread airborne thru the air conditioning system of enclosed spaces. Indoor spaces with ventilation systems and lots of people are concerning from a transmission standpoint. Air conditioning can definitely make droplets containing infectious virus particles spread farther. (https://www.health.com/condition/infectious-diseases/coronavirus/can-air-conditioning-spread-covid-19) Wearing a face mask is not to protect yourself, but to protect others. We rely on other people wearing their face masks in order to protect ourselves. Also importantly, in order for your face mask to be effective you have to wear it properly; that means covering both your nose and your mouth completely. Please wear a face mask; if it can help save one life, then it should be enforced and encouraged per the LA County Dept. of Public Health guidelines cited above. However, in the end face masks only reduce the risks. The only way to completely protect Newegg employees is by working from home and avoiding contact with people. Rotational schedules will not work because you are still exposing yourself to people outside your household for prolonged periods of time, 8+ hours. It is wrong for management to pressure workers to go back to the office and expose ourselves to potential danger. We should never have to choose between the safety of our parents, loved ones and our jobs. Family always comes first. It is up to us to make a change for our own safety and the safety of our families. Please don't be fooled by the low fatality rate of this virus. In fact, for people over 65 years old and whom have one or more underlying health conditions, their fatality rate is around 10%. Additionally, half of the people who are put on ventilators don't survive. Families that catch this virus are ripped apart as you cannot visit loved ones in the hospital; you can't hold their hands and be there for them. The victims of COVID-19 will die alone in a hospital, far from their loved ones. It is up to us to prevent that. Please join us in asking Newegg the following two demands: Implement full-time Work From Home procedures as ordered by Gov. Newsom. Implement and enforce wearing of face masks full-time for people in the office. Thank you for supporting this petition, -The Employees of Newegg
Mr Smith
Update posted 3 weeks ago
Update posted 2 months ago
Petition to Mother Road Market
Require that customers wear masks at Mother Road Market
On June 25th, Tulsa food hall Mother Road Market announced that it would be reopening its dining room to the public and requiring that employees wear masks. It noted, however, that masks would be optional for customers. Given that this is a regional and national attraction located along Route 66 that attracts customers from all over, this is a major failing for our community's dedication to preventing the spread of COVID19. Research shows that mask-wearing by both parties (healthy and sick/asymptomatic) reduces the transmission of COVID19 to healthy persons by as much as 95%. Requiring that customers wear masks would not only show dedication to protecting MRM's employees from illness, but also ensure that those preparing customers' food be protected. This is essential to protecting our community from the record high levels of COVID19 infections we have seen in recent days.
Maureen Haynes
441 supporters
Petition to Ed Eilert, Jim Allen, Becky Fast, Janee Hanzlick
Johnson County Commissioners to require face masks at all public places.
FACE MASKS SAVES LIVES ** Update** We ask the Johnson County Commission to uphold the Kansas Governor's mask mandate in its entirety. Across the metro and in many other cities nationwide we are seeing an increase in COVID-19 cases. Why wait until the increase overwhelms our hospitals and costs lives to act? A study recently published by Health Affairs "provides evidence that states in the US mandating use of face masks in public had a greater decline in daily COVID-19 growth rates after issuing these mandates compared to states that did not issue mandates." We call on the Johnson County Commission to require all Johnson County businesses and government offices to require face masks while indoors. Acting now will prevent future stay at home orders and help keep our businesses filled because patrons will feel safe. This action is in the best interest of our citizens and the business community. Please ask the Johnson County Commission to enact a policy before it's too late.
Kathy Cook
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Q: Div is not as tall as the total height of its floated children OK, I'm really having problems understanding the behavior of the float property.
The page is 750 px wide. In order to keep it positioned in the center of the screen, I used this code:

        stuff

The elements within the main 750 px wide container are other containers that have the following styles:
div.infoCont //these containers usualy have two more containers within- for an image and text
{
    width: 740px;
    position: relative;
    left: 2px;
    border-style: double; //for debugging
    float: left;
}
div.textContNI //text only
{
    width: 730px;
    float: left;
    clear: right;
    border-style: double; //for debugging
}

The small containers behave normally (they should be, because they are positioned and as big as the way I want to). But the height of the main container is A LOT less that the total height of the smaller containers... 0 px. It ignores the height of ALL the smaller containers.
This can be "fixed" by adding text right before the closing tag of the main container. I can also manipulate the height with
 tags and no text: the height becomes as big as the total height of the borders. Another way to "fix" the problem is to add float:left; in the style, but that positions the container on the left side of the window and I can't have that.
I'm missing something and I don't know what it is.
Why does the main container ignore the total height of the containers within it and how can I take care of this bug?

A: Containing floated elements
This is the correct behavior of floated elements. It's not a bug.
By default, a floated element doesn't occupy space within its parent. The same happens with elements given absolute position. The parent has two children, but they're both floated, so nothing occupies space in the parent. As a result the parent has a height of zero, unless it contains some other non-floated content.
There are three common ways to make a parent contain its floated children, so that it's at least as tall as its children.
1. Fixed height
Give the parent a fixed height that's at least as tall as the height of the floated child. Technically, the floated element still does not occupy space within the parent, but the parent is tall enough to make it appear as if it does.
.parent { height: 30px; }
.child  { height: 30px; float: left; }

2. clear div
Add a trailing div with clear:both inside the parent. This forces the parent to contain the floated children. The parent automatically increases in height as needed. By default, an empty div has a height of zero in all browsers, so no additional styling is required for the trailing div.
.clear { clear: both; }
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    ...

3. clearfix
Add a clearfix rule to the CSS stylesheet, and add the class clearfix to the parent. The end result is the same as adding a clear div, but it doesn't require adding additional HTML elements. Like adding a clear div, this forces the parent to contain the floated children. The parent automatically increases in height as needed.
/* The traditional version of clearfix, a good one to start with. */
.clearfix:after {
    content: ".";
    display: block;
    height: 0;
    clear: both;
    visibility: hidden;
}
.clearfix {display: inline-block;}
* html .clearfix {height: 1%;}
.clearfix {display: block;}
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Pam Brown: "Who's It? Acting the Actress in 'Twelfth Night' or 'What You Will'"
Posted on October 31, 2017 October 25, 2017 by Lindsey Lentocha
Pam Brown is an associate professor of English at UConn Stamford, and her talk explores how the famed actresses of Italian touring companies influenced and inspired the Shakespearean stage. Brown will be presenting at the UConn Humanities Institute on the fourth floor of Babbidge Library on Monday, November 6, at 5:00pm. Snacks and refreshments will be served at 4:30pm.
Tara Harney-Mahajan on Irish Women's Literature
"The Politics of Illegitimacy in McKeon's Solace" at 12:30 pm, November 2nd, in Austin 445
"Contextualizing Irish Women's Writing and O'Brien's Country Girls Trilogy: Revision and Resistance" at 3:30 pm, November 2nd, in Austin 217
Tara Harney-Mahajan received her PhD in English from UConn in 2016 and is currently the co-editor of LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory. Her research interests include 20th- and 21st-century Irish and South Asian literature, with a focus on women writers. Her scholarship has been published in Women's Studies, New Hibernia Review, and the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her talks will consider contemporary Irish novelist Belinda McKeon and canonical twentieth-century Irish writer Enda O'Brien.
Contact Mary.burke@uconn.edu for details.
Aetna Writer-in-Residence Tara Betts
Posted on October 25, 2017 August 22, 2017 by Claire E. Reynolds
Tara Betts/Aetna Writer-in-Residence and Creative Sustenance Event
Barnes & Noble College Bookstore, Storrs Center, 6:3 0 pm
**This event is a benefit for the Covenant Soup Kitchen in Willimantic. Audience members are invited to make a donation after the reading.
Co-sponsored with the Aetna Chair of Writing and the Barnes & Noble College Bookstore
Tara Betts is the author of Break the Habit (2016) and Arc & Hue (2009). She is also one of the editors of The Beiging of America: Personal Narratives About Being Mixed Race in the 21st Century (2017). Betts has self-published small runs of several chapbooks: "Can I Hang?" (1999), "Switch" (2003), "Break the Habit" (2012), and "Circling Unexpectedly" (2013). Her most recent chapbook 7 x 7: kwansabas was published by Backbone Press in 2015. Her work has appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Essence Magazine, NYLON, and numerous anthologies. Betts was commissioned by the Peggy Choy Dance Company to write a series of poems and monologues for "THE GREATEST!: An Homage to Muhammad Ali" in 2011 and 2013. These writings were published on Winged City Press in April 2013 and were mentioned in the New York Times. In 2010, Essence named her as one of their "40 Favorite Poets." After winning the 1999 Guild Complex's Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award, she represented Chicago twice at the National Poetry Slam in 1999 and 2000. A Cave Canem graduate, she has had residencies from the Ragdale Foundation, Centrum and Caldera, and an Illinois Arts Council Artist fellowship. She holds a PhD in English from Binghamton University and a MFA in Creative Writing from New England College. She teaches at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
Career Panel Presentation and Discussion
Posted on October 22, 2017 November 1, 2017 by Lindsey Lentocha
Concerned about jobs for English majors? The upcoming Career Panel presentation and discussion will provide a way to address these concerns.
Scheduled for Wednesday, November 1, 4:00-5:45pm in the Stern Room, Austin 217, this panel will allay concerns about the value of the major and career directions open to English majors. Job options specific to the skills of English majors are now quite varied, and despite a worrying job market, English majors are increasingly in demand. Four UConn English majors, all fairly recent graduates, will present information about their own career and job search strategies. Given their experiences and professions, they have valuable advice and will answer questions that students anticipating the job market have about the logistics and anxieties of job searches and interviews. The panelists below are testimony to the creative ways in which English majors are shaping careers for themselves, and will offer both practical advice and encouragement.
Rachel Craine ('17), Client Solutions Assistant, AdviceOne, LLC, Glastonbury
Karelyn Kuzcenski ('16), Ipsos, Research Analyst, Norwalk
Mary Malley ('16), Assistant Editor, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, New York City
Eric Vo ('13), Health News Reporter and Editor, Aetna, Hartford
Refreshments will be served. If you have questions, please e-mail ruth.fairbanks@uconn.edu.
Caroline Levine to Speak
Posted on October 21, 2017 October 30, 2017 by Claire E. Reynolds
Caroline Levine, the David and Kathleen Ryan Professor of the Humanities at Cornell University, will give a talk at 4pm on Wednesday, November 1, in the Class of 1947 Room in Homer Babbidge Library.
Caroline Levine is the author of three books: The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt (2003), Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts (2007), and Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network (2015). Forms recently won James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association. As her Cornell webpage explains, Professor Levine has spent her career "asking how and why the humanities and the arts matter, especially in democratic societies. She argues for the understanding of forms and structures as crucial to understanding links between art and society." Professor Levine will be giving a lecture from her current project on the role of generalization in the humanities, presenting "Reading for the Common Good: Sustainability, Routine, Infrastructure."
This event is sponsored by the English Graduate Student Association and the Graduate Student Senate. Refreshments will be provided.
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Halloween's Celtic Roots
Posted on October 21, 2017 November 1, 2017 by Claire E. Reynolds
UConn IRISH STUDIES presents 2 TALKS ON HALLOWE'EN's CELTIC ROOTS on Tuesday, Oct. 31.
Breann Leake and Joseph Leake
11am in Austin 202–Breann Leake and Joseph Leake are PhD candidates in Medieval Studies working (respectively) on translation, adaptation, authorship, sedimented histories and etymologies, place-names, and Welsh literature in early medieval sources. Their talk, "Networks of Halloween's Cultural and Devotional Pasts," will provide an overview of how and why different cultural practices/traditions (Celtic, Roman, early Christian Catholicism and later Protestantism) become sedimented and lead to modern iterations of Hallowe'en. Attendees are encouraged to wear costumes!
Eileen Moore Quinn (by Skype)
12:30pm in Austin 445
Eileen Moore Quinn (center) will present "'With my Back to the Moon': Halloween Customs in America after the Great Irish Famine." Quinn is Professor of Anthropology at the College of Charleston, SC, where she teaches Anthropology, Folklore, and Irish and Irish American Studies. She is author of Irish American Folklore in New England (Academica P, 2009), and edited "Texts and Textures of Irish America," a special issue of Irish Studies Review in 2015. Her work on the lore of post-Famine Irish-American women in New England appeared in Women and the Great Irish Famine (Quinnipiac UP, 2017).
Attendees are encouraged to wear costumes!
mary.burke@uconn.edu for details
6 English Majors Win Sophomore Honors
Sophomore Honors are awarded to students enrolled in the Honors Program in recognition of their academic achievement, completion of Honors courses, and participation in Honors events during their freshman and sophomore years.
Two hundred and thirty-four students from across UConn received the 2017 Sophomore Honors Certificate at the Fall Honors Ceremony on Tuesday, October 10. Six of these were English majors:
Nicole Gerardin (also majoring in Education)
Kathrine Grant (also majoring in Education)
Alexandra Oliveira (also majoring in Chemical Engineering)
Bailey Shea (also majoring in Communication)
Anna Stachura (also majoring in Journalism)
Clarissa Tan (also majoring in Education)
Kudos, Professor Kate Capshaw!
Professor Kate Capshaw has recently received an honorary doctorate from Manhattan College. She gave an address entitled "Curiosity, Community, Courage: Building a Life of the Mind and Spirit."
The Daily Campus features Fred Biggs and Martha Cutter
Posted on October 15, 2017 September 21, 2020 by Lindsey Lentocha
Fred Biggs and Martha Cutter's book talk for their new books, Chaucer's Decameron and the Origin of the Canterbury Tales and The Illustrated Slave: Empathy, Graphic Narrative, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800-1852, was the subject for Daily Campus article by Julia Mancini on October 11.
Martha Cutter Interview
Professor Martha Cutter was interviewed by James Stancil, of New Books Network, on October 19. The interview focuses on her recently published book, The Illustrated Slave: Empathy, Graphic Narrative, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800-1852, which analyzes antislavery illustrated books and visuals.


It's a classic catch-22. To get a job in the game industry you'll need experience, but the only way to get experience is by getting a job in the game industry. Right? Well, not quite.
I'm sure you've all seen job adds that require a specific number of years experience with some specific technology, or general industry experience. Many new graduates are immediately discouraged from applying for these positions. But just because you haven't worked in a game studio yet doesn't mean you don't have the experience required or the skills the employer is looking for.
Each course at AIE is specifically designed to meet current industry needs. As a full-time student, the two years you spend making games in an academic setting is as close as you can get to working in a real studio. Your major project, the capstone of the course, is your chance to demonstrate that you have all the skills necessary to work in a team and produce a professional product – and it does count towards 'industry experience'.
From an employer's perspective, the requirement for industry experience is really there to filter out those applicants who haven't (and presumably don't know how to) apply their skills to making games.
Consider the computer science student who has graduated with some degree of competence in programming, can make windows applications or perhaps even an app, but has never made a game. Programming for games requires specific knowledge in a range of areas and tools. A computer science degree student may not be games-industry ready, but an AIE student most certainly will be. The same is also true for the design and art stream students.
I would say that new graduates of AIE courses already have the equivalent of 1-2 years of industry experience. That might be enough to get you over the line in terms of your application, but there is still more you can do to boost your industry experience.
Any potential employer is going to favour any applicant that has made a game, and the more games you've made the better. But we don't need to work in a studio to make games. All that really matters is your game is out there, can be played, and is at least as good as the worst game on the app store (which is actually a pretty low bar).
If you've made a mobile game for your major project, release it. If it's a PC game, package it up in a professional release for people to download and play. Then, regardless of the platform you've developed for, enter it into as many competitions as possible (the GCAP Student Showcase, the Game Developer World Championships, and Microsoft's Dream.Build.Play competitions come to mind).
Enter as many game jams as you can, and then add those games to your portfolio (even if they're bad, they will still show a level of technical competence). Make a couple of mobile games on your own and release them to the app store of your choice. Polish your school assessment pieces and publish those.
My point is, if you're graduating and you don't have at least one game (that you've contributed significantly to) to show an employer, you're on the back foot.
With your AIE Diploma and a few self-published games under your belt, you'll be able to convince any employer that your skills and experiences are an equivalent match for their requirement for 2 or 3 years of industry experience.