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Demo in Dow Land - Issue 54, May 16-31, 1968 - Fifth Estate Magazine
Demo in Dow Land
Protest rally of 400 persons at the Dow Corporation stockholders meeting
by Judie Davis
Fifth Estate # 54, May 16-31, 1968
There is a book about the founder of Dow chemical called "Herbert Dow and Creative Chemistry." Dow Chemicals is the primary manufacturer of napalm. Midland, Michigan is the seat of this bed of creativity.
Last week the Clergy and Layman Concerned about Vietnam sponsored a protest rally of 400 persons at the Dow Corporation stockholders meeting.
Driving into Midland, the scene seemed set by Antonioni; miles of factory complex, low little plastic-dust covered red brick buildings with grim white lettering; chemical research, biochemical research radiology research, blocks and Mocks of the same little buildings. I feel certain it was a Dow representative who told Dustin Hoffman in "The Graduate" that his future lies in plastics.
It was raining when we got there and after driving around for a while we found a damp clergyman and a few barefoot girls with signs. We joined them pamphletting on Main street until we found a place to have coffee.
My friend Ken and I are not the protest marching types we may look to be and we were as amused by the locals' reaction to us as they were by our very presence there. Everyone laughed a lot and so did we.
We met a nice high school sympathizer who shared his french fries with me, and a lovely grandmother type from Athens, Ohio who told us to stay in threes and with the group in case of trouble.
By afternoon the sun came out in time for a nice picnic in Central Park, across the street from the school where the stockholder's meeting was being held. Protesters were not allowed in the meeting and all of Midland's 32 police officers and some state police mingled about to keep it that way.
The whole effort was strictly of the early civil rights variety; organized by the clergy, the effort was ultra pacifistic, the songs, early Joan Baez, the majority of the protesters young and determined.
Protests against Dow and napalm started during the summer of 1966, with this last one being the biggest and most organized. These facts remain:
Midland, Michigan has the highest percentage of Ph.D.s and millionaires of any community of equal size in the country. It has the largest organization of Birchers, estimates of 3 to 7 chapters within the city and the stockholders voted overwhelmingly to continue napalm production.
When ol' Herbert H. Dow founded the company, he specified that no Negroes, Catholics, or Jews were ever to be employed. Midland now has two Catholic schools, about 4 1/2 Negro families and a sizable Jewish community. Obviously these people have chosen to live there.
I think this is called open minded and liberal and undoubtedly has something to do with creative chemistry.


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Serenad är en svensk operett från 1944 av Lajos Lajtai med libretto av Staffan Tjerneld.

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Efter succén med Blåjackor beställde Oscarsteaterns direktör Gustav Wally en ny operett av kompositören Lajos Lajtai. Serenad blev Lajtais första operett skriven på svenska. Librettot skrevs den här gången av författaren Staffan Tjerneld. Blåjackors regissör Leif Amble-Næss fick uppdraget att regissera den nya operetten och i huvudrollen som Eleonor Barret fick Ulla Sallert sitt genombrott i sin första större roll. Nils Poppe skulle ha spelat den komiska rollen som Tubbs, men ersattes på grund av sjukdom innan premiären av Åke Söderblom. Bland övriga större roller fanns Tollie Zellman, Georg Funkquist, Karin Kavli, Gösta Kjellertz och Annalisa Ericson. Kostym och scenografi gjordes av Harald Garmland och George Gé koreograferade. Uppsättningen blev en stor succé och gick för utsålda hus hela spelåret.

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When Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reporter Robert Tait was taken into custody by Egyptian authorities at a police checkpoint near central Cairo on February 4, he didn't know he'd become witness to torture. But, cuffed and blindfolded for 28 hours, Tait heard and saw beatings and electrocutions. "My experience, while highly personal, wasn't really about me or the foreign media," Tait writes in the U.K. Guardian. " It was about gaining an insight--if that is possible behind a blindfold--into the inner workings of the Mubarak regime." It is exactly that kind of insight that can be gained when reporters are allowed to do their jobs, and it is why CPJ exists--to fiercely defend the rights of journalists to do their work. Take a read of our recent Egypt coverage here to get a sense of the massive scale in which journalists have been attacked and detained, and see Tait's whole piece in the Guardian here.
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The Great Span
Irene Triplett
From the Civil War to Jet Planes in a Single Lifetime
A quick hit of the Great Span for you: the bearded fellow standing in front of that F-100 fighter jet in 1955 is William Lundy, who was alive during the Civil War.1 The F-100 was used extensively in the Vietnam War. This photo is a reminder both that the Civil War was not all that long ago and of the incredible technological progress of that time period — we went from horses, steam engines, and cannons to cars, computers, and jet planes in fewer than 100 years.
See also The Last Documented Widow of a Civil War Veteran Has Died (in Jan 2021!), Meet America's Oldest Living Veteran, and a TV Appearance of Lincoln Assassination Witness. (via @kane)
Lundy claimed to have been born in 1848 and fought in the Civil War, which would have made him 109 years old when he died. But it's more likely that he was born in 1859. Either way, as a presumed Confederate soldier, he collected a pension for 16 years until his death. (Lundy out there really putting the "con" in "confederate".)↩
William Lundy
The Last Documented Widow of a Civil War Veteran Has Died
On December 16, 2020, Helen Viola Jackson died in Marshfield, Missouri at the age of 101. She was the last known widow of a Civil War veteran, marrying 93-year-old James Bolin in 1936 at the age of 17.
James Bolin was a 93-year-old widower when Jackson's father volunteered her to stop by his house each day and assist him with chores as she headed home from school.
Bolin, who was a private in the 14th Missouri Cavalry and served until the end of the war in Co. F, did not believe in accepting charity and after a lengthy period of time asked Jackson for her hand in marriage as a way to provide for her future.
"He said that he would leave me his Union pension," Jackson explained in an interview with Historian Hamilton C. Clark. "It was during the depression and times were hard. He said that it might be my only way of leaving the farm."
Jackson didn't talk publicly about her marriage until the last few years and never applied for the pension — the last person receiving a Civil War pension from the US government died in mid-2020. As I wrote then, about the Great Span:
This is a great example of the Great Span, the link across large periods of history by individual humans. But it's also a reminder that, as William Faulkner wrote: "The past is never dead. It's not even past." Until this week, US taxpayers were literally and directly paying for the Civil War, a conflict whose origins stretch back to the earliest days of the American colonies and continues today on the streets of our cities and towns.
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Helen Viola Jackson
Meet the Living Son of a Former Enslaved Person
The Washington Post recently ran a profile of DC-area resident Dan Smith. Smith is 88 years old, participated in the March on Washington, and, along with other activists, crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. He is also the living child of a former enslaved person.
The whipping post. The lynching tree. The wagon wheel. They were the stories of slavery, an inheritance of fear and dread, passed down from father to son.
The boy, barely 5, would listen, awed, as his father spoke of life in Virginia, where he had been born into bondage on a plantation during the Civil War and suffered as a child laborer afterward.
As unlikely as it might seem, that boy, Daniel Smith, is still alive at 88, a member of an almost vanished demographic: The child of someone once considered a piece of property instead of a human being.
Smith is an example of The Great Span, the link across seemingly long periods of history by individual humans. In this case, just two people span almost two-thirds the history of the United States, linking slavery and the Civil War to the civil rights movement and eventually to George Floyd. 155 years may seem like a long time, but Smith's story is a testament to how slow progress has been in the struggle for social justice for Black Americans. After all, up until earlier this year the US government was still paying out a Civil War pension to the daughter of a former Confederate and US soldier.
See also an eyewitness to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln lived to be a guest on a television game show and 106-year-old Virginia McLaurin dances in the White House with the Obamas. (via @tinmanic)
Last Person to Receive a Civil War Pension Dies
Irene Triplett died last week at the age of 90. She was the last person in America to collect a pension from the Civil War, $73.13 each month from the Department of Veterans Affairs right up until she passed away. Her father Mose Triplett was both a Confederate and US soldier (a North Carolinian, he defected from the Confederacy halfway through the war) and Irene was eligible to receive his pension after he died because of disability.
After Mary died in the 1920s, Mose married Elida Hall. He was 78. She was 27. Their 1924 marriage, according to the Journal, was rough. They lost three babies. Then Irene was born on Jan. 9, 1930, but had mental disabilities, according to the newspaper. She was 8 when her father died on July 18, 1938, at the age of 92. His headstone reads: "He was a Civil War soldier."
This is a great example of the Great Span, the link across large periods of history by individual humans. But it's also a reminder that, as William Faulkner wrote: "The past is never dead. It's not even past." Until this week, US taxpayers were literally and directly paying for the Civil War, a conflict whose origins stretch back to the earliest days of the American colonies and continues today on the streets of our cities and towns. (thx, m)
The Confederacy lives on in several official US state flags
According to Whose Heritage?, a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center on public symbols of the Confederacy, progress over the past two years on removing statues, flags, and other symbols from public places has been slow.
The 2015 massacre of nine African Americans at the historic "Mother Emanuel" church in Charleston sparked a nationwide movement to remove Confederate monuments, flags and other symbols from the public square, and to rename schools, parks, roads and other public works that pay homage to the Confederacy. Yet, today, the vast majority of these emblems remain in place.
In this updated edition of the 2016 report Whose Heritage?, the SPLC identifies 110 Confederate symbols that have been removed since the Charleston attack — and 1,728 that still stand.
Still very much standing, for instance, the Mount Rushmore of the Confederacy in Georgia, a massive stone carving featuring Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.
And perhaps even worse, not represented on this map are Confederate symbols that are part of the official identities of many Southern states. Did you know Mississippi's official state flag still contains the Confederate battle flag?
As of the 2010 Census, ~37% of Mississippi's population is African American and due to the relative youth of the state's African Americans and the wealth of the state's whites (who are able to send their kids to private school), most of the state's public schools are majority black. That percentage would be much higher had not so many African Americans left the state during the Great Migration. The pledge to this flag, which is taught in public schools, reads "I salute the flag of Mississippi and the sovereign state for which it stands with pride in her history and achievements and with confidence in her future under the guidance of Almighty God." Could you imagine being the descendant of a former slave being made to pledge allegiance to a symbol used by people who fought a war to deny the personhood of your ancestors?
Mississippi's flag contains the most familiar reference to the Confederacy, but many other state flags have Confederate references. Georgia's flag contained the Confederate battle flag from 1956 to 2003 and the current flag is modeled after the first national flag of the Confederacy. The flags of Florida and Alabama contain St. Andrew's Crosses, thought to be references to the stars and bars of Confederate battle flag. The Arkansas state flag contains four stars on a white background, one of which represents the Confederacy, along with a deconstructed stars and bars pattern. North Carolina's flag is based on a design adopted shortly after the state seceded from the United States. Residents of many states can also get official state license plates with Confederate symbols on them and some state seals have Confederate references.
Lots of progress still to go on that journey towards a post-racial America I guess…
Update: A new Confederate monument was just erected last week near Mobile, Alabama. Here's what the plaque says about the Confederacy:
The northern Union aggressively prosecuted its war to subjugate the Confederate States. Union forces continued invading and waging war in the field, on cities, and on homesteads in the Confederacy causing more American deaths in both countries than the combined totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century. About two-thirds of these deaths were Union military sent to kill Confederate Americans. The Union's army was about 3 times larger and it possessed about 20 times the industrial arms capacity of the CSA. It succeeded in militarily prevailing over the Confederate forces after four years. The last major land battle occurred in April of 1865 here and at Ft. Blakeley. The elected government of the CSA was scattered, the American States of that country occupied by northern forces, and the citizens' rights suppressed.
In April 1865, the Union President was shot watching a comedy play in his capitol of Washington City — almost exactly four years after he sent his warships into the CSA initiating the War Between the States. The Confederacy's President was seized and imprisoned in May 1865 after he had to flee his capitol of Richmond, Virginia, due to the approach of invading Union forces.
For many, the Civil War never quite ended.
W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee's legacy
In 1928, the writer and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois wrote a short piece about the legacy of Confederate general Robert E. Lee.
Each year on the 19th of January there is renewed effort to canonize Robert E. Lee, the greatest confederate general. His personal comeliness, his aristocratic birth and his military prowess all call for the verdict of greatness and genius. But one thing — one terrible fact — militates against this and that is the inescapable truth that Robert E. Lee led a bloody war to perpetuate slavery. Copperheads like the New York Times may magisterially declare: "of course, he never fought for slavery." Well, for what did he fight? State rights? Nonsense. The South cared only for State Rights as a weapon to defend slavery. If nationalism had been a stronger defense of the slave system than particularism, the South would have been as nationalistic in 1861 as it had been in 1812.
No. People do not go to war for abstract theories of government. They fight for property and privilege and that was what Virginia fought for in the Civil War. And Lee followed Virginia. He followed Virginia not because he particularly loved slavery (although he certainly did not hate it), but because he did not have the moral courage to stand against his family and his clan. Lee hesitated and hung his head in shame because he was asked to lead armies against human progress and Christian decency and did not dare refuse. He surrendered not to Grant, but to Negro Emancipation.
See also W.E.B. Du Bois on Confederate Monuments.
W.E.B. Du Bois
Why the mayor of New Orleans had Confederate statues torn down
New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu recently gave a speech about why the city chose to remove four Confederate monuments. Here's a snippet from the transcript…it's worth reading or watching in full.
The historic record is clear: the Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and P.G.T. Beauregard statues were not erected just to honor these men, but as part of the movement which became known as The Cult of the Lost Cause. This 'cult' had one goal — through monuments and through other means — to rewrite history to hide the truth, which is that the Confederacy was on the wrong side of humanity.
First erected over 166 years after the founding of our city and 19 years after the end of the Civil War, the monuments that we took down were meant to rebrand the history of our city and the ideals of a defeated Confederacy.
It is self-evident that these men did not fight for the United States of America, They fought against it. They may have been warriors, but in this cause they were not patriots.
These statues are not just stone and metal. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy; ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement, and the terror that it actually stood for.
After the Civil War, these statues were a part of that terrorism as much as a burning cross on someone's lawn; they were erected purposefully to send a strong message to all who walked in their shadows about who was still in charge in this city.
The presence of the monuments became something that was impossible for Landrieu and the city to ignore for any longer:
Another friend asked me to consider these four monuments from the perspective of an African American mother or father trying to explain to their fifth grade daughter who Robert E. Lee is and why he stands atop of our beautiful city. Can you do it?
Can you look into that young girl's eyes and convince her that Robert E. Lee is there to encourage her? Do you think she will feel inspired and hopeful by that story? Do these monuments help her see a future with limitless potential? Have you ever thought that if her potential is limited, yours and mine are too?
Mitch Landrieu
Daughter of Civil War vet still getting a pension
Private Mose Triplett was 19 when the Civil War ended in 1865. Later in life, he married a woman 50 years younger than him and, in 1930, they had a daughter Irene. Irene Triplett is now in her mid-eighties and gets a monthly benefit check from US Department of Veterans Affairs for her father's service so many years before.
Eric Shinseki, the secretary of Veterans Affairs, often cites President Abraham Lincoln's call, in his second inaugural address, for Americans "to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan."
"The promises of President Abraham Lincoln are being delivered, 150 years later, by President Barack Obama, " Secretary Shinseki said in a speech last fall. "And the same will be true 100 years from now-the promises of this president will be delivered by a future president, as yet unborn."
A declaration of war sets in motion expenditures that can span centuries, whether the veterans themselves were heroes, cowards or something in between.
This story is from 2014, but I looked for Triplett's obituary and found nothing, so I'm assuming she's still alive and collecting that pension. See also The Great Span. (via @mikekarlesky)
Update: As of August 2017, Triplett was still alive and collecting the pension.
Mose Triplett
Horizontal history
At Wait But Why, Tim Urban turns history on its side by thinking about time-synchronized events around the world, as opposed to events through the progression of time in each part of the world.
Likewise, I might know that Copernicus began writing his seminal work On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres in Poland in the early 1510s, but by learning that right around that same time in Italy, Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, I get a better picture of the times. By learning that it was right while both of these things were happening that Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon in England, the 1510s suddenly begins to take on a distinct personality. These three facts, when put together, allow me to see a more three-dimensional picture of the 1510s — it allows me to see the 1510s horizontally, like cutting out a complete segment of the vine tangle and examining it all together.
He does this mainly by charting and graphing the lifetimes of famous people, revealing hidden contemporaries.
I've been slowly making my way through Ken Burns' remastered The Civil War.1 At a few points in the program, narrator David McCullough reminds the viewer of what was going on around the world at the same time as the war. In the US, 1863 brought the Battle of Gettysburg and The Emancipation Proclamation. But also:
In Paris that year, new paintings by Cezanne, Whistler, and Manet were shown at a special exhibit for outcasts. In Russia, Dostoevsky finished Notes from the Underground. And in London, Karl Marx labored to complete his masterpiece, Das Kapital.
And a year later, while the advantage in the war was turning towards the US:1
In 1864, a rebellion in China that cost 20 million lives finally came to an end. In 1864, the Tsar's armies conquered Turkistan and Tolstoy finished War and Peace. In 1864, Louis Pasteur pasteurized wine, the Geneva Convention established the neutrality of battlefield hospitals, and Karl Marx founded the International Workingmen's Association in London and in New York.
Urban explicitly references the war in his post:
People in the US associate the 1860s with Lincoln and the Civil War. But what we overlook is that the 1860s was one of history's greatest literary decades. In the ten years between 1859 and 1869, Darwin published his world-changing On the Origin of Species (1859), Dickens published A Tale of Two Cities (1859) and Great Expectations (1861), Lewis Carroll published Alice in Wonderland (1865), Dostoyevsky published Crime and Punishment (1866), and Tolstoy capped things off with War and Peace (1869).
The Civil War. The Origin of Species. Alice in Wonderland. The infancy of Impressionism. Pasteurization. Das Kapital. Gregor Mendel's laws of inheritance. All in an eight-year span. Dang.
Which is simply excellent. I had forgotten how powerful the storytelling technique Burns devised for his documentaries is. Really really worth your time to watch or re-watch.↩
In talking about the Civil War, I've been trying to use Michael Todd Landis' new language…so, "labor camps" instead of "plantations" and "United States" instead of "Union".↩
Tim Urban
The undefeated South
In the New Yorker, Nicholas Lemann writes about "the Southernization of American politics". In 1865, the United States won the Civil War against the South, but the current US has been significantly shaped by the ideals, politics, and values of the South.
In order to become the richest and most powerful country in the world, the United States had to include the South, and its inclusion has always come at a price. The Constitution (with its three-fifths compromise and others) awkwardly registered the contradiction between its democratic rhetoric and the foundational presence of slavery in the thirteen original states. The 1803 Louisiana Purchase-by which the U.S. acquired more slaveholding territory in the name of national expansion-set off the dynamic that led to the Civil War. The United States has declined every opportunity to let the South go its own way; in return, the South has effectively awarded itself a big say in the nation's affairs.
(via @jimray)
Nicholas Lemann
New Language for Slavery and the Civil War
Drawing upon the work of colleagues, historian Michael Todd Landis proposes new language for talking about slavery and the Civil War. In addition to favoring "labor camps" over the more romantic "plantations", he suggests retiring the concept of the Union vs the Confederacy.
Specifically, let us drop the word "Union" when describing the United States side of the conflagration, as in "Union troops" versus "Confederate troops." Instead of "Union," we should say "United States." By employing "Union" instead of "United States," we are indirectly supporting the Confederate view of secession wherein the nation of the United States collapsed, having been built on a "sandy foundation" (according to rebel Vice President Alexander Stephens). In reality, however, the United States never ceased to exist. The Constitution continued to operate normally; elections were held; Congress, the presidency, and the courts functioned; diplomacy was conducted; taxes were collected; crimes were punished; etc. Yes, there was a massive, murderous rebellion in at least a dozen states, but that did not mean that the United States disappeared.
Michael Todd Landis
The Civil War, remastered
Twenty-five years after its first airing on PBS, Ken Burns has remastered his epic documentary, The Civil War, and PBS will be airing the new version all this week, starting tonight. The remastered series will also be available on Blu-ray in October.
The Freedmen's Bureau Project
The Freedmen's Bureau Project is a new initiative to digitize and make available online the records collected by the The Freedmen's Bureau near the end of the Civil War. The records detail the lives of about 4 million African Americans and will be available by the end of 2016.
FamilySearch is working in collaboration with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society and the California African American Museum to make these records available and accessible by taking the raw records, extracting the information and indexing them to make them easily searchable online. Once indexed, finding an ancestor may be as easy as going to FamilySearch.org, entering a name and, with the touch of a button, discovering your family member.
The Freedmen's Bureau was organized near the end of the American Civil War to assist newly freed slaves in 15 states and the District of Columbia. From 1865 to 1872, the Bureau opened schools, managed hospitals, rationed food and clothing and even solemnized marriages. In the process it gathered priceless handwritten, personal information including marriage and family information, military service, banking, school, hospital and property records on potentially million African Americans.
What an amazing resource this will be…many families out there will learn about the ancestors for the first time. The documents are currently 9% indexed and you can sign up to help at discoverfreedmen.org.
Tens of thousands of volunteers are needed to make these records searchable online. No specific time commitment is required, and anyone may participate. Volunteers simply log on, pull up as many scanned documents as they like, and enter the names and dates into the fields provided. Once published, information for millions of African Americans will be accessible, allowing families to build their family trees and connect with their ancestors.
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The Gettysburg Address turns 150
From the Google Cultural Institute, an engaging account of how Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address, which was delivered 150 years ago today. There are actually five surviving copies of the text of the speech written in Lincoln's hand; they're all different and we don't know for sure which one he read from. You can easily compare the different versions or see the handwritten versions. Here's the Bliss Copy of the Gettysburg Address, which Lincoln wrote down in 1864, a few months after the speech:
The Bliss Copy hangs in The White House and is the canonical version of the speech that you learned in school, hear in movies, read on the wall of the Lincoln Memorial, etc.
Interactive map of the Battle of Gettysburg
Smithsonian.com has a neat interactive map that shows how the Battle of Gettysburg played out in the Civil War. For best results, do one run through zoomed out a little and then another run-through to at a closer zoom level to see the details. (via digg)
The shifting meaning of the Second Amendment
Ezra Klein asked Akhil Reed Amar, a constitutional scholar, about the Second Amendment. Amar responded with two artworks that illustrate how the meaning of the Second Amendment has shifted over the years.
In a nutshell, almost everything ordinary Americans think they know about the Bill of Rights, including the phrase 'Bill of Rights,' comes from the Reconstruction period. Not once did the Founders refer to these early amendments as a bill of rights. We read everything through the prism of the 14th amendment — including the right to bear and keep arms.
The Fourteenth Amendment has a lot of parts, among them the definition of citizenship, Civil War debt, due process, and equal protection. Amar wrote more about the interplay between the 2nd and 14th Amendments for Slate in 2008.
But the 14th Amendment did not specifically enumerate these sacred privileges and immunities. Instead, like the Ninth, the 14th invited interpreters to pay close attention to fundamental rights that Americans had affirmed through their lived experience-in state bills of rights and in other canonical texts such as the Declaration of Independence and landmark civil rights legislation. And when it came to guns, a companion statute to the 14th Amendment, enacted by Congress in 1866, declared that "laws … concerning personal liberty [and] personal security … including the constitutional right to bear arms, shall be secured to and enjoyed by all the citizens." Here, in sharp contrast to founding-era legal texts, the "bear arms" phrase was decisively severed from the military context. Women as well as men could claim a "personal" right to protect their "personal liberty" and "personal security" in their homes. The Reconstruction-era Congress clearly understood that Southern blacks might need guns in their homes to protect themselves from private violence in places where they could not rely on local constables to keep their neighborhoods safe. When guns were outlawed, only outlaw Klansmen would have guns, to paraphrase a modern NRA slogan. In this critical chapter in the history of American liberty, we find additional evidence of an individual right to have a gun in one's home, regardless of the original meaning of the Second Amendment.
Akhil Reed Amar
The 2nd American Civil War
posted by Aaron Cohen Nov 26, 2012
To answer the question, "If every state of the USA declared war against each other, which would win?" Quora user Jon Davis went way in-depth writing "the accounts of the Second American Civil War, also known as the Wars of Reunification and the American Warring States Period." It's sort of a mix between World War Z (oral histories) and the post on Reddit being turned into a movie (realistic seeming discussion of military action). I am a sucker for this kind of fictionalized future-history stuff.
First came a period of massive migration back to the homelands. Facing the newly invented discrimination that will be created many felt the need to go back to their own people. While the individual states retained all military assets they couldn't control the individuals who fight. A Texas Marine stationed in California, would not fight for California. A soldier in New York would not fight against their home in Virginia and a sailor in Houston would not fight against their home state of Florida. The warriors returned to their home states and the states had to re-consider that when they measured troop strength of their new nations. Ultimately, they measured troop strength by how much of the population would return home.
(via Stellar)
Civil War blog
Disunion is a new NY Times blog that will be covering the events of the Civil War in "real-time" as it happened 150 years ago. From one of the first posts about the last ordinary day:
[November 1, 1860] was an ordinary day in America: one of the last such days for a very long time to come.
In dusty San Antonio, Colonel Robert E. Lee of the U.S. Army had just submitted a long report to Washington about recent skirmishes against marauding Comanches and Mexican banditti. In Louisiana, William Tecumseh Sherman was in the midst of a tedious week interviewing teenage applicants to the military academy where he served as superintendent. In Galena, Ill., passers-by might have seen a man in a shabby military greatcoat and slouch hat trudging to work that Thursday morning, as he did every weekday. He was Ulysses Grant, a middle-aged shop clerk in his family's leather-goods store.
Great idea. The Times started publishing in 1851 so their archives should have a ton of stuff related to the war. (via df)
The old hero of Gettysburg
1863 photo of John L. Burns, War of 1812 veteran and sharpshooter in the Battle of Gettysburg.
Burns, born ca. 1793, was a 70-year-old veteran of the War of 1812 when he was wounded in the Battle of Gettysburg, having volunteered his services as a sharpshooter to the Federal Army. He died of pneumonia in 1872.
And from the comments:
Mr Burns' flintlock is at half-cock with the frizzen down, ready to ready to fire.
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Has Abe Lincoln been discovered in the
Has Abe Lincoln been discovered in the background of a pair of photographs taken right before the Gettysburg Address?
The new photos are enlarged details from much wider crowd shots; they were discovered by a Civil War hobbyist earlier this year in the vast trove of Library of Congress photographs digitized since 2000, and provided to USA Today. They show a figure believed to be Lincoln, white-gloved and in his trademark stovepipe hat, in a military procession.
The funny thing is, if you look at a similar photograph of Lincoln taken shortly after his speech, there are at least three men seated around him who are wearing stovepipe hats. The photographic evidence alone is not compelling. "Paging Errol Morris. Would Errol Morris please come to the information desk. Thank you."
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Timelapse video of a map showing Civil
Timelapse video of a map showing Civil War battles and movements…four years of war in four minutes. The video was produced by Harvest Moon Studio for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.
A wonderful collection of 19th century shipping
A wonderful collection of 19th century shipping posters on Flickr. (via quipsologies)
Update: That Flickr user also has several other interesting sets of images to look at, including book covers, typography of The Electric Company, Soviet children's books, and Civil War posters.
Over 1,000 photos and carte de visites of
Over 1,000 photos and carte de visites of the Civil War. (What's a carte de visite?)

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Retro-review: Robert Altman's IMAGES (1972)
Date: March 27, 2018Author: mlmillerwrites 3 Comments
Retro-review: New on a special edition BluRay from Arrow Films; help me out and pick it up on DVD/BluRay here on Amazon!
Robert Altman's IMAGES (1972)
Directed by Robert Altman
Written by Robert Altman, Susannah York (novel)
Starring Susannah York, Rene Auberjonois, Marcel Bozzuffi, Hugh Millais, Cathryn Harrison, John Morley, Barbara Baxley
It's not often that a horror reviewer gets to review a Robert Altman film. The master filmmaker has covered emotions, topics, and situations across the board, but horror is its own beast and for a filmmaker of his caliber to dip his pinky toe into the black abyss of the horror genre, it truly is something special. Now, Robert Altman's IMAGES is not your typical horror film. It doesn't have a ton of blood or a monster, but it does deal with the horror of an unhinged mind and does so in a chilling, capable, and engrossing manner.
Katherine (Susannah York) is a well to do children's novelist and married to a charming businessman Hugh (Rene Auberjonois), but despite her idyllic lifestyle, Katherine is a woman on the edge of sanity. Experiencing visual and auditory hallucinations of dead lovers, whispering women, and even a laughing doppelganger of herself, Katherine and Hugh go to their country home in hopes to get some well needed peace and quiet. But crazy simply follows Katherine to the country home and her grasp on what is real and what isn't is quickly loosening.
IMAGES would be a great double feature to watch with Roman Polanski's REPULSION as both do a fantastic job of showing the layers of sanity chip, crack, and fall away. York offers up an amazing performance as someone who can't trust her own senses and paired with Altman's filmmaking style, you really are riding this whole ride on York's shoulders, experiencing her hallucinations alongside her. Though some amazing edits and nothing else, this effects-light film is fantastically effective in playing tricks with your perceptions. People change form from one frame to the next. Katherine is making out with her husband with her husband one second, and her dead lover the next. And once pushed to the edge and brandishing weapons like knives, shotguns, and scissors, it's intensely paralyzing to see how Katherine doesn't know who it is she is talking with from one minute to the next. It's this immersion into schizophrenic insanity that makes IMAGES for of an experience than an out and out movie. It simply drags your mind right through the muck along with Katherine's. There's a depth to this film, from the symbolic way the shots are composed with multiple images of Katherine to overlaid imagery to jarring edits meant to unhinge and a puzzle that just doesn't seem to want to be solved. It's just a rich film that will leave you talking about it long after it's done.
There's a fair portion of blood in parts when Katherine goes on a sort of rampage (or maybe this rampage is all in her head). This gore is done in pure grindhouse fashion, spattering all over the victim's bodies and across the floor. But it's the paradise like countrysides and vast cloudy skies that really highlight the insanity in how the peaceful landscape contrasts with Katherine's turbulent mind. Seeing Katherine wander around madly in the rolling hills and beside a magnificent waterfall only shows her instability all the more. This is a gorgeous looking film, but while you are trying to soak in the scenery, you can't help but notice how much of a personal trip through hell the story truly is.
IMAGES is a film you most certainly won't forget. The acting is top notch, with York delivering a convincingly unhinged performance that is truly iconic. This version of the film comes with commentary tracks from Samm Deighan and Kat Ellinger, scene-select commentary by writer-director Robert Altman, an interview with Robert Altman, a brand new interview with actor Cathryn Harrison, an appreciation by musician and author Stephen Thrower, and the theatrical trailer. Get this film. It's a descent into madness story that done with a skill, passion, and caliber that one doesn't often see in a horror film.
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ab says:
When did they record that commentary? Hasn't Altman been dead for like a decade? Is it from an older DVD? (Criterion dredges up a lot of these from the old LD catalog, but Arrow hasn't been around as long.)
mlmillerwrites says:
I believe it's a dredged up interview/commentary. Nothing new, but still there for a complete package.
I haven't plunged into the extras yet, but plan to soon.


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GMOA skeptical on Govt's stand on SAITM
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The Government Medical Officers' Association (GMOA) today remained skeptical about the latest stand taken by the government regarding South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) also known as the Malabe private medical college.
The government announced that it had decided to abolish the SAITM and convert it into a not for profit institution coming under the University Grants Commission (UGC).
GMOA Assistant Secretary Dr. Naveen De Soyza told Daily Mirror his association welcomed the decision to abolish the SAITM . However, he added that the GMOA need further clarification on the proposed step to make it a not for profit institute.
"The government's decision to abolish the SAITM can be regarded as a positive step in the battle against SAITM by various parties and individuals. It is clear that the government has accepted our stance on the SAITM with this decision," he said.
He said that it was doubtful what kind of authority would govern the SAITM with this new announcement. He added that it was also questionable as to what extent the required standards in medical education would be met. He said there was no clarity as to how clinical training would be provided to students through the institution that had been proposed.
He said that a reasonable solution should be found to facilitate the students who studied at the SAITM and those who passed out from it. 'We need further a space for discussion in regard to the next steps that need to be taken," he said.
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Katy Perry reveals Vegas residency setlist
Katy Perry unveils Vegas residency setlist credit:Bang Showbiz
Katy Perry has unveiled the setlist for her Las Vegas residency.
The 37-year-old pop megastar kicks off her 'Katy Perry:PLAY' run at the Resorts World Theatre in Las Vegas in Sin City tonight (29.12.21), which runs through until March 19, 2022.
And the 'Teenage Dream' hitmaker has provided fans with the entire setlist ahead of the first performance so they know exactly what they are in for.
Sharing a video of herself putting together the handwritten list, Katy wrote on Instagram: "TOMORROW you can officially come to PERRY PLAYLAND. Where you can come and sing along to so many of your favorite songs! #PLAY (sic)"
The mammoth set will include all the hits, including 'I Kissed A Girl', 'Dark Horse' and California Gurls', and will end with fan-favourite 'Firework'.
Katy recently admitted she loves how her new show will allow her to be "artistic" and also get to be there for her 16-month-old daughter, Daisy Dove, whom she has with fiance Orlando Bloom.
She said: "I really wanted to be able to strike more of a balance - to have a child and take her to preschool - but also be artistic and play with that energy."
The 'Smile' singer shared how having sweet "moments" as a family are "so important" to her.
Katy said: "Orlando and I just did a hike with our daughter. We went to look at some ducks and turtles because it's so important for me to have those moments every single day, especially when I'm working from 2pm to 9pm."
The 'American Idol' judge also gave a teaser of her family-friendly "visual feast" and its retro pop culture references.
She said: "I like to bring a visual feast, and this is a set-in-the-'60s, 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids' movie on mushrooms.
"It is a dance party through and through but I also aim to make it a show that anyone can come to, from ages six to 80, and I really pride myself on that."
Her residency will be the first of its kind to incorporate NFTs, a blockchain method of dealing digital art.
Katy said: "The first thing we're going to be auctioning off with the NFT is the craziest thing I've ever done. We'll be creating something unique in the NFT space every single night; they will all be original."
The music star admitted that using Non Fungible Tokens felt "pioneering and trailblazing", as not many people understand them.
She said: "The first thing we're going to be auctioning off with the NFT is the craziest thing I've ever done. We'll be creating something unique in the NFT space every single night; they will all be original. I think some people don't understand how NFTs work or what their value is so it does feel like we are pioneering and trailblazing in this way. Imagine if I put my finger up during the song 'Firework' and you wanted to own that moment—now you could."
Katy Perry's Vegas setlist is:
1. 'ET'
2. 'Chained to the Rhythm'
3. 'Dark Horse'
4. 'Its Not The End of The World'
5. 'California Gurls'
6. 'Hot N' Cold'/ 'Last Friday Night'
7. 'Waking Up in Vegas'
8. 'Bon Appetit'
9. 'Daisies'
10. 'I Kissed A Girl'
11. 'Lost' / 'Part of Me' / 'Wide Awake'
12. 'Swish Swish'
13. 'When I'm Gone' / 'Walking On Air!'
14. 'Never Really Over'
15. 'Teenage Dream'
16. 'Smile'
17. 'Roar'
18. 'Greatest Love Of All'
19. 'Firework'


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Quotationals® is a wisdom-based approach to learning. The program is comprised of an annual quote bee, student-submitted quote contest, after school club, and social networking components. The Quotationals® Quote Bee is the anchor of our program where K-12 students compete in rote memorization similar to a traditional spelling bee. The event is hosted by a local university that provides tours and tutors to bring college life to our families. Quips™, our after school club, prepares students for the bee and uses Socratic discussion to develop deeper understanding and articulation of thought. Family Nights extend this discourse in a coffee shop atmosphere that begins in school and continues at home. Our Submit-A-Quote Contest enables students to submit original quotations that we upload to Facebook and archive in our website of over 200,000 quotes.
The goal of Quotationals® is simple: To blur the lines between the classroom, college, and community.
Quotationals® is the first program that organically and adequately introduces wisdom to all learners. Our content is as old as the graffiti etched on Egyptian pyramids and as comprehensive as to include Plato, Mother Jones, and our own students. Parents move from passive audience to willing participants. Conversations are changing at home. Teachers and administrators from different sites band together to discuss pedagogy and content. College volunteers are inspired to inspire. Children think under pressure and now regularly reflect aloud in class. Quotationals® is creating a community of empowered parents, students, and teachers to change how we teach the next generation.
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I've thrown in quotes randomly in my blog, but these are some quotes I really like.
"Every 12 years Jupiter returns to the same position in the sky; every 370 days it disappears in the fire of the Sun in the evening of the west, 30 days later it reappears in the morning to the east …" — Gan De, a Chinese astronomer. He was born around 400 BCE.
"Et tu, Brute!" — William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 1.
"Oh… So you're at a movie too." – Tampopo. Dir. Juzo Itami. 1985.
Most of these are from books, but some are from movies and some are song lyrics and even tweets. All mediums are important.
If you like reading, I recommend "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning" by Haruki Murakami. It's a short story and you can read it in five minutes.
You can read an earlier post on quotes here.
I went to Victoria, BC again. Last time I went to Craigdarroch Castle, Chinatown and Miniature Museum. This time I went to the Parliament Buildings (only outside) and Butchart Gardens.
The Parliament Buildings are really big.
The gardens are definitely my favourite place in Victoria.
I went to Grouse Mountain, also known as the Peak of Vancouver. I've been there when I was younger, but it's my first time back as an adult.
The chairlift was probably the funnest part for me, and we saw a big bear while sitting on it. The view of Vancouver was pretty – the land surrounding the water bodies in the second photo is the city.


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Rabble!
A Story of the Paris Commune
by Geoffrey Fox
1870.17-year-old apprentice bookbinder Étienne Bonin travels from revolutionary Lyon to even more revolutionary Paris seeking excitement and professional opportunity. By the spring of 1871 he is deeply committed to the insurrection for workers' power, to a new lover — Rose Durand, 16-year-old coworker and budding feminist from Belleville—and to his new comrades. Together they experience festive celebrations, institutional innovations, military disasters and the final "week of blood."
Étienne and Rose's coming of age in the midst of a revolution is also the story of the growth of a powerful working-class movement. The tradesmen and women involved in creating and defending the Paris Commune of 1871 were not just bookbinders, but also bronze workers, tin smiths, shoemakers, typographers, printers, laundresses, clothing and textile workers, carpenters and many others.
"Rabble" is the closest English equivalent to "canaille", the way the privileged classes described the rough and ready workers who had seized the city and were remaking it as a bastion of liberty, equality and fraternity. Those tradesmen and women managed to create the first self-governing, proto-communist society in the modern world, in what was the most advanced capitalist city of its age. They then had to defend it against massive bombardment and attacks, which would finally annihilate the Commune but not its ideals. These would be reborn in revolutions from 1917, and to our present day.
"Rabble!" book discussion about the Paris Commune with guest Geoffrey Fox - Podcast, 20 July 2021 (1 hour 13 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcGhL9LZGek
Fact and fancy in historical fiction
https://geoffreyfox.com/2021/11/research-fact-and-fancy-in-historical-fiction/
Talking Location With— author Geoffrey Fox: PARIS COMMUNE (Trip Fiction)
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An exhaustively researched account of the events of the 1870 Paris Commune phenomenon, which, thugh it failed, influenced many of the great political and philosophical thinkers of the 19th and 20th centuries, in a fictionalized form. As the story unfolds, we grow to sympathize with the characters, who are not only portrayed as individuals, but also as proponents of various threads of the movement. On finishing the book, one misses their company! Historical fiction at its best!
I had a vague knowledge of these events, and probably thought they'd been important, but I would not have approached a history textbook before reading this fascinating story. Who would imagine that what happened back then would so impact the present? I found the story easy to track and came away really informed on top of it all.
by Ivan
This is a splendid recreation of a critical period in French history, done with a depth of knowledge and splendid personal portraits. Should be required reading in French history courses and literature.
César Chelala, winner of Overseas Press Club of America award.
by César Chelala
A beautifully constructed historical novel that evokes the atmosphere of the time perfectly. Can be a quite difficult read at times but is ultimately worthwhile with interesting characters who one can both sympathise and dislike. Wonderful descriptions of Paris and the conditions that forced the rebellious actions with the attitudes of the 'higher classes' shown for what they were worth.
I really enjoyed the writing style while also being in awe of the author's careful efforts to ensure the reader was given a clear picture of the era in some detail. It's an original approach - very strong character-based story telling accompanying what is almost a fictionalised social history.
This delightful historical novel (a page turner to the end) portrays the outbreak of the revolutionary Paris Commune in 1871 and working class Paris of the mid-nineteenth century through the experience of a young man from the provinces newly arrived in the great city, a bookbinder by trade, whose hopes for his own life are bound up in the idealistic aspirations of "the International." Wandering the city's industrial streets and back alleyways, the newcomer falls in with a band of radical young friends from various of the manufacturing trades of that era, bronze workers, glove makers, laundresses, tinsmiths, woodworkers, and bookbinders, falls in love with a young woman whose parents had fought for the Commune of 1848, and as events move fast joins the Commune's National Guard first defending Paris against invading Prussians, then holding off anti-revolutionary national French forces, as the great wave of enthusiasm carries all before it. Reading "Rabble!" (as the Commune is viewed by its establishment enemies) I almost began to feel a Parisian myself, immersed in the lives of all elements of society of that day, from the street artists and musicians, rag pickers, and homeless military veterans living under the great bridges, to the milkmaids and wine vendors from beyond the walls of the city, the craftsmen in a bookbinding shop, the journalists of all stripes ("ink-shitters" in the vernacular) with their noses to which way the winds are blowing, the politicians and revolutionary leaders wrangling over theory and policy as the ground is being blown out from under them, and a police chief whose conservative professional aims to maintain the status quo mingle with even more pressing concerns about the trajectory of his own career. The reader gets a glimpse into the volatile and vital French culture, the color and excitement of the quest for "equality and fraternity" in Paris in 1871. Even as the barricades are being penetrated by the enemy, a young actress obliviously heads for an audition for her dream role in a play and is gunned down by the invaders suspecting her of being a pétroleuse, an arsonist. As the Commune's defenses are about to be broken by military forces from Versailles, the Paris cafes are still full of high conversation and intrigue, and thousands attend a grand musical concert certain the spirit of the Commune can never be defeated.
by Peter de Lissovoy
How wonderful it is to be transported to Paris in 1871. Fox's attention to detail and conversational storytelling prowess is of the highest caliber. The Paris Commune marked a historical point where working-class rabble-rousers created a short-lived experiment that provided a roadmap to Russia 1917 and other subsequent struggles against cruel imperialism. Fox deserves a big fan club.
by Pat Cummings
Geoffrey Fox
Born in Chicago, Geoffrey Fox graduated from Harvard in 1963 and worked as a community organizer in Caracas and in Latino barrios of Chicago before earning a PhD in sociology. His books on Latin American society and culture have been published by HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and the University of Arizona Press, which published Hispanic Nation, his best-selling book on the emerging power of Latinos in the U.S. His articles, op-eds and book reviews have appeared in The Nation, The New York Times, the Village Voice and other publications.
Geoffrey Fox's short story collection Welcome to My Contri, first published in 1988, was described by The New York Times Book Review as a "short and impressive work" in which "Mr. Fox [...] has created a memorable set of players who, while not natural antagonists (they often share the same dreams and goals), are still somehow bent on confrontation. Watching their sometimes vicious, often darkly humorous interactions leaves us thoroughly wrung out and aware that we are in the presence of a formidable new writer". In 2010, Welcome to My Contri was reissued as an ebook with a new introduction and two new stories.
His novel, A Gift for the Sultan (2010), about the conflicts, collaborations and conspiracies between Ottoman Turks and Byzantines in the years before the Ottoman seizure of Constantinople, has been translated into Turkish by Nokta Publishers in Istanbul.
Since 2008, Fox has been living with his partner, architect Susana Torre, on the edge of the Mediterranean in the village of Carboneras in Andalusia, Spain, where his short stories (in Spanish) under the pen name "Baltasar Lotroyo" ("el otro yo" = alter ego in Spanish) have appeared in anthologies and online publications.
In the Cafe Arts et Metiers, Paris, April 2018
Also by Geoffrey Fox / Related Books
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Chocolate House Treason
by David Fairer
Woman Like Me
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The Edge of The Nest
by Christopher Cruise
Here Casts No Shadow
by Bronwen Griffiths
The Glimpse
by Lis Bensley
Upon a Wheel of Fire
by Paul Grieve
Do Not Forget Me Quite
by Richard Pike
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TV Junkie: Pacitti Yanked from 'Idol'; Oscar Broadcast News; FOX Fridays
By Thomas Attila Lewis
Controversial contestant Joanna Pacitti has finally been pulled from "American Idol" after it was revealed that she had friendships with multiple executives with "Idol" co-producer 19 Entertainment. For fans of the show who couldn't believe that she had made the cut after performing poorly and fumbling lyrics to several songs during the Hollywood rounds of auditions, it will be assumed that she had moved ahead due to these personal relationships and not merit.
So they're already shutting down streets in preparation for the Oscars which are still more than a week away and if you'd like to read a something about the nominees that is more analysis instead of the bitching that we've been hearing, check out David Denby's provides some insight as to how Brad Pitt is a contender and why Kate Winslet is in the lead.. In other Oscar-related news, Peter Gabriel is choosing not to perform his song from WALL-E in protest of it being shortened to 65-seconds for broadcast purposes. Gabriel will still attend the event, however.
This weekend brings FOX's attempt to become King of Friday nights with it's "Terminator" and "Dollhouse" (pictured, right) line-up, let's see if they can pull it off. And Sunday brings the premiere of HBO's new irreverent and politically incorrect comedy about a washed up baseball player, "Eastbound & Down" (pictured, after the jump).
The TV Junkie Plan: Tonight - "Terminator", "Dollhouse", "The Soup", Letterman, Ferguson. Saturday - "Charlie Brown", "SNL". Sunday - "Nature", "Big Love", "Flight of the Conchords", "Secret Diary of a Call Girl"
8:00pm Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles FOX - Time slot premiere
9:00pm Dollhouse FOX - Series Premiere
9:00pm Monk USA - Monk goes head to head with a magician he suspects of being a murderer.


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Q: Cauchy product of $\sum_{i=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{i}\sum_{j=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{(i+j)^s}$ I am trying to find Cauchy product of: $$\sum_{i=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{i}\sum_{j=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{(i+j)^s}$$
My try: Apply Cauchy product then we have:
$$\sum_{i=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{i}\sum_{j=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{(i+j)^s}=\sum_{k=1}^{\infty}\sum_{l=1}^{k}\frac{1}{l(i+k-l+1)^s}$$
But it seems wrong, because I cant get the final result is $$\sum_{i=1}^{\infty}\frac{H_{i-1}}{i^s}$$, where $H_{i-1}$ is the $(i-1)th$ Harmonic numbers.
Can someone give me a help here? Thank you very much.

A: We obtain
\begin{align*}
\color{blue}{\sum_{i=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{i}\sum_{j=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{(i+j)^s}}
&=\sum_{n=2}^{\infty}\sum_{{i+j=n}\atop{i,j\geq 1}}\frac{1}{i}\,\frac{1}{(i+j)^s}\tag{1}\\
&=\sum_{n=2}^\infty\sum_{i=1}^{n-1}\frac{1}{i}\,\frac{1}{n^s}\tag{2}\\
&=\sum_{n=2}^\infty\frac{1}{n^s}\sum_{i=1}^{n-1}\frac{1}{i}\\
&\,\,\color{blue}{=\sum_{n=2}^\infty\frac{1}{n^s}H_{n-1}}
\end{align*}
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*In (1) we collect $i,j$ by noting $n\geq 2$ since $i,j\geq 1$.

*In (2) we eliminate $j$ by substituting $j=n-i$.

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I wonder what happens if…?
Number two in my series of what to do with a Lenny and QuickIO.
Well, maybe not an actual mouse, but maybe make it control the mouse pointer in an "almost" usable way…?
The two potentiometers on the QuickIO could control the mouse position, and the buttons can be the mouse buttons for clicking, etc. That should work.
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1×10³²⁴ things to do with a chipKIT™ Lenny and a QuickIO. No. 1: Autoclicker.
This is the first part of a new series entitled "1×10³²⁴ things to do with a chipKIT™ Lenny and a QuickIO". In it, I'm going to be exploring some of the cool things you could do in just a matter of seconds using the two boards combined.
This first one is an Autoclicker.
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Rene Burri - WEST GERMANY. West Berlin. "Gruppe 47".
Members of the "Gruppe 47" (Group 47).
From left to right: Siegfried UNSELD, Uwe JOHSON, Walter HOELLERER, (?), Hans Magnus ENZENSBERGER, Peter WEISS, Hans Wer
WEST GERMANY. West Berlin. 1961. German writers Günter GRASS and Hans Werner RICHTER.
GERMANY. West Berlin. 1961
WEST GERMANY. West Berlin. German painter and writer Peter WEISS. 1962.
Uwe JOHNSON, writer, member of the "Gruppe 47" (Group 47).
WEST GERMANY. West Berlin. 1962.
Ingeborg BACHMANN and Hans Magnus ENZENSBERGER, members of the "Gruppe 47" (Group 47).
WEST GERMANY. West Berlin. 1962. Members of the "Gruppe 47" (Group 47): Günter GRASS (with cigarette), Uwe JOHNSON (smoking pipe).
WEST GERMANY. West Berlin. "Gruppe 47".


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Will we succeed in reducing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere?
The ongoing climate change provokes multiple stormy debates concerning industrial activity of human beings and thus extremely heats up the atmosphere of agitation and anxiety. The huge number of scientists and laboratories from around the world (e.g. NOAA) monitor the environment, as well as conduct extensive research in ongoing climate change. The results of their analysis leave no doubt that we contribute to degradation of our planet and, at the same time, confirm the "red alert" for humanity. Nevertheless, new innovative solutions are created and implemented constantly in order to reduce emissions or to remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
The IPCC presents one of the most comprehensive reports on climate change and conclusions that can be drawn therefrom are unambiguous: with regard to greenhouse gases emissions changes are necessary.
The data presented on NOAA website clearly show a globally increasing trend of the CO2 level in the atmosphere. The amount of this greenhouse gas being released to the atmosphere every year is growing. Therefore, it is not surprising that apart from scientists also many companies and entrepreneurs engage in development of new technologies which will not only limit carbon dioxide emissions, but will also enable to directly remove CO2 from the atmosphere. Among these, companies like Climeworks, Carbon Engineering (supported inter alia by Bill Gates), or Global Thermostat (cooperating with Coca-Cola) may be mentioned, as well as many others.
Beyond any reasonable doubt we need a revolution that will change rules of the game (a game changer) and will enable to transform perception and to replace technologies leading to emission of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels with technologies capable to reduce these emissions on a massive scale.
One approach to remove CO2 is to apply CCS technology (carbon capture and storage, i.e. CO2 sequestration) which has been known and developed for many years and which in general terms consist in capturing CO2 before it enters the atmosphere, transporting it, and storing it, for example deeply buried underground, or transforming it. This technology is applicable mainly in these areas where the carbon dioxide is emitted in large quantities (e.g. power plants) and therefore, its application on a large scale is somehow limited.
The similar approach, however being even more efficient, is to capture CO2 directly from the atmosphere. Although at first sight it may seem not very rational, the first commercial farm capturing CO2 from the atmosphere was established in 2017 by the Swiss company Climeworks. The carbon dioxide captured from the atmosphere was used inter alia to stimulate plant growth in greenhouses and also sold to carbonated soft drinks producers.
The biggest project undertaken by Climeworks so far (removal of carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere) is named "Orca". It is a commercial farm put into service in 2021 in Iceland. Its capacity of capturing CO2 from the atmosphere is estimated to 4 000 tonnes per year. "Orca" plant resembles metal containers in appearance which by means of appropriate fans pump the air into a collector that captures and "concentrates" CO2 and, in the next step of the process, saturates water with concentrated carbon dioxide and pumps it around 1 kilometre deep underground. As a consequence, carbon dioxide stored deep underground gets mineralized and turns into carbonates that are harmless to the environment. The farm itself is powered by renewable energy, i.e. geothermal energy coming from the nearby geothermal sources.
Climeworks is already working on much larger projects (inter alia in Scotland and in the USA) that aim to achieve capacity of removal directly from the atmosphere even up to one million tonnes of CO2 annually which is equal to the amount of CO2 being captured by around 40 million trees.
Although this technology has many advantages, it is economically not viable when taking into account high operating costs, large water consumption, a risk of groundwater pollution etc. This is why it seems more reasonable to develop technologies focusing on reducing carbon dioxide emissions rather than removing it from the atmosphere. However, it is worth to be aware that "Orca", although being only one small step for mankind relative to the needs we have, indeed is a great example of trying to respond to challenges we are facing. The list of all current farms and CSS projects can be found here: Facilities – Global CCS Institute (co2re.co).
It is worth noting that Tesla founder Elon Musk has offered the biggest reward in history for the best technology enabling to remove carbon dioxide, the amount of which is USD 100 000 000. The competition shall take place until 2025 and it is worth to follow efforts of competing teams.
The growing interest in carbon dioxide capturing technologies is also visible in patent literature. The upward trend is very significant and within the last decade we observe regular and sharp intensification in research carried out and in published papers. Therefore, it is not advisable to remain indifferent to changes in this area and it is better to have effective overview of the state of the art and rapid technological change.
It is also worth noting that the exclusive rights granted to the applicant are part of enterprise's assets and are a tool to establish monopoly which translates to financial profits. These rights may serve not only to protect own interest but may also constitute a marketed products. Investing in development is an essential element of creating market power and trade in intellectual property rights may be one of market strategies, in particular in the areas of extensive interest. In a fast changing economy, licencing and trading in exclusive rights is a crucial element that shall also be considered. The selection of appropriate instruments of protection and knowledge of how to use them in order to create market power are the issues that every patent attorney acting as a business consultant is confronted with every day.
Indeed, it is impossible to fully present the state of the art within particular technology in one article only, or to analyse therein many aspects of patent attorney activity during the process of cooperating in protecting intellectual property.
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Islam has five primary obligations, or pillars of faith, that each Muslim must fulfill in his or her lifetime. They are as follows:
Shahadah, profession of faith, is the first pillar of Islam. Muslims bear witness to the oneness of God by reciting the creed "There is no God but God and Muhammad is the Messenger of God." This simple yet profound statement expresses a Muslim's complete acceptance of and total commitment to Islam.
Salah, prayer, is the second pillar. The Islamic faith is based on the belief that individuals have a direct relationship with God. The world's Muslims turn individually and collectively to Makkah, Islam's holiest city, to offer five daily prayers at dawn, noon, mid-afternoon, sunset and evening. In addition, Friday congregational service is also required. Although salah can he performed alone, it is meritorious to perform it with another or with a group. It is permissible to pray at home, at work, or even outdoors; however it is recommended that Muslims perform salah in a mosque.
Zakat, almsgiving, is the third pillar. Social responsibility is considered part of one's service to God; the obligatory act of zakat enshrines this duty. Zakat prescribes payment of fixed proportions of a Muslim's possessions for the welfare of the entire community and in particular for its neediest members. It is equal to 2.5 percent of an individual's total net worth, excluding obligations and family expenses.
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using namespace llvm;

#define SYSTEMZ_EXPAND_PSEUDO_NAME "SystemZ pseudo instruction expansion pass"

namespace llvm {
  void initializeSystemZExpandPseudoPass(PassRegistry&);
}

namespace {
class SystemZExpandPseudo : public MachineFunctionPass {
public:
  static char ID;
  SystemZExpandPseudo() : MachineFunctionPass(ID) {
    initializeSystemZExpandPseudoPass(*PassRegistry::getPassRegistry());
  }

  const SystemZInstrInfo *TII;

  bool runOnMachineFunction(MachineFunction &Fn) override;

  StringRef getPassName() const override { return SYSTEMZ_EXPAND_PSEUDO_NAME; }

private:
  bool expandMBB(MachineBasicBlock &MBB);
  bool expandMI(MachineBasicBlock &MBB, MachineBasicBlock::iterator MBBI,
                MachineBasicBlock::iterator &NextMBBI);
  bool expandLOCRMux(MachineBasicBlock &MBB, MachineBasicBlock::iterator MBBI,
                     MachineBasicBlock::iterator &NextMBBI);
};
char SystemZExpandPseudo::ID = 0;
}

INITIALIZE_PASS(SystemZExpandPseudo, "systemz-expand-pseudo",
                SYSTEMZ_EXPAND_PSEUDO_NAME, false, false)

/// \brief Returns an instance of the pseudo instruction expansion pass.
FunctionPass *llvm::createSystemZExpandPseudoPass(SystemZTargetMachine &TM) {
  return new SystemZExpandPseudo();
}

// MI is a load-register-on-condition pseudo instruction that could not be
// handled as a single hardware instruction.  Replace it by a branch sequence.
bool SystemZExpandPseudo::expandLOCRMux(MachineBasicBlock &MBB,
                                        MachineBasicBlock::iterator MBBI,
                                        MachineBasicBlock::iterator &NextMBBI) {
  MachineFunction &MF = *MBB.getParent();
  const BasicBlock *BB = MBB.getBasicBlock();
  MachineInstr &MI = *MBBI;
  DebugLoc DL = MI.getDebugLoc();
  unsigned DestReg = MI.getOperand(0).getReg();
  unsigned SrcReg = MI.getOperand(2).getReg();
  unsigned CCValid = MI.getOperand(3).getImm();
  unsigned CCMask = MI.getOperand(4).getImm();

  LivePhysRegs LiveRegs(&TII->getRegisterInfo());
  LiveRegs.addLiveOuts(MBB);
  for (auto I = std::prev(MBB.end()); I != MBBI; --I)
    LiveRegs.stepBackward(*I);

  // Splice MBB at MI, moving the rest of the block into RestMBB.
  MachineBasicBlock *RestMBB = MF.CreateMachineBasicBlock(BB);
  MF.insert(std::next(MachineFunction::iterator(MBB)), RestMBB);
  RestMBB->splice(RestMBB->begin(), &MBB, MI, MBB.end());
  RestMBB->transferSuccessors(&MBB);
  for (auto I = LiveRegs.begin(); I != LiveRegs.end(); ++I)
    RestMBB->addLiveIn(*I);

  // Create a new block MoveMBB to hold the move instruction.
  MachineBasicBlock *MoveMBB = MF.CreateMachineBasicBlock(BB);
  MF.insert(std::next(MachineFunction::iterator(MBB)), MoveMBB);
  MoveMBB->addLiveIn(SrcReg);
  for (auto I = LiveRegs.begin(); I != LiveRegs.end(); ++I)
    MoveMBB->addLiveIn(*I);

  // At the end of MBB, create a conditional branch to RestMBB if the
  // condition is false, otherwise fall through to MoveMBB.
  BuildMI(&MBB, DL, TII->get(SystemZ::BRC))
    .addImm(CCValid).addImm(CCMask ^ CCValid).addMBB(RestMBB);
  MBB.addSuccessor(RestMBB);
  MBB.addSuccessor(MoveMBB);

  // In MoveMBB, emit an instruction to move SrcReg into DestReg,
  // then fall through to RestMBB.
  TII->copyPhysReg(*MoveMBB, MoveMBB->end(), DL, DestReg, SrcReg,
                   MI.getOperand(2).isKill());
  MoveMBB->addSuccessor(RestMBB);

  NextMBBI = MBB.end();
  MI.eraseFromParent();
  return true;
}

/// \brief If MBBI references a pseudo instruction that should be expanded here,
/// do the expansion and return true.  Otherwise return false.
bool SystemZExpandPseudo::expandMI(MachineBasicBlock &MBB,
                                   MachineBasicBlock::iterator MBBI,
                                   MachineBasicBlock::iterator &NextMBBI) {
  MachineInstr &MI = *MBBI;
  switch (MI.getOpcode()) {
  case SystemZ::LOCRMux:
    return expandLOCRMux(MBB, MBBI, NextMBBI);
  default:
    break;
  }
  return false;
}

/// \brief Iterate over the instructions in basic block MBB and expand any
/// pseudo instructions.  Return true if anything was modified.
bool SystemZExpandPseudo::expandMBB(MachineBasicBlock &MBB) {
  bool Modified = false;

  MachineBasicBlock::iterator MBBI = MBB.begin(), E = MBB.end();
  while (MBBI != E) {
    MachineBasicBlock::iterator NMBBI = std::next(MBBI);
    Modified |= expandMI(MBB, MBBI, NMBBI);
    MBBI = NMBBI;
  }

  return Modified;
}

bool SystemZExpandPseudo::runOnMachineFunction(MachineFunction &MF) {
  TII = static_cast<const SystemZInstrInfo *>(MF.getSubtarget().getInstrInfo());

  bool Modified = false;
  for (auto &MBB : MF)
    Modified |= expandMBB(MBB);
  return Modified;
}


At the June 22nd meeting of Silicon Halton @SiliconHalton, we were privileged to have in attendance Cheryl McKinnon CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) at Nuxeo and the former Director of Enterprise 2.0 at OpenText. Cheryl provided the meeting's keynote presentation wherein she illustrated how professionals can use social media to promote both themselves and the companies for which they work. The key point of her presentation was that social media helps to break down the barriers of geography, culture and generations to connect you with the individuals and communities that are important to both you and your company. In her presentation she gave a real world example of how her use of social media and the online presence she had created through her role at OpenText landed her current job as CMO of Nuxeo.
Cheryl had not set out to find a job, but her blogging and use of Twitter was noticed by the 28 year old founder and CEO of Nuxeo, a 100 person company based in Paris, France. He was impressed with the interactive community she had built for OpenText and in particular, the dialogue that was being generated between Cheryl and OpenText's customers. He decided he needed her to do the same for his company. The fact that Cheryl was born in a different generation, speaks a different language and lives on a different continent were not important factors in his decision to hire her. What was important was the connections she had built with potential Nuxeo customers.
In her presentation, Cheryl expanded on how social media is becoming ever increasingly important to professionals who are interested in managing their careers and expanded on that by speaking of how Nuxeo uses only Social Media and specifically Twitter as the sole channel for all of its hiring. In the SlideShare and video clips below, Cheryl shares some practical things that you can easily do to expand and enhance your connections into the communities that are of interest to you.
The Nuxeo platform is an Open Source ECM (Enterprise Content Management) system that counts among its long list of customers the BBC, European Commission and several ministries of the French government.
View more presentations from Cheryl McKinnon.
I apologize for the rough start and some of the hand-held camera shake. I hadn't actually planned to shoot video of Cheryl's presentation, and she was about 15 seconds into her presentation before I got the bright idea that I should capture it on video rather than hand write pages of notes. Towards the end of the presentation my battery was drained and the Nikon would only shoot 30 seconds at a time. Thanks to Ken Lowe who shot the last two segments with his camera.
I've been designing and building software and leading software teams for over 20 years. I am the founder of projectyap.com (agile project management that's social) yapagame.com (social media and micro blogging for sports fans).
I missed this Silicon Halton meeting and missed a great presentation as well.
Great examples of the business value a good social media strategy and campaign can bring to an organization, of any size.
Thanks for posting the video and slide deck.
Thanks Jason. I'm glad you found it useful. Hopefully you can make it out to the next meeting.


At the beginning of the year, young women participate in a program called "New Beginnings". The purpose of the program is to introduce any girls who are turning 12 in the next year, as well as anyone else who is new to Young Women, to the Personal Progress program and the Young Women values. Our ward's New Beginnings was held back in February and the young women chose this year's mutual theme - "Come unto Christ and be perfected in Him" (Moroni 10:32) - as the theme for our program. I was so pleased with how Christ-centered and Spirit-filled the evening was as the young women shared their thoughts and testimonies of the values. The girls asked me to speak on the theme "Come unto Christ" and below is an approximation of what I said, based on my notes.
I was thrilled when I learned that the Mutual theme for this year was "Come unto Christ and be perfected in Him." Moroni 10:32 is one of my all-time favorite scriptures (with the possible exception of Philippians 4:13 - "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me") and I love that our focus this year is so Christ-centered.
The invitation to "come unto Christ" is repeated over and over in scripture, literally dozens of times. The mere fact of how many times this invitation is extended should emphasize to us its importance and central position in the gospel. As I was preparing for these remarks, I took a closer look at these many invitations and I want to mention five points that really jumped out at me as I studied this message.
First, it's a universal invitation.
Christ wants everyone back. No one is outside the reach of His love & grace, not even the "heathen" who doesn't believe in God. That should provide us great comfort for ourselves and our loved ones, but it should also change the way we look at and treat other people, especially those we don't like or don't get along with or don't agree with. They have the same invitation from our Savior that we do. He loves them and suffered and died for them just as he did for me and for you.
Second, perfection comes through Christ, not our own efforts.
Moroni 10:32 – "Come unto Christ & be perfected in Him..."
I think this is a fairly common misconception in the Church, that we do everything we can to live as close to a perfect life as possible and then Christ just puts the finishing touches on. But there is such a chasm between the best human being and the perfection of Christ that no matter how good we are we will always fall miserably short if we're going on our own efforts alone. We need Christ desperately. He is the way, the truth and the life, the only way back to our Heavenly Parents.
Third, we still have to do our part.
Alma 5:35 – "Come unto me and bring forth works of righteousness..."
The fact that our perfection comes through Christ is not a free pass to do whatever we want or to ignore the commandments. We've been given commandments to stretch us, to help us become better, to help us be happy. Following the commandments to the best of our ability, "bring[ing] forth works of righteousness," even though we mess up sometimes, shows the Lord that we are all in, that we are committed to our covenants.
Fourth, coming unto Christ requires our whole hearts, it has to be what we really want.
Jacob 6:5 – "Come with full purpose of heart, and cleave unto God as he cleaveth unto you..."
The baptismal covenant as described in Mosiah 18 and in the sacrament prayers stresses the desire of our hearts, our willingness, to love and serve God and to love and serve others. Coming unto Christ has to be what we really want; it has to be the full purpose of our hearts to cleave unto God. This is the tricky part because it's easy to look at a checklist and go well, I'm saying my prayers, I'm reading my scriptures, I'm keeping the word of wisdom, I'm not using swear words, so I'm good! But it's possible to be doing all the right things and just be going through the motions, to not have really given our whole hearts to God. It's much harder to gauge how much of our hearts we've given to God. That's a personal reckoning we each have to make on an individual basis.
Fifth, coming to Christ provides rest for our souls.
Matthew 11:28-30 – "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy-laden and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."
What "rest" does Christ give us when we come unto him?
Christ doesn't want us to live in fear or anxiety or to compare ourselves to others in either direction. We are all in need of Christ's grace, so there's no reason to envy others or to look down on others. Coming unto Christ gives us rest from that constant comparison with others and from the fear of not making it, as well as the anxiety of feeling like we have to do it all ourselves.
Coming unto Christ is the essence of the Gospel. Jesus Christ has to be at the core of our faith. We have to choose to make Him, with His infinite love and understanding and compassion, the center of our lives. We must recognize that his invitation is to everyone and treat others accordingly. We need to humbly acknowledge that He is the only way back to our Heavenly Parents, that our own efforts will never be enough. We can show Him where our hearts are, and that we truly love Him, by doing what He's asked of us and following His example. When we come unto Him, He can give us rest from our burdens.
Make the choice today to come unto Christ and to let Him come unto you.


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